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same time declares that if your Excellency should, at any other time. in your official communication on points of international rights. go beyond the bounds of your mission. and inter ere in the particular and privat affairs of the Spanish G o vernment, shad considt r self under the paintul necessity of returning )on dispatches without urt her remark. (Signed) ". DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR " CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NOVELS IN T" STANDARD NOVELS and RO yANCT.S. Each complete in One Vol., with Illustrations, neatly ri P b o und. ce ss. 1. PETER SIMPLE. 2. JACOB FAITHFUL 3. JAPHET in SEARCH of a FATHER. 4. KING'S OWN. S. Mr. MIDSHIPMAN EASY. 6. NEWTON FORSTER. 7. The PACHA of MANY TALES. 8. The POACHER. 9. The PHANTOM SHIP. 10. The DOG FIEND. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had of all Booksellers. J. FENIMORE COOPER'S NOVELS IN r 1 1. 1 HE STANDARD NOVELS an d RO MANCES. Each complete in One Volume, with Illustrations, aeatly bound. Price sq. 1. The PI OT. 2. The SPY. 3. LAST of the MOHICANS. 4. The PIONEERS. 5. The PRAIRIE 6. LIONEL LINCOLN. 7. The BORDERERS. S. The WATER WITCH. 9. The BRAVO. • 10. RED ROVER. 11. The HEADSMAN. 12. HEIDENMAUER. 13. PRECAUTION. 14. HOMEWARD BAL7ND. 15. PATHFINDER. 16. DISERSLAYER. 17. The TWO ADMIRALS. IS. JACK O'LANTERN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had of all Booksellers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First appearance of Mdlle. Cerite. The Nobility Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the pub lie are respectfully informed that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will lake place TO-MORROW EVENING, April 27, will be performed, DenizettrsOpera, entitled LITCREZIA BORGIA. Lucrezia, )(Mlle. Sofia Cruvelli , Orsini, 3fdlle. Schwartz ; Gen naro, Signor Gardoni ; Gabetta, Signor Bonche ; and Alfonso, Signor Labi ache. which the admire v d iv ße A tt Ip ß e E rtlesement, entitled LA To be followed by Selections from Verdi's Opera of NINO. Abigail. 11111 e. A.bbadia; Fenena, Mdlle. Vera ; Ninus, Signor Colettl ; Idaape, Signor Cuzzani; and Oratesphe, Signor Beletti. To conclude Ali the highly successful New and Original GRAND BALLE T, Ii Four Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled FIORITA, et la Reine des Elftides, Principal parts by Mdlle. Caroline Rosati, If tilles. Esther Ausumion, Thevenot, Julienne, Lamoureux, Jenny, M. Louis Dor, M. Di Mattia, MM. Venafra, Gourlet, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management et Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be presented a new comic Drama, called OLD HONESTY. Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van denhoff Sir Perkins Besborough, Mr. Howe; Mr. Septimus Hook, Mr. Tilbury ; Toby Fercb, Mr. Keeley ; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs. Glover; Mary, Miss Reynolds. After which, LOLA MONTES. To conclude with a Grand Romantic Extravaganza, founded on Horace Walpole's mysterious production. and calved THE C AST L F. OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Vincenza, Mr. J. Bland ; Theodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. ;Caulfield Hip polite. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds Matilda, Mrs. Caulfield. Sta 4e Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, ltox-book keeper. B ox es, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; tipper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at seven. iIEATHE ROYAL, ADELPIII. under the direction o: Madame Celeste THIS EVENING Kilt be Performed a new and original Draina, called HARVEST HOMt. Principal charactors by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright. P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. Atter which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA ; or, the Child of Air. To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Anecdote of the Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Boyce, Mon yard, Paul Legrand, C. J. Smith, I:yan, Miss E. Harding, &c. r.oxBs, 48.; Pit, 2 - 8. , : iatlery, I. TN 0 en at liall-oast Six, Pertibrmance to commence at Seven, N3YAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a Conic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Backstone ; Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Mrs. litzwilliam. _after which, an entirely new and original Classical Extravaganza, entitled THESEUS and ARIADNE ; or, the Marr.age of Bachus. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, 11. Hall, S. Smith, F Cooke ; Miss Eitzwilliam, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and Madams Vestris. To conclude with a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JUI 111 , .. Characters by Messrs. R. Roxby, Diddear, Parselle, Har ley, Meadows, Bellingham, Charles Mathews ; Miss/ Jane Coleman, and Mimi Lee. Dress Boxes, Is.; Upper Boxes, 42.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half- price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the ?antic every day, from Ten till Six. FRENCH FLAYS.-s'l'. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. 33. Old Bond-street. Last Appearance but Two of 3f. Lafont. Mom. Lafont begs respectfully to announce that his benefit and las Inight but two of his engagement will take place at the re-open ing of the Theatre THIS EVENING, April 26, on which occa sion will be revived (for that night only) the celebrated play of LE CHEVALIER DE ST. GEORGES. Le Chevalier, M. Lafont ; Le JEffilrOD, 3f. Montaland ; Mdlle. De Presle, Mdlle. Paul Er nes t.—l n diddition to which will be produced also (tor that night only) the po pular vaudeville of JEAN ; so, Le Mauvais Sujet. Jean, M. Lafont. With other Entertainments. B oxe s, bp. ; Pit, 3s. Gd.; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s roies and Stalls may be obtain , d at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33. Old Bond-street. ST. JAMES'S THEA IRE. ROBE KT HOUDIN. Mr. MITCHELL begs to annomice that the celebrated ROBERT 1301:DIN (of the Pa!ais Royal, Paris,) Is en,sfa ed to present a li mited number of his extraordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES at the St. James's Theatre, which will be commenced on TUESDAY EVENING, May 2, and continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings. lull particulars \rill be e'uly announced. Boxes and stalls. may be had at Mr. MITCHELL'S Royal Li brary, 33, Old Bond-street. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. I. M. Xaddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland• place. THIS EVENING, Will be presented Le Brun's comic Opera, entitled THE NIGHT INGALE. To be fello , ved by the new Interlude called MAMMON and GAM MON. After which, a new Comic Piece, entitled THE SULTANA. Soiyman, Mr. Ryder ; Osmyn, Mr. Compton ; Yuseph, Mr. Henry ; Noxalana, Madame Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Vinare ; Idles Hodson. To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ESMEEALDA ; or, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Esmeralda, Mdlle_ Agri, pl. press Circle, 55.: Boxes, 45.; kit, 21.; Gallery, Is. tti)YAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner. Matchless Performances Unrivalled Company—and the only Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHEMIANS. Cha racters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks, E. F. Saville, R. Homier, Dale, J. Herbert, H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Homier, and Miss E. Terry. After which, by permission, " LADIHS, BEWARE." To conclude with a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CIN DERELLA AND THE FAIRY QUEEN; or. Harlequin and the Little Glass Slipper. Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Harlequin, Mr. Maskell ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T. Barry. Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrether. ASTLEY'- ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary attraction for the Easter Holidays. First appearance these Five Years of the celebrated Mr. Van Am burgh and his unequalled collection of trained animals, amongst which will be feund the greatest novelty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with other animals, and has hitherto been considered untamable. THIS EVENIsiq, Will he presented a grand romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle Tarnard, Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh In his etoutilling performance, bounded upon a passage in Eugene Sue's Celebrated novel of " The Wandering .levr," and will be producen un der the title of MOROK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard, 3lr. Van Amburgh. The Spectacle will be succeeded isy an incomparable routine of Mr. Batty's Scenes of the Arena, in which signor Chiarin! and NI dile. Marietta Orsmago, from Italy, will ha ve t h e honour of appearing. The entertainments will conclude with a tavourite Farce. D ur ing the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ti* o communication can be attended to unless autheati. cated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. IMMO. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 26. TIIIIRMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 44; Noon, 47 BAROMETER, 29.93. —WIND N.N.W.; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Moaning .. 43 min. after 6 Evening •• 8 after 7 min. O) ;,..u, , NA,.._ - • , .1•,- , ' - 7.- '-- '- ; li , '..ei .. .4' -.. .;4."‘ '..' ibi - g' -- -- r , ;."...**r"- , g i ' v.45 5 1 1 , 41 >-„,,,.. . /tort •; .• , '„ - o 4" :' i;r.E . C. ',I, ' , • ... 'V ' , El%'''' ~,.. .., • -'-',... UrniugUL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1848• Our representatives' both accredited and unaccre dited, are severallyplaced in rather embarrassing predicaments in relation to some of the principal Governments of the European Continent. There is Lord NORMANET, for for example,some ever on the al er t, in the French capital, unexpected cata s tr o ph e anarchical am ong the explosive m a t er i a l s of de mocracy—looking perpetually to the left, north , east , west , and south, with that lightning to the ightning rapidity which is dictated by the uncertainty of ev ents —always vigilant, always curious, always ag it a ted by a thousand conjectures, it only in u l 'ays en ce to the principle o f , el f- preservation. There di: , Lord Mis to retreatin g from the penin: sular enthusiasm of the Italians, making hi s inofficial conge at Rome, and returning to his par tially vacated office as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. There is Lord HOWARD DE WALDEN and SEAFORD tarrying as Envoy Plenipotentiary to the fsew sisAteslitxt of LEOPOLD, on the frontiers of a land still „..JE .4 .....--rrr'lltrt"from the eruptive flames of Revolution. There ....:". I- "ii 141\Earl of WESTMORELA ND at Berlin, a spe c t a t or 4 , L ~.../ of t--massacres of the Burghers, and of the march :A 7 - - -`,, - 42 - --'' • 4 =v it g'" ' ".' tII e a - 7. . Auxil i a r y corps to the lawless invasion of .Y, .... .644 ..... , i g . Sir EDWARD LYONS watches the p...;,,, denouement of the stock-jobbing conspiracy THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNEgDA which recently polluted the city of the acropolis ! with its plots, under the auspices of the leceased COLETTI. At Copenhagen the Right Hon. W. W. \VTYN observes, with an interest that can .carcely be appreciated in the soporific and lulling lgioni of Belgravia, the fortunes attendant upon the Danish standard on the banks of the Eider, and under the wa;ls of Friederichstadt. From the revo lutionary movement of Lombardy, the irritable de ,miinds of Bohemia, the imperative petitions from Ganicht, and the annihilation of the power exercised (or half a century over the Austrian councils by the Lord of Johannisburg, the Em peror FERDINAND has been compelled to adopt a policy such as three months ago could never have suggested itself to the sanguine imagination of Viscount PONSONBT. Even among the pageantries ~ f Saint PAersburzh Lord BLOOMFIELD must recog- rise the precarious posture of affairs along the con • dries of Lithuania and in the interior of Russian Poland. At Lisbon Sir HAMILTON SEYMOUR is com pelled to witness the insane and retrogressive system enforced by the Ministerial advisers of the SOVEREIGN. And at Madrid the Right Honourable HENRY BULWER has received a polite intimation that his recal by Lord PALMERSTON will be regarded as a pleasant frag ment of intelligence by the members of the Narvaez Administration. Everywhere is doubt, trepidation, or annoyance to our Ambassadors and Plenipoten tiaries. Everywhere are the representatives of her Britannic MAJESTY tormented, worried, importuned, threatened, badgered, or regarded with suspicions. And through the whole of this Lord PALMERSTON is expected to preserve an equable temperament. Teazed -o distraction himself in the House of Commons, one while by the petulant personalities of Mr. URQUHART, at another by the monstrous impeachments of Mr CitismoLm ANSTEY, the Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs is expected to preserve the equanimity of his disposition, despite all the annoyances pouring into his official portfolio through the medium of his con- tinental dispatches. Of all the shades and diversities of insolence evinced by certain of the Cabinets of Europe towards the re sident Ambassadors from Great Britain, the conduct of NARVAEZ to her Britannic MAJESTY'S representa• rive at Madrid is the most insolent and the most un justifiable. It is a becoming sequel to that ill tempered act of the Duke of VALENCIA—the banish ment of MONTPENSIER to Seville, possibly with a view - o the assuagement of his thirst for intrigue by po . .itions of inimitable orangeade. If a rumour .thanating from the most authentic sources can be Tedited, Mr. BULWER has acquired the antipathy of the present Ministry of Queen ISABELLA, and a direct demand for his recal is said to have been for warded by that Ministry to the Foreign-office in ' Downing•street. The reason for this sudden dislike to a man who has hitherto been regarded with deferential respect, if not with positive cordiality will not be for one instant incomprehensible to those who have perused the communication addressed to Mr. BULWER on the 10th inst. by the Duke DE Sorosiairou. That communication is a very restive, and, in truth, an absolutely impertinent re joinder to one penned on the 7th instant by the Right Hon. HENRY LYTTON BULWER, inclosing an official letter received by that Ambassador from Viscount PALMERSTON. Lord PALMERSTON'S letter, it must not be forgotten, was dated March 16th, and conveyed t salutary recommendation to the Spanish Govern tnent in reference to the adoption of a more legal Ind constitutional system" than the one hitherto adopted by NARVAEZ and his colleagues. The communication in which this letter was trans mitted to the Duke DE SOTOMATOR by his Excellency the British Ambassador was couched in language befitting the representatives of that Sove reignty which had been principally instrumental in raising ISABELLA 11. to the throne; and Mr. BULWER specified as much when he reminded the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, that " what especially distinguished the cause of Queen ISABELLA from that of her Royal competitor was the promise of constitu tional liberty inscribed upon the banners of her Ca tholic MAJESTY." In reply the Duke DE SOTO MAYOR perversely and indeed insolently inquired what would be the response of Lord PALSSERSTON supposing the Spanish Government interfered in reference to the administration of the British Cabinet, to the friv,htful condition of Ireland, or to the unfortunate people of Asia ? " What, " continued the irritated diplomatist, " what, in fine, would he do if we were to remind him that the late events on the Continent gave a salutary lesson to all Governments without excepting Great Britain, and that consequently the administration of the State should be given up to the illustrious PEEL, to the skilful man, who, after having conciliated the general opinion of his country, has known how to merit the sympathies and the esteem of all the Governments of Europe ?" As if the Constitution of England had been established through the assistance of Spanish valour and Spanish negotia tion, as if in any respect whatever Spain was authorised to catechise the Statesmen of Great Britain ! In presuming to discern an analogy between his imaginary proposition and the recommendation of Lord PALMERSTON, the Duke DE SOTOMATOR misrepresents entirely the character of that communication. Instead of being a dictatorial interposition in the internal government of Spain, it was a friendly whisper of advice uttered in a period of terrible and momentous catastrophes. Let NARVAEZ beware I or, so soon as Mr. BuLwEa shall have departed homewards, the Voice of CASSANDRA may become audible in the streets of Madrid. The peaceable and loyal inhabitants of Dublin, and indeed, of by far the greatest portion of Ireland, have been kept in constant anxiety and alarm in conse quence of the feverish and excited state of the public wind, and the possibility of some speedy collision be tween the authorities and those who openly profess their disaffection, and avow their readiness to have recourse to armed resistance upon any the slightest provocation, or rather what they may be pleased to consider as such. The Government have adopted every possible precaution, and have made the most judicious arrangements for the maintenance of public order and tranquillity. There is no undue inter• ference with the people by which an outbreak might possibly be occasioned. They manifest a perfect consciousness of their strength, and suffer events to pass apparently with ou t no ti ce th a t, un d er ot h er circumstances,, wuld imm e di a t e ly arouse th em i nto activity. The prudent and sagacious statesman who annoyances, and raehodf otchethdeanagliegrhotuesstreiislutelrtsruopfttiohnosoefpeatntyy ntooowwso ably fill s th e t h rone of Ticeroyalty in Ireland is popular meetings for which a legitimate pretext can be put forward, to adopt such a course. He keeps strictly within th e li m i ts of c onstitutional law, whi c h a n d e h r e e r n e d n e c r e s t t h h e e r etmoreo. soin inapr:enedriniggisd, however, so manifestly ill egal, 5o clearlyme resorted al cla organising t ed to bring hepeople i l to police, fe m or a c s i s v e i s l , w y • a i t r h , t a h n e d i n s o t e m n t u i o c 11 11 c o into hostile collision with the military or to create terror in the minds o f the well-dis posed, posed, that they could not possibly be suffered- to prevail without the Executive being thereby s ubjected to the charge of gross and cu l pa b le negligence ; we allude more particularly t o the recent practice of numerous bodies of people assem bling together for the purpose of being trained and drilled to the use of arms, and of practising military movements and evolutions. Such conduct is in QX• press o pposition to the pr ovisions of an Act p as sed nearly thirty years since, and which, although seldom enforced, owing to the adoption of the moral force principle by the late Leade r of the Irish nation during the entire of his triumphant career, still remains on the statute book in full force and Efficiency. Hence forward these enactments will be strictly enforced, and all persons violating the law, by drilling or in struetinz others in military tactics without the sanc tion of the niagistrates, will be subjected to trans portation for a t erm o f seven years ; w hile those who receive these instr uc ti ons w ill b e li a ble to be fined andimprisoned th ere f or . The promulgation of the enactments thus oppor tur-ly 1 brough t to light, of the severe penalties to which parti es may be ' exposed f or th us p l ay i ng a t soldit , rs, h ave h ad the aid that the trade most beneficial effects. It is of the seditious trium v i i n t ra what th e most truculent "the Queen of weapor;has be en p l eased to term abated. Persons wills peech), I rn has a l rea d y materially I y discove r th e folly of expending their scanty I ems in the acquisition of those useless articles, when they can no longer with impunity take part in grand spectacles, and attract the attention and excite the envy of their gaping as sociates by their proficiency in military tactics and evolutions. The consignment of the officers and ring leaders to the several gaols and houses of correction throughout the country will moderate the ardour cf the enthusiastic recruits, and induce them to have recourse to other pastimes, leading to less unpleasant results. Meanwhile the leader par excellence, Mr. JOIIN MITCHELL, appears resolved that the gagging Act shall have no effect upon his conduct, and if the tur bulent passions of the people should be appeased, it will not be owing to any failure on his part of the usual amount of stimulating writing and of "open and advised speaking." On Monday, when, as the editor of a public journal, he must have been well aware that the Bill for the secu rity of the Crown and Government had received the Royal assent on the preceding Saturday, and was, consequently, at that time part and parcel of the law of the land, Mr. MiTciisLL presided at a meeting held at the Princess's Theatre, Abbey-street, when he an nounced that the English Chartists and the Irish people " had one common enemy to destroy—the Legislature of England." And he further proposed ! that the former " should undertake to make Eng land ungovernable by any English Government, Whig or Tory, which withheld from them their full rights, while the Irishmen would engage to make Ireland ungovernable by any Mini stry, good, bad, or indifferent." This is certainly tolerably plain and unequivocal. To do justice, however, to the " War Editor," he is by no means mealy-mouthed on such occasions ; and if sufficient grounds for a prosecution, under the new statute, were required by the law officers of the Crown, they would not long be withheld. No religious enthusiast, in fact, ever loneed for a martyr's crown more fer vently than Mr. MITCHELL pines for a prosecution I for something more than a misdemeanour, and it would be hard to disappoint so earnest a demand. If, however, the political horizon is cloudy with so many portentous and threatening indications, the prospect is not altogether dark ; there are some blue spots in the heavens that warrant favourable expecte- tions that the tempest and storm may pass away without expending their fury on Irish ground. Ad dresses of confidence in the Government, and expres sive of the determination of the parties from whom they have emanated to support the con stituted authorities in their efforts to protect the lives, the liberties, and the furtunes of all classes, are flowing in from every quarter of the country. A knowledge of the well-disposed and loyal inhabitants is thus obtained, and if the Go vernment should see a necessity for calling on Irish. men to come forward and enrol themselves for the maintenance of the peace of the country, we are sa tisfied that they would manifest - similar alacrity to that which recently reflected so much credit on all classes of society in the British metropolis. The French elections are passing over with un expected tranquillity. Universal as is the interest concentrated upon them, and momentous as will be the result to which they must inevitably lead, their progress is only marked by an unusual quietude and a profound calm. And it is but right it should be so. It is but right that the interest elicited by these elections should be of too grave and anxious a character to be manifested by any outward demonstration, even among a people so demonstrative as the French; and it is more especially well that an affair of such vital importance to the whole nation should not be marred by any, even temporary or trivial, emu-ute. The first general election of Republican France is for many reasons a subject of deep interest interesting from the present circumstances which occasion it, and in teresting from the future consequences which may follow it ; interesting to those who are actors in the scene, and interesting to the spec tators observing it. A general election is at all times worthy of attention and productive of serious thought, that is to those who have time to consider its abstract importance. Generally speaking, when an election takes place in this country, for example, public atten tion is too much occupied with speculating as to who will get in and who will be rejected to look upon the affair in any more extended light. But removed from the immediate scene of action, as we are now in contemplating the French, the grandeur of the spec tacle as a whole, its sublimity as an idea, becomes apparent to us. We recognise the full merits of that triumph of civilization—a representative con stitution. We witness the marvellous combination of popular liberty and public order. We see all the advan tages of the veriest democracy enjoyed without their degenerating into the evil consequences of anarchy. We find a people, at the same time, exer cising authority and yielding obedience—exercising their rightful prerogatives as individual men, or se lecting their law-makers, and yielding ready obe dience, as loyal citizens, to the Legislature thus chosen by themselves and their countrymen. By this proceeding—and by this alone—the power of the people is at once proclaimed and preserved. By those unpretending and, apparently, unimportant en tries at the polling-booths, a minority of the people are invested by the rest with that power which is the birthright of all the members of a free nation, and hence the acts of that chosen minority become the acts of the whole people, whose representa tives they are. No form of government could by possibility be devised more liberal to each, and more just to all, than is a representative constitution when equitably organized. Errors and faults, inseparable from all human institutions, too often detract from the perfect character of this form of government, for the form of government itself is a perfect one. Errors and faults have crept into our own ►node of organizing a representative Legislature —errors and faults which we are solicitous of having avoided and amended for the future ; but notwith standing their existence the people of this country are fully impressed with the inestimable advantages of the Constitution which they enjoy, and consequently they experience no common interest in the now happily accelerated progress of other nations towards a parti cipation of those advantages. All the people of Europe will, ere long, be ruled by their own repre sentatives. France has for a considerable period possessed a representative legislature, but the im portance of such a Legislature will just now be manifested in an especial manner. Free from the control of a Sovereign, and free from the corrupting influences of a regal Ministry, the French Parlia ment will be now invested with peculiar power, and through recent events become the observed of Europe and the warning lei.son, or encouraging example, of surrounding nations. The representatives will be pos sessed ot no ordinary responsibility. Their position will be a most onerous and important one. No selfish de sires, no vain ambition, no miserable pride, should, more especially in the present instance, stimu late any citizen to solicit the suffrages of his countrymen. No interested motives, no personal friendship, no promised reward, should induce any elector to give a vote for his representa• tive—a representative who will have to represent not his constituents alone, but France and Republicanism. Let us hope that a due sense of their awful responsibility now influences the people of France whether electors or elected. In a few days the result of their delibe rations will be made known by the publicatio❑ of the names of the members of the new Parliament ; and, ere long, the consequences of the election must be manifested by the decisions and resolutions of the Chamber. If—though happily such a misfortune is hardly probable—if the present elections be influenced by such a spirit as LEDRU Roman's, the result will be speedy and inevitable— trouble for France and destruction to Republicanism. But such is not likely to be the issue of the trial. It is more than probable that the new Assembly will be comprised of men of politics and characters as various as their occupation*, of which, judging from the lists of the candidates, they are likely to present an extra ordinary variety. No doubt the new Chamber will be occasionally agitated by some outbursts on the ' part of the violent and ultra-Republicans, and also at intervals led away by the specious reasoning of some secret partizan of the old regime. Perhaps there may be in the list of new representatives some men of genius and ability, hitherto unknown, w h o may speedily make themselves conspicuous in debate, and perhaps cleft no unimportant influence over the future destinies of the country. All this, however, is doubtful. But ono thing is, happily, inevitable. LAMARTINE cannot fail to exert over the members sf the new Chamber the same powerful and salutary influence which he has already exercised with such effect, not only over Paris and France, but over all Europe. We anticipate the fervour of his poetic imaginings and impressive oratory stirring up the patriotism, and calling forth the latent enthusiasm of his hearers to the fulfilment of some of those high aspirations which his genius has long since prefigured. Or, again, we foresee how happily th a t gen tl e an d confiding spirit, which invests with so much splendour his beautiful and attractive language, may serve to still the rising storms of ambition, and to create the institutions of Republicanism out of the chaos of Anarchy. Conspicuous in the future of the new French Parliament, LAMARTINE stands before us somewhat like CANNING as he appeared on that memorable occasion when he electrified the House of Commons by this audacious and magnifi cent declaration — " I call a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old !" Even so may LAMARTINE silence the murmurs of the envious and refractory. He, too, has called a new world into ex istence—the world of peace, and charity, and con cord—where confidence is the link which unites peoples and governments—where sympathies are the treaties which unite once hostile nations ; he, too, has called a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old world, in which very different feelings predominated. He, or rather let us say, the better feelings of this age, of which his high intellect and Christian heart are but the type and the fitting re presentative, has summon ed into existence this new world. The futu re alone c an show how much of its fairpro promise e may be realised —t o th a t f uture we l oo k with anxious but hopeful anticipation. Madrid papers of the 20th ha ve arr i ve d. It is said that s junction had taken place in Cata lonia between the Carlists and the Republicans. The discount on Bank Notes has risen 12 per cent. The 20th being Holy Thursday, the Balsa was closed. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Great complaints are made of the fraudulent con duct of L EDRU ROLLIN, LOUIS BLANC, and ALBERT, in attemptin g t o falsify the elections by i ssu i ng duplicate v o ti ng tickets, by prolonging the time for registration, and by various other methods. The proclamation of LEnnu RoLLIN for keeping open the registration lists until Monday night, was issued without the knowledge of his colleagues, and has not been published in the Moniteur. With respect to the doings of the LOUIS BLANC party, we find the following in the Commerce:— " Very grave facts, said to have occurred on Saturday, have been communicated to us. Emissaries of the Luxembourg, to the number of more than three hun dred, have, it is said, been sent to the banlieue, with the mission of widely distributing the list of the Commission des Travailleurs. It is added, that the horses of the Gardo Republicaine were placed at the disposal of these emissaries We are also assured that electors' cards have been delivered to a great number of foreign work men resident at Paris, and that these workmen have been strongly solicited to vote for the candidates of the Luxembourg. We hope that an investigation will be made into these facts. Fraud must not be allowed to slip into our republican e lections, and falsify the ex pression of the will OE the country. We find the following on the same subject in the Patrie - - " It is known that a proclamation of the delegates of the Luxembourg, stuck up on the walls of Paris, invited workmen to go to-day at six in the morning to the Champs de Mars in order to agree on the unity of their votes. In announcing this fact, we did not hesitate to condemn the proceeding as having all the character of an abuse of influence, and we added that the working population would refuse to obey this electoral mot d'ordre. We were right in reckoning on its good sense and intelligence. We are assured that a very small number of workmen responded this morning to the appeal . from the Luxembourg. They dispersed without commg to any decision, on the wise observations of some citizens, who made them comprehend the imprudence of their conduct." M. CAustntEßE, the Prefect of Police, has issued a notice declaring that it having been represented to him that very grave abuses had taken place in some of the Mairies, in the mode of distributing the voting cards to the electors, several electors obtaining two or more authorisations ; and, moreover, it having been asserted that certain persons were busied in buying up votes, he thinks it necessary to publish the enactment of Art. 113 of the Penal Code relating to this subject. It is there clearly affirmed, that "who ever shall sell or purchase a vote shall be interdicted from exercising all civic rights for a space of time not more than ten years, and not less than five ; and in addition, both the buyer and seller shall be con demned to pay a fine double the sum received or s p o pe a e r time before from the f ollo th w e in promised. It wouldrgeepuairtagofrapay o paragraph that it may f the elections c an be known. The Commune de Paris be some says— " It is generally supposed that the definitive result of the ballot will he known in two or three days. This is au error. The army must vote, and in virtue of articles 37 and 38 of the instructions of the Bth of March, the result of the votes of the different corps will be comprised in the general list of votes of each department. It is therefore necessary that the proces verbaux of each corps be known before the representatives can be known." The schism existing among the members of the Provisional Government is now openly avowed. LEDRU ROLLIN and the Communists have omitted the names of their moderate colleagues from their elec toral lists. Those colleagues, however, have had the good sense not to follow such a bad example. The National thus alludes to the split : " We have believed it good and wise policy to maintain the principal of unity in the Government to the period of the meeting of the constituent assembly. It seemed to us necessary that the men who took possession of sove reignty on the 24th of February should arrive altogether before the new chamber, to render an account of the exercise of their power. Faithful to this sentiment we continue to give the list of the central committee, with out being desirous of entering on the system of exclusion. Our independence towards all the Members of the Pro visional Government, without exception, is complete ; but our personal sympathies are not equal towards all— we declare that distinctly. Still, on behalf of the repub lican cause, we have imposed silence on our private sen timents, desirous as we are to secure, before everything, by the union of all democratic forces, the consolidation of the Republic. A day will come on which, resuming our full liberty, we can discuss not persons, w ho interest us little, but acts. That day cannot be far distant ; but we are certain that public opinion will thank us for ad journing to the meeting of the assembly a discussion which at present would only embarrass the march of the Government, and by consequence aid the enemies of the Republic, who are always alive, always ready to profit by our faults. It is impossible for moderation and patience not to prevail in the eed." M. LxDRU ROLLIN is pursuing his career of con ruFtion and despotism with a recklessness that pnts to shame the comparatively puny attempts of M. Du- CHATEL and the late Government. The Presse says —" A decree of the Provisional Government, dated April 12, inserted in the Bulletin dos Loin, as No. 529, opens to M. LEDRU ROLLIN, Minister of the Interior, an extraordinary credit of 500,0001 for extraordinary expenses of pub lic safety. The decree is not preceded by an preamble whatever. We shall not attempt to supply that silence, and we shall confine ourselves to a single observation. The opening of this credit involves the supposition that the sum of 932,000 f. set down for the same purpose during the present year, by the law of August 8, 1847, has been completely exhausted. How comes it to pass that this sum of 932,0001. has been expended before a third of the year has elapsed? Does the fault lie with M. DUCHATEL or M. LEDRU ROLLIN Will it be necessary, in order to ascertain that fact, to wait for the revelations of some Revue lietrospe ctive P " Wer e we that U. LEDRU ROLLIN wag Ti() Re p ublican ? The that right when w e said a few days since Gazette de Tribuitaux gives the following account of the M on t agnards, so me Of whose r ecent p roceedin g s have attracted a good deal of pu blic attention : "The Montaguardi, whose effective force , somewhat variable, amounts to from 400 to 500 wen, were formed atthe Prefecture of Police , the first of them having been th at small knot of Republican combatants, who, headed b y 3i " of the hotel on the Qusi des Orfevres, in the midst M. Caussidiire and M . Sobrier, took posses of the s t ruggle of the 2 4 t h February. The organization of this corps has never been re g ular, neither have its uniform an d equipments. The M onta g nards, without joining any ge ntinK to submit to the sever e rules of disci p line, other corps, and it m ust be said without con• placed th emselves at t h e m oment of danger with praise worthy devotedness at the disp osal 01 the Prefect of I olive. They have, however , acquitted themselves with z ea l and intell i gent ener gy of the difficult missions intrusted t o th em . As a proof o f their want of disci pline, it may be stated . that a few da y s a g o, in come queuce or a misunderstanding with the staff, the com- ~~VFNI.IIC7r, A PR IL 2, IB4R, pany of the National Guard, which was to have taken the post of the Prefecture of Police, was behind time; and when they did arrive, the Montagnards who had previously done the service, in conjunction with the National Guard, refused to allow them to enter the hotel. The captain, seeing that their force was consi derable. withdrew his men in order to prevent a colli sion. On the two following days other companies of the National Guard were also refused admittance to the hotel by the Montagnards, a refusal against which they energetically protested. On Tuesday, the day on which the rappel was beaten, several individuals were arrested for distributing Communist pamphlets, or uttering Com munist cries. These individuals, who were protected from the vengeance of the crowd by the National Guard, were sent by the commissaries of police before whom they were taken to the Prefecture of Police, some of the National Guard escorting them. On reaching the hotel of the Prefecture the Montagnards, who oc cupied all the entrances, refused to allow the National Guards to enter; they required that the warrants for detaining the accused should be given up to them, and they then selected certain of the prisoners, saying that they knew them, and would answer for them. In vain did the National Guards insist on being allowed to place the men in the custody of the regular authorities—they were resisted and threatened, and when at length they retired, the prisonets were set at liberty without any other formality. On being informed of these circum stances, the Prefect, M. Caussidiere, assembled the Montagnards, and expressed his indignation at their conduct. He told them that no one should be allowed to set himself above the laws, and that they must submit to the usual rules of discipline. He added that they should leave the Hotel of the Prefecture forthwith, and be lodged in the building formerly occupied by the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles. At this some murmurs of discontent were heard, whereupon the Prefect de clared that they should not be allowed to oppose his orders, that discipline should -be respected, and that they must obey willingly, or he should be obliged to employ measures to enforce obedience. On the same day, the Montagnards evacuated the Prefecture, and went to occupy the building prepared in the Rue St. Victor. It was, however, arranged that twenty of them should do the service of the hotel, in conjunction with the National Guard and the Garde 116publicaine. On Thursday, the Prefecture was guarded by the Mon tagnurds and the Garde Republicaine, the National Guard being at the review. On Friday, a company of the let legion, under the command of. Captain Moise, went to the Prefecture to take possession of the post. On arriving they found the Montagnards in arms, ranged before the vestibule, and barring the passage ; and their chief declared that his men would not allow the National Guard to enter the interior. Captain, Moise represented in vain to the Montaguards that, us an old soldier, he must, in obedience to the orders he had received, occupy the post of the Prefecture in spite of all resistance. He then made an appeal to the volun teers of the Garde Il‘publicaine, who were present at, but took no part in, the conflict. 'I am an old soldier,' he said, as Republican as those who prevent me from entering—a better Republican, perhaps, for I was the companion and friend of the four Sergens de la Rochelle, who proved the sincerity of their convictions by the loss of their heads on the scaffold. I appeal to you, young citizens—l have an order, and I must perish or execute it.' The Garde Ripublicaine cried as one man, Vive la Garde Nationale ; enter, brave Captain I' This put an end to the conflict, and since the National Guard has done the service at the Prefecture, in conjunction with the Garde Republicaine and the Montagnards." The following are said to have been proposed by the directors of the railway companies to the Govern ment, as the conditions on which they would give up their lines to the nation : " 1. For the companies having lines completed and in operation, and producing a net profit above four per cent., five per cent. stock producing dividends equal to the net profit of the last year, increased by one-third. 2. For lines at work and producing a net profit of from three to four per cent, the reimbursements of their capi tal in five per cents. at par.-3. Fur companies whose net profits are below three per cent., reimbursements of capital in four per cents. at par.-4. Fur companies whose net profit is nothing, or below three per cent , reimbursement of capital in three per cents, at par.- 5 For companies too recently in operation to calculate net revenue, reimbursement of capital in five per cents. at par, with a bonus of one-third to those who have not borrowed, and without a bonus to those who have bor rowed. The State in each case taking the liability o' the loans.-6. To companies whose lines are in con struction, and whose realised capital assures their en gagements, reimbursement of capital in fives at par, with a bonus of one third.-7. For companies not able to fulfil their engagements to the State, reimbursement in fives at par without a bonus." The elections concluded at twelve o'clock on Mon day night, and the Monileur of yesterday contains an order, signed by the Mayor of Paris, to the effect that " the general examination of the votes will tak, place on the 28th of April, at the Hotel de Ville of Paris." This order lays down the regulations to be followed upon that occasion. The senior Mayor 01 Paris is to preside over the operation. The mayors of the arrondissements of Paris, and of the rural communes, accompanied by delegates from the central bureau, and of the bureaux of the can tons and arrondissements, will assist, for the purpose of presenting their proces verbaux of the elections. The number of votes given in each section will then be examined and recorded. The examination being closed, the result is to be commu nicated to the Mayor of Paris and his adjoints. The candidates who shall have obtained more than 2,000 votes at least, according to the order of suffrages which they shall have obtained, will then be pro claimed " representatives of the people," by the Mayor of Paris. In the event of two candidates having an equality of votes, the elder candidate is to be proclaimed. If the number of candidates who shall have obtained two thousand votes and more be inferior to the number of representatives of the department, a new election for the completion of the representation is to take place in eight days. The Moniteur publishes decrees suppressing the octroi duties on pork sausages, &c., and regulating the octroi duties to be levied on poultry, fish, truffles, oysters, butter, &c. Another decree is published, placing two millions of francs at the disposal of the Minister of Public Works, for the continuation of the works on the Paris and Strasburg Railway- A decree is also published uniting the Garde Mobile of Lyons and Rouen to that of Paris, and ordering that no more names be enrolled in the Garde Mobile. The utmost irregularity prevailed at the elections, and the ballot-boxes were tampered with in all sorts of ways. The Assemblie Nationale puts the follow ing questions to M. LEDRU ROLLIN : "Is it true that one or more of the ballot boxes were kept during Sunday night at M. Ledru Rollin's, at the Ministry of the Interior ? "Is it true that that box or boxes arrived there in a carriage, and under escort, towards eleven o'clock in the evening ? Is it true that the escort caused the carriage to enter by the principal gateway of the hotel, entrusted, I during the night, to the exclusive watch of the Garde Re publicaine, while the National Guard occupied another post at the entry •f the Court of Offices. " The escort having shortly departed, to whom was their deposit remitted ?—under what guard was it left? "Has not the Government decreed, and did not M. Ledru Rollin himself order, in a detailed instruction, that the boxes, sealed each night, during the duration of the elections, should be carried to the Maisie, and placed under lock and key; and should in every case be en trusted to the surveillance of the National Guard, whose sentinels were to occupy all the issues of the pace in which they were deposited?" On Monday night an attempt was made by a mob of persons to break into the raairie of the 2d arron dissement, and to carry away the electoral ballot-box of the arrondissement. Fortunately the affair was discovered in time to be prevented. The alarm was, however, so great that the National Guards were called out, and large parties of them occupied the Hotel de Ville and the twelve mairies of Paris during the night; the residences of all the members of the Pro visional Government were guarded by detachments of National . ' Guards, and all the sentinels were doubled. The night, however, passed without any further disturbance. It would appear that it was not merely on the Bureau of the Rue Servandoni that the Ultras threatened to make a descent on Monday evening, in order to possess themselves of and destroy the votes given to the various candidates. The attack was (according to rumour) to be general. Information to that effect reached the Government, in conse quence of which a private order was given that fifty men of each company of the National Guard should hold themselves in readiness for immediate service. As the night advanced heavy patrols (of sixty men each) traversed the city in most directions. The elections of deputies to the National Assembly have already commenced on board the ships of war at Brest. M. Lacaossx, former deputy of that city, had obtained the greatest number of votes (1..217), and after him M. LAMARTINE (980). No other member of the Provisional Government, not even M. ARAGO, Minister of Marine, had received a single suffrage. M. LEDRU RoLLIN resigned his office of Minister of the Interior on Monday, because of some proceed ing of M. RECURT, adjoins Mayor, but was prevailed upon by M. LA:MARTINE to recal his resignation. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 25. THREE O'CLOCK I'he tranquil manner in which the elections have in general passed over in Paris has had the ffect of sending prices up to-day. The Five per Cents. have advanced 2f., closing at 62f.; and the Three per Cents. 50c., at 41f. 25e. This di ff erence in the improve ment between the two is attributed to the aircuirotanC, ._., y ,~ "-^ `"".''''•.7,l,, that the Fives are considered comparatively lower than the Threes; Bank of France Shares were in great demand, and closed at 1.330 E, or 130 f. higher. The tact of the provincial banks having in general made but little resistance to the plan of absorption into the Bank of France, has been the cause of this advance. Iti , man is 1 if. better, closing at 52E, and Roths child's Neapolitan, 2f., at 52ff. Belgian Fives of both 1840 and 1842 are at 62ff., the same as the day before. Obligations de is Ville closed ,025 f., or sf. better; and Piedmont at 850 E. or 25f. better. Bons du Trdsor were not negotiated. Railway Shares have not continued the ascensional movement of the preceding day, realizations of profits having produced a slight reaction; Northern: are 10f. lower, closing at 35W.; Bordeaux, Marseilles, and Versailles (Right Bank), sf. each, at 395 E, 205 f. and 115 f.; Lions, 3f. 75c., at 315 E; Bale and Versailles (Left Bank), 21. 50c. at 82f. 50c. and 107 f. 50c.; Rouen and Havre are both unchanged at 375 f. and 2.0 f. Or leans have risen 5f., at 515 f., and Strasburg 2f. 50c. ' at 357 f. 50c. French gold is at 30f., and the charge for changing the 100 f. note from 3t. to sf. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THli LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 6 1 / 2 —Dutch Rhenish, 1 A —Northern of France, 3:ti —Orleans and Bordeaux, Paris and Lyons, 2 1 , 4—Paris and Orleans. 25—Paris and Rouen, 15. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. By a decree, dated April 20, his Majesty the Em- PEAOR has commanded that the sth Regiment of Hussars, " King Charles Albert of Sardinia," and the 4th Regiment of Dragoons, " Archduke Leopold of Tuscany," shall drop those titles and adopt those of the " Field-Marshal [Count Radetsky," and the Dragoons that of the " Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Boyneburg." His MAJESTY has accepted the resignation of Count TAFFE, Minister of Finance, at his own request. The Minister of ‘Var has received the following intellig?nce from the head-quarters at Verona, dated the 15th : " The enemy is inactive at all quarters, and ap pears to have neither the power nor the courage to act on the offensive. Although the direct com munication with Ferrara is interrupted, it is known that the citadel there still holds out, and that the Commandant continues to hold the city in awe of a bombardment. The military position of Field-Marshal RADETSKY has not essentially changed; the enemy continued to press hard upon Peschiera, but hitherto without success. On the evening of the 14th a Pied montese Major, who probably came to reconnoitre the place, was taken prisoner by an outpost. According ro his statement, the KING is before Peschiera in person. The commander of the fortress was offered an honourable retreat, which, however, in conformity with his duty, he declined. A few chastisements similar to those of Montebello and Castlenovo have spread terror and dismay among the so-called Crocieiti (Crusaders). The Field-Marshal is preparing to recommence operations with energy, so soon as his army shall have been reinforced with the corps stationed at Isonzo." This reinforcement will imme• liately take place, as the Minister of War has already received information from the Master of the Ordnance, Count NUGENT, that that corps will break up on tne 16th."— Wiener Zeitung, April 20. The Wiener Zeitung, of the 22i1, says—" The EMPEROR has presented M. MAFFEI, Captain of the kustrian Lloyd's, with a large golden medal 01 honour, as a reward for his indefatigable exertions of ccasion of the dismemberment of the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, by which he succeeded in pre serving a portion of the Austrian marine." Twenty-four insurgents, arrested with arms, have - been shot at Botzen, at Tyrol. The city of Trent has been declared in a state of siege. PRUSSIA. The grand procession of workmen which was to have taken place at Cologne on Monday has been oostponed. The reason given for the postponement is the unfavourable state of the weather. Several of the leaders in the unsuccessful attempt ro produce an imeute in Berlin on Sunday week have I)een arrested. On the 22d order waa completely restored at \lx-la-Chapelle. Nearly one hundred people had I)een arrested. The proceedings against them were oeing pushed on with vigour. This will materially mintribute to preserve, in the end, the peace of the own, which in fact has not for one instant been dis -urbed since the late events. The Prussian Gazette announces, under date from St. Petersburgh, April 15, that in exchange for the :our series of Treasury bonds which were to have been paid off this year, the EMPEROR has ordered the -mission of three new series of Treasury bonds of three millions of silver roubles each. The new series .1 ill be the 12th, 13th, and 14th. A letter from Berlin, addressed to the Allgemeine Zeitung, assures us that at St. Petersburgh the ques tion of the re-establishment of Poland is under consi deration, and that there is reason to believe that , ender certain conditions it can be admitted. It ap pears that an Austrian General has been dispatched from Vienna to St. Petersburgh on a mission having ,ixclusive reference to the affairs of Poland. At Vienna .nany think that a peaceable abandonment of that euuntry is not altogether impossible. BaEsLiu, APRIL 20.—The disturbances which had agitated this town are completely appeased. The National Guard, which had given way at first before the emeute, frightened by the outrages committed on Peaceable citizens, and not wishing to entrust the maintenance of order to the troops of the line, decided on throwing off their apathy. It dispersed with re ,olution all the assemblages of disturbers who endea voured to form yesterday and the day before during the night time, arresting many of them, and resuming its old ascendancy in the town. BADEN. The Republicans under liEcitnit have been defeated lnd dispersed, but not until they had perpetrated one of the most cold-blooded and cowardly murders ever recorded in the annals of treachery. General GAGERN, the victim of these cowardly ruffians, had been in the .ervice of the Netherlands previous to taking the command of the Baden troops. The Frankfurter Journal, under date of the 22d, gives the following as coining from the best au• thority : " Thursday morning, at five o'clock, General Gagern led his troops from Schlingen towards Kaudern, against Hecker ; at Kaudern both parties faced each other. A commissary of the Government again summoned the rebels to lay down their arms, but in vain. The troops then marched forward, and the rebels fell back beyond Raudern, and took up a favourable position. Up to this time not a single shot hail been fired; they made overtures to the general to have a parley. He, no doubt, thinking of rhe importance of the movement, and the effect it might have on the e•ene hand of raising the o airage or his troops, and on the other hand of saving an effusion of blood, advanced alone, and endeavour. d to save the rebels by an impressive address ; but the only answer he received was a direct appeal to treason, made, but in vain, to the troops. The general upon this turned round and mounted his horse, and the insurgents immediately opened a murderous fire, the general tieing the first who fell, struck by several balls. Such was the first act of heroism on the part of Republican Liberty I The troops advanced at once against these traitors and assas sins, and in about halt an hour the band gave way. 100 bodies remAined on the field, a fifth part being those of the troops. The insurgents were pursued and entirely routed. One part of them escaped to the mountains, another crossed the Rhine. One of their banners was taken. Colonel Hiukeldy, who had taken the command of the troops, was not satisfied with the first victory ; he immediately attacked the second main baud of the insurgents, and pursued them till nightfall. „ A letter from the Duchy of Baden, under date of the 21st says,— " Hecket's band met the Baden troops near Kaudern, drivingan d ase b r a i c o k u s theeng insurgents ts took and place, putt whichended hem to thein rout atter a sharp fusillade. A part of the men, armed with scythes, laid down their arms , asking for quarter, and saying that they had been compelled by force to join Hecker. Hecker, from reports, has escaped to the other side of the Rhine. The Baden dragoons com mance - d the attack, and fought with most determi ne d courage. Much carnage took . place on both s id es . :Hienertil Gagern, who commanded, was left on the cis ld, which can be easily accounted for, as iu Ilecker'a band there are excellent marksmen." A letter from Friburg, dated the 20th, at Right, in the Gazette du Haut Rhin, says,— " Hecker's band, having had an engagement with the troops between Liel and Kaudern, has fallen back on the latter place with a loss of two cannons, where they have entrenched themselves and raised barricades, with an apparent determination to defend themselves to the last. We do not, however, vouch for the correctness of this information." A letter from Frankfort of the 22 d, says,— " The death of Lieutenant. General Gagern is no longer doubttul. This officer undertook the command of the troops of Baden, and went to Sch Hagen on the lath, when intelligence arrived OM the insurgents had occu pied limier% He personally reconnoitred it during the night, and on the 20th, at four o'clock in the morning', the revel! was beat. The troops were all en route in for Kaudern at five o'clock, which was evacuat ed by the surgents, who had taken up their position near the city. As soon as the General's troops entered the city, intelli gence was brought that the insurgents desired to capitu late. The Grand Ducal Commissary was about to repair to them, when they asser ted that they would negotiate with none but the General in command." General GAMIN accordingly ro de to the outposts, accompanied only by a few horsemen. He exhorted the rebels to obey the voice of t he law, and to renounce this civil war, and not oppose the n atio h n c al development by these subversive tendencies, wih the majority of the nation condemned. The chival , roux warrior addressed a few words of peace a nd reconciliation to his misguided countrymeD, but they refused to follow his prudent counsels, and the generous proposals which he made to them. He was therefore compelled to return. He remounted his horse, and at the same momen t he was traitors, ously struck and mortally wounde d by three bell two of which entered his back , an d the third passed through his head. Exasperated at seeing their chief assassinated in so cruel and perfidi ous a manner, the troops furiously engaged in combat with the rebels, who were forced to take flight, leaving a gr eat num ber of dead upon the field. T he troops pursued them, and encountered a second ba nd of insurgents commanded by STRUVE. These they also attacked and completely routed them, and had not night set The in they would not have ceased to pu rsue them. official report states that the troops had only 35 woundeil, 20 of whom were soldiers of Baden, an d the rest of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. They 13d not a man killed. FRANKFORT-ON-THE -MA IN E. THE DIET, APRIL 21.—At the sitting of the 9th, the Committee of Fifty were occupied with the fol lowing proposition for a Committee : the " Will the High German Diet place immedi atel y exercise of the executive power which has devolved oree a it by the Federal Constitution into the bands of thr e e persons, who are to take upon themselves, up to the period of the establishment of a definitive e,xecittl/ef federal authorityert , the chief direction of the affairs o rmanyGi generally, particularly such as relate to the army—not only for the safety and integrity for Of G as regards foreign powers, but also in cas e of need 0 fa naa , preventing anarchy at home, and for establishing et diplomatic relations with foreign states i n the name t he German Confederation?" The Committee came to the conclusion that they the could not adopt this proposition, but they passed following resolutions : " 1. To invite the Diet to proceed immediately W t he election of a commandant or federal chief (a cafe Ipro vided for by the Constitution), and to entr ust hill' w it h the chief management of all military affairs. d t° " 2. To invite the Diet to communicate as quickly 65 _ possible to the Committee what bad already been done t° prevent the dangers threatening from witho ut, eil, wards the concentration and preparation of all necesseri mea " 3. To nominate a commission to act join tl y wit be Diet, with the view of ascertaining how they could °tra! teed, as promptly as possible, in establishing a cell a nd l point for diplomatic relations with foreign powerg',- of that they make a report to the Committee of the resut this negotiation." On the 20th, at the meeting of the Diet, °el read the resolutions above communicated to the t"• sembly by a letter from the Committee of Fifty. order The Prussian Envoy announced that, in s. effectually to enforce the Danes to evacua te Scble o wig, the Prussian troops destined for the duchy lithe been considerably increased, and placed unct r .,, c e command-in-chief of Lieut,General the •"/- RADZIWILL. as ked The deputy of Prussia, as also of Hanov er, b i f for the opening of the National General Asse/xl-; to be deferred from the Ist to the 18th of Aisf' account of the delay, rendered indispensa ble, for tPt e preliminary operations of the elections. ? j o y ? j o y Governments supported this proposition, basing °la.°. demand on the ground that it was n ecessal w f Assemblies should not be opened when deputiei the more considerable states of the Confederation Wei" absent. Ogg The Diet reserved to itself the power of , immediately the day when it would receive fad)°, information, which would arrive in a few days. On the proposition of the special cotntnissi °° ' named at the last sitting, the Assembly delegated I I special envoy of the Confederation to England, f °r the purpose of defending the interests of the Con federation as regarded the dangers which threatened German commerce and navigation, by reason o f the attempts on the part of Denmark to incorporate itself by force with Schleswig, and for the purpose of ascertaining, on this occasion, whether purchases could not be made there of war steamers, and on what terms other states, which had hesitated to allow to the Dia an unlimited credit for the purpoo of war steamers, will now give way and consent, reason of the decision come to by the Committee ° Fifty, which has removed all scruples on this b eg/d. Bavaria, the Grand Duchy of Baden, as also Breule l3 ' have consented. BAVARIA. The Bavarian Government, on the 17th April' proposed to the Chamber a project for a volor.lb loan of seven millions of florins, the whole of 1 " 1 1 - ;c is to be applied to the war department and to p u `: works. For this purpose there will be an euil l . li ts ° , of bonds of 20, 50, and 100 florins, bearing an I , l ' — f , r rest of from 5 to 6 per cent., to be reimbursed i n I° ' years. SWITZERLAND. In the secret sitting of the Swiss Diet of th e /4 ; 1 , inst. the question was discussed whether th e o mand of Sardinia, th a t S w i tzer l an d s h ou ld advin -30,000 men int o L om b ar d y, and a reserve of 20, E to the frontier, should be complied with. A'f t be somewhat stor m y di scuss i on the Diet re ferre d matter to a c omm i t t ee, wh i ch was to present sa report on th e 17 t h. A negative answer will jet. probabilitybe give n , an d b e approve d by the t he No ire great symp a th y i s f elt i n Switzerland fo King of S ARDINIA, and though it WAS emit tri ll be 100,C00 m en aga i nst the Sonder b un d, it vvlP difficult to raise 30,000 fora foreign war. An extr aor di nary cour i er l e f t C o i re (canton n f lj t i h o s t Grisons) on th e 6th, for Berne, to inform the A. that a str ong b o d y o f Austr i ans purpos ed forcing 1— Engaddi pass above Chiavenna. y o ked The Grand C ounc il o f B erne has been co — . 6 0 for the Bth o f M ay. N o l ess than sixty-three pro) of law are on the order of the day for discussion. • DENMARK AND sCHLES G- HOLSTEIN. N RENDSBURG, APRIL 21.—This forenoon an englig ; ment took place between the advanced Pos ts 00 Altenhof. A corps of 1 ~ 500 Danes marched rod Eckenforde, and attacked the free corps statl°o - under the command of Major Von i" lc- 60 0 BERG. The free corps were only from 400 ° v itt) men strong, and were att ac k e d by the Dane s : I Of their mounted artillery, supp or t e d by their ' l3 l t he the line. Victory declared itself on the part % f a' Germans, the Danes were d r i ven b a ck to ° "'", e re forge by an attack of b a y one t s , b u t o ur trool ). ; of unable to pursue them, as we h a d ne ith e r inh p 7 be the line nor artillery on our s id e . If the reP °r ; 90 accurately given 11 men have fallen, and abo tz " b i e d , wounded. The loss o f th e D anes mus t have d °ll- ours. Many of the corps which belonged to th" e 2l4 " posts had arrived only on the previous evening' ; e ll . had Theraeffa ceiirv,e(tl therefore , may be oretirebe r f e o g r a e r s dl superior a peri: a rn p u r r° oo - f of the great bravery of these corps. The decided approach of the German tro°o l l 3 o two w o R n u o ss l i o a n n r ge e r g b i e m d e e n lzed. Thi s m orning W", ~n(1 burg. e e ‘ It is b e li eve d t h at the attac k w ill be h f r T ,,, he m E ar m c pe bed ror ou F t ra o n f e it ig epo as o , " The Empero r Alexander from Friedri c h s t a dt , f or the present pos ition ° t Danes is so w e ll covere d b y turf-moors and tll: the d annerosks th a t i t w ill no t b e poss ibl e to ni ai, - attack en face. t he A letter from Kiel of the 21st of April s il ,'": o tel' Provision a l G overnment h as t hi s d a y receive ° Z it o!) ligence from London, a ccor di ng to which th e 13' 0 0 Cabinet does not consider the proceedings nt as a declaration of war against Denmark, and TV consequence maintain a preliminary neutrality era t o notices in the Danish journals of the 19th ti e concur in this statement. tiss ° ELSINORE, APRIL 19.—This evening the Isla' ships lying at anchor in th e roa d s tead have beep embargo upon by the Danish ships of war' no an'l Another letter from M essrs . A. 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