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ltow ready, in 2 vols., post a.m., with Portrait, REMINISCENCES OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND, Edited from the Papers of the late M. COLMACIIE, the Prince's Private Secretary. Also, just published, IMMOIRS OF MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER. Written by Herself. 3 - vole., with Portrait. " One of the most delightful and deeply interesting works we have read for a long time." —Weekly Chronicle. 'teary Calbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXVI. ADYERTISEMENTS intended for insertion in the forth coming Number of the EDINBURGH REVIEW, are requested to be forwarded to the Publishers befure FZIDAT, the 24th, and BILLS by 'MONDAY, the 27th of March. London: Longman and Co., Paternoster-row. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the public are respectfully announced that a GRAND EXTRA NIGIIT will ake place TIII6 EVENING, the 16th of March, when will be i , erformed (fcr tie second time), Verdi's new Opera, entitled ATTILA. Odabella, Mdlle. Sofia Cruvelli; Foresto, Sig. Gardoni ; Ezio, Cuzzani ; tildino, Sig. Guidi ; and Attila, Sig. Beletti. After which a Divertissement from CORALIA, in which Mdlle. M. Taglioni Rill appear; Deutsche!' Rhein False, by the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet ; the admired Pas de Rosiere, by Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. To be followed by the Second Act of IL BA.RBIERE DI SI VIGLIA. To conclude with the highly successful New and Original GRAND BALLET, In Four Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled FIORITA, et la Reine des Elfrides, The Music composed by 'ignor Pugin ; the Scenery (entirely new) by Mr. C. Marshall ; the Appotntm.nts by Mr. Bradwell ; the Cos tumes by Miss Bradley and Mr. Whales, under the superintendence of Madame Copere. The principal parts by Mdlle. Caroline' Rosati, Mdiles. Ausundon, Julienne, Lamoureux, Thevenet, Jenny, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni; M.M. Dor, Gourlet, Venafra, Di Mattis. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and 'I ickets to be made at ,he Box- Office of tke Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURT-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. Till 6 EVENING, Various acts of EQUITATION GYMNASTIC EXERCISES, &c., &v., by the entire Troupe. To conclude with THE QUADRILLE of the FOUR QUARTERS of the GLOBE, by thelnllowing Ladies and Gentlemen :—Mesdlls. Coraline, Mathilde, Ducos, Florentine—Messieurs Loisset, Lambert, Demos, and Gautier. Doors open at half-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. Second trice , Half-past Nine. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. ITller the Management of Mr. B. Webster. sole Lessee. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled THB WIFE'S SECRET. Lord Arden, Mr. Howe; Sir Walter Amyott, Mr. Oharles Run ; Jabez Sneed, Mr. Webster ; Harrington, Mr. Brix dall ; Brouillard, Mr. Rogers; Lady Eveline Lmyott, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Maud Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Comedy of !SPEED THE PLOUGH. gir Abel Handy, Mr. Farren; Bob Handy, Mr. H. Farren; Sir Philip Blandford, Mr. Rogers ; Farmer Ashfleld, Mr. Webster ; Henry, Mr. Yandenhaff ; Gerald, Mr. Tilbury ; Dams Ashfleld, Mrs. Glover; Miss Blandford, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham; Ludy Handy, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Susan Ashfleld, Mrs. Seymour. To conclude with the Farce, called DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Lionel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch& Mr. Rogers ; Betsy, Mrs. beeley. Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Welp3ter. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. ; Upper Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed TAE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. To be tuliowed by a new and original Farce, entitled OUR A. TIONAL DEFENCES ; or, the Cockshot Yeomanry. Principal characters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, Sanders ; Ma tame Celeste, Miss Emma Harding, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Woolgar. To cc Glade with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Laabert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyartl, Mils Harding, aid Kiss Chatql tx will perform. Boxes, 4a.; Pit, 2a.; Gallery, li. I . .x)rs open at Halt-past six, I ; erfoimauce to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the .Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING Will be pertymed a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A B.A1) JUDGE. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN AEA NCH. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hall, Harley, Ker. ridge, Madame Vestris, 3iiss K. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with a new Piece, entitled DONE ON BOTH SIDES. Dress Boxes, bs.; Upper Boxes, 45.; 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 Public every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. TRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. TO-MORROW EVENING, The Entertainments will commence at Eight o'clock with Mazere's popular Conti.dy of LE JEUNE MARI. Oscar, M. Mon- Wand. To conclude with LA rzcHE AUX BEAU PERES. Dorothee, Madlle. Nathalie. Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, W. Old Bond-street. PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE. lir. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland. place. THIS EVE N Will be presented the Comedy of THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM After which a new Interlude called MAMMON and GAMMON. To conclude with SIMPSON and CO. Dres, Circle, As. : Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. STR.A.ND THEATRE. NEW MANAGEMENT. GREAT ATTRACTION.-OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with Donizeth's Opera, THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. Tonio, Mr. 1). King ; Ser geant Sulplzio, Mr. Berrani; Ortensio, Mr. It. Romer; Spoutine, Mr. 11. Horncastle ; Maria, Miss Poole. After which a uew grand BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, by '.! dile. Louise Blanche, Miss Cushnie, and Br. W. Smidt. v e te To be followed by a . xtravaganza, caged THE CRU3IM- I.ESES ; or, A Rehe — hearted. Nicholas Nickleby, Mr. Summers; Mr. Len,' . Ox rry ; Smlke, Miss J. Coleman ; 2if rs. Craitiml es, .firs le - f ,W Ihe whole to concluAllifwi:l;k3 Farce of THE LOST LETTER. Principal characters by Me . Oxberry, Horneastle, Miss Jane Coleman, and Mrs. L. Rode. Private Boxes, IL Is. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Stalls, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Cal :cry, Is. Half-price at Mine o'clock. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. Oxberry. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Davidge, No. 1, Davidge-terrace, Kenslagton-roa , l, Surrey. THIS EVENING. Will be performed 'VENICE PREsERVED. Pierre, Mr. T. Evans; clatter, Mr. Elphinstone ; Belvidera, Mrs. R. Gordon. After which aSeries of Taliesus Vivans of the lave REVOLU TION IN PARIS. To be followed by FEMALE POACHERS. John Meadows, Mr. W. J. Hammond. To conclude with KINGE RICHARD TE THIRD. li , otes 25.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Fourth Week of the New Gorgeous Spectacle. THIS EVENING, The New Gorgeous Spectacle, THE BATTLE OF THE AMAZONS, with all its splendid appointments, &c. To be followed by, and the evening's entert.tinments to terminate with A GitAND EQUESTRIAN FETE, in which the Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes will appear each evening in their peculiar end incomparable Feats and brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Box-office open from 11 till h. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. THE THIRD EDITIONS "THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTAItY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEIVS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun•office, 112, Strand. E OFFICE, MARCH 16 ti HERMOHETER, Lewest, 38 ; Highest, 47 ; Noon, 39 BAROMETER, 29.52.—W1ND N.N.W. ; rain. i WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. be minutes after 11. tvening .. 0 minutes after 0, 41 1 , 11,1371, fAI4t. ). t • 511,24*„ , ;',„;',74,;,,1 • u boning Mt LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1848. Portugal will very speedily have an opportunity of vindicating its nationality —that nationality which ha s been so repeatedly violated, but which still retains so much of its pristine vitality. Yes, the fortunes of MARIA DA GLoaLx are already doomed. it is impossible it could be otherwise. As well night we have expected towards the close of 1847 that the dynasty of Louis PHILIPPE was permanently established in the Tuileries, and that France we. entailed fur ever to his legitimate descendants. F or , if the ex-KING of the FRENCH had rendered himself an abomination to the thirty millions who were, nominally speaking, his loyal adherents, the Quails Regnant at Lisbon has long since rendered herself odious to the three or four millions of Portuguese. The chicanery whieh was, in 1834, adopted as a system in the council chambers on the banks of the Seine, has been sedulously emulated in those adjacent to the Tagus. The military rigour which in the one instance was confided to BUGEAUD, was is the other entrusted to SALDANUA. The Ministerial criminality which was tolerated in GuizoT and DUCHATEL, has been en couraged in SrLvx and COSTA CABRAL. Everywhere in the two Governments there may be discovered a pa• rallel—an equality of turpitude —a fraternity of abso lutism —and a proportionate lavishness of corruption. That parallel is only dissimilar in the relative magnitude of the two kingdoms—it is a parallel which must perforee be consummated by au equally sudden and overwhelming catastrophe. One circum stance alone has prevented the population of Portugal from anticipating the resolute movement of the Pari sians, and that circumstance is simply the presence of a British squadron in the vicinity of the Portuguese capital. Could France have been awed in like ;mei THE SUN, LONDON, THUIISDAY ner into a compulsory obedience, the Count DE NEUILLY might at this moment have been re creating himself in the pleasure-gardens of Saint Cloud. Geographically, however, Paris was sheltered from that obstruction, and not only geographically, but moral and physically. The zegis of French liberty was—first, the moral puissance of the nation, and, secondly, its physical position and dimensions. Those were the grand and insurmountable obstacles to our interference with the internal administration of the late monarchy. It is preposterous to say that under all circumstances England would have refrained from meddling with the legislation of that country. Had France con tained, like Portugal, only just 40,000 square miles, peopled by very little beyond 3,000,000 inha bitants, we question whether our diplomatic relations with the Provisional Government installed by an in surgent populace would have been characterised by so much cordiality as that recently evinced by our Am bassador towards the Republican Ministers at the Hotel de Ville. Especially should we regard this friendly bearing as questionable had our dynastic ties with Louis PHILIPPE been (under those statistical circum stances) as intimate as they are with MARIA DA GLORIA. In abort, there were two inducements to our maritime interference with the political affairs of Portugal, namely, the impotence of the mili tary and naval forces of that unfortunate kingdom when contrasted with our own, and above all, the regal accident of a relationship between the reigning families—one of those malign accidents which have so very frequently embroiled the most amicable races of Christendom. 'We have already observed that Portugal will speedily have an opportunity of redeeming its abused constitution. We repeat that assertion. England can no longer spare so many ships and so many seamen for the bolstering up of a rotten cause at Lisbon. England can no longer a f ford to "onsmit an injustice upon the Tagus 1 The embarrassments of her revenue compel her to retrench her expenditure as much as possible ; and, beyond this, the extraordinary events at this pe riod transpiring throughout the continent, together with the insufficiency of our insular defences, enforce upon England the necessity of drawing homewards the splendid squadron which has been shamefully upholding Queen MARIA DA. GLoara. Al ready that squadron is preparing for its departure fur our shores ; already the note of preparation has sounded on board the Comet, the St. Vincent, ths• Howe, the Queen, the Canopus, the Amphion, the Dragon, and the Scourge. SIR ' CHARM'S NAPIIIR will soon be relieved from his rather questionable responsibility as the maritime crutch of the CABRAL,. Then it is that Portugal will have its opportunity. Then it is that the people may relieve themselves from the incubus of a corrupt and demoralising Government, as well as from a perfidious and unprincipled SO/MMON. If the Portuguese only act with the resolution and the unanimity recently displayed by the Parisians, they may emerge from the conquest of their freedom un sullied by a crime. They may drive forth the CABRALS as GUILOT was driven forth from the Hotel des Affaires Etrangkes in the disguise of a lacquey— they may rid themselves as easily of a monarch upon whom no reliance can henceforth be placed as the French democrats relieved themselves from the Mo narch of the Barricades. Because the insurgents of Portugal were unsuc cessful, they were stigmatised as rebels, and because those of Paris were triumphant, they have been eulo gised as patriots. DAS ANTIS and SA DA BANDEDIA failed in their prolonged and valorous exertions, and they were treated as criminals worthy of imprison ment and expatriation. LAITAILTINE and LBDRU-ROL LIN, on the contrary, realised their dreams in a single afternoon, and they have been justly applauded as the political saviours of their country. The long struggle of 1846 dwindled down into the insignificance of a revolt in the estimation of those who prevented its accomplishment ; whereas the brief struggle of the three days in the February of 1848 has expanded into the grandeur of a revolution. Let us not deceive ourselves by these appearances. There is as much cause for a catastrophe in Lisbon as there ever was in Paris—only the Portuguese are compelled to tarry tor the opportunity. It was the Honourable Member for Canterbury, if we mistake not—himself one of the most promising of our young authors—who some time back insti tuted a comparison between the position of literary men in England and in other nations. He remarked, more especially, the number of official posts that in foreign countries were occupied by men eminent in literature ; for example, in calling over the list of foreign Ambassadors, and inquiring as to who was each individual representative, the answer was almost invariably " a man who had risen by his pen." The position occupied just now by literary men in France is certainly a very brilliant and a very honourable one. Almost every important post in the new Government is filled by "a man who has risen by his pen." Not that we mean to insinuate that it is to the pen alone that any one of those individuals is indebted for his present pre-emi nence. It is not the sublime imaginings of the poet, it is not the graceful eloquence of the historian, it is not the earnest vehemence of the essayist, that have Invested LAMARTINE and his confreres with their present influence in the councils of the world. That influence is alone attributable to the high principles by which their genius was at once animated and in spired. Nevertheless, admitting this, we must also acknowledge that in :their persons, as well as in many other instances, literature and literary men arc highly honoured in foreign nations. And every new attestation of this fact increases our anxiety that England also—England, so justly celebrated for the genius of her children should become in like manner remarkable in honouring and reverencing those who have " risen by the pen." Happily in this respect, as a nation, we are improving. Although during the last few years we have had occasion to lament the death of many gifted men, and not only, and not so much, their death itself, but that death being accompanied by most distressing circumstances —poverty and misery to themselves in their last inoments, and utter destitution to those whom they left behind; although we have had too often ccasion to lament such sad casualties, we have also been repeatedly rejoiced by some immediate and adequate relief, either by Government donation or public subscription, being bestowed upon their unhappy survivors. We, will not pause to in quire why such assistance should be so absolutely required—why, if the labourer be worthy of his hire, and if a fair day's wages be the meed of a fair day's work, the man of letters, whose labour is of the most arduous and unremitting kind, and whose produc tions are, in many instances, invaluable, delighting his countrymen in his own day, and enriching his country ever after—we will not now pause to inquire why he, of all others, should reap least benefit from his exertions, and why he should be enabled to leave his children nothing but the heritage of his name. If it must be so, society does well—society who inherits the treasures the man of genius has created —.society does well in constituting itself the guardian and protector of his orphans. The children of Hoof:), the children of Heliport, and many others similarly unfortunate, were indebted for their entire subsistent to the charity, or may we not rather say the justice, of the public. Another group of orphans now claim th e same care. In another column will be found a letter from GEORGE GaLrfmArt—himself very honourably known in the literary world—announcing the death of the Weaver Poet, WILLIAM THOM, of In v - erury, and telling how his widow and young children are left in utter destitution. The history of WILLIAM Taw& has been for some time familiar with the public. It consti tutes one of the most interesting, but, at the same time, most melancholy chapters in the momentous history of the struggles of genius and the trials of poverty. THOM'S troubles, however, were greater than those usually experienced by poets, but then he was not only a poet, be it remembered, but a weaver — a hand-loom weaver at a period when the use of machinery had rendered such an employment a most unprofitable one. His life was an alterna tion of most laborious exertion and most abject penury. What time or what inclination could he have to cultivate the Muse ? She visited and con• I soled him in his troubles nevertheless. The faint sparks of the " celestial fire" cheered the gloom of his denlittion, his labours at the loom were animated by the chaunting of fragments of his songs. These songs attracted public attention. THOM was hailed as a new poet—a second BURNS. His prospects brightened for a while—nevertheless he is gone—he has obtained no guerdon but celebrity. We feel confident that all who may have perused his most eventful and very interesting autobiography, prefixed to the volume of his poems, all who have there sympathised with his exceeding sufferings, and respond to his earnest in terrogations when alluding to his own afflictions, " Who are they that beat about the regions of fancy for materials to move a tear ?"—all again who ever admired the simplicity, and pathos, and genuine heartinesx of his poems, will, we are confident, be anxious to give their mite towards maintaining the orphans of the poet. Let it not be objected that the writings of WILLIAM THOM—a collection of songs and short poems—are of a trivial and insignificant character, unworthy of any public recompense. Let it be remembered that, among the poor especially, the song is the best vehicle for conveying our senti ments. As an illustration of the invaluable blessings conferred by the song-writer, we transcribe the fol lowing description, from the autobiography of THOM, of the effect which the singing of verses produced on the labour of the desponding and poverty-stricken weavers : "Ohl how they did ring above the rattling of a hun dred shuttles! Let me again proclaim the debt we owe those Song Spirits, as they walked in melody from loom to loom, ministering to the low-hearted ; and when the breast was filled with everything but hope and happiness, and alt but seared, let only break forth the healthy and vigorous chorus A man's a man for a' that,' the fagged weaver brightens up. His very shuttle skytes boldly along, and clatters through in faithful time to the tune of his merrier shopmates! Who dare measure in doubt the restraining intiuence of these ♦ery Songs? To us they were all instead of sermons. Had oae of us been bold enough to enter a church, he must have been ejected for the sake of decency. Church bells rang not for us. Poets were indeed our Priests. But for those, the last relic of our moral existence would have surely passed away 1" Well might the poor weaver exclaim, in a paroxysm of poetic despondency —" Church bells rang not for us. Poets were indeed our priests. But for those, the last relic of our moral existence would have surely passed away I" Yes ; it was only through the fitful glimmering of their rhythm that the lights of religion were to be distinguished; it was only by weaving songs together to the measured whirr of the shuttle that the last vestiges of their spiritual recti tude were to be preserved. To Tuost especially, and to his associates, the solemn refrain of industry was applicable : " Ever to toil, Ever to moil, That is our social charter. With city slave, Or rustic serf, The worker is the martyr." A letter from Amsterdam, dated Tuesday evening, states, that on that day, at an early hour in the forenoon, the KING summoned the President of the Second Chamber of the States- General to the palace at the Hague, and declared to him that having learned that the project of law for the modification of the Fundamentol Pact presented to the Legislative Chamber a few days ago, had failed to satisfy the wishes of the people, he was desirous that the Cham ber itself should take the initiative, and propose to his MAJESTY all those changes and reforms in the govern ment of the people and the fundamental law which it might deem necessary and expedient, and that his MAJESTY would agree to all their proposals. _ His MAJESTY at the same time declared that he had adopted this sudden change of policy without the knowledge of his Ministers! The Cabinet has resigned, as a matter of course, and a new Ministry is about to be formed on a Liberal basis. MU. LuzAc and THORBECILB are mentioned as likely to take a leading part; they are both men of tried Liberal opinions, and their names sufficiently gua rantee the future policy of the Government. The Count VAN SCHIMMEL-PBNNINCK, Ambassador at the Court of London, is also mentioned as a Minister in posse. The concession of the KING has not only caused universal joy, but already produced a sensible effect on the prices of stocks, an authentic list of which we subjoin : DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, FIVE P. 31 —Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents,, 44 454 441; ditto Four per Cents., 66 67 67; ditto Three per Cents., .50i 51 50i; ditto Syndicsat, Three-and-a-Half per Cent., 66 ; Dutch Society of Commerce, 132 134. Spanish Five per Cents., 101 101; ditto Interior, 18i 18k- 181; ditto Passive, 3 3i. Portuguese Three per Ceatt., 151 4; ditto Four per Cent., 161 17. Russia, Rope, Five per Cent., 90 91 ; ditto, ditto, Four per Cent., 694 4; ditto, Stieglits and Co., Four per Cents., 68k 69. Austrian, Mettulick, Five per Cents., 68} ; ditto, ditto, Two-and-a-Half, 33i 35. Mexico, 14 ¢ ; Peru, 131 14 ; Grenada, 161 17 161. At Warsaw the censorship prohibited the mere mention of the events of which France is the theatre. The Warsaw Gourrier of the 2d instant, states— " Count MOLE 13 charged with the formation of a new Cabinet." March Sd—" The Chamber of Peers was occupied on the 22d and 23d of February, with different petitions." 4th and sth of March—Not a word of France. At Posen the news produced a sensation impossible to describe. Nevertheless, an insurrection was not considered imminent, the people being determined to wait calmly the development of erents. It is said that the Hungarian troops have been ordered to quit Lombardy, as they had exhibited a disposition to fraternise with the people. There were rumours that Milan was in open revolution, and had been bombarded by the Austrians, but they were not credited. The Lega ltaliana has advices from Milan to the 7th. Count Si.Atm, the Governor, who has been re called, was on the point of leaving. Forty pieces of heavy artillery left for Pavia on the evening of the 6th. General RADETZLI is reported to have read an order of the day to his officers, announcing his intention of entering Piedmont on the 10th or 15th. The citadel of Milan is strongly fortified, and fifteen guns are pointed towards the city. The same letter says that at a dinner given by the General toasts were drank in honour of the future conquests. The Duke of PARMA has openly expressed his dis approbation of the constitution granted by the Kin g of SARDINIA to his people. He has issued a decree reinstating lotteries in his dominions. Accounts from Turin, of the 10th, state that on the previous evening the new Prime Minister, the Mar quis LAURENT PARETO, arrived from Genoa, and it was reported that the following would be the compo sition of the Ministry : Count BALso, Foreign Affairs and President of the Council. M. LIST, War. M. SELOPIS, Justice. M. Glum°, Public Instruction. M. PARETO, Interior. M. Ricci, Public Works. M. Cevous, Finances. The Jews of Turin have requested to be permitted to serve in the Civic Guard. Don CARLOS, of Spain, has announced his intention of leaving Genoa for the purpose of joining the Duo DE BORDEAUX at Venic•. There were some alight disturbances at Ghent on the 13th, occasioned by popular manifestations against the Jesuits, but tranquillity was speedily restored, and the kingdom of Belgium is now as quiet as the kingdom of England. M. Saanumax, the Minister from the French Pro visional Government to Belgium, was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs oa the 14th. The Prussian Universal Gazette publishes the fol lowing letter, dated Vienna, the 7th instant : Yesterday the Association of Austrian Industry held a meeting, at which the Archduke FRANCIS CHARLES and several other Archdukes assisted. The following address to the EMPEROR was adopted : " Extraordin•try events have taken place in the west of Europe. Public credit is shaken; manufactures are at a stand, and danger is imminent. A firm adhesion to the Governme'at, and a close alliance between Austria and the rest of Germany, can alone re-establish the con fidence which heretofore existed. This association, consequently, gives your Majesty the assurance that all Its members are ready to devote themselves for the dynasty, inasmuch as they are convinced your Majesty will adopt the wisest measures to prevent the evils with which we are: menaced." The Archduke FRANCIS CHARLES replied as fol .ows " I thank you in the name of his Majesty for this ma nifestation. and I shall communicate it faithfully to the Emperor, folc we have never doubted of 'the fidelity of which you hkTfjUlt iiTei a proof. Yet, we genet remain firmly united in order to obtain the object we desire. It is a happiness for me to be amongst yi,u." The Official Gazette of Vienna of the 10th contains the following :—" In presence of the important events which have been accomplished, his MAJESTY feels himself called upon to explain the position in which he stands, as regards what has taken place, and as regards the future depending upon the decrees of PaovaLENCX. His MAJESTY hopes that these words will rectify the erroneous ideas and false interpretations which may arise out of useless alarm. His MAJESTY considers the change of government in France as a matter entirely confined to that country. Austria is far from wishing to interfere, mediately or imme diately, in the affairs of France. His MAJESTY con siders it to be his duty to protect within his own states the institutions, the rights of labour, and the prosperity of the people entrusted to his care. MS MAJESTY will know how to fulfil this duty, even in the present political state of the world. But if, contrary to all expectations, the existing treaties, or the frontiers of the empire or of the Germon Conferation, were threatened by the enemy, his MAJESTY will repel such aggressions with all the means PitoviDsNCE has placed at his dis posal. In these difficult times the resolution of his MAJESTY is to use all his efforts to make Austria strong at home and respected abroad. But he will, at the same time, and with the same energy, be watchful that there be no attempt that may throw this empire, so blessed by Heaven, into anarchy, or deliver it up an easy prey to the attacks of an enemy. To attain these ends, devoted as he is to the good of his subjects, the EktrEaoa relies upon the confidence and energetic concurrence of his faithful States, which hold to the maintenance of law and order, and they should, in these times of agitation, calculate upon the consequences which any opposite step must inevitably produce." A letter from Vienna of the 4th states, that for some days past a sort of constitution had been talked of, on the model of the Prussian United Diet. It is said that the Councillor of State, M. VON PIPITZ is charged with the elaboration of the scheme, which after having been revised by the Baron PlLLAusuourr, will be submitted to the Council of State. The constitution will be common to all the hereditary states of Germany; but Italy will not be allowed to participate in the benefit until all uneasiness respecting the disposition of the people of that country towards Austria has been allayed. The BoersenAalle of the 9th says— " We learn from a credible source that a Congress of German Sovereigns will assemble at Dresden, at the instigation of Prussia and Austria, to deliberate on the internal and external situation of the coun try, but rejecting at the same time all idea of ag gression." Insurrectionary movements have, it is said, taken place among the peasants in Darmstadt and Baden. Every where the German Sovereigns appear to be making concessions to the people. Among the people themselves there is but one feeling as to the necessity of peace with France. In the event of a war, say the Germans, Germany must ally herself with France against Russia. Under the date of Breslau, March 9, the latest number of the Breslau Gazette says :—'The rumours of the death of the Emperor of RUSSIA have hitherto found but little credence here. But the report is circulated to-day in so positive a manner, and is ac companied by so heavy a fall in Russian securities, that we cannot pass it by in silence." Madrid papers of the 9th have arrived. A letter from CArthagena, of the 6th, says— " On the evening of Saturday last, the 4th instant, about four o'clock, a French . steamer-of-war, called, I think, the Solon, and which attends on the Prince de Joinville, came into this harbour. The captain sent a message immediately to the Consul to come off, but the etiquette being that an officer of his rank should come ashore and wait upon the Consul, the latter de clined to accede to the message under the pretext of illness. A second message immediately arrived at the Consulate, in compliance with which the Consul instantly went off and found on board the Duke d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville, with their wives and children, with out aides-de-camp or retinue beyond, I believe two or three servants. Having received the intelligence in Africa of the occurrences in Paris, they immediately left and came here for more specific intelligence. All being con firmed by the information of the Consul, in a very few hours the steamer weighed anchor, and stood away for the westward, destined for England have likewise heard, that on the arrival of the news in Algiers the army and the squadron there were anxious to espouse the the cause of the fallen Princes in opposi tion to the nation, and wished to pronounce in that sense, but the Princes having opposed the perilous step, they yielded to their fate without involving in it any whom personal attachment might have induced to share their fortune or sustain their cause." MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 9.—The Three per Cents. were done at 24k on the Bourse, and at 25 after the Buurse ; the Five per Cents. at 14i to 141. THE LATE MEETING IN TRA FALGAR. SQUARE. TO THE EDI FOR OF THE SUN. Sin,— I beg to transmit the enclosed resolutions adopted at our last meeting of the City and Finsbury locality of the National Charter Association. If you can insert them in your highly valuable paper you will confer a favour on, Yours respectfully, ALFRED FENNELL, Sec. March 14, 1848. Moved b)lMr. D. Gover, and seconded by Mr. Cater— " That this meeting repudiate all connexion with the meeting in Trafalgar-square, and hold no connexion with Mr. Cochrane; but, on the contrary, regarding him as a man not to be trusted by the Chartist body, we therefore took no part in the proceedings of that meet ing; and consider the subsequent destruction of property as chargeable to his account, and as di,gracetul to all parties concerned in such wanton mischief."—Supported by Messrs. Allnutt and Salmon; carried unanimously. Moved by Mr. Gover, and seconded by Mr. Elijah Nobbs— " That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. Cochrane and to such of the press as the secretary may think fit to bend it."—Carried unanimously. Moved by Mr. Gover, and seconded by Mr. Fennell— " That the conduct of the police force last week, i❑ in discriminately attacking women and children in Tra falgar• square and neighbourhood, was most disgraceful, aid brutal in the extreme; and this meeting regret that the guardians of the peace did not attempt to preserve the peace in a milder manner on that occasion."—Car ried unanimously. REGIMENTAL ABUSE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR; I copy the following from a local paper of the 19th inst. : ' " The Colonelcy of the 71st Foot, vacant by the death of Sir Thomas Reynell, has been conferred on Lieute • nant-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.8., who vacates the Colonelcy of the 9th Foot, which has been bestowed on Major-General Sir Archibald hope, K.C.8." All the above persons were and are personally un known to me, and, therefore, I only intend to speak of the system. Each of the Colonels of regiments receives about 1,0004 a year for doing nothing, which is, in some way or other, saved out of the money granted by Parliament for the maintenance of the regiment. He has nothing to do, nor indeed is it necessary for him ever to see the corps. This is an abuse which ought to be remedied ; if 1,0001. a year can be spared out of the money granted for the expenses of the regiment, and given to a gentleman who does nothing for it, it is clear that more money is granted for each regiment than is necessary. By inserting the above in your independent paper, you will oblige, Sir, your obedient servant. Lewes, March 13, W. H. The Earl of Auckland received last evening at his official residence in the Admiralty, Lord Elphinstone, Lord de Manley, Lady Afslet, the Hon. Captain Eden, Captain Erskine, the Hos. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, Lady Ashley, &c. ROYAL HUMANE SOClETT.—Testerday the annual festival in aid of the funds of the above society took Place at Freemasons' Hall. The Duke of Norfolk took the chair, supported by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Bishop o f M a d ras , the Dean of Westminster, B. Hawes, Esq., M.P., and about 200 gentlemen, supporters of the society, or guests invited in consequence of their successful exertions in saving human life. From the report, it appeared that during the past season 22,500 persons had ventured on the ice in the parks, and that out of that number nineteen were immersed in the water, but subsequently saved by the exertions of the men in the employment of the Humane S ociet y . A long list of subscriptions was read, the sum total of which amounted to nearly 6001. On " The Health of the Memb ers o f t h e H ouse of Commons" being proposed, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey returned thanks, but pointed out Mr. B. Hawes as the most distinguished Member of the House present. He mid that if gentle. men present had witnessed the reception which his Ho nourable Friend had that morning received on his return to the House, they would have no hesitation in selecting the most distinguished Member present to return thanks for the House of Commons. Mr. B. Hawes being loudly called for said, that the fact of his having a seat in the House of Commons was mainly owing to the letters of recommendation which his Noble Friend had sent to the Roman Catholic clergymen in Kinsale and its neigh bourhood. 'The usual procession of persons saved from drowning then took place, after which the honorary medals were distributed, IL, FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday-. The National announces that the electiLn of officers of the National Guard of Paris has been postponed from the 18th to the 22d ult., in consequence of the time originally fixed on not being sufficient fur the fusion of the companies of grenadiers and voltigeurs into the battalions, for the division of the legions into eight companies. The public attention is now prin cipally occupied by the approaching elections for the National As,embly. In Paris the election of the old and trusted Republican candidates is certain, but fears are entertained that in the provinces counter revolutionary candidates may be returned. Intrigues are already at work in the southern provinces to secure the return of members of the retrograde party. The Reprine, which is the organ of M. LEDIII3 ROLLIN, has the following on this subject : " The general elf ctions are to commence in a month. Are vk e prepared ? If the multiplied and forcible ac tion which causes us to live a century per day in Paris has nut permitted us hitherto to organize the propaganda of the Republic in our departments, what are the means of conduct to be practised iu order to prevent the Re public from being buried in the ballot box of the coun ter-revolution ? Those are the two questions which are to be solved ; and time presses, for our adversaries are labouring with formidable activity. They have not to bear the weight of a Government. They are using the peace proclaimed by us on the day following the battle, to the prejudice of our principles and against the people's victory I Under these circumstances, are we prepared for the contest of candidates and of doc trines? We are prepared at Paris, where the recol lection of the barricades protect us—where the press and the clubs are agitating—and where the Government is labouring with a degree of zeal which sometimes leads them astray, but which is performing miracles. Paris, we trust, will not elect any but energetic and long-tried Republicans. The people, armed and active, will bap tise its right of citizens, and the city which has driven monarchy from its walls will not incline its banners in presence of fear, ❑or prostitute its suffrage to privilege. We answer for Paris, that great soldier of the Republic, that invincible citadel of the revolution. Our enemies are aware of this as well as we are. For this reason Paris is not their field of battle, and though they are rising here and there some electoral blockhouses in the sections of the wealthy districtsof the capital, it is in the departments that they are circulating their promises, their gold and their calumnies; it is there that they are emigrating with their counter-revolutionary hopes and their poisoned intrigues. They are all-powerful there by their property, their families, or their functions. They still hold possession of the peasant, by virtue of their manorial rights,' or by famine. Thus absolute interest and the necessities of lite deliver into their hands a numerous body of clients, whom long servitude has rendered subservient. But that is not the only influence which prevails over those poor slaves of ungrateful wages and isolated la bour. Vassals of misery, they are still attached to the glebe of ignorance. They are enveloped in prejudice and antiquated superstition. They are, notwithstanding their energetic and hardy nature, like metal eaten with rust, or granite covered with moss. They, in fine, suffer and fear—even the mother, the infant, and the aged who have exhausted themselves by the labour of a lung life. Such is the general situation of the coun try. Now we can easily comprehend that our great Royalists are endeavouring to form a phalanx in those districts which compose their domain, by taking advan tage of ignorance and famine. What can we do, or what avails the Government against those perverse influences, those formidable intrigues, which menace the return of the counter revolution? This we can do. Ardent and permanent clubs are not possible there, as in cities. 'The journals are not circulated except amongst the wealthy citizens and nobles, and it we wish that the Propaganda should circulate some fundamental ideas with respect to rights and duties, the committees of the different electoral cantons must distribute a few short and distinct instructions. The schoolmaster must serve as a moniteur of revolution in each commune, and delegates must enlighten the canton and circulate the writings of the Republic amongst the villages. As for the Provisional Government, much can be done for this great civic preparation, but, as our daily bread is our first necessity, it must on every point compete with almsgiving, promises, and labour given in return for a vote. It must command all its commissaries to act with energy to deliver our brethren, doubly Helots, from the hostile influences which so fatally prevail over them, and which would deprive them of all right and dignity for a morsel of bread. Such is the policy to he pur sued until the elections. A scientific and durable or ganization will follow at a later period, but our present task is to withdraw the population of the country from counter-revolutionary influences, if wo wish to preserve the Republic." The National, the official organ of the Provisional Government, speaking of the approaching elections, says— " What we only indicated yesterday, we proceed to develope to-day. The event of 1848 is a social revolu tion as much as a political one. The right to make and execute laws, which was formerly the privilege of the aristocracy, and which the constitutional monarchy had confided to the burgess class, henceforward belongs to the whole nation. Does that mean that the classes which have hitherto reigned are to be fur the future systematically excluded from affairs; that a blind and brutal ostracism is about to strike property, commerce. industry, and science ? What an absurdity: Science, commerce, industry, and property, hare rights to put forward and sacred interests to defend, and it will never enter into tho thought of any one to sacrifice them. But, it must be admitted these classes have hitherto shown but little sympathy for the sufferings of the poor man, and little intelligence of his wants. They make use of the feeble for their own purposes in place of aiding them ; and M. Guisot, their most eloquent organ, had the courage to declare one day that misery was a neces sary curb on the people. Hunger was, in his eyes, a means of governing, and a majority of rich and lettered men was found to confirm by its votes that impious doc trine I Such are the bitter fruits infallibly produced by a vicious political order of things. To divide men into categories and classes, to range them under different banners, to give them opposing interests, is it not to organise amongst them a latent or declared war I—to engender in their minds fiercest passions which spring from war, and which perpetuate it On one side pride and contempt—there envy—everywhere hatred and fear. Thank God ! the war is now terminated ; all distinctions are effaced, all barriers are broken down. There are no more classes at present. Rich or poor, ignorant or lettered, idle or working, we are all citizens in the same degree, all national guards, all electors, all eligible as deputies. There is no longer any other distinctions but those which result from probity, intelligence, devoted ness, and services rendered. It would, there fore, be to slight the spirit of the period into which we are entering; it would be a veritable anachronism to pay attention at the approaching elections to the fortune and profession of the candidates. To say, for instance, that so many Deputies of such a profession are required, is it not to constitute an absolute privilege, to the profit of that profession? In that way, a man would be elected for his profession. No one ought to be elected except for his personal merit, for the faculties which Heaven has given him, and for the services which he can render. There are in all ranks of society men of merit. Let us not go and seek them here rather than there; let us take them everywhere. Amongst the workmen, for instance, there are men who for a length of time have fixed on them general attention, and whose names are known to the public. They have given proofs of their good sense, instruction, and devotedness to their coun try; and their place is marked in advance at the Na tional Assembly. They will there express the senti ments of their brothers, and point out their wants; they will enlighten the Assembly, and guide it through the complicated labyrinth of questions relating to the or ganization of labour. Their presence is indispensable, and their absence would be a public calamity. They are therefore sure of sitting there, and they will play, we are sure, a useful and glorious part." The financial crisis still continues. The failures of the houses of GANNERON and Co., of BECURT naL THOMAS and Co., and of CHEDHAUX and Co., bankers, were announced on Tuesday. It is also reported that Messrs. FOULD, OPPENHEIM and Co., and Messrs. ROUGEMONT and Co. are winding up their affairs, and decline all further business. According to the Constitutionnel, it is the intention of the Provisional Government to establish a Council of Finances, to be presided over by M. GARNIER PAGES, and of which the principal merchants and bankers of Paris shall be members, for the purpose of devising means to meet the crisis. It would appear that the monied interest, which always looked up to Louis PHILIPPE as its head, are making use of the money power to avenge the fall of their idol. " The monied interests," says the National " are very blind, it they will not understand that the necessity of the case may impose on them the duty of adopting vi gorous resolutions at a moment when the material lute rests of the people have been betrayed. Let them respond then to the appeal of the Government, whose activity and zeal have succeeded in re-establishing the material order of the capital. Let them understand that if the concourse of devoted arms and hearts has contributed to the first result, the concourse o. all the resources can now re-establish the order of our finances, and that when order shall be ru-established in our habits and in our interests, it will appear to themselves as complete in the democratic institutions, whose republican symbol con tains at one and the same time the germ and the power of developing it. We do not fear to repeat that the Discount Bank calls for the capital of those who com prehend the necessities of industry, so different from those of speculation. The national loan demand calls for the capital of Frenchmen who are friends to order, and who can understand that there is often more peril in be ing brave than in flying before the danger. It is well known that Louis PsnLlrrE has im mense sums in the French funds in other names be sides his own, and it is not improbable but that the ex-King may, through his agents, be at this moment o Arating on the Stock Exchange of Paris, for the purpose of embarrassing the Provisional Government. It is the monied interest alone which is thts acting. The merchants and may utacturers are loyally en gaged in doing their best to promote the prosperity of their country. The Constitutionnel says— " We learn from all hands that ti.e head, ef industrial establishments are making me greatest effees te retain their workmen in their nealitieteteriee. .t he Batik o' France seconds them powerlu.ty, , tor, if we are w.ll - its discounts amount within the laz,t few days to more than one huudred minitnis, which is mole than six millions per day bur learie elone. We do nel, ut the amount discounted in the branch banks. It is by this energ.. tic course Lust the crisis will epsedil) disap • pear, and, as we hi pe, give way to cenfitience." The following plan for relieving the financial pres sure is suggested in the Presse:— " The financial crisis which prevails here at present resembles in many respects that which last ear so gravely disturbed England. At bottom onr situation is better, and, consequently, the remedy which was efficacious there will be still more so here, on condition that it is applied in time. In consequenee of the pur chase of corn, gold was rapidly departing from Eng land, and the Bank Bill of 1844 presented an invite cible obstacle to the continuation of discounts at the moment when they were most required. What eas the conduct of the English Government? It authorized the Bank to put aside the Bill of 1844, and to con tinue to issue notes, even when it should not possess the amount of specie required by law. In England Bank notes are a legal tender; that is, no one can refuse them in payment. That simple measure was sufficient, as from the moment that it was known publicly that the Bank was no longer restricted in its operations confidence revived, and the Bank had no need to avail itself of the faculty which the Govern ment had placed at its disposal. We said just now that the situation is better in France than it was in England. In fact, capital amongst us has not emigrated; it remains here as it was a month back, only it is hidden, and ao longer circulat_s. such persons as hold bank-notes hasten to change them at Paris and elsewhere against specie. Hence the great falling off in the metalic re serve of the Bank. and the large remittaeces of crown pieces to its branch establishments. In consequence of this, discounts must he rest, icted, since the Bank cannot expose itself to the position of nut being able any longer to pay its notes. But to restrict the dis count at this moment would be an immense evil, as never had business more need of aid. how is that to be prevented? By doing something analagous to what was effected in England. The means of increasing the discounts would be by augmenting the metallic reserve, and that could be best brought about by making the bank-note a legal tender. The offices of the Bank being no longer besieged for specie, since every one would be sure of being .able to make his payments with the representative sign specie, discounts could be made on a large scale. The bank-note, it is said, would be depreciated. Wily so? Would it not be guaranteed by the metallic reserve which would increase instead ot' diminishing at the Bank, and by the amount of good securities constantly discounted, and which falling sue• cessively due, will without ceasing renew the available resources? What we dewand is far less grave than what was decided un in England—far less grave than what M. Gamier Pages a few days back decreed rela tive to the savings' bank. Atter having flung down the barricaues which impeded the circulation in the streets, those which restrict credit must also be set aside." A deputation of agens de change, merchants, and bankers, was to have an interview with M. GARNIER PAGES last evening for the purpose of proposing that the Treasury Bonds should be converted into a three per cent. stock. The Minister has, it is said, inti mated his intention of acceding to the wishes of the deputation, and expressed his intention of giving three per cent. stock for these bonds, at the rate of from fifty to fity-two francs. There was a great run yes terday on the Bank of France, but no alarm whatever was caused, and the money-changers were perfectly willing to change notes of the Bank of France on the usual terms. In consequence of the disapprobation expressed by MM. DUPONT (de l'Eure), DE LAMARTINS, and CREMIEUX, of the electioneering circular of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, which the latter had issued without the knowledge of his colleagues, it is said that M. LEDRU ROLLIN has resigned the Ministry of the Interior, and that he will be succeeded by M. CORMENIN. M. de la Cour has been appointed Charge d'Af faires at Vienna ; M. de Lurde, Charg6 d'Affaires at the Hague; M. de Circourt, Charge d'Affaires at Berlin; M. Human, Charg6 d'Affaires at Munich; and M. de Menneval, Charge d'Affaires at Dresden. Count D'APPONY, the Austrian Ambassador at Paris, has received orders from Vienna to remain in Paris, and to assure the Provisional Government that it was not the intention of Austria to interfere in the affairs of France. The Presse states that the Council of Defence of the Republic proposes to demand the establishment of a camp of 30,000 men in front of Dijon. It is not yet decided what General shall be appointed to the command. The name of Lieut.-General NEGLUER has been mentioned. M. EMMANUEL ARAGO, Commissary of the Pro vincial Government in Lyons, had issued a decree dissolving all religious congregations and corporations not authorized by the law, and particularly the con gregation of the Jesuits. The Jioniteur publishes a decree of the Committee for the organization of labour, fixing the duration of the day's work in the departments at eleven hours. General RANDON had been appointed Director of the Affairs of Algeria, M. FELLMAN, Under Director, and M. LARABIT, Under Director of the Military operations. The exhibition of the works of art, in the gallery of the Louvre, was opened on the 15th. The Touloenais of the 12th instant publishes the following letter, dated Mentone, 6th instant . "1 he principality of Monaco has followed the ex ample of France. The most complete change has been made in the institutions of the country. The principal towns hare refused to recognise the Prince. A Provi sional Government bas been formed at Mentone, and a flag with the three national colours hoisted. The Civic Guard are under arms, and the citizens of all classes, who are animated with the greatest zeal, occupy the military posts throughout: the town. The Prince of Monaco arrived at Nice last. night, and set out imme diately for Paris." ' M. Messor., editor of the Observateur Francais, of London, and M. J. CAPLIN, on Tuesday presented ai address from the French citizens residing at London, giving. in their adhesion to the Provisional Government. The address stated that the French citizens at London employ all their efforts to strengthen the good intelligence which at present prevails between the people of France and England, and which they say is indispensable to the maintenance of peace and the progress of civilization. M. PAGNERRE thanked the deputation for their address. M. CA.rusi said that the Government would learn with pleasure that the greatest sympathy towards it was felt in England, and that in several democratic meetings the French flag had been dis played, with the words " Vive la Republique Francaise EVENING, MARCH 16, 1848. BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15. THREE o'CLocK.—The market has again been in a very drooping state, and great uneasiness was mani fested. Bank of France Shares have again gone down 1001,, being now as 1,300 f. Quatre Canaux were done for the first time since the late events at 5801., or 340 f. lower. Spanish Threes at 221., or 10if. lower than be fore the revolution. Three per Cents. opened at 48f., and, after touching 451., closed at 46f., or 21. lower. The Fives opened at 71f. 50c., and after being done at 651., closed at 691. For the Account: The Bons du Tkiwor and Roman are not quoted. Rothschild's Receipts are at 701., or 21. lower; Orleans closed at 6801., or 451. lower; Vierzon, 2221. 50c., or 7Sf. 50c. lower; the Ver sailles lines at 1001., or 10f.; Bordeaux at 395 f., or 2f. 50c.; Northern, at 3301., or 7f. 50c. lower; Roue❑ at 4001., Strasburgh at 3351., Nantes 327 f. 50c., all being unaltered; Lyons at 2871. 50c., being 21. 50c. higher. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. &lulus 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 5 1 4—Namur and Liege, 5' 8 — Northern of France, 2 1 4—Paris and Lyons, 11,i—Paris and Orleans, 29—Paris and Rouen, 16 1 / 2 —Paris and Strasbourg, I—Rouen and Havre, B—Sambre and Meuse,s. THE RIVER PLATE.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. —By a vessel arrived in the Channel, we have dates from Monte Video to the 4th of January. No change had taken place in political affairs. Exchange, 41 to 411. Her Majesty's packet, with the November Mails, had arrived at Monte Video. ST. ANDREW'S AND ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, Housonx.—Considerable excitement appears to exist among many of the must influential rate-payers of this wealthy parish regarding the present system of rating property to the poor rate. At the recent petty session, which was presided over by Mr. Armstrong, the magis trate, Mr. John Robert Taylor appealed se4ainst the rate on account of the great and invidious inequality exhi bited with reference to many whose names found favour in the judgments of the assessors. So deeply impressed was the magistrate with this fact, that he suggested to the Board the propriety of a re-consideration of the several assessments, to which they unanimously as sented. CHARTIST DBMONSTRATION.--BIRMINGIIAM, WED - RESDAY.—This morning a meeting of the working classes of this borough was held in the Town-hall, for the purpose of adopting an address to the people of Franco, and also to consider the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for the People's Charter. The hall on this occasion was completely filled with principally working men, every part of the immense building being occupied. A number of speeches in accordance with the views of the meeting were delivered, and ultimately the petition was adopted and the meeting separated. Q. E. D.—The nutmeg is certainly the strongest proof of themathematical axiom, that "the less is always 00atigned in the grater."—Punch. SIIEHIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DA- 4 f) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) BRIERLEI V. LEES AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover the sum of 5671. 55. 2d., for m.•ney pltd on account of the defendants. The defendant, allowed judgment to go by default. the piaintitrs attorney said the plaintiff had become security for the defendants for the amount in questions and N hich he had been called upon to pay. As the defendants had not pleaded, it would be only necessary to prove the amount, which he would do by admissions• Mr. 'Thomas Bianston, attorney, was called, a nd pr , ved the admissions of the debt, and for 18/. 18s. tot interest thereon. A verdict, was given for the plaintiff for the fall amount NIXON V. GREGORY. This was an action brought against Mr. Boned Gregory to recover the sum of 161. ss. 10d., for profer sional services rendered by plaintiff as an attorney. the question case was of no general interest, and turned on to . question whether defendant had or had not retained the plaintiff in the bankruptcy of a person named Carroll, re the proprietor of the Satirist newspaper. It Appel' by the evidence that some business was done before the t , choice of assignees, and the defendant interested btost i . in that matter, and was afterwards chosen ono of Su ' assignees, when another attorney was appointed. , id For the defence it was contended that defendad not retain the plaintiff, but the evidence having gone to u prove that at one of the examinations, at all events, "' had instruct( d plaintiff's clerk to suggest questlonlo the Learned Sheriff left it to the jury to say if all, 0 any, and what part had been done at the request o f de' fendant. The jury gave a verdict for the full amount. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE and County Usgis. trates.) John:Harvey, an elderly man, stated to be a banker and colonel of milks. in Guernsey, was indicted for stealing a small Bible and prayer-book, in a m orocco case, from Kentish-town Chapel. The circumstances of the case, as they came out in evidence, have been repeatedly given in Me Seri. Mr. CLAaxsoN, for the defence, stated that the prisoner was a gentleman of the highest respectabilitit and in circumstances far above the temptation W commit the paltry and sacrilegeous theft imputed r ° him in the indictment. On the 12th of February b° was passing by the Kentish-town Chapel, on his erel to Highgate, to dine with Mr. Tatham, one of the first solicitors in the profession, who was in court to speak to his character, and, having time to spare, went into the; chapel as described. Now, it would be proved that, a few months ago, his wife died i°, childbirth, leaving him with eight children, sod several witnesses would show that he had fered severely front the shock, and had bu lge been subject to remarkable absence of mind. In that state of mind his attention was attracted to a tionumeol erected to the memory of a lady who, like his own lost wife, had died in child-birth, and finding the verse ' , 2d Kings, chap. ix. verse g referred to, but not inscribeaf he selected the Bible from a number of books in the ad• joining pew, under the eyes of the verger, and copied the words—" This is a day of truble; for the chi dren are come into life, and there is no strengtb to bring them forth." In the state of feeling er cited by these suggestions, he might not have been conscious where he put the case of books. It was not clear from the statement of Kentish, that the prisoner had ever taken them out of the church. At all event. they were not worth more than two or three shillinger and it was not all likely that a gentleman of his che' ratter and his position in life, had under the circurn stance any idea of stealing them. The Learned Gen' tleman appealed to the jury at great length, and called Mr. Tatham, of Highgate, solicitor ; Mr. Philiper shipowner and stock-broker, and other gentlemen, who gave the prisoner a very high character. He had 0 bank at Guernsey, where his family resided at prate. and he had only just come over for a short Tait to England. General William Francis Patrick Napier, Well Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, had known the pri soner well, and believed him to be a gentleman wholly incapable of the offence imputed to him, or any mean action. When witness went over to that government he found Mr. Harvey Lieutenant-Colonel of the iss ment, but subsequently he (General Napier) gave hit* the commission of colonel. He was a gentleman of it reproachable integrity. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in summing up, observed to the jury on the extreme probability that, in the die' tressed and excited state of the prisoner's mind, 0 0 contemplating the monument, he put the book into pocket unconsciously. Toe jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The ASSISTANT JUDGE said that he thought the in' dietment had been completely answered. Several gentlemen went immediately and cordielli shook hands with the prisoner in the dock. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) Daniel and James Connell were charged with assault' ing Daniel and Peter Lyons. It appeared that the whole four persons had been st dance in Gray's Inn-lane, and had afterwards adjourned to the lodgings of Daniel Connell, in Holborn-buildingh where a quarrel arose. Peter Lyons was knocked down with a poker, Mrs. Daniel Connell caught him by th• hair and kept him down, while her husband and his brother, the one with the poker and the other with the fire-shovel, kept " massacreeing" him. The other wit ness received a fair proportion of the same punishment. After a searching examination by Mr. Alderman Gibbs, it further appeared that one of the prisoners had stabbed Peter Lyons in the arm. Alderman GIBBS characterised the affair as an Irish row, but told the witnesses that they might indict the prisoners at the sessions. The sentence was received with as much surprise by the prisoners as by the person* in Court. SPORTING IN BETTING AT LEAMING TELLIGENCE. TON.—TUESDAY ETIININO. ITEEPLECHASE. 11 to 1 apt Edwd. the First 12 to 1 agst Proceed—t 14 to 1 agst StandardGnets 15 to 1 agst The Chandler n, Sir Arthur, and Repealer, LEAMINGTON 1 8 to 1 agst St. Leger 8 to 1 agstßritish Yeoman 10 to 1 agst The Curate 10 to 1 agst Jerry Alexander, Wolverhamptl are scratched. CPCZBTE It CUP. 20 to 1 agst Cracow 30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild 25 to 1 agst Blaze—taken ' 40 to 1 agst Heiman Pistol 25 to 1 agst Swallow—t fr —taken 25 to 1 agst War Eagle 40 to 1 agst Lightning-4 1,000 to 15 agst Patriot—t fr DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Surplice I 14 to 1 agst Springy Jack--•", 13 to 1 agst Glendower I tto a large sum and aft off s LEAMINGTON AND WARWICK. RACES. WEDNEBDIY. The Debdale Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. TIN miles. (7 Subs.) Lord Strathmore's Red Lancer, l2st ... (Owner) I Mr. Littledale's Donna Anna, list 71b ••• •.• Sir H. Bruce's Botanist, 12st ... ... ... ..._ 3 The following also started:—Mr. H. Clarke's The Fairy, 12st—Mr. Robertson's Confidence, 11st 7lb—lam• C. Montgomery's Whistle Binkie, 12at. 2 to 1 agst Red Lancer, and 5 to 2 agst Donna Ann*. Won in a canter. • The Two Yrs Old Stakes of 10 sm. each, and 25 added. T.Y.C. (6 Subs.) Mr. B. Greei3's Lammermoor, fist 71b (Wintringham) 1 Mr. Gaman s Selina, Bst 41b ... Mr. Critchley s Sir Henry llardinge, Bst 71b •.• 3 Mr. Austin's bf by St. Francis, out of Celia, 3st 41b 4 5 to 4 agst Lammermoor, and 6 to 5 agst Sir Henry Hardinge. Won by half a neck; Sir Henry a bad thir The Castle Stakes of 25 8079. each, 10 ft. One mile. (3 Subs.) Mr. J. Little's The Great Western, Bst 71b, walked °ref The Great Warwickshire Stakes of 1001., added to • Handicap of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if de dared. Two miles. (40 Subs., 29 of whomdeelarad.) Mr. E. J. Irwin na Ballinafad, 4 yrs, 6st 91b ••• 1 Mr. T. Parr's Fernhill, 3 yrs, eat 21b... Lord Strathmore's Tit-bit, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b The following also ran:—Lord Warwick na Lyne, 4 yrs, Est 51b—Mr. J. Day's Milliner, aged, Est 21b—Lord Chesterfield's Sampson, 3 yrs, sst 21b—and Mr. liar grease's Sunnyside, 3 yrs, 4.1 t 71b. Betting —5 to 4 agst Btillinafad-3 to 1 apt Milliner —and 7to 1 agst any other. Won very easily. Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added. One Milo. (13 Subs.) Mr. Palmer's Ferryhill, 3 yrs ... (Tasker) Mr. Parr's Marrietta, 5 yrs ... The following also ran :—Dipthong, 4 yrs—Bleching• ton, 3 yrs—Edwin (h b), 6 yrs—Counterfeit, aged—P Hooton, aged—b fby Jerry, out of Barbarrina, 3 yrs -- St. Albans, aged—Bruce, 4 yrs—Mr. Caudle, 3 yrs--• John Harris, 6 yrs, and the Diamond, 4 yrs. Betting-3 to 1 agst Hooton-3 to 1 agst to 1 agst Bruce—and 7 to 1 each agst John Harris and Ferryhill. Won by a head. Caudle a bad third. The Beaten Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added' Two miles. Mr. J. Day's Columbus, Sst 51b... ...(Wakefield) 1 Mr. Eskrett's Hooton, Sst 21b 3 Mr. Parr's Mr. Caudle, 6st ... 3 Betting-6 to 4 each eget Hooton and Mr. Caudle' Won cleverly. BETTING ON THE COURSE. OUSTER CUP. 40 to 1 agst Lady Hilda (t) I 50 to 1 apt Patriot (takes 40 to 1 agst Ballinafad (t) I freely). DERBY. 14 to 1 agst Springy Jack 140 to 1 net Backbiter THE LAST MOMENTS OP & REPIIIILICIAL—SIIO 4 is the unanimity amongst all bodies for the new torus of Government in France, that the Beuf Gras, preTi' ous to his last sigh at the abattoir, was heard most dig* tinctly to murmur the Republican tune of " Mourir rot, la Petrie." lie departed into b ee f i n the mos t p e rfe ct peace.—Punch. PARISH OF ST. PANCRAs.—Yesterday a specie' meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras took place at. the newly erected vestry rooms, King's-road, Camden-town. for the purpose of considering the following important resolution, of which notice had been given:—.. That whereas the directors of the poor have from time to time employed and paid a member of their own body, to his profit and advantage, in violation of the Act of Parlia ment, the 59th of George 111., made and provided for the good government of this parish, that their attention ss hereby especially called to the same, with a view to its discontinuance." After a long discussion, the question being put, a division was demanded, and the numbers were—for the motion, '2O; against it, 26. It must be„ remarked, however, that the majority were nearly ell directors of the poor. The vestry shortly after 0•1/ 44 rated.