The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-29 00:00:00

W EL. MRS. GORE'S NEW Nk. In 3 vols., Now ready, at all the Librarie the PEARL THE DIAMOND and. A NOVEL. By MRS. GORE. 7arlborongh-street. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great A t ffew ready, in 2 vols. post Svo., with roar,its, B‘c , ld. Is., neatly bound, THE LIFE and REMAINS , f THEODORE HOOK. emporaries. With Anecdotes of some of his Concert Gu rne y," g m Author of " Sayings and Doings," "Gil By the Rev. R. DALTON BA street, Richard Bentley, Now Barlilan-j Io kenblisher in Ordieary to her esty). THEATRE ROYAL, COVE).7T-GARDEN. Manager, 36 '•litrSiSIPRIC ES. GENERAL REDUCTION OF n mad eto the manage- The repeated representations that have b , I• to :root the exigencies mcot respecting a reduction of prices, in orq, In rymiplying with so of the times, have led to its present adoptil only necessary to state general an expression of public feeling, i:mance will be given, sup ; rat precisely the same character of perf al: the gorgeous parapher !x)-ted by the same artistes, and aided b; series of attractions on a nal , 4 of the establishment, presenting a ith out any precedent in so Stahl of admission suitable to all classes splendid a Theatre. ISSION. SCALE OF AD x snain .ga. Dress Circle in the Grand Tier ;lire Shillir.,;s. First Circle.. • • ••"•• • • • • Four Shillin ca. tipper Boxes. • • •• •• • • •• •• • • Half-a-Crosra. Pit• • "• • One Shillinc nsul Sixpence. Lower Gallery ••••••• • • • • • • • One Shillir g. 17pper Gallery • • • • •• • • • • •• J mess ; Stalls, Sewn Shillings. Psivate Boxes, One and Two Nine o'clock. Half-price tt;, 2s. 6d. ; Ul.per Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Dress Circle, 3s. ; First Cirr Oer G a ll ery , 60 , . Cd.; Lower Gallery, Is. ; t EVENING, TiMmence with a Grand Opera, entitled The Entertainments will cor RiTA NA M N . . Harrison ; Lazarillo, Miss Rebecca Don Caesar de Bazan, Isaacs; Maritana, Mrs. New Divertissement, entitled After whicu.,E BAL MASQUE. .de with Dibdin's popular Farce of To cor TAE WATERMAN. dalf-past Six, performance to corn rr once at Seven. of Doors open ~se is open from Ten till Five, under the direction The Box.a na. Mr. John THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKE'i. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. the public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during „ne recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING , Will be performed THE WIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter Amyott, Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amy ott, Mrs. Charles Kean. After which, an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled THE KNIGHT OF ARVA. The Knight of Arva, Mr. Hadson ; the Princess Marina, Miss Reynolds. To conclude with the Farce of DEAREST ELIZABETH. Mr. Lionel Lax, Mr. Keeley ; Betsy, Mrs. Keeley. THEATRI ROYAL, ADELPHI. tvhder the direction o. Madame I;eleete. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the ori,;inai designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq., executed by Mr. Sang. A, new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tarn of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING WM be performed ST. MARY'S EVE. A Story of the Solway, Tom Briggs, Mr. Wright ; Madeline, 3faclame Celeste. - To be followed by THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Pau Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Madame Celeste. After which a new Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. 'fo conclude with THE DANCE OF THE SHIRT. ROYAL LYCk.U3I THEATKE. Under the Management of Madamz VeStria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles is he As. THIS EVENINI,, Will be performed THE MERRY IVIVES 1 .1 WINDSOR. Cha racters by Messrs. Granby, F. Matthews, C. 3lttiliews, Cooper, Bel lingham, Meadows, Selby, Hall, Binge, I lonne.t. F. Cooke, Charles, 3li s Marshall, Madame Vestris, Mrs. Yates, Mi is K. Fitzwliliam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with an APPEAL TO 12FIE I (JBLIC. Dress i :ones, 55.; Upper Boxes, Its ; Pit, 2 . ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The mew Ron-office, No. 2, WeWngton. e .1, is open to the public ~very day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATI: , :. - Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty lir Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrurl meats have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the coui,ort and conveilence of the audience. THIS ETENIN(4, Will be performed LA SONNAINIBULA. After which, a rAs DE TROIS. To conclude with the comic Opera oi LOVE 1 A ♦ILLAGE. Hawthorn, - Mr. Charles Braham ; Young Meadows, Mr. Allen ; Hodge. Mr. Oxberry ; Madge, Miss Emma Stanley; Rosetta, Miss Julia Har:and. TO CORRESPON IJEIVI b. e: , communication can be attended to unless autheati. cated by the name and address of the writer. communications cannot tr. returned. T!I - 0; W EA PIER.—SUN OFFIcE, NOVEMBER 29. TFi !MOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 51; Noon, 55. BAR , marEP., 30.01.—WIND S.W.; dull weather. WATER AT LONDON BRI.DOE THIS DAT. .. 41 min. after 31 EveninT 1;;S rain. after 3 • • , ~...•,.. ... ~_,T z. . i,„..,,,,.•4 „-..,... ~. isi , „( e, i,;;H •to.., 4 , 6 ~ A ...-.. •,.5....,.._,....4.•.- #.,.• -.1i. % ...,,izez::, 3. ___ . „ ...i.,,,4.., .... ...,,.. '',20,r.. -, , • :,„._ .:„..„ 4 7;,.t., A , :,....-, '''''" . ' ' -..'- ‘- . '4grjati";'' ' - ` 4.•, ;idt - '''''' '.7f2 ' ~ rt ' i •0 , 4 . ~. ..._ ~,,,.. :: -., ,- , nit LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1848, In the movements now making in various quarters of Europe there is evident the commencement of a struggle which must ultimately terminate in a general war throughout the Continent. It has at last become impossible to close the eyes to this certainty, to shut the heart against this conviction. The characters on tie wall are already too legible. The first resonance of the horn of war may even at this moment be heard. Nothing but a miracle can prevent a general rrsott to arms in France, in Austria, in Prussia, in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal. Of this there is unfor tunately too :much evidence. Since the beginning of the year 1848 the two great Powers of society' have been gradually accumulat iT•g their strength and concentrating their h.itred. They now stand face to face with their passions inflamed by a variety of reverses, by a con fusion of success end discomfiture, by a chaos of hopes and fears. On the one side are the champions of liberty, and on the other those of absolutism. Acre are grouped together the people and their most distinguished leaders ; there, on the contrary, are the kings and the aristocrats, the oligarchies and auto cracies, the rulers by the sword, the dungeon, and th scaffold. Wonderful as have been the events of this memorable year, the revolutions which have already occurred have only been the preliminary rici:mishes of the encounter. The two conflicting rowers of the European commonwealth cannot rest satisfied with a drawn battle ; one or other of them must be annihilated. The combat is for a final victory or overthrow—a conten tion ala vie, v. la mort ! When, however, we speak of general war being inealtable throughout Christen dom, we mean not a war between state and state, between people and people, between the subjects of one sovereign and those of another—but an intestine battle of life and death, between the democratic and despotic classes in the several dominions of conti nental Europe. We mean a decisive war within the boundaries of each nation, between the men in favour of advancement and those in favour of retrogression, between the reactionaires and the friends of liberty, between the revolution and the counter-revolution. The for this definitive ttruggle will emanat e from Paris, exactly as the signal for the O pening of the popular campaign in February came from the same capital. And the event which will co nstitute this signal will be the election of the first publican President. No matter whether the su e: ssful candidate be Louis NAPOLEON, LEDRU ROL^ EUGENE eAVAIGNAC, or ALPHONSE DE LAMAR TINE—the signal will be ecog nised, the s t rugg l e w ill ensue, the fate o f despotism ore character will be de cided. No doubt b ut that the aracter ment would vary accordin g t the of the move ment multitude. In char ac t er o f t h e individual selected by the one case the predominant consequence bloodshed, while in another the chiefnNeveeaPo 'would be ployed by the combatants would be morel anrdiepro: 'vatic. It is from this conviction as to the connexion ex;sting between the contest for the Presidency and the ultimate triumph of Opinions among man ki nd, that we imbibe such a peculiar solicitude for the result of occurrences on the 10th of December. And it is because we would see blood spared as much as pk.ssible in the capitals of the different Powers of Europe, that we are anxious to witness the rejection of LEDRU ROLLIN and LOUIS NAPOLEON, and the triumph of either CAVAIGNAC or LAMARTINE. Sup p—ing LEDRU ROLLIN were, by some extraordinary ell :lee, to gain the majority of suffrages, it would one gram] step towards the revival of Terrorism airi the guillotine; it would heighten the animosity Nu l nerve the arm of the counter-revolution, by en h 'ming it 3 dread of Democracy; while, above all, it v--; droril a terrible encouragement to those evil- j a: . ted coDspirators who would drive " liberty mad'' ',obverting all the foundations of the soci;l fabric a- .d giving loose to the unruly passions of the un c (I,z,:.ited million. In the event, again, of Prince LGr s NAPOLEON being nominated to the chair cl the Pi ethidency, a disastrous blow would in :hat one act have been stricken at those very institutions which have been gained with so much difficulty. The reactionaires would be ani mated to a renewal of their efforts at retrogression, regarding the acceptance of the Prince, very natu "l4l as 1 1 Wool encouragement to themselves. If THE StJX, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1848, France, on the contrary, declares herself boldly for either CAVAIGNAC or LAMARTINE, she will honour herself in so doing, she will consolidate her newly acquired institutions, she will secure her own free dom, and give the death- blow to despotism in every nation on the Continent. Well will it be for her, therefore, and for Europe in like manner, if the claims of these two great citizens are maturely reflected on, and one or other of them raised to supreme authority in the Republic. The question is not a question of men but of principles ; and the French electors, in exer cising an enormous power over the destinies of their own land, will, when dropping their votes into the urn of election, be wielding an awful influence over the futurity of Christendom. One only doubt consequently remains to be solved, according to our estimate, of the approaching contest—the doubt as to the expediency of supporting CAVAIGNAC or LAMAR TINE. The electors must decide at once, if they have not already arrived at any determination. They must decide for the poet or for the soldier. Poet or soldier—they are both patriots, both true and devoted Republicans. They have both displayed capacity in the arts of government, they are both statesmen, both diplomatists, both orators, both men of unimpeach able probity, of unwinking vigilance, and of unconquerable valour. CAVAIGNAC defended the Republic in June—but LAMARTINE created it in February ! CAVAIGNAC beat down the anarchists with his sword—but LAMARTINE had pre viously blighted them into the dust with the audacity of his unarmed heroism, and the lightnings of his superb eloquence! CAVAIGNAC has preserved tran quillityin France during a period of five months, from the close of June to the close of November—but LAMARTINE has other claims upon the population of his mother country, he preserved peace in France, and not only in France but in Christendom, during the more perilous months preceding that interval, dur ing March, and April, and May; he abolished capital punishment, he proclaimed the Republic, he decreed the system of universal suffrage, he inaugurated the National Assembly, he spoke in the tribune and fought before the barricades, he laboured for France in the privacy of his cabinet and struggled for her salvation in the uproar of the streets, he has proved himself firm in danger, patient under calumny, and capable of sacrificing for his country, fame, and name, and property, and life, and, as a final claim upon the suffrages of the multitude, he it was who, by his last and perhaps his most felicitous master piece of oratory, preserved to the people themselves the right of electing their President. Between these two great candidates, therefore, France has now to make her selection. Were we asked to express an opinion upon the alternative, we should say that France would gain greater safety by the acceptance of CAVAIGNAC, and greater glory by the election o LAMARTINE. We recently directed the public attention to cer tain observations upon railway management con tained in a letter to GEORGE Ceau GLTN, Esq., M.P., by Mr. WHITEHEAD, late secretary to the South- Western Railway, and now a member of the Stock Exchange. The position formerly filled by the writer, his experience in everything relating to rail way management, and, above all, the tone and manner of the communication, entitled his suggestions to an attentive consideration, and to receive something more than a mere passing notice. That letter has since called forth a reply from Mr. MARK Humu*, the ge neral manager of the London and North- Western Railway, in which the several points alluded to by Mr. WHITEHEAD are answered in detail, and placed in a very different point of view. And it is only just and equitable that the justification put forward should receive the same currency as the original strictures. The arguments of Mr. WHITEHEAD were princi pally directed against the practical monopoly of the goods' trade since the company became carriers on their own account, a course which he maintains to be alike injurious to the interests of the shareholders and of the country in ge neral. Ile also asserts that the rates charged for the conveyance of goods are by no means remu nerative, that in fact the traffic ' a attended with losses which absorb a considerzble port'on of the profit re c.is ed from passengers. Mr. Huisu grapples with these . arious assertions, and certainly produces facts which strongly support •is vie..s in opposition to hose of Mr. WHITEHEAD. We confess that we are at all times opposed to any thing in any degree tending to the creation of a monopoly. There is something so odious in the very name that it at once excites a spirit of opposi tion. No practical injury has, however, as yet re sulted from the change. Mr. Huisu declares that the rates are the same formerly paid, and no charge has been made against the company of not duly attending to the public convenience. There is, however, the possibility of some future evil from want of that active competition which at all times affords the best assurance that the wants of the community will be fully provided for. Mr. Hum! merely regards the question so far as the interests of the shareholders are concerned, and in this respect he certainly makes out a complete case. He says, " that the matter is settled by the almost universal fiat of the railway boards," and claims as a strong argument in favour of the system, the fact adduced by Mr. WHITEHEAD against it, viz., " that the canal companies have been compelled to adopt it as their only means of maintaining any competition with railways." And he adds, " that the system must work very profitably indeed, since the rates are the same and the carriers' profit comes also into the company's exchequer." The facts of the amounts derived from the traffic, however, afford stronger proofs than any mere speculative reasoning , however plausible, and these are altogether with Mr. Holm. So far from the goods' traffic being carried on at a loss, as insinuated by Mr. WHITEHEAD, it appears that the total cost of working the railway in every department, was very nearly defrayed by the receipts for goods and merchandise, in the very first year that the company became carriers on their own account. That the re ceipts for passengers, mails, and parcels for the year ending the 30th June last, was 1,417,6591., of which 105,0871. was for parcels, which might fairly be in cluded in the goods' traffic, while for goods, coals, &c. (after deducting collection and deliveries and terminal charges at Camden-town), the receipts amounted to 722,3761. for tonnage only, the cost of working the line being 751,1721. There can, therefore, be no possible grounds for supposing that the traffic in goods is carried on at a loss, as asserted by Mr, WHITEHEAD. Mr. limn also explains the apparent anomaly of the difference in charges between goods and passen gers, alluded to by Mr. WHITEHEAD, when he makes the assertion " that either the goods' rates are too low, or the passengers' rates too high." He shows that the receipts per mile for the merchandise trains were ss. 6d. during the past year, while for passengers it was 6s. 81d. only during the same period. This is accounted for by showing that passenger carriages are very seldom entirely full, t. that in fact on the average little more than one-half (ngeusaeratdse,a,:nocs occupied; that a passenger train does not ductive, while average more than a dozen carriages, of which two a uggage . carried free) are unpro to 35 trucks. Theerlc2handuse train will consist of 30 each, cost the companPyassenger carriages,. at 3504 capital to carry on the business journey double the the 30 merchan dise trucks at 651. each. Thesfsoreomfthere,rtoo, are carried slasatre conveyed at 36 miles an hour, while the nis at only ; half that speed. Mr. WIJITEHEAD'S own showing, who recomm ends that passengers should be charged in proportion the speed at which they are carried, forms a Ver o material element in the calculation, which has been y wholly lost sight of by Mr. WIIITEIIEAD. Another tact stated by Mr. Hums is of importance. It appears that the passenger trPins which left the Euston-square station during the month of October last averaged sixty-one passengers each ; the mer chandise trains during the same period about seventy two tons. That as there are a greater number of third than of first-class passengers, a receipt of lid. per passenger per mile was above the average, while • Letter to George Carr Glvn, Esq., M.P., in reply to a Late Pamphlet. By Mark :finish, General Manager of the London and North-Western Railway, London: w, H. Smith and Son, 186, Strand. the receipt on each ton of goods exceeded that amount, after deducting the cost of collection and delivery. No analogy between the comparative weights of goods and passengers will assist the calculation of the charges that should be made to each. " A run of 238,732 miles was sufficient to convey a weight of goods which it required 4,220,078 miles to transmit when converted into passengers." Again, the capital employed to transmit 100 tons of goods would be but 3,6501., while it would take 14 times that amount, or 51,6001., to convey 100 tons of passengers. This extraordinary circumstance is explained when we are told that " four tons of passengers require a dead weight, including engine and tenders, of no less than 52 tons to convey them, while 72 tons of goods required only 80 tons, including the engine ; thus it appears that there is 13 tons of dead weight for every ton of passengers conveyed, and but little more than one ton of dead weight fur each of mer chandise. The above facts, recorded by Mr. Mugu, appear conclusive on the points of difference. We cannot conclude, however, without giving one extract ex plaining his views on railway prospects. He says— " The attention now directed towards Railways —the spirit of inquiry which prevails—the collision of opi nions—the necessity for increased care and vigilance to recover the ground which has been lost from a viciou s system (or rather want of system) in legislation—all ttnd to a healthier state of things. Called as you have been to preside over one of the largest of these under takings, no one can have a greater interest in pro moting and extending the circulation of authentic information on the subject of railways than yourself. Few know the labour and anxiety of such a position ; very few will ever know the mental cost of the last three years—but the horizon is clearing, a calmer future is at hand, clashing interests are settling down, the disap pointment and the triumph are over, and the pause which has suc cee d e d w ill not b e wasted in reflections on the past (save as a beacon for the future), but devoted to the internal improvement of a property as secure as the soil upon which it is based, and to the full development of a system which, amidst all the struggles of its early career—the discouragements of one Parliament and the oppressions of another—the mistakes of its friends and the opposition of its enemies—not only exists as one of the greatest monuments of modern improvement and social advancement, but (unless this country also is doomed to pass through the furnace of affliction) must improve with the increase of population and the exten sion of commerce." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has at length issued his electioneering address, which bears in ternal evidence of having been drawn by some "practised hand" of the English Carlton Club. It bears a family likeness to those tissues of vague generalities which were wont some twelve years since to be issued by gentlemen of the Conservative party, who " were desirous of reforming all proved abuses," without stating what proof was necessary to satisfy their minds of the existence of an abuse. Our readers will at once perceive that this manifesto is as much made up of vague generalities as a royal speech. It pledges to nothing, it throws no light whatever upon the opinions of the writer. He may be an Absolutist, he may be a Red Republican, and the only conclusion to be drawn from a perusal of it is that the writer is purposely endea vouring to deceive and mislead. The following is the address : " LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE TO HIS FELLOW-CITIZENS. " To recall me from exile you have chosen me repre sentative of the people, On the eve of electing the chief magistrate of the Republic, my name is placed before you as a symbol of order and security. " This testimony of confidence, so honourable, is offered, I am aware, much more to that name than to me, who have as yet done nothing for my country; but the more the memory of the Emperor protects me and influences your suffrages, the more do I feel myself bound to explain to you my sentiments and principles. Between you and me there must be no misunder standing. "I am not an ambitious man, who dreams now of empire and of war, now of the application of subversive theories. Educated in free countries, in the school of misfortune, I shall ever remain faithful to the duties imposed on me by your suffrages, and by the will of the Assembly. " If I were elected President I would not shrink from any danger, from any sacrifice, to defend society, so audaciously attacked; I would devote myself entirely, and without any reserve, to the consolidation of a Re public, wise by its laws, honourable by its intentions, great and strong by its actions. " I would make it a point of honour to leave to my successor, at the end of four years, power consolidated, liberty untouched, and real progress accomplished. " Whatever be the result of the election, I shall bow before the will of the people; and my concurrence is oh tained in advance for whatever just and firm govern, meet shall re-establish order in the public mind, as ael as in public affairs; shall effectively protect reli g ion, private life, prt,pertv—the eternal bases of every social state; shall bring about reforms where they are possible, shall calm animosities, reconcile parties, and thus permit our troubled country to calculate on a morrow. " To re-establish order is to bring back confidence, to provide by credit for the temporary insufficiency of re sources, to restore the finances. " To protect religion and private life, is to ensure liberty of worship and liberty of education. " To protect property is to maintain the inviolability of the produce of all kinds of labour; it is to guarantee the independence and the security of possession —the indispensable foundation of civil liberty. " As to practicable reforms, the following are those which appear to me the most urgent:— " To allow every economy which, without disorganiz ing the public service, may permit a diminution of the imposts that are most burdensome to the people. To encourage enterprise, which, by developing the resources of agriculture, may, both in France and in Algeria, afford labour to unoccupied hands; to provide for the old age of labourers by provident institutions; to intro duce into our industrial laws ameliorations which may tend, not to ruin the rich for the benefit of the poor, but to found the well-being of each on the prosperity of all. " To restrain within just limits the number of em ployments that depend on the Government, and which often make a free nation a nation of applicants. "To avoid that disastrous tendency which leads the State to execute of itselt what individuals can do as well, and better than it. Centralisation of interests and of enterprise belongs to the nature of despotism —the nature of a republic repels monopoly. " In a word, to preserve the liberty of the press from the two extremes which always compromise it—the arbitrary and the licentious. " With war their is no relief for our evils. Peace shall, therefore, be the dearest of my wishes. France at her first revolution was warlike, because she was compelled to be so. Invasion she met by conquest. Now that she is not assailed she may consecrate her resources to pacific ameliorations, without at the same time abandon ing a policy true and resolute. A great nation should either be silent or never speak in vain. " To have regard to the national dignity, we must not neglect the army, the noble and disinterested patriotism of which has often been misunderstood. At the same time that we maintain the fundamental laws which constitute the strength of our military organiz s tion, we must lighten, and not aggravate, the burden of conscription. We must watch over the present and the future, not only of the officers, but also of the sub- officers and soldiers, and provide a sure subsistence for the men who have long served under our colours. " The Republic ought to be generous, and have f a i t h in the future ; h ence I, w h o h ave myself been familiar with exile and captivity, anxiously desire to see the day when a magnanimous pardon may without danger put an end to all proscriptions, and obliterate the last traces of our civil discords. " Such, my dear fellow-citizens, are the ideas that I would carry with me to the exercise of power, it you should call me to the Presidency of the Republic. " The task is difficult, the mission is immense—l know it; but I should not despair to accomplish it, by taking to the work, without distinction of party, men whom public opinion and their own elevated intelligence and probity would recommend. " Besides, for whoever has the honour to be at the head of the French people, there is an infallible method of doing good—namely, to will it. " Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. " Paris, Nov. 27, 1848." The National states that the Austrian army en tered Hungary on the 23d November. The Moniteur du Soir contains an official announce ment that the POPE has been expelled from Rome. It was currently reported last evening in Paris that he had arrived in France. The Univers says—" The Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday communicated to several represen tatives dispatches which he addressed to the Duke D ' HARCOURT, the French Ambassador at Rome, after receiving accounts of the disastrous events of the 15th and 16th of November. If our information be correct, in that dispatch the Minister charges the Ambassador to offer to the Sovereign PONTIFF the expression of the profound and dolorous sympathy of the French Government, and to state that the French Republic is determined to remain the eldest daughter of the Church, and that as a Catholic and Republican, the Minister owes a double homage to the Head of the A e t h t ch sitting and the n f t g h r e e at Nationalre fo r m i A n reforming s P e m o p b e l . y " He demanded Government on the subject of the affairs mediation was, counts which hay! nwhat ce r: i a tu m atio n n te t r h pe e l A lat n i g on lo s .F to ren t e h he 13rxio addressed y o e f st l er ta d l a: and declared that the demagog Ile then ncfalwlehdaattitsentatikoingt placeth in jea n pa o rty e hancd mitoadrnee' war the s c a a s u si se of lib er t y. I t was commenced by a coward ply as Te e p s i s i e t d h e t L t O an attack uon his ." . cyn ntion, an d i t now finished by General CaVAIGNAC at Vienn a h a d prevented th e e recent events mediation from making much progress, but that it lv great activity. Wi th re, eet as now going on with sP to what w as t a ki ng place at R ome , as soon as the news was known, the French Government at once sent 3,500 men from , Marseilles and Toulon to Civita Vecchia. He added that M. DE COURCELLES had already left Paris for Rome, as Envoy Extraordinary. He then read the instructions given to M. DE COURCFLLES, of which the following is the substance—to protect the person of his Holiness the POPE, and to facilitate his entry, in case of necessity, into France. The Assembly directed that this point should be brought again under discussion on Thursday next. The debate on the budget was then resumed, and continued up to the hour of post. The Archbishop of PARIS has addressed the fol lowing past - ral letter to the clergy of his diocese, dated the 20th : " Monsieur le Cure,—Our soul is plunged in grief. The Church suffers in its chief. The capital of the Christian world is a prey to facti ons . Bl oo d h as b een shed at Rome, even in the palace of our well-beloved Pontiff, Pius IX. The Vicar of Christ has commenced his passion. He is drinking from that bitter cup of in gratitude which he foretasted on the day when his magnanimous soul resolved to effect by confidence and love the redemption of his country. The father of the liberty of Italy is, perhaps, at this moment no longer at liberty himself. The events which have ensanguined Rome, and clothed in mourning the whole Catholic world, are not yet fully known. But we do know enough of them to he able to judge of their gravity. We know enough to cause our tears to flow, and feel the necessity of putting up our prayers to God. He holds in His hands the hearts of all men. May He enlighten the blind, repress hatred a n d animosity .. ., appease civil discord, and confound the plots of the wicked. These plots are vast and covered with darkness; and those who are weaving them do not intend to direct them against the temporal chief of on e o f t h e smallest states of Europe, but against the head of Catholicism. To en slave the people, they are trying to break the bonds which bind them together. But God will not permit this. Our confidence in the issue of this conflict is undoubt ing. All we ask is that it may be shortened. This is what we have to pray for to heaven. Let us hope, more over, that the Catholic nations will become aware of the danger with which they are threatened; and which, at the same time, threaten all th e mo d ern conquests of liberty and civilization. Can France, above all, suffer herself to be thus attacked in her belief, her traditions, her highest interests? If Rome is the head, France is the heart and the arm of Catholicism. L e t us a l l pray, M. le Cure; the priests will every day at mass recite the prayer Pro SWIM° Pontifice.' Call upon the faithful to join their pray ers to ycure. Let all men of holy minds unite with us in ferterat communion. At a future day, if circumstances require, we will ordain public prayers to be put up. Accept, M. le Cure, the assurance of my sincere and very affectionate attachment. " MARIE DOMINIQUE AUGUSTE, Archbishop of Paris." General BEDEAU will, it is said, take the command of the expedition to Civita Vecchia. The following are the instructions of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to M. CORCELLES : "My dear Colleague,—You know the depl ora bl e events which h a v e t a k e n place in the city of Rome, and reduced the Holy Father to a sort of captivity. In consequence of these events the Government of the Republic has just decided that four steam frigates, carrying a brigade of 3,500 men, should be sent to Civita Vecchia. It has also been decided that you should repair to Rome as Envoy Extra ordinary. Your mission has for its object to interfere, in the name of the French Republic, in order to restore to his Holiness his personal liberty, if he has been de prived of it. If ever it entered his intention, consider ing circumstances, to retire for a while to the territory of the Republic, you will ensure, as much as in your power lies, the realization of that wish, and you will assure the Pope that he will experience from the French nation a reception worthy of them, and worthy also of the virtues of which he gave so many . proofs. " You are not authorised to interfere in any political question pending at Rome. It bel o ngs to th e N at i onal Assembly alone to d e termine the measures which the Government of the Republic shall adopt for the re-esta blishment of a regular situation in the States of t h e Church. For th e p rese nt you have—in the name of t h e Government which sen ds you, and which, in doing so, remains within the limits of the power confided to it— to secure the liberty of the Pope and respect for his person. " On your arrival before Chita Vecchia you will land in person, and proceed to Rome to confer with M. d'llar court, with whom you will come to an understanding, and act afterwards jointly, in compliance with the in structions given to you by the Government. You will cause the troops at your disposal to land, either at Civita Vecchia itself, or wherever that force may with safety co-operate in ensuring the success of your mission. Measures have been adopted to reinforce that brigade, if necessary, and you will no doubt receive subsequent and more detailed instructions if the National Assembly should consider them indispensable. " I cannot too often repeat that your mission has not, and cannot have for the moment, any other object than to ensure the personal safety of the Pope, and, in a❑ ex treme case, his temporary retreat to the territory of the Republic. You will take care to proclaim loudly that you arc not come to interfere, in any respect, in the dif ferences that divide to day the Holy Father and the people he governs. The Republic, moved by ,a sentiment which is an old tradition among the French nation, repairs to the assistance of the per so❑ of the Pope. It entertains no other intention. Your mission is a delicate one. It requires a great clearness of view and appreciation. The Government of the Re public places every confidence in the sentiments that will direct you. ' " I roust also call your attention to the use you may be obliged to make of the troops confided to your superior direction. Their landing must only be effected within the very limited range in which it may be possible for them to act with i fficacy in obtaining the sole object of your mission—the security of the Pope. " It is possible that the events may suggest to you necessities which 'cannot foresee. In that case you wil have to apply without delay for the orders of the Go. vernment of the Republic, which, according to circum stances and the propositions you may submit to it, will act on its own impulse, or after consulting the Assembly " Receive, &c. (Signed) " The Minister of Foreign Affairs, " Paris, Nov. 27, 1848," " JULES BASTIDE. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, Nov. 28. THREE O'CLOCK.—Thero have been considerable fluc tuations at the Bourse to day. The Rentes opened con siderably below the closing prices of yesterday, and were rapidly declining, when all of a sudden the process of discounting (which is carried on to a large extent every day) sent the Five per Cents. up fully one halt per cent., and they afterwards continued rising till nearly the close of business, when there was a slight reaction. The Roman Funds fell Si per cent. in consequence of the flight of the Pope. The news from that quarter was looked to with great interest. For the account, the French Three per Cents. have risen 5c.; the Five per Cents. have fallen 15c.; and the Loan has fallen 10c. For Money, the Three per Cents. remain the same as yesterday; the Five per Cents. have advanced sc. ; and the Loan has fallen 30c. ; Bons qt. Tresor not quoted; Bank of France Shares have declined SE; Belgian Bank Shares not quoted; ditto Five per Cents. are at yesterday's prices. Spanish Active not quoted ; Roman has fallen ai per cent. ; Rothschild's Receipts not quoted. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 42 ; ditto (90 days), 25 35. In Railway Shares there is no very material change. A good deal of busi ness was done in Ruuens and Northerns. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STO CK - EXCHANGE. Nov. 28. Luxembourg (10/.), 11 4 — Northern of France, s%—Or. leans and Bourdeaux, 1%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. They confirm completely the intelligence which we published yesterday of the defeat and dispersion of the column of the Quaaa's troops under General MANzario by the Carlist forces commanded by CA BRERA. The battle took place at Avinon, about three leagues from Manresa, on the 16th. The QUEEN'S General, MAN Z AN O , 16 officers, 500 soldiers, 600 1 muskets, 20 horses, &c., &c., f e ll i n t o th e hands of CABRERA. The rest of column, 300 in number, took to flight. CABRERA. had under his orders BORGES, MARSAL, and the two brothers TRISTANI. During the fortnight preceding the engagement the Alontemolinists captured more than 300 prisoners, 500 muskets, and the forts of Prades, La Garriga, El Abisbal, Cabra, and Gerra. After the defeat of MAN ZANO, GeneralCoan . ovA, the Captain-General, re turned to Barcelona On the 12th, four days before the battle, a large Carlist band, under the brothers TRISTAN', got posses sion of the extensive salt magazines in the immediate neighbourhood of Cardona on the night of the 12th, and were joined the next day by CABRERA ; according to a letter from Coromina, the force altogether amounting to 800 men. They were fired at by the guards from their strong house, and several shots were fired at them from the fort at Cardona, but without effect. They had previously made all their dispositions for disposing of the salt in a most buai ness•like way. For some time before that they had placed these salt depots under an interdict, warning the country people not to supply them selves there; and as much salt is required for the cattle at this time of year, and the country people did not venture to disobey these injunctions, scarcely any salt was sold by the Government employes, and the price was raised enormously, reaching as high as 40 maravedis the pound (about 3d). Having planned the present attack, the I:msrANis sent parties in all directions to tell the country people to come with their horses, &c., and that they should have as much salt they liked at twelve reals per load; and on the 13th there were above 100 beasts of burthen employed all day carrying away salt; the Carlists pocketing a large amount in dollar•, and the country folks highly contented at getting that necessary article so cheap. CORDOVA has dispatched General MATA Y ALos to Madrid to demand a reinforcement of 20 additional battalions, and 25,000,000 of reals, without which it will be impossible to make head against the Carlists in Catalonia. It was at one period in contemplation to send NARYAEZ to Catalonia, but he fears to leave the field open to the intrigues of CHRISTINA and Mori, by quitting Madrid. .11IoN and PIDAL bitterly reproached him with the appointment of CORDOVA, whose instant removal from the chief command in Catalonia was at once agreed on. It is said that General MANUEL CONCHA will be appointed his suc cessor. The intelligence from Catalonia has occasioned the greatest consternation at the Court of Madrid. MADRID BOLSA, Nov. K.—The Three per Cents. :tre 7%. per cent. lower to-day, being reported at 191 , o 5-16 buyers, s seller.; Five per Cents., 94 to ;j -,uyers, sellers : Coupons, .n buyers ; Passive Debt, :3 9-16 buyers, sellers ; Bank Shares, 40 sellers ; Discount on Notes, 2 per cent. Exchange on Lon don, 48 35. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES PRUSSIA. It is said that 140 of the Members of the National Assembly have determined to attend the sittings at Brandenburg, but it is currently rumoured that it is the intention of the KING at once to dissolve the As sembly, and to grant of his own full power a consti tution, the main features of which will be the follow ing :—Two Chambers, one cf Deputies (the electors for which, as well as the elected, must possess an income of about 301. sterling), and the other, also an elective one, composed of persons having an income of 751. Another rumour is that the KING will convoke the United Diet, which voted the Law of Elections, and leave it to decide between himself and the As sembly. Several private soldiers of the 40th Infantry Regi ment, in garrison at Mayence, were arrested on the 24'h, for having uttered seditious cries; their com rades went to the colonel anel in a tumultuous manner demanded their release, and it was only by the inter ference of some Austrian officers that they were in duced to return to their barracks. The next day the regiment was sent to the Lower Rhine. The Inspector of Police of Dusseldorf has been suspended for stating that the National Assembly has acted legally. Six members of the Government Board of that city have been dismissed, and two others have in consequence resigned their places. It is stated, in a Berlin correspondence of the Neue I?heinische Zeitung, that 25,000 guns are still " in good hands" in that city. The Karlsruher Zeitung states that, according to all appearances, another republican insurrection is at hand ; numbers of young working men are assem. bling on the Swiss frontier ; and in French Alsace people, it is said, are busy recruiting for the " social republic," holding out tempting promises to persons who have served in the army. The congress of deputies from the civic guards of the kingdom is fixed to take place at Breslau, on the 4th of December next. Mr. JOSEPH MENDELSSOHN, the banker, of Berlin, and the eldest son of the celebrated MOSES MENDELS^ SOHN, and uncle of the late FELIX MENDELSOHN BAR THOLDY, the celebrated composer, died at Berlin on the 25th inst., in the 79th year of his age. The arrival of VON GAGERN in Berlin on the 26th had given rise to a rumour that the KING had sent for him to construct a Ministry. The Municipal Deputies of Berlin have published ;he following address to the National Assembly : " HIGH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. " The rights of the nation have been trenched upon (gekrankt) by the Ministers of the Crown—encroached on by Ministers who never did, and never can, obtain the country's confidence, and, with most unfortunate delusion, are hurrying our fatherland into au abyss: of destruction. The sacred rights of the nation have been honourably combatted for—they have been ratified (be siegelt) by the Royal word; and the citizens of Berlin will be the last to renounce them, for they were the first who openly declared that we would side with the Na tional Assembly (auf der scite stehe). The firm will of our citizens, the will of a great nation, is— " We will concord a constitution, but not accept one as a gift. " For this purpose we selected you. You, the men of our confidence, belong to UP. No servants of the Crown shall take you from us. No one shall limit the full powers which yon derive from the nation. We never were stronger than we are now, under the dominion of force (gezvalt der waffen), and in the consciousness of our lawful rights. This consciousness will strengthen you, the National Assembly, in follon ing with firmness and constancy the path which will lead to the triumph of our just cause. Under this consciousness you will know hour to protect your own rights, as well as the supreme rights of the Crown, and to bridle all passions that may tend to overpass these limits. In the execution of these duties you Mill be careful to avoid all measures that may tend to the destruction of our fatherland. Therefore we beg and implore ofyou to revoke forth with the proposition (antrag) for the refusal of taxes. We are teo strong to require he adoption of desperate measures (Why not say illegal?) which must tend to entail incalculable misfortunes upon the country and Crown, to produce years of confusion, and to estrange men's hearts from our cause. We implore of you to respect the rights of the Crown, and the Crown will then respect our rights, end henceforward select its advisers from amongst those men who possess the confidence of the National As sembly. We pray and beseech the National Assembly to stretch forth its hand to an honourable arrangement between it and the Crown, as is becoming for two co equal powers. ,An arrangement dishonourable to the Crown would not only turn from you (the National As sembly) the hearts, but all the convictions of the country. We implore you, therefore, to direct all your efforts to bear up with constancy and patience against the domi nion of force as well as passion —to hold fast to our just rights—but to restore peace to the country and give to the people a free constitution. (Signed) " THE MUNICIPAL DEPUTIES OF BERLIN. "Berlin, Nov. 23" The PruBsian State Gazette of the 25th announces that a Royal ordonnance, inserted in the Bulletin of Laws, continues the tariff of customs duties which was to expire at the end of the present year. This continuation takes place in consequence of a con ference being at this moment open at Frankfort to establish a general regulation of customs for the states of Germany. your history and that or Germany generally, ari sound up together. Turn out then f r ;he riJtcous stlug . :.:l-. We on our parts shall be true to you; unity and f , adorn shall be victorious." ITALY. ROME. The latest accounts received direct from Rome state that the POPE was besieged by the people in the Quirinal ; and the Diario di Roma of the 18th states that he at that time meditated flight. The Alba of Florence of the 23d gives the following account of the progress of the insurrection. It will be seen that the son of LITCIEN BONAPARTE, the Prince of CANINO, is one of the chiefs of the insurgents. The Alba says:— " As soon as the Pope had consented to change his Ministry, and had accepted the conditions which the Democrats had dictated to him, it was announced to the people who were splitting the air with their cheers, that if they would be for a moment silent, M. Galetti would come and give them an account of till that had been done. Quietness was immediately re stored, and M. Galetti came and announced, first, that the Pope would leave it to the Legislative Chambers to determine on the demands of the people ; and, secondly, that a new ministry had been formed. M. Galetti added that it was necessary that all feeling of hatred and vengeance against the Swiss troops should be laid aside, and that the more especially because many brave men of that nation had fought for the cause of Italy at Vicenza. He then requested the National Guards to go home, and ordered the troops to return to their barracks. "Immediately after this news became known the troops defiled through the Corso, which was magnifi cently illuminated. The National Popular Club met at half' past five in the afternoon ; MM. Sterbini, Vincig nerra, Bonaparte, Spini, Pinto, and other members were present, and for the sake of public tranquillity they re. solved to issue a proclamation. " Half-past Seven.—The Club has written to Colonel Stewart, the Commandant of the Castle of St. Angelo, to continue in the command of that fort. He immedi ately gave in his adherence. It is announced that hslf of the dragoons kept back by Col. Savini do not frater nize with the people. Orders have been given for the dismissal of the Colonel, and for his being succeeded provisionally by Major Piccinetti. It is now said that the dragoons have come over to the people. "Eight o'Clock.—Notice has been sent to the Cham ber of Deputies to inform the President of the measures adopted by the Popular Club for the preservation of order, and to invite that body to send a deputy; but the Chamber had adjourned before the arrival of the message." The Diario di Roma of the 18th instant has the following : " The Pope intends to escape from Rome; last night he was kept under strict guard; he will not give way. Several ambassadors of foreign powers encourage him. A Spanish ship is ready to take him either to Malta or Marseilles; the Cardinals have almost all fled. The Popular Club now governs alone at Rome; to-morrow or the day after the Chamber will be constituted, and the people will present to it as the first question that of an Italian Constituent Assembly. The Pope has written a letter to the ambassadors, in which he takes leave o them." The following declaration has been published by the Popular Club : " The country is in the greatest danger. The blood of our citizens has stained our soil. At this decisive mo ment it is the duty of all good citizens to devote them selves for the public safety. The Popular Club assumes the grave resporsibility of adopting provisional mea sures necessary to assure the life, honour, and pros perity of every Roman, and to consolidate order until a Government shall have been formal. The people are, in consequence, apprised that the centre of operations is fixed in the Popular Club at the }lan° Palace. All good citizens are invited to respect the measure which shall emanate from that centre, as representing the true and absolute will of the people. " Dated from the Popular Club, 16th Nov., 1848." The military authorities and the colonels of regi ments having been invited to send officers to the Club to concert measures with it, the general staff established at the Pilot' a sent a deputation o, su perior officers to the club, who declared that they were fully disposed to execute the will of the people and to protect their rights, guaranteeing, however, the inviolability of the sacred person of the PONTIFF. M.M. STERBINI, VINAGUERRA, SPINI, and PINTO replied in terms of gratitude, and assured the deputa tion that the POPE'S person was the object of the veneration of all, and that the ecclesiastical govern ment should be fully guaranteed. It was then re solved to reinforce the gates of the prisons and to send patrols into the districts where danger to property might exist, to maintain order. A detachment of dragoons arrived at the Fiano Palace, and the Commander placed them at the or ders of the Club for the transmission of dispatches. The battalion of Traneteveri, to the number of 300 men, offered to place the mse l ves a t th e or d ers o f the Club. At half past seven o'clock a letter was written from the Club to Colonel STEWART, the Commander of the Castle of St. Angelo, to re tain his command, to which he assented. It was announced that half of a regiment of dra goons, restrained by Colonel SAVIRI, would not fraternise with the people. Orders were immediately issued to cashier the Colonel and to give the com mand provisionally to Major PICCINETTI. At eight o'clock a message was sent from the club to the Chamber of Deputies to inform the President of the measures adopted by the Popular Club, and to request hips to send a deputy. An answer was returned, saying that the Chamber was closed. It was subsequently announced to the Club that the new Ministry had been formed. The new Ministers were invited to meet on the following day at the residence of Abl6 ROSMINI A courier was dispatched to MAAIIANI at Genoa to invite him to return to Rome. The re- presentatives of the Popular Club then re signed their functions. The Ministers, GALLETTI and STIARBINI, commanded that all the extraordinary precautions adopted should no longer be enforced. They invited the Civic Guard to watch over the maintenance of public order. They then withdrew, in the midst of the enthusiastic applause of the peo. ple, who cried " The Line, the Cardinals, Fraternity, and Union for ever." The Abbe ROSMINI had re fused to accept the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. He was replaced by Cardinal MUZZARELLL A letter from Leghorn of the 22d inst., states that TERENCE MAMIANI, the new Roman Minister, had arrived there , on his passage from Genoa, and that he had received a visit on board the steam- boat on which he was a passenger from the Tuscan Minister GUER RAZZ'', during which they had a long convers, ;ation, NAPLES. Letters from Naples of the 17th state that on the previous Sunday an English Foreign -office messenger arrived from London, with the ultimatum of the great Powers for the decision of the Sicilian question, which had been approved by the French, Russian, and Neapolitan Ministers in London. The contents of this important document have not transpired. In the meantime the KING continues his military prepa rations. The forts of Naples fronting the sea have keen doubly fortified, and the army has been aug mented to an effective force of 90,000 men. Great pains have been taken to form a corps of cavalry capable of acting efficiently in the mountains. The Sicilians are greatly exasperated against the KING, and declare they will accept of no conditions from him. Calabria also is in a very disturbed state, and troops have been dis patched to that province from Naples. The city of Naples itself is exceedingly ill guarded, and street robberies and assassinations are of so frequent occur rence that it is not safe for persons to venture out at night. The police are exclusively employed in watching secret societies, and arresting political offenders, so that the thieves and assassins are left in undisputed possession of the streets. All the returns that have been to the Chambers from the pro vinces up to the 17th are anti-Ministerial. In the last Chamber the anti-Ministerial majority was thirty five. It will be largely augmented in the present Chamber. Intelligence of the death of IBRAHIM PACIIA had been received at Naples. DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES BULLER, M.P. The Right Hon. Charles Buller, M.P. for Lis keard, and President of the Poor-law Board, died between five and six o'clock this morning, at his resi deuce, 2, Chester-place, Pimlico, aged 42. It is rumoured that Jacob Omnium, Esq., a gen tleman well known in the City, has been appointed to the governorship of Sierra Leone and its dependencies. Mr. Uranium ie, we understand, extensively connected with the colonies, and during the last session rendered important services to the Government, by correcting various errors of fact into which they had inadvertently been betrayed. Whatever credit is duo for making so just and judicious a selection belongs to Lord Grey. There was no family connexion in the case ---not even, we are informed, personal acquaintance. The appoint ment was wholly unsolicited, and was made solely on public grounds It cannot be attributed to political lavouritisni.—Ministerialpap er . THE LATE LORD PROVOST. --We believe we are betraying no secret when we state that within the last few days a baronetcy has been officially offered to Mr. Black, the late respected provost of the city, but that it has been respectfully declined.—Edinburgh Evening Past. The Count de Grammont was married on Monday last to Mademoiselle de Pruslin. The happy couple are to be established in the apartment of the late Duchess de Praslin, the bride's mother, which has been newly cleansed and decorated fur the occasion. The rate of exchange at Rio on London was quoted 24d., at which figure some considerable transac• tions had taken place; Paris was marked 400, aid Ham.. burgh 720. Freight to London was 455.; and to the Channel 40s. to 455. Local stuck continued at 87i to 88. The profit of• the Del Bey mines for September was I 3,3661., and their working is described as extremely batizittetory. AUSTRIA. The arrests in Vienna still continue—upwards of 200 persons were seized on the 21st. Such is the state of misery and starvation among the working clas.es, that, notwithstanding the severity with which the laws against clubs and meetings are carried out, they continue •to hold their clubs and meetings in suburbs. It is thought that they have the means of becoming armed, as not more than one. half the arms taken from the arsenal by the people have as yet been delivered up. Couriers are constantly passing between Olmutz and Peters burgh, and it is said that the Sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia have formed a Holy Alliance. Tha EMPEROR has subscribed 4,000,000 florins towards the relief of those persons whose property was destroyed by the storming of Vienna. The _Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, under date Olinutz, the 17th inst., states that in consequence of the excesses committed at Leipsic against the Austrian General-Consulate, the Austrian Government had re solved to assume a hostile position as regards the commercial relations with Leipsic, that the Austrian General-Consul for the kingdom of Saxony had been recalled, and the Austrian archives handed over to the English General-Consulate at Leipsic. Letters from Vienna of the 21st state that Count STADION insisted on the dismissal of WEIRS, PIG. h N e lT w z, ou an ld d a l c l c o e N pt TE o u ffic f e r . oin T t h h e e se Co n u le n n cil w o e f re S a t i a l te of b t e h fo ern r e tools of METTERNICH. HUNTER was deeply impli cated in the intrigues with the Sonderbund. - Iletter from Pesth of the 14th says that an al tempt had been made on the previous day to assass nate General BEM. The Breslau Gazette of the 23rd says, we learn from a Hungarian traveller that the news relative to Hungary reported at Vienna is completely false. The Hungarians have no idea of making terms with WINDISCIIGRATZ. The latter has not yet dared to make an attack, and if he now attempts to enter the country the roads will be found impassable. The efforts of Kossunt and of GEORGES will no doubt be successful. The Germans and Sclavionians sympathise with the Hungarians, and all national differences are laid aside. The ltaitzes are ready to make common cause with Hungary. The Turkish Government has recalled all Servians from Hungary. PEREZEL is making progress in Croatia, having de feated a Croat-Austrian corps, and taken by assault Fridau, in Styria. The Servians have been beaten near Longdorf. In Transylvania the Valaches ad vanced to Marosvasarhely, but somel!ungarian regi ments dislodged them from their position. FRANKFORT. In the Allgemeine Zeitung of Friday there appeared the following protest from the ultra-Democratic Members of the Frankfort Assembly, relative to the course taken in reference to the Berlin Parliament : " The undersigned Members of the German State Assembly have beard, with the deepest grief, that the majority of the Assembly yesterday exercised a most improper influence over measures which, in t h e present state of conflict existing between the Crown of Prussia and the Prussian National Assembly, is most prejudicial. Wo are still impressed with the conviction, that the history of Prussia and Germany is now arrived at that point of which it must be decided whether the freedom and unity of Germany is to bo renew( din a quiet and workman like manner, or rather, whether it shall be won by per haps a most bloody revolution. We are perfectly satis fied that at the present moment the occurrences of a single day may affect the position of our people for a long time to come, and therefore we will not be silent, but will call upon the noble people of Prussia; and we say to them—stand fast as one man by your national representatives. Follow implicitly their advice. Sacri fice for it all that is dear to you, and you will obtain what is dearest of all—freedom! It is as clear as the light of the sun, that right exists on the side of your representatives. The mere compar i son of the National Assembly, which, in the question ,of its functions, and even of its existence, stands en an equality with th Crown itself; with the r u d e p ower of the C • e Crown, is an insult to the people themselves. " Is it not known that any guilty meddling can have no other result th an th e most lamentable excesses, which must inevitably b r i ng b ac k t h ose legal rne.ts i ures of se verity, %%filch can n ever be iu force wit - iout doing serious injury to the freedom of the people ? Prussians, ' Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREW. There was an sleeve demand for Cotton at Liver pool yesterday, but the supply was not good. Prices of all kinds are extreme. American at and under 4d. is higher since Friday. The transactions include 5,000 to 6.000 bales of American at 3ed. to 6d.; 500 Perna' o. &e., at itid. to 5d.; 100 Egyptian, at s+cl. to 54d.; 200 Surat, at 2id. to 30.; and 40 Sea Island, at Bd. to 8k d. —The Railway Share Market aas better, and at ratli. higher prices. In the London Colonial and Foreign Produce markets, as far as the present week has progressed, there is very little animation, and sugar, coffee, rice, tallow, and let', are flat. Cotton and wool have an upward tendenoy. In metals business is rather dull. The letters and papers received by the Continental mails state bueiness was not brisk, and money was re luctantly parted with, both in Austria and Prussia. The temporary triumph of the ruling powers is predicted, but apprehensions are expressed ofa ret urn to the old regime, in which case, as experienced and cool men of basincess observe, there can be no security, and renewed troubles may at any time occur. The address of Louis Napo:eun is looked upon as a very moderate production ; but few give the Prince credit for having himself drawn it up, nor are the a , suraeces of pacific views. sufficient to inspire confidence, or to secure a pre ferential feeling to him while there are such men as La tnartine or Cavaignac. The reported interference of the French in the affair of the Pope affords much satisfac tion here, and very little doubt is entertained of the con currence of Lord Palmerston. The prosperity of Provident Institutions cannot but be a matter of interest in such times as these, and it may be useful to give the result of recent expe rience at Birmingham. Upon a recent occasion, it was resolved that the St. Bartholomew's should be united to the General Institution, and it is stated that this is the third of the smaller societies v. hich have recently joined, and others are likely to do so. That small friendly societies cannot be secure is a point as fully established as the necessity of graduated tables and good management. The Select Committee of the Lords, in the important report and evi dence which they laid before the House, give it as their " opinion that there are advantages connected with the larger provident associations which smaller bodies can hardly expect to attain, except in`par ticular cases of extraordinary local support and super vise°. While the slightest deviation from the scale of contributions and benefits deranges irretrievably the finances of small associations, larger and more in fluential bodies may be able, by exertion, to extricate themselves from even serious difficulties." And again, " When societies are small or isolated bodies, whose members are too few in number to be influenced by the sense of mutual support, and whose funds, notwithstand ing their tables are certified, are insufficient to meet any accidental pressure in' an unhealthy season, may make them bankrupt." So Mr. Neison, the eminent ac tuary, in speaking of clubs containing 70 members, says, " However well graduated the tables or rates of contribu tion might be, there would still be no security in a society of so small a number;" and elsewhere urges the expe diency of having at least ten times this aumber in each society. But in a large, widely-spread town like Bir mingham there are other advantages in union, which cannot be enjoyed by any society of whatsover size, existing only in connexion with a single school. However near together the members may reside at the time of entering, a few years scatters them through every quarter of the town, and subjects them to great inconvenience. Of the members of St. Bar- tholomew's Institution, for instance, upwards of forty are now living in different districts. They will now have the privilege of joining offices close to their own homes, enjoy medical attendance near at hand, and never be called on to visit at a distance. The Benevolent Fund also, which can only exist in connexion with a large institution, offers peculiar benefits. After a member has, through long illness, been reduced to quarter pay, however provident he may have endea voured to be, there remains no resource but the parish. It was stated by Mr. Simons at the meeting, that he had that morning signed a note for parish relief for a member of a provident society which did not possess such a fund. In the General Institution, during the last two years it had been worked, no mem ber has applied for parish relief, as this fund has in such cases" helped those who had endeavoured to help them selves." Several widows receive from it weekty aid, and. fifteen orphans are educated in the various schools, while many cases of severe distress from accident or other causes are constantly relieved. In these times practical and pecuniary support for the poorer classes must be the best curative of the discon tent and poverty so widely spreading. The English Funds left off heavily yesterday, and at the commencement of business this morning, Consols were not higher than 87* I. The realisation of profits after the late advance is the chief cause, no doubt, for the speculative sales have exceeded those for money, while the idea that the interference of France in the affairs of Italy _may not stop with the restoration of the Papal authority, is made a pretext with the " Bears." There may be the appear ance of cause fur uneasiness, but we think there can be nothing more. Consols now are only 81 to 874. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent.. realise 864 and the Three per Cents. 86 to i t Bank Stock is worth 187+ to 1891, and India Stock 237. Exchequer-bills are 39, to 42,. premium. The Foreign Stock market has been steady. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 114 and the Three per Cents. are 254 to Portuguese Four per Cents. brought 244. Brazil small Bonds are 74k. Dutch Two and- a. half per Cents. have been firm, at 474. Mexican Stock is quiet at 214 to +. In Railway Shares the transactions have not been large, and theiluotations have rather given way since yesterday. North-Western, Midland, South-Eastern, Great Western, and Eastern Counties, are in favour of buyers. BRITISH FUNDS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official ) 3 per Cent. Reduced Anhui es List... 86 86 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726....„ , 85% ew 3% per Cent. Anus. B6 l/V4 1 ,4 Long Annuities, Exp. J an. s t h , 1860 8 9-16 % Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859.- 8 5-16 India Stock 237 India Bonds under 1 , 0 00/.-... ... ....... 36 p consols for Account ............ Exchequer Bills. 2%d.. 2d. March. J une . 1,000/. ..................... 42p 42 89 p 500/.......... ......... 45 p 39 p Small ........................ 45 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Small Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent......... &Nader Bonds 2 Grenada, I per Cent... l2 Ditto Deferred . Mexican Bongs, 1846,5 per Cent 214% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 3 5 1/ Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 7O Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto Small Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent lOO Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840 Venezuela Bo n d s Do. Deferred Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4% per Cent ••• 7O Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 47% Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates aUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE o'cLuCK KAILwAys. ' PAID. Pax &wiz. Aberdeen - _Amber., Notting., B os t on , & c Ayrshire and Gallo wa y Belfast and County D own .. 19 .. Birmingham & OsitordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... 234-- to Birmingham, Wol., & Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 • to Do., without a guarantee... 10 ...... Binning., Wol., It Stour Val, Birkenhead, Lancashire 131.148.... ..... to -- and Cheshire Junction.. ....•• to '— Boston, Stunt., & 13irinin; As... 5 ...... Caledonian 18 5 04 ... tO Ditto, Half Shar es Ditto, New 101. Preference 5 Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 Chester and H01yhead..„..... 50 ..... Ditto, Preference .. ......... 15 Do., let Class, 6 p er C ent. larence. 78 1 4 ..... •••••• LO Do.; 2d Class:s Per CenC. to Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 ...... to Direct London & Portsmouth 5 . to —. Dub!in and Belfast Junction.. 35 .. ..."•..... to Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 20 ...... East Anglia, 251. L. & E., mid L. &1) ... 25 Ditto, 18/., E. & H....... 18 Ditto, 31. 105.,E. & H... 3% — ...... to astern Counties .... 2O ... 11%A 1 / 2 1 4 to Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do., Northern & E astern... 50 ..-- - Do., 5 per cent. ... 50 Do., New Do., Quarter 12%... .. ...... to 84 — .... ;astern Union, Claus A (l a t e .. to L. U. Shares) ......... .. 25 — ...... to Ditto, ditto, Cla.ss A, ditto 1 ..... — to Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 20 ...... Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 10 . — to Ditto, ditto ........ .......... 20 ...... -- to Ditto (C. & B.), 5 per ct. 2 1 A t ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New - ... . - ...... ; ..... t o _ Do., New Quarters to -- Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares 61 4-...•• .--- ...... East Lincolnshire 25 ...... ...... to to -- Edinburgh and Glasgow to Ditto, Halt Shares ..... Ditto, .tN ew port.. .. 11 -- to _5 ...... ....•• to . _,xoter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2%...... Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle -81. tis.Bd... ..... to Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consolidated —.—. •• ••• to Great Northern.... ............ 17 ...... 4 •••••• to 4% Do. % A .Ueferred -... ... 12% ...... 4 Do. 14 . , B 6 per Cent. Guar. 4% ...... % to Do. Extension .... .......... 2%.. to Gt. south. & West. • (Ireland) 42% ...... 224 ...•• to `;reat North of England ...... 100 Ditto, Nt.w 40/. ........... .. 40 Ditto, ditto .... ..... ...... 25 Ditto, New 30 /................ 30 ... Ditto,Newlol. ..... ... ...... 14 ...... • 6 • to '.•reat Western .................. 90 ...... 75% 76 to 74% Ditty), nail Shares 5O ...... 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