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Now ready, in 3 vole, post Svo., with Portrait, MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER. AN AI3TOBIOt4RAPHY. One of the most delightftil and deeply interesting works we have toad for a long time." —Weekly Chronicle. " No romance of the present sesson will prove more interesting than the snernotra of Mademoiselle de Montpensier. There is a charm attaching to what we know to be real far surpassing that pertaining tie the creations of the novelist. There will be found in these vo tames a Mut of anecdote, areueing relation, court details, intrigues, traits of =Liners, and remarks jipou men and things which will wove a sours+, of Qat entertainnaZit. Altogether the narrative is axeof tr esodut OrTet r est ." =day Ti me s *Wry Colbarn, kublither, 13, Great Marlborough-street THE SCEILESWIG.HOLSTEIN QUESTION. 11.3 Day is published, in Sys., with Map, price 2s. 6d. stitched, MEMOIR on the SCHLES WIG-HOL STEIN QUESTION, presented to Lord Palmerton by the Bart Pen : with other important DocuraentS published by 0. VON WENCESTERN. London : Longman. Brown. Green and Longmans. I:PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY. made in a cause BOGLE against JIAMILTON, the Creditors of JOHN ROBERTSON, late of Picca dilly, in the county of Middlesex, and formerly of Saville-row, and alterwards oCCurzon-struet, in the said ccuaty, Gentleman (who died In the month of October, 1846), are, on or before the 24th day of April, 1848, to come in and prove their Debtr befors Sir ;iftln Wilson, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Foutkampton-boil ;lugs, Chancery-lane, London, or, in default thereof, they will peremptorily be excluded the benellt of the said Decree. March 14, 1848. W. E. ouvEn, 16, New Bridge-street, London, Plaintiff's Solicitor. ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. M, THALBERG. GRAND SACRED, CLASSICAL, and MISCELLANEOUS COKLERT, THIS EVENING, April 17. It la respectfully announced that Tuts Evzstivo, April 17, will be given a GRAND CONCERT, with great Orchestra, Chorus, ac., on which occasioa M. Thalberg will execute the following pieces :- 1. Grand Concerto in C minor 2. Fantasia on Subjects from Mozart's Don Giovanni Thalberg. 3. Fantasia on Subjects from :tuber's Masaniello •• Thalberg. " Lieder Ohne Norte" .. • • .. Mendelssohn. The Vocal portion will Include Madame Tadolini, 3idllo. Schwartz, And Sofia Cruvelli. Signor Bellett I, Signor Bouche, And Signor Lablache, And eonsprise selections from the works of Mozart, Beethoven, ll Mendelvolin, Weber, Spontini, and include a Grand Trio for Three Buoles,by Meyerbeer—Signori Labiache, Belletti, and Coletti. Beethoven. 31d4.111e Vera, Signer Oardont, Siguar Coletti, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Cuzzani, Conductor, M. Balfe. Prices of Admission. 2 arid 3 guineas Pit Stalls •• • • .... • • .. • • • • • ... •.. . • 10s. 6d. each. Pit Tickets ••• ••••••• • • • • •• •• • . Od. each. Gallery Stalls • • • • .• •• .. • . 53. Od. each. Gallery Tickets •• • 2s. &I. each. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concert to commence at Eight o'clock. N.B. A second Grand Concert will be prmentod on Wednesday rwirnino., April 19. LOYAL LYCEUM THEATKE. Under the Managerneitt of Madame Vestris. rote Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. This Theatre will RE-Orni en EASTER 310NDAY, April 24, when lit be performed a Comic Drama, called A ROUGH DIAMOND. Ciaracters by Messrs. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Buekstone ; 3lrs. Leigh Murray, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Atter whioh, an entirely new and original CLASSICAL EXTRA- T AGAICEA. To houclude with a new comic Drama, entitled NOT A BAD JUDGE. Dress Ilexes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2t. ; Gallery, ls. No alf- price to any part of the house. The Sew Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the Iflibile every day, from Ten till Six. STRAND THEATRE. Great attraction during Passion Week. The celebrated FEMALE AMERICAN SERENADERS, late of the St. James's Assembly Rooms, whose chaste and elegant perform ances have been made the theme of eulogy by the Loudon and pro vincial press, will have the honour of giving a GRAND AMERICAN CONCERT of vocal and instrumental music, in three parts, EYEft EVENING during the week (excepting Friday), and on Thursday cut Saturday a Morning Concert, commencing at Half-past TWO o'clock.—Doors open for evening performance at Ralf-past Seven.— Admission, Boxes, 13s. ; Pit, Is. ; GLHery, 6d. ; Private Bosse, 314 ; Stalls, 'es. THE THIRD EDITIONS 4 , THE SUN" CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-oce, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. communication can 1:11 - ,- attended to unless authenti cated by the name ar.d address of the writer. R-jected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATIIEII.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 16. ./MS[O3I=ER, Lowest, 41 ; Ilighe6t, 49; Noon, 51. BARO3MTER, 80.03.—WIND W.S.W.; cloudy. Arum 17. IGERMOMETEIt, Lowest, 41; iiigh , 3st, 55 ; Noon, 59 r; A ROVETER, 29.68. WIND S.W.; morning, rain; afternoon, fine. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TICS DAY. Morning .. gi min. after 1 I Evening .. 49 min. after 1 , ''''': ' ' , ... ,•- •••••... .•,. . - ' --' . j ... . iY" . '! 4. , '.! ~ , ,IF ' a t.tl,:',.r . i•'A j , , ' . 9 illim it4... .4 ,;,- awe-. ....: :, 4 . . •Ai .... . ,), : tits ci , 4,1' - '• ". ' • • .-,ii - i - ..-vlalp. ~. ...a: , "i . , ~—,, _ iti. -•. -- .y.;,1 ,- .i.4• 1 6 , -- - ~. • - ii.iir .....,, ~,' '," • ... ,' Eiii , . , ~,,.... .-.!"..,,,,, 14 tcening un: LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1848. Goito has become to the Mincio what Lodi has been to the Adda, ever since the immortal Italian campaigns of the young and heroic Boras :arm The bridge of Goito has become identified with the first disaster of Austria In the war of independence which has just corn ineneed upon the glorious soil of Lombardy. On the Bth of April 1848, the soldiers of RADBTSLT were covered with confusion by the valour of the patriotic Piedmontese—they were driven from their position on the Mincio with a loss of two thousand prisoners a almost ndfour pieces of ar till er y—th e i r d e p ar t ure w a s a sauve qui pout towards the suburbs of Mantua and Verona —the broken parapets of Goito were very nearly rendered the Caudine forks of the German legionaries While these extra o rdi nar y efforts at lib eration a southern porti on of Brreelse• n bein g made in the the combin e d rces of Sardi n i a , the volunt eers by sand national guar d s of Lombardy are effectin g a div ersion int he r emoun tainousCA regions sit ua t e d to the north t of f T scarcely has the bulletin of the is e his t oric been o ti issued from his head -quarters o n ground T of Castiglione, when a proclamation by a General DI ALLEANDI is disseminated am ong the I talian n lege, calling upon them to rise for the furtheran ce Tyro their common n a t ionalit y , and f or the subjugati on o of f that alien despotism which has involved even the compatriots of Hoses in the bonds of an absolute and irresponsible authority. Supposing this attempt to germinate a revolution in the Tyrol prove as successful as the aggressive policy of the king of SARDINIA. has already do ne over the first military demonstrations of Austria, the army of RADRIIILY will find itself very speedily in a most deplorable pred i cament. No passage can be effected through the Tyrolean acclivities without a perfect understanding with its inhabitants, and that 'understanding seems to be at this moment more than ever of a doubtful character. During the last great struggle between the continental powers it was suffi ciently shown that the untutored and undisciplined mou ntaineers of the Tyrol could, with th e most sim p le contrivance and the most ordinary co-operation, Wag the , ev • ince of a great captain, and con quer the airs eri° • r ray of a veteran host q uite as effectually as the naked ba r b a rians of the north in imp e di ng the Cmcri te and Aui r i t:dous ranks of the Macedonian. who have recounte d th e are not the only historians rocks over the pitiless ch arge of a shower of narrative has been repeateadrr of a phalanx. The DEAD. The biographers Rovio o and Minix terated at least one circu°l IgaroLuox have rei the facts recorded by the biographe r s coincident with That one casualty graphers ALExcaDER. may soon acquir e a new illustra tion its the retrograde generalship. RADETSKT m ay be of inferior formidable weapons of n-atube assailed by those destruction alike on the shakoes re of which hurled on the helmets of ALE:XANDER. T y r o l APoLI oN and barrier for the retreat of the Ausiansmay present a u aid may thus, by a bold and pat r ioticpon Vienna, conduce to the capitulation of an army, ancdomteicity, fieation of a treaty of peace. The destinies efrati entire peninsula repose in a manner at the feet o of the the Tyrolese. Let the word be spoken from the summ it •f those memorable hills — those altars of f ree d om those colossal tribunes from which the Apostles of Liberty have spoken ' to the whole world the great truths of emancipation !—let the S word be spoken from the elevation of those famous hill-tops, and Italy w ill be free. In the event of such an insurgent rising i n the Tyrol but one miserable outlet would remain to the Austrian forces in Lombardy, by traversing w hich the suburb* of the capital might be attained. That outlet is the line of the Karpaths, connecting together the Carinthians and the Tyrolese. To reach this RADETSKY would be compelled to brave the interposition of the Venetian auxiliaries, and to hasten towards Saltzburg by the way of Verona, Vicenza, Bassano, Feltre, Belluno, and so on in the vicinity of Doblach,; Draw, and Lientz. As ghastly a passage for a conquered army, we con- jecture, as a cross fire from the alternate batteries erected along the margin of the Dardanelles ! Although the campaign has only just opened be . tween the Austrians and the PiEdmontese, it is by no means difficult to conjecture the ultimate result of a conflict in which the accumulated strength of Italy is opposed to the decrepitude of a feeble and partially dismembered empire. With Bohemia in one direc tion, and Hungary in another, and Gallicia in another—all clamouring for concessions—the imperial energies at Schoenbrunn will be too much distracted to enable the Government to adventure energetically upon the reconquest of Lombardy. Reconquest it must be if ever the northern parts of the Roman peninsula are to be again subjected to the thraldom of Austria. Advisedly we call it reconquest, because the whole of Lombardy is at this moment virtually revolutionized because the only moral pre- dominance yet retained in the grasp of the VICEROY is the shadow of its dwindled, but still terrific awe—and because all of the principal adjacent Powers are allied to the revolted Lombards either morally or physically. Switzerland impends the bolt of ruin over the frontiers of what was recently the Austrian possession in Italy. France already hurtles the sword of a fraternizing democracy on the boundaries of Savoy—that sword which has not yet lost the swoop of death and the gleam of victory. Sar dinia has even now marched her army across the Po, has fleshed her lance at Goito, and has carried dismay in her banners even to the city walls of Man tua and Verona. Troops are marching rapidly from Tuscany and the Papal States as contingents to the ranks of liberation ; and even the ancient lords para mount of the soil, such as 11.5.11. ALEXANDRE the Prince DI GONZAGA, are already pressing forward in the van of that gigantic movement, which is dis pelling- the slavery of ages and awaking to new life the glory of the Latin race. The Press—the English Press—is the enemy of the working classes ! Such is the new discovery which has solved the perplexities of modern philan thropists—such is the great, and hitherto unsuspected truth, which was proclaimed to the world on Satur day, April 15, 1848. The press is declared the enemy of the working classes by no less an authority than the National Convention; and consequently that august assemble, in its sympathy and solicitude fur the working classes, has, by the mou'ars of its orators, overwhelmed the press with its eloquent and intolerable indignation. Of what further penalty is in store for us we are ignorant. Happily there is a division in the enemy's camp. At the assembly on Saturday an Honorable Delegate suggested that the Printers and publishers of the daily newspapers should be summoned before the bar of the house—in conformity with the practice of "another place ;" while another Honourable Gentleman, not so well acquainted with Parliamentary practices, addressed his denunciations to the reporters who happened to be present, and strange to say, the speaker forgot to exclaim, " Strangers, withdraw." The extraordinary pro ceedings of this new Parliament concluded with the proclamation of the astonishing fact to which we have already alluded—" The press is the enemy of the working classes !" It is not consequently to be supposed that the new and peculiarly popular Legis lature will long suffer the enemies of the people to pursue their anti-popular proceedings. We have indeed cause to tremble for the consequence. Little did we imagine, while we have recently been loud in our congratulations of those foreign nations who have just obtained the liberty of the press, little did we imagine that our own privileges were about to be restricted. how, indeed, could we have surmised that, when, in this age of liberation, the most despotic Governments are readily conceding this popular right (the freedom of the press) how could we have surmised that a power emanating solely from the people, a National Convention, a Chartist con gregation, should venture to overthrow this palladium of popular liberty, an unrestricted press. Never theless, so it is. When that day comes, for which of course all true patriots watch with eager anxiety, when that day comes, when the new Magna Charts shall be the law of the land, and the National Convention shall have superseded the Par- liament—when that day comes, our hour is doomed—the press of England must be governed by a censorship. In that jubilee of liberalism, under the benign auspices of those enlightened freemen, " who call it freedom when themselves are free," the liberty of the press—that liberty in which Englishmen have hitherto gloried—will cease to be. We must teach our pens the unaccustomed task of writing only scion les regles—we must stop the press, not on the arrival of some electric dispatch, but in order to attend to the corrections of the censor. Yet would the popular Government be justified in such an innovation—they would be right in interfer ing with the practices of the press, for the press, be it remembered, is the enemy of the people ! The press is the enemy of the working classes! Of all the extraordinary proceedings of the Chartist Con vention, this last declaration is the most extraordinary of the unblushing effrontery which has characterised the whole affair of the monster petition. This last act is the most barefaced. WE—the press—the enemies of the working classes—WE who are the very voice of the people—ws, who in alternate tones of argument, grief, and indignation, plead their cause, expose their sufferings, and denounce their wrongs ! WE, the enemies of the working classes— WE, whose sublime endeavour is to fight and conquer in that bloodless battle, where the weapons are reason, and knowledge, and intellect, where the cause is truth and charity and justice—that battle in which alone the people's true rights are asserted, and their just liberties achieved ! WE, the enemies of the people— zee, who as a body, are the mirror of the people's thoughts, and, as individuals, differing in politics, and principles, and opinions, are, like the atoms of a broken mi rror, st ill true to t h e one common o bj ect of reflection —the Press is the Reflection of the People. Yet, say the Convention, we are the enemies of the working classes, whereas in no one cause is the whole press so unanimous as in advocating the rights of the humbler classes of the community. Differ a p c g r o i n n c e w i e p e r l y e a s t m i a v r e a e y , , ppo Whig, rter s of Liberal, Government or t h e the soyrinnoun yadrnde; o t c lsauil ' thieory supporters s . , o n that head our friends Of the Op pos i t i on, every single organ o f the press is is not a fri en d o f the working classes. Tru e , we concur in individ ua l measures. The f r i en d s of one reforms are the oppo -samespirit people—the nents of another. Nevertheless, th unites us all—an anxiety t o b enef i t the people whose true representati ves we are rights we are the staunchest and wa rmest advocatewhose whose liberties we are the staunche s t guardians, One principle unites us all. The very journ a l avers e to abating the tax on the poor man's food, that mani fests no kindly spirit towards the poor, influences their arguments by their eloquent appeals on behalf of the helpless factory-workers. Even those most vehement in their denunciations of the charlatanism of Chartism, are , perhaps, themselve s true believers in the ex. cellence of the Charter. No, we are not the enemies of the working classes. Emphatically and unhesitatingly we deny the assertion. But such a denial is unnecessary—such a denial is as unneces sary a s th e a ssertion is false. The long years of ad working classes are not likely to be deceived ;their versity have taught them to know their friends. And as for the kindly counsel of the Convention, which advises the working men to discountenance all j o rn u i rJ t a: stohn i ee ni demorii and r i c tza a t l o to sb i t heir interests, we hearti l y con cur it. F or ourselves we are ready to a bid e the test classes." far p mo of joyfully h a s n ho a u ck ld no w w •e le s , u 3g b e the Pr ess - England " the e ne my of the working M. LEDEII ROLLI4 IE, it seems, determined to prove to the world how accurate was the estimate which the late Mr. O'CONNELL formed of his character when he denounced him to the Irish people as an enemy to the true cause of liberty, a tyrant in essence, and a rnan in whom no reliance could be placed. From the conmenctment of the r e i gn o f the Provisional Government LEDRU ROLLIN has shown practically that he has nol faith in republican principles, for he has been invariably advocating an appeal to physical force, to make all the world dress by LEDRU ROLLIN. Setting aside the disgustingly egregious vanity, amounting almost to insanity, exhibited by one who thus virtually claims for himself infallibility, this constant threat of having recourse to physical force proves that M. LEDRIa ROLLIN Is a sceptic as to the virtue of his own principles. No man who con siders he has any chance in argument ever offers either to bet against or to fight with his opponent. It is only when all legitimate arguments are ex hausted that recourse is had either to the argunzentum ad ernmenam or to the argumenturn bacculinurn. Now, to both these arguments has M. LEDRU ROLLIN had recourse. He has numerous agents in the French provinces who are arrply supplied with money for the purpose of hiring mobs to coerce the electors and control the elections, and he has issued a circular, which will be found in another column, in which occur the following passages : " The elections, if they do not produce the triumph of social truth—if they are not the expression of the interests of a caste—the elections, which ought to be the safety of the Republic, will be beyond a doubt its destruction. In that case, there would be but one way time of safety for the people who ma d e t h e b arricades,—to manifest o a f asecfaolnsde nationalen its representation. will, decision andtoadjoluf social nt i b a e l influences pervert the judgment or betray the will of the masses dispersed or misled by distance, the people of Paris believ e s it se lf , an d declares itself to be cony jointly responsible for theinterests of the whole nation." As a proof of the sort of interpretation to be placed on these passages, we find that the agent of M. LEDRU ROLLIN at Montauban, entered the town at the head of a train of artillery, and ordered the arrest of M. LEON DE MALLEVILLE, and of all suspected persons, thus disfranching all those who were opposed to I‘l. LEDRU ROLLIN'S doctrines, and that in Paris, on the afternoon of yesterday, he assembled a mob of 150,000 workmen, with the avowed purpose of overawing the Provisional Govern men. Was not Mr. O'CONNELL right in warning the world cgainst this man? LEDRU ROLLIN, a Republican! Let us not desecrate that sacred name by applying it to one who if not a traitor must be a madman, and who, by his wholesale distribution of bribes, is affording as complete an ex post facto justification of the corruptions of Louis PHILIPPE as he is by his circulars of the ordonnances of CHARLES X. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the lOth have arrived. They contain no news of interest. The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIER continued at the Palace. MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 10.—Threes, 21Z ; Fives, 13i. Exchange on London, 42 50. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. IVe have received the Paris papers of Saturday and yesterday. The daring and open attempts of M. LEDRU ROL LIN to seize the direction of the Republic, and hand the people over to the band of plunderers with whom he has linked himself, are beginning to excite feelings of alarm in the minds of all. Never, during the worst periods of the reign of terror, were such in tentions avowed as are now openly advocated by M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his supporters. The old Na tional Guard of Paris and the National Guard of the provinces do not seem at ail inclined to submit quietly to be plundered by M. Liontu ROLLIN and his crew of idle disorderlies ; and, fortunately for France, for Europe, fur the world, M. LAaLARTINE is there, who will boldly withstand all attempts that may be made at " the organization of plunder." However much inclined M. LEDRU ROLLIN may be to play the part of MARAT, he will not find . a BaISSOT in M. DE LAMARTINE. As a proof of the tyranny which M. LEDRU ROLLIN is prepared to practise, we quote the following address, which was extensively placarded over Paris on Saturday : " BULLETIN OF THE REPUBLIC. No. 16. " MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR. "Paris, April 15, 1848. " Citizens,—lt is not in a day or in an hour that we have been enabled to pass from the regime of corruption to that of law. An hour of heroic inspiration has suf ficed fur the people to coasecrate the principle of truth ; but eighteen years of falsehood opposed to the regime of truth obstacles that cannot be overturned by a breath. The elections, if they do not cause social truth to triumph—it they are but the expressions of the interests of a caste, extorted from the confiding loyalty of the people—the elections, which should be the safety of the Republic, will be its ruin; of that there can be no doubt. There would then be but one means of safety for the people who made the barricades—it would be to manifest a second time its will, and to adjourn the decision of a false national representation. " Will France force Paris to hare recourse to this extreme, this deplorable remedy ? God forbid ! As France has confided to Paris a great mission, the French people. _would not render their mission in compatible with the order and calm necessary to the deliberations of a constituted body. Paris looks on herself with reason as the representative of all the population of the national territory. -Paris is the advanced post of the army that combats for the republican idea. Paris is the rendezvous, at certain hours, of all the generous wishes of all the moral power of France. Paris will never separate her cause from the cause of the people who suffer, wait, and re claim from one extremity of the country to another. If anarchy works in the distance—it social influences pervert the judgment, or betray the will of the masses of the people, dispersed and scattered, the people of Paris believe and declare themselves guardians of the interests of the whole nation. Upon certain points wealth reclaims its privileges, and threatens us with the pain of defeat when we would only persuade. Let the people of the provinces unite with the people of the towns, and let the people of the towns unite with that town which, in the name' of all, and for the common glory, have conquered the principle of a happy and noble fu ture. Everywhere the cause of the peop.e is the same —everywhere the interests of the poor and of the oppressed are identified. Should the Republic give way in Paris, it w ou ld f a ll not on l y i n France, but throughout the universe, which, with its eyes fixed upon us, is heroically agitating for its deliverance. Citizene, you must not be forced to violate yourselves the principle of your sovereignty. Between the danger of losing this conquest by the fault of an incapable assembly, or that of a movement of popular indignation, the Provisional Government cannot but warn you, and show you the peril that threatens you. It has no right to do violence to your minds, and to disturb the principles of public law. Elected by you, it can neither prevent the evil that would follow the ill -understood exercise of a sacred right, nor arrest your enthusiasm the day when, seeing your mistake, you would change in its form the exercise of this right. But what it can and what it ought to do is to enlighten you on the consequences of your acts. Of old, the representation of the country saved the country by proclaiming the country to be in danger. In a nation like France, the idea of danger can only demoralise those who have not a French heart. The true Frenchman loves the idea of danger, because it is for hiu, the idea of victory. Eh bien! it the country is not ii danger, it the enemy be not at our doors, if the combat be nut in our ranks, there is an intellectual combat, moral danger that a great moral courage and a great faith in ideas can alone remove. Citizens, have courage. Let us detach ourselves from material interests, ill tin. derstoud, from narrow interests of locality. Let us save ourselves from enemies who flatter us in order the bet ter to strangle liberty, which is our shield. Let us save the Republic at all hazards. It depends on us to save it without convulsions and strife." " Never," observes the Constitutionne4 on this as tounding document, " never at any period did the coun ter-revolutionary spirit itself attack with more audacity the liberty of election. What ! on the eve of a day when Capit°anl. o f Paris, o P u a r ri v s O f te a whole people is about to exercise its rights for the first time, you place all the Committees of France under the menaced prayswith the d ot 7 i . s r e iv n a s A ti bulTlehtienY 9r ou y t o e u ll r r t i h fe e . m , them, Why n h th y e thisn am th e e ofthe to be persuaded depri vation en mass of vanquishing whom ? citizens? , What is the deprivation of functionaries t e o o ths , 00 auf w n t h dho o fes l oeidtesispnasadvoreeTtpmeeprneeanidgrteisuns sovereignty. The nation allowa pT t a io hin n e manner in which th themselves All France, if she be not wise." out his instructions is extil'e- provinces are carrying tent. lie is doing his beat to the greatest discon o disgust the great bulk Republic. Is it impos e Commissaries sent by M. LEDRU ROLLIN into of the population with the sible that M. LEDRU RoLLlNdrnriavyi not, afte r a ll , h e a Liberty mad in ,wworhlod is w with he n r g o ß r o d y e a r l t is o t d in isg d us is t gu th is e e . The Presse says— " From Montauban, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Gaillac, Troyes, Gueret, Lisle, Amiens, Beauvai s, fi e . ' we receive letters complaining in the 3, -vc, severest terms o f the deplorable choice and revolting acts of the Commi s s aries sent from Paris, to convert the departments to t he Republic. No resistance burst out at first, and now the reaction extends everywhere. Whose fault is this? We have interdicted to ourselves all blame against the Government until the meeting of the National Assern bly ; we, therefore, will merely lay the question before our readers without answering to it. Is the fallen Go the re-establishment of legitimacy looked for? No. vermnent regretted? No. Is a Reg enc y desired? No. Is equality, f ratern i ty , b u t no t agents without morality, Well, then, wh a t is wanted? The Hopublir — liberty. experience, or consideration—not despotism without war, nor terror witlout necessity. And this is right, for we ould not be worthy of liberty, if we did not know how to contain arbitrary acts. Was it not on a question of contested legality, that the royalty of 1830, which reckoned seventeen years' existence, perished? We should not bo mature for the Republic, if tho most shameful selections could be made without wounding in us the most legitimate susceptibilities. Is it not scandalous appointments, that:contributed most forcibly to sow disaffection under the Ministry of Octo ber 29 ? The more France shows herself thus susceptible, the more she proves that her morals rise to the height of her new institutions. Where all ho nourable susceptibility is extinguished, all liberty is near expiring. If it be true that a demagoguic minority has dreamed of placing under subserviency the democratic majority, that culpable hope ought each day to grow weaker, for each day the reason of the people is becoming brighter, the intoxication of the first weeks is passing off, the charlatisui of grand words is becoming unveiled, intolerance is betraying itself, and under the most savage republicanism, lets shoulders branded by the red hot iron of the executioner be seen! Patience! the nine weeks which shall have elapsed from 24th February to 4th May will not have been lost. Patience! The day is ap proaching when all the accounts will be rendered is the tribune, when all the excesses of Government that shall have been committed will find courageous voices read) expressing th e mselves in virtue of the right which they st t h o . em l unveil l nhaolde f orfo m them t h e tnoattine universal p ns b u c, r age:, We read in the Union : " For the present state of things no analogy can be found in our history. It would be a perversion to make it a parody of a former epoch, and cause the new revo lution to run through the same perilous and sanguinary paths as the first revolution, now half a century old. 'I he spirit of the people revolts against so long a retro gradation. The men of that fatal period have disap peared, and with them all the ferocious passions and doctrines of a conflict .which can no t b y any poss ibili ty be renewed. The sentiment of liberty is not in our days derived from democratic aggregations—from an insurrec tion of tumultuous masses; the paths of reform have not been traced out by the ignorant, but by the intelligent and enlightened classes. What would have been said scarcely two months ago ? We were assured that, if revolu tions were brought about, they would be accomplished with less violence, without effusion of blood, without in justice, and would avoid those subversive speculations which at former periods shook social order to the centre ; that it would be a political change, elaborated to perfection by time, as the sun by its gradual heat ripens the fruit of the earth. The representative mo narchy came forth as the first step toward a representa tive republic ; the diffusion of knowledge, by multiply ing the resources of the people, appeared as the acces sion of an order of things founded on reason and not on brutal strength. Of this there is no longer any question. A different language is used. We hear doctrines of disorder and anarchy professed ; and can there be any astonishment that the most intelligent nation in the universe should revolt against this pretension to curb its will by the intimida tion or domination of a few men ? Can there be any astonishment at the movement, not of re-action, but o f resistance, which is being made in all parts of the country?; There is no question of an impossibl e fede ralism, nor of a rupture of those ties which have made our nation the first power of the world. Should we perceive at any point an idea of separation or disloca- Leon, we will repel it as an attempt upon . the very exist ence of our country. Nothing of this kind, however, has yet been apparent. On the contrary, the depart ments wish to uniteeine one body with Paris ; but on condition that Paris does not attempt to impose it s ceerices upon and pretend to dispense with the concur rence of the Provinces. Paris is not France ; and every part of France has a right to assume itself to be upon an equality with Paris. We have without ceasing corn batted every idea of federalism. France is a grand unity which must never be broken." The following account of a conversation between one of these Commissioners and a law student will throw some light upon the designs of M. LEmtu ROLLIN and his friends. A young law student, of the name of CHEVIOT, seated in a diligence for Mon. tauban, found himself in company with M. SAURIAC, the Government Commissioner for that place, and in a letter to the local newspaper he thus reports the conversation he held with that personage : " Did you observe the effect produced on the Bourse,' asked M. Cheviot of a friend seated near him, by the rum our of the retirement of Ledru Rollin V The Govt rnment Commissioner himself interfered, although not addressed. You attach -too much consequence,' he said, to Bourse talk. M. Ledru Rollin has no intention of retiring. He is the only man in the Government who inspires any confidence—let haul:a fall—let commerce perish—taxi mitux—we shall the sooner arrive at our end. So long as there are rich, voyer vous, we must work their ruin, and as at this moment only a handful of men suffer, wt must not listen to them.' Do you think, then,' asked asked M. Cheviot, ' that the workmen are not suffering?' No, because they are masters of all; and if they suffer they will not long suffer.' We are Republicans both, but do not see things in the same point of view.' Oh, no, Monsieur, you are no Republican; the only true Republicans are those of the eve. We will have no Republicans of the morrow in the National Assembly.' 'But if the departments return such, and if the city of Paris returns such, you must receive them.' No, we would not receive theta." What?" I tell you,' re peated the Government Commissioner, 'we will not receive them; they shall never reach the Chamber.' I do not comprehend you.' They will not reach the Chamber, because there is a bridge to pass, and under the bridge the Seine.'' The letter proceeds — "That which in the mouth of an individual would only have excited pity, raised in me the greatest indig nation, and a sadness which did not leave me through out my journey. I was speaking to the Commissioner for Montauban, and I repressed my feelings, for I wished to learn more, and so I asked, What would the National Guards and the soldiers be doing whilst you threw the deputies into th© Seine?' The soldiers would be with us: they are of the people.' So is the National Guard?' ' No; the National Guard are not the people. They are rich bourgeois, and if they resist we will fire on them. They reckon 150,000, but we have 300,000.' ' And what are these 320,000?—are they Communists?—are the workmen Communists?" Precisely, and the National Guard would become intimidated by us as on the 20tt of February.' ' I think,' said M. Cheviot, ' you are de ceived; the National Guard allowed a power to fall, in which they bed no confidence, but they would defend the Republic against anarchy, and so would the sol. diery." Well, we shall see; but, at all events, the elec tions will save the necessity of all that—not one deputy of the preceding Assembly shall be elected; the country people will be for us.' Not at all; if you go to speak to the country people of communism, you will be an swered with a musket.' No matter,' replied the Com missary, it is Paris which decides all, and does all, and the provinces must obey.'" Here follows a good deal about Paris marching on the departments, 'and the departments marching on Paris,which may be pas se d over as t avar d age unt il afte ra pause in the conversation, we come to this— What is to be your profession ?" asked the Com missioner, "The bar." " Oh! give up that idea, for before two years are over we shall want no lawyers, because property coming into the hands of the State, there will be no more law-suits. You will see," he added, " collateral successions abolished in the first session of the Chamber, and even those in line direct will not last long after:" The publication of this letter caused a great sensa tion at Montauban. ~The people with one voici demanded that the Government Commissioner should quit the place—and he had to go. He, however, was not to be so easily cowed. M. SAURIAC having procured the assistance of the mili tary force, returned to Montuaban with a battery of artillery. A letter, published in the Union gives the following account of this second mission of the Apostle of Liberty : " M. Sauriac, the Government Commissary, returnee to-day at the head of the infantry and artillery which he had required to sustain his dictatorship. On the news of this invasion the National Guard mustered in all haste to watch over the safety of the town. The popu lation ass9mbled in one mass behind the National Guard, preserving the most imposing calmness, when M. Sauriac entered, announcing that all the suspected men, and particularly M. Lion de Maleville, were to be arrested. 11. Lim de Maleville, on hearing this, wrote a note to M. Sauriac, saying that he was at his disposal; but before 24 hours had passed 60,000 men from the country would come and call for an account of this vio lation of personal liberty. Alarmed for the consequences of his head-strong step, and being informed that the country people were already on their march to realise the prediction of M. de Maleville, the Commissary of Montauban took a precipitate flight in a post-chaise. The Union adds :—" A letter from Cahors of the 12th informs us that travellers just arrived there had brought the news that M. SAURIAC, at the moment of their departure, had arrived again at Montauban, at the head of' several battalions —that the town wa s nearly surrounded by them, and that the people were taking up arms to repel the, attack." The Journal des Debats publishes the following extraordinary correspondence between Lord BROUG- Ham and M. Cazmusux; the French Minister of Justice : " We have received," says the Debuts, " official com munications,onti.ur rather ritsalhtieietis raet3Ciaoi naturalisation Citizen a h F i which Brougham,nitc Frenchman. m pp a e n a . r s has hrheaeat really Lord followingd e Brougham,demanded da reed t hishthe documents referred to : Lonn BROcoHAM TO THE MINISTER OP JUSTICE. " Lord Brougham has the honour to present his hom age to the Minister of Justice, and be wishing has resided bdeecdo form e e , a , t uralised s, i A n p F r r il an 7 c , e l , B h 4 e B. h r is demanded certificates from otthhrie:aitaul:nofdCannes (Var), where thirteen years, and where he possesses an estate, and is building a chateau. ' certificates will be forwarded direct to the Lord Brougham begs him to sign the Act Naturalisation with as little delay as possible. " Paris, April FROM THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO LORD 11RdUG11.1.31.. " " l'aris, April 8, 1848, consider it proper ‘o point out to you the consequence which will ensue if you obtain the natu ralisaton which you request. If France adopts you as one of her sons you cease to be an Englishman —s ou are no longer Lord Brougham —you b ecome Ci t i zen Brougham. You instantly lose all your titl es o f no bili ty —ail the privileges, all the advantages, of w h atever nature they may be, which you enjoy from your qu a lity As an Englishman, and all the rights w hi c h t h e l aws and customs of England confer on you, and which cannot be reconciled witn our law of equality between all citizens. It would be thus, my Lord, even if tie English laws iccrc not so rigorous with regard to En g l is h c i t i zens A ho demand and obtain their naturalisation in a forei gn country. It is in this sense yea must write to me. " I must well suppose that an ex-Lord Chanc e llo r o f England ,ueb uu importantwellaw• aware of requestthe ; butneoe i s t s airs nevertheless they consequence s o f duty of the Minister of Justice of the French Republic io give you official warning of it. When you shall have made a request in the spirit of these dielarations it shall be immediately examined. " Accept, &c., " AD. CREMIEUX.' REPLY OF LORD BROUGHAM TO THE ABOVE LETTER. " London, April 10, 1848. " Monsieur le Ministre,—l have the honour to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of the Bth. " 'I could never have felt any doubt that, in making myself naturalised as a French citizen, I should lose all illy rights as an English Pier and an English subject is France. I could only enjoy my privileges as an English man when in England—in Fraece, I should be whet the jaws of France grant to the citizens of the Republic. " ' As I desire, before all the happiness of the two countri s and their mutual peace, 1 considered it stitutious, in order to encourage my E n g li sh countrymen to give a proof of my confidence in French in my duty t o have the same feeling. " Receive, &c., " H. BROUGHAM.' " REPLY OF THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE To THE ABOVE. " • Paris, April 12, 1848. " My Lord,—My letter has not been properly under stood, and yours, to my great regret, does not permit me to come to a decision as to your request. You write me thus—(The Minister here quotes the first para graph of the above letter of Lora Brougham, I could never,' &c.) " 'ln my letter I expressed myself in the clearest and most positive manner. France admits of no pariicipa- Lion of rights; she dees riot admit a French citizen to be at the same time a citizen of any other country. To oecome a Frenchman you must cease to be an English man; you cannot be an Engsshman in England and a Frenchman in France; our laws are absolutely opposed to such a thing, an absolute cinoice must be made. It was ler that reason that I was careful in pointing out the consequences of naturalization. "' As long, therefore, as you wish to remain an Englishman in England, that is to ray while you do jot wish to completely resign your quality as an Eng lish subject and to exchange for it that of a French citizen, it will be impossible for me to entertain your request. " Accept, &c., "' AD. CREMIEUX.'" Tranquillity had been restored at Troyes and Beauvais vaien the last accounts were received, but disorders still continued at Lyons. The finances of the Republic are in a deplorable tate. The revenue returns iust published show a deficit of 14,000,000 f. in the last month. The Presse, in commenting on these returns, says, - "Fourteen millions reduction in the revenue in one month is a great deal. If this falling off continues for e few inontlas, it is to be feared that the Treasury will be seriously affected. Jo order - to appreciate all the gravity of this tact, it must be remarked that the year 1647, will _which the comparison is drawn, was also a calamitous one-a year of scarcity, in fact, and d uring which certain sources of revenue had entirely failed. The duty on corn, for instance, had been taken off dur ing the whole of that year, and notwithstanding all this, a difference of 14,000,0001. exists, or nearly 500,0001. per day. This state of affairs only shows the great state of suffering which exists. The Treasury, in spite of the sacrifices which it has imposed on itself, has come in for its share of loss. The common distress had affected its coffers, end, what is sorrowful to contemplate, with ii many families lose their means of existence ;- for every crown the less in the total of the public receipts repre sents the bread, the meat, the wine, which it will he ne cessary to refuse to a crowd of persons whose wants still ceicain the same." ihe French steamer Philippe Auguste has been lost off the Balearic Isles. It is said that the Provisional Government ii en gaged in organizing " Ateliers fraternels," in the twenty detached forts which surround Paris. Each fort, it is said, can lodge about 2,000 workmen. The post of Consul General at Bagdad, which was tilled by M. DE Lozv Wzimazs, has been suppressed oy the Provisional Government. By a decree of the Provisional Government, a credit of 500,000 francs has been opened to the Minister of the Interior, to cover extraordinary ex traordinary expenses for the general security. An other decree authorises the Minister of Marine to cake possession of the transatlantic packets, due regard being paid to the rights of the interested parties. The Zfoniteur of this morning publishes a long report from the Minister of Finances on the abolition of the duty on salt, and a decree to the following effect : " The Provisional Government, considering that citi zens should contribute to the public charges in propor tion to their fortune, and that the object of the Repub lican,form of government is to put that principle of jus tice and humanity in practice ; considering that it is especially important to abolish the imposts of consump tion, which weigh upon the poor, and that of all im posts, that upon salt is the most onerous and most ini quitous ; considering that the health of the people, the prosperity of agriculture, the development of industry and trade, imperiously require the abolition of it, and wishing to repair to the people one of the most crying sets of injustice of past ages ; on the report of the Mi nister of Finances, decrees— " Art. 1. From the Ist of January, 1849, the duty upon salt is abolished. " Art. 2. From the same period the prohibition of the ntrance of foreign salt is also abolished. There shall be levied on foreign salt a tax of 25 centimes per 100 tilogrammes on their importation by land ; of 50 centimes on their importation by sea under the French Hag, and of 2 francs on their importation under a foreign flag. " Art. 3. Salt from the French colonies and trans atlantic posssessions will be admitted free. " Art. 4. Foreign salt destined for the provision of French vessels fiited out for the cod fisheries will also be ree from duty. " Art. 5. The Member of the Provisional Govern ment, Minister of the Finances, is charged with the ex ecution of the present decree." Another decree declares that the woods and forests belonging to the private domain of the ex- King Louts PHILIPPE shall be managed and admi nistered by the administration of the forests of the state. Yesterday Paris was in a state of great confusion in consequence of an attempt made by M. LEDRU Roux.; and the Communists to upset the Provisional Government. It appears that on Saturday evening, at the sitting of the Provisional Government, very high words arose between the two parties, ultra-Repub licans and the mere moderate members. M. LEDRU ROLLIN was particularly energetic, declaring that matters were not urged on with sufficient vigour, and that if some decided steps were not taken the elec tions would prove a complete failure, and be the means of checking the progress of the Republic in place of aiding it. M. MARRAST, on the .)they side, declared himself altogether opposed to the views of his honourable colleague, ►nd declared it to be his firm intention, as well as that of his more moderate colleagues, to respond to the general wishes of the nation, and pro ceed with moderation, as otherwise nothing could ensue but civil war and bloodshed. The discussion continued for some time on the same point, M. LEDRU ROLLIN and M. MARRAST being the chief speakers, until the former, dreadfully irritated at finding himself so strongly opposed, and likely to be out-voted if the question came to a decision, accused M. MARRAST of betraying his principles, and called him a lache. No sooner was the disgraceful epithet uttered than M. MARRAST gave M. LEDRU ROLLIN a blow, or slap in the face (soul/et !) The other members then interfered and prevented further violence ; but M. L DRU ROLLIN, it is said, being convinced that the working classes were with him, gave the mot d' ordre for the display of physical force. Accordingly, on Sunday morning the organ of the clubs, the Com mune de Paris, published the following announce ment : " All the trades are convoked to assemble by their delegates to-day, at eight o'clock the morning pre cisely, and to march in bodies to the Champ de Mars, in order to elect the captains of the staff of the National Guard, who are to be chosen from among the different industries." This notice is followed by the following para graph : " We beg of all revolutionaires, our friends, known and unknown, all the presidents of clubs, all the chiefs of corporations, to call at our offices in order to give us in formation of the situation, which becomes more and more grave every day. More than ever it of im portance that we should cling together and concert, in order to make head against re-action." The effect of the above notice was, that the whole of the morning the Boulevards and streets were crowded with processions, making their way towards the Champ de Mars, but it was not till towards two o'clock that the alarm was taken by the Government. At that hour the Tappet begun to beat, the shops were closed, and a universal panic seized upon the public. The rumour got abroad that i .t was the in tention of the clubs, headed by BLA: igur, to seize upon the Hotel de Ville, on the Bank )f France, the Post office, the Bourse, the Mint, and the Tuileries ; to upset the present Provisional Government, and to instal a new Government, composed of BLANQ,UI as President, with theformer ultra- Republican members of the Pzovh , Lena' Govern ment, namely, M. LEDItU ROLLIN, M. ALI3ERT, 111, Louis BLANC, and M. FLocoN, and ti ki addition of M. SOBItIER (the ex-delegate of the p )lice), and some others. The assembly of ourriers in the Chain pde Mars amounted to upwards of 150,000 men ; , a consul tation of delegates took place, after which the different trades, which were marshalled under dis tinct leaders, and marched in colum an ten deep, directed their steps towards the Hotel de Ville. Each trade had a flag at its head, with the risme of the trade inscribed upon it, and upon all tl: a flags there was a large placard affixed, with the we rds " Aboli tion de l'exploitation de l'homme par rho mme. Orga nisation du travail par l'Association." 1 bey marched very peaceably, singing from time to tim. ..the "Chant des Girondins," and cried out occasional) y, " Vive la Republique." Most of them had the 'es 1 riband of the Republic at their button-holes, which , is in oppo sition to the tricolour. The National Guard and the Garde d :o bile turned out under arms when the rappel was be and have shown the best disposition towards ther:Provisional Government. They occupied the whole x ivare of the Hotel de Ville, the Bourse, the resid( ces of the Ministers, and the various public buildia gs. They sill remain under arms all night. ThEtts were two meetings held yesterday by the ouvrierx, one at the Hippodrome, and the other in the Chan p de Mars. The former was nominally for the purpo..st of discuss ing the organization du travail, and the d :,her for the nomination of a certain number of offieera for the staff of the National Guard, the working class es declaring that they had not been represented in tb e late elec tions of ',officers. It is said that when they complained to Louis BLANC that they had been thus neglected, he desired the m to meet together, and appoint them themselvel. This they did yesterday with perfect order, to th c nuinber of fourteen. After this operation they mar le a collection for the Republic, and then proceeded to the Hotel de Ville to present it to the Governmoi it. This, at least, was the ostensible motive. At this meeting the cry of "A bas Lantartine !" was heard several times repeated, though always put down byr cries of the contrary tendency. At the other meeting, which was a Enowedly Com munist, cries of "A Las le Gouvernemei It Provisoire !" was over and over again heard, and Ire ry inflamma tory speechEs were made. These rae n afterwards joined the other body, and seemed to take the chi( f post. The supposition is, that when it was Bound that the National Guards were out in great numbers, they thought it advisable to proceed peaceably. All was quiet at the hour at which the post left, but crowds of workmen were still defiling in proces sion before the Hotel de Ville. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAIL' RAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Arnm 15. Boulogne and Amiens, s%—Northern of France, 3—Paria and Lyons, VA. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES• PRUSSIA. The Minister of Finance, M. CArar nAusEN, has announced that a Government loan of 15,000,00 Q of thalers (nearly 2,500,000/. sterling) is immediately required, to meet she pressing exigenciti. of the state. There will be little difficulty in procuring it ; and as it has received the unconditional approval of the Op position party in the late Diet, and as the people are much better pleased to hear of a loan than of addi tional taxes, all parties will aid the Mi nister in pro curing the necessary amount of accommodation. Added to this the elections for the Confederated Ger man Parliament now occupy the public attention to the exclusion of almost every other topic. The central election committee for the Regency of Co logne has published an address to the electors as to the tests to be applied to the candidates, and re quiring them to pledge themselves to (obtain the fol lowing as the basis of their future (constitution : Equality of political rights without religious distinction —abolition of the passport system—general German right of citizenship —general armament of the people, with liberty to choose their own conarnanders—re duction of the army to skeleton regiments in time of peace—abolition of exclusive military jurisdiction— more equal distribution of the taxes—the most exten sive liberty of the press—free right of associations and assemblies—illimitable right of petition—liberty of instruction and protection of persons and property —independence of the judges—oral evidence, publi city, and trial by jury in courts of law, especially in press and state prosecutions—the formation of insti tutions to elevate and enlighten the working classes. This programme is signed by the leading reformers and citizens of Cologne. A proposition has been sent to the Government to impose an income-tax of 4 per cent. upon the two higher classes, and two per cent. upon the third class, by which a sum of 6,000,000 of thalers would be raised annually. It has been favourably received. At a great meeting of the working classes held on the 11th it was resolved to appoint a central com mittee to conduct their affairs, and watch over their interests. The great demonstration of the boatmen of the Rhine against the employment of steam-boats, which was to hare taken place at Cologne, has turned out a ridiculous failure. HESSE CASSEL. The troops which have been expelled from the city are anxious to re-enter it, and to attack the people. The latter, however, are well prepared to receive them. SWITZERLAND. The Provisional Government of Milan has de manded a passage for a column of 1,200 Austrian prisoners through the canton of Ticino, which the Government of the latter had granted on condition that the canton of the Grisons should likewise allow them to pass through its territory, The Directory had instructed the Federal Council of War to prepare a report on the organization of the army, so that the Confederation be not taken unawares, and be con stantly ready to defend, efficiently and energetically, the neutrality and integrity of Switzerland. It was reported at Berne that the Sardinian Minister had been directed by his Government to demand from the Vorort an army of 100,000 men, whom the KING would engage in his service, to assist him in driving the Austrians out of Italy. POSEN. The Commission for re-organizing the Grand Duchy of Posen, have come to the following resolu tions :--They propose to place a Pole at the head of the administration. A corps d'armee shall be organized in the Grand Duchy, and the officers shall be chosen by the soldiers, who will be permitted to wear the Polish cockade, and Polish officers returning from abroad, or from other service, will hold the same rank if they choose to join; the landwehr to be newly organized, and all troops not natives of the Duchy to be withdrawn. It is said that this ar rangement, which it was hoped would satisfy the Poles, has received the sanction of the KING. On the morning of the 10th, at three o'clock, a force, consisting of 3,000 infantry, three batteries, some howitzers, and two squadrons of horse, marched for Schroda, about fifteen English miles from Posen, in order to take the town by assault. It is occupied by between 15,000 and 20,000 armed Poles. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Letters from Kiel of the 11th inst. state that the Danish troops have effected a landing in Kiel Bay. The corps, jagers, students, and volunteers of Schles wig-Holstein have been annihilated, all who were not killed in the•great battle of Sunday week having been taken prisoners by the Danes. The retreat of the Schleswig-Holstein troops from Flensborg was very disorderly. The position of the troops of the Duchies, when attacked by the Danes near 1.;.u, eXLcLtled pal tiy along Bay of partly along the Bay of Flensborg, towards Glucks. burg, and was not strong in defensive points. The Danes seem to have been well acquainted with the number and position of the troops opposed to them, whilst the Holsteiners were very ignorant of the number of the Danish army. The town of Flens borg, which it was asserted on all sides was en thusiastic in the cause of the Duke of AIIGUSTEIq- BURG, it now appears was animated by quite an opposite spirit. Th e Fl ens b orgers , they say, fired a t the troops f rom th e w i n d ows , an d poured boili n g water upon the H o l s t e i n t roops . The students w ere obliged to fi g ht th e i r way t h roug h th e town on the ft retreat, so bitter was the animosity against them. ITALY. IMPORTANT NEWS. BATTLE BETWEEN THE AUSTRIANS AN T PIEDNIONTESE. ALLEGED TitIUDIFILA'-` VICTORY OF THE LATTER. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 10th publishes th 6 following bulletin : " From the head-quarters of the King at Castiglione delle Stiviere, April 8, 1848, at eight r.m. " The Austrian troops h a d b een re tiring for severs l days before the Piedinuntese troops, who, preceded O a f bee Their ancient renown f or va l our an d di sc ipli ne , had crossing the li nes o f th e O g li o an d Chi ese without 1 1 11 . obstacle. The enemy hied already abandoned the rello ti,ilis of Montechiaro, loaata, and Castiglione ~,a Stiviere, whi c h had b een cons id ere d very nu v— i t,geous for them. They had already retired berm the line of th e Mincio, to concentrate them selves between Pesehiera an d M an t ua ; b ut our tro n o t s pursued them with prodi g io us rapidity', c , h i s verging towards the p a s sages o f th e Alincie a, morning the King boldly established his he a ut quarters in Castiglione delle Stiviere, and et e v b° s l nine o'clock the Brigade Regina, the battalion Novi, and a part of the corps of tirailleurs reached G° l '. to attack the Austrians. The war of Italian indepenu_., ence was destined to be opened with an important actin which might really deserve the name of a victory , An ii , we shall call it th e v i c t ory o f t h e B r id ge o f G o tt°. men, led by General Bava, made a brisk attack uli e- Goito, where the enem y had fortified himself b a rricadinis the streets, and occupying the windows, from! wh e t ° ho directed an uninterrupt e d fi re upon us; b u t e very stacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the tirailleurs, placed at the he a d o f t h e co l umn, and supporte d by 5°, (12 „ 6 pieces of artillery. Th e enemy was forced to aba no° ; his position ; o n hi s ret reat over the river he blew u PStill bridge that had been mined a short time before. one of the parapets remained nearly entire; the tirailleusrs intrepidly ventured upon it, and by main force tool: possession of th e art ill ery t h at was p l ay i ng urn 1 1 0 incessantly. In a short time the passage of the was forced over the smoking ruins of the bridge enemy, pursued without interruption, fled towall A, Mantua, leaving a grea t num b er of prisoners and (le' and among th ese some o ffi cers. The fruit of this vict ory is our remaining masters of the passage of the Idiot. of which we at present occupy th e left bank. On ° "s part we have to depl ore , w i t h ot h er l osses, t h a t 0' tve. a officers. Colonels La Marmara of the tirailleas , n n he Macarani of the r eg i ment R ea l N ov i , are among wounded." ft r, A postcript to this dispatch, received an hour ft..% adds the following particulars:—" The battle lststec i :d - e hours. The cannon did great execution. NT 11 4 i 2,000 prisoners, took four pieces of cannon, and the pv- i ; nom is ours. The wound of Colonel La Mannar!! slight ; that of Colonel Macarani is not very severe. General the Prince di Gonzaga di Mantua, Si c " accompanied by his wif e , a rr i ve d on th e 3d of API' , at Genoa, from his recent sojourn in England. FV °l Genoa the illustrious traveller proceeded onwards tf. Rome for the purpose o f t en d er i ng hi s serv i c es to Holiness for the vindication of the liberty and jade pendence of Italy.—Gazzetta di Genova. THE MURDER in WESTMINSTER' WESTMINSTER POLICE-COURT—(THIS 1 : 05 4 ) , After the disposal of th e n i g h t c h arges ( ne arly 13 °' past twelve o'clock), Willi am T omp ki ns was Plitc„,ed,,,isn the bar charged with the w ilf u l mur d er o f Maria Ow- Mr. Broderip was on the bench. The prisoner is a good-looking, intelligent, B" r e t 'd well-built young man, about 25 ye ars o f age, dre s s like a carman. He appeared a prey to acute intern ; agony, and trembled wh en placed at the bar. ge however, recovered his composure, but during the w ho le examination he was slightly excited and shed tears. ti rolice•con: nble Hodgson, 170 R—About tiven o ll o minutes to ene o'clock yesterday morning I 7 11 6 8 1 3 0 .. duty in Regent-street, when I heard the cry of th e lice" from Vincent-street. I immediately ran to spot, where I was met by a Mr. K e an, w h o told me t" ia sl ot ' and man bad stabbed a woman. W e b o th ra n to the or:, and found a woman lying on her face, partly 0 0 kerb, and partly in the gutter. Mr. Kean said the 0 : 1 '" had fled. Clerk—What state was the woman in? Constable She was insensible. She was not bl ee di ng. We Jiiw". her up, and discovered a wound under the collar-boo s ' I did know her. I took her to the surgery of gr; Pearse, the division a l su rgeon, who exa m i ne d her, an found she was dead. The body was then removed to the workhouse. MAGISTRATE.—DO you wish to ask the witness eel question? Prisoner—No, sir; only that we were drink" iug all the night at the Rose and Crown. Scott, 157 B, said—At half-past twelve last night ., was on duty at the corner of P ag e-str ee t, in Holywe' s street. I saw the prisoner and a female coming eer n d Regent-street, towards me. The prisoner said 0 1 ; n r night" to me; and I made use of a fareu i : t c l i a , expression adding " You are getting tova" 0 home." I knew the prisoner, from having _b ec og gaoler at the time the prisoner and a P, t i / we woman ware charged at the station, some 0 ago, on the 24th o f M arc h, I t hi n k , w i t h h a ving drunk and disorderly. I then went round part ";1„ beat, which extends over part of Regent-street, 11The street, the Horseferry-road, and Holyvvell-street. 00 . prisoner st o pp e d me i n H o l ywell - street, an d in c of sequence of what he said to me I went to the shop bo Mr. Pearse, the surgeon. There I saw the female,. b a d I have seen since and recognised as the female of seen the prisoner with. She was lying on the fl (x4 bet the shop, and her dress had been lowered bell I breasts. Her b onnet an d shawl were 0 "" h e r searched her. She had nothing more abe o Aue e. than the key an d t h e handkerchief, which I Pre", - (The key was strung on a small white hand erchie"the order that it mi g ht no t b e l ost. ) I and Wr i g ht got ere stretcher, and took her to the workhouse. As we ale waiting at the door, a girl came up and said the f l/33- t o lived in Deere -street. 133 made some observation en me, which called to my mind the female I ha d ,„ 6 , 1 e 01s with the prisoner. (The prisoner here becarn°,'",, - o d agitated, hung his head upon the rail of the doea , , - to shed tears in abundance, sighing deeply.) I we n " d, the station-h ouse an d h a d t h e charge-boo k se arche eb in order to discover the residence of the prisoner, will in was found to be No. 7, Vincent-row. I went the r° o d company with In s p ec t or C umm i ngs, w h ere we f°ur Sergeant Wright, a nd Wi g h t , 133 B, w i t h t he Pri en ,,, e , in their custody. He was taken to the s t a tion.h°7 4 The prisoner said he did no t w i s h to as k t h e witness question. nee r' Mr. Arthur K eene , emp l oye d i n t h e R oya l Engl office, and livin g a t 11, P age - street, W estm i n ster, 1- to about half-past twelve o'clock, or twenty minutes o f of one on Sunday morning, when I got to the corner Vincent-street, I heard a ,faint cry or ac „ r i e w e •os. but nothing that would attract any sil s r„,„ -- - 0 0 I went down Vincent -street, in the wr— i t r i ht from which the cry proceeded. I went down the righ t hand side of the street, on which side the onlv t l en3 0 1: 0 - e e the street is placed. I saw a figure in the de-lx corner of le or of the street ; I could not tell whether it was - ded female, owing to the darkness. I crossed and procee the over towards it. I then saw a f ema l e lying en ground about three yards from a court. Her fe e were near the kerb stone, and her head about three fee s from it in the road. She lay on her Lace, with her arl„. between the pier 0 ' s to a l w de t d ho un p d r i e s r on h e e r r ; wh l o p w a a ss s edh h er a standinga b out a yard, when the gable and the post. I asked him what he had been doing to her, to which he gave no reply, but he came abne i one pace towards me. 1 put the question to him again' and again received the same answer. I asked bins asks was his wife, and why he did not go and lift her 11 1 74 He then went two feet towards her. B e f ore I ask° - him if she was his wife, the woman raised herself Yel feebly about six inches from the ground, but she tut down immediately into h er f ormer position. W h e n w ent towards her h e sa id " M aria. " lam not sure tR:: u e he said " get up," but he mentioned her n nin e ' t' immediately tur ne d round and snid" I have killed c —I have stabbed her with that knife," at the same ° i f: 7 e a x c b o i m bi m ti o n n g calaksnpifeonteo, used by persona of the class of here produced. The prisoner trembled blade, vp i3 j u rei c isc h nnot tl ej y s r , 6 :l o o seci. hung down his head.) I could only observe the bleed That, to the best of my belief, was the knife. I 'd e l up and down the street for assistance, but not sv — L in any person near, I did not like to leave him. asked him what he had done, when ho said "" ",„1 5 stabbed her w i t h t h at knife, " at the same time ein.--;:t‘e his arm up an d d own. I waited a short time for sfiribe p an ol c i e ne t , whilst l was waiti ng t h e pr i soner sa id, " ;11 give myself up." As he appeare d to passive, and not likely to go away, I proceed eu he ee Regent-street, in search of a policeman . I knew t , i - e bt were two men standing at that corner. I b essr) ,,iof them to give assistance, as a man had stabbed a w e • - frs id and one of them called out " Police." I said I ate eet he will make off; and one of them run down the stir immediately. (The prisoner here sat down and /c o os his head upon the dock.) A person was stopped bi of the men, but as he was not the man we let hi ss ,a,c( The police and several other persons then came , 0, lifted the woman up, and placed her against the - i ert She was then alive, but qu it e i nsens ibl e . He, 13 9 °- ,,, 0 d opened her eyes. He brought her over to the 15 F e r •ost on opening her bo som a woun d was di s covered _J ot. b low the throat, and a li tt l e towar d s t h e left br e w , The wound was such a on e as t h e k n if e w ould le o d She was then alive, for she opened her eyes and W oo her mouth. Was on the other side of the way' was then tken to the sugeon. The pris a oner did not wish 's to ask the witness 1114 question. the After the exami nlt i on o f severa l other witnesses' prisoner was remanded until Wednesday. The court was very crowded. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVE NIN G, APRIL 17, 1848.