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• • , lake of Leon by the river Titipapa, which is 20 miles in length, and it is said that it would require three locks, and to be canaliz'd throughout to render it practicable for ships. The Lake of Leon is 35 miles in length, and is separated from the Picific by 29 miles. Eleven miles, however, from the lake runs the river Torta, and it is by opening a communication with this that the entry to the Pacific would be effected at the port of Rialejo. The Nicaragua route would have the advan tage of passing through a country of undoubted salu brity. It may not generally be known that the journey between the two great oceans has already been effected by boat, although the route taken would for practical purposes be out of the question. In 1783 a monk per suaded the Indians to cut a short and shallow canal which connects the river Atrato, which throws itself into the Gulf of Darien, with the river San Juan, which - runs into the Pacific at about the fourth degree of south latitude. In the wet season boats still pass by this route from one ocean to another, but the fact we rather men tion as a curious one than as supposing it to have any importance. The connexion between the two oceans must be on a grander scale than this, and will no doubt be shortly effected by one or other of the three great routes we have described. THE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Proyisionally Registered, January 17, 1i345.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share. Prospectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Offices of the Company, 13a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. F. lIOWE, Ron. sec., pro tern. Now ready, in 8 vole. post Svo., A NECDOTES of the ARISTOCRACY, AND EPISODES IN ANCESTRAL STORY. By J. B. BURKE, 'Esq. Aethor of " The Peerage," " The Landed Gentry," &e. " Mr. Burke has here given as the most curious incidents, the most stirring tales, and the most remarkable circumstances connected with the histories, public and private, of our noble houses and aris tocratic families. These stories, with all tie reality of established fact, read with as much spirit as the tales of Boccacio, and are as Hill of strange matter for reflection and amazement."—Britannia. Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To-morrow will be published, MR. ALFRED STREET'S NEW POEM, F B. 0 NT EN AC A ROMANCE OF INDIAN LIFE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT YUND, 42, Moorgate-street. The Eighth ANNUAL MENTING of the BENEVOLENT De . wartnsent of this Association will be held at the London Tarim, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st instant, at Six o'cicck, P.M., precisely. JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq. in the Chair. RICHARD HENRY JONES, Chairman. February 19, 1849. S' JAMES'S TH T RE. Season 1849. FREXCII PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock, with UNE' FEMME QUI SE JETTE PAR LA FENETRE. To conclude with the popular Opera Coraique, entitled LE DOMINO NOIR. Lord Elton, M. Chateaufort ; Juliano, M. Suer ; Horace, M. ' Couderc ; Gil Perez, M. Baguet; An;,•ele. Charton ; Brigitte, Mdlle. Startial ; Ursule, Mdlle. Morel ; Jaciethe, Madame Mancini ; Gertrude, Mdlle. Vigny. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwlthstaading the In ereased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of adtais aioa are determined as fellows : Boxes .. • • • • •• • • ss. Od. Pit • • • • 3s. ad. Amphitheatre .. .• 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Rox-Ctlce of the -Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till lye. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during 'the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole redecorated. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. C. Rean ; Mrs. Haller, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, TWICE KILLED. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOCRA ; or, The Peri who I oved the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Eland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss • Morton, and Miss Reynelds. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Tinder the direction of Madame Celeeto. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq , executed by Mr. Sang. A ' new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs . added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered mere comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. CullentOrd ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Miss E. Chaplin; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Wool gar . After which, THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vast:ll3. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mahe ws. THIS EVENISCi, Will be performed USED UP. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, 11. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil 'lam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WHO SPEAKS FIRST ? Dress Boxes, Is.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, is open to the public overy day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished Ina superb and costly manner by Mr. Hurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the4est arrarr.re men ts have been rhade for the due Ventilation of the Thatre, and the conuort and convelience of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Romantic Opera, entitled LEOLINE. Count Adeltnar, Mr. Charles Brahain; the Seneschll, Mr. H. Horn castle ; Frantz, Herr Mengis ; Matilda, Mrs 'Ardis; Leone, Miss Poole. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLIFFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin - 4nd the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Fleantore ; sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage •f her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding in the Metropolis.—A gorgeous Spectacle.—Erilliant Scenes •f tke Areas.. THIS EVENING, The intrtaln will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely t• tke magnificent Spectacle, by Pitzball. entitled CORASCO ; or, the Warrior's Steed. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a romantic Melodrama entitled THE BRIGAND . OF ANCONA. _ Box-office open Prom Eleven till Five. , tage Manager, Mr. W. West. Ttik, WEATHEM—SuIs OFFICE. FEBRUARY 18. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 47; Noon, 45, BAROMETER, 30.53. WIND S.W. I hazy but fine. FEBRUARY 19. THRRMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 51; Noon, 49 . BARONETEN, 30.12. The mercury is going down rapidly since yesterday from the extraordinary altitude it has maintained for the last few days. WIND ; smart breeze, with scud. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tiro DAT —Morning, 24 min. after 11 I Evening, 0 min. after 0 To-Moscow—Morning, 1 min. after 12 I Evening, 2$ rain. alter 12 , 4 11 ; 4 16 A L , -1 , "yo tril4.l".' ar7;1111:, tc):l7, 4 let d , '.l D IE - ••••• J' Xtenin 2int 4 LONDON, MONDAY, FigRUART 19, 1849. Accounts received from Hungary have, since the commencement of the civil war under KOSSUTII, been so marvellously garbled as to diminish in a great de gree the curiosity of those who may at first have felt ? interested in the prospect of the reestablishment of that nationality. Coming, as almost all the dis patches did, through the Austrian territories, liable to interruption and alteration to suit the views of the despotic Government, it was by no means surprising that but little authentic intelligence has reached this country from that central division of. the European continent. The intestine dissensio ns of the peninsula were in this respect infinitely better situated—for inasmuch as the Montemolinists and Progressistas had innumerable opportunities of transmitting ac counts of their success or of their failure across the ppenines to their supporters and partizans in foreign 'countries. The insurgents of Italy had in the Lom bardo-Venetian territories, moreover, means of ob taining aid from the dominions of Sardinia, as well, as of communicating uninterruptedly with their more remote well-wishers. Nay, the dominant party in Schleswig found it geographically impossible to shut the ports of that disputed duchy against the vessels of other nations, or to wall off the northern boundary which marked its distinction from the rest of Jutland. With Hungary the destiniis of the Population have been more adverse. Placed within r : e ach of the Imperial p ower o f Vi enna, i t h as f ound no channel s f or preserving an unimpeded correspond ence with those who might, if the truth had ever 'reached them, have forwarded aid to the struggling patriots. BEM alone kept a vigilant eye upon the chances of an egress through Poland. In conse quence of this unfortunate position of the land of Hungary, it has been almost next to an impossibility to detect the faintest pencil of the light of truth through the dense and allnost impenetrable haze cast over the proceed. 'Logs in that direction by the German newspapers. Whenever it was mendaciously asserted that the QUEEN'S troops had routed some band of Carlists in Catalonia or had driven the rebels from Navarre, while on the contrary the champions of the cause of MONTEMOLIN were absolutely worsting their anta gonists, taking tow ns an d villages, and levying 411* • , THE SUN,' posts upon the willing population, the falsehoods were readily contradicted by the very different dis patches forwarded by the insurrectionary chieftains across the southern plains of France. How often, for example, has CARRERA been killed and resuscitated ! According to the organs of ISABELLA, he has had more legs shot off by cannon-balls, or crimped with sabre wounds, than would constitutQ the pedestrian appa ratus of a respectable centipede. His heart has been riddled like a sieve; his skull has been cracked like a cocoa-nut ;he has lost his right arm ;he has had his left hand mutilated by the explosion of a bomb ; he has received a slug in his spinal marrow; he has fractured half-a-dozen ribs on one side and six on the other—and yet the next mail tells HS that the indo mitable Captain is all but dancing a fandango at some provincial ball, or at the very least that he has de scended again from the mountains at the head of a formidable band of Montemolinists. Talk of a cat ! Nine lives are as nothing to those squandered upon the ZUSIALA.CAREEGUI of 1849. CABRERA passes unscathed through more perils and hairbreadth calamities than fell to the lot of MUNCHAUSEN. With poor KOSSUTH the difficulty of correcting the false assertions of his enemies are threefold, are fourfold, are almost numberless. He is killed—he is wounded —he is a fugitive, deserted by all his old followers — he is a captive—he has had his head chopped off—he has had his heart perforated—he is lying among the cinders of Pesth—he is skulking among the coffee shops of Berlin—but he survives everything like a phoenix. The wish is " father to the thought" of his destruction ; but, since the reign of HEsar VI., when the Duchess of GLOUCESTER roasted the wax effigy of her SOTEREIGN and pricked it with pins, a wish has hardly ever been found an efficacious means of assas sination. KOSSUTH lives, like CAZEIRA, in spite of his perpetual demise ; and whatever the Viennese newspapers may say to the contrary, Hungarian nationality is not yet trodden out under the mailed heel of WINDISCHORATZ. A document called a manifesto, published in the name of the Hungarian Government by Count LADISLiS TELEII, has recently been printed in Paris, and a very lucid and excellent translation has sub sequently appeared in English from the pen of Mr• H. F. W. BEOWNE, B.A.* Speaking of the fundamental character of the ques tion at issue between Hungary and Austria, the trans lator in his " Prefatory Remarks" draws this very striking distinction : It has been as mischievous as ignorantly attempted to institute a comparison between the connexion of Hungary and Austria, and that of Ireland and Great Britain ; and thus to prove that the present movement in Hungary is similar in character to the late absurd in surrection which took place in parts of Ireland. The Act of Union, which incorporates this latter country with Great Britain, and the compacts which, although establishing the succession to the throne of Hungary in the house of Hapsburgh, expressly stipulate her freedom as a nation and the independence of her Government, require but a very superficial observation to show the tot,Ll absence of any similitude. A just comparison might, however, be drawn between the legal relation of Hungary to Austria, and that of Hanover to England, while these two latter kingdoms were governed by one and the same sovereign, and although from their prox imity and consequent community of interests, the alli ance between Hungary and Austria might be politically closer, the connexion in a legal sense was precisely similar. In both instances the connexion was one of association, not of subjection." In order to demonstrate still more forcibly the line of demarcation which is distinctly traceable between Hungary as a kingdom and Austria as a dominant empire, Mr. BROWNE makes particular reference to the declaration uttered by LEOPOLD 11., in 1790, sixty years after the time of the Pragmatic Sanction, to the effect "that Hungary is a free and independent nation in her entire system of legislation and administration, and not subject to any other state or any other people ; but that she should always hare her own separate existence and constitution, and should consequently be governed by Kings, crowned according to her national laws and customs." No thing can assuredly afford a better plea for the main tenance of that feeling of independent dignity which excites the Hungarians to protest emphatically, by voice and by sword, against the notion that they are de jure the subjects of the Au.strian Government. As soon as the recent accounts of the successes of the Hungarian patriots shall have been confirmed, we shall return to the consideration of this important and remarkable pamphlet. Although the amendment respecting the proposed grant of 50,0001. for the relief of Irish distress, which the Noble Lord the Member for Marylebone brought forward on Friday evening, was negatived by a large majority, the principle is sound, and will, we doubt not, speedily obtain many influential advocates, both in and out of Parliament. The English people would gladly make a great exertion, if satisfied that it was tor the last time, and that the condition of their Irish brethren was to be permanently ameliorated thereby ; but they are wearied of those continued demands upon their resources—those perpetual appeals to their generosity. Their efforts should however, be directed rather to remove the causes of pauperism than to perpetuate the mischievous system, by doling out, with a bad grace, a bare sufficiency to enable the impoverished unions to meet their engage ments. If we beheld a drowning wretch, we should not consider it sufficient to enable him merely to keep his head above water. Something would be done to extricate him from his perilous condition, and some thing must be done, and that speedily, to ameliorate the condition of the people of Ireland, to enable them to live by their own exertions. It is ridiculous to suppose that the advance of 50,0001., which has just been sanctioned, will be sufficient even for the limited purpose for which it has been granted. It may, perhaps, sustain the wretched paupers of the distressed unions for a few short weeks, but new demands must then be made, and what response is to be returned? Are we again to dole out our charity in driblets, or peremptorily to reject the application ? The same state of facts will still exist, is our conduct to be varied in any and what par ticular? Must we not at length combine justice to England with liberality to Ireland ? GOD forbid that we should permit the wretched sufferers to perish for want of any assistance which it was in our 'power to afford. We would, if necessary, advance a much larger sum than that which has just been granted; but we would do so as a loan, not as a gift. We would render every temporary assistance that might be required for the relief of Irish distress, but we would require repay ment to the uttermost farthing from Irish property and Irish resources. Mr. POULETT SCHOPE and Lord DUDLEY STUAUT contemplated the same object in the motions which they respectively submitted for the consideration of the House of Commons on Friday evening. Each desired that the sums to be advanced from the Imperial treasury should be returned thereto; that the Irish nation should learn habits of self-reliance:; that it should not be regarded as a sturdy mendicant, a mere beggar, whose wants were to be at all :times supplied at the expense of his more fortunate neigh bour, but as one able and willing to support, himself, and to repay with thanks and gratitude the sums that might be advanced i❑ the hour of emergency, when his labours were rewarded with deserved success. The Hon. Member for Stroud would, however, en deavour to obtain payment from a source that had been proved to be inadequate. He would make the advances charges upon estates previously liable, but from which it could not by any possibility be levied. As we have formerly stated, " all the powers of the law have been already called into operation ; every effort has been made to collect the rates already imposed, but in vain." What reasonable expectation can be entertained that greater success will now be obtained, that the English nation will be more fortunate in obtaining payment than the Irish poor-law guardians. The difficulty would be increased, the paupers would still be a burden upon the lands. Their maintenance would exhaust the en tire proceeds thereof, and nothing would remain for the satisfaction of the debt ; that would still remain a useless, nay, more than useless, incumbrance. A sale of the lanais rendered liable would not improve the matter. What capitalist would invest his money in the pur chase '? How could he hope to avoid the fate that had overta ken the former proprietor ? How could he hope to au: stain the burden under which his immediate predecessor had been crushed ? The lands might be submik:tted to public competition, but no purchaser * " 1 'he Case of Hungary Stated. Manifesto published in file name of the Hungarian Government, by Count La dislaE Teleki, Member of the Hungarian Diet. Trans lated from the French, with Prefatory Remarks and lotes, IH.F. W. Browne, 13. A." svo. pp. 66. Loudon: 4ifinglui; n Wilson, 1849. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1849.. pendence without feeling themselves authorised to unite in arms for alterirg the territorial division of Upper Italy. It is in putsuince of these instructions that Sir G. B. Hamilton, Queen Victoria's Minister Phnipo tentiary at Fioreice, has used every means of per suasion to prevent the Grand Duke of Tuscany from sending deputies to the Roman Constituent Assembly. The Grand Duke Leopold internally par ticipated in the views of the British Government ; but feeling how greatly the authority of his Go vernment had been undermined by the persevering efforts of the revolutionary party, he saw the im possibility of resitting the pertinacious solicitations of Montanelli and Gterrazzi, who never ceased from alarm ing him with the prospect of a sanguinary revolution if he, as sovereign, cpposed a refusal to comply with such a positive will of the people. The Grand,Duke was constrained to give way, and signed, as it were, his abdi cation, by authorising his Ministers to proceed to the election of deputies from Tuscany: to the Roman Con stituent Assembly. Sir G. Hamilton comprehended that the mandate given to the Tuscan Deputies to the Roman Assembly would place the crown of the GrandlDuke at stake, since all tLe world knew beforehand that the Roman Constituent Assembly, composed of the most exalted chiefs of the demagogues, reserved to themselves the power of proclaiming the Republic as soon as the sittings were opened. It is known, moreover, that for the formation of the Federal state dreamed of by the Italian Radicals, these are labouring for the material fusion of Tuscany with Romagna. In the presence of these dangers, Sir G. Hamilton thought it to be his duty to offer to the Grand Duke of Tuscany the protection of England, to shelter him from the violence which the Tuscan revolutionists would not fail to exercise upon their Sovereign. On receiving orders from Sir G. Hamilton, sent to the commander of the British squadron off Sicily, three ships of war, the Bellerophon, of 80 guns, the Thetis, and the Porcupine, anchored on the sth in the roadstead of Leghorn, remaining at the disposal of the British Minister at the Court of Florence. Two days after the Porcupine went to Piombino, where, according to a telegraphic dispatch received by the French Government, she took on board the Grand Duke of Tus cany and his family on the morning of the 7th. On the same day, at four in the afternoon, the Bellerophon and Thetis sailed from Leghorn to meet the Porcupine, and act as an escort to protect the Grand Duke in his flight. There is every reason to believe that the Grand Duke is making for Gaeta, and not for the island of Elba, as some journals suppose. On this point the French Go vernment has not yet received any positive information. As the Grand Duchess of Tuscany is a sister of the King of Naples, it is more probable that the Grand Duke is seeking an asylum in the bosom of a family to which he is allied, than in the island of Elba, where he would find only a precarious security. It is unnecessary to remark how strongly the attitude assumed by Eng land towards Tuscany indicates that the Cabinet of St. James s will not recognise, either in principle or in its consequences, the dethronement of the Grand Duke of Tuscany." The PPesse says :—" We are assured that a move ment has taken place at Barcelona, which ended in the proclamation of a Republic. This news is said to have been received by telegraph, and to have been immediately communicated to the Duke DE SOTO. MAYOR. We publish it, however, with due reserve, until better informed on the subject." The truth of this statement has been since denied. The arrest of the Governor of St. Pelagie has nothing to do with politics. He is accused of em bemiement. M. LAGRANGE intends moving the following addi tional article to the Bill relative to the celebration of the Anniversary of the Revolution of February : " The National Assembly shall immediately elect a committee of fifteen members, to which all the docu ments concerning the citizens accused and condemned in virtue of the decree of the state of siege shall be submitted. That committee shall be charged with the revision of those condemnations, and proposing to the Assembly, as the principal appendage to the great Republican solemnity, the amnesty of all the citizens, whose probity should be certified by honourable attestations." The Government has prohibited the usual proces sion of the Bceuf Gras on Shrove Tuesday. The PRESIDENT gave a grand ball on Friday even ing, which was attended by the members of the corps diplontatiqut, the elite of the fashionable world, and many the old noblesse of the Faubourg St. Germain. The French Five per Cents. were done at - advanced prices on Sunday, at the Passage de rOpera, the last quotation being BSf. 15c. At one period of the day they were as high as 82f. 30c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. Fee. 17. Anglo Italian (lat?, Italian and Austrian), l i 4—Boulogne and Amiens, 9 3 4—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 10 3 ,4 —Luxembourg 10/.), 1 B ix int.—Namur and Liege, B—Northern of Fraice, 9%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 1 ,4 — Paris and Orleans, 31 3 j4—Paris and Rouen, 19% ex div.— Paris and Strasbourg, 3 1 / 4—Rouen and Havre, 11 3 4—. Sambre and Meuse, 5% —Tours and Nantes, 2,4. could be found. A most injurious precedent would thus be established. A passive resistance thus found to be effectual would be extensively, if not generally, resorted to, and the most demoralising results would follow. Even if a person could be found with suffi cient hardihood to enter upon the lands, a sale of the fee-simple and inheritance for such a purpose would create innumerable opponents to the entire system of poor-laws. Every proprietor would feel the most uncompromising hostility to a code under which he might in turn become a victim. Well might the proposition be termed " illusory," for it could not possibly be carried into execution. Lord DUDLEY STUART, however, suggested a practical mode by which the desideratum could be attained, by which repayment on an early day could be secured. His plan was of a wider and more com prehensive character, and involved a principle that is rapidly advancing in public estimation, as well in this country as in Ireland—a principle which has found some degree of favour with the Government itself, and which is about to be submitted to the Committee on Irish poor-laws for partial, we regret to say only partial, adoption. It is that of a rate in aid of the distressed districts, to be levied on the entire property of the kingdom. The Minis terial proposition is to the effect, that when the rates of an electoral division shall exceed ss. in the pound, the surplus shall be collected from the unions at large ; such rate in aid not to exceed, under any circum stances, 2s. in the pound. When it exceeds that amount the balance is to be provided for by an Irish national rate, not exceeding 6d. in the pound. All that may be required beyond that sum is to be defrayed from the British Exchequer. In other words, from the Imperial resources of every description. Now this is nearly what Lord DUDLEY STUART required. The rates in the impoverished unions have, in almost every instance, amounted to far more than the maximum that can be imposed, if the recommendation of the Government should be acceded to. The unions have already paid their full quota, and the Irish national rate in aid should therefore be resorted to, in order to provide for the deficiency. This is a sound and states manlike view of the subject. It is the view which will probably be adopted on the express re commendation of the Ministers. And yet, on Friday, but nine Members could be found to divide in its favour. We cannot account for a circumstance so strange. Lord DUDLEY STUART may, however, feel gratified by the clear and unequivocal acknowledg ment of the propriety of his suggestion. We would now ask what adequate reason can be as signed why a national rate should not be resorted to,in the first instance ? If it be just and equitable under any circumstance, why should it not be so in all ? Why should there not be an equalization of the poor rates throughout the entire kingdom ? Why should not all contribute in proportion to their means to the relief of their destitute and suffering fellow-crea tures ? Why should not every description of pro perty be equitably assessed for the purpose ? Under the present system the tax is imposed exclusively on real property, and the wealthier districts pay much less in proportion than the poorer. The burden of supporting poverty is in a great degree cast upon those who are least able to bear it. The wealthy grazier, who affords but little employment who keeps his rich lands exclusively under grass: and cautiously excludes all persons who are compelled to earn their own livelihood by their own exertions, and who might by a possibility be come chargeable to the parish, is practically ex empted, while a double charge is imposed on others who present stronger claims for a moderate rating. This is unjust, and therefore it should be imme diately altered. All parties concur in thinking that mortgagees, annuitants, and others having charges on property liable to the poor-rates should contribute their quota. But it is said that if such a course were adopted it would lead to innumerable foreclosures, and ultimately prove deeply injurious to the mort gagors. It may be so under the present system, but if the burden were extended to every description of realized property, as in ; equity it ought to be, the objection would be removed, inasmuch as the money when paid off should contribute in whatever manner it might be invested. By this means the absentee would be effectually reached, who now expends in other lands the income he derives :from his native country, and who avoids many of the imposts to which those who endeavour to discharge the duty incidental to the possession of property are made liable. Again, we say it is by a national rate, and a national rate only, that the poor-law can be made tolerable to the people of Ireland—and we will add, to the people of Great Britain also. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and Sunday. The discussion on the electoral law was continued en Friday and Saturday, and was, on Saturday parti cularly, of alvery animated character. The point in dispute was whether the polling should take place at the capitals of the cantons or at the capitals of the communes. It was a great point with the Reac tionary party, more particularly with the Legitima tist portion of it, to have the polling take place at the capital of the commune rather than at the capital of the canton, that is to say, to have a polling place at every parish church in every rural district at which the proprietor and the priest could attend, and coerce and persuade the peasant voters, and if need be, amper with the voting bulletins, rather than to have one polling place for the whole district, at the capital of the canton—a large town, where the re gular authorities would be in attendance to ascertain that the polling was regularly con ducted, and that no deception was practised on the voters, and where the conduct of all parties would be narrowly watched by those interested in the re sult. The discussion ended in a species of compro mise. It was decided that the polling should take place in the capital of the canton, and not in the capital of the commune ; but that where, in the opinion of the Council General of the Department, it would be advisable to divide the canton for election purposes, the Council General should have power so to divide it ; such division not to consist of more than four parts. The Court of Cessation rejected on Saturday the appeal of MM. RASPAIL and QUENTIN against the resolution of the National Assembly and the decree of the Council Chamber that they should be tried at Bourges by the High Court of Justice. _ The printers of the journals the Rights of Man and the Red Republican have been sentenced to pay a fine, one of 200 the other of 100 francs, for having published those papers without having wade the de posit required by law. The Committee appointed to examine the Budget of 1849 voted on Saturday a reduction of forty•six mil lions of francs in the department of Public Works. The total amount of reduction that will be proposed is about one hundred millions. M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has accepted the mis sion to Madrid, but he will not quit Paris until after the elections. He is now considered as the head of the pure Bonapartist party, of which the Presse is to be, it is said, the organ. The choice of the Presse is probably due to Russian influence. M. FERDINAND BAZROT, the brother of the Minis ter, has been appointed Consul-General at Alexandria, and M. ADOLPHE BARROT, another brother of " the governing family," is nominated Ambassador to the Court of Brazils. Prince PONIATOWSKI, the Tuscan Minister-Pleni potentiary in Paris; and AL MARTINI, the Tuscan Minister at Turin, and nominated by the GRAND DUKE as Envoy to the Congress at Brussels, have declared that th e y w ill no t p ar ti c i pa t e i n an y manner in the acts of the Provisional Government at present installed at Florence. The French Government on Saturday dispatched dispatches Frenchß ep f u o b r li Ccountnt Florence, M. Muns:r, attaché t o th e Fl orence L ega ti on , w ith W et E e w , sdLiriectMinginihstim Minister not to of f the hold any communication with the Provisional Go vernment of Florence, which it is not the intention of the French Government to recognize. The Presse has the following " communication" on the subject of the affairs of Italy : " With a laudable frankness, Lord Palmerston in structed his political agents in Italy to declare, wherever it should be necessary, that England would consider the Italian Constituent Assembly as an inexhaustible source of political complications and disasters to Italy, and con sequently that he should contend against it s realisation w i t h a ll his moral influence. Lo;d Palmerston added that Great Britain will never acknowledge, in inter national relations, the legality of the Italian Consitituent Assembly, not being able to admit the principle of a league between the different people of Italy without the spontaneous concurrence of their respec tive Govern ments. In every case, says the British Minister, a league between the Italian Governments can never have any other than a defensive character, to repel any eventu al foreign invasion, but can never assume an offensive character. In other terms, the Cabinet of St. James's acknowledges the right of the Italian Princes to form an alliance together for maintaining their own lndo• SPAIN, Madrid journals of the 11th and 12th have arrived. It is said that the present of 8,000,000 of reals given by the QUEEN to NAEVAEZ is for the purpose of inducing him to retire from political life in order to facilitate an arrangement of the differences with England. Senor MoRA, who has been appointed Consul• General to London, is charged with a mission from the Spanish Government respecting the renewal of diplomatic intercourse. He is personally ac quainted with Lord PALMERSTON. The following order of the day was issued by General CABRERA immediately after the action with Colonel Reuss. " The wound which I received in the action of yester day is not so serious as to prevent my remaining at the head of the army; the commandants-general will, there fore, direct their reports to me through the senior Adju • tant-General, Don Hermenigildo Cevallos , and my orders rill be communicated through the same medium. I trust to their approved zeal and loyalty to the just cause for the continuance in their respective divisions of the most perfect discipline, and for the sustenance of their troops by the same supplies as heretofore. " Volunteers t—Though my wound forbids me for a very few days to fight by your side, it does not prevent me from being in ray place at your head, and watching over you. I give thanks in the name of the King to all the brave who fought in the actions!of the 26th and 27th, in which you proved, as is your custom, that the enemy cannot meet you wi,h impunity, and that you aro not to be scared by the thinders of his artillery. " Proceed, brave Catalans f to merit the gratitude and protection of your country, and the admiration of all who contemplate your achievements. Do you not see how your example has been followed by the Navarese, the Castilians, and the Valencians ? Be firm, Volunteers ! The army of mercenaries will soon seek in Tait for a hidin g place. Victory will crown your efforts. Your King and your country will recom pense you for your sacrifices. Rely on the worthy chiefs who command y)u, and on him whose pride it is to be your general and your compa n i on . " CABRERA, Conde de Morella." (A true copy.) .HERMENIGILDO CATALLOS, Senior Adjutant-General. The Comerco of Cadiz, of the Bth, states that the British Consul in Morocco had been murdered by Moors, and that the English squadron was preparing to bombard Tangier. That journal adds that the Spanish war-corvette Venus was to sail on that day for Tangier te protect the Spanish residents. Thts Clamsor Publi:o, however, considers that intelligence to require confirmation. MADRID BOLSA, FEB 12.—The Three per Cents. are reported at 211 buyers, 15-16 sellers ; Five per Cents. were dine at 101 cash, and are reported 10 buyers after the close ; Coupons not quoted ; Passive Debt, 3 13-16 buyers, sellers ; Bank Shares, 56 buyers, 58 sellers; Exchange on London, 49 25. GEItiVIANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FEZ. 13.—The Wiener Zeitung says that the report insetted in several of the public journals that Prince W IND ISCUGUATZ will be created Duke of FREIDLAND, is a pure invention. The section of the fundamental law relative to the emancipation cf the:Jews continues to be a general topic of discussion. It appears that some of the deputies intend to mak( an energetic protest against it. The separation of the Italian Tyrol from the German continues to create great excite ment in Gallen Tyrol, and the peasantry there are resolved to take up arms, rather than submit to a separation. Throughoul the whole of the Austrian Mo narchy, the number of Slavonians in propor tion to the German preponderate by 15i mil lions to seven millions. It appears, however, from the report of the Postal tariff, which has just been published, that there are only 72 newspapers pub lished througiout the various Slavonic districts, viz. : 31 Czeek, 21 Polish, 6 Croat, 8 Slavonian and Carinthian, 2 Slavonian, 2 Ruthinian, 2 Servian, 1 Illyrrian ; wiereas the number of newspapers pub lished in the German language amounts to no less than 224. It foreign languages there are 3 Italian, 8 Hungarian :formerly there were 20), 2 Wallachian, 2 Romanian, 1 Arminian, 1 Hebrew ; total, 355 Cologne Gazette, Feb. 17. A letter frcm Vienna of the 11th says—" It having been rumoured that the Russians had entered Tran sylvania, a heavy fall took place on the Stock Ex change, but it has been ascertained from official sources that any idea of intervention by the Russian forces on behalf of the Imperial cause has been com pletely abandoned. The Russian troops were, in fact, only placed along the frontier of Transylvania to intervene in case the frightful war of races should have rendered it necessary on the ground of hu manity." The Wi ener Z e it ung of the 11th gives the state ment of a Trieste paper, to the effect that Venetian vessels sailing under lonian colours, manned by Ve netian crews, and furnished with papers by the English Consul, have come into their harbour for cargoes of wood and provisions ; and " this not withstanding the steps taken by Government to prevent the trp.nsmisQion of provender from our coast." The twenty-second bulletin from the army of WINDISCHGRATZ was published on the 13th at Vienna, and of course claims a series of vic tories over the Hungarians. This bulletin after describing the operations of SCHLICK against the Hungarian General GORGET, adds, " the enemy threatened on all sides in the Zips may be considered shut in completely," and in the very next sentence admits that "the enemy thus shut in completely had nevertheless succeeded in effecting a junction with the army of BEM in Transylvania. The statement that the Russians had entered Tran sylvania is not confirmed. The Allgemeine Zeitung has the following from Trieste : "Some of the commercial part of the community have presented a petition to the Ministry, praying that, in the event of a renewal of war, the freedom of the harbour and trade of Trieste may be secured by a treaty embracing the maritime protection of England, as the naval power of Austria offers no security either for the present or the future." PRUSSIA. The whole of the Ministers have been elected Members of the First Chamber. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the German Parliament of the 15th, sixty-four Austrian deputies put in a declara tion to the effect that since the Austrian note had been referred to the Committee of Constitution, and the answer thereby indefinitely deferred, they found themselves compelled to state at once, that they only interpreted the obligations imposed by the mandates of their constituents in the sense in which those mandates were generally received, which authorised the convention of the Assembly in the first instance ; and that they regarded it as their duty to remain in the Assembly, and to deliberate, in common with the other Members, for the consummation of German unity, and the realization of the German federative state. This was received by loud cheers from the Left and gallery. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The King of DENMARK does not intended to renew the armistice. The following proclamation has been extensively circulated in Schleswig : " The Government, in the King's name, invites the faithful ,inhabitants of Schleswig, in their resistance against the illegal demands, not to oppose violence with violence, as they may be convinced that the King will not allow the insufferable state of things which is a consequence of the defective fulfilment of the armis tice to be prolonged over the period fixed by the con vention." POLAND. POLISH FRONTIERS, FEB. 4.—The German jour nals have been for some time teeming with rumours of an intended riot in the kingdom of Poland, these rumours are however founded upon imaginary sup position or invention. In Poland perfect tranquillity prevails, and no one dreams of an insurrection, while there is a Russian army in the country of more than 100,000 men, and in Modelin 150,000, and in War saw more than 300 pieces of artillery. The slightest movement in Warsaw would be followed by the reduction of that city into ashes ; added to this Poland is destitute of young men capable of bearing arms, and few as there are, they are now again to be decimated by an extensive con scription, which has just been ordered, and the recruits are immediately sent to the interior of Russia, generally speaking to return no more. The assertions of foreign journals respecting the tyranny of Prince PASILEWITSCH is totally unfounded. The I Prince is exceedingly mild ; but by command of the Petersburgh Camarilla, whose puppet he is, he is constrained occasionally to act with severity.--Allge• meine Zeitung, Feb. 14. ITALY. TUSCANY. The following is a complete list of the Ministry appointed by the Provisional Government of Tus cany Antonio Mordini (Advocate) Foreign Affairs. Francesco Constantino Marmoc- Interior. chi (Professor) Leonardi Romanelli (Dottore) Justice and Public Worship. Francesco Franchini (Dottore) Public Instruction. Mariano d'Aylala War. Pietro Augusto Adami ........ Finance and Com merce. The decree appointing the above Government is dated February 8, and bears the signatures of GUERAZZI, MAZZONI, and MONTANELLI. Dr. CLEMENTS Buss has been appointed Secretary of the Provisional Government. The Tuscan Monilore publishes the following letters from the Grand Duke : " TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS. " Sir,—Do not believe that my quitting Sienna implies an intention on my part of abandoning Tuscany, for which I feel too strong an attachment. I anxiously, and with confidence recommend the persons of my household at Florence and Sienna; they are completely ignorant of my intentions. I desire that the persons I absolutely want be allowed to follow me; they are those actually at Sienna. I also desire that all my effects and those of my family may be permitted to reach me (they are also at Sienna), else we should be deprived of the absolute necessaries of life. Among the persons whom I desire to have with me are the tutor of my children and their equerry, as also my secretaries. By taking the direc. tion of the royal road of the Maremme, the persons of my suite will receive information of the place to which I shall have repaired.—With perfect esteem, I am your affectionate ‘‘ LEOPOLD. " Sienna, Feb. 7." "TO THE PRESIDENT OP THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS. ".Being informed that, during my eight days' stay at Sienna numerous rumours have been spread in the capital and in other places, that my absence excites apprehensions of a serious nature, I may and must ex plain the real cause. The desire of avoiding serious disturbances obliged me on the 22d of January, 1849, to approve of the presentation in my name of the dis cussion and vote by the Legislative Assemblies on the Bill for the election of Tuscan representatives to jhe Italian Constituent Assembly. While the discussion was to take place in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, I reserved to myself the care of following its progress, and reflecting whether I might not by that law incur the excommunication specified in the brief of his Holiness from Gaeta, January 1, 1849. I commu nicated my doubts to some of the Ministers, declaring to them that the intrinsic danger of the above censure seemed to me principally to depend upon the mandate which would be conferred on the Deputies of the Constituent Assembly, and not mentioned in the Bill. But in the discussion of the Chamber of Deputies, the question was raised as to what powers should be confided to the Deputies of the said Constituent Assembly; and it was decided and unanimously approved that their mandate should be considered unlimited. Then my doubts became conviction in my mind, and I thought I ought to submit the question to the secret judgment of several consistent persons of authority. All these per sons respectively concurred in the ♦iew that, by such an act, the censure of the Church would be incurred. Still, the news having spread, with a great appearance of truth, that the Pope not only did not intend to condemn the Italian Constituent Assembly, but that, on the contrary, being questioned on the subject, he had not disapproved of the vote on the Constituent As sembly, I determined to follow the surest means of ob taining a solemn and decisive opinion on this important affair, and accordingly, in a letter of the 28th January last, consulted the Sovereign Pontiff, to whose judgment as a CaLholic tiovercign in ouoh a matter I owod implioit submission. The answer of his Holiness arrived later than I expected, in consequence of unforeseen circum stances. This is why I have to this day refused to this law the final sanction which the statute attributes to the prince. But the desired letter has actually arrived ; it is in my hands. The expressions of the Holy Father are so clear and explicit, that they leave not the shadow of a doubt. Th• law of the Italian Constituent As serably cannot be sanctioned by me. The Constituent Assembly being an act calculated to endanger my Crown, I have judged I could not act differently, having only in view the good of the country, and the pre vention of reactionary attempts. I have accepted a Ministry who had proclaimed it before, and who have proclaimed it again in their programme. I hare alluded to it in my speech on opening the Legislative Assem blies. But since the question now is, whether or not I am to expose myself and my country to the greatest danger, namely, to incur, and make so many good Tus cans incur, the thunders and the censures of the church, I must refuse my adherence to the law, and I do so with the calmest conscience. In this exaltation of minds, it is easy to foresee that my return to Florence might now expose me to such extremities as to prevent me from exercising the freedom of mind I have a right to. I therefore abandon the capital, and I abandon Sienna, that it may not be sail that this town has been on my account the scene of hostile reaction. But I hope that the good sense and the conscience of my people will ac knowledge the gravity and importance of the reason which obliges me to give my veto, and I hope that God will take care of my dear country. I, lastly, beg of the Ministry to give every publicity to my declaration, that all may know the motive which induces me to refuse my sanction to the law for the election of the Tuscan representatives to the Italian Constituent Assembly. If this publication were not immediately and integrally effected, I should see myself forced to have it published whither Providence will ordain that I shall repair. " Sienna, Feb. 7, 1849." "LEUPOLD. - - The Corriere Mercantile publishes a telegraphic dispatch sent from Leghorn to Florence on the Bth, at half-past eleven, P.M., announcing that MoanNl and Colonel D'APICE were on their way to Florence by special train, and that the expedition to Elba would be ready to start at two. It appears that the Government had directed the Giglio steamer, and several gun-boats with tirailleurs, and numerous patriot volunteers on board, to proceed to Elba, cause a rising at Portoferrajo, and to arrest the GRAND- DuKE wherever he may be found. By a decree of the Provisional Government, the decisions of the tribtultils, and the acts of public notaries, are to cease to be given in the name of .LEOPOLD 11., and hence forth bear the name of the Proviq;nnal Govermnent. The Corriere Illreantile from Florence, 9th int., that on the evening of that day some crowds assembled in the suburb of San Fre diano uttering cries against the Provisional Govern ment; the people, however, did not join in the demon stration. MONTANELLI, member of the Provisional Government, happening to pass by in his carriage, stopped, and addressed the multitude, who soon cheered him, and dispersed. Some of the ringleaders were arrested, and MONTANELLI was accompanied by a numerous crowd, saluting him with loud vivas. About ten P.M., about thirty peasants entered the city with the same intention of raising a disturbance, but were arrested by the National Guard. At Empoii too some attempts at reaction have taken place. Pisa has declared its adhesion to the Provisional Govern ment ; Lucca was perfectly tranquil. ROME. The following is the decree of the Constituent As sembly deposing the POPE : " ROYIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. " FUNDAMENTAL DECREE. " Art. 1. The Pope is deposed in fact and in right from the temporal government of the Raman States. " Art. 2. The Roman Pontiff has all the guarantees necessary for the independence and the exercise of his spiritual power. " Art. 3. The form of the Government of the Roman States will be that of a pure Democracy, and will take the glorious name of the Roman Republic. " Art. 4. The Roman Republic will have, with the rest of Italy, the relations which the common nationality may require. ' 1 Fell 9, 1849, One o'clock A.M. " G. GALETTI, the President. " GIOVANNI PENNACHI, I " ARIODANTE FABRETTI, The " ANTONIO ZAMBRANCHI, Secretaries? ' " QUIRIA F. BARILLI, M. CANUTI, who was residing in Paris on a special misssion from the Roman Government, has written to head-quarters to say that, in the event of the POPE being deposed, he should consider his mission as terminated. NAPLES. The following is the project of law for the dismis sal of the Ministry, voted by the Chamber of Deputies on the 3d inst. : PROJECT OF LAW. " Considering that no public impost of any kind can be exacted if not voted by the Chamber; " Considering that the perception of taxes is a su preme necessity in the machinery of the State; " Considering that the Ministry in existence, having in no way been deserving the confidence of the country, they cannot give to the Government that sufficient power for obtaining these taxes with which the Chamber would willingly invest other responsible agents who were worthy of public confidence; " The Chamber of Deputies proposes and votes the following law:-- " 1. The taxes, both direct and indirect, which were called into existence by the laws which were in vigour up to the 31st of December, 1848, are voted—the first for the two months ending the 15th of February, and the second to the 31st of March, 1849. "2. During this space of time the issue of them will continue provisionally, according to the existing laws and decrees which are not in opposition to the actual representative syFtem." It was accompanied by the following address to the KING : ADDRESS TO THE KING. "Sire —The Chamber of Deputies, wishing to prove to your Majesty and to the whole country, that far from wishing to place themselves in opposition to the Executive, they are most anxious to offer to it their frank and loyal concurrence, have voted spontaneously, but provisionally, the taxes for a part of the present year. It nevertheless feels the high and irresistible ne cessity of opening for itself an avenue to your Majesty, and exposing to you, Sire, the genuine feeling of its spirit. The Chamber places full confidence in the Prince who was the first to give in the Italian peninsula this new light of the Constitution, and it therefore feels that this statute which he was the first to grant slruld not he annihilated by the responsible agents of the Exe cutive who now hold the reins of power. Sire, the De puties of the nation, in the face of the obstacles thrown in the way of the Chamber and of the existing Govern ment, are most anxious, as honest and free citizens, to invoke the harmonizing influence of the Sovereign, that once again its voice should speak aloud, and rectal us to that union which is stable, and that it should re concile those serious dissensions which the illegal con duct of some few amongst us have endeavoured to en gender between the Executive power and the elective Chamber. The real interests of the Prince are identical with those of the nation, of which he is the head and the supreme avenger, and the systematic violation of them which is effected by a Ministry, which exhausts at its own arbitrary will the true and copious springs of the power of Government, wrings the heart of every good citizen when he contemplates the lot of his unfortunate country. These necessities and interests to which we allude recover their force in carrying out fully and severely the constitutional provisions to which the Monarch assented—which are the legitimate right of the country and the dearest wish of its representatives. Now, what has been, and was, is ever the conduct of the Ministry, in addition to its ruinous general policy, which has already been the object of the censure of - the Chamber. It has violated in a hundred ways the most substantial of our privileges —it has violated the sanctity of our homes—it has trampled under foot both the freedom of the person as well as that of the mind, in the most arbitrary and illegal manner—it has made between citizens, who are equal in the sight of the law, other distinctions than those which spring from civil merit—it has broken into the sanctuary, which should be inviolable, of the magistracy and profaned it, and without regarding the security of our citizens, or providing us with other models for our government, it has dismissed, and still dismisses, the National Guard, and has recomposed an armed body unauthorised by any law, and with commanders who have been appointed in the teeth of the statute. It has exhibited no anxiety to extinguish the unhappy causes of disagreement which have disturbed the friendly feelings existing between the military and the citizens, feelings of harmony which will assuredly never cease to exist, as it has always existed, in full vigour between the children of the same country, who feel in common the same wants, the same desire for glory, the sam e sorrows, and the same hopes. It invaded the power of the Legislature by acts which required its previous COR eurrence, and by doing so greatly aggravated the condi tion of the finances and of those who contribute to them; and if' the condition and the necessities of the State were of serious gravity it was clearly their duty to open them honestly to those who represent such sacred interests, in order that they might obtain the legal con currence of the Chamber, and it would not certainly have refused its assent to any reasonable or honour able proposition. The Ministry have attempted, and to the last still attempt, to discredit, and thus render fruitless the constitutional rule, and thus take from the Chamber both the opportunity and mode of bringing to a termination the provisions which are required for the moral and material interests of the country; and are seeking to break the chain of loyalty, faith, and gratitude which binds together the Prince and the representatives of the people, in order that their voice should be prevented from reaching the throne. Sire, it is your prerogative to nominate and dismiss . the Ministry; but it is the duty of the Deputies of the people to point out to the head of the State of the great obstacles which are placed in opposision to the regular march of the machinery of Government. Against such Ministerial misdeeds the Chamber assuredly possesses both severe and irresistible rights which it may exercise rights which become duties. Still, for the sake of moderation in civil proceed ings, it prefers addressing itself to the Sovereign. Placed as your Majesty is in another sphere of these high constitutional attributes, by which your kajesty is deprived of the possibility of doing wrong, and is in vested with the entire power of doing good, your Majesty will not delay to pronounce that royal declara tion, which is the supreme remedy for the afflictions of the State—for, on their part, the deputies have always been ready, and still are so, to grant to the Government of your Majesty that entire and constitutional support which will carry with it the fruits, not only of power and of force, but of the love and reverence of your people." We understand that the Conde de Montemolin, anxious to promote education amongst the industrious classes, has intimated to the Rev. Hardinge Ivers, in cumbent of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Alexis, Kentish Town, his intention of presiding at a public de jetiner, which is to take place about the middle of next April, for the benefit of the Kentish Town Free Schools, open to the youth of all religious persuasions. Other royal personages, and several noble and benevolent pro moters of education, are expected to attend. LEGITIMACY IN PORTUGAL.—A new daily news paper made its appearance on the 7th instant at Oporto, under the title of A Pattie. It espouses the Legitimist or Royalist cause, and boldly announces its principles, its tendencies, its wishes, and its purpose. All these are, of course, entirely at variance with the famous " set tlement" of the Portuguese question, forced upon the reluctant and immense majority of the Portuguese na tion by the now defunct Quadruple Alliance. The new journal is, in short, strenuously opposed to the state of things established by the intrigues of Talleyrand and his interest of Louis Philippe, supported by the family of the King of the Belgians and the ." liberal" bias . of our own Foreign Secretary; and wo hail, therefore, with sincere satisfaction, the accession of an ally in the cause that we have so long advocated.—Post. A RARE BIRD KNOWN TO BRICKLAYERS.—An amateur naturalist has offered a reward to the man who will furnish him a live specimen of the " brick bat." This must surely be the same individual who was in quiring the other day about the new fish recently dis covered, and which turned out to be the gen.% percha sole.—The Builder. DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH PALK..--We have to record the demise of the above venerable lady, who ex pired suddenly, on Thursday night, at her residence in Bruton- street. Her ladyship, daughter of William first Earl of Lisburne, was in the 85th year of her age, hav ing been born 13th May, 1764. She married May 14, 1792, the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart., whom she has survived thirty-six years, and by whom her ladyship had a family of six sons and two daughters. Thomas Lovell Beddoes, the author of the beauti ful drama, entitled the Bride's Tragedy, died at Bdsle, in Switzerland, on the 26th of January. He was the sou of the Ist° Dr. Beddoes, of Clifton. lONEI and COMMERCIAL NEW S CITY, Qr ARTER TO THREE. Cot! - ou M ;rliet at Liv , rpi;ol was steady on Sa :ul(isy, aria the sales were 6,000 bales, including 2,000 taken on specuhttion. Railway Shares were firm, and a fair amount of business done. The Foreign ach ices received this morning are gene rally favourable. The report of the Paris Bourse is encouraging, and a rally is occurring; but the late rise having been so rapid, fluctuation is to be expected. The Grain Market has been heavy again. Wheat is about Is. lower than on Monday last. Spring corn is dull at barely Monday's prices. The supplies of Foreign continue large. During the first week after the cessa tion of the duty upwards of 935,000 quarters of grain and meal were realised from bond in the United King dom. We have been requested to state that the project for the British Bank, advertised in The Sun, meets with support in influenti .1 quarters, and that there is every prospect of its being carried out. The notice for a reduction of the interest on Ex chequer-bills from 22d. to lid. per centum per diem excites some controversy. Some think that a safer rate would have been 2d. at present, and that when the June bills fell due they c )uld have been lowered to 14d., if the Money Market justified it. The Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway will not obtain from Government the assistance intended, owing to the opposition manifested to the 50,0031. grant, and in consequence the remaining 151. will be called up, and preference shares must also be issued if that important trunk line is t) be completed. The Blackwall Railway will pay a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share for the half-year, free of income-tax. The Stock Market is exceedingly quiet, and the Exchequer-bill Notice only improved Consols momenta rily. The jobbers are timid as to a renewed supply of ' money stock, and hence the indisposition to do business. Consols have been done at 931 ; for Money, and 93- for Account, and are now quoted 934.4 and 934 4. The Exchequer -bills (to be paid off) are at 38s. to 395. premium, and those still bearing 2d. interest are 445. to 48s. premium. India Bonds are 525. premium. There has been a bargain in South Sea stock, at 1011. The New Three-and•a- Quarter per Cents, have realised 944 to 944, and the Three per Cents. 934 to 931. Bank Stock is about 195 to 197. In the Foreign Stocks there is likewise very little doing. Spanish Five per Cents. are, however, rather better, being 174 4. Mexican 25 to 251, being still flat. Granada are firm at 17 to 171 for the Active, and 3i for the Deferred Bonds. Chilian have been done at 94. Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cents. have been 504, and the Four per Cents. 80i a. The Railway Share market is rather heavy. It is reported that the Eastern Counties dividend will be only ss. 6d. per share, but we cannot confirm this. The East India meeting is now in progress, and there is an animated discussion as to the obtainment of a 5 per cent. guarantee. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE. O'CLOCk (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 5 6 34 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 93 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus. 9 4 3 4 1 / 254 Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 8 15-.16 India Bonds under 1,0001......„.......« 52 p South Sea Stock 101% Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 2 1 / 2 d. 2d. March. June. LOOM 500! Small 39 38 p eRIOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent........, .. 94 Grenada, 1 per Cent. . Ditto Deferred ...3 Mexican tion(4s, 1846, 5 per Cent Cent Ditto for the Account 25 25 1 4 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto for the Account ... 17 1 / 2 3 4, Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 50% Ditto for the Account 5 0 34 Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates t3U;'INES DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOC% RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SuAas. berdeen Caledonian 5O 23 1 ,4 22% 23 IA to 2234 Ditto, New 101. Preference 7% B % SA -- to Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 East Anglia, 251. L. & E., sod L. & D Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2% %... to E astern Counties Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 - Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... IA p to .ast Lancashire - Ditto, New . - East Lincolnshire ... 25 Great Northern Do. % B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6 1 ,E 5% to Do. Extension ... q reat Western 100 lO3 ...... to 101% Ditto, Half Shares Do. New 171 .... - Lancaster and Car1i51e.... Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ..... ....•• to Ditto Quarters 17% 14% ...... to -- Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6 k Do., West Riding Union... 8 .... - London & Blackwall ......131.65. 8d 5 iii ...... tO L )nd., Bright., & South Coast 50 - Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 LDndon & North Western..loo-141% 142 1 4 141 to 142 Dl. New Do. Fifths London and S. Western...— 5O .. ... 40 - Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Deposit and 5 per Ct. on Calls blanch, Buxton, & Matlock 41 ,4. 1%...... to -- Manchr,Sheffield, and Linc.loo - Do., New 10.. Preference.. 10 ... IIV4 . to Mllidland...... ..... ........ ...100 . 9l 90 ... to 90% Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo 115% to •-• Rlidland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 124 ...... to --• North British .. .. ..., - Ditto Half 5hare5........... 12 1 4 74 to -- Do. Quarters 6 ,4 3 34... .. to --. , North Staffordshire... .. ...... 15 Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Birmingham 10 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W . ..iin.) Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....-. 10 - Shropshire Union 5 ... .. 2 1 4..... to --- South Eastern Ditto, Registered No. 4... 10 South Wales York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 . to -. Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 20 - Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 20 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 ... .. 83 to --' York and North Midland .. 50 ...... 54ki to -- Ditto, Preference Ditto Eastand +i , estßiding Extension ..... 25 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 9/A Boulogne and Amiens 2O ......9 3 4 10... to Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) ... ...... 18 - to 1 1 Luxembourg Ditto . - Namur and Liege 2O ...... 8'4%... to -- Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7 . 396%Ac to Paris and Rouen Paris & Strasbourq ..,....... 9 Rouen and Havre ... 20 Sambre and Meuse - Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 9 - JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock ..... ..... 10 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ...... 40% ..... to ELOPEMENT PREVENTED BY TELIGRAPII.-""° 0 Saturday eveni ng , i n f ormat i on b y te l egrap h as treas , mitted from Ca m b r id ge t o th e L on d on terminus of at' East. rn Counties Railway, that a young lady had chill' destinely left her parental roof, and r e questing her dr tention at the station in event of arrival per rail, until f relative resident at the west-end of London should made acquainted with her elopement. The telegrap h was accordingly again in requisition, and every precsl l ., - tion adopted. Among the passengers of the eleff o'clock train was a lady dressed in puce-coloured setts and wrapped in a grey mantle; she was handed frees a fist-class carriage by a gentleman in a white Chester field, their only luggage a small carpet bag. So ece"; rately had the lady's appearance been described, tb s • identity was established, and while hastily leaving Id platform, they were politely informed instructions 11, been received which would preclude the possibility of IP O lady's departure until the arrival of a relative. ist 4 f . , nishment at this unexpected detainer was succeeded v.,' chagrin, mingled with vows of reciprocal love and eteb n i ' nal constancy, interrupted by the sudden appearance - 0 the lady's uncle, who, by aid of the telegraph, had bea n enabled to arrive shortly after the runaways. Placie; his niece in a cab, the old gentleman drove off, leavi v f l . the disappointed swain in deep dejection. The Ist t ," o was said to be a collegian, and the lady's relatives ole k ' e in the first circles in Cambridge. A letter left by , t" fair fugitive on her toilet afforded a clue to the affair' a On Saturday last the following gentlemen receiv e i c official information that they had been raised to the r t l f , of Queen's Counsel :—Mr. R oun d e ll P a l mer , M.P.. 1.- he Lloyd, Mr. Calvert, Mr. H o p e , M r . M a li ns of Equity Bar, and Messrs. Keati ng an d G reenwoo d of t:, O Common Law Bar; together with a patent of precede°o to Mr. Sergeant Kinglake. This selection, as fa r f . concerns the Common Law Bar, has occasioned, we n e .:",t. great surprise and discussion, as it was fully s ° ° ,l l l pated that at lea s t t wo gent l emen w h ose na mes : d i. not be found among those above enumerated—one e m — be nently distingui s h e d by his professional abilities, and I other not only ac k now l e d ge d to b e a most a bl e 10 8 but to ha ve lik ew i se atta i ne d a consp i cuous eleYst i° : in literature— w o u ld h ave b een h onoure d with &f t silk gown. Am on g the pr omo ti ons j us t mentions tk o will be observed that the Northern Circuit. the o° ol Circuit, the Midland Circuit, the Norfolk Circuit , : be e the North and South Wales Circuits have been alt.: 3 ll e 0 omitted. This circumstance is the most rernarksp',„ t o reference to the Northern Circuit, where in place tattoo Queen's Counsel, as there were formerly, there are A tO only three—Mr. Baines having been recently remov, e ,"o. fill the o ffi ce of Chief Commissioner of the Poors'or At the least the Lord Chancellor has shown an hcn° able disregard to anything like the prompting' °f P ° tical partisanship. s oot A gentleman at Southampton was holding A P fo ld on his finger, and in its fright and eagernes s to __ P w ith falling to the ground, it caught hold of his fing,_er_,ooB its beak and bit it violently. His hand and arse 15:100 inflamed and swelled dreadfully, and he has Si" ' obliged to have his finger amputated.c for CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.- - "T a , a 7 44 4 the week ended Feb. 11, 1849:—Coaching tr PilL ,2 Bol. 10s. 2d. ; parcels, 481. I la. 3d ; goods and ciiy_A: 2s. 3d.; Bteam-bonts,ll2/. 55.4 d. Total, 1,185 L up