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THE SUN, THE ,EGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1949.) Capital, 2,000,00C1., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share Pro r.actuses and hill information may be obtained at the Tempe Vary OtThies of the Company, 13a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap plication to very conspicuously that his conduct was partially the result of a lackadtsical sentimentality and partially of a very silly and preposterous spitefulness. His vanity was wounded by the abbreviation of his own diluted platitudes, and he endeavoured to diminish the cravings of his egotism by that smallest possible de scription of vengeance still unfortunately within the reach of any political lunatic who may happen to find his way into Parliament. Although the whole occurrence has about it much of the frivolity of a burlesque, insomuch that it is scarcely possible to think without laughing of the ridiculous figure cut by the Hon. Member for Limerick, we cannot but feel satisfied that the feelings excited by it throughout the population will be those of sup pressed, but serious, indignation. For ourselves the matter assumes altogether a decidedly comic phasis. To our view Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL could not have presented himself before the public on the stage of Parliament under a more ludicrous aspect — had he undertaken to grin through a horse collar, or to talk the brogue through the bubbles of a pan of treacle, or to dance the College hornpipe like the gentleman's gentleman in " Pickwick," who went through the same hilarious movement among the oyster- shells on the table, while Mr.SAMUEL WELLER, surveyed the entertainment with unmeasured admi ration, and Mr. JOHN SMOLKER played a melodious accompaniment on a hair comb and a curl-paper ! Such at least is the absence of anything at all like importance in the proceedings of the Hon. Member for Limerick, that we can afford to observe his vaga ries with a good-natured indifference, an indifference that only betrays its existence now and then in casual explosions of laughter. A moment's reflection, however, is sufficient to assure us that what may be all very amusing once in a way, is liable to be a source of very serious annoy ance, so long as the Press, the People, and the Par liament are at the mercy of any spiteful egotist. According to the standing order of the House of Commons any Member may, as Mr. JoHN O'CoN NELL did last evening, exclaim in obedience to a momentary freak, or in consequence of a tem porary hallucination—" Sir, I see strangers in the gallery !" And, thereupon, in compliance with the regulations of that standing order, the reporters to the public journals are excluded from the precincts of Parliament, the discussions are continued in secresy, the multitude is left to guess at the nature of the arguments and the results of the divisions—and all the while this may be, as it was last night, in direct opposition to the wishes of the rest of the Represen tatives ! The galleries, in short, as the rules of Par liament are at present, may be cleared, not by a majority of votes, but by the whim of a single Member! No matter if that Member be mad, eccentric, or splenetic, so soon as he chooses to exclaim—" Sir, I see strangers in the gallery !" so soon must those strangers, and with them the reporters, walk out of the House and into the streets of Westminster. The absurdity of this is plainer than a pikestaff. Some safeguard is required in its regard--and that nut only for the advantage of the public, but for the dignity of Parliament. Al ready we are rejoiced to see the opportunity of that safeguard being secured through the instrumentality of the Hon. and Gallant Member for the borough of Bradford. Thanks to Colonel PET BONNET THOMPSON, we shall by a speedy modifica tion of the standing order of the Commons be saved from the chance of any more such eccentric interrup • tions—arising from the total aberration of that little modicum of intellect which it has pleased PROVI DENCE to bestow upon Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL. G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tem. JAME S'S TREAT it E. Season 1849. FRENCH PLAYA and OPERA COMIQUE. On MONDAY EVENING, Th. Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with ST. LA VENDETTA. To conclude with NE TOCCIIEZ PAS A LA REINE. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in =eased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion sio determined as follows : Boxes .. • • • • .. 6s. Od. Pit• • • . .• 33. Od. Amphitheatre .. • • .. 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at itc s-hstreets ell' Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Boa-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Appearance but Two of Mdlle. Carlotta Grist. Afadlle. ALBONI " Barbiere di Siviglia." THIS EVENING, May 19, will be presented Rossini's celebrated Opera, IL B IRBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina, Mdlle. Alboni ; Il Comte d'Almaylva, Signor Gardoni ; Figaro, Signor Belletto ; Basilio, Signor F. Lablache ; and Bartolo, Signor Lablache. The whole to conclude with the much a lmired Ballet of ELECTRA ; or, the Lost Pieiad. The principal parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mulles. Petit Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Juliet], Aussundon, Lamoreux, Millie. Marie Taglioni and M. Paul Taglioni. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, price 10s, 6d. each. Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE.—GER3IAN OPERA. TER S EVENING, Will be performed (for the first time these eight ye ars). Beeth oven's Opera, FIDELIO. Performances to commence at Eight o'clock. Private Boxes and Places may be obtained at the Box-office ; and at Messrs. Julhien and Co.'s, 214, Regent street. ....--,... - --- , _ ------- __ • ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Tills EVENING, i Will t e performed Donizetti's Opera, LLICREZIA BORGIA. With the following powerful en,emble, viz. : Madame Grisi, Mdlle. Angri, Signors Tamburini, Marini, Lavia , Rache, Soldi, Tagliafic o, Polonini, Luigt Mei, and Mario. To conclude with the Seco nd and Third Acts of 1, MASANIELLO, Supported by Mdlle. Wuthier, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, Mons. 1 Alexandre, and Signor Casati. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. 'lir, Al hi. UV If AL, Mr. B. Vribster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THJ' EVEN-1;,. Will be p'rformed RCZ&AYiIUSBANDS . After which a Classical Extravaganza, tilled THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE hOUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS. THEA ROYAL, ADELPEL iiircelion f Madamti Celetti.3. THIS EVENING, Will be performed HIS LAST LEGS. After which a new grand Extravagwiza, entitled THE DEVIL'S V10,.1N AND THE REVOLT Ot".filE FLOWERS. To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. 31r. Sla;,her, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Bedford. !LOYAL LYCEUM TILEATtse:. Under the Ilattagerneat of Iladant:: Vests• ±ole Lessee, Ntr. Chatlei, Ma' he c, s. • MI6 ZNINCI Will be performed ti ED UP. To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, a - .d Parselie ; Miss 11. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To zonclude with THE SEVEN CIUMPIONS OP CHRISTEN- DDM. Wei.; Ilcixe;, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, is. !So gain-price to airj part of the house. The aw i307.-oMea, So. 2, Weilin4lo'r. street, ja open to the Dro,llc ,very from Ton till Six. PRUiCESS'S Mr. J. M. '.‘iarlclifx, Sole Le Ace .11,1 .',lanAger. On MONDAY EVENING. Will be performed the Opera of LA VIYANDIERE. After wh ch A CONCERT. To conclude with BOMB ASTEn FITRIOSO. - - ASTLtY's ROYAL AMPfIITiIic:.ATE.L. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Last Week but One of the grand Easter Spectacle. In active preparation, and will be produced at Whitsuntide a new grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJEttAT ; or, the. Conquest of the Scikhs. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN . OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be tollowed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. The re-imposition of the bread tax, as a means to establish high rents, is the real question at issue in the opposition to the repeal of the Navigation Laws by certain prominent Members of the House of Lords, and their dependents and adherents out of doors ; writhing under the mortification of the majority in favour of the Government on the second reading of the Bia, are ready to go any lengths to nullify the proceedings. The evolutions of the Duke of RICH MOND and the Earl of WINCHILSEL in the House on Tuesday night are not without deep meaning, as is evident by three separate leading articles all on the reactionary movement, and extending to the length of three columns, appearing in the Carlton Club organ of yesterday morning. It would appear that there are no lengths to which a few frantic Absolutists would not go to establish absolutism, and if the speech of the Noble Duke and Earl on Tuesday night, and the scribes in the official organs of the party do not point to Conspiracy, Re bellion, and Revolution as means to attain their end if all others fail, they certainly indicate something very closely allied to it. The combination to accomplish the desired object was avowed, and the intention to seise upon the pos sessions of the Church as one mode of action. The Carlton Club organ reproduces the threatening lan guage of the Duke of RICHMOND, quoting him as the authority : " The condition of the agricultural mind upon com mercial matters generally was fairly enough put by the Duke of Richmond, when his Grace, in his own blunt way, stated that 'farmers would not stand it much longer.' " What course they are to adopt when the time comes that they won't stand it any longer, was not definitely declared by the noble Duke beyond the intention of seizing upon the tithes ; but to upset the Government of the country is more definitely pointed to by their organ of the press : "Among 400 Peers there must always be a few ner vous and easily frightened old gentlemen. These, even ‘")14"1---' 1140 I1= 0111--- ' irk in quiet times, would dread the thought of overturning a Government." But these bold Richmonds have no apprehension whatever as to the consequences of " overturning a Government !" "There be six Richmonds in the field," and' what care they for the decision of the na tion solemnly expressed by three readings carried by large majorities in one legislative assembly, and con- During three hours last evening the House of firmed by the deliberate decision of another legislative Commons discussed the Parliamentary Oaths Bill assembly, having the sanction of a clear majority of with closed doors ! At ten minutes past five o'clock the Peers Spiritual and Temporal, and which there the reporters were compelled to retire from their can be no question that the SOVEREIGN is prepared to gallery, and, being only re-admitted at ten minutes sanction by her Royal prerogative. What care theSe past eight, the country must remain in ignorance of intemperate politicians for the dynasty or the Church, the intermediate proceedings. It is scarcely neces- when these stand in the way of privileges ? nary to observe that this system of " secret legisla- , What though the majority on the second reading Con" is beyond the remembrance even of " the was composed of proxies. If the the Duke of Rica " oldest inhabitant." But that we are assured by MOND Or Lord STANLEY disapprove of voting by the historian of a bygone and benighted generation proxy, let them move for the abolition of this ancient that this plan of deliberation on the laws of the em custom, let the Peers be placed on the same footing pine sub rosa was, a long while ago, in vogue among as the Lower House, where the right of voting is the popular representatives, we should have protested restricted to those who are present on the division, in sheer disgust that the incident was without.prece- It is quite probable that this would be agreeable to dent—for certainly, to employ the quaint the nation; but let not Noble Dukes or Lords uns old phrase of the jurisconsult, " the memory of no man living runneth to the contrary:' Whether or gine that they are to be permitted to avail themselves ' not the custom of excluding the public from the of proxies to carry their own measures and reject the votes of proxies when opposed to their wishes. Yet debates of Lords and Commons were p ermit ted b y our ancestars, it is pretty certain from the views en - this is the id e a w hi c h a pp ears to be promulgated. tertained by the community now - a -da y s that no such It is known that p rox i es canno t vote in Committee, underhand mode of dealing with quest i o ns of a con- consequently one of th e t ac ti cs of the faction is stitutional importance will, in the midd l e of t h e to mutilate the Bill in that stage of its progress nineteenth century, be tolerated. One ma n thinks by rejecting or qualifying the more objectionable otherwise—that man an Irish Member—that sections ; but then her MAJESTY'S Ministers, who Irish Member Mr. Joys O'CONNELL. It IS have the conduct of the Bill have only to exercise to that Honourable Gentleman that the common firmness, call forth the proxies on the third people are indebted for the absurd and reading, and re-introduce the rejected clauses. Noble preposterous incident of last evening. To gratify a Lords are fond of precedent. This course is known petty grudge against the London journals, the repre- to have its precedent. Such an occurrence took place sentative of Limerick had the effrontery to require on the third reading of the Regency Bill in 1811. the galleries to be cleared, thereby excluding from But desperate men resort to desperate measures, and the. House of Commons, for no less than three hours, the plot seems to be thickening as to what is to be the gentlemen who report the proceedings of that the course of the Absolutists when the Bill has passed Honourable House for our own columns and for the third reading. "For" says their organ--- those of our morning contemporaries. We say the "If they mean to treat the Committee of the House effrontery, because the conduct of Mr. JOHN O'CoN- of Lords with contempt;—saying, ' You may alter what you please, but we have got sixty-eight proxies in our NELL was in dire c t o pp os iti on p to the wishes of the pockets, and when we proceed to the third reading, we Lower House of Parliament, besides being the source shall undo all you have done,'—if, we say, the Govern of an irksome and embarrassing deprivation to the corn- went mean to deal with the question in this spirit, it will remain with their Lordship:, when assembled in Com munity. That the proceeding of the Hon. Member wa s mittee, to discover whether some means do not exist, distasteful to the representatives was sufficiently whereby the House may effectually assert its legislative demonstrated by the storm of hisses and the con- character." temptuous exclarnatiens which were audible even "Effectually assert its legislative character" is some through the walls of the House after the exclusion of i thing very vague, and we are not told in distinct lan itrZWSViteVettineters. As Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL leaves us guage what this means, but we are left to draw A Bt yto conjecture in such moments of emergency, conclusions from the connecting circumstances. -- - --s *e • are reduced, to the necessity of supposing that Overturning the Governmeet has been shown by e?-;`-` ,:- - -those'derisive " balls ! " and indignant " hisses! " these bold spirits to be something only to be viewed were directed especially to the Honourable Gentleman with alarm by " a few nervous and easily frightened himself, in conAiderati,n of his having formally old gentlemen." APOLLO might be rather sensitive at repulsed the remon s t rances of the more rational I the idea of upsetting the chariot, but PHAETON views Membisrs assembled in Committee. it with no such apprehension. Hence immediately The plea raised by the Honourable Gentleman , after the ,hypothesis of the measure being constitu of the 1 himself as an excuse for his proceeding only betrays I I tionally carried through the third reading IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. Under the patronage of her Mss Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, h's Royal Highness Prince Albert, Btc. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS_ The Nobility, Gentry, and the Pablic are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashicnable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Representation of the S FORMING of BADAJOZ by the British Army, under the command of the illustrious Wellington ! The distinguished patronage which this establishment has for a lengthened period enjoyed, and the triumphant success of each suc ceeding spectacle, has stiraulated the proprietor to increased exer tions to maintain its envied celebrity. Messrs. Denson, by whom the present subject has beefi modelled, designed, and produced, have devoted many months to it, and the un rivalled skill which they possess, assisted by Messrs. Turner, Adams, and other first-rate artists, have enabled them to produce a picture unequalled for magnitude, accuracy, and beauty of execution. The ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT is extensive and varied, and has lately been enriched by several rare importations, including the splendid presents of his late Highness Ibrahim Pasha. The Embellishments of the New and Magnificent ORCHESTRA are now complete. REMINGTON'S iERIAL BRIDGE. The BAND, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, has been selected from the most talented Artists in the profession. Among ethers of first rate ability will he found—Mr. Baser, Messrs. Richareson, Collins, jun., George and Viotti Collins, Griesbach, Hardy, Egerton, Shearon, Calkin, Winterbotham, Boileau, Stevenson, and Reynolds. The VOCAL DEPARTMENT will be sustained by a succession of the most popular and favourite Singers. First appearance of 31155 Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder. The FIREWORKS by the Messrs. Southby, whose skill in ryro techny has been too long established t') - teed eulogising. REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from the Conieztionary•rooms only could b) procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinct portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. Doors open at Nine o'Clock. — Adm ission One Shilling. Childeen admitted to the Reserved Seats and Shilling Gallery at Ha past Feeding of the Carnivore at Fi ve . The Pelicans, &c., at Hal Five. Concert at Six o'Clock. Pyrotechnic Exhibition at Dusk. Mons. JULLIEN will give a Series of GRAND CONCERTS during the Season. Due notice will bo given of his first appearance. ILi E WEATHEP..—SnN OFFICE, MAY 19. THEr NONETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 61; Noon. 59. BAROMETER, 30.08.—A rise of nearly half-an-inch since yesterday. WIND N.W.—Moderate breeze and cloudy. AT LONDON i;lstii(4E. Tam I)av —3lor ,:ns7, 19 min. after 11 1 Evening, 46 min. after 11 To-YoaaoW-IVorninr, 0 rnl'. after 0 EvealnE, 13 min. after 12 ..c, - -IV 7 -'4 4-V :', r 4, A.l ~.° '-`-"' ~.. r: 1 ), , - •.,,, , ...,-. .J ' , ,:. 0 , , , :.,?r , • - ~, ~„„- 1 _ El— e„ ~,.,,,, : AKA , ..• ori ~ , _ .E_E . bi egc , tr • :,to" , Ditorr ~.,, •• •„.... _ ..,„, Obtittillt 4U-115 c-tV LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1849. r• LONDON, Upper House, the subject is egain reverted to of " overturning the Government"— " As to the existence of the Government, that is a matter past caring for." It may be all very well to endeavour to soften it down by intimating that by " overturning the Go vernment" they merely mean a change of Adminis tration. The words have evidently a far deeper meaning, coming, as they do, from a party who have already pointed to the combination for seizing upon the tithes if they cannot obtain a corn-law. Would those who have no scruples as to robbing the Church permit the Dynasty to stand in the way of accomplishing their tyrannical projects ? That they would not permit it to interfere between them selves and their darling object, is intimated in the very newspaper from which we have been quoting, which says : " We all know that there are limits to forbearance — that there is a term to patience the most exemplary, and to submission the most perfect—that men in the colonies are not very different from men at home—that however attached to the mother country, to its institu tions, to its laws, to its people—that however proud of their connexion with the fortunes of the British em pire —however loyal, however reluctant to swerve from their allegiance to a revered and beloved Sovereign— there are considerations of person, family, property, and honour, which override even all these generous sen timents." True, the primary application of this was made to Canada, but the parallel case is shown to be "at home." A deep-thinking and sagacious observer and writer on public events—one who looks with no friendly eye on this revolutionary movement, has pointed out the close connexions between affairs is Canada and those which are passing in this country; but here we have the analogy traced by the chief actors themselves. The same writer who first pointed to the connexion between Absolutism in the colonies and in the mother country_ has directed public attention to the remarkable fact of the arrival of a bird of ill-omen on our shores, an elder and malign branch of the reigning family ERNEST, of Hanover, at this critical juncture. When the decision of a majority of both Houses of Parliament is referred to as some- thing beyond which there is to be an appeal; when we are told, in however bhmt a way, that there are parties who " would not stand it much longer;" when manifestoes are issued in the provinces, under the walls of the baronial mansions of Noble Lords, who are giving themselves out as leaders, calling upon their tenantry and dependents to prepare for joining a combination now forming in London ; when the de struction of the Church, or the seizure of the tithes as one object of the combination, is declared with cheers in the House of Lords, when " overturning the Government," is set forth in their press as another o - jeer, and when certain of her MAJcs - ry's subjects in the colonies having risen in rs , .l3Alion, sympathy with the rebels is expressed by the mal- contents here, and their course vindicated by showing that "there are considerations" which supersede allegiance to the Monarchy ! when simultaneously with this, a suspicious looking character is introduced in the per son of a foreign Prince, pensioned by this country, and claiming to exercise direct legislative powers in one branch of the Legislature with a contingent re versionary claim to the throne, not withstanding that a constitutional oath declares "That no foreign prince or potentate, bath or ought to have any jurisdic tion in these realms"—when all these scenes and acts in the great drama are passing, it will behove the Go vernment to manifest their firmness and decision in the only course which can secure the confidence of the nation, and thus preserve all that is worthy of preservation in our institutions. The substitution of ERNEST and Bread Tax for VICTORIA and Free Trade is what all good men and true will earnestly contend against. The whole of the correspondence relating to the Anglo-French mediation in the affairs of Sicily has at length been presented to Parliament. It forms a folio blue-book of nearly a thousand pages. We have hitherto abstained from alluding to it, because it is our custom to make ourselves acquainted with the contents of a book before venturing to offer an opinion on it. Our reactionary contemporaries, however, manage matters in a much more compendious manner, =done of them, adopting the usual reactionary tactics, of drawing upon his imagination for his facts, fired off an article on the subject, -at a time that it was impossible he could have read the correspondence, and attempted, as all the advocates of the King of Names have throughout the controversy attempted, to draw a comparison between the union of Sicily with Naples, and the union of Ireland with England. The and tchaes andre e s a i r s e about Macedon. a r utlike v e r a2 i n as h There Monmouth," l nin ma t eu e cases river th,,, in of ql‘ui oa teho dMon mouth tuhne sapient and choleric FLUELLIN. " Sicily is an island and Ireland i s a n i s l an d," sa y th e equally sapient andt w a e s r there united choleric FLUELLINS Of Politics, and h in ited eae t England h o casethe by r an Actesemblance e o n f d p s. arlfa r m el e a n n t d , solemnly discussed in the Irish Legislature, and adopted by a l arge ma j or it y i n b o th H ouses of so t e r f a n r tt h , oef waste KING, Siciliani promulgatede d to rarliarn the Iri:h Parliame n t. Si c ily, on th e con y,NaplesoParliament. without t. b yl r l a t a h n e d d con- ec lv r eaesunited to England according to law ; Sicily was united to Naples contrary to law. The independence of Ireland has never been guaranteed to her by any other Power, consequently no foreign nation has any right to interfere in her internal affairs. The inde pendence of Sicily and her constitution were solemnly guaranteed to her by Great Britain, in return for per mission granted to her to hold military occupation of Sicily during the war; and in consequence of that occupation Great Britain was enabled to take and to hold Malta, to expel the enemy from Egypt, and to render assistance to the Duke of WELLINGTON in Spain ; and even as late as 1816 the right of inter ference in the affairs of Sicily was claimed by Great Britain, and admitted by the King of NAPLES. Lord Caseenieeou, in his note of 6th September, 1816, addressed to Mr. A'CouaT, the British Minister at Naples says—" His Royal Highness (the PRINCE REGEN T of England) would feel himself equally com pelled, however reluctantly, to interfere, if he had the mortification to observe any attempt made to reduce the privileges of the Sicilian nation in such a degree as might expose the British Government to the re proach of having contributed to a change of system in Sicily, which had in the end impaired the freedom and happiness of its inhabitants, as compared with what they formerly enjoyed ;"" and that the changes introduced into Sicily by the Neapolitan Government have impaired the freedom and happiness:of its inhabi tants is abundantly proved by the testimony of one who was resident in Sicily from 1810 to 1814, who, as son-in-law of the KING, took part in all the transactions of that period, whose authority no member of " the great Conservative party" will dare gainsay; who is the " wise Monarch" of the Earl of ABERDEEN, and the "illustrious friend" of Lord BROUGHAM ; by the testimony of no less a personage than LOUIS PHILIPPE himself. In the Parliamentary Blue Book, page 16, No. 20, we find a dispatch from the Marquis of NooeIANBY, dated Paris, Jan. 27, 1848, in which the Noble Marquis reports a conver sation which he had with the KING of the FRENCH, at his Majesty's own desire, on the affairs of Sicily. " His language upon this subject," says the Marquis of NORMANDY, " was most strong against the con duct of the Neapolitan Government. He said that all the successive Sovereig ns of Na p les bad committed a series of wrongs upon the Sicilian people ever since the island had been restored to them in conjunction with the kingdom of Naples; they had violated the Constitu tion which .they had promised the nationality which they to uphold by destroying . The edict by which they had engaged to maintain. h a d suppressed the name of Sicily was most arbitrary. Hi s MAJESTY considered the title of King of the United Kingd om of the Two Similes as nonsense, but as having been devised for the insidious purpose of getting rid of the Sicilian obligations by a side wind. He stated also that there had , been a systematic viola tion of an original engagement entered into by the predecessors of the present SOVEREIGN at the time of the original transfer of the island when they had pro mised that there should be only few employments held by Neapolitans or Spaniards." So much for the conduct of the Neapolitan Govern ment ; now as to the duty of Great Britain'; and here again we will quote, not a Democrat, not a Repub• Page 5 of Corrc•spundence relating to Sic:Hun Af fairs, 1814-1816, presented to the House of Lords, in pursuauce to the address to her Majesty of April 27, 1549. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, IM9 lican, not a Liberal, not a Radical, not even a Whig, but a leading member of " the great Conservative party," one who has worthily occupied a seat in a Conservative Cabinet, and who, whenever the Con- servatives shall be restored to power, will in all probability be again a Cabinet Minister—we will quote the authority of my Lord ELLENBOROUGII. In the course of a discussion on Sicilian affairs on the 2d March, 1821, in the House of Lords, Lord En- LENDOROUGH, speaking of our connexion with Sicily, said, " He could not forget that connexion, nor the circumstances under which a constitution had been established in that island; nor the pledge which we had given to its inhabitant s on leaving it. We had promised them that they should not be left in a worse situation than that in which we found them. And yet the King of Naples, who had no more right to unite Naples and Sicily than the King of England had to unite England and Hanover, had annulled the: CO7l stitntion we had guaranteed, and which he had himself sworn to observe ; had annulled the constitution which had existed previously to that, and which he had sworn by his Viceroy to preserve inviolate ; had, in violation of both constitutions, united Sicily to Na ples." His Lordship then goes on to state that " not only the pledge which we had given, and which we "c declarationleduponblytisAßMS re. NECESSARY, o ught te h av e redeemed in 1816," b ut t h e i nterests to declare, and to sothufpaptEonnrgtolactnhe o d nstitution should be established in Sicily to which the Sicilians had not consented in their ancient Parliament." It is evident, therefore, that Lord PALMERSTON was not only justified in undertaking the mediation be tween Sicily and Naples, but was b oun d i n h onour re " by arms, if necessary, " (so says my NBOROUGII) in su pport o f t h e Si c ili an con stitution, ti.uidn Efuj,eE and the only part of his conduct which at all exposes him to censure i s , th a t at the commence ment of 1849 he made th e po li c y of England sub servient to that of th e react i onary G o vernment of France, and retired from the mediation be cause France had done so. That mediation had been commenced without France, and the retirement of France was therefore no excuse for our desertion, of our faithful ally Sicily. But it is not too late for him to retrace his steps ; Sicily still holds out, and Palermo, in which for a moment treason to the cause of S i c i lian nat i ona lit y was triumphant (thanks to the suspicious presence of Admiral BAUDIN, the gold of FERDINAND, and the culpable timidity of some National Guards), Pa lermo is again in arms for Sicilian freedom, and again hurls defiance against FILANGIERI and his hosts. We see there a repetition of the scenes of 1820, when the people, indignant at the weakness of the Pro visional Government, which had sent a deputation to General FLORESTAN PEPE to treat for peace, at tacked and disarmed the National Guard, which it treated with a chivalrous generosity, which seems now to be found only in the people, and defending the city against the Neapolitans, forced them to grant an honourble capitulation, which was sigeed on behalf of the people by the Prince of PATERNO, the father in-law of General FILANGIERI, and on behalf of the troops by FLORESTAN PEPE, the bravest and most honourable of the Neapolitan Generals. PEPE, however, made war like an honourable soldier, and disdained to sully his fair fame by the perpetra tion of bombardments, of arson, and of massacre. In 1849, as in 1820, the timid of the National Guard have been compelled to give way to the patriotic energyof the people, headed by SCORDATO, no Pole, no French man, no foreigner, but a brave Sicilian peasant, one of Nature's own nobility, who is entitled to take his place by the side of a TELL or a HorEtt. There can be no pretence for describing the present movement as one got up by Poles and foreigners ; the foreigners and their General MIEROSLAWSKI have long since left Sicily. RUGGIERO :3ETTIMO and the other members of the Provisional Government have been exiled by the reactionaries during their temporary ascendancy, and the leader of the movement is a peasant, who has had the good sense to induce his comrades to elect as head of the new Government the Baron DE Riso, a man of property, of standing, and who is used to the administration of affairs. If ever there was a national movement this is one, and we trust that Lord PALMERSTON, recollecting that the honour and character of England are entrusted to his keeping, will, as he is by the most solemn engagements bound to do, put forth all the power of Great Britain for the assistance of Sicily in this, her hour of need. One firmly written note to FERDINAND would do it. Will his Lordship write that note ? THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The official return of the Members elected for Paris was made yesterday, at three o'clock. The fol lowing is the list of the successful candidates, with the numbers polled by each :—Murat 134,829,Ledru Rollin 130,070, Lagrange 128,087, Boichot 127,998, Bedeau 124,501, Lamoriciere 121,632, Dufaure avPianssYll7,l36, Hugo 115,063, Lamenuais Barret 112,675, T. B ac 1 1. 1 1 l ftt 0 i 5 er 110,482, C oquere l 1 1 1 1 117 9 3, , ,0 3 36 7 39 6 1, , , 18, 1i1 xp 0 i r 0y e a a 1t u 1121, 1 96 1 1, 8 18 , 8, 1 5 4 0, 6 v ,. , Considerant 111,241, 111v11200:124055w905,,,, P. Leroux a0c i10,127, P eup i n 109,560, Garnon 109 162, Roger 108,309, De Lasteyrie 107 870. Perdriguier 107,838, Rapatel 107,825. Marshal BUGEAUD lost his election by four votes, the numbers polled for him being 107,821. Among the unsuccessful candidates the Socialists have polled the greater number of votes. Gaarro has 101,744, 'IMRE 101,614, D EMA Y 101,559, D'ALTON Sum: 101,432 $ PROUDHON 100 297 while M. LEON FAUCHE R h as polled only 96,539, M. TRIERS 96,397, M. DE PALLOUX 96,254, M. MOLE 93,062, and M. DE MONTALEMBERT 91,873. It will be seen from the above that Paris has re turned ten Socialists and Red Republicans, eight moderate Republicans of the Cavaignac school, three Imperialists., and seven supporters of the Ministry. Of the Ministers themselves, although all were in cluded in the list of candidates, two alone have been successful, M . M. PAssY and ODILON BARROT, M. PASSY being tenth upon the list, and below LEDRU ROLLIN, BEDEAU, LAMORICIERE, DUFAURE, and VIC PYAT fif teenth and 'below FEEtx , L AMENNAIS, and Bmo. and imprisoned at Vincen nes, HUGO , while M. OhoDl:,oasN p.BaA.cheßd.OTunstdaenrdsarornelsyt bySergeant BOICIIOT, General because C i e G A accepted ilisiEß the invitation to become a canidate, has been returned. He stands fourth on the list. A great number of the most influential Members of the present Assembly are still without seats, having failed in their elections. Among . others are MM. de Lamartine, Billault, Dupin, Duvergier d'llauranne, Gander Pages, Lanjuninais, Ducos, Jules Favre, Duclerc, A Marrast, &c. M. Achile Fould has failed both in Paris and the Upper Pyrennees. The Reactionaries have been beaten completely in the Loire et Cher, the Nievre, the Cher, the Soane et Loire, the AM, the Jura, the Upper Soane, the Drome, the Rhone, the Upper Vienne, the Allier, the Correze, and the Dordogne. It is also stated that there is every prospect of their being defeated in the Haut and Bas Rhin. At Tarn Marshal SOULT'S list, which consisted exclusively of Legitimists, has been rejected. It is calculated that there will be about two hundred Red Republicans in the new Assembly. has received t e l egraphic di spa t c hes from fifty-two The Patri e o f l ast n i g h t says th a t the Government departments, accor di ng to w hi c h it appears that, out of 454 return s , 29 8 b e l ong t o the moderate party, 85 to the Socialists , while of 71 the opinions are unknown. The Gazette de France says— " We learn this instant that a grave insurrection has broken out at Chalons-sur-Saone. The insurgents are said to be masters of the town, acd to have hoisted the red flag. A di v i s i on of the arm y o f the Alps is said to be marching in h aste upon the town . The Bourgo gne , " a Macon journal, gives the follow ing further d eta il s of the a ff a ir at Chalons, under date of the 14th : "The day before y esterda, two hussards having been y guilty of a riot in their barracks, breaking their beds, &c., were placed in confinement. This act of severity was made use of to excite the people by announcing that they had been puni s h e d for having read the Palliote, and given their votes t o th e v i olent part y. A mob collected to set them at libe r ty. The General was insu l t ed, a n d was compelled to d raw hi s swor d. Two charges were made by tEe cavalry, b ut t h e pr i soners were at length released, and carried through the place in triumph, w ith a red flog at the head of the procession. A eergent de ville, who attempted to seize on the flag, was severely handled, and the flag having been torn to pieces iu the struggle, a collection was made to purchase another, which was hoisted on the tree of liberty. Yesterday morning an enormous band of rioters marched about the town with red flags, and wearing cockades of the same colour, and carrying a bust o f L e d ru Rollin, decorated with red ribbons. Accra! ding to the accounts received this morn ing tranquillity has probably been restored, but a part of the troops cemposing our garrison has been beverthe less embarked to proceed to Chalons, for the security of the place from further agitation." The G - overntaent /10. $ received a telegraphic die. patch from General OUDINOT, dated Castel Guido, 13th May, noon, announcing that the Consul of Wur temburg, accompanied by a Roman superior officer, had just brought to head-quarters overtures for peace. We read in the Semaphore of Marseilles of the 15th instant : " The trading packet the Sully entered this port yesterday, having left Civiia Vecchia on the 11th, L-g -horn on the evening- of the 12th, and Genoa on the morning of the 13th. The expeditionary corps, com• manded by General Oudinot, still occupied the same positions ; but it was said that it would soon march on Rome. At Leghorn, the Austrians bad been very strict in their repression. We are told that after the capitula tion, the insurgents who were intrenched in the cathedral fired on the Austrian soldiers who were taking their repast in the principal square. The latter immediately discharged grape shot into the church, and we are assured, that such of the insurgents as escaped were afterwards shot. According to some passengers by the Sully, numerous executions had taken place ; the Austrians having shot, without form of trial, any person they met bearing arms or wearing the uniform of the National Guard." The National says :—" On Wednesday, at half past five in the evening, General RAOUL, commanding the artillery of the first military division, went to Vincennes. He was quite unexpected, but half an hour after the object of his visit was known. An orderly officer arrived from Paris with a dispatch from him,• and immediately the Colonel of the 6th Regiment was told that his regiment must immedi ately prepare to start for La Fere. It is usual in such cases to give regiments some days to make their preparations; but it appears that the presence of the 6th was very dangerous for the Ministry of M. Be- NAPARTE, fur this regiment corn.rtenced its march at daybreak yesterday. The precipitation with which they were ordered off by M. RULLIERE was such that the troops went aw ay without bread. We are curious to ascertain the cause of the striking dis grace inflicted on this regiment. But what will re main without being explained is, that its Colonel has been still more ill-treated. Ile received on Wednes day evening, at half-past ten, the order to proceed without delay in the direction of Saint Omer, and to give up the command immediately to the Lieutenant • Colonel." The National and Siicle state that Father VEN TURA, who had hal an interview with General NOT at the camp of Palo, had just arrived in Paris. A perfect panic prevailed at the Bourse to-day, and a considerable fall took place in the price of Government securities. The Five per Cents. opened at 871., rose to 871. 40c., fell to 851. 80e., and closed at 86f. 80c., being a fall of three per cent. since yesterday in the passage of the Opera. The Three per Cents. clmed on the Paris Bourse on Friday at 54f. 90c.; the Five per Cents, at 861. 80c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8001.; Rouen, 525 f.; Great Northern, 430 f.; Avignon, 2001.; aisle, 1051.; Bordeaux, 400 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 363''.75..; Tours and Nantes, 311 f. 25 , 2. BUSE\ ES'S DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCH M ANGE, AI( 18. Boulogne ar.d Amiens, 7r,( 4 ex coupons—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 13,3 A—East Indian, 3A--Namur and Liege, 7 , 4—Northern of France, 10%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 , A —Paris and Rouen, 22 1 / 8 -I.ioueu and Havre, 10N. 6PAIN. The Me.drid journals of the 13th have arrived. 'The debate on the reduction in the budget, pro• posed by Senor BERUDEZ DE CASTRO, was brought to a Close on the 12th, and his proposition was re jected by 144 to 26. In the course of the debate, Senor Mot, the Finance Minister, made the following observations on the subject of the Foreign Debt. With respect to the censure bestowed by Senor Pono on the Government, for the answer given to the foreign creditors, which had produced a rise in the Spanish funds abroad, Senor Mori said "the Govern ment merely replied by manifesting the desire which it has to pay that, as well as other debts : I declare, therefore, that no reply of the Government ought to have produced either a rise or fall in foreign coun tries, it having only answered that our desires to pay everything were so great as the impossibility of doing so." On the subject of the public debt, Senor MON made the following observations in opposing the proposed reduction in the property-tax : " Besides, gentlemen, the Government cannot forget that we have a debt of 14,000 millions (140 millions sterling), and that debt proceeds from the constant dif ference which there has ala ays been in Spain between the estimates of expenditure and of revenue. To the Juros, and other debts, which compose the old standing accumulation of 7,000 millions, and which debt we in herited, there has been aggregated as much more up to this time, in consequence of loans contracted in 1823, in 1834, and at other epochs, and of the extraordinary ex penses and losses occasioned by the wars; in fine, a debt has been created which compels us to expenses and sacrifices which it is not possible for any good adminis tration to think of avoiding. Taking into account the well-understood interests of the country, it should pro ceed, in consequence thereof, without being deterred by ephemeral unpopularity, and hoping for justice from its contemporaries, or at least from history." The Bolsa was closed on the 13th. GEI iIIAN Y AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The Berlin State Gazette of the 16th, contains the following proclamation of the King of PRUSSIA : " To my People,—Under the pretext of the German cause the enemies of the country have raised the standard of rebellion in the neighbouring kingdom of Ssxony and in several parts of southern Germany. To my great sorrow, a few blinded individuals have even in our terri tory allowed themselves to be seduced to follow that, standard and to overthow Divine and human order in open rebellion against the legal authorities. In so serious and dangerous a moment I teed the necessity of speaking a few sincere words to my people. I have not been able to consent to the offer of a crown on the part of the Ger man National Assembly, because the Assemby bad not the right to give away the crown it offered me without the approval of the German governments, and because it was offered me under the condition of accepting a Con stitution which was irreconcileable with tho rights and the security of the German States. In vain I have tried and employed every means to come to an understanding with the German National Assembly. I strove in vain to bring it back to the limits of its mandate and of right, which did not consist in the absolute and irrevocable es tablishment, but in the conciliation of a German Consti tution; and even after all my efforts had proved vain, I did not break with the Assembly in the hopes of a final pacific solution. But after the Assembly had entirely abandoned the ground of right, law, and duty by votes, against which honourable men had struggled in vain, alter it had accused us of having broken peace, because we had given our neighbour in trouble victorious assistance, after it had appealed to open resistance against me and the governments, who, like me, had refused to accept the di , estrous conditions of the Constitution, it is the Assembly that has broken with Prussia. Its majority is no longer composed of those men to whom Germany Las looked up with pride and confidence. A large number seceded freely when the path of ruin was begun, and I have recalled, by my yesterday's ordonnance, all the Prussian deputies who still belonged to it. The same will be done by other Go vernments. In the Assembly a party now reigns which is in coalition with those men of terror, who assume the unity of Germany for a pretext, but, in reality, excite the struggle of impiety, perjury, and rapine against thrones, in order to overthrow with them the protec tion of right, freedom, and property. The atrocities which have been committed at Dresden, Breslau, and Elberfeld, under the hypocritical cry of German unity, give melancholy proofs of it ; other atrocities have been committed, and are still being prepared. These enormities have caused the hope of effecting the unity of Germany by the National Assembly of Frankfort to be lost; but I have not yet despaired of it, as I declare sincerely and according to my royal conviction. My Government has taken up, in conjunction with the plenipotentiaries of the great German states who have joined me, the task commenced at Frankfort, of forming a German Constitution. This Constitution will shortly give to the nation what it has the right to expect and enact—its unity manifested by an executive unitary go vernment, representing worthily and powerfully abroad the name and interests of Germany ; and its liberty guaranteed by a national representation with legislative power. The constitution drawn up by the National Assembly has served as the basis of this, and only the clauses which, arising from the struggles and conces sions of parties were injurious to the welfare of the country, will be modified. This constitution will be submitted to the approval of all the States which shall join the Federation. Let Germany have confidence in the patriotism and-probity of the Prus sian Government—its confidence will not be disappointed. Such is my policy. Madness or falsehood alone can, in presence of such facts, have affirmed that I have re nounced the cause of German unity, and that I had be come faithless to my former convictions and promises. Prussia is called upon in these difficult times to protect Germany against her internal and external enemies. She is bound to perform this duty, and she will perform it. I therefore now call my people to arms. We must re-es tablish order and law in our own country, and in the other countries of Germany who have need of our support. Tho object to be attained is the foundation of German unity, and to protect its liberty against the terrorism of a party who would sacrifice to its passions mora lity, honour, and good faith—of a party who have succeeded in deceiving and misleading a portion of the people. The danger is great, but deception will not stand against the good sense of my people. Old Prussian fidelity, the ancient glory of the Prussian arms, will re spond to the appeal of the King. It my people are with me as I am with th , m, with sincerity and confidence, the benediction of God and a magnificent victory wilt not fail u;. " Chariottenburg, May 15. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM. (Countersigned) 6 . Count DE BRANDENBURG." A Berlin letter of the 13th says :—" It, appears certain that a Constitution of the Empire, to be granted by Prussia, and other royal Governments, is already printed, and will be sent to all the Govern- The preamble is in the following terms : 'To put an end to anarchical and democratic tenden cies, &c.'" The Cologne Gazette of the 17th contains a letter, dated Hagen, the 13th, from which it appears that the whole of Brandenburg is in open insurrection. The people of Tserlohn have pillaged the arsenal of the Land wehr, and carried off the arms. Barricades have been erected in the streets, and all the male population is under arms. At Hagen and the other environs, every thing convertible into weapons was seized, and the inhabitants rushed to the assistance of Tserlohn. A deputation was sent to the latter city by the com mandant of Munster, commanding it to capitulate : one of the condidons was the restoration, within 48 hours, of all the arms carried off from the arsenal, under the threat that Tserlohn would otherwise be most rigorously dealt with, and the city declared in a state of siege. A popular assembly was immediately held at Tserlohn, by about 1,000 armed men from Heigen, Minden, and the other environs. The propositions were rejected, and a declaration made that no arms should be returned until the KING had dismissed his present Ministry, and recognised the constitution of the empire. All the defiles were occupied by the Rifle Brigade, and the country people have rim-n. BADE N. A Provisional Government has been formed at Carlsruhe, under the name of " Commission of the Country," consisting of Messrs. BRENTANO, HEIN RICH, HAFF, RICHTER, A. GOEGG, WERNER, and REIENIANN. This Commission published the follow ing proclamation on the 14th : " Fellow-citizenzl—Thirtecn months of a painful com bat, thirteen months of difficult sacrifices have been passed through. During that time we have only been sustained by the hope that our fine country would recover liberty, and a fraternal bond would unite all Germans. But, no sooner had the constitution been definitively voted, than the conspiracy of the Kings broke out, as also their perfidious alliance with the Czar of Russia, to enslave the German people, who proved tb&r generosity in the month of March last year. In a word, tho counter revolution displays itself boldly and unmasked. Fellow citizens! in such a struggle the bravo army, our brethren and yours, could not hesitate to see that their duty called them to the side of the people. They have felt that, as children of the country, they ought to com bat for the liberty of the people, for tne unity of Ger many, and the grandeur of the nation. Accordingly, the army has }Dined you. It does not combat against the people, but against the enemies of the liberty of the country. This union of the army with the people was not a sufficient motive to induce the GRAND DUKE to tyke to flight; but Ministers guilty of treason gave him the advice to do so; and they have abandoned the Go vernment, and given up the affairs of the country to chance. Fellow-citizens, in recalling to mind the en gagement which we took before the great assembly of the P eople at Offenburg, and obeying the wishes of the communal authorities, wo have this afternoon entered the town, at the head of our brave soldiers. We will employ all our aforts to protect persons and pro perty, by establishing a popular form of Go vernment. We will do all that may depend on us to carry on the Government. We will remain in the place which has been assigned to us by our duty and by the wish of the people, until the people shall have deter mined on the form of Government. Fellow chi nns, our task is dneult, but we feel that we have the energy ne cessary to fulfil it. Second our efforts, and we do not doubt that lib, rty will end by triumphing. The Commission of the Country, in te name of the country, "M. K. BRENTANO, HEINRICH HAFF, " RICHTER, A. GOEGG, " W ERNER, REHMANN." The above was published in the official g,zette, which has taken the name of " Organ of the Curninis,ion of the Country," and come out under the number 1. The fallowing communication to the communal au thorities has also been published : " Carlsruhe, 14th May. "In consequence of the late events many soldiers from ;he army of B.wlen have left their quarters. They are called upon to return quickly, that they may serve the cause of liberty. All the communes of the country are invited to employ all the means in their power to induce the soldiers to return to their quarters.—By order of the Executive Committee, EICHFELD." The following has also been published by the Pro , visional Government of Carlsruhe : _ _ " Appeal to the Of Officers who in conse quence of the late events are no longer under their co lours, are desired to place themselves at the disposal of the Minister of War, it the liberty of the people and the good of the great country of Germany are dear to them, and they feel it to be their duty to defend them. In the name of the Executive Committee, " Eicur F.LD." A letter from Mannheim, of the 14th, states tbat no sooner did the intelligence of the events at Canis ruhe reach that town than the soldiers refused to obey their officers, joined the people, and promenaded the town with them arm in arm, singing revolution ary songs, and crying, " Long live IIEcKER, the Republican chief!" At Fribourg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, on the 14th, the soldiers drove away their officers and were about to proceed to elect others. A Wurtembergcr General, stationed near the town, sent to say that if they should not make an unconditional submission before twelve o'clock next day, he would attack the town. The Committee of Public Safety had de. Glared itself in permanence. The Governor Mili tary Commandant, and several families of the town, had taken flight. The rebels were 3,500 strong with eight cannon. The Government of Hesse Darmstadt sent a bat. talion of infantry to Germersheim to protect the Grand Duke of BADEN, but it was met at Frei derschsfeld by a number of armed men, who com pelled it to quit the territory of Baden. FRANKFORT. In the sitting of the Gorman Parliament of the 16th the appointment of the new Ministry was an nounced. It is considered that this Ministry has been appointed with the intention of driving the Liberals to the commission of some rash act, which may give the reactionary party an excuse fOr having recourse to violence. The Prussian Deputies have protested against the order of the KING recalling them from Frankfort. The following is a report of the pro ceedings : GERMAN PARLIAMENT.—MAY 16. The Presldent said that the administrator had sent for him at three P.M., and had announced to him the arrival of Colonel Fescher, the expected Prussian Com missary, who, he added, was furnished with two-fold in structions:-1. To order the retirement of the Prussian Deputies from the National Assembly. 2. To see how affairs in Frankfort stood. Peals of laughter followed the latter announcement, and a groan of indignation the former one. Thirty ight Prussians at once put in a written protest against the order cancelling th, it mandate. Widenn.aun immediately moved es urgent, that no individual Government had a right to nullify the eke tions to the National Assembly, and thereby threaten the dissolution of the Assembly; and that the order of the Prussian Government was accordingly invalld, and in no way binding. Widenmann added that it would be only offering an insult to the Assembly to waste a word in vie defence of his motion.--(Loud cheer..) The motion was carried. Ayes, 287; Y•es, 2; majo rity fur the motion, 285; non -voters, 10.—(Cheers.) Mittermai,r moved to the same effect, with regard to the order issued by Austria, in April last, for the recal of her deputies. His motion also was carried by a large majority. It will be remembered that two-thirds of the Austrian members, or more, have already left. Grawell and Reichensperger announce their retire ment from the Assembly.—(Sensation.) A pause of few moments and Grawell is seen entering in lull dress. A burst of clamorous laughter is his welcome. The Members and the ladies in the gallery rise spontaneously from their seats out of pure excitement. Grawell seats himself on the Ministerial benches. The wrath and ridicule of the Assembly is poured forth plenteously upon him. The President said he had an announcement to make. Simon rushed to the rostrum. The Committee of Thirty, he said, had, with sixteen votes against twelve, framed the following resolution:-1. That a Regency of five Members be elected to carrry out the Constitution. 2. This Regency should take oath to the Constitution. 3. That, with the administration of the said oath, the agency of the Central Power should cease. 4. That the Regency cease to govern the moment the constitutional head of the empire enters upon office. The Administrator's party 'fiercely opposed both the urgency of the motion as regarded immediate debate, and the making it the subject of discussion to-morrow. Considerable altercation ensued. The motion for a sitting on the morrow, the 17th, was rejected. The Left immediately mustered 103 signatures, and called upon the President to appoint an extraordinary sitting for the 17th. The Conservative party grew wrath again, and ex pressed doubts as to the genuineness of the signatures. The President said it was his business to satisfy himself on that point ; the demand of the 103 Mem bers was in perfect order, and he must, therefore, ap point a sitting, as requested, for tour P. 31., to-morrow, the 17th. The determination of the order of the day, would, in this case, rest with the Member who had de manded the sittir g. Grawell, who had left the Assembly more than once, at last made his appearance. The President then notified the receipt of a note from the ad interim Minister, Herr Von Gs Bern, informing the Assembly that the Administrator had appointed Dr. Grawell (of Frankfort-on-the-Oder) to be Minister of the Interior and ad interim President of the Council. Grawell said a few words about his consciousness of the difficulty of his situation, his readiness to do his duty; it being evident, at least, he said, that in his advanced age, neither vanity nor ambition had induced him to accept the post assigned to him. The House would acknowledge that he could not have done otherwise than retire from the Assembly, as it would not have been advisable to have taken up a hostile poi Lion in respect of a power with which he, as Minister, would have to negotiate.--(Clamour and de rision.) The other members of the Cabinet, as far as the latter was complete, were—Detmold of Hanover, Justice ; Joebmos, Foreign Affairs; Merck, of burgh, Finance. He would lay his programme, he addid, bJ,,re the A.,sembly to-morrow. Sins , n at once interpeliated Or , new Ministry. Was it ready to carry out the eunsritutiorr ? Grawell said his programme would answer this ques. tion so clearly that he need not enter into the subject to. day. Simon movei, as urgent, " the new Minstry does no I possess the confidence of the House." He subsequently however withdrew the motion, thinking the contest of to morrow Ehoted be allowed to come off first. The House adjourned at a quarter to eight P.M. AUSTRIA. The EMPEROR was at Wieselburg on the 11th, on which day the Imperial troops were defeated by the Hungarians at Odenburg. It was rumoured in Vienna, on the 11th, that the population of Buda had risen, and had expelled the Austrian garrison. The Russian troops have entered Preran ; 7,000 of them will garriscn Vienna. ITALY. Intelligence has been received from Rome of the 9th. GARIBALDI has marched into the Neapolitan territory, and the consequence hes been that the Nea politans have been forced to abandon Frascati and several other places on the Roman territory, and to fall back, in order to provide for the defence of Naples against the advance of GARIBALDI. Pius IX., on learning the resistance of the RomanF, is said to have declared that he would not return to Rome at such a price, and to have sent a message in consequence to the King of NAPLES and to General OUDINOT to induce them to retire. It wgs reported in Rome that the Spaniards had been defeated and dispersed at Fiuminico by the soldiers of the Roman Republic. The Roman Monitore of the Bth denies the report that an armistice had been concluded, or that one was about to he concluded. Le Positivo says General OUDINOT had informed the Neapolitans and Spaniards there was nothing for them to do at Rome, the French Government con ceiving it a point of honour to finish the business they had commenced. The same journal publishes a note to the Catholic powers,.dated the 7th, and signed by RuscoNt, Roman Minister of Foreign Affairs. After observing that the Roman question, hitherto a political one, has now assumed a religious character, and that all Europe conspires to impose a deteSted power upon three millions of men, who have declared it for ever fallen, this document proceeds to state that a great people, recalling its old traditions of glory, has shaken off its slumber, and awoke to the life of nations. If the Prince whom Europe would restore at Rome were, like many others, the mere inheritor of vulgar privileges, the consequences of the struggle would be limited to a greater or lesser number of victims ; were the task Europe assumes a mere question of independence or servitude, it might be loaded with maledictions, but still the moral interests of the human race would not suffer. But the actual object of Europe shakes the edifice of religion to its very foundations, and crushes faith in thousands of hearts. The whole state of Rome has declared the downfal of the temporal power of the PONTIFF ; and, though under the menace of a French, an Austrian, and a Neapolitan invasion, all the mu nicipalities have boldly protested against its restora tion. Is this the mere voice of a faction ? The consequence is, that many believers now ask themselves whether he who repre sents a religion of peace, has a right to re-assert temporal power by force of arms; and as it is easy to confound the doctrine with its apostle, many begin to doubt the truth of religion in consequence of the acts of its head, and cannot conceive how a religion that once redeemed the world from slavery is now changed into a weapon intended to transform free men into slaves. " Let Europe," says the document in conclusion, " reflect before she proceeds ; the struggle is no longer between one army and another, but it is a struggle that embraces a whole moral world of ideas, hopes, and faith, that may have an echo in the most distant generations." Lord NAPIER is in Rome, for the purpose of afford ing protection to British subjects and British pro perty. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ro man Republic grants passports to all the English who desire them. Lord N APIER and the British Consul FREEBORN are much praised for the protection they have afforded their countrymen. The Romans have levelled to the ground every tenement that embarrassed or encumbered the free range of musketry round the walls of Rome. There is the English chapel outside the gate Del Popolo, which alone they have allowed to stand inviolate. SICILY. DEFEAT OF THE NEAPOLITANS AT PALERMO. Letters from Naples of the sth state that Palermo was attacked on the 2d and 3d by the Neapolitans, who were repulsed both by sea and land. The famous SCORDATO is at the head of the people, who have been joined by a large number of the National Guard. The English have landed 2,000 men to pro tect British subjects. INSPECTION of the HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.—(THIS DAY.) This morning the annual military inspection of the available battalions of the Household Troops quartered in the metropolis, took place on the Parade in front of the Horse Guards, St. James's Park. The ground was kept by detachments from the several battalions, assisted by a strong posse of the Metropolitan Police. A t half past nine o'clock the whole of the Foot Guards who were not on duty, marched in and occupied their re spective position—the Ist and 3d battalions of the Grenadier Guards on the right ; the Ist and second bat talions of the Coldstreams the centre ; and the Ist bat talion Scots Fusileer Guards on the left. The Guards for the duty of the day occupied the right flank ; and the Guard of Honour to attend the Drawing room, consisting of a troop of the Ist Life Guards, with their band, in state uniforms, was posted on the extreme right. Colonel Drummond took the command of the troops, who formed three sides of a square, and when viewed from the Horse Guards had a very imposing appearance. At five minutes before ten o'clock, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington, Prince Saxe Gotha, the Marquis of Londonderry, Earl of Cardigan, Lord Combermere, &c., attended by a brilliant suite, arrived, and were received by the troops presenting arms, the bands playing the National Anthem. The line was then minutely inspected by His Royal Highness and the general officers, when the troops termed divi sions by the right, and marched past in slow and quick time, when the line was again formed, and a general salute given. The men for duty were then marched to their respective guards, and the battalions dismissed to their quarters. Several fashionables were present, and the boys of tho Military School, Chelsea, occupied the space in front of the tilt guard room. IRELAAL. THE STATE PRISONERS. DUBLIN. FRIDAY EVENING.—The committee engaged in the gt-tting up toe petition to Lord Clarendon, pray ing for a cJaanutadou of the sentence upon the state prisoners, having requested his Excellency to name a day for receiving a deputation to present it, a reply was this evening returned to the effect, that as the Lord Lieutenant was to take his departure for London to •morrow he would not then fix upon a day, and that his stay in the Eng.ish metropolis would altogether depend on the state of public business requiring his presence there. The committee now purpose increasing their exertions by obtaining signatures to the memorial from all parts of the king dom. Lords Massareene and Cloncurry signed the peti tion this atternoon. CORN TRADE.-Our market to-day was not generally so firm as on Tuesday, but we do nut alter our quota tions for wheat and oats. Thero was an increased demand for Indian corn, at au advance of ls. per quar ter; white wheat, old, 235. 61 to 275.; red ditto, 225. 6cl. to 255.; barley, 13s. to 17s. 6d.; oats, I is. 6d. to 145.; oatmeal, 12s. to 145.; seconds flour, 14s. to 175.; Indian corn per 4801b5., 325. to 38s. RETURN OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE.—Her Ma• ject and the Court will nut remove trom Buckingham Palace to Osborne House till Tuesday or Wednesday next. As Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence will nut be sufficiently recovered from his recent illness, the com mand of the Fairy yacht to convey her Majesty and court across the Solent, will devolve on Commander Crispin. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Rossines Senziramide will be performed this evening at her Majesty's Theatre, with a splendid cast. Alboni resumes her part of Arsace, in which she first appeared in this country. Of Parodi's impersonation of the Assyrian Queen we ex pect great things, judging from the effect at rehearsal. These artists, with Coletti as Assur, and Lablache as Oroc, afford promise of a first-rate rendering of this magnificent opera. Mademoiselle Jenny Lind arrived at 'layer's London Hotel, Dover, on Tuesday last, and sailed for Calais on Wednesday by the South-Eastern Company's steam-packet Princess Maude, en route for Paris. OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance at this theatre with their presence last evening. His Serene Highness Prince Augustus and the Princess of Coburg accompanied her Majesty. The royal suite com prised the Countess of Desart, the Earl of Morton, Colonel Gordon, and General 'Weiryss; her Royal High ; ness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir George Couper also honoured the theatre with their presence. We observed in the boxes and stalls his Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswick, the Duchess of Leeds, the Countess of Essex, Lady Blantyre, Miss Stuart, and Miss Ann Mackenzie, the Earl of Kilmorey, Lord and Lady Polti more, Lard Brougham, Count and Countess do Marri, Baron Eugene Gerleche, Sir Frederick Trench, Sir G. and Miss Talbot, Lady Joddrill, Chevalier Drouet, &c. THE ARMY.—Sir George Grey is to have the colonelcy of the sth Foot, vice Sir Jasper Nicholl, thus rendering vacant the colonelcy of the 73d Regiment. Major-General Duffy is to have the colonelcy of the 73d Foot, vacant by Sir George Grey's change to the sth. Major-General Hare Clarges is to have the colo• reley of the 28th Fuot. Lieutenant-General Sir Colin lis'kett is to be the new Deputy-Governor of Chelsea Hospital. mud, —On the ISth instant, at her residence, Alumni House, Lincolosiiro, in her ei: , hiy-second year, Jane, relict of the late Samuel Sanders, Esq., of Gains borough, and mother of George 6anclars, Esq, MX. • for WPlkeAdd.