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. ~ T HE :, - 3EGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPAN Y. (Prc,vistorqlly Re.;istered, January 17, 1549.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Snares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share Pro pactuses and tall information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Offities of the Company, 13A, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tent sl. JAMES'S 'TH E A T it E. Season 1819. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA. COMIQUE. On MONDAY EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with LA VENDETTA. To conclude with NE TOI.TCIIEZIAS ALA REINE. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in =eased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis- Sion are determined as follows: Boxes .. • • 6s. Od. Pit • • • . .. 3s. Cd. Amphitheatre .. • • .. 4. 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. M s- it street ell Royal Library, 33, Old Bond - street ; Mr. Sams', St. James' Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till flue. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Appearance but Two of Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi. Madlle. ALBONI In "II Barbiere di Siviglia." THIS EVENING, May 19, will be presented Rossinrs celebrated Opera, IL B A..RBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Ro3ina, Alboni ; Il Comte d'Almaviva, Signor Gardoni ; FLgaro, Signor Belletto ; Basilio, Signor F. Lablache ; and Bartolo, Signor Lablacke. The whole to conclude with the much admired Ballet of ELECTRA. ; or, the Lost Pleiad. The principal parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlles. Petit Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Julien, Aus,:andon, Lamoreux, Mdlle. 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, Gd. each. Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half -past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—GERMAN OPERA. THIS EVENING, Will be performed (for the first time these e i g ht oven's Opera, years), Beeth. FIDELIO. Performances to commence at Eight o'clock. Private Boxes and Places may be obtained at the Box-office; and at Messrs. Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent street. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. TIIIS EVENING, Will to performed Donizetti's Opera, LITCREZIA BORGIA. With the following powerful ensemble, viz. : Madame Grisi, Angri, Signors Tamburini, Marini, Lavia, Roche, Soldi, Tagliatico, Polonini, Luigt Mei, and INlario. To conclude with ASA the Second and Third Acts of MNIELLO, supported by Mdlle. Wuthier, Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, Mons. Alexandre, and Signor Casati. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. is.ATItE KfJ AL, HA YMA USIA . Mr. B. Woe:Ater, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENINt, Will be prformed RUNAWAY HUSBANDS. After which a Classical Extravaganza, called THE SPHINX. To be followed by THE ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS. THEATIV.S, ROYAL, Under the fli; ecton cf Mad me Celeste, THIS EVENING, Will be performed HIS LAST LEGS. After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S V10..1N AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS. To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. sla.her, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Craaher, Mr. Paul Bedford. LOTAL LYC.LUM THEATKE. Under the Altuaagemeßt of Madam,: VestrtS. ols Lessee. Mr. Charles :Ma - he us. THIS EVENING Will be performed USED UP. To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle ; Mis 3 11. Gil bert, diS3 Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OP CHRISTEN DOM. Dress Poxen, Is.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; rit, 2s ; Gallery, Is. No balf-priee to an; part 01 the house. The New Box-odice, No. 2, Weliin.;:toi - _- street, is open to the ptibLic ry from Ten till S_Ax. PIINCE3S'3 Mr. J. M• V addo.7.. Sole 1.e , 3ge0 an! 7,ianager. On MONDAY EVENING Will be performed the Opera of LA MAN - DIEM:. After whch A CONCERT. To conclude with BOMB ASTES FLTRIOSO. ASTLEY'S ILO VAL AM PH IT HEAT RE . Proprietor, Mr. W. Ratty. 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 GOWER AT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitztall, entitled TILE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN TEE 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. Wed. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. Under the patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager. h's Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashiczable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Representation of the STORMING of BADAJOZ by the British Army, under the command of the illustrious Wellington ! The distinguished patronage winch this establishment has for a lengthened period enjoyed, and the triumphant success of each suc ceeding spectacle, has stimulated the proprietor to increased exer tions to maintain its envied celebrity. Messrs. Danson, by whom the present subject has been 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 Magt.itleent oneuzsTßA. 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 rat ability ability will be found—Mr. Bater, Messrs. Rlchari!son, 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 Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder. The FIREWORKS by the Messrs. Sonthby, whose skill in Pyro techny has been too long established to need eulogising. REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only could lyt 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 .—Admission One Shilling. Children admitted to the Reserved Seats and Shilling Gallery at Half-price. Feeding of the Carnivore at Five. The Pelicans, &c., at Half-past Five. Concert at Six o'Cleck. Pyrotechnic Exhibition at Dusk. Mona. JULLIEN will give a Series of GRAND CONC rance.ERTS during the Season. Due notice w ill be given of his first appea T 1E WEATHER—St:IN 011110 E, MAY 19. MR: lIONZTEIt, Lowest, 47; Highest, 61; Noon. 59, BABOXETEII, 30.08.—A rise of nearly half-an-inch since yesterday. WIND N.W.—Moderate tincz) and cloudy. i,z z! NAI'ER Al' LONDON iiRLDOE. Two DAY —Morning, 19 min. after 11 ; Evening, 46 min. after 11 TO-YOZAOW—MOIIIIII7, 0 mir. after 0 Even!ii,, 13 min. after 12 ' 1;... 4" ;‘& ; 70 ;i i( . ‘ _',Jr;,4l_ , de '. : s', , t7, ~,,,,T au!. it,' . , : ? .. " 1, , ,, - . % t ' l •r .: (r..ll-,:q 7 i 7 F -'7. ‘" .N '" . 4 4, \ ip q t 2., *., • Aq...., ), ....' t \ - -,,''• 4 ' ''' • ~ • ' aI E 1: ~ ...."1"‘ ~ '-e• Nt 0 -.'' ' ' v .x5 t a,,,,:e1,... - r --• -, :4Y - s'et ' ' - - 5......:':..;z: , Ttlit LbNDON, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1849. During three hours last evening the House of I Commons discussed the Parliamentary Oaths Bill with closed doors ! At ten minutes past five o'clock the reporters were compelled to retire from their gallery, and, being only re-admitted at ten minutes past eight, the country must remain in ignorance of the intermediate proceedings. It is scarcely neces sary to observe that this system of "secret legisla " is beyond the remembrance even of " the " oldest inhabitant." But that we are assured by the historian of a bygone and benighted generation that this plan of deliberation on the laws of the em pire sub rose was, a long while ago, in vogue among the popular repress n'athe s, we should have protested in sheer disgust that the incident was without prece dent—for certainly, to employ the quaint old phrase of the jurisconsult, " the memory of no man living runneth to the contrary." Whether or not the custom of excluding the public from the debates of Lords and Commons were permitted by our ancestors, it is pretty certain from the views en tertained by the community now-a-days that no such underhand mode of dealing with questions of a con stitutional importance will, in the middle of the nineteenth century, be tolerate d. One man thinks otherwise—that man an Irish Member—that Irish Member Mr. JOEN O'CONNELL. It 18 to that Honourable Gentleman that the people are indebted for the absurd and preposterous incident of last evening. To gratify a petty grudge against the London journals, the repre sentative of Limerick had the effrontery to require the galleries to be cleared, thereby excluding from the House of Commons, for no less than three hours, the gentlemen who report the proceedings of that Honourable House for our own columns and for those of our morning contemporaries. We say the effrontery, because the conduct of Mr. JOHN O'CON NELL was in dir€ct opposition to the wishes of the Lower House of Parliament, besides being the source of an irksome and embarrassing deprivation to the com munity. That the proceeding of the Hon. Member was distasteful to the representatives was sufficiently demonstrated by the storm of hiss ..s and the con temptuous exclamations which were audible even through the walls of the House after the exclusion of the reporters. As Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL leaves us only to conjecture in such moments of emergency, we are reduced to the necessity of supposing that those derisive " bahs and indignant " hisses! " were directed especially to the Honourable Gentleman himself, in consideration of his having formally repulsed the remonstrances of the more rational Members assembled in Committee. The plea raised by the Honourable Gentleman himself as an excuse for his proceeding only betrays very conspicuously that his conduct was partially the result of a lackarlaislcal ientiment lity end partially of a very 'illy 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 Oasis. 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 AIL Seel UEL 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 iin its regard•—and that not only for the advantage of the public, but for the dignity of Parliament. Al ready we are rejoiced to see the c•pportunity of that safeguard being secured through the instrumentality of the Hon. and Gallant Member for the borough of Bradford. Thanks to Colonel PE Y HORNET 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. 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 Bill, 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 seize 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 Rion/to:an, quoting him as the authority :- 1 6 , 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 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 firmed by the deliberate decision of another legislative assembly, having the sanction of a clear majority of the Peers Spiritual and Temporal, and which there can be no question that the SOVEREIGN is prepared to sanction by her Royal prerogative. What care these intemperate politicians for the dynasty or the Church, when these stand in the way of privileges? What though the majority on the second reading was composed of proxies. If the the Duke of Rica- MOND or Lord STANLEY disapprove of voting by proxy, let them move for the abolition of this ancient custom, let the Peers be placed on the same footing as the Lower House, where the right of voting is restricted to those who are present on the divi*ion. It is quite probable that this would be agreeable to the nation; but let not Noble Dukes or Lords ima gine that they are to be permitted to avail themselves of proxies to carry their own measures and reject the votes of proxies when opposed to their wishes. Yet this is the idea which appears to be promulgated. It is known that proxies cannot vote in Committee, consequently one of the tactics of the faction is to mutilate the Bill in that stage of its progress by rejecting or qualifying the more objectionable sections ; but then her MAJESTY'S Ministers, who have the conduct of the Bill have only to exercise common firmness, call forth the proxies on the third reading, and re-introduce the rejected clauses. Noble Lords are fond of precedent. This course is known to have its precedent. Such an occurrence took place on the third reading of the Regency Bill in 1811. But desperate men resort to desperate measures, and the plot seems to be thickening as to what is to be the course of the Absolutists when the Bill has passed the third reading. "For" says their organ— " If they mean to treat the Committee of the House of Lords with contempt;—saying, you may alter what you please, but we have got sixty-eight proxies in our pockets, and when we proceed to the third reading, we shall undo all you have done,'—if, we say, the Govern ment mean to deal with the question in this spirit, it will remain with their Lordships, when assembled in Com mittee, to discover whether some means do not exist, whereby the House may effectually assert its legislative character." "Effectually assert its legislative character" is some thing very vague, and we are not told in distinct lan guage what this means, but we are left to draw conclusions from the connecting circumstances. Overturning the Government has been shown by these bold spirits to be something only to be viewed with alarm by " a few nervous and easily frightened old gentlemen." APOLLO might be rather sensitive at the idea of upsetting the chariot, but PHAETON views it with no such apprehension. Hence immediately after the hypothesis of the measure being constitu tionally carried through the third reading of the Upper House, the 'subject is again reverted to of " overturning t}, u Gnverntrent"— " As to the vxintcnee of the Government, that is a matter past eating 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 t 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 ditlerent 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 it 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 blunt 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 object, and when certain of her MAJESTY'S subjects in the colonies having risen in rebellion, 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 patentate,hath or ought to have any jurisdic awl in these realms"—whm 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, and one 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 c t A t e r m i, t s ed, thr a o l u l gh th o e ut t a n d e vo c c o a n te t he could have read the' correspondence, and a s rov o e f rsy the at K tem in p g ted o , f have as to draw a comparison between the union of Sicily with Naples, and the union of Ireland with En g land. The cases are about as like as the cases of Mon mouth and Macedon. " There is a river in Macedon, and there is a river in Monmouth," quoth the sapient and choleric FLUELLIN. " Sicily is an island and Ireland is an island," say the_equally sapient and equally choleric Feuenntas of Politics, and there in each case the resemblance ends. Ireland was united to England by an Act of Parliament, solemnly discussed in the Irish Legislature, and adopted by a large majority in both Houses of the Irish Parliament. Sicily, on the con trary, was united to Naples by a decree of the KING, promulgated without the con sent of the Sicilian Parliament. Ireland was united 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 CasTnerieenu, in his note of 6th September, 1816, addressed to Mr. A'Cotair, the British Minister at Naples says—" His Royal Highness (the PRINCE REGENT of England) would feel himself equally com pelled, however reluctantly, to interfere, 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 an d 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, topic 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 NORMANDY, 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. lie said that all the successive Sovereigns of Naples had 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 Constitution which they had promised to uphold by destroying the nationality which they had engaged to maintain. The edict by which they had suppressed the name of Sicily was most arbitrary. His MAJESTY considered the title of King of the United Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 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 SOV EREIGN at the time of the criginal 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, nut a Democrat, not a Repu b- • Page 5 of Corrospondence relating to Sicilian Af fairs, 1814-1816, presented to the House of Lords, in pursuance to the Address to her Majesty Of April 1849, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, ltla lican, not a Liberal, not a Radical, not even a Whig, but ft mPlnb,r of " the gr'at crvfltivc party," one who has worthily occupied a seat in a I 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 ELLENI33ItOUGII. In the course of a discussion on Sicilian affairs on the 21 March, 1821, in the House of Lords, Lord En- LENDOROUGIT, speaking of our connexion with Sicily, said, " He could not forget that connexion, nor the circumstances under which a constitution hal been establishel 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: con siltation we had guaranteed, and which he had himself sworn to observe; had annulled the constitution which bad 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 ought to have redeemed in 1816," but the interests of England " called upon ius to declare, and to support the declaration by ARMS IF NECESSARY, that no constitution should be established in Sicily to which the Sicilians had not consented in their ancient Parliament." It is evident, therefore, th a t L or d P ALMERSTON was not only justified in und er t a ki ng th e me di a ti on be tween teSicily and Naples, but was bound in honour if necessary," (so says my , Lord ELLENDOROUGII) in support of the Sicilian con stitution, and the only part of his conduct which, at all exposes him to censure is, that at the commence ment of 1849 he n:ade the policy of England sub servient to that of the reactionary Government 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 c ause o f Si c ilian nationality was triumphant (thanks to the suspicious presence of Admiral BanDiN, 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 a ga i ns t F I LANGIERI and his hosts. We see the re a re p e titi on of the scenes of 18 20 , when the people, indignant at the weakness of the Pro visional Go v er nm e n t, 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 signed 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 Lis fair fame by the perpetra tion of bombardments, of arson, gni of massacre. In 1849, as in 1820, the timid of the National Guard have been compelled to give way to the F tat iotic energy of 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 HoFEn. 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 SETTIMO a nd the other members of the Provisional Governmen t have been exiled by the reactionaries during their t em porary a scendancy, and the leader of the movemen t is a peasant, who has had the good sense to induce hi s comrades to elect as head of the new Government th e 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. rVill 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, Dulaure 119,376, Moreau 118,146, Passy 117,136, Hugo 117,069, F. Pyat 116,185, Vavin 115,063, Lamennais 113,331, 13ixio 112,918, 0. B arret 112 , 675, T. B ac 112,259, Cavaignac 111,305, Considerant 111,241, 110,127, P eu pi n 109,560, Garnon 11%1T0o,14o5wo's,kpi Leroux 110,630, eux Ratti e r 110,482, Coquerel 109,162, Roger 108,309, De Lasteyrie 107,870, P er driguier 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. GREPEO nas 101,744, TUORE 101,614, DEMAY 101,559, w isimi h o. i LT le :9 .lN lE3 l E . ,os L 62 e , o a u nd F A a l u . c D ri ßeumo h D'ALTON SHEE 101,432, P aounnoN 1 00, 2 97, p L o E l m le n d En o:l 9 y l, 9 B 6 7 , 3 s3 . 9, 96,397, M. DE FALLOTIX 96,254, M. N as ra 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 eluded in the list of candidates, two alone have been success f u l, M. M. PASSY and ODILON BARROT, M. PASSY being tenth upon the list, and below LEDRU ROLLIN, BEDEAII, LAMORICIERE, DUFAURE, and VIC TOR II UGO, while M. ODILON BannoT stands only fif teenth and below FELIX PYAT, LAMENNAIS, and Burro. Sergeant BOICIIOT, who was placed under arrest by General CHANGARNIEn, and imprisoned at Vincen nes, because he accepted the invitation to become a candidate, 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'Hauranne, Gamier Pages, L'lnjuninais, Dueos, Jules Fevre, Duclerc, A Marrast, &c. M. Achile Pould 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 Ain, 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 Soura'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. The Patric of asst night says that the Government has received telegraphic dispatches from fifty-two departments, according to which it appears that, out of 454 returns, 298 belong to 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, and to have hoisted the red flag. A division of the army of the Alps is said to be marching in haste upon the town." The. Bourgogne, a Macon journal, gives the follow ing further details of the affair at Chalons, under date of the 14th : " The day before yesterday, two hussarcls having been guilty of a riot in their barracks, breaking their beds, &c.,_ were placed in confinement. ihis act of severity was made use of to excite the people by announcing that they had been punished for having read the Pair iote, and given their votes to the violent party. A mob collected to set them at liberty. The General was insulted, and was compelled to draw his sword. Two charges were made by the cavalry, but the prisoners were at length released, and cat Tied through the place in triumph, with a red flag at the head of the procession. A sergent de vine, who attempted to seise on the flag, was severely handled, and the fig having been torn to pieces in the struggle, a collEcticu 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 colon:. ' and carrying a bust of Ledru Ruffin, decorated with red ribbons. According to the accounts received this morn ing tranquillity h a s probably been restored, but a part of the troops composing our garrison has been neverthe less embarked to proceed to Chalons, for the security of the place from further agitation." The Government bas received a telegraphic die- patch from General OUDINOT, dated Castel Guido, , ;eniburg, accompanied by a liornau superior officer, lad just brought to head- quarto.s overtures for peace. We nad in the Semaphore of Marseilles of the 15th nstiant " Tim trading packet the Sully entered V;is port yesterday, having left Civita Vecchia on the 11th, lg 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 salt: that it would soon march on Rome. At Leghorn, the Austrians had been v.Lry strict in their repression. We are told thst after the capitula tion, the insurgents who wero intrenchcd in the cathedral find 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 Wedm,sday, 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 Fare. 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. 130- NAPARTE, for this regiment commenced its march at daybreak 3 esterday. The precipitation with which they were ordered off by M. RULLIERE was such that the troops went away 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. lie 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 Siecle state that Father VEN- TUBA, who had bad an interview with General OUDI NOT at the camp of Palo, bad 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 87f., rose to 87f. 40c., fell to 85f. 80c., :mei closed at 86f. 80c., being a fall of three per cent. since yesterday in the passage of the Opera. The Three per Cents. clawed on the Paris Bourse on Friday at 54f. 90c.; the Five per Cents. at 86f. 80c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8001.; Rouen, 525 f.; Great Northern, 430 f.; Avignon, 2001.; Basle, 105 f.; Bordeaux, 400 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 3631.75-.; Tours and Nantes, 311 f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 18. Boulogne and Amiens, 7% ex coupons—:Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 13 3 / 4 —East Indian, 3%--Nnmur and Liege, 71%—Northern of France, 10 5 4 4 -OHE/fins and Bordeaux, 3 1 / —Paris and Rouen, 22 1, 8 —Louen a.,d Havre, IV%. SPAIN. The Altdrid 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 w a s re jected by 144 to 26. n the course of the debate, Senor MoN, the Finance Minister, made the following observations on the subject of the Foreign Debt. With respect to the censure bestowed by Senor PoLo on the Government, for the answer given to the foreign creditors, which had produced a rise in the Spanish funds abroad, Senor MoN 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 triec, it having only answered that our desires to poy 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 always 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,C00 millions, and which debt we in herited, there has heeu 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 tEe 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. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES PRUSSIA. The Berlin State Gazette of the 16th, contains the following proclamation of the King of Raussil i-- " 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 Saxony 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 feel 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 had 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 the 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 h onoura bl e men h a d s t rugg l e d in vain, alter it had accmed us of having broken peace, because we had given our neighbour in trouble victorious assistance, alter it had appealed to open resistance against me and the governments, who, like me, had refused to accept the disastrous conditions of the Constitution, it is the Assembly that has broken with Prussia. Its majority is nu longer composed of those men to whom Germany has 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 ordennance, 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 prop( rty. 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 cffeeting 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 accordirg 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 gulranteed 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 notbe 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 nay 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. The 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 h ave succeeded in tteceiving and misleading a portion of the people. The danger is great, but deception will not sand 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 lam with them, with sincerity and confdence, the benediction of God and a magnificent victory wilt not fail us. " Chariottenburg, May 15. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM. (Countersigned) 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 ments. The preamble is in the following terms : "lo put an end to anarchical and democratic tenden cies, &c.' " The Cologne Gazette of the 17th contains A letter, dated Hagen, the 13';), from whirhit.appears that the peoplc! of TserlOn kore pillaied the tizsf.ual of the Landwehr, and carried oft the arms. BLrricadeslia‘%:. ben erected in tl:e ttreets, and all the male population is under arms, At IL:g, , en and the other environs, everythirg convertible into weapons was seiz , A, and the inhabitants rushed to the v.stance of Tseriohn. A deputation wcs sent to the latter city by the com mandant of Monster, commanding it to capitulate : one of the coodi!ions was the restoration, within 48 hours, of all the arms carried off from the arsemi, under the threat that Tserlohn would olherv..l:=e 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 1-1::gon, Minden, and the other environs. The propcsiti.ns were rejected, and a declaration made that no arms should be returned until the KING had dismissed his present Ministry, and recognised the constitution cf the empire. _ _ All the defiles were occupied by the Rifle Brigade, and the country peop!e have risen. BADEN. A Provisional Government has been formed at Carlsruhe, under the name of "Commission cf the Country," consisting of Messrs. BRENTANO, HEIN RICH, liArF, RICHTER, A. GOEGG, WERNER, and REHMANN. This Commission published the follow ing proclamation on the 14th : " Fellow -citizenst—Thir te( n months of a painful com bat, thirteen months of difficult sacrifices have been p:.ssed through. During that time we have only been sustained by the hope that our floe 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 their generosity in the month of March last year. In a word, the counter revolution displays itself boldly and unmasked. Fellow citizens! in such a struggle the brave 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 the unity of Ger many, and the grandeur of the nation. Accordingly, the army has joined 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 take 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 Feople at Offenburg, and obeying the wishes of the communal authorities, we have this afternoon entered the town, at the head of our brave soldiers. We will employ all our efforts to protect persons and pro perty, by establishing a popular form of Go• vernment. We will do all that may depend on us to carryon 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 -chimps, our task is difficult, but we feel that we have the energy ne cessary to fulfil it. Second our efforts, and we co not doubt that liberty will end by triumphing. The Commission of the Country, in the name of the country, "M. K. BRENTANO, ITEINRICLI HAFF, "P -CUTER, A. CI ()EGG, " %V ERNE R, _ . . . The above was published in the officiol gaz-tte, whicl has taken the name of " Organ of Cie Commis3ion 0: the Country," and come out under the number 1 Tne Ulowing communication to the communal au• thorities has also been published : " Carlsruhe, 14th May. "In consequence of the late events soldi,rs from the army of Baden 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 io their paver 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 Officers.—The 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, EICHFELD." A letter from Mannheim, of the 14th, states that 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 HEclcElt, 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 Wurtemberger 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 ' dared itself in permanence. The Governor Mili tary Commandant, and several families of the town, I 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. FRAIr KF 0 R T. In the sitting of the German 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 President said that the administrator had sent for him at thrse P.M., and had announced to him the atrival of Colonel F'escher, the expected Prussian Com missary, who, he added, was fur nished with two-fold in structions:—l. 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 or indignation the former one. Thirty t ight Prussians at once put in a written protest against the order cancelling their mandate. Widenmatm immediately moved as urgent, that no individual Government had a right to nullity the elec tions to the National Assembly, and thereby threaten the dissolution of the Assembly; and that the order of the Prussian Goverum ,, rit was accordingly invalid, and in no way binding. Widenaninn added that it would be only offering an insult to the Assembly to waste a word in the defence of his minion. --(Loud cheers.) The motion was carried. Ayes, 287; Nees, 2; majo rity for the motion, 285; non -voters, 10.—(Cneers.) Mittermaier moved to the same effect, with regard to the order issued by Austria, in April last, for the renal of her deputies. His motion also was carried by a large mljority. It will be remembered that two-thirds of the Austrian members, er more, haVe already left. Grawell and Reichensperger announce their retire • ment from the Assembly.—(Sensation.) A pause of a 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 plenLously 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, theretore, ap point a sitting, as requested, for tour P.M., 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 sitting. 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 Gagern, informing the Assembly that the Administ:ator had appointed Dr. Grawell (of Frankfort-on-the-Oder) to be Minister of the luterior and ad interim President of the Council. Grawell said a fcw 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 position 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 ; Jochmos, Foreign Affairs; Merck, of Ulm burgh, Finance. He would lay his programme, he added, la,fore the Assembly to- morrow. Simon at once intvrpellated the new Ministry. Was it ready to carry out the constitutioN? Grawell said his programme would answer this ques tion so clearly that he need net el:Ito:into the subject to day. 5i1114 , 11 1/3::Ve 1, " new 11:ni!ry - ." howe.vt r w,t!itivew the rtv.tion, thiLkit!g the conient of to" morro . I ,loulti be allowed to come The House adjourned at a Tiqrter to tight P.1.:7 t does AUSTRIA. Tile EMPEROn was at Wieselburg on the lltb, on which day the Imperial troops were defeated by ti e Hungarians at o,lenhurg. It was rumoured in Vienna, on the 11th, that the population of Buda had risen, and had expellel the Austrian garrison. The Russim troops have entered Preran ; 7,0 00 of them will garriecn Vienna. ITALY. Intelligerce has been received from Rome of tl 9th. GARIBALDI has marched into the Neapolitan territory, and the consequence lees been that the Nea politans have been forced to abandon Frascati au several other places on the Roman territory, and t°, fall back, in order to provide for the defence e 4 Naples against the advance of GARIBALDI. Pius IX., on learning the resistance of the Roman is said to have declared that he would not return t 0 Rome at such a price, and to have sent a message in consequence to the King of NAPLES and to Gener OUDINOT to induce them to retire. It was reported iu Rome that the Spaniards iga been defeated and dispersed at Fiuruinico by t l-0 soldiers of the Roman Republic. The Roman Monitore of the Bth denies the repo that an armistice had been concluded, or that one vs' 0 about to be concluded. Le Positivo says General OUDINOT had informe d the Neapolitans and Spaniards there was nothing f' 9r them to do at Rome, the French Government co" 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 RUSCONI, gora l Minister of Foreign Affairs. After observing th at the Roman question, hitherto a political one, has OW assumed a religious character, and that all Eurell e conspires to impose a detested power upon thre e millions of men, who have declared it for ever faller ), this document proceeds to st a t e th a t a grea t peeP le ' recalling its old traditions of g l or y, h as s h a k en . o ff i° slumber, and awoke to the life of na ti ons . If t h e :Princ e whom Europe would restore at R ome were , like many others, the mere inheritor of vu l gar p r i v ilegts' the consequences of the struggle would b e limited t ° a greater or lesser number of victims ; were tb e tas k Europe assumes a mere question of independenc e or servitude, it might be loaded with maleetiationel but still the moral interests of the human race evoulu not suffer. But the actual object of Europe shalees th e edifice of religion to its very foundations, and crush° faith in thousands of hearts. The whole state cefE ol , ll : 3 has declared the do wnfal of the temporal power of Of PONTIFF ; and, though under the menace of a Frerow' an Austrian, and a Neapolitan invasion, all the 0 111 ' nicipalities have boldly protested against its restore' tion. Is this the mere vo ic e o f a faction The consequence is, that many believe ° now ask themselves whether he who eer, e ; marts a religion of peace, has a right re-assert temporal power by force of axrc,: and as it is easy to confound the doctrine with apostle, many begin to doubt the truth of eeligil in consequence of the acts of its head, and cans i % conceive how a religion that once redeemed the vver' t i from slavery is now changed into a weapon ire:rodeo to transform free men into slaves. " Let E trope , says the document in conclusion, " reflect bef)re ew e e proceeds; the struggle is no longer between ce 4 army and another, but it is a struggle that embrfo le t a whole moral world of ideas, hopes, and faith, t ll¢ 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 perty. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the It u 'r o man Republic grants passports to all the Engtish "1 desire them. Lord NAPIER and the British C 01 3 40 FREEBORN are much praised for the protection trey . _ afforded their countrymen. The Romans have levelled to the ground ev et l e tenement that embarrassed or encumbered the Ti l e range of musketry round the walls of Rome. Th eis is the English chapel outside the gate Del Popo" which alone they have allowed to stand inviolate. SICILY. DEFEAT OF THE NEAPOLITANS All PALERMO. Letters from Naples of the sth state that Palerilie was attacked on the 2d and 3d by the Nerapolita l t who were repulsed both by sea and land. I w o famous SCORDATO is at the head of the people, 013 0 have been joined by a large number of the Natio v Guard. The English have landed 2,000 men to For tect British subjects. INSPECTION of the HOUSEHOLP TROOPS.—(THIS DAY.) This morning the annual military inspection of l b° available battalions of the Household Troops q uarterei in the metropolis, took place on the Parad e i n f r ont O 4 the Horse Guards, St. James's Park. The ground kept by detachments from the several battalions, assiit e , by a strong posse of the Metropolitan Police. At PI G past nine o'clock the whole of the Foot Guards 01 '., were not on duty, marched in and occupied their r k ' s spective position—the Ist and 3d battalions of 1 1, Grenadier Guards ou the right ; the Ist and second P, talions of the Coldstreams the centre ; and the Ist D .... 40 talion Scots Fusileer Guards on the left. The Giti'',74 for the duty of the day occupied the right flank ; the Guard of Honour to attend the Drasql o room, consisting of a troop of the Ist P I . Guards, with their band, in state uniforms, "4 posted on the extreme right. Colonel Drunate°;l took the command of the troops, who M tt :bo three sides of a square, end when viewed from ' B / Horse Guards had a very imposing appearance. 4 ,0 live minutes before te n o ' c l oc k, hi s R o y a l Highr w , - 0 Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington, Prince Gotha, the Marquis of Londo n d err y Earl of Cardig,''"" Lord Combermere, Ozc., atte n d e d by' a brilliant sul arrived, and were received by the troops preset: l , ll ; o arms, the bands playing the National Anthem. ,0 line was then minutely inspected by His Royal and the general olllcer3, when the troop termed al, „1 4 sinus by the right, and marched past in slow and clu . :". s l, time, when the line was again formed, and a gell e ;go salute given. The men for duty were then mambo to their respective guards, and the battalions dismisse d o a their quarters. Several fashionables were present, P i o the boys of the Military School, Chelsea, occupied t space in front of the tilt geard room. IRELAIND. THE STATE PRISONERS. DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.—TIIO committee eng B g e ! in the getting up toe petition to Lord Clarendon, Pr' , : t o ing for a cJrninutaion of the sentence upon the s t • pelsoners, having requested his Excellency to nalOv day for receiving a deputation to present it, a ref was this evening returned to the effect, t l xo t as the Lcrd Lieutenant was to take his departure • London to•morrow he would not then fix u pon o day, and that his stay in the Engish metror would altogether depend on the state of pt; 11 business requiring his presence there. The coma: 11 ' 1 ,o now purpose increa s i ng th e i r exert i ons b y obtain.. signatures to the memorial from all parts of the la dom. Lardy Massareene and Cloncurry signed the p. '• tam this afternoon. CORN TRADE.—Our market to-day was not gene' so firm as on Tuesday, but we do not alter our clit' d 'ions to wheat trAl oats. There was an lucre!' demand for Indian corn, at an advance of Is. per ter; white wheat, old, 235. 6J. to 275. ; re d ditt o , 229- /; to 255.; barley, 133. to 17s. 63.; oats, 1 ls. 6d. to 1 4 :0 oatmeal, 12s. to 145.; seconds flour, 14s. to 175.; Ind corn per . 4Bolbs., 325. to 38s. fi RETURN OF TILE r COURT TO OSBORNE._Her 3, 0 ject and the Court will not remove from Buckingl; Palace to Osborne House till Tuesday or Wedges° 0 ; next. As Captain Lord Adolphus Fiizclarence wilt t r be sufficiently recovered from his recent illness, the u o. mand of the Fairy yacht to convey her Majesty and cot across the Solent, will devolve on Commander Crispi'. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—ROSSinrs Senzirizno * will be performed this evening at her Majesty's Theat' o f with a splendid cast. Atbuni resumes h e r part o f Arsace, in which she first appeared in this country. f . Parodi's impersonation of the Assyrian Queen we pea great things, judging from the effect at reheari ,‘ These artiste, with Culetti as Assur, and Lablacne Oroe, afford promise of a first rate rendering of t 1 magnificent opera. f i ° Mademoiselle Jenny Lind arrived at Hollye London Hotel, Dover, on Tuesday last, and sailed ,0 Calais on Wednesday by the South-Eastern ConlPe lo OPERA COMIQUE steam-packet Prircess Maude, en route for Paris. ti e ; t l Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performs,' 9 ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. -1-. at this theatre with their presence last evening. I. / Serene Highness Prince Augustus and the Princess e prised the Countess of Desert, the Earl of Coburg accompanied her Majesty. The royal suite co` morti T o rl Colonel Gordon, and General Wemyss; her Royal g„ i g. ness the Du c h ess o f K ent, atten d e d b y L a dy Aug" - f Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir George CotIC also honoured the theatre with their prese nce. r, observed in the b oxes an d s t a ll s hi s R o y a l Highness 1 " Duke of Brunswick, the Duchess of Leeds, t he CouSt e l of Ess ex , Lady Blantyre, Miss Stuart, and Miss Mackenzie, th e E ar l o f Kil more y, L or d and Lady -E -° more, Lord Brougham, Count and Countess de 31.11 r Baron Eugene Gerleche, Sir Frederick Trench, Sir , and Miss Talbot, Lady J u ddrill, Chevalier Drouete 6"ici THE ARMY.—Sir George Grey is to havethi 3e, colonelcy o f th e s t h F oo t, vice Sir Jasper Nicholls rendering vacant the colonelcy of the 73J Rcg l Major-General Duffy is to have the colonelcy of ti 73d Foot, vacant by Sir George Grey's change sth. Major-General Hare Clarges is to have the,4 )) nelcy of the 28 t h Foot. Lieutenant-General Halkett is to be the new Deputy-Governor of ()Ile' Hospital. LIED.—On the 18th instant at her residers` . Morton House, Lincolnshire, in her eighty-second r , Jane, relict of the late Samuel Sanders , Esq ., of u .; r' bori,ugh, and mother of GI-gorge *andars, Esq ., fox W§koliiid. •