The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1848.

fictitious,
and large public meetings were held to pass
resolutions in accordance with the prayers of the peti-
tions, in order to prove the existence of the parties
signing them. By means of theee alternate bat-
teries of petitions and meetings, the parliamentary
liberals contrived to extort many important conces-
sions even front an unreformed parliament—the re-
peal of the Test and Corporation Acts, the repeal of
the Roman Catholic Disabilities, and lastly the Reform
Bill itself.
These tactics were persevered In after the passing
of the Reform Act ;at first, perhaps, more use
people had got accustomed to this mode of political
action than from any distinct convictions of its neces-
sity and expediency ; but, subsequently, from a grow-
ing suspicion that the legislature hail not yet become
suciently identified with the general community in
interestsffi and opinion to be left to work without such
external pressure.
Questions involving the interests of such masses
as did the Test and Corporation Act, the Catholic
Disabilities, and Parliamentary Reform, could
not be effectively agitated without preconcert and
co-operation on the part of great numbers in every
locality, and on the part of their leaders throughout
the country. Arrangements were made for pouring
in petitions relating to thine subjects on the legis-
ns
lature simultaneously, for having ouch petitio
signed by the greatest possible numbers of names,
and for keeping up the fire from session to session,
after it had once been begun. This organised system
of petitioning is of pretty old date. Among the dis-
senting congregations, who, in the central board of
the three denominations, had a standing committee I
in London, we can trace it as far back as
Actthe
movement against the Test and Corporation ,
which began about 1730. Since 1793 a
, vrious
central committees of reform, with conventions in the
prey-nce., succeeded one another under different
names till the passing of the Reform Act. The Anti-
Coin Law League and chartists have since established
agencies more or less perfect. It is not our object to
question the propriety of such arrangements. When-
ever the people have no voice in the appointment of
the legislature, or an inadequate or illusory voice, it is
only by such combination that it can bring the legis-
lature to hear reason. But such arrangements re-
quire paid agents, and the permanency of such ar-
rangements calls into existence a class to look to the
uire
agency for a livelihood. These political agents the
emuch
subject to the same biases, and req as
looking after as the openly avowed political agents of
parliament or the administrative departments.
From the bustling lawyer seeking to make or in-
crease a business by acting as secretary to committees
and associations innumerable, down to the humble
drudge who stands at a street corner with a table be-
fore him, where passers by may have an opportunity
of signing petitions, and who is paid so much a day,
or so much a sheet for his pains, it has become a trade
with all of them. 'they live by agitation, and as one
theme loses its interest by becoming stale, or by being
redressed, they are ever eagerly on the look out for
another. They seek to obtain a character for zeal
and efficiency by the loudness of the clatter, the mul-
titudes of attendants on meetings, the number of sig-
natures to petitions they can stir up or procure. Ex-
aggeration is their trick of trade. It behoves the
parties by whom and for whose interests they are em-
ployed, to keep a wary eye on them at all times, lest
by this exaggeration they hurt the cause they profess
to be promoting.
The readiness of this not very scrupulous tribe to
get up at any time a factitious demonstration of po-
pular interest in any question, or to exaggerate the
apparent amount of a real interest, has betrayed
itself, though not exactly to the same extent, in other
agitations than that of the chartists. The leaders
both of the reform bill and the anti-corn-law agita-
tions could tell what a sharp eye and bridle hand they
preventdoing harm by vapour and bragga-
docio. And the annals of parliament can tell that
even the most watchful and sincere endeavours of
these leaders did not always succeed in keeping the
followers front playing tricks. The anti-education
petitions of last session, had they been as severely
scrutinised as the chartist petition, would have yielled
Erne comical revelations.
The lesson we would draw from these facts is pre-
cisely the reverse of what some of our conservative
contemporaries have been drawing. They arc pro-
posing means to check the abuse of petitioning, be-
cause they fear it may precipitate the downfal of
obsolete and oppressive laws and institutions to which
they fondly cling. We want to have the abuse of
petitioning checked, because we believe it weakens
the popular assaults upon obsolete and oppressive
laws and institutions; but we do not believe that sta-
tutes and enactments can check it. There is no
remedy for it except in the experience of the people
teaching them its mischievous consequences, and the
growing knew-ledge of the people making them
ashamed of everything quackish that adheres to
popular demonstrations.
The chartists have had a lesson of this kind read
to them which they will not easily forget. The
sincere, well-inteutioried among the Chartists, have,
, for months, been looking forward to the effect their
petition was to have on the House of Commons. They
now find that the men who took the lead in getting
I it up have, either in a dishonest spirit of exaggeration,
or in a caress le reception of all the ex-
aggerated stories told them—which, in their position,
was scarcely less culpable—palmed off a document on
parliament so suspicious that it can produce no effect.
Tho work has to be begun again; and we are much
mistaken in the shrewdness of the w,rking classes of
England if they allow the blockheads who were in-
dulging in termagant mclo-dramatic speeches—grati-
fying their vanity by personal display—when they
ought to have been attending to busiaese, to meddle
with it again.
And, as we have shown, there arc others who will
do well to lay to heart the rude lesson the chartists
have received. The work of petitioning parliament
has been horribly overdone of Into years; and as we
are obviously entering upon a period when it will
require to be pretty liberally had recourse to, it
important that as much of judgment and wary dis-
crimination as may be,should characterise its manage-
ment. But we frankly confess that in our eyes the
whole of the paid labourers in the petitioning vine-
yard are no better than a necessary evil—that among
the beoefits we anticipate from a wide extension of
the franchise, by no means the least in our estima-
tion is that of being enabled to dispense with their
services.

CATTLE, Two o'Cleck.—We
have today s large supply of Beasts, and trade consequently
worse ; the mild damp weath-r makes buyers very cautious.
The extreme price for best Scots is 4s. Gd. • some very good
ones have been sold as low ; and'for choicest short-
horns, 4s. 4d. is barely obtained. There arc 311 from
Holland, 220 front Scotland, and about 2,000 from
Norfolk and Suffolk. We have a few more Sheep, but the
number is still very small ; trade is dull, but tmakihis isng about mainly
attributable to high prieee. Good qualiti.s are
the same price as of Ism From Holland there are 340
Sheep and 30 Calves. Choice Lambs are in demand, making
from 65. Bd. to 7s. 4d. Tr Ole is cheerful fir P
Calves, but at
no advance in price. There ix a good demand for igs, at
fully late prices.
Per stone of d. ,4. 1 Per stone of Albs. s. d. s. d.
Bait Sat', Hereford.. 44 4 'Best Inis. a db 50 5 4
Bost dbort-botus ......4 04 4 Be-4 Linipslool, •• •• 60 6 4
no
quality Mosta_ 323 8 . Do. its. Shims
Calved ...... . ..... 44 5 4 Dins and second quint) 4O 4
Pigs . .44 5 4 80. do. shorn
Best fin, *ri ifiliSbii;;B 5 4 5 8 Lsouln•_ .. 0 0 0 0
Beam. as soar/tab ; Sheet. and lams, i 6,21 .... ; Buses. 123:
Plits.3lo.
Stterrksnenv Fein, April 15.—Lea stock
lers. went
Theoff
briskly, at nearly the prices asked by
the dea
dairymen selected many in-calved Cows and Heifers, giving
high prices for the best breed.. Cows, with a calf by side,
in full milk, were taken freely elm. The supply of weaned
Calves was very great. 01 Sheep there were sn
Wilts and DO rsi ts, which realxed rather better prices.
Tim quantity of Horses was not so great as at last
fair, yet trade was dull. Rather a short qumtity of fat
Beasts, which went off briskly, at;from Ils. to lls. 6.1. per
'core for best Devens and Short-Horns; 10s. to 10, G.l. fu
indifferent and coarse. The few fat Sheep were quickly dis-
posed of at 4s. Sd. to s'. 4•1. per stone of IRA. Fat Calves in
number exceeded the demand: prices were therefore from
from
9s.
to los. 6d. per score. Best fat Bacon Bogs made
10s. 6d. to lla.; small and inferior, 9s. Gd. to 10s.
YEOVIL, April 117—There was an average num
farber of
Cattle in the market to-day, hut the trade was from
brisk ; prices may be quited thecame a.s last wold readily eek. There
were about 200 Sheep in the pe, and they at
stood prices. Of Pigs there were 130 in the market—trade
in these was dull.
GLASGOW, April 13.—At our market to-day there was a
good supply of heavy Cattle he
Beef m ss. to
to 535. per cwt.; second quality, 48a. to 505.; Cow and
inferior, 38s. to 43;
~ sinking the offal. T
hee Sueep market
was also well suppled, there being 13 d. Salm were,
however, dull, and a few turned T
out unsold. Best 11l ick-
faced Wethers realised 7d. per ; second quality, Gd. here
were no BIM In the market.

Wit erprefigi

MAILS.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Naiad', Havanna,
Ilonduras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Biro, aml
including those for Madeira, Jame), Carthagena, Sante Martha,
Chmtres, Panama, West Coart of South AMerioll, and St. Juansite-
Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the 17th April.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisboa, Madeire, Cadiz, and °Shreiner
will be made up on the morning of the 17th April.
The overland mails lot Oibraltur, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, Aden, eellon, India, llong-Kong, and China, aid nouthatsp.
tan, will be made up on then,
morning of the 20th April.
The mails fur British North America, and the UR.laid /taw,
will be mute up on the evening of the 21st April.
The ,„„i.na eie.od ,mile, rid Marseilles, to the
ma Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Italia, 800n-Kong, ire, will be de up on the
evening of the 24th April.
The mails for New houth Wales, Tan Dieman's Lead, and New
Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Soth April.
The mails fur the Wcat ~.;,set of Afoca and Madeira will be made
i up or, the evening of the 30th Apt il.
i The mails for the Brasile, the Hirer Plate, Monte Tides, Peream.
erringa, Madeira. aud Buenos Agree, will be made mi on the
; eof the 4th Mop.
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NOTICE TO ADVEIITMEAS.
The number of STAMPS itaued by the authorities of the
Stamp-othee, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS wa5.......... 3,447,009
This, we believe, is within eight per
.cent of the n
ronick umber
issued to the Horning Herald, Mornang CA, and
limning Post, ALL PVT TOGETHER.
In addition to the above, imbued to the DAILY NEWS,
Nor,ting Paper, there were issued for the Evening Mition,
THE EXPRESS
778 714
Whirb was time. we helieve, the were issued ..ither to
the Globe or Ntanda,d, Evening Papen rs.

TIIE Glabe indulled, some days ago, in a fierce
diatribe against one of the most moderate and philoso-
phic publicis a of France. M. Jolts LEMOINNE, the
thief writer in the Journal des Debts on the public
affairs and men of England and of Ireland. Rook
can base perused his writings without being
by their justice and profundity, by their liberal and
amicable tote towards these countries, as well as by
the originality of thought and felicity of expression,
which distinguish the writer.
The Globe is indignant with M. LEMOINNE for
asserting that the English have founded liberty upon
inequality; that their g.ivernment and parties are
fash.onial after, azi‘i imbued with, a thin ough aristo-
cratic spirit; and that this keeps and must keep
England isolated trout the great movement of
Europe. Now, we should think that whig and tory
would admit the justice of these observations :—nay,
that the greater number of our politicians would
pride themselves upon the very state of things indi-
cated. When M. LENIOINNE, however, gots on to
hint that this inequality is likely to emetic artvolu-
tion, and that a war will surely spring upwet u
lords and levellers, we altogether differ from the
French writer.
There never was a people so little actuated by mo-
tives of vanity es the Engiish ; never was a people
more willing to accept those inequalities of human
,condition, which have ever been the law of the world,
and which the scriptures teach us to accept. No
Englishman hates another because he is richer, or
better born, or has inherited a title. All comprehend
that man's dignity and independence can and ought
to be as fully maintained in a low as in a high sta-
tion. And to defend his right in his station is the
Englishman's aim, habit, and resolve.
Social inequalities, therefore, constitute no griev-
ance with us, unless so fir as they constitute political
inequalities. And even political inequalities would
scarcely p•ovoke murmurs, if the power of making
laws, which respect persons and property, and which
touch every man's pocket, were not implied in the
possession of these political pcivileges. All classes in
England are now struggling for political power, not
for vanity's sake, or a love of equality, or republican
pride, but because political power is indispensable to
private protection.

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 17.
THE report of the petition committee on the signa-
tures to the monut‘r pettti *cactus a lesson which
the Chartists, and more politicians than the Chartists,
will do well to lay to heart. The abuse therein ex-
posed MR do little harm when caricatured in the
manner the agents for collecting signatures to the
petition in question have done. But in a less out-
rageous form it had previously done much to dis-
credit popular petitions to the legislature. Parties
who have a taste for such dry reading as the reports
of the petition committee, must often have ob-
served comments appended by it to desetiption of peti-
tior.s, casting doubts on the validity of the signatures
, attached to them. And recriminator,' tauntsexchangtd
in the House of Commons bet w friends *ad oppo-
nents of petitions, have • sespicions into
minds caring little and km; eels bout the work-
ing, of the political machine, t •uu a thing as a
petition manufactory exists in the country.
There can be no doubt of it. The immense extent to
which the practice of petitioning the legislature has
been carried of late years, has called into existence a
class who live by the trade of superintending the sign-
ing of petition., or procuring signatures to petitions.
Before the pi:ming of the reform act the House of Com-
mons had so little counezion with the people, that the
people's voice had no more chance of being heard in it,
except hrough the instrumentality of etitions,than it
had oft being heard at court, except bpy some similar
agency. It 1:000L111 . therefore, the practice for the
unrepresented musts Xo arm, their few friends and
patrons in that house with numerously signed. peti-
t ons. whereon, as on e. u xt, they big .t debate. The
obstructive majority alleged that the signatures were

Our middle classes do not complain of the pride of
the upper ones, but of their monopolising the influence
and manipulating the property of the state. Our
lower classes do not, like the French, anathematize
the middle, as a selfish bourgeoisie, whom it Rosa lor
u-
tary to intimidate. They merely demand por f
themselves, in order to remedy destitution, to provide
perpetual employment and equitable remuneration.
In this, indeed, the lower classes of England, imitate
the upper or aristocratic classes, and adopt
their arguments. Both claim power, on the
ground that it is salutary that they should
exercise it. Nobles plead a sort of divine right to
legislate and administer, not as possessors of pro-
perty, for in that case they would admit all kindds
b of
property to enjoy the privilege, but as qualifiey
the subtle attributes of birth they stigmatise
any attempts to drive them from their monopoly of
power, or to share it with them, as a step to anarchy.
The lower classes put forward the rights of numbers,
in opposition to those of birth. They, too, seek
another basis for political power than property. They
have their scheme of government and society, and set
up the rights of labour in contradistinction to the
rights of property and those of birth.
The middle class hes to defend itself against
both, against spoliation by the aristocracy through
the machinery of the old system of government, and
against spoliation by the mob thr
ough the machinery
of a now and revolutionary goverement. Between
the two, the middle class has need to keep both eyes
open, the more especially as the gentlemen of birth
and the flatterers of the mob have often played into
each other's hands, and combined to obtain and to keep
power. Tories have flattered chartists, and chartists
have elected tories, and Nottingham has combined the
two extremes in its return to parliament.
To this struggle of every one to keep his own, we
see no iseue like that feared by the French writer.
No class in this country is inclined to carry its claims
by violence. The chartists themselves have had some
experience of this, and led as they are by chiefs not
wanting in intelligence—we mean the real not the mock
chiefs—they are fully aware that a revolutionary or
anarchic outburst would be fatal, even in its success, to
the prospects of the English operatives. The worst
element amongst them, indeed, is not English unruli-
ness, but Irish unreason and example. Having
powerfully aided in bringing down too large a class
of the English operatives to the brute level of indi-
gence the Irish leaders are now endeavouring to
superiedd the requisite addition of brute frenzy.
In nu country, however, has a lower class pre-
vailed, or even risen, unless excited and aided by the
class immediately above them. And no one class in
England durst risk violence, without uniting the
others instantly against it. Despite. therefore, of
the multifarious elements of disquietude and turmoil
existing amongst us, and stirred up to the fiercest de-
gree of agitation by the anarchy of the continent, we
shall see no combat more rude than that of argument,
and no change save that effecter through means pro-
vided by the constitution. As to social hatred,
or any crusade in search of equality, the
writer in the Thbats may rest assured that kmgland
contains no germs of such a feeling. Our struggles
are those of interests, our pretensions those of right.
We have been too long used tb political theories and
discussion, to be carried away by them into fevered
hallucinations, and too universally impressed with
religius truth to enter into any schemer the rege
neratioti of society, and the abrogation of all evil.

seeedings.
An impression generally prevails that the military
spectacle which is in preparation to cel ebra the re-
conciliation of the troops and the people is intended to
be used es a favorable opportunity for the introduc-
tion of a military force of regular troops into Paris.
I am as-ured, however, that such is not the case.
The
intention is, as I am informed, to bring into Paris, for
the approaching occasion, about 200 men from each of
20 regiments quartered within a convenient distance
of I'urie, making a total of 4,000 regular troops.
Tin prohibition of the export of grain from Russia After the ceremony these detachments are to be sent
by the Emperor is a measure calculated to awaken se- back immediately to their respective quarters.
veral considerations of no pleasing kind. The wet The illoniteur publishes the official returns of the
aced time in England would, under ordinary circum- direct and indirect taxes and sources of revenue fur
stauces, have already set the corn merchants on the the first quarter of the present year. it shows a
alert. Stocks would gradually have augmented. In falling off, compared with the corresponding period
proportion as English dealers undertook those lying of 1817, of 16,310,000 fr.
at Hamburg and Rotterdam, the Dutch and German The Coruitilationriel says :" M. Ferdinand Lesstps
merchants would have speculated at Konigsberg and is officially appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and
Dantaig, and the brokers in those Baltic ports would Chargé d'Affaires from the government of France to
then have held out encouragement to the growers in that of Ma kid. It was after a long conference be-
the back country to forward their lust year's produce. tween M. Lesseps and the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Were we to regard the question as con- that this determination was come to?'
sumers only, we might console ourselves with the A Marseilles journal, the Nourelliate, gives the fol-
prospect of obtaining what we wanted elsewhere. lowing, for the publication of which we leave that
America can furnish larger supplies, and on better j
co Wet, suilliocinut
(nand responsible :
terms, than can be obtained front Russia. America, pd aa
at s document, andw which
hhiN been
eanctin t tto„uis tty .. our
of course, has aba'ay a been able to do this, and of British eccentricity. 'lt is a letter addressed by Lord
yet we have at all times drawn largely from Russia Brougham to the mayor of Cannes, and in which he an-
and her subject lauds in seasons of scarcity. The nounces that he cf.,rnee firward as a candidate for the National
give the letter
reason is obvious. Taking is only halt the calcula- Aw•eoll,ls. We textually, leaving, of cou• se,
tion of the tradesman ; what he is to give in exchange e.tlircii,i•eoans, title:tyro( trrcoeseeimtunicautioat to :liar rrre:op:tiodrit :
forms an item of at least equal importance. That the 4inistry. of Justice (Kate tleondoomeseraritsr :certifilatteo,
America has never yet fixed our market price in years proving that I have possessed sad inha'bited in the depart-
of scarcity, but that our prices have been governed by meat of the Var, anondissement of Cannes, for more than
those of Russia, is matter of liistoiie fact, and five years (more than eight, it live will not do), with a certi-
requires but little consideration to explain why it igairelness.nt: send this wr-
ititrete: moral
nc: lutbleiti.oavttethe
should be so. The Re-sian empire is at least six be cpileasa:d4't3o ;in ''me forward ministry, and
porter)tenaysoounowlot
times as populous RS North America, and although your deputies; but, at least, do not forget the certificate.—
labour is not ns well economised, nor its rewards as .afille amities. BROUGHAM."
well distributed in the former as in the latter country, I have just learned that M. de Tallenay has been
yet a certain consumption of our manufactures, in appointed French Minister in London.
pite of hostile tariffs, is insured by the circutustatce P.S., 6 r.m.—The council of the government met
ofthere existing so large a body of COPSUIRCIE in this afternoon, and sat for five hours discussing the
Russia us we know to be the case. railway question. They separated wiliont coming to
It is true that our direct exports to Russia do not any decision. To-morrow there will be no council,
much exceed two millions of pounds sterling, but but they will meet again on Moaday, by which
our exports to Hamburg and the Baltic, united time they will have before them the separate and
with Itussia, are between nine and ten mil- colleetive remonstrances and protests of the railway
lions, equal to the exports of our manufactures companies against the contemplated mi asure.
to the whole of North America. Polish Jews PARIS, Sesnar, 104 a.se '
and agents supply themselves at the fairs of Leipzic A considerable sensation was produced throughout II
and Frankfort-on-the-Oder, and no doubts large share Paris yesterday afternoon, and accompanied by ant
of the goods sent to Germany is consumed by the immediate tall of the funds, by a manifesto which
population of Russia. Germany and Austria are troth was posted through the town bearing date from the
manufacturing countries, and their tariffs are strin- Ministry of the Interior, yesterday, from which we
gently prohibitive. That of Russia. is not less so, but give the following extracts :
the great length of island ftoutier, Ow shelter of the MINISTRY Or THY. INTERIOR, PARIS, APRIL 15.—1 f the
etleecteirinitoioniiotor
tree tothetouroi,utinfhoof social truttrlff they are
adrotTld
forests, the distance of the Russian manufacturing
districts from the western provinces of the confiZtit loyalty of the peopl , the electetilonns;c4:ictri°lshould
empire, with the want of internal communi- be the safety of the republie,ewill be its downfall. There
cations, offer a primiam to the smuggler will then only be one means of satyr for tho people who
that is irresiie ible. But even this deplorable formed the barricades, that will be a second time to manifest
trade supposes that the consumer is able to pay for 1 rites will, and trroodooecisoiootns
elifrora
kfaflose Joiattiolod
what he -buys, and unless the produce of the interior I to ft,
this depletable remedy ? /4 !P France has confl•leet
he free to go to market we may be very sure that no e, Paris a great mission; the people could not render this
goods will be consumed, and thus one valuable than- miesion iecampatihle with the order and the calm necessary
eel of earnings will be closed on our manufacturer& to the deliberations of the constituent body. Paris con
Ilitween the sth Jul), 1846, and the 10ta Outuber, .....(b.r.; it-alt, and with traz.o, the. trie.tee uf all the
trio•yul::ipoonroto o[ the tbooe iiase iartioomollthoternostory.
ofParis wit
1847 we imported grain and flour to the value of
3.5,0(10,0001. in round numbers. We exported to the who suffer, wait, and put forth claims from the
one
countries who sent us these supplies about one-half the end of the country to the other. If anarchy travels abroad,
sum in manufactured goods. the remaining part bad it the social ilifluences pervert the judgment or betray the
wiodi of theit maeliesoilivereedsiis bzooly deceivedhl in tohneclrire•
to be paid for in bullion. No doubt the largest portion
of
this trade was with America. But the tendency of rheum% lees respans people ible for the inter° them
allvtlesie flatlets. declare
the stream is to find its level by flowing to the east, some places the populati..n is abused and led astray, at
when the west is over supplied. NVhen the trade with where wealth clams its privileges with,itesle farce.
wodol tail
America his attained the extent to which it can be Th•ee who act thus cemmit a great cr and threaten us
carried by the aid of exported gonds, resort is had to with the painful duty of subduing when we would onlv
the Baltic at advanced pnees. flu ndvalice is in the
first instance only as much as would be required, it ~,,h, uis now le re., ea beet:ll.6 roofits deliver-
b-•esft noti persuade only
tit hno,e;ar ;t i elf,
ctfihuett republic'
it,l lhtllostrtil i wil,+:;reil:,
bullion were taken as the means of payment in the si.ce. Citizens, it must nut be et you yourAlves should
American trade. But as the deuiand for grain increases compelled to violate the.principle of your own soverei. ivy,
the vier, of corn must rise, in order that the B•tween the danger of losnig this conquest by the fact of an
incapable alietompbrly,,,.o.
obyofth;tof a movement of popular in.
Russian duties may be covered, and our Government can only warn you
manufactures introduced on a large scale in spite of and"spolint'out the danger which threatens you. It has not
them. The result of this calculation shows itself to the right to do violence to your minds, and. to attack
the Rass'.on merchant in the alteration of the rate of the principle of public tight. Elected by you, it
cannot either pre"ent the evil produecd by the czercise :if a
exchange, by which lie has to remit an increased sum
501t...r0.d,c rigoht
milli understood,ta Tel et-e,t. yi.),.:r enerr:itii 1 eh, n,
in bills on England to make his payno rats in Loudon.
In England we perceive the change in tie prices at ei,e of toiisriiiih-t.keiliTitouthwatowl'h:tc•attnin, wash Lan
„theueg.etro
Mark-lane. Our candle burns at both ends. We du is to make you w.ucrstand the co
useu ot your
both charge less for our exports, and pay more aeti. In time past the representatives the people saved
Rite country in proclaiming the country in danger.
dearly for our imports, than when the flow of trade
If the country not in danger as in the time of OUT first re.
is a natural and constant one. Still, even sucheen.etestity being not
amongsta t
us,uts r
theregates lot Its:t iolitlostitettl
a trade is better than a pure exportation public;trugge is not
of gold, which frightens the Bank and struggle, amoral danger, that great moral eourage and great
makes it put on the screw. The manufacturer, per- confidence i.e our principles can alone allay. Citizens, take
haps, gains little, or nothing ; but he may get the cour Abandon your merely private interests ill under-
stuudoo , the selfish fetangs of your. unmeoiate position. Guard
wages of his workmen, and that is a great deal for
the country. Our vessels, too, are employed, and the yourselves
ar:tlrvoeys tlair asttrttity ."4eSaevnee Trail Iwllharoaenarlse''s the republic. It
machinery of our induatrial edifice is kept from rust- again depends on you to save it without convulsions, and
ing. This is the value of OUT connexion with the intact.
east of Europe, as supplementary to the American The effect of this unexpected sally of the govern-
trade ; and on occasions like the crisis we have meat was in some measure couweract d at the
passed through, it is not too much to say Bourse yestereley by the news of the victory of the
that it is of vital importance to this em- Sardinian troops at Goito, which arrived a little be-
pire. It is this connexion which the arbitrary fore the close.
decree of the Emperor of RUSSIA has placed in The account of indirect revenue on the customs for
jeopardy, and that at a moment when our farmers the first quarter leas just appeared, and shows a deficit
are watching, in fear and trembling, the showers that as compared with the corresponding quarter of last
unfit the ground for the receipt of the seed potatoes. year amounting to above sixteen millions of franca.
The circumstances make us heartily wish that the The total produce of the first quarter of 1817 was 1911
course of the Vistula were in the hands of some more millions, while that of the present quaiter is a little
friendly power. • short of 178 millions.
There is nothing coneoling (in our present dis- A compensation for this is reported to have been
organised condition of commercial credit) in the found in the direct taxes. in which there is an excess
fact that an export of bullion has coin- as compared with the corresponding quarter of last
emitted before any failure of the crops can year of not less than twenty-tour millions, but this
be anticipated. The state of the continent which is apparent rather than real. A large proportion of
farces produce of all kinds into the market at almost the tax-payers, with a view of assisting the country
any sacrifice, is what causes the new drain. But as we in the difficult crisis of the revolution, instead of pay-
cannat expect the bullion to return from countries ing as usual their quartet's taxes, paid for the

DEFEAT OF TILE AUSTRIANS BY THE
PLEDMONTESE AT GOITO.—fWO THOU.
SAND PRISONERS AND FOUR PIECES OF
CANNON CAPTURED.
LONIBARDY.—Accounts of an important vicar,
gained by the Sardinian army under the King,at de
bridge of Goito, on theNlincio, on the evening of the td,
have arrived. The battle lasted two hours, after wk,.:
the Austrians retreated in confusion towards Met,..—
leaving a great number of killed, wounded, and ,e•
Boners, with four pieces of artillery. The fallow.:;
is the bulletin published by Chitties Albert it thi
occasion. Castigl.one is the place rendered etlebres'.
during the Italian campaign of Napoleoe :
From the head-quatters of the Kirg at Castigliest de.!
Stiviere, April 8, 1818, at 8 p.m. The Austrian troop to
been retiring for several days before the l'iedraontese troop
who, preceded by their ancient renown for ialour and ,
ciplute, kad been crossing the lime of the Ogle° ad Chet
without an obstacle. The enemy bad already absolete
the positions of Montethiaro, Luneto, and Castiglioat 41
Stiviere, which had been considered ve re &diamagnets '
them. 'They had already retiree! beyond the hue el •,la
Mincio, to concentrate themselves between Pew:bias .
Mantua; but our troops pursued them who • '
rapidity, converging towards the pastagis of the 'gees
this morning the King boldly estahlished his head•qt.m.
lei Castiglione dale btiviere, and at about nine Oa -
the Brigade Waiva, the Battaliou Real Novi, mei i
of the corps of tirailleurs, reached Gordo to attack hate
Ideas. The war of Italian independence woe
be opened with an important action, which mig reae evate.a.
serve the name of a victory, and we shall call it therit
ale
bridt attack upon Goito, where the enemy had fondled .
selves, barricading the etmets end occupying the window, u
whence they directed au unioterrupted tire upon us
every obstacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the ..
leurs, paced at the head of the column, and sappgra ..
some pieces of artillery. The en ley Mere forced webs-.
their position. On their retreat over the river they Mem
bridge that had been mined a short time before • mU se
the parapets remained nearly entire.lh. tinilirel.
pidly ventured upon it, and by main force twit poirenes
the artillery that was playing upon upsid h
short time the passage of the Mime) forted our
smelting ruins of the bridge ; the enemy, purged si•
interruption, fled towards Mantua, leaving a gr•
at
of prisoners and dead, and among these some officer. r
fruit of this 'victory in nun rernaiuing wagers of Ns ' .
of the Mincio, of which we at present occupy the len:,
Oei our part we h..ve to deplore, with other
std r.
too officers. Cols. La Merman, of the tirailleurs
rani, of the regiment Real Novi, are among the s
and:'
one.
The dates from Milan are of the Bth,
Brescia of the 7th. While the Piedmontese wail
thus occupied on the line of the Mincio a MIF
volunteers and national guards of the I.:andard
auxiliary troops, amounting to 8,00 or 10,000
have been detached to make a diversion in the I
'Tyrol, and at the date of the (eat adviccs
ne
wrest
ferent places to the west of the Lago di Garda,
the east of the Lego d' Idro, a small lake to the
of Brescia. The object of this expedition WOW
tick, and, if possible, occupy, Trent, Arco Rive
Roveredo, and thus cut oil Luc cumumuicAtionbas
the Austrians and Vienna.
A proclamation of General Allemandi,dated
7th inst., invites.the Italian Tyrolese to rise,and
common cause with Lombardy. ..
The Milanese bulletins of the Bth monk* two
mishes : one near Rivoltella, and another el
bridge of the Itasega ; in both of which the )1•21L.
guerillas were successful, and advanced as fit
pedaletto, near Mantua. Cannetto, Piedra, ill,'
and Marcaria are occupied by the riediuot.te,
'file Augsburg Gazette gives a letter Iron
of the 9th, saying :—. Bulletins ay iced 3-,- •
front the army announcing that the Austria
have had two affairs of out-posts, in wk,
gained the advantage. Colotwl do Be:ied k•
tng a reconnaissance from Mantua iii the d..-,
Marcaria, fell in with the advanced guar,:
Piedmontese, and captured ten dragoons ad --
horses. Another rencontrc took piece no,
lr:..
Bonifacio with the tree corps r.dsed in the •
States and in Tuscany, which %etre come,
churchmen. The Austrian oei.-po,•.s retina,
them, bat the Croatians Joh...wed them
of
General' ltadetzki proposed an exchange
ages. The road between Villath and CIO il
established."
Letters from Milan and Turin have WO -,
further details of the affair of the boir
.01
which I announced in my letter of last eyeing.
The village of Goito, situated on the ne.,,
of the Mincio, that is to say, on the banknw
combined Italian a my was . pproaching,nllL
intrenched and occupied br the Austrian ,
:'
.11"'"_,,,
was the bridge which this affair will retnr.;:a
morable. The village was obstinately d.e7
the Austrians. After the flight of the le : ,
the blowing up of the bridge, the".
only a narrow ledge or footway he"
.
other parapet. By this path the brave
army marched across in single fie, aln,
derous fire from the Austrian',
who Wid P"'
on the opposite bank.
rotouAftittuathheeanAacc°udstsroimaPniej:,l;
paired the bridge by planks, making 1.71,01
mently wide to enable the entire army c1.1711.„bi
artillery, and baggage, to cross the ri%er,B
were about to do when the last aenuntoiwfi:l,o
Letters from Desenzano, a small .
eat
Garda, near Pesclaiera, dated the Btbi 17140,
columns of volunteers had been directe!..4ol
and Roverido to dislodge the Austrian. gr: til
einv'elkno"terttooefnattim, ;tighgh le
netel&t
StiTirlits.l:ol
these places. Also that two steambosw

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