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LONDOY, SATURDAY, JULY 31.

EvT.RY one must remember the clamour that arose
when Lord JOHN Itess,xu. was entrt.sted with the
formation of a ministry—a clamour that was not alto-
gether appeased by his appointments. This clamour
was directed against the exclusiveness of the whigs,
against their aristocratic selection placemen and
colleagues, and their supposed aversion to nominate
men Of the people. Lord JOIIN RU3SELL did, how-
ever, nominate to place several leading men of the
popular party, and offered it to many more who hesi-
tated to accept, and, it appears, wiselv.
For, decidedly, popular constituencies have an ob-
jection to representatives who take office. They
tl,..sire members who will preside at dinners, harangue
meetings, present petitions, make motions of inquiry
into abases never to be fathomed, and introduce mea-
sures which have some chance of passing into law in
the sear 1900. But a representative of real influence,
sensible weight, practical knowledge and experience.
an English popular constituency world seldom give
one fig for.
Want, then, do eminent and radical members
moan, by complaining that the old aristocratic
parties of whip and tory do not pay rafficiest atten-
tion to them ? Do they not see that the popular
party, which returns them, does not want them to be
members of an administration? Do they not see that
a year of office would utterly destroy their power and
popularity, that their house is built on sand, or upon
something more soft, more fickle, and more fleeting?
What is their part? To be advocates in the cause of
that great plaintiff, the people—to get r.othir.g for it,
and to take care they receive nothing from any one
else.

Such being the conduct of that mass of electors
Rhich constitute the popular party, what can they
expect bat that the aristocratic parties of this country,
whig and tory, should monopolise power, or throw it
from one to the other like a shuttlecock, to the eacla-
eiou of any more vulgar player? Let it not be said
that it is the pride of the aristocrats, of the whigs
and of the tories, that does this. Quite the con-
trary. Both are anxious enough to hare popu-
lar auxiliaries and friends. But the people,
it seems, will not permit it. It is the electors,
such as those of Lambeth, who decide that no repre-
sentative of theirs shall bear office or have influence.
Perhaps they wait for a purely popular ministry, or
radical majority. lint that will never come—returned
as are members, on crotchets, and caprices, and
fanaticism, and non-lemons. And, till it does come,
it is evident that an admixture of popular men with
even whigs is impossible.
Such being the state of things—inch the discipline,
the foresight, the wisdom of the popularparty—we are
not surprised that it does not find worthy candidates, I
or that it is often forced to return men utterly
incapable of expounding or advocating any cause ;
equally incapable any two of them of having an idea
in common, and all utterly incompetent for any of the
arduous duties of parliamentary management.
If we use this strong language, it is that we hare,
or rather have had, a most anxious desire that there
should exist a popular party strong—well represented,
weighing upon the mind and in the councils of the
country. None can be more mortified than we to
find this wish turn out a mere dream, a hopeless'
vision, and to see, in lien of a phalanx of popular re-
presentatives, a ragged band of the odds and ends of
opinion and humanity, picked up no one knows where,
and for parpoees that no sensible being can divine.
The result, should country elections turn out like
those of Lambeth and the Tower Hamlets, will be to
give up the government of the country exclusively to
the two great aristocratic parties, and to deprive the
popular voice of any real influence whatever. In
any very great question on which the public is greatly
excited. then perhaps the wishes of the party
in power may be overborne. But in all the minor
questions, that is, in nineteen-twentieths of the ques-
tions which constitute the policy of the country, in
all appointments, all influence, these rest, as before,
and, we are sorry to say, deservedly, with the ariato.
crag : for the democratic party of this country has
notknown how, daring their elect.ons, to observe or
conceive a unity of purpose. It has been dragged here
by a sectarian jealousy, there by a personal pique, and
the consequence will be the utter nullity of the ulna-
liberil electoral body during seven long years.
What, for example, is to be the fate of COBDEN, the
ablest man that thecountry has produced? His is not
a temper or mind to carry on the profession of popular
agitator for agitation's sake, or for that of his own
eminence. His early views were carried out in oppo-
sition. The following up of those views were far
better dace is a ministry. Bat how can COBDEN be
a minister P What cabinet can he join ? Co-opera-
tion with PEEL or with RUSSELL would kill bum in
one short year for a popular constituency. He sees
this; he shrinks from it, and wanders in hesitation
over Europe, collecting knowledge that he can never
use, and experience that he in all probability never
can apply.
We perceive by the accounts of last night that
popular conotitaencies have returned some able men.
But they are powerful advocates rather than practical
and influential statesmen. We are sorry to insist
and repeat, that the great popular party has shown ns
common design, not much sagacity, and very little
gratitude in their election. And parties, like men,whea
they neglect to show such qualities, do not prosper.

FINALITY is a very PROTECE. It meets us every
day in a new shape. GEORGE CANNING was per
to abrogate the penal law* against Catholics,
but he took up his stand on the Tut and Corporation
Act and Old Sarum—these were his finalities. Mr.
En gmISSON would have disfranchised East Retford and
similar places, but boggled at a general measure of
parliamentary reform. It might be invidious, at the
present moment, to enter into the past finalities of
other statesmen. Enough for our purpose, if we
have explained our meaning, and shown how many
finalities resemble Point No-Point, in America, whieh,
to vessels at a distance in certain directions, looks
like a cape, bat turns oat, when approached, to be
part of a loaf, unbroken, continuous line of beach.
The truth is, that a politician who declares any mea-
sure of reform to be final does no more than give ex-
pression to his distaste of change in the abstract, or
his dislike to the trouble and reeporsibility of effect-
ing it. No laws and institutions can be permanent
while the relations of society to which they arc
applicable are in a state of constant change. Sir
1101SERT Penn, in his last Tamworth manifesto,
adverts to the momentary lull in the public desire for
organic change, modestly attributes it to his own
financial and commercial measures, and claims credit
for having arrested the democratic tendencies of
society. A week has barely elapsed after this
complacent self-eulogy when a still small voice
from Scotland rises on the ear, proclaiming
that already new devices have been discovered
for evading the provisions of the Reform Act;
that in one county alone ,Peebleselaire) some
two hundred Edinburgh lawyers, by purchasing a
bit of land with a joint-stock purse, and nominally
subdividing the property, have swamped the real.
electors by a new class of " =per voters," as rack
alums se the old holders of parcels of " soperiori-
lies." A new evil has grown up in Scotland under
the Reform Act which another reform bill alone can
cures Other evasions of the object of the Reform
Act are complained of in almost every part of tlie
gaited Kingdom. Under their pressure a desire f,,r
of abuses Is growing up cad gaining consis-
toy. es 'Ma as its strength is matured, Sir
Brae sada who are resolute to make the Reform
Mil tad nisei 'move on with the crowd, or be puel,ed
wide, es walked over as they press forward.
.__l.ltlmmell of this truth is at last beginning to
to "pow politicians. Accordingly, even in Inc
niithigolollsmthes of candidates, them is more of rc-

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.we with profession of finality, and indomitable
resistance of change at the present than at any former
election on record. Even the conservative candidates
might, in most instances, be taken for so many
Opitshaa.—" Lord, we know what we are, bat know
not what we may be." It is almost as difficult to get
a candidate to pledge himself to refrain from any
action as it used to be to get a pledge from him that
he would act.

Still, however, we find finality haunting the imagi-
nations of men like a ghost that cannot be entirely
laid. The innate hallucination under which all men
labour, that at some future period they shall be able to
sit down for good, and rest from all exertion, evokes
the phantom as quickly as it is laid. "We have car-
ried the Reform Act, we have repealed the duties on
foreign corn, &c.—good constituents, allow us to rest.
In faith, we will not budge a foot further."
The navigation laws appear to be the form which
finality at preaent assumes rn preference. Almost every
county candidate feels himself bound to protest that
he will give free trade " a fair trial," that he is not
going forthwith to re-enact the corn law. A few days
ago the conservative candidates for the City protested
in a body against being called " protectionists." Our
ri-d«,-ant protectionists everywhere acquiesce in the
modicum of free trade that has been dealt oat to the
country, but the measure is to be final; they will
have no more of it in any department of industry,—
above all, the navigation laws are to remain intact.
The tory Lord JOHN MANNERS, at Liverpool, and the
whig Admiral DUNDAS, at Greenwich, are slate vehe-
ment in their professions of changeless devotion to
them. Even the radical Mr. DAVID SALOMONS speaks
of them reverentially-as " consecrated provisions,"—a
metaphor which may induce some of our sharp-
sighted no-popery men to suspect a Jesuit disguised in
a Jewish gaberdine.
It is scarcely possible to hear men pledge them-
selves to uphold the navigation laws without laugh-
ing. The majority of the last parliament's members
were returned for the express purpose of maintain-
ing the corn laws—they were pledged to do it. But
events were too powerful for them. As honest
Benedu-k when he said he would die a bachelor did
not think he should live to get married, they, when
they pledged themselves to support the oorn law, did
not think they should live to repeal it And even so will
it prove to the navigation law and its sworn defenders.
Mr. CARDWELL—the gentleman at the head of the
poll for Liverpool, and, Peelite though he be, deser-
vedly there—" will not consent to any alteration of
the navigation law that is to injure the British ship-
owner." This cautious, not to say equivocating, de-
claration is ominous. If the new parliament be
spared to live its full span, and die a good old parlia-
ment of seven years, we shall have Admiral DUNDAS,
and many more as vehement in their declarations as
he, voting for the repeal of the navigation law ere it
has attained to middle age.

Or all the contested elections now approaching,
that for West Gloucestershire is certainly the oddest.
The issue raised by Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, who
would, if he could, be the popular candidate, is, whe-
ther he, as the nominee of his brother, has, or has not,
been iii-used in some private pecuniary arrangements,
in which the county seat formed a subordinate consi-
deration. His main ground of attack upon his rela-
tive, Mr. GRENVILLE BERKELEY, the "Castle candi-
date," is, that he is the present, as Mr. GRAN rLEY
BERKELEY is the discarded, nominee. Neverthe-
less, if we may judge from Mr. GRA:WILEY BERKE-
Let's speeches, he is not altogether without hope
of success, for so strong is the feeling against the domi-
nation which landowners have hitherto exercised over
the counties, that in spite of Mr. GRANTLEY BERKE-
LEY'S unfavourable antecedents, some farmers have
rallied round him. Now, that such a candidate, with
such a cause, should make any way at all, only shows
what might be done in the counties by an energetic
popular candidate. We think, however, the farmers
of West Gloucestershire will make a grievous error if
they give any countenance to Mr. GRANTLEY BERKE-
LEY. That gentleman, with great simplicity, said
at a recent meeting at Parsley :
They would be made aware that at a certain time, now
long ago, when this quarrel broke out, he said to the lord-
lieutenant
of the county, if he (Lord Fitahardinge) intended
to forfeit his word with regard to the finances that were due
to him (Mr. G. B.) for fourteen years, he considered that it
was his duty not only to pay up that awn, but also to coati-
' sue to pay until Me approaching dissolution. Lord Fitz
herding, thin had it fully in his power to say he did not in-
tend to support him (Mr. Berkeley) any more, either politi-
cally or financially, and his reply would have been, " my
fortune is insufficient to maintain me as the representative of
the county, and if you withdraw your support from me I
must retire into private life, and return to the constituency
the tract they hare reposed in me, without a stain." There
was no reason why tke lord-lieutenant should not have
adopted this coarse, and he have followed it.
There is no reason why a discarded butler or an
ill-requited gamekeeper aboald not appeal as pathe-
tically to a constituency upon as strong &round as that
taken by Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY. Disliking the
system by which county members are mere nominees
of the great lanslowners,we have no reason to suppose
that Mr. GRENVILLE BERKELEY, if elected, will not
be as useful a whig member aa any other
inex-
perienced young man of his class. But of Mr.
GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S incapacity for useful legisla-
tion there can be no doubt. He was the opponent
of free trade and the champion of the game laws I
His contemptuous opinions about the farmers far
exoeeded anything which was uttered by the real
landowners. Holding the position of stipendiary
representative of a game preserver, he seems to have
out-heroded Herod, so that no wonder the "conserve
fives of the county have in a warm manner taken'
up his cause."
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY now, however, professes
to be liberal generally, and upon the game laws in
particular, but the farmers will not be wise to sup-
port a game-preserver whose conversion (if conver-
sion it be) has-been effected under such circumstances
as that of Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY. A " tenant
farmer," writing to one of the local journals, has
placed before the electors of West Gloucestershire
some of the evidence given by Mr. ORANTLEY BERKE-
LEY before the Game-law Committee:

He is asked : "Do you think that the enormous quantity
of game which is strictly preserved for battues is necessary
for a country gentleman 'a amusement?" He answers, 1
Mink a large quantity of game absolutely necessary for AM
onseseement." And in reply to the next query he rays, " I
am not aware that a bittue does any harm.' Mr. Grantley
Berkeley professes Now to have a vast respect for tenant
farmers and their rights. Just let us see what were
his opinions only one little year ago. In answer to
the questions by his friend Lord George Bootjack, be
says, "He has very frequently known Instances, where
• deficiency of crop arising from bad farming has been
charged by. the occupying tenant upon the game."
Aram. he is asked, " Are *e committee to understand
that you mean to impress upon the minds of the committee,
that all the damage so done by wood-pigeons, according to
every estimate that you hare seen made of the damage done
by game, would, in fact, be set down by the valuer to the
amount of therm. 1 Undoubtedly ; in filet l haw sever
known any one single instance in my life to the contrary.
Again
He is asked, " Are the committee to understand that
it is your opinion that, amongst other things, • com-
pensation clause for damage done by game is an encourage-
, meat to the tenant to cultivate his land badly 1" And he
answers, Undoubtedly

And all the alterations of the game-laws recommended
by Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY went to increase the
I severity of that obnoxious code. He would have
subjected the sale of pole to more stringent re
gulations—he would have increased the game certifi-
cate duty ; and he would have rendered the law more
severe for taking game out of season. So he consi-
dered that the game-laws were administered by the
magistrates with " far too great leniency," and that
poaching should be put down by inflicting game-law
, punishments " more strictly I"
Bat then it may be said that Mr. GRANTLET BER-
KELEY has now recanted these anti-social opinions,
and that, if returned to parliament, he will go a game-
, law repealer; that some of the witnesses
who meet conclusively demonstrated the evils
of the game-laws and game preserving, had been
themselees preservers, and spoke the results of their
own experience, and why not give Mr. ORARTLEY
Bnaitem.r credit for having seen the errors of his
ways? We reply that the game-laws require to be
discussed is the next parliament, not by men acting
from pique, but in the largest spirit, and with
intelligent views of the progress of agricultural
and social improvement. As sincere opponents of
the same-laws and the game system, we frankly con-
fp/ that we would rather see Mr. GRANTLEY BEE.
may ranged on the other side. His advocacy of
the lame system, if not very judicious, was too
pla.ly hearty to render his short tarn on the ques-
tion anything bat ridiculous. If the farmers mean to
advance their peculiar questions in parliament, they
must send earnest and sensible men, who understand
tbsir interests, and, above all things, avoid disap-
i pointed nomiuces.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDA'

The greater portion of the following appeared in I
our second edition last evening.
The Paris journals and the letters of our corre-
spondent of Thursday have arrived, but contain no in-
telligence of interest to the English public. The
weather continues to be most favourable for the har-
vest The fi,tes went off u usual. It is observed
that in the illuminations and fireworks there is lees
splendour and expense than in former years, and a
considerably less affluence of strangers in Paris. Busi-
ness was of course suspended, and the Bonne and
other public places closed.

Further advice@ from Rome, through Tarim' chan-
nels, give, as might have been expected, different
colouring to their narratives of the great popular
movement which has taken place there. Some deny in
peremptory terms the existence of any conspiracy at
all ; while others affirm the discovery of a most
atrocieus one in no less unequivocal terms.
The Journal des Debats of Thursday. congra-
tulates itself upon its prudent caution in with-
holding credit from the accounts which had
arrived respecting this alleged plot, and declares, on
the authority of its correspondent, that it had no ex-
istence, save in the excited imagination of the popu-
lace of Rome. The National of the some day, on
the contrary, says that it has received full confirma-
tion of the former reports. In the midst of these
conflicting announcements we have received the
Semaphore, of Marseilles, of the 26th, which pub-
lishes the following letter of its correspondent, dated
Rome, July 21 :
Itome is recovering from its ht,
p but the indignation
and exasperation of the people t the authors of the in-
fernal conspiracy is difficult to eleribe. There have been
public prayers to render thanks to heaven for having preserved
the population of this capital from so great a danger. Another
incident has this day arisen to plunge the people into stupor,
and to make known to us that the plot was concocted at
Vienna. You remember the famous meeting of certain car-
(finals and prelates at the house of the ambantarlor of Austria.
The instinct of the people rarely deceives itself ! You know
what the people thought of it, and what it desired ; and you
know how Ciceroneehio succeeded in calming the efferves-
cence and saving those very cardinals who, ten days later,
were to have plunged Rome and the state into mourning.
Well, the mask is taken off. The very day of the execution
of the Austro-Lambruschinisn plan in Rome, the Austrians
were to comments by invading Ferrara. The conspiracy
was thwarted, as you know, on the 15th ; but the Austrians
could not expect this providential ditiournient, still less could
they have received notice of it. On the 16th, therefore, 1,200
Austrians entered Ferrara. The good legate, Cardinal
Chichi, protested vigorously. The commandant was as-
tonished at the resistance of the governor, and asked if he
had not received news and instructions from Rome. The
governor replied in the negative, and persisted in his protest
against 60 flagrant a violation of the territory of the Holy
See. In short, the Austrian troops returned to their gnu-
tees. The Bikutria, in hiving details relative to the conspi-
racy, sooke of the intention of the Austrians to occupy the
town of Ferrara on the IGth. This journal dared, and the
censor permitted it, to give, this grave news of an at-
tempt at Austrian intervention in the states of the church.
This news caused a profound sensation. The coincidence of
the dates, the entry of the Austrians at the same time that
troubles were to hare made the streets of Rome run with
blood, fully penes that an ably combined plan had been pre-
pared in advance. This intervention would have been justi-
fied in the eye. of Eurepe by the disturbances themselves.
But God, the Pope, and the population of Rome, disposed
otherwise. The conspiracy has been baffled, and the Aus-
trians have been unmasked in the eyes of the most incredu-
lous; and now behold them, and their Roman accomplices,
ecclesiastical and laic, devoted to the execration of the world.
There is no doubt: that on the same day, and at the same
hour, disturbances would have broken out in all the towns
of the Roman states; it would have been thefite which
would have been celebrated in all the state ! The Bilailei4;
records an attempt which was made in the church of Bo-
logna, whilst the preacher was holding forth on the
occasion of the anniversary of the amnesty. The
details are long. Arrests of the conspirators continue. Very
important papers have been seized. A new planed, bearing
the names of the cardinals mixed up in the conspiracy his
been stuca up. The names are those of their excellencies
Monsignors Lambruschini, Bernetti, Dellagenga, Mattel,
Vanicelli, Count Lutsof, Ambassador of Austria ; and
Count Ludolf, Ambassador of Naples ; her Royal Highness
Marie-Louise of Parma del Caretto. It appears that these
names were remarked and divulged by the persons who ar-
rested the conspirators, and seized their papers. The list is
thought correct, because that which was stuck up on the
18th was exact. The exiled governor of Rome has arrived at
Naples. Cardinal Ferretti signified to him in these terms his
order of exile . " Two hours' time are accorded to the Abbe
Grasseliui to quit the territory of the states of the church."
A celebrated spy, Minardi, was arrested yesterday. More
than ten thourand men traced him from house to house, from
ea o'clock in the evening until midnight. The effervescence
was so great that Father Ventura had to harangue the
people. The celebrated preacher was reconducted to his own
residence by the people, carrying torches, and shouting,
" Long life to Cardinal Ventura! " This is the first time in
which a cardinal has been reserved in petto by the Pope
and the people. The Roman nobility, chairing to show its
gratitude to the celebrated patriot Ciceroacchio for the ser-
vices which he has rendered to the people of Rome, have sent
hint a gold snuff-box, of the value of about I,ooof. A grand
banquet has also been offered, at the Nobles' Club, to this
child of the people, who has shown himself so intelligent, so
brave, so devoted, in many critical circumstances. The new
governor of Rome, the advocate Morandi, has published •
very remarkable proclamation, addressed to the Roman
people, which has produced the beat effect.
Such is the report of the correspondent of the
S4maphore who writes from the very theatre of these
events. The Journal des Dibals, while it give* a dif-
ferent colouring to the affair, and denies the existence
of the plot altogether, as well as other inferences
drawn by the Semaphore, admits all the important
incidents of the narrative. It acknowledges that the
rumours of a diabolical plot were credited, and that
in consequence the celebration of the anniversary was
postponed, and the National Guard suddenly armed
and called out. It admits that a terrible conflict was
imminent, and that the precautions which were taken
probably prevented Rome from becoming the scene of
a fearful carnage. The liberal party, headed by the
Roman
.princes, showed itself worthy of its high
mission in this crisis. Its leaders drew up a petition,
which was immediately signed, praying his
holiness to postpone the celebration. Bat the
excitement still continuing, it was promptly decided
to call out and arm the National Guard. This body
appeared on the Como, an if by enchantment, its mem-
bers, of course, not being supplied with uniform, and
wearing the citizens' dress under the military accou-
trements. Guard-rooms were established in the lower
apartments of the palaces ; the Roman princes put
themselves at the head of these popular battalions,
and formed patroles, which, as they made their rounds,
were everywhere greeted with acclamations of enthu-
siasm. The well-known chiefs of the retrograde party
were only able to escape from the incensed P
by taking refuge in the guard-rooms and7usCi%7
themselves under the protection of this civic militia.
Placards were posted up in all ports of the eity, giving
a list of the names of these proscribed individuals.
In the midst of this commotion Cardinal Ferretti, the
new secretary of state, entered Rome, u we dated on
a former day. His first measure, afterdismissing the
governor of Rome, a well-known reactionary, was to
summon the provincial delegates, thus taking the'
first step towards a representative and constitutional

Such are the chief facts which are known. It is
remarkable that the intended entry of the Austrian
troops into Ferrara wu announced at Rome when
the conspiracy was detected. Lambruschini had taken
flight no one knew whither; it was believed he had
gone: rom Civita Vecchia, by sea, to Genoa.
Advises received from other parts of central Italy
shew the general fermentation of the people on the
subject of constitutional reform, the manifestations of
which even the summary measures of the smaller
despotisms are not able to repress. In Parma the
population and the troops are m open hostility. The
anniversary of June 16, was celebrated there by the
liberal party making' a charitable collection, and dis-
tributing bread to the poor. The authorities of Maria
Louisa (who is herself at Vienna), treated this u an
act of revolt! and condemned eight persons to
ipuniatiment for it. This order was, however, wakes-
quently revoked by the intervention of Count Com-
tali. At Lncca, a collision between the people and
some gene frames took place on the 19th inst. in a
eafe. A committee, composed of MM. Bettini and
Carrara, Dr. Ceres, and the Marquis Massa:ass, and
others, immediately afterwards proceeded, amidst the
enthusiastic acclamations of the people, to the Minis-
ter of Police, and formally demanded the eupprescion
of the gendarmerie, and the formation of the National
Guard. The minister assured the committee that he
would convey to the Prince the wishes of the people.
It is said that the Grand Duke is favourably disposed
towards the establishment of the National Guard.
The r- .7•inel gives the following from a
.s.

letter, dated Bologna, the 2lst :
The details of the wares committed by the carabineers
at Fajen's, in the night el the 17th, are exceedingly nfilict-
ing ; they hied us to form as idea of the evils that would
hare occurred at Rome, if the conspiracy which has just
been discovered had not been prevented from bursting
out. Amongst the persons attacked and wounded at
Faiensa are old men, women, and children. The carabi-
news who committed these excesses had been wrested.
The event bee hastened the change in the persons em-
ployed in the police; at "Mope, the employes of 1831
have been reinstated in their functions. The organisa-
tion of the nati-inal guard is going on. The prin-
cipal poets of the for n are to be entrusted to it shortly.

EVENING, JULY 31, 1847.

The rmsour prevails that die iktueleMa paerahr TPllmermed
Nmeat have arrived at Ferries, but this report mean
confirmation. A letter fres Parma ago that the pesseas
arrested on the 16th and Ink tdt ham hem steeldeleds is
the great discontent otthe heads et the snood bete. A de-
putation of respectable prams from Lama on the NM last., '
waited on the president of the council to demand the Institu-
tion of a civic guard. The minister promised to refer the
matter to the duke, who is at present cm tour, but who is
every moment expected back. It is Mated that the Brand
Duke Leopold is on the point of according the institution of
the national guard to Tuscany.