The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-18 00:00:00

Park Farm t—Wil might put au end to that et'

Tax French roam in Africa are rather in bad
odour in this country. Yet we feel strongly tempted
to recommend one in a district of our own country.
We want • rossia a war of extermination—
against the deer of tho New Forest. This sounds
cruel, and would be so if it were not most necessary.
But bipeds must be cared for before quadrupeds, and it
will not be difficult to show that it is essential to the
improvement of the forest and the population in and
around it that the deer should be gut lid of. The in-
terests of the crown, of the landowner, of the farmer,
and of the labourer, alike render this measure im-
perative.
The privilege which the crown possesses of stocking
a forest with as many deer as it may please, was ex-
ercised in the New Forst • few years since to a very
remarkable extent. The deer were permitted to in-
crease so greatly that there were computed to be
nearly 6,000 of those animas in the royal Chase. In
1846 and 1846 it was found necessary to reduce the
stock, and no lees than 1,300 does were killed, besides
upwards of 200 bucks. The number of deer in the
forest is now believed to be reduced to about 3,300 ;
but, considering the habits of the animal, this is still
an enormous stock.
That the poorer part of the population in and
around the forest are completely Jecooralised in conse-
quence of the existence of the deer is shown by the
register of convictions at Lyndhurst for offences
ender the game laws. From 1814 to 1840
more than 700 convictions took place upon
such charges, and in meet of these eases
more than one person was implicated. It ia difficult
now to ascertain the number of dismissed cases; but
as the deer-stealers are said to be regularly defended
by a legal agent retained for the purpose by an also-
mated body, these, probably, were in a large propor-
tion to the conviction. A great number of persons
were convicted twice over ; several of these were
transported. Still deer-stealing and poaching con-
tinue unchecked : showing that a very large body
of people must he engaged in it, and that heavy pan-
ishments do not deter from the commission of the
offence. Whole neighbourhoods are, in fact, tainted
The uncitr-eieriarll of the forest told Lord
Deicer's committee that there are families who ex-
clusively devote themselves to the occupation, and
whom no punishment will cheek :
There are men who give themselves up to these habits of
depredation: we have had men that we have known commit
the offence three or goer times or tore after they had been
punished ;in bet, it seems to run in families. There is a
family of the name of Caller : the father was transported,
and one or two of the arms have been prosecuted for the same
thing. I have known the offenee committed by persons in a
higher station ; for insane., last year three endemism of
Southampton were fined 901. for killing deer in the forest,
whieb inn they paid.
The poachers go out at break of day or at nightfall,
generally two or three together, as it requires two
men to carry home a deer. They creep after a herd,
or steal round them, concealing them4lees behind the

glingwesnas
with Me niunbieVeZeiZifonri thiproipe,
of togisteeted offences is 'wooed to be very great.
The keepers, fifteen in number, are obviously unable to
protect 3,000 deer ranging ever 103 square miles of
lan, and indeed the forest keepers are mid by the hen-
tenant of the forget, Mr. Courroct, not to be
keepers at all. If, however, it was mon re=
their duty to guard the deer than it appears to bode
is obviously not their interest to do so. Under Ile
Itosate Psu's ant, DO share of the penalty goes to
the keeper I it is all paid into the county rate : the
su consequenee is, as ous witnees d that " the
gap say they will not go out andeposes, ran the risk
of -being shot, and get no compensation for
it." "If they come urea poachers they will
take them," bat not otherwise. This witogis
adds, "I have given information that pee*
were going out, and I believe the keepers did not go
to take the men." This amounts for a reply given to
4 question put to the Under Steward of the forest,
which might otherwise have been taken to indicate
an improvement in the state of the district. lie is
asked if there have been any scuffles between
and poachers, to which he answered, " Yes, *s keep
been occasionally, but not lately." If the keeps., do'
not go out there is, of course, no chance of a seelb.
It is needles, to point out what must be the metal
condition of a population living in this way. It is
obvious that they can have no very clear perception of
the difference between meom and noon. Naturally
enough the deer come to be looted upon almost es
their own property. A man convicted of killing ens
is considered a sort of martyr. The deer being tium
regarded, timber and other things are looked at
much in the same light. Of course, to be active is
prosecuting such a body of people is to incur their I
vengeance. Every sort of evil feeling is thus OW
wondered, and you are perpetuating mon the
lotion lation almost every evil that religion ass
hand in hand are striving to eradicate.
But it is not alone to the labourers that the
deer are an evil. Agricultural improvement is
checked, if not wholly stopped, in the freest
districts, in consequence of their depredations.
They commit every variety of trespass. A doe can
make herself up into a very small compass and get
through almost any fence, and of course where a doe
can go the fawns can follow. Thus ordinary fencing
is found by the farmers quite inadequate to keep
them out. They trespass at all times of the year.
They get into the standing. corn in the summer, and
eat all the turnips in the winter. Mr. Mims, a ver-
derer, says, " I have known the red deer get into a
fkld of wheat and bite off the standing corn just as
if it were taken off with a reap hook." Mr. CASTLE-
Iics mys, " They prevent us from growing a crop of
tarcips, and we can keep no sheep in consequence
icon the farms." But the effect of the deer upon the
interests of tenant and landlord, cannot be better re-
resented than it was stated to the committee by Mr.
FRANCIS ATTWOOD, the agent of Mr. MORANT, of
Brockenhursts, on' of the largest landed proprietors
is the neighbourhood of the forest
Is the property liable to trespass on the part of the deer to
the New Forest f—To a very could( rable extent.
have you always considered that the depredations* upon I
this property and the mischiefs and inroads of the deer were
• great drawback on its condition with respect to cultivation
sad improvement ?—lt hu always been considered so, and
we have experieneed considerable diflieulty in letting it owing
to that cause.
Rave you been accustomed to hear great complaints of the
image dune by the deer end the difficull of p ting it t
—Yes, I hem
In regard to fencing against the deer, lathe pries of hada,
against the deer very considerable ?—I should say that too
piles of fencing wind the deer was at least double the pike
ofordinary put fencing ; there would not be occasion to pro.
vide oath an expensive fence except age,:nst the deer, but we
are~ to have a high fence at a great cost.
The cis requires to be double the usual height ?—Yes.
le the extent of fencing considerable round Mr. llereat's
beeedary of the forest?—lt extends upwards of three miles.
And the repairs of the fence, in order to keep out the deer.
weenenidondie ?—Very considerable; 1 have always heard
when el es an Item of large expenditure.
Is the priadpal damige done by the deer in winter and the
early part of the spring ?—Yee, during the time the turnips
and other green eve ps are on the ground, when the deer are
driven out of the forest for watt of food; there is not so
aufiltave you heardgsif:en the
quessroonsphants made by thetenants
en Mr. biomes estate with respect to the deer f—Tee, the
greeter pert of the farms are now an hand; I have often
I beard the farmers complain very much of the disadvantage
as regards the deer, and say that it is to very little puma*
I they adopt an improved system of farming whilst they ate so
exceiettvatrhteocr en
depredations
I mthedeer.
should think a very great
bar to improvement.
Dues the liability to trespass from the deer, tend, in your.
to dew the awe intelligent elms of humus from
ire mdebbonehool ? The lumen we have
are mot ma every me smite', or very great skill in
frainag; sad •ibrv. inters,gget messurog
lutidso thwe &-
they cannottlialn or ce
de if they
were not exposed to thdepredationp of the deer. • •
Tenants are deterred from incurring expense, leader the
apprehend's that if they drained the land, the improved
crops wed* be a temptation to the deer to hawk in and de-
vour then.
Nadia. can be stronger or more conclusive than
this. Mar hearing such an account we can easily
ucisellemi tba force of one of the forest officers' ob-
servations : "There is a great deal to do to keep the
wee in good humour; and if there was not an op-1
i
ty of giving them a little venison, they would
telvtliy angry." But a shoulder or two scarcely com-
pensates for such drawbacks as Mr. ATTWOOD has
exhibited.
Of course the crown is not exempt front the damage
which it thus causes to be inflicted upon others. There
are 6,000 acres of land in the to:est all in young plan-
Wiese. These plantations are in different spoth—
some covering 40, some 50, 60, or 100 acres stc. Of
course every plantation has to be fenced round against
the deer, and of course the expense is enor-
mous. Thousands upon thousands of hard cash have
been expended is the useless attemit to keep the
deer from the young oaks. All in vain ! Hunger is
stronger than a park fence, and what with the
swamps and the turf-cutting, and the commoners'
rights, and the thousands of horses, cows, pigs, and
geese that are turned out half the year into the forest,
the poor deer in the winter find but a bad living.
Late a plantation they therefore get nothing can
I keep them oat of it; and, once in, it is difficult, if not
impossible, to turn them out again. The verderer's
officer, who appears to have had a snug little contract
for fencing some of these plantations, says that he has
Iseen quantities of deer in some of the incloeures, and
even hints a shrewd suspicion that all of them did not
filth' by umlaut. That the deer in the incloeures
' ate Mtge liaison than those out of it is shown by Mr.
MILLS, who is a bit of an epicure in these matters :
Did you ever hoer of any deer in the fitelosures ? Very
fessze:tiliy.
the young plantations ? Among the young pisti-
-1 Idiom
Nave re ewe Mud of their doing damage in the planta-
tions? Yee, I have seen that they have done damage therm
Dave you ever heard that, when a party having a warrant
desires a deer perticalarly fit, it is usual for the keepers to
I die et the busk is the inelosure ? lam perfectly aware of it,
he I have ghee orders myself on the subject, to have the
deer that I am ;Witted to killed in the ; I have
dares given orders to the contrary, for I find, though it is
fatter, it h notes high-flavoured.
If the damage dor e to the young trees in the.inclo-
sures was the sole consideration, perhaps out of regard
to the verderers' love for fat venison, we might
be disposed to acquiesce in the preservation of the
deer, but we have shown this to bee very minor mat-
ter to the effect on the population, and on the private
property of the district, and we can also show that
it is very minor matter as regards the crown and the
public. In con sequence of the lack of proper food for
the deer upon the 60,000 ecru of uninclosed land in
the forest the managers have found it necessary to
keep up upon the estate a farm of 400 acres, the main
produce of which is hay, wherewith to feed the deer
during the winter months. The quantity of hay sup-
plied for this farm averages about 80 tons per annum.
It appears, however, from a return presented to the
House of Commons, that this farm, like all govern-
ment speculations of the sort, is • source of continual
expense and loss. The farm pays no rent: rent is an
item which never enters into its accounts ; and yet the
cultivation during the last 44 years has been
upwirde of 4,3001. Laat year the dead loss upon it
was as much as 2711. Of course this cannot go on.
Mr. Commissioner MILNE with much difficulty at
last brought himself to admit to the committee that
he " thought it would be a great advantage
.to get
rid of the farm altogether," and that, " supposing the
deer were done away with, it would not be necessary
to continue the farm." We give an extract from his
evidence to show the conclusion to which, after
several days badgering, the worthy commissioner was
induced to arrive :
In the event of the deer being done away with is the New
Forest, might not a great saving be made in the general ex-
penditure ? A great reduction of the expenditure might be
made in that cue.
A reduction might be made in your ettedishment at New

-
entirely.
A considerable saving would also be effected in the feneng
—A very great saving ; perhaps the most important saving of
all would be in fencing.
Would it not effect a large saving in the hay supplied to
the deer T—lt would save all the expense of New Park..
Which is kept up for the purpose of the deer l—lt is.
In addition to this we may mention the saving to
the crown and the country in respect of prosecutions
for deer stealing, and the saving to the farmers and
the poor by preservation from depredation. In fact,
the money-saving by destroying the deer would pro-
bably amount, their keep included, to little less than
40,0001. or 60,0001. per annum, and the money-saving
would bee mere nothing compared with the unßrove-
meat which might be hoped to be effected in the
morals of the people and in the cultivation of the

country.
And now let us see for what the deer are preserved.
Really the relation would be quite laughable, if it
were not lamentable to reflect upon the waste and the
misery. such a system occasions. These 3,300 deer
are maintained to supply. the warrants annually issued
by my " lords commissioners of woods, forests, land
revenuer, works. and buildings. by virtue of a
warrant undm her bLuzuv's royal sign
manual," headed with the royal arms, subscribed
by all the three commissioners with their own
hands, directed to the ranger, and printed with such
magnificence of blazon as only the Queen's printer
could turn oat. One hundred of these msguiticent
warrants aro annually directed to the ranger of the
new forest. Twenty-one of these direct him to kill
bucks to be given as compensation for depredations
committed by the deer ; forty-eight are for bucks
killed to supply the pantries of the forest officers, and
the rest are for bucks • supplied to the crown," and
forwarded as " presents" to a select list of noblemen
and gentlemen, In which we observe the name s of the
Bishop of Buisnunv, the Mayor of Southampton,
the Earl of Itsozon, and, though last not least,
ALEXANDER MILNE, Esq., one of her MAJESTY'S
commissioners. &o.

for the purpose of republicanising or d
them; in short, to do in person what the eute,,,,,.7.1
circulars of M. Ledru Ellin were intended to
before the convocation of the Assembly. fa'
rumours mimed a consistency on Friday, 10,1474
so doubt of their being well-founded.
Meanwhile the club of the Rue de Poitiers Le
a meeting to take into consideration this ~1"
jest, and it was decided that the e*„„7
should be raised in the Assembly. Theme tege7,l.
the debate which I briefly reported in my do;
of last night. The Minister of the Interior, inure.
to M. Base, admitted in substance that the "`
ideated to had been decided on by the ger
The announcement that if a vote of the
were not given to sanction the measure thAemel4llll
ment would resign, was followed by a scene elddot
is totally impossible to describe. The members Nail
from their benches to the flow; a dense mass egged
round the ministerial bench ; all spoke to
the noise became stunning ; and the •
and uproar altogether indescribable. M.
the President of the Assembly, who 2
occupy the chair on the occasion, was
midst of the crowd, vainly endeavouring to corny
and pacify. At length, M. Pagnerre, who, rte
president, occupied the chair, put on his list, eKa
sitt.ng was suspended. The ministers then make
their bench and left the assembly in a body,ace,eafek
by M. Maryut, and were absent for nearly 's**
Daring this interval they deliberated in a pa,*
room, and it was fu.ly exp,cted that the *
aignation of the government would bo the
salt- A member of the mode. ate peaty had, *,
ever, meanwhile, drawn up the following reload*
" The Assembly having heard the explanations d tV
ministers, leave to the responsibility of the eves*
government the appreciation of the measure
have proposed, and passes to the order of thedtah;
The intention of this resolution was to say
a direct vote of censure on the government, ea**
commend it to reconsider the project, after tai
as learned, it did on that occasion, the sae,
the Assembly upon it. This draft was wit ia
the ministers as an olive branch. Oa *
turning to the house, and the Vice-Preolask
M. Pagnerre, resuming the chair, General Cavil%
was in the act of ascending the tribune, for fly
purpose, as was underetood, of resigning, be a
was prevented by M. Maimed, Fresidett
the Assembly, who immediately ascended the trjf
himself, and without preface read and proposal a,
above resolution, which was adopted by an lima
majority of the Assembly, on the understandeag fig
the offensive project contemplated by the gam
ment would be abandoned. The &mem* ea
separated amidst a scene of the strongest eatheei
tumult, and agitation.
M. de Thorn has delivered to M. Bastide ltir as
dentials as charge d'affaires of Austria with
French republic.

The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains demo
accepting the resignation of Count do Mirasol a Csp
taro-General of New Castile, and appointing lass►
nant-General Breton to succeed him. The resign*
is said to have been caused by a dissension terns
the count and the military commandant of Ilea
The count had been ordered to leave the capital risk
twenty-four hours. The Heralds contains keg a.
counts of the pursuit of insurgent bands by tlr
Queen's troops, but nothing of striking interns. As
office fur the payment of bank notes had been oped,
31..wax0, Biter. 12—Three per Oents.,l9l emit; after 8e15,11144
01.112. 19i paper. flee pie Cleats., 101 paper ; after Mr, met
Panties, 31 paper after Bale, 101 cash. Coapona,7 hE
of 55. Perdroarid, SO cub, 54'paper. Exchange as Loner.; 41 sa

A letter from St. Petersburg announces the mr
riage of the second son of the Emperor, end the *
crease of the army by 216,000 men.

ITALY.

GENOA, Seer. H.—Al:classes here anticipate,.
are preparing for, a renewal of hostilities next set
The town is full of Milanese nobility, and of omens
other personages too deeply compromised to trustintis
armistice. The Pope's oomin, Major Ferretti,*
took a most active part in organising the lambi
troops at Milan, has changed his venue to Ora
Five thousand stand of muskets (the spec. d
Birmingham firm) arrived here on Sat arday, W 4
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Tagus, mi •
hailed as a most opportune specimen of Britian*
mercial industry. There would be a market Portia
the invoice. Several regiments fresh, or nit
deucedly fagged, from the late campaign, an
posing themselves in the barracks on shore. Or
steam-frigate Sidon looked in has yesterday, el
started the same evening. There is no war-shiti
port bearing the Sardinian flag. The ruins of
St. Georgio, blown up by the people (u it co
mended rather the town than an approsAiw•
vader), present from the harbour a mast
spectacle.
Our correspondent has sent ns the following si
dress, which was posted throughout that city orb
afternoon of the 11th, and which excited the mil

agitation :
Brothers,—The Genoese people, tilled with deistsd
cipationa by the results of the late campaign, with wilt
seeing the laws violated by thesis who ought to be
tar
vigilant upholders, rose in a moment of indigent's' ail
brought to light of day those dark doings, Wad.
the constitution, declared sacred (and they wets II
the rights of Italian citizenship. Yet the Lames* hi
of Genoa, and, therefore, of Italy—for Genoa knees it
separate adversaries—havernalidned ear people threelist
the cities of Piedmont and elsewhere, taxing es
sr
mere local and municipal arrogance, a dein
foment division, and the ruin of our comma erWa
Tell the people of Turin that two vows have beta wash
the Ligurian rsoe—the one to keep inviolate ths shoslol
freedom, the other to avenge the honour of Italy,disazi4
the defeat on the Mincio and the Adige, by the swab
of Milan, the fatal armistice, yieldiug up of the Vegs.
Lambsrd territory to the banks and abuses of Maio
These vows are now deemed a quasi rebellion,
atdsed
with menaces by the extraordinary oonanisdsaos
have placed the constitution in abeyanez TA a,
people of Turin that we do not upholds
vernment that seeks rather civil war that said
of retaliation on the foreigners. Tell them that °magi
Turin will not forget their common sisterhood, sad tang
their common mother, Italy ; that we abhce
rivalries; aaaiifd
that we seek not the darkness ai bygone apokbei
but the light of our future national history, for diehard
Italian nationhood is one and indivisible. We have hsalt
' in the same ranks, the blood of our sons bat coodals4a •
the plains of Lombardy, and shall still flow in termite
long as a single Austrian banner, law, or soldier, maks
I the Plains of Italy. Aid us, 0 our brothers ! to oat 1100_11
mad and deed the new Pharisees of every cloth Wow
mho seek to envenom against each other the Ware
I ear nommen mother—theme who have fought in du hia
sod these who wait but the signal to march—the wawa,
said the citizen soldiery—the people of Genoa or dot
Turin.—Boil, President; PELLEORINI, Secrets*
TUSCANY.—The Piedmontese Gaulle of tht la'
contains advices from Leghorn, up to the nth.
new provisional commission had named for e
mittens, one for public security, one for public oil
one for war, and lastly one for finance and prOrlsio
The town was quiet.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 11th stile
that on the 7th the Grand Dukc of Tuscany held an
view of the civic guards from allparts of Tuna'''. id
had assembled at -Pisa.
for the Con
Grave apprehensions are expressed ti'
anon of tranquillity in Florence. The weakness ea
government, rendered manifest by its unveilings&
to repress the disorders at Leghorn, had enoontaill
the anarchists of Florence. The French resido
there had assembled and passed a resolution tool
nise a French legion for the protection of ths
ions and property of their countrymen in cars
any outbreak. Nothing, however, was futsllf
Bided. The chambers voted a law, authors"
the enrolment of a foreign legion of 4,000 II
The En fish minister at Florence had gel
CaPt-Codrtngton, commanding the Thetis, toy
200 seamen, who should, in common with 70
soldiers, occupy one of tho forts
rot 14
horn, so as to supply a place of fsBo
the foreign inhabitants who might resort to
Before this measure was executed, I,ol`
the populace had obtained possession of the fats
NAPLES,—We have already anndent ounceat d 110 c
tare of Messina. Our corre.pon

writes'
Na hate, SEPT. 9.—On the Ist of August the Near%
steamers arrived at Reggio, tho husd-quarten of the w
consieting_of 20,000 men, of which about 2,600 watt 13
troops. The steamers landed the troops nes: the To!
Regains, the citadel, which was still held by the Napo
force, openingflre on the town. The royal troop of
first sum- *shiny attackei, being driven back to s Ps
which had been peeviously mined. The minx was IF
and about 400 men were killed by the concussion. The'
was brought by a French steamer on tho 4th. At the,
she lift, On fin of the citadel had slackened, bath
self wee on Are in many places. yesterday, B4
government published the telegraphic news that the NI
',Wan troops had taken Measina on the 7th. No po
Pt
ut
are given, nor has any steamer come in up to the

is*
&es

owe& pee Got we knew the bombardment and tight
Yee soatiaosel far eve days sad foures,all nights.
Tern to the affairs of NaA fa doubt, fear, and
os'mildence. The ministry could not work the present
yore• .t, whieb was prorogued on the 6th. Sews go se hr
or; goy it will nem meec ague, aad *mit only* \mesa
th!y She froehite will be retied. The lanireel, the
g
gidfneade of the Wag, at Santa Lucia, have reerdeed a
cheek since the lamentable death of the Baglithatan
jigs; esertat of the city. The eleentios of the assmein
veto the gevarament very kard—f blab to write wash a
og, Oa the soloing of the Mk the shops were °lased, and
wood were to ke seen dying about the streets with
the
dig gege, &seas "Vita I! lie !" n Chambers having
100 moped. gaols port &lodge' erratum imagined it
op, s of el thedmittmaslbe military weal eat, bat
Ow was Ws estiess
iimat astiellalfeets width takes place on the 6th of
every year, sad *add be hasoured by the King
hady, did not scar ; in diet. since the Worts-
seeeasir gam 15th of May, Ms Majesty has not swam
tais, Tb. demcastration by which en endeavour mas
to pas dews the coastitetion los perhetly t• sad
▪ shown that, whatever may be the wishes el die
y. the gook are not biased to give up thdr
debts.
gabs Osage- of ministry as taken place-80mm out.
*Os removed for longthodi. The people are demanding
Aga chambers should be reseed and the national I
egeia celled oet. Strong &Mason! s of soldiers
L'et-ge the stub—the loan with pieta in hand—and the
iscitentat prevails.
riomley a fight took place between the co. *Stational
jai and the troops, without, however, mach loin of life.
is ow sweet they formed a small barricade, bat it we, mos
owed by the soldiers, At the present moment all is
The Five per Cents, are 86. No business is doing on
Oar.

GERMANY.

effUSSIA.—We hays received the Berlin jnruals
bt in 13th, but they cont in nothing positive
owing the ministry. Divers conjectures are
want u to who will emceed to the vs"
;ad tee 'Nlevissen is spoken of for the finance,
sod Willisen ea likely for the war de-
nt. In some quarters it is thourht that the
tag will cause the old ministry to remain in office.
The following combination is generally considered
probable should the King definitivelyaceept the resist.
aeon of the Ariers:vald-Hanemann ministry : Beck-
with, Mermen, Troths, Marcher, and Oierke.
The extreme left party in the constituent assembly
be joined with the ,eft in the resolution not to sup-
port any combination which would not promise to
gee effect within eight days to the decree on v. hich
ibegte proration was founded.
fame disturbances °muted on the evening of the
nth at Potsdam, some soldiers having come into °ol-
eos with the people,_ who pelted them with stones.
gm, Wed/ were made, and quiet was restored at 11
Week at night. General Wrangel arrived at Pots-
dam as the 12:h, and has had several audiences of
to ?Moo of Prussia.
At the latest moment it is reported that M. von
Deena had declined the formation of a new
oast It is said that M. Hanemann has been &p-
-rated director of the Bank.
FIIANKFORT.—In the sitting of the Assembly on
no 12th, the conclusions of the committee upon the
pike of the armistice were reed. The majority,
sista, of Mean. Arndt, Mee Clansmen, Cau-
ses, Dehlmann, Rematch, Hakes, Ramer, Stenzel,
Teitesehler, Wippermenn, and Warm, concluded
est: eesnowing that the armistice violates the dis-
peitions contained in the articles 7 and 9 of the right
el indepeadenes guaranteed by the resolutions; that
the envoy from the Prussian government has gone
kind the powers given to him ; &c., the As-
semble decides that the armistice is not ratified, and
the weary of the empire is invited to take all the
measures for the continuation of the war,
la ere tie Danish government should be unwilling at
ass to enter into negotiations for a peace with the
basted German state. To the following effect
wen the conclusions of the minority of the committee,
misting of Messrs. Duncker, Flottwell, Maximilian
sea Garen, Oombart, Memo, Schubert, Stedtmenn
Worth Zuharice, and Zeuette : " The National As:
suably decides that—taking into consideration a de-
l/about o/ the Danish government transmitted by
the Pre mien government, and by which it announces
that it does not insist on Cunt Charles Moltke's di-
recting the provisional government of Schleswig, and
that it is ready to make all the ronenesions which may
appear desirable for the tranquility of the duchies; ap-
posing that the Danish government comprises in its
belaretion the duchy of Luneburg and supposing that
the said promises will be accomplished through the
mediation of the central power— the National
Assembly approves of the armistice of the 26th of
August, and the negotiations for peace shall forthwith
be commenced by the central provisional power.
Is. the sitting of the Amiably on the 14th the debate
commenced on this abject. M. Heckscher explained
the policy pursued by his ministry, characterised it
is one which ought to be followed, and concluded by
oepporting the above conclusions of the minority of
the commission. M. Herrmann spoke in favour of
the conclusions of the majority, and staled that not
bring able to form a new ministry, he had resigned
his mandate into the hands of the Vicar of the
Empire. The Assembly was afterwards addressed
by Venedey, Arndt, Eisstunenn, and Franca, and
the debate was adjourned.
The following able letter from our Frankfurt car-
impudent will show that there are sanguine expo-
Mans there that the armistice of Mama will mot be
stilled by the vote of the Assembly
FILAIMMRT, Barr. 13.
The decisive battle will in given to-morrow. I be-
lieve I may assure you beforehand that the day will go
against the Malmije armistice, and that its ratifia-
ble villa forbidden by the parliament. At laud
smartens favour this expectation. Addresses
menu the armistin have been received from all
omens. What is of mare consequence, the Bue-
na government has intimated to the central
mar that it is prepared to second it with
ill its means and power in any difference
est may arise out of the question of the armis-
tice; eM the Diet of Brunswick has made a similar
isdentice. Public opinion will compel the other
LarTts and chambers of Germany to follow
riciaainales. Praia will stand alone ; and al-
ready several Praia provinces have declared their
disapprobation of the armistice : Ail-le-Chapelle,
Caber, Dusseldorf, sad Snake have already M-
aned the parliament against it.
Another sage that all are coming round to the
ii party of the left—to the men who demand
the adoption of a bolder policy, of a policy more
avowedly liberal and energetic—a the feet that the
Pear of the Empire has in the course of to-day and
=seat for the leaden of the left (Simon of
,Y9thoder, Venedey, Rappart, Rib, Moller, all
antes of the Weetendball club, and Vogt, member
el the cab, " sum Deutsch= Hanes" and has asked
sink of them apart his opinion respecting the Daniell
In these private interviews the Vies: of
tni6Elr:Pire has, according to the unanimous is
ormentations of the gentlemen I have named,
awn himself firm and decided to act up to
the decision of the Assembly. The triads of
the late ministry had put a report in circulation
that the Archduke John would resign it the
p 'filament refused to ratify the armistice. M.
vast asked tho Vicar of the Empire whether there
vas any foundation for this report. The Archduke
1114 d frankly " that it was a calumny ; that
be
bad made up his mind to discharge every
itt7 the parliament should impose upon him; that
was determined to advance without faltering in the
bay that the nation should distinctly point set bikini
bY the voice of its representatives.' M. Vest skid
'wards), et a meeting of all sections of fen left
the German house, that the Archduke Jobs 1.1
thorieed am' to give all the publicity to Ws meal
at might wish. You will comprehend the i
deem incidents at the moment when theldiaZOll
-
aimsis again din the of
himsce. gup en nele one proems
f lam
imiatit/ will probably be found—to-morrow or
amt de7—to be composed of thevarious sections of
iho.A
trZra./Ue tan amaze, and of a number of seceders
,leseerbt elan. Possibly Professor Dahlman
IRV O. the leader of this secession ; but he has almost
vnom' •
interest in the question for he is a native
,:_fuminlt• The most important'
of these la
"... the right is the veteran Arndt,recruits
Ih.teisetion of the • who
has
declared
„LI anustise. 1111 this question
, , was found almost uniformly actin
",:_" Ine. emoty of the right. He was moan ii
.77: owsle ing to his birth and old usoaddicas
Waring
mum time. He has been a
"",___Loalers ; :ring both corkades—Pressian and
aleck toff bat foe some time he has rather hidden the
cockade. At all events he voted in
tho ecemeittee on
sad it wes. his.fnivotathatre Pla:rinnatkosetth°llrini.-
the rltlficltholl of the armistice a its prase";

form in a majority in that committee. I believe that
many members will follow the example of this vene-
rable old man, whose previous indecision will add
form to his declaration now in favour of a more
decided policy.
All other business is suspended. It has been found
impossible to construct a ministry while a disturb:ln
which may change the whole tenor of German policy
remains undecided. M. Dahlman and M. Hermann
(the Vice-President of the Assembly), who were sent
for by the Vicar of the Empire, were both obliged
to relinquish the task they had undertaken. Ac-
cording as the division un to-morrow's debate falls
out we shall have a ministry exclusively of the right
or exclusively of the left. For my part, I believe
that the left will have the majority, and that ere long
German policy will become more resolute, and by
that means mon just and equitable towards all
paes.
AUSTRIA.—There is little news in the Vienna
papers of the 12th. A letter from Agram (Croatia),
dated Sept. 7, says :—" The Bann arrived here yes-
terday, and set off almost immediately for Warasdin,
in order to advance into Hungary at the head of
56,000 men. The mobile Hungarian national guard
at Wanedin at once dissolved itselL"

The Prusaian Startle An:tiger states that Albini
refuses to sail with die embarked troops before re-
(*Meg an assurance that no hostilities will be oom-
menad against Venice.

HOLLAND.—Tue llAnus, BKPT. 16.—Tho eltc-
limn for the double chamber by all the provinces are now
eompleted. The double chamber wil be opened on the 18.4.
Ili@ llsj -sty was expeeted at the Hague on the 16th from his
visit to TOWN Tee Masts Courant confirms the report
circulated in various journals that an extraordinary convoy
of ships of war and troops is to be immediately sect to the
Dutch West I n ditli. The steamer Phi:coil Is to leave during
the current mouth. The two frigates, the Prince of Orange
and the Sombre, will be equipped for the Indies in the first
two wake of next ninth, and will be immediately followed
by the corvette Dorcas, the stern Bromo, and the schooner
Ambow.