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happier times, had united its destinies to those
of Sardinia. While referring to the subject of the
violation of the armistice, Lord ABERDEEN alluded
to the prolonged stay of the Sardinian squadron in
the Venetian waters as a justification of the conduct
of Austria in refusing to execute its condition;.
But the Sardinian squadron had long since taken
its departure, yet RADETZICY still kept the batter-
ing train of Piedmont at Pesehiera. During the
course of the discussions, several allusions were made
to the notes purporting to be from Prince SCHWA
RT-
ZENBURG, which have appeared in the public papers.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE considered those notes as
fabrications, and eloquently denounced the base plotters
that could resort to such degrading manoeuvres in
order to mislead public opinion. We do not agree with
Lord LANSDOWNE in considering these notes as forge-
ries ; on the contrary, we believe them to be genuine,
and we consider their evident mendacity as an addi-
tional proof that they must have emanated from the Aus-
trian Chancery. Notwithstanding the denial of Prince
SCHWARTZEND unG, it is abundantly clear that Austria
in the month of June last proposed to give up posses-
sion of Lombardy—that fact is abundantly proved,
without any reference to the negotiations for a
mediation subsequently undertaken in London, by the
note addressed in the month of June last by the
Austrian Minister, Baron WESSEMBOURG, to the
Provisional Government of Milan—a note, the
authenticity of which is acknowledged by all parties,
and which completely proves that the assertions con-
tained in the notes of Prince SCRWARTZENBURG are
not only without foundation, but are absolutely con-
trary to the truth. It is to be regretted that Austria
did not pursue the same course after the victories of
RA DETZKY that she was inclined to pursue before the
honour of her armies had been vindicated. The
Lombards are now more averse to her rule than they
ever were; their friends and relations have been mur-
dered, their properties have been plundered, and their
feelings have been wantonly outraged by RADETZILY
and. his Croats, and it is to the hatred ex-
cited throughout Italy against the Austrian
name that we must attribute the deposition of the
POPE and of the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, whose
great crime was the refusal to join the great national
movement, and to declare war against Austria. Had
CHARLES ALBERT refused to lead the anti-Austrian
movement, he must have been sacrificed to it. To
lead it was his only chance of safety ; as it is he may
fall ; had he hung back he must have fallen.
[Since the above was written we have received
intelligence of the defeat and abdication of CHARLES
ALBERT. The receipt of that intelligence does not
render it necessary for us to alter or modify in any
manner the opinions which we have expressed ; on the
contrary, it affords stronger proof, if stronger proof
were wanting, of the utter unfitness for the conduct
of public affairs of those who would at such a juncture
have recalled the British Minister from Turin.]

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MDLLE. LIND.
It is respectfully announced that a Series of SIX CONCERTS
Will be given at fler Majesty's Theatre, comprising the following
Operas :—The Flauto Magico of Mozart; Oberon, Der Freyschutz,
and Enryanthe, of Weber; La Nectate and Fernand Cortez of
Spontud ; and Fidello of Beethoven; which will be sung by Mdlle.
Lind and the principal Singers of the Establishment, accompanied by
a full Orchestra and Chorus. The dates and particulars will be duly
announced.
The Subscribers are respectfully informed that they will have the
option of including any number of these Concerts in their Season's
Subscription.
The First Concert will take place on Thursday, April 12.

11-1 ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
ICE The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, aad the Public, are
rz6pectfully informed that
On SATURDAY
NEXT,
The Last sight tefore Easter,
Will be produced the admired Opera,
I DUO POSCIRI.
To conclude With (the S2...mery by Mr. Charles Marshall) the cele-
brated Ballet, entitled

LB DIABLE A QUATRE.
In which will appear
1,L171e. Carlotta Grist, 3ltille Marie Taglion!, and
I Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati,
Paul Taglioni, M. Charles, M. Louis D'Or ; 3ldlles. Thevenot,
Julien, Lamoureux, and Aussandon.
PARODI has arrived, and will appear immediately after
meter.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
(Mice, Opera Colonnade.
T.

JAMES'S THEATRE

Season 1849.
FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE.
TO-MORROW EVENING
The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with
UNE FEMME QUI SE JETTE PAR LA FENETRE.
To conclude with
LES DIAMANS DE LS COURONNE.
Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in•
creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of adults
ton are determined as follows:
Boxes ..
Pit ..
Amphitheatre ..

.. ss. Od.
• • 33. Od.
.. 2s. Od.

Subscription; for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Same', St. James's-street ;
,tr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till live.

TtII.:ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. 13. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager, Old 13rompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.
After which, the new Farce, entitled SEPARATE MAIN.
TENANCE.

To conclude with THE TRUMPETER'S WEDDING. Charac-
ters by Messrt. Bland,_Caultield Keeley; Miss r. Horton, and Mrs.
L. S. Buckingham.

THEATRII lIOYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the dtractlion of Madame Celeste.
TTILA EVENIN(s.
Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters
by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mun-
yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar,
Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c.
After "which, WHO LIVES AT No. 9 ? Characters by Messrs.
Wright and 'Worrell, and Miss Chaplin.
To conclude with. COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA. The principal
eharg.cters by Mr. Munyard, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. F. Matthews,
and Miss Turner.

It is just one week since Lord ABERDEEN, in the
course of his elaborate attack upon the policy adopted
by Lord PALMERSTON in the affairs of Lombardy and
Piedmont, making himself the mouthpiece of Austrian
prejudices, Austrian spite, and Austrian absolutism,
thought it decent to indulge a virulent and vulgar
personal attack upon our ally the King of SARDINIA,
and taking the foul-mouthed RADETZKY as his
model, he "scolded" (we can find no more appropriate
term) at such a rate, and for such a time, that at last
his audience became doubtful whether the tongue
that thus played the braggart was not rather that
of an old woman than of an old man. The lapse
of one little week has been sufficient to show the
utter want of tact of Lord ABERDEEN and his com-
plete unfitness for the direction of the foreign policy
of this country. Not only did he personally attack that
Monarch with whom, should his Lordship ever again
be intrusted with the seals of the Foreign-office, he
may have to enter into diplomatic relations, but he
urged her MAJESTY'S Government to withdraw their
Minister from Turin, as a proof of their high disap-
proval of the conduct of the King of SARDINIA. The
intelligence received from Sardinia yesterday proves
the utter want of forethought, and of tact, and of
common prudence exhibited by Lord ABERDEEN.
CHARLES ALBERT has been, it appears, defeated,
and the French and British Ministers have pro.
ceeded to his camp to urge upon him
the necessity of consenting to terms of peace.
Under existing circumstances CHARLES ALBERT may
probably be inclined to listen to their overtures, and
to place himself in their hands, because he feels that
they are unprejudiced persons, and will do justice to
him as well as to his opponents ; but suppose my
Lord ABERDEEN had been in office, could CHARLES
ALBERT have safely trusted to his mediation, mould
he not have been justified in refusing to listen to all
overtures made to him by the British Minister, whom
in those circumstances he could not but consider as
the agent of his personal enemy—always supposing
we had a British Minister at Turin—for it appears to
be one of the maxims of Lord ABERDEEN'S policy, in
the event of a war beta etn two European Powers, to
recal our Minister from the Court of the Power which
it pleases his Lordship to consider is in the
wrong, and to leave British interests unwatched and
British subjects unprotected and exposed to ell the
chances of war, because, forsooth, it pleases my Lord
ABERDEEN to disapprove—or rather, to be taught to
disapprove (for he never yet ventured to form an
opinion of his own)—of the diplomatic morality of
one of the belligerent parties. The result of the
adoption of Lord ABERDEEN'S recommendation
would have been the loss of the last chance for the
preservation of peace, and the sacrifice of British
interests and British property in the north of Italy,
and the withdrawal of British protection from all her
MAJESTY'S subjects located in that part of Europe.
Even if the King of SARDINIA were all that my Lord
ABERDEEN would fain have us believe, the conduct of
his Lordship would be not one whit the less deficient in
that tact which should be to a veteran diplomatist as
part of his being ; but is CHARLES ALBERT really
the monster he is represented to be by Marshal RA.
DETZKY, of whose coarse abuse and exaggerated mis-
representations my Lord ABERDEEN thought it decent
to be the retailer in the British Senate P We think
not. With regard to the alleged treachery of
CHARLES ABBERT in attacking Lombardy last year,
the question lies in a nut-shell. It is averred by the
Italian Liberals that their native Princes were com-
pelled by Austria to exhibit themselves to their sub-
jects in the light of intolerant despots, that their sway
might appear even less eligible than that of their
Machiavellic task-masters. An opportunity offered to
shake off the degrading yoke and to retaliate upon the
oppressor, and CHARLES ALBERT, theinear neighbour
of France, and threatened by the advancing movement,
preferred to draw his sword against his former tyrant
rather than against his own people. The occupiers of
Cracow will hardly gainsay the plea of political neces-
sity ; and whoever witnessed the burst of horror and
fury that followed the unprovoked cruelties and brutali-
ties of RADETZEY at Milan before the insurrection took
place, must admit that no human power could have
held Piedmont in the leash after those events had
once roused the population of Milan. But whatever
may be the opinions entertained on these points, it is
to the state of affairs as at present existing,
rather than to the state of affairs as
existing twelve months since, that a statesman
who wished fairly to appreciate the present conduct
of CHARLES ALBERT should direct his attention.
CHARLES ALBERT may have been an ambitious in-
vader in the year 1848, but the question we have
now to consider is, what has been the conduct of
Austria with regard to the mediation in 1849 ? For
the last two months the Plenipotentiaries of England
France, and Sardinia, have been lounging about
Brussels, waiting for the presence of the Austrian
Minister. Austria, be it remembered, accepted
the mediation, with, however, it would now appear
the mental reservation of carefully keeping away
from the conferences the Austrian Minister, the only
man who could give effect to them. He remains in
England, raising futile objections to gain time. The
game that Austria was playing had long been patent
to every one. To exhaust the resources of Piedmont
by her own army, and those of Lombardy by the
army of RADETZBY, until both countries should
be like lifeless bodies at her feet, has been the
aim of the successive Governments of Austria
since the day teat the armistice was signed. The
Pied montese People were perfectly aware of the ob-
ject Austria had in view, and. urged the KING to
renew the war, as the lesser of two evils. The Cabi-
net of Turin gave way to the wishes of the nation ;
and however much we may regret his want of pru-
dence, it is impossible to deny to CHARLES ALBERT
the praise due to a Prince of chivalrous courage, who
voluntarily risks his life and his dominions in an un-
equal
foe, in
contest against a gigantic and unscru-
pulous
order to to rescue from the
most brutal opp
a province which, in

nOYAL LYCkUM TIIEA'rgE.
Under the Management of Madame VeStriS.
:.+Ol. Lessee, Mr. Char] r, !Us' he ws.
TIIIS EVENING

Will be performed THE WATER PARTY.
After which, a new Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha-
racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, tvid I'arselle ; Miss 11. Gil-
bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestrls.
To be followed by BOX AND COX.
To conclude withs. new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA.
Dregs Os.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, '2s. ; Gallery, is. Se
ball-ptlce to any part et the house.
In ,e ;Sew Poz-odlce, No. 2, Wellington• street, is open to the
public every iron Ten till Six.

PHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF
THE ABDICATION OF CHARLES
ALBERT, KING OF SARDINIA.
In the sitting of the French National Assembly
yesterday, M. ODILON BARROT, the Prime Minister,
ascended the tribune and read the following im-
portant dispatches :

PRINCESS'S TIIEATII.K.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Ma.nager.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE BEGGAR'S OI'ERA.
After which, M. KLARIC will execute most extraordinary feats of
Dexterity ens Elegance on Le Globe Itoulant.
To conclude with a new Opera, entitled FRANCESCA DORIA.

"NICE, MARCH 27.
" The Consul of France to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs:—

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The greatest triumph ever witnessed within the walls of the Am-
phitheatre has been achieved by the celebrated American Equestrian
Young Hernaniez, whose unparalleled feats have nightly called forth
expreisious of wonder amounting to cathasiasm, and gained for him
the title of the first rider in the world.
THIS EVENING,
The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the
magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled
CORA SCO ; or, the Warrior's Steed.
After which the double Tight-ropes.
To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE, in which Young Hernandez will appear, supported by the
first Equestrian talefit of the day.
To conclude with on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. THE
DUMB DRIVER; on alternate Iflvening,s, the Farce of ➢iRS.
WRITE.

" CHARLES ALBERT, after having abdicated in
favour of the Duke of Savor, passed through Nice
on the 26th, at eleven in the morning, on his way to
France.

" The Piedmontese army has been beaten at
Novarra, but its honour is safe."

" TURIN, MARCH 25.
" The Minister of France to the Minister of
Foreign AiLirs—
" The army has been forced back to the mountains
of Biela and Borgo Menero. The Austrians occupy
Novarra, Vercelli, and Trino. The KING has abdi-
cated and fled. The Duke of SAVOY has not yet
written to Turin.
"The Government has requested Mr. ABER-
CROMBIE and me to apply for an armistice to cover
Turin. We have placed ourselves at its disposal.
Turin is tranquil, and everything is disposed to re-
main."

Box-of :lee open from Eleven till Five.
,t,s‘re Manager, Mr. W. West.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, ALLacn 29.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 37; Hight.st, 41; Noon, 42,

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Having read the dispatches M. ODILON BARROT
addressed the Assembly, and said that he felt it to be
his duty at once to declare that the French Govern-
ment was determined to preserve the integrity of
Piedmont.
The French journals of yesterday are principally
occupied by conjectures as to the probable results of
the battle of the 23d between the Piedmontese and
Austrians—conjectures which are rendered now of
no interest by the official communications made by
the President of the Council to the National Assembly.
It appears from the accounts in these papers that
Austria did not trust to arms alone to secure her
success against CHARLES ALBERT, gold also was em-
ployed, and his own officers were bribed to betray him.
The French papers state that a Colonel of Fusileers
has been shot for a conspiracy to deliver up CHARLES
ALBERT to the Austrians, and that General RAT.IO-
- who commanded the Lombard division, has
been arrested and shot in consequence of the disco-
very of his having been in treasonable communication
with RADETZKT.
The Reforme of yesterday states that some mer-
chants of Genoa had received intelligence that the
Russian fleet had passed the Bosphorus. This report,
however, needs confirmation.
The trials at Bourges appear drawing towards a
conclusion.

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The Committee of the National Assembly of the
War Department has rejected the petition of M.
PIERRE BONAPARTE, Major in the Foreign Legion,
demanding to be admitted into a regiment of the line
with the same rank. The Committee of Finance has
rejected the proposition of M. PIERRE LEROUX for
the liquidation of one-sixth of the public debt by an
issue of paper money.
M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE left Paris yesterday
for Madrid.
A letter from Toulon, of the 23d inst., in the Con-
ditutionnel, speaks of the arrival of troops. General
GUESWILLER has made Toulon his head-quarters.
The ambulance of the first division of the army of
the Alps had been fixed there. The steam-frigates in
the roads had received stores of all kinds, and eight
pieces of siege artillery had been embarked, so that
all was ready for departure on the first order
from Paris.

The POPE is about to create the Archbishop of
PARIS a Cardinal.

The cholera has been now in Paris for the last
twenty-one days. On the 7th inst. the first fatal
case occurred. During the next seventeen days,
from the 7th to the 23,1 inclusive, 161 deaths took
place both in and out of the civil and military hos-
pitals. In 1832, on the seventeenth day after the
first appearance of the epidemy, no less than 7,000
persons died of it. The total number of cases to the
27th inst. is 383, and the deaths 180. The great
majority, if not the whole, of these cases were of
persons whose constitution had been previously en-
feebled by disease.
COURS AUTHENTIQUE.-PARIS, MARCH 28.-Five
per Cents., 851.40 c. 30c. sc. 85f. 851. 10c. 85f. 84f. 90c.
851. 80c. 85c. 85f. 84f. 90c. 851. 10c. 15c. 85f. 10c. sc.
841. 80c. 85f. 85f. 10c. 20c. 85f. 30c. 23c. 40c. 50c. 35c.
40c. 50c. 450.; Three per Cents., 54f. 25c. 54f. 53f. 75c.
60c. 85c. 54f. 541. sc. 53f. 90c. 80c. 54f. 54r. 25c. 30c.
25c. 40c. 54f. 50c. 40c.; Bank Actions, 2,310 f. 2,300 f.
2,295 f. 2,310 f. 2,300 f. 2,305 f. 2310 f. 2,300 L; Romans,
574; Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 89; ditto, New
Loan, 1842, 89; Haytian Loan, 240. Exchange on
London, one month, money, 251. 221 c.; three months,
money, 25f. 15c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 28.
Boulogne and Amiens, 83% - Namur and. Liege, 8 -
Northern of France, 3%-Paris and Rouen, 203%-Sambre
and Meuse, 4-Rouen and Havre, 11-East Indian, 33/_
Luxembourg, 2-Paris and Lyons, 34-Pari and Stras-
bourg, 44-Tours and Nantes, 2.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE. To•morrow closes the
performances at the Cirque National, Drury-lane
Theatre. It is rumoured that her Majesty, Prince
Albert, and the Royal Children will pay a farewell
visit to-morrow afternoon.

SICETCH OP THE BATTLE OP CHILLIANWALLA.
Mr. WTyld has to-day published one of the most
rapidly and yet one of the most beautifully executed
of his battle sketches. It is moreover one of deplor-
able interest—representing the sanguinary encounter
of the armies under Lord Gough and Shere Singh,
between the banks of the Jhelum and the village of
Chillianwalla. The situation of the forces before
battle is vividly marked—the British in orange, the
Seikhs in green; and after battle—the British in red,
and the Seikhs in lemon. Every one will find in this
admirable sketch a clear delineation of the last of our
disastrous victories in the Punjaub ; and the correct-
ness of the engraving is assured by the circumstance
that it is copied from a drawing made in the camp of
Chillainwalla on the 29th of January, 1849, by
Captain E. Haythorne, of the 98th Regiment, Aide-
de-Camp to General Campbell—improved with addi-
tiens by several other officers.

N, LONDON, TIPURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1849

GERMANY

AND
TriE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

The Rhenish Gazette publishes the following from
Hungary :
News reached Breslau on the 23d inst. that DEM-
BINSKI had taken Pesth by assault. GORGEY, who
had previously taken possession with his army of the
heights of Raab, marches as his advanced guard on
Vienna, which DEMBINSKI proposes to occupy very
soon. In Bohemia they expect a formidable revolu-
tionary explosion every moment, particularly on the
part of the oppressed peasantry, who are anxious to
light up a civil war. Prague has just been declared
in a state of siege. This intelligence requires con-
firmation.

ITALY.

This intelligence is, we are afraid, too good to be true.
The intelligence from Transylvania (intelligence re-
ceived from Vienna and from Austrian sources) is
very cheering. BEM has again completely out-
manoeuvred his antagonists. After the battle of
Mediask PUCHNER imagining that BEM would at
tempt to invade the Bukowina, directed all his atten-
tion towards that district. BEM, however, cleverly
turned his flank, and at the head of 12,000 men and
with a ,large train of artillery, appeared before
Hamannstadt. He immediately assaulted the city, and
after a furious battle with the Russians, who were in
garrison there, he completely defeated them, got
possession of Hermaanstadt, levied large contributions,
seized the magazines of ammunition and provisions,
and having dismantled the place, evacuated it before
PUCIINER could retrace his steps.
The bombardment of Comorn still continues, but
out of 200 bombs which have been directed against
the fortress only one has produced any effect.
VIENNA, MARCH 23.—The Archbishop of GRAN,
Prince Primate of Hungary, has placed the sum of.
8,000 guilders at the disposal of Field-Marshal Prince
WINDISCUGRATZ, to be appropriated to the good
cause of the restoration of legal order and of putting
down insurrection.

Prince WiNniscsiGakrz has now joined the army
which is besieging Comore, where the operations are
being carried on with great activity.— Wiener Zeitung.
FOKSHCAM, MARCH 9.—Letters from Hermann-
stadt and Cronstadt assert that the danger of a fresh
attack from Hungary upon these cities is happily over,
for BEM, on hearing of the victorious approach
of Field-Marshal ScHLICB towards Transyl-
vania, found it necessary to fall back upon
Klansenburg. The danger of a hostile invasion
into Bukowina is, however, greater than ever. It
is strange that the faithful and valiant Romani, as
the youthful EMPEROR designates them, constitutes
the chief proportion of the population, and have
offered to send an army of 200,000 men into the field,
have not been armed, nor have their services been
accepted. The addresses of homage and the petition
of all the Romani of the Austrian empire, as well
as the very gracious reply of the EMPEROR, are
historical documents which prove the actual senti-
ments entertained by that portion of his MAJESTY'S
subjects.—Allgetneine Zcitung, March 26.

PRUSSIA.
In the sitting of the Second Chamber on the 2Gth
the Government succeeded in carrying the paragraphs
of the address relating to German unity.

The intelligence from the seat of war, contained in
the Italian papers, is deprived of much of its intiaest
by the telegraphic dispatch announcing the abdica-
tion of CHARLES ALBERT, which has been received by
the French Government. The Nazione of Turin of
the 23d contains the following announcement :
" Whilst we write, 10 P at., we are told of the arrival
of an estafidte from the camp, announcing that the divi
sions of the Duke of Genoa (Piedmont and Pinerolo),
and those of General Bos (Acqui and Casale), have
fallen upon the enemy, defeated him, and made a great
many prisoners. This intelligence is also conveyed to
us by a letter we have just received by extraordinary
means from 'Vercelli, dated this day, in which it is said
that a rumour is current in that town that the Austrians
have been beaten on two points."
The same journal of the 24th publishes the follow-
ing official proclamation :
" Citizens,—The bulletin of this day informs you of
the real situation of the army. The King and the
Princes are at Novarra. Our brave soldiers are concen-
trated there, awaiting the order of their General to at-
tack the enemy. Do not credit insinuations to the con-
trary. When other accounts arrive tiny shall be im-
mediately published. Preserve that sense of security
which done can render you worthy of the cause we have
to defend. The Government has provi‘ied fur all wants
and is prepared to meet every contingency,
(Signed) " RATTAZZI, the Minister of the Interior.
•"furin, March 23, 1849."
The Piednzontese Gazette of the evening of the 24th
contains the following official announcement:—

"TURIN, MARCH 24, 1 P.M.
"We have no news from head-quarters, consequently
all the reports current are false. Only the Intendant of
Vercelli reports to us, that yesterday a corps of the
enemy having approached that town, was forced, altor
a fusillade of an hour, to fall back on Palestra. The few
troops in,Vercelli have been formed into a provisional
battalion, and have surrounded the town to prevent
surprise.

" The Minister of Interior, RATTAZZI."
The Minister at the same time issued the following
proclamation to the National Guards :
" The military movements of the enemy have carried
the war across the Tessin into the ancient territories of
the kingdom. Let us have confidence in God and the
holiness of our cause, the bravery of our arms, and that
of our magnanimous King and his brave sons. But since
the theatre of war is in the midst of us, and since a first
defeat would be doubly perilous, it imports the more to
provide immediately for all eventualities. National
Guards, the army is before the enemy, it has already,
been engaged with him, and a great battle is shortly ex-
pected. it belongs to you to support the army should it
be overcome by the enemy's forces. Courage, then, and
let all true Italians show themselves such. Let all those
who respond to the appeal of the Government present
themselves in twenty. four hours before the local autho-
rities, who will send them by detachments to the places
appointed by the Government who will supply them with
provisions. The appointed places are—Chivassa, Car-
magnola, Lanslebourg (for the two divisions of Savoy),
Vercelli, Alexandria, Novi, and Acqui. There the vo-
lunteers will be trained to the use of arms, and then
sent to the points where their presence may be the most
necessary, Soldiers, your day has come 1 You have be-
fore your eyes the noble example of Hungary. Show
that your country is not less beloved by you, and that
the virtue of self-sacrifice dwells in the hearts of
Italians. Soldiers, the army which exposes its breasts
to the Austrian cannon looks to you and expects you
" RATTAZZi."
The Genoa Gazette of the 23d
_instant quotes a
letter from Modena of the 19th, stating that the
garrison, composed of 700 rnm, was ordered to resist
the people, but to retire immediately before a regular
Tuscan, Roman, or Piedmontese force.
The DUKE had transferred the seat of his govern-
ment to Brescello.

The intelligence from Rome is of the 19th inst.
On the preceding day the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, RUSCONI deposited on the table of the Con-
stituent Assembly an address signed by some mem-
bers of the National Assembly. MAZZINI had been
chosen to reply to the address. MAzzrm informed
the Assembly that he should in five or six days want
5,000,000 francs for urgent purposes, and to hasten
the mobilization of the National Guards. The sum
was at once voted.
The Concordia of Turin states from Naples,
of the 16th, that a Ministerial change is expected
to take place there, by which SERRA CAPRIOLA would
be called to the pretidence of the Council.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL .P.IEWt.:;.
CITY, QUeIIrIER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, and the market closed heavily. Prices were
without alteration. The sales include 3.000 American
at 3 d. to 6d.; 100 Pernams and Maranhams at 511.
to 54d.; and 300 Surats at 34d. to 40. per lb.—Railway
' Shure:; were very heavy at lower prices.
The advices received from Italy absorb almost undi-
vided interest, and it must be admitted have excited no
surprise. Under this head, we have stated recently,
and more than once, the feeling of City men
in general, and we explained that whatever
were their sympathies for the cause of Italian independ-
ence. they telt persuaded that the Piodmontese were not
sufficiently well handled to give them a chance of suc-
cess against the Austrians. Next comes, however, the
grave question as to what is to be done with
Italy? end, in the solution of Ibis, our capi-
talists and merchants are alike interested. The
Danish armistice, it is now generally believed, will be
prolonged till April 15, although it is accounted some-
what singular that no official positive announce.
recut of the fact is given. We inferred, how-
ever, from the letter of the Prussian Consul,
dated the 230 instant, that he would not
advise the shipowners of his own nation that an armi-
stice would take place, unless such were the case.
The rate of exchange on India has been
raised by the company. This is a step that
has been expected, as the private exchange
was edvarcing. The quotation on Bengal and Madras ,
is to be ls. 101, and on Bombay ls. 101 d. the Com-
pany's rupee.
The South Sea Company has held its half yearly ge-
neral court this morning, but nothing of interest has
transpired, except that the Company is gradually buying
up its own stock, as a favourade investment.
The position of the Money Market is satisfactory as
respects the amount of cash available for commercial
purposes, but there is no apparent probability of
the Bank of England making a reduction in its
minimum charge at present. We have the beat autho-
rity for stating that more than one foreign power has
been making application for loans to eminent capitalists
here, but the overtures have not been entertained, on ac-
count of the unsettled condition of continental affairs. This
does not necessarily imply, however, that, at a favour-
able opportunity, the matter might not be entertained ;
and we see too clearly with what facility the Danish
loan was raised, not to be convinced that the same ease
may be experienced in accommodating other countries,
a course to which we must frankly avow extreme re-
pugnance.
The English Stock market bas been favourably influ-
enced by the news from abroad, Consols having touched
91f it for Money and 911. 3 for Account. The Bears have
been buying back, for with the end of the war in Italy,
or even its postponement, and with the renewal
of the Danish armistice, their chances of profit are sen-
sibly diminished, still they have the chapter of accidents
yet to rely upon. Exchequer-bills have been 365. to
395., and India Bonds 50s. premium. South Sea Stock
has been as 100 to 100.1.
In the Foreign Market the dealings have been limited,
and Mexican have again been heavy, owing to the non-
arrival of the Dee. They are 30 to 31k. Peruvian
Stock has been at 65 to 66. Portuguese Four per Cents.
have realised 27 to 28, and Spanish Three per Cents.
294 to 30k. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are
49 to lip
The market for Railway Shares has been flat again
and generally lower for all the lines, the foreign ex.
cepted.

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4•4,;. r:, 4,1, lo'4'ito, r 1 DB. o.,,Lucx
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 91%V.4
India Bonth, 1,0001. . ..... .
Ditto nutter 1,000/..
south Sea Stock
Consols for Account 9l %.r4 1/2%
exchequer Bills. 110. & td.1,000/. March ......
1,000/. June 36 39 p
5001. Marck...
500/. June
Small, March
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN ElUisim ONE
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PRICES

Brazilian Bonds
•••
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 3l 3034
Ditto, Account.-- .. ... ..
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 66 65
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account 23
Fpanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 Der Cent 59%
Ditto, Account . 30%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French, 3 per Cent.... s4f. 54f.
Exchange 2sf. 25c. 25f. 25e,
Belgian 414 per Cent
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 49% 49 50
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID.AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen 5O . .... , . ..... ... 16%
Do. Preference
2!,,i ... ... 2%4.. •• 21;4
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5
Calcdonian
Do. New 101. Pref lO ...... .111/
••• 11%
Chester and Holyhead-. 50
Eastern Counties........ 20 ..... 9 8% p B% p
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. . ... ..... 10 ...... 11%14 ll
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 '_6/. 133. 4d.... 1A %p. ..... ...
East Lancashire ......... 25
Ditto, New Quarters 614 4.IA
Great Northern
20 ... .. 111.
Great Western 100 ..... 92 9114
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, New 171.... .. 15 ... .. 12
I ancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Do. Fifths .. 10
Do. New, Gua.6 ner et. 10
Leeds and Bradford 6O
....... ••.. •••
London &81ackwa11...... 12% 5
London, Brighton. and
South Coast 50... ........ ... .• 36%
. .
Do. Pref. 5 per cent 5O
.... 51
London and N. Western 100..... 130% 131% 1311,4
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
Lona. &S. W. stern 5O ...... 3614, 35%
Do.. New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls 5
Midland ... ~. .. ...... -.100 ...... 76 75 1/2 761/2...
Do., do., 50/. Shares... 25 ... .. 15% 10
Norfolk lOO ...... ...... . . ••
Do. New 201. ..
3%
North British ........... 25 ...... 14% .
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Thirds .... .. -Bi4 .. - 41/ l'i ....... ..... 4is
worth Staffordshire l7 I/2 lnf 'is lB%
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Routh Devon 50 •
...... 16%%...... ...
South Eastern
Do., Scrip No 4
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... .. ......... 25 ..... 233 i % ..
Do. Original New and
Berwick .. ...... ... .. 25 ...... 231 i 3/4% . - ......... 23%
Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ..... 6 I/2%04 .. 6%
York and North Midland 50
...... ... ...... ....... 44
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Do. East and West Rid-
ing Extension
G N RAILWAY.
Boulogne and AmFOR E iens... 120
Central of France (Or-
Vierzon)
East 1ndiaD:....... VA — ...... - .... .
Luxembourg...•- .......... 7 ••—• % ••••••
Northern of France.-- 13
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ~. 20 .... 20%...
Rouen and Havre
Tours and Nantes 9 ...... 2 %......... .....
MINES.
Brazilian Imperial ...... 24%
Do. St.Juhn Del Rey 15
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
London & Westminster. 20
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_RTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND.—The annual gene-
ral meeting of the members of this corporation was held
yesterday, at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen. street ; B.
H. Solly, Esq., in the chair. The report, which was
read by Mr. Thistleton, the secretary, stated that the
institution, which was established for the relief of artists'
widows and orphans, still continues to receive the pa-
tronage and liberal support of her Majesty the Queen,
and that the committee had great pleasure in being able
to allow annuities of 181. each to widows and 51. to or-
phans. The receipts for the past year, from all sources,
including a balance of 681. 14s. 6d. from the previous re-
port, were 1,2401. Bs. lid. The sum of 5651. had been
given to 41 widows, and 1081..155. to orphans; and,
after defraying the other expenses of the institution,
there remained a balance of 2101. 12s. Bd. The report
having been adopted, the court proceeded to the election
of officers, when Sir J. E. Swinburne, Bart., Sir M. A.
Shee, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P., Peter Legh, Esq., and
A. A. Goldsmid, Esq. were elected members of the
council, and after the appointment of a committee and
auditors, the proceedings terminated with a vote of
thanks to the chairman for presiding.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—Yesterday evening a
public meeting was held at the South London Hall, Black-
friars•road, for the purpose of adopting a petition for the
full, free, and entire representation of the people in Par-
liament—Mr. J. Grassby in the chair. A letter was read
from Mr. C. Pearson, M.P., declining to attend, on the
ground that his engagements had already obliged him to
refuse to attend a meeting of his own constituents, and
apologies were also read from other gentlemen expected
to attend. Several gentlemen then addressed the meeting,
calling its_ attention to the present unequal and unjust
sys:em of property qualification for voters, and submit-
ting a resolution condemning the animer in which the
voice of the people was received within the walls of the
House of Commons. It was urged that it was grossly
unjust that at the present time nearly 6,000,000 male,
adults had no voice in returning the representatives .
the people. These 6,000,000 contributed totfie maimeot
•
name of the State, and their only disqualification was
their not possessing a certain amount of property to ea-
title them to vote. Nothing was urged against their in-
tellectual qualification, in which the great majority of
them were at least equal to many Members of Parlia-
ment, some of whom were individually referred to.
These resolutions were agreed to, and the meeting, at
which there were from 700 to 800 persons, separated.
MONUMENT TO THE LATE MR. MOTHERWELL.--
A meeting of the friends and admirers of this eminent
poet was held at Glasgow on the 15th instant, when it
was unanimously resolved that a monument, for some
time contemplated, should be erected to his memory.
We hope to find, says the Glasgow Herald that, through
the exertions of the very respectable committee, Glas-
gow may soon have a suitablo memorial erected, in the
Necropolis, 141 the resting place of Motherwell.