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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1849.

Arbitration has just now set a number of respect-
able persons dancing after it, as though it were a
will o' the wisp flickering to the music of the taren-
tella 1 The thing has ravished the people out of their
senses, and is consequently decoying them into all
manner of vagaries and grotesque demonstrations.
It is not so much " a movement" that we have to talk
about now; a movement implying something int-
meaeurably more sedate and deliberate; it is rather a
sort of political, social, and religious fandango danced
to a jarg,in of sentimentality which, to the per
formers themselves sounds very like the melcy'y
of the spheres, but which to ourselves bears a
marvellous re semblance to the diakct of the phi-
losophers seen by I.Ealuei. GULLIVER in the
Floating Island—the patois 4:f eccentricity, the
language of hallucination ! We don't recollect ever
•wi.nesbing a more angelic enthusiasm—one more
plentifully overfl ,wing, not with the milk only, but
'with the cream of human kindness. Arcadia was
nothing to it ! Utopia a mere land of commonplace!
Icarie a matter of course ! Atalanta an absurdity !
For the truth is, we are to realize—not to talk about,
but to realize—the Millennium. All the dreams that
lave ever been dreamed by the most imaginative

The debate in the House of Commons on Friday
evening was rendered interesting by-the' speeches"
of the Hon. Members for Middlesex and the Univer-
sity
on
roosu,fs landlords,De
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swt htnoi
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all
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parties
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estates
exposed
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they are interested being placed under the
control and management of the Court of
Chancery. Many complaints have from time
to time been preferred against Irish landlords.
Their neglect and apathy with respect to the improve-
ment of their lands and the interests of their tenantry,
have been repeatedly commented upon in the most
glowing language; but comparatively little has been
said of the worst of all pthisible landlords—the Re-
ceiver of the Court of Chancery. Every vestige of
hope vanishes the moment an estate is brought
within the jurisdiction of that Court : improve
meats cease, labourers are thrown out of em-
ployment, everything is permitted to go to ruin.
The landlord endeavours to obtain all he possibly
can out of the lands. The relationship that formerly
existed between himself and his tenantry is forthwith
dissolved. He can nu longer encourage the indus-
trious and improsing occupier; he cannot make
allowances for improvements, or exhibit indulgeres
to the poor but honest man, who would liquidate
every demand, to the utmost extent of his powers,
and whose' unmerited misfortunes constitute the
strongest claitns to forbearance. .Neither can
he compel the man able, but unwilling
to pay, to satisfy his just liabilities. A
trifling assistance judiciously aft 'Med might pro-
bably enable the former to recover his p,sition, and to
become one of the most valuable tenants on the estate.
A little gentle coercion might compel the latter to
disgorge his s,,cret hoards, anal to give up the funds
which he had accumulated out of the proceeds of his
holding ; but neither can be effected at the proper

moment, and the deserving an is irretrievably ruined,
while -he rogue, who is well versed in re c, iver
and who knows exa •tly how far he can preceed bt-fore
he can be either clistrained or ejected from his holding,
laughs at the parties, and ultimately absconds to some
other locality with his ill-gotten gains. In the
great nujority of cases the receiver is a perfect
stranger to the parties. Residing at a considerable
distance from the lands, which he only visits on stated
occasions, he knows nothing of the tenantry, or
of the capabilities of the several farms.
It signifies little to him whether the lands are
judiciously and properly cultivated or otherwise. He
has no interest in making any inquiries fur which he
cannot be remunerated in any manner. -He strives in
'the first instance to obtain all the money he can, be-
cause his profi-s depend on the amount he may re-
ceive, from which he is permitted to deduct a per-
centage of five pi,r cent. ; and secondly, he must
proceed according to the established rules of the Court,
although he may thereby occasion a very useless
expenditure to the estate. By so doing he saves him-
self from the censure of the Master, and in too many
instances he is under a secret agreement with the
solicitor, directly interested in the costs that may be
incurred. lie cannot accept surrenders from paupers
who are utterly unable to pay the arrears. They
must be evicted in due form of law, and the costs of
these ejectments will form a very serious charge upon the
sums received from the more solvent tenants, a small
portion of which would have provided for the emi-
gration of the wretched beings who, driven from their
humble homes to the union workhouse, become per-
manent burdens on that and the neighbouring estates.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN long since perceived the
injurious results of this system, and directed the
attention of the Commissioners appointed to inquire
into the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland to
them. He pointed out the necessity of increasing
the powers of the Court in creditor suits, but unfor-
tunately the sound advice he tendered was never
acted upon, and the evils of the system have not only
been continued, but even materially increased ;
for the rental of the estates in the
hands of receivers, which in 1843 amounted
to 563,0221. 4d. only, now amount to no less
than 2,000,000/. sterling, or about one-sixth of the
entire landed property of the country.
There is, we are happy to say, at length a prospect
of some steps being taken to remedy this intoler-
able grievance. Lord JouN RUSSELL fully ad-
mitted the extent of the evils so graphically
depicted by Messrs. O'EORNE and NAPIER, and
declared that he was prepared to give his
cordial assent to the appointment of a Committee to
inquire into and report on the suiject. The Noble
Lord also intimated that one portion of the duties of
such Committee would be to ascertain whether the
system of appointing receivers has not been carried
too far under the existing law. At present, if a
judgment has been recovered against a party, if he is
indebted for tithe rent charge, in fact, if there is any
claim which he is able immediately to discharge,
a receiver will be appointed over his lands,
enormous expenses' incurred, and the tenantry wholly
demorali,ed before they can be emancipated from the
thraldom. We would not desire to take away just
and reasonable remedies from creditors, but surely, it
would be far better for all parties that a portion of
the estate should be sold sufficient to satisfy the de-
mands upon the proprietor, or, if that should be
impossible, then that the owner should be
permitted to remain in receipt of the
rents and management of the property upon
giving security to pay a certain proportion of the
rents into court, for distribution among his creditors
By permitting the owner to he himself the receiver
many of the evils that now exist would be avoided,
and sufficient precautions might be taken to prevent
any injury to the rights of the incumbrancers.

111 IE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic on hearing of the
death of Marshal BUGEAUD, addressed the following
letter to Colonel FERRAT, the son-in-law of the
,Marshal
•-r-
-"My dear Colonel,—l need not tell you how much I
am afflicted at hearing the news of Marshal Bugeuall'a
death. It is an immk rise loss for France and tor me.
As for his family, it is natural that they should be in-
consolable, and for that reason I cannot attempt to
assuage your grief except in giving expression to mine.
"Believe in my complete affection,
" Elysee, June 10. - "LOUIE NAPOLEON."
It appears that the announcement that General
Ountsu.T was in Rome was at least premature, it is
true that he has obtained possession of the Monte
Pincio, but he has been defeated at and driven from
the Villa Pamphili, which has been retaken by the
Unmans, and has suff-red such enormous losses that
he has been c livened to ask fur an armistice
of twenty four hours to bury his dead, a request
which was at once granted. These facts were yester-
day stited at the Tribune of the Ntrional Assembly
by M. LEDRU ROLLIN, and were not contradicted by
M. ODILON BARROT, who merely stated that he had
not seen any dispatches from Rome of a later. date
than the 4th. M. LEDRU ItoLLIN then declined to
put the interpellations to the Ministers- of: which he
had given notice, on the subject of Roman affairs ;
but, instead, laid on the taWe articles of impeachment
against the Paresprisrr -of the Republic and his
2.l.:Li•ters for violating the Constitution by the manner
in which the.; had conducted this .Roman war, and
proposing that they should be referred durgence to
the bureaux. This was done in a calm, yet deter-
mined inaliter, which produced an itrim,nse effect on
the Assembly. There was no tumult, no violence ;
the Mountain sat silent, yet determined ; and M
ODILON BARROT, who im med a ely ruse to
defend the conduct of the Government, : was
listened to without interruption. His speech
however, was coldly received even by his own sup
porters. The debate had not finished when the post
lett. That the conduct of the PRESIDENT and his
Ministers has been In this afflir a direct violation of
the constitu ion there can be no doubt, but there can
he equally little doubt that such violation does not
authorise any other persons in committing other
violations of the same Constitution ; and we are
therefore rejoiced to find that the Constitutional Re-
publicans are having recourse to constitutions!
tiletho(is to bring the violators of the constitution to
justice. So long as they confine themselves to these
tneans, they are sure of ultimate success, and neither
the physical force of CnANGAaNIER nor the intrigues
of DE FALLOUX will be of any avail to
screen the guilty from justice. The conduct of
the Government in this Roman affair has thoroughly
disgusted every party in France, save the ultra
Montanists ; it is considered a return to the worst
practices of the old regime.
The friends of M. DUFAURE met yesterday to take
the Roman question into consideration. M. D'ADIL•
SWAERD 'proposed that the meeting should request
MM. Durauag, DE TOCQUEVILLE, and LANJUINAIS

to decline ail responsibility in the foreign policy of
the late Cabinet. fie also proposed that the party
should support an ordre de jour motive, implying
blame to the Government. MM. PAULIN, GILLON,
and PIORTIMER TMtNAUX opposed this proposition.
Plitt-en or twenty of
,the members forming the ini--
nority retired' from the meeting, and those who re-
mained merely adopted a resolution by which a
committee of five was nominated to draw up a plan
upon which the party should act.
Some days since M. Duranas wrote to General
LAMORICIERE, wl.O is at present sojourning at Nantes,
r. questing him to return to Paris and support the Mi-
nistry in the Legislative Assembly, to which Genera
LAMORICIERE replied that he could not give his sup-
port to the present Ministry, and that he was surprised
to find that M. DUFAURE had consented to enter a
DlESeveralsT Cabinetsignaturesa nmocifehmiwsobbf:iiroisrhi;t:t.rh.
sme:weufrm:huiFbefdehAruLasrLoe
andux cweaysttiagoAelee Member.
have signed theaet of impeachment against the PEKBI-
- received the
Legislative
Assembly.

The Members of the Mountain have published
the following declaration :
"Decbrati ,n—ln face of the disFatch h'
, and :.id?n
t-, evidence the audacious violation of the Constitution
JiteFoJes
by M. Louis Bonaparte and his Ministers
o•;edience to the deliberation of the Constituent Aiss-
sernbly, dated the 7th of May last, the AlountAin cannot
but protest ener,.eticAlly. Let the people remain eilre ;
it ti.ty reek,n tiat the ;11ountbin will snow itaelf worthy
of lb, confidence with wh.cil it is honoured. It will (Jo
ns duty. ‘• (Signat ut es.)"
Tbe Democratic Association of the Friends of the
Constitution thive published the following mani.

fusto:—
" The micratic Association of the Friends of the
Constitution.—
' Cc.: stiteriug Art. 5 t f the preamble of the Constitu-
lion of 1848, The French Republic respects all foreign
uatiorodities as it will make its ot% n rt-q..cted, wilt un-
dertake no war with the d. sign or conquest ; will never
Inpliy its forc• s egsinst the liberty of any people
an article which again coo the right of nations
set down at the cu mmenct meat of the Revolutii•rt by
the Constituent of 'B9, and identified with the Revolu-
tion itself.
" Con,idering Art. 54 of the Constitution, The Presi-
dent watches over the d fence of the state; but he- cannot
und.rtake any war without the consent of the National
Assembly.'

, •
"Considering ihe order of the d:iy adopted the 7th
May. 1849 by Iht, C-amitun•ut A.As.mhly on the wows A
the attack 0,. R tree, 'Abe Atserntsly in%ites tnc. Govern-
inpyit to adopt withon, &lay aseh ru,asu,e, 4a may fir
n,:eit,s,,ry in order that the to Italy mad be
no ionvt:r cl:verted from the at first to it.'
" ConA.iering that the Executive Govf rnment,
of returning within the limits of the constitution, and
obvylitg the it junction of the Constituent Assembly, has
obstinately persevered in the fatal ptth on which it had
ent..red; that it has replied ,0 tit, words of peace end
fraternity at the Roman Repu;,tic, by rec, mmending an
impious struggle; that it has again attacked by force
the independence of the Roman people; sullied our flag
by unfurling it in an iniquitous cause; disgracefully
s-crificed our generous soldiers, whose heroi,m may be
perhaps to-morrow required for the protection of our
own nationality; that it has caused btreams of French
and- Italian blood, of 11,-publtcan blood, to flow, for the
•delight and advantage' of the Ho!),
" Protests solemnly beore God and before men against
this violation or the constitution and of international
rights; against the abandonment irf all the principles, the
duties, and all the interes's of France;
" Protests before all nations, against the joint respon-
sibility which would be sought to throw on France a
crime which the first power of the State, the Ct_mstituent
Assembly, had formally endeavoured to prevent the
perpetration.
" The responsibility of this great offence falls wholly
on those who have incurred it.

" Let each citizen remember that ' the deposit of the
constitution and of the rights which it confers is confil« d
to the custody and patriotism of all Frenchmen.' (Art.
110 of the Constitution).

~ Adup:ed at a general mpeting held on 9th June.
(Signed)
4, per. LEBAS. " POMPEE,
E. DESNAREST, DUB, CHET,
LAISSAC, 0' REILLY,
DUCOUX, G RELLET,
MONTON, MONDIN ET,
Vice-Presidents. lIEMERDENGER

BIIISSON,
A. RIVIERRE.
A meeting of the sth Legion of theterPturi
National
Guard of Paris, has been called for the purpose of
protesting against "the fratricidal war declared by
the PRESIDENT against the Roman Republic," in
hopes that such a strong manifestation on the part of
the French people may have the effect of putting an
end to " that impious war in which brothers are cut-
, ting each other's throats, who ought to have been
brought together by the French Republic under the
same flag for the defence of European democracy."
The Archbishop of PARIS has addressed a pastoral
letter to the clergy of his diocese, prescribing to them
all to put up a series of prayers to the ALMIGHTY for
a cessation of the cholera, and announcing that on the
18th he would celebrate pontifically, in the metropo-
litan church of Notre Dame, a votive mass of Sainte
Geeevieve, preceded by a procession of the relics of
that holy patroness of Paris. The letter concludes
with a general dispensation from abstinence so long
as the epidemy may continue.
The Alioister of Public Works has issued an order
to the engineers and architects engaged in the di-
rection of the works of the Government, directing
them to adopt every precautionary measure to pro-
tect their workmen against the prevailing epidemy,
and to render them every assistance in case uf attack.
They are also to forward to the Minister an account
of the measures they have adopted, or which they
may believe to be necessary, in order that the credits
required for such extraordinary expenses may be
provided.
The Council, General of the Bank of France has
placed at the command of the Prefect of the Seine a
sum of 25,000 F. to be divtributed among the fami-
lies of such poor people as may become victims of
the cholera.

Madame CATALAN', who has so long been admired
for her vooal talents, and whose name is so dear to
all who have had opportunities of appreciating her
high character and elevated mind, is at present in
Paris, where she has not been for many years. She
has just attained her 70th year, but appears much
younger, and enjoys excellent health.
The Bank of France has given notice that it has
now a sufficient quantity of 100 f. notes to replace
the green ones of that amount which were tempo-
rarily issued, and that the holders of the latter may
have them exchanged on presentation.
The body of Marshal BUGEAVD has been embalmed
and dre,sed in full uniform as a Marshal of France,
with his baton in his hand and his sword by his side.
The funeral is to take place to-morrow.
General MEEROSLAWSKI has left Paris to take the
command of the Baden insurgents.
PARIS BOURSE.--MONDAY, JuNs_ll.

THREE O'CLOCK. -- The Funds opened 1 per cent.
below Saturday's closing prices, but they gradually
proved, and closed ultimately the same as on Saturday.
['he result of the Debate in the L, gislative Assembly
was looked for with great interest, but no one doubted
chat the vote would be in favour of the Ministry. Ex-
change on London (30 days), 25 57k, money; ditto (90
days), 25 47i, money.

3USIN ESS DoNE iZt FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 11.
Great Indian Peninsular, I,l2—Northern of France, 83%
Paris and Rouen, I9th—Rouen and Havre, 9—Sambre and
Meuse, 3.

GERMAN Y

AND

mu, NORTHERN STATES

FRANKFORT.

- - - -
The Frankpfh.o.riitp,J)toeuirtina4r/i,esofofthe 9th, says—
the German Govern-
mentSersehvavaeldetnanded from the Ministry of the Empire,
whether, in the present position of the Central Power,
it had ettll the means of exercising its functions? It vvi,s
not only the right but the duty of the Governments of
Germany to demand explanations upon the actual situa-
tion of the Central Power. What did it intend to do
with respect to the Constitution adopted by Piussia,
Saxony, and V.:l7_ r What atepa woula at take in
ease or clanger? In fine, what resource bath t at its dis•
posal, and what was its opinion or its position in regard
to the National Assembly, now that the latter was trans-
'erred to Stutgardt? The note was dated the 3,1 inst. The
Council of Ministers replied as follows:—" In what con
terns the project of the constitution ia* Prussia, Hanover,
and Saxony, the right of the three governments to form
that alliance is based on the Ilth article of the Federal
Act, and cannot be impugned eille-r by the central
P nix by the Diet iti-elt
•rin; wilhiaicththaesll;plawlceegdzstlahteioln)lecta'nnot be carried into
foice until the functions of the Centre! Power shall
cease. With regard to the attitude of the Central Power
towards the Assembly touching its transfereeci. to Stut-
genic, the Miiiistry do not reccgnise the right of the
t. sei of trhceh kTfo
The
t
Central Assembly to take thst step, seeeiiig that by the led, ral
resolutions oe tt e 3,0 h at MarchisedetVgl Powerna;c(!as h
will continue to fulfilair Juty , and means
will not be wanting. Austria and Bavaria have offend
troops. and Prussia herself has never iefused to fulfil
her federal duties."

BADEN, BAVARIA, AND THE PA
LATINATE.

The insurgents have defeatedthe Bavarian and
Hessian triiops at Bergstrasse, anti driven them back
to Henshiem.

WURTEMBURG.

Accounts have been received from Stutgardt to the
9th ult. They do not confirm the rumour that a
revolution had occurred in that city.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on that
day the Minister DuvERNAis communicated the pro-
clamation against the Provisional Regency, and in-
vited the. Chamber to explain itself frankly upon the
point.. Several members demanded that it should
be referred to the committee of 15 ; others ins'sted
that the debate should take place at once. After a
long discussion the Chamber decided against its im-
mediate discussion, and agreed to refer it to the Com -
mittee by a majority of 69 to 14. The Political
Committee hai. been appoint( d,, and its , report Will
be made to-morrow, at nine o'clock, to "the National
Assembly.