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favours, but to the British Constitution ; only, unfor-
tunately, in the latter case the knocks are required to
be so very loud and vehement, in order to rouse the
sleeping wardens, that there is occasionally a certain
degree of danger of the edifice being brought down
about their ears before they are roused to a sense of
consciousness of the necessity to admit the applicants.
To-night, in the House of Commons, Mr. HUME,
is to give a gentle knock at the door, and to ask
politely, on behalf of some few hundreds of thou-
sands or millions of excluded, that they may be per-
mitted to enter within the edifice; but in this case he
will ask and not receive, he will knock and the door
will not be cpened—the answer being the knocking
of the applicants is so gentle that it bears no resem-
blance to thunder ; the asking is much:too plaintive,
it does not assume the tone of a demand that will
brook no denial.
Such may confidently be anticipated as the answer
b be given to all those representatives of the people
who this evening, with the Hon. Member for Mon-
trose, make application for the admission of the non-
represented and excluded classes.

rUHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Moniteur contains the following telegraphic
dispatch from General OUDINOT :--
" PALO, MAY B.—The third brigade and the 6th
Light Intantry have landed without accident.
The numerical force of the expeditionary army is
quite sufficient to preserve fur France the ascendancy
she ought to exercise in this country. The day after to-
morrow I shall advance and take a position whenc., I
shall command the western boundary of the city. I am
strongly established at Fumirino. The moral and sani-
tary condition of the troops leaves nothing to be desired.
.6 With the exception of about thirty wounded men,
the Roman Government have not in their possession a
single French soldier, nor even a havresac."
The in commenting on this dispatch, de-
nounces Nat
esthei°mnit rable obstinacy of General OUDINOT
or of the Government, for it is impossible to say who
drew up this bulletin, in persisting in an equivocation
which would make it appear that the Romans had
never had any French prisoners in their power.
" It is matter of public notoriety," says the Ngtional,
" that General OUDINOT has exchanged the Lombard
battalion for our brave soldiers who were abandoned
among the vineyards surrounding Rome, and who
had fallen into the power of the Romans. Whom do
they hope to deceive by this equivocation ?"
The French Government had, it was said, received
a telegraphic dispatch on Sunday announcing that
the Neapolitan army had attacked Rome on the 6th,
and had been defeated with immense loss. This dis•
patch the Government has kept back ; there is, how-
ever, little doubt of the fact of the defeat of the Nea-
politans, for on the Bth a report to that effect was
also current in Genoa.
Great complaints are made and justly made of the
attempts of the Reactionary Ministry to interfere
with the freedom of election. As an example we
give the following telegraphic dispatch, sent on
Saturday, by M. LEON FAUCHER, to the
Prefect o.f the Somme, and placarded by
that functionary at Amiens on the day of the
election :
.‘ THE MINISTER OF TILE INTERIOR TO THE PREFECT OP

The morning journal, of this date, which is usually
understood to express the views of Sir ROBERT PEEL
and his adherents, says—
" For legislative bodies to anticipate popular demands
by a gratuitous extension of franchises, and to run ahead
of public opinion by liberalizing institutions and offering
unasked reform, would be a reversal of the whole work-
ing of the body politic. From Magna Charta to the
Reform Act every concession which power has made in
this country has been preceded and stimulated by a
strong impulsion from without, and owed its success rather
to the prudential apprehensions than the free choice and
spontaneous forethought of the legislative authority."
This candid admission of facts need not have been

limited even up to 1832, the passing of the Reform
Act, but might have been continued to at least 1845,
the passingof the Corn-law Repeal Act. But is it to be
forgotten by those in authority that during the period
of history comprised between the date of Magna
Charta and of the Reform Act, that there have been

numerous instances where delaying to grant a popular
demand until it could not be withheld has been at-
tended with fatal results ?—on one occasion, to the
extent of sweeping away the monarchy and the
peerage; on other occasions of changing the dynasty,
and in still more recent times to the loss of our Ame-
rican colonies; and although there would be great
difference of opinion, how far any of these events are
to be considered "fatal results," they are the sort of
occurrences which it is usually thought better to be
averted at least by rulers and Ministers of State.
Will statesmen and legislators for ever disregard
history, experience, and what is passing around
them, and continually delay until the hour of danger
those judicious and precautionary measures which it
would be the part of wisdom to accomplish in time?
Such a course resembles that of a person who re-
solved to delay to provide a fire•escape until his
house was on fire, or the mariner who delayed to
repair the pumps until the ship had sprung a leak.
If the reform of the Reform Act was anything to
be viewed with apprehension, there might be some
ground for putting off the evil day ; but it appears
from the PEEL organ that there is nothing whatever
apprehended from it in that quarter, for it proceeds
to say—

" With respect to the abstract merits of the question,
we feel no reserve in stating frankly, on our own behalf,
that the enlargement of the elective franchise is an
object which we regard neither with aversion nor
alarm."

A very important admission; and not only is the
enlargement of the elective franchise quite unob-
jectionable, and viewed rather with kindly feeling
than aversion, but something that is held in the
same quarter to be inevitable, for it is added,—
"A progressive extension of the elective basis must
be regarded by all sober politicians as the inevitable
sequel of the Reform Act."

Then, if inevitable and perfectly unobjectionable, let
there be no delay in• setting about it. Why should
the principal inhabitants of this island have to leave
their daily occupations to agitate for what should be
granted without agitation ?
Had the question been pressed in the House of
Commons last year, when the Bank of England was
barricaded and Somerset House filled with troop!, the
time would have been said to be unsuited. Then it
was too stormy, now it is too calm. It would he
difficult to understand the exact degree of pressure
from without that is requisite to realise the reforms
which should take place without any pressure what-
ever.

It is not to be understood that because the intelli-
gent portion of the population are justly disgusted
with some of the demagogues who have placed them-
selves foremost in political agitation, and misled their
associates, that therefore there is not a deep and wide-
spread conviction of the necessity of changes in the
representatirs system.

If these changes are not to be made but as the
result of louder demands, it is satisfactory to learn
from the article just quoted that even Sir ROBERT
PEEL and his adherents will be quite ready to aid in
such changes when the asking and knocking are suffi-
ciently loud.

That the motion of Mr. H. DRUMMOND for " A
Committee to consider the public expenditure, and
the existing system of taxation, and how far both
may be revised with a view to relieve the pressure
upon the industry of the country," should have been
rejected in the House of Commons, as at present
constituted, is by no means surprising; but that it
should have been stifled by the hands of those who
proposed and seconded the rejection, and by their
adherents, is somewhat remarkable.
Mr. MILNER GIBBON, who moved the machinery
by which the scene was. shifted, acknowledged that
" the words of the Hon. Member's motion were per•
fectly unexceptionable," and in that admission fur-
nished an unanswerable reason for its adoption.
0 But," said Mr. GIBSON, " when he came to couple
that motion with the speech which the House had
just heard, he felt somewhat at a loss to see how he
could support such a proposition." And so an ad-
mitted good motion is rejected because it is introduced
by a bad speech! Surely it was the motion, and
not the speech, which the House were called upon
to affirm. In accepting the former, the House would
have stood in no respect committed to the latter; and
it appears as anomalous to refuse the good, with the
privilege of rejecting the accompanying bad, as it
would be to refuse a delicious peach or nectarine
because there was a stone in it, or a plate of real
native oysters, ready opened, because each of the
oysters was lying on a shell which we might feel no
inclination to swallow ; or for a Californian gold-
seeker to neglect an opportunity of carrying off a
pocket full of sterling gold because it was lying
beside a quantity of valueless earth. If it is difficult
to find a sufficient reason in the explanation given by
Mr. GIBsoN for the course which he adopted in
moving the previous question ; it is not less so to dis-

cover why Mr. COBDEN should be the seconder. In
Mr. COBDEN'S speech he says--" His principal ob-
jection to the motion, however, was, that the
Honourable Gentleman bad left out of it all re-
ference to the reduction of expenditure. There was
a marked difference between a revision of taxation
and a reduction of expenditure. What the country
required was a reduction of expenditure." It is
not quite candid to cite Mr. DRUMMOND as
though proposing revision of taxation unaccom-
panied with a reduction of expenditure, because
a revision of expenditure as well as taxation is

, specially set forth in the motion itself; sad, after all,
there is not so great a difference between revision and
reduction as may at first appear, indeed the latter is
usually comprehended in the former.
Surely, on so highly important a motion as that
of the Hon. Member for West Surrey, whatever
course the Chancellor of the Exchequer or any other
parties might take, it was the province of Financial
Reformers to vote in favour of the motion, instead of
pushing it aside by moving the previous ques-
tion. Had the principle of the motion been
admitted by a m9jority of the House, here would
have been an acknowledgment of the necessity
for a great Financial Reform. If rejected, the onus
would have rested on those who voted against it.
This view of the question seems to have been taken
by Mr. OSBORNE, Mr. MowaTT, Mr. SHARMAN
CRAWFORD, Mr. EDWARD ELLICE, Colonel THOMP-
SON, and others, for they voted with Mr. DRUMMOND.

Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing•street.

Mr. Fergus, M.P., transacted business yesterday M
the office of the Commissioners of Railways. Sir J.
Duckworth also transacted business yesterday at the
office of the Commissionere of the Board of Trade,

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1849.

Com-
mittee
following resolutions were proposed by the C
:

1. That the Members of the Parliament shall take
their oath on the Constitution of the empire.
"2. That the ltFgent shall be summoned likewise to
take that oath.

"3. That the German Governments shall be sum-
moned to call upon the civic authorities, the military, and
the National Guards, to take that oath.
" 4. That the Parliament shall summon those German
States that have recognised the Constitution to place
their armies at the disposal of the House.
"5. That a deputation of twelve members shall be
appointed for the purpose of asking the Regent whether
he has formed another Cabinet."

After a debate of some length, on the motion of
the Committee, the division on these motions was
adjourned to the following day.
Twelve Prus.sian Deputies have resigned their
seats. President Stalsoa sent in his resignation as
President, on the plea of ill health.

AUSTRIA, HUN GAR Y, AND
RUSSIA.

It is stated in a Vienna letter, of the 9th inst., that
the Sclavonian provinces, which have hitherto sup-
ported the Austrian Government, are assuming a very
hostile attitude towards it. A deputation from
Agram hld demanded from the EMPEROR a national
administration, the use of the national language in
of documents, and other important concessions.
A letter from Vienna of the 9th states that 25,000
Russian infantry and 8,000 cavalry had arrived at
Ostrau, two leagues from Mestek, on the 7th, and
were conveyed by the northern railway to Hungary.
We find in a French paper the following descrip-
tion of a new destructive missile which has been used
for the first time in the Hungarian war :
" One of the military innovations that have marked
the war in Hungary, is the employment of the Austrian
fire rockets. These rockets have been ably directed, not
only Isgainst towns, but also against bodies of troops.
There have also been used, both in the Austrian and
Hungarian armies portable rt ckets, carried by corps of
foot bombardiers, able to march with the infantry.
Each man can carry three of these small stated projectiles.
Another man carries a rest, framed of wood, on which
the rocket is placed and directed. The Austrians have
been the first to bring into practice to so great an
extent this new and terrible means of destruction. It has
been stated that these congreves, employed in a battle
range by the Austrian bombardiers, who have practised
them for many years, have produced a tremendous effect,
particularly upon the Hungarian masses of cavalry.
They are tubes of wrought iron brought to a point,
pierced with holes, and filled with incendiary matter,
and are so charged as to emit above them, at the end of
their flight, small streams of :liquid fire. Their sharp,
hissing sound, is much more terrifying to the horses
t ban the noise made by the passage of the bomb-shells, and
one of them is quite enough to -throw a whole squadron
into disorder. The Hungarian army, having found large
stores of these- rockets iu the arsenals which fell into
their power, have equally made use of them in all their
attasks upon towns,aad in battles upon plains."
The head-quarters of IVELDEN are at Presburg.
KOSSUTH is recruiting on the right bank of the
Danube and in the Banat, and recruits flock to his
standard. He has plenty of men and of money, but
wants arms. BEM is in possession of the whole dis-
trict of Banat, from Orsova to Mehodin ; his head-
quarters are at Kikinda. Temeswa is most probably
in his power ere this. The Hungarians have posses-
sion of the Jablunka Pass, and have destroyed two
regiments of Austrians, which attempted to penetrate
into Hungary from Gallicia through it.
Letters from Vienna declare that, after severe en-
gagements near Altsenburg and Oldenburg, the
Hungarians had succeeded in possessing themselves
of those towns. If the Austrians should not succeed
in retaking those places, it was said that the Hun-
garians would soon be able to reach Vienna.

BAVARIA.
According to letters from Munich, of the 10th,
great agitation prevailed in that city. There had
been a demonstration in favour of Kossunr, and ad-
dresses in favour of the German Constitution, and
against any alliance with Russia, had been adopted.
The municipality refused to take any part in the de-
monstrations, or to present any address to the KING
on the subject of the Constitution.
The insurrectionary movement in the Palatinate of
Bavaria is said to be spreading; but the only events
recorded in the German journals are the breaking
out of insurrections at Schweinfurt and loft.

SAXON Y.
The Cologne Gazette says that, notwithstanding
their defeat and flight from Dresden, the Provisional
Government of Saxony proposes to continue the
struggle. It has established itself at Freiburg.
The King of SAXON Y intends to remain at the
Castle of Koennigstein for some time longer, and he
has given his Ministers full power to act for him at
Dresden until his return.

however, greatly impedes them. The Austrian arm
amounts to 20,000 men, but the Venetians are no-
thing daunted and fight bravely.

BATTLE' BET WEEK THE ROMANS
AND THE NEAPOLITANS.

We have just received an express, dated Rome, the
sth of May, announcing that the Romans, under
GARIBALDI, attacked a body of 2,000 Neapolitans at
Torre di Me2za Via, between Rome and Albano.
The Neapolitans, after a short combat, threw away
their arms and fled, the Romans taking 60 prisoners
and two pieces of artillery, with which they entered
Rome on the evening of that day.--Herald.

MONEY and COLVILIVIERCIAL
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, including about 5,000 American
at 31d to 61,i, 200 Bahia at 44;i to sd, 50 Egyptian at
54d to 6/I 1, 300 Surats at 3d to 31d, and 20 Sea Island
at Bid to 11 d per lb.—Railways continued very de-
pressed, business being limited, at rather lower rates.
The Continental accounts have afforded more satis-
faction, and the prospect of the Danish war being set-
tled, proves especially gratifying to parties connected
with Gertrany. It is stated in the City that the
Danish Air b issador has ec'ually accepted the overtures
for peace made by Lord Palmerston ; and although his
Lordship's statement in Parliament does nut go to
that extent, the impression is general that the matter
is in a fair train for settlement.
The Brazil mail, with accounts of March 25, brings
no important news from Rio de Janeiro, but political
affairs were tranquil. There is some specie on board
the packet which brings these advices.
The Buenos Ayres dates are to the 10th March,
when there were no less than 189 ships in port. The
exchange on England was 68s. to 68s. 6d. per ounce,
and the six per cent. stock was at par. Freight to
Great Britain was 60s. per 2,240 lbs. for tallow, and
30s. to 353. per 40 feet for bale goods. The British
brig Jane, with 72 Irish emigrants on board, had got
aground on the English Bank, but the passengers were
saved. Great privations were endured owing to the
length of the voyage, and it is affirmed that three ships
recently arrived were short of previsions and water.
The accounts from New York are quite cast in the
shade by the Canada political news. This latter, we
need hardly state excites much interest in the city, and
no little controversy, but upon the whole we cannot dis-
cover any particular uneasiness as to the result, since it
is contended that the Royalists, upon reflection, will re-
gret having driven matters to such extremities.
The exchange at New York was decidedly
improving, although there was some disappointment at
the small amount of specie received from Europe; nor
had California yielded the expected tribute. Time,
however, will alt, :r this. Altogether the exports from
San Francisco are estimated at i* millions of dollars,
but less than 300,000 dollars went to the United States.
An American writer, who seems to hare taken some pains
to get correct data, observes—
" That it must be borne in mind that these shipments
are entirely from the digging of last year, from June to
December, a period of six months, equal to about one
hundred and fifty working days, and the product of the
labour of fi!teen hundred men. From the best estimates
which have been formed, the total pruduct amounts to
between three and four millions of dollars, from which
deduct the export, and there remain in the hands
of the people of California between one and two
millions of dollars. This is by no means an over-
estimate. Such is the result, derived from the best
authority, of the proceedings in the gold region for the
year 1848. We are now about commencing operations
for the year 1849."
There is rather a bad report made of the growing
Cotton crops, but undue importance must not be attached
to this. Some injury may have been dune, but there is
always exaggeration in such cases. A correspondent at
New Orleans writes t—" The growing crop was injured
by frost on the night of the 15th instant, the extent of
which is still imperfectly known, but the plant is be-
lieved to have been killed in all the country where it was
up, north of latitud 32 deg. What effect a destructive
frost at so late a period kill have on the product even-
tually, will depend on the won her hereafter, and on the
quantity of seed the planters possess, or may be able to
procure. Without attaching undue importance to this
occurrence, it must be admitted that the chances in fa-
vour of another large crop are diminished.
As a test of the degree of importance to be attached
to some of the statements on this subject, we may add
the following, because there is no question of more im-
poriance to our manufacturing interests:—
" The Southern papers are filled with accounts of
disastrous effect of the recent cold and stormy weather,
and the complaints are su universal that we cannot
but believe that the damage has been very great. That
it has been as extensive as represented is, how-
ever, very doubtful. Even in the event of the young
cotton plant having been cut off the season is
not too tar advanced for replanting; and as for the
statements that there is a scarcity of seed, it is only
necessary to rater to the large receipts thus Ea of the
crop which matured last fall, to show the utter falsity of
such a story. We have no doubt, but at this moment
there are stacks of cotton seed lit the vicinity of every
gin house in the cotton growing section of the country,
and that there is enough seed to replant the crop a dozen
times over. We apprehend very little danger from this
source, or from the lateness of the season in starting a
new crop."
The state of the Canadian markets was dull. Flour
at Montreal 235. to 235. 6d. Exchange 8 per cent..
premium,
The Nova Scotia Assembly seems to ha working har-
moniously with the Uovernor.
Accounts of April 17 from Vera Cruz state that the
internal condition of the country was rn re satisfatory,
and that financial reforms were still the order of the
day.

The Funds have been very decidedly af•
fected by the Canadian news, but the sales
are chiefly speculative, and the intelligence from the
continent counterbalances the effect. Consols have been
9O to 91 for Transfer, and are now 90i to 91i. Bank
Sock is 1921 to 194, and India Stock to 244,3 to 246.
Exchequer- bills were 465. to 48s. prem.
The Foreign Securities have been heavy. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been 164, and the Three per Cents.,
33. Portuguese Four per Cents, are 28f. Mexican
Bonds have b.2en up to 31f.
All Shares are looking up.

ONE CLOSE',
ral,l';:i OF PRITISH FUND. O'CLOoR. P RTC LS
Bank Stock
3 or Cent. Reduced A-ne B9 .1:: 414 8' %
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 91% ys 91 90%
N.-+w3l4 per Cent. Arms.-- , 9O L,, LA 90 90% 90e‘,
LormAnns. to expire Jan.1860
854
Ditto 30 year:, Jan. 5, 1860 8 13-16 8 13-.16
India Stack
India Bonds, 1,0004 ....... ..... .
Ditto under 1,0001.. - ..... .- 72 p 72 p
Consols for Account
' xcheouer Bills. 114 d. & 2d.
1,000/. June 46 48 p
500/. June ... 46 49 46 p
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS cart;
Brazilian Bonds O'CLOCK.
78
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..• 93
Ditto 3 per Cent.... — 52
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred ... . 33/4 334
al evican, .5 per Cent. 184 e, with Coupons 30% 31% 32
]to, Account,
Ditto, Ex Coupons ... ••• 2974
Ditto, Account .• --- 293/4
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent 285,8
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account —
'Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 214 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild — 49%
Ditto. 4 nor Cent. Certificates 76%
PEICES OF PAW. .BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN6
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... --
25
Buckinghamshire ... 16/. 4s. . ..... 1 4dis ...... .
Caledonian - 12% 26%.............. 6% Do. New ll% ....... ...... 11%
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 37%
Eastern Coutaties... ..... 20
Ditto,Extension,s per
Cent., No. 1 ....... 64 13s. 4d.d 3•B p ......... ... % p
Great Northern
Do., %B 6 per Cent... 7% - ...... 101/8 .
............. Do. Extension 2% ..... 114 ll4 Great North of England.loo
......227 ............... 227
Ditto, New, 401 4O
Ditto, ditto
86
Great Western lOO
...... 78% 79 78 . 78
Ditto, 4 Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares
,
Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20
.... 15%
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ...
.. —...-... ....... 10%
Hall and Selby ...... 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares
... 25 ...... 45
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Do. Thirds
Do. New Guaranteed •••
6 per Cent..... lO ......
Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 ..•
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Thirak
Ditto, New
•• ••4
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 - ... 52
London and N. Western 100 .127 126 1261/:
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
• • 9%
Ditto,Fifths ..... . 2 ..... 7. LA .• 7%
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 ..... 3% 3 /
Loud. &S. Western 50 -..... 33% 31
Ditto, Thirds l6/.138.4d. -5% dis 5% die.
Do., New Scrip, 184 e,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
Mancliester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo
.............
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Midland ••••••
Do., do., 50/. Shares .. 25 -.- 13%14 ........... . 13%
Do. /firm., and Derby100
.... 42%
De.Consol. Bristol and -
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......123 . . ........ ... 1 3
N,)rth British ... ....... 25 ...... 12%% ............ 12%
Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 814 --
.. .. ..... ......... 3,,,,,,
North Staffordshire,,,,,,. 17% 12%.,
is Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate l5 ..... 1594 -a 1516
Shrzwiticary and Bizni... 11 ~.„. 4% 44

45:p
46 p
46 p
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PRIG FS.

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