The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

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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! 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 im-
measurably more sedate and deliberate; it is rather a
sort of political, social, and religious fandango danced
to a jargon of sentimentality which, to the per-
formers themselves sounds very like the melody
of the rpheres, but which to ourselves bears a
marvellous resemblance to the dialect of the phi-
losophers seen by LEMUEL GULLIVER in the
Floating Isl.:rid—the patois of eccentricity, the
language of hallucination ! We don't recollect ever
witnessing a more angelic enthusiasm—ene more
plentifully overflowing, not with the milk only, but
ith the cream of human kindness. Arcadia was
nothirg 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
have ever been dreamed by the most imaginative

visionaries are to be surpassed. The paradise pre-
figured in Holy Writ is to be populated by the gene-
rations of the nineteenth century. Spears are to be
changed into reaping-hooks, and swords into plough-
shares. So at least say the secretaries, and the chair-
men, and the orators of the Peace Association.

Now we must acknowledge at once that we should
be rather embarrassed to account for an agitation of
this character taking place at a period so glaringly
and: preposterously inappropriate, but that history has
already shown again and again that nations are liable
at intervals to such ebullitions of excitement, and that
in proportion to the impracticability of their aspira-
tions, so are the promoters of those aspirations san-
guine as to their fulfilment. Many apposite quota-
tions might be made upon this particular from Sir
Tuomes BRowNE'S " Vulgar Errors," and from Dr.
MACKAY'S " Extraordinary Popular Delusions."

What! we are on the eve of a universal amity among
all nations and races, if we are to believe the
assuaging and mellifluous harangues of the members
of the Peace Society. And at the very time they
are telling us this, the public attention is stunned by
the noise of war from all parts of the Continent.
Denmark is struggling desperately against the
robber-forces of Germany. Regiments are marching
and counter-marching between Saxony, and Bavaria,
and Prussia, between Stutgardt, and Munich, and
Berlin. The Hungarians are battling with the whole
strength of their patriotism against the legions of two
colossal empires. Russia is pushing forward her
soldiers from one direction, and Austria from another.
The Magyars are consolidating their new liberties
under KOSSIITir, and the Poles are preparing to rise
in arms in obedience to the encouraging voice of
DEMBINSKI. In the Roman peninsula the tumult of
conflict is, if possible, still more audiEe. In northern
Italy the roar of the Austrian artillery is heard at
Venice. In central Italy the Germans are battering
down the walls of Ancona, and the French are fight-
ing hand to band between the barricades of the
Eternal City. In southern Italy the stench of the
Neapolitan gunpowder has hardly yet cleared away
from the ruined cities of the Sicilians. At the very
moment when we are told to prepare for a general
brotherhood among races—international war is raging

1 all over Europe! Nor is this the only contradiction
glaring through the flimsy sentimentalisms of the
Apostles of the Pacific Doctrine, or, as we should
rather call it, of the Pacific Impossibility. Not only
does ancient, modern, nay, contemporary history,
the history of the time now flying over our heads, of
which this evening's impression of our journal is one
of the pages—not only does the history of the Past
and of the Present show, in characters of blood and
flame, that we are always liable to 'War in conse-
quence of the infirmities incident to our nature, but
all Annalists, both dead and living, proclaim
the fact that the perpetual preservation
of Peace within the boundaries of any do-
minion is wholly and obviously impracticable.
Why, look at France, look at America, look at Ire-
land, look at England. For want of any better
reason for contention in the United States the more
pugnacious citizens of New York actually seized the
other day upon the rival claims of a couple of actors
for popularity as a casus belli ! and fire-arms
were required to restore the rioters to order, and to
preserve the lives and properties of the unoffending
majority of the population. In Ireland, again, the
brawling of a party of political incendiaries only last
year rendered it necessary to have recourse to strong
measures of repression ; and that man must be wholly
devoid of rational judgment who can deny for one
instant that the prevention of further agrarian assas-
sinations has been the result of the presence of troops
and of the vigorous policy of the Viceroy, Lord
CLARENDON. In our own country the necessity for

preparation against internal anarchy and external
violence has been conspicuously illustrated by the
quietude preserved by ourselves, while almost all the
rest of the European powers are contending one
against another, and the tranquillity with which our
Government has been conducted, while our neigh-
bours have been agonized by the spasms of
revolution. But in France, especially, the
impossibility of ever organizing an effectual
system of arbitration bas been demonstrated
in a voice of thunder. Supposing it had taken arbi-
tration as its ..Egis from war with the rest of the
world. What arbitration could it have effected by
any chance between the depraved Monarchy and the
outraged People in February ? What arbitration
could have sprung up in June between the moderate
Republicans devoted to order and the ultra-democrats
intoxicated with their lust aftr rapine and anarchy ?
Look at the heroic Archbishop of Paris, DENIS
ArraE! Why, arrayel in his sacerdotal robes, and
bearing the olive branch in his hand, he was shot
down at the foot of the barricades. Talk of arbitra-
tion between men marl with hatred against one
another! Talk of conciliation to people infuriated to
a pitch of delirium by their contentions With all
respect for the common sense of the members of the
Peace Association, we cannot but see, and know, and
feel, that so long as human nature is human nature,
such ideas are nothing more nor less than sheer
Nonsense.

Last evening there was a meeting of the Peace
Society at Exeter Hall. This evening the scheme
which has evoked that society will be advocated in
the House of Commons by a distinguished Mem-
ber of the Lower House of Parliament, we mean
the Honourable Gentleman the representative of
the West Riding of Yorkshire. We regret
to see the time of the community at large, and espe-
cially the time of the Imperial Legislature, wasted
upon notions so perfectly idle and visionary. That
ELittu BURRITT, honourably known to fame as
the Learned Blacksmith, is a very amiable, as well as
a very clever man, we doubt not for one moment,
But we certainly must be allowed to question the
clearness of that man's judgment who thinks it at all
likely that BOTTOM'S figure of speech can be realized
in nature, and that Lions can be coaxed into " roar-
ing like any sucking dove I" That Mr. BRIGHT
and Mr. STURGE should participate in the labuurs
of the Peace Association can scarcely be matter of
surprise, considering that as members already of a
religiously amicable association, the Society of
Friends, the question is not to them so much one
of Reason as one of Creed and of Cloth. But that
Mr. COBDEN should have allowed himself to be

infected by this very futile yearning—comparable
only to the child squalling for the moon as for a good-
sized sugar-plum—is to us matter of astonishment.
An astonishment, by the way, not at all diminished on
finding that he is actually going this evening to dance
the tarentella of Arbitration upon the floor of the
Senate at Westminster I

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 of Dublin, in which they ably exposed the
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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 possible 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. lle can no longer encourage the indus-
trious and improving occupier; he cannot make
allowances for improvements, or exhibit indulgence
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 claims to forbearance. Neither can
he compel the man able, but unwilling
to pay, to satisfy his just liabilities. A
trifling assistance judiciously afforded might pro-
bably enable the former to recover his position, and to
become one of the most valuable tenants on the estate.
A little gentle coercion might compel the latter to
disgorge his secret hoards, and 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 man is irretrievably ruined,
while the rogue, who is well versed in receiver law,
and who knows exactly how far he can proceed before
he can be either distrained or ejected from his holding,
laughs at the parties, and ultimately absconds to some
other locality with his ill-gotten gains. In the
great majority 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 for which he
cannot be remunerated in any manner. He strives in
the first instance to obtain all the money he can, be-
cause his profits depend on the amount he may re-
ceive, from which he is permitted to deduct a per-
centage of five par 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. He 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 fur 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 tenatt 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. 2s. 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 JOHN RUSSELL fully ad-
mitted the extent of the evils so graphically
depicted by Messrs. OSBORNE 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 subject. 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_not able immediately to discharge,
a receiver will be appointed over his lands,
enormous expenses incurred, and the tenantry wholly
demoralised 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 Bold sufficient to satisfy the de•
mends 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 be 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.

THE FRET C_H REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic on hearing of the
death of Marshal BIIGEAUD, addressed the following
letter to Colonel FERRAY, the son-in-law of the
Marshal :

My dear Colontl,—l reed not tell you how much I
am afflicted at hearing the news of Marshal Bugeuad's
death. It is an immense loss for France and nor 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. "Louis NAPOLEON."
It appears that the announcement that General
OUDINCT was in Rome was at least premature, it is
true that he has obtained possession of the Monte
l'incio, but he has been defeated at and driven from
the Villa Pamphili, which has been retaken by the
Romans, and has suffered such enormous losses that
he has been compelled to ask for an armistice
of twenty four hours to bury his dead, a request
which was at once granted. These facts were yester-
day stated at the Tribune of the National 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 ROLLIN 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 table articles of impeachment
against the PRESIDENT of the Republic and his
Ministers for violating the Constitution by the manner
in which they had conducted this Roman war, and
proposing that they should be referred d'urgence to
the bureaux. This was done in a calm, yet deter-
mined manner, which produced an immense effect on
the Assembly. There was no tumult, no violence ;
the Mountain sat silent, yet determined ; and M.
ODILON BARROT, who immediately rose 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
left. That the conduct of the PRESIDENT and his
Ministers has been in this affair a direct violation of
the constitution there can be no doubt, but there can
be equally little doubt that such violation does not
authorise any other persons in committing other
violations of the same Constitution ; and we Pre
therefore rejoiced to find that the Constitutional Re'
publicans are having recourse to constitutional
methods to bring the violators of the constitution to
justice. So long as they confine themselves to these
means, they are sure of ultimate success, and neither
the physical force of CUANGARNIER nor the intrigues
of DE FALLOUX Rill 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'ADEL-
SWAERD proposed that the meeting should request
MM. DUFAURE, DE TOCQUEVILLE, and LANJUINAIS
to decline all responsibility in the foreign policy of
the late Cabinet. He also proposed that the party
should support an ordre de jour motive, implying
blame to the Government. MM. PAULIN, GILLON,
and MORTIMER TERNAUX opposed this proposition.
Fifteen or twenty of the members forming the mi-
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. DUFAURE wrote to General
LeasoEiciEßE, who is at present sojourning at Nantes,
requesting him to return to Paris and support the Mi-
nistry in the Legislative Assembly, to which Genera
LasaoaleinstE 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
Cabinet of which M. DR FALLOUX was a Member.
Several members of the Dufaure and Cavaignac party
have signed the act of impeachment against the PRESI-
DENT and his Ministers, which already has received the
signatures of 150 Members of the Legislative
Assembly.
The Members of the Mountain' have published
the following declaration :
"DeclaraWn—ln face of the dispatch which proves
to evid( nee the audacious violation of the Constitution
by AL Louis Bonaparte and his Ministers, and their dis.
loafst,tht
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The Democratic Assboeliisahteiodn
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festo :
" The D. mocratic Association of tho Friends of the
Constitution,—
" Considering Art. 5 of the preamble of the Constitu-
tion of 184 S, The French Republic respects all foreign
nationalities as it will make its ow n refrcted, will un-
dertake no war with the design of conquest ; will never
employ its forces against the liberty of any people
an article which again consecrates the right of nations
set down at the commencement of the Revolution by
the Constituent of 'B9, and identified with the Revolu-
tion itself.
" Considering Art. 54 of the Constitution, The Presi-
dent watches over the defence of the state; but he cannot
undertake any war without the consent of the National
Assembly.'

" Considering the order of the day adopted the 7th
May, 1549, by the Constituent Assembly on the news of
the attack on R me, The Assembly invites the Govern-
ment to adopt without delay each measures as may be
necessary in order that the exp-ditien to Ita'y may be
no longer diverted from the ol,k.ct et first assigned to it.'
" Considering that the Executive Gov. rnment, inateso:l
of returning within the limits of the constitution, and
obeying the injunction of the Constituent Assembly, has
obstinately persevered in the fatal pith on which it had
entered; that it has replied ;o the words of peace and
fraternity of the Roman Reput.lic, by rec,mmending tin
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
sacrificed our generous soldiers, whose heroism may be
perhaps to-morrow required for the protection of our
own nationality; that it has caused streams of French
and Italian blood, of Republican blood, to flow, for the
delight and advantage of the Holy alliance;
" Protests solemnly before God and before men against
this violation of the constitution and of international
rights; against the abandonment of all the principles, the
duties, and all the interews 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 Constituent
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 confich d
to the custody and patriotism of all Frenchmen.' (Art.
110 of the Constitution).
" Adopted at a general meeting held on 9th Juno.
(Signed)
" Ps. LEBAS, " POMPEE,
E. DESMAREST, DUBOCRET,
LAISSAC, O'REILLY,
Ducoux, GRELLET,
MORTON, MONDINET,
Vice-Presidents. lIEMERDENCER,
BIIISSON,
A. RITIERRE,
Secretaries.
_ . _

A meeting of the 6th Legion of the—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
Genevieve, 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 Minister 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 of 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 credit 3
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 distributed among the fami-
lies of such poor people as may become victims of
the cholera.

Madame CATALANI, who has so long been admired
for her vocal 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 BUGEAUD has been embalmed
and dreosed 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.—MONDAT, JUNE 11.
THREE O'CLOCK. -- The Funds opened 1 per cent.
below Saturday's closing prices, but they gradually im-
proved, and closed ultimately the same as on Saturday.
'The result of the Dsbate i❑ the Legislative Assembly
was looked for with great interest, but no one doubted
that the vote would be in favour of the Ministry. Ex-
change on London (30 days), '25 57k, money; ditto (90
days), 25 47k, money.

tiIISINESS DUNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 11.

Great Indian Peninsular, s —Northern of France, 83/3—
Paris and Rouen, 194j—Rouen and llavre, 9—Sambre and
Meuse, 3.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

FRANKFORT.

The Frankfort Journal, of the 9th, says—
" Several plenipoteutiaries of the German Govern=
ments have demanded from the Ministry of the Empire,
whether, in the present position of the Central Power,
it had still the means of exercising its functions? It w7.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 Prussia,
Saxony, and Hanover? What steps would it take in
case of danger? In fine, what resource hadi 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-
ferred 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 of Prussia, Hanover,
and Saxony, the right of the three governments to form
that alliance is based On the 11th article of the Federal
Act, and cannot be impugned either by the central
power which has replaced the Diet, nor by the Diet itself
seeing that the new legislation cannot be carried into
force until the functions of the Central Power shall
cease. With regard to the attitude of the Central Power
towards the Assembly touching its transference to Stut-
gardt, the Ministry do not recognise the right of the
Assembly to take that step, aeeeing that by the federal
resolutions of the 30th March and April 1, Frankfort
is designated as the seat of the National Asserahly. The
Central Power will continue to fulfil its duty and means
will not be wanting. Austria and Bavaria have offend
troops, and Prussia herself has never refused to fulfil
her federal duties."

BADEN, BAVARIA, AND THE PA
LATINATE.

The insurgents have defeated the Bavarian and
Hessian troops at Bergstrasse, and 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 insisted
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 has been appointed, and its report will
be made to-morrow, at nine o'clock, to the National
Assembly.

AUSTRIA.
The tale published by the Wiener Zeitung of the
massacre of the Austrian prisoners by the Hunga-
rians at Buda is now admitted by that official journal
itself to be without foundation. Three only were
shot ; and the Honved officer by whose orders this
was done was immediately arrested by GEORGEY, and
brought before a court-martial.

PRUSSIA.
Official accounts have reached the Government cf
the adhesion of the Dukes of Baden, Mecklenburg-
Schwerin and Strelitz, and Anhalt Benburg to the
triple confederation.

DESMARK.
COPENHAGEN, JUNE 6,--The diplomatic corps were
present at a sitting in which the KING sanctioned the
fundamental law. The absence of the Russian Am-
bassador (Baron D'UNGERN STERNBERG) and that of
the Prince of HEssE, the presumptive heir to the
throne, and son in-law of the Emperor NICHOLAS,
was the subject of remark. It is known that the
CZAR is opposed to the Constitution. It is even said
that the Prussian fleet was promised on the express
condition that the Constitution should not be sanc-
tioned. It is for this reason, doubtless, that they
have not arrived.

Yesterday the KING pronounced the closing of the
Diet with a speech in which he gave his assent to
the fundamental law. In dissolving the Diet his
MAIESTY reserved to himself the right of re-assem-
bling it, in case the unjust and cruel war against
Denmark should render it necessary.

ROYAL VISIT TO TUE HAYMARHET.—We under-
stand that her Majesty intends honouring the Theatre
Royal Haymarket with her presence this evening, in
.
order to witness the admirable performance of Mr.
and Mrs C.
Iken as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.