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London, England, 1849-06-02 00:00:00

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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
Her natural and playful touch awoke a kindred
and more glorious genius; the writings of Miss
EDGEWORTH, her Irish sketches more especially,
suggested to WALTEE SCOTT the idea of his Scotch
novels. A sincere friendship united the sympathies
of these two benefactors of humanity. If the wizard
of the north reached a pinnacle of glory to which his
sister-author could never aspire, let it not be forgotten
that she was the first in the field, and for awhile stood
alone in that before undreamt-of region--the glorious
region where the marvels of truth are interwoven
with the charms of fiction, and the attractions of both
are dedicated to the mental and moral elevation of
mankind. Remembering all this, we cannot suffer the
grave to close over MARIA EDGEWORTH without ex-
pressing our admiration of her genius, and our gratitude
for her national benefactions. The paths of fictitious
literature are now so densely crowded, and among the
crowd are so many really talented writers, that the
literary merits of Miss EDGEWORTH are now too _much
forgotten, but be it not forgotten that some fifty years
back she was alone. Alone, unaided by example, un-
stimulated by companionship, she consecrated her
talents to the moral improvement of her contempora-
ries, young and old, and by so doing she proved
herself not only their benefactor, but the benefactor
of their remote posterity. Let us then cherish the
memory of MARIA EDGEWORTH. " A storied urn or
animated bust" would be inadequate to perpe-
tuate her merits. Genius, true genius, requires
no such memorial (precious though such a memorial
is as a work of national regard). As the Latin poet
boastfully but truthfully said, genius builds for her-
self a monument—

")Ere perennius
Regalique situ pyramiduna altius,"

and such a monument has the authoress of " Helen,"
the friend of Sir WALTER SCOTT, the beloved teacher of
childhood, and the novelist who has charmed, and the
moralist who has elevated the heart and understand-
ing of countless readers, erected to the memory of
MARIA EDGEWORTH.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Webave received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The election of President of the Legislative As-
sembly took place yesterday afternoon, when N.
DUPIN, the candidate of the Government, and of the
Club of the Rue de Poitiers, was elected by a consi-
derable majority. The following was the result of
the voting:—

Number of votes ...
Absolute majority .. 305
M. Dupin
M. Ledru Rollin
Lamorciere .
M. Duritt was consequently prcclaimea "Prei-
dent.

This division, however, does not show us com-
pletely the real strength of parties. General LAMOII.I.
CIERE was only started at the last moment by some
of the members of the Dufaure party, many of whom
were pledged to vote for M. Dorm ; and, therefore,
the 76 who polled for him cannot be taken as even an
approximation towards ascertaining the strength of the
moderate Republican party in the Chamber. Neither
can the 336 who voted for M. DuriN be considered as
affording us any test by which to judge of the
Royalist majority. As we have before said, many
Moderate Republicans supported M. DurrN, on the
understanding that there was to be a transaction on
the subject of the formation of the Bureau, and
many others supported him for the same reason that
the Whigs, in the first English Reformed Parliament,
supported Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON for the
Speakership. M. DUFIN has long been accustomed
to preside over large deliberative assemblies, and is,
perhaps, the best man who could have been chosen to
bring the Assembly into working order. On the
other hand the 182 members who voted for M. LEDRU
RoLLIN by no means give us the whole strength of
the Red Republican party in the Assembly ; the
Ministerial party were all well whipped up, telegra-
phic dispatches having been sent into every depart-
, went to summon every Ministerial supporter to the
Chamber. Of the Red Republicans, however, many
have not yet arrived in Paris, and judging
from the voting of yesterday it would appear
that LEDRU ROLLIN can reckon upon at least
two hundred supporters in the Legislative As-
sembly, a much larger minority than that led
by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the first English Reform
Parliament, a much larger minority than that which
owned Mr. COBDEN for a leader in the Parliament
which ultimately repealed the corn-laws. The Mi-
nisterial majority is, moreover, composed of such hete-
rogeneous materials that it carries within itself the
seeds of dissolution. On this subject the National
pithily remarks.—

invaded the Legislatiwce say
such as our annals nevve:
"Now what shall of this majority that has
Of this monstrous alliance,
rejected alike by the country,
before witnessed, all of those
running from the four quarters of
aid
tf for
oecvhesr
have
sicondemnedgni.
turncoats of all parties,
tbhyehpiosltiotri32 horizon, with
runni?try,
these men, whose names at different
ettietimacy allies itself
witfiedhthoerimeeensitsmhr
Btielehedpoecrtrtiisnmesv„.
re-action of 1815,
scepticism with Jesuitism! Iti.this the desertion of 20
it
is
thehih had each
flags, each of which has caused the blood of France to
flow; it is the denial of 20 existences,
in turn been imposed on the country;
imbecility with violence, of the false with the empty,ll of
nothingness with nothingness! Nor is this enough. o
luf
order that insult may be pushed to the utmost possible
extent, this party calls itself the party of honest men."
The Ministerial crisis still continues, and in conse-
quence of the obstinacy of the PRESIDENT of the
Republic is likely to continue. It would appear
as though the PRESIDENT could not do without a
favourite, and the star of M. DE FALLOUX is just
at present in the ascendant. The PRESIDENT insists
that the favourite shall form part of any Cabinet
that may be appointed, and the favourite (doing the
work which his Jesuit masters have placed him at
the ElysL:e expressly to do) refuses to remain in office
unless the armies of France are employed in stifling
the liberties of Republican Rome, and restoring the
POPI3 as the absolute temporal Sovereign of the
Roman States, with Priests as Ministers of State, and
the Inquisition to silence the refractory. MM.
DUPIN and DUFAURE have both declined to incur the
fearful responsibility which those must incur who
become colleagues of M. DE FALLOUX, and even Mar-
shal BUGEAUD hesitates.
On the subject of the Roman intervention the
National says—
" We shall be pardoned for entering into some details
relative to the affairs of Italy ; the only place where at
this moment France plays an active part. We have
reason to fear that there will be a complete change in
the views of M. Lesseps—a change which appears likely
to lead to an immediate resump ion of hostilities—the
greatest misfortune and the greatest disgrace with which
we are now threatened. To morrow we hope may be
more explicit on the subject.
"It is now affirmed that the personal policy of the
President of the French Republic appears to tend to
complicate still further the state of things at Rome. And
We shall be tempted to believe this, if it is true, as re-
Ported, that one of the conspirators of Bologna has re-
cently set out for the French camp, with secret instruc-
tions, intended, it is said, to modify the too liberal
tendencies of M. de Lesseps.
"In line, and in the hypothesis that M. de Falloux
should form part of the Cabinet which has been in course
of formation for some days past, we have every reason
to believe and every right to affirm, that his_presence in
power will imply an action on the part of France quite
made, as he him-
opposed to the last wish expressed by the Constituent
Assarbly relative to the Roman expedition, too long
diverted from its real object. The historian of Pius V,,
the brother of Monsignor Falloux, on being requested
self says, his conditions
and his reserves. What they are
know that France has undertaken such
Falloux in the
wbye
eaeheigehasfiluyncgtuioenssar_ylftowree tasieneoffimc.ed,
de
o•Ements with regard to the Roman question as to
bind her to aid in the restoration of the Pope as a tem-
(l‘.n%neistry mai,'
tem-
poral Sovereign."
received pressing The Government have, it is said,

dispatches from M. DE LESSEPS and General OUDINGT
stating that such dissatisfaction pievails among the
French troops of the expeditionary army in the
Roman territory at the deception practised on them by
the French Government to induce them to attack the
Romans, that shoul,l the Austrians or Neapolitans
approach it, it wculd be impossible to prevent a
collision, as the troops have determined to join their
fellow Republicans of Rome against their natural
enemies.

General CHANGARNIER has addressed the following
letter to the President of the Electoral Committee of
the Union Republicaine of Versailles :

" Paris, May 29.
"M. President—An official letter will soon make
known the powerful reasons which compel me, to my
very great regret, not to declare myself in favour of the
Seine-et. Oise, that fine department whose suffrages
make me happy and proud. Permit me to tell you to-
day, that without having the pretension to direct your
votes, which are as conscientious as they are enlightened,
I think I may call your kind attention to M. L. de Male-
vile, my political friend, my friend by sincere affection,
whose courage, oratorical and administrative talents, have
marked his place in our assemblies."
Several delegates of the department had previously
proposed to M. LEON DE MALEVILLE to become a can-
didate, and he had consented.
The sitting of the Assembly on Thursday was
distinguished by a most ungenerous attempt on the part
of General GORGAUD, General TURTAS, and Colonel
LAMBOISSIERE, aided by the reactionary majority to
put down Sergeant RATTIER, one of the newly
elected representatives. M. CI arrouu had com-
plained of the attempt which had been made by the
Government to influence the elections in the army,
whereupon M. DE ST. BEUVE rose and "defied any
man to show that any illegality had taken place."
Upon this, Sergeant RATTIER ascended the tribune,
and gave an account of what he had himself witnessed,
from which it appeared that in many instances
soldiers had been desired to refrain from
voting, that in others voting papers prepared
by the officers had been given to them, and
that several illegalities had been committed.
General GORGAUD and his companions during the
rwuhpotliengtimhiemh. e w,,,aTshe army speaarin.
g, were constantly inter-
has not given you any
right to protest in its name," roared out General Gon
Garin. " What is the meaning of all you are saying,"
said another interrupter; and the Sergeant, as might,
naturally have been expected, paused awhile before,
continuing his speech. The reactionary papers are
in an ecstacy at what they call the failure of Sergeant
RATTIER. How the speech may have appeared to
those who heard it we know not. It reads
like a good common-sense business speech,
and is certainly far superior to any of
the miserable attempts at oratory perpetrate I by
Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE in the Tribune of the,
Constituent Assembly. The Sergeant appears a per-
fect DEMOSTHENES in comparison with the
DENT.

The Moniteur announces that the Count de lIATZ
FELD has presented to the PRESIDENT of the Republic;
the letters from his Majesty the King of PRUSSIA,
which accredit him in quality of his Envoy Extraor •
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the French
Republic.
The Moniteur also announces that from the 4th cf
Jane the prices of the Five and Three per Cents. o
the Paris Bourse shall he transmitted by electric
telegraph on the Rouen Railway, as they are at pre-
sent on the Northern line.
BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1.
THREE O'CLOCIK —ln consequence of the Ministerial
embarrassmetes the Funds were very weak to-day, bvtt
they recovered partly towards the close of the dAy. Ex-
change cn London (30 days), 25 45; ditto (90 days),
25 32k, money.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TER

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JUNE 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, 634—Great Indian Peninsular, 515
—Northern of France, —Orleans; and Bordeaux, 234--:
Rouen and Havre, 914—Sambre and Meuse, 3.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 27th have arrived.

- - -
In the sitting of the 26th, the Chamber of Depu-
ties passed the Bill authorising the Government to
continue to levy taxes by a majority- of 155 to 53.

GEEittil A N Y

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

FRANKFORT.

The National Assembly of Frankfort met again on
the 29th ult., and discussed motions that it should ad-
journ until 250 members should be assembled at
Frankfort, or until the 20th of Ju'ie, but both were
negatived. In the sitting of the next day, it was pro-
posed that the Assembly should be transferred to
Stuttgardt, but no decision had been come to up to
post hour. Six deputies announced their resignation
on the 29th; but, on the other hand, several Hano-
verian deputies declared that they would pay no
attention to the order to leave the Assembly sent by
the Government.

The number of members of the Assembly of Frank-
fort who have resigned is, up to the present, more
than three hundred.

PRUSSIA.

The protocol of the German Constitution was
signed at Berlin on the 28th by the representatives of
Prussia, Hanover, and Saxony. The representative
of Bavaria is waiting for instructions from Munich.
The King of BAVARIA, it is said, makes the same
objections to the Constitution of the Congress that
he does to that of the Frankfort Parliament.

BADEN, BAVARIA, AND THE
PALATINATE.

The Provisional Government of Bavaria has de-
creed that all men capable of bearing arms in the
Duchy and in the Bavarian Palatinate shall be
organised for the national defence. The contingent
of the latter is fixed at 25,000 men. The flag of the
insurgent army is to be the German one, black, red,
and gold
.A proclamation warmly exhorts the
people resist "
the tyrants of Germany," who are
marching large bodies of troops against them, and
calls on the women to display enthusiasm for the
same cause.

According to letters from the south of Germany,
published in the Rhenish papers, imposing forces are
to be directed towards the Grand Duchy of Baden
and Rhenish Prussia. A Bavarian corps d'armee is
being concentrated in Lower Franconia, a Prussian
corps is advancing by Thuringia on Frankfort, and
a corps of Austrians, forming part of the reserve of
Marshal RADETZKY is already in the Voralberg, and
it is to enter Austria by Bavaria. Extensive
movements of troops continue to take place in
the Rhenish provinces of Prussia. Troops and
artillery have been sent to Aix la Chapelle and
Munster, and a corps of observation, consisting of 26
battalions of infantry, 12 squadrons of cavalry, and
5 batteries of artillery is being concentrated between
Kreuznach and Treves. Two other corps darmee are
to have their bead-quarters in Westphalia and Prus-
sian Saxony.
The Observer of Stuttgardt says that the soldiers
of the Bavarian camp of Denouworth have deserted,
and the officers have retired to Augsburgh.
The town of Worms, in Rhenish Hesse was cap-
tured from the Bavarian insurgents on the 29th ult.
Some districts of the Duchy have been declared in a
state of siege.

AUSTRIA AND EIUNGARY.
The Reactionary party in Austria are getting
more and more bold, in consequence of the support
they receive from Russia, the father of the
EMPEROR, whom even WINDISCHGRATZ and JELLA.
calm were afraid to proclaim as Emperor on the
resignation of FERDINAND, and who, therefore, re-
signed his rights in favour of his son. FRANCIS
Josnru (the present Emperor), has returned to
Vienna, and is accompanied by the ARCHDUCHESS, his
wife, a Bavarian Princess, the chief intriguer in the
late Camarilla, who lives and moves, and speaks, and
tessor being
acts but as her confessor commands her, that con-
the Jesuits.
The combined Russian and Austrian forces were
to advance against the Hungarians on the 27th. One of the most wily of the order of

A letter from
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
Berlin of the 28th ult., addressed to
the Independence of Brussels,
says:—" M. DE LURDE,
the French Minister has taken a grave step. He has
read a note from
bis,Government which declares that
the fact of the prolonged occupation of Jutland, falls
within
rithe treaties by
which France guarantees the
possessions of
Denmark. It is said that this note is
couched in very clear and even energetic terms. M.
DE LURDE at the same time read a dispatch, i . n which
the French Government expressed its surprise at see-
ing Prussia allow the march of a Russian corps
d armee across Silesia, and the presence of the Russian
army in Moravia. It is believed that if peace be not
concluded with Denmarkin some days, M. DE LURDE
will take still -e, more , •
r. sing proceedings."

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
C. ONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 15. --General GRABBE
quitted Constantinople on Thursday last, on the best
of terms with the Porte. The report had been cir-
culated here that several secret articles had bcen
added to the arrangement concluded between the
Porte and Russia, and this report makca the diploma.
tists very uncasy. On inquiry into them, it was, how-
ever, ascertained that some articles had indeed been
added, but that this had been done by desire of the
Porte, because General GRAMM would not take the
responsibility of ratifying ',hem. One of the articles,
forinstance, states that the expenses hitherto in-
curred in the principalities for the support of the
troops shall be placed to the charge of the respective
Courts; and it is well known that they had previously

been placed by Russia, in the form of a loan, to tlie charge
of the principalities. In the second place, Russia
agrees to reduce the army of occupation in the princi-
palities to 25,000 or 35,000 men : but it is stated
that the troops which:are to be withdrawn shall be
left on the frontier, in order to be at hand to re-enter
the provinces if circumstances should call for it. The
Porte demands that it shall be formally stipulated
that the troops, once withdrawn and placed at the
frontiers, shall not be able to re-enter the principali-
ties without its authority. These articles, therefore,
only stipulate guarantees which are more favourable
to the Porte.—Journal du Commerce, June 1.