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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
to 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.
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 Las 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 passing of 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 delayingto 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—

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

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

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BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH,
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, May 15, 1849.
Notice is hereby given, to the Ambassadors, the Foreign Ministers,
the Members of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and
the Officers and Ladies of the Royal Household, invited to her
Majesty's Ball at Buckingham Palace, on WEDNESDAY Evening,
the 16th instant, that their Carriages are to enter St. James's Park
by the Great Gate on Constitution Hill, pass along to the Arch in
the North Wing of the Palace, set down at the Garden Entrance,
and leaving the Garden by the Gate near the Riding, House, are to
turn to the right.
The empty Carriages are afterwards to proceed in like manner
through Constitution Hill Gate into the Park, wait there till called
to take up, and go away through Grosvenor-place.
The Carriages .of all other persons invited to the Ball are to fall
info line in St. James's-street, enter the Park by Stable-yard Gate,
pass the front of the Palace and through Buckingham Gate, to set
down at the Equerry's door.
The empty Carriages are to turn round, and passing down the
Birdcage-walk, are to cross the Parade opposite the Horse Cuards,
to wait in the Mall till ca led to the Equerry's door : after taking up,
they are to re-enter the Park by Buckingham Gate, and go away
through Stable-yard Gate, sip St. James's-s re_t.
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
GRAND EXTRA NIGHT, THURSDAY NEXT, May 17.
It is respectfully announced that a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT,
on the scale of former seasons, will to presented on THURSDAY,
May 17. when will be performed Roselni's celebrated Opera,
LA CENERENTOLA.
Angelina (under the name of Cenerentola), Mdlle. Albon! ; Don
Ramiro, Signor Calzolari ; Dandini, Signor Bellettl ; and Don Mag-
nifico, Signor Lablache.
To be followed by the principal Tableaux of the admired Ballet of
FIORITA.
By M. P. Taglioni; the Music by signor Pupil; the Scenery by
Mr. C. Marshall.
Pincipal parts by Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, and M.
Dor.

The Selection will comprise the principal Pas of the Ballet, and
the admired Tableaux of the Waterfall.
To be followed by the Last Act of Bellini's favourite Opera of
NORMA.
Norma, Mdlle. Paredi ; Pollione, Signor Bordas ; and Oroveso,
Signor Lablache.
The whole to conclude with the much admired Ballet of
ELECTRA ; or, the Lost Pleiad
(Omitting the First Two Tableaux).
The principal parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlles. Petit
Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Julien, Aussundon, Lamoreux,
Marie Taglioni and M. Paul Taglioni; and comprising the admired
Pas de Deux d'Action " La Lutte," Mdlle. Carlotta Grist and M. P.
Taglioni, and also the celebrated Scene of the Restoration of the
Lost Pleiad to the Regions of Light.
Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as
usual, price 103, 6d. each.
Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past
Seven o'clock.
QT.

JAMES'S TUEATRE.

Season 1849.
FREXCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE.
TO-MORROW,
The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with
(For the last time)
LES DIAMANS DE LA COURONNE,
To conclude with
LES RENDEZVOUS BOURGEOIS.
Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in-
creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis-
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Boxes .. .. .. • • .. 6s. Od.
Pit.. .. • • • • • • 3s. Od.
Amphitheatre .. 2s. Od.
Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street;
Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five.

HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.
BY SPECIAL DESIRE.
Madlle. ALBONI In "II Barbiere di Sivlglia."
THIS EVENING, May 15, will be presented Rossini's celebrated
Opera,

" 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
representative system.

If these changes are not to be made but as the
result of louder demands, it is satisfactory to learn
from the article ju3t 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.

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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 GIBSON, 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.
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. Ginsox 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 had 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; aud, 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 majority 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. SIIARMAN
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 en interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing- stre et.
Mr. Fergus, M.P., transacted business yesterday at
the office of the Commissioners of Railways. Sir J.
Duckworth also transacted business yesterday at the
office of the Commissioners of the Board of Trade.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 1.5, 1849.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The illonitrur contains the following telegraphic
dispatch from General OUDINOT :--
"PALO, MAY B.—The third brigade and the 6th
Light Infantry have landed without accident.
" The numerical force of the expeditionary army is
quite sufficient to preserve for Franco the ascendancy
she ought to exercise in this country. The day after to-
morrow I :hall advance and take a position whence I
shall command the western boundary of the city. lam
strongly established at Fumirino. The moral and sani-
tary condition of the troops leaves nothing to be desired.
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 National, in commenting on this dispatch, de-
nounces the miserable obstinacy of General OUDINOT
or of the Government, for it is impossible to ssy 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 National,
"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-
a report to that effect was
aploa
Great complaints are made and justly made of the
sloi t
current ns, for
ino n
Genoa the Bt h .
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 of the Somme, and placarded by
that functionary at Amiens on the day of the
election :
" THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR TO THE PREFECT OF
THE SOMME.

" " 12th May, 11 o'clock morning.
After a most animated discussion on the affairs of
Italy, the National Assembly rejected, by a pure and
simple order of the day and by a majority of 329 out of
621 votes, the proposition of M. Jules Favre, to declare
that the Ministry had lost the confidence of the country.
This vote consolidates the public peac,?. The agitators
were only Waiting for a vote hostile to the Ministry of
the National Assembly to run to the barricades and
renew the days of June. Paris is tranquil. Among
the representatives of the department who voted for
order and the government are—Messrs. de Beaumont,
Creton, Porion Magnies, Dclattre, Raudoing, Morel
Cornet de Fourment, Labordere, and A. Dubois. The
following abstained or was absent:—M. Tillette de
Clermont."
There is something ludicrous in the pompous
vanity of the assumption on the part of the BARROI,
FAUCHER FALLOUX clique, that no Government
can be a Government of order of which they do not
form a part; there is something hateful in the
assumption that all those who are opposed to this
clique are agitators, and in the faltehood that they

were prepared to run to the barricades, and to renew
the days of June (where were ODILON
BARROT, LEON FATJCIIER, and DE FALLOUX during
the days of June ?), and there is something of an
attempt at Terrorism, in praising some men for voting
for order and Goverment, and denouncing others for ab-
stainirg. In several instances commanding officers have
attempted to exercise an undue influence over the
soldiers in the exercise of their franchise, and the
Government has managed by some trick to disfran-
chise the Garde Mobile altogether. Notwithstanding
all these unconstitutional and illegal act:, on the part
of the reactionaries, it is admitted by themselves that
they have been to a considerable extent unsuccessful.
It is, of course, impossible to know the exact state of
the poll in Paris, but it is admitted by the Govern-
ment organs that LEDEu Rom,m, LAGRANGE, and
Sergeant BOICRET, are among the elected, and that
MM. PROUDHON and PIERRE LEROUX are also most
probably returned, and that the greater number of the
other deputies for Paris will be moderate Republicans.
In the southern departments, in which it was thought
the returns would be almost all Royalist, it appears
that the Socialist candidates are making head, and the
majority of the army have also voted for the Socialist
list.

following resolutions were proposed by the Corn-
mittee

"1. That the Members of the l'arliqmont shall take
their oath on the Constitution of the empire.
"2. That the Itcgent 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 moti on of
the Committee, the division on these motions was
adjourned to the following day.
Twelve Prussian Deputies have resigned their
seats. President SIMSON sent in his resignation as
President, on the plea of ill health.

AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, AND
RUSSIA.

The Hungarian Envoy, Count LADISLAS TELEKI,
has addressed the following letter to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, dated the 13th:—
"Sir,—l have heard the noble words you 1 ave just
pronounced in the National Assembly of France on the
subject of the intervention of Russia. It becomes a
duty for me to testify my gratitude at the earliest mo-
ment. The great distance of the scene of events, ill
known, and frequently falsely appreciated, has not pre-
vented you from paying the most serious attention to the
general appreciation which you were called upon to
make. The intervention of Russia in our country has met,
and will meet, on your pert with all the obstachs which
Hungary and Europe have a right to expect from you.
The traditions of the sympathy of France for Hungary
have not been forgotten, for which be thanks rendered
to you. In past times, my country, before it was united
to the house cf Hapsburg, received the most glorious of
its kings—Louis Ist of Anjou, surnamed the Great—
from the family of the Kings of France. The Govern-
ment of the Republic is now again about to contribute to
,reign means against us. If these
ceed, their success might be at once
the assurance of our future well-being by preventing the
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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 had demanded from the EMPEROR a national
administration, the use of the national language in
official 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
o.trau, 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 against towns, but also against bodies of troops.
There have also been used, both in the Austrian and
Hungarian armies portable rcckets, carried by corps of
foot bombardiers, able to march with the infantry.
Each man caa carry three of these small sized 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
than 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 in the arsenals which fell into
their power, have equally made use of them in all their
attacks upon towns,and in battles upon plains."
The head-quarters of WELDEN are at Presburg.
Kossum 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.

BA VARIA.
According to letters from Munich, of the 10th,
great agitation prevailed in that city. There bad
been a demonstration in favour of Kossuru, 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 Hoft.

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 SAXONY 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.

ITALY. •

The report of the execution of RAMORINO at Turin
on the 7th is not confirmed. It is said that his sen-
tence will be commuted to imprisonment for life in
a fortress.
Accounts from Rome of the sth state, that on that
day, at the sitting of the Constituent Assembly, the
following decree was proposed :
"A public funeral shall be accorded to those brave
men who have fallen in defence of Roman liberty.
" A monument shall be raised to transmit their
names to posterity, vith the following inscription :
Republican France hided them for desiring to be free.'"
Some objection was raised to these words, and the
Assembly passed to the order of the day.
The triumvir SAFFI informed the Chamber that
the prefects of Frosinone and Valletri, on the aproach
of the Neapolitans, seeing it was impossible to
resist, had thought it proper to withdraw to Rome.
The Neapolitan force, which advanced in two
columns amounted to 12,000 men. The Nea-
politans, wherever they passed, acted like Croats—
they devestated the country, insulted the people, and
menaced the young men with a forced levy, in order
to make them march against Rome in the foremost
ranks. It was at first intended to send to Rome all
the citizans able to bear arms, but on reflection they
had been retained to hang on the rear of the Neapo-
litan forces, and carry on a guerilla warfare as they
advanced.
The Neapolitan Commander-in-Chief WINSPEARE
has issued a proclamation to the Romans, stating that
he came to re-establish the authority of the Sove-
reign Pontiff; and to bring safety and peace to the
people.

A
telegraphic dispatch has been sent off to General
OUDINOT ordering him not to bombard Rome, but to
await the arrival of M. LESSEPS.
BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 14.
THREE o'CLocK.—The news that the elections are
not so favourable to the candidates of the Government as
was expected has had an unfavourable effect on the
Bourse to-day. The French Five per Cents. opened
firmly at 90f. 60c., but they gradually fell to 89f. 85c.,
which is 20c. below the closing prices of Saturday. The
Railway Shares are firm. Exchange on London (30
days), 25 32k; ditto (90 days), 25 20.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7—Northern of France, 10%—
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 131—East
Indian„2%--Great Indian Peninsular, 5 - Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 31,4—Paris and Rouen, 22—Paris and Strasbourg, 4%
—Rouen and Havre, 10—Tours and Nantes, 31/2.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived.
They contain no news of public interest.
MADRID BoLsa, MAY 9.—The Three per Cents.
were done heavily at 2.5 k. Exchange on London
unaltered.

MAZZINI said the first thing to be done was to say
whether they would resist or succumb to this inva•
sion. Would they submit to the absolutism
of Naples, after having repelled the- moderate
liberalism of France ? He thought they should
defend themselves, and, without wishing to explain
himself, he believed defence was possible.
This opinion was acquiesced in by the Assembly,
and the Chamber then rose.
The Triumvirate has recommended a guerilla war-
fare. Every man who can collect together 50 men
is to be their officer.
The Neapolitans will make a simultaneous attack
on the side of Ricti and Arcoli.
M. PANDOLPINI, the Charge d'Affaires of Florence'
has been imprisoned in consequence of the arrest
of the Roman Envoy at Florence, Doctor PIETRO
MAESTRI.
The Corriere Mercantile of the 9th, in its latest
intelligence of that day, speaks of a rumour current
there on the Bth of a conflict between the Romans and
Neapolitans, in which the latter had been worsted.
Not having received the Roman journals and letters
of the sth, it remarks that the Tuscan Monitore,
which is not favourable to the Roman cause, speaks
of an encounter of that description, without giving
the result. The Corriere subsequently states, that
letters just arrived at Genoa confirm the intelligence,
and adds that the Romans have taken some artillery
and made many prisoners. The Austrians, according
to this paper, have not entered the Roman States, but,
on the contrary, have drawn off more troops, to con-
centrate them at Trieste, for the purpose of operating
against Hungary.
A letter from Florence, of May 6, says :
The Austrians were yesterday at Pisa, and will
arrive this evening before Leghorn. Their entrance is
already announced beforehand into that town, where the
projects of desperate resistance have, in fact, vanished.
It cannot, however, be yet said if the gates shall be
thrown open or forced. It appears certain that they
will not come to Florence, Count Serristari, Grand Ducal
Commissioner, having strongly insisted that, according
to the terms of his proclamation, General d'Aspre should
not appear on any of the points which had already re-
cognised the authority of Leopold. The Duke de Mo-
dena, it is said, commands the advance-guard. Florence
is tranquil, because it is more and more persuaded within
the last 48 hours, that it will not see the Austrians enter
its walls."
The Opinione of Turin states from Sicily, 2d inst.,
that the Royal troops were to enter Palermo on the
Ist, and that serious collisions had taken place be-
tween the National Guards and a portion of the
populace. It mas believed that, in consequence of
his victory in Sicily, the King of NAPLES would re-
voke the constitution of the kingdom.
Letters from Venice of the 3d say,—
The blockade by sea commenced here April 17th.
At first the enemy's force was insufficient, but to-day
the Austrian men of war arrived, and the cruisers

,
drove back all vessels which approach Venice to
Trieste. The Austrian force amounts to 17 vessels.

The Arsenal is making great efforts ; small boats
are mounted with guns, which will be able to attack
the Austrian large ships without danger of being
sunk. The Venetians think that this squadron will
soon be able to beat the enemy and raise the blockade
by sea.
On land the enemy is manoeuvring against Mal-
ghera, but the Venetian cannon responds to them.
From Mestri to the Ponto de la Mina the Austrians

have raised 4 large barricade; the Venetian artillery,

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

BATTLE BET WEEN 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 Mezza Via, between Rome and Albano.
The Neapolitans, after a short combat, threw away
their arms and fled, the Romans taking GO prisoners
and two pieces of artillery, with which they entered
Rome on the evening of that day.—Herald.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW`.
CITY, QUARTER TO Tlil?EE.
The sales of Cotten at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, including about 5,000 American
at 3iil to 6,1, 200 Bahia at ,qd to SJ, 50 Egyptian at
54d to bid, 300 Surats at 3d to 32d, and 20 Sea Island
at Sid to Ild per lb.—Railways continued very de-
pressed, business being limited, at rather lower rates.
The Continental accounts have afforded more Bads-
faction, and the prospect of the Danish war being set-
tled, proves especially gratifying to parties connected
with Germany. It is stated in the City that the
Danish Ambassador has acqially accepted the overtures
for peace made by Lord Palmerston ; and although his
Lordship's statement in Parliament does not 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 pclitical
affairs were tranquil. There is some specie on board
the packet which brings these, advises.
The Buenos Ayres dates are to the 10,h 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 355. 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 provisions 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 t xcharge at New York was decidedly
improving, although there was some disappointment at
the small amount of specie received from Europe; nor
had California y ielded the expected tribute. Time,
however, will alter this. Altogether the exports from.
San Francisco are estimated at millions of dollars,
but less than 300,000 dollars went to the United States.
An American writer, who seems to have 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 fifteen hundred men. From the beat estimates
which have been formed, the total product 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 done, but there is
always exaggeration in such cases. A correspondent at
New Orleans writess—" The growing crop was injured
by frost on the night of the 15th instant, the extent of
sshich is still imperfectly known, but the plant is be-
lieved to have been killed in all the country where it was
up, north oflatitud, 32 deg. What effect a destructive
frost at so late a period will have on the product eve n-
tually, will depend on the weather 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-
portance to our manufacturing interests:—
" The Southern papers are filled with accounts of the
disastrous effect of the recent cold and stormy weather,
and the complaints are so universal that we cannot
but believe that the damage has been very great. That
it has been as extensive as represented ie, how-
ever, very doubtful. Even in the event of the young
cotton plant having been cut off the season is
not too far advanced for replanting; and as for the
statements that there is a scarcity of seed, it is only
necessary to refer to the large receipts thus far 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 its 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 dozA3
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. Gd. Exchange 8 per cent.
premium.
The Nova Scotia Assembly seems to ba working har-
moniously with the Governor.
Accounts of April 17 front Vera Cruz state that the
internal condition of the country was more satiefatory,
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 bt en
90i to 91 for Transfer, and are now 90i to 91i. Bank
Stock is 1921 to 194, and India Stock to 2441 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 28i. Mexican
Bonds have been up to 31a.
All Shares are looking up.

ONIF.I CLOSING
PHT,'EB OF BRITISH FUNDS• O'CLOCR. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 ;.er Cent. Reduced A.,:ns ......
3 per Cant. Consols Annuities 9C%% 91 90,8
Nuw N per Cent. Anns.... .
Long Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 8% 85'
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 13-16 8 1316
fndia Stock
India Bond:, 1,000/. .... •a .--- 63
...
Ditto under 1,000/... 72 p 72 p
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 1-14 d. & 2d.
1,000/. June .....
500/. June
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS

cram CLOSING
OwoLOCK. pmzeEs.
Brazilian Bonds 7B 8%
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..
Ditto 3 Der Cent.
Equador Bonds -•-• 3%
Grenada Bonds, I per Cent .—
Ditto Deferred 33/i 34
M
pdpvican, 5 per Cont. 1846, with Coupons 30% 31% 32
to, Account,
Ditto, Ex Coupons ...... --- 29%
Ditto, Account
••• • Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto,4 per Cent 285,A 28 4
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
17
Ditto, Account —17 k,
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent
... 33 334'
, , 2
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — 24
Ditto, Deferred ... —7%
Dividends on the above pay able in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 495/s
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates 76%
PRICES OF 'BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
•
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Buckinghamshire ... 161. 45. 1 t:2dis. ..... .
%
Caledonian - ...
Do. Quarters
...
15 ......... 15 Ditto, Preference
Dublin and Belfast June. 37%
Eastern Comities-. .... 20
Ditto, Extension,s per
Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... A p ............ CV n
"8 i'
Great Northern - ...... 10%
Do., %B 6 per Cent.. 7%.„ 5% .. ............ 5%
Do. Extension ,-, 1 ,
-72 ..... 1% ...... ... 1
..... 14
Great North of England.
40 100 ......227 .. 227%
DDitto, New, 40/
...... ... ........... --
itto, ditto ' 35 ...... 86 .. .. .... ..... 86
Great Western 100 .... . 7814 79 78 . 78
DDitto, % Shares
Ditto, 41 Shares
.............. . 163/4
Diitto, Fifths ... 20 ...... -- .... ..... ...... 15'14
tto, New 17/... ..... 15 ... .
.. .
• •
..
10%
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .... 45 Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
..... -
Do. Thirds ...... ........ 15 ..... 5% .... ........
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent........... 10 ......
Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 .....
Leeds and Bradford ....,• 50
••• - . Leeds and Think
50 ......,•„
•• ••
Ditto, New ............. 45
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O .. ... 36 !2 VI % 36
Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... 52 .
London and N. Western 100 127 1:26
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7
Eo. 101. (X & B.) C. 1 ..... 3:!/4_, ...... 3 ','l Lond. &S. Western 5O ...... 33% 31
Ditto, Thirds
161.135.4 d.... 5%. dis
..... VA die.
Dc., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshiro...100 - 65 67 66
Do., do., 50/. Shares
......
25 .. .. 13 67
133/4
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo ...... 42%
. 42%
Do.Consol. Bristol and
NBirming., 6 per ct.... 1.00 ......123 .. .
orth British ........ ... 25 ...... "12K:% ..... 12%
Ditto, Thirds .... - 81/4 .. - ...... ......... 3%
North Staffordshire •1712 l2l ~...
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate l5 ..... 145;• ..... .. ••••'•
OlirelYobl,ll7 4114 Bin" ll ......
434?

1 1 ys
3.10
93

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15%
4%.

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