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THE SON, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,_ JUNE 5, 1448.

mittee of Inquiry, by a majority of 15 to 3, had ap-
proved of the proposed prosecution by the Pro • I
cureur-General, the National Assembly, after a
most animated and violent altercation, have re-
fused to authorise such a prosecution by a majority
of 369 to 837. M. Louis BLANC is thus ac-
quitted without a trial I The whole proceedings
of the Assembly in regard to this matter have been
of a very extraordinary and somewhat undignified
character, perhaps the natural consequence of the
peculiar circumstances of the case, and of the inte-
rested feelings of many of the speakers. The discus-
sion of Saturday was strong and violent in the
extreme, and the speaking was evidently not confined
to the tribune. Violent altercations agitated the body
of the Chamber, and in the midst of the con-
fusion the voice of the President was heard in
vain. It is said that in his desperate efforts
to restore order, the august bead of the Assembly
addressed himself particularly to various indi-
viduals with the Parliamentary adjuration of
" Taisez vous done r'—the equivalent English of which
expression, " Hold your tongue I" would produce an
extraordinary effect if uttered in our House of Com-
mons by the Right Hon. SUAW Lsrevan. Silence
being restored, the Assembly shortly afterwards, not-
withstanding the contrary desire of M. Louis BLANC
himself, proceeded to divide upon the question, as to
whether or not the Assembly should authorise the
Procureur- General to proceed with his prosecution.
The result of this division was a majority of " noes,'
and the prosecution is accordingly interdicted. An-
other of the extraordinary features of this extraordi-
nary affair was the fact of all the Ministers except
one (M. BASTIPE) voting in opposition to the law
officers of the Government. Doubtless the late col-
leagues of M. Louis BLANC were animated with a
certain esprit de corps which incline them in his
favour,' or perhaps a feeling of magnanimity prompted
their forbearance towards a fallen foe. The law
officers, however, did not view the Ministerial con-
duct in a favourable light, and the Procureur-General,
and the Procureur of the Republic, have tendered
their resignations. Such is, for the present at least,
the conclusion of the accusation against Louis BLANC.
The historian of " Ten years" is, happily for
himself exonerated from the threatened pro-
secution. He has been neither acquitted nor
i condemned. A majority of the Committee.
considered his conduct worthy of reprehension, a ma-•
jority of the Assembly over-ruled the desire of the
Committee. So the matter stands. The result is to a
certain extent satisfactory. As his brother historian
M. LAORENT DB L'Aniancan observed, LOUIS BLANC,
notwithstanding his economical errors, is as an his-
torian and political writer entitled to the solicitude of
the Assembly. Regarding him only as an historian,
and as a member of the Provisional Government in
its first most arduous and most glorious labours, we
should have felt little satisfaction in the condemna-
tion of Louis BLAnc, and yet had he been proved
guilty of treason to the cause of Pacific Liberty,
his condemnation would have been justly
merited and inevitable. The Assembly have
chosen the middle course; LOUIS BLANC is not con-
demned, but neither (let him not flatter himself) is
he totally acquitted. We trust, however, the lesson
will nut be lost. We trust most heartily and sin-
cerely, that henceforth whatever allurements to the
contrary may assail his personal ambition, Louis
BLANC will consecrate his entire abilities and exer-
tions to the cause which alone is worthy of them—
the cause of liberty and moderation and peace.
We shall look with interest to the conclusion of the
other discussion to which we have referred, namely,
that concerning the cross of the Legion of Honour.
This discussion was provoked by M. Raz's pro-
position that the effigy of NAPOLEON should lk
restored to the decoration which he had
instituted. Instead, however, of agreeing to such an
apparently unobjectionable proposition, a very earnest
and vehement debate ensued, in which it was affirmed

himself, read by the Premier in the House of Com-
mons, in which he clearly explained that there
was no direction given for the exclusion of any per-
sons whatever from the jury-lists on account of their
religion, his only instruction being to strike off all
persons professing political opinions in accordance
with those for which the prisoner was impeached, and
who could not, therefore, be considered fair or im-
partial arbitrators upon the question at issue.
By far the most important part of the state-
ment, however, is that which declares that the coun-
try was on the verge of insurrection last week, and
that the calamity was only averted by the strenuous
exertions of the Council. They might appear to
merit some praise for thus preserving peace end tran-
quillity, but they take care to remove every such im-
pression, and to explain their motive for this apparent
support of the law. It was not that they desired the
maintenance of order—far from it ; it was only be-
cause they " apprehended that, under present circum-
stances, an armed attempt to rescue him and to free
Ireland, might have proved abortive ;" they " there-
fore interposed and wit h difficulty succeeded in prevent-
ing the fruitless effusion of blood." As if ashamed, how-
ever, of having, on any account, averted the outbreak,
they take care to add " that the recent indignities
offered to the Irish nation have greatly tended to re-
move from our minds the hope which we have
hitherto desired to cherish, that the questions at issue
between England and Ireland may be settled by
' amicable adjustment. We feel bound to tell you
without 'disguise that these indignities and
wrongs are rapidly bringing us to that
period when armed resistance to the oppressors of our
country will become a sacred obligation, enforced by
the highest sanctions of public duty." This is plain
and unequivocal enough; the invocation of the
" God of battles " was not more . distinct,
but should there be a lingering doubt it
must be removed by the final appeal "to unite
in a holy league against usurpation and injus-
tice ;" and " to contemplate calmly and firmly
the chances of a final struggle, and to prepare
for that struggle by furnishing themselves with all
such resources as may enable them to command sue;

cess." •
It is not alone the document to which we have above
referred that indicates the determination of the Irish
Confederation to hasten the decisive contest—the
recent change in the Council who form the Execu-
tive Directory is extremely significant. Mr. DEM
REILLY, who withdrew from the Confederation with
Mr. MrrcHEL, is not only restored to the body, but
placed in the Directory. Mr. JOHN MAUTIN, an-
other of the more immediate friends and advo.
cates of the war policy, and Mr. DOHENEY, who so
ardently pines for the honour of martyrdom,
and is prepared to be one of the earliest
felons, are in the same position ; in fact every man who
had the slightest pretensions to moderation has bJen
removed. What will the Government do becomes

the question. We doubt not that it will act with vi-
gour and decision, but it should also act with promp-
titude. It is due to the well-disposed and loyal citizz?ns
that the incipient rebellion should be nipped in the bud.
Nothing can be so injurious to the cause of rational

liberty as its abuse, or so greatly retard the amelio
rations in the state of the law which are so urgently
required. The very man whose exile has occasioned
so much disturbance has done more damage to Irish
freedom than the greatest tyrant and oppressor that
ever earned for himself the hatred of the nation ;
and those who are seeking to follow in his footsteps
should be encountered by the most stringent en-
forcement of the existing law ; and if that is not
sufficient to meet the evil new powers will, we
doubt not, be granted by the Legislature for that
purpose.

that the Rei üblic of France intended to abolish as
too monarchical a decoration which a former
Republic of France had instituted! M. Cx.s-
worr TUOMAS, evidently labouring under strong
excitement, asked, " What were these gewgaws of
vanity ?" He was interrupted by loud murmurs,
and cries of "ABsez, assez r He had, indeed, said

enough to demonstrate the nature of his feelings.
M. CLEMENT THOMAS is evidently one who has
never been able to append to his button-hole
the coveted " rouge," and consequently he is
utterly unable to appreciate its value. We
beg, however, to refer M. CLEMENT THOMAS,
for a full reply to his hitherto unanswered demand
as to the use of decorations to my uncle ROLAND'S
discourse upon " honour," in the recent number of
Blackwood. Seriously speaking, however, we can-
not believe it possible that the Republican Government
of France can, even for a moment, contemplate the
abolition of an institution which, however much it
may have been degraded by the Ise made of it by
Louis Pniurrs, is republican in its origin, and in
its tendencies favourable to the most impartial
equality.

The Council of the Irish Confederation have just
published a manifesto referring to the late trial of Mr.
MITCHEL, signed by Mr. SMITH O'I3RIEN as chairman
of the body. In that extraordinary document the
Government are openly set at defiance, and a call
upon the people to prepare themselves for armed re-
sistance to the authorities is put forward with scarcely
a particle of disguise or concealment. We know nut
whether the Honourable Member fur Limerick is the
fortunate person on whom the lot has fallen " to stand
in the dock as the next felon," as alluded to by Mr.
DOHENET last week. He, however, has given the
law officers of the Crown lull opportunity fur trying
the chances of another prJsecucion if they
should desire to avail themselves thereof. The
first part of the proclamation is merely a re-
petition of the oft-refuted calumnies and falla-
cies which the Young lrelanders have so indus-
triously and unceasingly put forward in reference to
the constitution of the jury in question. They speak
of the unfortunate and misguided man who is now so
bitterly expiating his own insane and headstrong
conduct as "a victim to the machinations of legal
artifice, and to the lawlessness of reckless power."
He is, indeed, " a victim," but it is to his own acts,
and to the encouragement he received from those who
professed similar views, and declared their readiness
to see their country involved in all the horrors of in-
ternecine war, that he is indebted for his melancholy
doom—for being borne as an exile from the country
which he would have seen polluted by the blood of
its children, shed by each other's hands, for being de-
prived of the liberty which be would have degene-
rated into licentiousness. They assert " that Mr.
MITCHEL was found •
guilty by a jury, selected not
to
-nefarious
toa
actscvict him ;" and add, that " by
a momentary triumph has been
consummated—a
triumph not over an obnoxious
foe, but over the sacred obligations of justice, over
the violated liberties of a nation." The explana-
tions that have already been afforded as to the
alleged packing of the jury, and the removal of
Catholic jurors therefrom, have been so clear and
satisfactory, that it is almost an act of supereroga-
tion again to refer thereto ; but when we find parties
deliberately putting forward assertions which they
must be perfectly well aware are altogether unwar:
ranted, and at variance with the truth, for the
wicked purpose of stimulating the ignorant and un-
reasoning portion of their countrymen who may be led
astray by their reckless calumnies to an armsd resis-
tance to the constituted authorities, it becomes a duty
again to expose their falsehoods, and to show how
little dependence can be placed uponatshseeriraollepotfiotnhse.
In opposition to the unsupported tin
Council of the Irish Confederation we have the solemn
decision of the sworn triers to whom the challenge of
the jury was referred with the assent of the unfor-
tunate prisoner himself. There was not only a total
failure of any evidence to sustain the charge of par-
tiality or favouritism, but it was rebutted by the
positive and distinct testimony of the High-Sheriff
himself, who proved that when he selected the jurors
from the general book he was wholly ignorant of
their religion or politics, and that he
only inquired as to the respectability of
the parties. It was indeed fortunate that
the challenge was preferred, because it brought
the calumnious charges against the law offlqrs of
the Crown to the most conclusive test, and furnished
those gentlemen with a perfect answer to every in-
sinuation of a similar character. In addition we
have bad the statement of the Attorney- General

Louse of a friend in the quarter of the L'ole de Me •
decine, from whence he went to the house of M.
MASSON, a bookseller, to change his linen, and after-
wards went home. "To pretend," he says, "as a
journal has dared to do, that I was seen at the Hotel
de Ville, is a falsehood the impudence of which ex-
ceeds all that can he imagined." Having learned at
his own house that the Assembly had resumed its
sittings, he hastened there
"On arriving at the vestibule I was recognised by
some National Guards. They precipitated themselves
on me, a prey to an incredible rage. Let him be placed
under accusation cried sonic. We must kill him—
that will be the soonest done, cried others."

But some National Guards and some Representa-
tives hastened to his assistance, and succeeded in

rescuing him.
It is certain, at least probable," adds M. Blanc,
" that without their intervention it would have been all
over with me. Handfuls of hair were dragged from me
—my coat was torn to pieces ; some wretches tried to
strike me from behind with bayonets ; one, not being
able to reach me otherwise, seized my right hand and
coveredtwiste
twisted my
ri3yfingers. I entered the Assembly literally
with rags. In this state, perhaps, I might
have expected on the part of all my colleagues some
of that consideration which the simple sentiment
of humanity commanded. But such is the criu,l effect
of certain misunderstandings, unavoidable in times
of revolution, that I only found hostile dispositions in a
part of the Assembly. My presence in the tribune, to
which I was called by the most imperative of duties,
that of bearing tests pony in favour of my unhappy
friends Albert and Barbes, caused the most violent
murmurs.

Among the different addresses to the electors of the
department of the Seine which have appeared from
one candidate or another we may mention, as about
the most interesting, that penned by LEOPOLD Du RAO,
the principal editor of the National:—
" Citizens," says this address in one portion—" a
democratic journalist on the eve of the Revolution—a
combatant on the 24th of February—l am to-day still
at my post/ continuing after the triumph to defend
with my pen the cause to which I have devoted my
life !"

rumoured about Chat :11-..‘ 13 a Cue Liu
de Ville. He could declare in the most solemn manner
that such was not the case, and he called on the lion.
Representatives around him, in the name of their own
dignity, and in the name. of justice, to believe his asser-
tion.—(" Hear, hear,'' from the left.)
A Member declared that he thought it right to again
repeat what he had already declared, that on May 15, he
had heard M. Louis Blanc say to the people who wanted
him to speak, that 6. his . place was where he was, and
that he should not leave it."

The Gazette des Tribunaux describes a riotous
demonitration in favour of BARBES and COURTAIS—
the mob on Thursday evening raising certain sedi-
tious cries on the Place du Pantheon.

'I he President read a letter from some person named
Bertrand, which declared that the writer bad seen M.
Louie Blanc on the day of May 15, when carried about
by the mob, endeavour as much as possible to escape
from their hands.

The Lyons journals state that the disturbance
which arose on the 31st ult., in the Ateliers Na-
tionaux of that city, was not followed by any serious
consequences, but was suppressed on the arrest of
about thirty of the most mutinous, and their confine-
ment in the prison of Roanne.
_

M. Jule 3 Favre, the reporter, summed up at great
leng? h the arguments brought forward during the dis-
cuss:on, declaring at the close the motives which had
actuated the committee in recommending the Assembly
to grant the authorization applied fur. The only ques-
tiot► for the Chamber to decide was this, was the princi-
pia of inviolability which protected all the Members not
to be set aside, where sufficient indications were brolight
forward to show that the law officers of the Republic
were justified in making the demand which was new
wider consideration ? The Assembly had not to decide
the question of guilt or innocence, but merely to say
whether the ends of justice were not to be forwarded,
even when the person applied agaiest was one of their
own Members. It was necessary that justice should not
be arrested i❑ its course by any obstacle, even when the
inviolability of the Assembly was to a certain extent in
question. The Assembly had not to decide to have the
inculpated Member arrested, but merely to Wily whether
the law officers were to go on with their proceed-
ings in the case of ►May 15 or not. The committee
had scarcely examined the facts ; it had merely done so
sufficiently to be convinced that the demand had been
made without any rancour or political bias. He con-
cluded by calling on the Assembly to grant the authori-
zation.

•
The Constitutionnel is indignant at the efforts which
are being made to prevent the &ection of M. TRIERS,
either for Paris or elsewhere. And the Presse is
striving to cast odium upon the Government, by ac-
cusing M. RECURT of following the extravagant
course of M. LEDRU ROLLIN in the Ministry of the
Interior.

The President of the National Assembly, accom-
panied by one of the Vice-Presidents and a Secre-
tary of the Chamber, visited the Atelit rs ..Tationaux
on Thursday. It is said that they found the work-
men, generally speaking, animated with good in-
tions.

M. Louis Blanc, from his place, exclaimed that all he
wanted was an enlightened judgment.
M. Dupont thought that the declaration of the ho-
nourable reporter relative to an arrestation not being
decided by the Assembly, could not stand the test of ex-
amination, since it was evident that the Honourable Re-
presentative, now accused, would, if the authorization
were granted, be arrested on ithe instant. The As-
sembly ought not to forget that what it decided now was
in reality an article of the future constitution. The Hon.
Deputy here declared that M. Marrast could prove that
M. Louis Blanc- had not been at the Hotel de Ville. The

Yesterday the election of eleven representatives for

the department of•the Seine commenced. Every-
where the name of M. TurEas was being torn down
from the wall 3; but it is almost certain, that, if re-

Hon. Member also alluded to an opinion given by
Duvergier de Hauranne, in a somewhat similar case
under the monarchy, which, he said, was different from
that of the Hon. Member at present.—(Oh, :oh.) The
Hon. Member maintained that the Assembly could not
decide in so grave a case without more sufficient evi-
dence.' [The Hon. Member went on for some time, but
was listened to with impatience].
A strange scents took place at this moment. A crowd
of members assembled at the foot of the tribune, some
of whom were speaking together, when suddenly a voice
arose from the crowd, and said, " M. le President; a
member insults me;" great confusion followed, and the
sitting was forcedly suspended, half a hundred members
speaking together.
The President said something that it was impossible
for us to catch, further than the word, " Order."
The disturbance increased, and fur some time it was
impossible to hear a word, at last— •
M. E. Langley ascended the tribune, and in'great ftgi-
tatiun said that he had certainly used a harsh expres-
sion to a colleague, but it was because he had been first
treated improperly himself. M. Dupont had descended
from the tribune, and had gone away to his place, when
M. Laurent exclaimed, that " what he had said relative
to M. Duvergier de llauranne was imprupet !" " I,"
said the Honourable Deputy, then replied—" the truth
was never improper!" He retorted by a most gross
expression, and desired me to begone. I, in my turn,
. gave him a sharp answer, and that was a11.z.--(Great con-
fusion.) . _ _

Mr. -Laurent, in his turn, gave explanations ; declared

that the last speaker had thrust himself in amongst a
group of gentlemen speaking, and gave his opinion un-
asked.—(Great noise and agitation for soma time, after
which the incident terminated.) •
M. Marrast said that he had at first entertained the
opinion that M. Louis Blanc had been at the Hotel de
Ville on the 15th of May, having heard some person&
say so, but afterwards, when he had made inquiries, he
found from the evidence of the person: placed at the dif-
ferent doors, &c., that had he been there he could not
possibly have departed without being seen. In conse-
quence he could now declare that he had the firmest
conviction that M. Louis Blanc had not been at the
Hotel de Ville.
The discussion was then declared to be closed.

jected by the capital, the illustrious orator, historian,
And statesman will be returned for the Seine Inferieur,
or for the Gironde, or possibly for both.
According to the Dbats, the list of candidates fer

the representation of the metropolis is ]67; but the
Presse states that the actual number is upwards
of 200.

The Paris papers of yesterday contain the
reports of the important sitting of the National
Assembly on Saturday, upon which occasion
the discussion took place upon the accusation
against M. Louis BLANC, in regard to
his conduct on the memorable 16th of May: It will
be seen from the report which is given afterwards,
that the authorisation to prosecute the accused was
rejected by a majority of thirty two: The acclama-
tions, however, with which this decision was received
were feeble enough, indicating the little sympathy
of those who had voted for the acquittal. We subjoin
a report of these remarkable proceedings :
The President took the chair at a quarter past one.
Some groups of workmen were collected outside the
Chamber, talking of the nrobable arrest of M. Louis
Blanc. There was nothing, however, to intimate the
existence of any
.great agitation. The troops about the
building were just as numerous as ever. Inside the
public tribunes were exceedingly crowded, in expecta-
tion of an animated siting,
The order of the day was the discussion on the demand
to authorise criminal proceedings to be instituted against
M. Louis Blanc.
The President said that he had received an application
from several representatives to have the vote given
without any. discussion—(ol), oh)—in order that the
eventual decision of the Court before which the case was
to be tried might not be in any way prejudged. Was
the Assembly of opinion that such should be the course
pursued ?—(An almost universal burst of "No, no!" here
was heard from every side.)
Dl:. Mathieu (de la Drome) had read most carefully
the report of the Committee, and he could not see that
sufficient grounds had been shown to cause the Assembly
to accede to what it recommended. As the evidence,
which had induced the Committee to arrive at an affirm-
ative decision, could not be laid before the House, it was
evidently a vote of confidence that was demauded.—
(Cries of " No:, no.") He believed the law officers of
the Crown to be actuated by motives altogether pure,
and the Committee to be perfectly convinced that the
course which it advised was strongly called for. Still,
for the Assembly to give a vote without knowing the
grounds on which it gave it, would establish a very ob-
jectionable precedent. The Honourable Deputy then
proceeded to consider the circumstances of the case as
far as they had been made known, and maintained that
good grounds to grant the authorise-
rsetill he hesitated for the reason which
htthie:ll . hailthough
demanded,ebrie Liijatuthastgi e'
vtreactnl a piper in which he dwelt on the
enormity of the attack made on the Assembly on May
le, Referring to the declaration in the report of the
Committee that M. Louis Blanc had committed most
.erious errors in his views of political economy, lie de-
clared that this was already a most severe judgment
p,„ed against him, and one which M. Louis Rhinc would
feel more than any decision that could he given against
him. examined the other statements in the report,
arid came to the conclusion that there wav, not sufficient
reason for the Assembly to grant the authorisatiou.
) passed a warm eulogium on
Abirsttorical works; he allowed that
dstfeaokir'en in politico-economical views, but
whMeh.Myhi:alLivaabissue terßialnatmtnt(ci to be now brought forward against him?
The Hon. Member then alluded to M. Louis Blanc's ap-
pearance in the House the day before, and excited much
laughter by representing him as covered with bands and
ornaments like a victim. Entering at great length into
the events of May 15, he maintained that the confusion
was too great to permit any one to assert that M. Louis
Blanc had uttered the words attributed to him: besides,
the expression had been already claimed by Barbei.—
(" Oh, oh," and loud laughter.) There evidently was
doubt—why not give the benefit of the doubt to the.
Member who now stood before the Assembly in so grave
a position? He should vote against the authorisation.
M. Bac was one of those in the Committee who had
lelesohvaedredigonntey soot
the'
e-
Assembly was once admitted, any Member could be
causevoted hareionnstldthneotausetheortihssattioinf.
to justice by the decision of the House, un-
prescribed by the penal code had
Ideesisivtehreedfoutpnialitins
been first most fully complied with. The Assembly
ought first to inquire into all the acts which had taken
place, and then if it found, by the testimony of credible
witnesses, that the views of the law-officers of the
Republic were correct, it would be justified in acceding
to the recommendation of the Committee, but not other-
wise. The Honourable Member proceeded at great
length to assign his reasons for thie view of the question.
He then argued that if the Assembly should not feel
any inclination to adopt that course, it ought at lieed, so
leastst to
wait until the prisoners now in custody were itr
for the
application now made to prosecute. H.
that from the evidence then brought forward it might
be seen whether there were really goqdethengroundsproceeded
t
to examine the facts alleged, and maintainedthat an
.
immense amount of calumny had already been
For instance,
brought forward against M. Louis Banenc
.
t on the 15th at
it was asserted that he had been
_1)
this asseron
not the truth.—(Marks of denialbf ti here
es.
) had been said here
arose from many of the bench
the people.—(Cries
he had been borne in triumph by
the Hotel de Ville, but it would er
It
that this was
of " No, no, not the people, invayded the insur-
gental") by facti?
Yes, by the insurgents,
who shmaden, b
Certainly not. He
Chamber. But was it by his will?
endeavoured as much as he could to prevent so undig-
nified an ovation.—(Marks of
dissent.) The Hon.
Member then referred to the language „
that
the 'ntai of
nea
on the day in question, and
maintained
conciliatory. He
ten-
ilency of his words was throughout
M. Louis Blanc
had spoken also, he said,
only
on the express when implored to do so
by several of his colleagues, i
authori-
zation of the President.
Th
by warning the Assembly lest entering on a system
n hereafter. To allow a
which might lead to proscriptnr
member to be snatched away from his duties as represen-
tative of the people couldnot
matter, and for his part he considered it a matter tend-
ing to afford a precedent of violence which lie should
always oppose. the steps, and in a hoarse
M. Louis Blanc here ran up
be looked on as a light
a point just alluded to.
on_
when
he appeared before
lie had not been interrogated
thoenre to defend himself, but
simply to make a declaration voice said he did not stand
y the eveftning before,e when
Chamber, and it was ("I
be had heard that it was
haying the Assembly, that
the Committee, as to what oicc urred aer he had lft the

The President said that he had received a proposition
declaring that there was no occasion for going further
with the matter.—Rejected unanimously.
The President then put the question to know whether
the Assembly would authorise that M. Louis Blanc be
proceeded against by the law officers of the Republic.
The first trial was declared to be doubtful amidst cries
of " Oh, oh."
M. Flocon and M. Cremieux rose against the autho-
rization. _ _ _

The second trial then took place, and all the Minis-
ters rose against the authorization.
The President said that amongst the secretaries four
were of opinion that the authorization had been voted;
two looked on the matter in an opposite point of view.
by division.—(3larks of astonishment; cries of " Well,
four to two Is not that matter decided?" Great
tumult.)
To our eye the authorization had been each time de-
cided in the affirmative.

A Member here said that he thought a vote by
division was clearly called for:—(Cries of " No, no;"
great confusion.)
M. Louis Blanc said that whoever thought a vote by
division would please him or serve his cause were quite
mistaken. He protested, as a representative of the
people, against the whole proceeding, though as a man
it was a mattt.r of indifference. He looked on the course
pursued as disastrous.— (Hear, hear, from the left.)
A scene of indiscribable confusion followed, which

lasted fully ten minutes, the President ringing his bell,
and crying out to procure silence. At last it was de-
termined to proceed to the division, by going out of
different doors, which was commenced in extraordinary
agitation. The President was exceedingly moved before
this, and more than once cried out to Honourable Mem-
byrs, " Mais taisez vous donc." The whole scene was a
disgrace to a deliberate assembly.
P.S. The result of this ballotting was that the de-
mand for the authorization to prosecute M. Louis Blanc
was rejected by a majority of 32 votes.
BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 3.

THREE o'CLocK.—The Funds are firmer today, but
the Bank of France has suffered a further decline of 30
francs. The Railways remain almost the same as yes-
terday.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, , JUNI 3.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Northern of France, 3%.

SPAIN.

Madrid papers of the 29th and 30th ult. have

arrived.

At present there is a momentary lull, or rather a
stagnation, in affairs both political and commercial.
As yet this momentary crisis gives no prospect of
termination ; but a decree is daily expected com.
pell:ng the Bank sharoh.l !era to pay in 25 per cent.
Oa the evening of the 28th General NARVALZ had
entertained M. Da LESSEPS at a banquet; and it was
generally rumoured that the French Ambassador had
remonstrated with the Government of her Most
Catholic MAJESTY upon the abrupt and discourteous
dismissal of Sir HENRY BULNYER—representing that
that act was beyond justification.
On the 24th the Prussian Ambassador to the Court
of ISABELLA arrived at Cadiz, and proceeded on the
following day to Seville, on his way to the capital.
• M. FERDINAND DE LESSEPS,.EBVOy from the
French Republic, accompanied by his first.isecretary,
M. DE VALOIS, was received by the QuEuN the day
before yesterday. Some French citizens having been
arrested within these few days, M. DE tESSEPS has
addressed reclamatiuns on their behalf to the Spanish
Government.
MADRID BoLsa.—Three per Cents. 31 Five
per Cents., 13/ both paper. Exchange on London,
42 50 paper.

GE A Y
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

The following intelligence has been received from 1
the ca?ital of the Austrian dominions—intelligence
which )rings our dispatches up to the 29th initant,
and whch corroborates in a great measure the ideas of
M. DE LAMARTINE in regard to the probable dis-
membernent of the empire founded by ltunoerne of ,
Ilapsbirg.
The academic Legion have sent a letter to the Corn-
mandart, Count COLLOREDO, and have at the same
time adlressed a procl;mation to the inhabitants of
Vienna The former is as follows :
" The Academic Legion to the Commandant.
" Your public question demands a public answer. ,
It is true that the public thoroughfares are not the
most fitting place far a lather to concert and settle
family arrangements with his suns. You have, how-
ever, el;osen publicity, and we have accepted it.
Neither the father nor the sons have occasion to be
reserved. We depend upon your patriotism. We
honour your courage. We respect your judgment.
But tae Academic Legion also is pa-
triotic, and has confidence in its own
judgrien:, though it does not overrate it; and should
its honour, and the welfare of the country require it,
would gladly sacrifice its very existence. We have,
however, as you observe, reiterated and seriously
tested the question of cur existence. It is not the
advice of individuals, nor one-sided representatives,
which have determined us to abide by our post ; but
the deep-rooted conviction of all, that it is now, more
than ever, our duty energetically to protect and che-
rish the well-being of our country in common with
the National Guard.
" The Academic Legion will not dissolve itself. It
will stand and fall by the conquests of the 14th March
and 15th of May.
" The unanimous voice of the inhabitants of Vienna,
the sympathies of our high-minded Burghers, are to
us a sure guarantee that our exertions are acknow-
ledged, that an existence is desired, and as soon as
the voice of truth shall prevail, as soon as lying and
calumny shall be forced to quit all their hiding
places, the inhabitants of the empire of Austria will
gratefully and affectionately acknowledge the Acade-
mic Legion.
"Mr. Commandant—We cheerfully greeted you
as our leader; it will give us pain when you quit us.
The German Academic cap would never cover a
nobler head than yourie, hut it will nevertheless be a
cap of honour when you have laid it aside.
" The Ministers Lave addretat d a circular to the in-
habitants of Vienna, stating that their intentions are
suspected, and are blamed for the absence of a pro•
gramme, which acknowledges an established plan ;
that the existence of a Ministry without public
confidence, without a plan, without a clear and
defined course, is impossible ; that consequently
it is the duty of even a Ministry al interim to sub-
wit its actions, its views, and plans to toe public
judgment ; that the programme of a Ministry, how-
ever, which has to project a constitution is found in
that constitution itselt ; that the 25th of April has
publicly attested the sentiments of tha Ministry,
whether it be liberal, commensurate with the demands
and requirement of the times, whether it pays regard
to the civil liberty, to the welfare of ell classes of the
inhabitants on this point, twelve of the provinces,
and the residentiary city itself have already given
their judgment. None of the assurances of this pro-
gramme have remained unfulfilled ; freedom of
speech, and liberty of the press have been
conscientiously secured. No privilege of the
Burghers have been diminished, neither pre-
judice nor partiality have been arbitrarily
exercised. The constitution was and is the basis
upon which the actions of the Ministry rest. It will
be the irrevocable guide of their actions until another
direction shall be prescribed to the acts of the Go-
vernment by a new fundamental law. Confidence
alone can consolidate the Government; and a Govern-
ment thus supported can alone energetically and
powerfully carry out the interests of the country.
The Ministers, therefore, justly claim this confidence
so long as the posts assigned to them remain under
their charge. They at the same time declare that
they will maintain all uie liberties of the eenstitniene
of the 25th of April ; to accede to all subsequent con-
cessions, powerfully to oppose anarchy, disorder, and
every reaction ; to acknowledge the Diet alone as
empowered organically to regulate the laws of
the country; to re-establish peace in the residentiary
city; to maintain union in the provinces, arid to use
their utmost exertions to effect the return of the
Monarch to his capital.
"It the Burghers give them full support they will be
able to carry on these measures; but should they re-
fuse their co-operation, the Ministers will deem it
their sacred duty to relinquish their functions.
Signed in the name of the Ministry,

" PILLERSDORFF."
The Wiener Zeitung of the 31st May says, that
the EMPEROR, by a decree, dated Inspruck, May 22,
has abolished corporal punishment, the stock, and
brandmarks, until anew legal code on these points
shall have been issued. Searching of private resi-
dences is to be done only upon a given judicial order,
and ameliorations have been introduced into the sys-
tem of arrest.
The birthday of the EMPEROR was celebrated on
the 30th without excitement. The National Guard,
the armed Burghers' Corps, and the Acpdemic Legion
attended divine service. In the afternoon there was
a solemn presentation of twelve field-pieces to the
National Guard and two pieces to the Academic
Legion. His MAJESTY has received an urgent invi-
tation to visit Hungary, and has promised to comply
with this request so soon as the times shall admit of
it. The Arch-Duke STEPHEN, Palatine of Hungary,
arrived at Inspruck on the 27th. His Imperial
Ilighniss, previous to his departure from Hungary,
addressed a few words expressive of his confidence in
the lltegsrian people, his happiness, being placed at
their lead, in being able, in their Lame, to ex-
press '0 their Matsaecu the unshaken attachment
of the Hungarian nation to his MAJESTY and the
Imperal dynasty. The Archduke Palatine has
also aldressed a proclamation -to the troops, to the
militay of Transylvania, the Barret, and Sclavonia,
stalin; that theEMPEROR has been obliged to remove
from Vienna to lnspruck ; that while he thinks it
his d,ty to inform the military and magnates of this
eirckestance, he feels assured that they will be
defy pained at the circuragtance ; that he has,
ineetwhile, undertaken the supreme command, and
seS in the combination and intimate union of the
mitary and the inhabitants, the sacred guarantee for
th maintenance:of peace, exhorting them stringently,
ad in agenuine military spirit, to obey the behests of
tl Hungarian Ministry ; that by virtue of an Imperial
cramand the military will, as soon as possible, take
le oath to the constitution, and ever maintain that
legiance for which Hungary has been renowned
it centuries.
The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 31st states that,
a consequence of the proclamation of the Ministers
'expecting the withdrawal of the military, Counts
DIETRICHSTEIN and HOYOS were set at liberty ; but
;hat a guard of honour was placed before the real-
;knee of the latter. His post as commander of the
&ational Guard has been filled up by the election of
Count PANNASCH. Count MONTECUCCOLI, Count
BRUNER Baron Psuat, and the two professors,
The British and North American Royal Maii,Euse d
steam-ship America, Captain Juclkins,left Liverpool onDrs. HYR and ENDLISCHE. have ne .
Saturday, at twelve o'clock, for Halifax and Boston
carrying her Majesty's mails and 70 passengers. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE.
MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S LAND SCHEME.--T On the Ist instant the German Constituent As-
Committee met on Friday last, and selected Sir Geer
Hayter as chairman. They meet again to-morrow: membly met again, under the presidency of A. VAN
GAGERN.
twelve, when Mr. Feargus O'Connor and two of ti
officers of the company will be examined. Among the notices of motions was one for an
APPOINTMENTS.—The Attorney-General has a offensive and defensive alliance with the French Re-
pointed Mr. W. N. Welsbyof the Noah Wales Circu public.
to draw the pleadings, and to appear as his Junior
Crown prosecutions in the metropolis, in the placer The. names of the Committee "for International
uestions" were read. They are—
Mr. Waddington, appointed Under Secretary ot Sty Q
for the Home Department. Mr. Smellie is to be Ad Heeklcher ... for Hamburgb.
cate-General and Crown Solicitor fur Southern Austri Jaup for Darmstadt.
The office of Searcher in the Customs at Preston litt; Ramer ... ..• ... for Berlin.
become vacant, the situation has been tilled up by Esmaich •.. ... for Sohlt swig.
transfer to Preston of the searcher b.longing to the : Schubert ... ... fur Koningsberg.
of Goole ; and as it appeared, upon inquiry, that' Leann a •• • ..• ... for Bern burg.
place at Goole might be abolished, Without detrimeie Wurm ... for Hamburgh.
the interests of the revenue, the Lords of the Tree Gervinus ••• for Heidelberg.
have given notice that the office of Searcher be s('i Cucurnus ..• ... for Munich.
off the establishment of the port of Goole, V. Wydenbruch for Weimar.
revenue exonerated from the expenses thereof. "e Henzel for Breslau.
THE LATE VISCOUNT STAVORDALE.—The nt Schuselka for Neuburg.
remains of this nobleman were interred on Wed a' .Arndt fur Bonn.
last in the family mausoleum at Melbury, DerseY Gombardt for Munich.
re.
The funeral was quite private. ... for Heidelberg.