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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1848

furtherance of an odious notoriety, and v‘ ho
abandon their dupes in the moment of danger, out of
a pusillanimous affection for their personal safety ar.d
convenience, are the parties really responsible, really
culpable, and really sediticius. But for the ferment
caused by the pernicious declamations of such brawlers,
London would at this moment be remarkable only
for the uninterrupted preservation of its industrial
happiness. But for these promoters of anarchy, the
people would never, in their wildest imaginations,
have projected an assault against a generous,
democratic, and decidedly popular Govern-
ment. They could never, we maintain, have
conceived such a suicidal course of proceeding
but for the evil suggestions instilled into their hearts
through the medium of an insidious language.
Before too much has been accomplished in accord-
ance with these mad and ferocious recommendations,
we would remind our fellow-citizens of the fact, that
the very Parliament they are called upon to intimi-
date is the incarnation of themselves. Without
speaking still more decisively, we are surely correct
in terming such schemes at self-intimidation as
ridiculous. The House of Commons is the
representative, the organ, and the very em-
bodiment of the people, and yet it is
this symbol of themselves they are required to awe
by their projected demonstration. 'Were the Lower
House in Westminster in any respect an aristocratic
institution, we should speak otherwise. Were the
floor of that legislative chamber in any respect the
seed plot, as it were, of measures injurious to the
community, we should mention it merely in terms of
derision and abhorrence. Were the House of Peers
an impassable obstruction in the way of the Liberal
movement ; were the Cabinet merely a congregation
of insolent statesmen or obsequious administrators ;
were the SOVEREIGN a cherisher of the principles
of Absolutism and a foe to the advancement of
political reform we should be more clatnourous than
the most turbulent, we should exceed the most obstinate
in determination, and the most violent in audacity.
But when we scrutinize the fabric which has risen
up in this island, not like the architectural exhalation
of Pandemonium, but like a majestic and human edi-
fice—when we scrutinise this fabric with the jealousy
inspired by our democratic predilections, when we
behold in the Mostaacet merely the type of our
national greatness, in the aristocracy merely the
token of our wealth and magnificence, and in the
Commons merely the representatives of our in-
tellect, our energy, and our will,—when we
see these three institutions co-operating with each
other to modulate the tone of the Government to the
key-note of the age, and to work out, by every possible
means, the prosperity of the million, we perceive the
necessity of evidencing our obedience to the law and
of revealing our homage for the Constitution of Great
Britain by our respectful attitude in the presence of
an august Legislature. These are the considerations
which assure us that, with Englishmen, LOYALTY is
merely synonymous with PATRIOTISM.

The Emperor of Russia has issued a manifesto.
Unwarned by the portentous incidents of the last few
weeks, untaught by the examples of his brother
sovereigns, the Emperor of Russia has just issued a
manifesto conceived in a spirit of conservative des-
potism, conveying the authoritative commands of an
" Imperial Master," and hurling an audacious defiance
at every attempted- liberal innovation. And this
manifesto bears the date of Maroh, 1848 ! This arbi-
trary mandate of abiolutism actually bears the date of
this year of reformation and liberalism one thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight. And doing so, it occu-
pies a peculiarly isolated position—" none but itself can
be its parallel." It stands out in oppesition to the
numerous manifestoes which have recently been
issued by nearly all the Sovereigns of Europe. It
breathes no conciliatory spirit, it offers no advisable
concession. The great movement which has so
quietly and yet effectually shaken the arbitrary
power of Kings, and exalted the rightful influence of
the People, is spoken of in the following respectful
terms :—" Insurrection and anarchy, the offspring of
France, have soon crossed the German frontier, and have
spread themselves in every direction with an audacity
which has gained new force in proportion to the
concessions of the Governments. This devastating
plague has at last attacked our allies, the empire of
Austria and the kingdom of Prussia, and to-day its
blind fury menaces even our Russia, that Russia
which GOD has confided to our care." Then follows
an earnest declaration on the part of the EMPEROR to
encounter his enemies from whatsoever side they may
present themselves, and to defend the honour
of the Russsian name and preserve the
inviolability of the Russian territory. Evidently
impressed with a full conviction of the " right
divine" of kings, the AUTOCRAT of Russia concludes
his arbitrary manifesto with the fallowing—we can
hardly consider appropriate—quotation :—" GOD is on
our side, understand this, ye peoples, and submit, for
GOD is on our side." How far the Russians may
coincide in the sentiments of their SOVEREIGN their
future conduct alone can declare ; it may be they are
not yet prepared for their enfranchisement--not suf-
ficiently free to be fit for freedom.

But the simultaneous movements of other nations
cannot be without effect, even amongst the subjects
of the most despotic rule. If the examples of other
Sovereigns have failed to enlighten NICHOLAS, the
examples of other people cannot fail to enlighten the
Russians. But it is not the welfare of Russia
that is so much endangered by these despotic
demonstrations on the part of Nictionas, as
the welfare and very existence of Poland.
The revolution in that kingdom has as yet made
little progress—at least, little visible progress; but
secretly and steadily it is progressing to maturity,
At Warsaw, even now, there is no outward demon-
stration, but such an event is hourly anticipated, and
the Government are taking every precaution to sup-
press, or, if possible, to prevent it. The newspapers
are not suffered to publish any intelligence
of the movements in Prussia and Austria, the
authorities rightly divining what effect such intelli.
gence must produce. This is only another demon.
stration of a fact which receives almost daily
illustration, namely, that the more arbitrary a
Government, the more strenuously it endeavours
to check the liberty of the press, and rice versa.
But
this is not the only precaution adopted by
the Russian authorities of Warsaw. The Poles
are ordered to deliver up their arms, all meetings
among them are forbidden, and, as a climax to these
tyrannical
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NICHOLAS and his emissaries are mistaken. It is not
thus in the present day that men are to be intimi-
dated and nations governed.

Unless the insane and sanguinary spit it of DRma-
gogueisin acquires an unwholsome authority this day.
in London, we have no fears for the subordination of
the matroi,olis. Of themselves the men of Middlesex
are not to be dreaded as enemies of constitutional
tranyiillity. Be they Chartists, or Fourierists, or
Socialists,
or Theophilanthropists, or lovers of the
dreams of Sussuehanah—their obedience to the institu-
tions of Great Britain is notfor. an instant to be. doubted,..
unless the disquie,,tiuntvi
1 , wed tlf b.-,,me voice of Demagogueism is al.-
kiangerou• inoiotor tk,es-ed9.oca let the tones of this
ii_stion n•sound above the
solemn w triiings Lf the
to be a popular convulsion and there is certain
A W)
convulsion injurious
to the cause of true liberalityal legislation, opposed
to the rational wants of societn
tahni destructive of
moat precious
those liberties which are at (Joyce'
achievements and the holiest attrih moat
democracy.
rhat there are, just now, extruao
ments to a commotion is testitied byaie,e vast
thinary 4
rations both of a military and rnunicitpo
the
earacter made
throughout the capital according
havecave strolled
through London this morning NI, ill lyiave
the existence of some great doubt in the recognised
more peaceably disposed inhabitants. Almindsaolftihts
shops closed in the principal thoroughfares—the payee
nients nearly deserted, even in those lines of transit,
which may I,e termed the chief arteries of the metropolis
—many of the omnibus proprietors frightened into the
cessation of their perpetual employment, groups
scattered at the street corners—everything betokens
the presence of a calamitous anticipation. Those who
have fomented the passions of the multitude (and we
could publish their names in catalogue, but that we
will hold not such despicable men up to the vengeance
of the nation)—those, we say, who have fomented
the passions of the multitude, merely for the

Madrid journals of the Ist and 2d have arrived.
Both the University and the Medical School of
San Carlos have been closed, by order of the
Go-
vernment.
General CUACON has been arrested, and sent as a
prisoner to Pampeluna.
Another outbreak in Madrid was daily expected.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL I.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 21 cash, 21i paper ; the Fire per Cents., at
13i ; and Coupons, 9} paper.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
Among the officers elected for the National Guard
is M. D'ALTON SIIEE, ex-Peer of France.
It was rumoured in Paris on Saturday that Baron
JAMES ROTIISCHILD had been offered the Ministry of
Finance.

The Moniteur publishes the followintghedeic,rroeevi:s
t
" In the name of the French people Tonal
Government decrees—
" d
i Av
er ti.nls.trlune
instruction
order h
et o
development
politicalotpmoent
nec et,sa
andr
Republic there shall be a series of professorships esta-
blished in the C(llege of France under the following
denominations : yad. r morint h e
is-
tra"
1. French political law and general political law
eornparscl.
" 2. International law and the history of treaties.
" 4. Criminal law.
" 3. Laws relating to private property.
" 5. General economy and statistics of the popu-
lation.
" 6. General economy and statistics of agricul-
ture.
" T. General economy and statistics of mines,
forges, arts, and maaufactures.

8. General economy and statistics of public
works.

" 9. General economy and statistics of finance
and commerce.
" 10. Administrative law.
" 11. History of French and foreign administra-
tive institutions.

" Article 11. The professorship of the law of na-
ture and nations, of political economy, and of com-
parative legislation, are suppressed, inasmuch as their
object is otherwise provided for.
" Article 111. The professorship of the Turkish
language is suppressed, inasmuch as since its institu-
tion a similar object has been attained by a professor-
ship of the Turkish language established in the special
school for the Eastern languages.
"Article IV.—The professorship of Latin poetry is
united with the professorship of Latin oratory, which,
by analogy with the Greek professorship, assumes the
name of the Latin language and literature.
" Article V.—The professorship of mechanics,
which was suppressed by a decree of the bear 1772,
is re-established.

"Article Vl.—The pupils intended to supply the
different branches of the administrative service, con•
formably to the decree of the Bth of March, 1848,
shall be obliged to follow the course of instruction in
the College of France.
"Article Vll.—They shall retain the name of
pupils of the College of France.
" Article VIII.—The Provisional Minister of Pub-
lic Instruction and Religious Worship is charged
with the execution of the present decree.
" Done at a Council of the Government, held at
Paris, April the 7th, 1848, and signed by the Mem-
bers of the Provisional Government."

The Constdutionnel states that, according to its
latest accounts from Savoy, the column of Savoyards
which invaded that country from France had been
beaten and driven back on the French territory.
The German Republicans who left Paris in a body,
some days since, have determined to remain at Stras-
burgh until the result of the deliberations of the
Assembly at Baden shall be known.
The Toulennais, of the 4th instant, contains the
following letter from the frontiers of Morocco:—
" The occupation of the Zaffarine Islands by the
Spaniard, as it was easy to foresee, was not favour-
ably viewed by the Moors, who, not being able to
attack the garrison of those islands, assail the press-
dios, the garrisons of which are constantly on the qui
vire. The Kabyles of the Riff having approached
Melilla with three pieces of artillery, all the troops
that preside marched out on the 16th ult., and, sup-
ported by the schooner Bidassoa and the steamer Vul-
cano, which had postel themselves close to the shore,
attacked the Kabyles and destroyed their artillery
after an obstinate resistance. On that day the natives
showed themselves in considerable numbers, and the
Spaniards, who have surprised the Kabyles, were
surrounded and obliged to retreat before those masses.
The convicts, 100 in number, who followed the co-
lumn, behaved very well. After the Spanish troops
had withdrawn the Kabyles kindled large fires on the
neighbouring he'ghts, whi,th were occupied at night
by at least 30,000 men. The Spanish troops em-
ployed in the defence of the presidios never fought a
sharper engagement than that of the 16th, and there
is every reason to suppose that Spain will have a fierce
enemy in the population of the Riff, whose irritation
has been roused to the highest degree by the occu-
pation of the Zaffarinas. Tranquillity prevails along
the French frontier."

" A great movement of troops," says the Constitu-
Hormel, "is taking place along the frontier. Yester-
day, the 6th, the 4th battalion of Chasseurs, which
held the garrison at Grenoble, was to leave for Fort
Barraux and Chapareillan. The last village is close
to the Sardinian frontier. Two battalions of the 13th
Regiment of the Line were ordered to be stationed
betwee❑ Grenoble and Voiron. Dauphini, lately so
tranquil, is beginning to assume a warlike aspect."
Disturbances had occurred at Besancon, at St.
Omer, and at Dunkirk, but they had been put down.
It is said that M. GARNIER PAGES has proposed a
plan, which has met with the approval of the Provi-
sional Government, for the purchase of all the rail-
ways in France.

The National has the following on Spanish affairs :
" A correspondence has been communicated to us
this evening, which announces that in the private and
confidenti II councils held at Madrid, Christina and
Narvaea have resolved to put their trust in the
Carlists, and to offer them their hands. The essential
basis of this alliance is to be the dissolution of the
marriage of the Queen, who will then be married to
the Count de Montemolin, who will be proclaimed
King by right and by fact. In return, the son of
Don Carlos is to insure to the throne of Isabella the
assistance of his partizans against all revolutionary
attempts. Nevertheless, the project is so foolish in
the present state of Spain, that we give it with every
reserve."

The 211oniteur publishes a decree in which the
Provisional Government reprobates the assaults
which have been committed on foreign workmen,
and places them under the safeguard of the French
workmen.

There was considerable discussion yesterday, among
the frequenters of the Passage de l'Opera, on the plan
which it is reported the Provisional Government in-
tend to adopt with regard to the Bank of France.
According to this plan, all the departmental banks
would be done away with, only one great establish-
ment being permitted to exist in the kingdom, under
the name of the Banque Nationale. The share-
holders of the banks of France, and of those of
Havre, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Lisle, &c., are to
be reimbursed in bank notes. In addition, the
Banque Nationale is, it is said, to be charged
with the purchase of all the railways, and
probably at a later period, of all concessions of mines,
canals, &c., still by means of new issues of bank
notes. It is supposed that not less than two mil-
liards of notes would be required to buy out the
present shareholders, and to continue the railway
works that have been commenced. Railway shares
are, it is said, to :be expropriated after the quota
lions of February 23, for the lines on which the
capital has not yet been paid up, and on ap-
praisement for the lines already liberated, and at
work. The whole amount of notes then in circula-
tion would be two milliards and a half, but there
would not be any other notes throughout France.
The notes thus issued would be guaranteed in the
first place by tho state domains, and next, by the
receipts, property, and stock of every kind of the
railways. The holders of railway shares seemed
not averse to this plan, as they would prefer being
paid in bank notes to being given five per cent.
stock at par, that fecurity losing at present nearly
60 per cent.

COIIRS AUTHENTIQUE.-PARIB, APRIL 8.-Five per
Cents., 52f. 50c. 531. 52f. 25c. 50c. 53f, 521. 50e. 75c. 531.
52f. 75c. 53f. 53f. 25c. 541.; Three per Cents., 35f. 35f.
75c. 50c. 36f. 36f. 50c. 371. 37f. 50c.; Bank Actions,
1,025 f. 1,0001. 9951. 1,0001. 9951. 990 f.; Romans, 495;
Belgian Five per Cents., 1840, 53, 52! 54 535; ditto,
Five per Cents., 1842, 53i; ditto, Fuur and-s-Jalt per
Cents, 45; Spanish Three per Cents., 15i. Exchange
on London, one month, paper, 25f. 30c.; three months,
paper, 251.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 8.
Boulogne and Amiens, 5% —Namur and Liege, I—North-
ern of France, 214—Orleans and Bordeaux, I%—Paris
and Lyons, I%—Paris and Orleans, 16--Paris and Rouen,
111,4 —Rouen and Havre, 6.

the outrages
committing.

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which the fanatic Polish population is

BAVARIA.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 3,1 publishes two
royal acts of amnesty. All persons accused or con-
victed of political crimes and contraventions of the
game-laws shall at once be liberated. The new King
of BAVARIA has dismissed all the old servants of his
father, whose political and social opinions are not
likely to keep pace with the times. The Lieutenant-
Generals YSENBERG and PAPPENIIEIM are among the
number. The Bavarian army, hitherto amounting
to 40,000 is about to be raised to the number
ot. 6000. me'
Then whole of the frontier district is
0
being occupied by troops to oppose all propagandistic
invasions from France or Switzerland. Bavaria,
Wurtemberg, Baden, and Ilesse, are busy garrison-
ing and victualling the fortified places along the
border. 6,000 Bavarian troops are collected at
Memingen, and as many more at Ulm. Wurtem-
berg has about 4,000 men between Rottweil and
Babingen. The army of Baden has been raised to
20,000 men, 5,000 of whom are quartered in
Rastadt.

The Allgemeine Preussische Zeitnng of the 7th
Publishes the Ministerial report on the subject of the
abolition of the duty on meat and bread.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
'We have received the Hamburgh papers of Friday.
The Danish Minister at Hamburgh has been dis-
missed, in consequence, as is alleged, of having re-
fused his protection and assistance to the many Danish
officers and subjects who had taken refuge in that
city when driven by recent events from the duchy of
Holstein.

It appears that the King of DENMARK left Copen-
hagen on the sth of April to put himself at the head
of his army, which already amounts to 18,000 men.
MS MAJESTY is expected to have landed this day at
Fredericia, the most southern port in Jutland, and
the nearest to Colding, where the Danish army is
concentrated, which town, being on the very border
of Schleswig, is forty-fire miles due north of
Flensburg.

There appears to be the greatest enthusiasm on
both sides. The volunteers for the Danish army are
said to arrive in shoals ; they seem determined to
make a vigorous struggle.
The Danish fleet is being prepared with all possible
dispatch, and the Government has announced its
intention of making reprisals upon German and Prus-
sian vessels, and to blockade Stettin, Dantzic, Memel,
and other ports. They have seven ships already
equipped.
The Prussian division of 5,000 men has passed
through Hamburgh into Holstein.
The Hanoverians are at Stade, on the southern
bank of the Elbe, and will immediately cross that
river to Gluckstadt, marching thence upon Itzchoe,
en route to Rendsburg.
A discount bank has been commenced at Ham-
burgh.

representatives of the people, mixed together, and
the members of the Provisional Govern-
ment, having at their head Ittmo ERO
SETTIMO, their energetic President, tool: their seats
iH the centre ; the civil and mili:ary lunctiunaries,
the diplomatic and consular agents, and a considerable
number of ladies placed themselves on the right and
left, and the people occupied the aisles. After mass,
a "Veni Creator " was sung, and the " Salut" cele-
brated, amidst the ringing of bells, and the reports
of artillery, fired from the forts of Castellamore and
Garitta, and the ships of war.

When the religious ceremony was over, the Pre-
sident ascended a tribune erected in the centre of
the church, and read the opening speech, of which
the following is an abstract : after having summed
up the principal events of the late insurrection, the
Presi lent said—

(From the Harnburgh Borsenkalle of April 6.)

" The General Committee will now proceed to ex-
plain to the Parliament the negotiations entered into
with the Neapolitan Government relative to the fun-
damental laws of the kingdom. Pending the struggle
at Palermo, the Committee deemed it expedient to
apply to the illustrious English diplomatist who
then at Rome, engaged in the pacification of It:dv.
The first communication of the Committee had K.)r
its object to explain to him the situation of Palermo,
and to demand from the British Ambassador, in the
event of an arrangement, to guarantee by his pre•
sence all the liberties which Sicily could obtain in
the negotiation. The Committee had acted timely,
for the Neapolitan Government, alarmed at the events
in Sicily, shortly afterwards solicited the mediation of
Lord Minto, who had already left Rome for Naples."
The PRESIDENT, after describing the preliminaries
of the mgotiation, thus continued :
" As the decrees issued by the King on the 6th did
not give Sicily all the guarantees it had a right to
expect, the Committee declared them null and void.
Thus ended the negotiations, and the illustrious per-
sonage who had conducted them, and had already re-
paired to Palermo, made known to the General Com-
mittee, in the most explicit terms, that the basis of
all further negotiation should be, on the one hand,
the unity of the Crown, and, on the other, all the
guarantees calculated to insure the constitution and
independence of Sicily. After long discussions in the
Committee these two conditions were formally laid
down."

These articles our readers may recollect had been
rejected by the King of NAPLES.
"The negotiation," continued the President, "ap-
pears to be interrupted, for yesterday the General
Committee received a communication from Lord
Minto, together with a Protest of the King of Naples
against every act which took place in Sicily, and was
not entirely conformable to the decree of the 6th of
March, the fundamental statute and the Constitution
sworn to by the King. The committee responds to
that protest by the convocation of the Sicilian Par-
liament. Before its dissolution the committee will
accomplish a last act of the executive power, which
the constitution of 1812 vests in the State, but which
is in nowise represented here by any of
the successors of King Ferdinand, the third
of that name in Sicily, at the period when
the Parliament ce,ised to exist in 1814. The committee,
heedless of the protest signed by King- Ferdinand 11.
at Naples on the 22(1 inst., and regarding it as con-
trary to the 17th paragraph of the chapter of the con-
stitution relative to the succession to the throne, de-
clarer the general Parliament of Sicily to he legally
opened at Palermo, according to the impreseriptible
rights of the country, and invites you, gentlemen,
peers, and representatives of the Commons, to-proceed
to your ordinary places of meeting, and to vote with
. all possible promptitude a law on the exercise of the
executive piwer. adapted to circumstances. In this
manner the legiAatit,e and executive power, duly insti
tuted may lat'our together to realise the reforms
necessary in the constitution and the laws. The
country shall be ruled by a solid, simple, and strong
Government, which shall enforce respect to the rights
of the island. Sicily, after the violent commotion
which always follows a revolution, will, by peace and
liberty, promote civilization, public morality, and ma-
terial prosperity. May the Almighty ble-s and in-
spire the votes of the Parliament, and direct them
towards that holy end ! May He cast a favourable
glance on our island, and assign it a share in the great
destinies of the Italian people, flee, independent, and
united !"

RENDSBURG, APRIL 5.

The Island of Alsen continues in possession of
about-800 Danes. Several of the inhabitants have
been apprehended and imprisoned by the Danish
authorities of the island, and it is supposed they will
be detained in the Castle of Sonderburg. All com-
munication between the island and continent is com-
pletely intercepted.
The Danish bands, headed by LAURITI SXAW, are
committing much devastation in the district around
Gravensteen (equidistant from the towns of Flens-
burg and Apenrade, in Schleswig, and opposite the
Isle of Alsen).

A letter from Rendsburg of the 4th of April, in
the Hamburgischen Blotter, announces the arrival of
the Prussian General Bozos in that town. General
BoNIN is the Commander of the Prussian army in
Schleswig. He was accompanied by Prince WAL-
DEMAR of Augustenburg, whom some of the Ham-
burgh papers have mistaken for the Prince WALDE-
MAR of Prussia.

The first division of the regiments of Prussian
Guards, destined for Holstein, arrived in Hamburgh
on the afternoon of the 4th, and proceeded at once to
Altona.

ROME.
The POPE has ordered the expulsion of the Jesuit
from Rome.

CHARTIST
DEMONSTRATION.

(THIS DAY.)

TEN O'CLOCK, A.M.
GOVERNMENT OFFICES, &c.
(FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)

Every precaution has been made at the various
public offices to meet any disorder that may arise
out of the proceedings of this day. Somerset-house
has been packed with the household troops ; the Ad-
miralty is occupied with a detachment of the Sixteenth
and the Sappers and Miners ; while the Horse Guards
and the Home-office are taken possession of by ether
regiments of the line. The minor offices, as the
Board of Control, Stc., are also defended by armed
detachments, while other measures—the closing up
of the gates, barricading the windows, and strengthen-
ing the external defences, have been extensively
adopted. The line of road from the Strand to the
new Houses of Parliament has all the appearance of
a thoroughfare in a besieged capital; shops are
closed up, the windows and doors of the mansions of
the nobility, as the residence of the Duke of
Northumberland, at Charing-cross, Montague-house,
and the residences of Sir Robert Peel and other no-
blemen and Commoners in Whitehall-gardens, are
fastened up. Notices from the Police Commissioners,
that no carts, vans, or omnibuses are to be allowed
upon the road from Abingdon-street to Cockspur-
street after eleven o'clock, and that no delay is
to be permitted in the other streets, agitate the pub-
lic, and the appearance of patrols of mounted police,
and of single files of soldiers in the usually quiet
streets, is ominous and alarming. At an early hour
this morning above 2,000 of the Guards were sent
to the Common, and at a later hour another large
detachment of the lath Regiment were ordered to
follow. The citizens who have during the last few
days been sworn in at the different police. offices
parade the streets in numbers, with their distinctive
badges upon their arms. These keep up a continued
correspondence with the officers of Scotland-yard, so
that they are ready at any time to concentrate their
strength where required.

as the London and North-Western. The outh..
Eastern. London and brighton, Eastern Counties, and
South-Western also contributed their quota—indeed
there is not a single town of any importance through-
out the country that has not sent up a body of per-
sons, more or less numerous, to demand from the Le-
gislature the enactment of the People's Charter.
During the night the following notice was exten-
sively circulated and placarded throughout the
metropolis :—" Men of London,—A great revolu-
tion must be accomplished to-day Old principles
of legislation are out of date; our laws and institu-
tions are behind the spirit of the age ; they meet not
the exigencies of the civilization and enlightenment
of our time. You men of London possess an im-
mense power, which, when concentrated and directed
in connexion with that of your brethren throughout
the empire, could sweep the huge fabric of tyranny,
hypocrisy, and fraud to utter annihilation, and thus
secure to yourselves and posterity those blessings
which truth and justice can alone confer. Survey
the political horizon of Europe. It now pre-
sents one dread upheaving of society, one
grand scene of nature's supremacy against
the despotism of man. Everywhere the people
are arousing themselves; despots are either
conceding their demands or quailing before their
omnipotence. Nations whose wretched destinies
monster injustice had sealed for their blood, are now
looking up with hope, and struggling fur liberty and
nationality. May God strengthen their holy as-
piration, and endow them with power for their
consummation. In this bright era of the world's
progress how far are ye prepared to go? In this
epoch of popular victory what achievement do you
seek to accomplish ? We leave the recompense
to your good sense and discretion, but we tell
you frankly that the liberty-seeking German, the
emancipated Italian, the struggling Pole, and the
proud French Republican, will regard you with
an eye of disdain if your aim be not to demo-
lish oligarchic usurpation, and to substitute for it
the legitimate power of the whole people.

44 GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE."

TRAFALGAR-SQUARE, 11 o'CLocK.

The area surrounding the fountains is occupied
by a detachment of police, amounting to about
two hundred men. These are to remain here until
a necessity shall arise for their removal to quell
any disturbances in the vicinity. The special con-
stables, in the meantime, perform the duties of
the police, by keeping idlers upon the move, and
preventing the gathering of knots of persons upon
the streets and pavements.
WATERLOO-PLACE.
The entrances to St. James's.paFk,are uarded.by
a doiible file of Guards and the' ardens of the Park,
the latter acting as gate-keepers, under the orders of
the military, a corporal or sergeant being stationed as
commandant at each gate. Ingress and egress is
immediately allowed to a 1 persons exhibiting the
pass" granted by the authorities of Scotland-yard.
Patrols of the household troops march up and down
the Mall, and officers, in groups of twos, hold con-
stant communication with the several posts.

MS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
At a quarter past ten o'clock, the Commander-in•
Chief, attended by his groom, rode through the Park
to the War-office. His Grace was dressed in the
usual blue frock-coat, white waistcoat, and black
military trousers. The Noble Duke seemed much
better in health and spirits than for some time past
he has appeared, and the rapidity with which he
galloped down the ride, betokened the anxiety which
he felt in the arrangements of the day.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND APSLEY