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we accordingly find the files of the court
laden with allegations and cross-allegations,
many of them wholly irrelevant to the
subject, and placing on record the most trifling
circumstances, without any beneficial result being
obtained, save the vast increase of the proctor's
costs," which would almost appear to be the pri-
mary object of every proceeding in the spiritual
courts. Hence we find that no less than two years
and a half had elapsed before a decision was pro-
nounced—and that by no means a final one—for ap-
peals may possibly be made by which the proceed-
ings may be protracted for an indefinite period. The
delays and expenses, therefore, form just, grounds
of objection to the practice of the Ecclesiastical
Court—the first harassing and wearing out the un-
fortunate suitors, however ample their resources
might be, and the second rendering justice wholly
unattainable by persons of moderate means.
The manner in which the examination of the witnesses
is conducted is also in the highest degree objectionable.
Every person who has had the slightest acquaintance
with legal proceedings must be well aware of the
advantages of a viva voce examination, how truth is
thereby elicited from an unwilling witness, hew the
prevarication and deceit of a false one is exposed.
The tone, the manner of a party whose testimony is
impeached, must be fully taken into considera-
tion by these aho are to decide on its
value ; every gesture is of . importance. One
witness may attempt to bluster, while another
will hesitate ; nothing will be lost on a keen
and observant advocate, who will found new ques-
tions on points arising at the moment, and which he
could not have foreseen in the solitude of his cham
ber when drafting the interrogatories which were
subsequently to be engrossed, and exhibited to .the
witness by an examiner appointed by the court. It
is well known that in the latter case any cross-exami-
nation is positively ineffective, The witness has
full time to consider his answer, and to frame it

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.
We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The result of the elections for the Department of

the Seine will not be officially proclaimed until Friday
(this day), but there can be no doubt but that Lamar-
tine, Dupont (de l'Eure,) Arago, Ilarrest, Beranger,

and the true (because just and moderate) Republicans
dill be returned by immense majorities. In every arron-

dissement (save one) in which the lists have as yet

been examined, they head the poll. In thy Bth arron-
dissement, Albert, Ledru and Louis Blanc,

head the poll, but the latter has only a majority
Qf 1 over Lamartine ; and Albert, who is at the
of the poll, has only 11 above Lamartine ;
whilste in he
lstarondissement Lamartine heads the
head
t

poll with 505, Marrast comes second, with 493, and
Dupont (de l'Eure) third, with 472, while Ledru
Rollin polls but 114, and stands forty-third upon
the list (the ninth lowest of the rejected candidates),
Albert but 103, Louis Blanc, 92, and Flocon, 90.
It is, however, expected that Louis Blanc, Ledru
Rollin, Albert, and Flocon will be returned, but
they will owe their return solely to the forbearance
and more than good faith of their moderate colleagues
in the Provisional Government, who made it a point
of honour to include their names in the voting lists
of the moderate party, although Ledru Rollin and
his clique excluded. the names of Lamartine, Mar-
rest, and Gamier Pages from their lists, and left no
means untried to prevent their election.
These elections will do more to. strengthen the
foundations of the Republic in France, and to forward
the cause of liberty, of progress, and of self-govern-
ment throughout the world, than any event which
has occurred during _ the last fifty years—
;nore
„pen than.. the. gloriqus deeds of the
glorious days of February. In February France
Only conquered the right of self-government ;
She.
hase.no has :that she can exercise the right
h
conquered zibygtwerning herself and repress-
h..tg those anarchists who wuuld, deprive her of all
government. ,
The results of the elections in the provinces, so far
as the same have become known, are equally satisfac-
tory. In almost every instance the friends of true
liberty have been returned, and the anarchists have
been relegated to the bottom. of the poll..
, The accounts received: from the Departments state
that the elections are everywhere favourable to the
moderate party. The name of LAI/ARTIER is put
forward in a vast number of places, and it invariably
figures at the head of the poll. The candidates
,tasted by M. LEDRU"it9uwit, and among others the
commissaries, have been beaten wherever they have
ishown themselves. At
_1 though:the definitive
istate of the poll is not rot known :efficient has trans-
pired to show that M• LAMARTINE, M. SEUARD, and
the other moderate republicans will have three
times • _the number of voters in their favour than
DESpiAMFS, the Commissary-General, and M.
DURAND, the head of the ateliers nationaux, will be
able to .secure. By the last accounts it appears
that 12,000 and,, upwards had voted for the
former, while only 3,500 had voted for the latter.
In the department of the Eure, M. DUPONT (de
l'Eure) has been almost unanimously 'elected.
Those who came nearest to him on the list are MM.
GAR?iIER PAGES, LEGENDRE, DUMONT, LAGRAND,
&c. Some serious riots took place at Louviers. At
Lille the parties were pretty equally divided, but
accounts have been received today that the Moderer
have the victory. In -the department of the Aube,
M.. LIGNIER, WI? was deprived ,by LEDRU
ROIJAW of the Commissary-Generalship of the de-
partment, because he visa too, moderate in his
conduct; has been elected by an immense majority
over' M. CIiKVAT, the. Commissary sent to replace
him. , . the .departrnone`oCthe Gironde, it is
stated in letters from 'Bordeaux that the candi-
dates who are likely to carry the day are MM. DE
LAMARTINE, BILAUDEL, and TLIEODORI Ducos (the
former deputies) L units's.; SERVIERRS, lisNur Ducos,
A. LARRIEN, CLEMENT THOMRS, COMPENS, Advocate-
General, Sasior and DIGNJOI, the ex-sous prefect,
who was turned out by M. Lsnau-RoLuist. Similar
results have been received from Marseilles, Metz,
Nancy, Strasburg, Caen, Rennes, Tours, Nantes,
Orleans, Bourges, Angouleme, Poictiers, Mont-
pelier, and Nismes and, Avignon, all of which
will send Liberal members. The number of mem-
bers of the old Chamber of Deputies ytho will

in such a manner as to escape detection. In Chan-
cery, where the evidence is taken down in writing, if
the facts are disputed, and there is contradictory tes-
titnony on any point, it is usual to send an issue to a
jury, !or their verdict, before judgment is delivered:
but in the Ecclesiastical Court it is otherwise. There
the judge decides net only on the law, but on the
facts. He is called upon to weigh the value of the
conflicting evidence without being allowed the op-
portunity of doing so in the only manner by which
a satisfactory result could be arrived at. It is, there-
fore, by no means surprising if his judgments, how.
ever much of learning and acuteness may be displayed'
therein, are by no means satisfactory to the suitors
or to the public in general. In this respect also great
alterations should be effected to render the ecclesias-,
tical tribunals suited to the spirit of the age and dis-
tributors of substantial justice.

We shall shortly return to this subject, and point
out other detects in the present system which urgentl)
&amid alteration and revision.

After having been fora while almost forgotten
in the superior interest excited by less important.
matters, the subject of the sanitary condition of tie
people, generally known a.. 4 the "Health of Towns
Bill," is beginning again to occupy public attention.
And it is well that it should do so, for however un-
attractive such a topic may appear by the side of the
many startling events which now daily fill our column.,
it is one, literally speaking, of the most vik 1
importance to the great body of the people. It
impossible, however, but that even with the best in
tentions false views may not be adopted by tilt
advocates of this, as of all other measures. An in-,
stance of this N afforded by the remarks of a Con
temporary, who very justly insisting upon the neces-
sity that exists for some immediate attention to this
matter, goes so far as to exclaim, " We heartily wish
there were no manufacturing towns in Great Bri-
tain ! " This most astonishing wish is, howeVer,
qualified by the following observations:—

" Manufacturing towns are good for business, but ex•
ceedingly bad for the health and morals of the popula
tion. Philanthropists should make up their minds either
to sigh and say nothing about health, or to abandon
the honour and g'ory of being patrons a l'oulrance 01
the interests of manufacturing capitalists. As for
us, we wish well to manufactures, but as we also
wish well, and in a greater degree, to the health
and morals of the people, we are prepared to sacrifice a
portion of manufacturing profit for the sake of gettinv
rid of the filthy crowding of those towns. We heartil)
wish there were no manufacturing towns in Grea:
Britain. We by no means wish that Great Briton,
were without manufactures, but we should wish the
factories to be scattered over the country, as they were
when waterpower was chiefly used in spinning-mills.
and power-looms were as yet uninvented. We ar.
aware that such separation of the factories would make
manufacturing more expensive, but that we should con.
eider a far less evil than the filthy towns and the habits
which enfeeble and debase our population."
These remarks are sufficiently plausible, nay,
• more, they contain a good deal of truth. ' The
population of the manufacturing towns are certainly
exposed to all the evils therein described; but is the
fault then to be attributed to the fact of those towns
being manufacturing towns ? Are the inhabitants of
the agricultural districts better off? So far from that
being the case, we are inclined to think their con-
dition, if possible, even worse. As to the'',
being crowded, which seems to be the
chief cause of gr:evance imputed to the manu
facturing towns, the rural districts, strange to
say, are in a similar condition. If they contain fewer
persons in a given spot, they likewise contain less
gecommodation for them. That is, if those disgusting
but heart-rending details reported by the commissioners
of inquiry be correct—these reports which tell of
Whole families crowded into one small roam, some-

;)e returned, will, it is supposed, be much larger than
was expected. It is said that the ultra-Republicans
triumph at Lyons, Toulouse, Limoges, Arras,
and some other towns of minor importance, but there
is now no doubt that at least six hundred out of the
nine hundred members of which the assembly will
consist, will belong to the Moderate Republican
party. The partizans of MM. LEDRU••ROLLIN and
LOUIS BLANC have been beaten almost everywhere.
There cannot now be a doubt but that the National
Assembly will be composed of men fully equal to the
imposed upon them of regene-
rating There is very little news in
The Minister of the United States in Paris, Mr.
ah lekse which
papers.t heir will
country.
RICHARD Ruses, waited on "%Wednesday on M.
LiliAlaTlN, at the Hotel de Ville, and formally re-
cognised the French Republic in the name of the
American Union.
The Reforme states, that in consequence of the
arrival of several regiments of the line in Paris, five
battalions of the National Guard (mobile) are about to
occupy the following posts :—the Bth, t'he forts of
Bicetre and Ivry ; the gth, Combevoie ; the 10th,
the forts of Noisy and of Romainville ; the 11th, the
fort of Aubervilliers; the 19th, the forts of Issy and
of Vannes.
The Assemblie Nationale states, that MM. EMILE
Tsinrsv and EUGENE PIERRON, members of the
" Republican Club of Dramatic Artists," waited on
the Archbishop of PARIS on Monday last, to request
that he would remove the sentence of excommunica-
tion inflicted by the Council of Arles on the corps of
comedians. The Archbishop politely assured those
citizens that no sentence of excommunication against
comedians existed in the diocese of Paris.
The fffessager states, that the Central Democratic
Club, composed of more than 4,000 members, has
presented a petition to the Provisional Government,
praying that an inquirye instituted relative to
Committee of Public Safety stated to. be sitting in
the Rue Rivoli, under the,presidency of the Citizen
b

times even all sleeping in one bed.
It is true that these facts do not in any way
exempt the manufacturing districts from complain,.
They also, we admit, imperatively demand improve-
ment. They also, we agree with our Contemporary,
are most pernicious to the welfare of the com-
munity. What, however, we take occasion to
object to in his remarks is, the attributing
these grievances to the fact of certain towns
being manufacturing ones. What we depiecate is

he wish expressed that there were "no manu

lac turi ng towns in England." A similar course of
reasoning it was that took objection to all railway

travelling, because it had been in some cases attended
with serious accidents, or that deprecated the u! e
of machinery as being prejudicial to the poor, because,
in consequence of its use many hand-loom weaveis
were thrown out of employ rent. The error in these
cases was in confounding causes and effects, er rather

SORRIER. • i ~ ~ „ ~ . . . .
The. Toulonnats of the,23d instant announces, that
AHD-EL-K..4.DES WAS to embark, on that day, in a
steamer for Cotte, whence he was to proceed by land
to Pau. • .
The Constitutionnel states that the Marengo, ship
of the line, which bad. been laid up in ordinary at
Toulon, was ordered •to :be prepared for service, and
would be employed, ,ip,- the defence of the port of
Algiers.
The 2Alinister of ..larine has received dispatches
from the. Commander of the French corvette-of-war
ciosw.n, Tathe
c momentar ca
Boussolle, dated Curacos, the 4th of March, announc•
line the neighbouring
t
log. the loss of that ship, on,. the preceding day,
'
amongst the shols „which
ta R
g,:Cap in ICHARD L.
,n(A lsem,
the loss of the Boussolle became
known
Commander of the-Naval Division of Barbados!, achas-
tened to apprise the Charge d'Affaires of France,
through the medium of the Charge d'Affaires of her
Britannic MAJgSTY, of his intention to, repair with
his frigate and the steamer Vesuvius to the relief of
the shipwrecked corvette. The Dutch brig-of-war
Pyl also arrived to afford assistance.
A curious fact connected with the. election is stated.
All the coalporters, boatmen, and others residing at
the Yillette outside the Barriere St. Martin, in which
is situate the canal harbour, voted for one candidate
°nlY, Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON, and, in anticipation
of his . triumph, are enjoying themselves in the
surrounding cabarets and cafés.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the exports
and imp4.)rts for the first quarter of 1848. The lin-
prts exceed by rather more than four millions of
metrical quintals those of the corresponding period of
1847, There is, however, a falling off in the ex-
ports, and consequently in the movement of naviga-
tion. The number of French vessels employed was
1,000 less than in the first three months of 1847.
IThe Constitulionnel gives the following, under the
heal,of,Nouvelles de, la Cour :—" On Tuesday there
was a dejeuner at the Petit Trianon. Ladies were
invito.d., 31, LEDRU B,otort did the honours. There
was also a stag-hunt at c)Wltiltiart(4o,l?‘9ll4,44ll ,1 the
Park of Apremoat." --I— •
. .

in confusing entirely separate things, and attributing
to the one the ill effects occasioned by the other.
For example, the censure excited by the railway
accidents was due not to that particular system
of travelling, but.to the ignorance or neglect of the
parties concerned in it. In the same way machinery,
so far from being inimical to manual labour, has im-
measurably increased it : the temporary suffering its
first introduction occasioned to one unfortunate class
arose from' their incapacity to adapt themselves
at once to the new invention. And, in like
manner, it is that the miserable condition of the in-
habitants of manufacturing towns is to be attributed
not to the nature of the business there carried on,
but to the absence of proper sanitary regulations, by
which the health and, comfort of the people might be
preserved. Such sanitary regulations we earnestly

desire to see speedily carried into effect. Such regu.
lations it is that will prove immeasurably more bene
ficial to the people, whether individually or collec
tively, than would the destruction of our manufac
tuning towns.

Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived.
The city was tranquil. The editors of the Siglo
were arrested .on the-21st.
The Herald() announces that the 'King of NAPLES
had nominated the Duke DE SIiRRA CiPRIOLA, for
merly President of the Council of Ministars, Ambits
sador in Spain.

MADRID BoIAA, APRIL 22.—The 'Three per
Cents. were done at 4211 for cash ; the rive per
Cents., at 14 for paper ; and the Debt without In
Wrest, at 9.

DEBUT OF SIGNOR LABOCETTA AT HER MA-
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Signor Labocetta who to-morrow makes his debtit in the
character of Count Almaviva in B Barbiere. He pos-
qesses one or the most deliciously sweet high tenor
voices it has ever been our i
lot to hear. Its flexibility is
perfectly astonishing, and it s. completely under com-
mand. Since the time of we have not heard such
a voice. It is capable of every variety of expression,
and in pathetic parts more especially we anticipate for
Signor Labocetta the greatest triumphs.

BOURSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 27.

THREE o'CLocK.—The buoyancy in the market, which
was so perceptible yesterday. in consequence of the result
of the Paris elections, continued to. day in a very remark-
able manner. The Five per Cents. have again risen nut
le,s than 4f., closing at 691.; and the Three per Cents.
2f. 50e., at 47f. It will be perceived that the advance is
considerably greater in the Fives than in the Three per
Cents., the former being considered in comparison lower
than in the latter. A large amount of business was
trausected in both, but particularly in the Five per
Ceuta., which closed at their highest quotation ; the
Threes, however, were at one moment quoted a franc
higher than their closing price. Bank of France
Shares „underwent great variations during the day ;
they opened at 1,575 f., went up to 1,580 f. ; then, giving
way, fell to 1,480 f., rose again t0'1,500f., finally closing
at 1.4901.. or 10f. lower than the day before. Roths-
child's Neapolitan remain as they were, at 53f. 50c. ;
Belgian Fives were in demand, and closed at 66e1.. or
31. higher ; and Roman, if., at 551 f. ; Bons du 'rtEssor
were not negotiated all day. Railway Shares were not
so firm as the day before, many speculators being anxious
to realise the large profits ari%:ing from the late advance.
Some of the working lines, however, are it general some-
what higher. The Orleans closed at 5901., or 201. better;
Bordeaux at 398 f. 75c., or f 75e. ; Havre at 2051., or
of. 59c. ; Strasburg at 3561. 25c., or If. 25c. ; Rouen
are 15f. lower, at 410 f.; Vierson, 101. lower, at 2501 ;
Lyons, 71. 50c. lower, at 303 f. 75c.; Northern and Nantes,
21. 50c. lower, at 3601. and 342 f. 50c. French gold
remains at 30f., and the change for a I,ooof. note
costs 4f.

DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG-
HOLSTEIN.
REPORTED BATTLE IN SCHLES WIG.
We have received the following account . of an
engagement between the Germans and the Danes,
near Schleswig. The intelligence is very confused :--
" RENDSBURG, _APRIL 2s,
" ONE O'CLOCK AT NlGlic.
" The Prussian troops marched out of this place
yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock. They were
followed by an almost interminable succession of the
other Federal troops, and of our dragoons, who had
been quartered In the neighbourhood of Remmels,
to recover after their five day? harassing fatigue at
Flensburg. It was not till six o'clock to-day that
the last party quitted Rendsburg, and at half-past
seven several waggons arrived, bringing the
wounded and a number of Danish troops prisoners
They brought the intelligence that on the approach
of the Prussians the Danes retired from Kropp to
Schleswig, and that between two and three o'clock
a fierce combat ensued to the west of Bustorf and close
to Schleswig.
" At the first point the Prussians, who had vowed
to conquer or die, without waiting the arrival of the
artillery, stormed the newly-fortified Dannewirlce
and the embankments thrown up at Bustorf. This
combat cost many lives, but terminated in the taking
of Friedricksberg and the so-called Erdbeerenberg,
while the dykes at Gottorf are still in the hands
of the Danes. The mines- placed in the dams
by the Danes will scarcely accomplish their object,
as the prevailing north-east wind has forced the
water of the Schlei into the ditches, and rendered
them useless. Simultaneously with the Prussians
the Zastrow Corps advanced to Missunde, towards
the left wing ; by the first fire dismounted one of
the two batteries of the enemy, then the other, and
was in the very act of taking the Ponton. Further
down the Schlei, by the estate of Stubbe, the Was-
mer Free Corps crossed at eleven o'clock, the boat-
men having made arrangements to transport 1,000
men across at a time. Thus all possibility of retreat
was cut off by the Danes. It is true that they have
prepared a broad causeway through the Kappellen
Angeln, but even if they succeed in reaching their
place of embarkation, the east wind will probably pre-
vent their ships from sailing wherever they are not
taken in tow by the steamers.
"11 o'clock.—There are continued arrivals of
wounded. The number of prisoners brought in is
about 30. Schleswig is said to have been taken."
The Hamburgh Borsenhalle of the 24th, dated one
o'clock P.M., says—" A letter from Rendsburg of this
morning (the 24th) says, Schleswig was taken by
the Prussians yesterday. The fortress of Gottor
was still in the hands of the Danes during the night 1
Two divisions of the Danes, together with several
dragoons, are said to have gone ever to the Prus-
sians.'
" By another letter from Rendsburg, dated the
evening of the 23d, the taking of Schleswig is said to
be certain. The Danes, pursued to the eastward,
saved themselves at Missunde by crossing the Schlei,
and endeavoured to prevent our troops from pur-
suing them by maintaining a constant fire of small
arms. The guns which they had planted there
were dismounted. Of the Prussian troops the 20th
and 31st Regiments are said to have suffered the
most.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. A2RIL 27.

Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—ltalian and Austrian, lb—
Northern of France. 4% —Paris and Lyons, 2—Rouen and
Havre, B—Sambre and Meuse, 4.

GERMA_NY

AND.

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Bank of Vienna decided, on the 21st, to send
off one million of florins (100,0001.) to Linz, another
to Brunn, a third to Open, and a fourth to Prague,
for the assistance of commerce, and especially the
manufacturing districts, the stoppage •of the manu-
factories having deprived thousands of workmen of
means of subsistence. The Wiener Zeitung of the
18th of April publishes a decree relative to Styria,
which ordains that from the Ist of January, 1849,
all quit rents attached to the soil, to demesne lands
and .right to titles, as 'also rents in kind, and all
services, are to be changed into .a money payment
based upon an equitable computation.

The states of Styria will, in conjunction with the
landowners (not members of the Assembly of the
States) and the representatives of the class of peasants,
immediately consider of-a law by which this change
can be effected, which law is to be submitted to by
sanction.

The States of Moravia and Silesia have unani-
mously rejected the project of union with Bohemia,
which the inhabitants of Prague, by petition, had
expressed a wish should take place.
In consequence of the discordant views entertained
by different parties respecting the position to be held
by Austria in the new Germanic Confederation, the
Ministry have officially proclaimed, through the
medium of the Wiener Zeitung, that although Aus-
tria is desirous of cementing a complete union with
Germany, and will embrace every opportunity of
evincing its attachment to the cause of the fatherland,
it is not intended either to sacrifice the local interests
of the Imperial provinces, or to renounce the inde-
pendence of the internal government of Austria.
The Government, therefore, reserves to itself full
'power to adopt or reject :the decisions of the Confe-
deration, as it may think proper. The article con-
cludes with these remarkable words :--" Provided
that the last stipulation is not admitted as reconcile-
, able with the character of a Confederation of States
(Stiiateiz-bundji Auttrit'will not be Ip—a position, to
join it." 1
, . ,
1 , •

"By the train last night we received the intelli-
gence that Eckenforde had been evacuated by the
Danes, who retreated to the head-quarters at Danne-
wirke. There is to be a general attack to-day. The
Schleswig- Holsteiners foim the right Wing, the
troops of the 10th Army Corps the left wing, and
the Prussians in the centre:'
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 19.
We learn from a letter written by, one of the stu-
dents detained on board the Dronning Maria the
following facts respecting the manner in which the
prisoners were treated
We can assure our Hatnburgh friends that the re-
ports in circulation there, that we are compelled to suffer
hunger, that we have been forced to the public work.,
and other similar statements, are utterly w►thout fouu
dation. On the contrary, our situation since we have
been on board the Dronning Maria is perfectly tolerable.
`though by no means enviable."
TAKING OF SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN BY
THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
(LATER PARTICULARS.)
Since the above was in type we have received the
following official dispatch, which was forwarded by
General Wrangel, respecting the taking of Schles-
wig :

By an ordonnance, fiziriil# Austria the mode of
election to -tticYPerman J'arliament, there will be a
deputy for every 70,000 souls ; thus; 190 members
will represent) Austria assembly.
The Municipal Committee of Vienna are about, to
organize a guard for the security of persons and
property, called Sicherheitswache, as a substitute for
the old police—the latter force having become too
unpopular to be retained in the service.
On the 11th, in the morning, cavalry and artillery
were dispatched from Presburg to Briinn, at which
place serious disturbances •had broken out. In the
former town there are only a piquet of cuirassiers and,
about 200 foot, for repressing, in conjunction with
the National Guard, the excesses continually taking
place against the Jews. Colonel MEsszeos, Minister
of War in Hungary, has been promoted to the rank
of general.

" Head-quarters, Schleswig, April 23, 1848,
Eleven o'Clock at Night.
"To the whole Provisional Government of the

Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein.
" I have the honour to transmit to the Provisional
Government the joyful intelligence that after an
obstinate engagement of several hours the Danes have
been defeated, and the city of Schleswig, so far as
the Gottorp Schleszdanwn, fell into our hands about
two o'clock this afternoon.

"The attack was afterwards renewed by the
left wing, whereby the city of Schleswig was
surrounded, and our troops penetrated as
far as the Chaussee at Flensburg. At half-past seven
the battle was over, in consequence of the encompass
ing of the city. The castle of Gottorp was evacuated
by the Danes.
(Signed) " VON WRANGEL,
"Royal Prussian General of Cavalry."
ALTONA, APRIL 24.—1 f we may believe verbal
reports, the battle of Schleswig was very bloody.
The Prussians, without waiting for their artillery,
stormed the place at the point, of the bayonet, and
the Danes most obstinately defended their position.
As these, positions were for the most part very strong,
the taking of them cost much blood on our side.
The noble Alexander Regiment is said •to have suf-
fered exceedingly, and many waggons laden with
the wounded continue to arrive at Rendsburg. Some
accounts state that 2,000 men were killed and
wounded. An unconfirmed report says that two
battalions which. were_ recruited in the duchies, and
the, dragoons, many of whom were natives of Schles-
wig, deserted to the Germans in large bodies.
1-IIMBIJRGII, APRIL 24, NINE O'CLOCX IT
NIGHT.—The train this evening from , Rendsburg
says the Federal troops have advanced two leagues
beyond Schleswig ; that the advanced posts have
entered Flensburg itself, amid the loud acclamations
of the inhabitants, and that the Danes had retired in
the greatest confusion to Angein. The loss on both
sides have been very considerable. The Prussian
regiment alone had 100 men killed.—Hamburgh Cor-
respondent,. April 25. •
Itiensuuaa, Arm 24.—1 t Is impossible to give
an exact estimate of the dead and wounded. The
battle was very sanguinary, but the proportion of the
wounded far exceeds that of the dead. Up to Mon-
day morning, at nine o'clock, 116 wounded Prussians
were brought into Rendsburg hospital, and, of course,
those who were most severely wounded still lie at
Schleswig. The 20th. Regiment alone. has lost 100
men. The loss of the Danes must have been still
greater. Every place ii covered. with their slain.
The number of prisoners this evening (24th) is 200
broughtin here, and others are still on the road. In
Schleswig it is asserted that the whole of the 13th
battalion, which consists of Schleswigers, were taken
prisoners. They had received a promise from the
King that they should not act against their country-
men, and should only be employed in the garrisoning
of the castle. After the departure of the King this
promise was observed, and they therefore suffered
themselves to be taken prisoners. We will not vouch
for the authenticity of this report.
General Von Wrangel has issued the following
order of the day :
" Chief-comMand of tbe'Dtichies of
Schleswig-Holstein.
" ORDEZ. OF TUB DAT.
"By a resolution of. the Germanic Confe-
deration the chief command of the German
troops now assembled in the Duchy of Holstein
has been committed to me ; and I have this
day undertaken the command. Th• Chief of the
Staff is the Prussian Major-General Von Stock-
hausen, until whose expected arrival that service
will be performed by Major Von Kirchenfield. The
commanding officer of Artillery, who is expected
this evening, is the Prussian Colonel Von Fidler.
As officer of of the Ordnance the command is to be
undertaken by a Hungarian and Schleswig-Holstein
officer. The Staff guard is committed to the Prus-
sian troops." _ _

At the commencement of hostilities the following
proclamation was issued :
" Soldiers,—The rights of Germany have been
violated by the Danes, and it is your resolve to main-
tain them. Having been appointed your general in com-
mand by the Germanic Confederation, I consider it
a peculiar honour to be permitted to lead on to this
combat. The tried valour of yourselves and of your
leaders are a pledge of the result. Onward for Ger-
many ! This be henceforth our motto, and with God
for our guide the rietory is ours. AlCha4 Quo corn-

And now
:his morning early for Geneva. It is supposed that I mon fatherland, all had Germany !
it is the ex-King of BAVARIA going to rejoin LOLA ward.
MoN TES."

" VON WRANGEL
" The Royal Prussian General Of Cavalry.
" Rentlsburg, April 22, 1848."
Resipsnlato, Aram .N2:-:.-Danish prisoners on-
„inue to arrive here from time to time. They are,
aa
may well be supposed, treated with that considera-
tion and respect which is due to misguided but
valiant warriors both by the authorities and byte e
public. Several of the plls9ners assert
their officers told them that every prisoner
would be immediately beheaded here, and theY ar"
therefore the more surprised at the reception which
t
they meet with.
DISHONOURABLE TREATMENT OF THE DEAD AND
WOUNDED.— azThe Schleswig-Holstein Gette of the_
24th says :—" With the deepest regret and feeling ar
shame at the conduct of our own countrymen, we
publish the following letter from a German officer :
" Schleswig.—Early on Monday niorning,•scarcely
was the battle at Schleswig ended, when we every-
where saw Schleswigers vn the field plundering the
dead. The Danes at Flensburg had invariably
thrown a handkerchief over the face of the dead,
were
and had mounted sentinels, who, however,
not in every case able to prevent the
occasional pillage of a watch or money. The Ger.-
mans had neglected to use the precaution,
negligence was fearfully avenged. The German
rabble plundered the dead, nay, is it not probable that
many who were severely wounded were treated in.*
like manner by this impious horde, and stripped,t°,
their very shirts ? I never witnessed a more fearigi
and their
scene than this array of corpses in a barn. ManY
them were naked; one officer had nothing but his
shirt and coat, but everything else was
trousers, shoes, stockings, nay, everything that W
.
s..
available was gone. These marauders are sch
grace to the war. The sight wo
tern;
ule. I shall never forget it. In the
OM
of humanity, I entreat that measures be taken to pre'
vent the recurrence of such atrocious scenes. ;a
The letter is written from the camp, on the first Ilvt,
impression of the revolting scenes. Our reporter ;(1
a man of the most tried, integrity, and if he•show.
s
have taken too gloomy a view, we shall rejoice..t
but the doubt. We became acquainted with 01
Danish rabble at Flensburg ; but we have learneu
that the Germans are by no means superior.
HAMBURGII, APRIL 25:—A private ,corntriunici;
;ion considerably reduces the number of the killed
and wounded at the battle of Schleswig. Ixso to 21
the
20th and 31st Regiments there are from 1
rendered unfit for service,- including 50 killed'
the Emperor Alexander's. there are 9 killed Oho
• wounded. 120 Danish prisoners are shut up in
fortress at Gottorp. The Duke of Brunswick r.e-
turned to the scene of action by this morning's tr4l/1.
When the luggage train left Rendsburg this morniefit
at half-past eleven o'clock, there was no further in'
telligence from the seat of war. •
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 22.—The health of his °I;
jesty was so far improved that he intends 10147
Fredericia for Odensee in the course of a few 10,
Orders have been received at that place for his 22'
jesty's arrival.—Hamburgh Borsenhallt, pril
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Arsesls..nei.
Dills. 3f

Austrian 5 per Cents •, •••• .• •• •• • • •• - --- s
Bank Shares • . • • .• • • •• • • • • •• •• .-
Anglo-Russian Loan ••••••••• • • •• ••
Russian 5 per Cont., }lamb. Certificate. --
Ditto let series Inscription• • •• •• •• •• •'—
Ditto, Elope and Co., 3d and 4th seriel•• • .
Ditto, in Certificate..................... ••••••• •• •• " ••••
New 4 per Cent., Rope and Co. •• •• •• --' 66
Ditto Stieglitz •• ••••.• •• • • '•• •• • •'• • 65
Spanish Now 5 per Cent............... .71, ...-
Ditto 3 per Cent •• •• •• .• •••••• • • • • .•••
Angio-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent.• --
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent• ••• •• —•-•
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••.••••• •• •• " ..•
Polish Now 4 per Cent. Loan; 1844.• •• -- --•
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • •• —•-•
National Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

POLAND. •
The following proclamation has been Wee b
d the
Central National Committee of .P0134.77"f the most
" When, in the year 1846, in contravention
Of aims.
measure
solemn treaties, and as if to fill lip the esig", cracer'
perpetrated on the Polish nation, the Republic o.__, ibo•
the last remnant of our independent country.rws;otioe
lished and incorporated into Austria, theyDd
declared this
per he the final partitisel 1° tEurd.
summoned its petrators before the triblins °
and posterity— • o.'
" Punishment soon followeEth:gcri_m I, of th°
"At the present moment, in 1848, the, "„poulacr
emancipation of nations,, we receive of %temp's'
meat of a new Rrlition4-Polatid being itt."n-ot booli
don. Indeed, we could not believe 'it, bad it
communicated to us by authority. of th.
" Under the very dubicius pretence that in I°oo,oo
districts of the Grand Duchy of Posen, the ry
are more numerous than the Poles, reactions'ibie
to
tionaries, oblivious of the most sacred rights, 11111)„,Iciror,
understand the spirit of our time and its es's,;',nt of
anxious only to retain their places, have, by. ",;;lity•
spurious agitation in favour of German natl°"-vre•
compelled the higher authorities to give thew s,tbe
inise that such districts will be 'separated fr°`",,,att
Duchy' of Posen, and incorporated with the Ger
Confederation.
I' We declare most solemnly, that, true to the w1.1_,0„,.ir
tenour of our history, the Polish nation will, -as BOO."'
it becomes free and independent, leave the free chop
of government nationality to those portions of tbeit
country which, from their contiguity with other 0:
tions, . seem now of a doubtful and mixed charisetira•'
but as long as this restoration of the whole of indePe;
dent Poland shall not have been accomplished, so ici„;
we shall consider the separation of any portion of. orb
country as a new partition of Poland; and we litre op.
enter our solemn protest before the rialions of El tore
against so lawless an act, and arraign the origio7o-br
and the peipetrators of this scheme before the Ps"
the present generation and posterity.
(signed)
"itioC I nOwsnr, M. MIELZYNSItk, • CAS:
PRUsINowsLI, LIBELT, .PoTWoitOw' .
SIIJB, MORACZEWSKI, STOMCZZAOOLL
" Posen, April 17, 1848." , the ire
The Courtier de Cracovie announces that,
at Joe
stigation of the Prince-Governor a deputation °,
of the principal magnates of Poland, besde:t.,
KEASINSILI, will present itself to the EstrN
7 °OO fr
Petersburg", with the object of entreating. ,(1 •;,..
establishment of the kingdom of Poland as ;cO.
previous to the revolution;- and •for taking: 611000
sary steps that those parts not actually now' f the
part. of Poland may be also united together 10'1tbs
Russian Crown. Of those parts, Gallicia Woo,
Grand Duchy of Posen are to be understood $lO by
If the Prince-Governor be really the person ri.o3gors
advised this step,, the information is of great_l7-
tance. From Konigsberg, under date of ~,,1
April, we hear tbat three regiments '6l. thif
Guards some days since left St. Petersburg":
will take up their quartets for the present at hi ani
The Germans of the. , towns of 1..r(413114 gofo
Zdmir have published an open letter to the
tool
Commissioner for the Grand' Duchy of Po 6,de wet
WILLISEN. contains a vote of want of CorD'osi
caused' by 'the ultra-B)115h tendencies 'of the ""ps ia
Commissioner, whom they reproach with b5/1
his concessions to .the Poles overstepped the b° rep
of his office. They lay great stress on the Ge_,l3esl
permitting part of the Poles to continue in erwaoe
his promise of any amnesty even to deserters, °eat,
the rashness of his pledging his word that the
fed
would ratify these' concessions,. which endaegof
the safety of the German population of Posen. )" sof
declare that they will not obey any of his orders, fita
that, till the KIliG himself shall have decided the eft
of the province, the will acknowledge DO rule ese
that of the former Government.
der CA
Another manifesth addressed to the Comos°o, env
the Prussian forces in' Poseri, 'General Co0)1
se i 0
dated the 15th inst., has, been published bi,i
so,
Germans of the town and district. of Krotelliitrici
the name of the German population •Of hol
and the province. It reminds General CoLosafood
little sympathy the 'Ultra-Polish moeitlerit s ooli°
among the peasantry of' Posen tilt the L.'
or°
clergy took the agitation in hand, and, acting (los'
the prejudices and superstitions of the InFilee!'osbi:
ticined the uncivilized and benighted Polish, Ito °.g
tants of the country districts. They•
wave:, piote,.;
greatness and imminence of the danger, °lied ri
that the Archbishop of POSEN must be in— to'fi/
exert the whole of. his influence with the clergy dish
a atop to these criminal and destructive proceto
and conclude by petitioning General C01,01"3
their cause with the Archbishop

Augsburgooo'
G azetle states RUSSIA.
that,
The by °lilt 6..41
mendation of Marihal Pasuzwrra, Governrfe jr
end of Poland, a deputation was to Pr°cee for
Russia. Warsaw
to St. Petersburgh, to solicit the Efqetion 0°
Unit. to re-establish Poland in the same poiii 0 tj
existed before the revolution of 1830, as We'd Olt
demand the union of all the parts of P°lsAn let/1'
subject to other Sovereigns into one state-
Jo
.01.:1
from Berlin states that General DE Pruo b veer,
sent to St. Petersburgh, it was supposed t°,4o Illil
the situation of Poland ; and that an Aill'sbort
neral was to proceed from Vienna to St. Pete •
at the same time, for the same purpose.

WALLACHIA• rlb'
A letter from Bucharest, on the 6th of
jih.t
etheuets Ssoivaf anaave obtic:oonynness2lutpflierbraehcceaguynryw,erhxseiseacyrlhicasiews:—dead.s"aeTlxtsohpeerifreteopridf::::ol9llbityhe-eiltl4l:.,
ft°
They say M. DI KOTZISUE has receivecl