The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-12 00:00:00

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LUNDIJN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1848

Three important subjects just now occupy the Le-
gislature and engross the interest and attention of
the country—the Chartist Petition, the Government
Security Bill, and the motion for
the Repeal of the
has
Union. Public attention, which
latterly been
marvellous almost wholly engrossed by the events
is
transpiring in foreign countries,now directed
elicited nearer home. The interest and anxiety
by
recent movements, and rumours of movements ininthe
metropolis and the remoter parts of the United K
dom, are now concentrated upon the Proceedingsgo.
gf
Parliament. For it is there, according to the ad-
mirable organization of our Constitution, it is there,
in the House which represents the people, that the
various grievances, real or supposed, which have
agitated the public mind and disturbed the general
tranquillity, are to be fully set forth in order to re-
ceive due consideration and redress. The Chartist
Petition was pfesented to the House on Monday
evening, and on Friday next is to be taken
into consideration. The Government Bill partially
passed through Committee yesterday morning, and
the notion for the Repeal of the Union was last night
introduced by Mr. J. O'CONNELL. It is, perhaps,
fitting that these three subjects should simu.taneously
occupy public attention, for they in some respects
bear a close affinity to one another, they are in many
respects nearly identified—identified, that is to say,
not in the objects at which they aim, but in the inter-
ests which they affect. Two of these subjects, namely,
the Chartist Petition and the Government Bill, will,
nware
yarn% inclined to think, notwizhstanding the ordi-
. i partiality of the House, receive a considera.
tion more apportioned
than to theinei to the urgency of the times
extraordinary demundsutal merits. For example, the
riaotions which were to have
attended the presentat n of
have called forth so the Chartist Petition
eaatmpeprrhenesxincnistemnfent, and
occasioned such seriors
disturbances, that the genera'
are no longer called in question .s
v eon thosethis ordinarily
well disposed towards the re:l et.
Wholep:frin,tisri of
Charter pass them over, and the
down as seditious and revolution
is s"-
the Chartists have brought upon atrhye. sThI4
The more moderate by their
ill-advised proceedings.
them are loud in their lamentations onerathtee nrr4°%
thus inflicted on the cause. However, thetir
console themselves with the assurancey'y
right invariably prospers eventually, and henc te
so far as their cause is right, it can only have sus,
tained a temporary injury from the misconduct of it.
advocates. But, as we have already said, the indi-
vidual merits of the Charter will not be celled in
question in the present instance. The House will
listen to the motion founded on the petition with
that respect which 5,000,000 signatures must in-
evitably elicit. The country will be interested in th,
matter on account of the alarm which it has
recently occasioned, but that very alarm will prevent
any stronger feeling than a vague interest being
testified, and then the motion will be listened to, and ,

set aside and forgotten. In like manner, the exigency
of the times, rather than its individual merits, will
influence the fate of the Protection for the Crown
and Government Bill. The necessity of the
times renders it both legiriinate and expedient,
and the necessity of the times, and that alone,
supporta it with such large majenties in a House
ordinarily so jealous of conferring increased powers
on the Government, and so inimical to all coercive
and restrictive measures. The question of Repeal,
however, will have none of these advantageous or
disadvantageous adjuncts to hasten or retard its pro-
gress. It has been already canvassed and debated
on ; its merits have been duly examined, and found
wanting.
Mr. J. O'CONNELL, in bringing forward his
motion last night, expatiated upon the present
miseries of Ireland—miseries of whose existence the
staunchest anti-repealer does not affect to doubt, but
which miseries can be in no wise occasioned by the
legislative union of the two kingdoms, as Mr. J
O'CONNELL does not hesitate to assert. " Look at.
the state of the poor of Ireland since the union,"
he exclaims—" badly housed, badly clothed, and
badly fed, and reduced on all hands to absolute beg-
gary and destitution, to starvation and death ! Nearly
4,000,000 of the population of Ireland were receiving
alms last year, 1,000,000 of them have been swept
away from the face of the earth, 250,000 have been
driven to emigrate, of whom 30,000 have perished."
These are most melancholy facts, we must admit, but
we should be curious to know in what manner they
can be attributed to the legislative union. This
very distress of Ireland is, in fact, only an
additional argument in favour of her union
with England. "It would be difficult," said
Lord MORPETH, in his admirable discourse last
night, " it would be difficult for the Hon. Member
(Mr. J. O'CONNELL) to show how the separation of
the poorer from the richer country would be likely
to improve the condition of the former." The debate
was not concluded last night, but adjourned till
Thursday next; yet after the speeches of last night we
should imagine that little more remains to be said,
for the four gentlemen who have addressed
the House are the chief and the most able
advocates of either side—the two Mr. O'CONNELLS
and the present and a former Secretary for Ireland.
Sir W. SOMERYILLE and Lord 1110EPETH. The
speech of the Noble Member for the West Riding
was peculiarly eloquent and emphatic, and it came
with especial grace from him who has been for so
long a period the tried and zealous friend of the Irish
people. His earnest and unqualified denunciations of
repeal were in consequence rendered doubly influen-
tial and effective, and their effect was considerably
increased by his frank avowal of the grievances of
which Ireland complains, and his unhesitating decla-
ration that much is necessary on the part of the
Government and the Legislature to ameliorate the
condition of that afflicted country. His observations
on this head were alike honourable to himself and
encouraging to those who sympathise in the suffer-
ings and wrongs of Ireland. The Noble Lord said—
" I am far from wishing it to be considered that I as
•ume the present state of Ireland with respect to her
ws, with respect to her social relations, to her uct,no
mical condition, is everything that I should with to see
it.—(Hear, hear.) During the whole period I have
been allowed to pass in public life—from the very
first words I uttered in this House, when I second( d
he motion for the repeal of the Roman Catholic
Disabilities, through the whole period of my tenure
~f office in Ireland—l have never shown myself
reluctant to improve what I have found in existence, or
to remodel existing institutions.—(Cheers.) I was a
party to the alteration in the law respecting the Church,
in the laws respecting municipal corporations, in the
laws respecting the poor, and in the laws respecting
wand juries—nay more, in common with my Noble
Relative, the Member for Lynn (Lord George Bentinck)
I was the originator of a proposal for putting the long
lines of railway in Ireland under Government superin-
tendence.—(hear.) But, far from being contented with
my own handiwork—far from being satisfied with what
Government have been able to do, I believe with refer.
ence to almost every one of those subjects, I have left
express declarations upon record, that I thought the
alterations which had been made could only be looked
upon as imperfect, and incomplete.—(Hear.) Therefore
I, for one, and I speak, I know, the sense of my col-
leagues, shall always be ready to approach all, or any of
them, with an earnest desire to de whatever justice,
whatever the possibilities of the case, or whatever the
best interests of Ireland may seem to require."
But perhaps the most truthful observation uttered
by Lord MORPETLI, in his very animated and power-
ful speech, was one he adopted from the Journal des
Debats, to the effect that what Ireland wanted is not
repeal nor rerolution, but regeneration. This brief
sentence contains a more accurate exposition of the
necessity of Ireland than all the eloquence of Con-
ciliation-hall, or the vehement rhetoric of the Irish
revolutionists. If the O'CONNELLS and Messrs

SMITH O'BRIEN, .MEAG H ER, and MITCHELL, and
their associates, are such true patriots as they desire
to be considered, let them evince their since.
rity by a ready avowal of this truth, and
a zealous endeavour to obtain for Ireland,
not repeal nor revolution, but regeneration. This
is, perhaps, too much to expect from the advocates of
physical force and the aspirants for republican honour.
Cherefore, abandoning to these gentlemen all the
.agitation and the glory attending on repeal and revo
'ution, we would exhort all really patriotic Irishmen,
hit the true friends of the sister country, zealously
and resolutely to turn their attention and their en-
leavours to the regeneration of the Irish people.
Let them reiterate the earnest assurance of Lord MOR-
Pei u, that that which all the inhabitants of the United
Kingdom most desire, is to see their Irish brethren,
,ne and all, partakers of the same rights, and sharers

in the same glories as themselves No inimical feeling
towards Ireland occasions the strenuous opposition of
the opponents of repeal; on the contrary, it is the
very desire of benefiting the sister country that in-

- -
,tigates and strengthens every effort made to preserve
:he union. The interests of England and Ireland

are identical and indivisible, and " a thing indivisible
by nature cannot be divided, it can only be muti-
lated." The establishment of two antagonistic
powers in one united kingdom would inevitably prove
destructive to the welfare of the entire people,
and subversive of all authority. But it is
unnecessary now to recapitulate the constantly urged
and never-refuted arguments against repeal. Let
us rather reiterate Lord MORPETH'S eloquent
enumeration of some of the many causes which
would render the separation of England a sad
misfortune. " Let me ask you," said the
Noble Lord, "to what field of our national
credit, and fame, and glory can we look without
seeing that those same Irish brethren have been
,It all times successful and honoured, and even more
than proportionate contributors ?
tion the ornaments which I need not men-
the memories of many among us in this House who
BURKE and SUERIDAN we have had even within
have been furnished by Ireland. The names of
and CANNING and GRATT N
and PLUNKET and O'CONNELL, will occur to allA '
(Hear, hear.) And we still retain what we derived
rrom thence, the laurel of WELLINGTON aod the lyre
Hof Mooan ?—(Cheers.) Does not every field of
covery—does not every exploit of science and every
achievement of art, show us the identity of our pot,
suits, and forbid the scheme of our separation ?" This
inquiry was responded to by the earnest cheers of
the whole House; and this inquiry will be responded
to by the affirmations of the whole empire.

duubt not but that the recent occurrences in the

western kingdoms of thl f;aropean continent dill
affect in a manner quite as extriordinary the popula-
tion of Lithuania and Bielogrod, cf the Ukrain and
Smolensko—though we canon!: anticipate such bril.
liant tran,furrnations as that which was conjectured
the other day by an imaginative correspondent f, ow
Frankfort, namely, the re-establishment of Poland by
the Emperor Nic FIOLAS, and the girding of the brows of
Duke LEICLITURTEN with the diadem of STANISLAUS.
That Poland will ultimately, and even speedily, recover
its independence, we are confident, but that the
Cabinet of St. Petersburgh will, in any particular,
forward that stupendous work of reanimation, is
beyond all conception. No. Polish nationality will
not be dragged into the daylight by the munificent
assistance of the CZAR, it will emerge itself from the
bondage of seventy winters, aided only by its own
indestructible vitality, and by the promptings of
051N1PoTENCE.

As a moral victory the re-organization of the king-
dom of Poland will be a glorious incident in the
records of humanity ; and as a political achievement
it Hill be a memorable occurrence for the western
nations of this hemisphere. Let us re_
member for an instant the geographical
position and dimensions of Poland previous to its
partition; let us remember Poland.as it was in 1780,
when it was bounded on the north by the Baltic and
Livonia, on the east by Russia, on the south by Mol-
davia and Tartary, and on the west by Ilungary,
Moravia, Silesia, and Brandenburg. A more impass-
able barrier could not possibly be contrived between
the barbarism of the vast dominions of the AUTOCRAT
and the civilization of the rest of Christendom. By
the dastardly partition of that intervening principa-
lity, however, Russia monopolized to herself the
lion's share of the unholy spoil, while she opened a
high road to the splendid countries situated beyond
the Oder and the Danube. A glance at the
map of Europe will confirm the accuracy of our
assertion. Austria has augmented her territories, it
is true, from the archduchy, which originally occu-
pied a space very little larger than the island of
Sardinia or the Grand Duchy of Tuscany—until the
dominions of her Emperor have swollen into one of
the most enormous and formidable states upon the
Continent. This she has accomplished since the
thirteenth century by the successive absorption of
Bohemia—Moravia—Silesia (or at the least a consider-
able part of it) —Styria— Illyria—Tyrol—Ausch
wartz—Buckowina (formerly a fragment of Mol-
davia)—llungary (including, of course, Croatia,
Selavonia, and the military frontier)—Transylvania
—Venetian Lombardy—und Galicia ! By this
system of wholesale anti unscrupulous incorporation,
Austria has risen, in scarcely six hundred years, from
the obscurity of a petty princedom to the criminal
glory of being one of the predominant Powers of
Christendom ; so that before the year 1831 had ex-
pired her territories extended over a surface of
257,368 square miles, containing a population of not
less than 36,950,511 souls ! In the prosecution
of this scheme of territorial aggrandizement
it must, nevertheless, be b.n-ne in recollection that the
Government of Vienna received merely a subordinate
portion of Poland, a portion, however, consisting of
33,506 square miles, with 4,797,243 inhabitants.

That portion was Galicia. It was in itself a magnificent
extension of territory—being the south- western corner
of the kingdom of Poland, with its base lying along
the range of the Carpathian Mountains, and bending
upwards in an arch from what were formerly Silesia
and Bukovia—it was consequently only subordinate
when contrasted with the superior spoil of the
AUTOCRAT. Galicia, indeed, would be remarkable if
only for the circumstance of its soil being irrigated
with the waters of the Pruth, the Dniester, the Bug,
and the Vistula—those four great rivers rising
within its circumference among the gorges of the
Karpaths.

Marvellous as the accumulation of dominions,
population, strength, wealth, and importance was
around the germinant archduchy of Austria, the ad-

vancement of the kingdom of Prussia from the
nucleus of the little duchy of Brandenburg is
scarcely less worthy of remembrance. Regarding
either the inconsiderable track of land known as the
Duchy of Brardenburg, or that situated between the
deltas of the Niemen and the Vistula, with Konigs-
berg as its metropolis—regarding, we say, either
of these spots as the germ of Prussia,
its development to its present grandeur is
something wonderful. Conquest after conquest,
treaty after treaty, has stretched the elastic line of
its frontiers until that line has embraced, besides
Brandenburg, and the principality already mentioned
in the vicinity of Dantzig—a slice of Saxony,
the whole of Lusatia, a part of Silesia, the prolonged
coasts of Pomerania, and those portions of Poland
called the duchy of Posen, and a few contiguous
palatinates. Like its superior accomplice in spolia-
tion, Prussia has so far thriven upon the plunder of
its neighbours that in 1831 it enclosed an area of
107,842 square miles, with a population amounting
to upwards of 14,361,500 souls. Still, it must not be
forgotten that Prussia has a superior in infamy in the
dismemberment of Poland—its own accession of ter-
ritory in Posen consisting, upon a broad calculation,
of 11,401 square miles, and 1,190,970 inhabitants.
Russia, on the other hand, with a gross dominion
2,045,000 square miles in dimensions, and with more
than 49,000,000 as its population, has secured to her
imperial master nearly 13,000,000 additional slaves
by the annexation of Lithuania an(', its surrounding
provinces.

Such has been the distribution of the booty of the
crowned robbers of Europe; suc'n has been the ruth-
less plan in accordance with which the limbs of Poland
have been hewn asunder by the sword of Absolutism ;
such was the most gigantic crime of the eighteenth
century, a crime which has made patriotism weep
blood in the streets of Warsaw, and upon the battle-
ments of Cracow—a crime which has evoked this
burning apostrophe from the soul of BYRON—that
BYRON who died in striving to become the Liberator
of Greece !

“ Poland ! o'er which the avenging angel past,
But left thee as he found thee, still a waste,
Forgetting all thy still enduring clhim,
Thy lotted people and extinguished name,
Thy sigh for freedom, thy long-fltiwing tear,
That sound that crashes in the tyrant's ear—
Kosciusko !”
The apostrophe had allusion to NAPOLEON, but the
poet was not sufficiently inspired by the Pythonic
spirit to recognise in .NAPOLEON the Precursor of an
Age of Retribution. Already that retribution has
descended upon Prussia through Posen and Neuf-
chatel. Already it is descending upon Austria,
through Hungary, Bohemia, Venice, Lombardy, and
Gallicia. The heterogeneous mass of Wallachians,
Jews, Magyars, Italians, Poles, and Germans, which
had been frozen into a temporary cohesion by the
despotism of Vienna, is beginning to fall asunder
now that its constituent parts are bested by the
ideas of Liberalism. In this Poland may recognise
the end of her evil doom, and the signal for the resur-
rection of her nationality. God lie with her, and the
memory of Kosclusao

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the sth instant have arrived.
The arrival of the Duke and Duchess of MONT.
PENSIER at St. Sebastian is officially announced,
and they were expected to arrive in Madrid on the
6th. The royal palace of Aranjuez has been prepared
for their reception.
Apprehensions were entertained of a serious out-
break in Catalonia.
It is -.aid that the Finance Minister contemplates
a law fur the sale of certain " national properties"
which hitherto had not been comprised in the cate-
gory of alienable effects.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL s.—The Three per Cents.
221; Five per Cents., 131. Exchange on London,
42 20.

preparing the weapons of retribution
Poland is now
Kits spoliation. However long
who participatedv
sgainst those threeinuilty and unprincipled powers
the buried glories of the
between the present moment and
he day
ever remote may be the hour
and of SOBIESKI—how
nay be
wthrinihn tearhaalli
avenge
imperial robbers of the north
;n which the fate of the
t a now we may recognise
that day is doomed. Even is approaching—
itiall be censurnmated—that t
he appearance of the precursors
supremacy.
that era of regal expiation and popular
already hp'
the sword of the Lithuanian NEMESIS.n
genius
of
houorf that august era—
pelvis over the AUTOCRAT—the avenging
Ualicia is already rising
Posen has'
confines of Austria-Proper—the might of
only
been already testified upon the frontiers, and not 1.,
from its graveg upon the
ipon the frontiers, but within the capital, and under
the palace walls of Prussia. At the moment
when the Ilt..rliners proved triumphant against the
defenders of the unpopular institutions of their
fAtherland the hour struck in the municipal hall cf
Posna—the hour for
Duchy and its capital the liberation of the Grand
When again the Viennese
iubverted the colossal but
dilapidated power of MET-
and Jaroslaw—that tocsTERNIca, the tocsin rang from the turrets of Lemberg
which proclaimed to the
Galicians the resurrection
of their nationality. We

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA 1 EVENING,APRI.L 12, 1848.

strictest economy in everything ; preference in giving
public functions to men of capacity and irreproachable
conduct, and to those who have made sacrifices to the
country, or rendered services during the struggle ; re-
compense to the faithful and loyal employes of the state ;
and the dismissal and prosecution of all win) have abused
and violated the duties of their funetiorm We hope
chk.t. invested with the confidence of the King. and with
your uniuu and your co-operation, we shall attain tn,
object of consolidating the constitution, the rigorous
and just application of which promises us national
prosperity."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel gives the following curious
statistics of the late revolution :
" During the days of the 23d and 24th of February,
1,512 barricades were erected in Paris. Each barricade
r. quired on an average 845 paving stones, so that the
people in a few hours must have torn up 1,277,640
paving stones. There were also 4,013 trees, some of
them of very large size, cut down; 3,704 lamp-posts
broken down, and between 3,000 and 4,000 lamps
broken; 53 guardhouses were burnt or torn down, and
about 603 watchboxes and small wooden bureaux de
stroyed. In this calculation no mention is made of the
iron railings which were torn down at the Bourse, and
many of the churches and other public buildings."
In the same journal we find the following on the
alleged intention of the Provisional Government to
take the railways under their own management :
"There must be certainly some urgent and powerful
reasons of public utility to justify such an exorbitant
proceeding. 'Eno motive alleged is that there are im-
mense numbers of the working classes without employ.
ment, and the lines of railway would open a vast field for
their labour. The companies are suffering from the
present crisis, and cannot afford to give employment,
and the Government will take upon itself to do so.
These motives are very praiseworthy it they are well
founded, but let us examine whether such is the case or
not.
of
it is impossible that lines which
and working can give any increase
o
now occupy all that they requir, ,
are
employment. a l
r Ie n a
dt h
ye c f 0
1 rna t
p e
T place,hteThey now
y
and pay a considerable sum every day in wages, and the
Government could do no more, The greatest service which
the Government can render to these lines is to labour to
restore security and confidence, and thus increase the
traffic both of passengers and merchandise. We have
already pointed out the real situation of the Orleans
Railway.; and, if we are rightly informed, the state of
the Northern line is as follows:—The Northern line has
about 24,000 shareholders. The company is busily oc-
cupied with the branch lines to Dunkirk, Calais, and
Saint Quentin, so as to be able to open them to the
public in the shortest possible time; 60,000 f. are every
day expended in wages. The principle of association,
as established by the Orleans Company, is about to be
put in practice on the Northern line. The system is to
be organized in such a way that the employes may partake
in the profits. It is true that the Northern line has to
pay to the State, cn the 15th of this month, the sum of
18,000,000 f., which it will not be able to do. But the
company bring forward in their defence the plea of force
majeure, which is provided for by the law. Moreover, it
must be remembered, that this inability of the company
to make the payment is caused precisely by the threat of
i
expropriation which hangs over t, and which prevents
the shareholders, who feel great uneasiness as to the future
fate of their property, pay ing up their calls. Under nll
circumstances, it is very evident that the expropriation
of the line will not add one workman the more
to the numbers employed by the Northern Company
and those other companies whose lines are now at work.
We now come to the unfinished lines. The Lyons one,
in the first place, which having invested 22,000,000 f. in
Rentes, cannot realise them without immense loss, and
appears to hesitate as to continuing the works. The
Lyons Company, however, must comprehend that it has
duties to fulfil ; it would not, probably, cost them much
sacrifice to complete the line from Paris to Montereau,
and commence its working. Let them, moreover, come
to some arrangement with the Government to execute
that part of the line between Chalons and Lyons, if that
be necessary. The Government has no necessity to
adopt the system of expropriation in order to procure
work. The Lyons and Avignon Company have de•
nianded to be released from their engagements, and have
forfeited the 11,000,000 f. caution money lodged with
the Goverment. The Cette Company has done the
same. On the Strasbourg, the Tours and Nante,
and on the Bordeaux lines the State might execute the
embankments and the works of art. What, then, pre-
vents them from setting a mass of workmen on those
different points? What will they benefit by adopting
expropriation ? Absolutely nothing. By this plain
examination of facts the alleged motive for the measure
falls to the ground. 'The shareholders will be dis-
possessed of their property, without any benefit to the
working classes. The decision of the Government can
have but one effect, and that we cannot believe the
Government to have any intention of producing. It
would be a first attack on property ; a first menace
directed against all great undertakings ; a first encou-
ragement given to communist ideas. We know that
respect for property is expressed by the members of the
Provisional Government, and that the honourable men
who are at the head of the departments of finance and
public works have no penchant for the communist
system. We are, therefore, tar from questioning their
intentions or their doctrines; we merely point out to
them the disastrous character which is attached to the
act in contemplation."
M. DE LAMARTINE has received a commuication

from the Charge d'Affaires of Baden, announcing
that if the German workmen, anxiou4 to return from
France, present themselvin on the frontier, singly or
in small companies, measures will be taken for facili-

testing ,heir journey across the territory.
The Reforme announces that a meeting of the
Polish proprietors in the Duchy of Posen have con-
voked an Assembly at Culm, for the sth, to de-
mand the re-establishment of Poland within the

boundaries of 1772. Upon the same day there will
be held a German Assembly, with the view of bring-
ing about a reconciliation.
M. MICHEL CHEVALIER, who with some other
Professors of the College of France has been deprived
of his chair (political economy) in the College of
France, on the ground that he held another office, the
same motive being assigned for the dismissal of some
of his colleagues in the College, has addressed a letter
to the Debats, in which he states that he had at first
supposed he was dismissed on account of the opposi-
tion which he has manifested to the theories of M.

LOUIS BLANC on the organization of labour, and that
he can scarcely credit the statemant assigned for his
removal, viz., that he is an engineer in chief of mines,
the salary of which, he says, is only 1,500 f. He de-
clares, however, that his regret at the change which
has taken place does not proceed from personal con-
siderations, but from the fact of the chair of political
economy being suppressed without being replaced by
any of the new professorships which have just been
created.

The most exaggerated rumours as to the "English
Revolution" prevailed in Paris on Tuesday. The
newsvenders were crying in every street in Paris,
"English Revolution"—" Flight of Queen VICTORIA':
—" London in flames"—'eCollision with the military.'
The disappointment of these gabes•mouches, on
learning the real state of affairs, must have been
highly amusing to the spectators:
The Minister of Finance has sent an official com--

munication to the syndic of the agens de change, to in-
form that body that there is no truth in the report of
the Government of France intending to take the Bank of

France into its own hads ; but that it is true that it
intends to suppress all the Departmental Banks, and

to substitute branches of the Bank of France in their

stead, and also to make the note 3 of the Bank of

Franca a legal tender throughout the Republic.
Serious di,turbances have br( ken out at Havre.
BOURSE-PARIS, TIJESDA.Y, APRIL 11.
THREE O'CLOCIL-The intelligence of the Chartist
meeting at London having passed off without disturb-
ance, was received at the Bourse with great surprise by
some, and by absolute disbelief by others. The more
reasonable parties, on the contrary, were loud in ex.
pressing their satisfaction. The French Funds were at
first exceedingly firm, but towards the close of the day
they gave way, closing, however, higher than the day
before. The Three per Cents. opened at 431., went up
to 451., and after touching 41f. 50c., closed at 41f. 75c.,
being an advance of 25c.; the Fives, which were firmer,
opened at 60f., went up to 631., and then closed at 61f.,
being 31. higher. Bank of France Shares were much
firmer, from the Provisional Government having sent
notice to the syndicate of the ayens de change that it does
not intend doing away with the Bank of France, al-
though only one kind of note is to be in circulation
throughout the kingdom. The shares closed at 1,0751.,
being an advance ct 115 f. Obligations de la Ville are
351. better, closing at 9001.; Belgian Fives (1840) 11.,
at 57f.; and Roman lif., at 51k1.; Rothschild's Neapo-
litan was done at 50f. 50c.; Bons du Tresor nominally
at 43 per cent. loss, but in reality nothing whatever is
done in them. Railway Shares are all better, though
not to any extent; Marseilles have risen 10f., closing at
1201. ; Versailles (Left Bank), 7f. 50c. at 95f.; ditto
(Right Bank), sf, at 951.; Vierzon, sf. at 2151.; Or-
leans, sf. at 425 f.; Bordeaux and Northern, If. 25c.
each, at 391 f. 25c., and 3171. 50c.; Strasburg and Nantez
are unaltered at 3381. 75c. and 332 f. 50c. Lyons have
BLT_SoIuN
fallen closing at 300 f. The suspension of payments
o.f the banking house of Thurneyssen and Co., did not
6.71 to excite ranch attention. French gold is lower, at
.• change for the 1,0001. note from 12f. to 151.; and
LE&DOONNESTIONC
the sovereign worth 251. 75c.
FKOERXECIGHNANRGAEIT:WAPALSIALT THE
Boulogne and Amiens, 55' -Namur and Liege, PA-Paris
and Lyons, 2-Sambre and Meuse, 41z.

AN
"OPENING" FOR GEOLOGISTS.—About 1,000
cubic yards of Copt Point have fallen since Wednesday,
and the beach now affords geologists, &c., an opportunity
of getting
has fallen.—Maidytons Gazette.
some fine specimens from the gault clay which

tains the following comment on the manifesto re-
cently issued by the EsirEnoß :
" Nothing could be further from the idea of the Go-
vernment, tut in presence cf the excitations directed
from abroad against ourselves, it was only natural that
he Emperor should make appeal to the national senti
It is not in France alone that the Polish emigre-
ti n i d au'For tie=, but in Hungaryland in
Prussia corporations, representative assemblies, even
semi-official journals, have re-echoed hostile cries against
Russia. it has been made a crime against Governments
overthrown or modified by inieutes, ;that they enter
tained friendly relations with our Cabinet. As soon
as the French Republic was. proclaimed it was gra-
tuitously assumed that we entertained aggressive de-
signs Our alliance was baugh i'y repudiated, even before
inquiry was made whether it suited our views to sacri-
fice our blood for the sake of foreign interests. Sur.
prise is the only feeling excited in us by such
uncalled•for manifestations, for we have yet to learn,
fe.w in our time the rights or independence of Germany
have been infringed upon, or in any way molested by
Russia. The history of 1812 is there to show the world
from which side aggression came. It will tell whether
our alliance profited or injured the German people
Let the troubled spirits be calm ; Russia has no more
the intention to meddle with Germany than with France,
in so far as internal changes of Government are con
eerned ; she meditates no aggression ; she desires peace,
she wants peace, for the sake of the development of her
own internal prosperity. Let the people if the west
run as much as they like after social happiness, make
what revolutions they please in its pursuit, and choose
what form of government they think proper. If they
end amelioration even in the bosom of anarchy and
disorder, she will not envy their happiness. As for
herself, it is to time and the enlightened solicitude of her
Sovereigns that she looks for progress. Stability is in
her eyes the most indispensable of wants, without which
no form of government can be of advantage, and the best
forms of government are not free from the miseries at-
tending human society; without stability there can be
neither political power abroad, nor credit, commerce,
industry, or national wealth at home. Russia will cling
to this precious stability; she will suffer no foreign
propaganda to stir up the fire of sedition, under the
pretext of reviving extinguished nationalities, and by
such means detaching any portion of her empire. It war
should come out of all these troubles and changes, Russia
will coolly meditate how far it may suit her to intervene
in the quarrels of other states. Only she will not shut
out of view the territorial boundaries and the possessions
for the maintenance of which she has given tier
guarantee, and she is determined not to suffer that there
shall be any nr.dification of political or territorial equi-
librium in such wise as to do her prejudice. 'Until thee
she will observe a strictly inoffensive but vigilant neu
frailty. She will not attack unless attacked; she will
scrupulously respect the independence of her neigh-
bours, if her neighbours equally respect her own integrity
and independence."

The Berlin achnchlen conta!ns intelligence from
St. Petersburgh, dated March 28, which states that
the EMPEROR, in consequence of information received
during the course of the week from Berlin and Vi-
enna, has commanded the total cessation of all prepa-
tions for war. 25,000,000 of rubles had been appro-
priated for the outfit of the army, and a part of the
fleet had already received orders to cruise along the
coasts of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

ITALY.

LOMBARDY AND PIEDMONT.

General RADETZKY arrived at Mantua on the 30th
March with 10,000 men. He occupies the line of
the Mincio between Peshiera and Mantua. General
ASPRE is at Verona, having his advanced posts at St.
Michel and St. Martin. It is reckoned that these
Generals have under their united orders 30,000
troops. The line of the Issonzo, on which the Aus•
trimls possess the fortress of Gradisca, is menaced by
General NUGENT, with a force collected in Istria and
in Trieste.

The Piedmontese Gazette contains the following
official information from Milan, dated the 6th. The
legion under the command of MANARA drove back
1,500 Crotians from Salo on the 2d, who wanted to
open for themselves a passage by the Valsabbian.
The Austrians evacuated Montechiara, Caleinatea,
and Lonato on the night of the 4th, and took the
roads of Mantua and Verona. The Piedmontese are
advancing towards the latter city. General BESI
has occupied Monteehiaro. A proclamation of General
RADETZLT declares Verona in a state of siege. Ve-
rona is said to be garrisoned by 11,000 men. The
Sardinian army aas to pass the Oglio on the sth ;
its head quarters will be at Pozzolo, and the first
corps at Marcaria. The Austrians leave all their
positions, and cross the Mincio. General Zuccar, at
the head of the Venetian column, has surprised Pal-
manova, a fortress of some importance. The Aus-
trian Generals GIULAY and NUGENT have assembled
five regiments to retake it, if possible.
" The Gazette du Midi, a Marseilles paper, announces,
according to a letter from Verona, that the Piedmontese
and Austrians had met near that town, that a sanguinary
action had ensued, and that the victory remained with
the Austrians. The Piedmontese were said to have lost
6,000 men.

On the other hand, the Liierte, a paper published
at Lyons, inform us that 10,000 Piedmontese, under
the command of Charles Albert, had routed 15,000 Aus-
trians at Lodi; 5,000 of them were taken prisoners.
The probability it. that both accounts are fabri-
cations.