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portance, and of such European celebrity, that they
are described even by the magniloquent gentleman
of the Nation newspaper as "a certain Irish Club in
Paris." A certain Irish Club in Paris! Wonderful
source of inspiration—a concourse of mauvais sujets
in some obscure parlour—the Delphic oracle of in-
subordination—the Eleusis of bloodshed ! While
LAMARTINE, the voice, the soul, the genius, and the
orator of French democracy, is enunciating before the
population of the whole hemisphere the determination
of Republican France to preserve a rigid neutrality
in reference to the internal dissensions of the United
Kingdom—a certain Irish Club in Paris, the creme
de la creme of the brawlers of that metro-
polis, encourages Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN
to the conviction that 50,000 valuable citizens
will proceed from that country, immediately they
may be summoned thence by some imminent catas-
trophe,
to the assistance of the marauding demagogues
of Ireland. No credit whatever is attached to the
declaration of LAMARTINE, and an implicit reliance is
placed in the insinuations lot " a certain. Irish Club in
Paris !" Vive la bagatelle 1 When, moreover, the
gaping audience in the music hall welcome these
sage assurances by long and vociferous acclamations,
Mr. DUFFY caps the cheering with this magnificent
Hibernian hyperbole. "I hear," says he, "in
that shout the tocsin of a new nationality !" In a
kindred spirit, the illustrious Mr. MrrcaEn, the
genius of the United Irishman—that compromise be-
tween L'ami du peuple and the Pere Duchesne—
cautions the populace from being cajoled into the
purchase of cheap Birmingham guns. " They are
worse than nothing," said he, in the tone of a con-
noiseur, in such articles—" a good stick is a thousand
times better." In short, if we were to regard the
" spouters" of the Confederation as the real mouth-
pieces of the public opinion of Ireland, we should cer-
tainly regard that island as overshadowed by the
spectre of OLD \YELLER. " SemmlvEL," said that
renowned man upon a memorable occasion, speaking
at once from a recollection of the potations of Mr.
STIGGINS and from the sepulchral depths of his waistcoat,
" Samativisn—l'll keep a piker The Young Irelanders
appear to have selected that announcement as their
watchword—"SamaivEn, I'll keep a pike." Mr. JOHN
MITCHEL indeed evinces such an extraordinary affec-
tion for pikes (of a certain kind) that he actually
apostrophizes as a true patriot a man named AHEARN,
because, forsooth, he has defied the authorities of
Limerick to prevent his selling pikes as useful pieces
of ironmongery. As far as the insurgent Dablinites
are concerned, the cry of Ireland is "A bas Washing-
ton ! A bas Rienzi! A bas Verginaud! A bas O'Con-
nell! Vive Ahearn, the pike-seller ! Vive Smith
O'Brien, the toast-eater ! Vive Mitchel," or anybody
else, who will talk treason and fan the flames
of insurrection with the foolscap of unprincipled
journalism! As well, say we, condense all this cla-
mour into five syllables—" Vice la bagatelle r
While the sedition-mongers are prospering to a
certain degree in some of the purlieus of Dublin, an
attempt is being made to agitate, to an unnecessary
extent, the public mind in our own vast and peaceful
metropolis. A grand demonstration was preparing
in favour of the Charter for Monday next, the 10th
instant, upon the morning of which day a procession
of great magnitude was to proceed from Kennington-
common to Westminster, for the purpose of present-
ing a petition to the Commons House of Parliament.
Last evening that procession was prohibited. A Go-
vernment Proclamation, signed by the Commissioners
of the Police of the metropolis, announced to the
people that the intended movement is in direct viola-
tion of an Act of Parliament, passed during the reign
of his late Majesty, King CHARLES 11., an Act
which forbids, under heavy and formidable penalties,
the presentation of petitions by " excessive numbers
of people." Before, therefore, the Kennington de-
monstration can be made with legality, that obstruc-
tive Act must be ahrogited. There can be no
doubt whatever that there are heavy grievances
pressing upon the population, grievances which re-
quire an immediate removal, and for the ex-
pediency of which removal peaceful demonstra-
tions like the one projected for Monday,
would be eminently justifiable—supposing, in the
first instance, of course, that these demonstrations
were rendered legal. As matters stand, however,
at the present moment, there can be not one moment's
hesitation as to the course to be adopted by the
SOVEREIGN, by the Government, by the Parliament,
and by the PEOPLE. Let the QUEEN, the Ministry,
the Legislature, and the Nation be but true to them-
selves, true to the incitements of their intelligence
and to the dictates of their patriotism, and the boastful
prediction of the eloquent Paymaster of her Majesty's
Forces, will be fulfilled—" Amidst the commotions
which everywhere surround us—amidst the crash of
foreign thrones—the Constitution of England will
remain immovable on its basis."

The Emperor of AUSTRIA is playing a double part.
He is attempting at one and the same time to wield
the sceptre of a constitutional sovereign and the
sword of an aggressive usurper. This is sufficiently
attested by the totally opposite lines of policy which
he is simultaneously pursuing towards his hereditary
and his conquered dominions—Austria Proper and
Austrian Italy. His recent proclamation to the
former breathes a spirit of conciliation and concession,
and is on the whole a document not unworthy of a

liberal and constitutional king; towards the latter
his recent proceedings are written in letters of blood,
and are not unworthy of the most ruthless captains
of the sanguinary ages of uncivilization. That the
EMPEROR'S recent address to his hereditary dominions
is characterised by a conciliatory spirit is amply
demonstrated by the following passages. After pro-
claiming his earnest wish to maintain a general peace,
for the preservation of which some "indispensable
requisitions" must be maintained upon the frontiers,
he preceeds :
" In regard to the measures which these requisitions
may necessarily call for, we shall turn to our faithful
'lutes for their co-operation; and while we acknowledgr
the right of those states to concert with us respecting
the br st method by which these requisitions can be car-
ried into ettect with tie least passible detriment to the
wfeal 01 our country, we promise to lay before them an
exactacc,,unt of the state of thing,, by submitting to
qudi Jteesoduarctaes
wolhetrheue
pSontatteh,
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a.„ them candid explanations rasp cting the requirements
lutions" riloufrninudtshhelrtheresroe:

There is assuredly little of the despotic EmyErtota
in this, and Still less in the following paragraph, which
concludes the address :
" Further, as in conjunction with our faithful states
we are convinced that the provincial and municipal in-
stitutions, whose maintenance and consolidation must
be the obj. et of our especial care, may be materially ad
rane(' in power, stability, and importance, by the en-
larged co-operation of our loving subjects, who have
hitherto had a very limited share in the transactions of
the Diet, we hereby recommend our faithful states to
take this subject into their immediate deliberation, and
to submit to us any propositions by which the burghers
nirty obtain a more extensive influence in the deliberations
of the states, as well as their wishes and proposals
respecting the reform and improvement of municipal
and corporate establishments. This is our Ro)at will
and pleasure, and we hereby send you our Imperial
greeting."

If this were all we found chronicled of the
recent
proceedings of FERDINAND and his employes,
might congratulate Europe on the possession of we
an-
other constitutional sovereign and the liberal crusade
on the advent of another crowned supporter. But,
unhappily, this is not all that we learn of the doings of
the Austrian EMPEROR, as the sufferings of Italy can
testify. In order to preserve his Italian conquests,
he has had recourse to the most violent and unjustifi-
able means. He has endeavoured to quench the
dawning light of independence with torrents of blood ;
he has opposed to the constitutional efforts of patriots
anxious to assert their national freedom the brute
force of a rapacious and merciless soldiery. As a
pendant to the extracts we have just taken from the
EMPEROR'S address to his hereditary subjects, here is
ahirssage from a report descriptive of the conduct of
:Idiers towards the subjects of his Italian domi-
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LONDON, VItIDAY—, APRIL 7, 1848.
Irish demagogues will nevenretgat an answer.. when-
ever that answer is in the
the
ridiculous
proof of this was afforded by one Of orators. of
rebellion upon the meeting of the Irish C deration
Just been
on Wednesday evening. Intelligenceahhdaodlnifeir'
received from the French capital,
thus mentioned the rejoinder of the Provisi:onall;NY7
nister for Foreign Affairs, to the Repeal Deputation
" The answer of LAMAaTINE had been received, and
like all state documents it meant nothing." Of itself
this evidence of self-sufficiency would be contempt-
ible, but coupled with the insane announcement of
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, it is absolutely be-
yond endurance. " I have seen enough of France,"
says that most redoubtable person, " to convince the
that she is able and willing, if invited, to send
60,000 of the most valuable citizens to sup-
port the Irish nation in a struggle." And
what, it may very naturally he asked, has
induced the Honourable and sagacious Mem-
ber for Limerick to arrive at this encouraging
conclusion after the contemptuous rebuff adminis-
tered to himself and his accomplices by Citizen
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE ? What ? Why the
delivery of an address from an anonymous body
across the Channel, who are of such 111aMellS0 1111.

THE SUN, LONDON,

recently given utterance, and what degree of sincerity
was contained in his address to the Hungarians and
his recent proclamation. The sheep's clothing was
insufficient to disguise the savage propensities
of its wearer, and neither can the concilia-
tory demeanour of a constitutional sovereign make
us unobservant of the grasping hand of the
absolutist, and the naked sword of the resolute
usurper. Towards his hereditary and his conquered
dominions the Emperor FERDINAND bears himself in
accordance to the different positions in which he
stands to each. To Austria he is learning how to
become a beneficent and liberal ruler—to Italy he is
resolved to be only a conqueror and an arbitrary
master. Hence the anomaly of his recent conduct.
Hence on the one hand he issues a liberal manifesto,
while on the other he affixes his signature to war-
rants of bloodshed and spoliation. The only remedy
for these incongruous proceedings is a simple one,
and the sooner it is adopted, for it must be adopted,
the better will it be for all parties. If to Austria
FERDINAND is become a liberal ruler, let him still be
the ruler of Austria; but if to Italy, FERDINAND is
become a tyrant and oppressor, let him give up
Italy. This is the only alternative by which the
peace and prosperity of Italy and Austria may be
ensured. If it be not forthwith adopted much
misery will for a time be the consequence, and the
end will inevitably be the same. Italy will ere long
be independent. Venice has already thrown off the
yoke, and every minor Italian - state has made some
preparatory movement indicative of its coming inde-
pendence.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The Provisional Government has published a decree
in the Montteur, appointing M. ABACI° Minister of
War.

The Moniteur also contains a decree relieving tax-
payers from the ndditional tax of 45 per cent., and
the other impositions which had been ordered to be
levied by the decree of the 16th ult.
A number of Swiss went up to the Government,
and, after expressing their sympathy and love for
France, noticed the expulsion of Swiss workmen
from the different workshops, and requested the
Government to explain to the French workmen the
injustice of their conduct. M. MARRAST, in reply,
said that the proceeding complained of was the error
of a day, caused by unenlightened distrust, some-
times by misery, and that the Government was
taking measures to prevent any violence from being
done to foreign workmen.

The elections for officers of the National Guard
have, generally speaking, terminated in favour of the
Republican candidates. The following are the results
of the elections :

In the Ist Legion M. DH TRACY carried the elec-
tion by a majority of upwards of 6,000 to 15 over M.
DE BASTILE, the Government candidate. In the
2d Legion M. C. THOMAS, one of the editors of the
National, had the majority ; but the majority not
being an absolute one, a second ballot becomes
necessary. In the
3d Legion—M. Thirion was elected.
4th Legion—M. Rammono de la Crousette.
sth Legion— M. Favrel.
7th Legion—M. Dauphin.
Bth Legion—M: Bourdon.
9th Legion—M. Yautiez.
10th Legion—Al. Hurgray.
11th Legion—M. Quinet.
12th Legion—M. Barbes.
13th Legion (Cavalry)—M. Trelat.

In the 2d and 6th Legions the final ballot is yet to
take place. In general these elections are in favour
of the Republican candidates, but the opposition to
them was much more formidable than was antici-
pated.
The remaining elections for the colonelcies of the
National Guards have closed in favour of the Re-
publican party.
Paris was quite quiet, and the last accounts from
Lyons announce the complete restoration of tran-
quillity in that city.
The Constitutionnel says that it was by mistake that
the Gazette du Midi announced the retirement of M.
TRIERS from the contest for the department of the
Bouches du Rhine. M. THIERS, it says, adheres to
the terms of his circular, and is ready to accept
of the seat of deputy, if offered to him, " as a duty
the accomplishment of which no good citizen can
refuse."

• The Count DB MONTALEULIERT, having been in-
vited by several departments to come forward as a
candidate fur a seat in the National Assembly, has
issued an address to the electors of the different de-
partments. He candidly admits that he was a sin-
cere admirer of the monarchical form of government,
but he adds—

" I have always- placed national sovereignty in the
first rank of my political dogmas. I recognised its right
in the Charter of 1830. I neither can nor will dispute
its work in the Republic of 1848. I believed in consti-
tutional royalty with sincere and completely disinteres-
ted faith. I still believe that representative government
has given to the country thirty-four years of peace, of
prosperity, and of liberty, incomplete, it is true, but un-
equalled in our history. However, God has abandoned
it, and France has not defended it. I submit mySelf to
the judgment of France arid God, in order only to re-
member my duty towards the country and truth."
In conclusion, M. DE MONTALEMBERT says—
"l have passed eighteen years under a monarchy in
saying that I believed in the truth above all and for all.
I hope to do the same under the Republic. If the Re-
public, in improving the lot of workmen, guarantees, like
that of the United States, the supreme benefit to reli-
gion, property, and family, it will not have a more sin-
cere partisan, a more devoted son than I am. If, on the
contrary, it follows the trace of its predecessors, if it
proceeds by the way of exclusion, of suspicion, of perse-
cution, if it does not shrink from violence and confisca-
tion, then it may have me for adversary or victim, but
never for an instruutent or accomplice."

The Lyons papers contradict the account of the
revolution in Savoy, and the proclamation of the Re-
public at Chamberry.
The tbllowing communication respecting the se-
questration of the Orleans and Vierzon Railway has
been sent to the Paris journals :
The Boards of Directors of the Orleans and Vierzon
Railway Companies met to-day, April 5, extraordina-
rily, to deliberate on the situation in which these com-
panies are thrown by the decree of the preceding day
placing the two lines under sequestration. They have
decided—first, that the shareholders shall be convoked
to a general meeting within the delay prescribed by the
statutes, viz., for the Orleans Company April 27, and
for the Vierzon Company the next day, the 28th. Se-
conaly, that the removal of the sequestration within the
shorte,t possible delay shall be forthwith most energeti-
cally demanded from the Provisional Government.
Thirdly, that during the whole period of the sequestra.
non every measure shall be taken by the two boards to
preserve intact the rights of the shareholders and such
third parties as may be interested in the matter.
"A. BANES,
"Director of the Orleans and Vierzon Companies."

FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1848.

dertake the work at a lower price, and that they
should reduce the number of their apprentices. They
also require that the income arising from the house
belonging to the guild, situated in the Juden Platz,
should be duly accounted for.