The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-18 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1848,

presentative rights should not be tampered
with. And hence it is, also, that the most ardent
lover of liberty and upholder of popular rights who
may exist within these kingdoms need experience
no envy or jealousy of the French. Ile has no
cause to look enviously on the present constitution—
he has no cause to listen jealously to their exulting
shouts of " Liberty." Because, if his sentiment be
true and honest—if his aspirations after popular
liberty be hearty and sincere—he must admit that
" national sovereignty," the great, the only, desidera-
tum of the true patriot and philanthropist, is legally
admitted and theoretically established by the
British Constitution. It is better demonstrated
in theory than carried out in practice, we
admit. Our object should be to reduce the
theory into practice. There exists in England
no necessity for a revolution, no need to set aside
the laws. What we require, cn the contrary, is the
enforcement of the laws, and the reformation of illegal
abuses. We, like the French, require a free exercise of
the elective franthise, and an absence of all inter-
ference in elections, whether direct or indirect. We,
like the French, require some efficient preservation
against that worst of all corruptions—the corruption
of intimidation, and moral oppression of conscience.
When we listen to reports of daily recurrence telling
how in one place 4751. was given for one vote, and
how in another tenants are ejected for exercising
their prerogative, we are fain to acknowledge that,
although the national sovereignty may be fairly
admitted in theory, it is most iniquitously
set aside in practice. By an unintentional
and purely accidental coincidence, the important
subject of elections has this week particularly oceu•
pied public attention both in England and in France.
In the House of Commons Committees of Inquiry
have deliberated on the matter, and petitions from
constituencies have been presented, praying for yet
further investigation. In France the people have on
this matter refused to submit to the interference even
of their recently established popular rulers. And
those rulers have applauded such refusal, more by
the discourse of LAMARTINE, to which we have just
alluded, and also by a' recently published proclama-
tion of the entire Government, to which we shall
take another opportunity of referring. The conclu-
sion to be deduced from these simultaneous move-
ments is inevitable. The people of England and
Franco have both become aware that a free exercise
of the elective franchise is the only true way of exer-
cising their undoubted rights. " The battle of the
constitution must be fought in the Registration
Courts," said Sir K. PEEL some time ago. We may
go a step further now, and declare that the national
sovereignty can only be rightfully exercised in the
polling-booth.

A letter from Amsterdam, dated Wednesday
night, says that the Dutch Ministry have resigned in
a body. This is considered as vary favourable to the
Liberal cause.

A German journal, the Oberland Bole, which we
have this moment received, contains the following :
" llungary has declared its independence of Aus-
tria, and has proclaimed a republic."
A new change of Ministry took place on the 13th
instant at Munich. The Prince of OETTINGNN
WALLEASTMN has resigned. M. VON VERGhIt, Ba-
varian Minister in Switzerland, has become Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and M. VON I.3msnatt, Minister
of Justice, is to be replaced by M. WlLLicu, a
Deputy.
The resignation of the Prince WALLERBTEIN
had produced a very bad impression on the public
mind.

The Allgerneine Zeitung contains the following
semi• official statement :—" We inserted the other day
a paragraph, to the effect that Bavaria had recog-
nised the French Republic. His Majesty the KING
wishes peace with France, without regard to its
form of government ; if, however, it should take an
aggressive or encroaching position towards Germany,
Bavaria, true to her duties, will shed the last drop
of her blood for the independence and integrity of
Germany."

The insurrection of the peasants in Wurtemburg
continues, and is spreading. Troops of peasants are
wandering about singing republican songs. At
Bockelheim (between Meisenheim and Kreuznach)
a tree of liberty has been erected. At Kreuznach,
" Viva Ia I“publique " is written on the walls of
the houses. At Meisenheim (in Hesse-Homburg) a
large body of peasants proceeded to the mayor of
the district, and fixed a certain period for him to
abolish the taxes on new wine, on salt, and turn-
pikes. At Rothenbuch (near Aschaffenburgh) the
people broke into the gunsmiths' shops, and took
away all the arms and powder they could find, and
continued firing and shouting all the night, without
however doing bodily harm to any one. An estafette
arrived at Aschaffenburg on the Bth, from the Prince
of LEININGEN, from Armorbach, demanding military
for his protection. Serious disturbances hare taken
place at Miltenberg; the movement has also spread
to Bavaria.

A letter, dated Heillbronn, Dth March, says—"ln
consequence of the disturbanees in the possessions of
the Hohenlohes, many of the nobles have taken to
flight. 'We have also received accounts of serious
disturbances in Baden, where the peasants have risen
spinst the nobles."
‘II, letter from Mannheim, of the 10th, says that
tee companies of infantry and a squadron of cavalry
left on that day for the Odenwald, where serious riots
had occurred.
In the Grand Deehy of Baden the old feeling of
hatred against the members of the Jewish confession
has revived, and many of them have been cruelly ill-
treated.

The Prussian Universal Gazette, of the 15th of
March, publishes a royal ordonnance convoking the
Diet for the 27th of April next.
The following proclamation, exhorting the citizens
to refrain from further disturbances, had been issued
by the Burgomaster and Senate of Berlin :
" The excited spirit in the countries around has like-
wise agitated the minds of men in our city, and has en-
gendered desires of reform in our burghers. We, in
conjunctiL n with the civic authorities, have laid these
wishes at the foot of the throne.

"Fellow-citiaens and inhabitants of Berlin,—We well
know the heart and inclination of our King. They
have been incessantly directed to the welfare of our
country, and to the political development of our father-
land, and only a few days since we have received the
greatest pledges of his confidence in his people ; there-
fore let us not depart from the paths of the law and
of order. Lot us refrain from every step which is
capable of misinterpretation, or might tend to the in-
crease of excitement and to the disturbance of order ;
and let us now, as always, trust to the paternal wisdom
of our King.
" We lament, in common with all right-minded bur-
ghers and inhabitants of our city, that the disorders
which took place last night compelled the interference of
the armed force for the maintenance of legal order. On
this account we cannot but wish that each of us, and all
who have any persons under their control, should stand
aloof from every participation in tumultuous assemblies,
which are not requisite for the attainment of our wishes,
and cannot promote them; while, on the contrary, they
expose our families to the greatest danger.
"The Chief Burgomaster and Senate of our Royal city.
" Berlin, March 14."
The following flying sheet has been extensively cir-
culated in Prussia :

tories. Is she to end by tratnpling into annihilation the,
as yet, scarcely blossoming germ of our national exist-
ence? Is she onco more to render Germany's struggles
for freedom the laughing-stock of the world, and for
ever to exclude us from the councils of civilized and en-
nobled nations? _

" These are no dreams, no spectres conjured up by the
imagination ! All will assume the face of frightful fact
the moment that the counsels of the northern autocrat
shall engross the ears of our King, and so reader him
deaf to the voice of his people.
"We therefore lift up this voice aloud, while it is yet
time, and before it is drowned in the torrent of rapidly
succeeding events. With manly courage we proclaim
that we will not war against honour, interest, and free.
dom; that we know our enemies, and that they shall not
find us unprepared. We are for King and fatherland
the same us ever; but we will contend as men, and no
longer as serfs. The arras of the nation are in the
hands of the people, and the people will net, in alliance
with barbarians, turn them against their own bosoms."

According to the Lega Italiana, the King of
NAPLES has consented to the separation of Sicily, aad
has appointed as Viceroy Admiral RUGGIERO SET-
TIIIO, the President of the Provisional Government.
At Rome it was expected that the constitution
would be proclaimed on the 11th.
A league, offensive and defensive, is spoken of be-
tween the POPE, the King of SARDINIA, and the
Grand Duke of TUSCANY,
The following circular has been sent to the censors
by the Tuscan Government :

" After the serious events of Paris, where it appears
that republican tendencies have taken the upper hand,
it is of the highest interest to the security of our state,
that such tendencies be prevented from spreading
amongst us. The Government, determined as it is to
proceed with those reasonable and moderate reforms
which it has begun, and which aro the only ones
that it is possible to realise with the certainty of true
and permanent prosperity, is also resolved to
use all its power in repressing any exaggerated and
highly pernicious opinions subversive of the present
order of things, in the above-mentioned sense, which the
illusions or the evil intentions of a few would insinuate
among the public. It is, therefore, my duty to inform
you, sir, that it is the firm intention of the Government
that no writings tending to foment, either directly or
indirectly, the spirit of Republicanism, will be allowed to
appear in print, and more particularly is periodicals.
You are, therefore, expressly instructed to give the most
precise and energetic directions to the censors attached
to the office over which you preside, that the reasonable
views of the Government be scrupulously, and at every
cost, promoted by the rejection of such writings as may
be more or less hostile to the principles and the funda-
mental forms of the state, and whiob, therefore, fall
under the express censure of Art. 18 of the law of May
6, 1847. You will also remind the censors of their duty
to make known the writings they have rejected, and
enjoin them to give information to Government by your
means of any infraction of the law which may have taken
place, as soon as it comes to their knowledge."

Madrid papers of the 11th have arrived. They
bring no news.
MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 11.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 25i at 50 days; the Five per Cents. at
14} for paper ; the Debt without Interest at 6 ; and
the Coupons at 10.

CESSATION OF DIPLOMATIC RE-
LATIONS BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND
FRANCE.
A telegraphic dispatch, received at the South-
Eastern Railway Station, announces that Austria has
renounced alladiplomatic relations with France,
without, however, declaring war.

ACCOUCHEMENT
OF

HER MAJESTY.

BIRTH OF A PRINCESS.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Maacu 18, 1348.
This morning, at eight o'clock, the Queen was
safely delivered of a Princess.
In the room with her Majesty wore his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilly,
the monthly nurse ; and in the rooms adjoining were
the other medical attendants, Sir James Clark and
Dr. Ferguson, and also her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen,
and the Ministers and Officers of State summoned on
the occasion.

The Priry Councillors present were Sir George
Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department ;
Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer;
the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief; the
Earl Spencer, Lord Chamberlain; the Duke of Nor-
folk, Master of the Horse; the Earl of Auckland,
First Lord of the Admiralty ; Lord Campbell, Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Earl Grey, Secre
tary of State for the Colonies ; Mr. Labouchere,
President of the Board of Trade; and Earl For-
tescue, Lord Steward.

RUMOURED VACALECT IN THE COURT OF ALDUS-
MEN.—WO understand that it is more than probable
that a vacancy will shortly occur in the Court of
Aldermen, one of the body having, it is said, ex-
pressed his intention to retire into private life. We
trust that the Liverymen of the ward about to be
vacated may make good use of the opportunity thus
afforded, and select a gentleman whose previous con-
duct has been such as to afford the best guarantee for
the efficient discharge of the important duties of that
station which, in all probability-, eventually leads to
the election of the party to the highest civic office—
that of Chief Magistrate of„ this great metropolis.
Many qualifications are to be sought for before the
candidate is finally chosen. lie should be of ap-
proved liberality, and closely connected with the
interests he may be called upon to represent. It
would also be desirable that he should be a Member
of the Imperial Parliament, in order that he might
have the fullest opportunity of advocating in the
Legislature the general welfare of the City. Such a
Person is to be found in Mr. J. Williams, Member
for Macclesfield, a gentleman who ha; won his way
by his own exertions to his present position in
society—who has pursued an honourable and upright
course, and gained the cordial esteem and respect of
all who have the honour of his acquaintance. He is
engaged in the silk trade, which is as yet, we be-
lieved, unrepresented in the aldermanic body, and has
for many years been a Liveryman of the Weavers'
Company.

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We

have much pleasure in stating that Mr:Huline,
lonial Judge, whose suspension we mentioned
ime since, has been reinstated in his office by
11 Lord Grey.

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order of

IHE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The illoniteur publishes the following explanation,
or rather retractation, on the part of the Provisional
Government of the circular of M. LEDnu lioLLIN :
" THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT TO TUE
FRENCH PEOPLE.

" Citizens,—ln all the great acts or the life of a people,
it becomes the duty of the Government to make its voice
be beard by the nation.

" You are about to accomplish the greatest act of the
life of a people: to choose the representatives of the
country; to produce from your consciences and your
suffrages not a mere Government but an entire constitu-
tion! You are going to organize the Republic.
For our part, we have only proclaimed it. Carried
by acclamation to power during the interregnum of the
people, we did not wish, and we do not now wish, for
any other dictatorship but that of absolute necessity. If
we had refused the post of peril, we should have been
cowards. If we should remain in it one hour more than
necessity commands, we should bo usurpators. You are
alone strong. We count the days. We hasten to give
back the Itepublic to the nation.
" The election law which we have made
is the widest that in any nation of the earth has ever
convoked a people to the exercise of the supreme right
of man—his own sovereignty. The election belongs to
all without exception. From the date of thielaw there are
no more subjects in France. Every Frenchman of virile
age is a political citizen. Every citizen is an elector.
Every elector is sovereign. The law is equal and abso
lute for all. There is no citizen who can say to another,
You arc more sovereign than I.' Contemplate your
power. Prepare to exericse it, and be worthy of en-
tering into possession of your reign. The. reign of the
people is called the Republic.
" If you ask what Republic we understand by this
word, and what principles, what politics, what virtues,
we desire in the Republicans whom we are going to
elect ?—we answer, 'Regard the people of Paris and of
Franco since the proclamation of the Republic.' The
people has fought with heroism. The people
has triumphed with humanity. The people has
suppressed anarchy from the first hour. The people has
itself, immediately after the combat, broken tke weapons
of its just anger—it has burnt the scaffold. It has pro-
claimed the abolition of the punishment of death against
its enemies. It has respected individual liberty by not
proscribing any one. It has respected conscience in
religion, which it wishes to be free, but which
it wishes to be without inequality and without privi-
lege. It has respected property. It has pushed probity
to those instances of sublime disinterestedness which
are the admiration and the charm of history.
It has chosen everywhere, jin order to place them at its
head, the names of the most honest and the foremost
men who have fallen under its hand. It has not uttered
a cry of hatred or of envy against fortunes. Not a cry
of vengeance_ against persons. It has made, in one word,
of the name of the people, the name of courage, of
clemency, and of virtue. We have not a single instruc-
tion to give you. Inspire yourselves with the people .
Imitate it. Think, feel, vote, act, like it. For its own
part, the Provisional Government will not imitate the
Governments which are usurpers of the sovereignty of
the people, which would corrupt the electors, and which
would buy at an immoral' price the conscience of the
country. What would be the good of succeeding to
those Governments, if it were only to imitate them?
What would be the good of having created and adored
the Republic, it the Republic were to enter from the
first day of its existence into the track of the
abolished royalty? It considers it as one of its
duties to throw over the operations of the election
that light which enlightens consciences without op-
pressing them. It limits itself to the neutralizing of the
hostile influence of the old Administration, which has
perverted and destroyed the right of election. The Pro
visional Government wishes that the conscience of the
public should reign. It does not disquiet itself %sick the
old patties. The old parties have grown older by an
age in three days! The Republic will convince them, if
it bo sure and just to them. Necessity is a great master.
The Republic, know it is ell, has the happiness to be a
government of necessity. Reflection is for us.lt is
impossible to return to the impossible royalties. No one
wishes to descend to unknown anarchy. We shall, be
republican by reason. Give only security, liberty, and
respect for all; insure to others the independence of suf-
frages which you wish for yourselves. Do not notice
what names those whom you believe to be your enemies
write upon the bulletins, and be sure beforehand that they
will write the only name that can save them; that is to
say, that of a capable and honest republican. Security,
liberty, respect for the consciences of all citizens who
are electors : that is the intention of a Republican Go-
vernment, that is its duty, that is yours 1 That is the
safety of the people 1 Have confidence in the good
sense of the country. It will have confidence in you.
Give it liberty, and it will give you back the Republic.
" Citizens, France is attempting at this moment—in
the midst of somefinancisl difficulties, bequeathed to her
by royalty—but under providential auspices, the greatest
work of modern times, the foundation of the government
of the entire people—the organization of the democracy
—the Republic of all rights, of all interests, of all the in-
telligences, and of all the virtues ! Circumstances are
propitious.
itious Peace is possible. The now idea may be
able to take its place in Europe without any perturba-
tion but that of the prejudices which people have against
it. There is no anger in the minds of the people. If
the fugitive royalty has Lot carried away with it all the
enemies of the Republic, it has left them powerless ;
and although they are invested with all the rights which
the Republic guarantees to minorities, their interest and
their prudence insure to us that they will not them-
selves trouble the. peaceful foundation of the popular
constitution.

" In three days that work which it was thought was
postponed to distant times, has been accomplished
without a drop of blood being spilt in Fiance, without
any other cry but that of admiration being heard in our
departments or on our frontiers. Let us not loss this
unique occasion in history. Let us not abdicate the
greatest force of the now idea—the security which it
inspires in citizens, the astonishment which it inspires
in the world.

" Yet ►. few days of magnanimity, of devotion, of
patience; and the National Assembly will receive from
our hands the new-born Republic. From that day all
will be saved. When the nation, by the hands of its
representatives, shall have seized the Republic, the
Republic will be strong and great, like the nation; holy,
like the idea of the people ; imperishable, like the
country (patrie).

" Tfie.mensbers of the Provisional Government:—
" DUPONT (do l'Eure), LAALARTINB, GAMUT!!
PAGES, ALBERT, MARDI, LBDRU BOLLIX,
FLOCON, LOUIS BLANC, ARICO.
" The 84cretary.General,
" P.AGNERE."

The following was the reply of M. DB LEMAR-
TINE to the deputation of the companies of the tide
of the National Guards, complaining of the order
for their fusion with the other companies :

" A measure which must certainly have pained the
members of the Provisional Government and the
31i-
mister of the Interior is certainly that which deprived
the veterans of public order and liberty of the insignia
which they had so gloriously worn for so many years ;
but you ought to comprehend that esch period has its
duties, and that what there is painful in these duties
ought to be borne not only by those who impose them,
but by those who have to endure them. The Provisional
Government thought that in enlarging immensely the
cadres of the National Guard of Paris, and of the whole
of France, that iu wishing to remove from the capital
ail regular military force, which could by its presence
weigh too heavily on liberty, so happily achieved,
it was necessary to cause the National Guard
to undergo in a double interest that of equality
and uniformity in the ranks of the companies,
and that of a larger, more general, and more
popular election, the modifications with which you are
so naturally moved. I am ignorant if the Provisional
Government, informed of the complaints which you are
making, and which you announce to us for to morrow,
will not find means to conciliate the two necessities of
tha situation with the desire to admit and to recom-
pense long services, and with the still more ardent
desire to preserve you, with all your zeal, all your vigi-
lence, all your intrepidity, in the difficult crisis which
the Republic is passing through, with liberty, and which
I frankly tell it could not pass through without you.
Comprehend, therefore, the difficulties of the Provisional
Government, and do not press on too eagerly the solu-
tion which you demand from us at present. I will be to-
morrow the organ of your representation to it ; it will
certainly examine what you ask for with the attention
which it gives to all matters, and particularly to those
relating to the National Guard. I ought not to preju-
dice its decision, but I can declare to you, without any
fear of being in error, that it never had any idea of low-
ering or annoying what constitutes the force and glory
of France."

The Delegates—" We do not in tho least doubt itl"
The Secretary to the Provisional Government, M.
PAGNERE, also addressed the deputation as fol-
lows :

" The considerations which determined the Provi-
sional Government are not in any way political ones.
At present the companies of the National Guard of
Paris have been by the new enumeration augmented in a
very considerable proportion. They hive been almost
everywhere doubled, and in some instances even tripled.
This augmentation has been made exclusively in the
companies of chasseurs, and has not been effected in the
companies of grenadiers and voltigeurs. Without the
measure taken by the Government it would have resulted
from this difference that in the companies of chasseurs
now consisting of 600 or 800, and some even of 1,209
e
men, the new element would be two-thirds or one-half,
while this new element would not have been re-
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to enter into all the companies, for such is
the object of the Government. If we have
received deputations remonstrating against this measure
we have also had numerous deputations bringing us
complete adhesion to it; we have had officers, grenadiers,
and voltiguers giving their approbation of the decree
against which you object. You complain of being sepa-
rated, isolated; but you are about to enter, according to
the circumscriptions of your quarters, into the ranks of
your neighbours, your friends, your brothers. The Pro-
visional Government cannot rescind a decision come to
after a mature consideration. But as the too rapid
fusion of the dissolved companies may cause embarrass-
ments, the Government has postponed the elections until
March 25; and it has decided that, instead of four,
there shall bo eight companies iu each battalion. You
complain of being wounded iu your amour propre. We

cannot conceire this susceptibility, which appears to us
to be so little justified, and we know that you Uri., actu-
ated by more noble sentiments."

From the tenor of these allresses, it might have
been imagined that the request of the deputation
would have met w ith a favourable reception ; the
contrary, however, is the case. The Moniteur of
yesterday contains the following deGree

"FRENCH REPUBLIC.
" LIBERTY-EQUALITY-FRATERNITY.

" The Provisional Government has declared that the
decree which is for its object, to make the ancient com-
panies of grenadiers and light infantry return into the
general mass of the National Guard,was adopted only after
mature deliberation, by the whole Government, and after
taking the advice of the staff. Feelings of equality are
the motives for this measure, which is justified besides
by the highest considerations of public order. To grant
to such and such a company the faculty of recruiting it-
self, and of preserving its old form, would be to grant it
to all. The companies would soon recruit themselves,
sometimes for personal convenience, sometimes for the
convenience of the service, and some, perhaps, by
affinity of opinion. The germ of inequality would
be established among citizens. There would be
several separate families in one family; unity and
fraternity would equally suffer. The good sense of the
citizens will acknowledge that the Republican Govern-
ment cannot admit an institution founded upon such
bases. The Provisional Government regrets that this
ill-understood measure should have excited in the Na-
tional Guards manifestations contrary to public order.
It reminds all citizens that it intends to deliberate and
to exercise power in the plenitude of its liberty. All
interior pressure, from whatever source it may some,
will find the Provisional Government decided to main-
tam the resolutions which it has taken, and which are
dictated by principles from which it will not deviate.
The Provisional Government is accessible to all claims.
It enlightens itself by the wishes of the citizens, of
whom its provisional power is the expression : it has no
other force but that support, but that support is strong
in proportion as it is calm, and its legitimately influential
action, when it shows itself in the form of advice, ren-
ders the resistance of the Government necessary when it
resembles a threat or force.
" Done at the Hotel de Ville in the Council of the
Government, March 16.

" Signed by the Members of the Provisional Govern-
ment.'

The Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard,
Gen.COUNTAIS, has also published an order of the day,
reprimanding the companies of the Vile for their mani-
festation. On this snbject we find the following in
the Journal des Debats:—

" Representations in considerable numbers have
proceeded from the National Guard against a mea-
sure which has for its object to suppress the com-
panies of grenadiers and voltigeurs. This measure
has advantages and inconveniences which it is easy to
appreciate. It is well k.nown that these companies
are composed of National Guards chosen throughout
all the circumscription of the battalion, whereas the
companies of chasseurs arc formed of citizens inhabit-
ing the same quarter. The measure dissolving those
select companies and placing the men con3posing them
amongst the other companies, has two results, which
ought to be approved of. On the one hand, it suppresset
a distinction which cannot naturally any longer subsiss
in the National Guard; and, on the other, it responds
better to the wants of the service, by uniting under the
Same colour the National Guards inhabiting the same
quarter. But the following are the inconveniences al-
leged against this measure :—The members of the com-
panies which it is intended to suppress are to be divided
amongst the eight companies of which the battalions are
for the future to be composed ; thus the bonds of con-
fraternity which existed amongst these citizens will be
or necessity broken. Separated one from the other,
disseminated amongst companies to which they are
strangers, they cannot take a serious part in the elec-
tions which are about to take place. They will, in fact,
be frustrated of the right which they have hitherto
exercised of naming for their officers men whom
they know. The protest made to the Government
went no further. As to the insignia and titles
which are peculiar to them, the select companies make
a sacrifice of them. In these limits the representation
of these companies appeared to us well founded, and the
words of M. Lamartine had led us to hope that it would
be taken into consideration. However, we heard last
evening that the Government does not think it right to
accede to that wish. The measure concerning the fusion
of companies will therefore be execated without any mo-
dification. Whatever regret it may inspire the members
of these companies with, we recommend them, never-
theless, to submit, and not to assign to their grievance
an importance which it does not possess of itself. Evi-
dently the measure is not a political one, but merely in-
tended to cause the service to be better done. All
good citizens ought to comprehend that the first want of
the country is in the maintenance of union and con-
cord. Let every other consideration yield to that great
interest!"

It is said that attempts are making by many of the
members of various clubs to procure a postponement
of the time fixed for the elections.

The Central Club, in consequence of the manifesta-
tion of the companies of the elite of the National
Guard, issued the following proclamation :

" FRENCII REPUBLIC.
LII3RRTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY.

" The people have been heroic during the combat,
gen6rous after victory, and sufficiently magnanimous
nut to punish . . .
"It is calm because it is strong and in the right. . .
"Let bad passions and wounded interests beware how
they provoke it
" The ieople is called upon to-day to impart a moral
and social aim.

"It is its duty to recal, in a brotherly manner, to
order these misguided men who endeavour to maintain
themselves in privileged bodies in the face of our equality.
"It sees with a severe eye these manifestations against
that member of the Government who has given so many
proofs of his adhesion to the Revolution. Let the people
then assemble to-day (17th) at ten o'clock, on the Place
de la Revolution ; let it express its sentiments. We have
shed our blood for the defence of the Republic, we are
ready to do it again. We wait with confidence the
realisation of the promises of the Provisional Govern-
ment. We wait—we who often want the necessaries of
life. At the present moment those who are working
against the Revolution, openly or secretly, commit an
act against the rights of humanity.
" Joia with us, then, citisens, let us go to the Provisional
Government to again assure it that we are ready to act
with it for all measures of order, unity, and public
safety.
"Long live the R4ublic.
(Signed) " SOBRIER, Ike."

In consequence of this proclamation, about 30,000
oueriers congregated yesterday in the Champs Elyslies,
and went in procession to the Hotel de Ville, to as•
sure the Provisional Government it might depend
upon their assistance to defend it against any at-
tempts that might be made to coerce it. The pro-
cession was arranged, and the march conducted, with
military precision and order. Several of the Clubs
had strong bodies of members in the procession. Each
trade marched separately, preceded by a man carry-
ing the flag of the trade. The members of the
Provisional Government harangued the multitude
from the windows of the Hotel de Ville, after which
the procession left by the route to the Place of the
Bastile.

This demonstration was, it is said, got up by M.
LEDRU ROLLIN and M. FLOCON.
Prince Louis NAPOLEON will be a candidate for a
seat in the National Assembly, for the department of
the Seine.

On Thursday evening, about seven o'clock, a body
of Legitimists made a demonstration, by marching
with a white flag to the Hotel de Ville ; their number
is estimated at 2,000.
The commercial and financial crisis still continues,
but no failures of any houses of note were announced
yesterday.
BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, MARCM 17.
THREE O'CLOCK.—With the exception of the Bank
of France Shares every kind of security was drooping ;
they closed at 1,650 f., or 200 f. higher than the preced-
ing day. Only five transactions took place in them,
according to the official list. The Three per Cents.
closed at 50f., the same as the day before, that price
being the highest done. Five per Cents. closed 60c.
lower, at 72f. 50c. In miscellaneous securities, Roman
was quoted 600., or Gif. lower. Obligations de la
Ville at 1,0001., or sf. lower; Belgian Fives (1840), at
cot, or 2f. lower ; ditto (1842), at 681, or 2f. lower.
Railway Shares do not present any great variations;
Orleans and Marseilles closed at 7301. and 290 E, or 10f.
each lower; Rouen at 4101., Havre at 2001., and Bale
at 821. 50c., each sf. lower; Nantes at 8271. 50c., and
Lyons at MI., or 21. 50c. lower ; Bordeaux and
Northern are unaltered, at 4001 and 3351.; Bons du
Tresor are quite unsaleable. French gold is worth 801.
the thousand. French 4lapoleons were difficult to be
obtained at the money-changers, and the price demanded
was 22f. English sovereigns could not be got for less
than 27f. 50c. to 281.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, M.tmg 17.

Boulogne and Amiens, 54—llutch Rhenish, '/a—Namur
and Liege, 31,41—Northern of France, 2—Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 2%—Paris and Lyons, 11/4—Rouen awl TIT, 84
—Sambre and kieuse,444.

In consequence of a communication from the Lord
Advocate, the East Lethian Yeomanry have received
notice to hold themselves ready for service on the
shortest notice.
WAKEFIISD, Magda 17.—We have a fair arrival
of grain this we. k. The show of fine wheat is very small,
and such readily brings last week's prices, whilst the
second and inferior sorts are extremely slow of sale, and
rather lower. Barley as before in value; demand very
retail. Oats and shelling are 'held firmly. Beans re-
cede fully is. per quarter. Other articles as before.
Arivals—Wheat, 11,015; beaus, 1,5.18; oats, 940; bar-
ley, 3,966; shelling., 140.
INCOME TAX (InELAND).—By a return just issued,
it appears that the income-tax assessed upon annuities,
dividends, &c., payable by the Bank of Ireland, for per.
sons not resident in Ireland, amounted in the years, end-
ing April 5, 1843, to 2,5991. 14s. 9d. ; 1844, 3,1791.
10s. 9d.; 1345, 2,6391. 9s. 241.; 1846, 2,5761. 13s, 2d. ;
1E47, 2,9861, 193. sd.

LLOYD'S SEI/PPING—(THIS DAY°
LONDON, MARCH 18.—Wind E., light breac and an.
clear weather.
LEITH, MARCH 17.—A vessel was in contact 5
light brig, 9th inst., about a quarter of a mile from the
lighthouse on the Maplin Sand, and is supposed to have
foundered.
.sad
MILFORD, MARCH I6.—A vessel bottom up, s-firmrr.
to be of from 300 to 400 tons, was passed yesterday as
Lundy by the Prince Charlie, Rogers, at Milford.
PWLEIELLI, MARCH 15.—A1l the wind bound 1"
Studwe.l's Roads sailed yesterday except the Selina, f 5:
Africa, and the Challenger, for St. Andrew's, part °I
whose crew refused to proceed.
DoucLa,s, ISLE OF MAN, MARCH 15.—The Delight,
schooner, of Maryport, which was on shore in Doo4l°
Bay, has become a total wreck. The smack Sistal,
Taggart, which was on shore in Bootle Bay, has b-40
floated off and towed to Liverpool with trifling dauv-re;
A quantity of wreck, amongst which were the mast an
rigging of a brig, was seen floating off the Point of ,tl,r
last week. The Flat Mills, Abrahams, from Liverpool'
which was on shore on Strathelar Crescent, has been gss
off, slightly damaged. The Ann Hager, of Roastrever;
which was on shore near Castle Mona, was towed 05
the sands 9th instant, and floated up the harbour.
SHIELDS, MARCH 17,—The Amaranth, Leman,
of
and from Liverpool, with salt, and the Union, Wai.ol4
of Arbroath, from the Clyde, will pig iron, in attempt."
ing to enter the harbour last night during a gale i'
N.E., drove on the hard sand.
DEAL, MARCH 17.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Aberf,
M`Alpine, Singapore, put back ; Marion, for Trinidad;
Sunflower, for Honduras; l'Acn, for New Orh ale;
Olive, St. John's, New Brunswick.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 17,—Wind N.—Arrd. Esser'
Roxby, Mauritius, for Bristol. Sld. Phmnix, Batavia;
Broad Axe, Rio Janiero; John Pink, Jamaica; Wg3'
Glen Anderson, Bermuda.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH IL—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Haidast
Saute, New Orleans; Constantina, Smith, ditto; The!-la
Bennett, Sherman, Charleston. Sld. Venilia,
Video ; Brilliant, Hayti, Triomfante, Havana; Souse'
Hick, New York;. Montezuma, ditto; Barlow, Halifax.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GIS:ADEN.

Potatoes from 5s to 7s 3d per cwt. ; Onions, 23 W
2s Od ; and Apples, is ed to 8s per half-sieve ; Walnuts,
Std to 10d; and Oranges, 5s to 12s per 100;
Forced Asparagus, 5s Gd to 7s, and ditto Rhubarb, Is 9d
to 2s 6d per bundle; New Potatoes, is Gd to is ed per lb;
Greens, Is 8d to 2s 8d; Turnips, is 10d to 2s 6d; Leeks,
id to 16; and Carrots, 3s Gd to bs 3d per dozen bunches;
Savoys, 8d to ls, :and Parsnips, 4d to Is per dczeti
Celery, 10d to is 10d; Horseradish, 2s to 4s 61; aril
Brocoli, 2s to 3s 3d per bundle; Filberts, Id to 10d per
lb; Spinach, 5s per sieve; Sea is 6d to 3s 3d per
punnet.
HUNGEnroItD.

We had rather an inactive demand here to-day, ~nd
prices were with difficulty supported.