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London, England, 1848-11-27 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1848,

prec:'ed to the plain of St. Denis, and th,re await the
insurgents. If they did not choosy to attack, his plan
w!tuiti. have been then to re-enter Paris with the army
..:nd the National Guard united.—(Hear, hear.) The
Honourable Gentleman then referred to his personal
condect during the combat. He alluded to going out on
the 23d, at three oVock in the day, and remaining out
until eight in thu evening, and explained that he was
obliged to do so in order to inspect personally
,the va-
rious parts of the city, and see that everything was prc-
pred for the combat. The insurgerts were to be at-
lacked in three places; the neighbourhood of the Hotel
de Ville, the Pantheon, and the Faubourg St. Antoine;
and in order to effect that purpose it was new s,ary to
see how the several commanders were disposed with the
troops under their command. He remained until between
two and three in the morning, busied with the aflairs of
his department. The Gallant General then arrived at
the part of the accusation againat him which related to
the want of foresight in not getting in artillery from
Vincennes. He could very well imagine, he said, that
persons who had only gone from Paris to Vincennes
in a cabriolet might feel surprise at the time which
it took to get in =intuition and artnlery
from Vincennes. But military men would be
of a different opinion, and wou:d come to the con•
elusion that the time taken up had been only natural
under the circum•tances. The Honourable Gentleman
then read the itinerary of the force sent to Vincennes
from Paris for the artillery and ammunition required,
required certainly, for a combat where not less than
2,500,000 cal tridAes had been burnt. He there showed

that, looking at the obstacles which had been thrown in
the way of a regiment Or infantry, and two troops of
cavalry sent to Vincennes, the time eccupied was not by
any means extraordinary. The Gallant General next
referred to the charge brought against him of having
held back his means of defence for the purpose of for-
warding his own ambitious projects—to arrive, in fact,
at the post of chief of the executive power.—(Hear, hear.)
He might commence by saying that on the 22,1 an
application was already made to him to assume the
whole power, and that application was of such a nature
as that it might be considt red almost official. The gen-
tlemen who came to him were MM. Latarde,.llucoux,
and Landfill, and they formally proposed to him to as-
SUMO the sole direction of the authority, civil and mili-
tary. "I declared to them," said the Honourable Gen-
tleman, " that I must refuse at that moment, since their
proceeding was not :absolutely official; that I had no de-
sire whatever to take on myself so immense a responsi-
bility; that I had no engagement whatever with the
Executive Committee; and that if the National Assembly
thought my aid necessary in that high post, I would
accept It without difficulty." Such was the purport of
my conversation with these gentlemen.—(" Yes, yes," for
some minutes.) Hence, it I wanted to arrive at the
chief lower, I was not under any necessity whatever to
wait longer than the date I have just mentioned. As to
my military conduct, is it probable that I, or any man in
his senses, would for his own ambitio❑ risk the lives
of so many of his countrymen, the ruin of a great
city, and the destruction of the National Assembly?—
(Cheers.) No, it is impossible.—(liened cheers.)
All these calumnies must have an end. I urn ready to
discuss them when you please—now, to-morrow, at any
time ; and when at last an end has been come to, it is no
longer the pleadings of the advocate that will be wit-
nessed, but the acts of a soldier.—(Tremendous cheer-
ing, which was repeated several time;.)
The President—The sitting is suspended until half-
past zeven this evening.

- The representatives then left their places, and ap-
peared to be on the point of separating, when a pause
was suddenly made.
The President then declared that several of his col-
leagues had suggested the propriety of going on with
the sitting at once.—(Cries of " Ye:, yes.")
This was supported by General Cavaiguac, and car-
ried.

The Assembly then again took their seats, and
M. Bixio ascended the tribun,, and after entering
into certain explanations of his own conduct during the
days of June, declared that in his opinion General Ca-
vaignac had on that occasion saved the Republic.
The sitting was then suspended for an hour, and re-
sumed at eight o'clock.
M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire ascended the tribune, and
said that it had always been his object merely to defend
the Executive Committee, not to attack General Ca
vaiguac. • Since," added he, " the Hon. General asks if we
believe that he would h%ve been capable of committing
an act of tietson for the furtherance of an objt et of mere
personal ambition, I do not hesitate to declare that such
an idea never entered our minds."
M. Taschereau—This then is a retractation.

M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire—No, it is ts.' confirmation,
for I have long since made several of my colleagues
acquainted with my sentiments on that head.
General Cavaignac then explained that several per-
sons, representatives and others, had complained that he
had not on the 23d June ordered troops to march to
various places which had been pointed out to him. That
was perfectly true; and if, foreseeing this debate, Le had
taken a note of all the persons who demanded troops,
the Assembly would st e that he would have needed at
least 300 battalions to have complied with all these re-
quisitions. The General then went on to explain that
while at eleven at night M. Marie had communicated to
him the order, in the name of the Executive Commission,
to send troops to the:Luxembourg, M. Barthelemy St.
Hilaire warned him that there might possibly be a
gathering of the insurgents on the place of the Pan-
theon, and advised him to act according to the orders he
rnie,ht have received from the Executive Commission.
The letter of M.,Barthelemy St. Hilaire could not, there-
fore, be considered as an order, because in it he spoke of
orders which he (General Cavaignac) had doubtless re-
ceived from another quarter.—(Cries of " That is the
truth.") It was his duty to execute the order which M.
Marie had given him in the name of the Executive
Commission ; he had done so, and in doing- so he knew
he was accomp idling the object which M. Barthlemy
St. Hilaire had at that time in view.—(Cheers.) " I
now," concluded the General, " come to consider the
position in which M. Barihlemy St. Hilaire would
fain place me. He admtts that I could never have
been capable of committing all these faults to serve
my own personal ambition, and with a deliberate purpose
of securing to myself power. But in saying what he
has said he says more than he wished to say, and he
endeavours to make others believe that in which ho
professes not to believe himself.—(Vehement cheering.)
What is the meaning of this series of observations with
which you have interlarded your narrative? You never
quit me. You follow me from quarter of an hour to
quarter of an hour, and you show me incessantly re-
fusing the most pressing, urgent requests of all those
who desired troops of ice, and then you bring me the
next day acting in parallel lines with what 3 ou call the
`Parliamentary plot'—(A laugh)—until I have at-
tained my end, and the Assembly has by a decree
withdrawn from the Executive Commission the powers
which had been confided to,it. Do you desire that I
should speak sincerely to you ? Ido not know you. I
have never spoken to you, except twice in my life. I
say that it is impossible to suppose all that you suppose.
You hare been soured in your feelings, disappointed in
yoar hopes.—(Loud cheers.) You have gone too far
with this history, which was nut written to be buried in the
drawers of a secretary ; but I declare that no one will
believe, after having! read your fragment—no one
will believe that you are not desirous of incriminating
my acts and my intentions to a greater extent than you
avow. In conclusion, I declare that the declaration
which you have just made is not sufficient for me, and
that I wait for fresh explanations to know what position
I am to choose."—(Loud and long-continued cheering.)
Garnier Panic rose to address the Assembly amidst
considerable interruption, which lasted some time.
These interruptions were principally occasioned by an
assertion made by M. Garnier Pagis at the outset of his
speech, that General Cavaignac had offered the Minis-
try of Public Instruction to M. Barthelemy- St. Hilaire,
and that M. Marie had offered to propose him (M. Gar-
nier Pagis) for the Presidency of the Assembly. Order
having been restored, the speaker proceeded to state
that lie would not accept the discus ion on the grounds
on which General Cavaignac wished to place it, " We
do not say," added he, " that you washed to shed blood
to attain the object of your ambition, but we say that
you have committed enormous faults.—(lnterruption.)
It is the opinion of the people—it has been the opinion
of the National Assembly.—(Loud cries of ' No, no.')
You have committed faults, end you have permitted the
Executive Commission to be blamed fur those faults."
A Voice—Speak of the Republic.
M. Gamier Pais—Well, I will speak of it. You
know not what may happen; but if, through an ambi-
tion disastrous for France, any individual should attempt
to go to the Tuileri: s, I should go to the Hotel do Ville.
—(Bravo, brevo.) The speaker then proceeded to re-
preach General Cavaignac with ingratitude towards the
Executive Committee, which had made him General of
Division, Governor of Algiers, and Minister of War.
General Cavaignac denied that he had ever autho-
rised the offer of the Ministry of Public lustruction to
M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire except on the 28th June,
when he was not so well aware of his opinions. As to
the candidateship of M. Gamier Nile fur the Presi-
dency, I may have asked,,added the General, if he was
a candidate, but most assuredly he was no candidate of
ours.—(A laugh.) The General then proceeded to defend
himself agaiest,the accusation of ingratitude.
M. Landrin explained that when the Club of the
Palais National made a proposition to General Cavaig-
nac, at a time when it was evident that the Executive
Committee had forfeited the confidence of the country,
the General declared that he would be no party to any
secret; proceeding, and that his dignity required that the
Executive Commission should be informed both by him-
self and by the delegates from the Club of the Pulsis
Nationai of the overtures which had been made to him.
M. Ledru Rollin, in defending the Executive Com-
mission, took occasion to state that it was hunger which
had caused the outbreak in June.

Geueral Bedeau related the dispositions taken by
General Cavaignac on the 23(1 June, in concert with
himself and the other generals, and declared that he
himself approved of all the dispositions made.
General Cavaignac replied, and in allusion to a de
claration by M. Ledru Rollin, that he had separated
from General Cavaignac, the General said, I will not
say is hien was the first to separate front the other, but
this t.eparation most certainly exists; and for my fart I
do I.ot, see any probability of its soon ceasing.—(Loud
cht era.) _ _

M. I..egrange declared that it was odious to bring to
the tribune the filth of M. Emile de Girardin, filth raked
1-.4 mil the kennel, to throw in the face of a General who
had valiantly fought for his country in Africa.—(Loud
cheers.)

M. liupont(de l'Eure) then moved the resolution which
we have given above.

The resolution was received with loud applause, and
twenty members having called for a division a ballot
commenced, which gave the following result:—
Voters
... 537
Absolute majority... 269
For the rosolution
Against it

The Assembly then adjourned at h If pat 11, eryir g
"Vine la Republique 1"

M. DE LAMAILTINE was in the Assembly, but he
did not speak.
General CAVAIGNIC has greatly raised himself in pub-
lic estimation by his conduct on this trying occasion.
Even his enemies admit that " he will henceforth hold
his place in the Assembly, not only as a successful sol-
dier, but as a statesman capable of making his way by
the force of his mind."

M. ODILLON BARROT has, after great hesitation, de-
clared in favour of Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,

There were great crowds outside the Assembly on
Saturday, and several meetings of.workmen were held,
but the public tranquillity was not interrupted.

The Afoniteur published on Saturday the compara-
tive statement of imports and exports into France
during the first ten months of 1848, with comparative
statements of the imports and exports during the cor-
responding periods of 1846 and 1847. So much has
recently been said of the revival of commerce, and
the improved prospects of the Republic, that we
looked with anxiety into this return as exhibiting
some proofs of that nascent prosperity ; but it must
be admitted that, in this respect, we meet with nothing
but disappointment. The imports in October, 1848,
show a very large decrease as compared with the corre-
sponding month of 1847, and a still larger one as corn-
pased with 1846. The receipts on merchandise imported
into France in the month of October, 1848, amounts
to 9,089,703 francs ; in October, 1847, they amounted
to 12,036,084 francs ; and in 1846, to 14,056,655
francs ; a diminution which, in fact, shows a falling
off of one-fourth of this branch of the revenue, as
compared with October, 1847, and of rather more
than one-third as compared with the same month of
1846. On the whole of the ten months the result is
not more favourable. For the first ten months of
1846, the receipts were 128,450,461 francs ; for 1847,
111,883,283 francs; and for 1848, only 71,915,803
francs. In estimating this fall, it must, how-
ever, never be left out of sight that both
1846 and 1847 were years so bad as to be con-
sidered, at the time, disastrous. Had there been
no revolution,', nor political disturbances, there is no
doubt, considering the plentiful harvest and other
circumstances, that there would have been a great
rise, instead of this deplorable deficiency. In one
item, however, there is an appearance of improvement.
The quantity of raw cotton imported for home con-
sumption in 1848 is nearly equal to that imported
in October, 1846, and nearly double the quantity im-
ported in October, 1847. On the ten months • the
result in this respect is also favourable. For the
first ten months of 1846 the quantity of cotton im-
ported for home consumption was 547,185 metrical
quintals ; in 1847, 333,955 metrical quintals ; and in
1848, 336,708 metrical quintals. In copper, tin, coals,
and oils, trade is revivirg, but in linen cloths and yarn,
iron, woollens, lead, mahogany, colonial sugars, &c., it
continues wofully depressed. As respects the ex-
ports, there is a heavy failing off in books and en-
gravings, machinery, models, porcelian,'refined sugar,
printed and plain cottons, tulles, linen, and, manu-
factured silks, and glass and crystal. The-falling off
in the export of tissues of silk is very remarkable. In
October, 1846, it was 1,089 metrical quintals ; in
1847, 1,157 metrical quintals; and in 1841, only 135
metrical quintals.
The Five per Cents. were done on Sunday at the
Passage.ole, l'Opera at a higher price than the day
before. They went up gradually to 65f. 50c., and
then receded to 65f. 25c., at which they remained at
the close.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 25.
The only sale was Luxembourg (71.), .4.

S PAIN.

Madrid journals of the 20th have been received.

It was rumoured that letters had been received
from General ZARCO DEL VALLE, the Spanish En-
voy at St. Petersburgh, stating that he had not yet
obtained an audience ei her from the EMPEROR or
from Count NESSELRODE, and that despairing of be-
ing able to negotiate the recognition of the QUEEN,
he was about to return to Madrid. The latter part
of the statement is correct, but we have very good
authority for stating that the former part of it is de-
cidedly incorrect. General ZARCO DEL VALLE has
had an audience of the Emperor NICHOLAS, in which
the EMPEROR expressed his delight at the opportunity
afforded him of making the personal acquaintance
of so distinguished an officer, but when
General ZARCO DEL VALLE attempted to
open negotiations, he was at once interrupted by the
EMPEROR, who declared that he would never recog-
nise any sovereign in Spain but the legitimate King,
and that inasmuch as both Austria and Prussia were
under the rule of revolutionary Governments,'their
example was no precedent for him.
CABRERA has rejected all the offers made to him,
and has published a proclamation exposing the at-
tempts that have been made to bribe him.
The Fonzento of Barcelona of the 20th instant an.
nounces the complete defeat of a body of the QUEEN'S
troops, under the command of Brigadier MANzANo,
by the united Carlist bands Of CABRERA, MARSAL,
MUCHACO, SARGATAT, and BORGES, amounting to
1,500. The second in command of the QUEEN'S
troops N% a; killed, and only 300 of the entire column
had escaped.

MADRID BOLSA, Nov. 20.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 198 for cash ; Five per Ceuta. at 9i for
paper; the Debt without Interest at 3i-; and the
Coupons at 5:1 for cash.

GE Al A N Y

A Ni)

THE NORTHERN STATES,

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Agramer Zeitung, contains the following
manifestoes :

" To the inhabitants of the countries of my Hunga
rian Crown

" The impertinent intrigues of Louis Kossuth and of
his companions, who have usurped all power in your
unfortunate country, despising the commands of your
King, and hurrying the country into unutterable perdi-
tion, force me to interfere by force of arms.
" But while I do so, I must address a few words to
you, exposed as you are to all kinds of seduction and
deception. They tell you that my troops come to con-
quer the country; to rub you of the liberties guaranteed
to you by the law of April ult., and to suppress the
Hungarian nationality.
Menlces are made use of to rouse you to resistance,
and they are pronounced ( vi,n in my name. They de-
ceive you; you are imposed upon. .Do not trust the
misleaders.

" The freedom from robot and tithes which has been
granted to you in consideration of a moderate indemni-
fication of your landlords shall be left untouched. You
have the guarantee of the law for it; you have the
guarantee of my own Royal word. But what I desire to
do is, to restore that order without which you cannot
enjoy the fruits of the concessions that have been made
to you, because your time and attention are taken up by
immoderate service in the National Guard and the Land-
stutm, and by the general excitement.

"The inhabitants of your country, who belong to dif-
ferent nationalities, have, like yourselves, wished for an
extension of their rights. There was a danger of a civil
war. Your King did all he could to avert it; but tho
traitors, whose objept tm to mislead you, foiled all my
'endeavours, and at last 'they even caused the cowardly
assassination of the general whom I sent to preserve you
from the horrors of a civil war.

" have confidence in your King,. who has always
loved the Ilungarian nationality, and respected it with-
out insult or detriment to any other. Make common
cause with my troops ; assist them in restoring order,
and in all other respects remain quiet and tranquil ; re-
spect the rights and the property of everybody, and yield
your confident obedience to those legal authorities and
decrees which emanate from me for the especial welfare
of your country.
" Whoever acts thus fulfils the duties he owes to his
King and country; whoever resists is a traitor to both,
and we shall be forced to treat him as such.

" Olmiitz, November 7."
PROCLAMATION.

" FERDINAND.

"Inhabitants of Hungry and Siebenbiirgen I—A few
months' usurpation of some traitorous rebels has turned
Hungary into the bloody arena of a fatal civil war. The
insurgents have dared to stand up against the rights and
the dignity of their crowned King. They violate the
liberty of the person, endanger the safety of property,
and, dragging the peaceable Leasant from the scene of
his daily labour, they force him to oppose his legitimate
and crowned King. _ _

"To put an end to this disastrous state of things,
which ei,dangers the welfare and safety of the empire, is
our Monarch's duty ; it is his command, and conse-
quently it is my task.

" In pursuance to the command of his Majesty, your
King and Prince, I shall appear in your country with a
large and faithful army—not under the impulse of hos-
tile feelings, but for the purpose of mastering rebellion,
and restoring peace to your country, which is now a prey
to the violence of faction. My troops are instructed to
observe strict order, but at the tame time they have
orders to treat everybody as a rebel whom they find in
arms against them, or who forces or misleads others to
do so.

" Inhabitants of Hungary and Sit benbiirgen, true men
and loyal to the King, in m your chivalrous feelings and
your generosity I expect that you will lend your help
towards the peace able execution of your King's will.
"But you, the decoyed, the seduced by malignant
rebels—to you, I say, that the very last moment is
come when you still may re,urn to your ancient loyalty.
By so doing you may rely on our Monarch's grace and
on my protection and intercession.
" But those who sacrificed this wretched country to
their lust of dominion aml their cursed vanity shall find
a severer judge in me; for protection to the loyal, pardon
to the repentant, and destruction to the rebels, is the
motto of

Prince WINDISCHGRATZ,
"Head-quarters at SchOnbruun, Nov. 13." .
In consequence of peremptory orders received
from Olnautz, WINDISCHGRATZ has been at length

compelled to put a stop to the wholesale execution?,
or, more properly speakir.g, daily massacres of which
Vienna has been the scene ever since its capture by
the Imperial troops. One young man had been silt t
for using exciting language in a coffee-house, twelve
days after the entrance of the troops into the city.
Domiciliary visits continued to be male after arms:

KREMSIE'R, Nov. 19.-127 Deputies from tl:e
Austrian people to the Diet are already here, as well
as the principal of the bureau. President Ssioi...KA
arrived in company with FOSTER; LEHNER was one
of the first Deputies who arrived here. About 35
members of the Left are already here. They have
resolved to vote unanimously against adhesion to
Germany, and on the whole to testify no sympathy
whatever for the Frankfort Parliament. In another
deliberation it was decided by the members of the
Left to make no allusion whatever to the events of
October. The Hall of the Assembly will be com-
pleted by the 22d.
The Prague Gazette contains a communication
from Ohnutz, dated the 19th, which says :—" Yester-
day two Members of the Frankfort Parliament arrived
here as diplomatic agents."
Letters in the Kolnische Zeitung, dated Vienna, the
19th inst., state that the list of the new Ministry Was
expected to be published on the following day. NES'
ZAROS, the Hungarian Minister at War, was said to
have demanded, as one of the conditions for the con-
clusion of a peace between Hungary and Austria, the
granting of a full amnesty, including KOSSUTH. Tills
demand was thought to have very little chance 01„
being successful. It was asserted that the state 01
siege of Vienna would extend until January next.
There were also rumours afloat that a draft of
constitution already elaborated would be laid before
the Diet at Kremser.

The Breslauer Zeitung mentions a rumour that
GRATZ had been declared in a state of siege, because
so considerable a number of students and Garde;
Mobiles from Vienna had repaired to that place that
apprehensions of disturbances were entertained.
According to the latest intelligence from Hungary
a corps d'arinee, amounting to 12,000 infantry 901
14 squadrons of cavalry, under the command 0
Lieutenant Field-Marshal Scatax, was on its wag
to Upper Hungary. The Mann'. troops were e 0"
trenched near Pressburg, Komorn, and Raab. Ad:
vices had been received from Lower Hungary thll"
the whole of the Banat was abandoned by the thaw
garians and in the power of the Imperial troops.
On the frontier of Croatia 16,000 Croats under Ge''
DAHLEN were ready to advance. _

The Pressburger Zeitung contains a proclamation
signed by 'LADISLAUS CSANY, from which it appears
that nobody will, in future, be allowed to cross the
Hungarian frontier, no matter whether for the pa"
pose of entering or leaving the country.
The Presse, a Vienna paper, has the following
news from the head-quarters at Schonbrunn : A
" Prince Lieren, Adjutant-General of the Czar of
the Russias, brought to Field-Marshal the Prince
Windischgratz the grand cross of the Order of St'
George ; and to the Ban of Croatia, Baron Jellachichf
the grand cross of the Order of St. Wiadimir, with 81
autograph letter of the monarch, expressing the Cvre
Imperial pleasure at the gallantry and intelligence I!f
which these generals distinguished themselves so Wl'
liantly during the siege of Vienna."