The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-03 00:00:00

4' Inning t.:-Ali

LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1848.

Ireland is preparing a stupendous ordeal for itself
and for England. Sedition is being systematically
organized ; pikes are purchased by the peasantry as
coolly as a switch of blackthorn might be slivered
from a hedgerow ; the loungers in the more fre-
quented and fashionable promenades of Dublin are
already replaced by raparees. Everything is viewed
by the Irish multitude through a distorting medium
—the present, the past, and the future; the position
of the English people, of the C,Jntinental people, and
of themselves. Their political system has changed
as thoroughly as their social aspirations, and as mi-
raculously as the necromantic princess in the " Arabian
Nights' Entertainments," who was metamorphosed
successively into a tigress, a peacock, a pomegranite, a
grain of wheat, and a herring. The barbarous
regality of Bonu was followed by the military de-
vastations of CROMWELL, that again by the revolu-

tionary disorders of 1688,that again by the territorial
absorption of 1800, and at this moment by a reviving
avidity for rebellion and a thirst for an insane and
spurious nationality. Repeal has expat.ded, has
burst, and has vanished like a bubble. That is no
longer the object of Celtic ambition. The project is
no longer the inauguration of an independent Parlia-
ment in College Green. The grand problem is already
debated among the anarchists as to whether the Re-
publican or the Monarchical system is preferable in
the government of civilized millions. Those passions
which had been engendered by the flagrant misrepre-
sentations of demagogues have been latterly fomented
beyond endurance by the democratic movements
throughout Europe. Posen has blown the trumpet
which was doomed to evoke the resurrection of the
liberties of Poland. Berlin has conquered at the
sword's point, not only the freedom of the Prussians,
but the rights of the whole Germanic Confederation.
Madrid is already crying out the pass-word of Spanish
advancement to the cities of Catalonia and the fron-
tiers of Navarre. Paris has planted the oriflamme
of the people upon the colossal ruins of royalty, and
has secured the permanent emancipation of France
from the Appenines to the confluence of the Ourthe
and the Aleuse. From Peterwaradin and Pesth those
voices have already resounded which summon the

Hungarians to the re-assumption of the sovereign
power. Prague calls to Bohemia, and Carlstadt to
Croatia, and, if the flying rumour of the moment be
authentic, the flag of insubordination is unfurled upon
the pinnacle of the Tyrolean Alps. Even within the
embattled ramparts of Milan the war-cry has given

the signal for the junction of the civic battalions of
Lombardy. Venice has at llst shaken off the chains of
ages, and the golden wand of her illustrious democracy
is again reflected in the purple waters of the Adriatic-
The liberalism of Turin has been echoed by the hopes
of Genoa; the citizens of Bergamo have joined hands
with the people of Verona. Sienna has called to
Florence, Reggio to Rubiera, and Urbino to Bo-
logna, and the supreme law of the million has attested
its progress in Sardinia and Tuscany, among the
Lombards and the Romans, among the drowsiest
rabble of the Neapolitans, and among the Sicilian in-
surgents. On every side the sound of the tumbling
thrones of the Continent, and of the up rousing
limbs of those nations which have been so long pros-
trate under the bonds of absolutism, is startling the
inhabitants of Ireland, and goading on to acts of
audacity and words of insolence the more ignorant or
the more unprincipled of her demagogues.
History will pronounce as to the truth or the in.
accuracy of those who represent the p3licy of the
English Government towards Ireland as one of

cruelty, selfishness, and despotism. To history
Eng-
land may leave the decision of that question with confi-
dence ; for the future historian may point in refuta-
tion of those atrocious calumnies to the unutterable
miseries entailed on England by her fraternal efforts
in behalf of the wretched multitude b2yond St.
George's Channel ; he may point to the public time
which his been lavished in the discusaicn of legisla-
tive measures of amelioration, having exclusive

reference to the condition of Ireland and her

children ; he may enumerate the bounti€s poured
into the lap of Ireland from the lavish paling

of England in tho;e protracted seasons when the land
must otherwise have been ravaged without any
alle-
viation whatever by the &cad scourges of Pestilence
and Privation. These facts will be recorded with a❑
impartial exactness in justification of that magnani-
mous kingdom which is now suffering for the abun-

dant out-pourings of its sympathy, and which, to the
disgrace of humanity, is recompensed with ingrati-
tude instead of affection, and hatred instead of

reverence.

What advantage we should be glad to know has
ever accrued to England from the association of its
own fortunes with the destinies of Ireland. What
advantage ? Emphatically and deliberately NONE.
On the contrary, an incalculable amount of wretched-
ness has alone flowed to our shores in return for the ten-
derness evinced of late years by ourselves towards the
Irish population. Granted that England is answerable
for a vast deal of mismanagement in the sister island;
granted that her legislators have evinced an extraor •
dinary reluctance in admitting the Irish to a full
participation in the privileges and immunities enjoyed
by Englishmen—still it cannot be denied, so long as
the memory of the past shall remain, that in regard
to the alleviation of the distresses of Ireland, England
has been an enormous and uncornp'aining sufferer.
It were as idle to deny all this for an instant, it were
as frivolous to say that we have not materially
assuaged the sufferings of our brethren beyond the
Channel by voluntarily taking a portion of the bur-
den on our own shoulders, as it would be to gainsay
the reality of the Act of Catholic Emancipation, of
our poor-law interference, or of the 10,000,000/.
bestowed on Ireland for the diminution of famine,
and the prevention of a national bankruptcy. As
well might British generosity towards Ireland be
denied, as the sacrifice
of ofourtwentym
illions,
endangerment and the colonial
pros-
perity, for the
abolition of slavery and
the furtherance of the grand principle of universal
and recognised throughout E
brotherhood. Yet, despite these facts—fafcatcstsatrteenstnewdnbeyd
ur
the very existence of the human race upon the soil
of Ireland, facts which
will cause much of that
lustre
u\Npholochtlive vllerryesttamfuerofevEengland—spite of them
ever as a halo of immor-
tality
all, the Irish arnarchists are afoot, the pike already
gleams in the hand of the peasant, steps are every
day taken for securing the more effective outburst of
the rebellion. The language borne to us across the
Channel is characterised by that profound ll niness
which has in it a forboding of disuter. Su

enice is a Republic. Venice is once again a
Republic. The Tait intelligence from Italy confirms
a former report to that effect. The Austrians have
been expelled from Venice, a Republic proclaimed,
a Provisional Government appointed, and the Aus.
trian soldiers and cmp/oyds compelled to depart
from Trieste: Thus it is evident that the liberal

movement is making itself felt in states which have
I been hitherto completely subjugated ; thus it is evi-
dent that Austria finds herself powerless to retain
her heretofore most tenaciously cherished conquests.
Venice is a Republic, an Italian Republic—Venice,
which has long ceased to be Italian even by " geo-
graphical expression."
In the multitude of great events now daily tran-
spiring, the importance of each one individually is
hardly considered. It is hardly to be expected, in-
deed, that an insurrection or even a revolution can
excite the same attention now as formerly, now that
we hear of a similar movement almost by every post.
Nevertheless, if we pause to consider them separately,
every European kingdom has some distinct and indivi-
dual claim on our sympathy, every phase of the great
movement is invested with a powerful and peculiar
interest. When Pius first manifested his enlightened
patriotism and univeral philanthropy, when
Reme gave the first and irresistible impetus
to the sublime work of regeneration and re-
form, we experienced a most lively satisfaction
that " the Eternal City" should distinguish herself as
the prime motor in so grand a cause. And our satis-
faction in this particular was occasioned not so much
by the historical reminiscences of Rome as by her
present position. We were peculiarly rejoiced that
the spirit of independence should make itself mani-
fest in a religious city, under the auspices of a reli-
gious prince, because (no matter though that religion
differed somewhat from our own) we hailed such a
manifestation as a guarantee that religion and liberty
would be no longer, as too often supposed heretofore,
antagonistic, when an hostility to tyranny has degene-
rated into sacrilege, and an assertion of popular rights
seemed incompatible with due reverence to things
spiritual. Thus the liberalism of Rome inspired us
with peculiar exultation, but when the acclamations
of freedom resounded through France, we found new
cause for interest in a retrospect of the past. The
eager anxiety and varied emotions with which we had
perused the records of a former revolution were all
revived. Again we felt a similar admiration to that
with which the redeeming traits of those terrible
chronicles bad inspired us, while the abhorrence and dis-
may with which the crimes that disgraced the cause of
liberty had filled us, gave place to the most profound
and lively satisfaction that the new revolution should
be immaculate of blood: It is unnecessary to parti-
cularise the various causes which have rendered the
emancipation of every successive kingdom in which
the spirit of nationality has manifested its existence
the object of some especial and paramount gratifica-
tion. It is unnecessary to particularise why the
mighty impulse now agitating Allemania, why the
concessions wrested from absolutism at Vienna, why
the dark storm gathering over Russia, why the re-
surrection of Poland from the very grave, and why
similarly marvellous events transpiring in innumer-
able other places, are each and all possessed of some
strong a claim upon our sympathy and consideration.
And Venice also is possessed of similar
claims. The emancipation of Venice is a cause of
peculiar gratification. It is important in a political
point of view, for the assertion of its nationality,
by a State hitherto so entirely under the domination
of Austria, cannot fail of exciting immense in-
fluence as an encouragement to the other Italian
States, and a warning lesson to the powers of
Vienna. The emancipation of Venice is also in-
vested with especial interest on account of the
historical reminiscences and poetical associations con-
nected with it. The whole history of Venice, its
origin and its very position, is one continued chapter
of romance. To us, inhabitants of London, the
idea of a city where the only sound that disturbs
the streets is the plashing of oars, and the song of the
gondolier, is marvellous and almost incompre-
hensible : while the cause of its peculiarity of posi-
tion as a state founded by an expatriated race,
seeking refuge from their oppressors, being denied any
place of exile on the face of the earth, and being forced
to build for themselves a retreat in the very bosom of
the waters, invests it with a peculiar interest. and a
certain sublimity. Venice has consequently been the
favourite scene of the dramatist, the romancist, and
poet, and has hence necessarily become a subject of
universal and undying interest ; for as BYRON has
beautifully observed, speaking of this very city and
the imaginary inhabitants which people it—
`• The beings of the mind are not of clay."

They are essentially immortal, and the interest with
which they invest their dwelling place is consequently
increased. But, apart from the adventitious charm
which fiction has bestowed upon it, the whole history
of Venice is full of attractions. Amid the rise and
fall of monarchies its republicanism remained in.
violable ; not but what we are inclined to think re-
publicanism superintended by a Doge and a Council
of ten as very different from that now advocated
by a Provisional Government, nevertheless it must
have been infinitely preferable to the domination of
Austria; for however arbitrary or tyrannical the
Venetians may have found their republican rulers,
" their tyrants, then, were still at least their coun-
trymen." According to the author of " Coningsby,"
we English are now possessed of a " Venetian Con-
stitution ;" if so, we can hardly do better than desire
for the Venetians a speedy restoration to their ancient
form of government. However, in the mean time
(as we are not quite clear as to the truth of the pre.
raises), we will be satisfied with the restoration of

the Venetian Republic, and content with the installa-
tion of a Provisional Government in place of a Doge.
Quite content, and even rejoiced, are we in the sub-
stitution, because although now, as heretofore,
" The widowed Adriatic mourns her lord,"
no longer now, as heretofore (let us hope), will the
Venetians mourn their liberties.

We have received by the LLvant snail the Constan-
tinople journals to the 18th, and the Athens journals
to the 19th ult. In the former there is nothing of any
interest. By the Courrier d'Atla;ne.l, however, we
learn that the news of the overthrow of the Orleans
dynasty and the Guizot Cabinet had given the Liberal
party at Athens so much preponderance, that the
Ministers, after a discussion in the Senate, in which a
majority rejected a portion of the budget of the
Minister of the Interior as illegal, tendered their re-
signation to the KING. MM. TRICOUPI and CON-
DOURIOTTI had been successively consulted by the
KING, and on the 18th the latter had undertaken the
formation of a new Cabinet.

Intelligence from Lisbon to the 29th ult. has been
received.

A Ministerial crisis had lasted some days, i❑ con-
sequence of the resignations of Senor GORJA, Mi-
nister of the kingdom, and of Senor ALBINO, Minister
of Marine. It was supposed that the moderate mem-
bers of the Government would succeed in ousting
those from the Cabinet who were in favour of extreme
measures. The Conde Ds TISoMAR (COSTA CABRAL)
had openly opposed the violent counsels of JOSE
CABAL, his brother.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The following decree has been issued by the Pro-
visional Govenment, dated March 31 :
" Citizens,—The revolution of February has enfran-
chised our noble country. Republican France has
nothing to dread, but she ought to place herself in a
position to provide for all the eventualities of the future;
she is bound to see that the colours which the French
people has displayed shall remain above all attacks. The
National Guard and the army, united in the same senti-
ment, have that noble task to fulfil. The Provisional
Government desire to see the ranks of the army opened
to the ardent youths who are attracted towards it by the
sublime enthusiasm of patriotism. In consequence they
have determined to free voluntary enrolments from the
trammels of the too prolonged duration of military
service, and have decreed—
" Art. 1. Every Frenchman shall be permitted to
contract in that portion of the service which he chooses
a voluntary engagement, the length of which cannot be
less than two years.

" Art. 2. In no ca.s.! can the volunteers who have so
engaged themselve* be placed in nun activity without
their consent."

In consequence of the postponement of the general
elections new instructions have been addressed by
the Minister of the Interior to the Commissaries of
the departments. The Minister of the Interior re-
commends to the mayors to employ all their solici-
tude in preparing the lists, and in ascribing all the
citizens who may appear to them to possess the con•
ditions of electoral capacity. He at the same time
recommends the Commissaries of the departments, if
necessary, to adopt
_decrees having for object to

obviate the inconvenience which the vote in the
chef-lieu de canton would present. Thus the circular
of the Bth March, enjoining that the vote should be
made at the chef-lieu, is recalled. They are cantons
whose great populations require that they, shall be
divided into sections, and each section is to contain
at least 4,000 inhabitants. The Commissaries of
the departments are to consult the wants of the
localities placed under their administration, and to
settle the choice of the communes in which the votes
of the sections are to take place. The results of the
votes are to be sent to the chef-lieu. The Commis-
saries may also group several communes, in order if
necessary to form only one section.
The National says—" A journal of Thursday
stated, and several of yesterday's journals repeated,
that General CAVAIGNAC had refused to accept the
office of Minister of War, which had been offered to
him. We can confidently affirm that, up to four
o'clock yesterday afternoon, no such news had reached
Paris."

The reception of Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN and his com-
panions has been postponed by M. LAMARTINE to
this day.
On the subject of this deputation the Univers, the
organ of the Roman Catholics, says—
_ _ _

" We learn that Messrs. S. O'Brien, Meagher, and
O'Gorman, delegates of the Young Ireland party, have
arrived. These gentlemen, who were the bearers of an
address voted by the partisans of an armed insurrection
against England, were to. be received yesterday by the
members of the Provisional Government. It is an-
nounced that the clubs are preparing to make a demon-
stration in honour of the three delegates, in the hope of
thereby aiding the emancipation of their country.
We fear that this project will not be approved by the
friends of Ireland. The first disadvantage of it might
be to cause serious embarrassments between our Go-
vernment and England. Next, the delegates of Young
Ireland only represent a small portion of Irish patriots.
The enterprising spirit and audacity of the partisans of
revolt make them dangerous; but they have no chance
of making their cause triumph, and their temerity can-
not fail to lead to the complete ruin of their country.
Although few in number, they will engage in a move-
ment; but the great majority of the Irish nation, which
disapproves of them, will have to submit to the disastrous
consequences of their folly. The French patriots would
be most sorry, whilst believing that they serve Irish
nationality, only to serve a faction whose principles and
acts are rejected by Ireland."
Great excitement was occasioned at Lyons on the
24th ult. by a steamer called the Vautour being
seen in the river, coming from Valence, with a white
flag displayed. The people by the side of the river
had warned the captain to remove the flag, but he
took no notice. On arriving at the Quai de Charite,
at Lyons, the people immediately rushed on board
the vessel, seized the captain, and would have
ill-treated him, had not a company of the
National Guard appeared and taken him into
custody, together with all the crew and the
passengers. He was forthwith, conveyed to gaol,
accompanied by an immense crowd, and the
flag was seized and dragged through the
gutters to the Hotel de Ville. On inquiry it ap-
peared, from the captain's story, that the flag was
merely used as a signal, and this seemed to be proved
by the fact that it was bound by a red border, and
had the name of the steamer in the middle. The
captain, nevertheless, was detained in gaol, and M.
ARAGO, the Government Commissary, had to issue
a proclamation announcing that a judicial investiga-
tion would take place. The steamer was seized, and
a placard, with the words " Propriete Nationale," was
placed on it. After some hours' agitation caused by
this event, order was re-established.

The central committee of the clubs of Rouen met
on the 29th ultimo, and came to the unanimous reso-
lution that a person named PAUMIER, president of the
club de Maromme, having in the late disturbances
done all he could to mislead the workmen of the
town, was unworthy to form part for the future of
any club, and in consequence should be expelled.
This decision was adopted in the evening in the
various clubs, and a notice of the same transmitted to
the Goverment Commissary of the department.

The Indicateur of Bordeaux states that M. CLE-
MENT Tnoaiis, one of the editors of the National,
having been appointed by the Government Commis-
sioner-Extraordinary to investigate the circumstances
connected with the non-reception of M. LATRADE in
that city, immediately on his arrival proceeded to
make the necessary inquiries. Finding that the pre-
sence of M. LATRADE at Bordeaux would be a cause
of great irritation, M. THoMAs came to the conclu-
sion that it would be advisable to remove him. As
the minutes showing that M. LATRADE was exceed-
ingly unpopular were signed by all the authorities,
M. Thomas drew up an order appointing M. CHE-
VALIER Commissary of the Department. This docu-
ment was already printed and was on the point of
being made public, when M. LATRADF, on the 27th
ult., intervened, and refused to permit that course to
be adopted. The whole matter was then thrown
open again, and at last M. THOMAS took his depar-
ture for Paris to lay the matter before the Govern-
ment, causing M. LATRADF to accompany him to
Liboune. So the matter rests at present.
The following letter from General A. DE CHA
RANNES, late aide-de-camp of King LOUIS PHILIPPE,
dated, Paris, March 31, has just been published in the
Journal des Deba

" Sir,-Several journals have announced that King
Louis Philippe was in treaty for the purchase of a
considerable estate in England. That assertion is
absolutely false. In addition, I can affirm, and all the
persons who have known the affairs of the King will
affirm with me, that during the eighteen years of his
reign King Louis Philippe.t never invested any sum of
money whatever in foreign countries ; and that, unit-
ing the future fortunes of his family with that of
his country, he placed all his fortune on the soil of
France. The result is, that far from being able to pur-
chase estates in England, he lives from day to day, and
in the most straitenedcircumstances, at Claremont
under the hospitable root' of King Leopold. These facts
have already become matters of history-they are in-
c It is in the name of truth, which every one
has a right to, and of which the independent press is the
r::!'uf.,,e, and which every, man of honour ought to pro-
claim, when he is able to rectify an error, that
I call on you to publish these observations.-I am,
Sir, c.,& &c.
" A. DE CHABANNES."
BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 1.
Bourse, and and but
°'ci
littlecK. alteration
-Tiilshbeen a quiet day at the
has been manifested in
prices. The Three per Cents. opened at 401., and after
being done at 39f., closed at 391. 25c., being 75c. lower
after r touching ing
Brink 5
of France
the day before; the Five per Cents. opened at 60f.,
and 581. 75c.,
sc"closed at 591. 25c., being
also Shares were firmer to-
day, closing at 1,1751., or 251. higher; Bons du Tresor
also seemed less offered, and the loss was only 44 per
cent. in place of 46, which it was the preceding day;
Belgian Fives have in great measure recovered from the
depreciation caused by the late attack on the territory
by the volunteers coming from France, and closed
at 511., or lif. better; the Belgian Two-and-
a-Half per Cents, were done to-day at 261., being
a fall of 10f. since the 20th of March, when they
closed at 36. The miscellaneous securities are
lower ; Piedmont have gone down 10f., closing at 7001.;
Obligations de la Ville, 51, at 9851. ; Caisse Hypothi-
caire 10f. at lO2f , and Spanish Threes, lit: at 19if.
Rothschild's Receipts closed at 55f., being 10f. lower
than when done a fortnight back. The divinend of 251.
was detatched to-day from the Q
closed at 7351., being a fall of uatre Canaux, which
2151. Railway Shares
have varied but little, and in general present a slight
improvement. Orleans closed at 525 f., being 21. 50c.
better ; Rouen at 3421. 50c. better ; Strasburg at 338 f. '
e
75c., or 31. 75c. better • Nantes at 3301., and Lyons, at
291 f. 25f., both If. 25. better ;
to 75f. The charge for obtaining Marseilles 12f. 50c.
lower, at 200 f., and Northern lf. 25c., at 221 f. 25c.
French gold is a shade dearer to-day, being from 701.
specie for the 1,0001.
note is 15f. ; and the English sovereign is worth from
26f. 50c. to 26f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Appal. 1.
Boulogne and Amiens, -Namur and Liege, 11/2....
Northern of France, 2%-Orleans and Bordeaux, 134-Paris
and Lyons, 114-Sambre and Meuse, 41/2.

RUMOURED CHARTIST MEETING AT KENNINGTON
COMMON THIS DAY.--It was very generally asserted
that a conclusion had been come to by the meeting as-
sembled on Kennigton Common yesterday, that those
present should again meet to-day,
for the purpose of
exercising their suffrages in the election of fit and
proper delegates to represent the Chartists of Lon-
don in the forthcoming National Convention. Upon
our arrival at Kennington Common
we found that there
was nothing whatever to lead to the slightest conclusion
that the peace of the district was
numerous assemblage is Expected, and wo earnestly
dis-
turjed. We believe that on iyeanianaayb about to bae
very Lord Charles James Pox Russell,
8.. d .ordshire in the last l'arli
trust that efficient measures will be adopted to prevent
the recut rence of such disgraceful outrages as took place
upon the occasion of the late meeting.
who represented
to make respecting the
William Gos-ett, C G IT
i--.... as Sergeant-at Arms in at-
tendance on the House of Commons; subject, however,
to any arrangement
which the House may think fit
duties a
uronedn
emolumentst,‘v il will succeed
o f
the
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office.

The rumour which has been
going the round of
our contemporaries, relative toLord.liardinge succeeding
of
to the important appointment Commander-in-Chief,
is, we believe, entirely without foundation. his Lord-
!hip will probably be
appointed to a high situation,
where his military experience will render his services
valuable to his couutry•—wrr
nikd Service Gazette.

SPAIN.

INSURRECTION AT MADRID.

Madrid papers of the 27th ult. have been received.
An insurrection of a serious character broke out in
Madrid on the evening of the 26th. It would appear
that a plan had been formed to overthrow the
Ministry by means of an insurrectionary movement,
of which it was expected the military would have re-
mained passive spectators. The leaders of the move-
ment, having subsequently discovered that the troops
were detern)ined to resist, countermanded the orders
they had given to the people. The latter, however,
who had been wrought up to the highest pitch
of excitement, declared that they were be-
trayed, and that they would fight even with-
out leaders. They accordingly assembled about
six o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th,
and commenced erecting barricades, which were
completed in an incredibly short space of time. The
fighting commenced at seven o'clock, and continued
without intermission until three o'clock in the
morning, when the military were successful on all
points, and a number of the insurgents were captured.
Two hundred persons, civilians and military, are said
to have been killed, and a vast number wounded. An
English gentleman, named WiIITWELL is said to be
amongst the victims.
The QUEEN-MOTHER quitted Madrid during the
disturbance.

Up to the hour of post on the 27th the attack had
not been renewed, but much excitement prevailed
amongst the people.
Several arrests have taken place, and among those
arrested is, it is said, Senor Escosuul. The fighting
was desperate—the military, who far outnumbered
the insurgents, suffered severely. The news of the
arrival of the Due DE MONTPENSIER hastened the
outbreak.

The Gaceta of the 27th publishes the following
decrees:—

" In use of the prerogative which belongs to me with
reference to the 26th article of the constitution, and in
conformity with the report of my Council of Ministers,
I hereby decree as follows:
" Single article—The Legislative Session of 1847 is
declared to have terminated.
" Given at the Palace, the 26th March, 1848.
" Signed by the Royal hand.
" Countersigned by the President of the Council of
Ministers, " Duke of VALENCIA."

" In conformity with the report of my Council of
Ministers, and in use of the authorisation conceded to my
Government by the law of 14th of the present month, I
hereby decree as follows:
" Single article—The guarantees established by the
7th article of the constitution are declared suspended
throughout the whole monarchy, with reference to what
is prescribed iu the Bth article of the same.
" Given at the Palace, the 2Gth March, 1848."
(Signed and countersigned as the above.)
" MINISTRY OF WAR.
" ROYAL ORDER.

"As the criminals of the offences against the safety of
the state committed in this capital yesterday ought to be
tried by court-martial, according to the law of the 21st
April, 1821, the Queen (whom God preserve) has
thought fit to command that your Excellency imme-
diately name the corresponding court for that purpose.
" God preserve, &c.,
" Madrid, March 27, 18(28i.gned) " FIGIJERAS.
"To his Excellency the Captain General of New
Castile."

The CAPTAIN-GENERAL just alluded to has issued
the following

" PROCLAMATION.

"I, Don Jos4 Fulgosio y Villaviciencio, Major-Gene-
ral of the Army, Captain. General of New Castile, &c.,
hereby order and command—

" Art. 1. The capital of the monarchy is declared in a
state of siege.
" Art. 2. Those who have arms, of whatever kind, and
munitions, shall deliver them under receipt in the term
of 24 hours in the house of the police commissary of
their respective district.
" Art. 3. The heads of families shall give notice
within the same term to the said commissaries of the
persons who they may have in their house not belonging
to their family, or who may be without the proper certifi-
cate or passport.
"Art. 4. The collection or meeting of more than five
persons together in the public thoroughfares is for-
bidden.

" Art. 5. The use of arms of every kind, and the
giving of any cries that may disturb order, is also for-
bidden.

" Art. 6, Those who in whatever manner may dis-
turb tranquillity, and those who should contravene what
is disposed in this proclamation, shall be judged by
the permanent court-martial, as criminals, of an at-
tempt against public order and the internal safety of the
state.

" Art. 7. Notwithstanding the preceding dispositions,
the ordinary tribunals and other v.uthorities shall conti-
nue in the free exercise of their functions with reference
to the law.

(Signed) " JOSE FULGOSIO.
" Madrid, March 26, 1848."
The following ;is the Government_ account of the
suppression of the insurrection

" MINISTRY OF THE HOME DEPARTMENT.

" CIRCULAR.

" The insurgents succeeded, after the departure of
yesterday's mail, in disturbing the order which had been
preserved unaltered till now. Some groups, not nume-
rous, composed chiefly of bad characters and vagabonds,
excited by drink and the money distributed among them
made some discharges in order to alarm the population.
But the Government, which for some days past was
spying out their steps, was duly warned, and in a few
moments displayed the forces necessary to chastise them,
giving them a hard lesson which they will not soon for-
get. The troops of the garrison have conducted them-
selves with a daring and bravery superior to all praise,
thus giving a new proof of their love to the throne of
Donna Isabel I 1., the constitution of the state, and public
order.

" The people who a few hours before enjoyed tran-
quilly the promenades and pleasures to which the day
invited, conducted themselves with admirable good
sense, leaving the insurgents isolated, who in a
few hours were dislodged from all the points
where they presented themselves, with consider-
able loss, many of them remaining in the power of
the troops. From after ten at night the whole popula-
tion returned to its ordinary state of calm, and at this
hour (twelve at night), no other vestige remains of this
attempt, but that of the casualties which it has occa-
sioned. It would not be surprising if the enemies of
order should think of reproducing in that capital (that
is, the chief town of the province the political chief of
which is addressed), the same scenes of tumult and
scandal. Should it be so, the Government promises
itself that those authorities and the whole army well
know how to imitate the brilliant conduct of this garri-
son, and that order will be maintained at all cost, no
means being omitted that are within your reach, and that
of the military commander, whom you will immediately
make acquainted with this communication, which he will
receive by his own channel.
"The which I say to you by royal order for your un-
derstanding and due effects. God preserve, &c.,
(Signed) " SARTORIUS.
" Madrid, March 26, 1848."
LATER FROM MADRID.

We have just seen the following extract from a
letter, dated Madrid, March 27, two o'clock in the
afternoon. It was expected that the fighting would
be renewed in the evening :
" Last night there was much bloodshed between
the people and cavalry—the QUEEN was fired at twice,
which we heard was the commencement. The firing
continued from 5 to 11 at night. All the shops are shut,
and litters containing the wounded are constantly
passing. The large square of the Palace is full of
troops ; indeed, it is surrounded on all sides by
cavalry. The fighting was expected to recommence
at eleven to-day. CHRISTINA has fled. Picquets of
soldiers are stationed at every street; but they
kept the infantry in last night, as they feared
the would join the people. The moment the
row began all the gates of: the city were shut
and hundreds remained out. Many women were'
killed on the balconies as they were throwing furni-
ture and heavy articles on the soldiers. I have just
heard two or three shots fired in different directions.
Every one is in great excitement —the people asking
arms of every house."

DEATH OF MADAME GUIZOT.—We regret to
hear of the demise of the -venerable Madame. Guizot,
mother of the ex-President of the Council of the late
French Administration. The melancholy event took
place at seven o'clock, P.M., on Friday, at the residence
of M. Guiz )t, at Brompton. We understand that the
much-esteemed deceased had gone through the confu-
sion of the recent French revolution with surprising for-
titude, considering her age (85 years) ; and it was a
great source of happiness to M. Guizot to daily witness
the equanimity of his mother's mind. So little was the
distressing event anticipated, that on several days, at the
commencement of last week, the talented exile dined
with some of his private friends. On Thursday
Madame Guizot was unwell, and the professional
services of Dr. Holland were resorted to, and that emi-
nent practitioner attended on the lamented lady up to
the time of her dissolution. The Mdlles. Guizot have,
we learn, removed to Dr. Holland's from the scene of
their domestic bereavment.
DEATH OF JOHN BURKE, ESQ.—A correspondent
writes as follows :—" John Burke, Esq., author of the
Peerage, Baronetage, &c., died on Monday last at Aix-
la-Chapelle. An ardent supporter of the rights of his
countrymen, Mr. Burke was also a warm advocate for
the diffusion of civil and religious liberty."
THE YORK CONVICTS.—YORK, FRIDAY.—George
Calvert and James Mellor are reprieved; and the exe-
cution of Michael Stokes respited till the 13th of May,
that tho opinion of the Judges may be taken out the
objection to the indictment —Leeds Mercury.

GERMANY
AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

Intelligence has been received from Berlin to the
30th. ult.

According to the Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette,' the
Russian Minister left Berlin on the 29th. This in-
telligence is confirmed in the following letter from
Berlin published by the Dusseldorf Gazette :
" The situation of affairs grows more threatening
every day. In consequence of a dispatch which we re-
ceived from Berlin, the Russian Minister to our Court,
Baron Von Meyendorff has left Berlin with his family,
and all the members of the Russian Embassy. A war
with Russia seems as good as declared. The 2d Regi-
ment of Infantry stationed at Stettin, has been ordered
to the frontier. The rest of the Poles recently amnes-
tied departed on the 29th, with arms, for Posen. M. de
MierOslawski, who is amongst them, declared that all
the refugees in England, France, and Belgium, would
arrive forthwith. Every one seems persuaded that it
will be possible to assemble in the Grand Duchy an
army of 40,000 men. If Sweden profits by the fa-
vourable movement and enters into Finland, it seems
doubtful whether Russia can resist for any extent of
time. The next danger is for the latter's seaports,
which are exposed to the attacks of the Russian
fleet. The difference with Denmark has this bad
result, that the Baltic is for a moment closed to the
ships which England or France may think fit to send.
Denmark can certainly not resist, but all depends on the
conduct which those two great Powers will pursue. It
has long been the design of Russia to acquire a footing
in Germany, and her somewhat obsolete rights to the
succession of Holstein seemed to her the readiest way of
realising her views. The nation which will possess the
Duchy, whose seaports are the best of the German
coast, becomes necessarily a maritime power; and Russia,
in addition to the recent movement of reform, which
must be particularly disagreeable to her, has a great
many reasons for preventing Germany becoming a ma-
ritime nation. By language, customs, and origin the
duchies belong to Germany, with the exception of a
small portion of Schleswig and Jutland, inhabited by
the Scandinavian race. In the natural course of events
the actual reunion of the duchies to Germany is inevit-
able, and the present moment appears more favourable
than any other. A general movement for the reconsti-
tution of the Teutonic unity pervades, at the present
moment, the whole territory of the former Germanic
empire, and all symptoms point to absorption in one
great unity of all the little nationalities which have grown
up on the ruins of the empire of Charlemagne."
So unpopular had Count AnNtm rendered himself
by his former despotic acts that the KING has been
obliged to dismiss him, and to reconstitute his Mi-
nistry as follows :
M. CAMPLIAUSEN, President of the Chamber of
Commerce, at Cologne, President of the Council.
M. lIANSEMANN, President of the Chamber of
Commerce at Aix-la-Chapelle, Minister of Finance.
M. BEURNEMANN, MitliStekr Justice.
Baron ARNIM, formerly Pi scan Minister at Brus-
sels, and at Paris, Minister ot-Toreign Affairs.

M.
.D'AUERSWALD, a manufacturer at Creveld, and
the most eminent Member of the late General Diet,
Minister of Interior.
General DE REIER, Minister of War.
The appointment of Minister of Public Worship
remains unfilled.

The KING started for Potsdam as soon as he had
completed the formation of this new Ministry.
A letter from Berlin, of the 25th ult., states that in-
telligence received from Pomerania and Brandeburg
shows that these countries are opposed to what
has been done at Berlin. A proclamation has been
published in Pomerania, protesting in strong terms
against the right arrogated to itself by the ca-
pital to demand concessions and cause the sol-
diers to be sent away, without the co-operation
of the provinces. In consequence deputies, it says,
are to be named on the 17th of April, to proceed
on the 18th to Berlin, and declare to the Presidents of
the Burgesses-Ist, that Pomerania does not acknow-
ledge their right to act as they have done. 2d, that
she has seen with regret the massacre of the troops,
who only obeyed the KING'S order. 3d, to demand
from the said Presidents if they are inclined to return
to their sentiments of fidelity to the KING, and if they
wish to co-operate with Pomerania in restoring order
in the country.

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