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of his ability, his zeal, his talents, his patience, his
fortitude." That alone would be a memorable
panegyric. But Lord HARDINGE was yet more
fortunate in the commentators upon his Asiatic
career. Sir ROBERT PEEL, by a felicitous allusion
to the conduct of the ex-Governor-General on the
eventful night which intervened between the com-
mencement and the close of the battle of I'erozeshah,
elicited the cheers of his auditors, when he exclaimed
" The army felt the touch of ITARItY on that night !"
Nor were the rhetorical tones of Mr. MACAULAT
inaudible in reference to the good services performed
by Lord HARDI?iGIi on the ensanguined banks of the
Sutlej. After glancing at the satisfactory con-
summation of that celebrated campaign, the elo-
quent vindicator of HASTINGS spoke thus :—" My
chief reason," said he, " for rejoicing in these vic-
tories is, that I am deeply convinced that our
Government in India is a blessing to the human race,
and an honour to the English name !" Cordially can
those sympathise in the admiration of Mr. MacauLAT
who reflect upon the beneficent progress of the Eng-
lish rule in Asia, and who remember, above all, the
civilizing influences which have already been exer•
cised by the celestial dogmas of Christianity over the
worshippers of BRAMALI and Vistusu, over the fol-
lowers of ZOROASTER and MOHAMMED, over Parsees
and cannibals, over Bhuddists and fire-worshippers.
Our dominion in Elindostan is peculiarly the blessing
of the human race, and the glory of the English
name, because it is inextricably identified with the
diffusion of knowledge and the advancement of
religion.

Madrid papers of the 30th hare been received.

Senor OLozAGA was arrested on the morning
of that day by order of General NARVAEZ, and
committed to the military prison of the Guardes de
Corps. General IRIARTE has been dismissed from the
army.

MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 30.—The Three per
Cents., 211 cash ; Five per Cents., 131 buyers, 14
sellers ; Passive Debt, 4i buyers, 4-7,- sellers ; Coupons,
10 sellers.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS•

We have received the French papers of yesterday.

The elections of officers of the National Guard
commenced that morning and were proceeding
quietly, but considerable excitement would probably
mark their close. The struggle is between the mo-
derate and the ultra-Republicans, and its result may
indicate the tone and complexion of the elections of
members of the Constituent Assembly.
The following are the results, so far as they are
known in Paris last evening :
In the first legion, the moderate Republican, M.
DE TRACY, has beaten M. BASTIDE, the Government
candidate. In the second legion, M. CLEMENT
THOMAS, the Government candidate, has carried the
election. In the third legion, M. TIIIRION, the Go-
vernment candidate, will also be returned.
In the fifth legion, M. VAVARET has been returned
the Government candidate, without opposition.
In the twelfth legion, ➢I. BARBES, well known for
his extreme Republican views, has also been elected
without opposition.
The Provisional Government has given notice to
the workmen employed on the public works, that for
the three days during which the elections for the
National Assembly are to last, they shall have holi-
days, and be paid as if in full employment.
A decree has been issued by the Provisional Go-
vernment, by which " every master manufacturer
who will henceforth exact more than ten hours work
from his labourers shall be punished by a fine of from
fifty to one hundred francs for the first offence, and
of one hundred to two hundred francs for the second
offence ; and for a third offence, to imprisonment
for six months. The fines to go to the fund for sick

ouvriers."
Another decree orders that 180,000 scarfs, and
43,000 flags of the Republic, shall be immediately
made at Lyons.
The 3loniteur also publishes a decree, in which it
is stated, that " Considering the ordinary delay of
fifteen days granted to the holder of bills to exercise
his recourse by way of denunciation is insufficient in
the present circumstances, and that it is useful to
accord to him the means of facilitating the payment
by the endorsers and other obliges, decrees :—That
until it shall be otherwise ordered, the delay of
fifteen days, granted to the holders of commercial
effects, is prorogued for forty-five days, not com-
prising the delays of distance.' "
The following decree, by which the Government
takes the Paris and Orleans Railway into its own
hands, is also published in the .illoniteur:—
" According to the decree of the 30th of March, by
which the citizens Bineau and Didion have been named
extraordinary commissaries to the Orleans and Centre
Railways ;
" Considering that it is established that these two rail-
ways have no further sufficient power to assure the ser-
vice of transports ;
" Considering that, in such a state of things, it is the
right and duty of the Government -to take into their
hands, provisionally, the administration and exploitation
of these two railways, all reserve, however, being made
of the rights and interests of the shareholders and of
third parties ;
" On the proposition of the Minister of Public Works,
decrees:—
" Art. 1. The Railways of Orleans and of the Centre
are placed under sequestration .
" They will be administered and carried on under the
direction of the Minister of Public Works.
" Art. 2. The citizen Sauvage, engineer of mines, is
named administrator of the two railways—he will exer-
cise his powers under the inspection of the citizens
Didion and Bineau.
" Art. 3. From the present day all the direct and in-
direct produce of the two railways shall be received,
notwithstanding all Opposition and arrests, and shall be
applied to the uses of the enterprise."
[Member of Government.]
M. AUDE, the Mayor of Aix, has addressed a letter,
dated March 27, to Dr. VILLENEUVE, President of
the Association for the Defence of National and
Religious Liberty, announcing that M. Limns had
officially signified to him his intention not to offer
himself as a candidate for the post of Deputy to the
National Assembly.
The Provisional Government has determineadtththate
the Tuileries shall be converted into the place of
meeting for the National Assembly, and that
Chateau of Meudon shall be the new Asylum for
Civil Invalids.
The following article on the reply of M. LA3111{..-
TINE to the Irish Deputation appears in the Journal
des Debads :
"We have at all times and on every occasion ex
pressed our sympathy for the unhappy people of Ireland;
but at the same time every one knows our constant
opinion on that unfortunate chimera which is called
Repeal. No one will, therefore, be astonished that we
give our entire approbation to the answer of M. de
Lamartine. In the manifesto which he addressed last
week to the foreign powers, M. de Lamartine declared
that France would not let nationalities be oppressed
which wished to reconstruct themselves. Such or such
a party in Ireland may have imagined that a prin-
ciple applicable to Italy or Poland, or in one word to a
whole, distinct nationality, which had reason to fear the
intervention or oppression of a foreign power, might be
equally applicable to Ireland. This is evidently an error;
and for the interest of the peace of Europe, we congra-
tulate ourselves that an opportunity has been given to
the representative of the French Goverument of fixing
clearly upon this point the policy of the new Republic.
Besides this, we beg to observe that the deputies come
from Ireland have not come in the name of the whole
of Ireland. Not only do they not represent the whole of
that country, but they do not even represent the whole of
the Repeal party. We will not here attempt to point out
the different parties which divide Ireland. It would be
too long. We shall merely remind our readers that
among the Irish who demand the legislative separation
between their country and England, those who were yes-
terday at the hotel de Ville of Paris are only delegated
by a minority, and that at the present moment,
while Young Ireland is preaching war for the purpose
of obtaining repeal, Old Ireland continues to preach
peace and moral force. If the French Government
• should wish to come to an understanding with the Irish,
• it ought to commence by begging the Irish to come to an
understanding tin•-ing themselves. When the Italians
claimed and vindicated their independence, they did it
in the name of a principle of unalienable sovereignty;
but the party which in Ireland asks a local legislature,
acknowledges at the same time the sovereignty of the
crown of Great Britain. It is purely and simply pro-
vincialism, that is to say the very thing which is the
most contrary to what we are, and what we aro
doing; and the French Government, in making itself
the ally of Young or Old Ireland, will only make
itself the ally of a party. The words of M. de Lamar-
tine will produce, we are sure, a very great impression
on the whole of Great Britain, in Ireland as well
as in England. We fully approve of them, for our
part, because they contain the formal. assurance of the
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efferveselmce which is growing
greater and greater in Ireland; but we fear that they
will not have that power. We fear that before lung
that unhappy country will be the theatre of a bloody