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141'\-1.31)11, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1848.
Irish dernagoguetnhever take an answer wh,en,
ever that answer is in
proof of this was afforded bnegative. A ridiculous
rebellion upon the meegt.ingic,ihnne of the orators of
Intelligence
Irish Confederation,
on Wednesday evenin
i.gtence had just been
received from the French c
thus mentioned the rejoindere.Poft capital,
and Mr. DUITY
nister for Foreign Affairs, to the R.ee DrneipisUt°ant7Lolnt
" The answer of LAMARTINE had bee
like all state document, it meant nothinrgeeeivoedf itself
this evidence of self-sufficiency would be
ible, but coupled with the insane
announcement
of
Mr. Wiwass SMITH OltalEsr, it is absolumteel
yond endurance. " I have seen enough of Fran be'
says that most redoubtable person, " to convince"'
m
that she is- able and willing, if invited, to
send
e
50,000 of 'the , most valuable citizens to sup-
port the Irish nation in a struggle." And
what, it may very naturally he asked, has
induced the Honourable and sagacious mem-
ber for Limerick to arrive at this encouraging
conclusion after the contemptuous rebuff adminis-
tered to himself and his accomplices by Chinn.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINB ? What ? Why the
delivery of an address from an anonymous body
across the Channel, who are of such immense

portance, and of such European celebrity, that they
are described even by the magniloquent gentleman
of the Nation newspaper as " a certain Irish Club in
Paris." A certain Irish Club in Paris! Wonderful
source of inspiration—a concourse of mauvais sujets
in some obscure parlour—the Delphic oracle of in-
subordination—the Eleusis of bloodshed ! While
LA3IARTINE, the voice, the soul, the genius, and the
orator of French democracy, is enunciating before the
population of the whole hemisphere the determination
of Republican France to preserve a rigid neutrality
in reference to the internal dissensions of the United
Kingdom—a certain Irish Club in Paris, the creme
de la creme of the brawlers of that metro-
polis, encourages Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN
to the conviction that 50,000 valuable citizens
will proceed from that country, immediately they
may be summoned thence by some imminent catas-
trophe, to the assistance of the marauding demagogues
of Ireland. No credit whatever is attached to the
declaration of LAMARTINE, and an implicit reliance is
placed in the insinuations ,of " a certain Irish Club in
Paris !" Vice la bagatelle ! When, moreover, the
gaping audience in the music hall welcome these
sage assurances by long and vociferous acclamations,
Mr. PUFFY caps the cheering with this magnificent
Hibernian hyperbole. "I hear," says he, "in
that shout the tocsin of a new nationality !" In a
kindred spirit, the illustrious Mr. MITCHEL, the
genius of the United Irishman—that compromise be-
tween L'ami du peuple and the Pere Duchesne—
cautions the populace from being cajoled into the
purchase of cheap Birmingham guns. " They are
worse than nothing," said he, in the tone of a con-
noiseur, in such articles—" a good stick is a thousand
times better." In short, if we were to regard the
" spouters" of the Confederation as the real mouth-
pieces of the public opinion of Ireland, we should cer-
tainly regard that island as overshadowed by the
spectre of OLD WELLER. " SAMMIVEL," said that
renowned man upon a memorable occasion, speaking
at once from a recollection of the potations of Mr.
STIOGINS and from the sepulchral depths of his waistcoat,
" SIMMIVEL-1' II keep a pike!" The Young Irelanders
appear to have selected that announcement as their
watchword—"SAmmtvEL, I'll keep a pike." Mr. JOHN
MITCHEL indeed evinces such an extraordinary affec-
tion for pikes (of a certain kind) that he actually
apostrophizes as a true patriot a man named AHEARN,
because, forsooth, he has defied the authorities of

Limerick to prevent his selling pikes as useful pieces
of ironmongery. As far as the insurgent Dublinites
are concerned, the cry of Ireland is " A bas Washing-
ton! A bas Rienzi! A bas Verginaud! A bas O'Con-
nell! Vice Ahearn, the pike-seller! Vice Smith
O'Brien, the toast-eater ! Vice Mitchel," or anybody
else, who will talk treason and fan the flames

of insurrection with the foolscap of unprincipled
journalism ! As well, say we, condense all this cla-
mour into five syllables--" Vice la bagatelle
While the sedition-mongers are prospering to a
certain degree in some of the purlieus of Dublin, an
attempt is being made to agitate, to an unnecessary
extent, the public mind in our own vast and peaceful
metropolis. A grand demonstration was preparing
in favour of the Charter for Monday next, the 10th

instant, upon the morning of which day a procession
of great magnitude was to proceed from Kennington-
common to Westminster, for the purpose of present-
ing a petition to the Commons House of Parliament.
Last evening that procession was prohibited. A Go•
vernment Proclamation, signed by the Commissioners
of the Police of the metropolis, announced to the
people that the intended movement is in direct viola-
tion of an Act of Parliament, passed during the reign
of his late Majesty, King CHARLES 11., an Act
which forbids, under heavy and formidable penalties,
the presentation of petitions by " excessive numbers
of people." Before, therefore, the Kennington de-
monstration can be made with legality, that obstruc-
tive Act must be abrogated. There can be no
doubt whatever that there are heavy grievances
pressing upon the population, grievances which re-
quire an immediate removal, and for the ex-
pediency of which removal peaceful demonstra-
tions like the one projected for Monday,
would be eminently justifiable—supposing, in the
first instance, of course, that these demonstrations
were rendered legal. As matters stand, however,
at the present moment, there can be not one moment's
he.,itation as to the course to be adopted Ly the
SOVEREIGN, by the Government, by the Parliament,
and by the PEOPLE. Let the QUEEN, the Ministry,
the Legislature, and the Nation be but true to them-
selves, true to the incitements of their intelligence
and to the dictates of their patriotism, and the boastful
prediction of the eloquent Paymaster of her Majesty's
Forces, will be fulfilled—" Amidst the commotions
which everywhere surround us—amidst the crash of
foreign thrones—the Constitution of England will
remain immovable on its basis."

The Emperor of AUSTRIA is playing a double part.
He is attempting at one and the same time to wield
the sceptre of a constitutional sovereign and the
sword of an aggressive usurper. This is sufficiently
attested by the totally opposite lines of policy which
he is simultaneously pursuing towards his hereditary
and his conquered dominions—Austria Proper and
Austrian Italy. His recent proclamation to the
former breathes a spirit of conciliation and concession,
and is on the whole a document not unworthy of a
liberal and constitutional king ; towards the latter
his recent proceedings are written in letters of blood,
and are not unworthy of the most ruthless captains
of the sanguinary ages of uncivilization. That the
EMPEROR'S recent address to his hereditary dominions
is characterised by a conciliatory spirit is amply
demonstrated by the following passages. After pro-
claiming his earnest wish to maintain a general peace,
for the preservation of which some " indispensable
requisitions" must be maintained upon the frontiers,
he preceeds

" In regard to the measures which these requisitions
may necessarily call for, we shall turn to our faithful
states for their co-operation; and while we acknowledge
the right of those states to concert with us respecting
the bast method by which these requisitions can be car-
ried into effect with the least possible detriment to the
weal of our country, we promise to lay before them an
exact account of the state of things, by submitting to
them candid explanations respecting the requirements
and resources of the State, which will furnish the re-
quisite data whereupon they may ground their reso-
lutions,"

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

If this were all we found chronicled of the recent
proceedings of FERDINAND and his employe,,
might congratulate Europe on the possession of
we
an-
other constitutional sovereign and the liberal crusade
on the advent of another crowned supporter. But, .
unhappily, this is not all that we learn of the doings
ofut
the Austrian EMPEROR, as the sufferings of Italy can
testify. In order to preserve his Italian conquests,
he has had recourse to the most violent and unjustifi-
able means. He has endeavoured to quench the
dawning light of independence with torrents of blood ;
he has opposed to the constitutional efforts of patriots
anxious to assert their national freedom the brute
force of a rapacious and merciless soldiery. As a
pendant to the extracts we have just taken from the
EMPEROR'S address to his hereditary subjects, here is
a passage from a report descriptive of the conduct of
his soldiers towards the subjects of his Italian domi-
nions, "The late massacres at Milan," says this report,
dge:esb:fytohnedireverything horrible. The Croatians inur-
otTretdhechhiaind,riesnofbeyfoour en
young girls
rlesyiens their
oorfder t
o mothers, cut
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passageou,s , leaving i n
eve possess
braceletsthem-
selves and rings, pillaged and burned
rcAevuassttaraition and death to mark their
what
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E. of r thelEtßaolcyßi
.t, y
b. city."
ItVhee they
os
ufii not-
suppose that these atrocities were actually com-
manded by the
cietly demonstrate
subjects. I\l7reohveer,
what spirit of paternal lottilmkdiniind of warfare he had
ordered to be carried
They show in
treat his Italian sub)
vtahe they prepared
howd to
genuine were the liberal sentiments to which he has

recently given utterance, and what degree of sincerity
was contained in his address to the Hungarians and
his recent proclamation. 'The sheep's clothing was
insufficient to disguise the savage propensities
of in wearer, and neither can the concilia-
tory demeanour of a constitutional sovereign make
us unobservant of the grasping hand of the
absolutist, and the naked sword of the resolute
usurper. Towards his hereditary and his conquered
dominions the Emperor FERDINAND bears himself in
accordance to the different positions in which he
stands to each. To Austria he is learning how to
become a beneficent and liberal ruler—to Italy he is
resolved to be only a conqueror and an arbitrary
master. Hence the anomaly of his recent conduct.
Hence on the one hand he issues a liberal manifesto,
while on the other he affixes his signature to war-
rants of bloodshed and spoliation. The only remedy
for these incongruous proceedings is a simple one,
and the sooner it is adopted, for it must be adopted,
the better will it be for all parties. If to Austria
FERDINAND is become a liberal ruler, let him still be
the ruler of Austria; but if to Italy, FERDINAND is
become a tyrant and oppressor, let him give up

Italy. This is the only alternative by which the
peace and prosperity of Italy and Austria may be
ensured. If it be not forthwith adopted much
misery will for a time be the consequence, and the
end will inevitably be the same. Italy will ere long
be independent. Venice has already thrown off the
yoke, and every minor Italian state has made some
preparatory movement indicative of its coming inde-
pendence.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Provisional Government has published a decree
in the Moraleur, appointing M. ARAGO Minister of
War.

The .3loniteur also contains a decree relieving tax-
payers from the ndditional tax of 45 per cent., and
the other impositions which had been ordered to be
levied by the decree of the 16th ult.
A number of Swiss went up to the Government,
and, after expressing their sympathy and love for
France, noticed the expulsion of Swiss workmen
from the different workshops, and requested the
Government to explain to the French workmen the
injustice of their conduct. M. MARRAST, in reply,
said that the proceeding complained of was the error
of a day, caused by unenlightened distrust, some-
times by misery, and that the Government was
taking measures to prevent any violence from being
done to foreign workmen.
The elections for officers of the National Guard
have, generally speaking, terminated in favour of the
Republican candidates. The following are the results
of the elections :

In the Ist Legion M. DB TRACT carried the elec-
tion by a majority of upwards of 6,000 to 15 over M.
DE BA STILE, the Government candidate. In the
2d Legion M. C. THOMAS, one of the editors of the
National, had the majority ; but the majority not
being an absolute one, a second ballot becomes
necessary. In the
3d Legion—M. Thirion was elected.
4th Legion—M. Rammono de la Crousette.
sth Legion— M. Fevre'.
7th Legion--M. Dauphin. •
Bth Legion—M. Bourdon.
9th Legion—M. Yautiez.
10th Legion—.Nl. Hurgray. • 1
11th Legion—M. Quinet.
12th Legion—M. Barbes.
13th Legion (Cavalry)—M. Trelat.
In the 2d and 6th Legions the final ballot is yet to
take place. In general these elections are in favour
of the Republican candidates, but the opposition to
them was much more formidable than was antici-
pated.
The remaining elections for the colonelcies of the
National Guards have closed in favour of the Re-
publican party.
Paris was quite quiet, and the last accounts from
Lyons announce the complete restoration of tran-
quillity in that city.
The Constitutionnel says that it was by mistake that
the Gazette du Midi announced the retirement of M.
TILLERS from the contest for the department of the
Bunches du Rhine. M. Times, it says, adheres to
the terms of his circular, and is ready to accept
of the seat of deputy, if offered to him, " as a duty
the accomplishment of which no good citizen can
refuse."

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

----
" I have always placed national sovereignty in the
first rank of my political dogmas. I recognised its right
in the Charter of 1830. I neither can nor will dispute
its work in the Republic of 1848. I believed in consti-
tutional royalty with sincere and completely disinteres-
ted faith. I still believe that representative government
has given to the country thirty-four years of peace, of
prosperity, and of liberty, incomplete, it is true, but un-
equalledGod s
submit
i t
rn3 selfabandoned t
oit and
Franceour
has history. n
ot
defended However,ithe judgment of France and God, in order only to re-
member my duty towards the country and truth."
In conclusion, M. DE AIONTALEMDERT says—
" I have passed eighteen years under a monarchy in
saying that I believed in the truth above all and for all.
I hope to do the same under the Republic. If the Re-
public, in improving the lot of workmen, guarantees, like
that of the United States, the supreme benefit to reli-
gion, property, and family, it will not have a more sin-
cere partisan, a more devoted son than I am. If, on the
contrary, it follows the trace of its predecessors, if it
proceeds by the way of exclusion, of suspicion, of perse-
thfoern
cution, if it does not shrink from violence and confisca-
tion,
aint mayinstrhutiavieeumt oer for adversary or victim, but
never
The Lyonspapers •
contradict the account of the
revolution in
Savoy, and the proclamation of the Re-
public at Chamberry.
The following communication respecting the se-
questration of the Orleans and Vierzon has
been Railway
been sent to the Paris journals :-
I.hc Boards of Directors of the Orleans and Vierzon
Railway Companies met to-day, April 5, extraordini-
rily, to deliberate on the situation in which these com-
panies are thrown by the decree of the preceding day
placing the two lines under sequestration. They have
decided—first, that the shareholders shall be convoked
to a general meeting within the delay prescribed by the
statutes, viz., for the Orleans Company April 27, and
for the Vierzon Company the next day, the 28th. Se-
condly, that the removal of the sequestration within the
shortest possible delay shall be forthwith most energeti-
cally demanded from the Provisional Government.
Thirdly, that during the whole period of the sequestra-
tion every measure shall be taken by the two boards to
preserve intact the rights of the shareholders and such
third parties as may be interested in the matter.
" A. BANES,
"Director of the Orleans and Vierzon Companies."

BOURSE-Panis, TIIIIRSDA.Y, APRIL 6.
THREE O'CLOCK.- Matters have presented a better
aspect at the Bourse to-day; both the Rente and Rail-
way Shares have advanced considerably. The Three
per Cents. have risen not less than 3f. 50c., closing at
36g. 50c. ; and the Five per Cents. 2f., closing at 521.
This advance was caused by a rumour which prevailed;
that M. Fould, the banker, had been offered the post of
Minister of Finance, and that he was not averse to ac-
cepting it. Towards the end of the Bourse it was stated
that he had only been called on by the Provisional Go-
vernment to give his advice on certain points, and
that he had already sent in a report stating
his views. However this may be, the market was ex-
ceedingly firm, and less despondency was evinced than
for some days part. The orderly and tranquil man-
ner in which the election for the colonels of the Na-,
tional Guards were effected, had also a favourable
influence on the markets. Bank of France Shares
however, did not participate in the improvement of the
Rente; after opening at 1,060 t., and having been done
at 101. 90c., they closed at 10f. 75c., or sf. lower than
the day before. The Miscellaneous Securities also
remain heavy:-Qwatre Canaux are 35f. lower, at
GRs.smt.
a;
na and Obligationshighr,atsoi.. and
Belgian
de.laV i 1 I of.
Fes
lower,i
va t 9301.;
(1840),
24 better, at 50if.; Belgian Fives (1842) are at 49f.
In Railway Shares, Marseilles are 171. 50c. better, at
197 f. 50c.; Rouen, 15f. better, at 2901.; Orleans, 101,
better, at 420 f.; Vierzon, 71. 50c. better, at 200 f.;
Northern, 3r. 75e. better et 308 f. 75c.; and Nantes,
31: 75c. better, at 332 f. 50c.1 Havre are 201. lower, at
140 f.; Strasburg, 2f. 50e. lower; at 333 f. 75c.; Bordeaux
and Lyons are unchanged, at 382 f. 50c. and 2951.; Bons
du TriSior are something better to-day, closing at 48 per
cent. loss; French gold is at from 651. to 701.; the
charge for obtaining specie for the I,ooof, note, about
12f, to 151.; and the value of the sovereign 251. 50c. to
25f. 750.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 6.
auan,d4. Lyons, 2A-Faris
and Rouen, 1114 -s
Boulogne and Amiens, 6-Northern of France, 1%-
Orleans and Bordeaux, !la-Paris
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DEA.TII OF LORD RIVERSDALL—This nobleman,
an Irish peer,
,and a resident of the county Cork,
has paid the debt of nature, Ills Lordship was brother
of the Bishop of Killaloe, • .J 1