The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY
_EVENING,'~; MARCH 22, 1848.

upon the maintenance of our national renown for
hospitality, and dissipated, to a considerable extent,
the aspirations of those who are still solicitous to
witness the restoration of the Orleans dynasty, and
the re-establishment of French sovereignty. With
as much distinctness as was expressible by articulate
language the Noble Viscount declared that, so far
from any apology whatever having been con-
veyed to the Provisional Minister, M. DE LAMAR..
TINE, by the British Ambassador resident in
Paris, that distinguished Nobleman (the Mar
quis of NORMANEY) had intimated to the
Republican Government at the Hotel de Ville, the
determination of the English nation to display its
proverbial hospitality towards the ex-Royal Family
of France—coupling that intimation, however, with
the assurance that in all our dealings with the French
Government " the English Government would act
fairly, honourably, and openly, and that under no
circumstances would there be the slightest ground for
imputing our engaging in any intrigues hostile to the
present Provisional Government." Of the sincerity
of this solemn and explicit declaration, on the part of
the official representive of her Britannic MAJESTY, we
are satisfied there could be no doubt whatever, even
in the minds of the most suspicious members
of the Republican Administration. Throughout
the whole of the recent proceedings beyond the
Channel, before, indeed, the Reform banquet was pro-
jected in the Champs Ely.‹es, the posture assumed
by the Cabinet of St. James's has been altogether
inimical to the once powerful intriguers of the Tuile-
ries. If any country could rejoice more than another
in the humiliation of that Sovereign who had belied
his oath upon the Charter of 1830, who had disarmed
patriotism by duplicity, and democracy by corrup-
tion, who had forgotten the interests of his people
in the furtherance of his dynastic ambition, and had
bartered the hand, the heart, and the body of ISA-
BELLA out of the greed excited by a prospective diadem
—if any country, we say, could regard the abdication
and banishment of this perfidious potentate with supe-
rior gratification, that country would unquestionably
be England. Everybody recognised this. The Pro-
visional Government, headed by ALPHONSE DE Ls-
MARTINE saw it. A chasm had been yawning wider
and wider—for years—between the Orleans dynasty
and England : and now that that dynasty was
reduced by the great Revolution of February to
insignificance and impotence, it was manifest that
physically and morally that gulf of separation was
impassable. Whatever munificence therefore might
be evinced in England towards the fallen foes of the
United Kingdom, could only redound to the greater
glory of these islands as the abode of a magnani-
mous and relenting race—it could never by any
chance, the ;most unparalleled, lead to the
reconciliation of the policies of the Count DE
NEUILLY and 'Viscount PALMERSTON.
Intrigues hostile to the republican supremacy in
France could consequently originate alone in the
bosoms of the Orleans refugees. Such intrigues
were already suspected ; and although her MAJESTY'S
Secretary for Foreign Affairs asserted last night (in
answer to a question from Lord DUDLEY STUART)
that neither himself nor his colleagues were ac-
quainted, through any official source, with circum-
stances implicating the Duke and Duchess Da MONT..
PENSIER with transactions of a reprehensible cha-
racter, it is impossible to discard from the mind all
idea of plans opposed to the interests of the Provi-
sional Government being organized in the seclu-
sion of Claremont. Louis PHILIPPE has lived
for seventeen years in an atmosphere of
intrigue—plotting has become the very aim of his
existence—guile has become his element—scheming
is his profession—ingratitude is his most notorious
weakness —craft and adroitness are his most habitual
resources. Is it likely, therefore, that in an instant
he can, like one of the sparrows of OvID, undergo a
total metamorphosis ? Has he cast away his predi-
lections for conspiracy as entirely as he sung off his
wig when escaping ? Has he severed from his dis-
position his predominant tendency to delusion as
effectually as he shaved off his whiskers under a like
emergency ? On his reaching Newhaven the
ex-Monarch was clothed in honest duck and
dreadnought has he clad his intellect in like
manner with the simple and unaccustomed garment
of truth ? Is it probable ? Is it possible ? We
hear, in the first Great Revolution, of the hair of
.11ARIE ANTOINETTE being silvered in a single night
—in that awful night when she was detained in tha
grocer's shop at Varennes. Was the conscience of
Louis PHILIPPE with equal rapidity bleached to a
virgin whiteness by the agonies of his expulsion ?
O miracle of purgation—it it were so ! But that
such was the magical consequence of the catastrophe
we are more than doubtful.

Accounts just received from Madrid state that the
mission of General ZAREO DEL VALLES to Berlin has
reference to an Orleans project of restoration, al-
though the departure of that officer is ostensibly for
the purpose of inspecting the fortifications of Prussia
and witnessing military manoeuvres. It is asserted in-
deed that ZAREO DEL VALLES has received authority
from the Christina Cabinet to propose to the Northern
Powers, through the medium of the Prussian Govern-
ment, an active co-operation with Spain in an en-
deavour to revive monarchy in France, and to re-
elevate to the throne of that country the dynasty of
the Count ng NEUILLY. In consideration of this
assistance the envoy of the Duchess DE RIANZARES
was said to be empowered to require simply the re-
cognition of the sovereignty of Queen ISABELLA by
the Courts of Northern Absolutism. Poor
ZAREO DEL VALLES ! how he must have
opened his eyes when he reached Berlin ! And
if he went onwards to Vienna, how he must have
stared at the effigy of Prince METTERNICH swinging
before the porch of his residence I How he must
have rubbed his eyes, and, like the royal lover under
the influence of TIMOTHEUS,
" Sigh'd and look'd,
And sigh'd and look'd,
And sigh'd and look'd,
And sigh'd again."
Onwards, still onwards, good, stupid ZAREO DEL
VALLES, to the only resource of the Orleanists,—to
St. Petersburgh ! Bon voyage

In the intense interest and excitement occasioned in
this country by the startling events daily transpiring
in foreign nations, it is almost to be feared that we
shall forget our own necessities, It is almost to be
apprehended that public attention, being wholly ab •
sorbed by the gent movements now agitating not
France only, but the whole of continental Europe, we
may become negligent of humbler, but scarcely less
important matters nearer home. It is natural indeed
that we should sympalhise, and that too with no com-
mon sentiments, in the events just now agitating the
heart of Christendom, because our sympathy is elicited
not by external changes, not by temporary revolu-
tions in this or that kingdom, but by the animus
by which those movements were inspired. Our
warmest sympathies and our liveliest anxieties are
excited by the simultaneous demonstration of the
spirit of nationality in kingdoms where we had hi-
therto deemed it hopelessly inert. Nevertheless—
however great may be our sympathy for such
manifestations, however great may be our anxiety
for their ultimate success, we must not, in the
meantime, in our interest for the regeneration of other
kingdoms, forget the necessities of our own country•
men. We must not neglect our duties as citizens while
indulging our sympathies as freemen. In the univer-
sality of the interests of the philanthropist we must
not forget the more immediate duties of the patriot.
We have not, it is true, in this country any domestic
tyranny to overthrow, or even any monster griev-
ance to redress—the resolution of our ancestors, and
our own continued exertions, have happily prevented
or obviated any such necessity. But we have a
whole host of minor abuses which require reforma-
tion, and an infinite multitude of salutary
measures which it is most important and
smost= exigent should be immediately enforced.
Very multitude of these requests, however, in.
Cr4.4st tbe difficulty of the legislator while it 'at the
same time increases the necessity for immediate
interfeience on the part of the Legislature. It is
unnecessary just now to particularise all those
abuseS, which require immediate reform, and those
propositions for the amelioration of the community
which require instantaneous attention ; one, however,
and a not unimportant one, is more particularly
suggested to us by the publication of a recent report
of the Health of Towns Association. Of all those
domestic reforms, in the promotion of which we are
. solicitous that the public should not be remiss, there

is not one:of more importance than the reformation of
those evils which affect the sanitary condition of the
people. In the report of the Association now before
us the inestimable importance of the subject
is very fairly and very forcibly set forth. The fol-
lowing, for example, is a most emphatic epitome of
the evils consequent upon the present state of the
sanitary laws, and the contrary benefits sought to
be established by the Association. " It should be borne
in mind"—so runs the paragraph to which we have
alluded—" that, though not a charity, the Association
has the strongest claims on the charitable, for it aims
at preventing the ♦ery evils which charities are
formed to palliate. It would substitute health for
disease, cleanliness for filth, order for disorder, eco-
nomy for waste, prevention for palliation, justice for
charity, enlightened self-interest for ignorant selfish-
ness, and bring home to the poorest and meanest
among us, in purity and abundance, the sim-
plest blessings which ignorance and negligence
have long combined to limit or to spoil—Air, Water,
and Light." If such be the objects of the Associa-
tion, and if they be really qualified to promote
such objects, every true philanthropist must
sincerely wish them God-speed. In this, as in
every other great question, there must always be
a difference of opinion on minor particulars,
but, as regards the principle at issue, it is hardly
possible to imagine a doubt or objection that could by
any means be started, on the terrible state, not only of
destitution, but of degradation, in which the
poorer classes of England exist. There is un-
happily no possibility of entertaining two opinions
upon this Foint. That they do exist in an atmosphere
poisoned by noxious exhalations of all descriptions,
that their miserable dwellings are deprived of all
the necessary comforts of sufficient light and free
ventilation, is indubitable. This side of the question
admits of no doubt ; neither is it possible to con-
ceive any doubt as to the 'advisability and necessity
of some immediate amelioration. This is one of the
subjects of which we sincerely hope the public will not
be forgetful. The report to which we have already
alluded expresses a regret that the session of 1847 passed
away without legislation. We certainly coincide with
that regret, and earnestly do we desire to have no
similar cause for lamenting the present session.
There are other equally important measures, it is
true, which we are desirous of seeing speedily put in
progress ; yet this sanitary question has the right of
precedence, for, to quote again the words of the
report, " the improvement of the physical circum-
stances of the people is a necessary preliminary to
those higher reforms which the philanthropist and
the educationist desire to carry out."

A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 11th of
March says—" The Emperor has given instructions
to the Minister of War to place the troops on a war
footing. his Imperial Majesty feels bound to adopt
tkis step by the terms of existing treaties with other
Powers, and in the event of a necessity arising, for
affording all the protection in his power to the claims
of legitimacy against the destructive advance of
revolutionists an 1 anarchists."

A letter from Milan, of the 14th, states that the
Viceroy, having endeavoured to raise a loan of one
million livres (860,000 f.) received several refusals ;
but at length M. PONT' consented to advance it en
a mortgage of his villa of the Lake of Como, and on
his private estates in the province of Treviso.
The following is the official list of the new Ca-
binet appointed by the King of Sardinia :
The Count de Cesare Balbo, President of the

Council.
The Marquis Laurent Pareto, Minister of Foreign

Affairs.
The Count Vincent Ricci, Interior.

The Count Thaon de Revel, Finances.
The Chevalier de Ambrois, Public Works.
The Count Frederick Selopis, Justice.
General Franzini, War and Marine.

The Chevalier Charles Bon Compagni, Public In-
struction.
A new Ministry has been formed at Rome, of
which the following is a list :
Cardinal A ntonelli, President of the Council and
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
M. Iteechi de Ferrara, Interior.

Monsignor Morichini, Finances.
M. Minghetti, of Bologna, Public Works.
Prince Aldobrandini, War.
The Advocate Galletti, of Bologna, Police.
Cardinal Memofanti, Public Instruction.
Count Passolini of Ravenna, Commerce.

The Advocate Sturbinetti, Justice.
Letters from Rome of the 11th state, that the Con-
stitution, or Statuto, would be proclaimed on the 14th.
The Roman Bank had temporarily suspended its
payments, in consequence of not receiving the specie
it expected from different parts of Italy. This mea-
sure has spread the greatest alarm among the holders
of notes and the small traders. A sacrilege had been
committed in the church of St. Peter. The shrine,
containing the head of St. Andrew, with about
30,000 crowns' worth of jewels, was forced open on
the 10th, and the precious relics stolen.
The Risorgimento of the 11th inst. brings accounts
from Milan of the 14th. The Viceroy was to leave
on the following day for an estate in Germany,
whither he had caused to be conveyed his
library, museum, and all his private property. The
seal of the Government would, it was believed, be
transferred from Milan to Verona for greater security►
being there placed under the protection of the fortifi-
cations, which extend from Legnano to Saltsburg.
The correspondent of the Risorgimento observes, that
this retreat to the Adige was variously commented
upon, and that it was evident that Austria had re-
nounced all idea of attacking Piedmont.
The Parisi, Florence journal, of the 14th instant,
announces that M. LIROCHEFOUCAULD, Minister Ple-
nipotentiary of France, had resigned his post, after
sending in his adhesion to the Republican Govern-
ment, and taken leave of the GRAND Dvxa on the 13th.

Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived.

The Minister of Finance introduced, on the 14th,
into the Chamber of Deputies, a Bill for the settle-
ment of the floating Treasury debt, for which pur-
pose the Minister was to be authorised to create
Treasury bills to the amount of 80,000,000 reels,
divided into four series, and payable in twelve partiL,
from 1849 to 1852 both included.

The Gageta publishes the law granting dictatorial
powers to the Ministers, which has passed the Senate
and received the Royal assent. •
MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 15.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 23i for cash ; the Five per Cents., at 14i for
paper; the Debt, without interest, at 5; and the Coupons
at 10.

ARRIVAL of PRINCE JOINVILLE
AND THE DUKE D'AUMALE, AND

THEIR FAMILIES.

The Lords of the Admiralty have this morning
received intelligence of the safe arrival of the
Prince and Princess Joinville, with the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, and their families.
The unfortunate exiles arrived in the French
Government steamer Solan, at Dartmouth, yester-
day morning ; having started from Lisbon, on the
15th instant.

At half• past eight the Princes landed, and proceeded
in two carriages and four to the Totnes station of the
South Devon Railway, and took their departare for
Maidenhead, where, we understand, they posted to
Claremont.

The Prince Joinville and the Duke d'Aumale ar-
rived at Buckingham Palace this forenoon, and had
an audience with his Royal Highness Prince Albert.

HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH.
The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was
issued this morning:—
" Buckingham Palace, March 22, Nine A.M.
" Her Majesty's recovery goes on favourably.
" The infant Prineemeontinues well.

•
s"-14 JAMES CLARK,
41 ^ll- 0 41-CHARLES LOCOCK,-,
7.4 k Lt "CHARLES
; 44 ~„ itthi; FERGUSON.
" The next bulletin will be issued on Friday."

• IRELAND.
' (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Informations for sedition have been sworn against
Smith O'Brien, Mitchell, and Meagher, sen. War-
rants are issued.

BRICKS.—By an official return it Appears that the
duty paid on bricks in England, amounted in the year
1846 to 625,5071, and in the year 1847 to 672,7814,

AUSTRIA, GERMANY,
AND PRUSSIA.

Advices from Vienna, to the 16th have been re-
ceived. At that period the capital was tranquil.
A Provisional Council has been appointed, com-
posed of the following popular members :—The Baron
STIFET, Baron DOPPELIOT, STARNETZ, METER, and
ROBERTS. Count D'APPONI has resigned his office
of Grand Chancellor of Hungary.

The palace of Prince METTEENIcu, within the city
of Vienna, has not been injured by the populace. On
the 15th, however, the mob erected a gallows in the
front of his palace, and inflicted capital punishment
on the effigy of its most unpopular proprietor. This
exhibition continued during the entire day, nor did
the authorities dare to check it.

A correspondent writing from Vienna, of the 14th,
says :—" The Princess Metternich has taken her
departure along with the prince, her husband. The
Prince has defended his political system to the last
extremity. The States were not able to deliberate
in consequence of the cries of ' A has Metternich,'
which drowned the voices of the speakers. At nine
o'clock a deputation of the States having gone to the
palace to request of the Emperor to send away Prince
Metternich, the Prince himself came to them and
said, ' I have this moment placed my resignation in
the hands of his Majesty the Emperor.' Upon which
the deputation answered :—' We thank you, you
have saved the country.' " The accounts from
Prague and Graetz also speak of popular movements
in these cities.

The following Imperial decree was issued on the
14th :

" Considering the present political circumstances,
we have resolved to assemble around our throne the
States of our German and Sclavonian kingdoms, as
well as the central congregations of our Lombardo,
Venetian kingdom, by deputies*, irr order that they
may gi►e us counsel on legislative and administrative
questions. It is on this account that we have given
orders that that meeting shall take place on the 3d of
July next, or later if it cannot take place then.
" Vienna, March 14." "FERDINAND.

On the 15th the EMPEROR took a drive in his
carriage through several of the principal streets of the
capital, accompanied by his brother. The people
wanted to take the horses from the carriage and draw
it themselves, but at the express instance of the Era-
risaort they refrained from such an act of servility.
A letter from Hanover, of the 18th, says—

" A deputation from various states waited on the King
yesterday, to enforce the claims of the people to various
reforms. His ➢iajesty, after hearing several of its mem-
bers, asked time for consideration; but the delay was
objected to, as altogether needless, and in half-an-hour
the King's reply was made known to them. This im-
portant document grants, first, freedom of the press;
secondly, the convention and public deliberation of the
States; thirdly, an amnesty for all political offences. Nor
were the rest of their demands rejected, although the
royal reply, in that respect, is less specific, and therefore
less satisfactory."

Had King ERriisT hesitated to accede to the de..
mands of the people, it is said to have been their in.
tention to have expelled King ERNEST and his son,
and to have proclaimed Prince GRoaom of Cambridge
King of Hanover.
On the evening of the 16th disturbances again
broke out in Munich. A crowd assembled in front
of the KING'S palace, where they declared LOLA
Morriss was concealed. They broke the windows
and erected barricades. The troops were called out
to defend the palace, and several persons were
wounded.

The magistrates announced, by order of the Mi-
nister of the Interior, that LoLL MONTSB had
arrived at Carlsruhe, and had gone from thence to
Frankfort-on-the-Main.

At midnight the rappel was beaten throughout the
city. The prefecture of the police was attacked,
and the prisoners set at liberty. The troops arrived
at eight o'clock the following morning, and put an
end to the disorder. Another crowd then gathered
in front of the palace, but it was dispersed by the
military, though not till it had smashed the windows
of the
,palace. The students and the bourgeoioie
supported the military.
The Gazelle de Cologne of the 20th gives the fol-
lowing from Berlin :
" BERLIN, 111Ancst 18. The day has been a san-
guinary one. The crowd directed its steps towards the
square in front of the palace, in order to testify to the
King the gratitude of the people for the ordonnance
which convokes the States for the 2d of April next, and
grants the liberty of the press. All of a sudden some
individuals began to hoot and threaten the military.
'The dragoons charged, and were repulsed. They then
attacked the people with their sabres. The cry of
' Aux armes' was immediately to be heard on all sides.
Barricades were erected in the twinkling of an eye, and
the massacre between the citizeas and the military
commenced. The number of killed is computed at
upwards of 100 persons.
" Mlaca 18, Fill.: O'CLOCE.—Tho decree which con-
vokes the states of the United Diet of the 2d of April
has been received with enthusiasm, but that which has
tended most to calm the public mind is the news that
four Ministers have given in their resignation, namely,
De,Thile, Eichhorn, Savigny, and Bodelschwing. Some
add the name of Stolberg. It was also said that Messrs.
de Vinke, de Schwerin, Camphausen, and Auerswald
hare been recalled, and that the two latter have arrived.
lIALY-PAST SaYEN,
ETENlNG.—Tranquillity is re-
stored within the last half-hour. No more musket-shots
are to be hoard. Unfortunately ten cannon-shots were
*red, a measure which was not only imprudent, but
altogether useless.
" flee, PAST NINE P.M.—The disorders are not yet
at an end. A violent fire has at this moment broken out
in the quarter called Louisen. The town is so full of
soldiers and guard so strictly kept that the couriers
cannot leave. No newspapers are delivered in the city.
I learn positively that the garrison of Berlin is about to
retire. The Landwehr has been sent for to guard the
town."

The Cologne Gatelle also publishes the decree of
the King of PRUSSIA, dated Berlin the 11th,
convoking the Diet ; to which is annexed the fol-
lowing :
"Law concerning the liberty of the Press—the cen-
sorship is abolished, and all laws relating thereto are
abrogated. Offences of the press shall be tried by the
ordinary tribunals. The penal laws in vigour are
applied."
Here follow the provisions relative to the caution
money, the declaration, and other formalities having
for their object the giving guarantees to the State.
A letter from Berlin, of the lsth, says—
" Tranquillity is restored and confidence is reviving.
The decree of the king, convoking the United Diet for
the 2d of April, has been received with enthusiasm."
It is evident, therefore, that there is no foundation
for the rumour that the King of PRUSSIA had abdi-
cated, and had been driven from Berlin.
The Cologne Gazelle adds, that it had neither re-
ceived the Universal Gazette of Prussia, nor the
Zeitungshalle, two Berlin evening papers of the lath.
" COLOGNE, 19111.—The deputation sent to Berlin was
favourably received by the King, who gave it the most
formal assurances."

" BERLIN, 11.—The liberty of the press granted by the
King, and the convocation of the Diet for the 2d April,
have filled the people with joy. The crowd proceeded
to the Royal-square, to express its gratitude to the
Kiag. At two o'clock the King appeared at the balcony
and was enthusiastically cheered. In the meantime, how-
ever, a troop of dragoons arrived on the square, and the
people cried out, Back with the soldiers.' The Colonel,
M. de Priethwitz, resisted the injunction, and charged
the multitude, the dragoons making use of their swords.
It is said that the posts of infantry throughout the
capital likewise fired upon the people. The cry, 'To
arms!' then became general. The citizens dispersed
through the city, and the population tumultuously as-
sembled in the streets. Barricades were erected in every
direction, and a sanguinary collision ensued between the
inhabitants and the troops. Two soldiers were mas-
sacred on the square of Doenhof. An officer who had
fired on the people was likewise killed. The number of
dead at this moment amounts to about 100. If the gar-
rison does not evacuate the city to-night we may expect
a dreadful massacre. This instant I have heard several
volleys of platoon firing."
The Borsenhalle of the 18th has letters from Ko-
nigsberg to the 14th instant, which report great
disturbances in that city on the preceding day.
An immense concourse assembled around the
building in which the Municipal " Ressource" was
sitting, and refused to disperse when the meeting
broke up, although implored to do so by M. WALES.
RODE, a great popular favourite.
The enraged multitude proceeded to the police-
station, where they tore up the pavement,
b down, coke all the window, A
"
'ii'ed the stifitters in
pieces with - axes, }and-- vowed vengeance
against the Police President, LAUTEREACR,
a man universally detested. Thq gend'armerie
and police could not arrest the violence of the crowd,
and the soldiery were equally impotent. At length
a furious charge was made upon the people by the
Cuirassiers, who displayed the same brutal ferocity
as at Cologne. Many peaceable citizens Were
seriously wounded, and two killed. Several were
arrested and sent to prison.
On the 14th the tumult was still Tory alarming.

The address forwarded to Berlin by the Municipal
" Ressource" has provoked his MAJESTY to dissolve
the assembly definitively, and the framers of the
obnoxious document are to be prosecuted ; although
the proceedings are temporarily suspended by the
police.
A fresh outbreak occurred at Dresden on the 15th,
which was not wholly suppressed at the departure of
the courier.

The Leipsic Gazette of the 16th announces the
formation of a new Saxon Ministry, composed of
Dr. BEAux, Minister of Justice; Dr. Von DER
PFORDTEN, Minister of the Interior and (ad interim)
of Foreign Affairs ; M. GEORGI, Minister of Fi-
nance ; and M. Von HOLTZENDORF, Provisional
Minister of War.

The following is the programme of the new
Cabinet :

" PROCLAMATION.

" To the people of Saxony—Called by his Majesty
the King to the head of affairs, the undersigned have
unanimously agreed to the following fundamental prin-
ciples and measures, viz., the swearing of the troops to
the constitution; the abolition of the censorship for ever;
a press law without the system of concessions and
securities (cctutionen); reform of the legal system
on the basis of publicity and oral process; trial
of general offences by jury; reform of the electoral
law; recognition of the right of association, with pre
cautionary measures against abuse; legal arrange-
ment of ecclesiastical affairs in the spirit of toleration
and equality; proposal for the revision of the federal
tariff (Voreinzolltarif); co-operation for the timely for-
mation of the great German Confederation, and the re-
presentation of the people therein. His Majesty has
been pleased to approve of these measures and princi-
ples. Accordingly, the necessary steps will be taken to
carry them into effect.
" The Saxon people will duly appreciate the great im-
portance of the royal resolution, and do so by maintain-
ing tranquillity and order in the country.
(Signed) " Dr. BRAUN.
" Dr. Von Der PFORDTEN.
" GEORGI.
" Dresden, March 16, 1848."

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The following telegraphic dispatch was received in
Paris on Monday :

" METZ, MARCH 20, 10 O'CLOCK, ♦.M.
"THE COMMISSART OF THE GOVERNMENT TO THE

MINISTER OT THE INTERIOR.

" Intelligence reached Mayence the day before yester-
day that the people of Berlin, after vainly demanding
from the King the grant of a constitution, had attack. d
and overpowered the troops of th• garrison. The King
at first sought refuge in the fortress of Spandau, six
miles from Berlin, and afterwards fled in the direction
of Vienna. 1500 men were killed, and a greater number
wounded. This intelligence was brought to Meta by the
guard of the Bavarian stage-coach."

The Journal des Debats and the Constitutionnel ex-
press great doubts as to the authenticity of this in-
telligence, the only authority for which is the report
of the conductor of the Bavarian mail. The Cologne
Gazette, which has intelligence from Berlin to the
18th, says not a word of the flight of the KING ; and
by the steamer Queen of Scotland, which arrived at
Hull yesterday, from Hatiburgh, we have intelligence
from Berlin as late as noon on Saturday, at which
hour Berlin continued in tranquillity. The following
is the news from Berlin brought by the Queen of
Scotland :

" BERLIN, MARcI 18

" The deputation which arrived from Cologne for the
purpose of presenting a petition to the King returned to
that city at nine o'clock this morning.
"It is generally understood that the meeting of the
General Congress, originally determined upon for the
27th, will be held on the 4th of April.
"Berlin continued in tranquillity up to the departure
of the train for Hamburgh at noon of Saturday."
With regard to the state of Paris itself, a letter
dated Monday evening says—
This day has been the quietest we have passed here
since the glorious days of February. With the
exception of a procession of the chilionniers, and
another of the water-carriers, both of which
important corporations went this morning to the
Hotel de Ville to give their adhesion to the
Republic, we have had nothing in the shape of ex-
citement in our streets. Every one is absorbed with
the news of the revolution at Vienna, and the
pride and delight with which the overthrow of Prince
Metternich has been hailed may be conceived, when it
is remembered that, as one of the principal authors
of the treaties of Vienna, every Frenchman looks
upon him as the greatest enemy of his country.
The effect of the Austrian revolution on affairs here
is considered rather favourable than otherwise.

The Emperor has now too much to do at home to
think of a crusade against French liberalism, and
the movement at Vienna may, therefore, be con-
sidered a guarantee that no attempt will be made
by the Northern Powers to interfere in France.
S )me of the papers, in the enthusiasm of the mo-
ment, speak of the revolution of Vienna as having
at once had the effect of setting Lombardy at liberty,
and they speak of the Lombardo-Venetian Republic
as if it were a matter already established. It is not
likely, however, that the more moderate members of
the Government will readily allow themselves to be
carried away by such ideas. They are too well aware
of the dangers of Propagandism to allow themselves
to be lightly drawn into such a course.
The Tuscan Minister waited on M. DE LAMAR..
TINS on Monday, to express on the part of the Grand
Duke of TUSCANY his satisfaction at the pacific dis-
position of the Republic, and his desire to continue
the friendly relations which have hitherto subsisted
between the two countries.

A deputation of Savoyards resident in Paris also
presented their congratulations to the Provisional
Government. The SARDINIAN AMRASSADOR had
been invited to put himself at their head, but bad
refused.

There was an emeule at Lille on Saturday, in con-
sequence of a strike for wages amongst the workmen.
Tranquillity was soon restored by the National,
Guard. Seventeen workmen were arrested, five of
whom are Belgians.
The Moniteur of Monday publishes a document
which brings to light a flagrant case of scandal
against M. GUIZOT, and which proves that that Minis-
ter, undeterred by previous exposures, pursued his
corrupt and dishonest system of government up to
the last moment of his political existence. The docu-
ment was found among the papers of M. GBNIE (the
negotiator of the Petit affair), the private secretary of
M. Gurzor, and is a report from M. BOUCHT, the
Procureur du Roi to the Minister of Justice, with re-
spect to some charges brought against M. LIBRI, a
well known member of the Institute, and a profes-
sor of the University, for stealing books from the
public libraries. M. LIBRI was in the confi-
dence of M. GUIZOT and M. DUCHATBL. lle
was frequently employed by these two Minis-
ters to make researches in the public libra-
ries, and he had consequently access to all the
most valuable collections in France, and he took
the opportunity thus afforded him of abstracting
valuable works from the libraries in Paris, Carpen-
tras, Montpellier, the Chartreuse at Grenoble, and
other places, to the amount, it is calculated, of be-
tween three and four hundred thousand francs. The
report is dated as late as the 4th of February last.
Several of the works have been sold by public auction
in Paris, and some of them have found their way to
the British Museum. A manuscript Psalter, belong- '
ing to the Chartreuse at Grenoble, was part of the
stolen goods, and was purchased by an eminent col•
lector in London for 2801. What makes the affair
still more curious is, that M. LIBRI was the intimate
friend, visitor, and confidant of M. GUIZOT up to the
very last ; although M. Guizor must have been
fully aware of the suspicions against him, for the
Government was in possession of information on this
subject more than two years ago. M. LIBRI wrote
the articles in the Journal des Debate in defence of
the Italian policy of M. GUIZOT, and was also the
author of the articles which appeared in the Revue
des Deux Mondes, in defence of the GUIZOT Adminis-
tration. M. LIBRI, who received a hint of the dis-
covery of this document, has fled from France.
General CAVAIGNA.C, the new Governor-General
of Algeria, has addressed the following proclamation
to the army of Africa :
" Soldiers,—The Republic has been proclaimed
amidst the acclamations of the country. A solemn
assembly of the nation will not delay to sanction the first
act of its will.

" Soldiers, your duty is not difficult; your arms be.
long to the country, and you will be happy to shed
your blood for her.
" The Provisional Government of the Republic has
placed me at your head. Soldiers, I em not deceived in
you. If the nation had stood in need of a man de-
voted to it, it might have taken one at chance from
among yea. The Government wished for more ; it

wished to respond to the idea of the whole country. In
fixing on me it wished to do honour, in the name of the
nation, to the memory of a virtuous citizen, to a martyr
for liberty.
"The nation wishes you to be commanded with firm-
ness and with justice. To those to whom it confides
the power over you, it orders not to forget that you are
her children. It wishes that your chiefs should merit
your confidence, and it forbids them to obtain it by
weakness or forgetfulness of their duties. You will find
me such as many of you know me to be, for I am not
just come among you. As to you, your duty lies in one
word, obedience.' Obedience, not to the will of a man,
but to military law, such as it has been established.
" Soldiers—Your attitude, your love of duty, and of
discipline, will assure the friends of the Republic, and
inspire alarm in the minds of its enemies.
(Signed) "E. CAVAIGNAC, Governor-General."
The I?eforme has the following on the late events
at Vienna, and on the expulsion of Prince MET-
THRNICH and the principal courtiers :

" The students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts fought
like heroes. Metternich quitted Vienna amidst univer-
sal execrations. Amongst those driven from the capital
were the Empress Mother and the Princess de Metter-
nich, who had evinced great irritation at the events in
l'aris. The above-named personages were continually
ordering masses to be said to preserve Austria from the
revolutionary poison. The Redemptionists and the
Jesuits, who are specially protected by these Indies, will
be also sent away. M. Pilat, who held the same situation
with M. Metternich as M. Genie did with M. Guizot,has
been also obliged to leave, and give up the editor-
ship of the Austrian Obsel ver. All the paid personnel
are included in the general route. M. de Jarke, one
of the writers sent from Berlin to propagate the doctrine
of the system of historiques, left in great haste. After
Metternieb, the person who has most excited the curses
of the people by -his oppressions, has been the Arch
duke Louis. This Prince was, moreover, the right hand
of the deceased Francis 1., his brother, and defended the
system of Metternich to the last extremity. He keeps
himself concealed in dread of popular resentment. No
one is ignorant at Vienna that it is to the Archduke
Louis, Metternich, Fiquelmont, and Prince Munch de
Bellinghausen, that are to be attributed the massacres at
Tarnow, and those more recently in Milan. The Aus-
trian people have ceased to be responsible for them, as
they have so worthily fought against and expelled those
who had brought such a stain on its name. As to the
famous Congress of Sovereigns, great and small, who
were to have assembled at Dresden, it will not take place;
the members of that Congress fly in all directions, and
everywhere find revolution and propagandism."

The Democratic Paa:fiptc m'akes the following re•
marks:—

" Formerly in Europe a revolution was the signal for
war ; to-day each new revolution is a pledge fur the
peace of the world.
" There is no chance of war. The last bulwark of
absolutism has been destroyed ! At Vienna, in Austria,
a sudden and irresistible insurrection has overthrown
Metternich, reduced the princes of the Imperial Family
to the station of private gentlemen, has with one blow
accomplished the emancipation of Lombardy, of Hun-
gary, of Tyrol, of Croatia, of Galicia, and of the
hereditary states of Austria themselves.
" According to the latest accounts the Austrian Re-
public had not yet been proclaimed. The powerless
Emperor was left alone in his palace either from indif-
ference or contempt ; but after a change of Ministry
effected by armed force, no Monarch can long retain his
crown. Ask the banished Louis Philippe how many
hours elapsed between the ridiculous and tardy conces-
sions of a Mole Ministry and the fall of the dynasty !
" Blood has flowed in the streets of Vienna ; the
troops fraternised with the people; citizens and armed
students guard the city. The capital of Austria, accord-
ing to the Prussian journals, is in the same state as Faris
was on the 23d of February. Vienna will soon hare
its 24th.

Eternal peace, association, labour, harmony, are now
the signification of those feared terms, revolution and re-
public.
"The day of war is past. Let battalions be formed,
but let them be battalions of workmen ; let us untold
the banners of peace, let us advance to the attack of un-
cultivated deserts, of waste lands, and pestilential
marshes; let us exterminate ignorance, let us annihilate
poverty."

M. -EMILE DR GIRARDIN has proposed in the
columns of the Presse, the adoption of the following
plan to meet the existing financial crisis :
" The suppression of the sinking fund, which compli-
cates the budget of the state, and takes away from the
taxes twenty. five millions per annum; the closing of the
offices of the sinking fund, which will be a saving; the
rigorous application of Articles 421 and 422 of
the penal code, which interdicts and punishes
wagers for the rise and fall of the public funds.
The conversion of the agens de change into etgens
du trisor, to be paid by the State, having a fixed salary,
and giving their assistance gratuitously in the purchase,
the sale, or the transfer of public effects. Tho delivery
of inscriptions of one franc of rente. The emission of
billets a rente to replace Bons Royaue. The conversion
at will either into inscriptions of Three per Cent. Kettle,
at fifty francs, or into billets a rente of the Bons Royaux
in circulation, of the Canton money deposited with the
Government, and of all the funds, which, whatever
their title may be, constitute the floating debt. Lastly,
the re-purchase by the State, payable at will, either in
inscription of Three per Cent. Bentes, or in billets de
rents of all the great lines of railway already conceded;
of all canals, mines, beet-root sugar manufactories, and
salt works."

The Siic/c publishes the following on the ap-
proaching elections. It may be considered as the
programme of M. OmLori BARROT and the rump of
the old Gauche Dynastigue—
" We have received many communications and propo-
sitions as to the formation of an electoral committee.
After having attentively examined them, without flinch-
ing from the duties that a new state of things imposes,
but on the contrary the better to fulfil them, we have
put aside these different proposals. The motives which
have decided us may be summed up in this—the old
party of the Opposition is no more. Some men remain
with their previous character, their renown, their services
but the party is no more. We should think it puerile to
endeavour to revive it, and we do not mean to form an-
other out of its elements, which, in a time in which the
support of every good citioen is so necessary to Govern.
merit, might appear, whatever might be its inten-
tion, an opposition party. By the constant firm
ness of our opinions and our conduct under the fallen
Government wo have acquired the right to
speak the truth to the present one. We protest in
favour of the liberty of discussion. But this liberty, so
precious to us, which we have so long laboured to ob-
tain, and which we will preserve inviolate for the com-
mon interest, for the honour and safety of the republic,
we will use in a spirit of concord, union, and benevo-
lence. We would support and strengthen the power to
which France has trusted its destinies, not fetter or
weaken it ; we would aid the mass of the people, so
long and so unjustly disinherited, to take regular pos-
session of political life, and not contest its victory or
lessen its results; we would efface all distinctions of
parties and classes, enlist those new men who have
faith, ardour, and hope, taking care not to exclude
those who have distinguished themselves by their
information and devotion. Let the practical expe-
rience of the agriculturist, the hidden genius of the
operative, the modest merit of the well-disposed man
find a place beside those whose superiority., hi-
therto more conspicuous, is exhibited in the arts,
in literature, in the magistracy, and the army. This
should, this must be. In the bosom of this national
assembly, where a fraternal union should exist, and
which will, we hope, agree in proclaiming the wants of
our times, and will have the most difficult problems to
solve, the question is not to obtain the ascendant for
this or that shade of republican opinion, to obtain a
greater or less majority of the inhabitants of the town
or the country of such or such citizens ; it is to consti-
tute a majority strong, enlightened, honest, and firm,
resolved to maintain the Republic, to defend it against
all aggressions, to finish and consolidate the work of
regeneration which they undertake, and also to preserve
it from all excess, and from all stain, and cause France
to be loved for her worth mid respected for her virtues
by all Europe. To this end shall all our efforts be
directed. We desire to see the idea of concord, of pro-
gress, of order, and true liberty realised. We much
prefer such a course to working fruitlessly, after all
the experience we have had, to ensure the triumph of a
party." .

Marshal BUGEAUD: has been summoned to appear
before the Juge d'lnstruction of Perigueux to answer
various interrogatories addressed to him by the Com-
mission appointed to draw up the act of impeachment
against the late Ministers.
It is said that General CAVAIGNAC will be ap-
pointed Minister at War, and will be succeeded in
the Governorship
of Algeria by General CMANOAIt-
MEN.
The retirement of General SULIERTIB from the
Ministry of War is caused by the necessity of effect-
ing a radical change in the constitution of the army,
to place it in " harmony with the Republican prin-
ciple." This great reform could net be carried out
by the aged Minister, and under the " influences"
that reign in the bureaux of the present War Depart-
ment ; 100 eleves of the School of St. Cyr are to re-
ceive their commissions Without completing the usual
term of study.
M. ARAGO, the Minister of Marine, purposes or-
ganizing a commission for placing the French coast
in a state of defence.

The Moniteur announces that a supply of 6,000,000
of killogrammes of coal would be adjudicated at
L'Orient, on the 29th of March.

By a decree of the Provisional Government the
Minister of War was authorised to place at the die
posal of the General commanding the moveable Na-
tional Guard the articles necessary for their imme-
diate equipment.
M. HIrrOLYTE BLEST♦ had been appointed sub-
delegate of the Provisional Government to the
National Discount Bank of Paris.
The Orleans Railroad Company had been per.
witted to convert the open carriages of the third
class into close carriages, and to raise the fare from
5 centimes to 5f centimes per kilometre.
By another decree the Provisional Government
regulated the mode of surveillance of the different
railroads.

.1

The general directions in the Ministry ( 'finance
were suppressed by a decree of the 20th in: sr, nt: and
four temporary directors had been notnirmile d, until
the re-organization of that department.
The office of Commissary-General of tild Navi-
gation and Provisioning of Paris had likew, ise been
suppressed.

A meeting of the creditors of the ex-KIN was to
lee held this day.
It is said that the Provisional Government; has de-
termined to postpone the elections for the N ational
Assembly until the 15th of April. Among the
candidates for Paris is the celebrated preacher L
DIAIRE. The "clubs" have announced their inte •ntion
of supporting as candidates for Paris the Mea 'then
of the Provisional Government, a student from each
of the great schools, viz., the Ecole Polytechttique,
the Ecole de St. Cyr, the Ecole de Medicine. and
the Ecole de Droit, such student to be select ed by
the majority of his fellow students from the c andi-
dature, the remainder of the 34 candidates to be v rork-
men. M. MALGAIGNE, a late Deputy, has wino' tneed
himself as a candidate, as have MM. CAUCMOIS,
LIGMAIRE, and DE Rovieo. The latter is the son of the
celebrated SAVARY.

The conduct of the house of R OTHSCHILD th/011igh
out the financial crisis has been exemplary. Th•

Union says—
" We are assured that M. de Rothschild went on Sun-
day to the Prefecture of Police, and that he said to M.
Caussidiire, that far from desiring to leave Paris, as had
been announced, and to suspend his payments, he meant
to remain, to keep all his engagements with respoct to
the loan, and to take the largest measures for strength-
ening credit. He added that his brothers of London and
of Frankfort, who accompanied him, had come to Paris
with the same intentions, and to concert with him ; that
no mistake ought to exist with respect to the disasters
which had befallen the money market of Paris; and that
it was not the events of February which caused the em-
barrassments of certain firms, for that those embarrass-
ments had existed some time. M. Caussiditire thanked
M. de Rothschild, and asked him if he would desire to
have a guard for his hotel. M. do Rothschild is said to
have replied—' Far from demanding a guard, I beg of
you to do nothing; I only desire that it may be known.
that having confidence in the Government, confidence
ought to be placed in me.' "
The Prince DX LA MosiLow.i. has addressed the
following to the Provisional Government :
" Gentlemen,—May all honour be rendered to you!
You have, by your decree of this day, and by the so-
lemn reparation you have granted to the manes of my
father, given a new pledge of the principles of justice
with which you are animated. France appreciates and
applauds your generous and elevated sentiments, yout
patriotic efforts, and has full faith in you. The family
of Marshel Ney comes to join the accents of its pro-
found gratitude to the expressions of the acknowledg.
went of the public."
The Lyons papers state that the manufacturers at
Lyons have been obliged to comply with the de.
viands of the workmen, and have dismissed all the
foreign hands from their establishments.

M. J. RoTuscuTLD had a long interview to-day
with the Minister of _Finance; the measure relating
to the transfer of the railroads to the Government
was the subject discussed. The Bank of France will
assist in the operation.

It was reported that the elections of the Members
of the National Assembly would be postponed until
the 25th of April, and the meeting of the Assembly
until the 10th of May.

The money changers met on Tuesday, and de-
cided, in order to maintain the circulation of specie,
that they should pay a premium of 2f. 50c. per ],ooof.
cash, and change bill of the same amount at a maxi-
mum of sf.

The Reforme announces that the 29th and 61st
Regiments of the line arrived in Paris on Monday
last.

The Illoniteur de 1 'Amide announces the following
movement of troops :
" The 15th regiment of the line is ordered from
Rueil and Montrouge to Metz; the 29th from St. Denis
to Paris; the 30th from the forts of Nogent, &c., to
Strasbourg; the 51st from Fontainebleau to Paris; the
16th, from Charenton to Besancon; the 3d regimen* of
Cuirassiers from Chalons sur Marne to Meaux; the 7111
Cuirassiers from Meaux to Chalons sur Marne; the
11th Light Infantry from Metz to Vincennes; the 27th
of the Line from Lanterburg to Phalsburg; the Ist
Chasseurs, expected from Africa, to Tarascon; the 3th
Chasseurs from Tarascon to Avignon; the 4th Messrs
from Strasburg to Luneville; the 6th Squadron of the
Artillery Train from Strasburg to Saverne; the let Re-
giment of Engineers from Metz to Arras; and the 8d
Regiment of Engineers from Arras to Metz."

The Bank of Lyons continues to discount at
three per cent.
BOURSE-PARIS, TITESDIT, MAACK 21.
THREE O'CLOCK.-Without any great animation being
manifested to-day, French Securities were steady. The
Five per Cents. show an advance of lf. 50c., closing,
after having been done as high as 741., at 73f. 500.
The Three per Cents. are 25c. lower, being last done at
501: 75c. Bank of France Shares are 25f. better, closing
at 1,7001., the highest price of the day. Rothsehild'a
Neapolitan remain as they were, at 68f. City of Paris
Bonds are 2f. 501. higher, closing at 1,0021. 50c.; Roman
is 4 better, closing at 591; Belgian Five■ (1840), are If.
better, at 67f ; ditto, (1842), 241. lower, at 671.; Spanish
Threes remains as they were, at 221.; Quatre Canaux
are 30f. lower, at 8901. ; and Piedmont 101. lower, at
600 f. Railway Shares remain without much ♦ariation,
except Marseilles, which are 30f. lower; closing at 255 f.;
Orleans are 10f. higher at 700 f.; Nantes, Bale, and
Lyons, 21. 50c. higher, at 3301., and 901. at 2931. 75c.;
Northern are 2f. 50c., lower at 335 f.; Havre and Stras-
burg are unaltered, at 2151., and 338 f. 75c.; French Gold
is at 60f., and the English Sovereign at 27f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUX

LONDON STOCK. EXCHANGE, MARC. 91.
Boulogne aid Amiens, s%—Dutch Rhenish, •i—Nansut
and Liege, 2N —Northern of France, 2N—Paris and Lyon;
1 —Rouen aid Havre, 7X.