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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1848.

It is, we believe, universally admitted that the
whole law of debtor and creditor, more especially
that portion thereof relating to bankruptcy and in-
solvency, requires a full and ample revision. It is
impossible to overrate the vast importance of this
subject in a commercial country, and perhaps
there is no other question on which so great a variety
of conflicting opinions may be found. Some parties
contend, that too much power is still allowed to a
hard and oppressive creditor, who, if he be actuated
by vindictive motives, may prevent the carrying out
of arrangements alike beneficial to the honest but un-
fortunate debtor and to the general body of creditors,
and assert, that such a power is too frequently put in
operation f or the mere purpose of extorting undue
advantages, far beyond those which would fall to
his lot in common with others ; and also that
a direct inducement is held out to parties to take legal
proceedings, in order, if possible, to be enabled toseize
the entire available property for their own exclusive
benefit, which ought in justice to be equitably ap-
portioned among all. On the other side, many are to
be found who sigh for the good old times when any
man who chose to make affidavit that a debt was due
to him, might seiz3 and incarcerate the person of the
debtor, and detain him in custody for an indefinite
period, lingering in a living tomb. Those persons
contend that the stringency and severity of the for-
mer system was most salutary, and that the
present state of the law is far more defective
and leads to greater abuses, from its excessive leniency'
than could have been perpetrated under the moat
energetic administration of that formerly in force.
There is a third class, who, conceiving that there are
perhaps errors on both sides, would gladly introduce
an entirely
new measure, consolidating and digesting
the, existing laws into one statute, in which ever -
thing valuable would be retained, and new enactments'
passed which would prevent the abuses which have
given rise to so many well-founded complaints.
At the head of this latter class is that distinguished
legal reformer, Lord BROUGHAM, who has probably
done more to cleanse the Augean stable of the law,
and to introduce such alterations as experience had
proved to be desirable,:than any other living states-
man. Some few weeks since we pointed out the
great ameliorations for which we are indebted
to his unceasing exertions, by which more
than sixty defects in our system of juris-
prudence have been removed out of somewhat
more than seventy, of which he complained in his

great speech on the improvement of the law delivered
in the House of Commons twenty years since. This
great man has not relaxed in his labours. He has
recently introduced a Bill to consolidate and digest
into one statute all the laws of England, as far as
' relates to indictable offences and the punishment
thereof, in which the several crimes are defined. He
has promised to follow it with another measure
enacting a mode of criminal procedure ; and, in
addition, he has again directed his attention
to the bankrupt law, in which he has
already effected many valuable improvements,
and on his motion a Bill was read a second
time on Friday last, to consolidate the various
laws relating to bankruptcy, which has been referred
to a Select Committee, by whom its various details
will be investigated, and rendered as efficient as prac-
ticable.

Although an Act for a similar purpose had been I
passed in 1825, which systematised and consolidated
the great majority of the enactments then in force, no
less than twenty•one statutes have since been intro-
duced on the subject. As a natural consequence of
so important a branch of the law being so scattered,
much obscurity has arisen, which has given rise to
many well-founded complaints on the part of the
mercantile interest, the parties chiefly affected.
These complaints will in a great degree be removed
by the new measures, which will elucidate the law
and render it perfectly clear, and easy of comprehen-
sion. Although that is the principal object of the
present Bill, we trust that many valuable alterations
may at the same time be effected. There can
be no sufficient reason why the bankrupt and in-
solvent laws should be henceforth continued separate
and distinct. They are parts of the same system.
In both instances the object should be to protect the
honest but unfortunate debtors, and to administer
deserved punishment to the fraudulent and dishonest
one ; and at the same time to render the assets of
every person available to the utmost extent
for the benefit of all his creditors, with-
out preference and without exception. This
being the purpose of the codes, why should they not
be amalgamated together and administered by a single
tribunal ? Why should there be any difference in the
nature of the remedies against a debtor, dependent on
the point of whether he is a trader within the mean-
ing of the bankrupt-laws or otherwise ? In neither
case should the party be subjected to punishment, in
the first instance, until he has been proved to
have acted improperly. If he is either
unable or unwilling to pay his debts, and he fails to
make a proposition satisfactory to the majority of his
creditors in number and value, he should lay his en-
tire affairs before the Court for its adjudication; but
if he is enabled to offer a satisfactory arrangement, to
which the great body of those interested in the
settlement of his affairs are willing to accede,
it is a monstrous thing that a small
and insignificant minority should for their own
selfish purposes be enabled to defeat that which would
be really beneficial to all parties. This should be
effectually remedied, and also the opportunity should
be taken away of having a preference given to any.
The moment a debtor's property is disposed of by
sheriff's sale (the most wasteful mode of realising its
value), it is manifest that the party is unable to meet
his engagements at the present moment, or, most
probably, at any future period. The proceeds of
such sale should, therefore, in every instance, be re-
tained for the purpose of general distribution, and
should not be given exclusively to the party by whom
the law was put in motion.

We shall return to this most important subject on
a future occasion.

We are not surprised that the motion made by the
Honourable Member for the Tower Hamlets last
night, for a Select Committee of Inquiry into the
conduct of Lieutenant- Colonel CHARLES OYANS,
while Political Resident at the Court of Sattara,
and into the acts of the Government to
which he was immediately subordinate, and the
other branches of the Indian Administration, was op-
posed and rejected by the parties whose names are
contained in the list of the division. There is at all
times an invincible reluctance• on the part of those
engaged in the management of public affairs
to permit any scrutiny into the manner in which they
exercise their delegated powers and authority. Last
night Mr. TuomrsoN had to contend with a for-
midable combination, consisting of the members of
the Government, one of whom (in the Cabinet) gave
his sanction, when at the head of the Board of Con-
trol some years ago, to the dethronement of the late
Raja of SATTARA, and is therefore im-
plicated in that transaction, the representa-
tives of the East India Company (Members of
the House), and others, the personal friends
of the party accused, or belonging to that class who
have ever evinced the strongest repugnance to all in-
quiry into the abuse of constituted authority. The
charges referred to in the motion of Mr. THoasrsoN
are specific in their nature, explicit in their reference
to dates, persons, and places, and minute also in their
references to official documents long since made
public, and open to general examination. On look-
ing at the debate, we nevertheless find that the first
opponent Mr. THOMPSON had to contend
with abstained altogether from noticing those
charges, and preferred to occupy the attention
of the House by statements intended to cast discredit
on the motives of the originator of the motion. This
Gentleman was followed by the Honourable Ba-
ronet the Member for Honiton, a director
and a lawyer, who, though he spoke at great length,
reserved all notice of the motion itself for the end of
his address, and then abstained from grappling with
the facts and documents brought forward by the
mover. The encomiums pronounced on the cha-
racter of the Company's servant were numerous,
profuse, and unqualified ; but we think it would
have been the wiser course, as it certainly
would have been the more courageous one, to have
been frugal in the bestowal of compliments, and to
have granted the inquiry asked for into the
charges brought against that officer. We repeat
it, it would have shown more confidence in the
soundness of their cause, if these Honourable
Members had granted—nay demanded a rigorous
investigation into the alleged official delinquencies,
and have vindicated the honour of Colonel OVANS,
by putting on record evidence in disproof of
charges so grave and so definite. No one can
deny that the Member who brought forward the
motion has mastered the details and explored the
intricacies of the difficult and complicated questions
connected with the Sattara case, and that he has,
from the commencement, courted an inquiry,
which, if not well assured of his ability
to support his allegations, he mast have
known would land him in discomfiture and
disgrace. He has, again and again, also declared
his willingness to have the accuracy of his statements
tested by any competent tribunal—whether a court of
law in England or in India, a Commission appointed
by the Crown or a committee at the India House,
or the House of Commons. One solitary speech,
therefore, and that but partially applicable to the
matter in dispute, will not satisfy either the public
mind or the demands of English justice, or
have the effect of screening a gentleman who,
doubtless, and deservedly, has many friends, from the
imputation of having, as an agent and instrument,
been guilty of unworthy acts, and of inflicting injury
upon one who . was once the friend and favoured
ally ally of the British Government. We pronounce
no opinion on the merits of the case,
questioning the propriety of the course adopted in
the House of Commons. We say again, therefore,
that an inquiry should have been granted, and the
question so have been set at rest for ever, as between
the accused and the accuser.
We regret to find so few of the professed friends
of free inquiry and popular government present
last night to support a motion so rea-
sonable and necessary as that which was
the subject of debate. A motion which, in its com-
prehensive bearings, vitally :affected the destinies
of millions subject to British sway in India, was
surely worthy the attention of the avowed advocates
of popular rights at home, and of colonial reform
abroad. Our conquered fellow•subjects in India,
and our helpless allies in that country, are as much
entitled, the one to have their appeals considered,
and the other to 'protection and the benefits
of a liberal and enlightened government, as are the
people of this country to the blessings of untaxed bread
and cheap sugar. We deem it an unfavourable symptom

when we observe men, clamorous and energetic for
the rights of their own immediate constituents, absent
when the claims of the millions of India are preferred•
There were enough and to spare of such men to have
saved from defeat the motion of last night.

Et nigration has latterly become a question of such
profound importance to the population of England,
that any earnest suggestion for the facilitation of
transit between the mother country and her colonial
possessions, is certain to be welcomed with gratitude.
Of such suggestions there is just now anything but
a dearth. Scheme after scheme pours in upon the
journalist in addition to those which may have already
risen into existence in his own imagination ; and each
receives an advocacy from its originator as enthusi-
astic and unconditional as that awarded to the union
of hydropathy and phlebotomy by the illustrious
Doctor Sangrado. It cannot, therefore, be surprising,
that we are beginning to regard with a somewhat
fastidious judgment the plans thrust upon our atten-
tion, whether it be by a correspondent, a bookmaker,
or a pamphleteer. Among the various propositions,
however, which have latterly come under our obser-
vation in reference to this important subject of emi-
gration, there is one to which we would especially
direct the observation of the public, because, to our-
selves, the plan propounded by the writer in question
seems to be about the most ingenious and feasible
that has up to this moment appeared.
We allude to a pamphlet which has just been pub-
lished,* containing the development of a scheme con-
ceived by Mr. FREDERICK JERNINGHAM, whereby
steam communication between England and Australia
would be marvellously facilitated. The tendency of
the proposal made by Mr. JERNINGEIAM may be at
once conjectured from a sentence which occurs in
page 9 of his pamphlet, (namely, "It was only yes-
terday I received a letter from New Zealand and one
from Adelaide, the former was seven and the latter
six months old,") and from coupling with that sen-
tence the calculations that the line of steam commu-
nication, mapped out by himself, would shorten the
period of the voyage between the British Islands and
New Zealand to an interval of just about two months.
An excellent chart prefixed to the pamphlet materi-
ally assists in demonstrating the ingenuity of the
proposed track—the outward bound line running
from the English Channel by Cape Finisterre, the
Canaries, Cape Verde Islands, Cape of Good Hope,
and St. Paul's Island to Adelaide, Port Philip, and
Sydney; the homeward bound line running from
Adelaide by King George's Sound, the Mauritius,
Cape Town, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde Islands, and
the Azores to England, with branch lines, first, be-
tween the Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope ;
secondly, from Launceston to Port Philip ; and
thirdly, from Port Jackson round the islands of New
Zealand. To say the least of it, the proposition is
worthy of a very serious consideration.
As an additional stimulus to the great movement of
emigration from the British islands, nothing could be
better conceived than the new association, called the
" Society for the Promotion of Colonization" which
held its preliminary meeting yesterday afternoon in
the Hanover-square Rooms. Never, we may safely
aver without fear of contradiction, has an association
been more urgently required for any purpose what-
ever than this one for the promotion of colonization!
To our thinking it is the great want of the age—
beyond socialism in France, beyond locofocoism in the
United States, beyond progressistaism in Spain, or
any other of those isms and schisms which are just
now setting mankind more than ever at loggerheads.
The object of the new society, such as it was de-
scribed by the Chairman, the Earl of HARROWEY,
and afterwards by the humane and earnest voice of
Lord ASHLEY, is to facilitate the transmission of
emigrants from the mother country to those colonies
which are best calculated to afford room for their
industry, localities for their habitation, and crops for
their nourishment. Such an effort has become abso-
lutely requisite, and when private charity is
useless, and when Government is resolved upo❑
remaining inactive, it is time for a society of this
character to be formed.

" Steam Communication with the Cape of Good
Hope, Australia, and New Zealand, suggested as the
means of promoting Emigration to those Colonies." By
Frederick Jerningbam, pp. 23, Svo. Charles Dolman,
London, 1848.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the Gth have arrived.

The Court was to leave for La Granja at midnight

The Government adopted every means to prevent
the fact of the Carlist rising in Catalonia and the
Basque Provinces from becoming known in Madrid.
MADRID, Boma, JULY 6 —The Three per Cents.,
19i paper; after Bolsa, 19} cash. Five per Cents.,
12i paper; after Bolsa, 12i cash. Passives, 4i
paper; after Bolsa, 4i cash. Coupons, 8 paper.
Bank of St. Ferdinand, 65 paper. Discount of notes,
91 to 10 per cent. Exchange on London, 90 days,
45 50 paper.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

It is said that permission will be asked of the
Assembly to prosecute M. PROUDuoN for the publica-
tion of an article in the Representant du Pelvic of
Sunday, recommending all tenants and mortagees to
withhold a third of their rents and interests, and
urging them to proceed en masse to the Assembly to
present a petition to that effect.
The Constitutionnel publishes the report of the
medical man who was delegated to make examina-
tions at the different hospitals relative to the allega-
tion of poisoned balls having been used by the in-
surgents during the late conflicts, from which we
extract the following :
" Has the medical examination of the wounds, with
their complications and their consequences, confirmed
or contradicted the atrocious charges made against some
of the insurgents? Has it produced any proofs of the
infernal combination of iron and poison? We are happy
to say that it has not.
.There certainly have been seized
on the persons of the insurgents, or in their stores,
several projectiles prepared with the most horrible art.
One surgeon has declared in the Gazette Medicate having
seen one ball in which arsenic had been mixed in a large
proportion in the metal of which it was made; and the
same surgeon remarked, with regard to balls covered
with a coppery substance, that the wounds inflicted with
them would have all the character of poison havinc, been
introduced. Balls were also found which had been cast
in a thimble, and to which were attached by a small
nail pieces of cloth coloured with some green substance.
But if some insurgents, in a paroxysm of furious
bate, can have dreamt of those cruel combinations,
they have not attained their object; either they
have been alarmed by their own inventions, and hesi•
tated at using those poisonous balls, or from their baying
passed so quickly through the wounds they have not
had time to produce their double effect ; the surgeons of
the hospitals have not, up to the present time, been able
to discover any of the effects which would have been
produced, or any aggravation in the character of the
wounds which they can attribute to the action of any
poisonous influence."
We read in the Dressager of yesterday evening :
"There was a talk at the National Assembly this day,
of the discovery and defeat of a plot at Sedan, at the
moment when it was on the point of being put into
execution. It is said that twelve of the principal estab•
lishments of that town were to have been burned, and
vengeance to have been exercised upon the manufacturers
who had refused to accede to a reduction of the hours of
labour. It is proper to state that certain deputies of the
Ardennes declared that they had not received any in-
formation of this kind ; but, on the other hand, letters
containing the news, and coming from an honourable
source, were spoken of."
We yesterday mentioned that the house of Queen
CHRISTINA, in the Rue de Courcelles, had been
searched, as also a house in the Rue de Maromesnil,
which was the property of Queen CHRISTINA. The
Moniteu#, in announcing the fact, states that nothing
was found, and that the search was the consequence
of precipitation. It appears that there is a defalcation
in the accounts of the Bank of San Fernando to the
amount of 100,0001., which money was, it is said, sent
to Paris by Queen CHRISTINA for the purpose of
aiding the insurrection, CHRISTINA giving merely a
verbal guarantee to the Bank for its repayment. It
was to Spain, and not to England, that M. FLocori
alluded when he spoke of the insurrection having been
fomented by foreign gold.
The Bien Public denies authoritatively the rumour
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pitals is 1,131.
The Monitcur publishes a list of the Members ap-
pointed by the Minister of the Interior as a Com-
mittee to distribute the sums set aside by the National
Assembly for the purpose of giving advances and
premiums for the encouragement of industry in shape
of mauufactures or other private enterprises, and

commercial and departmental works of public utility.
The Committee consists of MM. WALDECK, Rous-
SEAU, DUCOS, RANDOING, and GRANDIN, Members of
the Assembly; MEMERiL, President of the General
Council of Manufactures, &c.
Another Commission is formed under the Minister
of Commerce for the encouragement of agriculture,
by the distribution of the three millions of francs set
aside for that purpose by the National Assembly, " in
advances to associations freely contracted, whether
between labourers, or between labourers and their
employers."
M. DE CHAYEAUBRIAND has named in his will
MM. MANDAROUX-VERTAMY, LOUIS DE CHATEAU-
DRIIND (his nephew), HYDE DE NEUVILLE, and DE
LEvis, as the friends to whose care he confides the
superintendence of the publication of his posthumous
memoirs, to which he has given the fantastic title of
illemoires doutre-tombe.

The question of one or two Chambers is warmly
debated between the party of the old dynastic gauche
under the leadership of M. TIIIERS, and that of the
moderate reptolicans who follow the banner of M.
ARMAND MARRAST.

The Bien Public, M. DE LAMARTINE'S paper,
says—

" The Club des Representans du Peuple, of which M.
Marrast is the president, and which meets at the Palais
National, held a sitting on Sunday night, which did not
break up till a very late hour. The projected constitu-
tion is said to have peen the subject in discussion, and
to have given rise to warm debates. If the information
we have received be correct, the club came to an almost
unanimous vote in favour of the legislative power being
vested in a single Chamber."
The fifth, seventh, and ninth bureaux have
decided in favour of only one Chamber, and M.
LITERS, despair.ng of carrying two Chambers, is now
endeavouring to increase the power of the President.
He proposes that the President, after having served
for three years, should be re-eligible for three years
more, so that he might retain office for six years in
all, but that after that period he should not be re-
eligible. He also proposes that the President should
have the power of suspending a resolution of the
Assembly for eight days, after which the question
should be submitted to the Council of State, and if it
approved of the suspension, that then the question
should be again submitted to the Assembly, where
its determination should be final. He proposes that
the President should have the prerogative of mercy ;
but that in order to exercise it he must have the ap-
probation of the Council of State ; and lastly he
proposes that the salary of the President should be
one million of frmcs per annum.
MARTIN, DE3RAT, LEDRU, and LECORNU, the
Gardes Mobiles who were decorated for their coura-
geous conduct during the insurrection, are to be im •
mediately received at St. Cyr, and several others are
to obtain a similar favour.
BOIRSE—PAms, JULY 11.
THREE O'CLo(K.—Very little business was done in
the Rentes to-da3, and they gave way considerably. It
was reported thst the Lyons Company had made an
arrangement with the Minister of Finance by which
they are to ivt 10f. Rentes in exchange for
their shares. ViAlle Montagnes are at 2,2501. For the
Account, the French Three per Cents. have fallen
75c.; Five per Cents. have fallen If. For Money, the
Three per Cents. have fallen If. 25c.; and the Five per
Cents. have fallen 75c.; Bons du Treiior have gone down
to 16 die.; Bank of France Shares have fallen 80f.; Bel-
gian Bank Shares not quoted; Belgian Five per Cents.
are the same as yesterday; Spanish Funds, not quoted;
Roman has fallen # per cent.; Rothschild's Receipts are
as yesterday. litilway Shares for the Account, settling
of July 15—The only thing done was Northerns, at
3701., which is sf. lower then yesterday. For Money,
the Orleans have fallen 20f.; Rouens, 371. 50c.; Mar-
seilles, 7f. 50e.; Northern, 21. 50e.; and Strasburgh,. 21.
30c. The Hanes remain as yesterday.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 11.
Boulogne and Amiens, 71,—Namur and Liege, 3
Northern of France, 514—Orleans and Bourdeaux, 214
Paris and Lyons, 4 Sambre and Meuse, 31i.

G E MANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

ACCEPTANCE BY THE ARCHDUKE OF
THE ADMINISTRATORSHIP OF GER-
MANY.

The deputation from Frankfort arrived at Vienna
on the 4th, which was celebrated as a fete day in
Vienna.

On the sth the deputation went in state to the
Palace of Archduke JOHN. At ten o'clock in the
morning the civic authorities and the National Guard
and students went in procession to the house where
the Frankfort deputies had taken up their abode ;
and, after an exchange of greeting between them and
the heads of the procession, they got into Court car-
riages prepared for the occasion, and, followed by the
rest of the procession, went to the State Chancery.
The procession was greeted as it passed by the most
enthusiastic cheering of immense crowds, which had
assembled, and the ringing of hells. The streets were
hung with flags and banners. The deputation was
accompanied on its entrance into the State Chancery
by the civic authorities, and they were received by
his Imperial Highness, surrounded by the Austrian
Ministers, the Ambassadors of all the German States,
and numbers of Generals.

At the palace a battalion of Grenadiers and
National Guards were drawn up as a guard of honour.
The Deputies were immediately ushered into the
presence of his Imperial Highness, who was sur-
rounded by a brilliant staff and all the Ministers and
the Representatives of all the German Courts.
Baron ADRIAN then spoke as follows :
"The Constituent German National Assembly sends
to your Imperialsp !less, through the present depu-
tation greeting. As Vice-President of the
Constituent National Assembly, will your Imperial
reectful High
Highness allow me to call upon the Speaker to read the
address of the National Assembly to your Imperial
Highness ? "
The address, which is as follows, was then read :
" IMPERIAL HIGHNESS !

" The Constituent National Assembly, in its sitting of
the 28th of June, passed a law on the establishment of
a provisional central power for Germany, as herein con-
tained, and to the execution of the same, proceeds to-
day to the election of au Administrator of the Empire
(Reichs- verweser).
" Your Imperial Highness having been selected and
proclaimed Administrator amidst the loud applause of
the National Assembly, will deign to perceive from this
protocol that the Assembly has selected seven of its
members, viz.—
" Vice-President Baron Victor V. Andrian, of Austria,
" The Speaker, Dr. Friederich Jucho, of Frankfort,
and the deputies—
" Karle Franke, of Schleswig Holstein.
" Dr. J. Gustav Heckscher, of Hamburgh.
" Franz Raveaux, of Rhenish Prussia.

" Herrmann of Rottenhan, of Bavaria, and
" Von Saucken-Tarputschen, of Prussia,
to make your Imperial Highness acquainted with its
proceedings.
"The Pritsidium of the National Assembly fulfils the
mission intrusted to it, by giving formal credentials to
the said deputies to wait upon your Imperial Highness.
" It obeys its sentiments when it expresses the confi-
dence with which it beholds the direction of the affairs
of Germany placed in the hands of a Prince who, above
all others, knew how to respond in words never to be
forgotten, to the demands of unity and unison in our
fatherland.

May it please your Imperial Highness graciously to
receive our respectful homage.
" The Prresidium of the Constituent National As-
sembly. " H. GAGERN,
" SOIRON,
" Frankfort, June 29, 1848." " ANDRIAN.
HECRSCHER, then addressed the ARCH-DUKE in a
very complimentary speech, concluding as follows :
" One wish animates the whole nation, to which we
subscribe with all our heart : it is, that your Imperial
Highness will decide to accept the high calling which
their love and confidence in yeur Imperial Highness has
induced them to offer."
The ARCH-DUKE replied in the following
terms :
" Gentlemen—l feel myself flattered and honoured
by the choice that has fallen upon me to fill the important
post of Administrator of the empire—a selection which
the Assembly has assured me has received the approba-
tion of the German Governments.
" The confidence and well wishes thus shown towards
me, impose great obligations upon me. To fulfil them
is ray most ardent desire. I feel in full measure the
honour, and at the same time the importance and the
difficulties attending the dignity conferred upon me.
May the Almighty provide me with the necessary
strength to reply to the same for the welfare
of the German Fatherland ; may all true friends
of our country lend me their aid to that end. The
desired object can be obtained only through unity, re-
ciprocal moderation, disinterestedness of views, and love
of justice. Gentlemen, I beg of you to be persuaded of
one thing, that my sole ambition shall consist in em-
ploying
for the welfare of our country. I am placed, however,
the remaining strength of my advanced years
in ems dilemma. I allude to my position here. It pre-
vents me already from stating when I shall be able to
assume the duties of Administrator of the Empire. I
shall, without delay, enter into communication with the
Emperor, my
most gracious master, to see how I may
reconcile the duties of my new position with the confi-
dence he had previously placed in me."
The ARORDUKE'S speech was listened to in the
deepest silence, and ANDRIAN replied as follows :

" The National Assembly receives, through us, with
gratification and joy, the assurance of the acceptance on
the part of your Imperial Highness. It finds thereby
the confidence justified which it ever placed in the true
German sentiments of your Imperial Highness."
The ARCLIDVICE then advanced with the Deputies
on to the balcony, after exclaiming, " Now, we are
all brothers !" and addressed the assembled multitude
beneath in a short but well-adapted speech, of which
‘ermany was the burthen. One hundred and one
guns then announced to the world that Germany had
selected one supreme head—a Reichs-verwerser, or