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141-1 E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCR 17, 1846.

i (lisp eyed an astonishing industry and an exquisite
ambition for benevolence—will examine, with
peculiar interest, the kindred sentiments enun-
ciated last night in the House of Commons in
regard to the reforms which are proved to be essem-
tial for the furtherance of the medical profession.
Those sentiments, moreover, were expressed yester-
day by a congenial spirit—by a man congenial in
disposition, in station, and in popularity, if not in
age, in religion, and in intellectual acquirements.
It is not impossible to give a very abbreviated cata-
logue of the different propositions laid before Parlia-
ment by Lord ASHLEY, all of them having reference
to the necessities of the impoverished population, and
some of them casting an inferential obloquy
upon the present mode of affording assistance
to the unfortunate. Lord ASHLEY at the very com-
mencement appals the economic sensibilities of Par-
liament, by propounding a scheme of obstetric bene-
volence, such as would necessitate a magnificent
disbursement. He suggests that Government should
gratuitously provide all the aids of midwifery,
wherever they may be demanded from the parochial
authorities ! Another of the resolutions proposed by
the Noble Lord, the Member for Bath, was for the
appointment of a competent Medical Inspector in
each district to which an Assistant Poor-law
Commissioner had been already attached !
here was another splendid opportunity for
an increased expenditure! Here was a de-
lightfully extravagant way of forwarding the
sanitary movement—a way so simple in its com-
plexity—and so seductive in its costliness ! Nay, but
exclaims Lord ASHLEY, there are no less than 3,000
poor-law medical officers who have already been ap-
pointed, and surely it were desirable to preserve a
supervision over a body numerically so extensive,
and to whose discretion are entrusted such onerous
responsibilities. Granted; and it were equally desirable
to have an army of Government railway inspectors
posted at every station on every railway in the United
Kingdom for the purpose of watching over the safety
of her MAJESTY'S lieges, and preventing the possibi-
lity of an accident. But the expense !—ineach case, the
expense ! There are a variety of plans which would
be especially desirable in the different departments of
the Legislature, against the adoption of which the
pecuniary involvements of the empire are clamorous ;
and it is precisely because Lord ASHLEY has not at-
tempted to render the national prudence compatible
with the national benevolence, that his resolutions of
yesterday evening proved so entirely unsuccessful.
What the country requires is not so much the
balm of an obstetric innovation, or the syrup of a
well-natured appointment. The community wants
rather tonics and detergents, than balsams and
opiates : it wants the improvement of drainage and
the better purification of its abodes, both in regard
Ito light, water, and ventilation. It was principally
from the pre-occupation of the minds of our
Legislators by a conviction of the existence of
these sanitary wants, that a more serious at-
tention was not devoted last night to the
beneficent propositions of Lord ASHLEY, and that
the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman the
Chief Commissioner of the Poor-law was permitted
to waive off his assailants with such inimitable non-
chalance. Let Mr. CHARLES BULLER, however, be
prepared for the worst. Ile has yet to say his
catechism.

We were among those who sympathised most ar-
ekntly in the great contest fur reform, we were
among those who exulted most heartily in the result
of that great struggle—nevertheless, we are at times
almost inclined to doubt the existence of the events
which we witnessed at that period, and, more espe-
cially, to doubt the reality of the triumph in which
we then rejoiced. We can with difficulty believe in
the events of '32 when we witness the abuses which
yet exist in '4B. For example, how can we credit the
efficacy of " reform" when we listen to a petition such
as that presented by Mr. WOOD ? The lion.
and Learned Member for Oxford has presented
a petition to the House of Commons from
the independent electors of the borough of Stamford.
Anil what is the prayer of that petition ? The
electors solicit the protection of the House of Com-
mons, or, if not, their own " disfranchisement f' Is it
astonishing, then, that we are incredulous as to the
benefits of reform ? Is it astonishing, then, that we
ask of what avail was that mighty struggle which
agitated the whole nation with one universal and
simultaneous impulse---which triumphantly re-in-
stated a defeated Ministry in office—which shook the
House of Peers to its very foundation, and which
finally overspread these kingdoms with hope and
exultation, and led the friends of the people to be-
lieve that the people's liberties were secure, and a
fitting representation assured to them ? Either those
expectations and assurances were extremely falla-
cious, or the prayer of the electors of Stamford is
incomprehensible. Either the disfranchisement of
Ohl Sarum was utterly fruitless and ineffectual, or
the necessity for the disfranchisement of Stamford is
a delusion. We would fain believe in the latter
alternative ; we would fain believe that the electors
of Stamford have no sufficient grounds for putting
forward their petition. Hew stands the case ?
What are the reasons which they allege ? The
electors of Stamford assert • that a member of the
House of Peers, the Marquis of EXETER, ex-
ercises " undue influence " in their election
of representatives to serve in Parliament for their
borough, thereby "violating the law and the consti-
tution." In proof of this assertion it is added, that
in the recent election all those tenants of the Noble
Marquis who refused to vote in accordance with his
wishes received forthwith " notice to quit," and in
corroboration of this assertion it is, furthermore, stated
that some houses are already deserted and shut up, and
that numerous tenants are about to "quit and deliver
up possession" at Lady-day. Such is the case made
out by the electors of Stamford, but as we have al-
rewly said, we desire to disbelieve it. Is it not
possible that the Marquis of EXETER has, in same
way or other (though how is not very conceivable)
been subjected to misrepresentation ? We must
acknowledge, however, that most certainly our " wish
is father to the thought." One thing, nevertheless,
i 3 certain. It is due to the Marquis of EXETER, if
these reports be false—it is due to the inhabitants of
Stamford, if these reports be true—and it is due to
truth and justice, and to the enfranchised el,ctors of
the whole three kingdoms, whether the reports be
false or true, that the matter should be fully inves-
tigated, and the facts clearly ascertained. In pur-
suance of this most equitable design the Hon. and
Learned Member for Oxford gave notice last night
that he should on Thursday, the 30th March, move
for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into
the affair. Consequently to the careful scrutiny and
consideration of the Committee we must, for the
present, entrust the matter; we shall await the result
of their deliberation with no ineenslcierable impa-
tience and anxiety. Tleeir decision will be neither
insignificant nor unimportant, for it concerns, not
merely the election at the borough of Stamford, but it
must affect elections at very many boroughs in the three
kingdoms. That Peers do influence the return of
Members of the Lower House is undeniable, but
that legally and rightfully they should not exercise
such an influence is equally undeniable. Let it not
be urged by way of excuse, that, in acting as Lord
EXETER is said to have acted, for example, they
merely " do what they like with their own." I'Ve
defy any one to substantiate such an assertion. When
the landlord summons his tenant to give his
vote as authoritatively as he calls upon him to
pay his rent, does he only demand " his own r When
the landlord orders his tenant to violate his conscience
as carelessly as he would tell him to plough a piece
of ground, does he only dispose of what is "his own!"
When the landlord summarily ejects his tenant from
his domicile for his non-performance of terms which
were nut in " the bond," does he only, age*
we ask it, does he only do what he likes with "his own P''
Justly may we call them terms " not in the bond," fur
as truly as the "one drop of Christian blood" was not
included in "the pound of flesh" treated of in Shy-
lock's bond, so surely is the free will and con-
science of a British subject not to be
disposed of by any act of agreement which
the ambition of a landlord could suggest, -„
the servility of a tenant be disposed to comply with.
Liberty of conscience is not to be regarded as rent,
the non-surrender of which must necessitate the
tenant's dismissal. But it is late in the day to dilate
on such subjects now ; their truth is too obvious to
require demonstration, and, what is more, their truth is

too universally admitted to require enforcement.
That that truth must not only be admitted, but acted
upon, and that, too, right speedily, is indubitable. We
had hoped to have seen it acted upon fifteen years ago,
but fifteen years have passed, and yet the houses of
Stamford are made tenantless I Let there be no more
such delays. When the Committee of inquiry shall have
decided as to the facts of the recent proceedings at
Stamford, then, if the decision concur with the state-
ment of the electors, let the enfranchised citiaens
of the whole kingdom combine to emulate the con-
duct of the ejected tenants of Stamford—those
" Village liampdens that with dauntless breast
The petty tyrant of their fields withstood.":
Let them combine in resolving to exercise the uncon-
trolled use of their elective franchise, and to resist
alike every attempt at corruption or intimidation.
Then will they be entitled to elect a House of Par-
liament worthy and willing to be their fit represen-
tatives. Such a proceeding, undoubtedly, will not
fail, if all else do, in demonstrating to those who are
yet in ignorance the real differences and distinctions
which exist between meum and teem. We venture to
hope, moreover, that there really are few landlords in the
habit of acting as Lord EXETER is said to do; if there
be, we can only offer for them one wish. In the
lengthened debates which took place in the House of
Lords on the eventful question of passing
the Reform Bill, it happened on one occasion,
when the Reformers were in a minority, that
the House did not separate until the light of morning
made itself visible. On observing it, Lord GREY,
still sanguine, though for the time defeated, expressed
an earnest hope that, in like manner, the light of day
might ere long break in upon their Lordships' minds.
Similar is the wish we form for all illiberal land-
lords ; let us hope that it may be as speedily realised
as was that of the Reforming Minister.

Letters from Berlin, of the 15th instant, state the
intelligence of the late events in Paris reached the
Emperor of RUSSIA on the Ist instant, by means of
the telegraph established on the line between Warsaw
and Petersburgh. The French papers which arrived
in that capital in due course on the 3d were stopped
at the Post-office, while the Gazette of St. Peters-
burgh announced that its daily publication would
cease until the 7th instant. This sudden suspension
of the official journal struck every one with conster-
nation ; but, in the mean time, the members of the
nobility and foreign residents succeeded in learning
the details of the Revolution from their friends in
the different embassies. In this way the whole city
was gradually informed as to what had occurred at
Paris, and, as may readily be imagined, was thrown
into a state of the greatest private excitement.

LOLA MONTEI attempted to enter Munich on the
9th inst., dressed in male attire. She was discovered,
arrested, and sent to Lindau under escort.
The Elector of HESSE CASSEL has acceded to all
the demands of the people.

It is said that disturbances have broken out in
Hanover.

The German Gazette of Heidelberg of the 111th
instant publishes an address from several citizens, in-
viting all the members of the German Constitutional
States, ancient or modern, to assemble at Frankfort-
on-the-Maine, on the 30th inst., to deliberate on the
bases of a German national representation adopted at
a meeting of the members of the states held recently
in that city.
The Cologne Gazette of the I.sth instant contains
the following statement :

" The accounts from Vienna, which are to the 10th
inst., add but little to what we are already in possession
of. The general agitation and mistrust had not di-
miniAlled. The pubic in the provinces were not less
terrified. Shopkeepers had been enjoined to receive bank
notes as cash. It was added that the Government would
exchange them immediateiy for ,pecie, but even this
promise could not induce the shopkeepers to take bank
notes in exchange for their goods. It is said that Prince
Metternich is indisposed."

The Putrid of the Bth instant states, the new Nea-
politan Ministry is composed as follows :—Prinee
Cariati, President of the Council and Minister for
Foreign Affairs ; Wimspear, Minister of War ; Sa-
varese, the Interior; Cianciulli, Agriculture and
Commerce ; Cacale, Justice ; Guisa, Public Works.
A letter from Milan, dated the 9th, mentioned the
diffusion of a report in that city that the Court of
Vienna had sent its ultimatum to the Cabinet of Turin,
with an intimation that it' it were not accepted on
or betbre the 20th it would declare war against
Sardinia.

The Governor of Milan has replied to the Central
Congregation. Some of the concessions demanded
he rejects, and others he refers to a commission—an
indefinite adjournment, which has caused general dis-
satisfaction. This refusal of demands so moderate
and legitimate will give the Italians some idea of
what they may expect from Austria.
The Alba, 9th instant, announces that Monsignor
COCLE, ex-Confessor to the King of NAPLES, has
been arrested at Castellamare.

Madrid papers of the 10th inst. have been received.
In the Senate the discussion on the Bill for giving
to the Ministers dictatorial power had been brought
to a close.

INlAnzin BOLSA, NIARCH 10.—The Three per Cent&.
were done at 25f at 30 days; the Five per Cents. at
14i for cash ; the Debt without Interest at Se ; and
the Coupons at 10 for paper.

REVOLUTION

WURTEMBURG.

A peasant's war has broken out in Germany. The
castles of Niederstetten Oehringen, two signorial
residences of the Princes of Hohenlohe, have been
burnt to the ground. Nor have the boors respected
the ancient castle of Jaxthausen, on the Jazt, which
for centuries has been in the possession of the
BERLICIIINGEN family, and has been immortalised
by GONTUE, by his description of its defence by iron-
tiNted Gozz. The village belonging to it also bat
been reduced to ashes. The castle of Assumsta►dt,
the family residence of the Barons of Ex..LateasmAu-
SEN, and the castle of Schwaiggern, the residence of
Count NEIPPERG, son-in-law of the King of Wua-
TEMBURG, have been raped to the ground. The lives
of the inhabitants have been spared. The stewards of
the castles in question were compelled to throw the
archives into the flames with their own hands ; and
some men of education are evidently in the ranks of
the peasants, as the device of the Hohenlohes, ex
fiammis orior, was ironically changed into exiliummis

morior.

Two thousand men have been ordered, in all haste,
from Ludwisburg and Heilbronn, to quell this insur-

rection.

LINCOLN ELECTION.
FINAL CLOSE OF TUE POLL, FOUR O'CLOCK.
llobhouse
iitunfrey

Majority for Hobhouse 53

• _
ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—This, the 17th of March,
being the day consecrated to the patron saint of Ireland,
was celebrated in those quarters of the metropolis where
the lower classes from the Sister Island locate, with fun
and feasting; while in many of the Catholic churches
solemn mass and service was performed by the resident
priests. At St. Patrick's Chapel, Soho, high mass was
conducted by Dr. Wiseman. A very considerable number
of the worshippers wore the emblem of the Trinity, the
three-leaved shamrock.

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NEWCASTLE, WEDNESDAY NH-MT.—This evening
a preliminary meeting of Mr. T. E. Headlam's consti-
tuents was held in Wilkie's Temperance Hotel, New-
castle, when motions in condemnation of his vote against
Mr. Horsmau's and Mr. Hume's motions on the income-
tax were passed. His vote in favour of the window-tax
was also strongly condemned. It was resolved that a
public meeting of the electurt should be celled to pro-
nounce upon Mr. Headlam's conduct.
LORD HA RDINOIL—This distinguished nobleman
yesterday, at an early hour, visited his Grace the Duko
of Wellington, with whom he had a lengthened inter-
view. He subsequently visited his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the President of the India Board, and
other members of the Government. The Noble and
Gallant Officer also had a number of congratulatory
visits paid him by members of the nobility and corps
diplomatique.
DEATH OF ►SIR RICHARD HUNTER, M.D.—This
gentleman died yesterday, at his residence in Great
Stanhope street, Mayfair, after a lingering illness. He
was formerly a member of the medical profession. In
1841 he filled the office of Sheriff of 54seex.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The Bank of France has been compelled to suspend
cash payments, and is authorised to issue inconver-
tible notes of ioor. each. The following letter from
the Governor of the Bank to the Minister of Finances,
with the decree of the Provisional Government
founded thereon, appeared in the ilioniteur of yes -
terday :
" The Provisional Government has this day received
the following letter:—
" The Governor of the Bank of France to the Minister
Secretary of State of the Finances.
" Paris. March 15.
" Monsieur le Ministre,—l have had the honour of
giving you an account, day by day, of the operations of
the Brink. You have been pleased to appreciate the
efforts which it has made to support the transactions of
commerce and the public credit. From the 22(1 of Fe-
bruary to the 15th of March, that is to say, in fifteen
business days, the Bank has discounted in Paris the
sum of one hundred and ten millions. Of the ono
hundred and twenty-five millions which it owed to the
Treasury it has paid seventy millions. We do not
include in that sum eleven millions placed at the
disposal of the Treasury in different banks, to meet the
urgent necessities of the public service in the depart-
ments of the Var, Bouches de Rhone, Gard Herault, &c.
Besides this, the Bank has discounted 43,000,000 t. in the
towns in which it has branches, and it has also supported
the trade of Angouleme, Bescancon, Caen, Mulhausen,
Strasburg►, &c. By discounts at Paris it has endea•
♦oared to prevent the suspension of payments in the
departmental banks of Rouen, Havre, Lille, and Orleans.
The Bank of Marseilles has been aided by the branch
at Montpellier. The promptitude and the largeness of
these operations of the Bank gave us the hope of o►er-
coming the crisis, and we flattered ourselves with that
hope till this day. 'We should probably have succeeded,
but for the extraordinary and exaggerated demands
occasioned by fear. In the interval between the 26th of
February and the evening of the 14th of March the amount
of cash in the Bank coffers in Paris diminished from 140
millions to seventy millions—that is to say seventy mil-
lions. This morning the panic declared itself. The
holders of notes presented themselves in crowds at the
Bank. New counters were opened to facilitate the ac-
celerated operations. More than ten millions have been
paid in cash. There only remains at Paris this evening
fifty• nine millions. To-morrow the crowd will be still
greater; and in a few days the Bank will be entirely un-
provided with specie. In these grave circumstances, we
are obliged to have recourse to your vigilant and ener-
getic solicitude, and to that of the Government.
The Council General of the Bank, deliberating on
this state of affairs, has directed me to submit to you the
proposition to demand of the Provisional Government
the following dispositions:—
"' Until further orders, notes of the Bank of France
and et its branches, shall be reputed legal money. The
Bank of France will not be bound to reimburse them in
cash.
" The Bank of France is authorised to issue notes of
two hundred francs. The maximum of the total circu-
lation of the Bank of France and its branches cannot
exceed three hundred and fifty millions.
" ' The Bank of France will publish every eight days
its situation in the Moniteur.'

" Receive, sir, the assurance, &c.
"D'ARGOUT.
(Approved.)
" P. ARAOO, DUPONT (de l'Eure),
GARNIER PAGES, A. CREMIEUX,
MARIE."
Upon this follows the decree :
" DECREE.

" The Provisional Government, having taken notice of
the deliberation of the Bank of France of this day, and
considering, &c., &c.,
" D9ereei--

" Art. 1. From the very day of the publication of the
present decree, notes of the Bank of France shall be re-
ceived as legal money by the public offices and by private
individuals.
" Art. 2. Until further orders, the Bank is freed from
the obligation to reimburse its notes with specie.
" Art. 3. In no case can the emissions of the Bank of
France exceed 3io millions. _ _

_.., ..
" Art. 4. To_ facilitate the circulation, the Bank of
France is authorised to issue notes which cannot be
under 100 f. _ _ _

" Art. 5. The dispositions of the present decree apply
to all the branches which the Bank has established in
the departments.
" Art. 6. The Bank of France will publish every
eight days its situation in the Momiteur.
" Done at Paris, in the Council of Government, the
15th of March, 1648.

" The members of the Provisional Government:—
" DUPONT (do l'Eure), FLOCON, MARRABT,
ALBERT (Ouvrier), LAMARTINR, LEDRU
ROLLIN, CREMIEUX, MARIE, Louts
BLANC, ARAGO, GARNIER PAGES.
_ _

" The Secretary-General of the Provisional Govern-
ment, " PAGNERE."

The panic has been increased by the ill-judged
circular of M. LEDRU Roman on the subject of the
elections. He has not yet resigned the Ministry of
the Interior, although there is every probability that
ere long the public indignation will drive him from
his post. Already have his colleagues been com
pelted to disavow the doctrines propagated in his
circular. Yesterday a deputation of the Republican
Club for the liberty of elections waited upon the
Provisional Government, to inform it of the alarm
created in the public mind by the circular of the
Minister of the Interior. The club declared that
the terms of that circular had created serious fears
that the Provisional Go ►ernment did not sufficiently
respect the liberty of the citiaens in the choice which
they were soon to have to make for their representa-
tives in the National Assembly. M. LABIANTINB
replied at considerable length. In the course of his
remarks, he said—
'• The Provisional Government has not directed any
one to speak in its name to the nation, and especially to
speak a language superior to the law.—(Bravo, bravo.)
That right it has given to no one, for it did not wish to
take it upon itself at the moment when, by the acclama-
tions of the people, it assumed temporarily the painful
position which it occupies. It did not wish it. It did
not do it. It will never do it. Believe this from the
names of the men who compose it. Be certain that,
before many days elapse, the Pi °visional Government
itself will speak, in order that whatever may be is the
terms of that document, though there was certainly no-
thing in its intention to hurt or to disquiet the liberty
and the conscience of the country, may be explained,
commented, re-established by the voice of the entire
Government itself.—(Acclamations, and cries of Vire
Lamartine I') Say rather, ' Vive le Gouvernement tout
cntier !' for this is not my idea alone, it is that of the
entire Government, and not of the Minister himself."

-....._
A Member of the Deputation " We accept it as
such."
M. LAXARTJNE—" Citisens, of all the dogmas which
havo survived the overturning of thrones and empires
which we have been witnesses of during the last half
century, there is but one dogma which we regard as
sacred and imperishable—that of national sovereignty.
—(Bravo.) On that national sovereignty we will never
make any attempt ourselves, nor will we ever permit an
attempt to be made on it in our name or in yours. The
Provisional Government rejoices, be assured, that you
have come as the exponents of true and free republican
sentiment, to demand an explanation of the conduct it
intends to pursue in these elections, from which the Re-
publican Government is freely to issue. And here Ido
not speak to you in my own name, but a few hours ago
a council of the Government entertained this question,
and it was there unanimously decided that the Go-
vernment were bound by truth, by nature, by
respect for the national sovereignty, not to inter-
fere, directly or indirectly, in the elections.—
(Cheers.) That as individuals—for none of us, when we
accepted the Government, forfeited our rights as citizens
—we will propagate in every way amongst our friends
our own opinions; but that as a Government, armed with
any share of the public influence, we would blush at the
reproaches which we had uttered against the Govern-
ment which
.preceded us for corruption, if in place of
the corruption whose infamies had given rise to the
Republic, we used that other corruption, the worst of
all corruptions—the corruption of intimidation and moral
oppression of the conscience. No; the Republic must
come out, shall come out, free and pure.
" I desire, we all desire, that this should re-echo in
the public opinion of Paris and of France. We desire
that public opinion should be re-assured, and should not
take in an alarming sense some words wrongly inter-
preted in the documents of the Ministers, who attach
their signatures often in baste. Know then and say it
to those who await you, that the entire Government feels
the necessity of re-assuring the public mind now by this
conversation with you, and soon again by a public pro-
clamation, a proclamation which shall contain liberal,
moral, conservative principles, securing the rights and
interests of every citizen without exception.
" You wish that the Republic and liberty should mean
one and the same thing, otherwise the Republil would
be a lie, we wish it a truth. We wish to found a Re-
public which shall be the model of modern Governments,
and not the imitation of the faults and misfortunes of a
former time. We adopt the glories of that time, we re-
pudiate its anarchies and its wrongs. Assist us to found
and defend such a Republic. Vote according to your
consciences ; and if, as I have no doubt these are, the
consciences of good citiceus, the Republic will be esta-
blished by your votes, as it has already been founded by
the arms of Paris." _

The deputation retired amidst reiterated cries of
Vive LAMARTINR," " Viva le Gouvernement Provi-
sionaire," " Vive la Republique."
Ai. KRERATRY, an old and staunch Republican,
who was appointed by the Provisional Government a
Councillor of State, has sent in his resignation,
giving as his reason for so doing the conscientious
objection which he entertains to the violent, tyran-
nical, anti-republican, and retrograde principles
enunciated by MM. LEDRU ROLLIN and CARNOT, in
their respective circulars.
Great dissatisfaction has been produced among the
National Guards of Paris by the decree of the Pro-
visional Government for the fusion of the Grenadier
and Light Infantry companies with the centre com-
panies, and for the mixing up the National Guards as

one body for the election of their officers, instead of
suffering, as heretofore, each company to choose
its own. S-veral of them presented themselves
at the Hotel de Ville, and handed in a protest against
the decree of the Provisional Government, threaten-
ing that if the decree were not withdrawn they
would come armed and enforce its repeal. The Go-
vernment immediately issued a decree postponing
the election of officers from the lath to the 23d of
March, in order, says the National, " to give itself
time fully to consider the bearings of the situation in
which it is placed, and to examine, however there
may be, any foundation fur the protests which have
been presented to it."
The postponement of the elections, however, did
not satisfy the National Guard, and yesterday the
grenadiers and light companies went en masee to pro-
test against the order for their fusion with the centre
companies. Great crowds of the people assembled,
and the grenadiers were hooted occasionally, but
no collision took place. On arriving at the Hotel de
Ville, an employe of the Government appeared, and
informed the National Guard that the Government
had resolved that the order of which they complained
should not be carried into effect, and that the com-
panies should not be broken up, but should form the
nucleus of larger companies, which became necessary
in consequence of the increased number of citizens,
who, since the revolution, had inscribed themselves
in the National Guards. At the same time they were
informed that the delegates of the National Guards
would be received by the Provisional Government at
four o'clock. This declaration being considered satis-
factory, the whole of the companies retired. The
number of National Guards present was between four
and five thousand.

The Moniteur publishes the following :
" REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMF.NT OF THE TITLES TO
RE GIVEN TO THE DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF THE
REPUBLIC•

" Republican and democratic governments have no
need, in their diplomatic relations with foreign powers,
of the prestige of titles, of any great display of pre-
eminence at foreign courts. The moral authority of
their agents abroad is in the name of the nation which
they represent. Their display consists in simplicity,
their rank is in their title 1 their dignity is in the re-
spect which they inspire, and in the respect which they
testify to the governments and nations to which they
are sent. The French Republic cannot too soon bring
back to these principles the system of diplomatic re
presentation. The uniform simplification of the titles
of its agents ought to be, at the same time, a charac-
teristic sign of its republican nature, and a measure
of economy, by the reduction of the salaries ap-
propriated to these high superfluities of the diplo-
matic body. A small number of uniform, modest,
and clear titles, significative of the forms and orders of
functions of our agents abroad, are all that are required
to characterise our diplomacy. Sufficient salaries, but
confined to strict necessity and propriety, will be given;
and thus a great economy will be effected. The amount
of this remuneration, the bases of which are being es-
tablished at present, shall be restricted in such a manner
as to reduce the budget of foreign affairs, without injur-
ing the service of the republic; but if a popular govern-
ment ought to be ecconomical, a democratic government
ought not to accept services for nothing; for it would
thus render the highest political functions of the
republic the monopoly of the aristocracy of fortune.
The republic wishes to be served and represented
abroad by all the citizens worthy to perso-
nify it, and cspable to serve it, without ac
ceptation of rank, profession, or fortune. Under
a democratic government every career is open to every
one. In consequence the title is suppressed, except in
such exceptional cases as it should suit the republic to
give to its representative a more general and more solemn
character, as, for instance, for the signature of a Euro-
pean treaty, or to represent the Republic at a congress.
The foreign agents of the Republic will be henceforward
—l, Envoys Extraordinary, Miniature Plenipotentiary
of the Republic ; 2, Chargii d'Affaires ; 3, Secretaries
of Legation ; 4, Diplomatic Aspirants, who will replace
the Attaches, the paid Attaches, and the in-lemnity-
receiving Attaches at present existing. This class of
if,oung diplomatic pupils will receive a salary of encou-
gement from the State, merely to aid such families as
estine their sons to the diplomatic career, and to render
all diplomatic employments really accessible to the
republican democracy which we are founding on equality.
" L A MARTINE."

The National Guards intend to petition for the
dismissal of M. LEDItU ROLLIN, who seems inclined
to "drive liberty mad, in order to disgust the world
with her." It is said, that on Wednesday, when his
colleagues in Council assembled refused to assent to
certain of his propositions, he threatened to call in
the people assembled in the court, and coerce the
Government, whereupon M. GARNIHR PAGss drew a
pistol from his pocket, and declared that he would
blow LEDRU ROLLIN'S brains out if he stirred from
the spot, whereupon Al. LXDaU RoLLIN consented to
have his proposition negatived. It might be almost
surmised that Al. LEDRU ROLLIN was an absolutist at
heart, who was engaged to do all in his power to em-
barrass and thwart the Provisional Government, in
order to render a republic hateful, and to bring
about a restoration.

The decree authorising the suspension of cash pay-
ments by the Bank had partially restored confidence,
and a considerable rise in renter and railway shares
took place yesterday.
The 211oniteur publishes the following debtor and
creditor account furnished by the Bank of France,
and made up at the close of business on Wednesday,
the 15th inst.:—

" DEBTOR.

Francs. Cents.
Capital ... 67,900,000 0
Reserve 10,000,000 0
Reserve in landed property ... 4,000 000 0
Bank-notes in circulation ... 263,604,250 0
Ditto of branch banks 9,800,000 0
Ditto to order ... ... 2,035,262 10
Treasury account current creditor 42,255,092 03
Sundry accounts current ... 81,617,659 59
Receipts payable at sight 1,861,000 0
Bills re-discounted —. 728,692 37
Dividends payable 423,444 25
Sundry expenses 2,177,298 29
Algiers Bank ... ... 1,069,097 19
Draughts of branch banks payable 732,278 49
Sundries Z 9,601 27
.•• ••• •••

488,243,675 58

" CIIEDITOR.

Francs. Cents.
Czsh in coins and ingots ... ... 59,543,509 38
Cash in branch banks ... ... 64,300,000 0
Commercial bills, due 16th inst.... 5,676,199 11
Commercial bills discounted ... 252,645,351 87
Ditto of branch banks ... ... 50,732,259 46
Advanced on ingots ... ... 3,050,600 0
Ditto on French Government se-

carities ... ••• ... ... 13,203,482 90
Due by branch banks ... ... 9,800,000 0
Government security in reserve ... 10,000,000 0
Ditto available ... ... ... 12,660,197 89
hotel and furniture of the bank ... 4,000,000 0
Interest in the Bank of Algiers ~. 1,000,000 0
Bills unpaid ... ... ...
524,747 56
Amount of , Government Stock
sold to Russia unpaid ... ... 1,107,389 31
Expenses of the establishment ... 280,976 10
Sundries ... ... ••• 18,962 0

488,243,675 58

" Certified, Paris, 15th March, 1848.

" The Governor of the Bank of France,
" IYARGOUT."

The crusade against foreign workmen still con-
tinues, and at Havre the masters have been threatened
that unless they dismiss all English workmen, their
manufactories will be demolished. Throughout all
Normandy suspension of employment is universal,
and the greatest distress prevails.

BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16.
THREE o'CLocx.—The decree of the Provisional
Government relative to the Bank of France had the
effect of producing a better state of feeling at the
Bourse. The shares of the Bank opened at 1,5001.,
went up to 1,6001., then fell at once to 1,400 f., and
closed at 1,450 f, or 150 f. better than the preceding
day. These four quotations were all that were given in
the official list. The Three per Cents. opened at 25f. and
closed at 50f., or 41. better. Fives opened at 71f., were
done as high as 731. 50c., and closed at 73f., also 4f.
better. At the money changers, all day, when any de-
mand was made to obtain silver for a Bank of Franc?,
note, the reply was invariably, " We have no change!"
If the price was asked for changing, the answer was,
" sacri-
fice, silver could be found for 100 f. on each note of
clOarhe, as d
that
em must
tly 5
a•
bslolcu.'t'elyßhuatv ifhave
chthane
gdee mnd
at
aanyant
higher, 740 f.; Marseilles 501.
1,000 f., the sum given for it being 900 f. At the Bourse
to-day general securities are also higher, Quatre Canaux
s
110,010. ,51b. e; i nogr
Orleans
nBs9aoarifne.:df6.o2Cafo.
tsitry4.
Very Pariser
i)n' Northern,
littlerßlh oenrdnbusinessrespectivelyf. Bordeaux,sdo3en3s. fa.
t
Lyons, and Havre, sf. eachi,osv.fflo.
4a t003.,012.9; 2fl.l's°Couce:
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THIC
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, /41Anca 16.
Boulogne and Amiens, 4%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 6—Northern of France, 214—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 13A—Paris and Lyons, I—Paris and Orleans, 25
—Paris and Rouen, 15 I, 2 —Rouen and Havre, 'lli.

TnE COLLlERS.—Yesterday a deputation from the
general body of miners waited upon Mr. Dixon's workers,
and, we understand, succeeded in inducing them to strike
work till an arrangement should be come to between the
men and their employers.—North British Mail.
RELIEF or Poo&.—Yesterday the rector and
churehwardgna of St. Sepulchre, Snow-hill, distributed
meat, bread, coals, flannel, and money to two hundred
indigent families at the parochial church. And, on Wed-
nesday, the Grocer's Company distributed at their Hall
in the Poultry 100/. W the poor.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY.

Since Monday the supply of English Wheat fresh up
for our market, coastwise and by land carriage, has
been very moderate, and from the damp state of the
weather greatly out of condition. Selected parcels of
both red and white were in steady request to-day at full
prices, but the middling and inferior kinds were a slow
inquiry. For dry foreign wheats there was an im-
proved demand, and some of the holders re-
fused to sell except at higher rates. The bust
Hess doing, however, was by no means extensive.
Malting Barley was fbria, but grinding and distilling
sorts were somewhat neglected. In prices, we have no
change to notice. 111 alt was in moderate request, and
prices were well supported in every instance Beam:,
Peas, and Indian Corn, very dull. Fine Flour was held
at extreme currencies. The top price of English was
46s per 2801bs.

ARRITALS.
liarlaty.
5,126 gra.

Wheat.
3,440 qrs.

English • ..• ..
Irish.
Foreign ......

Oats. I Fleoir.
5,2 i• qrs. 4.430 .k..
4,210 --
11,141 I

40 I 1,250
Malt, 5,580 qrs.
SMITHFIELD

In to day's trarketT,h7esWpiTufifeasts was moderate,
and of fair average quality. The primest Scots,
Devwss, &c., commanded a steady sale, at fully Mon-
day's quotations. All other breeds were a slow in-
quiry, yet prices were supported. The show of foreign
stock was small, viz., 164 Oxen and Cows, 232 Sheep,
and 45 Calves. With Sheep we were again scantily
supplied. Ou the whole, the Mutton trade was firth,
without alteration in the currencies. Prime small Calves
sold at very full price:, Otherwise, the Veal trade was
its a sluggish state. In Pigs comparatively little busi-
ness was transacted at late figures. Mitch Cows were
dull at from 14/106 to 171 lOs each, including their small
calf.

Per 8111 e. to sink the offal.

s. d. to s. d
Interior Beasts 3 4 3 G
Second quality 3 B 3 10
Prime large Oxen 4 0 4 2
Prime Scots . .
Large coarse Calves 4 • 4 e
Prime small ditto
gneLling Calves 2O • 25 I
Inferior Sheep •• ,• 3 11 4 0

s. d. to s. d.
Second quality ditto 4 t 4 6
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 $ 6
Southdown Wetter b 4 b 4
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs .. 4 0 4 fi
Small l'orkers •• . • 4 g b
Quarter old rigs •• lg s •1.5 0
Lambs .••••..•.• • 0 0 0

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. ghaep. Calves.
I 8114 2.864 128
NEVI/GATE AND ZOSILDENEA.LIe.

I rigs.
320

The general demand was in a very sluggish state on
the following terms:—

At per scone by tha Carcase.

s. d. to s. d. a. a. to s. d.
Beet.iaferlor•• •• 3 • 3 2 Batten, iaferior 3 316
- middling ••.. 3 2 2 4 middling.. 4 0 4 4
- prime large •• 3 6 2 ti I prime .. 4 6 4IS
- prime small 8 3IS rork, large.. •••• .. 3 6 4 4
Ireal.• • • .......... 4 5 5 0'- .. 4 6
Lamb. Os Od t• Os Od.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.

The show of ready fine Hops to-day was very small;
Nevertheless, the demand for them W S in a very slug.
gish state at barely last week's quotations. In old and
interior parcels so little was doing that prices were al-
most nominal. New Hops:—Sussex Pockets, 21 18s to
31 4s; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 to 31 7s; Mid and East
Kent ditto, 315 s to 5/ 8s per cwt.

_
into custody, and the knob of which was still stuck fal
of pieces of lamp-glass.
The prisoner, who received an excellent character from
several witnesses, declared that hr took no part in the
riot. He was going to see his mother in that neighbour-
hood from his place of work in Ludgate-hill, when
br
accidentally mixed with the crowd. The stick produced
had just been thrown at his feet, and he was stooping
take it up when the police arrested him.
Ile was found Guilty.
The next prisoners charged with rioting, George.ll
,
arid William Lewis, were respectively of the ages
of 1
:toe 16. The prisoners were a part of a mob whieP
disturbed the peace of Knightsbridge and Grosvenor-
place, and the police in endeavouring to disperse them
were seriously assaulted.
John Green, 78 B, produced a piece of lead with which
he ens struck by Jones, and a crow-bar which be took
from Lewis. His truncheon was broken with a blow
aieied at his head, which was cut open, and he was With
difficulty saved from further injury by his brother IP
!icemen,
The prisoners were convicted.
John White, aged 18, and Chance Tothill, aged
were indicted tor the same riot, and the
offences of assault and larceny. It was proeeab
that the prisoners acted as ringleaders to the me
in the Broad Sanctuary, 'Tuthill-street, and other
parts of Wt stmineter, in the evening of the 61r
Tuthill was the person who, it will be remember"
raised the cry, "To ern's," and in the shop of Mr'
Davey, baker, in Tuthill-street, said, " We shall btee
bread, or we shall have your blood." White IN"
epaulettes, and acted as commander in the attack tell
the baker's shop. From the shop of Mr. Bran:ton in
the Broadway, they distributed to the mob four busheil
further,
of bread, and threatened to " have the lives" of 111
foreman and of Mr. Branston's niece, because theyWoll
not produce more bread. They were found Guilty.
These concluded the cases of the so-called Trafalgar'
square rioters of the 6th of March, and all the prisoners
were then placed at the bar to receive their sentences.
The ABMBTANT-JUDGE said—You have all been OW
victed of riots and assaults, all arising out of the seise
transaction, which was of the most serious character'
Except for,the very happy state of the country at this WO'
in which, thank God! every class unites except such ssi
yourselves, in obedience to the laws, and in respect I.or
the Government of the country—l do not mean for thl
Ministers of the day, but for the established order 0
constitution of the country; and when, by the blessing
of God, we have a Sovereign at the head of the state
who unites, by her virtues, the love of all in her pere°,3
—.except for this happy state of the country, you TN%
every one of you be sentenced to a very severe
ment, and for this reason : the object of punishment is
twofold; first, to look to the offence in itself, all"'
secondly, es a warning to others. We want no such
effect as this latter in your case, as the whole countr/
holds in contempt such wretched attempts as years
(which everywhere but here must be looked nril
with ridicule) to imitate the unhappy revel°'
tiun, which has just taken place in another
country, and of which they are already beginning to
Leek the bitter fruit=, and of which they will 141
tasted enough befare the term of your punishment she'
have expired. Notwithstanding these considerations'
the Court cannot pass over your conduct without severs
punishment.;
The Learned JUDGE then sentenced the prisoseref
severally to the following terms, addressing each °
them impressively on the part which he had takenl
hite, as the ringleader, six months, with has
labour, for the riot and assault, and an additional 0
months, with hard labour, for the bread stealing
Tuthill, as less guilty in the leading, to three months'
with hard labour, tor the riot and assault, and sr
months, with hard labour, for the larceny ; Reid sit
months, with hard labour ; the boys Jones and Lel
to three months, with hard labour ; Connell, on accoll's
of his previous good conduct, to one month, without
labour ; Prendergast three months and hard labour.

SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Harris, was charged with stealing a cask °
vinegar, the property of Messrs. Tyers and Binitb'
vinegar merchants, High-street, Borough.
Mr. Smith stated, that the prisoner formerly dee
with the firm, and that on the previous afternoon Ped
came and said, that he had an order for half a heel",
of vinegar for a Mr. Williams, and that it was to be sesii;
to the Grapes public-house, in Locks-fields, where
would be paid for. Witness sent it there, but neither
money or vinegar came back.
The porter said he took the cask to the Grapes, whirr
he saw the prisoner, who helped him to carry it into Lb°
house. The prisoner then asked him to go to tbil
" Catherine Wheel," in Union-street, where he woul
pay him, and give him an empty cask. On the way Or,
prisoner gave him the slip, and returned to the " Grapy",
when he took away the vinegar, and conveyed it to annie
stables in Surrey-row.
A policeman proved having found the vinegar in WI
place last mentioned, and afterwards apprehended the
prisoner.
The landlord of the Grapes said that about ten minute.
after the prisoner and porter left his house the former
returned with another man, and carried away she
negar.
The prisoner, in defence, said ho was directed to gi"
the order for the vinegar by a Mr. Williams, of Clapnaal'
and that it was to have been paid for. Ho added that he
had several respectable persons in attendance to speak
to his character.
Mr. SMILER said he should commit the prisoner for
trial, and that his witnesses might be of advantage to biro
there.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
The Dundalk Election Committee re-assembled this
Looming; Lord Harry Vane in the chair.
Atter some further discussion the room was cleared,
and the Committee having consulted together for a short
time, strangers were re-admitted, when
The CHAIRMAN said, he had to state that it had been
unanimously decided by the Committee that the sitting
Member was not disqualified as an alien from holding
his seat in the House of Commons.
Mr. Sergeant KINOLALE then took the objection 00
the sitting Member was not entitled to retain his seat 07
the ground that he neglected to make a declaration of
his qualification when it was demanded of him in
cordauce with the provisions of the statute.

AYLESBURY.
The Aylesbury Election Committee re-assembled this
morning; Mr. R. Palmer in the chair.
Mr. Thomas Sharman, the proprietor of the 14e1
Bell Inn, ut Aylesbury, proved that, by the direction c,
Mr. Bull, drink and refreshments were supplied at bl
house to a number of Mr. Deering's supporters, W°
were principally tenants of the Duke of Buckingh6l3l,l
Tito bill for these refreshments, which was made 00
the name of the Marquis of Chandos, who was occ&l-
-0
sionally present at the entertainments, amounted
about 131. 155., and was delivered to Mr. Bull.

BEWJ)LEY.
'The B,wdley Election Committee met again tbi'S
morning; Mr. Wrightson, in the chair.
The evidence on both sides having closed, of
Mr. Sergeant WRANGLLAM summed up on behalf
Sir Thomas Winningion.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUR! WOMAN rs,°4.
ARSENlC.—Yesterday an inquest, adjourned from Ph";
turday last, was resumed before Mr. Carter, at
King's Arms, Roupell-street, as to the death f EEO', •
Whiutle, aged twenty, who died from the effects O' 4
large quantity of arsenic. The father of the deceOet,
is a working silversmith, living at 11, Boupell•strce.o
and she was employed in the straw-bonnet basinefih be
Hatfield-street, adjoining. On Wednesday last °
ss
went home, and had her supper with her fareilY,
usual, having first taken teo pills. She slept with
*bol3o
of her sisters, who heard her get up in the night, e 0
she was very sick. In the morning she got up agsl •
appeared very ill, and tell down dead. Mr. Brad',
surgeon, in th• Blackfriars-road was called in,
having analysed the contents of the 6tomaeb, discoYer'i,
in it a considerable quantity of arsenic, which had .el,
dently caused her death. Her father and family !lei%
wholly unable to account for it, the inquiry was as
adjourned, to obtain, if possible, some further evidence'
Stays were quite unknown in Russia until retell
the Great danced with some of the Hanoverian ladieo °b
his journey to romeraaia. Quite astounded, the monarca,
exclaimed to his suite after the ball," What confoun
edlv hard bones these German women have."
PROTECTION OF WOMEN.—A deputation frona the
committee of the Associate Institution had intervil
yesterday with Lord Campbell and the Lord Bishop °
Oxford, on the Bill for the suppression of trading it 0:
duction and prostitution, about to be submitted to tl3l'
House of Lords.