The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1848.

tulations. The national favour of Germany—ribbons
of black, red, and gold—fluttered in his hel-
met. " GOD preserve the Emperor of ALLEMANIA !"
cried a bystander in a burst of enthusiasm. " Not
so! " said the KING, " I swear by GOD I aim not at
the rights of princes !" Not so! say we also ; but—
GOD preserve the royal Liberator of Germany, if he
only employ with wisdom and patriotism the love
and admiration of the Prussians ! FREDERICK WIL-
UELM holds in his grasp the talisman of a grand and
beautiful immortality. Let him not pause or tem-
porise, but proceed and conquer. Then shall hi,
name be consecrated in the reverence of posterity,
and held in perpetual remembrance as the Liberator
of Allemania.

a large majority, a motion for the formation of a
Committee, to investigate the facts of the recent in-
terference on the part of the Government with
certain Bourse transactions ; but, after a speech from
the Minister of Commerce, it was rejected by a large
majority. The Gazette says that there is no truth in
a statement which had been made, of the Minister of
Marine having entered into a contract with the
Messrs. ZULUETA, of London, for the supply of some
steam-vessels.

off for Baden, but they had, on arriving at Meaux,
omitted the usual military precaution of sending for-
ward an advanced guard to explain the inotive of the
march and prepare for their reception. The conse-
quence was, that they were mistaken for a band of
malefactors come to pillage the town, and were fired
upon by the National Guard. A body of Poles also
left on Friday, accompanied by a chaplain, a major
of the late Polish army, and an officer of artillery,
who had lost a leg at Oitrolenka, and who commanded
the body. They were not armed, but having de-
manded passports and relinquished the allowance
made them by the French Government, received
feuilles de route with a small sum sufficient to carry
them to the frontier.

The Siglo states that Mr. BULIVER has presented
an official note to the Spanish Government, declaring
that the English Cabinet maintains its protest against
the marriage of the Duke de MONTPENSIER, rot«•ith-
standing the recent events in France. It is said that
Mr. BULITER was to leave Madrid in a few days for
Paris.

In commenting on these brigand expeditions, which
are clearly contrary to the law of nations, the Siele
says—
" We believe that we render a service to the Provi-
sional Government in making an appeal to public opinion,
while we signalise blameable acts which have a very
dangerous charecter. How ca❑ we suppose that nations
which in the first place held out the hand of fraternity
to us can preserve sentiments of good-will towards our
country, when they learn that bands go about through
the factories, both in Paris and elsewhere, for the
purpose of expelling, en masse, all foreign workmen,
whether English, Germans, Belgians, or Sardinians ?
11.,w can it be otherwise than that the Govern-
ments should take umbrage if it be true that the
Northern Railway has bee❑ put in requisition three
days running, to transport Belgians going to proclaim
the republic in their country, and that Germans are
authorised to form themselves into legions, and to arm
themselves for an expedition of the same kind ? The
Government is bound, like the monarchy, to observe the
rules which preside over the laws of nations. If Spain
or Belgium should tolerate on their territories the as-
sembling of troops whose avowed object was the restor-
ation of Henry V. or Louis Philippe, the Provi-
sional Government would assuredly consider that
tolerance as an act of hostility scarcely disguised. Let
us not give the same pretexts to foreign Governments.
If Republican France live at peace with them, let her
respect their authority and their frontiers. We would,
as far as we are concerned, prefer a frank and open de-
claration of war to these provocations without motive, as
well as without dignity. France is too great to conspire
against her enemies in the shade. Vhe❑ she draws her
sword let her do it loyally, supporting herself on her
own courege, and taking heaven as a witness of her
right. This was the spirit of the circular of M. de
Lamartine, and it is the idea which ought to preside in
all our relations with Europe."
M. TillEnS has issued the following to those of his
former constituents who have expressed a desire for
his re-election :

The last accounts from the Continent speak of an
insurrection in Warsaw, and encourage us to antici.

pat., as the crowning triumph of the present revolu-
tion—without which all its achievements would be

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

incomplete and unsatisfactory—the emancipation of

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.
We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
yesterday.
The Provisional Government has issued a decree
ordering that, as two signatures are necessary for all
bills presented to the national discount banks to have
money obtained on them, and as the greatest number
of small traders and agriculturists cannot easily ob-
tain the second name on the paper, a guarantee bank
shall be established in each town where a national
discount bank exists, for the purpose of serving as
intermediate party between such bank and the
traders. The capital of the guarantee bank is to be
raised by joint-stock companies, and in no case is to
be less than 100,000 f. The business of those guaran-

Poland. Much as there has been in the

character of the recent movement to excite

our interest and elicit our approval, this would
be an event that would more peculiarly

arouse the exultation and enthusiasm of the English

people. The emancipation of Poland has long been
the day-dream of our patriots and philanthropists—
the object of our most anxious though almost hope-
less desires. It is natural that a nation like our own,

possessed of all the advantages of freedom, and rightly
appreciating and exulting in those advantages, should
experience the most profound affliction in witnessing
the ineffectual struggles of a brave and patriotic

people to preserve their nationality, struggles result-
ing in their complete overthrow--their annihilation
as a nation, and their enslavement as a people.
More especially was this feeling enhanced by the
gallantry and devotion evinced by the unfortunate
Poles, and the relentless tyranny exhibited by their
oppressors. No single event of modern history ex-
cited such powerful sympathy and such universal
indignation throughout Europe generally, and England
especially, as the overthrow of Poland. And those
sentiments were no temporary ebullitions of a passing
emotion, they are not yet effaced frem our hearts,
which are alternately agitated with pitying admira-
tion and indignant horror, whenever the wrongs and
sufferings of Poland pass before our thoughts. A
history so romantic in itself, a picture so vividly
coloured, hardly needed the accessories of poetry or
fiction to enhance its attraction and increase its in-

tee banks is to procure for small traders the discount
of their bills on sufficient security in goods, warrants
on bonded goods, &c., being given by the parties de-
manding assistance.
The Provisional Government, taking into conside-
ration the present embarrassment of commerce, has
issued a decree making a temporary reduction in the
expense of protesting bills, registration dues, and
the emoluments attached to those documents. The
reduction amounts to about 33 per cent.
The Provisional Government has decreed that
work in the prisons shall be suspended, and that the
contracts now existing with respect to it shall be
rescinded, the contractors receiving an indemnity
from the State if called for. The same measure is
to be applied to work done by soldiers in active ser-
vice, or receiving pay, food, lodging, and clothing
from the State. For the future also it is ordered,
that work which may be done in prisons, in charitable
establishments, or in religious communities, shall be
regulated in such a manner as not to create any
lamentable competition with free industry.
The Provisional Government, considering the pre-
sent appropriation of the buildings of the Temple to
be irregular, and detrimental to the Treasury, has
issued a decree, ordering that they shall henceforth
return to the State, and appointing a commission to
indemnify the religious community now in possession
for any expenses it may have been at in fitting up
the interior part of the buildings.

M. THIERS TO THE ELECTORS OP THE DEPARTMENT
OF THE DOUCHES DU RHONE, WHO HAVE OFFERED
HIM THEIR SUFFRAGES. _

terest ; nevertheless, our poets and romancists, irre

" I thank you, gentlemen, for the recollection which
you have been good enough to preserve of me, and of
the services which I have endeavoured to render to
France during the eighteen years of my public life. I
think, in fact, that I have a right, as well as my oppo-
nents, to the choice of the department in which I was
born. Perhaps I may have spread some lustre on the
deputation of the Bouches du Rhone, but I have certainly
served with patriotic ardour the cause of order, liberty,
and the national greatness. It certainly is true that I
have neither desired nor wished for the Republic, for, in
my opinion, a constitutional monarchy was sufficient to
assure us a great degree of liberty; and the state of
England during the two last centuries seemed to me for
my country a destiny which was not to be disdained.
Providence has decided otherwise. I bow before its
decrees; and if I am ready to resist all tyranny,
I shall never resist the force of circumstances, mani-
fested by such striking signs. I accept, then, the Re-
public without any after-thought; but I do not mean to
disavow any part of my life. In the first years which
followed 1830 I defended the cause of order. Hardly
had order been established when I defended the cause of

sistibly captivated by the theme, have combined to im-
press it yet more effectually on the popular mind,
interweaving imperishably with our most treasured
remembrances. The overthrow of Poland has given
occasion to one of the most beautiful and interesting
of modern fictions. The overthrow of Poland has
inspired the most sublime stanzas of the splendid
poem which commemorates the happy influences of
Hope—in this instance the pleasures of Hope being
deduced from the very desolation of despair. We
would fain believe that the happy auguries of the
poet are even now on the point of attaining their
realisation. After depicting the awful picture—" the
bloodiest picture in the Book of Time," of Sarmatia's
fall, unwept, without a crime, when—
" 'lope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!"

The Minister of the Interior, considering that the
vicinal roads have not been improved in a manner
proportionate to the sacrifices which have been im-
posed on the communes for that purpose, and feeling
the importance to agriculture of their being put into
a better condition, has ordered the formation of a
commission, composed of eight members, to consider
of the best measures to be adopted to effect this de-
sirable object.
By a decree dated 23d of March, the Provisional
Government enacts that the suspensions of magis-
trates which have been made by the Commissaries
Extraordinary of the Government are approved, that
they shall exist until the Minister of Justice shall
otherwise order, and that the salaries of the said ma-
gistrates shall not be paid from the day of suspension,
but be placed into the National Treasury.
The Moniteur of Sunday publishes a decree from
the Provisional Government, suspending the cash
payments of several of the provincial banks. The
following are the clauses of the decree :

the Poet of Hope, with prescient inspiration, looked
forward to this day, and after bewailing the inter-
mediate miseries of Poland, exclaimed with indignant
exultation—

liberty, of the national greatness, which in their turn
seemed to me in peril through the faults of a royalty,
which I shall abstain from outraging now that it is pro-
scribed. I might have obtained the favours of that
royalty; I did not seek them, because my convictions
could not accord with those of the reigning king. Out
of eighteen years I passed twelve in an opposition, the
most firm, the most constant, and the most disinterested.
I think, that independently of the experience acquired,
which is always good under every form of government,
even the newest, and especially under the most new, the
Deputies, members of the late Opposition, might be
useful; for were it wished to reduce the supporters of
the new Republic to those only who were Republicans
six weeks ago, it would be to expose it to too great a
degree of isolation."
" I have, therefore, consented to be put in nomination.
I have consented to do this from duty, from devotion,
from honour, not to work in the future National Assem-
bly for a concealed restoration; but to labour frankly to
constitute the new Republic on a solid and durable basis,
to defend there the essential conditions of all society,
family, and property, and the liberty of transactions.
" I am told that declarations, explanations, and en-
' xagements are expected from me, that the Republicans
de la veilk, perhaps even those du lendemain, do not find
me a Republican of sufficiently ancient date (a thing
which I acknowledge in all humility); that the Conser-
vatives remember my opposition, that the clergy espe-
cially, who desire to appreciate my love of order, require
to be re-assured on my tendencies on the subject of
public instruction, a question now distant, and greatly
changed. I can understand all these scruples; but to do
away with them I do not intend to disavow any of my
former opinions.
"I believe I supported the interests of my country to
the extent which was conformable with our late institu-
tions. lam ready to yield to all the candidates of our
department on the score of talent; I venture to call
myself their equal on the score of patriotism; and I
declare, that if I am not elected, I shall feel by no
means disgraced in the face of France, or in the face
of Europe.
" I, therefore, beseech my friends to spare all efforts,
not to compromise themselves to second my candidature;
above all, to enter on no engagement in my behalf. I
do not wish to do anything but to labour loyally to
constitute well the new order of things. Ready to fill
courageously a difficult mission if it be confided to me
freely, I no longer desire it from the moment it be
contested, in however slight a degree.
" I shall re-enter with pleasure on retirement and
study, there to meditate in quiet on the eternal laws of
human society, which I do not think changed notwith-
standing the agitation of the world; there tolmake ardent
vows in favour of that France which I have so loved,
which I love so still, and which I shall love in pro-
portion even to tho dangers which she may run at
this time.

" Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land! shall see
That man hath yet a soul—and dare be free!
A little while, along thy saddening plains,
The starless night of Desolation reigns;
Truth shall restore the light.
Tyrants! in vain ye trace th." wizard ring;
In vain ye limit Mind's unwearied spring;
What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep;
Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep?
No! the wild wave contemns your sceptred hand,
It rolled not back when Canute gave command!"

It is not for man to say to the advancing waters
" Hither shall thou come and no further," and it is
not in the power of man, be he king or emperor, to
arrest the advancing impulse of public opinion, and
force back into their fetters a people who have once
resolutely arisen and shaken them off. It is impos-
sible ; and it is well for the ruler who can learn this
truth by example rather than by experience. The KING
of the FRENCH, unwarned by former lessons, waited for
the latter mode of teaching ; he has now abundant
opportunities of appreciating its correctness. The
Sovereign of Austria wisely availed himself of the
lesson afforded by that example ; he yielded to cir-
cumstances, and thus ensured his own safety and the
prosperity of his people. NICHOLAS of Russia must
choose between the two, at least as regards his Polish
dominions. That he must lose them is inevitable. It
will be ♦ain to have recourse to former methods of
intimidation, " his whiskered pandoors and his
fierce hussars " can now avail him nothing;
he must either make a virtue of necessity,
and give way with a good grace, or his ill-gotten
conquests will be wrested from his grasp, and per-
haps more also. But whichever way it be effected
signifies little ; one thing is certain, and that is suffi-
cient—Poland must be restored. No longer will
there be occasion for London to have " revelry by
night," and gather her beauty and her chivalry to
support the refugees of Poland. The prohibited
banquets of Paris have effected immeasurably more
for the Polish refugees than the balls of London ;
not that we would by any means disparage the good
effects and good intentions of the latter—not that
we would disparage any manifestations of this coun-
try's sympathy for the unfortunate exiles. Happily,
as we would fain believe, such sympathy will be
required no longer. Our sympathy must now
be evinced, not by succouring them in
misfortune, but by rejoicing in their libera-
tion, for their liberation is at hand—must be at
hand. It is not possible that in this hour of uni-
versal reform, when almost all the nations of Europe
seem stirred by one simultaneous impulse to combine
in effecting their individual emancipation and their
mutual regeneration, it is not possible that Poland
alone, whose servitude has been hitherto regarded all
a blot on the fair fame of Europe, should now be
suffered to remain a slave in the midst of an assem-
blage of free nations. Again we repeat it :—it is not
possible. It cannot be that the ardour and patriotism
which once inspired Poles to those deeds of desperate
devotion which rendered their heroism the theme of
European celebrity—it cannot be that their
ardour and patriotism is buried with Kosci-
usko ; neither is it possible, we would fain
hope and believe, that any mutual division
and jealousies can again mar the glorious work which
their country demands at their hands. No anxiety
but for their country's weal should now animate their
hearts. The glorious ambition of restoring the
nationality of Poland should arouse the enthusiasm
and animate the exertions of every individual Pole.
Inspired with such a sublime desire, united for such
a sacred object, they would be irresistible, and might
laugh to scorn the menaces of the AUTOCRAT. His Im-
perial MAJESTY would soon become aware of his own
impotence, he would speedily discover that, like " the
pebble stiffening in the torrent's course," he cannot
hinder Time from flowing on. It is too late in 1848
to begin a war of extermination. Poland must be free;
otherwise the European revolution would be a mockery,
and the liberty and fraternity of nations a delusion. But
of this there need be little apprehension. An insur-
rection has already broken out at Warsaw, and the
struggle for Polish independence has begun. The
English people will watch this struggle with no
common interest and no ordinary sympathy. Anxious
we may have felt as to the movements in France and
Germany, but Poland, over whom we have mourned
so long—Poland, for whose wrongs we have been
indignant, for whose sufferings we have sorrowed,
for whose heroism we have been filled with admira-
tion, and for whose emancipation we have yearned as
for the fulfilment of our most cherished wish, and
the realisation of our brightest dream—Poland in her
hour of trial must call forth far warmer sympathies
and more eager anxieties than the interests of any
other nation could have elicited. Heartily and cor-
dially then do we bid them GOD speed in their pe-
rillous, but glorious undertaking. Heartily and
earnestly do we exhort them to forego every minor
consideration, and zealously to devote head, heart,
and hand to the service of their country, in ()icier to
hasten the advent of the day—" When she shall be—
shall be free."

" Art. 1. From the day of the publication of the
present decree, the notes of the Banks of Lyons, Rouen,
Bordeaux, Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, Havre, Toulouse,
arid Orleans, are received as legal money by the public
officers, and by private individuals within the depart-
ment where each of these establishments is situated.
" Art. 2. Till further ordors the same banks are dis-
pensed from the obligation to reimburse their notes i❑
specie.
" Art. 3. In no case shall the amount of the emissions
of any of those banks exceed the following limits:—
For the Bank of Lyons ••• ... F. 20,000,000

Rouen
Bordeaux
tf Nantes
f
Lille •.•
Marseilles
II arre
T(iulouso
Orleans
" Art. 4tt.
Notes of 100 f. allowed.
" Art. 5. The banks are allowed to admit drafts sen
by the national discount banks.
" Art. I. The banks aro twice a week to send a state
ment of their situation to the Ministers of Finance and
Commerce."

f f
f t

15,000,000
22,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
20,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
3,000,000

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The National of yesterday has the following obser
vations on the speech of Lord PALMERSTON on the
subject of the National Defences :--
" Lord Palmerston maintained the necessity of in-
creasing the navy, protesting at the same time his desire
to see peace maintained in Europe. All his speech may
be reduced to this :---‘ Peace is probable ; but no one
can say what can occur, and we ought to be ready for
all events.' The House voted the addition. We do not
forget that last year the Duke of Wellington, in a letter
which was published, called the attention of the English
Government to the terrible dangers with which England
was threatened. To believe him, a French army was
quite ready ; it had only to embark ; it could cross
the Channel at any moment, and when once it landed,
what means were there of stopping it ? What Napo•
Icon could not do, Louis Philippe was about to execute
in the turn of a hand, France, certainly, had no idea
that Louis Philippe was so enterprising! The discovery
of Lord Wellington at first surprised us; but, when we
thought of the age of the old man, all was explained.
To judge from what is now taking place, the English
Ministry has considered the matter seriously; and the
clear and formal declarations of the Provisional Govern-
ment have not succeeded in re-assuring it. However, the
events which press so rapidly on each other; those nations
which are everywhere rising; those thrones which are
tottering; those old monarchies which are falling to pieces
in a few hours, ought, in our opinion, to enlighten it.
France does not desire war, and has no need of it;
peace carries on her affairs better than the most striking
victories. Our battalions at present are our ideas, which
peace is disseminating through the world, and the march
of which war, perhaps, would impede. Is that what the
British aristocracy dread? Are they afraid that the
great movement which at the present moment is agi-
tating Germany and Italy should communicate from man
to man, and eventually shake the United Kingdom to its
old foundations! It is possible; but it would be neces-
sary in that case to show a little more frankness.
&aides, what does it import to us? At the point at
which matters are at present, we defy Lord Palmerston,
or any other statesman, however able he may be sup-
posed, to induce the inglish people to believe that e e
are their enemies."
On Thursday and Friday large bodies of Belgian
republicans, among whom it is said were many
Frenchmen, left Paris by the Northern Railroad,
with the avowed intention of entering Belgium in a
hostile manner, and forcing republican institutions on
that country. These Belgian republicans, before
their departure, paraded the streets of Paris with
drums beating and colours flying. On the flags were
inscribed " Vive la Republique Belge."
A letter from Brussels of the 25th gives the fol-
lowing account of the result of the Republican expe-
dition from Paris The so-called Belgian legion,
or at least a strong portion of them, comprising
about two thousand people, arrived this morning by
three trains at Quievrain, where a strong detach-
ment of troops, surrounded by a considerable crowd
of armed peasants, ready to aid the military,
were awaiting them. The chiefs seeing that the
trains did not stop at Valenciennes as had been
arranged, thought the coup de main had
failed. They hastened to jump from the trains
before reaching the frontier. Those who so
leaped were about sixty, several of them
broke their legs. The others were led directly in
the midst of the troops. Many of them were armed
with guns, sabres, and daggers. About sixty or
seventy amongst them were Frenchmen or English-
men, and were directly brought back to the frontier.
The others were mostly poor Belgian workmen who
had been driven from their work by the French.
They were immediately brought one by one to their
respective localities, and so ends the famous project
for the liberation of Belgium. Some who were
found armed have been taken into custody. The
procession occupied thirty-two carriages. Other
trains are expected this evening, and will be received
in the same way.
On Thursday a party of German republicans set

(Signed) " A. TRIERS,
" Ancient Deputy de Bouches du Rhone.

The list of electors were, according to the decree
of the Provisional Government for the General As-
semby, to be closed on Sunday night at midnight, and,
as no notice of postponement was given, it is to be
presumed that the elections will positively take place
on the 9th of April. The National Guards elections
are now fixed for the sth of April.
The number of persons carried to the hospitals of
Paris in a wounded state, during the three days of
February, amounted to 703, of whom, by the last re-
turns, 150 have since died.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN has published the follow-
ing notice at the head of the leading article of the
Presse

" Those parties who believe that we are to be intimi-
dated by menaces, are mistaken. They may destroy our
printing presses, and thus deprive five hundred persons
employed at them of their daily bread; but we shall
Always find a sheet of paper on which to publish our
ideas, and readers to peruse what we have written. They
may put us to death by two modes—either by the hand
of a coward, or by the blows of a multitude which has
been led astray. But if the Republic and liberty must
dishonour themselves by an act of murder, the sole
honour we desire is to he their first victim. Glorious
will be the first martyr who will sacrifice himself in
order to give the example of resistance to terrorists! All
Paris, except cowards and malefactors, should assist at
his fnneral, and France should wear mourning for him.
They may therefore kill us without our attempting to
defend ourselves, but violence shall never force us to be
silent or to fly."

On Friday, a tree of liberty was planted in the
square of the Hotel de Ville, on the spot where,
twenty-five years since, the republican sergeants of
La Rochelle perished on the scaffold.
Galignanis Messenger of Saturday gives the fol-
lowing graphic description of the representation of
the tragedy of Luerice at the Thetttre de la Repub-
lique :—" Last night, at the Th atre de la Repub-
lique, M. PONSARD'S celebrated tragedy of Luerke
was transplanted from the Odeon, and the subject
of the piece, the fall of the Tarquins and the revo-
lution of Rome, naturally gave this representation
peculiar interest at the present time,
a
accord-
ingly the theatre was crammed with an nd
audience
ready to manifest their feelings at all those passages
events, with which the piece
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whole aspect of the salle, in-
deed, presented a pregnant commentary upon the
mutability of the times we live in. The loge of the
ex-royal family being now thrown open to location,
like any other part of the theatre, was tenanted by a
quiet bourgeoisie, nowise remarkable in appearance,
yet who, from their occupying that place so lately
" the cynosure of neighbouring eyes," were a point
of observation for all the binocles of the assembly
during the night. But far more special objects of
attention occupied the loge immediately opposite,
formerly appertaining to the department of the In-
terior, and still retained by the new Government.
Here sat Messrs. LEDRU ROLLIN, CREMIEUX, MAR..
EAST, PAGNERRE, ALBERT, FLOCON, and other gentle-
men not visible from thefront; in fine, with a few
exceptions, the entire of the Provisional Government.
At particular passages of the play having a bearing upon
politics, a thousand eyes were turned towards them,

Madrid journals of the 19th have been received.
The Chamber of Deputies rejected, on the lath, by

Ind none were louder in their applause of those parts
which told in favour of a republic. One passage in
a speech of BRUTUS was particularly applauded, in
which he says—it is easier to destroy than to re-
store. This line was vehemently cheered and en-
cored by the audience, and every eye was turned
towards the Government loge. M. 1.4 EDAU ROLLIN
looked at his colleague CREMIEUX and smiled, the
whole party joining in the tumult of applause. As
a mark of the good taste as well as good feeling
of the spectators, we must observe that several pas-
sages, which might have been applied by a less gene-
rous assembly as bearing against the ex-King and his
family, passed without eliciting the least approbation,
though the enthusiasm in favour of a republic was
most ardently expressed on every occasion that of-
fered. It was not, however, until the close of the
tragedy, when Mlle. RACHEL, who had performed
Lucrlce, appeared to sing the " Marseillaise," that
the excited temperament of the public was raised to
its highest pitch. Her singing—or we should rather
say her acting—of this grand national hymn was on
this occasion sublime. Her chaunt was solemn and
inspired as a sybilline priestess, and as she knelt and
pressed the tricoloured flag to her heart the entire
theatre broke out into a long, loud, uncontrollable
burst of transport, which should be witnessed to be
described. The illustrious actress was recalled at
the close of the last strophe, and the entire body of
the auditory stood up to receive her, and repay their
thanks; among the most fervent of her applauders
were the members of the Government. We must not
omit to note another striking feature in this remark-
able evening, namely, the presence of Prince JEROME
BONAPARTE and his son. The brother and the
nephew of the Emperor NAPOLEON occupying a
private box at the Theatre Francais, in the presence
of a Provisional Government !—surely one of the
most impressive lessons to be found in history of the
mutability of earthly prospects."
The price of French gold continued on Sunday at
from 70f. to 751. the thousand. The price for cashing
a thousand franc note was rather less than the day
before, at from 121. to 20f.; but the English sovereign
was a shade higher, at 27f. A number of speculators
had assembled in the Passage de l'Opera, but no busi-
ness was done.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MancH 25.
Boulogne and Amiens, 6%—Namur and Liege, 23,4—
Northam of France, 3—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2—Paris
and Lyons, 11/2—Rouen and Havre, B—Sambre and
Meuse, SIA.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.