The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1848.

cessive generations. There is an uninterrupted flow
of ideas throughout the cities of Allemanie, and the
inhabitants have risen up with a simultaneous enthu-
siasm to welcome the revival of political independence
in France. The Revolution of February has excited
those sympathies which incited the people of the Conti-
nent to fraternize : it has touched that electric current of
thought which secretly connects the various nation-
alities of Europe. The liberative outburst at Paris
has aroused a corresponding excitement in Germany,
and that excitation of the popular mind has already
proved beneficial in Bavaria, in Wurtemburg, .
n
Baden, in Hesse Cassel, in Hesse Darmstadt, in
Nassau, in Weimar, in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in Ho-
henzollern, and, if the most recent rumours can be
regarded as authentic, in the very capital of Den-
mark. llanover has already experienced the pres-
sure of recent events. Prussia has demanded in
peremptory terms the immediate concession of a
series of radical reforms in her constitution. Even
Austria—the chief stronghold of despotism—the last
refuge of irresponsible sovereignty, the ever impreg-
nable citadel of tyranny, whenever the champions of
absolutism have been at bay with the nations—even
Austria has been driven into the current of progress—
even the Viennese have shed their blood in the battle
of freedom and knowledge—even METTERNICH has
succumbed before the wrath of the multitude.
Of the wonderful occurrences which have just
transpired in Berlin and Vienna it is as yet scarcely
possible to estimate the full importance. In the lat li
-
ter city especially the popular outbreak has been so
sudden, so triumphant, and so entirely unexpected,
that the mind cannot accurately grasp its consequences
until the newly installed Government of GESTIETIZZ
has been afforded time for the development of its
policy and intentions. At any other period the
resignation of the Prince DE METTERNICH would
have created astonishment and provoked speculation.
At this moment it is viewed as a subordinate incident
in the grander movements of this marvellous and
eventful epoch. The venerable and austere form of
the courtier-statesman is forgotten almost immediately
after its departure from the scene of his prolonged
supremacy. " Let us forget the past rather than the
present or the future," is one of the most favourite
aphorisms of M. DE LAMARTINE. And in accordance
with the ennobling principle embodied in that
aphorism the population of Christendom regards with
comparative indifference the disappearance of
the last representative of :a bygone and
absolute system of diplomacy. The multi-
tude have a nobler theme for contemplation
than the reminiscence of the career of the President
of the Congress of 1815-s-a career of craftiness and
cowardice, of guile and repression, of hypocrisy and
egotism. What to us are the multiplicity of honours
and emoluments showered upcn the head of the
downfallen Minister during the forty years in which
his prosperity has been continuous and his personal
domination paramount ? What to us at this instant
of universal liberation and brotherhood are those
exploded theories by which Prince METTERNICH en-
deavoured to thwart the patriotism of Prince
lIARDENBERG and to realise the aspirations
of Councillor GEUTZ ? What to us are the
recollections of his malign operations in Lom-
bardy, in Carlsbad, in Laybach, and in Trop
pau, at an epoch when the world is beholding the
resurrection of so many separate and important
nationalities ? Our attention is rather directed to the
triumphant democrats than to the debased instru-
ments of despotism—rather to the victorious students
of Lower Austria and the heroic ouvriers of Paris,
than to the once formidable but now powerless admi-
nistrators of the Tuileries and Schoenbrunn.
GUIZOT and METTERNICH may sink into that
obscurity which is more congenial to their
consciences than compatible with their un-
questionable genius the one as the servile
creature of his Sovereign's duplicity—the other as
the consistent upholder of a policy which he had in-
herited from the ignorance of the Past. When we
hear of popular commotions such as the one which the
other day convulsed the independent state of Cassel
—when the ELECTOR was caught in an attempt to
escape from the vengeance of the snob, and carried
back through the garden of his palace in the arms
of a blacksmith, and locked in a drays ing.room, like
a naughty boy, until he had been compelled, through
fear, to affix his signature to a Liberal Proclamation
—when such commotions as these are affording
each day new evidences of the irresistible
sway of democracy, it is surely anything but profit-
able to devote snore than a merely momentary glance
to the dwindling, spectres of a decrepid and powerless
Age—an Age which is expiring in the very birth of
its gigantic and beneficent successor. Shall one
man breathe a sigh for the overthrow of such Grand
Viziers, and shall not we look with sanguine and
wish loving hope upon the futurity which already
dawns upon the Czeches and the Magyars, as well as
upon the people of Poland, and Venetian Lom-
bardy ? Before the Hungarian constitution has
been in any essential respect reformed a new
light is thrown upon its capabilities of improvement,
a light that flickers like an oriflame above the battle-
ments of the metropolis of Lower Austria. That
light has been kindled by the Parisians, and has been
fanned into a quenchless flame by the sympathies of
England May it spread beyond the northern
suburbs of Copenhagen, and beyond the eastern forti-
fications of Warsaw

The festival of the Patron Saint of Ireland has
been celebrated by the Irish in the most peaceable
and satisfactory manner possible. The incendiary
proclamations of the malcontents have been treated
with becoming disregard, and St. Patrick's Day was
spent by the good citizens of Dublin, and, indeed, by
the inhabitants of all Ireland, in the tranquil perform-
ance of their religious and civil duties, the wearing of
the shamrock being the only peculiarity which marked
the festival. It was considered advisable that addresses
should not be presented to the Lord Lieutenant. An
address, however, had been prepared before the
arrangements became known. That address was
presented by the Royal College of Surgeons, de-
claring their opinion that the present circumstances
of the kingdom were such as to require from all well-
disposed persons an expression of their desire to
maintain public order and tranquillity. " Acquainted
as we are"—such were the words of the address—
" acquainted as we are (through the experience of
4,000 Fellows and Licentiates associated in our body)
with the sufferings of our fellow-countrymen, we
entertain the deepest abhorrence of any atttempt, by
inflammatory words or ill-considered acts, to excite an
agitation that could not, under any circumstances,
pass away without increasing, to a frightful extent,
and most grievously among the humbler classes, the
famine and pestilence with which the will of PAO..
TIDENCE has afflicted us." Heartily do we coincide
with these assertions. Great indeed is the abhorrence
with which all true patriots and philanthropists must
regard any attempts to kindle sedition among a
suffering and unfortunately, in too many instances,
a starving people.
Among a people whose sorrows and sufferings
render them easily excited to feelings of rage and
even to acts of revenge, all unconsciously, the very
sorrows and sufferings which instigate their actions
would be materially augmented by the very means
which their pretended friends assure them would be
most effectual in alleviating that wretchedness.
Great, however, as may have been the afflictions of the
Irish people, their magnanimity and fortitude in
enduring them have been still greater. Before we
condemn their occasional murmurings, let
us estimate, if we can, their silence. Be-
fore we judge them harshly for what they
have done, let us think, if possible, on what they
have forborne. Let us calculate, if we can, their
brave endurance of long-continued trouble, their un-
tiring patience under almost hopeless evils, and their
confiding trust and affecting submission even when
abandoned to the desolation of despair. If we think
upon all these things, of which the records of the last
three years may furnish abundant evidence, we must
acknowledge that, however great may have been the
afflictions of Ireland (and have they not been great ?),
the virtues of the Irish people have been yet greater.
Believing this, as we do, and rejoicing in such a be-
lief, extreme indeed would be our grief and disappoint-
ment if now—now, when we would fain imagine that
the worst is past—now, when a long-enduring pa-
tience is about to receive its due reward, and Ireland,
we hope and trust, is approaching better days—extreme
indeed would be our grief and disappointment, if now,
in the last hour of trial, the words of a few discon-

tented and desperate men should succeed in arousing 1
that spirit of repining and insubordination, and that
wild desire of retaliation and revenge which so much
suffering has not been able to excite. Nevertheless,
latterly there seemed to be almost cause to fear that
sueh a lamentable catastrophe might be at hand; at least,
if the assurances of the malcontents were to be credited,
there was abundant cause for such unfavourable antici-
pations. An ambition for notoriety, a jealousy of the
celebrity attained by the Revolutionists of France,
without doubt excited and stimulated these violent
demonstrations on the part of the disaffected. The
language of the peace-disturbers breathed a similar
spirit of sympathy with, and desire of assistance from,
France, as that which in old times animated the
rebels of Ireland when they sang—

" The French are on the sea,
Said the shan-vanvaugh,
The French are on the sea,
They'll be here without delay,
And we hope they'll gain the day,
Said the shan-vanvaugh."

Proportionably great as would hare been our
sorrow had these miscalled patriots succeeded in dis-
turbing the tranquillity of Ireland, and stirring up
th• long-controlled passions of the Irish people—pro-
portionably great is our exultation in the signal
failure of these most mischievous endeavours. Hence
it is that we so especially rejoice in the peace and
tranquillity which distinguished the recent festiral of
St. Patrick. "To bear is to conquer our fate," said
the poet—the poet who has so eloquently told of the
pleasures of hope. The Irish have already had much
to " bear." Let them but bear a little longer, and
they must inevitably " conquer."

The Gasetta di Roma of the 9th inst. has the fol-
lowing official communication :
"The Commissioa appointed by his Holiness to de-
vise a system of Government with those stable ameliora-
tions which correspond with the present circumstances
of Italy yesterday brought its labours to a close, and
has presented the result to his Holiness, who has deigned
to command the immediate convocation of the Sacred
College in consistory for to-morrow and Monday next
(the 13th), in order that measures may be taken for the
regular publication of the report of the commission."

The Piedmontese Gazette of the lith announces the
settlement of the differences between Sicily and
Naples. The KING, adhering to the demands of his
subjects beyond the Faro, has published several
decrees, sanctioning the following measures :—A
Minister, Secretary of State for the affairs of Sicily,
will reside with the King at NArLEs, when the latter
does not reside in Sicily. Don GARTANo SCOVAZZO
is named forthwith to this post. A general Parlia-
ment is convoked in Sicily, to adapt the
constitution of 1812 to the present times,
and to provide for the wants of Sicily ;
the dependence from the same KING being
admitted for the integrity of the monarchy.
The Chamber of Peers and Commons will meet at
Palermo on the 25th instant. A Lieutenant-General
will be appointed in Sicily by the KING, either from
among the princes of the blood, or the distinguished
personages of the island. The Lieutenant-General
will be aided, for the present, by a Minister for
Grace, Justice, and Ecclesiastical Affairs, another
for the Home Department, and a third for Finance.
The three Ministers, under the presidency of the
Lieutenant-General, will form the Council of Mi-
nisters, with a Secretary, under the title of Director
of the Ministry of State. Rear-Admiral Don
RUGGIERO SETTIMO, Prince of Fitalia (the chief
of the Provisional Government of Palermo),
is named Lieutenant-General of Sicily; he is em-
powered to open the Legislative Chambers for the
25th of March. The Ministry is composed as
follows :—Grace, Justice, and Ecclesiastical Affairs,
Don PASQUALE CALYI ; Horne Department, Don
PIETRO LINA). ; Finance, Don VINCENZO PAR•
DELLA ; Director of the Ministry of State, Don
MARIANO StAsual. For the questions which might
not be amicably settled between the two Parliaments,
the KING proposes the arbitration of Piedmont
and Tuscany, and, as a last resort, that of
the PorE. The KING, having found it im-
possible to form a, new Ministry, has called the former
Cabinet into office again, but has increased the number
of their members. The following is the complete list
of the present Cabinet :—SERRACAPRIOLA, Presi-
dent ; Don CESIDIO BONANNI, Ecclesiastical Affairs ;
Prince Ds:NTICe, Finance ; Prince of TORELLA,
Agriculture and Commerce; Don FRANCISCO PAOLO
BOZZELLI, Home Department; Prince of CARIATI,
Foreign A friars ; Colonel VINCENZO DEGII ÜBERTI,
War and Marine ; Don GIACOMO SAVARESE, Public
Works ; D. CARLO PCCRIO, Public Instruction ; Don
AURELIO SALICETI, Grace and Justice.

A Bill to raise a forced loan, to cover existing
deficits and meet future contingencies, has been pre-
sented to the Belgian Chamber of Deputies. The
plan is to raise forty millions : 1. By exacting of
proprietors a sum equivalent to two years' ground
rent, including eight months in process of payment,
and exclusion of the ordinary tax. 2. By doubling
the " personal" taxes, such as windows, horses, ser-
vants, &c., for the current year. 3. By a tax of 5
per cent. on all mortgages. 4. By retaining, accord-
ing to a graduated scale, from 4 to 6 per cent. on all
salaries and pensions above 2,000 f., including the pay
of all officers from the rank of captain upwards.
The loan will bear an interest of 5 per cent. until re-
imitursed. As a preliminary, the KING directed the
Minister to inform the Chamber that he had sub-
scribed 300,000 f. as his quota of the loan, over and
above all the charges to which the civil list is liable.

Madrid journals of the 13th have been received.
The news of the proclamation of the French Re-
public had excited the greatest enthusiam throughout
Spain. At Malaga nothing could exceed the enthu-
siastic admiration expressed by the people ; and at
Barcelona, an outbreak was hourly expected. Gene•
ral PAVIA had recalled all the troops from the out-
posts in Catalonia to Barcelona, to he ready to put
down any attempt at insurrection ; but it was said
that the troops had given him to understand, that in
the event of any demonstration being made, they
should at once fraternize with the people.

General ZARCO DEL VALLE has left Madrid for
Berlin. The ostensible object of his journey is said
to be to inspect the fortresses recently erected in
Prussia. The real object, however, is suspected
to be connected with the intrigues which have
been already set on foot to endeavour
to restore the Orleans monarchy in France.
Madrid is to be the Coblentz of the new emigration,
and the head• quarters of the Orleans intriguers. The
Duke and Duchess DR MONTPENSIRR have already
arrived, and will, it is said, be followed by every
other member of the family; and the object of Gene-
ral ZARCO DEL VALLE'S mission to Prussia is stated
to be to assure the northern Courts of the active co-
operation of Spain in any attempts which they may
make to put down republicanism in France and
restore the Orleans dynasty.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Union
Bank, held on the 12th inst., the following resolutions
were passed :
" Ist. The Bank to wind up and liquidate its affairs.
" 2d. Messrs. Sansom, Norzsgaray, and Escoreal y
Gil, appointed liquidators.
" 3d. Authority given to proceed criminally against
Bagneres.
" 4th. A junta of inspection is appointed, consisting of
Messrs. Salamanca, Guadarmino, Manuel Callado,
Brocha, and the cashier of the bank, Mr. Roberts."
MADRID BOLSA, MARCII is.—The Three per Cents,
aro lower to-day, having been done at 234 cash ; and
after the close are reported 231 buyers, sellers ; Five
per Cents., 14 sellers ; Passive Debt, 5 sellers ; Coupons,
10 sellers.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20, HALF-PAST 4 P.M.
His Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville is re-
ported to be now passing up Channel off this harbour
in a two-masted paddle-box steamer, under steam
and canvass, French colours (old—blue, white, red)
over the stern, and, to all appearances, the Royal
standard forward.

lIER MAJESTY'S HEALTH.
The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was
issued this morning :
" Buckingham Palace, March 21, 1848,19 A.M.
" The Queen has had another good night.
"her Majesty and the Infant Princess continue
well.

" JAMES CLARK•
" CHARLES LOCOCK.
" ROBERT FERGUSON."

Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly have left Dover for
the south of France, where they will remain, for the
benefit of her Ladyship's health, until Easter.

INSURRECTIONS

VIENNA AND BERLIN.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA has issued decrees grant-
ing the liberty of the press, and embodying a
National Guard. The following proclamations have
been issued :

" Cabinet Order of his Imperial Royal Majesty the
Lord High Chancellor.—We bare sanctioned the
establishment of a National Guard for the maintenance
of the legal peace and order of the capital, and for
the protection of persons and property, under the
guarantees which property and intelligence offer to
the State, and have, at the same time, appointed
Ernest Count Von Hoyos a chief ranger and Lieut.
Field Marshal, a commander of the National Guard.
for the organization of which the necessary prelimi-
naries will be adopted. We expect from the de-
votedness of our subjects that the confidence which
we have displayed by this act will be fully responded
to by them. "FERDINAND.
" Vienna, March 14."
" His Imperial Royal Majesty has ,been pleased
to decree the abolition of the censorship, and the speedy
promulgation of a law on the press.
" JOH. TALATYKO.

" Baron VON GES CIETIEZ,
" President of Royal Imperial GoTernment
of Lower Austria.
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Austrianthe 14th states that the
following rescripts were issued :

" I. The present events affect the weal of the State as
well as that of the city of Vienna. They demand a
deliberate development, and hence it is of the utmost
importance to the interest of the community and of in-
dividuals, that quiet, order, and security be maintained.
" The public good calls for this, and the honour of
the gallant and patriotic inhabitants of Vienna de-
mand it.
" To this end his Majesty has been graciously pleased
to grant the arming of the students, and has expressed
his expectation that all the burgher corps will strengthen
it as much as possible, and co-operate energetically for
the maintainance of peace.
" Those measures, these wholesome endeavours of the
students and burghers must, however, be actively sup-
ported by all the other inhabitants of Vienna. There-
fore, every head of a family and master of a household,
all proprietors of manufactories or workshops, are called
upon to keep at home their families and dependents, in
so far as they do not belong to the regularly armed in-
habitants, to obviate the increase of the crowds in the
public streets, whereby the desirable state of things is
impeded or perhaps retarded. The authorities and the
respectable inhabitants of Vienna will spare no exer-
tions. They reckon upon the general concurrence of all.
" JOH TALATYKO.
"Baron VON GESTIETIEZ, &c. &c. &c.
" Vienna, March 14, 1848." _ _

" 11. His Majesty the Emperor was pleased to grant
some petitions laid before him, relative to the excite-
ments of yesterday, in the firm hope and in full reliance
upon the assurances given him by the States, the
Burghers, and the Academic Senate, that peace and order
should be re-established by them without the further
intervention of the military. To-day petitions are
again presented, and the same assurances reiterated.
although the state of things is more unquiet than yes-
terday.
"The stability of the throne would be shaken were
his Majesty again to yield to delusive hopes. The sea-
sonable arrangements which his Majesty is at this mo-
ment considering cannot possibly be matured so long as
this excitement lasts; still less can they be brought into
action: hence it is the interest of the petitioners to con-
duct themselves peaceably, and thereby accelerate the
period of their being granted.
" Firmly resolved not to endanger the dignity of his
throne, his Majesty has committed the re-establishment
and maintenance of peace and order to his Highness
Field Marshal Alfred Count Von Vindischgratz, and to
subject to him all civil and military authorities, with full
power for the execution of the same.
"His Majesty expects, from the inviolate faith and
loyalty of the burghers, that they, conjointly with his
valiant troops, will aid these endeavours for the resto-
ration of public peace with all their powers.
"JOH. TALATYKO,
" Baron VON GESTIETIEZ, &c., &c., &c.

" Vienna, March 14,"
Vienna was illuminated on the 13th and the 14th in
honour of the concessions made by the EMPEROR.
On the 14th tranquillity was completely restored and
perfect order prevailed. All the troops had received
orders to quit the city. The number of killed in the
course of the revolution was about 200.

The following official account of the emente in
Berlin appears in the Prussian Gazette :
"During the day of the 15th numerous gatherings in
all the streets assembled about noon on the Schlossplatz.
The crowd was immense. As evening closed in the
people began to throw stones from the pavement at the
soldiery stationed at the castle gates. The requests to
the crowd to disperse were of no avail, and the stone
throwing continued. It was necessary to call out the
cavalry to clear the place. The crowd, in their flight,
ran into the Breit Strasse, where they en,Teavoured to
make a stand, as well as in other neighbouring streets,
and attempted to impede the motions of the troops
by breaking up the streets and bridges. The
soldiery sent to resist these movements were again
assailed with stones, and it was only by 'having
recourse to arms that they could induce the people to
disperse. The restoration of order and tranquillity
was not effected without bloodshed. Persons have been
wounded, and others, it is said, killed. This morning
the authorities had been informed of one death. The
people adopted every expedient by which they could
harass the soldiery, who showed the most perfect calm-
ness throughout. The members of the protesting com-
mission, which had been formed among the citizens, used
the most laudable endeavours to induce the people to
disperse. At eleven o'clock at night tranquillity was
completely restored in all the streets.
The official Gazette of Hanover publishes a pro-
clamation, in whick the KING declares that he is
convinced that the manifestations which have taken
place on the part of his subjects are not the expression
of their own sentiments, but the result of foreign
influence. At the same time he adds, that a portion
of their demands shall be taken into consideration,
and that he will endeavour to satisfy them, without
departing from the constitution. His MAJESTY
finishes by declaring that he counts on the fidelity
of his subjects, as they may count on his devotion,
and that he is prepared to devote himself to his coun-
try, even to the last drop of his blood. The KINQ
and his Ministers refused to admit the four professors
of the University of Gottingen, who had gone to
Hanover to complain of the conduct of the authori-
ties, who some days ago sent the gendarmes against
a gathering of students, several of whom were dan-
gerously wounded. Accordingly, the professors have
resolved to resign their functions, and probably all
the students will leave the university. The KING
and his Minister, M. VON FALCKE, refused also to re-
ceive a deputation from the city of Hanover, which
proposed to present an address to his MAJESTY.

'I HE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Journal des Debate says—
" On Sunday a deputation of twenty-fire bankers
went to the Minister of Finances to ask for the proro-
gation, for a few days more, of the payment of com-
mercial bills, and to allow them time to come to the
assistance of the market.

" The Ministry firmly resisted all idea of proroga-
tion, but proposed that a commission of fire of them
should be appointed to concert measures for the object
in view. The following gentlemen consequently formed
a committee:—MM. Dethomas, do la maison Ernest
Bechet et Dethomas ; Gaillaird, de colic Gaillard et
Rampin; Cusin-Legendre Pavie-Blondel, et Lehideux.
This commission proposed to the Minister to invite the
Bank of France—
" 1. As regards the bills on Paris, to discount them
freely; not to hesitate at the notice of the securities,
provided they appeared good; not to pay attention to
ony protestations which may have taken place since the
24th of February, for certain signatures, as it was
well known these houses were solvable; in a word, to
accept all security which was warranted good in its
ensemble.

" 2. As regards the provinces, to discount:up to forty-
five days.
"s• As regards certain extraordinary facilities, to take
bills on the order of the discounters, provided the se-
curities are good and bear a third signature, and to take
into account for lesser securities deposits of good bills at
long dates on Paris and the provinces.
" 4. As regards payments, not to exact before they are
due the repayments of securities accepted of or signed
by houses who have just suspended payment; to allow
ten days to run for the payment of protested bills, it
being in the option of the Bank to call upon the other
obliges of said securities if it should deem it advisable.
" The delegates expressed their opinion that those
measures were indispensable, and the hope that with the
aid of the Comptoir National they would safe the place.
They, moreover, declared that they regarded them as so
urgent that they ought to be enforced at once, commenc-
ing to-morrow (Tuesday).
"After hearing these propositions, the Minister placed
himself in immediate comueication with the Bank of
France."
In relation to this subject, the Monileur publishes
the following decree—
" FRENCH REPUBLIC.
" LIBERTy-ZQUALITY-FRATERNITY.
"The member of the Provisional Government, Mi-
nister of Finances, considering the decree of the Provi-
sional Government of the 2d instant,
" Resolves—The delays and powers granted by the
decree of the Bth of March current, in presenting with..
out forfeiture orders, letters of exchange, and the nego-
tiable effects, as well as effects and obligations which are
not negotiable, and drafts at certain dates, made in con-
travention to the stamp laws, are prorogued to the 15th
of April, inclusive. "For the Minister of Finance.
"E. DUCLERC.
"Paris, Maroh 17, 1845."

The Moniteur also publishes a decree of the Pro-
visional Government, giving► powers to the tribunals
of commerce to suspend the prosecutions of creditors
against their debtors for three months, in the event
of a demand to that effect being made by the debtor.
The Governor of the Bank of France has pub-
lished an official contradiction of the rumour that the
Bank would pay its notes in coin to those who could
prove that the money was required for the purpose of
paying workmen.
The National Bank of Discount commenced opera-
tions on Saturday.
A deputation of the sons of foreigners, born in
France, having presented an address to the Provisional
Government, demanding to be recognized as French-
men, M. ADAM, the Deputy Mayor of Paris, re-
plied to them :—" The Provisional Government sees
with the greatest pleasure this anxiety of honour-
able men to become French citizens. The object of
your demand has pre-occupied the Government,
similar applications having been already addressed
to it. Thus, a number of young men of the move-
able National Guard, who bravely fought in the last
struggle for liberty, have demanded that the right of
serving France be granted to them. Those demands
involve a great question of legislation, which must
naturally be solved by the National Assembly. You
will find in the Provisional Government men fully
disposed to favour the extension of the rights of
citizenship. This is the very nature of the principles
we have proclaimed. But the question cannot be im-
mediately adjusted, it being necessary to abrogate or
revise a law. I can, however, assure you that the
Government will certainly frame a more comprehen-
sive law than any previous legislators contemplated."
Another deputation of the sons of Frenchmen, re-
siding in France, who became foreigners in conse-
quence of the treaties of 1815, waited on the Provi-
sional Government to claim the rights they enjoyed as
Frenchmen previous to the separation of their country
from France. M. ADAM replied that the National
Assembly would no doubt reform the law they com-
plained of; and suppress formalities which were either
too tedious or expensive.
Several of the labourers employed on the public
works established by the Provisional Government
have struck for wages. M. MARIE, the Minister of
Public Works, has addressed to them a proclamation
reminding them that these works were established
solely for the purpose of providing them employment,
and appealing to their patriotism and honour to re-
turn to their duty:
The Prefect of Police has issued a proclamation,
warning foreigners not to come to Paris in search of
work in the workshops opened by the Provisional
Government. None but natives will be employed in
those shops. The proclamation adds, that measures
will be adopted to expel from France all foreigners
who have no legitimate object for coming there, and
who have not the means of living.
The Pressc says—

" We are assured that the Duke and Duchess of Mont-
pensier are at the present moment at Brussels, where
they remain in the strictest incognito. The Duke and
Duchess will go to Ems to pay a visit of some days to
the Duchess of Orleans before going into Spain, where,
as we announced yesterday, en official reception at St.
Sebastian awaits them. The re►idence of the Duke and
Duchess of Montpensier explains an official note in-
serted in the journals of that city, which contradicts the
news given by en English paper, that the departure of
the Duke of Montpensier from Loudon was in conse-
quence of the discovery of a secret correspondence at
the Valais of the Tuileries."

A difference of opinion exists among the Members
of the Provisional Government as to the period to
which the elections should be postponed. MM. D.s
LAMARTINE, GAMBIER PAGES, and the majority of
the Government wish the postponement to be only to
the 30th of April, while MM. LEDRULux and
PLocori wish it to be to the 21st of May. On this
subject the Reforme, the organ of MM. LEDRU
ROLLIN and FLocoN says—
" The Provisional Government does not speak in its
decree of the second and gravest question of the three,
that of the general elections. It is true that yesterday,
in an address to the delegates who had not received a
general authority, the Minister of the Interior had ad-
journed the debate by reserving the sovereignty of the
departments. This objection was decisive, for Paris is
not France ; and when so great an interest as that of
forming a constitution is in question, the universal will
should be heard from all points of the kingdom. But
does not the decree relative to the elections of the Pari-
sian Guard National imply, in fact, the postponement of
the general elections. Will it be possible to open these
grand assizes of the 9th, when the first shall not be
ended ? On the other side, the elections of Paris, which
at all times, and under all Governments, have exercised
so much influence on those of the departments, ouglst
they not to precede and not follow the others ! Is it
wished to deprive the revolution of its strongest pro-
pagande ?' No one will think this, and the Minister of
the Interior less than any other. The general elections
will then be postponed."
M. ARAGO, the Minister of Marine, has been ap •
pointed Minister of War ad interim, in the room of
General SunaßviE, who supersedes Marshal GERARD
as Chancellor of the Legion of Honour.

M. FREDERIC LAEITTE has sent a donation of
25,000 francs to the Provisional Government as a
patriotic gift to the Republic.
The news of the two days of Vienna has produced
an intense sensation in Paris. The National hails
the revolution as the dawn of the day of deliverance
for the Germanic race—of the resurrection of Poland
and of the liberation of Italy.
The National Guard Club yesterday sent a depu-
tation to the Provisional Government, to make known
its organization and its adhesion to the Republic.
The deputation was introduced by M. CIIAMBAUD,
and addressed by M. LAMARTINE, who thanked them
for their national sentiments and good wishes.
La Patrie of last night says that—" At the moment
of putting our paper to press we are crediby assured
that the Provisional Government has received a tele-
graphic dispatch from Vienna, announcing that a
Republic had been proclaimed at Vienna."

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. MARcia 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, s%—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 4—Dutch Rhenish, '/2—Namur and Liege,
3—Northern of France, 214—Paris and Orleans, 2514.—
Paris and Rouen, 1614, —Sambre aid Meuse, L.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY•)

LONDON, MAttcm 21.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes
and squally with rain.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Wind W.—Arrd. Kind
Pickering, Africa, and Old. for London.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 20.—Wind S.—Acrd. Spencer,
Stanton, Demerara; Red Rose. Sappa, Savannah; Chan•
cellor, St. John's, New Brunswick.

FISEIGUARD, MARCH 18.—It blew a violent gale yes-
terday at N.E. The coast from Saddle Point to
Goodwich-bridge, is strewed with unmanufactured
tobacco, with the following marks on the casks picked
up :—Q N 5*539 . L* 14 stripes, Liverpool, 18,46,
Soldan. A large cask, having contained palm oil, marked
near the bung 270, one marked 900 on the head, TH.
01113 and on the side 230 ; two empty small palm oil
cases marked 198, with a double diamond, have washed
on shore near Pwllandy Bay ; about fourteen others off
the Anglas Point; and a mast off Pertoxhan.
SHIELDS, MARCIE 20.—The Union, of Arbroath, and
the Amaranth, of and from Liverpool, has been got off
the Herdland without apparent damage; cargo of the
former saved.

HARWICH, MA.RCH 20.—The Aspen, •f Sunderland,
London, to the north, in ballast, has been assisted on
shore to-day, having been in contact with the Lady
Flora Hastings, off the Severn; both received considera-
ble damage.
DEAL, MARCH 20.—A Dutch ship, from /Batavia, is
reported to have put into Terceira on the 4th instant
to discharge, being leaky, by the Mary, Kincaid, arrived
in the Downs.

CORE, MARCII 16.—The aternpost of a ♦easel, appa-
rently of about 300 tons, marked " Sovereign," of Strom-
ness, was picked up on- the 4th instant between the
Lands End and Levese Stones, by the Corkscrew
steamer, arrived here.
SCARBOROUGH, MAncn 14.—The Eliza, Riddle, from
Nierk wall to Cambus, struck on the back of the north
pier in making for this harbour, but came off apparently
without damage.

SOUTITAMFTON, INIONDAY, MARCH 20.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Hindostan, Captain S. Lewis, sailed to-day for Gibraltar,
Malta, and Alexandria, with the usual East India and
China mails, and 70 passengers, amongst which are
Lord and Lady Falkland. The Pacha, Captain Olive,
arrived last night from Genoa, Leghorn, Civita
Vecchia, and Naples ; she had only seven passengers
and a small freight. The screw steamer Novelty has
arrived here, to load for Constantinople. Two steamers,
built by Mr. White for the Ottoman Government, were
launched at Cowes en Saturday ; they are named the
Nuphatha Tidjaret and the Medari Tidjaret, and are
beautiful vessels of 450 tons burden, and will receive
engines of 200-horse power. The Turkish Consul-
General Zorab and family, with some of the attaches of
the Turkish embassy, wore present at the launch. The
Vectis, a fine steamer, of 950 tons and 300-horse power,
for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation com-
pany, will be ready fer launching in about a fortnight.
The Washington, United States mail steamer, will take
her departure hence for New York to-morrow (Tuesday),
at I I o'clock A.M.
We can state on good authority that the report
circulated in Paris to the effect that Prince Louis Napo-
leon is a candidate for a seat in the. National Assembly
of Franca is wholly without foundation.—Times.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
HAY MARKETS.

SNITIMELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 15s; Clover,
ditto, 31 15s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 11
9s per load. A short supply, and a sluggish demand.
C IItDIIIISRLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 16s to 31 15s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 41 12s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 lOs
per load. Trade steady, at the above quotations.
WHITECIIA PEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 14s to 31 15s;
Clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 41 16s; and Straw, 11 3s to 1/ 9s
per load. Supply good, and trade dill.