The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1848.

eiasm of a public assemblage. It is conceived, we
will acknowledge, in a spirit so emphatically eulo-
gistic, that we should certainly have abstained from
transcribing such expressions in this column of
our impression, but that the very sentence
itself calls most forcibly to our recollection the
fact that in England the man is concealed, is
unknown, is forgotten, is absorbed in the journalist.
The very employment of a pronoun smacking in-
variably of a sort of regal plurality is sufficient testi-
mony that the vice of egotism is incompatible with
the duties of editorship. We cannot, therefore, be
supposed to be actuated in the present instance by
any of that moral coxcombry which is contemptible
in an individual and impossible in a journalist. We
hazard a thousand chances of subjecting ourselves to
sarcasm because we would vindicate the dignity of
our profession, and commemorate the civic glories of
the deceased.
Never since the first union of Civilization and
Christianity has the press asserted in a more unde-
niable manner its predominant position in the social
edifice than throughout the storms of the present
eventful and unparalleled epoch. LIMARTINE, him-
self a great journalist, has enunciated his Creed of the
NEW AGB. " Its faith," says he, "is reason, words
are its organs, the press its apostle; it will re-make in
its image religion, civilisation, society, and legislation :
in religion, it requires 6-OD one and perfect for
dogma, eternal morality for symbol, adoration and
charity for worship ; in politics, humanity above
nationality ; in legislation man equal to man, man the
brother of man, Christianity legislated." The Press its
Apostle!—it is a doctrine from the poetic and political
theology of LAMAxTINE. If current facts were
essential to corroborate the hypothesis of this illus-
trious and philosophic statesman, those facts might be
culled in abundance from contemporary occurrences.
Throughout the majestic and irresistible movement
of Democracy, which is now sweeping over the
European continent, one thing has been more con-
spicuous than another in the peremptory requisitions
of the multitude; the peoplehave revealed their appre-
ciation of the power of the printing-press as the Apos-
tle of Liberty and the Champion of Humanity—they
have in Prussia, in Austria, in Hanover, in Bavaria,
in Wurtemberg, in Denmark, in Sardinia, in Tus-
cany, in Rome, in Modena, in Parma, and in Lom-
bardy, they have, in short, in the various principalities
of the Italian peninsula, and of the Germanic Confe-
deration, made the establishment of a perfect freedom
in journalism the sine qua non for the retention of
sovereign authority. Several of the less enlightened
rulers have been driven to abdication, expatriation,
and incarceration, for the refusal of this among
other constitutional improvements. In France
especially the puissance of the press has been the
most vividly demonstrated—at Paris the press has
almost reached its apotheosis. In the obscure apart-
ment of a morning newspaper, in the editor's room of
the Reforme, the provisional republic was first de-
bated, and the names of the Provisional Ministers
first written out in a catalogue. Almost every one
of the remarkable men installed in the national
palace :of the Hotel de Ville, almost every
one of the eminent members of the Provisional Go-
Nornment of February, were, up to the period of their
elevation to the responsibilities of power, labouring
in the cause of the people as journalists. FERDINAND
ElocoN and LEDRU ROLT.IN were of the Reforme,
ARMAND MARRAST was of the National, LOUIS
BLANC was of the Democratic Pacifique, ALBERT was
of the Atelier, and LAMARTINE himself was of the
Bien Publique. Nor have the upholders of an abso-
lute and despotic policy been indisposed themselves to
employ the stupendous weapon of typography.
Moderate reformers, conservatives, innovators,
and tyrants, have alike availed themselves of
that colossal weapon GUIZOT, in the Journal
des Debats, and occasionally in the Revue
des Deux Itlondes, ODILON BARROT in the
THIERS in the Constitutionnel, EMILE
DIN in tne Presse, and, at this very juncture, the
Emperor NICHOLAS himself in the uncompromising
columns of the Abeille du Nord. Every circumstance
tends to disclose still , more plainly than heretofore
the vast and beneficent, because essentially argumen-
tative and intellectual, sway exercised by the FOURTH
ESTATE.

Shall not the members of this fourth estate, there-
fore, receive at least one of the many guerdons of their
toil—the guerdon of remembrance ? In other coun-
tries a journalist is raised to political distinc-
tion by his very profession. Before the down
fal of the Orleans' dynasty the more for-
tunate wielders of the pen were rewarded with
courtesies, with respect, with plaudits in the tribune,
with the insignia of rank and the titles of nobility.
Since the Revolution of February they hare been
elevated by acclamation to the exercise of the su-
preme functions of the Government. None of these
adventitious and aristocratic recompenses are
required for the Press of England. Rather
let the journalists of the country continue to pass
away to their graves, as they have done, up to this
present time, " unknown and unrewarded," than
the journalism of England should lose one
iota of its independence ! Rather let the members of
the fourth estate be forgotten and neglected, than
the honesty of their organs become corrupted by
" patronage or promotion !" Nevertheless, we cannot
but think that the honours, the respect, and the ad-
miration which are obscured, or rather reserved,
during the life-time of such a journalist as JOHN
IVALTER, of the Times newspaper, may, without any
peril whatever, be lavished over his tomb by way of
posthumous homage and disinterested commemora•
tion.

Poland is in arms. The insurrection of Warsaw
has become aggrandized into a revolution. The
whole nation has risen up against its oppressors, the
chains of bondage are riven asunder, the sword of
vengeance is unsheathed. Other kingdoms hare
recently reconsluered their liberties with compara-
tive facility, in some instances almost without a
struggle, and in all cases with no great amount of
bloodshed. But here the case is otherwise, and must
necessarily be otherwise, for the Poles have no ordi-
nary grievance to redress, and no common privileges
to re-assume ; on the present struggle depend their
rights, their liberties, and their very existence as a
free people, as a nation, and even as individuals. Since
that fatal day when—
" From the great book of nations fiercely rent,
Their country's page to Lethe's stream was sent,
But sent in vain!"—
until the present hour, when their swords are about
to reinscribe the name of Poland on the map of
Europe, the Poles have been deprived of the corn-
morust rights of men and citizens, their only choice
has been between passing their existence in perpetual
exile:frem their native land, or living at home in mental
bondage with the deserts of Siberia in prospect. If
the lovers of peace and universal brotherhood can
excuse any nation for flinging away the scabbard,
surely Poland is that nation. That she must fight,
and that right earnestly, for the repossession of her
liberty, is indubitable. It is possible, however, as it
is most earnestly to be desired, that no other kingdom
may become involved in the struggle, and that the
insurrection of Warsaw may not excite a European
war.

The firm attitude of France will go far towards
averting such a calamity. In that splendid exposi-
tion of their intended foreign policy, indited by their
most eloquent orator, the Provisional Government of
the French Republic declared that rightly under-
stood their foreign policy signified PEACE. That
policy they have hitherto rigidly maintained, and
even now this glorious temptation—the prospect of
effecting the emancipation of Poland—is not suffi-
cient to shake their pacific resolution. And this, not
because they are indifferent as to the regeneration of
Poland, but because they rightly perceive that peace
is the true friend to popular rights, and the best pro-
moter of popular liberties. It was thus LAMAkTINE
answered the Polish deputation. Three thousand
Poles, resident in France during their exile, recently
proceeded in procession to the Hotel de Ville, at
Paris, where a deputation of them were re-
ceived by the Provisional Government. Their object
was threefold ; they came to proclaim to France
that the hour of Polish emancipation was arrived, to
thank the French for the hospitality they had vouch-
safed them in their hour of misfortune and more espe
cially to solicit the powerful co-operation of France
to aid them in effecting the deliverance of their corm-
try. LAMARTINE, in reply, warmly testified how
great w•as the sympathy of France for Poland,

" Yes," said be, " since your last disasters, since the
day when the sword effaced from the map of nations
the last vestige of the existence of Poland, she has
not only been the reproach, but a living cause of re-
morse in the heart of Europe. France owes you not
only her best wishes and her tears, she owes
you a moral and eventual support in return,
brave Poles, for that blood which you have shed for
her on all the fields of battle in Europe.
Be assured that France will repay you all that she
ewes you." Nevertheless, admitting this, he yet re.
fused in the name of France to unsheathe the sword
for Poland. "No I" he exclaimed, " the firm and
pacific policy of the Republic succeeds too well for us
to wish to alter it. Look at Belgium, Switzerland,
Italy, all Southern Germany. Turn your eyes to-
wards Vienna and Berlin ! What more is necessary?
Even the possessors of your own land open to you a
path to your country, and call upon you to come and
re-establish it in peace! Be not unjust either to-
wards GOD, towards the Republic, or towards your-
selves ! The sympathising states of Germany, the
King of PRUSSIA, are opening the doors of their ci-
tadels to your martyrs ; the gates of Poland are open,
Cracow is enfranchised, the Grand Duchy of Posen
has again become Polish. These are the arms which
we have given you in one month ! Do not
demand any more from us. The Provisional Govern-
ment will not allow its policy to be changed
in favour of any foreign people, however much
we may in our hearts sympathise with it. We love
Poland, but we love France better than all the rest
of the earth. At this moment we have in our hands
her future destiny, and perhaps that of Europe. This
is a responsibility which we will relinquish to none
but our own nation. Trust, therefore, in her—trust
in what has passed in the last thirty days, which have
gained more ground for Me Democracy of France than
thirty pitched battles. Do not, therefore, either by
arms or by agitation, disturb the great work which
PROVIDENCE is accomplishirg, with no other weapons
than ideas, for the regeneration and fraternity of all
mankind !" Yes, the last thirty days have gained
immeasurably more for the people of Europe than
thirty pitched battles. Happy is it for France
that her rulers are impressed with these sublime
ideas, and happier for Europe that they are
resolute in maintaining them. LAMARTINE has
now an opportunity of reducing to practice those
ennobling and benign principles, the promulgation of
which cast so much glory on his " History of the
Girondins," and he appears resolved to use that op-
portunity most advantageously. It is seldom that the
poet or the philosopher is enabled to realise his
dreamings or to act upon his theories, and still more
seldom, when the opportunity is vouchsafed, is it well
employed. In this instance, however, we venture to
anticipate it will be otherwise. In his history of the
first revolution, the present French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, while exposing the oppressions which
instigated, and the outrages which disgraced, that great
movement, combines the love of liberty of the most
zealous patriot with the abhorrence of bloodshed of the
most anxious philanthropist, and his ministerial con-
duct is a continued corroboration of those two noble
but sometimes antagonistic sentiments. While he
maintains these sentiments, and while France unani-
mously supports him, war, a general war, is not to
be apprehended. In this we rejoice most heartily,
and if the torch of Freedom may be ignited in Poland
without kindling a universal conflagration our exul-
tation will be complete. Yes, the events of the last
thirty days have gained more for liberty than thirty
battles. Let us hope these events may be followed up
by others of a similarly pacific character. Ne s•ertheless,
Poland mustbe emancipated, nay, she will be emanci-
pated, but not alone by peaceful means, however, Eu-
rope may stand aloof, and only take part in the struggle
in a pacific manner. The example of Europe is
already half the battle. France has struck the first
blow for Polish independence ; Prussia has happily
followed up the attack; while the concessions
wrested from Austria were literally " worth ten
thousand men." If the example of other kingdoms
prove an encouragement to the Poles, the example of
Austria must afford a terrible warning to the
Russians. We, also, will not be backward in offering
our pacific co-operation : our sympathies, our anxieties,
g
our hearty good wishes are with the Poles. England
will not be isolated from the glorious coai;tion ; we,
":11 by arms nor a itation,"
but by our example, by our sympathy, by our
approval, and our encouragement, we will assist in
forwarding " the great work which PROVIDENCE is
accomplishing, with no other weapons than ideas, for
the regeneration and fraternity of all mankind."

Madrid journals of the 25th hare arrived.
Several persons have been arrested, among them
an Irish Priest, charged with attempting to get up
a republican movement.
The Duke and Duchess of MONITENHER have
arrived at St. Sebastian.
The Bolsa was closed on the 25th.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT TARN.
Thre have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
A telegraphic dispatch has been received from
Mars! Hies, announcing that General CAYAIGNAG has
refused to accept the office of Minister of War,
which has, in consequence, been offered to General
CHANG ARMEN.

The Provisional Government having discovered a
plot among the exalles of the clubs for the arrest of
LAMARTINE and GARNIER PAGES, have determined to
organize a civic guard of 1,600 men for the protection
of the Government. These ultra-Republicans of the
clubs, who pretend to be horrified at the moderation
Of LAMARTINB are, the majority of them, police spies of
the late Government; and the Provisional Govern-
ment is about to publish a history of their pecu-
niary and other relations with the Government of
Louis PnitirrE. This will be a most useful pub-
lication, which will at once teach the French people
to distinguish their friends from their foes.
Disorders had taken place at Rouen on Tuesday,
and a mob of workmen succeeded in breaking open
the prison and liberating BLANCHARD, the incendiary
who had set fire to the railway bridge. The next
day they attempted to set free other prisoners, but
the National Guards and other authorities interfered,
dispersed the lawless mob, and restored tranquillity.
The Provisional Government has materially re-
duced the salaries of all public functionaries.

The Provisional Government has fixed the let of
April for the reception of Mr. SALMI O'BRIEN and
the Irish deputation.
Several of the more ardent Republicans attacked the
office of the Presse, seized M. EMILE DE GIRAR-
DIN, and threatened to destroy his type. General
COURTAIS, the Commandant of the National guard,
succeeded, however, in getting them to disperse qui-
etly, by representing to them that the only effect of
destroying the type and machinery would be to
throw several men out of employment. They have,
however, given the mot d'ordre throughout Paris that
the Presse is not to be sold, and the consequece is that
it has entirely ceased to circulate in Paris.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the follow-
ing, among other decrees, which are important to all
connected in trade with France :

" The Provisional Government having taken cogni-
sance of the decree of the Ist March, which has pro-
rogued for ten days the echeance of commercial bills due
from Feb. 22 to the 25th of March. and considering that
the ordinary delay of fifteen days is insufficient in the
present circumstances, and that, besides, it is useful to
the endorsers to effect without exposure the reimburse-
ments which weigh upon them; on the report of the
Minister of Justice decrees, that the delay of fifteen days
granted to holders of bills is prorogued for fifteen days
more, not including the delays of distance, that all con-
servatory acts dune previously continue good and avail-
able.

Done in the Council of Government, March 29, 1848.
TEE SFAOND DECREE—

" Art. I.—The prorogation of six months, to which
are submitted the reimbursements of the Bons du Tresor,
created anterior to February 24, 1848, and not since
converted into Rentes, 5 per cent., is applicable to the
endorsors of those bonds, and consequently the rights of
the holders against the endorsers cannot be exercised
during the duration of the said prorogation.
" Art. 2.—After the payment of the interest attached
to each bond, such shall be marked with a stamp bear-
ing these words, Renewal in capital for six months at
5 per ct.'
[The successive endorsements will thus be preserved
on the stamped bond, which shall be transmissible by
means of a new endorsement.]
" Art. 3.—The member of the Provisory Government,
the Minister of Finances, is charged with the execution
of the present decree.
" Paris, March 28."
[Signed by the Members of the Provisory Government.]

BOURSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30.

THREE O'CLOCK -Very little business was transacted
to-day, and there was a much slacker attendance at the
Bourse than usual ; this probably was caused by its
being the Mi• Careme, which is generally held as a Jour-
de fete at Paris, when every one goes into the streets
to see the masks. There was no exhibition of the kind
to-day, but the weather being uncommonly fine the
Bourse frequenters took a holiday, and swelled the crowd
on the Boulevards. The French Funds were heavy, both
the Five per Cents. and the Threes being 75c. lower than
the day before, the former closing at 60f. 25c., and the
latter at 40f. 25c. Bank of France Shares have under-
gone a very heavy depreciation, having been done as
low as 1,150 f., and closing at 1,200 E Miscellaneous
securities have also dropped ; Belgian Fives (1840) are
3f. lower, at 52f. Caisse Hypothi,2aire 10f. lower, at
140 f. City of Paris Bonds sf. lower, at 995 f.; Roman
Quatre Canaux, and Spanish Threes remain as they
were, at 53f., 775 E, and 21f. Railway Shares are nearly
all lower. Orleans have fallen 45f., closing at 510 f. ;
Marseilles 30f., at 215 f. ; Rouen, 7f. 50c., at 375 f. ;
Lyons, 5f., at 290 f. ; Northern, 3f. 75e., at 322 f. 50e.;
Strasburg and Bordeaux, 2f. 50c., at 336 f. 25c., and
387 f. 50e. ; Vierion and Nantes are unaltered, at 220 f.
and 330 f.; Havre are sf. higher, at 205 f. Everything
continues at the Bourse to be done for money only. The
charge for cashing a I,ooof. note was lower to-day,
being only 15f. ; the English sovereign is worth about
26f. 50e.; and French gold is at from 65f. to 70f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIM
LONDON STOCK . EXCHANGE, MArtcx 30

Boulogne and Amiens, 5N —Namur and Liege, 2%—
Northern of France, 2%—Paris and Lyons, 14—Paris and
Rouen, 13—Sambre and Meuse, 4:!.4.

GERMANY

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian State Gazette of the 28th says—

" The magistrates have issued a proclamation stating
that in order to prevent any misunderstanding, they have
been commanded to make known that admission into the
mounted burgher guard involves the condition of the
possession of a horse, as well as the equipment and the
maintenance of the horse at the expense of the indi-
vidual."

The Gazette de Prusse, under date of the 27th, pub-
lishes the following article :
" The Germa❑ Congress will not take place, for in
these tithe* of trouble the Sovereigns must remain
amongst their subjects. Nevertheless, the Deputies of
many German states, viz., Wurtemburg, Baden, Hesse
Darmstadt, and Nassau, have arrived at Berlin for the
purpose of presenting a project analogous to that of
Prussia, and in conjunction with the Minister of the
King of Saxony at the Court of Berlin, the following
points have been agreed on:—
"First. It is necessary that ono and a solo direction,
under a federal chief to be chosen, should be given to
the whole Confederation. It is necessary also that there
should be an Upper Chamber, composed of members of
the Diet or their delegates ; and a second Chamber of
Deputies of the nation, sent by each federal state. The
attributions of this federal Parliament should be :

" A federal military administration, and the arming of
the German population.
"The re•establiahment of a federal court of justice.
" The establishment of a uniform legislation in
all matters concerning domicile right of settlement,
system of proceedings, penal and commercial laws, &c.
" Lastly, the adoption of a uniform system of duties,
of commot ce, of money, of weights and measures, of
railroads, &c.
" And in.order to ensure that the Confederation is
represented in a proper manner out of the respective
countries, seventeen deputies have been nominated to
assist at the Diet."

M. DeuLatAri has been nominated for Prussia.
A grand meeting of delegates from different parts
of Germany was held at lleidelberg, in the grand-
duchy of Baden, on the 26th instant. The meeting
was rather a popular demonstration than a delibera-
tive council. The Assembly was addressed by the
leading members of the Liberal faction in mild and
energetic language, the idea of a Republic was re-
jected, but the real discussion will not be opened till
the Diet meets at Frankfort.

The Augsburgh Gazette says :—" The King of
PRUSSIA declared that he would place himself at the
head of Germany during the days of danger. The
King of PRUSSIA and his people-15 millions of Ger •
mans—offer themselves as a powerful centre, around
which the German princes and nations are summoned
to unite. May this act of devotedness to the cause
of German nationality be received with the confi-
dence it merits. Prussia has changed her banner
and broken her alliances. Prussia has become Ger-
many, and calls all Germans to a free union. Why
should the German States assemblies hesitate a mo-
ment to unite with the Prussian Diet, which, when
it was sitting alone, was an admirable representation
of a truly German Parliament ? Why should they
not, in the name of the nation, make closer the ties of
German unity ?"

But the question is not viewed in the same way
every where. A meeting of more than 3,000 persons
took place at Mayence, in which the Deputy ZEITZ
denounced the proclamation of the King of PRUSSIA
in a long speech, which was cheered enthusiastically,
On the other hand, many notable inhabitants of
Leipsic have prepared a petition to the Saxon Go-
♦ernment, which runs as follows :

" The last proclamation by the King of Prussia con-
cerning the reformation of Germany has made a bad im-
pression upon the petitioners. The union of all Germans
on the basis of a perfect equality, and of the liberty al-
ready prepared by the German Government, with the
assent of the nation, is again put in question by this pro-
clamation, by which it seems to appear that the Sove-
reigns-and the States assemblies have nothing left but
to assemble round the Prussian Diet, if they wish to co-
operate for the re-organization of Germany. We hope
the Prussian nation will not partake of this opinion.
But, at all events, we consider as an imperious necessity
that all other German States manifest the same ♦iews
publicly, and that the basis of a free and equal union be
maintained. We hope also that the Saxon Government
,ill take without delay the necessary measures for the
same purpose of protesting against the views which seem
to be disclosed by the aforesaid royal proclamation."
The Governor of Silesia, who had become ex-
tremely obnoxious in consequence of his oppressive
conduct towards the peasantry of that province, has
received his dismissal from the Government. The
German Jews, inhabitants of Posen, imitating the
conduct of their Polish brethren, have formed an
association for the maintenance of public order and
tranquillity.
In pursuance of the declaration of the King of
Paussu to the Duke of SLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, which
was published on the 25th inst., the following day
upwards of 20,000 troops marched towards the
northern frontier, the Guards forming the greater
portion of the army. All the necessary arrange-
ments with the Goverments of Hanover and Bruns-
wick have been completed, and they will act in all
respects in concert with Prussia. From Silesia very
distressing and alarming news has been received of
insurrections among the peasantry, and very fearful
details are given of the ravages and excesses that
have been already committed.
At six o'clock on the evening of the 26th news
was received at Berlin that the General commanding
at Posen had placed the citadel in a state of defence
—that the cannon were pointed, and that he was
about to bombard the town. The alarm was so great
at Posen that the merchants were removing their
goods into the cellars. The report is said to have
originated:in the commandant having removed all his
furniture and other property from his hotel and sent
them to the citadel. Th• deputation from Posen,
which was still at Berlin, awaiting an answer from
the KING, mentioned the matter to Count SCHWERIN,
• who said the commandant would only be doing his
duty if he was compelled to fire upon the town. One
of the deputies replied that in such case the people
must combine together, and oppose force to force.
Subsequent accounts state that the peace of Posen
had not been disturbed, and that trauquillity prevailed
there.

The Polish General MIEROSLAWSKI passed through
Cologne yesterday, on his way to Paris, in order to
invite his countrymen residing there to return to
Posen. He has secured an assurance from the Prus-
sian Government that every facility will be afforded
to their passage through the Prussian territories.
A rumour was current at Cologne of the death of
the King of HANOVER, but it did not gain credence.

electing a German Emperor, but ridicules the preten-
sions of the King of PRUSSIA.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Vienna Gazette of the 25th March says :

" The address of the English residents at Vienna to
the Austrians has excited the deepest emotion among
all classes of our capital, and has confirmed the lively
sympathy ever prevalent among the educated classes of
our country for the noble Britons, those first-born sons
of liberty among the great nations of Europe.
"The universal joy which this warm and honourable
acknowledgment of our services during the events of the
late momentous week has excited, is greatly increased by
the fact, which we cannot conceal from ourselves, that
the English Constitution, with its Conservative funda-
mental pillars, its inviolable attachment to the
Royal dynasty, and the gradual, silent develop
went of publip affairs in a legitimate manner, ought to
be our model, and shall be kept in view as worthy of
our imitation in the new constitutional arrangements of
our empire. Therefore we cordially grasp the hand of
friendship which has been held out by you, ye brave
strangers of the mighty sea-girt Europe, and return our
heartfelt thanks that you have led the way to help us to
inter upon the hitherto untrodden path of our newly-
achieved liberty, and to encourage us with your pro-
sound experience, as burghers of a glorious land, which,
in these stormy times, has stood firm and unshaken,
and deem us worthy of your all-important approbation.
We cannot at the same time refrain from expressing our
admiration at the political wisdom and indefatigable zeal
of those men who now sit in the council of her Britannic
Majesty, and wield the destiny of that great empire with
such extraordinary prudence and skill. Once more our
cordial thanks are due to you, ye noble sons of England,
who were the first to break silence and to hold out the
right hand of fellowship.
" May these first tones of the unfettered press of Aus-
tria penetrate to your blessed island, that secured place
of legitimate liberty, and may it bring to your fellow-
countrymen the happy intelligence that millions of men
dwelling on the banks of the Danube, who, for ages had
been condemned to silence, had their tongue unloosened
and were awakened to new life on the 13th of March."
—Vienna Gazette, March 25.

The same journal says :
" The dark spot in the proclamation of the King of
Prussia on the 21st March, which we ventured to apply
to the German Parliament, has some light thrown upon
it by information contained in the Nuremburgh Cor-
respondent, that a proposition has been made by Berlin
that the meeting of the Diet shall be transferred from
Frankfort to Potsdam."

On the 24th the Prince Count LUDOVIG BITTHT.•
ANT made known the names of the new Ministers :
Interior—BANTALON SZEMERE.
Foreign Affairs—Prince CHARLES ESTERHAZY.
Finance—Louis KOSSUTH.
War—MESZUROS.
Communication—Count STEPHEN rZECHENTU.

Religion—Baron JosErg EOTERO.
Trade and Manufacture—GAßßlßL KLANZOL•
Justice—FßANz DEAR.

The Presliurgh Gazette of the 22d contains a de-
claration of the assembled Diet, stating that the
present Diet was not convoked for the purpose of a
detailed execution of those projects of law which
are indispensable to a national welfare. That, on
the contrary, the Chamber of Representatives was
persuaded that after it should have legally declared
the principles in conformity with which the repre-
sentative system is to be founded in a Diet to be held
at Pesth in the course of a few months, to refer to
that Diet the creation of all those laws which relate
especially to the guarantees of internal peace and
national freedom, and which do not call for immediate
mess ures.

That the present Diet deems the following points
as demanding prompt attention :
"1. The legal determination and consolidation of
the new Government system of a responsible ministry.
"2. The manner and procedure of the co-ordination
of the Diet, to be shortly held at Pesth, and according
to the fundamental principles of the popular representa-
tive system.
"3. The introduction of general taxation, and the
equalisation of public burdens upon the inhabitants of
the kingdom.
"4. The abolition of urbarial relations for private
landowners against indemnification by the state.
"5. The immediate constitution of the National
Guards for the maintenance of internal peace and
liberty.
" 6. The guarantee for the liberty of the press, with
abolition of the censorship, and introduction of trial by
jury."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter from Kiel, dated March 26, announces
the commencement of hostilities between the Danes
and the Schels wig Holsteiners at Frederickstadt.
It was reported at Kiel that the King of DEN-
MARK had been killed in an attack on Rendsburg.
This report, however, was not believed.

.13E1,011J31.

REPORTED REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT.

BRUSSELS, MANCH 29.—A telegraphic dispatch
announces that a report was circulated at Malines
after the arrival of the train from Mokscron, that the
Republican body, commanded by Voss, had entered
Belgium by the village of Risque a tout ; that Ge-
neral FLEURY, at the head of a corps of artillery and
cavalry, had gone out to meet him.—Le Precurseur,
March 29.

ITAMBURGH MAIL.
SCLES WIG-HOLSTEIN.
COPENHAGEN, MARCH 25. —His Majesty yesterday
issued an edict for the abolition of the censorship and for
the freedom of the press. The names of the Ministers
composing the new Cabinet were also made public. We
have now a Burgher Ministry and a Burgher King, who
is perfectly of accord with his people, not to let go ot
Scleswig. The whole of our armed force is equipped.
About 12,000 men are to beseige Scleswig. The rage
against the Deputies was so boundless, that they were
taken from the Palace by water in order to avoid a col-
lision with the people; our fortresses and ships• of- the- line
are completely prepared to protect the city in case of an
invasion. There is no thought of business of any kind.
Government securities and funds are nominal. The
King was on the very brink of abdication. We, how-
ever, thought it wisest to yield to the wishes of the
people, who do make the most exorbitant demands for
liberty. The aristocratic party hang their heads down.
Many who are high in office will resign. The German
Chancery is closed,
The military veterans are not a little indignant that
a captain is placed over them. Captain Tschering posi-
tively refused to accept the portereuille ot war
unless ea rte blanche were given him, which was
accordingly granted. He is a high ultra-Dane
and will certainly not make any concessions. Four
hundred men came up from the country to day, and are
quartered in the city. We are in the greatest anxiety
to know what steps will be taken by the Deputies from
Holstein if matters do not turn out well.
The steam-boat navigation will be stopped, and trade
will suffer yet more. Everything hero is quiet, not
withstanding the daily popular assembling. Neither
military nor police were visible last. Tuesday, when
30,000 Burghers went to the palace TO DEMAND liberty
and a change of the Ministry—not to request it. It was
an awful sight. Hvidt is the friend of the people, but
he intends to withdraw from the Ministry.
AALBURG, MARCH 25.—Denmark is getting ready
for war on a large scale. The yearly resource has been
called in for our battalion, and will probably march to-
morrow for the south.—llamburgh Borsen Halle,
March 28.
RENDSBURG, MARCH 28.—Military preparations are
being made at Rendsburg.
A patent was issued this morning for the convocation
of the United Diet of Scleswig-Holstein for the 3d of
April.
The Provisional Government has divided its labours
as follows :—The Prince of Augustenburg, the
War Department ; Beseler, President, without
portefeuille ; Count Reventlow, 'Foreign Affairs and the
Interior; Bremer, Justice; Schmidt, Finance Manufac-
tures, Customs, ost-office.
Several of the surrounding districts have declared in
favour of the Provisional Government. Diplomatic re-
lations have been opened with German Princes for
assistance, for troops, arms, and ammunition. The
Provisional Government has abolished the poll-tax by an
edict ; it realises about 300,000 francs.
KIEL, Maims' 27.—Two steamers have been sent this
afternoon to Copenhagen. The guard-ship stationed at
Altona has been seized by the Provisional Government.
It is asserted that the captain had inte3ded to sink it.—
flumburgh Borsenhalle, March 28.
STOCKHOLM[, MARCH 21.—The tranquillity of our
capital has been seriously interrupted during the last
few days. On the 18th, towards evening, an immense
mob, which had been summoned several days previously
by placards, proceeded, at the close of a reform banquet,
with the members of which they, however, appear to
to have had no eonnexionjo the Brumkeberg Market,
and entered the city, where they commenced break -
ing the windows. The military, who were called
out to restore order, were received with vollies of
stones, and they were at last forced, in self defence„
after several soldiers had been seriously wounded
to fire, by which many of the people were killed and
wounded. The King himself was obliged to ride be
tvveen the disorderly rabble ; and about one o'clock in
the morning peace was comparatively restored.
Similar scenes were repeated on the 19th, and the
military were again compelled to make use of their arms.
The Alter/Mad/ says, that it was yesterday determined
in a Council of Ministers, at which the King presided,
that, in case of a renewal of disturbances, the most
extreme measures should be resorted to, and that can-
non should be drawn up. There has not, however, been
any further breach of the peace, with the exception of
some mutinous meetings.
About fifty persons have been arrested. Ten or
twelve people were killed, and between seventy and
eighty wounded. A good deal of uncertainty prevails
respecting the origin.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle' March 28.
Answers have been received here from Berlin and
Hanover to the requisition for a supply of military
for Holstein. The troops aro to assemble in our vici-
nity, but they are not to be disposable till after the

lanswer shall have been received from the Diet at
Frankfort.
It appears that the Prussian troops who are expected
for the support of the movement in the Duchies are to
assemble at Havelberg, whence they will probably be
transported direct by water to Altona.
The postal intercourse between the Duchies and
benmark will, for the present, not he impeded, the
Provisional Government having declared that uo change
shall be made with regard to the mails passing.in transit
through the Duchies between Denmark and foreign
countries. No steam-boat communication, however, is
to take place for the present between Copenhagen and
Kiel. The communication is to be via Lubeck.--
Eamburgh Borsenhalle, March 28.
• ALTONA, Mattcu 27.—The Burghers have resolved
to form an armed protective force, for the prevention of
all disturbances of the peace.
The exercises of the volunteers commenced yesterday,
and were to continue every day. To-day several hundred
volunteers are to march for Rendaburg.—liambergh
Correspondent, March 28.
PRINCE METTERNICH.—The family of the Prince
arrived at Breslau, from Moravia, on the 20th. They
are at the residence of the Countess Sandor, the daugh-
ter of the Prince, whose husband has entered the Na-
tional Guard. A letter from Dresden of the 26th says
Prince Metternich was here last night. He arrived from
Bohemia strictly incog., and set out this morning by the
early train for Leipzic, where he does not intend to
stay, but will proceed from the last station to Schendits,
whence he will proceed with the next train via Mag
deburg and Hamburgh to England. He put up at the
the Stadt Wiene. Having admitted the landlord into his
secret, the latter found it necessary to secure the protec-
tion of the officers of the Civic Guard, who, upon being
questioned, pledged his honour for the safety of the
Prince, and the inviolability of his secret, until he should
have taken his departure. Tho Prince was entered in
the visitors' book under the name of Mr. Von Meyer,
with wife and servants, a landed proprietor of Gratz,
which has been duly printed in the public list of arrivals
this day.—liamburgh Correspondent, March 28.
Very little business was done on the Bourse to-day in
exchange, there were a few transactions in railway
shares.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtarmA, Meaux 11.
$ per Cent. Metal Wines • • • ............... 83
4 per Cant. ditto • • • • • • • . .. • . 71
3 per Cent. ditto ••••••••.•••• • • • • • • • • • • • 54
Loan, 1834 ............................131
Ditto, 1839 ..........................83
Bank Shares • ..• • • • . • . ...........1228
Esterhazy's Loan . ............
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .......... . 93
Gloggnitz •• • • . •••• • • • • ••••••• • • • • • • 12
Vienna—Milan . • .• • .................. 61
Leghorn •••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 53%
Sienna .. •.•••• • • • • • • •••• • • • • ....
Oldenburg • • •• • • ..................
Pestoja •• • • .............. •• • • .... • • ....
Pestk Bridge • • •• • • • • . • --
Apennineu •• • ••• .• •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • . -+

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausszts, Itasca 18.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • • ........ .
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• ..
Ditto Three per Cent.. ..... ...........
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditt0,ditt0,1840......•.•• •••••••• • • •• 69%
Ditto,ditto,lB42.• •• •• •••• •• • • 68%
Ditto, 1844... ••••••••..•• • • • • •• •• ••• 643.
Ditto, 1836........................, _
Ditto, 1838 .... • • ...• •....
Ditto of the City, 1832 ............ .....
Ditto, 1843 • • . •
Bank ofEelginin...... ................. -
-Brussels Papers, March 16.
HAMBURUH BORSENIIALLE, MAncu 2i.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents •• • •
Bank Shares _
Anglo-Russian Loan • ..............,
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 885 is
Ditto lst serieslnscription.• • • ........
Ditto,Plope and Co., 3d and 4th series..
Ditto, in Certificate.. •
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •.....
Ditto Stieglitz .. • • •• ••••• • •• ••
Spanish New 5 per Cent.• •• •••• • • •• 8 8
Ditto 3 per Cent •••••••••• • • • • •• ••
Angio-Portugueze Loan, 2% per Cent • .
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ••• ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844... • •
Angle-Danish Lean, 3 per Cent •• • • ••• 71
National Bank Shares •••••••• • • • • • • ;•

TRANSLATION OF BERANGER'S
ODE ON THE REVOLUTION, WHICH AP-
PEARED IN ~ THE SUN " OF THURSDAT.

BERANGER TO MANUEL.
Yes, France has risen in her might,
Her Liberty has now no foe;
Manuel, to thy prophetic sight
This vision rose long, long ago.
We saw this giant people rise,
Had visions of the promised land,
Why Moses-like wert ta'en away,
Nor left to join our holy band.
Why wart not left to win the race,
My poor, poor friend, I'd fain embrace.

Victor in combats most sublime,
When each true heart sought aid from other,
Thy thoughts were yet of me and mine,
My own loved friend, my dearest brother ; •
Most sad borne down by Despots pride,
Tho pride of rank, the pride of place,
" Vice la Republique," still we cried,
My poor, poor friend, I'd fain embrace.

Since in the glorious Tennis Court
The conquering people seized the helm,
As flows the blood into the heart,
Have flowed the nations to our realm ;
In that Book where w•e find the tate
Recorded of the human race,
The proudest page is forty•eight.
My poor, poor friend, I'd fain embrace.

Empire by Royalty was rendered
A sterile, vast, and barren waste.
On quicksands built—by lightning blasted—
The Throne was shivered—all was past.
Vainly we sought for its foundations—
We found a free and noble race.
Franco will regenerate the nations.
My poor, poor friend, I'd fain embrace.
The great Republic still will last ;
It shall be, Yes ! yet still I weep
O'er thy last words-4. Lament the dead,
Who in their cold graves ever sleep."
To sleep, alas ! when France has risen,
A giant girded for the race,
When most sho needs thy aid, poor friend,
My poor, poor friend, I'd fain embrace.

Glory to thee, victorious France,
Thinking of him I lore the best,
Frenchmen are brothers now, and I
Would fain press all to this old breast.
An old man bowed 'neath old men's fears,
An old man's rest should end my race;
My blood is cold, but I've warm tears,
Dear People, whom I'd fain embrace.

J. C. S.

TIIE APPEARANCE OP WHITEHALL FROM
THANES IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES IL—The beauti-
ful I3anqueting-house of Inigo Jones was crowded among
a heterogeneous mass of ugly buildings connected with
the exigencies of the Court. Beside the houses, to the
spectator's left, was a large garden extending to the river,
with fountains and parterres. A small garden also pro-
jected into the river in front of the buildings ; And
here Charles used to view the civic processions of
the Lord Mayor, who, on the day of his taking the
oaths at Westminster, generally gratified the Sovereign
and other sight-seers with a pageant on the Thames, in
some degree adulatory of the Monarch. The King
resided here so constantly, that the most striking pic-
tures of his private manners are recorded to have hap-
pened at Whitehall, and for which the graphic pages of
Pepys' Evelyn, and De Grammont may be consulted.
Whitehall, indeed, has obtained ifs chief interest
from its connexion with the Stuarts. The Ban-
quetting-house, erected by James 1., in front
of which kis unfortunate son was executed ;
bhe residence of Cromwell hero in $ quietude,
strangely contrasted with the wild voluptu-
ousness of the Restoration; the flight of James
11., and his Queen's escape with her infant son by the
water-gate, closes the history of the Stuart family in this
country as Sovereigns; and the history also of the
palace; for on the 10th April, 1691, the greeter part was
burnt by a fire, which was succeeded by another in
1698, which destroyed nearly every building but the
Banqueting-house, and Whitehall ceased to be the resi-
dence of royalty. —Art- Union Journal.
The multiplication of the copies of a work of art ie
an extension of the fame of the artists, from the applause
of some score of amateurs, to the honest appreciation of
some thousands and perhaps millions of his countrymen.
While the noble and wealthy possess the splendid ori-
ginal in marble, alabaster, or bronae, the value of that
original is not deteriorated to the possessor by the mul-
tiplication of statuette copies; while the fame of the
artist is infinitely extended, and his share in the educa-
tion of his countrymen proportionately increased. Hie
chances of future gain are equally enlarged; in
country like England, where skill, education, and
intelligence, are constantly raising men from the ranks
to social position and fortune, a future patron of Art,
and perhaps of the artist, is in course of training, when
the aspiring operative is enabled to purchase a copy of
some of the rising artist's early productions at a mode-
rate rate. Wilkie could tell, and used to tell, the story
of a magnificent patron who had bought a cheap engrav-
ing of one of his first pictures, when but a humble
mechanic, and who, when he became a capitalist, was
anxious to make the most liberal offers for originals.--
Art- Union Journal.

EXPENSES OF CORONERS INOUESTS.—From the lit
of January to the 10th of March in the present yeSr,
T. Wakley, Esq., coroner, held 22.5 inquests in the
western division of Middlesex, the whole expense of
which was 6761. 17s. In the same time W. Baker, Esq.,
held in the eastern division 286 inquests, the expenses
attending which were 796 L 4s. 4d.; and St. Clare Bed-
ford, Esq., in Westminster, held, in the same time, 52
inquests, at an expense to the county of 1591. 19s. 2d.
Total inquests 513, cost 1,6331. Oa. 6d.

The execution of the three men, Calvert, Mellor,
and Stokes, who were convicted of murder at the York
Assizes, will take place ou Saturday, the Bth of April.
ThQ two former are Protestants, and the latter a Roman
Catholic, and they each give proper attention to the
instructions of their spiritual advisers,