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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1850.

The law appointments in Ireland have been filled
up in a manner highly creditable to the Irish Go-
vernment, and which will give the greatest satisfac-
tion to the profession and the public generally in
that country. As we had anticipated, Mr. MONAHAN
will be the new Chief Justice. The Right Hon.
Gentleman has accepted the office, subject to any re •
duction in the salary and income which Parliament
may make in accordance with the report of the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons upon official, diplo-
matic, and judicial salaries. It will be in the recol-
lection of our readers that Sir JOHN JERVIS recently
accepted the similar office in this country—Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas—on a similar condition,
and it is, therefore, clear that no vested interest
can now be created in either country that could by
any possibility interfere with the pecuniary arrange-
ments that might be sanctioned by the Legislature.
Mr. Mos:m.lN has well deserved the distinguished
position lie has at length attained. As Crown prose-
cutor on the Connaught circuit, as law adviser, as the
Castle Solicitor-General and Attorney-General, his
seal, efficiency, and untiriogindustry pointed him out as
a fitting candidate for promotion. From the very
commencement of his career he gave evidences of his
ability—from the hour when he terminated his col-
lege course by obtaining the science gold medal, the
highest university honour that could be bestowed on
a person professing the Roman Catholic religion,
until he finally obtained the object of his highest am-
bition, the Chief- Justiceship cf the Common Pleas—
he has never faltered in his onward course, or de-
feated the sanguine anticipations that had been enter-
tained as to his progress.
The promotion of Mr. LlATcasaaa to the Attorney •
Generalship was so much a matter of course as to
demand no particular notice. His appointment will
create a vacancy in the representation of Windsor,
.for which—as the new Solicitor-General Las not a
seat in Parliament—he will again become a candi-
date, and most probably be elected without a contest.
Mr. HaTcataaa had long been distinguished as a atiiti
pries advocate on the Leinster Circuit and in the
Irish metropolis. He is also an admirable criminal
lawyer, and remarkable for the stringency
and ability of his cross-examination of a
doubtful witnes3. It would indeed require
no ordinary effrontery and self-possession on
the part of a witness to persist in an unfounded
statement when subjected to this trying ordeal. Mr.
HaTcaF,aa is also a man of large private fortune,
and, we believe, an excellent landlord, although he
has suffered materially from the favourite pastime of
" Crop-lifting," which has become so fashionable
among the peasantry of the south and west of Ireland.

Mr. HENRY GEORGE HUGHES, the new Solicitor- I
General, has long attained a high reputation as an
equity practitioner. Unlike the generality of barris-
ters in the sister kingdom, he restricted himself to
the Courts of Chancery and the Equity Ex-
chequer, totally giving up the common law
courts. Is was in the Rolls' Court that his
business chiefly lay. He was almost invariably to
be found from the sitting to the rising of the Court
in the left-hand corner, just behind the inner place ;
a place which, at length, by general assent, was
looked upon as " HUGHES'S seat," which it would be
want of courtesy to trespass on. He soon became
"an oracle " on everything relating to the practice of
*the court, and a particular favourite with Sir MICHAEL
O'Lo•aimeN, who fully appreciated the learning,
tact, and intelligence of the young barrister,
who had selected his court as the scene
of his professional labours. After the lamented
death of that great man, and the promotion of Mr.
Beeciennere (now Chief Justice of the Queen's
Bench) to the Mastership of the Rolls, Mr.
HUGHES fully maintained the position be had gained
before Sir M. O'Loolineet, and also attracted the at-
tention of Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, who was much
struck by the ability and intelligence which he dis-
played on every occasion. A small situation having
fallen vacant about this time, was tendered by Sir
EDWARD SUGDEN to Mr. HUGHES, who, al-
though a Roman Catholic, had never taken
any part in politics ; although at that time
the Peel Ministry were firm in their position, and
there appeared no prospect of any change of Govern-
ment, Mr. HUGHES exhibited a degree of indepen-
dence that reflected the highest honour on hie charac-
ter. Before accepting the office, he wrote to the Lord
Chancellor, apprising him that his feelings and opi-
nions were altogether in favour of the opposition, and
that, howeeer flattered by the offer, ha could not
accept any political favour from those to whom
he was opposed on principle. The Lord Chancellor,
however, having in a- highly complimentary
letter informed him that the offer was made as a re-
cognition of his professional merits, and not on any
political ground whatsoever, Mr. HUGHES aocepted
the situation, having gained for himself the respect
and approbation of his professional brethren by his
conduct on the occasion.

Since that period he has steadily progressed. He
speedily obtained a silk gown, when not more than
eight years' standing, and his present promotion has
been acknowledged by min of all classes, creeds, and

parties to have been fully merited. A more unex-
ceptionable selection could not have been made, on;,:
which is alike honourable to the Irish Government
and to the fortunate object of their choice.

We rejoice to find that—the all•important subject
of monetary reform is beginning to receive the atten-
tion it so eminently deserves. The different classes
of the community are, at length, even at the eleventh
hour, shaking off the apathy and awakening from the
slumbers in which they had so long been enveloped.
They are gradually, but steadily, discovering how
deeply their best interests, and the welfare and pros-
perity of their families, are involved in the result of
the agitation of this truly snonentous question, and
there is manifested a desire to attain information

—to investigate the real circumstances of the
case in all its bearir,gs that must ultimately
lead to the true solution of the great problem.
There are competent instructors, too, who
spare no exertions to enlighten the popular
mind, and to dispel the clouds of ignorance and
prejudice that have hitherto prevented the matter
from being regarded in its true light. The National
Currency Reform Association has selected the metro-
polis as the scene of its labours. Its admirable tracts,
circulating throughout the length and breadth of the
land, will excite a spirit of inquiry among a people,
who when once aroused will not be contented with
a mere smattering of the rudiments, but seek a
sounder knowledge, that will enable them to combat
and detect the specious fallacies of the bullionists.
Local associations, too, have been formed, and
are in course of formation, from which
efficient aid may be anticipated during the
approaching contest. The Liverpool Currency Re-
form Association still maintains the prominent
position it assumed when it led the onward move-
ment, and,throughits indefatigable and able secretary,
Mr. JAMES HARVEY, continues to enlighten the com-
mercial community of the modern Tyre. The
lectures of Mr. JON.LTIIAN DuNcary, to which we
recently directed the public attention, have stimulated
the inhabitants of the manufacturing metropolis, and
we trust that we shall ere long be enabled to announce
that the men of Manchester have assumed a position
worthy of their former fame—of the vanguard in the
glorious campaign against the odious bread-tax. Even
among the agriculturists currency opinions are
steadily advancing. The Retford Currency Society,
now numbers many members, and its valuable publi-
cations circulate extensively among the farmers in the
midland counties.

The great success which has attended the efforts of
this association is mainly to be attributed to one of
its members, the Rev. JOHN TwELLs, the respected
vicar of Eaton, to whose unceasing exertions in the
good cause we have repeatedly alluded. The Rev.
Gentleman endeavoured to teach his parishioners and
neighbours the true nature of the currency question,
being well convinced that it was by means thereby
alone that the condition of the British nation, and in-
deed of the entire world, could be ameliorated. This
attempt was denounced as Quixotic by many who had
not sufficient energy to travel out of the beaten track;
but, notwithstanding the sneers of the scoffers, Mr.
TWELLS has succeeded beyond even his most sanguine
anticipations. The anxiety for instruction is not
limited to the parish of which be •is the incumbent.
The entire district, of which it is the centre, has par-
ticipated in the movement, and many meetings have
been held in order to afford the people opportunities
of hearing the lucid and satisfactory explanations of
the Rev. Gentleman.

Last week a meeting was held at Laxton, near
Tuxford, which was numerously and respectably at-
tended. The agriculturists mustered in force, to

learn that which, if judiciously carried into operation,
would indeed afford " protection to British industry"
in the most efficient:and, at the same time, the most
unobjectionable manner—which would not benefit
one class alone, at the expense of the rest of the
community, but would promote the welfAe
of the industrious population of the country
without any exception. Mr. TWELLS did
not fail to improve the opportunity, _ and

to rivet the attention once directed to the subject.
He clearly and distinctly pointed out the mistake
they committed, the one-sided view they have taken
of their interests, in looking only " to the laws re-
specting what they have to sell—corn; and disre-
garding the laws about what they have to buy-
money." The reasons why the farmers should endea-
vour to understand the currency question are so
very satisfactory and so universal in their application
—for they relate to merchants, traders, and manu-
facturers, as well as to farmers, and to
the working classes, whose only capital is
their labour, even more than to any others
—that we cannot refrain from quoting them :
"But why," said the Rev. Gentleman, " I say that
farmers ought to understand the currency question ?
Because a great part of their labour, skill, and produce,
must be resolved into money. Money is one-half of every
bargain made between man and man, whether lee is an
agriculturist or a manufacturer. A farmer may bo called
a manufacturer of corn and cattle. In the earliest ages
he would barter what he did r.ot require for his own use
for clothing and the necessaries and comforts of life.
He would pay not only tithes, but taxes and debts in
hied, but now he cannot do this. By the law of the lend
he must pay his debts, his teat, his taxes, his ridges, in
money. Now in order to do this he must barter away
his produce to obtain money. He goes to market and
he buys money with his produce—and that is the reason
why anything which affects the value of money is a
' farmer's question. If you exchange or swop one thing ter
another; one horse, for instance. for another horse, you
look not only et what you give but at what you receive.
And here the agriculture to have, as I thick, taken a
one-side view of their interests. They have been very
anxious with regard to the laws made about what thy
had to Eel', via, corn, and have disregarded the law:;
male about what they had to buy, v s., money. They
ought to have attended to both, for both :Sect their ia-
tere3ts. You are told that pr:ce depends on supply cud
demand, which i 3 quite true. But it depends on the
supply and demand of two things, the comm city to be
sold and the money to be bought. It the supply of
money is decreased, prices fall—it the supply of money
is incrcaeed, prices rise. But you are told also that if
money be decreased and the price of your produce falle
you sell cheap, but you also buy cheap. But see Low
this affects the farmer, and, in a similar manner,
every producer. The profit of a farmer depends on what
he realises by pr!ce above the dose of production. Now
suppose a farmer's profit to arise by what he can realise
above, say 403 a quarter for his wheat. When he sells for
50s. he gets 2001. a year profit—that is, by the diffurence
between 405., the cost of production, and 503., the price,
he clears 2001. If, therefore, prices in general decline
one-tenth, and he sells for only 455. a quarter, his profit
is reduced one-half—he has 1001. a year instead of 2001.
But he buys fir one-tenth less, that is, he can now bay
with 1801 as much as Leon cost him 2001. What then
is the result? Why that he gains 20/. by buying cheap,
and loses 100/. by selling cheap. The consumer gets a
small advantage, the producer sustains a heavy loss.
And this must be the effect to every producer in a heavily
taxed country, by the forced cheapness caused by a con-
traction of the currency."

It is impossible to resist this plain and straightfor-
ward appeal to the common sense of the people.
Those who were so fortunate as to hear the eloquent
address of Mr. TWELLS will see that there is some.
thing of even greater importance to their interests
than any addition to the price of their produce that
could be caused by protective imposts. They will
also look to that of which they in turn become
pur-
chasers. A certain fixed sum of money will be re-
quired to liquidate the rents, rates, and taxes, and other
charges to which every farmer is liable, and the pro-
fits of the manufacturer of corn, cattle, &c., must
necessarily be materially diminished by any appre-
ciation in the value of money which will require a
larger amount to be given in satisfaction of these
demands.
But we are not trusting to theory merely on this
subject. During the late war agriculture flourished,
and those engaged in the pursuits—indeed all the
industrious classes enjoyed the utmost pros-
perity, notwithstanding the enormous weight
of taxation under which they suffered.
NAPOLEON was termed " the farmer's friend r'
because remunerative prices were obtained during
his reign. How was this ? Is war, then, so desira-
ble in itself, and does it necessarily lea j to such re •
sults ? No ; but there was a sound system of paper
currency—a circulating medium adequate to the
wants and exigencies of the country, and that bless-
ing more than counterbalanced the evils of war. We
trust: that the Rev. Gentleman will continue his
valuable exertions ; and to others similarly cir cum
stanced we would say, take an example from the
energy and enthusiasm exhibited by Mr. TWALLS
look to the effect of his efforts, and.do ye also en-
deavour to advance the cause, which has " truth for its
basis and justice for its end."

MONUMENT TO WORDSWORTH.—It is satisfactory
to us to be enabled to announce that upwards of 900/. have
already been subscribed towards a befitting monument to this
distinguished poet.—Art-Journal.

THE FRENCH_ REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Mokiteur publishes the following caleisl an-
nou acement

" M. DE PERSIGNY, who recently left for. London,
is not charged with any mission from the Government.
M. DE PERSIGNY has repaired to L-oi-.don on his own
private business."
Communicated by the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
The Procureur-General of the Republic has in-
stituted proceedings against M. COURTOIS, the writer
of an article in the
.Corsaire, and against M. LAu-
RENT, the Otani of that journal, for the publication
of an article, entitled " L'Ere des Cesars," which is
alleged to contain a libel against the person of the
PRESIDENT of the Republic. The Corsairs is a Le-
gitimatitt journal, and the incriminated article
bears the same title as the recently published work
of M. ROMIEU, Li which the ex-editor of the defunct
Napoleon represents the rule of a Dictator elected by
Pretori,in guards as the best. of all possible govern-
ment 3.

M. FRAN6OIS NETTEMENT publishes an article in
the Opinion Publique, the organ of Legitimacy, de-
tailing the circumstances of the agreement entered
into between Louis NAPOLEON and the Legitimatist
leaders, in 1848, to secure first his election to the
Presidency, and secondly the support of the Legitima-
tist party for his government. The writer tells the
public that the first Ministry of Louis NAPOLEON re-
sulted from negociations with the Legitimatist party,
and he calls to mind a meeting which was held
of the leaders of the Legitimatist party,
where the Due DR NOAILLES addressed the President
by his title of Prince, while the latter never failed
to say Monsieur le Due. At this meeting it was
settled that AI. DE FALLOUX should take office, sup-
ported by the Right, to whom were ceded the Pub-
lic Instruction Bill and the expedition to Rome.
It will be remembered that in December, 1848, the
Roman Republic had not been proclaimed, conse-
quently either M. NETTEMENT'S account is an impu-
dent fabrication, or the assertion of M. DE FALLoux,
in the tribune, as to the object of the expedition, the
reasons for ~undertaking it, and the time at which
they had become convinced of its necessity, were
utterly untrue. We leave these " honest and moderate"
gentlemen of the party of 'religion and order" to
determine among themselves where the falsehood
rests, but that falsehood there is somewhere is abun-
dantly evident, the statement of M. DE NETT EMENT,
who has hitherto borne a high character, being in di-
rect contradiction with those of M. DE Par.Loux, the
head of the parti-pretre, the apologist of the massacre
of St. BARTHOLOMEW, and the panygerist of the
Holy Inquisition.
The review on Thursday at Versailles went off
without any disturbance. The PRESIDENT has an-
nounced his intention of reviewing, on the 2d of Oc-
tober, all the infantry of the garrison of Paris, and
on the 10th all the cavalry.
The National gives the following piquant account
of the provision made by the PRESIDENT for the
refreshment of the troops after the review of
Thursday :
"Between the acts we had precisely the same inter-
lude as on Sunday. Twelve loaves, twelve sausages,
twelve bottles of champagne, and a large bundle of
cigars were distributed among every twenty-five men ;
an at the risk of lyAng accused of giving a puff, we will
inform our readers that the corks of the champaigne had
the seal of the house of Auguste Bondril. Are the
houses of Moat ani Jacqaesson in disgrace ? In after-
wards filing past the President, the ardour of the
troops was very great, and on their return to Versailles
the observers had an opporttittiv of sealing the ques-
tion whether the authorities were not wrong in forget-
, ing, when organiz:ng the regimental schools, to conse-
crate a chapter to the influeaca of sausages, of cigars,
and of champagne on the appearance of troops, when on
their march. Besith,s this, we may state that this sort
of exercise is not altogether displeasing to the troops.
The only one that has to complain is the cashier at the
Ely: 41e; bat M. Fould is so complaisant, that he will find
the means of slipping this littla supplementary demand
among the expenses of the campaign. And why should
the Assembly refuse it ? Dons it not fall within the sys-
tem of the Presidential policy th.at Louis Napoleon
should be less a warrior than—a Testa urateur )1"

The Legitimatists are evidently more alarmed at
these proceedings than they choose to confess. The
Uxion, like a schoolboy, who whistles in the dark to
show he is not afraid, betrays its misgivings by its
affectation of courage. It thus terminates a long
article on the review :

Some regiments, at the termination of a military
fiSe, fill the air with cries which appear to be the fore-
runners of an event long since prepared. We believe
that the wriens who think so deceive themselves, and
calumniwe the army. We are sufficiently confident that
such is the case, to venture to foretel that, on the day
when the Assembly shall have prer)fa that a conspiracy
is formed against her, she has only to issue a decree,
and thesa tame soldiers, who filled the air with enthu-
siastic cries, would conduct the e.mspirators to lrin-
eennes. We are persuaded that people aro too soon
alarmed. The President has, to the prsent moment,
eoetradietcd by his conduct the intentions attribued to
bird. He has sworn to the Constitution ; he hopes that
it will be modified; but if it should not be so, we still
tiallevo that he would keep his oath. If he were to act
otherwisr,, he would cause France and himself to incur

,he greatst dangers. After having devotes his name

to the rc-establiahmei,t of order, and after having pre-
served society by his goad conduct, it would be sad were
ho to tarnish his fame by an extravagance."
The Court of Assizes on Friday commenced the
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trial of 31 persons on the charge of having formed a
secret association for the destruction of the Republic
and the restoration of the Monarchy of the elder
BOURBONS. The chief of the society was a person
named ADJUTOR DUBISON, who is in flight; three of
the accused were absent ; and, of the 27 others who
appeared, 16 had been admitted to bail. The indict-
ment stated that the authorities. having obtained in-
formation of the existence of the society, caused
papers to be scia3d tit the residence of persons impli-
cated at Rouen, Amiens, Paris, Havre, and Caen. In
all those places separate societies existed, but it ap-
peared they were all branches of one great association,
under one common direction ; that they communi-
cated with each other by means of letters or travellers,
and corresponded with a chief residing abroad. In
each town in which a society was established there
were chiefs charged to incorporate as many
members as possible, to draw up lists of all
the members, aril to send those lists to the
common chief. According to the weal displayed by
the persons thus enrolling, different grades corre-
sponding, to those in the army were conferre:l on them,
and wally of them were paid in proportion. To
secure members money was frequently given. Most
of the members were workmen in need of pecuniary
as:,istance. The fowls for this purpose were sent
from abroad, chiefly from Brussels. Ia addition to
the money actually paid more was promised
,regu-
larly in case of war; recompenses of money and
places were also offered in the name of the patron
• (the Duke Da BORDEAUX) to those who might dis-
tinguish themselves in any demonstration which
might bec-ene necessary, and pensions were promised
to the families of those who might fall. Though the
papers seiad left no doubt that the design cf the con
spirators was the elevation to the throne of the Due

DE BORDEAUX, it did not appear that they had come
to an agreement as to the peeled or mode of action;
so that the offence of the accused did not amount to
what the law describes as a plot, but simply to that
of having formed a secret political society. Neeerthe-
less, it appeared that the societies were all constructed
on a military basis, an I all the members were bound to
obey their chiefs, who in their turn were under the direct
orders of the supreme chief. The list represented the
number of adherents to the societies in the different
towns to be very considerable, but a great many of
the names were, it appeared, inserted merely to make
a show. Accordingly, only those persons who were
proved by the correspondence to have taken a direct
part in the proceedings were subjected to prosecution.
The indictment afterwards went on to show the part
taken in the societies by the principal accused. Du-
eussoet was proved to be the chief of all ; it was he
who corresponded with the chiefs—at Caen, Rouen,
Atniens, Paris, and Havre—who praised their ac-
tivity, or blamed their supiness, remitted the funds,
and promised the recompenses. The replies of the
accused to the interrogatories threw little light on
the affair ; some of them pretended that the society
was merely for the defence of order ; others that they
did not know what its object was; others explained
the meaning of the terms used in the correspondence ;
others stated the sums of money they had received or
distributed; and one or two declared that they had
only joined the association because they were paid.
The proceedings terminated on Saturday in the
conviction of MM. JOUBIN and RIVERAIN, without
extenuating circumstances, and of MM. VICTOR
MARIE, PROSPERE DE BREMIND, BERTHOUD, and
LESVEQUE-LEVEAU, with extenuating circumstances.
They were all condemned to six months' imprison-
ment, and on the two former there was inflicted, in
addition, a fine of 100 francs each, and a deprivation
of civil rights for the term of one year.
The Presse says:—
" It may, perhaps, be remembered that cries of Vive
la Ripubliquer uttered on May 2, at the review he ho-
nour of that anniversary, led to the dissolution of the
artillery of the National Guaril of Bayonne, and next
to the resignation, in consequence, of a certain number
of members of the Municipal Council of the towr.
These latter have just been replaced, and a majority of
1,025 votes to 625 has given the advantage to the whole
democratic list. At the head of it are the captain of the
company disllved, the councillors who had resigner),
and the superior oftleers of the National Guard who had
followed their exam plc."
The Nepaulese Ambassador leaves Paris on Tues-
day for Marstille3 where he will embark for
Alexandria.
Letters from Cherbourg state that four of the
line•of-battle ships reviewed at Cherbourg by the
PRESIDENT of the Republic, namely, the Valmy, the
Hercule, the Jmiappes, and the iutlaible, together

with the Cafirelli steam-frigate, left that port on
the 2.71), for Thet-4. To ot6er fur
ahip,4, the Friedland, the Jena, the Henri IV., and
the Juciter, together with the Descartts and Ma-
gellan steam•ftigate, remain for the rreviit at
Cherbourg, but will also proceed to Brest in a 'ort-

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
Li )1.4 DON S roc KOHANG E, SEPT. '2B.
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Boulogne and Amiens, i3/4—Dutch-Rhenish, VA Namur
and Lieg?, —Orleans and Bourdeaux, 2 —Rouen and
Havre, le.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 24th have arrived.
The Gage/a announces that, through the influence
of the Spanish Ambassador at Rome, all the difficul-
ties which have existed since 1843 to the removal of
the frescces of Annibal Caracci from the church of
S. James, at Rome, have been overcome, and they
are expected in Madrid with the plaster statue of a
Gladiator, recently discovered, as a present from the
POPE to the Court of Spain.

itiIADEID Boma, SEPT. 24.—The Three per Cents.,
35 15 16 ; Five per Cents. 141 money. Exchange
on London, 50 35 money.

GERMANY.

The Prussian Minister has addressed the following
dispatch to M. ne LULL, Prussian Minister at Cassel.
It is dated September 23 :
" The Pru•sien Government plainly disapproves of
the proceedings of M. de Hassenpflug, which it considers
as a fligrant attempt against the Constitution of the
country. The Prussian Government declares that it con-
siders the resistance of the people and of the public
functionaries to these measures to be perfectly legal, and
that there is no other course open for the Elector than
to retrace his steps, and to proceed in the path of the
Constitution."

Orders have been given to concentrate Prussian
troops on the frontiers of Hesse, and Prussia will op-
pose by force the attempt of any power to invade
Flesse in obedience to orders from the Diet of Frank-
fort, the authority of which it does not acknowledge.
A letter from Wiesbaden of the 25th says :
" The re-opening of the States took place to-day. The
Chamber of Deputies adopted unanimously a proposition
from the Deputy Leisler, to the effect that the Chamber
paid homage to the noble attitude of the people of Hesse
in its struggle to maintain the Constitution."
The Manheirn journal announces that no more
Baden troops will leave for Prussia. The Cologne
Gazette states on its side, on the authority of a letter
from Manheim, that the Baden Government had
demanded that the Prussian troops in Baden should
be decreased by 8,000 men, according to a stipulation
of
,the treaty concluded with Prussia. In place of
these 8,000 men, the Baden troops which have not yet
left would be retained. All the Baden troops which
have left for Prussia have been placed in garrison in
Westphalia.
A letter from Stutgard of the 24th in the Cologne
Gazette says :—" The result of the greatest number
of the elections is known. As was to be expected,
only a small part of the population took part in them.
With very few exceptions, the deputies elected belong
to the democratic party, the Ministerial candidates
remaining in minority. The party of the March Mi-
nistry has not either obtained any great success. M.
DE WAECIITER SPITLER has been appointed Minister
of Public Instruction and Worship, by an ordinance
dated yesterday."
The Government of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin has
expelled from Schwerin the Members of the Assem-
bly of the States, who had proceeded to that place en
•the 24th, on the convocation of their President, .M.
WIGGER, to protest against the sentence which de-
clared that Assembly dissolved, and the constitution
aboliThed. M. WIGGER received orders to leave
Schwerin in two hours, and the Deputies who had
gene to the place of meeting, were taken to the police-
office by gendarmes. It is not, however, supposed that
these acts can have thesame consequences at Schwerin
as at Cassel.

In the sitting of the College of Princes at Berlin on
the 25th, the President announced that the Grand
Duke of MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN had formally re-
fused to accept the invitation of the Cabinet of Vienna
to send a Minister to Frankfort.
Accounts from Vienna of the 28th state that the
Austrian Correspondence publishes a warlike article
against Prussia in regard to Hessian affairs, and that
the Austrian funds had fallen in consequence.
The Post Ainpt Gazette:of Frankfort publishes the
proctocol of the second sitting of the Federal Assem-
bly of the 14th, in which the committee, charged to
examine the proposition of the Austrian Government,
to confide to a neutral commission the administration
of the federal property, makes its report. The com-
mittee recommends to have the proposition rejected,
as impossible to be executed. However, at the same
time, in order to pay homage to the conciliatory
views of the Assembly, it invites it to declare that
it will examine with all proper attention and impar-
tiality any proposition made by the Austrian Go-
vernment, of a nature to put an end to the difficulties
existing relative to a neutral commission. This pro-
position was ukianim ously adopted.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
rine Danish Minister of the Marine Department
has published a report of the action between the
steamer Geyser and the Holstein gun-boats on the
17th, off the western coast of Schleswig :—" The
steamer Geyser, Captain Wulff, which was stationed
at the mouth of the Hewer to cut off the retreat of
the insurgent gun-boats to the south, observed at ten
o'clock on the morning of the 17th the steamer Kiel,
with three gun-boats in tow, steering towards the
south. The Geyser went northwards to meet them,
and at about eleven o'clock opened its fire on the
enemy's vessels from a distance of 1,000 yards, which
was immediately returned. The Geyser wore round
and followed the enemy, wbo kept on their,
course to the south, under a sharp can-
nonade on both sides. After three-quarters
of an hour's fighting the largest gun on board
the Geyser was rendered unserviceable by a
shot, and another gun, an 18-pounder, was dis-
mounted. The Geyser, therefore, did not continue
the pursuit, but turned broadside to the enemy, and
kept up a fire on him as long as he was within range.
At this time the smoke of another steamer, supposed
to be the Vildanden, with Danish gun-boats in tow,
was perceived to the north, and Captain Wulff, re-
solved to cease the attack on an enemy in greater
force, and steered towards our gun-boats, to try if
possible to take them in tow, and come up with the
enemy ag :in before evening. But the current and
the stream kept both the steamer and the gun-boats
beck, so that it became too late to follow the enemy,
who in the meantime had gained a considerable dis-
tance in advance ; our gun-boats, therefore, were
prevented from taking any part in the action. The
Geyser is not so much injured but that a few days
will suffice to repair all damages. Of the crew ten
men were wounded, of whom one afterwards died.
It is believed that the enemy's vessels must have suf-
fered severely, as the cannonade was within a short
range."
The InchOpendance of Brussels has the following
from Ilamburgh, dated the 22d t--e' For some days
the negotiations between Denmark onethe one hand,
th
and the Grand Duke d'Oldenburgh and the Great
Powers of Europe on the other, to definitively regu-
late succession to the throne of
Danmark,
eciliehitaivoen ofb theee
n going on actively. If, as
everything indicates, the present King should per-
sist in his design of resigning, and his aid uncle,
Prince Ferdinand, having announced the same in-
tentions, it is scarcely doubtful that the crown
will devolve to the dynasty of the Grand Duke of
Oldenburg. The chances of Prince Emilius of Hesse,
son-in• law of the Emperor Nicholas, to ascend the
throne of Denmark appear at present definitively set
aside; but, in the eventuality of the present Grand
Duke of Oldenburg being called to occupy the
throne, it is probable that Prince Peter of Olden-
burg, now a general in the service of Russia, and one
of the favourites of the Emperor, will come as Regent
to rule over that grand duchy. Hostilities in
Schleswig Lave for some days been confined to
pertial combats at sea between some gun-boats of
Holstein and some light vessels of Denmark.
These encounters have had for result the occu-
pation of the island of Foebr by the troops of this
letter power. The Gefion frigate, occupied by a
Prussian detachtnent,.‘ and stationed in the port of
Eckernforde, suffered much in the combats of the
12th. She received several broadsides from the
Danish vessels, which were firing on the town to
drive out the Holsteiners. A shell having burst
near the powder-magazine, the vessel narrowly es-
caped being blown up. it appears evident that on
the attack the Danish vessels made great efforts to
burn this fine frigate rather than leave it in the pos-
session of the Germans. It is now known that Col.
Latour-du-Pin, whom the journals have several
times killed, commands the third division of the
Danish army, having his head-quarters at Friedrick.
stadt, near Ostenfeldt.