The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.

On Wednesday morning, shortly after eight o'clock,
the Hibernia arrived in the Mersey, from New York,
bringing dates from that city to the 19th ultimo. The
Hibernia has brought 102 passengers, and £95,000 in spe-
cie.

Business had considerably improved since the arrival of
the news by the Hibernia. Money was much easier ; and
though within a day or two the shipment of specie had
made the market somewhat tight, still there was no doubt
that financil matters generally would grow easier.
The steam-boat Charter Oak was totally destroyed by
fire at St. Louis, on the 12th inst. Five persons perished
in the flames.

Accounts from St. Louis state that the Chequence In-
dians had returned from a hostile expedition against the
Snakes and Pawnees. They brought with them 25
scalps.
All civil authority had been turned over to the Mex-
icans in the cities of Vera Cruz and Tampico.

Santa Anna obtained a passport to quit the country ; he
intended leaving in a short time for Jamaica, where he
will take up his residence.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Enough has transpired to show that the number of legi-
timists who have found their way into the National As-
sembly is much larger than was previously supposed.
Where there are so many new men, and where every can-
didate, even to the Marquis de la Rochejaquelin, announces
himself a true, and pure, and honest adherent to the re-
public, it is exceedingly difficult to form anything like a
guess at the respective strength of parties. The calcula-
tion a day or two ago was, that there would be about 600
moderate but sincere republicans, adherents of M. de La-
martine and his party, in the provisional government ; and
that the remaining 300 would be composed of the violent
republican party, with a few legitimists, and a considerable
number of monarchists, or, in other words, the adherents
of the Comte de Paris, with the Duchess of Orleans as
regent. This division has now considerably changed.
The violent republicans, or those who loch( to Ledru-
Rollin and Louis Blanc as their leaders will, it is sup-
posed, muster about 100 votes, the legitimists and con-
cealed monarchists from 250 to 300 votes, and the mode-
' rate republicans not more than 500 votes. Whether this
division be correct or not remains yet to be seen. In the
first instance, no doubt, all parties will come out in the
garb of republicans, and no one will venture to oppose the
establishment of the republican form of government.
The alarm of disturbances both in Paris and the pro-
vinces is considerably greater. The papers openly accuse
M. Ledru-Rollin of being the instigator of the riots which
have taken place at Marseilles, Limoges, and Rouen.
The Commerce of Wednesday says :—" What is most
serious at Limoges is the complicity of all the authorities
in the plot of the communists. It was the colonel of the
National Guard who betrayed his soldiers and placed them
in the power of the disturbers. It is a substitute of the
procurenr-general who serves as secretary to the insurrec-
tional comite formed by the ouvriers. Such defections
are deplorable. Under the republic, to betray the govern-
ment is to betray the people, for the government is but
the expression of the will of the people."
The Constiluiionnel of Thursday denies that there is
any truth in the rumour of France having declared war
against Austria. The government had borrowed 300,000,000
more from the Bank of France, one half of which was des-
tined to the army of the Alps. Charles Albert had put
his troops in motion, with the view, according to one ac-
count, of renewing the attack on Peschiera, but according
to another of attacking the Austrians in their entrenched
camp at Verona, before which he was within a league and
a half on the 28th.

There was nothing further of much importance from the
departments. Preparations were making for opening the
National Assembly with great pomp.
Two Romish prelates have been returned for the As•
sembly ; the Bishop of Orleans, for Lozerre ; and the
Bishop of Quimper for Furisterre.
The Moniteur publishes a decree granting an extraor-
dinary credit for war purposes (believed to refer to an in-
tention of immediate interference in Italy) of three mil-
lion two hundred thousand pounds sterling.

OPENING OF TIIE FRENCH ASSEMBLY-SPEECH OF THE

PRESIDENT OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

The National Assembly opened on Thursday. The
Provisional Government marched in procession from the
Hall of the Ministry of Justice to the Chamber. M.
Audry de Puyrevean, the senior Dcputy, took the chair
as Provisional President.

The President having declared the sitting opened, M.
Dupont (de l'Eure), as President of the Provisional Go-
vernment, ascended the tribune, and in resigning the
powers of that body into the hands of the Assembly,
delivered the following speech :
Citizen Representatives,—The Provisional Government
bows before the nation, and renders homage to the su-
preme power with which you are invested. Elected of
the People,—Welcome to the great capital where your
presence excites a sentiment of happiness and hope, which
will not be disappointed. Depositories of the National
Sovereignty,—You are about to establish new institutions
upon the large basis of democracy, and to confer on
France the only constitution fitting for her—a republican
constitution. Thus, having proclaimed the great political
law which will definitively constitute the country, you will,
citizens, like us, occupy yourselves in regulating the
peaceable and efficacious action of the government in the
relation which the necessity of lalx,ur establishes among
citizens, and which must have for its basis the sacred laws
of justice and fraternity. In fine the moment has arrived
for the Provisional Government to resign into your hands
the unlimited power With which the revolution invested
it. You know whether with us the dictatorship has been
anything more than a moral power, exercited amidst the
difficult circumstances in which we were placed. Faithful
to our origin and to our formed convictions, we hesitated
not to proclaim the nascent republic of February. To-
day we inaugurate the labours of the Naticna 1 Assembly
to that cry at which we will always rally—" Vive la Re-
publique." (The applause which followed was continued
for some time, and the cry of " Vive la Republique" was
repeated over and over again.)

PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC BY THE NATIONAL

ASSEMBLY.

After the verification of the returns, M. Berger ascended
the tribune, and proposed the solemn proclamation of the
republic. (Thunders of applause.) Citizens of France,
let the whole world know that the republic, solemnly pro-
claimed with enthusiasm, is and will remain the form of
the government of this country. Cries of " Vive la
republique !" from all parts of the chamber followed this
proposal.
General Courtais, in the name of the people of Paris,
requested the members of the provisional government to
come out on the peristyle of the building, and the repre-
sentatives of the people to follow them, in order to pro-
claim the republic. The whole assembly rose in the
midst of the loudest acclamations of approval, and sallied
out in compliance with the proposal. The republic was
proclaimed and accepted unequivocally by the National
Assembly, in the presence of 200,000 of the people of
Paris. The general feeling is, " Woe to those, or any
class, who shall occasion doubts of the sincerity of that
acceptation. To retract is impossible. The slightest ap-
pearance of reaction will raise Paris in flames, and deluge
its streets with blood."

The following proclamation was posted up on the walls
of Paris on Friday evening :
" The National Assembly, the faithful interpreter of
the sentiments of the people, by whom it has been elected,
previous to commencing its labours,—
" Declares, in the name of the French people, and in
the face of the entire world, that the republic, proclaimed
on the 24th February, 1848, is, and shall remain, the form
of the government of France.

" The Republic desired by France has adopted the
motto, ' Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.'
" In the name of the country, the National Assembly,
entreats Frenchmen of every political party to forget for-
mer feuds, and to form in future but one family. The
day on which the representatives of the people met is for
all the citizens the feast of concord and fraternity. ' Five
la Republique !' "

ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY.
The National Assembly met at noon on Friday, and,
after the verification of powers, the ballot for the election
of the President of the Assembly commenced. It opened
at four o'clock, and closed at six, when M. Buchez was
declared President.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter from Rendsburgh, of April 30, says,—" The
Danes have entirely quitted the continent as far as Alsen
and North Schleswig. In the west, Tondern has been
besieged ; on the road thither the artillery of Count
Schakenberg was seized. On the 28th, 12 officers, 17 sub-
alters, 16 musicians, and 380 privates, were brought in
prisoners."
The entire eastern coast of Holstein and Schleswig is
blockaded by Danish ships-of-war. The merchants inte-
rested in the trade of the Baltic are more apprehensive
than ever, and await with anxiety the interference of the
English Government.
PRUSSIA.
The Prussische Staats Anzeignfr publishes a report of
the Chief President of Pomerania to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, in which it is stated that a Danish frigate
arrived on the Ist instant of Swinemunde, and prevented
two English vessels from entering that port. The Chief
President adds :
" I have also received authentic information of an ex-
tension of the Danish measures against the Prussian mer-
cantile navy to vessels of other German nations, and that
some Hanseatic and other ships have been placed under
an embargo.