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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY

The Archbishop of YORK presented a petition from a
place in the county of York against the admission of
Jews to Parliament. _ _

Similar petitions were presented from the Bishop of
OXFORD, from places in the county of Oxford.
The Earl of EGLINTOUN presented a petition from Ber-
wick against the Currency Act of 1844.
Some little conversation ensued, in which the Earl of
Shrewsbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Stan-
ley took part. relative to the street disturbances in the
metropolis. It was admitted that the mobs were rather
of a thievish than of a political character, and that the
police had acted well in dispersing them.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY

A great number of petition; on the different subjects
subjects
were presented.

postponed hie notice of motion for leave
to bring in a bill to abolish the Game Laws till that
day fortnight.

BRITISH MECHANICS AND WORKMEN IN FRANCE

Mr. A. STAFFORD wished to ask a question of the go-
vernment relating to the expulsion of mechanic. and
artizans from France since the commencement of the
revolution, and if such had been the case, whether the
Rritiuh gnvprnrnPnt had taken any steps to relieve their
wants and procure means to convey them to their re-
spective homes. (Hear, hear.)

Sir G. GREY said, on Sunday morning he received the
copy of a letter sent to Lord Palmerston by the British
Consul at Rouen, stating that the French populace had
demanded the immediate discharge of all British labour-
ers and mechanics employed in factories or on railroads,
and that a considerable number in consequence were
ordered to leave France almost without clothes, and in a
state of great destitution. He (Sir G. Grey) immediately
sent orders to the British Consul to engage a steam-boat
to convey the parties so circumstanced to England, and
he also gave instructions to the Mayor of Portsmouth, on
their arriving in that port, to make necessary preparations
and arrangements to convey them to their respective
homes. (Hear.) These arrangements had been made,
and the unfortunate individuals alluded to, some of whom
belonged to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places in
Scotland, appeared (he was informed) very grateful for
the attention which had been shown to them. (Hear,
hear.) They had means provided for enabling them to
return to their homes. (Hear.)
Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved for leave to bring in a bill to
amend the Irish Poor Relief Extension Act, with a view
to repeal the 10th section, commonly called "The Quarter-
acre Clause." The hon. member contended that this
preliminary clause, which forbade relief, out-door or in-
door, to all persons in possession of a quarter of an acre
of land or upwards, inflicted the grossest injustice on many
who could not get rid of their occupancies.
Sir Was. SOMERVILLE opposed the motion as unneces-
sary, as it was held that the guardians had power to give
relief to such persons as tendered their occupancies to their
landlords, whether accepted or not by the landlord.
Mr. O'Flaherty, Mr. Fagan, Mr. P. Scrope, Mr. F.
O'Connor, Mr. Clements, Sir. G. Grey, Col. Conolly,
Mr. E. B. Roche, Mr. Aglionby, Major Macnamara, Mr.
Reynolds, Mr. Maunsell. Mr. Wakley, Mr. Drummond,
Colonel Dunne, and Mr. M. O'Connell, took part in the
discussion which followed.

The house divided—For the motion 21, against it 114,
—majority against the motion 93.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—

-FRIDAY

Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to Mr. F. Scott, ;tated that
t (Colonial Secretary hoped, before the close of the ses-
sion, in consequence of representations from Australia, to
bring in a bill for separating the government of New South
Wales from that of Port Philip. His noble friend had
also under his consideration whether it would not be ne-
cessary in that bill to introduce certain other alterations
in the constitution of New South Wales.

Sir B. HALL, in reply to Mr. Hamilton, stated that it
was his intention to take the sense of the house, in com-
mittee of ways and means, upon the proposition of which
he had given notice, for extending the income tax to Ire-
land.
The house went into committee of ways and means on
the income tax resolution ; but the debate principally re-
solved itself into one of free trade and protection, accord-
ing to the views of the various speakers. The votes of
the hon members, however, would be thus distributed :
In favour of the government proposition of continuing the
tax for three years—Mr. J. Wilson. Mr. Miles, Mr. Bro-
therton; Mr. Cardwell, and Mr.. W. E. Gladstone ; for
Mr. Hume's amendment. of limitation to one year—Mr.
J. B. Smith, Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr. Disraeli ; the
debate standing adjourned, on the motion of Mr. Mae-
regor, till Monday.
The Passengers Bill was read a third time and passed.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

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ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
The Royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, from Boston and
Halifax, arrived in the Mersey on Saturday morning, at
half-past one o'clock. She brought advices from New
York to the 27th ult., 5.,40,000 in specie, and thirty-four
passengers.
On the 21st ult. the venerable John Quincy Adams was
seized with apoplexy in his seat in the House of Repre-
sentatives, and died on the following night. Another
account states that he died in the house, in the Speaker's
room, and adds—" Congress marked its sense of the
mournful event by immediately adjourning for a week.
All the party bickerings that had passed between the
members but a moment before were hushed on the in-
stant. The citizens of the capital partook of a like feel-
ing, business was suspended, and a general gloom took
possession of every one, so much so that several persons
put on mourning.' All All the cities of the Union had tes-
tified' their respect for the memory of the deceased. Ills
public career commenced in 1781, when he was but 15
years of age.

The meeting of Gen. Taylor's friends, at New York,
which had been adjourned to the 22d, was held on that
day ; it was attended by 15,000 persons. Various reso-
lutions in favour of Gen. Taylor being the next President
were proposed, and carried unanimously.
The Courier and Enquirer Fay! :—" Money is easy,
but there is not much activity in exports. Our stock of
flour is so small on the seaboard as to prevent any such
fall in prices as might benefit a_hipments ; and the last
accounts for cotton were so little encouraging, that there
is not any great disposition to operate in thastaple. The
sales for export to England have been larger than previ-
ously, but not sufficiently so to advance the rates of
freight. The market has still a downward aspect. Ex-
change on London remains pretty much as per_lists."
•

The total: exports of breadsttiffs to Omit Britsin and
Irelard, from the bt. S:pternicr to Ft lo uary 1.9, were
14e,9V8; corD meal, 70;250; wheat, 211,217; corn,

1,004,983. To France—flo.ar, 213 ; wheat, 3,392 ; corn,
10,588.

In flour there had 'been. an advance of 121 to 25c. per
barrel.

Rumours of a probable peace with Mexico were preva-
lent. The boundaries proposed by that country to the
United States were Texas to the Rio Grande, New Mex-
ico, and Upper California. It was, however, expected
that Congress would not agree to the conditions reported
to be stipulated by Mexico, that slavery should not be
permitted in any part of the ceded territory, and it was
doubted that such stipulation had been made. Neither
men nor money could be voted until the question should
be settled, though the 16 millions loan bill was in the
Seaate, and might be passed when needed—the cash being
easily obtainable at par for 6 per cent. stock, having 20
years to run.

The petty quarrels of the King of Musquito with the
Nizaraguarts had been taken up by the British naval com-
mander on that station, which had led to a great deal of
unpleasantness. The Vixen. British steamer, having on
board the aforesaid king and Mr. Walker, the British
consul, anchored in the port of San Juan de Nicaragua,
landed a small force, took possession of the town and fort,
struck the colours .of Central America, and hoisted those
of the Musquito king. The steamer departed, and a
counter revolution took place. The commander of the
Vixen returned, but, finding threats unavailing, sailed
away for Jamaica,for reinforcements,

The King.of Prussia, in closing the session of the state
on the 6th, made a remarkable speech in favour of peace ;
but he added, if treaties be broken, or an attack made on
his territories, or on those of the Germanic Confederation,
he should " prefer the dangers of war."
A young lady named Blackwell, who is 26 years of age,
is now studying .medicine at Boston ; and on her applica-
tion for admission to the medical class, she produced re-
commendations from several eminent physicians of Phila-
delphia, and certificates from her tutor, the professor of
the theory and practice of medicine in the New York
University.

AUSTRIA..—Prince Matternich has resigned. The
Prince had declared himself decidedly favourable to con-
cessions in Lombardy, as well as in Bohemia and Hun-
gary. The loan by the Emperor of Russia to Austria of
thirty millions has been completed, and the money paid.
A terrible panic exists-on the Bourse at Vienna. There
are rumours of rising in different parts of the empire—in
Galicia, in Bohemia, and in Hungary, not to speak of
Lombardy.

FEARFUL CONFLICT AT THE FEEJEE ISLANDS, SOO
KrLLED.—By the arrival of the Sydney mail on Saturday,
we are informed of a most severe battle having taken
place on the 4th of September, at the Feejee Islands,
between the chiefs and the people of Mbau and Rena, in
which the latter were defeated, but escaped with a num-
ber of their adherents to Java harbour, about seven miles
west of Rena mails, where they intended to settle, all the
habitations of Rena being burned to the ground by the
chiefs of Mbau. The number slain on both sides
amounted to upwards of 800, the bodies of whom still
remained exposed there. Fortunately for the missiona-
ries, the scene of warfare occurred at some distance from
their location.

AMERICA.—The Washington, from New York, arrived
at Southampton on Tuesday, having left on the 21st ult.
She brings 17 passengers, and 5000 dollars only in specie.
The stock market in New York was much depressed, al-
though money was much easier, with symptoms of im-
provement. The exports of bread to England had been
on a limited scale. Preparations were making for the
election of President, which was to commence on the 22d
ult. The news from America is of no great importance.
The principal topic discussed is, " Who will be President?"
Strong efforts are being made to crush Mr. Polk, and
bring in a Whig of moderate principles. The dates from
Vera Cruz are to the 29th of January. The accounts and
prospects of peace there were very contradictory. Orizaba
had been captured by Col. Lane, at the head of 500
cavalry.

. OMANISM ANn THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.—What
says the French Church ? She holds out her hand to
Democracy, but with a timid boldness, as a man might
do who found himself face to face with an unchained
wild beast, watching all the while its glistening eye and
restless limbs. The Archbishop of Paris, seemingl► of
his own accord, but really after receiving a significantly
pressing message from a republican club, issues directions
for substituting the name of the Republic for that of the
King in the daily prayers. He goes with his archiepis-
copal cross and in full costume to visit the sick in the
hospitals, and finds himself greeted with respect. Pas-
toral letters are published in every diocese. In all, the
clergy are desired to inculcate peace and order, and to
accept whatever form of government it may please Pro-
vidence to set over them.
GERMANY.—The German Francfort Journal of the 3d
contains a letter from Berlin of the 22th ult., stating that
the treaty of alliance between Austria, Russia, and Prus-
sia, for supporting in common Austria in Italy has been
ratified. Three corps d'armee have received orders to be
mobilised ; the fourth is to march from Saxony and Thu-
ringia into Westphalia; the seventh is to descend from
Westphalia to Cologne; and the eighth to move to the
frontier of France. The third corps d'armee in the march
replaces the fourth in Saxony. The Journal de Franc-
f;rt denies that foreign troops are to quarter in the city.
At Heidelberg there had been some th)ubles on the 29th.
The Duchess of Orleans, with her two children arrived at
Coblentz on the Ist. Her Royal Highness arrived at the
Hotel du Giant, and immediately after set out for Ems.
Among the persons of her suite were the preceptor of the
Princes ta! the French general. The German Diet has
derided upon authorising each state of the Cc:Lonnie Diet
to regulate the question of the liberty of the press as it
may think fit.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.—The Paris ♦rinion points
out the following curious coincidences between the cir-
cumstances attending the fate of the two French monarchs
who preceded the republic :—" As in 1830, three days,
and the same three days of the week, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday ! As in 1830, a man of the people
taking his seat on the royal arm-chair ! Louis Philippe
was dethroned in the same month as the Duke of Berry
was assassinated ! Reised to the throne by barricades,
he was hurled from it by barricades! Like Charles X.,
Louis Philippe had a grandson, and this grandson was of
the same are as the Due de Bordeaux in 1830. Like
Charles X., Louis Philippe, at the last moment, wanted
to abdicate in favour of his grandson, and he likewise
received for answer, 'lt is too late !' Charles X. fell
shortly after Hussein Paella, the dey of Algiers ; the fate
of Louis Philippe arrived soon after the day on which
Abd-el-Kader was brought a captive to France. Now
for Louis Philippe as for Charles X., we say the ex-
King.' But there exists a difference, which the people
in their justice acknowledge aloud. Charles X. departed
poor into his exile, and Louis Philippe will in his, enjoy
his immense wealth."
THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

The events of to-day (says the correspondent of the
Daily News, writing on Monday) have been untoward.
The Provisional Minister of Finance has resigned. The
Bourse was to have been re-opened, and all the ayens-de-
change were assembled, ready to commence business,
when, unexpectedly, soon after one o'clock, an order ar-
rived from the Minister of the Interior, forbidding its
opening till further orders. It is understood that bargains
had been made for purchases and sales of the Threes at 60.
Gouin's bank stopped payment to-day. This bank had
done much business for the petit commerce of Paris. It
is reported that its liabilities are fifty-five millions. Con-
tradictory reports are circulated as to its assets. I am
told in one quarter that they are considerable, while I hear
hear from another that they bear but a small proportion
to the liabilities. However it be, this failure must pro-
duce great temporary distress. Gouin was banker to the
conservative party in the chamber, who have withdrawn
their capital, which is assigned as the immediate cause of
the failure. Gamier Pages takes the Ministry of Finance.
Advices from Paris of Tuesday evening announce that
the Bourse had been re-opened amidst great excitement.
A melodramatic deputation of Americans waited upon the
Provisional Government on Monday, and, according to
the custom of republicans, taking upon them to speak in
the name of the United States, they presented M. Arago
with an American and a French flag united.
The news from the departments is generally favourable.
Public tranquility is everywhere maintained. The miners
in the north who had revolted, have resumed their work.
Great commercial distress however is reported in the chief
towns of the provinces.
The armed band which occupied the Tuilleries, and
made it the theatre of their disorders and orgies, were in-
duced en Tuesday to evacuate it.

It seems that °Mend of some four hundred armed indi-
viduals had, after the capture of the Tuilleries, resolved to
remain in it, and make it their quarters. They slept on
the sofas, such as were not broken, got camp beds, slept,
lived, cooked, and made themselves at home in the Tuil-
eries. The authorities occupied the guard houses with the
National Guard, but one of this band always stationed
himself as sentry alongside of the National Guard sentry.
It was soon found that these gentry were not of the most
honest kind. For they contrived to force open doors and
drawers, and to pass objects of value through the gratings
of the Tuileries, to coma. anions outside. At first foodwas
sent to them, as to soldiers on a post, but this being with-
held, they contrived to procure some. At last the Prefect,
Caussidiere, be'ged them to dislodge. They refused flatly,
declared that they had fifty rounds of ammunition per
man, and would first set fire to the Chateau, if attacked,
and then fight their way out. how dislodge these des-
perate men ? An assault could scarcely be asked of the
good citizens who compose the National Guard—police
there is as yet none. The soldiers have declined to at-
tack the people. The only corps that could be got were
the youth of the College of St. Cyr—i.e., the sons of the
best families of the kingdom. The prefect accepted their
offer of reducing the brigands; and the latter was sum-
moned last night. In reply, they offered to decamp on
condition that each one of them was to have a pension of
BGO francs a-year, and that none of them were to be
searched on marching out. The Prefect refused the honest
terms, and gave arm until ten this morning to submit.
At ten this morning the boys of St. Cyr, well armed,
marched into the court of the Tuileries, with a crowd of
Parisians gathered thousands strong, to witness the fun of
the chateau taken by storm. They were in part:disap-
pointed ; for the brigands, frightened at the determined
aspect of the St. Cyr scholars, consented to march out
without setting fire to the palace. Some were searched ;
all had dollars in abundance. Some were marched to the
Hotel de Ville, and some escaped.
The Monitevr of Wednesday contains a decree of the
Provisional Government, whereby, in all the industrial
and commercial towns, a " Comtoir National d'Esconipte"
is to be created, destined to spread credit to all branches
of production. The capital of these coniptotra is to vary
according to the wants of the localities, and the capital is
to consist of a third, in cash, contributed by the subscri-
bers, a third in obligations entered into by the towns,
and a third in trcasury bonds. Another decree institutes
t Pa/k a" Coo pCdr Nzticnal d'Eicotryte," with
.a
' 1 of twenty

bed a third ,of that sum, promises another third in obliga-
tions, and the State affords the third third. Another
decree restores to the island of Bourbon its republican
name of " Reunion:"

A decree fixes at five per cent. the.interest on the sums
deposited at the Savings Banks of Paris.
The payment of the dividends on the Four, Four-and-
a-Hall, and Five per Cents.' commenced on the 6th, on
which day 3,893,916 f. were paid on 5843 inscriptions.
According to the Constitutionnel, the following diplo-
matic appointments are to take place :—M. d'Harcourt,
London ; M. Boissy, Rome ; M. d'Alton-Shee, Turin ;
General Fabvier, Constantinople; M. de Tracy, United
States ; M. Beaumont, Vassy, Denmark ; M. de la Mos-
kowa, Spain. All these gentlemen were, if we mistake
not. Members of the late Chamber of Peers.
The Journal du Havre announces the arrival, on Fri-
day, from Rouen, of the steamboat lately named the Louis
Philippe, but now the Sesostris, with 238 Irish workmen,
who had been employed in the great spinning mill at
Rouen, culled the Foundre, and who, in consequence of
the late events, had been discharged. These men went
to Pont Audemer, hoping to be received into a manufac-
tory established there by one of their fellow countrymen,
but were disappointed, and therefore came on to Havre to
obtain from their Consul the means of returning to their
own country.
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The Minister of War is making arrangements for the
relief of the National Guards of Paris from their onerous
duties, by the recalling of the regular troops, and the Mi-
nister of the Interior in preparing for the alections.
A commission is appointed for distributing funds neces-
sary for the service of religion, and the preservation and
restoration of churches.

On Wednesday, a highly-respectable and numerously
attended meeting of English residents at Paris was held at
Meurice's Hotel, Col. Fletcher in the chair, when an ad-
dress to the French Provisional Government, drawn up
by Captain Boyle, R.N., was agreed to. The address,
whilst cautiously abstaining from an expression of opinion
as to particular forms of government, congratulated the
people upon their courage in vindication of a just right,
and their moderation in the hour of victory--the National
Guard upon their admirable exertions in protecting life
and property--and the Provisional Government for the
wisdom of their measures in critical and trying circum-
stances. The address expressed strong hopes for the con-
tinuance of amicable feeling between the people of bath
nations. Many of those present bore testimony to the
kindly spirit manifested towards the English by all classes
since the late change of government. One gentleman who
held a considerable amount of investments in French Se-
curities, declared his intention of not sacrificing one pen-
nyworth of what he had purchased, and his hopeful and
confident tone was responded to by others.
Our Paris despatches, dated Thursday evening, confirm
the account of the resignation of Prince Metternich, in
consequence of the emperor having rejected his advice to
grant concessions to Lombardy, Bohemia, and Hungary.
Much apprehension of disturbance is felt at Vienna and
throughout the imperial dominions. The Provisional Go-
vernment have issued a proclamation advising the people
to pay their taxes, that the government might be relieved.
Tranquillity prevailed.

The Palais National, formerly the Palais Royal, is given
to the Minister of War to establish an etat major and
battalion of mobilised National Guard.
COMMUNISM.—The omnibus drivers and conducteurs
have all struck. They demand to be set on a footing with
all the employls of the Northern Railway—that is to say,
be allowed their dividend or profits on the receipts, ac-
cording to amount of salary.
M. Lambert, who was attached to the household of the
ex-King Louis Philippe, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the
3rd Legion of the National Guard of Paris, has blown out
his brains. The day after the late events he gave in his
resignation as lieutenant-colonel and entered the ranks as
a private.

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THE WORKMEN. —On Wednesday, the paviours of
Paris struck for an increase of wages : they refused to re-
sume their work unless the government gives them Bf. a
day in place of 4f. the ordinary price. The government,
not being inclined to yield to such a demand, has em-
ployed journeymen masons to repave the streets.
RETRIBUTION.—In 1830, no sooner had the Dey of
Algiers arrived in France as a prisoner of Charles X. than
the King was dethroned and exiled ; and in 1848, no
sooner had the Emir Abd-el-Kader reached the shores of
France as the prisoner of Louis Philippe than the King
of the barricades was dethroned and exiled ! The Dey,
at the fall of Charles, exclaimed, " God is just : he has
avenged me !"—and who would prevent the Marabout,
Abd-el-Kader, from making the same assertion of provi-
dential retribution ?
SYMPATHY FOR LOUIS PHILIPPE.—The Presse says :
—" A considerable number of journeymen joiners who
had assembled to converse upon their own situation were
alluding to the 1,000,000 f. of the Civil List, which the
Provisional Government had promised to distribute
among them, when at the moment the arrival of Louis
Phillippe and his family at London in a state of depriva-
tion was announced. Upon hearing this news one of the
men present said, Sacristi! that is very bard upon
them. I tell you what should be done. The advice
of Beranger should be followed. A million distributed
amongst us would be but very few francs a-piece. Well,
then ! Let it be sent to the ex-King. The arlms of the
poor do honour to misfortune ! ' "
A BRAVE GIRL.—The following is from the Presse :
" A young girl was present at the late massacre of the
Municipal Guard of the post of the Place de la Concorde,
whien.fired. on the sth legion. There .remained only one
of these unfortunate men. 'Mademoiselle,' cried M. de
V—, enrnmnndant of th,, you may save this
wan I ' What must Ido ? lam ready !''throw your-
self into his arms, and claim him as your father!' The
young girl threw herself at the same moment into the
arms of the municipal guard, and, weeping, cried, ' Gen-
tlemen, in the name of God, spare my father, or kill mel
with him !' At the same moment the muskets of the as-
sailants were lowered, and the municipal guard, protected
by his liberatress, was saved.

THE MEN AND WOMEN SERVANTS.—Among those
who have suffered most from the revolution are men and
women servants. There are an extraordinary number of
these poor creatures out of bread. With the domestics
of the court must be reckoned those of ministers and
aides-de-camps, officials, and foreigners, English, Russian,
German, &c., leaving Paris, with the reduced establish-
ments of people whose means have suffered, as well as
those who, even if they could, would not like to make an
ostentatious display of wealth. The peers are abolished
—the deputies broken up ; and, consequently, the number
of men and women servants not knowing what to do is
truly pitiable. The war department gives great dissatis-
faction to the National, which blames General Subervie
for the character of his appointments. All important
commands and trusts are conferred upon men who are
amongst the most devoted servants of the late Govern-
ment.

MISERY BEGINNING.—PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING.—
How to support public credit is the question of the day.
The failure of the bank of Gouin and Co. has profoundly
touched the public sentiment because of the name of
Jacques Lafitte, and by means of certain associations pro-
ducing sadness has given a tendency to alarm rather than
actual alarm itself; for we are still under the influence of
hopeful expectations. The revolution of 1830 ruined
Jacques Lafitte, who publicly asked pardon of God and
his country for the hand he had in placing Louis Philippe
on the throne. That throne is destroyed, and the suc-
cessor of old Jacques is the first to be swept away in the
storm. The public are clamouring for relief. Trade is at
a stand-still. The look of the shops, except those which
sell the mere necessaries of life, is gloomy. Propositions
of various kinds, for the relief of people of business unable
to meet their engagements, abound. As no one will think
of laying in new stocks of goods, the manufacturers must
soon begin to feel the pinch. If manufacturers, then
workmen ; and workmen have been taught to expect the
advent of a new era. The State has taken a voluntary
pledge, and it behoves it not to trifle with hungry sto-
machs and inflamed minds.

THE PROSPERITY AND FALL OF LOUIS
PHILIPPE.

The following extracts from the leading articles of the
Times are interesting, the one setting forth the immedi-
ate cause of the success of the mob in Paris ; the other
pourtraying Louis Philippe in the plenitute of his power.
First, the cause :
"After Count Mole's failure, the King sent for M.
Thiers. That gentleman may be said to have actually
formed a Cabinet in conjunction with M. Odillon Barrot
and M. Duvergier de Hauranne, for they instantly pro-
ceeded to the discharge of the highest possible duty which
could devolve on Ministerial responsibility. The one act
of their government was the publication of that incon-
ceivable proclamation stating that no further resistance
should be made, and the promulgation of orders to the
officers commanding regiments to withdraw them. This
was, of course, the capitulation of the Monarchy. Mar-
shal Bugeaud, who had the command of the troops, and
had now completed his preparations for a general attack
on the barricades, and was confident of success, protested
most energetically against this extraordinary order, and
said that if it was acted on all was lost. The King's then
Ministers, M. Thiers and M. Barrot. insisted; the King
took their advice, and Marshal Bugeaud resigned the
command of the troops, observing that it was useless for
him to retain it if nothing was to be done. General La-
moriciere was therefore named to the command of Paris,
and M. Thiers and his friends proceeded to effect their
pacific arrangements. The effects of their orders were
immediately perceptible, although the declaration of their
names was certainly not followed by the consequences
they had anticipated. The officers of the army, indig-
nant at so unexpected a termination of their duties,
sheathed their swords, the men allowed themselves to be
disarmed by the mob, whom they had been ordered not
to resist, and the people encountering no serious opposi-
tion from the Municipal Guard, which was cut to pieces,
rushed on to the conquest of the Palais Royal and the
Tuileries. To sum up this narrative in two words, the
dismissal of the Guizot Government rendered it impossi-
ble for the Executive Government to act effectually; the
subsequent advice of M. Thiers and the resignation of
Marshal Bugeaud rendered it impossible to act at all. If
this be, as we have every reason to believe it is, a correct
narrative of these transactions, we are not surprised that
M. Thiers and his colleagues should not have made them-
selves conspicuous in the subsequent passages of this re-
volution."

Now the picture :
" This day fortnight Louis Philippe was the most
prosperous, the most powerful, and accounted the ablest
Sovereign in the world. If the reader will just think of
it, he will find that. this wonderful man had attained the
very acme of success, consideration, and power. it is a
work of time to enumerate the many circumstances of
his splendid condition. His numerous, handsome, and
dutiful children : the brilliant alliances—one of them
recently concluded—which brought into one family inter-
est the vast region from Antwerp to Cadiz ; the near
.prospect of an event which would probably make his
gna,itchild the sovereign, -his kin Ile. Regent of Spain ;
the grout cross and drawback of Lis reign ju4 rtnioved—

THE LIVIRPOOL STANDARD.

Algeria pacified after eighteen years' war; his immense
private.fortune • his eleven or twelve palaces, unequalled
for situation and magnificence, on all of hich be had
recently spent immense sums of money ; his splendid
army of four hundred thousand men, in the highest dis-
cipline. and equipment ' • a Minister of unequalled energy
and genius, who had found out at last the secret of
France.; a metropolis fortified and armed to the teeth
against all the world ; the favourable advances recently
made by those powers who had previously looked down
on .the royal parvenu ; the well-balanced state of his
foreign relations, and the firmly-grasped reins of the
political car—all these gifts of fortune, and more, if we
had time to go on with the list, were heaped upon one
man, ib such profusion as really to pall the imagination.
What crowned it all was,- that Louis Philippe was allowed
the entire credit of his success. It was all the work of
his own hands. He might stand like the ancient king on
,the walls and towers which lie had drawn round his city,
and contemplate the perfect work of beauty and policy
which himself had made. The balance of Europe,' the
causes of peoples and kings, the issues of peace and war,
were in his bands. If there was an amari aliquid in this
garden of roses and delights, twenty impregnable forts
and a hundred thousand armed men were no insignificant
watch upon a few disorderly subjects. Solon himself
himself would hardly have ventured to preach. upon his
envious text, ante obitum nemo, to a safe a man." '
Nought strong as the imagination to draw the reverse.
It must be familiar to the minds of all.

THE ORLEANS FAMILY

The Globe states that, on quitting the Tuileries, the ex-
King and Queen of the French left behind them one of
their grandchildren, to whom they were devotedly at-
tached, in the charge of some of the ladies in waiting.
This child was. nursed under the care of the aged queen,
and when her majesty arrived in England, she inquired
most anxiously whether any tidings of her little favourite
and the ladies had been received. It was rather remark-
able, and was highly gratifying to the queen, that Mr.
Laurence and Lady Jane Peel (who were the first of our
nobility, in company with. Lady. Henley, to visit the royal
exile's on their landing at Newhaven), should be able to
relieve this anxiety. Lady Jane Peel had received letters
to the effect that the royal child and the ladies had been
permitted to remain in the Tuileries till after the revolu-
tion, when they were conveyed to a place of safety. It is
scarcely necessary to add that her majesty expressed her-
self highly delighted with the intelligence. Before they
separated, the ex-queen informed Lady Jane Peel that she
felt happy on arriving safely in England. She did not care
how humble life she led there, for it would be bliss to the
anxious mements, which she had latterly passed in France,
and she hoped that now she should end her days in peace.
Her majesty seemed sensibly affected by her situation.
Another paper gives the following particulars respect-
ing the Duchess de Montpensier :—" She suffered more
than any of the royal family. Having been left behind in
the Tuileries she took refuge in a wood closet, and put on
a servant's clothes and apron, whilst the mob got posses-
sion of her blue bonnet, and bore it about on a pike. In
disguise the duchess succeeded in reaching, on foot,
through the invaders of the château, the embassy of Por-
tugal, from whence she was conducted to England by
Colonel Thierry. It has proved a sorry match for the In-
fanta—she has lost for ever the two millions of francs wrung
from the Spanish government at the time of the marriages.
The last of this money was paid away but a week ago for
the purchase of a forest near. Poitiers, now under seques-
tration. So much for the fate of one of the royal
heroines of the Spanish marriages."