Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-04

no hope of securing purity of election and
genuinrness of representation. but in throwing
the protective mantle OF the ballot over the
electoral body.
That your petitioners regard the present inc
quality of representation to be opposed to com
mon sense, and inimical to d genuine repre-
sentation of the people. They therefore appeal
to your honorable house TO remedy this defect
in the legislative machinery, BIZ the division
of the country into equal ELECTORAL districts,
assigning TO each district one representative.
That your petitioners hold the legislature.
equally with the executive, 10 be the servants
OF the people, and consequently entitled to re-
Enumeration at the public expense; and, believ
ing that the House of Commons should be the
minister and not the master Of The people, call
upon you to establish their just relative posi-
tons by fixing an equitable salary for the ser
vice of its members.
That your petitioners consider septennial
Parliaments unjust. as they prevent. for six
years out of seven. those who are annually ar
irving at maturity from exercising the right of
suffrage. Your petitioners also consider that
seven years Is too long term for the existence
OF Parliament; period that affords an oppor-
tunity TO venal and tine-srrving men to pro 4
mote their selfish interests at the expense of
those whose welfare should be the ultimate
eim of all their labOrs. Your petitioners, there
fore, entreat your honorable house 10 create be-
tween the representative and the represented
that saluiary responsibility indispensable to
good government. by the restoration of the
ancient wholesome practice of annual Parlia-
ments. re
That your petitioners complain that seat
in the Commons House of Parliement should
be contingent upon the possession of property
of any description. as they have yet to learn
that legislative talent is the exclusive preroga-
tive OF any order of men; and therefore pray
for the abolition of what Is termed the prop
erty qualification"
That your petitioners respectfully direct your
attention to the document entitled, THE Peo-
PIES Charter" which embodies the principles
and details for securing the full and equitable
representation of the male adult population
which document they earnestly pray your hon
orable house to forthwith enact as the law of
the realm.
Should the members of your honorable house
entertain any doubts as 10 the justice OF our de
mands. your petitioners humbIy enlreat TO be
\ heard at the bar of your honorable house by
\ counsel or agent in support of those claims,
/ And your petitioners. &c.
! Rifle clubs are in course of formation. and
target shooting is praciised extensively in all
the disturbed districts of of Ireland.
The Irish confederation has issued on a
broad sheet, price one penny, the speeches for
which Messrs, o Brien and Meagher are being
4 prosecuted by the government. In this form
/ they are distributed through Dublin in thou
! sands every dav by vendors of catch-pennys.
! Extensive impor:ations of pixies have taken
I place from Birmingham, two consignments
\ alone amounting 10 thirty thousand. These
are sold only to persons who can give certain
I pass word. One n3:.n named Coogan, IN the
county of Meath, has at present contract to
supply ash sapiings, eleven feet long. for lO0,-
600 men. One club alone in Dublin possesses
( l 800 pixies. Some parties have been arrested
IN Tipperary for manufacturing these weapons.
Light brass guns, from seven 10 fourteen poun-
ders, are said 10 have arrived in Dublin.
i Haly.-The Piedmontese Gazette publishes
/ the following from the threatye OF war
Milan. March 30.-"The accounts of This
morning, which may be considered as official
state that Gen. Bes. at he head Of coo regular
troops, aud 1000 vols. commanded by officers
7 of our staff. fell in with strong body of the
enemy near Montechiari, whom he com
+ pletely put to route, taking squadron OF cav
airy. three pieces OF cannon, carriages, &c,
II THE Austrian army appears DESTROYS to es-
tablish itself near Montechlarl, and wait a
pitched battle. They are very short OF pro-
vision.
The announcement of the capture of the
Viceroy at Rive de Trento and Of the fall OF
Mantua, has 5een confirmed by the Provision
al Government.
i s.What gives degree of certainty to this ac-
count is, that a courier has been dispatched to
Trento to know whether that distinguished per
sonage would be kept in confinement there, or
whether it would be more advisable. to send
/ him to Milan .st
An offensive and defensive alliance has been
/ finally concluded between the King OF Sardin-
ia, the King of Naples, and the Grand Duke OF
I Tuscany.
4 The Milanese have sent a very remarkable
address to Pope Plus TX. The following are
the principal passages:
! ..fhe grand cause of Italian Independence.
\ blessed by your Highness, has also riumphed
II in our CITY. we have sealed it with our blood.
and we rejoice in it, in the hope that blood
will become the water of regeneration Tor us,
and fer the whole of Italy,
s.It is in your name, most Holy Father, that
we are 10 be prepared TO fight; we have lnscrIb-
/ ed your name on our standards and on our bar
ricades. Deprived Of every thing, without any
| arms but the holiness of our right, we have IN
j your name faced our formidable enemies; IN
I your name, young and Old, women and child
rem, have jos fully fought and loytally died, and
now IL Is IN NOuf titoA KIT "a
our hearts before God, who has given us the
victory"
The address then goes on to express the idea
which animates the whole of the inhabitants
OF Lombardy that the war shall not terminate
until the last Austrian shall have crossed the
Alps. The Nation viii then. II says, be call
ed on to choose freely its form Of government
"A letter from Rome says the same journal,
'-uescribes the great enthusiasm which reigns
in that CITY A complete war against the ab>o-
lutism had been declared, and irregular crusade
organized against the oPpressors OF the liberty
aad independence of Italy. All the troops had
marched towards the frontier, as well asnumer-
OPS deiacbments of volunteers. A subscrip
ton had been entered into for the equipment
Of the latter. They were offered ID bayoquesI
DAY as pay. but they refused, saving they only
waited bread. The Pope sent 10000 francs to
Il : funds all the religious orders the nobility,
Tie merchants, and the cardinals also subscrib-
eG. The peopleassemhIedin the public squares