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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . TUB VERGEIKCB OF THB BOURGEOISIE . A fourth departure of insurgents , 410 in nambsr left Paris on Mondiy night week for Havre . They were to ha * e left on Friday night , but tbe prceautiea required to prevent the possibility of any disturbance in consequence of the discussion on the report of the committee on the enqutte , having necessitated the presence of the troops in various points , the departure was postponed . On Monday nisht . all the meagures being taken , about ten o ' clock 300 insurgents were removed Irom the Fort de 1 'E-t , bound together three by three , and were directed towards Ataieres . They appeared greatly exasperated , bot not to the
game extent as the men of the preceding departure . They arrived at Asniares afceut half-past eleven , and being at once placed in the railway carriages under a proper guard , were carried away by the train . The other portion of the insurgents arrived ia about an hour after , from various points , aEd were carried away by a train which left at half-pait one . The JotmsAL dd Havbk . of Tuesday , says : — ' A new detachment of 410 insurgents arrived this morning at Havre by two railway trains . They were immediately transferred , under the escort of the National Guard , on boa d tbe Dirien . One of tbe prisoners
appeared to feel great grief , and his face was bathed intears . ^ When he was about to be embirked , he , being relieved for a moment from the b » nds which bad bound him to his two companions in misfortune , endeavoured to throw himself into the- basin , but a Gendarme and a National Guard were fortunately able to prevent tbe attempt . The departure of tbe Darien is not yet fixed . A new detachment of 200 insurgents is expected to-morrow . ' Another convoy of insurgents was senton Saturday night to Havre . The Mosiibcr , of Monday , cbritaina another long , long list of poor insurgents ^ rfco were smuggled away in the dead of Sunday night .
thb cosanroTics . In the National Assembly , on the 29 th nit ., M . Voibhate ascended the tribune , and read tbe amended draught of the Constitution . The first eight articles constitute a sort of-preamble to the whole ; they declare that Fiance has constituted herself as a Republic , with a view to advanre always to a higher degree of morality and civilisation ; the Republic is one and undivisible ; acknowledges the existence of , and declares that obedience is dne to laws duly voted ; it recognises the respect doe to the church , tofaciily ties , and property ; rejects all -views of conquest , and undertakes no war unless for legitimate defence , or to obtain satisfaction for injuries done ; declares that every citizm ought to bs
actuated by love for hij country and by love for hie fellows— -ought to procure for himself the means of existence by foresight and labour . The Republic owes to all instruction suited to their station , and owes assistance to such as . may require it —[ i wiU be remarked that the right of labour « not guaranteed in tktpraentdraft ]—The gwater number ot the articles—roe hundred and twenty in all—are the same as those ia the original , draft ; but still there are some changes , most of which have been already made known according as tbe bureaux and committee decided on them . Thus there are to be only 750 representatives in the National Assembly ; one half , plus one , must vote . to pass a bill . The President , who is to be elected by ballot and universal suffrage , is to present an annual message , giving an account of the situation of the Republic ; his period for remaining in office is to be four years ; and after his time of serving has concluded , he cannot be again elected
before four years bare elapsed ; he is to have a residence provided for him at the expense of tbe Stste . and his salary is to be 600 . 000 ? . IA laud burst of exclannticms took place here , but it was impossible to say whether it was at the sum being too large or too small ] . No foreign forces are to bs introduced into the territory of the Republic without the permission of the National Assembly ; substitutes in the army are interdicted [ this provision , which was found in the former draft , was received with loud marks oi disapprobation ] . Tha new draft enters at great length into tha mode of distributing justice , descending even t ) very minute particulars ; the press is declared tree , and a censorship cannot under any pretext be permitted . Immediately afttr the vote of the Constitution , the ejection of a President is to be proceeded to , without any delay being permitted to take place . And then again , without delay , the Assembly is to proceed to the discussion of the orgacic laws required to complete tho Constitution .
PHtGBBSS OF XHS C JUJtTER-RETOLCTIOJf . On Wednesday the project of decree for the re-establishment of the duty on meat at the sates of Paris was adopted after some discussion . The As semby next pracarded to discuss a proposition of M . Wolowjki , tending to abrogate the decree of tbe 2 nd cf Marc ' s last , which had fixed the duration of labour at ten boars ptrday . M . Perub Leeoux re » d a long address , expressive of his admiration of the decree in question . He declared ' . hat he should oppose the bill now brought forward , as putting an end to a boon loudly called f < r by the vicious organisation ^ f the present social condition of the people . _ lathe course of his address , be referred to the services of Louis Blanc , who , be said , had been driven f «> m tha Anembly by a coup de majorite . { . Loud disapprobation ) The honourable member was going on , declaring that Louis Blano had bean the victim of his enemies , when
Tte FREsmjiKr calif d him to ortfeTjd ' . c ' aringthat he could nos permit tbe honourable representative to state , without contradiction , tbat any act of the Assembly was the effect of a coup de majorite . ( Hear , hear ) M- Pis & bs LcEBOcs still continued his eulogiusa of Louis Blanc , declaring that that eminent citizen then shone by his ab-ence from the tribune . ( Oh ! oh ¦) Tnen , alluding to the condition of the working classes , he maintained that they were ill-treated in France , iu Eaghnd , and in Belgium ; that the neglect eviic ; d re ' atire to them sometimes amounted tobraiaiitj . snd thatevf-n massacres had been perpetrated against- them . He then argued that to work more thau ten hours per day was most deleterious
to health , and ought not to to permitted . He then branched eut into an inquiry as to the position of the working classes —( cries of' question , question , ' marks of impatience )—and he came to the conclusion that sufficient time was not accorded , by the present state of things , to the working c ' at ? es , for their moral and intellectual improvement . The Provisional Government bad , he said , promised a number cf measure ? for the amelioration of tbe position of the working population . The present was one of them ; and yet here was the present severament consenting to have the short hours accorded ta them now reveked , and the old system of servitude re-established . It was by association only , he sa d , that the immortal motto of their fo . e'athere—liberty , equality , and
fraternitycould be reali ? ed . The Stete was cow the protector of all social order , whioh was threatened to be changed by the individual cffoita of each cf its members . Tbe State should act tbe part of an intelligent gendarme . ( General laughur . ) The decree which had been the eubjtct of opposition ccnld defend itself : the laws ought to prevent any attack agaiist the dignity of a man as agaksi his existence . The State was instituted to interdict b < rnicide , and what people could tolerate such a crime ? A nation was so much the mora civilised and the more enlightened as it established degrees and distircions of homicide . ( On ! oh 2 ) The opponents of tbe decree attacked , asked what homicide could be found in the proposed measure ? To that question ths honourable deputy
replied bj drawing a vivid picture of all the misfertuses which had b ? en caused during the last fifty years by the frightful massacre of what waa called industry—[ laughter]—and then proceeded to point oat tbe excessive misery asd corruption of the work Ligclssses . ( A voice : Tbatk calumny ); corruption and misery , which ware , be said , the result of the excess of labour . The homicide being , he said , proved , where , be w . u ' . d ask , were the delinquents ? They vt ere to be found everywhere where there were men who encouraged this species of homicide , caused by the excess ef labour . Tbe honourable gentleman proceeded to further develops tbat idea , his ar gumei . ts being repeated'y met with loud murmurs by the Assembly . Alter treating tbe question in a
political and philosophical poist of view , he declared his inteoiiou of next CDHs'dering it in an economical one . but , before doing so , belted to be allowed to rest for a few minute ? . On again ramming , he went back to the slate of tocse ? y t'eder the Romas empire , and came gradually up to the present time , and reproduced tii theory of net revenue . ( Murmurs ) D > made quotations from the w ritings of modern economists— Ricardo , Aialthus , Necker , and C . Dapinand pointed out the very low average wages of the workmen in France , and tie expense of their living . He afterwards passed on to the definition of property , aad thence to tbat of capital , which he designated ss tha abess of property . The interest which the capitalists drew from his rreney was that which was thf
mo ? t revclrine to every notion of morality and e » f equity . ( Loud murmurs . ) Christianity was , he said , on this roinr , ia accordance with the old laws of France , which apnlied the penalty of death for usury . He nuintaked that , if the existing la * B peruiiiitu £ u interest to te derived frrm money , it wasa feiuipleccnceiBion made by the State ; but it was that unfortunate concession « hirb was the cause of all the fufi-. iirjga under which the people laboured . ^ The honourable deputy fcaviig now arrived at his last sheet , it was the signal of a bur-t of satisfaction from the Assembly ; but when , on bis concluding it , he drew from beneath tbe tribune another macusc / ipt , rin . re votamiscus tbau tee first , that satisfsctiro was changed into a general murmur of impatience .
Tie fEHiiDEST announced that the honourable deputy , feeling fatigued , bad demanded that the remainder of his speech should be deferred till tbe following day . Tne observation of the President was received with a feenerai exclamation of \ A o , no , ' and the Chanibir beinj consulted , decided that the speech should be ttrminatcd before the Assembly rose . The speaker attempted to proceed fcutfailediodo so fromexhaustion , and the Assembly persevering in
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refusing ti adjourn the discussion , he was compelled to withdraw .. A . M . Dorm then spoke against lha Ten Hours derree . The debate was then adjourned . On Thursday Baron O . Dcpin spoke at great length iu opposition to Pierre Leroux . His speech consisted of the usual string ef fallacies and falsa , hoods so often delivered by the rascally political economists of England . M . Skhahd , Minister of the Interior , said that M . Alcan had brought forward an amendment which he had previously submitted to the government , to limit
working hours to twelve hours a day as a maximum . Out of fifty-sight prefects consulted , fifty-two had sent replies that twelve hours would perfectly suit tha ease . In cons quenee , the government would acquiesce in the amendment alluded to . M . Leon Fauchkb ( a friend of Cobden ' s , ) expressed bis smprise to see the Minister of the Interior fallowing in the steps of M . P . Leroux . ( Great noise . ) Yes , he repeated it , in the steps of that honourable gentleman : for if M . P . Leroux supported a ' system of restriction in favour of the classes , M . Senard did the same , though in a less degree . ( Agitation )
M . Gauboh entered into a defence of tha doctrines of M . Lsuis Blano . The debate was brought to a close at the Bitting on Thursday . M . Pascal Dot-hat , the reporter , having summed up the arguments brought forward en both sides during the discussion , concluded by declaring tbat though be fully maintained the conclusions of his report he should propose to send back to the Committee en Labour whatever amendments had been proposed , iq order tbat the committee might examine theai maturely and make them the object of a new jr ^ p . irt . ^' The PassiBSKi read the several amendments , and uey we-e all referred as proposed .
On Friday the Assembly discussed the project of decree for the re-cstablishraeat of arrest for debt abolished by a decree of the ex-Provisional government on tbe 9 th of March last . M . Wolowski combated the measure , as opposed to morality and the interest of trade itself . M . Cremieox demanded the maintenance of tbe decree of the late government . M . Senard , the Minister of the Interior , supported the project of its revisal , contending that the maintehar . ee of imprisonment for debt was indispensable in commercial matters , although it might in other respects be abolished . In conclusion , he proposed that the Assembly should admit the principle , reject the abrogation of the decree of the 0 : h of March , and refer for examination to the Committee of Legislation the numerous amendments to the decree . A division having been called for , the abrogation of the decree of tbe 9 th of March , 1848 . was decreed by a majority of 456 to 237 votes . The Assemb ' y then adjourned .
The discussion oi the Constitution was continued on Tuesday . Amongst the speakers waa Pierre Leronx . who at the close of a long speech , said he njected the constitution because it contained no principle , no trntbs , capable of disarming parties , and because it maintained monarchy under the name of a presidency . M . Leroux suggested that the constitution should be radically amended in its essential pre crptions . lest it shonld experience the fate or preceding constitutions , and like them remaia a sheet of watte paper .
THE SIAT 2 OF SIEGE . M . LoiebUnhareer had proposed to have the state of siege ti ' cen off before discussion r < n the constitution ; the committee on legislation recommended to put the proposition aside . On Saturday this question was discussed , when Ledru Rollin delivered an excellent speech . General Cavaignac replied , and defended the state of siege as necessary . On a oivision , M- Lsichtenber ^ er ' s proposition was rejected by 529 votes against 140 .
HIMTABY REVIEW . Paws , Sunday Evening — The review of troops and'National Guards in the Champ de Mars is the event of tbe day . The number of troops appeared extraordinary . It is sa'd that there were from 70 000 to 80 . 000 soldiers on the ground . The weatber was magnificent . There was no manifestation of enthusiasm , or of any particular fcoling one way or the other , . The Daily Nsws of Wednesday cantained the following : —
Mjsdat . 6 30 p ic . — Considerable agitation has prevailed to-day in the government , in consequence of a proceeding ' oa the part of the National Guard yesterday , wlvch , it is now understood , was intended as a protestation , by a large majority of that body , against the bead of the government . Although the National Guard was invited to attend the review in great force , it was found that not more than 300 mm mustered for each battalion , in one battalion the number was under 250 . This rebake , proceeding from -nob a body , has bsea keenly felt , and has given serious uneasiness to the head of the government . It is generally understood that several causes of dissatisfaction have led to this species of negative demonstration ; the first and principal is the offensive ex pressions used by General Cavaignac against the
legitimist party , and particularly against some legions of the National Guard , which he affirmed were conspiring against the government . The second cause was that the government abstained from contradicting a report , which was generally circulated , of the arrest of two high military fnnctionaries , understood to be Gan . Lamoriciere , Minister of War , and Gen . Chargarnier , Commasder of the National Gusrd . The third cause assigned , was the dissatis faction produced by the distribution of the crosses of the LveioB of Honour among the legions of the National Guard . To whatever extent any or all of these causes may have taen operative , it is oartain that no'hiag so serious has occurred to disturb the serenity of the executive power since the insurrection has been suppressed .
THB WAS AGAINST THE PHS 3 S . Paeis , M-nday . —The Pbesse this morning continues its silence , but , in the front of the paper . in gigantio type , such as Grandgousier would have selected to teach Gargartua his alphabet , the Pbesse eives an extract from one of Armand Marrast ' s articles in the National , written in 1831 . The present President of the National Assembly sa d then , ' Shame on the craven writer who abandons his duly because he cannot perform it without danger . ' Signed 'Armand Marrast . ' And another extract follows from one of Armand Carrel ' s article ? , ' Such a regime shall never be called , with our consent , tie liberty of the press—Armand Carrel . ' Tbeeditorsof the Rspobhe and the Pbo tls Conbtruant have been summosed to appear before the Court of Assizes of the Seine on tbe 12 th inst .
M . Col f avrn , editor of the Perb Dochisse , was among the insurgents sentenced to transportation who were conveyed from Paris to Havre on Saturday night . < -.....,. The indomitable Pboudhoh has brought out a new journal entitled the Peotl * ; on Monday it was seized at all the news venders . A body of police went along the boulevards to tbe Palais Royal , everywhere , in fact , where newspapers are sold , and took possession of every number . At the ssms time tbey seized on the Bovchb o' Acibh , which has replaced the Boeche sk Feb , the successor of the Lampios .
LZGrmnsr demonstration . There have been Jezitimist movemen ' s at Montpellier asd Aries , which , however , were soon put down . niSCCSSI- 'B OF THE CON STITUTION—ORGANIC LAWS . On Msnday tbe Assembly decided , by 586 to 154 , tbat it would not separate until ft bad voted the organic laws . The general discussion en the Constitution , properly so called , then commenced , and was far from presenting anything of interest . The arguments brought forward on several of the principal points , such as the utility ofone or two chambers , tbe election of the President by universal suffrage , & o ., were mere repetitiosa of what haa been already aiid in the discussions before the committee and in the bureaux .
BELGIUM . PlLITICALOFFZHDgRS—OWOEMNATIONS TO DEATH . 'fnirty-two persons have been brought to trial , before the Court of Assizes at Antwerp , on the charge of having been concerned in the invasion of Belgium by bands from Franca and having taken part in the combat at Risquons Tout . The trial _ occopied not fewer than eighteen sittings , and has just terminated in the acquittal of fifteen of the accused , and the condemnation to death of the seventeen others . The names 61 the prisoners condemned to death are—Spilthoorn , Dalestree , Perin , Mellinet , Mathieu , Derudder , Ballin , Tedesoo , Camel Guelton , Jjuannim , Catenae , Beaten , Nonkel , Coopmans , Bourgeois , and Declorcy . Dalestree and some of the others , on b * aring the sentence passed , cried , Vice la Republique ' ITALY .
THE CALL OF VESICB . The Politics ! Circle of Venice issued a proclamation to the Italians on the 19 th ult :- * The Italy of the 22 id March , ' it say ? , * is on the brink of the abyss , bnt is not yet lost . A nation cf twenty-four millions of souls cannot psrish uslers it be by its own fault . Forward then ! Lst every man join the standard of independence , and rally round the heart of the peninsula , round Venice , the vigilant guardian of Italian honour , en irapregrable citadel , against which the ra ^ eof the barbarians shall prove unavailable . Tuscans ! the citizsns of Curtalone and Montanara call for the Wood of the enemy , and not for womanly tears . Neapolitans ! follow the exsmple of ycur brethren , whem King Ferdinand has proclaimed rcbils . People of the Peninsula , rise like oaemaul '
DISSOLUTION OF TBE ITALIAH FORCES . ThoTiciKO Gazsttb of the 28 ' . h ult . announces tbat the column ol General Garibaldi , after having hid several encounters wi'h the enemy , and being ndaced to aetata of complete destitution , bad dieolved itee ' . f acd retired into Ticino . Garibaldi arrived at A ^ sa by the lake . Another Italian chief . Colonel Apice , had entered the canton of Grnons .
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TnscAsr .-O-ving to popular disturbances , h & i horn has been declared in a ttage of siege . _ t . » arus ! . Iu the Chamber of Deputies of Reme , on tuu 24 th . nit ., the Minister of War , in reply to a press . ing interpellation of M . Herboni , declared that the safety' of the country depended upon a universal rising of the populatiaa of Italy . There waa nothing to hope from nogooiationa . The people should armand rush to the field of battle , and extermiaate the barbarous oppressor of Italy .
GERMANY . Berlin ia in a very disturbed state . In addition to upwards «{ sixty-five persons already arrested for joining in the outrages of the 21 st , several popular leaders were captnred on the 28 th ult . Among thes * are Dowiat , Ottensoser , May , who proposed the oath at tha Tents , and who is a fiterat or writer , and formerly president of the Breslau Provisional Government ; Muller , president of the' Sovereign Linden Club ; Edgar Bauer , also a literal ' , KarBa , an old man with silver grey hair , whose speeches ate always intermingled with biblical phrases ; and a man named Katbesio . It is said that the passing of the * Meetings Bill' will be the signal for another struggle .
ARREST OF FREILI 0 RATH . Ferdinand Freiligrath , the celebrated German poet , has been arrested at Dusseldorf for a poem , entitled'The Dead to the Living ; ' said to be of a most revolutionary character . ARMISTICE SIGNED BETWEEN DENMARK AND GERMANY . Hamborqh , Ate . 29 . —At last the armistice be tween Denmark and Germany has been signed . On Saturday , the 26 th , the signatures of the Envoys were affixed to it . The duration of this cessation of arms is fixed for seven months , and in the interim we may hope that a peace will be arranged according to the just claims of the belligerents .
HUNGARY . Letters from Prsth of the 25 th ult ., in the Brkslatjbr Zeitukq , bear witness to the sad condition of the Hungarian affairs at Pesth and on the scene of war . Treason , anarchy , and cowardice seem to be tho order of the day among the Hungarian troops . They were twice beaten near Lagerdorf by a body of insurgents of nearly half their number ; and fled in a parcxysm of fright and anarchy . The commander of a Hungarian force in the vicinity refused to protect or to rally the fugitives . The insurgents have likewise driven the Hungarian troops from the town of Weisskirchen , but the latter , being reinforced by some regiments , returned and reconquered the' town , ail the Rmish inhabitants of which were butchered by the Hungarians . In spite of all these cruelties , the insurgents have obtained signal advantsges , and are daily gaining ground .
THE WAR IN THE CAUCASUS . BDSSIAN BBVKR 8 R 8 . The Paris correspondent of the Tiues says— ' I have been informed , on what I consider the best authority , that the Russian army in tbe Cauoasu ? , commanded by Count Woronzow , has been literally cut to pieces by the Chieftain Sohamyl . Tbisia not the only disaster of the Russian army . It it alto said , that of 14 , 000 men who forced the Russian corps whioh entered Walachia , 1 , 800 have died cf cholera .
POLAND . ADDRESS OF THE ^ POLISH EMIGRATION . [ The Central Committee of the Polish Democratic Society , in France , having learned the decision of the German Assembly at Frankfort-on-the-Maine , in consequence of which decision the Grand Duchy . « f Posen is to be partitioaed . baa issued the following a 44 vem *» tbo Qonmn People . ] Peopla of Crmaoy I « Justfce / or Poland / ' was the cry which resounded from your bsrrlcades ; and , behoW , your representatives pronounce the sentence of another partition of this vast country ! Will you suffer lt « No !
For you would shrink frem becoming an executioner more cruel than tho old hangmen of Poland ; from cutting Into pieces what that mbter-congress of Tienna sparedeven though to be tha vlctiaa of their rapacity and ambltion—thatiu so doing you might appropriate a part to yourselves , end throw tbe other part for prey to tho greedy Muscovite ! Is it because your colonists have settled themselves on tha Polish toil , protected by the hospitality of its indigenous Inhabitants , whom they afterwards repulsed , and took possession of » part of their territory ; is it became Garmsn legions came to oppress the Poles with a foreign yoke : because German jsurneymei flicked togethsr from rtmoie countries to erect fortresses against the Poluh patriots ; is it because thousands of the bailiffs of
an odious government , with their families , fell upon the fii'da delivered to their rapacity , and satiated themselves with tbe 616 od and the labour of the native raco ; is it because tbey , themselves counting tbe votes which were to decide upon the maiatenaneeof their injustice , falalfi . d their amount , compelled people to vote according to their purpose , violating thus their consciences ; is it on account of such deeds that a provincs , acknowledged as Polish , that is to say , constituting an integral part of a vast empire basely torn to pieces , and wlilob , accerdiog to your own acknowledgment , baa an In disputable right of reconstructing ics Independence !—Is it on that account tbati ; is no longer to belong to Poland ? And if , In virtu ? of your premises ' , Poland were to rise to-morrow , must she include you among ber plunderers and amongst her most implacable enemies ?
Would jou , People of Germany , prefer to be our enemy —prefer to bs confederated with our tyrants ? Would you through tbe mouths of your unfaithful deputies , sanctify aad take upon yoarselves the responsibility of deeds which the whole of liberal Europe , which your own historians , ' your learned men , your heroes of the barrlcades of Tienna aad Berlin , have owned as the greatest crime of modern diplomacy ! Would you consent that tbe guilt of the blood shed on the fie'ds of Ktionj , Miloslav , and Vrjethnia , scarcely yet conzealed , should , in consequence of tbat latt and most hUeom partition ef Polaod , fall upon the heads of your sans , jour wives , and yonrchildi" n ? It was not this that the real interpreters of the People's will promised us when , penetrated by tho spirit of reve ' ution , tbey assembled and first pronouaced on the new mount Tabor those words of peace , of juitice , of brotherhood , and of progress , with which regenerated Germany sainted tha now youth of tbe world !
Honour and gratitude to them ; Honour also ba to those among your sons , who , at tbe next assembly , an assembly sullied by a too close partnership with tbe royal 4 eputUs , knew how to remain pure of stain , and who by tbelr vote * , by their speeches , and by tbe still mors eloquent factoftoe ' . r withdrawal from the debatas , prot » ttea igilnit tbe ignominy which the majority intended to stamp upon the forehead of the German nation . Honour bs to you too , if , true to your past principles , youlose . no time in repulsing by your universal condemnation tbis shameful abuse of yonr confidence . But if , forgetful of year promises , you allow your contcienca to s l eep , and by an ignominious sileuca—for such it doubtless would be—sanction this injustice , then you shall see what the chastlser of crimes committed , whether by kings or Peoples what the God of nations prepares for a bastardised race , for a nation unfaithful to tbe mission which providence had confided to her .
Already lias tho avenger made his appearance , cabling to the millions of Slavonian ] awakened amidst you by tbe appeal for independence . If Poland were alive , sbe would have remained de ? f to his call ; she would have exposed her breast to the blows destined for you ; she would have turned her brethren of German Slavoniafrom the walls of Vienna and Berlin , and would have led them under lhe flag of mutual freedom against the Czarlnn despotism , end thus the would have served as a link of that fraternal chain whioh sought to ' nnlte the East with
the West of Europe in a common progress . You helped tbe Czar to crush her , and you now , yon Peoples of Germany , divided amongst yourselves , are given up to rcac . tiooary intrigues of kings , your enemies , surrounded by populations amongs' whom the agents ef Nicholas find easy admission , Resistance , and help , and thus , exposed to his blows , obliged to choose between tbe incendiarism of those barbarian hordes , and the relapse into the old despotism , which after all is nothing but a passive sub . mission to the Czar's commands , either given by princes who are his vassals , or by ministers who ara bis paid
agents . Vainly has the aurora of the liberty of February warmed you with its rays . By order of the Cxir you st-flo amongst yoarselves its slightest breath ; you fetter the lisabs of your brothers , armed by its e « mple ; aad when another people , more fortunate ond mora intelllgent than yourselves , arites to reconquer ita rights and calls upon yon for assistance , you give chase to It as you would to a pirate , because its heart has palpitated for Polaod , and because its example might excite her , ; and thus , to Prance , who had tendered you her fraternal hand , exclaiming at the same time— ' £ on 0 Ute PoUmdl you hava already respanded by a new partition of Poland This cane of a whole people , thrown before the eyes of the messenger of peace and fraternity , was indeed a fair revenge for a royal head , which tbo French Repaolio once threw at the feet of tho fratricidal hordes of a Bruniwi ' k . Snob ia tho page of humiliation and shame . Now look
on tbat of fear and blood . To the war of empires will succeed that of races . From the forehead of the man disappeera the sacred mark of humanity , effaced by the hostile names * f the Teuton and Slavonian . Dj not look for the common right of all mankind ; do not speak about common progress , which carries us all towards ono end—social improvement . Fraternity , enclosed In narrow clrclrs of races , has been lessened ; a hurrah against foreigners has resounded in the camps of tribes gone wild . Zlska has arisen from bis grave , and armed , etsndlng with a fiery torchon tha bnrnfeg ruins of Prague , threatesn and Ti Do
Frankfort , Munich , Berlin , Ratlsbon , enna . not implore bis mercy , for he does not understand Ger . man ; but he has uuderatced the grasnings of tbo sister . country-Poland , and ho also has listened to the com . mauds of the Czw , tho Czsr , the fiend who tempts him . Of course , then , France will move , Italy seizes the sword , Poland rises . Will it bo for your sake , oh , people of Germany ? Danot blame them If they follow tbe instinct of their raoo . You have refused tha rl < bt which ought to have guided them ; all ths crimes , there , fore , of which Ksionj was aa example , and which your parUameutaryeommltBlons , diets , andassembUts had ,
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by tholr decreas ssnotioned beforehand , will fall upm your conscience . This is what we have to till you , whilst yet there U time . We neither menace nor protest ; to you remains the doty of protesting . P . 'laad has amply protested with her blood . Hecelre onr fraternal salut ? , FSANCIS Sz . iAJDB , Stinishs Woaoeix , Paris , Aug . 9 th , 1818 , AtBsar Daeasz .
THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . We have two arrivals from America . The Her raann , which sailed from New York on the 21 s !; , has arrived at Southampton ; and the Acadia , which left Boston on the 23 : d uit „ has arrived at Liverpool . The American papers are principally occupied with an account of a cona » gration in Albany , which destroyed one eighth part of the oity-viz , 600 houses and othnr property , wo thia the aggregate at less ! 3 . 000 , 000 dols . Several lives were lost , and numbers of families are ruined and houseless , We have given details of this dreadful fire in another column . . A collision between two trains of oars occurred on the Long Island Railroad a few days since , when two pe m on 8 were kN leH , > and several wonn . ' ed . The number of lives lost by the explosion of the steamer Edward Bates , near St Louis , is oa all hands stated to exceed fifty , most of whom were deck passengers . r
The intelligence received from Mex ' co advises us that tongresa had resumed its sitting in the capital £ rom New Orleans we learn that the revolution had been suppressed , the Indians disarmed , and all pri soners discharged upon pledging themselves to support the government . Paredts was still concealed , home of his partizms had been captured ; Another revolution had taken place at Mazatlan . lyiost of the Americans who remained in Mexico have gone to Yucatan , to aid in subduing the refractory Indians .
THE IRISH MBBIIKOS—IMMBN 8 B BX 0 IT 8 MBNT . The met tinss in connexion with the Irish move ment in . America were going on with more intensity than ever , and the most exaggerated reports were in circulation respecting the successes of the Irish . As a proof of this , the correspondent of the Tribuue has it that , at the affair of Slievenamon , ' the people bad a ereat victory . General Macdonald was killed , and 6 , 009 of the British troops were killed and wounded . Three miles nf the road were said to have been covered with dead . Kilkenny and Limerick were taken by the people . The citizens of Dublin went in thousands toassiat the patriots ! Dillon and Meagher were wounded , and it was expected that Dublin would rieeand attack the gaols on Sunday , August 6 th . ' Not only this , but the Tribute ' s
correspondent adds : — ' The 3 rd Buffs turned and fought with the people ; all the people on the railroad were cautioned and commanded not to toll tbe news , and tbe police drove away those who asked questions . ' It is no cause of wonder that , with such stirring intelligence , an additional impetus should have been given to the agitation . Large meetings have been held in Philadelphia , Boston , and New York . At one meeting , held in the last-named city , ' It is ^ possible , ' says the Niw York Hkbald , ' to describe the intense feelings oi hatred whioh each donor breathed against Errand , as he handed in his money . ' Mr Greeley , editor ef tbe Tribusb , is reported by the Hsrald to have said : — ' The humbler classes in particular are bound to contribute , aa this was a struggle carried on for the poor against the rich , not only in Ireland , but in Scotland , England , and everywhere . '
Mr O ; O'Connor read lists of sums received from different planes since the previous meeting , amounting to 4 , 02 ? dollars . Nearly 6 , 000 dollars were raised at the close of the meetiny . Mr E . Robinson described his tour with Mr Mitohel ' s brother through Western New York , together with their meetings at Buffalo , Oswego , Syracuse , Utica , Albany , Ganandaigua , dss ., and then east to Hartford , & o . The collections raised at all thoso meetings having been about 5 , 000 dollars . An immense meeting was held on Mondaj , August 21 st , in Vauxhall Gardens , New York . Lonn before the hour of meeting , which was tixed at eight o ' clock , the various streets leading to the place nf meeting were thronged with people , who were hastening to give expression to their feelings on the late events whioh have taken place in Ireland . On the motion of General Walbridge , Mr Bartholomew O'Connor was called to the chair .
The speeches , which take up more than three closely printed columns of tbe Tribune , may be con densed as follows : —The language was violent as language could be ; every word against England was received with uproarious cheering , as also anything relating to the proposed invasion of Canada . Mr O'Connor snnounood that the folhwing sums had been received : —Verplanok , 111 dols . 50 cents ; Mill River . Mass ., 26 dols . ; Banger , Me ., 320 dols . ; Hartford , Conn . 412 dols . ; aa American lady , from Providence , 5 dols . ; ( this amount was hailed witb
three cheer *)—Newbnrg , Y 6 dols .: Emm ^ t Club , New Orleans , 350 dols . ; Auburn , N . Y ., 255 dols . ; Rochester , 767 dols . 12 cents ; Hallidaysburgh , 250 dols . ; Charleston , S . C ., 1 , 400 dols . ; the iPortugueHb clergymen at St Mary ' s Church , N . Y ., 10 dols . Each of these announcements , particularly that from Charleston , was rapturously applauded ; and secretaries immediately afterwards received the sub ' ecriptions of tbe meeting , whioh were handed up with tbe same liberality and enthusiasm as at the former meetings .
At this stage of tbe meeting , William H . Mitchel , brother of John Mitchel , appeared , when the deafening shouts of the people rang through the spacious hall , and thousands of voices called for ' Mitchel ! Mitchel 1 ' He said—* My friends , we have two very important accounts since the sailing of the last steamer . We are told by tbe English papers that the revolution had been subdued by a few police , while there is a censorship exercised over the Irish press . Wo ate told that Smith O'Brien has Hid ; but that ia a lie , from the fact that he is represented to have fled in three different directions . By the news of the hat steamer it waa stated that Meagher , Riley , and others , had fled , and tbe police were after them , for the reward which had been offered for their arrest . But that is not so , for they were organising clubs .
That a man could lie in ambush for twenty-four hours is impossible , if there was nothing moro to be done than to find him . We are told that 40 . 000 9 Kn had been sent to Ireland to suppress the insurrection ; but if the people could be subdued by Inspector Trant , it was a useless proceeding . Nothing is said by the English papers about the whereabouts of Dillon and Meagher . With regard to the letter received lest , I can tell you it was not written with a view to deceive , for the young man who wrote that letter would not- be guilty of such a thing , though , in the excitement , while the reports were coming Sato Dublin , it might be less tban there stated . Ihopenoene will discredit that matter , for it was truth ; while the statements in the English papers are a tissue of falsehoods . ' Mr M . took hie seat amid the vociferous shouts of the assembled multitude .
Mr Milen then appeared , and presented 100 dollars from the Mitchel Club . The Irish Felen Club here entered with drum and fife , bearing a banner with the following inscription : —
IRISH FELON CLTJB 9 . 'Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye sot , Wh $ wonld bo free , themaelvf s must strike the blow !' and presented 200 dollars . A contribution of 100 dollars from the Tailora ' ( Mitcheft Association . 7 , 000 dollars were collected before the meeting separated .
EXCITEMENT IN COMUBBOUL CIRCLES . New York , Aug 20 ,-Six p . u —The past week has been one ot considerable excitement in political circles , and it has not been without its effect upon financial affairs . A few days previous to the arrival of the steamer , the public mind became very muoh excited iu rotation to the anticipated revolution in Ireland , and business operations were , in a great measure , suspended . Quotations for stocks of all kinds receded , and there was a very general disposition exhibited to wait the receipt of further intelligence from the other side . At an early hour yesterday the steamer was telegraphed , and immediately after the receipt of papers , an Extra Hkrald spread the news into every aeotien of the city . 1 ' olitioally , the
accounts were considered by a portion of our population rather unfavourable , and many were evidently disappointed . It waa expeoted that the revolution in Ireland would have been in successful progress at the departure of the Cambria ; instead of which a small fight with a few constables was all that had taken place up to that time . It is impossible to tell th « actual state of things in Ireland at the last dates , as our sources ef information are principally English , and , of course , much prejudiced . It would appear , by those accounts , that the revolution was geing backwards ; that the prospect of a general rising of the people was becoming less every day , and that tb * arrest of the leaders would put an end to the whole movement ; but such is not our opinion , as we can '; not believe that such an exteaded / such an
important , and , so far as we can judge , on the part of the masses such a determined movement can be crushd ao easily . Whatever may ta the intention of the leaders , the people are honest , and if properly led , wil } obtain redress for the many wrongs heaped upon them . There isevTdently some controlling influence at work upon the masses ; whether for t , ood or for evil remains to . be seen . That infltieuce was exerted successfully at Ballingarry , and we nave no aoubt , at many other places . It may be that it is not considered time yet for the general rally , and the people have been prevailed upon ' , by tbbso in whom they have confidence , to wait patiently the appointed period ; but tbey are losing the moist favourable moment , and giving the government time to prepare for the worst . We shall not be kept in suspense muoh longer .
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And This — ' They , who seek nothing butlh ^ ir own just liberty , have always a right to win it , and to keep it , wherever they have the power , be tbe voices never bo numerous tbat oppose them . ' —Milton
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ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . Another very severe accident , resulting in severe injury to several persons and in an immense destruction of property , took place at an early hour on Tuesday morning pear the Leighton Buzzard station on this line of railway . The circumstances may be briefly described aa r IT ^ i -. Leigh . Bta 5 i ° a is distant from London 40 * miles ; within about five hundred yards north of the station , the Linslade tunnel , a quarter of 1 Jt , n t ^ : ? enter ? » and about three hundred yards north of this tunnel is the Linslade ballast pit , whence a large portion of tho gravel usedin keeping up the southern division of the line is obtained . Shortly after two o ' clock on Tuesday morning atrain of ballast carriages , belonging to Mr Madiganthe
, contractor for the permanent way , left Wolverton , and proceeded up tio line as far as Leighton station . Having taken water here , the driver , Martin Colo , crossed from the up to the down line , and returned through the tuncel to the ballast pit for the purpose of taking in a load of gravel for conveyance to Berkhampstead . There are two sidings running into this pit , and in consequence of neither one of them being sufficiently , long to contain the whole train , Colo detached some portions of the waggons , and placed them in the siding , and then returned for the ether portion of the train , left meantime upon the main down line . He had just got back on to the main lino , and was about to couple his engine to the remaining waggons , when the 12 30 a . m . lugeane train .
from Camden-station , came through the Linsdaie tunnel at a great speed , and the next instant ran into his train of empty waggons , crushing the break van into a thousand pieces , and strewing the waggons about tbe line in every direction , The engine and tender oi the gaods train were thrown off the rails and driven nearly on to the up line , while several of the goods ' waggons were entirely destroyed , and their contents strewed about the railway . At the same moment , scarcely allowingtime for those few parties present to recover themselves from the shock occasioned by the accident , the York mail came up at its usual speed , and no signal of the obstruction being displayed , the driver , Daniel Rosa , ran headlong into the debris occasioned by the previona collision . The
effect ot this second collision was to throw the engine and tender of the mail train completely across the down line , and crush , more or less , several of the succeeding carriages . The escape' of the driver and stoker was perfectly miraculous . The former was , however , severely injured , and is now lying at Leighton , but the stoker appears to have been thrown by the force of the concussion completely over the ruins of the broken carriages and waggons—described by an eye witness to have been between twenty and thirty feet high—on to the embankment on ths down line , where he alighted comparatively unhurt . The first carriage behind the tender in the York train was a Midland Company ' s break or parcel van ; whioh consists of a compartment at either end for theconvsv * aace of luggage , and a small box in the centre in which tbo guard sits . This break , as Well aa the parcels
van succeeding it , was crushed to pieces , and Tucker , the ^ under guard , remained buried in the ruitos of tue former fer more than two hours in spite of every effort made to extricate him . His head and chest were fortunately at liberty , and therefore , although suffering great pain , his strength was kept up by administering stimulants until his extrication was at length aoooaplished , The first compartment of the second claas carriage which followed the parcels van was entirely destroyed , A man and woman , with two children , who were riding in it , were miraculously preserved . The passengers on the train of course all suffsred more or less , but no injuries beyond a few blight cuts and bruises appear to have been sustained by any of them ; a faot whioh , when all the circumstances ot the accident are taken into consideration , may be fairly considered miraculous .
Fears are entertained that Ross , the driver of the York train , has suffered some internal injury , Tucker , the under guard , is better than could have been expected , considering the awful position in which he was so long placed . A valuable pointer dog , belonging to a gentleman in the train , which waa under Tucker ' s care in the break , had its hind leg completely out off by the collision . Among tbe ruins of the luggage there was discovered , shortly after the accident , a barrel of gunpowder , thejjtop of the cask having given way and dsaolosed its dangerous contents It was described by the direction as full of butter . The company have a olue to the party by whom it wag sent , and it is to be hoped they will visit him with tho severest penalty the law allows . The bare contemplation of what might have been the consequence of thia breach of tho law is dreadful .
Refusal of the Jwrt to find a Vekmct . —Yesterday the jury in this case reassembled at the Town-hall , Lancaster , when the foreman said they had considered the case , duly and truly over , and could not oonie to a decision . It rested with the coroner , therefore , to exercise his prerogative of ordering their discharge , or directing them to be locked up without meat or drink till they agreed , whioh thoy heped he would not think of doing , aa there was not the slightest probability of their coming to a verdict , however long they might be detained . The coroner said he was sorry he had no power to order their discharge . The j ury were then given in charge
to the bailiff of the court , with the uaual caution . After being incarcerated an hour and a half , they sent to say that they were as much divided in opinion as ever , and likely to remain so . They wore then bound over by the coroner , in tho sum of £ 10 each , to appear when called upon at the next assizes . In is said thit five vvere for returning a verdict of ' Accidental death , ' and seven for finding Morris , tbe driver of the express train , Guilty of manslaughter , ' on the ground chat he had not used sufficient onutiou in approaching the station where tho accident occurred . The decision , or rather no decision , of the jury has excited a general feeling of dissatisfaction .
Tbe report of Captain L ' affaa , the government inspector , as to the causes of the accident ( after a length y statement of the case ) , thus concludes : — 'By this collision one third-class passenger , a woman , was killed on the spot , and several persons were injured , some so severely that it is feared they may not recover . So many causes combined to produce this catastrophe that it is not easy to . determine to which to give precedence . I shonld eay that those causes were —1 . The lateness of the express train aod its starting so soon after the slow local train . 2 . The inefficiency of the signals on tha Jice . 3 The local train not keeping its time and taking no precaution when they knew they were late , and that the express waa behind them . 4 . The uncertainty as to who is the rightful possessor
of the line . 5 . The want of a proper understanding between the Lancaster and Carlisle , and the lessees of the Lancaster and Preston Railway . 6 . The rule which allows an express train , which often runs at fortyjive miles an hour , to pass a station only five minutes after a slow train . 7 . The want of sufficient station accommodation at Preston , causing all the trains to the north , to start late . I would , suggest that the two companies should come to a good understanding , and that every effort ahonld be made to determine tbe right ownership of this railway ; that the signals be immeiiately replaced by others of a better description ; that the express be not allowed topisitul ten minutes after the starting of a preceding train , and that means be taken to ensure , as far as possible , greater punctuality in the times of starting from tho'Preston station .
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Three Mbn and Four Women Drowned off the Donegal Coast . —A fatal accident ( says a correspondent , writing from the Cross-roads near Denfanaghy ) took place at Ballinass Pierhead , within a mile of this , on Tuesday week last . A number of poor starving creatures went to the strand for the purpose of searching the sand for a kind of fish called sand eels , with which to appease the pangs of ravenous hunger . A small channel lay between these creatures and the sand bank in which they expected to get the fish . One of the hands of a craft that lay at the Pierhead took the ship ' s boat to ferry them over . It was blowing a heavy gale at the time . The boat being small , wa not able to resist its violence . It sank , and the women so clung to the men that all in the boat with the exception of one little boy , perished , including the kind-hearted sailor who volunteered his boat to
carry these ill-fated victims within reach of food . All the bodies have not yet been found ; some of the women were the wives of poor men who had gone to England to labour at the harvest . — . Freeman ' s Journal . Dover . —Whirlwind .-One of these violent and mysterious movements of the atmosphere occurred at the top of the Castlehill here , . about eleven o ' clock , a . ra ., on Thursday last . Its appearance and effects were more immediately observed by some men who were stacking wheat on a farm in the neig hbourhood . It arose with a low whizzing sound ; though scarcely a breath of wind was stirring at the time . In appearance it resembled a white '
columnar-shaped cloud , and approached with a revolving motion , taking up , in its course , whatever moveable material came in its way . Straw ; and even stones and brick-bats , were whirled about by it in all directions ; and a hedge with which it came in contact was considerably disturbed . Fortunately the stacks and shocks escaped without injury . After continuing to sport about the hill for some ten minutes , the whirlwind traversed a clover field , passed over the South Foreland seaward , and like a narrow white cloud it rose hig h in tbe air and disappeared . Contemporaneously with this phenomenon , theie was observed near Deal , a water spout , and a tremendous shower of rain fell irame diately after . —Jfttefefone Gazette .
The Marriage and Reg istration ( Scotland ) Bill having been withdrawn ( or this session , Gretna marriages will therefore be legal for another year .
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SATURDAY , Aco . 2 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Thalr lordships met at twelve o ' clock . Copper and Lead Duties Bill . —Earl Obanvillb moved the second reading ef this bill . The Earl of Deaast opposed the measure , as being a pert of the policy which , having first attached ths agricultural interest , and the shipping interest , now assailed tho mining interest , without their having had that satisfactory and full experience of the results of that policy which wonld justify them iu extending the circle of its epora'ion , He also strongly condemned tho baoto with whioh the measure bad been pressed forward . The Msrqali of Lansdowne presumed that the noble lord was not preaent on tbe preceding day , when , it having betn a « b < d if it were intended to renew the op > position to tho bill , no answer was given , and tbat silence led to tho inference that farther opposition was waived .
The Earl of Falmooth thought tbat tbe hasty course taken by the government with respect to tho measure was sufficient to justify his noble friend in bis oppo > tiiion . Earl Gbet stated that tbo understanding last evening was , that the farther progress of the bill was not to be opposed , and after tnch an understanding it was not ft very dignified coarse to renew the opposition , As to the late period of its introduction into their lordships ' house , tbat arose from the Jeagthened opposition the measure bad met in tho lower bonso . Lord Winfobd had been no party to the understand * ing referred to by the noble carl . Eirl Gsanyilli confirmed tho statement of tho noble earl ( Earl Qrej ) relative to the understanding as to the dteonstion being taken on the former stage of tho bill , Tbe Earl of Dbbabt wonld have betn the last person , had ho been aware of the understanding , to violate it , Ho withdrew bis opposition to tbe bill .
The bill was then read a second time , and the com * mitteo having been negatived , the third reading was fixed for Monday . Cm or Lohdom Sewkss Bill . —The Duke of Lew . steb brought up the report of the select committee oil this bill . Tha house then adjourned to Monday , at half-past twelve o ' clock . MONDAY , SzmitBsa 4 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —The Royal Assent was given by commission to a great number of public and private bills . On the third reading of tha City of Louden Sewers Bill , The Earl of Radnob proposed a clause , limiting the operation cf the bill to two years . Atter a short diiooBtion the clause was negatived oa a division by a majority of five to four . The bill was then read a third time and passed .
- On the third reading of lhe 0 jpper and Lead Duties Bll , Ths Earl of Modhicabhbi . said ha should obstruct tbe bill by every means in his power , as a measure injurlQUB t 0 the natlnnftl inrln ; t r c S ^ glnhu anrl Ot Inlsn * . The Earl of Falmooth moved as an amendment tbat the bill be read a third time that day fix months . Their lordships divided , and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 35 to 11 , The bill was then read a third timo Bud passed , On the motion for the third reading of the Exchequer Bills Bill ,
Lord Mohtbaqle said , the bill gavo great powers to the Chancellor ef the Exchequer , whioh it behoved Parliament to watch with great jsalouiy . He could , at the will and pleasure of the government , throw either Ezohrquer Bills or Stock into the Money Market , whioh would be thus most diaadvantageoasly interfered with , The Marquis of Lanbdownk admitted the bill to be one of great importance , but he believed that , under existing circumstances , no one conld object to it . Thej bad betn compelled to adopt the present course by the great indisposition manifested , both within and with , ont the walls of Parliament , to submit to increased tax * . tion , The bill was then read a third time and passed . Toe Marq-ata of Lansdownb then informed their lord , ships that her Majesty would prorogue Parliament atone ( instead of two ) o ' clock , to-morrow .
HOUSE OF COMMONS .-Sir W . Clat moved , — That the evidence taken before the Cheltenham election committed be printed , and took that opportunity of de * fending the committee from the aspersions cast upon ,, it by Mr Craven Berkeley . In consequence of that speech he had placed himself in thehands ottrltn & s , but oa mature consideration , and rtfleoting that he had c . ea littiog as chairman of the committee in a judicial capacity , it was thought that he would not be justified ia taking notice of those aspersions otherwise than in that bouse , and in his character as a member of that house . He thought , however , that the bouse by some resolution should express its disapprobation oi the course taken by Mr Berkeley , or at all events , give the committee the consolation of believing that in the opinion of tho hous * they had conscientiously discharged tbe duties which had ) been confided to them .
Lord J . Hat said he had been consulted by the hon , baronet , and bad no hesitation in deciding that hU hen . friend would not be justified in seeking private redress for an indignity offered to him when in tho discharge of a public duty . Lord Paluebston believed the house wonld be of opi . nlon that the conduct of hit hon . friend required no explanation to prove that the attack made upon him by Mr Berkeley was wholly undeserved , The motion was then agreed to , la reply to a question from MrHBNLEr , Mr Wilson said he was unable to say whether the securities of Sir T . Turton , as Receiver of Intestate Estates in India wore in a condition to make good the sum of £ 10 , 008 , for which they were responsible , but h » rather believed that some of them were not . The sua for which tbey were liable , however , weald sot be snffident to cover the defalcations ef Sir T . Turton , As the law stood neither the government nor anybody else was liable for tha defaloatloss , and the claimants must ba left to their dfuretiou as to the course they would
pursue . Some routine business was then disponed of , and the house adjourned . HOUSE OF LORDS . — Tuesday , SbptembebS . —This having been the day fixed on for tho prorogation of par . liament by the Qaeen in person , great anxiety was manifested by the fortunate possessors ot orders from the Lord Chamberlain to obtain early admistlen to the splendid edifice in whioh the grand ceremonial was to be performed . In consequence of her Mejesty's intended de . parture , in the after part of the day , on her voyage to Scotland , the proceedings were appelated to take place an hour earlier than usual , and their lordships
accordingly assembled at twelve o clock , Lang before thai time , however , the galleries and seats in the body of the house were filled by a brilliant assemblage of ladies , whose beauty and elegance of attire , together with the gorgeous character of the building , presented a coup d ' asUof surpassing mogBificeaee , The day was remark , ably fine , and the splendid sunlight streaming through the painted glass lighted up the scene with additional grandeur . A . considerable number of the corps ehplo matique were present , and occupied seats reserved for them to the right of the throne , immediately above the benoa of bishops . There were also several other foreigners of distinction present , amongst whom we observed M . Outset .
Noeth Wales Railway . —Lord Monteaole moved that the messengers who had been directed to summon Mr W . Cnadwick , the Chairman , and Mr John Mariner , the Secretary of the North Wales Railway Company , to attend their Lordships , should be called to the bar . Tho messengers having been called to the bar , stated , in answer to questions frem the Lord Chakosllsb , Lord Castpbbll , the Earl of Minto , and Lord Monteaqli , that they had colled lost nig ht at the respective real . dencesofMr W . Chadwick and of Mr J . Mariner , and had been told that both gentlemen were out of town , and consequently tbey had been unable to make personal service ot the summonses .
Lord Monte * gib believed that as no personal service had been effected , it would not bo legal to order that these persons be taken into custody . He would therefore move that William Chadwick and John Mariner be ordered to attend at tho bar of their lordship ' s house on the first Monday after the commtuctment of the next session , and he Intended to follow that up by moving for the production of all documents and accounts relating to the affuire of the North Wales Railway Company . The motion hat tag been seconded by Lord Cawbiu was agreed te , At one o ' clock the park guns announced that her Usjesty bad left the palace , and a quarter of an hour after o flourish of trumpets and tbo re-booming of artillery told the anxious assembly that she had arrived at her Palaca of Westminster . Five minutes afterwards the Queen entered the house , preceded by heralds and offl .
cere of state , the Duke of Wellington bearing the sword , lj the Earl of Shaftesbury the cap of maintenance , and d the Marquis ef Lansdowne carrying the crown upon a a velvet cushion , Her Majesty was led by Prince Albert ,:, and attended by tho Duchess of Norfolk ( aotiog as mis-1-tress of the robes ) and a lady in waiting , by whom , with h the aaslsJance of pages , 'her long train of crimson velvet it was berne . She was attired in a dress of white brocade e satin , and-wore on her head a tiara of diamonds , Her r M * jv « ty having ascended the . throne , graciously bowed a to tbe bouse , and then seated herself , Sbe appeared to . O bo is txeellentheolth . Prince Albert , who was dratted d in a field-marshal ' s uniform , occupied tho chair ap . > . pointed for hie Royal Highness on the left , the chair for ir the young Prince of Wales , on the right of her Majesty ,. ? , remaining vacant . Several minutes elapsed whilst the ie Usher of the Black Rod summoned the Hv . uso of Con . i .
mons to attend . Oa the arrival of the Commons , the Spkakib , holding ig the Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill and the Bi- r . chequer Bills Bill in his bond , thus addressed her Ms > t » jesty : — ' Most Qraolous Sovereign , —Wo , your Majesty s faith h ml Cjmmons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in and Ireland , attend your Mojesty after a protracted and . id . laborious session with our last bills of supply . After a a meat patient and careful examination of the estimates ei which , by jour Majesty ' * commends , were laid before us , t we have made every practicable reduction Is the public llo
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09091848/page/7/
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