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The French Republic
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PiBI » , SufliaY . ^ Trje MoxiMoft of this morning publishes a long report from tbe Afinistsr of Finance * on the abolition of the duty on . salt , and a . decree to tha following effect : — Tha provisional government , eoasiaeriag that rftirens EEOuld contribute to the pnblie charges ia proportion to their fortune , and that the object of the republican form of government is to put that principle of justice and bu . inanity iu practice ; considering that it is especially im . portent to abolish tha imposts of consumption , which weigh upon the poor , and that of all imposts , that upsn salt is the most onerous and most iniquitous ; considering that the health of thepeople , the prosperity of agrfeuKura , the development of indnslry and trade , imperiously require the abolition of it , and wishing to repair to the people one ofthe most crying acts of injustice of past eges ; on the report of the Minister of the Finances ,
decrees-Art . 1 . From the 1 st of January , 1819 , the duty upon salt is abolished , & c „ & c „ & c . Another decree declares that the woods and for * ests belonging to the piivate domain of the ex-King Louts Philippe shall ba managed and administered by the ad- ministration of the forestsof the state . WOBEUES ' S DDHATIOXS . A few days ago a deputation ef the journeymen bakers proceeded to the Hotel de Ville- to present a sum of 6 , 53 it . which thej had collected amongst tflfimsewei . A Considerable number of women and yonng girls accompanied thentas well as a child of
, about seven years of age , dressed aa the Goddess oi Liberty . After an appropriate address had been read , M . ragnerre returned to the deputation thanks for their patriotic gift , and alluding to the young persons present , observed that thelesson whieh tney that day received wonld no doubt ba always indeiifa'y imprinted on their minds , and that , mora fortunate tJiaa their parents , they wonld not have to pass through two great trial * to behold liberty established in France , He then embraced the little girl who represented the goddess , and the deputation withdrew " .
THE FISTEKOS . The Minister ofthe Interior has decided that the internal walls of the Panthem are to be covered with paintinp by M . Paul Chanavard and such assistants as he may think fit to associate with himself ia the task . M . Ghenavard is to be allowed 4 , 0 M . a year for the work , and his assistants 10 F , a dayeaci , aa ammmura , colours and other matesials being furnished by the state ,
NATI 05 AL WORKSHOPS . It is said that the provisional government is engaged in' orgaa'sins * Ateliers fratemals ' in the twenty detached forts which surround Paris . Each for !» it is said , can lodgeabont 2 , 000 workmen .
• ESTKAOBDIHART JfSVEHEKT . On Sunday morning the organ of the elubs , the ¦ CouacsE de Paeis , publishes the following anacuaesment : — All the trades are convoked to assemble by their dele , gates to-day at eight o'clock in the morning precisely , and to march inbodies to the Champ-fie-MiiM , in order to elect the captains of the staff of the National Guard , who are to be chosen from among the different Industries . This notice ia followed fay the following paragraph : — We beg of all reTolntionaries , onr friends , known and unknown , all the presidents of clubs , all the chiefs of corporations to call at our offices in order to give us information of the situation , which becomes more and more grave every day . More thas ever is it of importaEce that wa should cling together and concert , in order to make head against re-action .
The effect of tie above notice was , thai the whole of this ( Sunday ) morning the boulevards and streets have been crowded with processions , making their way towards the Champ-de-Mar ? , but it was not till towards two o'clock that the alarm appears to hare bsen taken by the government . At that hour the rappel began to beat , the shops were closed , and a universal panic seized upon the public . The rumour got abroad that it was the intention of tbe clubs , headed by Blanqui , to seize upon the Hotel de Ville , sn the Bank of France , the Post-office , the Bourse , ihe Mint , and the Tuileries ; to upset the present provisional government , and to install a new government , composed of Blanqui as President , with the former ultra-republican members of the provisional government , namely , M . Ledru-Rollin , M . Albert . M . Louis Blanc , and M . Flocon , and the addition of M . Soulier ( the ex-delegate of the police ) , and some others .
The ongm of this movement is stated by some parties to have been an altercation between Ledra-Rollin and Marrast , but this report cannot be relied on . The assemblage of ouvriersto-iay in the Champ de Mars is the largest that has taken place since the Involution . It ia said to ba upwards of 150 , 000 men . I understand that when they had met , a consultation . of delegates took place , after which the different trades , which were marshalled under distinct leaders , and marched in columns ten deep , directed their steps towards the Hotel de ViHe . I have not been able to ascertain what their exact object is , but I presume it must ostensibly be merely to present a petitioE . I have just returned from the
quay of the Tuileries , where I saw them passii g for upwards ef an hour , and before my arrival they had been passing for nearly an hour previously . Each trade had a Sag at its head , with the name ofthe trade inscribed upon it , and upon all the flags there was a large placard affixed , with the words' Abolition dei'exploitationderhommeparl'homme . Organisation du travail par 1 'Association . ' They marched ¦ very peaceably , sieging from time to time the' Chant des Girondins , ' and cried out occasionally , ' Vivela Repufelique . ' Most of them had the red riband of the republic at their buttonholes , which is in opposition to the tricolour . The . National and the Garde Mobile are all under arms , and show the best spirit in favour of the Provisional Government .
Five o'Clock . — It appears that there were two meetings held lo-d & y-oneafc the Hippodreme , and the other in the Champ-de-Mars . The former was nominally for the purpose of discussing tha interesting subject of organisation du travail , ' and the other as mentioned above , for the nomination of a certain ¦ Dumber of officers for the staff of the National Guard , the working classes declaring that they had not been represented in the late elections of officers . It is said that when they complained to Louis Blanc that they had been thus neglected , he desired them to meet together , and appoint them themselves . This they did to-day with perfect order , to the number of fourteen . After this operation they made a collection for the republic , and then proceeded to the Hotel de Ville to present it to the government .
At the other meeting , which was avowedly Communist , cries of' a has le Gouvemement Provisoire !' were over and over again heard , and very inflammatory speeches were made . These men afterwards joined the other body , and appeared to take the chief posts . The club of Barbes remained sitting all the night of Sunday , in order to support the Provisional Government should any attack be made on it , and to preserve order throughout Paris .
AXOTHSB ACCOVK ? . A body of operatives , variously estimated , but probably not exceeding 55 . 000 , marched , at about two o'clock , from the Champ de Mars and the -Champs Elysees along the quays towards the Hotel de Ville . When the head of the column arrived at the Bridge of Areola , their further progress was rendered impossible by the dense mass of National Guards they there encountered . They then demanded that a deputation should be allowed to proceed to the Hotel de Ville , to the Provisional Government . Tney repeated again and again that they had only assembled to name their officers of the etatmajor , whom they desired to present . The deputation was accordingly admitted , and the main body Sled off .
CH 0 TES "BLAKQUI iCT HIS 1 CCU 3 EB 3 . Some weeks ago a document was published in the Sevue RsraospscriVB inculpating Blanqai , the president of the Central Republican Club , as a traitor . He had suffered much under the fallen dynasty , and was trusted by the extreme Republicans as one of the most devoted of that party . A few days . ago he published his reply , which has excited a great sensation in Paris , and completely satisfied his admirers . We give the Mowing extracts : — Taken by surprise by aa unforeseen attack , I was compelled to lose some days in collecting information on the dark machinations which led to that odious aggression . The state of my health prevents me from conti-¦ sueos labour . Those two motives alone retarded my reply . * * *
Calumny is always a welcome guest . Hatred and cre « dulity inhale it with delight ; It needs no recommends tisn provided it kills , what boots the likelihood of its probability ; downright absurdity is ao drawback . It possesses a secret advocate in every heart under the guise of envy . So proofs ere demanded fromit , itis the victims that are called up . An entire life of devotion , of austerity , of suffering , sinks ia and leaves an abyss at the slightest motion of its hand . lam acensed of treason ! Wherefore ? To save my head which ran no risk , as all are aware . When vengeance was in a paroxysm it was incompetent to erect a scaffold , and could it do so after eight months of calm and oblivion ? Its presence was at least requisite ; and if the excess of terror turned with such fearful rapidity into & vile informer , how comes it , I ask again , that a signsture was not exacted from such a subject of moral annihilation !
Did I , moreover , allow my fetters to be knocked off ? The Moat St Michel , the Peniteneler of Tours , are there to answer forme . Amongst my companions , who has drank so deeply of the cup of anguish ! Por a whole year my thoughts riveted on a beloved wife , sinking fast « afer " the effects of despair , and powerless to soothe lier ; End then four whole yeara of an eternal ( ete-atcte , in the solitude of my dungeon , with the departed spirit Of her who was no more . Such were the tortures which I had to endure , alone , in that hell of Dante . I lef t it , my hair bleached by anguish ? DQQJt and mind crushed ,
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and the first sound that strikes my ear is , » Death to the traitor ! Let us crucify him !' Thou halt sold thy brethren for gold , says the prostituted pen of the drunken reveller . Gold , to die by inches in a tomb ' iwixt the erust of black bread and the cup of anguish ! And what have I done with that gold % I live in a garret on fiftj centimes a day . My fortune , at the present moment , consists of sixty francs . And it is I , this miserable atom , who drag my wearied body , wrapped in threadbare clethes , through the streets , who mm jeered at as the paid informer ! whilst the valets of Louis Philippe , changed into gaudy republican butterflies , settle on the diss of the Hotel de Ville , and from their well-fed virtue of feur courses heap calumnies en the head of the poor Job who has escaped from tha pri « sens of their master ! Oh ! sobs cf manJ who have always a stone ready to hurl at the innocent > out upon ye , despicable race !
The hour has struck for a public explanation , It sounded in tbe tocsin of February . It is time to pour out in the daylight those quarrels which have so long been simmering in the dark . My portrait has not the heaour of apiece in tbe gallery , which a charitaWs hand has just withdrawn from the museum of the police . To fill up this Mask I shall giro it , s-uch as it is , sueh as I have seen it drawn twenty times by secret enemies of other days : — ' A dark and-brooding spirit , proud , savage , and sarcastic , of unbounded ambition , cold , inexorable , breaking men like reeds to pave his way , heart of marble , head of iron . ' The profile is not s flattering one . But is there not a background to this portrait , and is tbe cry of hatred gospel ? I appeal to those who knew my home : they know whether my whole existence was net concentrated in one deep and vivid affection , which endowed me with renewed vigour for my political straggles .
Death , when it snapped the bands of that affection asunder , struck the only blow , I own it , which went home to my soul . Aoght else , calumny included , glides to me like s shower of dust . I shake my clothes and advance on my path . Sycophants , that wish to make me out a moral mon . ster , unlock the secrets of your homes , lay bare the life of your hearts . What would ba found concealed beneath your hypocritical demeanour ? Brutality of the senses , perversity ofthe soul . Pale sepulchres , I shall raise the stone which hides your rottenness from tbe eyes of man , What you persecute in me is my unflinching revolutionary spirit , and obstinate devotion to my principles . You wish to pull down the Indefatigable gladiator . What have been yonr deeds for tho last fourteen years f Desertion ! I was with you in the breach in 1831 , I was there without you in 1839 and 1817 . In IMS I am there against you !
The 12 th May left me your hatred as a legacy . The affront of the 12 th Hay still barns hot upon your cheeks To fancy yourselves a Republic , and not to know that a Republic dares the battle 1 How pardon so bold a step , which held up yonr impotence to the sneers of the public Your outburst againtt the vanquished insurrection is known to all . The National dressed our wounds each morning with gall and dirt , and cowardly insinuations have preceded the calumny which vengeance has at last let loose npon me . ' During my sufferings at Mont St Michel , those resentments slumbered , A dying man was no longer to be feared , and on the rumours of my speedy dissolution many quills doubtleis were cut to pen a magnificent funeral oration over my grave . But death withdrew , and February baa changed thosa pens into so many daggers .
I arrived on the 24 th , elated with triumph . What . a chilling reception ! It was as if a ghost had started up before the new possessors , Whom do they look upon with that cold eye of aversion and horror ? I see 1 It is the detested author of the 12 th Hay , the clear-sighted and unbending patriot , who is neither to be made a tool or a dupe , or to be cheated out of his revolution , The new programme ofthe Hotel de Ville was already drawn up . A change of plan , the old foundation , the edifice of privi . lege without one stone less , with a tew additional phrases and mottoes , The banishment from the Luxembourg awaited those who desired more . It was on the 25 th , that Citoyen Recurt addressed ma as follows : —* You wish to overthrow us !—No ! but to cut off your retreat ! ' And the struggle commenced , loyal and moderate on the one hand ; perfidious and implacable on the other .
A thousand reports were set afloat : he is mad—grief and then joy have turned bis brain . He is ill—ha is doting—he is dying . He is a man of blood—he demands two thousand heads . These reports were spread through Paris , and through the provinces ; but not a word transpired of the great calumny ! H . de Lamartiae , at the Hotel da Ville , addressed me as follows . *— ' Persecution has been your martyrdom and your glory . ' Such language is not held to an informer . The Deuoceatie Paoifique of Monday has the following on the above demonstration : — 'A meeting ofthe friends and partisans cf citizen Blanqai was held yesterday morning at the Hippodrome . Their number amounted fo between 4 , 000 and 5 , 000 . They
intended , it was said , to proceed to the Hotel de Ville , proclaim the dismissal of several members of the provisional government , and among them MM . de Lamartine , Dnpont ( de l'Eure ) , Marrast , and Gamier-Pages , and substitute in their places citfzm JBIanqui and some of his friends . The different trade coip irations ofthe capital had fixed a rendezvous in the Champ de-Mars , to nominate some of their comrades for forming part of the officers of the staff of the National Guard , as was fome time agreed upen with General Courtais . The friends of citizen Blanqui went to the Champ-de-Mars , and invited the corporations to join them . This was refused . Their operations being terminated , they commenced their march towards the Hotel de Ville , by the Pent de ia Concorde , the Piace de Ia Revolution , and the
Quays . Two legions of the National Guards of the Banlieue happened to be on the Place de la Revolution , for the reception of their officers . When the Blanqui meeting , wholly detached from the trade corporations , appeared upon the Place , the National Guard of the Banliene drew up before it , and stopped its passage . Upon this it dispersed . Foreseeing this Blanqui demonstration , the drums were ordered to beat to arms in the quarter ofthe Hotel de Ville , not , as it is important to remark , to oppose the patriotic promenade of the trade corporations to the Hotel , and there present their candidates for officers of the staff ot the National Guard , but against the manifestetion of the Blanqui meeting , which seemed to bear an aggressive character . '
A document has appeared entitled ' Regulations to be adopted for the Elections by the General Assembly of Delegates of the Operatives , ' and signed by Lonis Blanc and Albert . The object ef this manifesto is to ensure the election of twenty operatives out ofthe thirty-fonr members to be returned by the department of the Seine . Rules , of course , are given by which all members of the assembly will be bound to return the same list of twenty names , and , to use the words of the manifesto , ' the total list of the thirty-four definite candidates of the department of the Seine being published with the sanction of the general assembly of the delegates ofthe operatives , the peoplewill be earnestly invited to secure its success by voting for it as one man . '
KB 1 TBWED AGITATION . Paeis , Tuesday . —This morning at sis o ' clock the rqppd for the assembliEg of the National Gunrds was beaten in all quarters of Paris . This alarming summons was said to be the consequence of information brought to the government that the Communists and most violent ofthe clubs had determined on another attempt to upset the provisional government , and to establish a ' committee of public safety , ' and that they intended to attack the Hotel de Ville . Last night tbe Communist clubs were in a state of great commotion , and the severest censure was passed in many of them en the conduct of the provisional government for having thrown any doubt on the intentions of the ouvriers who met in the Champs Elysees on Sunday .
The MoNiiEUB of this morning contains a prcelamstion signed by all the aiemfcersof thegovernment , congratulating the citizens on the demonstration of Sunday . Another decree dec'ares that the law rendering the magistracy irremovable is suspended , and this is followed by a . series of decrees dismissing a great number of publio functionaries of the first order . FosxcBipr . —The National Guards are all returning to their homes , and the whole city is perfectly tranquil . A great number of Communists have been arrested , including , it is said , the Citizens Blanqni and Cabet .
THE WORKING MEN OF PARIS . The delegates of the Corporations of Workmen have addressed a letter to the provisional government , in which they declare that their object in assembling on Sunday was : —1 . To elect fourteen of their body to the staff of the National Guard . 2 . To prove that the ideas of the organisation of labour , and of association , so maintained by men wlm had devoted themselves to their cause , are the ideas of the people , and that , in the opinion ofthe people , the revolution of February would fail if the effect of it were not to put an end to ' the exploitation of man by man . 3 . After having expressed their wishes to the provisional government , to offer it the support ef their patriotism against reaction , they ask why the National Guard was called out , and why their
representatives and friends , Louis Blanc and Albert were received with distrust ? 1 'hey say it was because the Reactionists had spread a rumour that the workmen intended to overthrow the government , and that Louis Blano and Albert had encouraged them to endeavour to do so . They stoutly protest against tha intentions falsely ascribed to them , and say , in conclusion— 'Let it be well known that nothing in the demonstration of Sunday was calculated to create alarm . The people know that they are strong , and they can remain calm . They are there te defend the revolution , as they understand it , and under their protection it shall not perish . ' On Monday afternoon a yellow placard was stuck up in Paris , on which-was-printed , ' Workmen , take good care of your arms- and ammunition , for the revolution is not . finished V
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THE COMMUNISTS . M . Cabet has addressed a letter to the provisional government , in which he remonstrates against the manifestation which took place on Sunday and Monday , directed against him and his fellow Communists , declaring that their intention is to withdraw to America , to realise there an Icaria similar t 6 that described in the published work ef M . Cabet , and disavowing all intentions hostile to the government . Tha Rotobme denounces the armed manifestations as the work ofthe re-actionary party .
THB CLUBS . The Monitecr des Clubs invites all revolutionists , known or unknown , all tho presidents of cluba , and all the chiefs of corporations , to come to the office of that journal , and to give information as to tho situation of affairs , which is becoming every day more seriousi snd that it becomes necessary to unite against the party of re-aotion . The Club Central Repdbuciak , of which M . Blanqui is the president , held a secret sitting on Monday evening last , at whieh M . Blanqui himself presided . The object of this meeting was to arrange tha military organisation of the club , and to divide Paris into sections . Forty-eight chiefs of sections were appointed , who have the supreme command in the quarters over wheh they are placed . This
proceeding is considered as showing an intention , on the part of the clnb , t ° > take to the streets . Alter the secret sitting a public ineeting was held , which was enormously crowded . For hovrs before the doors were opened , the street in the neighbourhood was crowded by persons anxious to witness the proceedings , but none but members wera admitted . M . Blanqui delivered a long sad violent address oa the subject of the meeting in the Champ . de-Mars on Sunday . He declared that tho demonstration made by the National Guards was treason against the people ; that the whole affair was a trap , got up by the reactionaires and the monarchists , lie called npon the people to arm themselves , and to be prepared for whatever events might happen .
The report ot the arrest of Blanqui and Cabet on Monday last , was not true ; but it was stated in Paiis on Wednesday , that orders for the arrest of Blanqui and several of his party , had positively been issued . Up to Wednesday morning , Paris was tranquil .
GERMANY . WORKING CLASS MOVEMENTS . Berlin , April 12 . —One of the chief objects ofthe working classes is to obtain the appointment of a minister for promoting their interests , conjointly with those of persons whoso capital affords employment ; and it is Tery probable that such a minister will be ahertly nominated . There is no lack of communist leaders and preachers in this capital . The first decisive step towards getting the interest of the working classes properly represented and upheld , was taken yesterday at a great popular meeting , at which a provisional committee of twenty-eight was elected , 'in order ( as stated by one of the speakers ) to conduet the general affairs of the working
classes . ' This committee has already nominated a special one ef eight members , who have been instructed to draw up the statutes for the trades unionu Several manufacturers agreed yesterday to diminish the hours of labour to ten , and at the same time to raise wages . It is proposed that the committee be authorised to enter into negotiations with the government respecting tbe general interests of the working classes , and in a particular manner to give the benefit of their advice to the future ministry of industry and labour—for such , it is thought , will be his title . A few days ago some popular orators were arrested by Prussian soldiers in Blasdoif ( Silesia . ) An im > mense crowd soon assembled , and the authorities were obliged to release the prisoners .
Bohemia . —Important concessions bave been made to tha Bohemians . The Austrian Emperor in reply to a petition addressed to him has determined : — ' 1 . The Bohemian language shall in future be equally valid with the German in all official branches of the legislature , and in public instruction . 2 . To the Bohemian diet immediately to be convoked all the states of the kingdom shall be assembled , the following changes to be effected in the number of delegates : The city of Prague to send twelve delegates ofthe burgher class , every other city of the kingdom one ; every city containing S . 000 inhabitants to send two deputies to the Diet ; the University of Prague to be represented by the rector , and every faculty of the university by a delegate
every vicarial district to send two delegates from the other classes of the people . Every bnrgher may vote who pays taxes to the city and is above twenty-five years of age . The delegates must he natives and above the age of thirty years . No man can either he an elector or a delegate who is in debt , under guardianship , or amenable to the laws for some crime . 3 . Responsible central authorities for Bohemia are aecorded in the eity of Prague . 4 . The petition ef Bohemia , Moravia , and Silesia shall be deliberated at the approaching Diet . 5 The abolirtion of privileged and patrimonial tribunals , & c , shall be referred to the Minister of the Interior . His Majesty nevertheless now concedes—the abolition of the robot , the free exercise of the Protestant and
Jewish religion , as well as the Roman Catholic . The admission of the Israelites to bnrgher privileges to ba taken into consideration at the Diet . 0 . Selfdependent religious communities with liberty of choosing their superiors is also accorded . 7 . A new law on the press will be fixed by the Diet . 8 . Personal immunity against arbitrary imprisonment is accorded . 9 . Government offices in Bohemia shall in future be filled enly by persons who are versed in both languages . 11 . The abolition ofthe tax on provisions has been in part cr-needed , and will be further considered . 12 . The new military law for tho levying of recruits has been n ' ready promulgated . 13 . Liberty of petition has been already accorded
the right of association will be regulated by the fundamentallaw . 14 . Publio seminaries , & c , for instruction , through the medium of the Bohemian language , will be established . under the special charge of the Minister oi tbe Interior . Thg request that all the military and the civil officers shall take the oath to their constitution , can be established only by the fundamental law . * A letterfrun Pesfh , dated April 6 , says : — 'The political world continues quiet , but confidence is gone in the fullest serse as to money . The bank notes are so much waste paper . JNo one will take them , and the Iranch banks which still profess to give silver in exchange are besieged from break of day until dark ' with crowds clamouring for silver .
Hesse Cassbl . —The insurrectionary movement at Cassel ( Hesse electoral ) appears to have been serious . The Elector having determined upon dismissing General Lepel , the Commandant , as also the Minister of War , who would not countersign the ordownanee of his dismissal , determined also upon dismissing the latter minister . Upon this the Cabinet sent in its resignation en masse , which was not accepted , and the ordonnanees issued against General Lepel and the Minister of "War were withdrawn : When the facts became public , a mob of people , composed of artists , members of the Polytechnic School , and tradespeople of different sorts , assembled on Sunday night on the Place Royale , for the purpose of making a demonstration . They wanted to applaud the ministers . The mob after this , accompanied by
a patrol of the civic guard , assembled opposite the residence of M . Eberbard , and from thence repaired te the house of M . Baumback , one of the ministers . Without any previous warning , the soldiers from a neighbouring street charged the people . Many of the civic guards were wounded , and tbe body guard Were ultimately driven back into their barracks . For many hours the greatest anarchy prevailed in the town , and the chiefs of the National Guard had no command overtheir men , and fighting continued durini the entire night . On the morning ot the 10 th a proclamation appeared , in which the Elector expressed his deep regret at the events which had transpired , promising to punish , with the utmost rigour ef the law , the culpable parties . On the 11 th , tranquillity was completely restored ; other troops were called in , which fraternised with the people .
THE WAR IN ITALY . FORCING OF THE PASSAGE OF THE MINCIO
BY THE SARDINIAN TROOPS . A battle , though not a decisive one , has at length taken place between the united Italian army and the Austrians . The decisive battle will now be fought , in all probability , under the walls of Verona . The Pizdmohtesb Gazette of the 10 th instant , publishes the following bulletin : — Prom tbe head-quarters of the King , at Castlgllone delle Stiviere , Apiil 8 . 1848 , p . m . The Austrian troops had been retiring for several days before the Pieomontese troops , who , preceded by their ancient renown for valour and discipline , bad been crossing tho lines ofthe Oglloand Chiese without an obstacle . The enemy had already abandoned the positions ef Mentechiaro , Iionato , and Castiglione delle Stlviere , which had been considered very advantageous for them , They had alread y retired beyond the line oi tJseM . nclo , to concentrate themselves between Peschiere and Mantua ; but onr troops pursued them with prodigious rapidity , converging towards the passages ofthe Mlneio .
This morning , the King boldly established his headquarters in Caotiglione delle Stiviere , and at abont nine o ' clock , the Brigade Reglna , the Battalion Real Novi , and a part of the corps of tirailleurs , reached Goito to attack the Austsians . Tho war of Italian independence wa » dettined to be opened with an important action , which might really deserve the name of a victory , and wo shall call it the victory of the ^ Bridge of © oito . Our men , led by General Bava , made a brink attack upon Goito , where tho enemy had fortified himself , barricading the streets , and occupying the windows , from trhenco he directed an uninterropted firo upon us ; but every obitacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the tirailleurs , placed at the head of tbe column , and sup . ported by some pieces of artillery . The enemy was forced to abandon his poeition ; on bis retreat over tho river he blew up the bridge * that bad been mined a short time before ; still one cf . the parapets remained nearly entire ; the tirailleurs ir & epldly -Matured upon it , and by main force took possesion ot the . ajtjllery that was playing
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upon us incessantly . In a ahorttime the pasoago of tho Mincio was forced over the smokiag rains of the bridge ; the enemy , pursued without interruption , fled towards Mantua , leaving a great number of prisoners and dead , and among these some officers . The fruit of this vietory is our remaining masters of the passage of the Minoio , of which we « t pretent occupy the Uh bank . A postcript to this despatch , received an hour after , adds the following particulars : — The battle lasted two hours ; ihe ceonon did great execution ; we made two thousand prisoners , took four pieces of cannon , and the poiition is ours .
After the accomplishment of this success , and the rout of tho Auslrians , who fled right and left , some to Mantua and some to Verona , the Sardinians repaired the bridge by planks , making a roadway sufficiently wide to enable the entire army with the cavalry , artillery , and baggage , to cross the river , which they were about to do when the last accounts left ,
ANOTHER BATTLE . Another engagement took place on the 9 th , at Borghetto . and at Mezsmbano , Co force the passage of the Mincio at this point . A Piedmontese column of General Soanay ' s division , under General Broglio , obtained a complete victory . The Austrian batteries , placed between Mozambano at Valeggio , were dismounted , and the Piedmontese troops encamped on the left bank , at the place previously occupied by the Austrians , who were pursued by the tirailleurs . There have been serious disturbances at Aix-Ia-Cha pelle , in which several persons have been killed and wounded .
ITALY ; The Patrib of Mondas says : * A letter from Venice which has just arrived states , that Verona has been taken by the Piedmontese army . ' This news has been " Confirmed by the latest accounts . Twelve hundred Venetians have been defeated at Montbello , near Viconza , by a body of 6 , 600 Austrian jnfantry and cavalry . The greater part of the Venetiass were the students who volunteered from Padua and Venice . Many were killed . Hbad-Qwbtbrs at Volta , April 12 . —Yesterday the Croatians set fire to the town of Castel Nuovo . The cries ot the unfortunate inhabitants were heard at this place . A body of the Austrian army numbering 0 , 000 men , which was on its way to Italy , has been countermanded , in consequence of fears entertained regarding a movement in Galicia , Dalmatia , and Croatia .
DENMARK AKD SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN . Letters from Hamburg confirm the fact of the Danes having entered Schleawig , to the number of two thousand men , After tbe battle of the 9 th , the Schleswig-Holstein troops re-assembled at Idstedn , near Schleswig . The Prince of Noer has retired to Hutten , with a great part of the- Schleswig Holstein army . There are seven thousand five hundred Prussian troops at Rensburg . Renmjsbubo , April 14 . —A skirmish has taken place near Eckenforde , in which the Danes were defeated with a loss of forty prisoners . The Danish army of 8 , 000 advanced yesterday , and took possession of Dannarzirhie , near Schleswig ,
POLAND . Posbh , April 10 rn . —In the first moments of alarm the Prussian authorities entirely abdicated their power into the hands of the Polish committee . A passive acquiescence , and , in many oases , an active support on their part , made the Poles believe that everything that was done by them had the sanction of the kirig ' s & overnment at Berlin . And now , after three weeks of indecision and higgling with our deputation , that same government , having assembled about thirty thousand of Prussian troops , suddenly sets its face against the Posenors , and calls on the mighty torrent to fall quietly into its former channel . You also know what hopes and promises were given us of an immediate war with Russia . General Willisen came actually on tbe 25 th of March to the Polish deputation then assembled at the Hotel de Rome in
Berlin , and assured them in most solemn terms , that the King , having determined to place himself at the head of the Germans and the Po ! es against Russia , approved the general rL-ing in Posen , and was going to get them organised into a regular army . Now , this same genera ] , after thirty thousand peasants had been collected by the nobles , asd so many refugees bad come from France and from Belgium , all ofa sudden publishes an order enjoining the Poles to disband their levies , and intimates that the existing lasdwehr will be quite sufficient for preserving peace and order in the duchy . The higher classes , although thus shamefully deceived , are willing , for the sake of peace and moderation , to comply with these injunctions . But it is not so easy to send home thirty thousand peasants , who were led to believe that they were going to form an army against Xtusain .
The Polish committee have sent Commissaries and agents all over Europe—to the Pope , to Bohemia , to Hungary , to France , and to England . I conclude with copying the following address they have issued to the people of Great Britain : —' Poland , sustained by tho sympathy and the most vital interests of regenerated Germany , is already en foot to repel the invasion meditated by Rupsia , to prove hereelf once more the protectress of European liberty and civilisation , and to recover her independent existence or the termination of this terrible conflict . While this
conflict can be nothing less than a lest crusade against tbe enemies of the human race , Polaud calls on thepeople and the governments of the West , awaiting from them that faithful and vigilant support which every army owes to those who march foremost against the enemy . To us those vanguards , money and arms , are wanting . Will regenerated Europe , like despotic Europe , tranquilly look on , while an unarmed nation is exterminated before her eyes ? Rejecting this dreadful suspicion , the National Committee of Poland address themselves especially to the government and people of England , to obtain from them the material means for fulfilling this great task , which God and the unanimous voice of a heroic people have imposed upon them .
TURKEY . The Pbesse states that a revolution has taken place at Belgrade . The Turks , it says , have been driv en away , and Prince Bibesko deposed .
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THE EMPIRE . The cordition of the British empire is such that , independent of the agitation of Chartism , it cannot long resist the force of circumstances ; its public credit must in a short period collapse ; these events come upon a nation in the terms of Holy Writ , ' like a thief in the night , ' and it behoves those drivellers who have invested their small sums in the Savings Banks to bo upon the look out ; the great bulk of the depositors are English , and the total amount deposited is not less than £ 25 , 000 , 000 atthe presf nt time . When the amount of gold at tho bank is pretty large , there is not enough to pay one half , and in the event ofa run upon the bank for the repayment of the deposits , tbe coffers o f the bank will be soon drained , for those who hold their notes will press for payment , as well as the depositor together with those parties who have banking accounts . These combinations of demand will soon exhaust
the Old Lady , and empty her stores of the precious metals . When the ability to deliver geld has ceased , and the bank are compelled to resort to one pound notes , gold will rise in price , and a sovereign may be soon worth twenty-five shillings , or more . With regard to the probability of a run on the bank for gold , it may be said that it has commenced in Ireland j and as nobody can say what a day can bring forth , the poorer depositors , who cannot afford to lose , and who would rather that it should constitute a Chartist fund than lose it , must take time by the forelock . The . Savings Bank deposit fund , established to bind the lower orders in one common interest for the preservation of the great debt , is likely to prove the means of its destruction ; it is tho most vulnerable point in the whole system of English finance . Tbe precursor to the French revolution was the withdrawal ofthe deposits from the Savings Banks . The same causes produce the same effects . Anon .
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Nottingham , Tuesday Evening . — -Yesterday evening , according to a requisition numerously signed , a meeting was held in the Exchange-hall of this town , composed of the middle classes of all shades of § pinions j from the high Tory down to the Chartist , to take into consideration the distressed state of the country , but more especially of the working classes . There were about 800 persons present , and but one opinion pervaded the whole assembly as to the widespread distress which existed amongst the working classes , and the necessity of something being done to ameliorate their condition There were on tho S lntfarm the Rev . J . W . Brooke , vicar of St Mary ' s ; » evs . Benjamin Carpenter , and M . Linwood ,.
Unitarian ministers ; Revs . Messrs Hunter and Edwards , Baptist ministers ; Mr Bailoy , proprietor of the Nottingham Memory ; Mr Bradshaw , of the Journal ; Iohabod Charles Wright , Esq ., banker ; and many of the most influential classes of Nottingham . The mayor , John Heard , Esq ., was called upon to preside . Resolutions and a petition wera adopted , the spirit of which will be seen from the following extracts from the petition : — * That your petitioners view with deep regret , and entire disapproval , the attempts which have lately been made in Groat Britain and Ireland to obtain , by intimidation and by threats of having resort to physical forcepolitical changes .
, . . „ 'That , while your petitioners reprobate m the strongest manner and are willing to assist to the utmost of their power in repressing any sueh attempts , they sympathise deeply with , and ore ready to use every exertion to alleviate and remove ; the suffer , ings and privations under which large numbers of their fellow-subjects are now labouring , and to improve and elevate their social condition . 'Your petitioners , therefore ,, nray yonr tumourable houso to take early measures for reducing the national expenditure , and fl qu & lising the national taxation , and for improYin & ox & lU"ta & standing the electi ?© franchise . '
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CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL . Speech of F . O'Connor , Esq ,. ) in the House of Commons , on Friday , April 14 th , in committee on the above Bill . Mr O'Connor , said ; Sir , I must confess my astonishment , amazement , and surprise , at the hypothetical and figurative speech of the honourable and learned member for Reading—a speech replete with exuberant eloquence and poetic fiction ^ ( Hear , hear . ) A speech which might have suited the darker ages , but my consolation was , when I heard that speech , that the author of Ion ( cheers ) was safe from the ex post facto operation of this law .
But to deal with his facts , or rather , Ins assumptions , because his reasoning was all hypothetical , and inconclusive against the necessity of the proposed measure . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir , I will divide his oration into two parts , beginning with his exordium , and ending with his loyal peroration . Now , what was his first admission ? Why , that in more disturbed times the law , as administered at Monmouth and Stafford , had been successful . ( Hear . ) Can he point out one single instance in which the ordinary law has not been successful—nay , beyond the expectation ofthe government ? If , then , the answer must be in the affirmative , why dishonour the Queen , and commit treason against the people ?
( Cheers . ) Thus I show the Ws potency , gathered from the poetical gentleman ' s flowers —( hear , and laughter )—and now I will prove the people ' s loyalty from the honourable and learned gentleman ' s anticipation of failure from what is expected from high anticipations abroad . Now , what has he told tbe house ? Why , simply that he felt convinced , that , e'er many days had elapsed , the f ailure from foreign changes would have the effect of wedding every man , who was now a Republican , more firmly to our institutions , and of establishing in our hearts a more devoted loyalty to the Queen . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , why not await this jubileethis national rejoicing—instead of rushing into
premature legislation , which wil ) convince the wond that loyalty in England will be henceforth measured , not by reverence , love , or respect for the Throne , but by dread of the Jaw ? ( Hear , hear . ) Would it be possible for mortal man to have stated a stronger case for postponement in the one case , and no necessity for the measure upon the other hand ? ( Hear , hear . ) Thus , sir , it has been throughout the entire of this discussion . Every constitutional lawyer in the house , who has risen to support this bill , has unwittingly , unintentionally , but conclusively , proved , that it is not wanted , and , if passed , that it will be inoperative . Now , sir , with all' hia legal knowledge , I defy him , and the Attorney-General , to
frame an indictment under this bill , if the exposition given of its provisions by the Attorney-General is correct . ( Hear , hear . ) That learned official has told us that an overt act mast be the crime , and that words spoken must be proof of the intentthen was there ever such nonsense ? ( Hear , hear . ) Is it not truly an act to entrap men into cumulative acts of felony ? ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Not to suppress crime , but to invite criminals —( hear , hear ) —and with such a definition of old statutes , which the improved mind of the day is to abstain from explaining , this country is now to be governed .
( Hear , hear . ) Why , if the noble lord and his party were to be tried under this act , for words spokeu and deeds incited to , during the agitation for reform , all the hulks at her Majesty ' s disposal would not afford accommodation for the Ministers and their felon accomplices . ( Cheers . ) But that was to enable them to carry their principle , that taxation without representation was tyranny , and should be resisted ; butnowthey had possession ofthe exchequer , law was to be strained against their friends , and the Attorney-General was to be England's Prime Minister : —
The tool of tho MiaiBter , not of the Crown , Made by his smile , and unma . de by his frown . If the provisions of this bill had so much puzzled the lawyers in that house in their endeavours to explain them , what would be the case when they came to be interpreted by the juries of the country ? ( Hear , hear . ) As for himself , he felt that he stood in no danger in reference to this Act , and such was the peaceable disposition of the community and of the Chartists , that it was , in his opinion , wholly unnecessary to introduce an unconstitutional measure of this sort—a measure of the monstrous character of this gagging bill . The government were now kicking down the ladder by which they had
risen , and pursuing , under some extraordinary infatuation , a course which was not only retrogade as regarded this country , but was the direct opposite of everything that the governments of other nations were now doing in reference to the liberties of the people . This bill was , in fact , nothing but a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . He had opposed it in its several stages , and the support given to it on that ( the Conservative ) side of the house had led to an union between the labouring and the middle classes which would , after Easter , manifest itself in the form of a piessure of constituencies which it would he utterly impossible to resist . He then advised the noble lord at the head of the government to
beware how he adopted advice which came from the Opposition side of the house , from which nothing could emanate favourable to his government . The late Attorney-General ( Mr Thesiger ) gave it as his opinion that it was not necessary to put the precise words in the indictment ; all that was required was the mere construction . He had never in his life heard such an unconstitutional doctrine . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The bill was , in reality , a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ; it took away the right of bail and the right of traverse ; a prisoner might remain in gaol for eight or nine months before he was brought to trial ; unless a special commission were issued to try his offence . To show
the danger of relying upon language attributed to public speakers , he would read ( o them an extract from the Sun newspaper , in which he was reported to have said , ' Let them pass that bill , and on that day week one hundred secret societies would be established throughout the country , and he would go about and organise them . ' Now , when such . a mistake as that could be made , where everything was conducted calmly and deliberately , what might they expect at meetings where excitement and tumult prevailed ? Every person was aware that he said the very contrary of what was there
attributed to him , and that he had positively stated his determination to oppose the formation of all secret societies . ( Hear , hear . ) He would put it to them what would be the feeling of the country if he had abandoned his duty by not having taken his place at the head ofthe procession on Monday last , although it had been forbidden by the government ? Had there been a collision with the authorities , what would have been his own feelings if he had not been present to share the danger and responsibility , as he had previously identified himself with' the movement ? The hon . member for York had
attributed to him the authorship of an article m which he asserted that he ( Mr Feargus O'Connor ) advocated a republican form of government over that of a monarchical . What was the fact ? The article complained of was written iu condemnation of the mode of electing the president of the United States , from which he deduced the fact that the present mode o f election led to party feuds and quarrels for two years before the
event , and did not subside for two years after , thus making the whole population parties , as it were , to a class squabble , and thus frittering away that which would otherwise be the united power of a people against a system which is yearly becoming more despotic . He ( Mr O'Connor ) claimed the same right of canvassing men , measures , and policy , that was conceded to other journalists , and under that right , which he was not about to surrender , the article alluded to was intended as a caution to the French
people to avoid a course which must ultimatel y lead to similar results , and advising them to elect a president for life , responsible to the people , and removable for cause—this recommendation he offered for the purpose of saving the people from the consequences of those party jealousies which were sure to be engendered by the election of the Executive government . Not one word throughout the whole of it referred to England . The entire press was opposed to the Chartist movement , and he might tell them what was very well known , that the press was paid , not for representing the truth of public
opinion , but for the purpose of mis-reporting and colouring it , in order to meet the views of those who read it . The Times newspaper , of the 10 th instant , reported a very violent speech , said to have been delivered at a Chartist meeting , held at Blackheath upon Sunday , the 9 th instant . Nowhe had received a letter from William Napier , Major-General , stating to him that no meeting of any kind was held there that day . ( Hear , hear . ) Would any man define to him what was the meanlna- of open and advised speaking ? He defied a definition . ' Oh / said the Solicitor-General , ' we preserve this vague and ungrammatical clause merely because w
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found it ungrammatical ; and we are tenacious ef Our Saxon forms of expression , even where they mean nothing . ' What was foolishly , rsshly , and intemperately spoken by a man opposed to the government , would be considered open and advised snealcinc—that was the rea ) truth of the matter The people of this country had borne more tyranny and injustice than any other people m the world . Thev bore it more tamely and more patiently , and he warned the government not to press them too far . They had a large standing army . Their shopkeepers were bankrupt , and their merchants were losing their capital . Yet no retrenchment was made in the expenditure of the country . Why did
they not reduce the civil list ? Why did they pay . £ 27 , 000 to a foreign king , to the King of Hanover ? This was a monstrous iniquity , and one which ought to be remedied . The present government was a most truckling government to its opponents , and the most unjust to its friends . ( Hear , hear . ) Why shoaldhe lie charged with what Mr Cuffay had said ? One honourable member would make him answerable for Mr Cuffay ' s language under great excitement , and another would charge him with what every tomfool in London may be inclined to
utter to a cheering audience , but he would be held responsible for his own words , and his own words only . This hill would remove the saJety valve through which their folly would pass harmless away . Let them once extinguish the mind's fire , and it would be substituted by the blazing torch , and where then would be the security lor property ? Did they reflect upon this -fact , that whereas the taxation of the country was measured by the full employment of the working classes—that expenditure bad increased in the same ratio in which
their ability to meet it had diminished ? ( Hear , hear . ) The whole question was one of labour , and as long as he remained in his position it should remain so . Here was their present position—if it required the full employment of three millions to feed the idlers and support the government , and if one million of those three became unwilling idlers , they became a competitive reserve , and their poverty not only tended to the reduction of the wages ofthe two millions employed , but it also imposed upon those scantily employe ^ the further necessity of supporting one million of their fellow men as unwilling idlers . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , then , with this damning fact before their eyes ,
how dare they attempt to gag public opinion , by the factious howl of those placemen' and pensioners sitting behind the noble lord , and living in luxury upon the industry ofothersj ? ( Hear , hear . Let the noble lord remember that what , caused the French revolution was the bold audacity of a tyrant minister , who , like the noble lord , attempted to awe the national will by paid officials , placemen , and pensioners . ( Hear , hear . ) And now he was a ttempting to do the very thing which the French republic , and all other countries that had broken down despotism , had required as the first measure of justice , namely , the liberation of political offenders ( Cheers . ) They may array all the unconstitutional
force at their command , against the constitutional r ight of freemen to denounce tyranny and oppression , hut the voice of a united people would siienca the terror of a centralised faction . This was the measure of justice to Ireland—this , was the answer to the people ' s appeal for justice to this house . ( Hear , hear . ) They j were panic-stricken , and were now taking council of the ex-King of the French , whom he should not mock in his misery , or taunt in his sorrow , but he told the noble lord to beware how he took council from evil advisers . ( Hear , hear . ) Many attempts had been made to define what open and advised speaking was ; but the only definition it would receive after the passing ofthe bill would be
' anything spoken against the government . ' ( Hear , hear . ) The present government had got into power by unadvised and intemperate speaking , and now they wished to gag the people . Ministers were not so squeamish about speaking in 1832 , when multitudes were assembled in every part of the country , and addressed in the most exciting language , and when Nottingham and Bristol were in flames . Ministers would be better occupied in reducing the pension list than in forcing an unconstitutional mea sure on Parliament . He defied the government to carry the bill into operation — they dare not do it . It was his intention to propose an amendment when they came to limit the duration of the bill , to ths
effect that it should be maintained in operation us long as the noble lord remained in office . Why they once thought that the income , tax was to be temporary . Did not the smooth-tongued and cun . ning-lipped baronpt , the member for Tamworth , assure them that it would be but temporary , and beg that they would not refuse to the state what the state stood so much in need of ? Well , now they were told in the same way that the state stood in need of this bill ; but were they once to pass it , they would be told , ' Oh , as ^ X . sve it now , wo may as well
keep it . ' Suppose it should turn out inoperative ; it would then be said , * The law is a dead letter Let it alone ; there is no need for meddling with ifc . " But suppose it should be used : then the answer to any arguments f or its repeal would be , ' See tha utility of the lawj' Depend upon it , the bill , once passed , would become as permanent as was the income tax . Let it become law , and he would traverse the country—morning , noon , and night—and his constant cry would be , ' Down with the base , bloody , and brutal Whigs , '
MONDAY , Apbii . IT . HOUSE OF LORDS . —State of Ibesand , — -The Earl of Euenbsbocgh followed up a motion for a return of the number of arms registered in Ireland between the 14 th of March and the 14 th of the present month by refering to an article In the United IsisnuAif calling upon the people to arm , with tho view , when tha system of organisation was complete , of plunging them in the hearts' blood of their enemies . If no preparation was to be made f « r defence while the ensmy was preparing for an attach those who wished non to aid tho government in maintaining peace and order would be
disheartened , and would begin to confiide " , and perhaps entertain , the question of compromise , on a subject with reapoot to which no compromise could take place—viz ., the Repeal of the Union . Ho was unwilling to press the subject too prominently forward ; he only wished to know distinctly what were the intentions of tbe government ; and he woald , therefore , conclude by putting the question of which he had given notice—namely , whether it was the intention of the government to extend the provisions of the Crime and Outrage ( Ireland ) Act to the city and county of Dublin , or to bring in a measure to amend that act ?
The Marquis of Lansdowne intimated that there could be no objection to the prodnction of the return moved for i by the noble earl , inasmuch as his otject was to procure the latest information in reference to a very important subject . "With reference to the question with which the noble earl concluded , he must say he thought the Lord . Lieutenant was the best judge both of the time , the place , and the mode In which tho power of the government should be put Into notion , and he did not think that house was the place—if any part of Ireland' was to be . brought tuddenls under the operation of the aot— In which it was consistent that such a proclamation should be announced ; he thought it should come at once direct from the Lord-Lieutenant , After referring to various rcaggerated state * mots in reference to the condition of Ireland and the
arming of the disaffected , tbe noble marquis laid , thai while he should bo sorry to pledge the Lord . LieutenaHt to arm all persons making application to him indiecri . mAnately , yet that nohle lord had accepted" . the services ofa large and efficient body of persons composed of both Protestants and Catholics , and arms had been < ent over to be placed iu their hands , The noble earl had alluded to a compromise , of which certain rumours had been spread abroad ; and when a compromise was mentioned he was bound to take the first opportunity of stating that there could bo none , It was the determination of ber Majesty ' s ministers to resist all attempts to subvert the well government ofthe country , and with the interests of which government the preservation of tho union was inseparable .
Lord Brooqbah was of opinion that the Repeal of the Union was only sought for by a very small body , who drove a pecuniary trade by advocating that measure . The return was agreed t » , Removal of Aliens Bar ,. —Tho Marquis of Laksdowhe proposed that this bill should pass thiougb committee pro forma for tho purpose of . printing certain amendments of a verbal character , one which gave ft rijjht of appeal to the privy council . The Earl of Eilenboboboh said on appeal to the privy council would defeat the object of the bill . The foreigners in this conntry whom it might bo desirable to send away by steamerfuls were not respectable traitors , but persons of the lowest class , and to give each the right ofa separate appeal to the Queen in council would keep the privy eouncll constantly sitting . ^ Lansdowne aaid that if not
The Marquis of they were respectable traitors '—( laughter)—they would not ba able to bear the expense of soch an appeal . The Earl of BiLSNsoaoooH said he wouldnot oppose the clause as it appeared to be useleesi The bill pasted through committee . The Election Recognisances Bill was read a secona time , and their lordships adjourned at half-past eight o ' clock , HOUSE OF COMMONS . —EBPBB 8 KHT & TI 0 K OF IHB Peopik . —Mr Hohe gave notice , amid loud cheers , that shortly after tho recess , be wonld call attention to tho present awAe , © i the iepre » entation of the people , ansl take the sense of tho house on that question . New Wbit eob Dbbbi : —Mr Ev & m moved for new writs for Derby , nt ne room of Mr Struttandtha Bona F . Gower . Mr M & osiBNQN seconued the motion *
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