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      July 22, 1848. The Northern Star. ¦

      July 22 , 1848 . THE NORTHERN STAR . ¦

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      THE FRENCH £ E PUBLIC . MORE ARRESTS . General Jorry , late President of the Club for Advance the Interests of thePeoo ' e , mueh frequented hr foreigrer ? , has been arrested at his residence in the Rue d'Enfer , and committed to the Conciergerie There were also arrested in Paris on Wednesjjsv last MM . Andre Towianski and Ferdinand Gritt , Polish emigrant ? , residing in the Champs Elysees . The disarmament of all the National Guards whose conduct had been even suspicions during the l & te insurrection was still enforced with undiminished rigour . Independently of the legions and battalions already formally dissolved , it was said that a battalion of tbe legion ( the 2 nd ) which had first distinguished itself in the conflict would be dissolved , and tbat at least 1 , 200 of its members would be disarmed .

      The inhabitants of the whole country descending from Romaic villa to Vincennes , particularly the stragg ling village of Bagno ! et . have been proved to have participated in the iniorrection , and have been to a man disarmed . The insurgents who succeeded in escaping from Paris are pursued with unremitting diligence by the authorities in the departments . A letter , dated Soieons , the 9 th inst , states tbat the gendarmes of that town bad captured in tbe nei ghbouring fields several individuals supposed to have fought in the ranks of the insurgents .

      The Mcsiteto publishes an order to the army , signed by General Da Lamoriciere in which it is stated that four companies of the 2 nd battalion of the 13 ih Regiment of Infantry , having laid down their arms to tha insurgents , the colonel commanding , two cap tains and two lieutenants are dismissed the service , and the four companies in question dispersed . A sentinel on duty at the Hotel Diea was assassinated a few days ago . The officers of the staff have been warned by General Cavaignsc to adopt extraordinary precautions , for that attempts would ba made to assassinate them at their respective tomes .

      THE ABBS LAHK 5 XAIS . The following article appeared in the Pecpls CossrrruANr : — The Fectle CossrrrtrAKT ( he says ) commenced with the Republic ; it ends with the Republic . For what we aow see is certainly not the Republic—it is notbleg that has a name . Paris is in a state of siege—delivered over to a military power which is itself gives np to a faction that has made it its instrument ; tke dunpfnng and forts cf IiOaii Pnilippe encumbered by tbe 14 , 600 prisoners , after a frightful butchery organised by dynastic contpirttors , who become thereafter all powerful ; transportations without judgment , proscriptions snch a < . ' 93 never fernished aa example of ; laws , aiming at the right of meeting , which is , in fact destroyed ; tke

      enslavement and destruction of the press by the monstrous spp liciti-a of the monarchist legislation put again in firce ; the Kationsl Gaard partly disarmed ; the people decimated and replonged ia misery more profound than ever ; no , once again , no , ccrtaialy this is not the republic ; but sroand its bleeding tomb , the saturnalia of reaction . The men who bare msie themselves ministers , their dsvoted servants will cot delay long ere they reap the rewards destined for them , end which tbey have but too will deetrrsd . Driven away with eontfmpfr , bowed down with shame , cursed in the present , cursed In the future , they will go to rejoin the traitors of ell ages , ia the chsmel nouses where perish cadaverous souls and dead consciences . But let not the factions flitter themselves

      any lcagerthsn they can escape the inezorable justice which weighs , works , and waits its time . Their triumph will bsRhort . Thepast , which they wish to re-establish , is henceforth impossible . In place of royalty , which , scarcely ererthrown , will fill again of itsslf on a soil waich refosss to bear it , tkey will establish anarchy and profound disorder , iu which no nation csn live or last for any time . In vain they will seek to prolong it forcibly . All force is feeble against rght , mere feeble stiil against the necessity of living . Horeover where will they find that force ! Iu the army 1 Tha French army will be ever on the side of France . As for ns , soL

      diers of the press , devoted to the defence of the liberties of tha conntry , th * y treat us like the people , they disarm us , Fer seme time bsck our paper has been : orn from the hands of tbe vendors of it , tern up snd burnt en tke public way . Oae ef our vendors was even imprisoned at Rouen , and the journal seized without any other formality . Tbe intention of all this wag evident ; it was wished to reduce us to silence at any price . They have succeeded by means of tke cautionnensnl . To-doy money , much money is necessary , to enjoy ths liberty of speakicg j we are not rich enough . Silence / or the poor !

      Ia another article the Abbe Lamennaig informs his subscribers , that for the remainder of thr-ir subscription they will be supplied with the Reforms , to which paper he recommends them to transfer their patronage . 13 73 A 5 CB A BEFUBLIC ? The correspondent cf tbe Mossing Her » ld asks , is this a Republic f We know it is not a monarchy—It is not an oligarchy—nor a theocracy—but surely it is not a RtpaWic . There are pretty nearly 830 represtntatives choirs by universal suffrage In that wooden shed which ft stuck like an ezcrescencs to the back of the Palais Bourbos , and there is an encampment of 30 , 000 men close beside it very capable of acting tbe surgeon . There are 100 , 000 Nati nal Guards sleeping an their muskets , and some scores of thousands ef rancorous men In blouses ready to devour those aristocrats of the warehouse and the shop : and this is a Republic !

      It is remarked by tha National that in the pre secce of such a state of thines , tbe National A « £ embly doss not appear to be up to the level of the situation . Their sittings are describsd as barren and empty for the most part—and this at a mcaent when events are on the march throughout Europe—and it warns them that public safety depends oh each moment becoming an act , and on every difficulty being met by a nrompt solution .

      THE EIGHT « A 5 . M . Prudhon has , in his capacity of representative , laid on the bureau of the assembly a project of law for the confiscation of one-third of all tha property of France , in conformity with that which was contained in the petition which he proposed the popu ' ace should order the Assembly to grant . This project goes in the ordinary course before the committee of finances .

      OATH CF A COHHDTflST , The Retbedb l ' Og ~ e 5 T publishes the following document , which it says has been found in the neighbourhood of Mauze . It is intituled the ' Oath of the Communists , ' and gfres a sort of sketch of the pro eeedingsata meeting : — In the name of the Sovereign pcsple and ef the Executive Council , the sitting ii opened . To fie Candidate pretested . —Citixsn , befora proceeding farther , you swear not fo rtveal what takes place has ? Anrcer . —I swear it .

      To tut Candidate . —Usten with csnfidence and without fear ; yon ars aaion * strrpabl ! ean communists , end consequently yon will bejin to live under the era of equality . They will be your brethren if yoa are faithful to your oath , but yon will bs for ever lost if yoa betray themthey have swore to it as yoa have just done . Listen , therefore , with the greatest attentisn . Communism is the true Republic—labour in common—education , property , and enjsjmsnt in common . Ie is tha sun , the syztbal ef equality—it is the new faith for which we hava swura to die ; we know neither barrier * , nor frontiers , nor country ; aU communists are brethren—all

      sratocrats are onr enemies . We wiih for a dictatorship after the revolution to apply ear principles , and destroy all aristocrats , and cenaequeatiy to nproot and overthrow all that la impure , Tbe community once estsDHsned , functions and Intelligences being different , everything will repose on tha universal sense , classed with order . Tour Brethren and the committee win instruct yoa in all the details , How if you feel any fear of dungesns , torture , or dEath—if yoa feel your courage fail y ^ o , retire ! Ia order to join onrranks you mnst brave all those sufferings . Once the oath is taken too belong so ns ; jea are engaged on your own life and that of the person who has brought you hither for the rest of your days . Reflect therefore and answer . What is tie name of the citizen who has brought you among us ?

      ihen , addressing himself to the person who has presented the candidate , the questioner says , — -You know , citizen , thatyen enswer with your head for the person you have brought hither , and yoa ars folly aware of all the coniequescea ? What is yonr age , yourprofeEBion , and your residence \ Have yoa never formed part of any secret society ! Rise —yon ara about to lik & an oath to obey the lawi of the aseociatioa . Swear to march at the first order of your chiefs , and to combat until death : swear to devote your fortune and yonr life to the establishment of the Republic , fouided on the principles of commanbm . If you act with treachery your blood be on your own head , snd noton those who msy shed it . Be just , be vlrracGB , for that is the duty of a republican . Are you now disposed to unite yourself to ns , and to brave all the perils of such a dangerous mission J—Yes .

      Vfe accept you—we ere aU to you if you never become perjured , but if you deceive m von are lost . Will you , therefore , give yourself up to ui fer ever !—Yei , without reserve SHE W 3 RKIK 6 CLASSES 1 KB ISE

      BOUaSEOISTXA SOCIAL TTAB . { From the correspondent of the Britannia . ) That the working classes will have another outbreak , and if that fill , another , sad if need be , another and another , there can , I tblak , be no question , In fact , they themselves readily admit it ; and all the respectable classes of the community confidently expect it , as is trident from tke facts that due alarm is universally expreiied , that the newspaper * earnestly insist on tha necessity of-precautions being taken , and that the government , the geaeral commanding the National Guard , and » U tha authorities , are making extensive , and what reall y appear , overwhelming preparations for the protection of law and society .

      As well as I caa gather from reading , the majority of las English newspapers end magesines do not rightly tttisute the position of things here : and , in truth , the

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      nam . ' may be ra " : 4 cf tbe Parisian press itself . Horrified et the infamous strociiies which were committed by eome of tbe insurgents at tbe last outbreak , and terrific J at the inscriptions , 'three hours ' pillage , ' and such ! ik " , which , as is said , figured on some of their flags , ptople have jumped to the conclusion , both in Paris and L mdon , that the insurgents were nothing more than a gang of vile miscreants bent only on robbery , pillage , rape , incendiarism , and wholesale assassination . But such a belief is a deplorable error . That wretches did fUht for theft and murder ii undoubtedly true ; but I assure yoa that the great and overwhelming majority of the Insurgents consisted of honest but mistaken wot king men . And although this assertion may appear a bold one , evenln your eyes . yet it is borne out by the fact that ,

      of seven thousand prisoners who hare been examined , only ene hundred have ever before been in tbe bands of justice ; and of that one hundred only forty . five have been condemned to what the French law calls peine * afflictites et infamantes , that is , for crimes which faU within the pale of what onr laws characterise as ' felony . ' ( See the Gazette de Teiichaux of the 12 th of this month for a seml-affielal corroboration of tbe fact here staffed . ) In thus defending the insurgents from the accusation of being nothirg but villains of the vilest dye , let it not be supposed that I sympathise with them , and try to excuse tbelr horrible conduct In raibing to arms and literally deluging the streets ef their city with blood . Gad

      ferbid that I should feel any sympathy , or put forth any such excuse ! But what is the use of newspaper-wrlters going on day afrer day repeating what ( now that tbe truth has been ascertained ) can only be considered calumsies « Use ! Not only is there no use in it , but there is positive mischief and danger—mischief in ere . atiog delusion , danger in representing ths evil as less than It is ; the delusion consisting ia supposing that society has to combat only against a gang , whereas , in truth it has to combat the whole working class ; the danger consisting in the belief that as the enemy is w » ak he can easily be crushed , whereas in truth he is very strong , and , if crushed at all , can only be so after many a fierce snd bleody struggle .

      You see , then , how grave is the state of things herehow much more serieus than the superficial readers of the daily newspapers would believe . The truth is , as I said tn a previous letter , tbat a social war bas fat guna war of class against class—a war of poor against rich —a war in which the working class , 800 , 000 la number , or thereabouts , is arrayed on one side , whilst the aristocracy of money and tha middle class , mueh fewer in numbers , but backed by ths army , are arrayed on the other side . Tbe working classes think they are oppressed and tyrannised over . They have been taught that when

      work and wages fall It is the faalt ef the bourgeoisie and the government ; when work Is badly paid , tbat It is tbe bourgeoisie which screws them down ; when the capitalist takes all the profits of an enterprise in whleh be tisks his money , that he robs them , even though he has paid them dally wages for their daily labour . They have been taught , in a word , to believe that the interests of the middle class , of tie employers of labour , are totally distinct from , and contrary to , those of tbe workmen ; and that their class csn only prosper on the ruin and humiliation ef the other .

      Great apprehension existed In Pans last week that another rising would take place , and it was said tbat the working men would renew the combat on the 13 tb , the anniversary of the taking the Bastile . On Thursday the cuvrie + t met in great numbers in the Faubourg du Roule , and in the neigbonrhood of the Barriere Menceaux , where they formed crowds , and in some instances marched in precession , with flags before them . On Wednesday evening a great num . ber of persons were arrested in different parts of Paris , who are said to be deeply implicated in the conspiracy , and a large quantity of arms wag discovered in the neighbourhood ef the Rue St Lanre . In consequence of information conveyed to tha Prefect of Police , anonymously , a large quantity of combustibles has been fonnd in a house in the Fanoourg St Antoice , ready prepared lo set fire to heuses in different quarters of the town .

      Pabis , Fbidat EvKHise—The day has passed off without tbe slightest disturbance . Great things had been menaced , and a plot had certainly been laid , but the energy and prudence of the govtrnment have defeated all the hopes of the insurrectionary party . During the whole of the night patrols of the National Guard and the line sceared the streeto , and prevented any assemblage of the would-be rioters . No attempt , of course , was made to erect barricades , nor was there even a seditious cry . Some alarm was felt in the quarters of Paris near Montmartre , owing to a discbarge of musketry from that point , but it turned ont tbat this was directed asainst some oi the insurgents of June , who had taken refuge in the qnarries . end were endeavouring

      to escape . They have now been shut up there three weeks , food being conveyed to them by a communication with some of the houses , which , blockaded by the troopg . their escape by that way has been rendered impracticable . I understand that no insurgent was either killed or wounded last night , but that some prisoners were made . Thia morning , at an early hour , a strong body of troops were posted near the Hotel de Tille , and at the openings of all the streets in tbe vicinity there was a'so a considerable force . Four pieces of cancon were plaeed at this point , four on the Place de Greve , four at the Tuileries , and eight were sent to

      the Ghapelle St Denis , where most turbulence had been manifested , and the workmen of which quarter had declared tbat they would , this day , go in procession , 30 . 000 strong , with a petition to the National Assembly , prayingfortherelease of the insurgent prisoners . As , in addition to these eight pieces of cannon there was sn imposing force of cavalry and infantry , tbe threatened manifestation cou ? d not take place . The force at the National Assembly was doubled . At the TnUeriea . and in the gardens , thero was a force of more than 6 . 000 trcops of the line and National Guards , and the National Assembly was well protected .

      The Desiwamo * tr she Insbbcskm . —The CoxsimjiiesKEi . of the 14 th , says : — 'We are afsured that the French government is in treaty with Great Britain ior the acquisition of an island to which the condemned insurgents are tc be transported . An attempt was mads on Thursday te shoot Lncien Marat , son of the celebrated Marat , in the open day , in the Champs Elysees . Two balls entered his carriage .

      KOBE AEBESIS . Arrests continue to be made every day . A very important one took place on Friday , that of M . Rayson , ex-caotain of the staff of the National Guard of La Chapelle St Denis , and residing ia the Fauboorg Mootmartre . The police had been for a lsng time on the look out for him . He quitted his residence on the 27 th , aad has been pointed out as having taken a very prominent part , and acted as a chief in the late insurrection . He was arrested at the house of a friend , near tbe terminus of the Northern Railroad . Another arrest of eome importance took place also on Friday , tbat of a person named Pan-in , formerly an officer in the army . He had previously been arrested , and again set at liberty , on stating himself to be the nephew of . a person in rather a high position in the political

      world . Since his release fresh information has been obtained concerning him , and it has been ascertained that his story of the relationship was a falsehood . He has consequently been again arrested . On his being first arrested in a cellar at Belleville , he was observed to tear up some papers into very small pieces and throw them away . Thene were carefully collected , and on being put together furnished strong evidence of his participation in the late events , A girl , named Thomas , residing in the Ruede 1 » Harpe , has also bfen arrested . She was seen assisting in erecting the barricades near the Petit Pont , and also carrying lood and ammunition to the insurgents . It was this girl who ascended the tower of Saint Severin , and sounded the tocsin . She had attired herself while occupied in this work ia men ' s clothes .

      THB ABBE UUZKHAIB . Paris , Suhdat Morning . —At the commencement of the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday an incident occurred which created considerable interest . It will be recollected that a few days ago the journal called the People Constituast , of which the celebrated Abbe Lamennais was the editor , was seized by the authorities and stopped , on account of a violent article which it published , declaring that the Republic was already extinct . For this article ( which , by-the-bye , was signed ) tbe Procureur of the Republic , instead of prosecuting the Abba L & taen .

      nais , the author , has chosen to prosecute the pub lisher . The Abbe Lamennais , who is a member of the Assembly , now came forward to avow the incriminated article as his , to take the responsibility upon himself , and to call on the Assembly ta authorise theProcnreur of the Republic to prosecute him , instead of persecuting an innocent person . The reply to the Abbe was that the Assembly conld not authorise a prosecution until & demand to that effect had been made by the law officers , but he could not be made to understand any snch subtlety . At length the subject was got rid of by the previous question being adopted .

      ASSAESISTATTOirS . Tha flHaiiinationsinthe streets and pnblio ways continue to ba reported daily . On Friday morning , save the Gasetts ! des TsiBDifAnx , as a detachment of " the Garde Mobile , quartered at Courbevoie , was escorting a convoy of gunpowder from Menut Yalerien through tbe Bois de Boulogne , one of the soldiers , quite a youth , quitted tbe line in the Allee de Pasajjand laid himself down in the thicket , saying , that ha was so much overcome with the heat and fa

      tigue tha ha would rather undergo a fortnight ' s imprisonment in the Salle de Police than march a step further . As the convoy continued to move on , tbe captain thought it better to leave the tired man behind than lose time in forcing him to rejoin his company . At day- break on Saturday morning some of hia comrades returned to seek him at the > spc , t where they had left him , and found him dead , vnth seven knife wounds in his body . Neither any part of his accaHtrements , sor of lofr . which fcaruad in his pocket , had been taken from him .

      The Patbib of Sunday says : At noon Ho-day , as a grenadier of the 39 th regiment of ti \ e lice was crossing the Pont d'Arcole , he waa sf . bbsd in the back with a knife . He w » s taken t <* tj , fMel da Ville ; the assassin msde feis escaps * .

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      -No day passed without tho detection of attesipts to convey ball-cartridges to the insurgents still conjaaled m the environs of the capital . THE C 0 TJSTKR REVOLUTION—DISARMING ! OP THK

      PEOPLE The accounts from tbe provinces were not 80 satisfactory aa could be wished . Impatience of what was deemed the absence of energy in the National As sembly began to be loudly expressed . The National Guard of the city of Lvons and of the communes ot the Croix Bonus , of VaUe , and of La Guillotiere , have been dissolved and disarmed . Crape had been attached to some of tbe muskets surrendered , aa a sign of mourning ; and many of the National Guards , who would no t themselves surrender their arms , sent them to the mayor by their wives er children .

      The Rbforub is indignant at the disarming of the whole ot the National Gaard of Lyons . It says :-' The league of the Royalists is now evident . Every day furnishes us with , a new revelation , or rather fresh evidence of the shameful manoeuvres which we are going to state . Everywhere the same provocations , the same fake reports , the same calumniesthus the soldiers , called from the Isere to Lyons , were led to believe that they were going to revenge t . w comrades thrown into the Rhone , and their officers cut to pieces . The Lyons workmen thwarted these atrocious expedients by their sagacity and prudence ; they kept quiet , and did not" move . Bnt what the reaction could not obtain by its maoty nations , it bas obtained by intrigue ; It wanted a riot in order to disarm the Republicans . There W 3 u ° j- " ' tke whcle of the National Guard is to be disarmed . The announcment of diearming ha * struck every one with stupor .

      _ Pabis , Tobsdat . —f he examination of nearly 1 , 100 insurgents confined in the Fort of Ivry , has been conceded , after three Weeks' incessant labour on the part ef the magistrates , who had 8 . 000 documents to examine . It now remains for the military commission to decide on the . fate of those men . In consequence of a musket-shot fired on Sunday last at a sentinel on guard at the fort of Remain villa , seventeen persons have been arrested . A man was arrested on Sunday morning last at his residence in the village ef lvry , who boasted of having been an accomplice in the killing of Captain Mangin , the Aid-de-Camp of General de Brea . When arrested he said that far from regretting the crime he bad committed , he would repeat it , if an opportunity should rffer ; and that at all events he would not regret to die . He was immediately transferred to the military commission .

      : 'Mi Dorhes , editor of the Naiionai , and . member of tbe National Assembly / whose wound was . supposed to be doing well , is not expected to survive . : It appears tbat although the partial disarming of the National Guard of the jlst Logion of Paris has been in general accomplished without difficulty , som opposition has been experienced in certain quarters . On Saturday morning several muskets were discovered in the Rue Saint Nicholas ; and in tbe apartment of a lady in the Ruede la Pepiniere , who pretended to live in the greatest secrecy wish a single servant , a secretpress was discovered , in which were concealed twenty'seven muskets . This lady was committed to prison immediately after the discovery of the mueketfl ,

      The Paris papers of Tuesday announce the nomination of M . Marie , President of the National Assembly , to the Ministry of Justice , in the room of M . Bethmont ; of M . Jules Bastide , once more as Minister for Foreign Affaire , vice General Bedeau , whose recovery from his wound will yet be tedious ; and of M . de Verninac , to the ministry of Marine in the room of M . Bastide .

      MOEE ARRESTS . Pabis , Tuesdat . —Every moment numerous ar rests take place in the city and in the suburbs , while each day brings to town numerous prisoners arrested in the departments . They are , after a brief examination , sent at once to one of the detached forts . . - .

      APPOINIMRNTS . General Cavaignao has appointed M . Dccoux , a member of the National Assembly , Prefect of Police , in the place of M . Trouve-Chauvel . The latter snowed eome want of energy during the late insur rection , and the feeling shown against him by the Committee of Inquiry appointed by the Assembly has been the occasion of his resignation . Paris , Wedsesday . —At the election of the Presi dent for the National Assembly , which took place to day , M . Marrast had 411 , and M . Lacrosse 334 votes , M , Marraat was declared elected , The body of prefects of departments who had been named by M . Ledru Rollin , is undergoing a slow purgation . The most' objectionable' individuals are daily disappearing from office .

      THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . The proceedings of this contemptible body are utterly devoid of interest . In the Finance Committee the proposition of M . Proudhon with respect to the la & dlords and tenants , the object of which is to make landlords sacrifice one-third of their rents , ef which one-sixth is to be given to the tenants and one-sixth to the state , baa been discussed . On Monday M . Proudhon was heard ia deforce of his motion . He declared that society was in a position of great danger . There would be either a bankruptcy of the state , or

      a great cataclysm of society . He contended tbat the result of his motion would be to fill the coffers ol the state , as a vase was filled by equeeziog a sponge . He expected three'fitcts from the adoption of hid proposition ; 1 st , a diminution in the price of agricultural produce ; 2 d , a diminution in the price of manufactures and merchandise of all kinds ; and 3 d . an augmentation in the productio -. > . He terminated his speech by stating that for the present he was not an adversary to property , bat when the proper time came he would attack it . .

      1 M . Thiers replied tbat the warning was quite supjetfluous , for that the attack upon property , in this motioa , was perfectly clear . Another member de clared that M . Proudhon ' s motion , if carried , would bs a robbery of proprietors to the extent of three milliards . . M . Tbisbs declared that the whole proposition was a most fallacious' and perfidious one . It waa a flagrant injustice and spoliation . ' M . Thibrs has been appointed to draw up the report of the committee on the proposition .

      BF . LGIUM . We regret to observe tbat much distress prevail ^ in Belgium . The Orsane des Flahdrbs saya : — Thousands of men out of work are daily parading the streets of Ghent , driven from their cottages by hunger and distress , and who , after having passed the day in our streets and public places , return home in despair . Half of our manufactorie ? are snspended , and the other half are at work only three or four days a week . Not one of our master masons and carpenters has employment for one-fourth of the men he was able to engage last year . The retailers in every trade sell only one-fourth of the goods tbey have been hitherto able ts dispose of . The sculptors , painters , and other artists , have their studies crowded with their productions , which no one will purchase at any price . In fine , there is in all ranks and all classes a reduced state of things which has become intolerable .

      GERMANY . The Vicar of tbe Empira was solemnly installed at a meeting of the National Assembly held on the 12 th inst . Biblin , July 11 . —A notice signed Bardesleben , director general of police , was published last nig ht , declaring that in virtue of existing laws , no meetings of this kind could be held without previous permission of the police , and that offenders , especially orators and instigators of the people ( volks redner ) would be liable to a penalty of from five to fifty dollars . This notice was posted up aido by side with a large placard announcing one of these meetings at the Tseften , and ( it is needless to say ) afforded matter for violent diatribes against the authorities for attempting to gag the people . A protest was voted amidst deafening hurrahs .

      It is now all but certain that the German repnbhcans have resolved tomake another desperate attempt after the harvest has been got in . During the last few days numerous persona belongisg to the working classes have left for Switzerland , in order to join Becker ' s partisans . The Freiburg Gazette declares in round terras that in Mayence , Treves , and other towns , republicans are regularly enlisted . for the corps in Switzerland , Behlut , Jhlt 16 —A verdict of guilty and sentence upon the four individuals accused of iaatigating the mob to plunder the arsenal was pronounced lasi ni « ht . Kornand Siegerist were condemned to seven , Levinsohn to two , and Urban to one year ' s imprisonment in a a fortress . They are to be removed this day to their destined prison .

      CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY . Tbe Dbutsche Aixgbmkine Zkitotg has letters from Peath of the 7 th inst ., from which it appears that the war between the Magyars and the Sclavo nians is feeing carried on with unabated fury .- i ^ e Hungarians are said to have stormed the erty ot Vftnud , but on the other hand they have been defeated near the Wallachian village of St Mihaly . a mobof insurgents had come to this village , ano \ asfcea the inhabitants to join them . They refused , and , hbour

      with the aid of some Hungarians m their neig - hood , succeeded in driving the insurgents away ,. who nevertheless returned some days afterwards with a force of 180 O men . These were attacked and almoM dispersed by 200 laaeere . but after a short fight they rallied again , and attacked the lancera with a barrassing fire of musketry and from three field pieces . Five hundred more insurgents appeared suddenly , and took tho lancers in tho rear , who at last retired with considerable loss . The insurgents then sacked and burnt St Mihaly .

      ; In Carlowitz a fearful , bloody engagement has taken place , and the whole city is now standing in games . In Neusatz . also , there have been bloody " Tho BBBSLAUER " Zeitusq contains a letter from Peath of the 8 th inst , stating that news was received there by a courier oi a victory which the Huoganan General , Count B ^ chthold , had gained over the insurwnts near the Roman encampment between Sria and Jarvk ; 300 insurgent * were kilted , and

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      a much greater number wouodeJ . Tho Hungarian troops had only seventeen men killed .

      THE DANUBE PROVINCES . Prince Bibesco bas resigned , and his pachalik has become a Republic . On the 23 rd tho prince signed the 22 concessions demanded by the Boyarda , After thia ect . says the Odeb-Zbitung , the people ' s standard , stripes of white , blue , red , and yellow , with the words 4 Liberty , E quality , Fraternity , ' was hoisted . With the exception of a few broken windows at the hotels of the ministers and at the police-office , no excesses « era committed during the night . On the next day , the 24 th , a National Guard was established . On the 25 h . he convoked the new ministry and principal cit zens , gave them in writing his formal act of

      abdioation , and received passports for Cronstait and Siebenburgen . The present government bears the title , the Moldavian poverament , with the 'Metropolitan * for president . The charter of the constitution has been translated into French by orders of Ghika , and copies sent to Constantinople , Paris , and Vienna . Von Kotzebue . the Russian Consul , has notified to the Secretary of State that be regards the existine treaties as violated , and has already left . The President of tbe Republic is to be elected for a term of five years , and is to receive one thooaand ducats a month salary . _ f he abolition of the Greek convents and emancipation of the Jews has been decreed . All cities of nobility are abolished .

      Letters of the 30 ; h June announce the arrival of Prince Bibesco at Cronstadt , accompanied , it is said ( but this requires confirmation ) , by the Russian general , Dohamel ; the same letter says that the people at Bucharest were up ie arms , and that all persons of any note were making their escape . Villara , the Minister of Foreign Affairs , had fled to Mehadia ; and Nanci , tho Minister of the Interior , to Orsova . According to the recent accounts from the frontier of this principality to the 3 rd July , and Bucharest to the 2 nd inst ., tranquillity appeared to have reigned throughout . The provisional government and National Guards enjoyed the confidence of the people in general , and there was no thought of any reactionary movement in favour of the deposed prince at present . The fear of the Russians had also disappeared for the moment , and recent letters from Jasay mention nothing more respecting the advance of the Russian

      array . Letters Irom Bucharest , dated 27 th of June , state that the provisional government , had addressed a note to the consuls of France , Austria , and Prussia , soliciting tho intervention of those powers in case the constitutisn sworn by Princo , Bibesco should be attacked . , .., ' , Intelligence from the Moldavian frontier announces the arrival near Jasv upon the 3 rd inst ; , of an ad . vanced corps of 10 , 000 Russians , who were to aqt in union with a corps of 4 . 000 Turks , concentrated at Rutsehuk , and preparing to cross the river . These troop * , together with the Russian and Turkish reinforcements on tbe march , will probably enter Wa !« lachia , and either re-establish Prince Bibesco , or appoint another reigning prince at Bucharest . Russian and Turkish invention is guaranteed by treaties . SPAIN .

      A letter from Gerona represents Cabrera on the 3 rd at Montagu ] , near Olot , with 800 foot and fifty hoise . Gen . Enna , at the head of 1 , 500 foot and & squadron of horse of the Queen's troops , was at Olet , but did not sally out te meet the rebels . Thirty Infantry of Maasanet had deserted to-the Carlists . The news from Spain is said to be unfavourable to the Carlist cause . _ Letters from Madrid of the 14 th announce that six Carlist officers had been shot at Estella , in Navarre . A body of Carlists had been completely routed in the mountains on the 12 th , ten were killed and five taken prisoners , of whom three were offi . ers . Letters direct from the frontiers of Navarre say that , the , Carlist . insurrection has Buffered a severe check in the persons of many of the chiefs . Generals Ilzirbe and Zabiri . pursued by the Queen ' s troops , bave been obliged to take refuge in France , as well as Colonels Seto , Eoneferio , and Sebirino .

      POLAND . According to the Pnsen Gazbtib , the Polish inhabitants—judging by all appearance—are preparing for a new insurrection .

      RUSSIA . CHOLERA I » MOSCOW , The chelera appears to rage with great intensity at Moscow . From the 12 th to the 19 th of June , there were 1 , 724 new ca » e 3 , and 728 deaths . On the lastnamed day no less , than 327 cersftns wereseizsd with the dreadful malady , and 153 others died . The cholera is gaining ground at Kasan , Nigni , Novogorod , Kostoma , Jaresla , Wulogda , Smolensko , Toula , and Ka ' ma . It has also made its appearance at Pensa , f wer , Tarkow , Olonelz , Withka , and Orsa . Letters dated St Petersburgh of the 7 th inst , state that the cholera still continued to make alarming orosreps in that city . On the , 4 th inst . there were 1 , 064 new cases declared , 653 . deaths , and 131 recoveries . On , the following day there were 2 . 983 oases in the hospitals . The number of persons at . tacked at Moscow on the 30 ihot June was 1 , 974 , of whom thirty died the same day . ,

      The cholera , which has exhibited snore than ordinary symptoms of virulence , is said to have broken out at Riga , and tbe Emperor , . in order to diminish the chances ot its ravages upon hia advanced columns , has ordered tbe troops on the march to suspend their movements . The unusual sickness which prevails in the garrison . of Posen has led to the apprehension that the cilamity . has also appeared in that city .

      TURKEY . CoKsiANTitfOPiB , June 27 . —The Progressists have been recalled to power . By an Imperial ordinance of the 25 , , Rescbid Pasha has been nominated minister without portfolio , and AH Pasha has been called to tbe Presidency of the Supreme Council of Justice , in the room of Halil Pasha .

      UNITED STATES AND MEXICO . LivBRrooi ,, Wednesday evening . —The steam ship , Britannia , bas just now come up from Halifax and New York , with one week ' s later intelligence , extending to the 5 th inst . Great meetings sympathising with the Irish , continue to be held in all parts of the union . One of Ihese a 8 ? embbgei < , at which 20 , 000 persons , are eaid to have been present , was held jn the neighbourhood of New York city .. Mexico is in a state of anarchy . A formidable conspiracy has broken out in the capital . hariDg for its object the overthrow of tho government and the extermination of the peace party , or the party in favour of the late treaty . The work of assassination had already commenced , fire of the prominent advocates of peace , friends of the United States , hare bten murdered . The conspiracy is headed by Gen . Paredes , Ex-President , and Padre Jarauta , the guerilla leader .

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      Captdhb of a Gang op Rivsb Piratbs . —Daring the past week a gang of thieves , who , for a length of time , have successfully carried on their nightly depredations on the Thames , have been captured and row await their trial . On Friday week last , one of tbe party , who gave his , name Thomas Brown , was brought up for examination at the Guildhall , Rochester , before tbe Mayor and a full bench cf magistrates . The captain and mate of the Sea Nymph identified the nriaoner as one of a gang with whom they had > cuffled on beard their vesse ^ , on Monday . The prisoner was . fully committed for trial , and . his companions , ' who nnderwe ? , t ? n examination afcGravesend on Monday , on various charges of robbery committed on the Thames , have been conveyed to Maidstone gaol for trial at the assises .

      A Fbm * lb Saiior—On Monday a good-looking sailor youth ( as all in court took the prisoner to be ) , ai tired in a blue jacket , striped blue shirt , & o ,, was placed at the bar of the police court , charted by a stout whiskered seaman , named James Kitson , witb having robbed hi"n in a lodging-house of < £ 9 , Mr Parkinson , the Bridewell keeper , intimated , before the case was gone into , that the prisoner turned out to be a young woman . The complainant then said that the prisoner had accosted him on Saturday in the street , asking his assistance , as ; he was in distress , and wanted a ship . Witness took him and gave him his breakfast , and afterwards bis dinner , at Mr Parker ' s cookshop , Wapping . It appeared that cou > plainant had afterwards introduced prisoner to some of his shipmates , and that the whole had been drinking together rather cheerfully during the day . At night Jack invited hh young companion to accspt of part of his bed , and they slept together . He had

      previously given the prisoner a jacket , so as to appear more tidy than before . In the morning , the sailor somehow suspected the sex of hia partner , and miao inst his money , went down stairs to the landlord , and told him there was , he believed , & woman in his room , who had robbed bim . The landlord laughed , andsaid he must be mistaken , and had perhaps had 4 he horro ? s . ' The prisoner was not , it appears , really discovered to be a female antil taken into custody . Seven shillings were t <; und on the prisoner , and she said the jacket waa given to her by the complainant , and she bad found the money in it , Mr Parkinson said he had learned that prisoner ' s mother had (? on & from Manchester by a packet ship from this port te New York , that they had somehow missed each other in coming here , and tbat the prisoner had come in disguise , in hones of working her way out aa a sailor . Mr Rushton remanded her . She gave her name as Mary Ann Martin . —Liverpool Standard .

      A Long Face . —A gentleman having a remarkably long visage , overhear j a lad observe to another as ho passed them , ' Tnat gentleman ' s face is longer than hUjifo . ' Struck roith tha singularity ot the observation , he returned and requested an explanation . ' Sir , ' eaid the boy , M read at school that a man ' s life is but a span , and 1 am sure your face ia double that length . ' Going Shacks , —At the time of ( ho plague in London , a noted body-snatohes lived , whose name was Snacks . Hia business increased so fast , that , finding that he eould not cosapass it , he offered to any person whe should join him in his practice half the profits . Those < ah . a joined him were said to go with Snacks ; beaea ' pingBBaobe' had itsorigiQi

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      SATURDAY , Jolt 15 - HOUSE OF COMMONS .-The hou ' so met nt twelve o ' clock , to receive « ho Report on tho Sugar Dtu | eB In reply to a question from Lurd O . Bentinok the Chancellor of the Excbeqceb stated that tho Datoh end Hamburg refined sugars were admissable under the new resolution to homo consumption , at £ 1 8 s , ii duty . The Report of the Committee for granting £ 3 . 000 , 000 out of the Consolidated Fund for supplies , already Toted , was then received , Tho house adjaurned at half . past twelve o ' clock . MONDAY Jolt 17 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Lord Raor / amst who , on Friday last , bad laid a bill on the table for the Protection of Yf omen , iniimated , in reply to Lord Campbell , that it was not his intention ta proceed with the same during the present session .

      Spaih . —The eaUiing state of affairs in Spain was made the subject of conversation at the instance of tke Marquis of Londondeb & t , the Marquis of La . nbdownb , and the Earl of Malmesbobt taking part tkereln , the principal subjects referred to being the recent execution of a Carlist general , and the propriety of the government ' s urging upon the pretender to the crown of Spain , at present resident in this country , the discouragement of each attempts as were at present making in bis behalf , After short discussions tbe Law of Entail ( Scotland ) Bill passed through committee , and the Canada Union Act Ameodment Bill was read a third time , and their lordahipg adjourned , HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Mr Hisdlet , in reply to Sir B . Hall , ataied that , with much reluctance , he felt compelled to withdraw tbe Sunday Trading ( Metro , polls ) Bill for the present session .

      Business o » the Sessios . —Lord J . Rcsskll had , in answer to a question put the other day by tbe right hon . msmbtr for Ripon , said that he would to-d » y take Ikat which of late years had been the usual course of staring what were the bills gevernment hoped to be enabled to proceed with during the present session , and what were those they intended to abandon . In faifil . ling that promise ha would confine himself to the principal of those measures , those which were of the greatest Importance ; it was not necessary that he should go into any statement of the minor bills . With regard to tho first of those principal measures , the Public Health Bill , whleh had already passed through tho House of Commons , and had been read a second time In the House of Lords , it was the intention of government to press for the decision of parliament on that measure ,

      and he trusted it would receive the royal assent before tbe close of the session . ( Hear , hear , ) , Nest as to the encumbered Eitates ( Ireland ) BUI , that measure had come dawn from the House oi Lords , since when many amendments had been Introduced into It by the Home of Commons , and it had now gone through committee with tho almost general assent of the house ; and ho should certainly endeavour to press through the further proceedings on that bill , with the view of obtaining the assent of the Lords to the amendments , and to its passing during the present session , believing as he did that the measure was ono of great importance , and that Its enactment ought not to be delayed . There was another bill which he had introduced only the other night , and which he proposed to move the second reading of on Thursday next—the bill

      for putting a stop to tbe corrupt practices in boroughs . Tbat was a measure which he thought it would not be fi : tlng to postpoae , and which he should therefore propeed with as ho bad stated on Thursday , and ho hoped It would receive tbe assent of parliament . Then as to the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill , that , which . was also a measure that had come down from the other honse , was in tho bands of his noble friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs , who intended , as soon ns he should be ablo to obtain a day for the purpose , to move Its second reading , with the view of proceeding with it during the present session . He now came to a question of the utmeat importance—a measure which was founded on a recommendation contained in the Queen'tr speech & t the opening ef tho session , but which , owing to the lengthened debates on the navy and other estimates and

      on the Income Tax Bill , though ministers bad hoped to bring . it forward at an early period of the sessios , laey had not been able to do until May—he ititctt & i to the resolution on which to found the bill for altering the navigation laws . ( Hear , hear . ) And since the introduction of that resolution , in consequence of the lengthened debates on the sugar duties and other questions , they had been disappointed in their hope of going on Continuously with the discussion of tho preliminary re-Solution , and with the bill when It should ba introduced . As mattters now stood , considering the late period of the year , the very great importance of the question , and that the bill could not yet : for some time go up te the House of . Lords , government had most reluctantly come to the opinion that they could not proceed with \ t during tho preaoBtseBSion . ( 'Ob , * from the

      Protectionists . ) At the same time he hoped there would be no objection on the part of the home to go into committee , with the view of assenting to tho resolution , and enabliag bis right hon friend to introduce tbo bill ; eo that the bouse and the country might have it before them during tbe recess , and be in posses-don of what was really the character of the measure ministers proposed , ( Hear , hear . ) Ho felt that while this measure had been the subject of considerable discussion In the house and tbis country , tho failure of its passing in the present session would be a great disappointment to soma of our most important colonies —( hear , 'hear ) , —and he thought It therefore his duty to declare that while taking upon himself the blame—if there was blame , of the d elay—without Imputing blame te any man or any body of men in that house , it waa bis . duty to declare that the government

      proposed to introduce the measure at tho very earliest period of tho nezt session ; and after tho discussion which it hoe received , and the approbation of the principle which has been expressed by a large mejority of the house , the important province of Canada and those foroigu powers to whom we had hold out the expeotation that our navigation laws would bo repealed might rest confident that next session of parliament would see a measure—whether in all respects exactly the same as that the government proposed he would not say—but that in the noxfrseBSion a measure fakint away tbe restrictions now Imposed by the navigation lows would receive the assent of parliament . ( Hear , hear . ) With tbe measure with regard to the navigation laws government proposed to withdraw the Mtrohont Seamen ' s Fund Bill , which was consequent upon that measure .

      Thtro was another measure which had received scarcely any discussion bb yet—the measure relating to the franchise and registration of voters for members of parliament in Ireland . That was undoubtedly an Important measure ; but at this time of tbe year it was too late to begin o discussion npon It ; ho therefore proposed to postpone that al 39 to another session . Tho Landlord and Tenont ( Ireland ) Bill , which was also one of great importance to Ireland , to the principle of that bill tiaey should endeavour to obtain the assent of the bouse before parliament pro rpgued . He attached more Importance to the assent of parliament to the principle of this bill , in regard to its beneficial effect upon Ireland , * han to Its details ; therefore , whether tbey should be enabled to . proceed with tho details or nothe proposed to ask the house , to

      , affirm the principle . There were certain other bills which had been Intro Jucod by his right hon . friend the President ef the Poor-law Board , whlcklt waslntsnded to proceed with ; and on an early day his rig ht hon . friend would explain the reasons why he thought they should , pass . There were many other bills in the long list before him , most of which were of minor importinee , several of which had no t been broug ht forward by government , and in which they were not concerned , and to which ho would Hot advert ; but having stated the intentions qf . governmen t as to th 9 pringlpnl and more important measurte , he would now propose that the order of the day for the Merchant Seamecs Faad Bill be road , in order tbat it mig iit bo discharged . I After some observatlone from Messrs Goolbcsn and Hkbiiies , in opposition to the free trade pelicy of tho

      government , I Mr BRIGUI Said , he thought tbe present would be no ubfitiing opportunity to offer a few remarks with regard W tha progress of business during the present session , and the unfortunate course which the government had pursued . { Hear , hear . ) The measure for the repeal of tho navigation laws , which tho government had just announced they had abandoned , had been recommended in the Queen ' s onoeeh at the eommcnoeaient of ths sei . aion— ( hear , hsar)—and he believed that tbe great tnanufactwring towns of the country , and a large proportion of the more commercial and shipping towns wiere in favour of the abolition of the navigation laws . The nobis lord said his resolution had been introduced in May , but It was net the fault of the house that it was njot introduced soonsr , for questions were asked over andovaragainonhisfMrBrlght ' a ) side of the house when the noblo lord intended to Introduce his mensura . Hia opinion was , that tho government , from some cause or otherwere not estreraely anxious to have that bill

      , passed . ( Hear , ) It might be thO th « y were afraid of the hostility of hon . gentlemen opposite if they snoceedt d la carrying it . But the bill might have been pressed in place of other bUl « not more necessary . Ke beggeQ to c & H the attention of tho house to one or two facte , namely , that they had not attended to tho duties which they bad been called ob to discharge . Tbe honse hod me t before ChaUtmos , and had a short and not quite unproductive » es . lon . Two subjects aceufded thoir attention , the Bank Charter Act and the Bill for the Protectionof Life and Property in Ireland , which was really a bill te disarm certain portions of the Irish people . After Christmas the state of Irelafid was again brought before tho-houso . It was a standing dish in tbat house , and had been so ever since the oldest member was a boy . ( A laugh . ) The house also passed a bill to make offenoaa felony which had before been treaaon « nd sedition . The government had introduced tha bill of which thanobl * lord bad spoken—a most Important and valuable measure he would admit—for facilitating the

      sale of encumbered estates in Ireland , There was another Irish measure , that for improvl og or extending tho frAnchlse , tohich he understood would not be proooodedwlth ; Hehadnotexpeoted . lt would , snd had not been able to discover why It had bo « n introduced at all , if It was allowed to remain idle so long , unless somebndy had whispered tbat the hon . gentlemen opposite intended to oppose it as a new reform bill for Ireland . It might be that a new reform bill was wnnttd for Ireland , for he had ascertained some facts lately regarding tho state of ths reproientation in that country . Indeed , it was admitted on the authority of the govern-.

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      ment , that there wiTe only some 69 , 006 or it rai Rfet bs 10 , 000 voters in ; hst country , in a population of 8 000 005 . Take Dublin , for example , where he bad been shuns for the last seven weeks npon a most protracted inquiry . ( ' Hear , ' and a laugh . ) There wert 21 , 000 persona npon the electoral roll , of whom , perhaps , cot more than 7 , " 00 wi'rc entitled to vote , owing to the rcgistratioRonly tskiug pi oa once is eight years . Then there were soma ten or nfteen different rates , cesses , and taxes which an elector of Dublin was obliged to p * y beiota he could he on the register to exercise his vote . It woo a d scredit to tbat house and a fraud upon the Irish people to cob-. tinueosysttm of registration which was a clog npoa the exsreiso of tbo franchise which the legislature professed to bestow . What was tha present state of Ira . land—to say nothing of its prospects — now that ParHa .

      ment was about to separatet ( Hear , hear . ) HosbouM ^ ZTi ya 8 eat , n , hel"K » e , and should fall i * bto Till , c . ' Uuent » » Kbe did not ask the atteatioa £ Sm ? n ? TZV had mnon *•» « W « ta of in thud did IT i Ire , anti , *™ * - * ° ™* «¦ * - land did not stop there ; when it prevailed it whienh * Tr , Lanca 8 bira a " ° - UnTrTe Wl which had been passed oinw Christmas an Irishman haA bum transported . What had been the result » Wfl rr J relandBDy more tban ithad bofore ! 1 Hear hear . ) Was not tvery 6 na wonr ! oa wlth rtt £ iag everyday accounts in the papers of new arrcstalte SCdtion or felony , of newspaper offices broken into bf Hfilinn nti . Mi > . « . - _ I „_ J i * . # pelica elied nd of

      , presses s , a transaction , of thatbtaal which had not occurred before for a generation ? P « w baps it might be necessary to take these steps , but vera there not clubs formed in every part of the country ; ia tho south to oppose , in the north to support the government—5 , 000 or 6 , 000 men meeting in arms ? And wha » was at tho root of oil thia ! The contest now was . M It always had been , Catholics on the one side , and Protestants and Orangemen on the other . That was tha root of the political discontent , and until it was weodci out the discontent would continuo . At the eod of U » November leasion ho had asked the aoble lord whatttff among the remedial measures he intended to introdona there would be ono relating to the Irish church , and tha noble lerd , answering in a manner as if he did not JM * fc

      any grievanoo at all existed under that head—aUhongk some ten or fifteen years befero he had acknowledge that there was — said that he had no memure of that kind in contemplation . Now , the Irish church WW 8 $ the root of the political discontent in Ireland , and eo long as ie remaiaea as it was , frem that root wonM grow up those noxious brooches which had spread ffls . order and rebellion throughout one third of the unltei kingdom . With Ireland in nnoh a condition tbe safety of the whole of the empire wos imperilled , yet thohonn seemed to have come to the conclusion that Ireland would of necessity be always a thorn in the side of England , and that It was useless to make endeavours to ra . move it . It was the daty of the government to bars considered tbis question of the Irish church , the ohurcSi of a small minorit y of the people—a church which must

      go down in spite of every effort made to mointaln it , ana which would bring dewn tho church of England in it * fall , If It were allowed to remain much long er in its pre . sent state . It was considered to bo tbe bulwark of tna church of England , but there never , was a more rottta bulwark , and , if he ( Mr Bright ) was a memberof tha Churoh of Bng ' and , he should ont of regard to his own establishment be very glad to see it abolished . ' What state of things existed in Ireland ! If they were to be . lieve the newspapers , or the reports of individuals , or to draw inferences from the measures ef the government , inaurrection and rebellion had come upon that conntfj ; . And what steps bad been taken to meet the emergency By and by scenes would be enacted such as had occurreS in Canada ; there would be contests between the people and tho police and military , and th £ D . after somethtaz

      like a desolation had been produced which would ba called peace , the government would come downandpropeso measures which would be passed b y large majori . tle » , measures which they ought te propose now , before these evils bed come to a head , measures which were as just new as thej would be after an absolute insurrection bad taken place . The llMeeling sril > - sUHng between Catholics and Protestants would * 8 embittered , and all hope for peace and contentmecfi in Ireland would be more remote than it was even la 1793 . The government ought not toallow parliament to separate without taking up tfeew questions , and givtej some hopo to that party in Ireland which was not anxions for insurrection . It was not the whole Repeal party , ljn % only a section of violent men , that wanted insurrection . If fie noble I » rd bad brought it aa Irish Church sW

      and a liberal measure with regard to representation , it would have given all who were not animated with des . perate hostility to tbis country a plea for seceding from the extreme party , and the government * ould cot oaSg have beea supported by the Orangemen of the north , but by all tho moderate Catholics of tho ' south . Tha maintenance of the chnrch of the minority bad bran tb » curse of Ireland , and the etnie of tho representation wst a fraud npon tbo people ; and when he saw that ths goverament bad not the courage to grapplo with them evils , and that the houso did not think it worth while to press them upon their attention , he , for one , washed Mb hand ] from all responsibility for tha evils that were to come . ( Laughter . ) As to the measures that were te b » postponed , he understood that the government accepted tho blame , If any , for the bill regarding tho navigation

      laws not having passed this lesilon . That measure , recommended in tbe Royal speech , had been postpoosS for measures subsrqutntly introduced , and his opinkm was , that 1 / tbe noble lord had stood np and declare ! that that measure must be passed , and tbat parliameas could not separate until it bad been passed , tho resell would havo been tbat tbo bill would have become law . But the noble lord did not fieem to rise to tho dignity an * Influesce of his position . Hero was the metropolitan oity of England partially disfranchised , and nothing was done to remedy tbe evil , There had been Prime Minis * tcrs not better than tho noble lord , not more honest anfl patriotic , bnt who would have had the courage to obtain from that and the ether house of parliament measures more In accordance with the wishes of the people « f the united kingdom .

      Mr Y . Smith defended tho manner in which thepuMo business faad been conducted ry the government . Be traordlnary circumstances had occurred which fal $ y justified a departure from the usual rules , bat lit government had taken the best course at the commenea ment Of the session , la proposing only a few meassra which they meant to pass , Upon tbe present oscanon , less business bad , in fact , been thrown over than ia remembered to have been postponed in former sessions . When tho bon . member attacked the government tas postponements , be ought to remember , from bis own experience , the difficulty of dealing with questions affecting the poor ; for the hon , gentleman himself had hefi the game laws in his bands for three years without s *» complisbing anything . ( Hear , bear . )

      A protracted debate ensued , in which members traB all sides of the house attacked Ministers on some portloa nr other of their poi ' cy . The general complaint , how » evi r , being tbat the session bad been , and was likely « t > be , completely barren , notwithstanding the lengthsoaa period for which tbey had sat . Mr Home said , the house had beea called to meet la November to remedy the ills of Ireland . A bill h » 4 been passed , and what bed been tho pledge of tho go . verament ! Why , that they would be prepared to ia . troduce remedial measures . Thoy hod passed two bUIs —what was called tbe Gagging BUI and the Allen BiflL

      What other measerze had they passed of a remedial kind for Ireland ? Tho bon . baronet ( Sir R . Inglis ) ha 8 said bo hoped tbe Church of Ireland would latt as long as the Church of England . He ( Mr Hume ) had great doubts of that . ( A laugh . ) He thoogbt the Irh Church Was at the root of all the evils In Ireland , anil wan it to be supposed thot the people of England would wish to retain that which wos at the root of all tha evils of Ireland ? The people of that country wera Biarvlog ; how could it be otherwise ? On these grounds lie said tho psopla cf England and tho ptople of Ireland would look at that house in a most extraordinary pohjfc

      of view . He protested against the proceedings of thai government , ond be appealed to tho people of England . The time was come when tbey must have other parliaments and other ministers who could carry out their measures . Ho would have sat till November tired as he was of the preaont session , rather than give np measures for relieving the people of Ireland , and rather thon no * pass a bill for the repeal of tho Navigation Laws . Tir e house deserved the censure of tbe country , and it would n curve it ; it would take the matter into its own bands , and send better members-to parliament , who Would attend to their duties to the souavry instead of wasting time ia party struggles .

      Lord 3 Rbsbell had not thought it necessary te goat any Ungtb . Into tha question of Ireland , becsusO there were already two notices on it In tbe order-book . Ho would , however , remark that Mr Bright , in assorting that tho government had refused to proceed with tha Irish RegUtratioa . Act because it was oonsidj-Md a U 8 « Reform Bill , was misinformed , as he also wos in hie atsertloa with regard to the Navigation Laws . He could not bring on iho resolutions- regarding those laws earlier that he had dons without allowing tho Mutiny BUI and the Property Tax to expire . Amid the censures wbleh

      Mr Bright . bad oast upoa tha government , be had ad . mitted tbat tho Encumbered Estates ( Ireland } BUlwaB necessary to lay tho foundation for tbo bettor social con . ditionof Ireland ; and with that comp liment-to tha policy of the government he was so content that W would not add a word more in reply to hit attack . Ho did not intend , to , propo «» an alteration of Oathfl BUI this session , but he should certainly do it next session . Aa to the Diplomatic Rtlatlona with Rome Bill , n « would only say that there had been no division upon U in the House of Lords , aad he therefore hoped tbat it

      might pass during the present session . Hr OsaoKMB thanght It wrong that tbe home or tha country should be deceived as t > the real state of Ireland , The present condition of th ** country ¦ " ¦«¦ *<» setiottf to be dlsmlsssd in thovasy off-hand woy in ****; It bad been treated by the noble lord and other ban . members . He believed that the coarse of the prosaaa discussion had found two hon . gentleman , the n 0 ° , nI ™? ber for Northampton aad tha hon . member tot ' I *& " ?»* bury , perfectly satisfied with tho atatement of tnei noau lord but he ( Mr Osborne ) thought the co »«¦« j £ - vernmentwltn rejpect to Ireland define o ' " ™ more than mere invective . ( Hear , bear . ) He _ wasn * 8 going to make anattacken the government with . reap ** to Ireland ; because a . ha would do netting jWg to tke dead , so he would sa , nothing «« f »'* ^ nd expiring government . 8 « « SJS Ireland must not , howsver , be loft in their pr «* nt * o » .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 22, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22071848/page/7/