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      """" THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . THE ELECTIONS . vaeib . Satorday . —It was not till past ten _e'clock _weig ht that the laborious operation of counting _^ casting ap the-rotes for the election of the _de-•^ _nje nt of the Seine w & s brought to a _wmclimsn . LTim * _eomceiiceri at cine in the morning , it _occui- _p * thirteen hours . The whole ef tbe _proceeding _^ exce edingly orderly , and there was very little , r . pe ar _» nce of excitement even among the _people con-Ij _^ _sted in t ha _ntigbbcorhood of the _Hetel fie Yille , _| _-ce last vote < added to the list were these ot the _"""" _- » .. _ti _tmcxTrtrT _nnnrrnr _rn

      _jrOT and tbe Garde Mobile . The operation _waspre _, _-jsd ever by M . Ve ? , the mayor of the fifth _arroniisement , a & sUted by tbe other eleven _mayor-ad' _jjotsof Paris , and M . Flotterd , tbe general _eecre-• _jrj ol the mayoralty . When the whole of the lists jid been summed up . the twelve mayors carried the _jtiarns to M . Marrast . the mayor of Paris , who imj <; diately afterwards appeared in an _estrade in front tf tie Hotel . de Ville , surrounded by the _assistant _p 5 Tors , and proclaimed tfaa _following thirty-four _jf _isans as having b-en elected _representatives of tha ) e ? SI tmentin tho National _Auembiy : —

      j \ r _, Lamartine , member of the Provisional Go vernment < tt < t ... 259 800 j papoat , < le I'Baxe , idea ... ... _215 OSS 5 _YratiesU Arago . _idta . ... ... __ 2 iS fjlQ i _QirnitTFeg-. t , i < Im ... ... . „ 240 695 5 B srrast _, idem ... 229 166 _f « aiie , t < f * ir- ... ... ... ... 225 , 776 - Cretn cux , iicm ... ... ... 210 , 699 f E-. _» sger . _Chestoanler ... ... ... _jfM _fjt s _Cirno _^ _Ministtr of _FublioInttroction „ , i ? 5 _, 608 _•\ B = thaon t , Hinister « f Agriculture * nd _Cotscerca ... ... — ... 189 , 252 ., j ) 0 mier , _General Commandant of _theGarda H > bSJa ... ... ... ... 182175

      «« _fajinssd ce Lsiteyne , aa « tnt deputy , „ i 65 , _iss « _Vevin , ane unt deputy ... ... ... 151 . _los _jj C _^ _slgnae , Governor . Gentral of Algiers ... H 4 . 187 is B ; rger , ancient deputy ... ... _ISi . _CSS ij _pigaerre _. Secretary-General of the _Provi-IjonglGovcrnmeat ... ... ... 1 SS 117 !• Bochtz , _Adjuscr to th _» Mayor of Pari * ... 135 678 j _« CormenlB , _Presiaent of the Council of State 135 . 650 « Corboa , tr . irrifr sculptor on wood , and _redae- _j _^ _tr . ir en chef of the Atelier paper ... ... 135 . 0 * 3 _* 3 _Cenisidiere , Prefect of Police ... ... 1 S 3 . 775 jl Albert , member oi tbe _Jrovuional Government ... _•«• •• ' ••• 13 S i * _t j ; \ 7 olovf sht _. professor at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers ... — ••• ls 2 _S 3 *

      j 3 Peapln . _eusrwr hcrlogicr — 131 . 969 ' n _Lfaru-KoIliE , member of the _Provisiensl _Go-Ternmeot ... ... — 131 , 537 » 5 J . P . Schmltb , eutrier ... ... 12 i , S 83 -s Flocon , member of the Provisional GoTern-BB * _™&* < 7 _Ikw ' s Blane , idem ... •• ••• 121140

      _js B « _urt . Adjunct to the Mayor of Paris ... 118 . 076 j 5 _igrlcalP _^ _fSiguier . oiimfTir . cntKffr ... 117 , 290 « _JclcsButide , _Cnaer-Sewetary of State at tbe Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... 110 223 j _fjjquerel _, Pre _' tesunt clergyman ... ... 109 934 _ _Gsrnon , ancient deputy ... ... 106 747 S 3 Gurnard , colonel of the artillery tf the Natioaal Guard ... ... ... 165 . 262

      _ji _Abfce _Lsrneanals ... ... ... 104 , 871 At the head of the list of unsuccessful candidates _^ s M . Moreaa . formerly one oi the deputies of Paris _, who bad 99 368 Totes _, and M . Boiasel . also a deputy for Paris in the late Chamb _er , who had 93 442 rote . The ceremony of proclaiming the _representatives wss very _pictnresqne . The square in front efthe Hotel de Ville was occupied by 10 000 Na-HoesI Guards , cavalry and infantry , and the estrade _f lighted by » body of the Garde Mobile carrying torches . None of tbe candidates were present , with lhe exception of M . Marrast himself . After the _ancoancemeHt the Hotel de Yille was illuminated . In the above list the known ultra . Democrats _are—Corbon . ouvrier , carver in wood , and principal editor of _L'A-rxusR , Cauteidiere , Prefect of Police , . Albert , _oirerifr , Ledra-Ro'lin , Flocon , l / _rais Blanc , and Guinard , Colonel of Artillery of the National Guard . It isbelieved . however , that several more in the above list wiU declare themselves on tfee Democraticside .

      .. , Tdb _RBTOBifS thus expresses itself on the elee . tions : —* We expected that the elections would be eery bad , bnt the result , it mast be avowed , has exceeded onr expectation . We have said under wbat influence the ballot was everywhere opened . Tbe functionaries of tbe fallen reign had on ' y to follow the track which the practiakef _sevent _^ n yearemust _kara rendered easy . The monarchic tree , wh ' ch wa _oslv praned , has borne ita _fruita . It was this league of royal functionaries that the commissaries of the government had the mission to counteract without doubt ; but the latter bad at tfee same time to profiote tkeir candidaUsbips , and when they did cot compromise with the parries who conld injare them , we nay at least believe thatthey refrained from

      _irritating them . In that generally , and with some exceptions , has their dictatorship resulted . We conld sot _oesiremore to show that all the circolars of tbe _citiun Minister ofthe Interior were right , if they _required to be justified . When we demanded that tbe incompatibility of tbe royal cimmissaries in the dep srttnents with _theadrainistration of wbicb they were charged should ba formally decrted _, 6 nr precaution , as has been seen , was correct . The reaction has done the rest . It has also continued the system of the _menarchy ; it has sounded the alarm , cried com monism and anarchy , and it was under _thi 3 sort of panic that rnaay _eo = d people _f oted . Bat let us have patience . Tbe " ballots arft changeable , and we are gifted with perseverance which nothing can

      _diseinrsge . M . _rbiers bas not bsen elected ; MM . de Remnsat » nd Lson de Malleville have been returned for the departaent of the Upper Garonne , Three prelates hive been _raton-ed for the Assembly : the Archbishop of Paris is returned for _Aveyron ; the Bishop of Orleans , ior Loz rre ; and the Bishop of Quimpgr , for _Furisterre . Leon Faacber has been elected . Among the _weU-known members of the Chamber of Deputies , who have not _secured seats lathe National _Assemblv , M . Emile de Girardin is one . He has been thrown out by his Jate constituents at Bourgaienf . to mate room for one of M- _Ledru-Rollia's

      Garamissarie _? . Up to Tuesday _evening , accounts have been received ofthe result of apvrards of 600 elections . _^ Thc members returned are mostly _mederate _^ Republicans , bnt a considerable number of monarchists and _Ieei-Jimiste h ave also been elected , and among- them tba iiarquis de Larochfjaqaelin _, the Viscount de _Falloax , M . _Combarel , de Seyval . and several others wbo had seats in the Chamber of Deputies . The Bish * p of _Langres and several prietts have also been returned . Murat _. _son of ihe famous Marat , King of MQl _& i his been elected . 3 _HEDEPABTU . E 5 T 5—SKHOCS A 5 D _SiKGCTSAET C 3 SKSIS . Rouex . —A serious emeute broke ont at Rouen on the 26 th . Groups of workmen assembled in the Place Saint Ouen , and discussed the probable results

      ofthe elections . A man having cried , ' Deschamps will not be _naminated I' a crowd of men in blouses ran after him . The National Guard bavin ? tried to stop them , a _csllisian _toek place , lhou _^ h it was without gravity , an _imposisg force tt infantry , bn 5 are _, artillery , and National Guard turned opt , sad the Hotel de Ville W 2 S occupied . At _ab- > at nine o ' clock in the evening a band , composed of 200 pera on * , passed along the quay ? - shooting' A bas _i'As-S 3 sblee Rationale 1 ' end 'Vive Deschamps ' . ' and _sinring tfce Cairo . _Xear the Rne St Lo , & company of National Guards separated t !< . e crowd , whereupon there were cr ' es of' Down witb theNational Guard I Down with tbe aristocrats ! ' On tbe Place des CarmeB a troop of dragoons dispersed a crowd , wbo cried « Down with the dracoons . ' After passing along the Place S : Ouen . wbicb was occupied by the National

      _Gaards and hussars , the people dispersed . The night passed f ff quietly . In the _SOining Of the 23 th ranch agitation was again visible . Band g of yonng men approached the National GuardB _posted near the _HotsI de Ville . and endeavoured to irritate them by asking use of _insnltint' expressions . A fatee report WSS _EdOn alter raised , thatthe people had been fired on , _acd a general cry was raised of' Aur _sttmes ; on as = a = sine nos _freres ; ' At ihe same time a patrol of National Guards were attacked , and an attempt made to disarm tbem . This attempt only succeeded in part , acd tbe National Guards at length reached the B otel de Ville . Stones were thrown at tbe armed fore - . A picquet of dragoons and some National _Gctsrds a cheval charged the crowd , and cleared the _Equare . In the memtime barricades were raised in several parts of the town , but they were soon carried

      by the troops . As night approached thenoters became emboldened , and attempted to defend _themselves . One man was shot , and another killed by a thrust from a bayonet . As Eoon as the conflict began , the gove-nment commissary went to the Hotel de Ville to _couoert measures of defence with the municipal authorities and tbe commandants ofthe armed force . Several were killed and wounded . At midnight order had been very nearly restored . The journals of _Rauen _. of Friday , state tbat the authorities only attetnpt ? d the seizure of tbe barricades after the legal _form-ditifs of _summoning the insurgents to surrender hadb _3 enexerc ? s d . When these were witb treated contempt , a sharp fire from raa _^ _fcetry and cannon Wfi 8 opened _moa the barricades , and the most important of them surrendered after & terrible resistance . This

      was in the streets near ( he Clos St Marc , but near the _Martainville the _insurgents held out and a fire of musketry waa kept np for an hour _, fit the end of which the insargents in that quarter made an _unconditional surrender , and ex pre « ed great contrition for their conduct . The Government Commissary , M . Deschamps , and the Provisional Major , M . _Lebelleau , then went through the streets which had been __ th -j scene of _disaster , _proclaiming _pesoe and conciliation . Lnhs ? pily , however , the conflict was renewed . Tne people threw stones , and tired at the escort ci a commissary of _police , and _besan to construct new birricades _' in the _qaartierj Martainville and SI _llilaire . _andaven on Boulevards bearing these names . A charge was made bythe cavalry upen the _insur-

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      _gairts on the Place St _Hiiiare , aud they were driven is far as the railroad bridge on the road to Dametil . Three of the insurgents were killed iu th . itattack . At Saint Sever there w & s a large body of insurgents , but these a ! so were routed , and flad across the plain . A barricade was carried by Eoiae National Guards , and the infantry ofthe Ike coming up the pursuit of tbe insargents wss continuedthey attempted to maintain a stand at a barricade at the end of the _Rua _d'Elbenf , but it was carried , and two of he defenders lost their lives . During the _remainder of the day the insurgents were comparatively qniet , witb ihe exception of an attack upon a _i > i > tri > l from the windows of some houses in the Rue Martainville . None of the patrol suffered ; hut the fire being returned , two of the assailants were killed Up to three o ' clock in the morning , the date in the article in the Jotjrh & Ii de _Rsubn , no . . _^ _^ . .

      further attempt had been made fay the insargents , and such precaution * bad been adopted that it was not thought probable they would resume their criminal _^ nterprise . The citv , however , wa * still in a state of consternation . The number of killed on tnetwo days ig est < nrste < 3 at twenty-two ; _buttiat of the wounded could not be ascertained . Ifc does cot appear that there bas been any serious _lesa on the side of ihe National Guard and the _trorips . Two hundred and forty-four persons baFe been arrested : amongst th < = m is M . DuraB _< _* . deputy-mayor , and cK . ef of * ckb . A Kody ol 1200 flf the Garde Mob'le left Paris on Thursday evening for Roues . The _Jnrj RRAt , de Roukn adds that the workmen of _Elbpuf have aleo risen , and ammunition had been sent off to that _plsce for the troHps and the National Guard * One account states that fifteen or twenty National Guards were killed .

      The _Rkfiieuk of Sunday , commenting on tbese sad events says : — ' The reaction has reached its height . It has _separated the nation into two campg—it has _esfcaoligned _oe'ween two classes of _citizenB tbat line of demarcation which the Revolution of February had eff _icpiL The contest between the _bourowsie and tbe proletariat has _recommenced- Blood has been shed at Rouen ; it has been shed at Elbeuf—a precious blood , whatever may be the rink of the fallen victims _, and whieh will < nly n & ect the mora impla . cably oa those workers of discord whose receptacles are bpside us . .

      Yes , ifc is through the instigation ef all those barefaced organs of the two last reigns that the nation is in a disturbed and agitated state—tbe nation , s little 8 _go so calm , and in which all sentiment seemed to be confounded in an equal love of coun . ? ry . No : it iB not to the commissaries of the government tbat _thesedisorders are te be attributed ; to _tbo-e commissaries of the government against whom the population bin been so often stirred up on their arrival , and even before tbey had done any aot o authority . And do they know well wb . os » _Rgents they arp , those instigators of civil war ? Did they nat then see the ambassadors of St Petersburg and London at their wind ws . observing their deeds of _prowess nn the 16 th of April 1

      But let natriotsrally together , let tbem discipline themselves : let tbem be ready for every event , for the danger is imminent , and the moment is not , perhaps , far distant when they may bave need of all their c _uraee- '

      THE _lSSDRRECIIOKAT B 0 _OSS- —FURTHER FARnC ( J £ . 4 B » . Rodks , April 29—After two days of sanguinary fighting the battle ceased at twelve o ' clock this day , but it is te be apprehended that it will recommence at the first opportunity . It lias been impossible to a _» o ? rtain the number of killed and wounded , as each oarty removed their men as tbey fell . More tban 300 nf the insureents have been made prisoners It was found _necessary to carry every barricade with the bayonet , under tha protection of _vollies of gra > e-8 B 0 * _. The town has been put under martial law . The chief nommand has been given to General Ordonner . Sentinels are placed at each house , and a strong » _uard is stationed ? t the corner of every _strret , supported by cavalry and artillery with h _' ehfed _matches . It is _estimated that there are 30 . 000 operatives in the town of R-uen , and double the number in the _vailks adjoining , but tha latter refused to rise , saying tbey had no arms .

      Some columns of insurgent * quitted Ronen this mornihg to excite an insurrection at _Eibcsaf . _Louviers . and Evreux . They succeeded only at Elbceuf , but their triainph wss short , for a military force _desDatehed from Paris , and _sssisfcpd by the National Guard , succeeded in suppressing the insurrection . At _Elrosnf the National _Guards and the troops of the line had taVen po _^ _saioa of all tbe prats oecupied by the rioters . The general commandi- g the 14 th military division and tbe Procnrenr General of Ronen had arrived in ibat town , for the purpose of restoring order , ard _examining into the affair . I 5 SCHRECTI 0 NS AT AMIENS . KISHES , _EOCHFOBT , _AND

      LIMOGES . Accounts have also been received of severe dtsf urb * _tnces which broke out . on Saturday at Amiens . The ouvn fr _« wentirj a bod ? to the _residence of the mayor , to demand that they sh uld be paid their _wageson Easter Tuesday , the day of tbe elections . The National Guard- and the line were immediately _eafferJont . and the crowd having atte _* npted to forve their _* ay into the Flotel de Ville several collisions took place between the people and the troops . The mob then b _gaatibui'd _bapctdesin the different streets , but the National Guards and the _tror-ps took them without an ? great difficulty , and by the last accounts the rioters had been cnmpjetely put down . Only one person ia stated to have been killed , bnt a great number were wounded . Eighteen of tho rioters bave b _* en taken .

      At _Nismes _, tbe insnrrection was at one moment formidable . Throughout the Rne de Dome various di 88 rders had taken place . At Rochfort _, the balletboxes were bnrnt by the people , under the belief that fraud * , contrary to the interests ef the Republicans , had been committed by tbe returning officer . The following is an account of the insurrection at Limiges : — 'OnTbursday , about twelve o ' clock , when the gene - ral examination of the votes ofthe _cantonsha'l rendered certain tbe exclusion ofthe Communist _candida'es , a great crowd b ? sieeed the room in which the electoral operations were carried on , and tonic

      possession , in spite ofthe remonstrances of tbe employees , ofthe proces verlaux _nf the canton , and tbe bulletins of the army , which were immediately torn to pieces . Immediately _aft-erwardsmenacingbands paraded the city , disarmed the _postB of the National Guard , seized the cannon and tbe magazine . Tho National Guard _immediately as'embied . but the colonel gave tbem orders to disband , and the city was then in the power of tbe insurgents . A committee was immediately formed , and took on itself the administration of tbe department . Happily no act cf violence to person or property was _committed . Some nf the National Guard have been slightly wounded .

      Tbere have been serious disturbances at Nismes and Marseilles . Limoges wag still in the hands of the _in-urgents , " but tTarqnility prevailed . THE HALL OF THB NATIINAL ASSEMBLY " . _^ The Journal des Debats _pives the following account of tbe arrangements of the new Hall of the National Assembly ' : — ' The shorthand writers , commissioned to report tbe debates of the new National _Assemblv , held another _meeting on Thursday in tbe hall of the bureaux ot the old Chamber of _Depaties , for tbe purpose of appointing their syndic * . The new IliUof tbe National Constituent Assembly will be immense ; its form is oblone . with a eircnlar termination of the _extremi'y which feces the tribune and the arm c ' _xair of the President . The benches are wood , c _vered with green baiz _3 . Tbe representatives ofthe Republic will he seated less comfortably tban in the theatres : they will be _separated from each

      ether hy a rail , covered with baize . The decorations of the tribune and the ensirXXU are pale green and yellow . About the cbair of the President i ? suspended a sort of drapery resamb'ing tbe curtain of a lhr _^ e theatre . On the right and kltare inscribed in large capital ktter 3 the magic words . ' Frehch liepublic , Liberty , Equality , Fraternity . ' The hall , which is rery well lighted by a double r _^ w of transverse casement ? , wiil be illuminated at night by nine lustres , arranged in three _parallel lines . To the reporters of the public press will be assigned ninety places in the tribnnen , and th _> _se _plsces will be the _nearest to the bureaux of the President . The tribune of tbe * Editors-in-chieC will hold _fo'ly tWO _persocs . The places reserved for the public without tickets are attheend of the hail in the _mo-t elevated part ; tney are isolated from the other tribunes , and are mtered by a separate staircase- '

      The Journal des Debats publishes the following decree , signed by the numbers of the Provisional Government : — Tbe provisional government , considering tbat tbe principle of equality implies an uniformity of costume for the _citizens appointed to perform the same functions , decree ? , — . ' Tbe representatives of tbe people aball wear a Wack coat , a white _waiscoat with Jappels , b _' _atsk _pantaloons _, and a tricoloured silk scarf , ornamented with gold fringe , Tbey shall attach to the buttonbole on tbe left side of thei ? coat a red riband , on which shall be embroidered the / _csccs of the Republic . _Doneata Government Council held on tae 30 : h of _Auril , 1848 '

      Mi GmziT . —The Navosal announces on authority that M . _Gu ' _zit waa married in London three years since to the Princess Lieven . It was agreed for political reasons that the _marriage should be kept secret as long as M . _Guiz _; t remained in office . The Louvre . —The provisional government has decreed tbat the Palace of the Louvre shall be terminated _, that it shall take the name of the ' Palais du _Peuple . ' that it Bball be destined to _tbeeshibit-ion of paintings , manufacture * -, and to the national library . , 'lhe elections throughout La _Vencfis had ail turned to the advantage of the Legitimists , and it is eaid that net one Republican bas been elected . THE CLUBS OF PARIS . ( From the Times . ) _Blakqci ' s Club , April 28 —Although I arrived at an early hour , the crowd was so great that I cnuld scarcely obtain a seat on my entering the houie . The meetiDga of that club are held in the concert

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      room atthe _CoMerratoire de _Musique , and the boxes wtticb are usually occupied by visitors were thronged jester Jay _evening with _nltra-republioans . The « _reaoaon continues to be the all-absorbing topic discussed in the club . M . Blanqui _addresae-i the assembly on the events of Rouen : ho said that a _aerum and painful conflict had taken place in the capital of Upper Normandy between the ' Reiotionnaires' and the people ; lhat women , children , ani unarmed and inoffensive _cifciz ns , bad been cruelly butchered by the National Guard and the troops , whom he compared to ' ball-dogs' trained for the _purpoaeof _wording and m & nelin _* the working _class-g . He stated tbat the troops who have been lately brought into Paris under tho pretext of _fraternising with the _NationalGnard _. had been quartered in private

      houses , where they were gorged with wine and filled with hatred of the penpla . He had heard with his own hears the ' Re * _ctionnairea' 8 * y to the _troopa , ' There are 20 . 000 Communists in Paris ; vou _ma . 4 assist us in exterminating them . ' The same moans bad been resnrted to at Rouen to induce the _soldie-s to side with the National Guard , and murder tbe people , whom tho ' Reaction' hated . The _eventa of Rouen would soon be renewed , ho said , elsewhere . and the conflict would finally end in Paris . M Blanqui did not attribute the responsibility of these crimes to the _trosps _, who were mere' instruments ' ia the hands of those wbo had made tbem their _aocomplioes , bathe foresiw events of the most diamal nature _horei-isg orer the pro ? pp cts of France , and could vfrsh himself'far away , not to witness the misfortunes of bis country . '

      Several other _oratoia addressed the club on tbe _w'i _^ _lSV _* - _* _^^ _? one of the , _n . who bad just arrived from that city , stated that when he left ( Friday morning , ten o ' clock ) , 62 persons bad been killed . A member of the club having _protected against the term « bull-dog , ' applied to French soldiers , censured M . B anqui for uBicg so unqualified an expression . M . _Blanqoi reminded the _^ _Mmbty ot tbe massacres of the _kue Transnonain , where be raid a young girl bad been shot dead , and several infasts cruelly butchered ia their cradles : that it was

      absurd to contend that soldiers could not do wr . n " _becanw they were Frenchmen ; there were bad men in every couatry , and those who could ba guilty of the crimes which had beea committed in the Rue Transnonain and now perpetrating in Rouen , were not soldiers—they were assassins or wild beasts . He reminded the club that aristocracies had ever trained a portion of the people to defend them against the other . His statement , he added , was borne out by ths history ef every nation , but' in the end the people have invariably united to crush aristocracies .

      IDHTHEB ACCODSTS FROM TUB _DIPAaTMENTS Paris , Tuesday . —The 'Committee of Public _Sataty , ' established at LiraegeV _retainB possession cf and governs that town . In Nantes and other quarters , movements with similar views are apprehended . At Nantes deplorable disorders have oc curred .

      _AGlmiOX IN PARIS . The correspondent of the Timbs writes as follows — ' I cannot say with troth that appearances have improved since I wrote you this ( Monday ) , far rumcurs of intended actions by the Communists and Sections are repeated every moment , and an addres _> of the ' Club of the Right * of Man , ' of a violent and menacing kind , has been posted up throughout Paris . It calls npon all true Republicans to be prepared to proteot the _Republje , which it declares in danger . This document , whioh has caused some sensation , is signed by Napoleon Lebon-Euber , and Armand

      _Barbes-* Tbe language of the speakers , and the proceedings at the _clab presided over by M . Blanqui were last night , even more threatening than usual . The unfortunate occurrences at Ronen were _thethema of all tha speakers . It was ' resolved to address tbe Provisional Government demanding the instant removal of the troops from Paris , an immediate prosecution of Genera ! Geirard , and other officers commanding at Rouen , as well as tbe dissolution of the Garde Bourgeoise , 'for , ' said the speakers , 'they are not National Guards . '

      ' The representatives of the people , ' says the Reforms , ' are the representatives of the privileged classes . Let ua organise a resistance to the attacks they ara meditating against our rights , in order tba the day on wbicb our rights shall ba openly betrayed or denied _njay find us united and prepared , but Jet not eur legitimate irritation anticipate that decisive hour . Every partial rising is at this moment a crime and a fault—a crime , lor it causes the purest blood to flow uselessly ; a fault because it _retarda the definite establishment of tfce Hepublic on the basis of equality and fraternity . '

      AHOLITHN OP 8 LAVEBT . The _Mosirana publishes- A decree signed by the memberB of the Provisional Government , abolishing folly and completely slavery in the French colonies . The system of engagement for a fixed period e & ta _blifihed in Senegal is likewise abolished . Tbe amount of tha indemnity to be paid to the owners of slaves is to be regulated by the National Assembly . The present decree is to take _effect in the French colonies in two months from its date .

      8 TATS OF PARIS . Paris was tranquil up to Wednesday forenoon , that is , no disorder of any kind had been committed—but tbere existed a great deal of agitation . According to the Times , the language of tbe _clubswas becoming hourly more menacing .

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      THE _EUROPEAN REVOLUTION . GERMANY . INSURRECTION AT FR 1 BTJRG . _Baubn —The town of Fribnrg , close to the B ' ack Forest , has beeH the scene of great riot and tumult . Under pretext of holding a pnblio meeting , about 2 , 000 peasants came to Friburg hut Saturday , the 22 nd ult . They were all armed , partly with guns , lances , scythes , bludgeons , < fco . After the meeting was over , which passed some resolutions of a Republican and Commun ' _stical tendency , the whole mass constituted itself into a regular little army _^ the leaders were chosen , an attack upon thc E _itea oi the town wassuddenly mad " , and the whole town put in tbe greatest alarm . The _Burgomaster and tbe

      magistracy called out the National Guards : but , as it appears now , tbe meeting having been called with the connivance of some of the magistrates of the town , no attack was made upon the riotous peasants , but a parley entered into with them ; the peaeantB gavo np their posts at the gates , but they insisted on remaining in the town during the night , snd threatened even to enter the private houses if the magistracy did not assign to them proper places of rest . Deceived by false reports of Hecker'B defeat , they had at first the intention to march to flecker's assistance soon after midnight , but probably , on finding _themfjelves too much exhausted , they deferred their intention to the next morning .

      Meanwhile troops had been sent from all directions to the _assistance of Friburg ; they arrived by railroad and quick marches at noon on the 23 rd , when one detachment was attacked suddenly by a considerable band of peasantry coming from the field ? . That detachment was commanded by Genersl Hoffmann , and tbe fight lasted from three o ' clock in the afternoon until sis o ' clock . The peasants were completely routed and dispersed , and the town completely _erclosed by troops on all sides . The insurgent * barricaded the town and the streets and defied all attack General Hoffmann , who during tha night had ordered a sufficient park of artillery to be brought up , summoned the town to capitulate , and , upon ita _refu-al ,

      the town was bombarded yesterday morniEg from half-past four O ' clock until twelve o ' ekek , upon wbich the Nassau troops took it by storm . A great many of the _inauTgentB bave been made prisoners , but the majority havetaken flight . The town is said to have _sufferpd considerably , and the number of killed to be more tban sixty . [ This account is from the pen of an enemy ] An artileryman who had deserted to Hecker , the Republicaftvdiief . was brought to Oarlsruhe ia order to be sbotT ; a little commotion of the crowd standing noar took p lace , amongst whom another artilleryman drew suddenly a large knife _against an officer ; but the latter killed him on the spot with his sword .

      MORE RISIKG 3 . AtManheim , on the 27 th of April , a sanguinary contest took place between the troops of Nassau and insurgents , arnied with seythet > . Tbe drums were beaten to arms ; the civic guard quickly assembled ; one of the boats of tiie floating bridge bad been set adrift to hinder the arrival of the Bavarian troops from Ludwigshafen . Quiet was re-established about sis o ' clock , and tho Nassau troops were sent into their quarters . A deputation oi the townspeople went off to Carlshure , to demand that the troops should be ordered to leave the town . There were gome kil ' ed on both sides .

      An attempt at an outbreak was also made at Ileidelbf rg on the 24 th ult . About four hundred _peasants , armed with guns , scythes , and pitchforks , entered the town , proceeded to the house of the President ( Winter ) , and demanded the proclamation of a Republic . Meantime thev were surrounded by the burgher gnard and a body of students , and up » n being summoned to lay down their arms , they did so without resistance . According to accounts from Oarlsruhe , of thc 27 th , the Republican movement in the Grand Ducby of Baden is nearly at an end . Hecker was still at the head of a small band . M Ilerwegb , the demagogue poet , is with the Republicans , together with his amiable lady , who wears a kind of amazone dres ? , two pair of pistils in her belt , and a sabre , and declares that it will be the _hspr-iest moment of hor life in which she shall kill an anti Republican officer . —Morning

      Post-The opening of the Constituent Assembly at Frankfort has been adjourned ti . l the _18-, h inst . The Berlin papers have ceased publishing , in congp _qaenee ofa strike of tha whole of the compositors and pressmen . Bavaria . —The Minister of Finance of Bavaria had declared that they had not the means of repaying tbe depositors in the savings bank—in other words , that the government was bankrupt .

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      ¦ ¦ POLAND . 5 _TATB 0 * Pos 3 _Eir _,-. it is admitted both byGermana and Poles that excesses , murders , robber _^ , and divers acta of revolt and _outNga , have be . n committed even in the very oity of Posen _itsd- " . On the one hand , the German papers and repert , not only of _merman correspondents , but of tbe Prussian m J ""* _»» d civil _autboritie-, _^ tribute tuerjprehen . sible and brutal proceedings tothe Polee . who are declared to ba the _agsressora , Addresses , publicly placarded , from lhe Gtrman populations to their ooui . trriaea in other provinces , call for protection nnd demand tbo inoorDoration of the German circle ** nr districts with the Germanic Confederation . The result of this has been a moat unequivocal reaction , in the minds of all Germany again » t the Poles , and with it a los _? of those sympathies which are bo _essential to tho ultimate _sne'ess of their cause .

      Now listen to the other side . The Poles deolaro thit they have not been tho aggressors—that they tonk up arms , which tbey have consented to lay down peaceab _' y , solely in _self-defence They do not deny that excesses have been _committel , but they assert that thea ? excesses have been perpetrated against and not by them : lhat their countrymen have ben insulted , maltreated , _htabbod , _murdered , and plundered by Jaws and Germans , under mu eTeS _? wilh the a PP lau 8 e of Prussian _solders . They profess to have conducted _themselves with ad miracle patience asd endurance . They arid tbat the andPolish

      . _acc-innts transmitted to tfce German press , and thence disseminated throughout Europe , _oriemare with interested German functionaries , wbo hold nil the administrative offices in the duchy , and who are fearful of losing for themselves and families tbeir numprous official places , which have become _almost hereditary in theif fariiHiea . TheyrAfef for the truth of these _asaettions'to _General _Wiltisien , the Prussian Commisdarv , who has returned to Berlin , and to M . _Didit-r , the agont of M . de Lamartine , who was _sentto Po « en ( city ) , and other place * to rapnrt to hia government upon the actual condition of the two populations .

      Such is an outline of the declarations ofthe _contentUng elements , whioh contention , unless promptly terminated by some definitive and decided measures , must lead to 'he worst ot all evils—a civil _nar . For although the Polei havo consented to lay down their arms , and to dismiss the _scythemen peasantry , who followed their nobles to the _diffareat campstheir hearts are burning with animosity against the German population , Jind above all against the Jews , who have b _? en foreHfost in the outrages of whioh tbey complain .

      Unfortunately , however , the territorial arrangement apoeaw to meet with _difEeuliiea . A depsfation of PoleB have arrived at thi » place to _reraon-Rtrate , and protest against this project , as laid down by tbe Prussian government . Thev deolape tbat if the duchy ( which contains ahout 1 200 , 000 inhabitants _, ot whom , according to German statistics , 700 000 are Germans , and 500 000 Poles , and according to Polish statements exactly the reverse ) be _^ tripped Of SO large a portion of territory , this act wonld ba _nothing more nor less tban arenewal of tbat oppressive aot of partition against which tbe Poles have _constantly struggled , and frnm tbe odium of whieh Prussia professes a desire to liberate herself by re-establishing Polish nationality in tbe duohy .

      The deputation , after having set forth their readiness to unite for the restoration and maintenance of tranquility , and their _willim-ness not to retain more tban four battalions and five or six squadrons of regulur or irregHlar troops , positively assert that they may and will submit , for the present , to the separation oomplained ef ; but , iftho _^ e populations who are German by encroachment , and Hot by descent—Germans throuvh the medium of absorption , and the introduction of German functionaries , settlers and purchasers of property and not by hereditary or historical right ; , be corn from the proponed _swletia of regenerated Poland , ther , the Deputies and ihe Committee , their employers , will never consent to set their hands or seals to what they regard as an act of spoliation .

      The death of Count _Potocki having produced an iniffiense _fen . « at ' _on in ihe Duchy of Posen . we think it right to extract from the Posen _papere th * following letter , written by an eye-witness , a German , and nttested by tbo principal inhabitants of tho town of Zoin : — _Ztus , April 10 , 1848 . The proclamation of the Central National Committee announcing tbe _re-organieotlon o' the Duohy _hns been rec-. ived bj all tha Inhabitants of _Znin with the l v < _-ll « _- «» joy and confidence . A local _committer , composed or Poles and _Gbrmano , was immediately formed . _Ptaoe and unanimity prevailed everywhere . On tbe 4 th of April , the Prussian troops entered , expelled tbe Polish authorities , and re-established the formerordor of things , Several persons wore arrested , ill-treated in thn most cruel manner , and sent in chains to tbe fortress of Bromberg and of Qraudcnz . Others flad to save their lives . Tbe BcldUry plundered their bouses ; and wbat

      could not be carried away was _destroyed by them . After three rfaya of grossest vhdeciC'C and tyrstwy _, the _Pomero . _ntaus lbfcua _, and we began to _breathe again , and all was joy and _happiatss . Io ord « r not to disturb peace by the slightest change , we allowed to continue tbe _nyira * in . troduce < 5 by lhe soldiery . A few deluded Germans , in . _stieated by the Jews , _pretendinp to consider themselves in dinger , sent a _^ _aln for _osslstaiice , and on the 9 : b an . other company of soldiers entered the town . The comminding officer , seeing how little occasion there was for _a ' arm , expressed himself very strongly against those wbo Called In the military . Shortly afterwards , the insult _, lag conduct of a _BOldHr , wbo toro off the Polish cockode from a gentleman ' s breast produced tbe _greatest trrl . tation among the inhabitants . Crowds gathered in the streets , the tocsin was rung , ond in the _epjee of a few hours tbo town was surrounded by bands of peasants , armtd with _BCvtbes , _piUeo , and pitchforks , who came from the neighbouring _villains in the belief that the _loldu-rs _wtre murdering the inhabitants .

      The _soldiers wonld bave _bten easily overpowered by the great mas « ts of scythemen , and ihey nor « already on the point of laying do » n th < -ir arms , when Potochi , the proprietor of _Slembour , a highly esteemed person by all parties , threw himself as peace rrnker between ths opposed r _^ _nks , and entered Into a _couference . with the general , who also arrfyod ot eb & _l critical moment in the town . An agreement was made . Both parties wire to leave the towa . Tho general faro _hio word of h-nour di it tho soldiers should bs kept from all hostile feeling _tuwarls tho Poles , As a plodgo he gave his hand to

      Poto ' . 'ki _, and embraced hun in tbe presenco of suvttral citizens . P _: > _tocltl _, bis par * , prevslltd on tho _Bcylbisaen ta disperse , and an another band wub juet entering tht town , be stopped tbem , placed _himsalf at their bead , and conducted tbem several miles Id the opposite _dir-cti _.-n On bis return , having found tho town still rccupied b the soldiers , he rode up to the major , and whilst confer _, _rlnjj with the latter , he WB 8 suddenly attacked by an offi . cer , who ran his sword _through hia body . At tho same moment a great many _soldiers fired at him . He sank from his bono . The soldiers threw themselves on hira

      and literally smashed bl 6 brains out with the butt ends Of their _muskets . They took hia horse , drew away the rings from his fingeia _, and took to their _hecla to save themselves from the _junt vengiaace of tbe popnlat . oa . Avoir _Jabdsl _, _Tradesman . HORRIBLE MASSACRE BY PRUSSIAN

      SOLDIERS . Breslau _, April 25 . —L _.-tters which havo reached this town from the Duchy of Posen announce that an unfortunate contest , of which the _consequence cannot be aa yet calculated , had broken out in many parts between the Prussian army and tho newlyformed Polish troop ? . The _Polish troops , in o _^ _n-equence of the _arranaement concluded between Ue ' _iit-ral Willisen , the Prussian comrciflsary _, and the chiefs of the Poles , had proceeded in small _detachments to the different quarters which had been ap . pointed for thero , in order to tbeir _definite _organisation . One of tbe-e detachments , _consisting _ofeighiy young men under tho command ol a _gentleman named Pares > _wski , bad received order * to march to

      _Odotonow ( Odelnau ) , a little town in tho east of Posen , to be tbere organised . Ou the morning of the 22 ud , a company of Prussian infantry and a squadron of cuirassiers presented themselves _bafore Odtdnau , where the Poles had _constructed a barricade in the principal street . The Co _.-nmandantof the _Prussian detachment desired the Pulse to retire to _Riisziow , but they having rofused to do so for fear of being attaoked by the cavalry on thtir retreat ia the ooen country , the Prussians attacked them iramediattiy with fury , killed many _(> f them , and dispette I _thor-i-t . Tiie inhabitants of _Odelnau , hearing the noiso of the firing , turned out , and masses ol ' peasant arrived in

      bands , and without order , aimed with scythes , pikes , and axes to the assistance of their countrymen . The Prussians attacked _thtm and _committed Great _slaughter . There are said to be 150 peasants _killftd and wounded ia this unfortunate affair , which haa caused great excitement in tao whole country . The Prussians had four infantry soldier * and one cuun 6 si < r killed , besioe 3 several wounded . It is feared that this affair will ba but the signal of excesses on both sides , in wakening tha animosities which have been so long and so successfully kept under between tho different classes of tho inhabitants of the Djchj of Posen .

      The excesses of the soldiery are said to equal the barbarities ofthe worst times . At _Trzemefzao ihey butchered in cold blood Beventy scythemen , whom thoy first deprived of their arms by stratagem . Tie official journal of Posen , giving an account of this massacre , says : —' Dead bodies with veins slit open , arms cut off , faces maimed , and lacerated in the most horrible manner , bellies ripped « p , were seen lying in every street of tfce town . In _Gostyn _, to all other atrocities they added that of attacking jthe _fpeople congregated in tho chureh , and shooting at the sacred _imites and _vaies . In _another placo . not contented with exterminating tbe living , they dug out and threw to the four winds the ashes of the dead . '

      Tho decree lor the _re-organisation oftho _Ducnvof Posen _applied in tho Prussian Gazette of the 27 _ib . The following are exoluded—the ci deve _* nt district cf tho _Netz , excepting only part of the district of Inowraclaw . Birnbaum , Meseritz , _Bomst , Fraustadt , Samter , Brick , the western pait ofthe districts of Obornick and Posen , including the town and citadel of Posen , the southern part of the districts of Kroben

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      _aniKrotoschin ; _laasly , and in conformity with tbo determination come to by the German Confederation , the town of Eempen — the German parts will bo incorporated with the German Confederation . The organisation of the remainder will be Polish , both in language , imtruotion , justice , and government . Thia decree has been reooived with joy by the Germans ) and with sorrow and disappointment by the Polish population , who , in au address to tho government _, signed Krotowaki ( in the name and on behalf of' _Mieroslawaki , chief of tho staff , ' and the Polish _eOrOHUttee ) , Which waaplanarded yesterday , and torn down or defaced by the _Berlinera as scon almost as placarded , _dechre this dec . ee to be a spoliation , a seventh partition , and protest warmly against ic , as tke result ef a Convention neither signed nor reoognised by the majority of tbe Polish leaders . BXectrrioss ar Warsaw .

      The _Gazsta . Polska gives the following intelligence from Warsaw _: — ' A _conspiraoy _amoBg tha military bavin' * heen discovered here , the officers of the Warsiw garrison , who w < re arrested , bave already been tried by court-martial , and four of thera were Phot in tho Citadel , Throughout tho kingdom oi Poland the peasants aro said to have been authorised to deliver up their lords of the manor to tho gendarmes if there is the slightest intimation of an intended rise . The report of a counter-revolution in _Galicia , induced by a person in effi _^ ial ca pacity ,

      similar to tbat of 1846 has again bean mo ilea . It is not improbable thatthe numerous incendiary fires now taking place in several of the circles of Galicia may be connected with this . ' Cbacow , April 26 . — -A skirmish has taken place between the populace and tbe troops , in consequence of tho _rtfUBal Of g 0 Ternm . _Pnt tPftHow Polish emigrants , not natives of Cracow , ti remain in the tiwa . _"Barricades were ereoted , and several rockets are said to have been thrown from the Castle . Peace was eventually restored by the emigrants voluntarily removing _.

      THE WAR IN ITALY . The _Pibdmokthse G _^ zei tb of the 28 th ult . adda but little to what waa known already about the army of operations . An affair has taken place at Cles be ' ween a party of about 1 , 000 AustrianB and a body of 150 _PiedrnoDteae under Captain Scotti , who , re inforced by some corps of volunteers , succeeded in making his retreat . The Austrians were left in possession of the bridge of Mosticcielo . The Venetian papers of the 21 st give the following from Treuto , of the 16 ih ult : — . 'This day twentyone prisoners of the Italian frte oorps Were shot in the ditch ot the _cattle oalled the Cervara . '

      Letters from Parma eay : — ' Vicecza , Treviso , Padua , Bassano , and all the towns , in short , are filled with barricades . All the bridges are cut . Trendies are opened in all the streets . The poputioaa are well armed . To conquer Venetian independence will cost the Austrians dear . The Roman volunteers are received with the greatest enthu > _siasm . ThelateBt news from Italy records no movement of importance . The _Anatriana retain their ground , but in two or three small affairs , the Italians have been successful .

      DECLARATION OF WAR BY NAPLES AGAINST SICILY . It is officially announced at Milan by . journals oi the 22 nd , tbat war has been _declared by Naples against Sicily , consequent on tho late decree of the Parliament of Palermo , dethroning the King .

      TUE WAR IN SCALESWIG-HOLSTEIN . TAKING OP _BCULKSWIG Bt THB PRUSSIANS—BL 00 _UT CONFLICTS , _Altowa , April 24 .- The train from Rendsburg has brought intelligence of the taking of the town of Schleswig by the troope of the Confederation , after an engagement which lasted from three o ' olock in the afternoon of yesterday ( Easter Sunday ) until eleven at night . The fortification called tbe _Dannewirk , on whioh the Danish artillery was placed , waa taken by the Prussians at the point of the bayonet , after the battery had been silenced by the field pieces of tbe Hanoverian contingent , Schleswig then fell into the hands of the Confederation

      Tho conflict , it is confessed , was a bloody one , the Danes having a strong position , and doing great execution with their artillery and riflumen before it was carried . Tho Danes had from 10 , 000 to 12 , 000 men engaged ; tbe force of the Confederation was the greatest , but it was not * all _engaged . The loss ofthe Prussians , as far as can be gathered from the _unautheBticaied accounts , is about 300 men killed and wounded , principally of the 2 ud and 20 th Regiments . Up to Monday morning 116 wouBded bad been brought into the Rendsburg Hos-• _jital ; that of the Danes is not yet known .

      That the Danes fought well is freely acknowledged ; they retired fighting from point to point , and held out till the last : One of those accidents that confound the best calculations rendered the mines , which bad been relied on as one of tbe means of defenoe , useless . The waters Of the Schlei , an inlet of the pea rather than a river , at the head of _wfeicb _Schlvswig is built , rose to an nnnsual height in oonsequence of a continued cast wind , and entered the _escavations . The fortified work , or dam , called the Dannewirk , was the main defence of tho Danes , and when this was carried the fight _BCGffiS to llSVe been for some time a battle of artillery , in which the houses of the suburbs were much injured , and several aet on fire .

      _RBMnSBUBO _, April 24 . — The Danes quitted Schleswig yesterday at eleven at night ; they had ? e . tired from tbeir post at _Gotiorfaome- time before , and at daybreak this morning the German flig was flying from the tower . The _utarming of tbe fortifications before Schleswig cost a great number of lives . Many wounded belonging to the two _regiments of the Prussian Guards have been brought in * , among them three officers . The right wing of our army _ci-. _ssed tie Schlei at three points , the boatmen and sailors of the looality giving every assistance to the operations They _constmcted a number of raftg . by which 1 , 001 ) men cnuld be carried over at the r , ame time .

      A letter from Altona , dated 25 th April , in the evening , says the following telegraphic despatch has been received : — ' Schleswig , Gottorp , and Flends - _hurg are in our power . One battalion ofthe Danes has been made prisoners , and another battalioR driven into the _Schlei . The last accounts , dated the 26 th , state that it was _o-d y after a most sanguinary conflict that the Dines gave in , and they were in full retreat . Above 1 , 000 prisoners had been taken to _Etandsburg . Professor _Langenbeck amputated sixteen _legs in one afterneon . ' The war reserve of tk 8 Danish army is called ont ,

      and will be organised with five battalions and two corps of _chasseura . _Majer Girsovius is to superintend the arming of the peop le in North Schleswig . These measures of defence will be hastened on bythe late reverse , for the temper bf the Danes is in favour of resistance . The mest patriotioexertienB are beiBg made in the national cause ; the Minister of Finance , Count Mo'tke _, one of the _richetit men iu Denmark , has , from his private fortune , placed 50 . 000 tb & lefs at the disposal of the Minister of War ; the men of Bornholra have " raised 12 , 000 tb lers for the same purpose , besides sending sixty volunteers for the service of the fleet .

      The intelligence from Copenhagen states , that a great number « f Prussian ships are detained in the roads in oonsequence of the embargo ; they are chiefly from the south , and more are continually arriving , in ignorance of the measures . In the night between the _19 ; h and 20 .. h the Danish brig of war Delpbin took nine Prussian ships , with freights _fi-om England , Bordeaux , and the West Indies . Tha blow inflicted by tbe capture o f Prusdan vessels falls the heavier , _» 3 none of them were insured _again-st the chances of war . HiMBURGH , April 28 . Tbe Germans allies have _entered Apsnrade . The main body ot tho Dines are now , it is said , to themorthof _Haders-Jeben . We print , the following extracts from a private _letter , dated _Hamburgh , April 29 th , which arrived at Hull by tbe Queen of Scotland steamer : —

      ' It is now likely tbat the Prussians will occupy Jutland , and possibly even Funen , by way of reprisal and _equit-elent for the large amount ot _Gsrman property under sequestration by the Danes . ' Schleswig is now almost entirely in ths hands of the German troopa . ' A gentleman who arrived on Saturday last stated , tbat the accounts published of the killed and wounded are by no means exaggerated , but , in fact , _understated . He _assetti further , that 2 , 000 men witb many officers were buried in one grave near Schleswig . The harbours of Kiel and the Schleswig and _Holstein canal are blockaded by Danish ships ; a frigate and ttvo gun boats lie before the entrance .

      UNITED STATES . We havo had an arrival from the States , but thc news from that part of the world is anything but interesting , with the exception ofthe accounts of meetings belli in several of the principal cities to aid the revolution in Europe . In New York the Germans had raised a large revolutionary fund , to be sent out with fifty pioneers of liberty , and 2 000 dollars worth of _mur-kets , to aid in _propagating free principles in Germany , A grand demonstration to celebrate the late French revolution came off in the city of Washington , en the 12 th of April . Tho 'Marseillaise' hymn was sung , many houses were illuminated , and a torch-light procession moved through tho streets amidst the cheers of assembled thousands .

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      Bilston _CosFEDEnATRs .--Las 4 week a Confederate Club was formed at Bilston , A deputation irom tbe Birmingham _Reriea'eraattended . Birmingham _Cosfudsratus . —A Repeal meeting was held on the 25 th ult ., in the _People'B Ilalii Birmingham , when resolutions were passed denunciatory of the Gagging Bill , and the persecution of the Irish _patriots , and expressing sympathy with the _vicliras of _WliL * villany . "" _. Cubert Church , in Cornwall , waa struck by lightning last week , and totally destroyed . There are 4 D 60 mill-hands at present unemylojed nt Stockport .

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      MO . VDAY , Mai 1 st . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —This house _J-e-aMombled at _four o ' clock after the Enter recess . Mr H . Bsikriei gave notioe that , on tbe llth inst . h _» would aubmha motion ou the _oubject of the Ballot , Oa the motion of tho _UUitiCShlo * of the _ErcurcraB , tho house resolved i'self _ii > 'o a committee to _cone'der _resolution ! for _gramlug £ 5 , 000 for the relief of person * who had been reduced to _destitution in the island of Tobago , by the _buri-icane tbat occurred thoro in Oo _« _tobor last ; and for _lending _jeso _. ooo to v _* _e _coionuta , t » _enaWfi tbem to rcitoro their proporty destroyed hy the hurricane . The two vote * were , after a few observations _,, agreed to . The Chancellor of the _ExoaiQDEtt then _pvopoaad _Q vote _authorising _advnnccs tothe extent ef £ 200 , 000 for tbepurpo _« nof _promolrog immigration of free _labourora to British Guiana and Trinidad .

      Mr Home objected to tlio vote , at least until the whole question of the West Indies should bo before the house _. The report o ? the West India oommltten would bo presented in S day or two , _nnti he , _tberefore _, moved that the Chairman report _prugress , with the view of postpon . Ing the vote for a week . Mr Wilson eaid there waa no probability that the report of the We 3 t India committee would be presented within a weok , Mr _HeBRJE * oU _^ _jjcsteJ * _W _propriety of _couiiflinj ? tha vote to £ 1 ( 56 , 000 ( the sum for which _Uabilitic ? _hu-. l al . ready beea incurred ; until afi ' er _thereporlof . the committee shall ba made .

      The _CaAHcetioB of the _Excusqubb thought It better to tftks tho vote for £ 269 , 000 , though he WBB willing lb pledge Mm 9 e ] f not io _Bancllon nay furttw expenditure . Af tor a conversation , Lord J . _Bcbsell agreed to modify the vote , in accordance with tha _sugneation made bj Mr _Herriw . nnd to take £ 170 , 000 on account , Mr Home dividod tlio comm tt « e;—For reporting _progress , 21 A _^ _alantit ... 7 G Majority _agnlrjgt _adjaurnment —51 Tho vote for £ 170 , 000 was Agreed to ; and thu three money _n _lolutiona wero reported to the bouse _. The house _again reselvcd _Itaelf into a committee , when the Cn _* . KGet , t . oa of the _Excdeqcib proposed a resolution _authorising the government to _rp-atlvanoe , for the completion of publio works ia JraJonri , turns repaid by the counties out ofthe loang made to them lo the jears 1846 and 1847 ,

      The resolution waa _agreed to , and reported to the house . Rimoval of Aliens But ,. —Sir O . _Gaur , in moving tho second reading of tbe Removal of Aliens Bill , stated the _rantaua which had led the _government to propose it , and ths main pr . _veiMona which It _contained , and witb which the public Ib _ulrendy acquainted . Without _eaprojsing any _opinloR on Republican doctrines , he contended that wa had a right to protect _ouraelvcr , against fi _' . _re'gners who appeared _amonnat ue as tbe apostles of _tbosa _BepnblicaD principle * which thay had established in their own _countries . _Whatever cause of _complaint we might have against individual _furoignir-, , he was happy to say tbat rre had no _cauae of complaint on thia _scora against any foreign uovoroment . If individual foreigners had come among u « to preach _Republicanism , it bad heen _against the will of t _* i « ir governments , and thoRe governments , if they had the power , would have prevented It . Sir W . _Moleswostb maintained that thero was none .

      _csssity for this bill , end thst , even if there wero a nc-coa sity for it , we ought not to intrust the provisions of it ia a * p irit of blind confidence t * any government . After quoting Hansard In larg _.- quantities td _ahow that it was contrary to tbo recordod opinions of every m -. » of note and eminence in the Whitr party durinjr tbe last fifty years _eipsoially of Lord J . Russell himself , be proceeded _torldlcuU tho ti 6 Ue . ii that _thura was anything in tlio prosent state of either IVaDcn or Ireland to justify it , and _conduced by _Teading a _liug extract from a _upjuch of Earl Grey against tbo Alien Bill of 1795 , and by moving as an amendmont that the bill oe read a second time tbat da ; six months .

      Lord D , Stoabt _quoted the able protest _entered by Lord Holland in 1823 . against the Alleo Bill <¦>' ' 1929 . as his justification in opposing tbis cruel , unjustifiable , and unconstitutional _measure . He regretted that Sir J , Hobhouse was not then in his place , for he had wished to ask Sir i . Hobbouse hon be could support this bill , aft . * he had deneunced a former Alien Bill as ' a bill which ought to be resisted by bodily forco and physical resistance , ' and had proposed to entitle it ' a bill to _re _» peal so much of the Great Charter as related to thc free ingress and residence of _foreign merchants in E a gland , aud to assimilate the free Government of Great Britafb to the despotic governor _nts of the continent . '

      The Atto & net General defended the bill , which he contended was d _fferent in principle from all preceding Allen Bills , and net liable to similar © ejections , He entered into a long _txamlnation of Lord HoVnnd _' e protest against tho Allen Bill of 1822 , for the purpose of _BjlGWlnu that this bill was not ossnllable on any i ; rounds Oft Which his lerdship had deneunced that hill _* _i , _uulust , impolitic , cruel , and _uncgnstitntional . There was . thit _viide difference _tetweca the two _measures—utiier ths old bill any party could be arbitrarily depvrtel ; bat , under this bill , before any party could br . arrested , Ultra must be a _stcttemtnt in wrlttnp , depo _* U' < l with some minister , tbat he _waspletting againstth « p ? _nccKBd tranquillity of tho _kinciom _.

      Mr W , J . Fex had listened very attentively both to the right : hon . Secretory for tho Home Dapartmtat and tn her Majesty ' s Attorney-General , who had _stuf . _il mort distinct groticdi than be had vetbesrd for the introduction ef the preposed law . It was a measure of timidity axd apprehension ; it showed a want of _confidence in the British peopio , who had so lately _displayed t _' i _»;! r _«? _etormiaotion to support peace and order ; it _sbo-ved also a waBt of confidence In tbe people of Francs , who had as jet , in very trying circumstances , done nothing to excite that jealousy , cr any hostile fesling on the part of tbis country . Whatever might have been thc case in former time _* , convulsed as the world was , it is uow a better time to shew what was their reliance en those _institutions whicb had s _' ood the test of so many _ngt-3 _, and which bo eminently possessed _tbecharacttr of durability ,

      but not the less possessed tbat elasticity which accommodated them to tbe spirit of the ago , and tnab ' _nf \ them to extend themselves eo as to take a wider range and to comprehend larger numbers , wben the statu of society demanded a new adaptation ; and that without th <> _convulaions to which other countries were _snrjtct , ( Hear , hear . ) He could net _tte a case of necessity _maoe out tor the be 8 tOWment of powers which were of a very obnoxious and cruel character ; which placed the convent _, _ance , property , snd Ji & ertj of _indMduuh at the mercy of thc Minister for the time boms ? whieh _exposed men to that sort of attack against which it was eo _d'fficult to defend one ' _s-sel !—a _charge of which ono wns not _awara —anonymous writing to a Secretary of St . tt ' , who seemed te be brought into contact with a class with whicb it might have been hoped that a British Minister needed ti hare no dealings , and who seemed to have a back door for the receipt of calumnies , which under the

      pretext oi public duty might only opon n _wiy lor tbo indulgence of individual spite and the gratification of individual vin _3 ictivencsB ; powers , he would tit \ 3 , which might be used vindictively against men or _womLii ; for It c * uld not ba _forgotten that the first who _suffered under thc act of 179 S was a _wohisd _, a widow—L-. dy _E-lwerd Fitzgerald , whose namo bad sinco been raised to _i very d fi * rent position by writers of a si 9 ter country , He could not concur in the argument of the hon . bar . net , the member for Sou' . _hwarlt _, tbat the measure _printed so glaring an instance of inconsistency on the _p-nt of her _Msjesiy _' a Ministers . If tbey went back som ? years tho inconsistency might hs brought out ; but If thiv locked at the last great measuro which her Majesty's _Ministers had carried through that house , then this _muit bo admitted to be every appropriate sequel and supplement to ihe measure ' for the beSrer _srcurity of ber _iiajes ' _y ' s _Crowu and GovarnineuS . ' Tho one _belonged to the other .

      ' _Sare sucb a pair were never setn , So juBtly f rmed to meet by nature , ' They wera both framed in accordance with tbo policy of Pitt , Sldmouth , and Caulereagh , which , begintiing _suth tho first , might bo considered as carried out to _completion In the second ; and tbe Whig _Minis _^ ra _, in originating them , had . t'j borrow the phraRe ofa former day , _iffictuilly ' _un-Whigged' themselves Thu only reason he could make out as assigned by tho right bon . baronet for the introduction of the bill was ( hat lio waa afraid of _Republican missionaries , ( Hear , he _^ r . ) Tha _opportunist 3 of such missionaries were at the lowest p . 'int . The power by ' open and advised _BptukinV to induco mon t ) _violence was surely at tbe lowest ebb ; and tbo application , in the presont instance , of tho _objectioa _statid to tha appearance of that most " accomplished of

      French _aclors , _lalma _, in fhe character of _fl-micton tho English _stago , ought not to bo forgotten , that the first sentence he uttered would put the audi , nee in a roar . If they feared Kcpubllcan missionaries , they _ouaht to direct their law 3 ratber against thB writinga t , f tho _iliustrleu « dead of England thnn any living missionaries from other _lnnds . The groat Republican teachers of England would be found on the shelvts of tbeir libraries , in their _Mlltons . Sidneys , Harringtons , _andLochos . Tbey would be of _mitlve growth ; unrivalled in the _richness and power of their language , awakening se m » ny _associitions , _commanding so much revcrance , —hc might tv _, B say , idolatry , if they did » e > _t mako converts , whore waa the _psrsuasiven _css of o missionary from France or _Gsr _» many , or any other region whatever , to seduce ths p- ; o-

      pie of this country from * allegiance to their Queen ? That , it might be said , was not the Republicanism of other count ries . Bat the R , 'publicaoiBm of this country might bear such a _relation to the Republicanism cf othtr _csuntrit r > ss the despotism of this country did to the deB . potism of _other ? . Let tn example be taken frem the _nobie-mittJlcd man r _* ho , when Socialism and Communism wore the rock a head , did not depart from his own course . BrltUh Communist leaders were in Paris ; but did hs deport Oily ono of thtm ? ( Hear . ) Those measures were as worthless for the real security of the crown and government of those _realms as another battress would be to the venerable _Btruoture wbich had stood for centuries past and nould fer centuries yet to C ;> me . Her _Majesty ' s Attorney . Qtceral said these measures would do no harm , Tbey might do hatm . They might falsify tbo character ef this countrj _, _leading o hen to impute a fickleness of _dUpojitjon , snd a

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 6, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06051848/page/3/