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_>*^ fHE FRENCH REPUBLIC . „ _t _Sunday- —The Mokite to nf this ' morning _Cjis iesa long report from tha -MinisUr of _Finanee-s Y % abolition of the duty on salt , and a decree to % following _egeefc :-" % it provisional government , considering that _citiwns _*^ j eostribate to the public charges ia proportion to _¦^ fortune , and that the object of the republican form _% >« rntnent is to put that principle of justice audhuc jjirr in practice ; considering that it is especially im . _^ Bt to abolish the imposts of consumption , which _^ jbupon the poor , and that of all imposts , that up _^ n . Vis the moBt onerous and most iniquitous ; _consider-£ l ' _lfcst the health of the people , the prosperity of _agri-*^\ rre , the development of industry and trade , _impsri-^ mquire the abolition of it , and wishing to repair to ( ,, people ene of the most crying acts of injustice of past _^ i - on the report of the Minister of the Finances ,
deirt . l . From the 1 st of Jamf try , 1819 , the oatyupon _^ tis _abelished , & e „ & c „ te . _Another decree declares thafc tho woods and _for-^ bslongiEg to the _piivate domain of the ex-King i-ais Philippe shall be managed and administered fay _^ a dministration of the fo rests of the state . _WOBKUEK ' S D 05 ATI 05 S . _i few days ago s deputation ef the journeymen _{ j'serapr . _-ceeded tothe Hotel ds Ville to present a _j-O of 6 , 55 if . which they had collected amongst ¦ _vjgselyes . A considerable number of women and h thea
icons g * _" accompanied , as well aa a child of _J- > 3 at seven years of age , dressed as the Goddes 3 of jjberiy . After an appropriate address had been read , _jj _, paguerre returned to the depntation thanks for _ijir patriotic gift , and alluding to the young persons _resent , observed that the lesson whieh they that day fjceived would _ no doubt be always indeiib y _imr-inted on their mind 3 , and that , more fortunate _[ _jan their parents , they would not have to pass _jjrong htwo great triaU , to behold liberty established { a France , He then embraced the little girl who re presented the goddess , and the deputation
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ins _PAKTHEOS . The Minister of the Interior has decided that the internal walls of the Panthern are to be covered rith paintings by M . Paul Chenavard and such _ass _staats ss ho may think fit to associate with _himtjlf ia the task . M . Ghenavard is to be allowed 4 . 0301 " . a year for the work , and his assistants 10 f , a _£ jyescfc , aa a maximum , colours and other materials being famished by the state .
SATI 05 A 1 _WOBKSH 0 P 3 . It is said that the provisional government is enrj _? _ed iu _organising * Ateliers fraternals ' in the t ? £ Dty detached forts which surround Pari 3 . Each t _' _citf it is said , can lodgeabout 2 _. 0 G 0 workmen .
EXr 24 . 0 BTJlS . lRT . II' VEJIEKT . Oa Sunday morning the _oraan cf the club 3 , the C _^ j _shcke de Pahis , publishes the following _anjjaiicement : — AU the _traces are convoked to assemble by their dele . pus to-day at eight o ' clock in the morning precisely , _a i to march in bodies to the _CUamp-de-Mars , in order _o elect the captains of the staff of the National Guard , _* _lt > are to be chosen from amoag the _dirtsreiit _industries _. This notice is followed by the following paragraph : — We b ; g of all revolutionaries , onr friends , known and ss _* aiosvn , sll the presidents of clubs , all the chiefs of corporations to call at onr ofices in order to give us _inflation of the situation , wbich becomes more and EDre grave every day . More thaa ever is it of _impertaEca ist we sheuld cling together and concert , in order to nskehead against re-action .
The effect of the above notice was , that the whole c' tbis ( Sunday ) morning the boulevards snd streets live been crowded with precessions , making their W 2 y towards the _Charnp-de-Marv , but it w 2 snottill '{ wards two o ' elock that the alarm appears to have been taken by the government . At that hour the _rcppel began to beat , the shops were elosed , and a _cniversai ganic seized upon the public . The rumour rot abroad that it was the intention of the clubs , leaded by Blanqui , to seize upon the Hotel da Ville , ea t _^ e Bank of France , the Post-sfiiee , the Bourse , ihe Mint , and the Tuileries ; to upset the present provisional government , and to install a new _gove'nmeat , composed of Blanqui as President , with the former ultra-republican members of the provisional government , namely , M . _Ledru-RolliD , M . Albert , J ' . Louis Blanc , and M . _Flocan , and the addition of M . Sobaer ( the ex-delegate of the police ) , and some o : h ; rs .
The origin of this movement is stated by some parties to have beea au altercation between Ledru-R . 'liin and Marrast , but thi 3 report cannot be relied ea . The assemblage of ouvriers to-day in the Champ de Mars is the largest that has takea place since the _devolution . It is said to be upwards or' 150 , 000 nen . _ I understand tbat when they had met , a consultation of delegates teok place , after which the ( liferent trades , which were marshalled under distinct leaders , and marched in columns ten deep , directed their steps towards the Hotel de Vil'e . I have not been able to ascertain what their exact object is , bat I presume it must ostensibly be merely to present a petition . 1 have just returned from the
quay of tee Tuileries , where I saw them passirg for _upwards of an hour , and before my arrival they had been passing for nearly an hour previously . Etch ir 2 de had a flag at its head , with the name ofthe trade inscribed upon it , and upon all the Saga there rasa large placard affixed , with the words 'Abolition de i ' exp _. & it 3 tion de l'homme par l'homme . Orga-Eisation du travail par l'Association . ' Tfcey marched very peaceably , _sitging fram time to time the' Chant _ies Girocdins , ' and cried out occasionally , ' Vive la Republique . ' Most of them hsd tbe red riband of the republic at their button holes , which is in opposition to the tricolour . The National and the Garde Mobile are ail under arms , and show the best spirit in favour of the Provisional GroTeruBrsnt ,
Five o'Clcck . —It appears that there were two meetings held to-day-oceatthe Hippodrerae , and the ether in the Champ-de-A 5 ars . The former was _norai-Eaily for the purpose of discussing the interesting _snhjectof' _organisstioa du travail , ' and the other as ' _Mentioned aboTe , fer the nomination of a certain number of officers for the staff of the National Guard , the working classes _declaring that they had not beep represented in the la _< e elections of officers . It is _ssid that when they complained to Louis _^ Blanc that thev had been thus neglected , he _d- _^ sir ed them to Beet together , and appoint them themselves . This they did to-day with perfect order , to the number of fourteen . After this operation thej _msde a collection for the republic , and then proceeded to the Hotel de Ville to present it to the government .
At the other meeting , which was avowedly Coma-mist , cries of ' a _bssle Gouvernement Provigoire I ' _wre over and over again heard , aad very inflammatory _speeches were made . These men afterwards joined the other body , and appeared to take the ehief posts _. The elub of Barbes remained sitting all the night cf Sunday , in order to support the Provisional Government should any attack be made on it , and to preserve order throughout Paris .
_ASOTHBR ACCOTJKT . A body of operatives , variously estimated , bnt probably not exceeding 25 000 , marched , at about f _« o o ' clock , from the Champ de Mare and the Champs _Elysees along the quays towards the Hotel de Ville . When the head of the column arrived at the ¦ Brid ge of Areola , their further progress was rendered hupossible by the dense mass of National Guards they there encountered . They then demanded that a deputation should be _allowtd to proceed to the Hotel de Ville , to the Provisional Government . They repeated again and again that they had only assembled to name their officers of the ctatmajor , whom they desired to present . The depntation was _accordingly admitted , and the main body asd off .
ciroTEJ * _BLAjrQiJi Arm his _acccskes . Some weeks ago a document waa published in the _RsrcE Retrospective inculpating Blanqui , the president of the _Centtal Republican Ciub , as a traitor . lie had suffered much under the failea dyhasty , and was trusted by . the extreme Republicans asone ot the mGst devoted of that party . A few days ago he published his reply , which has excited a great _Kcsatioa in Paris , aad _cDmpletely satisfied his _admirers . We give the following extracts : — Taker hy surprise by aa unforeseen attack , I waa co _* _npelled to lose some days in collecting information on the dark _cEsehinatioas which led to that odi ' ons aggression . The state of my health prevents me from _contieusus _labosr . Those two motives alene retarded my reply , * * *
Calumny is always a welcome guest . Hatred and credulity inhale £ with delight ; It needs no recommendetien provided it kills , what boots the likelihood of its probability ; _dosraright absurdity is ho drawback . It _pOaSCIseS _S eeewt _sdYccate in every heart under the false of envy . So proofs ere demanded from it , itis the fictims that are ceiled ap . An entire life of devotion , _3 f austerity , of _suSericp ; , sinks in and leaves an abyss at ths . slightest motion * £ ita hand . AEm accused of treason ! Wherefore ? To eave my h . Vi . which ran no risk , as ell are aware . Whea ven-5 _& VQfe was in a paroxysm it was incompetent to erect _ttc * _£ al 2 . and could it do so sf ; er eight months of calm at and
Hi o _^ _Wisn ¦ Its presence was least requisite ; _> f the _e T _^ 's of _krrcT turned with such fearful rapidity iato a vi ' _termer , how ' comes it , I ask again , tbat a ' •'{{ nature _**«? - not exacted from such a subject of moral _taaibUation _^ Did i « set " , allow my fetters to ha knocked off ? Ths _MowSt v _'k _&& ths _Peaiteneier of Tours , are there _to _^ wer for m _, * Amongst my companions , who has _frtiLk c i _!! J ?_ , * fee cup of anguish ? For a whole _^ _rnryVoXl _ri Tt _^ d on a beloved wife , sinking fast _naUr » _i ,. - . * _£ _espsir , and powerleEs to _. ootbe _^ _T _anaU ' foVw iS _^ » _* _« _— _-l _** - _*** 10 _«> e solitude of my di _* ' _rttitl le departed _iptet _« her -im ™ _«« L ™ Such were the tortures which _" « wno was no more . _; . „ , _ . _A T , « . ... J b « d to endnre , alone , in _«** _¦« -f _»*»**¦ . _\** _$ a J hair bleached by _anguis _* j _hotU _™* mni crusbed _-
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and th < first sound that strikes my ear is , ' Death to the . traitor ! Let na crucify him I ' Thou ha & t sold thy brethren for gold ; _sajB the prostituted _psn of the drunken reveller . Gold , to die by inches in a tomb ' iwizt the crust of black bread and the cup of angaish ! And what hare I done with that gold ? I liva in a garret on fifty centimes a day . My forlnne , nt tha present moment , consists of sixty francs . And it is I , this miserable atom , who drag my wearied body , wrappei in threadbare clothes , through the streets , who am jeered at as the paid informer ! whilst the valets ef Louis Philippe , changed into gaudy republican butterflie _? _, _sattle on the dias of ths Hotel de Villa , and from their well-fed rirtne of f « ur courses heap calumnies en tha head of the poor Job who has escaped from the _prisenB of their master ! Oh ! sons efman ! who have always a stone ready to hurl at the _innoctnt ! ont npon ye , despicable race !
The hour has struck for a public explanation . It sounded in the tocsin of February . It is lime to pour ont in the daylight these quarrels which haTe so long bsen elmmering in the dark . Hy portrait has not tbe honour ofa place in the gallery , which a charitable hand has just withdrawn from the museum of the police .- To fill np this bleak I shall giro it , mch as it is , such as I have seen It drawn twenty times by secret enemies of other days : — ' A dark and brooding spirit , proud , savage , and sareastic , of _ueboanded Rmbitien _, cold , _inexorable , breaking men like reeds to pave his way , heart of marble , head of iron . ' The profile is not a flattering one . Bnt is tbere not a background to this portrait , and Is the cry of hatred gospel ? I appeal to those who knew my home : they know whether my whole existence was net concentrated in one deep and vivid affection , wbich endowed me with ranewed vigonr for my political struggles .
Death , when it snapped the bands of that affection asunder , struck the only blow , I own it , which went home to my soul . Aught else , calumny included , glides to me like a shower of dust . I shake my clothes and advance on my path . Sycophants , that wish to make tne out a moral monstir , unlock the secrets ofyour homes , lay here thc life of your hearts . What would bs found concealed beneath yonr hypocritical _dtmennonr ? Brutality of the senses , perversity ofthe soul . Pale sepulchres , I shall raise the stone which hides your rottenness from the eyes of man . What you persecute in me is my unflinching revolutionary spirit , and obstinate devotion to my principles . You wish to pull down the indefatigable gladiator . ¦ What bave been your deeds for the last fourteen years ? Daiertion ! I was with jon in the breach in 1831 . I was there without you in 1 SS 9 and 1847 . In 1548 I am there against you !
The 12 th May left me your hatred as a legaoy . The affront of the 12 th May still burns hot upon your cheeks ! To fancy yourselves a Republic , and not to know tbat a Republic dares the battle ! How pardon so bold a step , which htld up your impotence to the sneers of the pnbiic 1 Tour _outburst _againit the vanquished insurrection is known to all . The _KaTiouaii dressed oar wounds each morning with gall and dirt , and cowardly _insinuatioas have preceded the calumny which vengeance has at last let loose npon me . During my sufferings at Mont St Michel , those resentmeats slumbered . A dying man was no longer to be feared , and on the rumours of my spi edy dissolution many quills _doubtleis were cat to pen a magnificent funeral oration over my grave . But death withdrew , and February bas changed those pens into so many daggers .
I arrived on tha 24 th , elated with triumph . "What a chilling _reception ! It was as if a ghost had started np before the new possessors . Whom do they look open with that cold eye of aversion and horror ? I 6 te ! It is the detested author of the 12 th May , the clear-sighted and unbending patriot , who is neither to bo made a tsol or a dupe , or to bo cheated out of his revolution . The new programme of the Hotel de Tills was already drawn up . A _change of plan , the old foundation , the edifice of prlrl . lege without one stone less , with a few additional phrases and mottoes . The banishment from the Luxembourg awaited those who desired more . It was on the 25 th , that Citoyen Reeurt addressed me as follows : — ' Tou wish to overthrow ns!—No I but to cut orryour retreat ! ' And the struggle commenced , loyal and _moderate on the one hand ; perfidious and implacable on the other .
A _thousand reports were set afloat : he is mad—grief and then joy bave turned his brain . He is ill—bs is doting—he is dying . He is a man of blood—he demands two thousand heads . These reports were spread through Paris , and through the provinces ; but not a word transpired of the great calumny ! IT . de Lamartine , at the Hotel de Ville , addressed me as follows : — ' Persecution has been your martyrdom and jour glory . ' Such language is not held to an informer . The _Democratte P / cifique of Monday has the followingon the above demonstration : — 'A meeting ofthe frinds and partisans cf citizen Blanqui was held _vfsierday morning at tbe Hippodrome . Their number amonnted to between 4 , 000 a-id 5 000 . They
intended , it wss s _* id , to proceed to tbe Hotel de Vilie , proclaim the _dismis 5 al of several members of the provisional government , and among them MM . de Lamartine , Dupont ( de l'Eure } , Marrast . . and Garnier-Pages , and substitute in their places cit ' z-n Blanqui and some of his friends . The _different trade coip : ra tions ofthe capital had fixed a rendezvous in the Champ de-Mars , to nominate some of tbeir comrades for forming part of the officers of the stnffof the _NaiifiDal Guard , as was some time agreed uptn with General Conrtais . The _fritnds of citizen Blanqui went to the Champ-de-Mars , and invited the _corporat ons to join them . This was refused . Their _operations beine terminated , they commenced their march _towa-ds the . Hotel de Ville , by the Pent de la Coneorde . the Plaee de la Revolution , and the
Quays . Two legions of the National Guards of the _Banlieue happened to be on the Place de la Revolution , for the reception of their officers . 'When the Blanqui meeting , wholly detnehed from the trade corporations , appeared upon the Place , the National Guard of the Banlieue drew up before it , and stopped its passage . Upon this it dispersed . Foreseeing this Blanqui demonstration , the drums were ordered to beat to arms in the quarter ofthe Hotel de Ville , not , as it is important to Temark , to oppose the patriotic promenade of the trade corporations to the Hotel , and there present their candidates for officers of tbe staff ot the National Guard , but against the manifest _;> t on of the Blanqui meeting , which Eeemed to bear an aggressive character . '
A document has appeared entitled * Regulations to be adopted for the Elections by the General Assembly of Delegates of the Operatives , ' and signed by Louis Blanc and Albert . The object of this manifesto is to ensure the election of twent y operatives ont of the thirty-four memtersto bereturned by _tbedepsiteent of _theSeine . Ru _! es , of course , are given by which ali members of the assembly will be bound to return the same list of twenty names , and , to use tbe words of the manifesto , ' the tctal list of the thirty-four definite candidales of the department of the Seine being published with the sanction ofthe general assembly of the delegates ofthe operatives , the people will be earnestly invited to secure ita success by voting for it as one man . '
RENEWED AGITATION . _Pabis , _Tuesdat . — This morning at six o ' clock the rappel for the assembliEg of the Natfenal Guards was beaten in all quarters cf Paris . This alarming summons was Eaid to be the consequence of information brought to the government that the Communists aEd mest violent ofthe clubs bad determined on anothtr attempt to upset the provisional _government , and to establish a' committee of public safety , ' and that they intended to attack the Hotel de Ville . Last night the CommuniEt clubs were in a state of great commotion , and the severest censure was passed in many of them en the conduct of tbe provisional government for haviDg thrown any doubt on the intentio & s of the ouvriers who met in the Champs Elysees on Sunday .
The _Momiece of this morning contains a proclamation _signed by all the members of the government , _congratulating ihe citizens on the demonstration of Sunday . Another decree declares that the law rendering the magistracy irremovable is suspended , and . this is Miowed by a series of decrees dismissing a great number of publio functionaries of the first order . J _' osrcEipr . —The National Guards are all returning ti their homes , and the whole eity is perfectly tranquil . A great number of Communists have been arrested , including , it is said , the _Citizjns Blanqui and Cabet .
THB WORKING MSK OF PABI 8 . The delegates of the Corporations of Workmen have addressed a letter to the provisional government , in which they declare that their object in assembling on Sunday was : —1 . To elect fourteen of their body to the staff of the National Guard . 2 . To prove that the ideas of the organisation of labour , aud of _association , so maintained by men who had devoted _thsmaelvea to their cause , ara the ideas ef the people , and that , in the opinion ofthe people , the revolution oi February would fail if the effect of it were not to put an end to the exploitation of man by man . 8 . After having expressed their wishes to the provisional government , to offer it the support of
their patriotism against reaction , they ask why the National Guard was called out , and why their representatives and friends , Louis Blanc and Albert wero received with distrust ! They say it was because the Reactionists had spread a rumour that tbe workmen intended to overthrow the _government , and that Louis Blanc aad Albert had encouraged tbem to endeavour to do so . -They stoutly protest against the intentions falsely ascribed to them , and say , in conclusion—* Let it be well known that nothing in the demonstration of Sunday was calculated to create alsrm . The _people know that they are strong , and they can remain calm . They are there to defend the _^ revolution , as they understand it , and under their protection ifc stall not perish . '
On Menday afternoon a _yellow placard was stuck up in Paris , on which was printed , ' Workmen , take good eare ofyour arms a _^ d _ammaai _& D , f ° t thB revolution is not finished I *
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THE COMMUNISTS . M ; Cabet has addressed a letter to the provisional government , - in which he remonstrates against the manifestation which took place on Sunday and Monday , directed against him and his fellow Communists , declaring that theirintention is to withdraw to America , to realise there an Icaria similar to that described in the published work ef M . Cabet , and disavowing all intentions hostile to the government . The Rbfobmb denounces the armed manifestations as the work of the _re-actionary party .
THE CLUBS . t , The _Mokiteur ms Clubs invites all revolutionist _^ known or unknown , all the presidents of clubs , and all the ohiefs of corporations , to come to the office of that journal , and to give information as to tho _tutua _^ tion of affairs , which is becoming every day more serious , and that ifc becomes necessary to unite 8 gainst the party of re-action . Thb Club Cbnteal Repdblioian , of whieh M . Blanqui is the president , held a secret sitting on Monday evening last , at whieh M . Blanqui himself presided . The object of this meeting was to arrange the military organisation of the club , and to divide Paris into sections . Forty-eight chiefs of sections were appointed , who have the supreme command in the quarters over wheh they are placed . Thia prot
ceeding is considered as showing an intention , on be part of the club , titake to tho streets . After the secret sitting a public meeting waB held , which was enormously crowded . For hours before the doors were opened , the street in the neighbourhood was crowded by persons anxious . to witness the _proceedings , but none but members were admitted . M . Blanqui delivered a long and violent address on the subject of the meeting in tho Champ de-Mars on Sunday . He declared that the demonstration made by the National Guards was treason against the people ; that the whole affair was a trap , got up by the _reactioneiires and the monarchists , lie ealled upon the people to arm themselves , and to be prepared for whatever events might happen .
The report ot the arrest of _Blacquiand Cabet on Monday last , was not true ; but it was stated in Pan s on Wednesday , that orders for the arrest of Blanqui and several of his party , had positively been issued . Up to Wednesday morning , Paris was tranquil .
GERMANY . WORKING CLASS MOVEMENTS . Beelw , April 12 . —One of thecbiefobjeets ofthe working classes is to ebta n the appointment of a minister for promoting their interests , conjointly with those of persons whose capital affords employment ; and it is very probable that such a minister will be shortly nominated . There is no lack of communisfc leaders and preachers in this eapital . The first decisive step towards getting the interest of the workingclasses properly represented and upheld , was taken yesterday at a great popular meeting , at which a provisional committee of _twenty-el ght was
elected , 'in order ( as stated by one of the speakers ) to eonduct the general affairs of the working classes . ' This committee has already nominated a special one ef eight members , who have been instructed to draw up the statutes for the trades unioni . Several manufacturers agreed yesterday to diminish the hours of labour to ten , and at the same time to raise wages- It is proposed that the committee be authorised to enter into _neEotiatiens with the government respecting the general interests of the working classes , and in a particular manner to give tbe benefit of their advice to the future ministry of industry and labour—for such , it is thought , will be his title .
A few days ago some popular orators were arrested by Prussian soldiew in _Blssdorf ( Silesia . ) An immense crowd soon assembled , and the authorities were obliged to release ths prisoners . Bohemia . —Important concessions have been ' made to . the Bohemians . The Austrian Enlperor in reply to a petition addressed to him has determined : — ' 1- Thc Bohensian _language __ shall in future be equally valid with the German in all official branches of the legislature , and in public instruction . 2 . To the Bohemian diet immediately to be convoked all the states of the _kingdom shall be _assemble ! , the following changes to be effected in the number of delegates : The city of Prague to send twelve delegates ofthe burgher class , every other city of the
kingdom one ; every city _containine 8 000 inhabitants to send two deputies to the Diet ; the University of Prague to be represented by the rector , and every faculty of the university by a delegate ; every vicarial district to send two delegates from the other classes of the people . Every burgher may vote who pays tase 3 to the city and is above twenty-five years of age . The delegates must to natives and above the age of thirty years . No man can either be an elector or a delegate who is in debt , under guardianship , or amenable to the laws for some crime . 3 . Responsible central authorities for Bohemia are aecorded in the city of Prague . 4 . The petition of Bohemia , Moravia , and Silesia shall be deliberafedat the approaching Diet . 5 The
abolition of privileged and patrimonial tribunals , & c , shall be referred to the Minister of the Interior . His Majesty nevertheless now concedes—the abolition of the robot , the free exercise of the Protestant and Jewish religion , as well as _the Roinan Catholic . The admission of the Israelites to burgher privileges to ba taken into consideration at the Diet . 6 . Selfdependent religious communities with liberty of choosing their superiors is also accorded . 7 . Anew law on the press will be fixed by the Diet . 8 . Personal immunity against arbitrary imprisonment is accorded . 9 . government offices in Bohemia shall
in future be filled enly by persons who are versed in both languages . 11 . The abolition ofthe tax on provisions has been in _fart conceded , and will be further considered . 12 . The new military law for the levying of recruits ha 3 been a ready promulgated . 13 . Liberty of petition bas been already accorded ; the right of association will be regulated by tbe fan . damental law . 14 . Public seminaries , die ., for instruction , through the medium of the Bohemian language , will be established under the special charge of the Minister of the Interior . The request that all the military and the civil officers _shnll take the oath to their constitution , can be established
only by the fundamental law . ' A letter frun Pesth , dated April 6 , says : — 'The political world _continues quiet , but confidence is gone in the fullest sense as to money . Tbe bank notes are so much waste paper . __ No one will take them , and tbe Vranch banks which still profess to give silver in exchange are besieged from break of day until dark with crowds clamouring for silver . Hesse Cassel . —The insurrectionary movement at Cassel ( Hesse electoral ) appears to bave been serious . The Elector having determined upon dismissing General Lepel , tbe Commandant , as also the Miaister of War , who would not countersign the ordonnanco of his dismissal , determined also upon dismissing the latter minister . Upon this the Cabinet
sent in its resignation en masse , which was not accepted , and the ordonnanees issued against General Lepel and the Minister of War were withdrawn : When the facts became public , a mob of peopJe , composed of artists , members of the Polytechnic School , and tradespeople of different sorts , assembled on Sunday night on the Place R' > yale , for the purpose of making a demonstration . They wanted to applaud the ministers . The mob after this , accompanied by a patrol of the civic guard , assembled opposite the residence of M . Eberhard , and from thence repaired to the house of M . Baumback , one of the ministers Without any previous warning , the soldier ** from a
neighbouring street charged the people . Many of the civic gaards were wounded , and the body guard were ultimately driven back into their barracks . For many _hoers the greatest anarchy prevailed in the town , and the chiefs of the National Guard had no command over their men , and fighting continued _during the entire night . On the morning of the 10 th a proclamation appeared , in which the Elector expressed his deep regret at the events which had transpired , promising to punish , with tbo utmost rigour efthe law , the culpable parties . On the llth , tran- j qnillitywas completely restored ; other troops were I called ia , which fraternised with the people . J
TIIE WAR IN ITALY . FORCING OF THE PASSAGE OF THE MINCTO BY THE SARDINIAN TROOPS . A battle , though not a decisive one , has afc length taken place between the united Italian army and the Austrians . The decisive battle will now be fought , in all probability , under the walla of Verona . The _Piedmostesb Gazette of the 10 th instant , publishes the following bulletin : — From the head-quarters of the King , at Castigllone delle _Srlriere , Aprils . 1848 , p . m .
Tho Austrian troops had been retiring for _sevtral days before the FledmonteBe troops , who , preceded by their ancient renown for valour and discipline , had been crossing the HneB of the Oglloand Chlese without an ob . stacle . The enemy had already abandoned the positienB of Msntechiaro , _Lonato , and Castigliono dello Stiviere , which bad been considered yery advantageous for them , They had already retired beyond the line ofthe M . ncio , to concentrate themselves between FeBchiere and Hantua ; but our troops pursued them with prodigious rapidity , converging towards the passages ofthe Alineio . This morning , the King boldly established his headquarters in Castigllone delle Stiriere , and at abont nine o ' clock , the Brigade _Regina , the Battalion Real Nori , and a part of the corps of tirailleurs , reached Golte to attack the Austrians . The war of Italian independence was destined to he opened with an important action , which might really deserve the name of a victory , and we shall call it the rictory of _the'Brid ge of _Oolto .
Our men , led by General Bava , mado a brisk attack upenGoito , where the enemy had fortified himself _, barricading the streets , snd occupying the windows , frora whence he directed an uninterrupted fire upon us ; but every obstacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the tirailleurs , placed at tbe head of the column , and supported by some pieces of _aj-tillery . The enemy was forced to abandon his position ; on his retreat over the river ho blew up the bridge , that had been mined a short time be -fore ; _stUl one of the parapets remained nearly entire ; the tirailleurs intrepidly vestured upon it , and by main force t _^ _Ot possession of the artillery that waa playing
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npon us _incosiantly . In a _shoi-ttirae the passage of the _Minclo was forced » vor the smoking ruins of th * bridge * , tho enemy , pursued without interruption , _flsd towards Mantua , leaving a great number of _prisonors and dend , and among these somo officers . Th » fruit of this victory is our remaining masters of the _passnge of the Minclo , of which we at present occupy ths left bank . A _postcript to this despatoh , received an hour after , adds the following particulars : — The battle laBted two hours ; the cannon did grea t execution ; we made two thouiand prisoners , took fou r pieces of cannon , and tha _position is ours _.
After tho accomplishment of _fchisBuccess , and the rout of the Austrians , who fled right and left , some to Mantua and some to Verona , the Sardinians repaired the bridge by planks , making a roadway suffi . ciently wide to enable the entire army with the cavalry , artillery , and baggage , to cross the river , which they were about to do when tho last accounts left ,
ANOTHBR battle . Another engagement took place on the 9 th , at Borghetto , and at _Mozsmbano , to force the passage of tho Mincio at this point . A _Piedmontrse column of General _Sonnay ' s division , under General Broglio , obtained a complete victory . The Austrian batteries , placed between Morambano at _Valeggio , were dismounted , and the Piedmontese troops enoamped on the left bank , at the place previously occupied by the Austrians , who were pursued by the tirailleurs . There have been serious disturbances at Aix-la-Cba pelle , in which several persons have been killed and wounded .
ITALY . The P-f bib of Monday says : ' A letter from Venice which has just arrived states , that Verona has been taken by the Piedmontese army . ' This news has been confirmed by the latest accounts . Twelve hundred Venetians have been defeated at _Montbello , near Vioenza by a body « f 6 , 000 Austrian infantry and cavalry . The greater part of the Venetians were the students who volunteered from Padua and Venice . Many were killed . _Hsad-Q , uartbe 8 at Volta , April 12—Yesterday the Croatians Bet fire to the town of _Castel Nu < wo . The cries ot the unfortunate inhabitants were heard at this place . A body of the Austrian army numbering 9 . 000 men , whioh was on its way to Italy , haa been countermanded , in consequence of fears entertained regarding a movement in Galicia , Dalmatia _, and Croatia . "*'
• DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG HOLSTE 1 N . Letters from Hamburg confirm the fact of the Danes having entered _Schleswig , to the number of two thousand men . Aftor the battle of the 9 th , the _Schleswig-HoMein troops reassembled at Idstedn , near Schleswig . Tha Prince of Noer has retired to Hutten , with a great part of tho Schleswig _Helstein army . There areseven thousand five hundred Prussian troops at RenBburg . Rehdbsbubg , April 14 . —A __ skirmish has- taken place near Eckenforde , in which the Danes were defeated with a loss of forty prisoners . The Danish army of 8 , 000 advanced yesterday , and took possession of Dannarzirhie , near Schleswig .
POLAND . Posen , April 10 th . —In the first moments of alarm ths Prussian authorities entirely abdicated their power into tbe hands of the Polish committee , A passive _acquiescent , and , in many cases , an active support on their part , made the Poles believe that everything that was done by them had the sanction of theking ' s ' governmenfc at Berlin . And now , alter three weeks of indecision and higgling with our depatation , that same government , having _assombled abmit thirty thousand of Prussian troops , suddenly sets its face against the Poseners , and calls on the mighty torrent to fall quietly into its former channel .. You also _knovTwhat hope 9 and i _oromiseB were given us of an immediate war with _Russia . General Willisen came actually on the 25 th of March to the Polish depotation-then assembled afc the Hotel de Rome in
Berlin , and assured them in most solemn terras , that the King , having determined to place himself at the head of the Germans and the Po ! _es against Rossis , approved the _generalrinug in Posen , and was going to get them organised into a regular army . No w , this same general , after thirty thousand peasants had been collected by the nobles , ap . d so many refugees had come from France aad from Belgium , ail ofa suddfrn publishes an order enjoining tho Poles to disband their levies , and intimates that the existing landwehr will be quite sufficient for preserving peace and order in the duchy . Tho higher classes , although thus shamefully deceived , are willing , for thc sake of-peace and moderation , to comply with these injunctions . But it is not so easy to send home thirty thousand peasants , who were led to believe that they were going to form an army against Russia .
The Polish committee have sent commissaries and agents all over Europe—to thc Pope , te- Bohemia , to Hungary , to France , ar . d to England . I conclude with copying the _following address they have issued to the people Of Great Britain : — * Poland , sustained by the sympathy and the most vital interests of regenerated Germany , is already en foot to repel the invasion meditated by Russia , to prove herself once more the protectress of European liberty and civilisation , and tO ; recover her independent existence or . the _torminatioii of this terrible conflict . While this conflict can be nothing less than a last crusade
against the enemies of the human race , Poland calls on the people ahd tha governments of the West , awaiting from them that faithful and vigilant Bupport which ' every army owes to those who march foremost against the enemy . To us those vanguards , money and arms , are wanting . Will regenerated Europe , like despotic Europe , tranquilly look on , while an Unarmed nation is exterminated before her eye 3 ? Rejecting this dreadful suspicion , the National Committeeof Poland address themselves especially to the government and people of England , to obtain from them the material means for fulfilling this great task , which God and the unanimous voice of a heroic people have imposed upon them .
TURKEY . The Peesse states that a revolution has taken place at Belgrade . The Turks , it says , have been driven away , and Prince Bibesko deposed .
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THE EMPIRE . The cordition of the British empire is such thst , independent of the agitation of Chartism , it cannot long resist the force of circumstances ; it ? public credit must in a short period collapse ; these events come upon a nation in the terms of Holy Writ , ' like a thief in the night , 'and it _bshoves those drivellers who have invested their small sums in the Savings Backs to be upon the ! onk out ; tbe great bulk of the depositors are English , and the total amount deposited is not lees than £ 25 , 000 . 000 atthe present time . When the amount of gold at the bank is pretty large , there is not enough to pay one half , and in the event ofa run upon the bank for the repayment ofthe _deposits , tbe coffers of tbe bank will be _aocn drained , for those who hold their notes will _pwss for payment , as well as the depositors , together with those parties who have banking accounts . These combinations of demand will soon exhaust
the Old Lady , and emp ty her stores of the precious metals . When the ability to deliver geld has ceased , and the bank ara compelled to _reeort to one pound notes , gold will rise in price , and a sovereign may be soon worth twenty-five shillings , or more . With regard to the probability of a run on the bank for gold , it may be said that it has commenced in Ireland ; and as nobody can say what a day can bring forth , the poorer depositors , who cannot afford to lose ; and who would rather that it should constitute a Chartist fund than lose it . must take time by the forelock . The Savings BaDk deposit fund , estab . listed to bind the lower orders in one common interest for the preservation ofthe great debt , ia likely to prove thi means of its destruction ; it is the most vulnerable point in the who _' e system of English finance . X The precursor to the French revolution was the withdrawal ofthe deposits from the Savings Banks . The _Banie causes produce the same effects . Akok .
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_NernsGHAM , TQesday Evening . —Yesterday eveniBg , according to a requisition numerously signed , a meeting was held in the Exchange-hall of this town , composed of the middle classes of all _ehades of opinions , from tho high Tory down to the Chartist , to take into consideration tbo distressed state of the country , but more especially of the working elasses . There were about 800 persons present , and but one opinion pervaded the whole assembly as to the widespread distress which existed amongst the working classes , and the necessity of something being done to ameliorate their condition . There were on the platform the Rev . J . W . Brooks , vicar of St Mary ' s ; Revs . Benjamin Carpenter , and M . Linwood ,. Unitarian ministers ; Revs . Messrs Hunter and
Edwards , Baptist ministers ; Mr Bailey , proprietor of the NoTiiNGitAM Mxbcubt ; Mr _Bratlsbaw , of the Jovbsal ; Icbabod Charles "Wright , Esq ., banker ; and many of the most influential classes of Nottingham . The mayor , John Heard . Esq ., was called upon to preside . Resolutions and a petition were adopted , tho spirit of which will be seen from the following extracts from the petition : — ' That your petitioners view with deep regret , and entire disapproval , fcbe attempts which have lately been mado in Groat Britain and Ireland to obtain , by intimidation and by threats of having recort to
physical force , political changes . ' That , while your petitioners reprobate in the strongest manner and are willing to assist tothe utmost of their power in repressing auy _euoh attempts , they sympathise deeply with , and are ready to use every exertion to alleviate and remove ; the sufferings and privations under which large _numbers of their fellow subjects are now labouring , and to improve and olevato their social condition . 'Your petitioners , therefore , pray your honourable house to take early measures for reducing the national expenditure , and equalising the national taxation , and for improving or further extending the elective franchise . *
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CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL . Speech of F . O'Connor ; Esa ., in the House of Commons , on Friday , April 14 th , iu committee on the above Bill . Mr O'Connor said ; Sir , I must confess my astonishment , amazement , and surprise , at the hyp othetical and figurative speech of the honourable and learned member for Reading—a speech replete with exuberant eloquence and poetic fiction . ( Hear , hear . ) A speech which might have suited the darker ages , but my consolation was , when I heard that speech , that the author of Ion ( cheers ) was safe from the ex post facto operation of this law . But to deal with his facts , or rarher , his
assumption ? , because bis reasoning was all hypothetical , and inconclusive against the necessity of the proposed measure . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir , I will divide his oration into two parts , beginning with his exordium , and ending with his loyal peroration . Now , what was his first admission ? Why , that in more disturbed times the law , as administered at Monmouth and Stafford , had been successful . ( Hear . ) Can he point out one single instance in which the ordinary law has not been successful—nay , beyond the expectation ofthe government ? If , then , the answer must be in the affirmative , why dishonour the Queen , and commit treason against the people ? ( Cheers . ) Thus I show the law ' s potency , gathered
from the poetical gentleman's flowers —( hear , and laughter )—and now I will prove the people ' s loyalty from the honourable and learned gentleman's anticipation of failure frora what is expected from hig h anticipations abroad . Now , what has he told the house ? Why , simply that he felt convinced , that , e ' er many days had elapsed , the failure frora foreign changes would have tbe effect of wedding every man , who was now a Republican , more firmly to our institutions , and of establishing in our hearts a more devoted loyalty to the Queen . ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , why not await this jubilee this national rejoicing—instead of rushing into premature legislation , which will convince the world that loyalty in England will be henceforth measured ,
not by reverence , love , or respect for thelhrone _, but by dread of the law ? ( Hear , hear . ) Would it be possible for mortal man to have stated a stronger case for postponement in the one case , and no necessity for the measure upon the other hand ? ( Hear , hear . ) Thus , sir , it has been throughout the entire of this discussion . Every constitutional lawyer in the house , who has risen to support this bill , has unwittingly , unintentionally , but conclusively , proved , that it is not wanted , and , if passed , that it will be inoperative . Now , sir , with all his legal knowledge , I defy him , and the Attorney-General , to frame an indictment under this bill , if the exposition g iven of its provisions b y the Attorney-General is correct . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbat learned official has told us that an overt act must be the crime , and
that words spoken must be proof of the intentthen was there ever such nonsense ? ( Hear , hear . ) Is it not truly an act to entrap men into cumulative acts of felony ? ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Not to suppress crime , but to invite criminals —( hear , hear ) —and with such a definition of old statutes , which the improved mind of the day is to abstain from explaining , this country is now to be governed . ( Hear , hear . ) Why , if the noble lord and his party were to be tried under this act , for words spokeu and deeds incited to , during the agitation for reform , all the hulks at her Majesty ' s disposal would not afford accommodation for the Ministers and
their felon accomplices . ( Cheers . ) But that was to enable them to carry their principle , that taxation without representation was tyranny , and should be resisted ; but now they had possession of the exchequer , law was to be strained against their friends , and the Attorney-General was to be England ' s Prime Minister : — Tho tool of the Miaister , not of tho Crown , Made by bis smile , and unmade by hia frown . If the provisions of this bill had so much puzzled the lawvers in that house in their endeavours to
explain them , what would be the case when they came to be interpreted by the juries of the country ? ( Hear , hear . ) As for himself , he felt that he stood in no danger in reference to tbis Act , and such was the peaceable disposition of the community and of the Chartists , that it was , in his opinion , wholly unnecessary to introduce an unconstitutional measure of this sort—a measure of the monstrous character of this gagging bill . The government were now kicking down the ladder by which they had risen , and pursuing , under some extraordinary infatuation , a course which was not only retrogade as regarded this country , but was the direct opposite of everything that the governments of other nations
were now doing in reference to the liberties of the people . This bill was , in fact , nothing but a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . He'had opposed it in its several stages , and the support given to it on that ( the Conservative ) side of the house had led to an union between the labouring and the middle classes which would , after Easter , manifest itself in the form of a piessure of constituencies which it would be utterly impossible to resist . He then advised thenoblelord ai the head of the . government to beware how ho adopted advice which came from the Opposition side of the house , from which nothing could emanate favourable to his government . The late Attorney-General ( Mr Thesig er ) gave it as bis
opinion that it was not necessary to put the precise words in the indictment "; all that was required was the mere construction . He had never in his life heard such an unconstitutional doctrine . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The bill was , in reality , a suspension ofthe Habeas Corpus Act ; it took away the right of bail and the right of traverse ; a prisoner might remain in gaol for eight or nine months before he was brought to trial , unless a special commission were issued to try his offence . To show the danger of relying upon language attributed to public speakers , he would read to them an extract from the Sun newspaper , in which he was reported to have said , ' Let thera pass that bill , and on that
day week one hundred secret societies would be established throughout the country , and he would go about and organise them . ' Now , when such a mistake as that could be made , where everything was conducted calmly and deliberately , what might they expect at meetings where excitement and tumult prevailed ? Every person was aware that be said the very contrary of what was there attributed to him , and that he had positively stated his determination to oppose the formation of all secret societies .. ( Hear , hear , ) He would put it to them what would be the feeling of the country if he had abandoned his duty by not having taken his place at the head ofthe procession on Monday last , although
it had been ¦ forbidden by the government ? Had there been a collision with the authorities , what would have been his own feelings if lie had not been present to share the danger and responsibility , as he had previously identified himself with the movement ? The hon . member for York had attributed to him the authorship of an article in which he asserted that he ( Mr Feargus O'Connor ) advocated a republican form of government over that of a monarchical . What was the fact ? The article complained of was written in con . demnation of the mode of -electing the president of the United States , from which he deduced the fact that the present mode of election led to
party feuds and quarrels for two years before the event , and did not subside for two years after , thus making the whole population parties , as it were , to a class squabble , and thus frittering away that which would otherwise be the united power of a people against a system which is yearly becoming more despotic . He ( Mr O'Connor ) claimed the same right of canvassing men , measures , and policy , that was conceded to other journalists , and under that right , which he was not about to surrender , the article alluded to was intended as a caution to the French people to avoid a course which must ultimately lead to similar results , and advising them to elect a president for life , responsible to the people , and removable / or cause—this recommendation he offered for
the purpose of saving the people from the consequences of those party jealousies which were sure to be engendered by the election of tho Executive government . Not one word throughout the whole of it referred to England . The entire press was opposed to the Chartist movement , and he might tell them what was very well known , that the press was paid , not for representing thc truth of public opinion , but for the purpose of _mis-reporting and colouring it , in order to meet the views of those
who read it . The Times newspaper , of the 10 th instant , reported a very violent speech , said to have been delivered at a Chartist meeting , held at Blackheath upon Sunday , the 9 th iastant . Now he had received a letter from William Napier , Major-General , stating to him that no meeting of any kind was hel d there that day . ( Hear , hear . ) Would any man define to him what was the meaning of open and adv ' sed speaking ? He defied a definition . ' Oh / said the Solicitor-General , « we preserve this vague and ungrammatical clause merely because we
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found it ungrammatical ; and we are tenacious ef our Saxon forms of expression , even where they mean nothing . ' What was foolishly , rashly , and intemperately spoken by a man opposed to the _government , would be considered open and advised speaking—that was the real truth of the matter . The peop le of this country had borne more tyranny and injustice than any other people in the world . They bore it more tamely ar . d more patiently , and he warned the government not to press them too far . They had a large standing array . Their shopkeepers were bankrupt , and their naerchants were losing their capital . Yet no retrenchment was made in the expenditure of the country . Why did they not reduce the civil list ? Why did they pay £ 27 , 000 to a foreign king , to tbe King of Hanover ? This was a monstrous iniquity , and one which ought to be remedied . The present government was a
most truckling government to its opponents , and the most unjust to its friends . ( Hear , hear . ) Why should he be charged with what Mr Cuffay had said ? One honourable member would make him answerable for Mr Cuffay _' s language under great excitement , and another would charge him with what every tomfool in London may be inclined to utter to a cheering audience , but he would be held responsible for his own words , and his own words only . This bill would remove the safety valve through which their folly would pass harmless away . Let them once extinguish the mind ' s fire , and it would be substituted by the blazing torch , and where then would be the security for property i Did they reflect upon this fact , that whereas the taxation of the country was measured by the full employment of the working classes—that expenditure bad increased in the same ratio in which
their ability to meet it had diminished ? ( Hear , hear . ) The whole question was one of labour , and as long as he remained in his position it should remain so . Here was their present _position—if it requited the full employment of three millions to feed the idlers and support the government , and if one million of those three be _« _carre unwilling idlers , they became a competitive icier- e , and their poverty not only tended to the reduction of the wages of the two millions employed , but it also imposed upon those scantily employed , the further necessity of supporting one million of their fellow men as unwilling idlers . ( Hear , hear . ) Well , then , with this damning fact before their eyes , how dare they attempt to gag pnbiic opinion ,
by the factious howl of those placemen and pensioners sitting behind the noble lord , and living in luxury upon the industry of others ' ;? ( Hear , hear . ) Let thenoblelord remember that what caused the French revolution was the bold audacity of a tyrant minister , who , like the noble lord , attempted : to awe the national will by paid officials , placemen , and pensioners . ( Hear , hear . ) And now he . was attempting to do the very thing which the French republic , and all ether , countries that had broken down despotism , bad required as the first measure of justice , namely , the liberation of political offenders . ( Cheers . ) They may array aU the unconstitutional force at their command , against the constitutional right of freemen to denounce tyranny and
oppression , but the voice of a united people would silence ihe terror of a centralised faction . This was the measure of justice to Ireland—this was the answer to the people ' s appeal for justice to this house . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbey'were panic-stricken , and were now taking council of the ex-King of the French , whom he should not mock in his misery , or taunt in his sorrow , but he told the noble lord to beware how he took council from evil advisers . ( Hear , hear . ) Many attempts had been made to define what open and advised speaking was ; but the only definition it would receive after the passing of the bill would be ' anything spoken against the government . ' ( Hear , hear . ) The present government had got into power by unadvised and intemperate speaking , and now
they wished to gag the people . Ministers were not so squeamish about speaking in 1832 , when multitudes were assembled in every part of the country , and addressed in the most exciting language , and when Nottingham and Bristol were in flames . Ministers would be better occupied in reducing the pension list than in forcing an unconstitutional measure on Parliament . He defied the government to carry the bill into operation — they dare not do it . It was his intention to propose au amendment when they came to limit the duration of the bill , to the effect that it should be maintained in operation as long as the noble lord remained in office . Why they once thought that the' income tax was to be temporary . Did not the smooth-tongued and cunning-lipped baronpt , the member for Tamworth ,
assure them that it would be but temporary , and beg that . they would not refuse to the state what the state stood so much in need of ? Well , now they were told in the same way that the state stood in need of this bill ; but were they once to pass it , they would be told , ' Oh , as w toe it now , we may as well keep it . ' _Supposed should turn out inoperative :. it would then be said , ' The law is a dead letter _^ Let it alone ; there is no need for meddling with ifc . ' But suppose it should be used : then the answer toany arguments for its repeal would be , * See the utility of the law ; ' Depend upon it , the bill , once passed , would become as permanent as was the income tax . Let it become law , and he would traverse the country—morning , noon , aud night—and his constant cry would be , ' Down with the base , bloody , and brutal Whigs , '
MONDAY , Aran 17 . HOUS E OF LORDS . — State or Ibeiakd . —The Earl of _Ehenbjeoooh followed up a motion for a re . turn of the number of arms registered in Ireland between the Uth of March and the 14 th of tfee present month b y refering to an article in the Unite © _IsiaanAN calling upon the people to arm , with tbe view , when the system of organisation waB complete , of plunging them in the hearts' blood ef their enemies . If no preparation was to be made f 6 r defence while the enemy was preparing for an attack those who wished bow to aid tha
government in maintaining peace and order would be disheartened , and would begin to _consider , and perhaps entertain , the question of compromise , on a subject with respect to which no compromise eould tako place—viz ., the Repeal of the Union . He was unwilling to press the subject toe prominently forward ; he only wished to know distinctly whnt were the intentions of the government ; and he would , therefore , conclude by putting tho question of whieh he had given notice—namel y , whether it was the intention of the government to extend the provisions of the Crime aad Outrage ( Ireland ) Act to the city and county of Dublin , or to briDg in b
measuro to amend that act ? The Margate of _Lansdowne intimated that thero could be no objection to the production of the return moved _ferj by the noble earl , inasmuch as his object was to _procure the latest information in reference to a very important subject . With rcferenoo to the queBtion with which tho noble earl concluded , he must say he thought the Lord-Lieutenant was the best judge both of thg time , the plaee , and the mode in which the power of tho government should be put Into action , and he did not think tbat house was the place—if any part of Ireland ' was to _bs . brought tuddenly under the operation of the act—in whicii it was consistent that auch a proclamation should be announced ; be thought It should eome at onco direct from the _Lord-Lieutonant . After referring to various exaggerated state _, mets in reference to the condition of Ireland and the
arming of the _disaffecUd , the noble marquis said , that while he should be sorry to pledge the Lord-Lieutenant to arm all persons making application to him _indiserimtnately , yet tbat noble lord had accepted the services ofa large and efficient body of persons composed of bath Protestants and Catholics , and arms had been « eut over to be placed in their hands . T he noble earl had alluded to a compromise , of whioh certain rumours had been aprBad abroad ; and whan a _compromlaa was _meatisned he was bound to tahe the first opportunity of stating that there oeuld be none . It was the determination of hor Majesty ' s ministers to resist all attempts to subvert tho well government ofthe country , and with the interests of which government the preservation of the union was inseparable . Lord Brodobam was of opinion that the Repeal of the Union was only Bought for by a vary small body , who drove a pecuniary trade by advocating that measure . The return was agreed t _» .
Removal of _Amens Bill —The Marquis of Ians-Downe proposed that this bill should pass through committee pro forma tor the purpose of printing certain amendmentg of a verbal character , and one which gave o right of appeal to the privy council . The Earl of _Ellinborough _nuld an appeal to the privy council would defeat the object of the bill . Tho foreigners in this country whom ft might ba desirable to send away by _steamerfuls were not respectable traitors , but persons of the lowest class , and to give each tho right of a separate appeal to tbe Queen in council would keep the privy eouncll constantly sitting _. The Marquts of _Laksoowne said that if they were not ' respectable traitors '—( laughter )—they would not be able to bear the expense of such an appeal . The Earl of _Ellenborocqh said he wouldjioC opposo tho clause aB It appeared tobe useleBB , The bill _paesed throug h oommltteo .
The Election _Recognizances Bill was read a second time , and their lordships adjourned at half-past eight o ' clock , HOUSE OP _CfWIMONS . — RmEBBSTiTION OB THB People . —Mr _JffV & E gave notice , amid loud cheers , that shortly after tbe recess , he would call attention to the present elate of the representation of tho people , and take the sense of the bouse on that queBtion , New Wbit foe Dsbby : —Mr Evans moved for new writs for Derby , nt ae room of Mr Strutt and the Hon , P , Gower , Mr Mackiknon _ssconded the motion .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22041848/page/7/
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