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rpo Mn. PROUT, 229, STRAND. JL " Ko. 208, Piceadilly, London, Oct. li). ' 1847.
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TRANCE . The Republican Prisoners . —We read in the Ere _Jtoutelie : —' The health of the prisoners at Vincennes is excellent . Each one has a separate cham ber , leading into ? . large circular room , where the gendarmes are posted . Martin , better known by the name of Albert , has devoted kis leisure hoars to the education of a joung bird ; * Quentin has for a companion a turtle dove ; Raspail has brought up tw o fowl s , which , by their noise and familiaritv , rendered a visit to his chamber not very * e . 1 * pleasant ; Barbes cultivates some fine flowers : Ins
" loom is that formerly occupied by M . de Bou l ogne , A bishop of Troves , imprisoned by Napoleon for Ins ddelity to the Holy See . M . de Boulogne , during bis captivity , covered the -rails of his room with religions paintings , which remain there still . The rooms now alluded to were occupied in 1830 by the ministers of CharlesX . ; _magnificent views are to be seen from the windows . " _llhherto the P _™ oners were nut permitted to communicate with each otner , but two _davs _L-ack that interdicion was removed , as the _necessities of their common defence rendered a conference indispensable . ' writes It
The c-irresptmdent of the Times :- appears that some of the prisoners confined at Vmcennes , under a _charge of conspiracy on the 15 th May , have refused to proceed to _Bourges for trial . Those _trf-o so _refusearc the mnst important amongst them ; thev are Raspail , B ! a _?; qui , Barbes , Qientin and Sobrier , Caussidiere , Louis Blanc , and Hubert , will probably be tried par conlunace . The last mentioned is believed to be still hiding somewhere in the capital , as he has lately addressed a letter to oae of the j _mrnals , which was dated the day immediately preceding its publication . ' _Persechtion of the Citizen Proodhon . —
On the 14 ih the Assembly took into _cons-. _daraiwn the demand for authorisation to prosecute M . Proudhon , when M . Proudhon spoke as follows : — * 1 bave baen given to understand that in reply to the demand to prosecute me on account of two auicles in the Peuple I should address myself at the tribune to tbe _sublet ot the responsibility of the President of the _Republic It is now a settled question . To those who desire the Republic and to those who do not , the President is responsible . I do not insist tben on this point , I come to the accusation . I am accused of attacks against the constitution , of exciting hatred and contempt against the government , and of attacks against tbe
President of the Republic . I have not attacked the constitution . I voted here against the constitution . It was my right as a representative , and having exercised this right I have always defended the constitution , both within and without these walls . In the articles incriminated I defend it against the encroachments ofthe executive power . Is it more true that I hare attacked the government ? Does not the _National Assembly form part of the government ? I have always defended it . I have sustained its preponderance in the government . Is this to attack the government ? The Assembly has gone further in this respect than I . By its c -nduet on the vote of M . Perree it made an appeal to
insurrection . ( Exclamations . ) When you say the Ministers were distrusted by the Assembly , you authorised me to say the executive power did not merit confidence and should not be obeyed . I have not attacked the President of the Republic , but onl y certain pretensions . When Marshal Bugeaud and il . Leon Faucher speak of the eternal enemies of society , it is well known whom they would blacken , but they are commended . But with the Socialists it is a _different matter ; when they speak of re-aciiomiaires they attack societies , they provoke to civil war . It is the President of the Republic _, _against whom any attacks have been directed . They know this well ; and I am proceeded against because 1
am an aggressor _against the citizen Lou s Bonaparte , and not as thc man who provokes to civil war . I ara proceeded _a- * aiust on tbis latter charge , b ecause tbe punishment is much more severe ; but , as the Pr _* _-s : dent of the Republic is not _irresponsible , I have a right to canvass his public acta . ' He then went into a review ef ceitain parts of the conduct of the President of the Republic and the Ministry , of the concentration o f the military power in tbe hands of Gen , Changarnier , and concluded by saying thathe wai _oni of those men whom they killed and respited , b ut did no t p un i sh , and appealed to the _annj * to weigh well and judge between the accusation against him and bis observations .
The report of the committee authorising the prosecution teas adopted by a large majority . Citizen Proudhon Jibs _received notice of another _prosecuiionfor thefeuilletons published in his paper , La Veuple , r _& pecting the events of June . The Bourgeois-War against the Republic . —All the bonnet rouges , and all flags with Montagnard and Socialist inscriptions , which had been attached to tbe trees of liberty in Paris , have jast been removed , by order of the Prefect of Police . The beastly Times exufcs over tbe _perscution of the Republicans after the following manner : — * Owing to the active exertions and energy of the police , and the convictions by the tribunals ofthe
principal speakers , there is not a single club now open in Paris , with the exception of the Parliamentary clubs , bnt which are , of cou r se , quite a different thing altogether . The Minister of the Interior deserves much credit for destroying these hotbeds of sedition . The orators at those places are either imprisoned or in concealment to escape the sentence pronounced against them . The sedition and blasphemy which some of them bad previously proclaimed in places of puhlic resort , they _werforced to utter in secret . Information was given that one or two of the clubs bad established their head-quarters in the suburbs , and the police actually discovered a parly in full conclave . There
appe a re d , however , no legal proof against them of having met to discuss political questions , and , not having given a satisfactory account of themselves , the parlies were arrested as vagrants and taken off to the Prefecture . There , however , they ind ignantly repelled the term vagrants , ' and forgetting their position , declared they had assembled for the purpose of discussing political snbjects . They were consequently convicted on their own confession , and imprisoned . They are to be prosecuted for a violation of the law on secret societies . ' [ Is not this horrible ? But it is the natural consequence of ' moderation . ' Miserable peoples , when will you learn tbat tbere is but one proper way of dealing with scoundrels ?]
More _Persecutijx of the Republicans . — M . _Patureim , the provisional mayor of Chateauroux . having attempted to organise a popnlar manifestation , under the pretext of planting a tree of liberty , contrary to the wishes ef the Prefect on the subject , bas been suspended from his functions , together with the munici pal conncil , which bad assumed the title of Republican Council . The Prefect has esta b lished a pr o visional munici pal commission . M . Bonnard , a physician , and AIM . Se . rignac and Mealier , barristers , were tried before the Conrt of Assize of the Seine on Thursday , for a sedi tions speech , delivered b y the Doctor on the 26 th of October , at the Club of the Redoubt . They were found guilty , and the _Dsctor was sentenced to imprisonment for one year , and to pay a fine of _l , 000 f . MM . Serignac ar . d Mestier were sentenced to imprisonment for two months .
The governor ofthe prison of St . Pelagie was _arrested on Thursday . More Persecution of the Republican Press . —The printers ofthe journals the Rights of Man andthe Red Republican have been sentenced to pay a fine , one of 200 and other of 100 francs , for having published those papers without having made the deposit required by law . M- Felix _Malteste , printer , was convicted before the Paris Conrt of Assize , on Tuesday , of having p rinted an address entitled The Electoral Propaganda , ' emanating from the association called La Solidarite Repuhlicaine , without having made the _declaration prescribed by law . He was sentenced to pay a fine of 2 _, 000 f .
Italian Affairs . —On Tuesday M . Ledru Rolling interpellated the Minister of Foreign Affairs on tne intention of the government _torrards Rome and Tuscany . M . Drouyn de Lhuys _having stated , in reply , that the French government did not mean to acknowledge the Roman government without first ascertaining that it approved of its acts , and that , bes i des t his , the government was anxious that the Pope should be placed iu a position guitable to a temp o r a l prince and the head of the church , M . Bac proposed the following motion : — TheNational Assembly , ** _erWT _** ring in its de * _elation of the 25 th May last , passes to the order Of the day /
A _ihort discussion ensued , when M . Bac , finding the _feehng of the Assembly to be against him ; withdrew h i s motion , and the simple order of the day ins carried . Tfae Council of Revision bas rejected the appeal of the murderers of General Brea , and directed that the law should take ita coarse .
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The Court of Cassation rejected on Saturday the appeal of MM . Raspail and Quentin against tbe resolution of the National Assembly and the decree of the Council Chamber that they should be tried at _Bourges by tbe High Court of Justice . Threatened lKTEttTB » noK _^ -The Pans Fa ne of Sundav contains the following :- ' The report's current that , with the consent of all the po _^» * King of Naples and the Kingof Piedmont are simultaneously _^ interfere in the States of the Pope and _inTuscancy . The journey of the Piedmontese General Bain , who has left Turin for Naples , passing through Florence and Rome , is said to be in connexion with this plan of intervention . Should , the intervention take place , it is said tkat the English and French fleets will take up their position at Leghorn and Civita Vecchia . '
T h e Comfitutimmel say s , that this news needs _confirmation , but it is generally believed in Paris that the intervention has been fully determined on . On the lst of March 10 , 000 troops will be concentrated in and round Bourges . They began to move thither on the 16 th . _Dissclvtio- * _- * of the Assembly . —We announced , in onr second and third editions , that the raotion of M . Lanjuiunais for the eariy dissolution of the Assembly had been finally adopted . The _consesr-quence of this _vate is , that the present' National Assembly' must necessarily close its labours within a period varying from ei ght y to nine t y days , and that the * Legislative Assembly , ' which is to succeed it will probably meet within the first fortnight of the month of May .
Celebration of the 24 th of February . — In the A sembly on Thursday tbe Minister of the Interior had presented a bill _rtlitive lo the celebration of the anniversary of the revolution of February . By this bill it was declared tbat the ceremonies on the 24 th of February would be a mer e serv i ce ior t he d ead , leaving the peried of rejoicing to the anniversary of May 4 , the day on which the National Assembly first met . The bill was at once referred to the Committee of the Interior , with an injunction to send in a report in the course of the sitting . Some articles of the electoral
law were tben adopted , after which M . Babaud Laribiere ascended the tribune , and presented the ieport of the Committee of the Interior on the bill mentioned above ; the Committee declared that , in general , it approved of the views of the government , but still insisted on having both February 24 th and May 4 th considered as fete days and national holidays . M . Leon Faucher persisted in the bill which he bad presented ; the Assembly , however , approved of tbat o f t he Committee , which was a do pt ed by 4 90 vote s to 99 .
Disturbed State of Lyons . —Accounts from Lyons of the 19 th , state that that city is in a state of great excitement . The military authorities have , however , adopted energetic means to prevent an _outbreik . A nnmber of arrests have taken place .
GERMANY . ( From the Morning Chronicle . ) BERLIN , Feb . 12 . —The Prussian Elections . —The total results of the elections for the Second Chamber are now ascertained . According to the moderate journals , there is a majority of between twenty to th irty in favonr of the Constitutionalists _, according to the calculations of the Democratic press , the numbers are so balanced ar . to render it impossible to determine which is in the minority . In fact , in order to be able to judge of the turn matters are likely to take in the Second Chamber , we must wait until the discussion upon the
address . In the meantime , it is indisputable that t h e Le f t has retaine d a l m o s t all i t s ori ginal force and unity by the re-election of its most active and persevering members , whilst many of those wbo formed the newe and strength of the Right have been excluded . The approaching struggle—and a fierce struggle must ensue—will be carried on in the Second Chamber , and not in the streets . Ten able orators or debaters are , therefore , of more importance to the interests of the Government , of order , and national prosperity , than ten thousand bayonets . The Left may be kept in check by the eloquence and firmness of its opponents ; they cannot be overcome by any other force .
Three points of discussion are already pointed out as those upon which the adverse parlies are determined to try their force . These are—lst , by the grace of God ;* 2 d , nobility—abolished b y a pa r ty which has been re-elected in full force ; and , 3 d , the FiM Chamber itself , against which Temme , Waldeck , Rodbertus _, and the _whole demagogue Left have sworn an eternal haired . The official notice , calling on the deputies of both Chambers to assemble on the 26 ih inst ., at eleven in the forenoon , in the White-hall of the
Palace , appeared on the 16 th , putting an end to the doubts which had for some days prevailed as to whether the dav of meeting _would not be adjourned . AUSTRIA—The Graiz _journals state that sixty soldiers recently broke into the residence of the editor of one of the local journals ( which had censured Windischgralz ) , and wounded him so severely that his life is despaired of . In revenge , the populace dragged from his horse the captain under whom the military rioters served , and very roughly handled him .
THE WAR IN HUNGARY . The Hungarians are not yet conquered . Up to the 6 th inst ., Ko s suth and h is pa rl iament w ere still in Debreczin , as busy as ever in fabricating bank-notes and in making unitary preparations . Dembinski is now the commander-in-chief of all the Hungarian forces , which , according to all accounts , are very numerous , particularly on the banks of the Theiss . The Deutsche Reforme of Berlin ( the journal which , during the Vienna insurrection , received by far the most authentic and the speediest intelligence of tbe proceedings ) hints very plainly , in i t s , evening edition of tbe 12 th inst ., that the Austrian ministry are desirous of treating : with the ' rebels , ' and that at no distant period the faithful Croatians and their Ban will be again declared outlaws .
It is asserted tbat Russia has offered rewards for the capture of Kossnth , Bem , and Messaros , who are accused of fomenting disorder in Poland . Notwithstanding reports to the contrary , the fortress of Esseg is not yet in the hands of the Imperialists . On the contrary , it appears tbat the Emperor ' s troops have merely taken the town of Esseg , but that the citadel remains still in the hands of the insurgents , who did considerable _damage by
bombarding the town . Tbe Austrian troops are vainly endeavouring to protect themselves by temporary fortifications from the hail of balls and shells which it is stated are continually pouring in . Nor have they been able to surround the whole of the citadel , the northern road being still in the p ower of t b e Magyars , who caB thus receive provi sions and reinforcements . General Nugent ' s corps has been ordered to join the besieging Austrian armv at Esse ? .
According to letters from Pesth , Count Lazar and Baron _Nidersperg have been sentenced to ten year s' imprisonment for having taken part in the Magyar insurrection . It is said that General Dembinski , who is now at the head of tbe Hungarian army , passed a nigh * , on bis way from Paris , in the same town ( Kreismark ) with the Austrian General Schlik , who would , in all probability , have shot him without mercy had he known he had such a neighbour . The Breslauer Zeitung publishes a letter from Hungary , containing a detailed account of General Bern ' s victory at Hermannstadt , where he defeated the Austrian forces under General Puchner , who intended to surround Bern and his Hungarians .
The same letter contains an account of another defeat which the Imperialists suffered at Zibackhaz , on the banks of the Theiss . The cannonade was heard as far off as Cz * g led , and some of the fugitive Austrian dragoons came to Pesth . It appears that the Imperialists endeavoured to burn the bidge which crosses the Theiss at Zibackhaz , and _were opposed by the Hungarians , who forced them to fly from the field . The Austrian bulletins are silent on the subject of this fight , which lasted above si * hours .
SAXONY .- —The second chamber is displaying every day more and more its democratical tendencies . On the 9 th inst . it voted , by a large majority , and in opposition to ministers , the recall of all the Saxon ambassadors in foreign _countries and in Germany , with the exception of the one in _Frankfort-on-the-Maine , and the replacing of them by consuls . HAMBURGH . —A congress of working men was opened on the 10 th inst . The congress resolved to forward an address to the National Assembly in Frankfort , and to each of the governments of Germany , requesting advances of money for the establishment of common workshops and formation of working-men ' s associations .
At the recent congress of working men , held in this city , u was stated that working men ' s MBotia . tions were making much progress in Saxony and in _Saxe-Altenburg , and that some ¦ association work-
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shops' had been established therein . Nearly all the members of the congress broached communist doctrines , and urged the necessity of breaking up capital ( in other words puttine down capitalists ) , in order to render labour free . —Daily News .
SPAIN . General Cabrera . — -After having been wounded in his late action with the Christina forces , General Cabrera issued a general order , announcing that it was not his intention to relinquish the command of the army , and directing that all reports should continue to be . made to bine in the _usnal manner . A l et ter from Cabrera , written subsequently , and of so late a date as the 9 th inst ., has reached London , and contains the gratifying assurance that his recovef y proceeded so favourably as to justify his hope and belief of being able once more to resume active duty as earlv as the 12 th or 13 th .
Monarch lax and Military Modesty . —It appears that Narvaez will not give up power without a pension . I hear that it is the intention of his friends to propose in the Cortes that he be allowed an annuity or pension of two millions of reals a year ( about £ 20 000 ) as a tribute of gratitude to the pacificator of Spain . But this is not all . It is added , that his friends are anxious to obtain for _hioi the title of Prince . If the Cortes approve of these
measures , of which there seem 9 little doubt , Queen Christina will come in with a claim also , and demand that her annual pension of three millions be capitalised for twenty years . The modest request would amount to this , tbat the country should pay over to Queen Christina a sura of sixty millions of reals , to be given to her immediately in Three per cent . Bonds , at the rate of twenty or twenty-one per cent ., wh i c h wi l l amount to the enorm o u s s um of three hundred millions of reals , or three millions
sterling . A letter from Catalonia says * — ' That a bloody engagement took place in Pont and Armentera on the 5 th inst ., between tbe columns of the Carlist Villela and the Centralista Baldrich together , against the Queen ' s troops , commanded by General Quesada ; the action lasted four hours . The Queen ' s t ro op s l o st f ifteen men kil l ed , and thirty wounded . Baldrich had a single combat with a lancer of the Queen ' s troops , and killed hira on the spo t . ' Nine soldiers were shot at Cuenca on the 8 th inst . for desertion and j jining a rebel force .
HOLLAND . The Dutch Chambers were opened on the Uth tythe King in person . GLORIOUS PROGRESS OF DEMOCRACY IN
ITALY . Opening of the Constituent Assemuly at Rome . —The session of the Roman Constituent Assembly was solemnly opened on the 5 th inst . The deputies marched in procession from the Cap it o l to thc palace of the Chancery , the old hall of which had been fitted up for their reception . At one o ' clock the Ministers took their seats , and the S en i or D ep ut y h aving b e en called to t he c air , M . Armellini , Minister of the Interior , addre s sed the house , saying : ' Pius IX , an historic name , entered on a glorious path , that of nationality , founded on the ruins ol democracy . _Succeeding , to a pon t iff who was detested , warned by passed events ,
educated in the world , and not in a cloister , where bigotry and not religion is professed , Pius IX . could not remain insensible to the exigencies of the time 3 . The amnesty , a _quasi-Hberty of the press , the creation of a municipality , the consults and the constitution all presaged that Pius IX would reconcile bis temporal power to the requirements of mankind . But Pius IX was not sufficiently imbued with the importance of his mission . At every concession he desired to halt . The nations cried forward ! forward ! Scruples alarmed him . He regarded as sacrilege the liberty of the laity surrounded as he was by diplomatists end reactionnaires . lie wished to retrace his ste p s , aod waited only the opportunity . That opportunity be found in the war of independence . The allocution of the 29 th was the
first step of discord between the prince and the people . The struggle commenced between constitutional and ecclesiastical principles . A man without gepius , he had not understood the constitution . Every ministry became impossible b y r e ason of th e antagonism of the two principles . And yet , after his _fli g ht , the revolution proceeded but slowly , and was only fully proclaimed after the protests and orders of the Pope issued from the country of an enemy . The task ef the Provisional Government was arduous , but it heeded not the menaces of conspiracy and intervention . It had with it the people . The ministry met all the difficulties and triumphed . You are the living evidence of its efforts . The nation will know how to preserve its conquered rights . ' The minister then entered into a detail of the acts
of the Provisional Government , and said : — 'In case of peril , we have 3 0 , 000 men under arms . Such is our work as to the interior ; as to the exterior , all our communications are broken off . We have the sympathy ofthe Tuscan people . The Sardinian government has treated to our satisfaction . To all menaces we reply by preparing for war . You sit amidst the sepulchres of two civilisations—thc sepulchres of the Italy of the Caesars and those of the Italy of thepopes . Build , then , on these sepulchres . the new edifice , and inaugurate your immortal labour s by tw o name s , ' Italy and the people !'' On the calling over the names of the deputies , the Prince of Canino answered by ' Viva Itebpubliea _!'
During the sitting General Garibaldi proposed immediately to proclaim the republic , and was seconded by the Prince of Canino ; but was opposed by Sterbini and other members , who declared that whatever was done in that Assembly ought to be the result of mature and deliberate discussion . THE POPE DEPOSED ! . THE REPUBLIC
PROCLAIMED !!! The National Assembly met on the 8 th at one o ' clock , and , after some routine business had been transacted , the grand question of ' What form of government should be adopted lor the Roman States ? ' was entered on . The debate was characterised b y gr a ve an d e a rne s t el o quence , and lasted through the night , when finally a division took place , and 134 votes against twenty decided that Rome should be once more a commonwealth . The twenty in minority advocated an amendment deferring the question to the meeting of the great Italian constituent body . In t h e mi ddl e of the n ight the result was forced on the notice of the slumbering citizens by the simultaneous pealing of all the steeples in Rome . The decree is couched in the following terms : —
' Art . 1 . The Pope is declared divested both in point of fact and in point of right of all claim to temporal power . < Art . 2 . Full and adequate guarantees shall be provided for the Pontiff ' s independent exercise of his sp iritual supremacy . 'Art . 3 . The government of these states shall be of a s trictl y democratic nature , and the g lorious name of Roman Republic is resumed . Art . 4 . Our relation *! with the other slates of Italy shall be based on reciprocity and goodwill , as befits our common nationality . ( Signed ) Galleti , President of the National Assembly . Decreed at Rome , Feb . 8 , 1849 . '
while I write ( two o clock ) the ceremony of proclaiming the Republic is going forward in the CapU tol . Severe measures are anticipated with respect to the continued absence of many large proprietors and men of rank , who forget they have a country . The following proclamation has been issued at Rome , dated the 9 < . h : — " Romans—A great act has been completed . The National Assembly of your legitimate representatives having assembled , the sovereignty of the people being recognised , the only form of government that could be _proper for us Was
that which made our fathers great and glorious . This the Assembl y has decreed , and the Roman Republic has been this day proclaimed from the Capitol . Every citizen who is not an enemy to his country must immfediately and loyally adhere to this government , which , originating in the free and universal vote of the representatives of the nation , will follow the paths of order and justice . After so many ages , we again possess a country and liberty let U 8 prove ourselves worthy- of the gift which God has sent us , andthe Roman Republic will be eternal and happy .
'The Ministers of the Republican Government , * C . E . _MuzzAitELti , C . _Annelmni , F . Galcotti , L . Mariani , P . _Sterhini , - P . di Campello . ' The Constituent Assembl y has voted the foUowing address to the Tuscan people — The Roman Republic to the Tuscan People . —At the moment of pronouncing the great word of liberty , we have looked about us to ascertain from what aide would first arrive a generous response . We doubted not that you would cause the voice of affection and concord to be heard . At the same moment yon have accompliBhei a great _frork , turning towards Rome an expectation of hope . The two revolutions have shown that the Italians are brothers by their de « ires
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and destinies . The ancient calumny is effaced . Italy supports her children by the same sentiment , REVOLUTION IN TUSCANY-ESTABLISHMENTOF A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT We an no u n c e d in our last , the cowardly flight of the Grand Duke . The announcement of his flight was followed by immense agitation in every part of Florence The generate was beaten , the national guards and troops were called out , and the chambers were hastily convoked . Meanwhile , how e ver , the clubs issued a manifesto , convoking the populace who assembled in great numbers , and proclaimed a Provisional Government , choosing MontaneWi , Guerazziand Mazzoni as its chiefs . I ! I
, The multitude then proceeded to the chamber , and r us hing into the galleries compelled the mem . bers assembled to acknowledge and confirm the Provisional Government . The dubs proclaimed the deposition of the Grand Duke , and declared Tuscany to be part of the Italian ConsUtuente to bs disposed of as the Roman Assembly shall hereafter decide . ¦ , _ ,. t After the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the 8 th inst ., at which the Provisional Government chosen by the people was confirmed in its functions , the Senate , in its sitting oi the same , day , approved all that had been done by the Chamber of Depirtiw . .
__ .. . „ _,... ... . .. In the Chamber of Deputies , Montanelh , in the name of his colleagues , accepted the mission which had been confided to thera . On leaving tha chamber the members of the Provisional _Government went to the portico of the Lanzi , where tbey severally addressed a numerous assemblage , declaring that they accepted so difficult a duty f r om deference to the wishes of the people . From thence theynroceededtothe Old Palace , in the midst of the most enthusiastic acclamations of the crowd , and with military honours paid them by the Civic Guard . All the bells of the city were
rinzing . The Provisional Government , by a decree , dated the 8 th inst .. has appointed the Avocat Mordeni , Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Professor Marmocchi , Minister of the Interior ; Romanelli , Minister of Justice ; Franchini , Minister of Public Instruction -, Mariano d'Avala _, Minister of War ; Adaini _, Minister of _Finances and Public Works . Each of the members of the Provisional Government will sit for one week successively as President of thc Council of Ministers .
The following proclamations were published at Florence immediately after :- 'The People ot Florence ,-Considering that the flight of Leopold of Austria , is a violation of the constitution , and leaves the state Without government ; considering that the first duty of tbe people , the only sovereign , is to provide for the urgency of ci r cumstances , and acting as the representative of the sister provinces , nominates a Provisional Government inthe persons of citizens Joseph Montanplli , F . D . Guerrazzi , J . Mazzoni , who shall exercise the presidency in turns ; and the people confide to them the high
direction of political affairs , and also , in the name of Italv _, Tuscan honour ; subject to the condition that the " definite form of government for Tuscany , shall be established by the Constituent of Rome ; and that , in the mean time , the Provisional Government shall unite with and attach itself to that of Rome , in order that the two states , in the eyes of Italy and the world , may henceforth form only one February 8 th , from the Place of the People . —For the People , A . Morbini , President of the People ' s Club ; G . B . NrccoLiNi , Vice-president of ditto ; G . B . Cioiu . Vice-president of ditto ; _Dragomanni , Sec r etar y of ditto . '
Letters from St . Stephano , of the llth February , published in the Piedmont Gazette , state that the Grand Duke of Tuscany was still in that place , and that he had formally forbidden the publication of the proclamations of the Provisional Government . The English war steamer Poraupine and the English frigate the Thetis were at anchor in the roads _, w h ere th ev were p laced at the disposal of the Grand Duke . Four hundred soldiers of the Communal have set out from Leghorn for Florence with two cannon . The governor opposed their landing , dedaring he would only obey upon receiving an order from the Provisional Government of Florence . The Tuscan-Provisional Government has issued _the two following decrees : — ' Florence . Palace of the Provisional Government ,
Feb . 10 . 1849 . ' The Tuscan Provisional Government considering that one of the taxes which weigh most heavily on the people is the tax upon salt ; considering that a project for the reduction of that tax has already been presented by the General Conncil , on the proposition of the Minister of Finances , Commerce , and Public Works , decrees—The price of white sa't , taken at the manufacture at Volera , shall be reduced , from the lst of March . 1849 , from twelve to eight quattrini per pound ; the tax of one quattrino per pound , which is levied for the bent-fit of the hospitals and charitable asylums , shall be continued . '
• The Tuscan Provisional Government . —Fellow _citizens ought not to abandon citizens , nor brothers their brothers : Considering that the flight of the Sovereign has reduced to poverty numerous families , decrees as follows : —All the citizens who belonged to the service of tbe Prince will continue to receive from the public Treasury their salaries until the Government shall have found means of arranging their position . ' The following proclamation has also been issued * . —
• Florence , Feb . 10 * Citizens—The country was abandoned to itself . It was in that position of circumstances that the Tuscan Parliament and people entrusted us with the security of the public , and we are determined to keep it intact . Let all good citizens , then , give us their aid , for whoever , either by his speech or by his actions , shall endanger the public safety or excite to civil war , will be regarded as a t r a itor to hi s c ountry , and treated as such . ' The following decree was issued on the 10 th : —
The Provisional Government of Tuscany , consi d e , ing that the form of government of Tuscany , as a part of Italy , is to be determined by the Italian Constituent Assembly ; that meantime Tuscany cannot be left without a Legislative Assembly really representing the country , decrees;—• 1 . The General Council and the Senate are abolished . ' 2 . The legislative powers are concentrated in a single Assembly , com p osed of r ep res e nta t ives o f th e people elected by di re ct universal su f frage , and in the Provisional Government . ' 3 . Laws may be proposed both by the Legislative Assembly and by the Ministry . ' 4 . The Assembly shall be composed of 120 representatives , elected by departments in proportion to population .
' 5 . The elections shall take place in the communes , and the votes shall be cast up in every department . ' 6 . Candidates for the representation must be 25 years old or upwards ; electors must be 21 years and upwards . ' 7 . Women , persons declared by the tribunals incapable of managing tbeir own aff a irs , strangers , or persons sentenced to punishments not within the competency of the tribunals of first instance , or to any punishment for fraud , robbery , and similar chimes against property , are neither elig ible nor electors . v * 8 . The Assemblv is convoked for the 15 th o March 1849 .
* 9 . A bill for the immediate organisation of the Italian Constituent Assembly shall be speedily presented to the Assembly . _« 10 . The Minister Secretary of State for < be Department of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree . _« ' Given in Florence , Feb . 10 . * Guerrazzi , President of the Pro visional Government . Mormocchi _, Secretary for the Interior . ' Accounts from Florence of the 13 th inst ., state that on the prectding evening an immense
multitude endeavoured , amidst cries of - Long live the Italian Republic , ' to plant a tre ; of liberty on the Square del Popolo . Guerrazzi harangued the mob , and prayed them not to proclaim any form of go * vernment until the deputies elected by Universal Suffrage should have fully discussed the question . Cries of ' Long live the Republic' prevented his words from being heard . It was determined , bow . ever , to postpone the planting of the tree of _liberty until dayli ght . The troops had taken the oath of fidelity to the Provisional Government , and ha d placed a red ribband in their button-hole . They _afterward fraternised with the people .
The Neapolitan _Assembly . —The report of _disturbances at Naples on the occasion of the opening of the Assembly has been contradicted _. but there was a good deal of popular excitement . The peop le in the tribunes cried out frequently . Courage , con . rage , courage . ' Intelligence to tbe 7 th inst , states , that the eanflict between the chamber and the government bad become flagrant . A member of the chamber . had
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heen baselv aitacked , and wounded in three places by individuals whom he identified ,. as disguised agents of the police . GENO-V —A demonstration took place on the Illh inst . at Genoa , in favour of the Italian Constiti , a „ te The rall ying cry was' Live tlie Constituante of MontanellifLiveMazziuii ' VENICE . —The Venice Gazette of the drd contains a notice , inviting the deputies of the province of Venice to assemble in the Ducal Palace on the 9 th for despatch of business . The Austrian balloon scheme for the bombardment cf Venice has utterly failed . Hill 1 in three places ,
INDIA . MORE GORE AND GLORY . CAVTUUE OF MOTJLTAK . The f o llow i ng summ a ry fror a the Bombay Times conveys the main features of this important intelligence . Moultan bas at length been captured , after one of the most obstinate and gallant defences on the part of the enemy ever recorded in our annals . The city , after having been battered and bombarded by nearly a hundred and fifty pi eces of or d nance f or a wee k , was taken on the 2 d . The fort was expected to be stormed on the 7 th instant . The Bombay troops joined General Whish on the 21 st December . The besieging avmv now amounted to 15 , 000
British _troops , the allies _amounting to about 17 , 000 ; or 32 , 000 in all . The artillery amounted to about 150 pieces of ordnance , of which nearly one half were of tha largest calibre . On Christmas _, day , and the day foUowing , the force changed ground ; on the 27 th , the troops advanced in four columns to the attack , and , clearing the suburbs an d d riving in the enemy on aU sides , established themselves within five hundred yards of the walls . Batteries were now constructed in every direction , and on the morning of the 28 th a terrific cannonade and bombardment commenced . On the 29 . h _, the heary guns were battering within eighty yards of the ramparts . On the morning cf the 30 ih , the
principal magazine in the fort blew up with a te - rific explosion . —nearly 800 , 000 lbs . of powder are reported to have been stored in it—blowing a vast column of dust a thousand feet np into the air . The destruction it caused all round must have been _tremendous A mighty conflagration , supposed to be that of the principal stores , was now spreading in the town . £ 50 , 000 worth of grain were afterwards found to have been destroyed . The enemy's artillery slackened their fire , but still continued unsilenced . On the two next days the cannonade continued ; shells were thrown sometimes every minute , sometimes at intervals of ten minutes , and fearful salvos were from time to time discearged from
the heavy batteries . A furious cannonade having been kept up all the previous night , on the morning of the 2 d a column of Bengal troops , commanded by Colonel Franks , consisting of her Majesty ' s 32 d and the 49 ch and 72 d Native infantry , pushed forward to a breach near the Delhi Gate . Here they found the enemy determined to oppose them to the last . The breach , besides , proved impracticable ; so the troops retired , and _raeved round to the opposite s de ofthe town , where tbe entrance ef the Bombay column had already heen effected . The breach stormed by them had been much more complete than the other , and the enemy defending it were driven ofTat the bayonet ' s point . The Fusiliers entered first , and speedily placed their standard
within the walls of _xhe town . The Bengal column followed them , and the city of Moultan , which was captured about three p . m ., was before sunset filled with British troops . The fire from the foit , which had for a time slackened , was meanwhile renewed . In the course of the night a raiue was sprung on us , which occasioned some mischief . Moolraj seemed , determined lo maintain himself to the last , and showed no sign of fear amidst all his reverses . On the morning of the 3 d . the cannonade was again resumed by us and the Dowlut Gate , the last hold of the enemy , destroyed . Large _quantises of pillage were being collected , and the bankers were said to have offered -630 , 000 if we would leave tlieir establishments alone .
Jan . 20 . —Government , if it expected to be able to send home news of the fall of ths fort of Maul _, tan has heen disappointed . On the 7 th the citadel had not been taken ; it was being mined , with the object of blowing the counterscarp into the ditch , and then liking the placa bv storm .
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The _Mormonites . —Theso people arc increasing in numbers rapidly , both in the neighbourhood of Camden and Soineva Towns , and are intent , in the spring ofthe year , to emigrate and colonise in California . They have _arranged to hire the use of four or five vessels for their own immediate conveyance to the Western world , not being desirous of _' intei ' - mixinjj with persons distinct from their own sect . On their arrival in thc settlement above-named , they intend to pursue their route to thc " Valley of the Saltwater Lake , " en ter upo n f a rms and encourage agriculture . They " hold all things in common '' ainoiigthemsclves , and arc strictly bound by tho ties of fraternisation . ind socialism . Manv * have disposed of their furniture , and the leases of thoir houses , to raise money for the voyage .
Rpo Mn. Prout, 229, Strand. Jl " Ko. 208, Piceadilly, London, Oct. Li). ' 1847.
rpo Mn . PROUT , 229 , _STRAND . JL " Ko . 208 , Piceadilly , London , Oct . li ) . ' 1847 .
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TRY ERE YOU DESPAIR . _HOLLOWAY'S PILLS . CURE OF ASTHMA . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , a respectable Quaker , dated Creenagh , near Lough-all , Ireland , dated September llth , 1 S 48 . Respected Fiuesd , —Thy excellent Pills have effectually cured me of au asthma , which afilictcd mc for three years to such an extent that I was obliged to walk my room at night for air , afraid of being suffocated if I went to bed bv cough and phlegm . Besides taking the Pills , I rubbed plenty of thy Ointment into my chest night and morning . — ( Signed ) Bikjamim Mackie . —To Professor Holloway .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 24, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_24021849/page/2/
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