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Commemoration Of The Cracow Insurrection...
labour was sought 10 he freed , by g iving the land of Poland to the Polish people . ( Cheers . ) It is because the address from Cracow contains this great feature , that I take leave to speak of it as an immortal document—( loud cheers _") -and of its authors as immortal patriots- ( loud cheers ) -and of the _struggle in which they were engaged as one wmch will yet in a great measure influence the future dexfiny of Poland . ( Cheers . ) The resolution invokes the execration of mankind against the trio of royal butchers who _authorised the brutal atrocities which were perpetrated in Galicia . ( Hear , and cheers . ) For myself , 1 freely execrate , not only those crowned rufians who were mere immediately
concerned in the Gahmn murders ; but I cannot forbear from expressing my indignation at the conduct of those powers who were parties to the treaty of Vienna , by which the independence of Cracow was guaranteed , and who stood quietly by and witnessed the _Tiolation of a treaty , to uphold which Great Britain itself was pledged . ( ' Shame' and chrers . ) No ; the principles _ploclaimed in the Cracow . Manifesto were abhorred as much by Palmerston as hy " . _•' ¦ - .: ernich-and hence the unanimity of feeling for . ae destruction of the Cracovanian Republic ! ( Hear , hear . ) How different Ihe conduct of the paltry government of this country in the . case of Portugal , where an abandoned queen and a corrupt
Court had set at open defiance the opinion of the people 1 ( Hear , hear . ) In this latter case , a fleet wns fitted out at the expense of the people of this country , and a blockade of the Tagus was effected bv them . What a noble employment for the' wooden walJs , ' or rather the ' wooden heads , ' of old England ( Cheers aud laughter . ) But this fleet has been withdrawn from the Tagus , with a view , 110 doubt , of _protecting us from ' foreign invasion . ' Would it not be well if we had some power to protect us from domestic aggression—such , for example , as the ' Budget ? ' " ( Cheers and laughter . ) I believe that the cry of the ' Foreigner' will no longer meet with attention in this country . ( Hear , and cheers . ) This noble _association has substituted the term
'Brother' for that of ' Foreigner ; ' and as nations learn to struggle for their own rights , to the same extent trill they sympathise with those of other lands , who are similarly engaged . ( Cheers . ) Too much praise , then , cannot he awarded to the men who created , and who have fostered , this cosmopolitan fraternity . ( Hear , hear . ) I , for one , tender them my most sincere and unqualified thanks . ( Cheers . ) To this Association of Fraternal Democrats , do we owe thai spirit of enlig htenment which is now springing up amongst ihe working classes of this country upon questions relating to foreign policy . ( Hear . ) Mr Clark went on at some length to argue against wbat is called * Nationality , ' and sat do _^ 'ii lowilv cheered .
— Pfaexder delivered a speech in the German _language which was loudly applauded . After a few remarks from au English working man named Wilson , the resolution was unanimously adopted . Colouel Oborski , a Polish exile , then briefly addressed the meeting , thanking his brother Democrats for this manifestation of their sympathy for his persecuted country . The Colonel was loudly applauded . Dr Berrier Fontaine then spoke in French . He delivered a very eloquent and soul-stirring address , and was greatly applauded . Edwin Gill , in a brief but excellent speech , in the course cf which he was loudly cheered , moved the adoption of the third resolution : —
• That we observe with pleasure the _progress ef fre ? principles in Italy , and regard with _ profound interest the _struggle for freedom now going on in France , and we hereby call upon our brethren , the Proletarians of France , ta remember the pxst , and resolve that fer ths future , the veritable sovereignty of tho people shall ensure the veritable reign of Equality , Liberty , and Fraternity . W . Cuffay , in secondmg the resolution delivered a speech which elicited shouts of applause . The resolution was supported in a lengthy and interesting speech by J . A . _Michelot , And on being put to the vote was unanimously adopted .
Three thundering cheers for Colonel Oborski ; three for Julian Harney and Ernest Jones ; three for Feargus O'Connor and the English Chartists ; three terrific groans for Nicholas , Metiernich , Louis-Philippe , Guizot , and all other tyrants , and a vote of thauks to the chairman , closed the proceedings of this most interesting meeting .
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION . " Vive la Republi q ue . " CHARTISTS OF LONDON . The Fraternal Democrats will assemble on Monda y evening , at eight o clock , at the German Hall , White Hart , Drury Lane , to adopt an Address to the French People , and to consider what steps ought to be taken to promote the triumph of Democracy in this country . The committee earnestly request the attendance of their Chartist brethren . G . Julian Harney , Sec . _¦ * _* * Tliere will be a public meeting , called by the Moderates , held at the Crown and Anchor , on Tuesday next , at SEVEN O'CLOCK in the evening , to take into consideration the French Revolution . It is announced that Lord Dudley Stiiart will take the chair . Working men , attend that meeting in your thousands . Your friends will be at their posts and do tlieir duly .
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THE TOCSIN . " Back to the struggle , _baffled in the strife , "War , war is still the cry , war even to tha knife !" In another page will be founrl a report of a Public * Meeting- held in commemoration of the Cracow Insurrection . At that meeting Democrats of nearly all the European nations assisted ; attesting , by their presence , their earnest and undying sympathy for unhappy Poland . The Cracow Insurrection is worth y of beingcommemorated , not so much because it was a noble , though unfortunate protest _against
established tyranny , as because the objects _sought to be achieved by the insurgents were sucli as must command the approbation of all friends of the people . The patriots of Cracowdesired " Poland for the Poles ; " they aspired to establish the reign of equal political right , and social justice . Their " Liberty'' would have been a reality , for all would have enjoyed equal - political franchises , and the labourer would have been ensured his social rights , wanting which , " political equality" is an illusion .
The Cracow Manifesto proclaims the sterling patriotism and sound intelligence of the Patriots who engaged in the struggle of 1846 . But they failed—they perished in the unequal strife to which they had committed themselves . Still their noble efforts were not altogether in vain , — " The patriot ' s blood ' _s tha seed of freedom ' s tree . " From the ashes of Poland ' s martyrs has arisen a spirit which , arousing to _energetic action the oppressed millions of other lands , _assures the triumph , sooner or later , throughout Europe , ofthe principles of the Cracow Manifesto . ..
Retribution has followed hard upon tli _^ heels of crime . The criminals who destroyed , and the criminals who betrayed , the independence of the last vestige of ancient Poland , have now their hands full of trouble . At this moment Austria is arming in hot haste to meet the threatened rising of all Italy against her usurpation ; and Louis Philippe sits on a tottering throne—a throne so shaken , that even the shouts of the uprisen people of Paris may not unlikely bring it to the dust .
The news from Italy is of vast importance . It tells of the Neapolitan King ratifying his promise of a constitution \ y \ the promulgation of that constitution . It tells of the determination of the Sicilians to secure to themselves those veritable liberties wbich their heroism justly entitles them to . It tells of other Italian princes conceding the just demands of Tne people over whom they rule . It tells of the vain attempts of the assassins of the Galician patriots to strike terror into the hearts of the men of Lombardy . The blood of Poland cries against Austria for vengeance , and Italy seems destined to le the avenger of her suffering sister .
The concessions granted by the Pope are still more striking . The substitution of laical for ecclesiastical ministers in the departments of Justice , Commerce , and Police , mark an epoch in the history of the Roman States , from which may be dated the beginning of their regeneration . Popular power has triumphed over priestly privilege . The clerical nightmare has been taken off the breast of Young Italy . The Roman heart will now beat without restraint , and , free in its pulsations , may and will defy the deadliest rage of Metternich and his barbarous Austrians .
But the grand event of the week is the _triumphant insurrection of the Parisians . Glory to the men of Paris ! who have once more read a lesson to tyrants , and set an example before the oppressed of every land . It is a singular fact that the Parisian _Insurrection burst forth on the 22 ud of February , the anniversary ofthe Cracow Insurrection . But two years have passed since Cracow was betrayed by Louis Philippe , and his dirty man of all work—Guizot ; now the " man of Ghent" is stripped ofthe power he so wickedly abused , and the throne of his master is menaced with destruction .
ihe ample details we have given of the origin , rise , and progress of this insurrection , will fully inform our readers ofthe particulars of this most important event . The intelligence received up to the moment we pen these remarks , assures us that the victery is with the people . Victory has declared forthe people , because 1 st . —the masses displayed a spirit of unexampled heroism ; 2 nd . —because the National Guards fraternised with the people ; 3 rd . —because the soldiers of the line exhibited unmistakable proofs of their disinclination to % ht for a damnable despotism .
The heroism of the people has been beyond all precedent , When , in the first revolution , the Parisians captured the Bastile , and stormed the Tuilieries , they were for the most part well-armed and assisted by cannon , and hadbut comparatively speaking—a handful of troops to encounter . In 1830 , some four thousand soldiers constituted the principal defence of the throne ef Charles X . against a wellarmed people . But in the " beginning of the
end , ' we have just witnessed , the people found themselves opposed to a hundred thousand troops , provided with innumerable pieces of cannon and all the horrible materiel of _w-. iv ; backed too , by those wonderful forts , which built ostensibly to keep cut the foreigner , were really intended to muzzle the Parisians . The people , too , were almost totally unarmed . The very few who had arms , appear to have been wretchedlyjprovided with ammunition ; never-
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theless , in the might of their moral and physical courage and the majesty of their numbers they bore down all opposition , and inspired the National Guards to fraternise with them , and the soldiers of the line to ground their arms This , we repeat , is an exa mple to the Oppressed of _alienations . " For a nation to be free , it is sufficient that she wills it !" Up to the time we are _writings the only result of this combat is the hurling frem power of Guizot and his fellow-conspirators . The struggle came unexpectedl y , and , consequently , the people found themselves without an aim , or leaders to direct them j but , we repeat , we believe this combat to be only " the beginning of the end . "
If ministerial responsibility is not the veriest farce , Guizot , Duehatel , Hebert , and the rest of the gang , will be made to answer with their heads for shedding the blood of the people ; and if the people are not absolutel y insensible to their own interests , they will , in this hour of their triumph , insist upon such a " Reform'' as will place the soverei gnty ofthe state in their own hands . Whatever may be the results of this conflict —forthwith or remote—for Prance , tho immediate effect upon Europe generally will be immense . Germany will be roused to action , and Ital y irill at once burst her Austrian fetters .
" For us , too , the tocsin founds 1 " If Englishmen are not the most despicable of slaves they will at once set about tbe work —peacefully and legally—of struggling for their Charter . Furthermore , the English people are bound , by all their hopes of libert y , to sympathise with those who are struggling to achieve freedom . We have much pleasure in announcing- * -first , that on Monday evening next ,
the Fraternal Democrats will assemble at their usual p lace of meeting , to declare their sentiments on this most important subject ; second , that for the same purpose a public meeting will be held on an early day next week ( time and place to be hereafter announced ) , convened by the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association . Let every true Democrat and Chartist attend both meetings , and testify adhesion to the principle that :-
' _* ' Whenever a Government violates the rights of the People , insurrection is for the People , and for every _jiortion of the People , the most sacred of rights , and the most indispensible cf duties . ' " P . S . —Friday morning twelve o ' clock . —Our Paris papers have not a rrived , but information has come by the Electric Telegraph , that the fighting has been renewed ; that the people have obtained possession of the railway stations and barriers , and have torn up _^ the rails to prevent the arrival of troops . Some of the
soldiers of the line have refused to act . Amiens is in full revolt J Hurrah ! A successful insurrection bids fair to become a triumphant revolution ! P . S . —Saturday morning , 12 o clock . " — The Revolution is accomplished . Amidst a hurricane of blood and fire , the monarch y of Louis Philippe has perished . The people demand a Republic , and a Democratic Provisional Government has been established .
Last ni g ht , in the House of Commons . Lord John Russell declared that it was not his intention to introduce a bill for the repeal of the ratepaying clauses of the Reform Act . We shall see whether we cannot compel Lord John not only to repeal the ratepaying clauses , but the Reform Bill itself , and enact the Charter in its stead . The French Revolution shall not be in vain . Working men , up and demand your rights . Hurrah for the people of Paris ! " Vive la Republic tie !"
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PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW . All other questions are , for the time beinor , thrown into the shade by Lord John Russell ' s monstrous Budget . If ; i bombshell had suddenly exploded in the House of Commons , it could scarcely have created _greater sensation , not to say consternation , than the war speech—war estimates—enormous amount of _ithe expenditure for next year , and the mode by which it was proposed to raise the income to an equality with that expenditure . Lord John ' s boldness has been frequently commented upon—the witty Sydney Smith remarked , that he wonld take the command of
the Channel fleet at an hour ' s notice , if called upon to do so ; but great as lhat temerity niitjht be , it would be nothing compared to the boldness of making such a financial statement as that of Friday , the 18 th instant . The curious part of the matter is , that his lordship actually spoke , and seemed to feel , as though he was making proposals which would be quite pleasant to everybody , and , with the most _engaging ingenuousness , took credit to himself for being so exceedingly moderate in his demands . He has since found out his . mistake . The tempest of objurgation , remonstrance , " and opposition , which has since burst upon his financial scheme frem all parts of the House and of the country , must have convinced him of that fact .
When Sir R . _Teel _, in 1842 , imposed the Income Tax—the necessity for . it was undeniable . A long course of Whig financial mismanagement , that inseparable adjunct _t- * their being in office—had reduced the Exchequer almost to a state of insolvency . The exigency demanded a prompt and stringent measure , and Peel was just the man for _thejerisis . _) The country at large entertains almost unbounded faith in him as a practical financier , and will , at any time , listen to propositions from him , which would be scouted if emanating from anv other quarter . But besides tbis
confidence in his financial abilities , and the exi gencies of the time , Peel really did ' gild the bitter pill , which he asked the nation to swallow , in a very adroit manner . He said— " It is only for three years that I askthissevenpencein the pound from all who have _' an income of _£ 150 a year , nnd as a compensation for the imposition of this temporary birden , I will remove a host of fiscal exactions which fetter trade , impede commerce , and paralyse industry . " The fascinations ofthe persuasive baronet prevailed , and the country almost exultingly submitted to the new tax . But Russell does nothing of the sort , nor has he anything like the same
excuse . When he came into power , but comparatively speaking a few months -ago , he found in the Exchequer a clear surplus of hard money of three millions eight hundred thousand pounds sterling . In less than ; gtvvo years , *) he and his miserable apology for a Chancellor of the Exchequer , have contrived to convert that surplus into a deficiency of two millions nine hundred and _fifty-six thousand pounds sterling , making together a balance against the country of not less than six millions seven hundred and fifty-six thousand pounds sterling , for less than two years of Whi g Government ! Certainly , this is paying too dear for our whistle , with a vengeance !
Instead of proposing . to revise the whole system of our taxation , with a view to making such reductions as may be practical and just , the Prime Minister coolly proposes the permanent continuance of the Income Tax , with the addition that for the next two y ars it shall be one shilling in the pound , instead of sevenpence in the poilnd , notwithstanding the fact that when the lowest amount was first proposed , he was its strenuous opponent , and after delivering a long speech against it , submitted formally a resolution to the House of Commons , in which , he stated strongly all the arguments that could be brought to bear upon the imposition of what he justly termed a war tax in the time of peace .
Nor has the Whig minister copied Peel by proposing any co-ordinate reductions in indirect taxation—the only reduction he proposes is one upon copper ore , and we have a fair right to suppose that even that would not have been proposed , had not a near connexion of one
_— .. ¦ * « _ " 1 j mi of the great Whig houses been a smelter . The proposition , in fact , resolves itself into the naked and undisguised robbery of the class specially marked out to be victimised . I is Stated up ® n authority , that the amount raised by the present tax , is produced by 500 , 000 persons only . Upon this small proportion ofthe tax paying population , who already , besides all indirect and local taxation which they bear in common with the rest of the _community ., pay upwards of five millions annually , Lord John proposes to saddle an additional burden of nearly as much more . Now justice demands
that in taxatio ' n two essential principles should be strictly adhered to . Firstly—not a farthing beyond what is absolutely required for the proper wants of the State should be raised ; and _secondl } —that this amount should be fairly and impartially apportioned among all classes ofthe community . We should like to ask , if there be an absolute necessity for the _incited expenditure proposed by Lord John Russell , why it should fall upon those only who have incomes of 150 _Z . a year and upwards ? Why should the man with 100 / ., 120 / ., 130 / ., 140 / ., or 149 / . 10 s ., be altogether exempted from bearing
his share of these alleged necessary burdens ? Why should John Smith , living at No . 19 , be called upon to pay £ 7 16 s . to the Government out of £ 3 a-week , while Thomas Jones , who lives nt No . 20 , and receives £ 2 17 s . 6 d . a-week , is not called upon to pay one farthing ? Besides , the class upon whom this impost really falls—for whom there is no possible escape—are a hard-worked , struggling , meritorious class—mercantile and banking clerks , warehousemen , literary men—the fags , in fact , ofthe middle classes , who have a hard struggle to make both ends meet , and to keep up a
decent appearance . The merchant and tradesman can _^ manage to evade the literal operation of the tax . Itis impossible to guage their fluctuating incomes with accuracy , and it may be presumed _^ that it is seldom they err against themselves . But in the case of the clerk , whose salary is fixed , there can be no evasion . His employers are bound to return a true - statement of his income , and so the John Smith aforesaid , has to let his children go with a smaller allowance of shoes , stockings , jackets , and frocks , than they would otherwise have had , because Ministers are too lazy to construct a more equitable and discriminating system of
taxation . Not only , however , does Thomas Jones altogether escape the burdens which his leas fortunate neighbour has to bear , but the lucky possessors of income and property in Ireland also go scot free . A brain-racked poor devil of a sub-editor must pay £ 7 103 . to the Exchequer , while the ow-ner of estates worth _£ t 0 , 000 or £ 20 , 000 _a-year in Ireland pays nothing ! In every point of view , the tax is a monstrous and unjust one . There ought to be a broad distinction between incomes derived from professional and personal exertions , precarious in amount nnd duration , because they depend
upon the personal health and ability of the owner , and that derived from realised property , whether in lands , houses , banking or railway shares , or money invested in the Funds . The value of the two kinds of income , bear no relation to each other whatever , and it is simply the grossest extortion and robbery to subject both to the same amount of taxation . To the principle of direct taxation , we are decidedly friendly , but it should be applied justly and with due discrimination , and surely the system of the sliding scale , which is applied in so many other instances , could be easily applied in the case of a Property Tax .
* _* * An extraordinary press of matter , occasioned principally by the important events in France , compels the curtailment of our comments . We will resume in our next , when other topics shall also have our attention .
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Malcolm Christie . —Mr O'Connor is excessively obliged for his remittance towards the defence of his seat , but begs to decline it , us hu considers it too large a tax to _imposo upon tiie good nature of any one man . He has handed his cheque for £ 40 to the Manager , who irill return it according to Mr O'C . ' s direction . ( _jy The _Iniurreetion in Paris , Mr O'Connor's Letters , and lengthy reports of important meetings hare comhined ta render the postponement of numerous articles and communications unavoidable . Julian _Haunkt has received through Mr M'Crae , Dundee , is from Robert Kydd , and Is from J . Hossack _, for the Fraternal Democrats .
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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES THE ACCUSED HIS OWN JUDGE . It is a farce with which the people should be acquainted that Feargus O ' Connor is the accuser of Whig delinquents , while Fox Maule , the Whig Secretary at War , is the person who has tbe nomination of the Election Committee which is to decide upon Mr O'Connor ' s right to sit in Parliament ; while Mr Morgan John O'Connell , the deadly enemy of Mr O'Connor , may be , and probably will be , selected as chairman or judge upon the Committee . Formerly the" practice was , that thirty-three members were balloted from amongst those present ; the petitioners , as in the case of a special jury ,
struck out 11 names ; the member petitioned against also struck out eleven , and the remaining eleven constituted the Committee . Now , however , the case is altered ; the house is divided into panels ; Mr Fox Maule , as Chairman of the Committee of selection , refers the petition to what panel he pleases , and selects bis Chairman of the Committee . Now this is the tribunal to which Mr O'Connor ' s right . to sit in Parliiiment is to be submitted ; while , as far as the subscriptions have gone , it would appear , as if those for whom he had struggled were determined to allow him to struggle for himself in this instance .
We believe that the amount collected in one night for the defence of the _^ seat of Mr Reynolds themember for Dublin , was over £ 2 , 000 , while the amount subscribed for the defence of Mr O'Connor ' s seat scarcely amounts to £ 400 . This forms a strong contrast . between English and Irish patriotism . _Thejamount altogether subscribed does not exceed five farthings a man of the Members of the Land Company . The Directors consider this | but a poor inducement for any gentleman to ** struggle for the rights of the poor .
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1 , Morphet-street , Green-street , Bethnal-green . London , Feb . 25 th , Sm , --I ara anxious to obtain a Government situation . If you will interest yourself in my behalf , I should be happy to place in your hands the sum of three hundred pounds , to he disposed of as you mig ht think proper , I can give respectable references and security ; the most inviolable secrecy may be relierl on . Should you please to entertain the subject , and will enclose your Town address / i I shall be glad to wait upon you . I remain , Sir , Your humble servant , James W . Eloer . Feargus O'Connor , Esq ., M . P .,
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Sir , —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter , and the only chastisement to which I shall subject you for your insolence iu writing it is , its publication and your exposure . Feargus O'Connor .
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» A worKing woman" of Redmarley ( who , fol certain reasons , must use no other signature ) , encloses sixty postage stamps as her mite towards the defence fund of that noble man , who , if seats were allotted according to desert , would now he a member of the Upper House , instead of the Corar aonsand yet they seek to deprive bim of that ! but he is no common man—God grant they may not be able to unseat him ! But , if they do , he has not done with them ! There is one seat i which he is so much more firmly fixed than his opponents—in the hearts ofthe people of England O'Connor will be enshrined , while truth and honour , generosity and benevolence , and , above all , self-sacrificing patriotism has a place on earth ' . In an accompanying envelope will he sent sixty other stamps , with Simply J . W R . _^^
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FRANCE . INSURRECTION IN PARIS . TRIUMPH OF THE PEOPLE ! We resume ( from our last number ) the history 0 ' the all-absorbing straggle of whieh France ia at this _raiment the theatre , It had been decided that the banquet should take place , notat _Mont-Parnasse , aa originally intended , but in Paris , in a private property , consisting ofa large piece of enclosed land , in the _Ohamps-Elysees _, belonging to General _Thiars , deputy . ___—^ i _. _vy-j-rt
_SANOU 1 NABY PREPARATIONS * T THE GOVERNMENT . The XJtnoH _Moj-auchi _^ ub of Thuraday , 8 tated that a collective representation bad been mado by tho Municipal Council of Paris to the Prefect of Police , in order to warn him ot the peril of a crisis provoked by the employment of brutal force . The Union adds' The Ministry are also adopting thoir precautions . Tho regiments , provided with ammunition of ail descriptions , as for a siege , are kept in their _barvacks 5 » U _* be posts are doubled ; the _etat-major of Paris , and that of the first military division , are en permanence ; and the police commissioners of the twelve arrondissementshave _^ been assembled , in order to receive precise instructions aa to the conduct they aro to hold in the crisis which is _preparing . The Rbpomib of the same day , had the following : —
. „„ .,. ... ' Cartridges for fifty days have just been distributed in the barracks to every man ofthe Municipal Guard and _regiments of the line quartered at Paris . The cannon of VinoennGS are aimed on tho bastions and _courtines ef the old fort . All the Paris gunsmiths' shops have been inspected , and all the meurtrieres ofthe guard houses and barracks put in order . ' The _Nammsal reported similar preparations on the part of the government : — ' We have already stated that the Minister of War bad placed the whole garrison of Paris on a war foot _inl and ordered axes , pick-axes , shovels , and
_provi-Bionn for four days , to be delivered to them , _asuon the eve of taking the field . We learn to-day that directions have heen given at Vincennes to manufacture ball cartridges day and night , and ' Jttj send artillery , -caissons , and waggons laden with _ammusition to tho military school , in the Champ de Mara . All those orders ought in reality to have naturally emanated from the Minister of War ; but matters hava been simplified , and at a critical moment like that in which we live , it is the future Grand Master of the Artillery , the Duke do Montpen _^ ier , who gives and signs the orders . The following is one of those orders , of which we have obtained a
copy : — Deliver immediately , from the artillery atoreaof Vincennes , to be forwarded , without delay , to the military school in Paris , the following articles and ammunition : —two batteries of field _pieoas with their caissons laden , twenty infantry caissons also laden , 300 grape-shot canisters , 400 rockets and torches for night service . ' A . d'Oblbaks . ' 'Moreover , ' adds the _Nationai , ' preparations are making at Vincennes to place the chateau in a state of defence . ' TttH _BANQUET POSTPONED—GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE
_PEPARTMENTS . The postponement of tho banquet to Tuesday wag announced on Friday by tbe committee , the preparations ter it not being sufficiently advanced . The agitation had spread rapidly through the provinces , and addresses had arrived from Chartres and Amiens to their deputies , exhorting them to resistance . These addresses were _signed by bankers , lawyers , municipal councillor ? , officers of tbe _National Guard , and electors . Similar addresses were on their way from _Bleis , _Toura , Rouen , Havre , Arras , and Lille . Deputations were coming from tho provinces to attend the Reform Banquet . At the meeting of the opposition on Saturday , the following manifesto was agreed to , and published in the journals ot Sunday : — Manifesto bt thb _Banquet Comkittee .
The general committee entrusted with the organisation of the 12 th arrondissement ' s banquet deem It their dnty to remind the public that the object of the manifestation fired for Tuesday ne » t is the legal and pacific exercise of a constitutional right—the right of publicly nwetinit —without which _representatire government would be bat a derision . The ministry having declared and maintained at the tribune that the _practica of that right was subjected to the police ' s pleasure , the Deputies of the Opposition , Peers of France , former Deputies , members ofthe Coun . cil-Oeneral , sub-officers and soldiers of tbe National Guard , merabors of the _central committee of the Opposition , electors , and editors of the Paris journal * , have accepted the invitation made to them to take part in the manifestation , in order to protest , in virtue of the law , aji ainst an illezal and arbitrary pretensions .
As it is naturally to be foreseen that tbis public protest may attract a _large concourse of citizens ; as it is likewise to bo presumed that tbe National Guards of Paris , faithful to their motto—liberty , public orderwill , on tho occasion , wish to accomplish that twofold duty ; that they will wish to defend liberty by joinin ? in the manifestation , protect order , and prevent all collision by tbeir presence ; that , in the expectation of a numerous meeting of Nationel Guards and citizens , it _sseuis proper to adopt the arrangements that shall _remov * all cause of disturbance and tumult—The committee bave thought tbat tha manifestation ought to take place in the quarter of the capital _where tbe _widene » _3 ofthe streets and % laces permit the population to assemble in large numbers , without incumbrance resulting .
With such view the Deputies , Peers of France and other persons invited to the _baaquet , will _assemble on _Tueslay next , at eleven o ' clock , at No . 2 . Plaee de la Madeleine , where the parliamentary Opposition usually meet . The subscribers to the banquet forming part cf the _National Guard are requested to assemble in the front of the Madeleine church , and to form ten parallel lines , between which the invited will place _thenwelves _. The cortege will have at its head superior officers ofthe National Guard , who will present themselves to join is the manifestation . Immediately after tho invited and _KuoitB , a rank af officers of tho National Guard Trill he placed _. Behind these will coma the _National Guards , formed into columns according to tha number ofthe legions . Between tbe third and fourth columns will march the young men of the schools , under the direction of the commissioners selected by them .
Then will follow the other National Guards of Paris , and the banlieue , in the above-mentioned order . The cortege irill set oat at half-past eleven , and more by the Place de la Concorde and the _Champs-Elyseei towards the banquet plaoe . The committee , convinced that this manifestation trill bo the more efficient as It will be calmer , and the more imposing as it will avoid even all pretext for a conflict , invite the _cltlz ? n _^ to utter no cry , te carry no flags or external signs ; they invite the National Guard * wbo may tako part ia the manifestation to come without arm ; ; the object here Is a legal and pacific protest . which must he above all powerful by the { numbers and firm and quiet attltudo of the citizens .
The committee hope that on this occasion every man present will consider himself entrusted with the maintenance of order , they confide in the sentiments of tbe Parisian population who wish for public peace with liberty , and wbo know that to secure the mas ' _nteasBco of their rights , they need but a peaceful demonstration , as behoves an intelligent and enlightened nation , conscious ofthe irresistible authority of its moral force , and sure of making its lawful _wlshos prevail , by tho logal and calm expression of its opinion . Thia communication from the _'Banquet Committee ' wa 3 meat _conipicuously published by the
Sikclb and National , which latter republican print as conspicuously published the letter whereby ninetythree opposition Deputies , inoluding , of course , M . Odillon Barrot , and MM . de Lamartine , ; 'Arago , Cremieux , Durvergier de Hauranne , Gamier Pages , George and Oscar de Lafayette , Mauguin , cordially promise to attend the dinner . Several other members and three or four peers had also promised to be present from beginning to end . The students of the Paris schools of Jaw and medicine were to muster at their usual rendezvous , the Place du Pantheon , and take up the station alloted to them in the procession .
The trades of Paris offered to present themselves with banners and emblems , but the committee for managing the affair dissuaded them from any manifestation . The Reporme of Monday , whose friends , the ultra-Radicals had been excluded from the committee chirged with the organisation of the Reform ban . quet , announces that M . _Ledru Rollin would be present . * The revolution and the counter-revolution , ' it says are in presence . On one side is right ; on the other arbitrary power . Our choice cannot be doubtful—we will join in the manifestation , and invite all eur friends to do the same . '
AGITATION IK TH * LEGISLATURE . The members of the committee of the Banquet , met at eleven o ' clock , a . m ., on Monday , at the bouse of M . Barrot . About twenty-fire deputies were present , with the editors of the independent journals . Tbey adjourned from there ts the Hall of Conference of the Chamber of Deputies , where a great agitation prevailed . Report stated that the government had resolved to prevent the banquet ; that a proclamation ofthe Prefect of Police would
be published at six o'clock in the morning , to prohibit all assemblage of people ; that the ground where the banquet was to be given would be occupied by troops ; and that the superior commander ot the National Guard would issue aa order of the day forbidding them to meet on the Place de la Madeleine . The Deputies of the Left assembled in one of their standing committees , and agreed that M . de Tocquerille should question Ministers relative to their intention , and that M . Odillon Barrot should reply to the minister .
THE FUNDS . — GENERAL ALARM . The _tunds fell on Monday . Muoh alarm has been manifested hy the foreigner **
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resident in Paris , ten thousand of whom haw u said , taken their departure rather hastily _" Another and a very serious cause of alarm is _•;« , respect to the working compositors and piewnW « Paris . They are a very formidable and a ve ? v t „ ° bulentbody , amounting to upwards of sixteenth sand men . Hitherto they have taken _iitn » _„ . " part in the affair of the Reform banquet bot tn if * they have given notice in almost all the _nrini _* n „ y _tablishments _, that they will not be at their mrl _?' morrow , as they have to attend the processi _™ _»« _«/ Champs ' _Elyseea . They are almost a _* 5 _S and Communists , and were the first mover , Y _„ the principal _eoatributorsto the revolution of Jul _voetflAnf itl _Pema Inn _tdnnnKnJ _ r _ *
SUPPRESSION OF THE BANQUET . On Monday evening the debate with which th Chamber ot Deputies waa oocupied was adiour .., ? and M Odillon Barrot rose , and having adverted t the violent measures of repression which it was ported that _government were about to exercise _' m Duehatel , Minister of the Interior , replied by ' d daring , in the moat explicit and unequivocal tern ™ that after the formal declaration and prograrn ' which had been published in the morning in theo position journals , the government had decided u . resort to measures of force to prevent the proceed ings as announced trom taking place . The chambn then adjourned to ono o clock oa Tuesday . Immediately after the Chamber adjourned ameet _injj ofthe opposition deputies took place at the house of M Odillon Barrot , and the followin g paragranh appeared in the Patrie at a late hour on _Manila night : — y
We stop the proas to announce that the opposition not nfshing to take , directly or indirectl y , the _reaponsi ' bllity for the _conigqninees whieh may _result from the new measures adopted _te-day by the _ecverameut has resolved net to attend the proposed banquet to-morrow The _opposition deputies entreat tha good _citisens to abstain _frota all public _asiemblien , aHd frem _orery _procesding which may afford a pretext for acts of violence . At tho same time the opposition is sensible that the new ' measures taken by tho ministry impose on it new and grave duties , which it will not fail to fulfil . The following proclamation w & s posted on tae walls and public places of Paris at a late hour on Monday night : — _PBoeHKiTlOK OF TBS _PSSTECT Of POLIOS .
Inhabitants op Paih!—A disquietude injurious t » labour and business hat reigned fur some time in the public mind . Thle arisen from manifestations ia preparation . The government-, from motives of _publij order but too woll justified , and exercising the right in . vested in it by the laws , and which has constantly been brought into use without dispute , has interdicted the banquet of the 12 th _arrondissement . Nevertheless as it has declared in the Chamber of Deputies , as tblj question was of a nature to admit of a judicial solution instead of opposing , by force , the projected meeting , it cams to a rasolution to suffor the contravention to bs established hy _ptrmittluf the guests to enter the ban . _quet-ros . m , hoping that thoy will hare the prudence to retire at the first summons , in order not to convert
a umplo contravention into an act of open rebellion . This was the only means of bringing tbe question befora the Supreme Court of Cassation . The government persists in this determination , but the manifesto pub . lished this merning by the journals of the oppo 3 itioa announces another object and other intentions ; it sets up a government against the true _government of tha country , that which is instituted by tha charter , trA whicii rests upon the majority of the chambers ; it _ealla for a public manifestation which is dangerous _v » the peace of tbe city ; it convokes , In violation of ths law of 1631 , the National Guards , whom it arranges beforehand ic regular number of legion , with the officers at their head . Here no doubt it longer possible . The clearest and best established laws are violated . The
government will cause them to be respected ; tbey are the foundation and tho guarantee of public order , I invite all good citizens to conform to the 9 e laws , and not join in an _negsmblage , for fear it might givo rise to disturbances that may be regretted . I make this appeal to their patriotism and their right reason , in the name of our institutions , of publio peace , and the dearest interests of the city . —Paris , this 2 lst Febrnary . —G , Dei , 1 ! S 8 Ebt , _ifcer of France , Profectof Police . Several ordonnances of the police were annexed to this proclamation , in which the various artielea of the law against assemblies dangerous to public order and tranquillity are recited , and the penalties incurred by persons refusing to disperse when summoned to do so by the authorities ate enumerated .
Orders were issued on Monday night by the ebiefe of the legions of the National Guard , to their respective captains to have the _rapptl beaten in the morning . The journals of the opposition , which are understood to be the organB ofthe Reform Banquet party , pablish _' a paragraph exhorting all National Guards to give prompt obedience to this order , tbat there may be no pretext for charging that body with insubordination .
HAMFISTO OP THB _BAKQUIT COMMITTEE . The following manifesto ot the committee of the projeoted banquet of the 12 th arrondissement appeared in tha opposition journals on Tuesday morning : —
* T 8 ALL _CIIISBHS . ' A great and solemn manifestation was to _hane taken place to-day , in favour of the right of public _meetiag _, contested by the government . All measures bad been taken to secure order and prevent every kind of disorder . The government wa 3 aware for some days of these measures , and knew what would be the form of tbe protestation , It was aware that tbe deputies would go in a body to the place of the banquet , accompanied by a large number of citizens and of National Guards , without arms . It had been announced the intention to oppose no obstacle to tbis demonstration , so long ts the public order should not be distuibed , and to confine itselt to drawing up a ' proces verbal _. ' stating that it regarded it aa a breach
of the law , and that the opposition considered it an exercise of a right . All at once , and taking as the pretext a predication , the sole end of which was to prevent the disorders which might have arisen from a numerous assemblage , the government has proclaimed its resolution to prevent by force all collections ot the people in the public _streets _, and to prevent the people and the National Guards from all participation in the projected manifestation . This dilatory resolution of the government does not allow time for the opposition to change the character of the demonstration . It finds itself , therefore , in tha alternative , either of provoking a oolliiion between tbe people and the publio force , or of renouncing the legal and peaceable protestations it had resolved on . In thia situation the members ofthe
opposition , protected in their character of deputy , would not expose the people to the consequences of a struggle as dangerous to order as to liberty . The opposition has , therefore , considered that it is its duty to withdraw and leave to the government all the responsibility of its measures . It entreats all good citizens to follow its example . In postponing thus the exercise ofa right the opposition pledges itself to the country to obtain this right by all constitutional means . It will not fail in this duty ; it will continue with perseverance and redoubled energy the _conflict it has undertaken against a corrupt , arbitrary , and anti-national policy . In not attending the banquet the opposition accomplished a great act of moderation and humanity . It knows that there _remainu for it to accomplish a great act of firmness and justice . '
The electoral committee of the Snd arrondissment published a manifesto , in which it expressed its astonishment and regret that the deputies of the opposition should have given up the banquet without at the same time laying down their _conimiaaiom aa deputies , and entreat them to doio without delay . After the meeting of the Deputies at the house of M . Odillon Barrot , at which it was resolved that the banquet should not place , Count d' Alton Shee , Peer of France , and several Deputies , went to the office of the Reforms newspaper , declaring that they were determined , at all risks , to attend tbe banquet , and advising the persons assembled iu the office to follow their example . Some of tho Deputies went with the same intention to the office of tha National . After a long deliberation , and several communications between the twe meetings , it waa resolved that , for the sake _» f the public peace , any manifestation of any kind would be dangerous , and that the affair ought , therefore , to be postponed .
_TAW 8 ON _MOUDAT NI 6 BT , _Tto proclamatiensland ordonnances of police were not plaoarded until a late hour on Monday night . In less than an hour they had all disappeared from the walls . Nothing could exceed the excitement on the appearance of the evening journals . Crowds were collected along the Boulevards , where the vendors of these papers usually stand , and torches were procured by which they were read , one person _reading aloud for the information of each group . Of course many strong expressions vrero heard to proceed from these auditories . Daring the night between Monday and Tuesday , military waggons and artillery caissons , esoorted by cavalry , were incessantly passing along the line of Boulevards whieh conneet Vincennes with the quarter of the Toileries and Palais Bourbon .
STATE OF FAR _13 IDBSDAT HOBNWQf . The correspondent of the Mobmkg Chronicle says ;—The orowd begins to collect in the neighbourhood of the Madeleine and the Champs Ely & eea , in great numbers . Great numbers of workmen , and mea in blouses , ara to be seen both there and iu the Place Carousel , on the Quays , Plaee Madeleine _. and on the Boulevards ; they all seem to be directing their steps towards the spot where the procession waa to start from—and I may say that the scarcity of any respectable people in the streets is equally to be noticed . _^ '
We tako the following from Galionasi ' s _Mimxh-« er :- Un the _Boalevards , opposite the hotel of the Minister ef Foreign Affairs , a dense mass of people assembled , and it was necessary to call for the assistance of the municipal guards and troops of the line to keep the mob in movement . This was , how . ever , effected without any violence , by / -mall patrols being kept in motion on the footway . 'The troops of the line seemed to have been prepared for actiye operations , many of them being provided with pickaxe * , aa if to destroy barricade ?
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 26, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26021848/page/4/
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