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      THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . THE ELECTIONS . Pasis , Saturday . — -It was not till past tan o ' clock kst night that the laborious operation of counting and casting up thejotes for the election of the deartajent of the Seine was bronsht to a conclusion . Having commenced at nine in the morning , it occupied thirteen hours . The -whole of the proceeding was exceedingly orderly , and there was very Utile appearance of excitement even amongthe people congregated in the neighbourhood of the Hotel de Yille . The last vote added to the list were those of the army and the Garde Mobile . Tfceoperation

      waspre-Hded * ver by M . Vee , the mayor of the fifth arroncissement , assisted by the other eleven mayor-adjomtsof Paris , and M . Flottard , the general secretary of the mayoralty . When the whole of the lists aad been summed up . the twelve mayors carried the returns to M . Marrast , the mayor of Paris , who immediately afterwards appeared in an estrade in front k the Hotel deViile , surrounded by the assistant mayors , and proclaimed the following thirty-foar persons as having been elected representatives of tie department in the National Assembly : — 1 if . Laxaaxtine , member of the Provisional

      Government 259 . 800 2 DapoEt , del * EQre iyfta 245 083 S Francois Arago , tdeni 243 6 t 0 4 Garnier Pagsg , idea 240 . 890 5 Herrast , idem 229 . 166 6 Harie , « fei 3 t ... ... ... ... 225 , 776 ? Cremienr idem ... 210 , 699 S Esraager , Chaatoauler ... ... ... 204 , 271 9 Carnot , Minister of Public Instruction ... 195 , 608 10 Bethmont , Minister of Agriculture and

      Commerce ... ... ... ... 189 , 252 11 JJnvivier , General Commandant of the Garde Mobile ... ... ... ... 182 , 175 12 Ferdinand de Lssteyrie , amciest deputy ... 165 , 156 IS Vavin , ancient deputy ... ... ... 151 , 103 14 Civaiguac , Governor-General of Algiers ... 144 , 187 15 Berger , ancient deputy ... ... 135 , 669 16 Pageerre , Secretary-General of the Provisional CoMrnmeat ... . ... 1 SS . 117 17 Bacher , Adjunct to the Mayor of Paris ... 135 678 IS Cormenlo , President of the Council of State 135 . 650 19 Corbon , currier sculptor oa wood , aad red * c-.. . -.. .. *• lni nin ofthe 135048

      kureneitf / ^ tdurpaper ... ... , 26 Caunidiere , Prefect of Police ... ... 133 , 775 21 Albert , member of the Provisional Government ... ... ... ... 133 , 041 22 Wolowshlprofeuor at tha Sonservato h-e dts Art * et Hitlers ... ... — 132 . S 3 J 23 Peupln . currier horlogier ... ... 131 , 969 24 Ledru-RolliB , member of the Provisional Govemiaeat ... ... ... — . 1 S 1 . 587 ? 5 J . P . Schmitb , carrier ... ... ... 124 , 383 ; 6 Flocon , member of the Provisional Government ... ... ... ... 121 , 865 2 * Louis Blanc , idea ... ... ... 121 , 140 S 3 Beeurt , Adjanct to the Mayor of Paris ... 11 S . 075 29 Agrical P ^ rdiguier , ouertir Btentisiir ... 117 . 290 S 3 Jules Butide , Unier . Sscretary of State at

      the Ministry of Foreign Aff < tirs ... 110 , 228 SI Csquerel , Pratestant clergyman ... ... 109 , 934 32 Garnon , ancient deputy ... ... 106 , 747 S 3 Guinard , colonel of the artillery sf the Natioasl Guard ... ... ... I 0 S . Si Abbe L & meanais ... ... ... 104 , 871 At the bead of tbe list of unsuccessful candidates xr & s M . Morean . formerly one of tbe deputies of Paris , who had 99 3 S 6 votes , and M . Boissel , also a fieputy for Paris in the late Chamber , -who had 93 . 442 votes . The ceremony of proclaiming tbe representatives was very picturesque . The square in front » f the Hotel de Ville was occupied by 10 , 000 National Guards , cavalry and infantry , and the estrade was lighted bv a body of the Garde Mobile carrying torches . None of the candidates were present , with the exception of M . Marrast himself . After tbe announcement tbe Hotel de Yille vras illuminated .

      In the above list the known ultra-Democrats are—Corbon , ouvrier , carver in wood , and principal editor Of U Atelier , Caussidiere , Prefect of Police , Albert , ouvn ' tr , LcdruR . 'V . lin , Flocon , Louis Blanc , and Goinard , Colonel of Artillery of tbe National Gnard . Itisbelieved . however , thatseveralmorein tbe above list will declare themselves on the Democratic side . The Rkohms thus expresses itself on tbe elections : —* We expected that the elections would be Tery bad , but the result , it must be avowed , has exeeeded oar expectation . We have said under what influence the ballot was everywhere opened . The functionaries of the fallen reign had only to follow the track which the practice ef seventeen years must kave rendered easy . The monarchic tree , wrrch vre onlv praned , has borne its fruits . It was thisleague of royal functionaries tbat the commissaries of the government bad the mission to counteract without

      doubt ; but the latter had at tbe same time to promote tfeeir csndidsteshlps , and when they did not compromise with the parties who could injure them , ¦ we say at least believe ihatthey refrained from irritating them . In that generally , and with some exceptions , has their dictatorship resulted . We conld not desire more to show that all the circulars of the citizen Minister of the Interior were right , if they required to be justified . When we demanded that the incomoatibility of the royal commissaries in the departments with tbe administration of which they were Charged shouid be formally decreed , ear precaution , S 3 Has been seen , was correct . The reaction has done tbe rest . It has also continued the system of the monarchy ; it has sounded the alarmi cried com taunum and anarchy , and it was under this sort of panic tbat many gosd people voted . But let us have patience . The 'fcallots are changeable , and we are gifted with perseverance which nothing Can

      discourage-M . Thiers has not been elected ; MM . de Remusat and L ? on de atalleville have been returned for the department of the Upper Garonne , Three prelates have been returned for the Assembly : the Archbishop of Paris 13 returned for Aveyron ; the Bishop of Orleans , lor Lnz rre ; and tbe Bishop of Quiraper , for Furisterre . Leon Faacher has been elected . Among the well-known members of the Chamber of Depnties , who have not s ecured seats ia the National Assembly , M . Emile de Girardin is one . He has tsen thrown out by bis late constituents at "Bourganeuf , to make room for one of M . Ledrn-Rollih ' a

      . Up to Tuesday evening , accounts have been received of tbe result of upwards of 600 elections . T he members returned are mostly moderate Republicans , but a considerable number of monarchists and legitimists have also been elected , and among them the Marquis de Larochyiquelin . the Viscount de Fal-Iodx , M . Combarel , ie Ssyval . and several others who bad scats in the Chamber of Depnties . The Bishsp of Langres and several priests have also been returned . Murat , son of ihe famous Murai , King of Naples , ias been elected .

      SHE DEPAEIUESTS—SEHIOUS AKD SAEGUIKART C 3 XTR 5 TS . Roues .- —A serious emevie broke out at Rouen on the 26 th . Groups of workmen assembled in the Place SaintOaen , anddiscus = ed theprobable results of the elections . A man having cried , ' Deschamps will net be nemicated I' a crowd of men in blouses ran after him . The National Guard having tried to stop them , a collisisn toek place . Though it was without gravity , an imposing force ci infantry , hu 5 ? srs , artillery , and National Guard turned out , asrl the Hotel de Ville was occupied . At atout nine o ' clock in the evening a band , composed of 200 persons , passed along the quays , shouting ' A baa i'Assarablee Nationale ! ' and * Vive Deschamps I' asd sinrfng tbe Ca ira . Near the Rue St Lo , s company of National Guards separated tke crovrd , whereupon

      there wera cr . es of' Dawn with the National Guard ! Down with tbe aristocrats ! ' On the Place des Games s troop of dragoons dispersed a crowd , who cried Down with the dragoons . ' After passing alone the Place St Ouen , which was occupied by the National Goards and hussars , the people dispersed . The night passed rir quietly . In the morning of tbe 23 th much agitation was again visible . Bands of young men approached the National Guards ' posted near the Hots ! de Ville , and endeavoured to irritate them by making ase of insaltin ? expressions . A false report wss soon alter raised , that the people had been fired on , and a general cry vras raised of' Aux amies ; on as < a = sine nos freres ; ' At tbe same time a patrol of National Guards were attacked , snd an attempt made to disarm them . This attempt only succeeded

      in part , ard the National Guards at length reached ftp . Hotel de Ville . S tones were thrown at the armed fore ' . A picquet of drasoons and some National Gaards a cheval charged the crowd , and cleared the square . In the meantime barricades were raised in several parts of the town , but they were soon carried by tbe troops . Asnigntapproaehed therfotersbecame emboldened , and attempted to defend themselves . One man was shot , and another killed by a thru * t from a bayonet . Aa soon as the conflict begap . the government commissary went to the Hotel de Ville to concert measures of defence with the municipal authorities and the commandatts of the armed force . Several were killed and wounded . At midnight order bad been very nearly restored . The journals of Rsnen . of Friday , state that the authorities only attempted the seizure of the barricades after tbe legal fornialitifsrf-luramoning the insurgents tosurrender bad been exercis' d . "When these were with treated

      contaapt , a sharp fire from musketry and cannon was opened n . oa the barricade ? , and the most important of them surrendered after a terrible resistance . This was in the streets near tha CIos St Sfarc , but near the Martaiavilie the insnrjien's held out and a fire of musketry was kept up for an hour , at the end of which tbe in ? nreents in that quarter nnde an unconditional surrender , and ex pressed ereit contrition for their conduct . The Governmept Commissary , M . Deschamps , and the Provis , onal Mayor , M . Lebelleaa , then went tnronan the streets ^ faich had been th 3 scece o < di = as | er , troskimins peaPe and conciliati on . Unhappily , hf . we ^ er , the cnr . fl ^ t was renewed Tne people threw stones , s .-d fired at the e ? cort cf .- » corcrm ? 3 ary _ of police , and heean to constrsct ne * bir . icadea in the quartieri MartaiDville and St Iliki !* , anderinoa BoulevardsbeariDgtbese name ' A charge was made by the cavalry ucen the insur-

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      gents on tbe Place St Hiiiare , and they were driven as far as tbe railroad bridge on the road to Darne-Ul . Three of the insurgents were killed in this attack . At Saint Sever there was a large body of insurgents , but these also were routed , and fled across the plain . A barrjesde was carried by some National Guards , and the infantry of the line coming up the pursuit of the insurgents was continuedthey attempted to maintain a stand at a barricade at the end of the Rue d'Elbeuf , but it was carried , and two of the defenders lest their lives . Daring the remainder of the day the insurgents were comparatively quiet , with the exception of an attack upon a patrol from tbe windows of some houses in the Rue Martainville . None of the patrol suffered ; but the fire being returned , two of the assailants were killed . Up to three o ' clock in the morning , the date in the article in the Jourkal dk Rouen , no

      further attempt had been made by tbe insurgents , and such precautions had been adopted tbat it was not thought probable they would resume their criminal enterprise , f he citv , however , wa « still in a state of consternation . Tbe number of killed on the two days is esfmated at twenty-two ; but that of the wounded could not be ascertained . It does not appear tbat there bas been any serious loss on tbe side of the National Guard and the troops . Two hundred and forty-four persons have been arrested ; amongst thfm is M . Durand . deputy-mayor , nnd chief of a club . A body oi 1 . 200 of the Garde Mobile left Paris on Thursday evening for Rouea . The Joubhal de Rouek adds that the workmen of Elbeuf have also risen , and ammunition had been sent off to that place for the troops and the National Guards . One account states that fifteen or twenty National Guards were killed .

      The Reforme of Sunday , commenting on these sad events says : — ' Tha reaction has reached its height . It has separated the nation into two camps—it bas established between two classes of citizens that line of demarcation which the Revolution of February had effaced . The contest between the bourgcoitie and the proletariat has recommenced . Blood has been shed at Rouen ; it has baen shed at Elbeuf—a , precious blood , whatever may be the rmk of the fallen victims , and which will enly reflect tha more impla . cably on those workers of discord whose receptacleg are beside us .

      Yes , it is through the instigation of all those barefaced oreana of the two last reigns that the nation is in a disturbed and agitated state—the nation , a little age * so calm , and in which all sentiments seemed to be confounded in sn equal love ef country . No ; it is not to tbe commissaries of tho government that these disorders are to be attributed ; to tho ; e commissaries of the government against whom ths population has been so often stirred np on their arrival , and even before they bad done any act of authority . And do they know well whose agents tbey are those instigators of civil war ? Did they not then see the ambassadors of St Petersburg and London at their windows , observing their deeds of prowess on tbe 16 th of April .

      But let patriots rally together , let them discipline themselves : let them be ready for every event , for tbe danger is imminent , and the moment is not , perhaps , far distant when they may have need of all their courage . '

      THF INSTJRRICTIOK AT B 0 UEK . —mRTHEB PARTICOLAB * . Roues , April 29 . —After two daya of sanguinary fighting the battle ceased at twelve o ' clock this day , bnt it is to be apprehended tbat it will recommence at the first opportunity . It has been impossible to ascertain tbe number of killed and wounded , as each party removed their men as tbey fell . More than S 00 of the insurgents have been made prisoners . It was found necessary to carry every barricade with tbe bayonet , under the protection of vollies of gra ^ esbot . The town has been put under martial law . The chief command has been given to General Ordonner . Sentinels are placed at each house , and a strong > : nard is stationed ? . t the corner of every street , supported by cavalry and artillery with lighted matches . It is estimated that there are 30 , 000 operatives in the town of R ^ uen , and double tbe number in the vallies adjoining , but the latter refused to rise , saying they bad no arms .

      Some columns of insurgent * quitted Rouen this morning to excite an insurrection at Elbesuf . Louviers . and Evreus . They succeeded only at Elbceuf , but their triumph was short , for a military force despatched from Paris , and assisted by tbe National Guard , succeeded in suppressing the insurrection . At Elfcffijf the National Gaards and the troops of tbe line had taken possession of all the posts occupied fay the rioters . The general commanding the 14 th military division and tbe Procureur General of Rouen had arrived in that town , for the purpose of restoring order , ard examining into the affair . ISSCBBECIIONS AT AJIIEK 8 . MSUE 8 , BOCtirOKT , AND LIMOGES .

      Accounts have also baen received of severe disturbances which broke out on Saturday at Amiens . The ouvritrs went in a bedy to the residence of the mayor , to demand that they should be paid their wages on Easter Tuesdny , the day of the elections . Ths National Guard * and the line were immediately called oot , and the crowd having attempted to force their way into the Hotel de Ville several collisions took place between the oeople and the troops . The mob then b'gao to build ba'ricades in the different streets , but the National Goards and the troops took them without any great difficulty , and by the last accounts the rioters bad been completely put down . Only oae peKon is stated to have been killed , but a great number were mounded . Eighteen of the rioters have b / en taken .

      At Nismes , the insurrection was at one moment formidable . Throughout the Rne de Dome various dissrderabad taken place . At Rochfort , the ^ ballotboxes were burnt by the people , under the belief that frauds , contrary to the interests ef the Republicans , had been committed by tbe returning officer . The following is an account of the insurrection at Limoges : — 'OnTbunday , about twelve o ' clock , when the general examination of the votes of the cantons had rendered certain the exclusion of the Communist candidates , a great crowd besieged tbe room in which the electoral operations were carried on , and took

      possession , in spite of the remonstrances of the employees , of the proces veriauxef the canton , and the balktins of tbe army , which were immediately tern to pieces . Immediately afterwards menacing bands paraded tbe city , disarmed tha posts of the National Guard , seized the cannon and the magazine . The National Guard immediately assembled , but the colonel gave them orders to disband , and the city was then in the power of the- insurgents . A Committee was immediately formed , and took on itself the administration of tbe department . Happily no act of violence to person or property was committed . Some of tbe National Guard have been slightly

      wounded . There have been serious disturbances at Nismea and Marseilles . Limoges was still in the bands of tbe ' insurgents , ' bat tranquility prevailed .

      THE HALL OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . The Joobnal des Debits gives the following account of the arrangements of the new Hall of the National Assembly : — * The shorthand writers , commissioned to report the debates of the new National Assembly , held another mEeling on Thursday in the aall of tbe bureaux of theold Cbamber _ of Deputies , for tbe purpose of appointing their syndics ; The new hall of the National Constituent Assembly will be immrnse ; ifs form is oblone , with a circular termination of the extremity which faces the tribrjnc and the arm ctair of the President . The benches are wood , covered with green baizs . The representatives of tbe Republic will be seated less comfortably than in the theatres ; they will be separated from each other by a rail , covered with baize . The decoratione

      of the tribune and the ensemble are pale green and yellow . About the chair of the President is suspended a sort of drapery resembling the enrtain of a larf . e theatre . On the right and kttare inscribed in large capital letters the magic words , ' Frehch Republic , Liberty , Eqaality , Fraternity . ' The hall , which is very well lighted by a efouble row of transverse casements , will be illuminated at night by tine lastres , arranged in three parallel lines . To the reporters of the public press will be assigned ninety places in tbe tribunes , and thrse places will be the nearest to the bureaux oi the Presic ' ent . The tribune of tbe ' Editors-in-chief will hold fo-tjtwo persons . The places reserved for the public without tickets are at the end of the hall in the mo-t elevated part ; tney are isolated from the other tribunes , and are f-ntered by a separate staircase . '

      The Journal des Dilbats publishes the following decree , signed by the members of the Provisional Government : — ' The provisional government , considering that tbe principle ol equality implies an uniformity of costume for the citizens appointed to perform the same functions , decrees , — 'The representatives of the people shall wear a black eoat , a white waisceat with lappels , b ' aok p . sntaloons , and a tricoloured silk scarf , ornamented with gold fringe . Toey shall attach to the buttonhole on tbe left side of the ' u' cn & t a red riband , on which shall be embroidtivd ihe fasces of . the Re ' public . ' Done at a Government Council held onthe 30 ; h of A ^ il , 1848 . '

      M . Goiz > t— The National announces on authority that M . Gu z it was married in London three years since to the Princess Lieven . It was agreed for vnlitical rcarons that the marriage should be kept secret as long as M . Giu ' z < t remained in office . The Louvre . —The provisional government has decreed that the Palace of the Louvre shall be terminated , that it shall lake the name of the ' Palais du Peuple , ' tbat it shall bs destined to the exhibition "f paintings , manufactures , and to the national library . ,,,,. . ¦ 1 he elections throughout La Vendee had all turned to the advantaae of the Lesitimists , and it is gaid tbat net one Republican has been eircttd .

      T 11 E CLURS OF PARIS . ( From th ? Times . ) Blmtqui ' s Cldb , April 28 —Although I arrived at an early h-mr , the cr-iwd was so great tbat I could scarcely obtain a seat ou my entering the hoilfC The meetings of that club ara held in the concert

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      room at the Conservatoire de Masique , and the boxes whieh are usually occupied by visitors were thronged jester lay eTening with ultra-republicans . The « reaoiion ' continues to be the all-absorbing topic discussed in the club . M . Blanqui addresae- the assembly on tbe events of Rouen : he said that a serioas and painful conflict had taken place in the capital of Upper Normandy between the ' Retctionnaires' and the people ; that women , children , and unarmed and inoffensive citiz ns , had been cruelly butchered by the National Guard and the troops , whom he compared to' bull-dogs' trained for the purpose of worrying and mangling the working classes . He stated that the troops who have been lately brought into Paris under the pretext of fraternising with the NationalGnard . had been quartered in private

      houses , where they were gorged with wine and filled with hatred of the penpla . He had heard with his own hears the ' Reictioncairea' say to tbe troops , ' There are 20 , 000 Communists in Paris ; you must assist us in exterminating them . ' The same means had been resorted to at Rouen to induce the soldiers to side with the National Gnard , and murder the people , whom the' Reaction' hated . The events of Rouen wonld soon be renewed , he said , elsewhere , and the conflict would finally end in Paris . M . Blanqui did not attribute the responsibility of these crimes to the trosps , who were mere' instruments ' in the bands of those who had made them their accomplices , but he foresaw events of the most dismal nature hoverisg over the prospects of France , and could wish himself ' far away , not to witness the misfortunes of his country . '

      Several other orators addressed the club on the disturbances of Rouen , and ona of them , who had jnst arrived from that city , stated that when he left ( Friday morning , ten o ' clock ) , 62 persons had been killed . A member of tbe club having protested against the term * bull-dog , ' applied to French soldiers , censured M . B anqui for using so unqualified an expression . Af . B / anqui reminded the assembly of the massacres of the hue Transnonain , where he raid a young girl had been shot dead , and several infants cruelly butchered in their cradles : that it was

      absurd to contend that soldiers could not do wronc because they were Frenchmen ; the ™ were bad men in every coua try , and those who could 5 a guilty of the crimes which had been committed in the Rue Transnonain and now perpetrating in Rouen , were not soldiers—they were assassins or wild beasts . He reminded the club that aristocracies had ever trained' a portion of the people to defend them against the other . His statement , he added , was borne out by » h * history of every nation , but' in the end the people have invariably united to crush

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      FURTHER ACCOUNTS FEOM THE DtPABTMBNTB . Paris , Tuesday . — The ' Committee of Public Safety , ' established at Limoges , ' retains possession of and governs that town . In Nantes and ether quarters , movements with similar views are apprehended . At Nantes deplorable disorders havo oc curred .

      AGITATION lit PARIB . The correspondent of the Times writes as follows — ' I cannot say with truth that appearances have improved since I wrote you this ( Monday ) , for ranv'ura of intended actions by the Communists and Sections are repeated every moment , and an addres * of the / Club of the Rights of Man , ' of a violent and menacing kind , has been posted up throughout Paris . It calls upon all true Republicans to be prepared to protect the Republic , which it declares in danger . This document , whioh has caused some sensation , is signed by Napoleon Lebon-Huber , and Armand

      Harhes . 'The language of the speakers , and the proceedings at the club presided over by M . Blanqui were last night , even more threatening than usual . Tne usfortunate occurrences at R . uen were the theme of all the speakers . It waa ^ resolved to address the Provisional Government demanding the instant removal of the troops from Paris , an immediate prosecution of General Geirard , and other officers commanding at Rouen , as well as the dissolution of the Garde Bourgeoise , ' for , * said the speakers , ' they are not National Guards '

      ' The representatives of the peaple , ' says the Reforme , ' are the representatives of the privileged classes . Let us organise a resistance to the attacks they are meditating against our rights , in order tha * . the day on whieh our rights shall be openly betrayed or denied may find ua united and prepared , but let not our legitimate irritation anticipate that decisive hour . Every partial rising is at this moment a crime and a fault—a crime , for it causes the purest blood to flow uselessly ; a fault , because it retards the definite establishment of the Republic on the basis of equality and fraternity . '

      ABOLITION 07 SLAVKKY . The MotfrTEOR puOlishes a decree signed by the members of the Provisional Government , abolishing fully and completely slavery in the French colonies . The system of engagement for a fixed period established in Senegal is likewise abolished . The amount of the indemnity to be paid to the owners ot slaves is to bo regulated by the National Assembly . The present decree is to take effect in the French colonies in two months from its date . 8 TATB OF PARIS .

      Paris was tranquil up to Wednesday forenoon , that is , no disorder of any kind had been committed—but there existed a great deal of agitation . According to the Times , thelanguage of the clubs was becoming hourly more menacing .

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      THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION . GERMANY . INSURRECTION AT FRIBURG . Baden . —The town of Friburg , close to the B ' aok Forest , has been the scene of great riot and tumult . Under pretext of holding a public meeting , about 2 , 000 peasants came to Friburg last Saturday , the 22 nd ult . They were all armed , partly with guns , lances , scythes , bludgeons , etc . After the meeting was over , which passed some resolutions of a Republican and Communistical tendency , the whole mass constituted itself into a regular little army ; the leaders were chosen , an attack upon the gates of the tosrn waa suddenly mad ? , and the whols town put in tbe greateat alarm . The Burgomaster and tbe

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

      Meanwhile troops had been sent from all directions to the assistance of Friburg ; they arrived by railroad and quick marches at noon on the 23 rd , when one detachment was attacked suddenl y by a considerable band of peasantry coming from the fields . That detachment was commanded by Genersl Hoffmann , and the fight lasted from three o'clock in the afternoon until sis o ' clock . The peasants were comp ' . etely routed and dispersed , and the town completely enclosed by troops on all sides . Tbe insurgents barricaded the town and the streets and defied all attack . General Hoffmann , who during the night had ordered a sufficient park of artillery' to be brought up , summoned the town to capitulate , and , upon its refusal ,

      the town was bombarded yesterday morniBg from half-past four o ' clock until twelve o'clcck , upon which the Nassau troops tcok it by storm . A great many of the insurgents have been made prisoners , but the majority have taken flight . Tbe town is paid to have suffered considerably , and the number of killed to be more than sixty . [ This account is from the pen of an enemy ] An arti leryman who had deseited to flecker , the Republican chief , was brought to Car . ' sruhe in order to be shot ; a little commotion of the crowd standing near took place , amongst whom another artilleryman drew suddenly a largo knifeag . iinst an officer ; but the latter killed him on tho spot with his sword .

      MORE RISINGS . At Manheim , on the 27 th of April , a sanguinary contest tO"k place between the troops of Na ssau and insurgents , armed with scythes . The drums weie beate-n to arms ; the civic guard quickly assembled ; one of the boats of the floating bridge had been set adrift to hinder the arrival of the Bavarian troops from Ludwigshafen . Quiet was re-esta blished about six o ' clock , and the Na ? sau troops were sent into their quarters . A deputation oi tho townspeople went off to Carlshure , to demand that the troops shou'd fce ordered to leave the town , There wore Eome Uil ed on both sides .

      An attempt at an outbreak was also made at Ileidelbirg on the 24 th nit . About four hundred peasants , armed with guns , scythes , and pitohfoiks , entered the town , proceeded to the house of the Presi-Werit ( Wioter ) , acd demanded the proclamation of a Republic . Meantime thev were surrounded by the burgher guard and a body of students , and up' ; n being summoned to lay down their arms , they did so without resi-tance . According to accounts from Carlsruhe , of the 27 th , the Republican movement in tho Grand Duchy of Baden is nearly at an end . Hecker was still at the head of a small band . M . Hern-cub , the demagogue poet , is with the Republicans , toother with his amiable lady , who wears a kind o ! ama xom dres ? , two pair of pis ^ h in her belt and a sabre , and declares that it will be tho hap ; . ie * t moment of her life in which she shall kill an anti Republi can officer Momma IVi .

      The opening of the Constituent Assembly at Frankfort has been adjourned ti , l the 18 h inst . The Berlin papors havo ceanpd pub ' . isulng , in cods' q ^ ence of a . strike of the whole of the compositors and pressmen . Bivaria . —The Minister of Finance of Bavaria bad eleclared ibat tbey had not the means of repaying the depositors in the savings bank—in other words , that the government was bankrupt .

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      _ POLAND . bTATKOF Posas . ^ lt is admitted both by Germans and Folea that excesses , murders , robberei , and divers acts of revolt and outrage , have be .-n committed even m tbe very city ef Posen itedf . On the one hand , the German papers and report * , not only ot berman correspondents , but of the Prussian military and civil authorities , attribute thewprehena l aHd . br"tal Proceedings to the Pole * , who are declared to he tho aggressors . Addresses , publicly placarded , from ihe German populations to their couhtrvmen in other provinces , call for protection , and demand tbe incorporation of the German circles or districts with the Germanic Confederation . The result of this has baen a most unequivocal reaction in the minds of all Germany against the Poles and with it a losa of those sympathies which aro ao essen . tia ! to the ultimate success of their eanse .

      Now listen to the other side . The Poles declare that they have not been the aggressors—that they took up arms , which tbey have consented to lay down peaceably , solely in self-defence . Tbey do not deny that excesses have been committed , but they assert that these excesses have been perpe ^ trated against and not by them ; that their countrymen have b ? en insulted , maltreated , stabbed , murdered , and plundered by Jaws and Germans , under the eyes and with the applause of Prussian soldier iney profess to have conducted themselves with admirable patience aad endurance . They add that the antiPolish

      - accounts transmitted to the German press , and thence disseminated throughout Europe , oriemato with interested Gsrraan functionaries , who hold all the administrative offices in the duchy , aad who are fearful of losing for themselves and families their numerous official places , which have become almost hereditary in their families . They refer for the truth of these assertions to General Willissen , the Prussian Commis « iary , who has returned to Berlin , and to M . Didier , the agent of M . de Lamartine , who was sent to Posen ( city ) , and other places , to report to his government upon the actual condition of the two populations .

      Such is an outline of the declarations of the contending elements , which contention , unless promptly terminated by some definitive and decided measures , must lead to tha worst of all evils—a civil sar . For although the Poles have consented to lay down their arms , and to dismiss the scythemen peasantry , who followed their nobles to the different campstheir hearts are burning with animosity against the German population , and above all against the Jew * , who have been foremost in the outrages of which they complain . Unfortunately , however , the territorial arrangement appear * to meet with difficulties . A deputation of Poles have arrived at thia place to remonatratfl , and proteei against this project , as laid down by the Prussian government . The ? declare that if

      the duchy ( which contains about 1 . 200 , 000 inhabitants , of whom , according to German statistics , 700 . 000 are Germans , and 500 000 Poles , and according to Polish atatements exactly the reverse ) be stripped of so large a portion of territory , this act would be nothing more nor less than a renewal of that oppressive act of partition against which tbe Poles have constantly struggled , and from the odium of whieh Prussia profwses a desire to liberate herself by re-establishing Polish nationality in the duoby . The deputation , after having set forth their readiness to unite for the restoration and maintenance of tranquility , and their willingness not to retain more than four battalions and five or six squadrons of regular or irregular troops , positively assert that they raay and will submit , for the present , to the

      separation complained of ; but , if those populations who are German by cncroacAtHCM , and not by descent—Germans through the medium of absorption , and the introduction of Gorman functionaries , settlers and purchasers of property and not by hereditary or historical right , be torn from the proposed nucleus of regenerated Poland , they , the Deputies and the Committee , their employers , will never consent to set their hands or seals to what they regard as an act of spoliation . The death of Count Potoeki having produced an immense sensation in the Duchy of Posen , we think jt right to extract from the Posen papers tha follow , ing letter , written by an eyewitness , a German , and attested by the principal inhabitants of the town of Znin : —

      Znis , A . ptll 10 , 1818 . Tho proclamation of ths Central National Committee announcing the re-organlantlon o' tho Duoby has been recived by alt the inhabitants of Znin with the liveliest joy and confidence . A local committee , composed of Poles and Germans , was immediately formed . Peace and unanimity prevailed everywhere . Oa tbe 4 ih of April , the Prussian troops entered , expelled the Polish authorities , and re-established the formerorder of things . Several persons were arrested , ill-treated in the most cruel manner , and sent in chains to the fortress of Bromberg and of Graudena . Others fled to save their lives . Tbe soldiery plundered their houses ; and what could not be carried away waa destroyed by them . Afttr three days of grossest violence and tyranny , the Pomera . nlans hftus , and we began to breathe again , and all was

      joy and happiness . In order not to disturb peace by the slightest change , we allowed to continue the regime iatroduced by Ihe soldiery , A tew deluded Germans , inetigated by tbe Jews , pretending to consider themselves in dinger , sent again for assistance , and on the 9 th an . other compony of soldiers entered tbe town . The commanding officer , seeing how little occasion there was for a ' nrm , expressed himself very strongly against those wbo called In the military . Shortly afterwards , tho insulting conduct of a solditr , who tore off the Polish cockade from a gentleman's breast produced the greatest irritation among tho inhabitants . Crowds gathered in the streets , the toosin was rung , and in the space of a fenhours the town was surrounded by bands of peasants , armtd with 80 ) tbes , pikes , and pitchforks , who came from tbe neighbouring villages in the belief tbat tbe soldiers were murdering the inhabitants .

      The solsitrs would havo been easily overpowered by the great masits of scythemen , and they wera already on the point of laying down their arms , when Potoeki , the proprietor of Slembeur , a highly esteemed person by all parties , threw himself as peaoemiker betweea tbe opposed nnUi , and entered Into a conference with tho general , who also arrived at that critical moment in the town . An agreement was made . Both parties were to leave tho town . The general gave bis word of honour thattbe soldiers should be kept from all hostile feeling towards tbo Poles . As a pledgo ho guvo bis hand to TotoiUi , and embraced him in the presence of several citizens . Potoeki , on bis part , prevailed on the ecytlumen ts disperse , and as another band was just enuring the

      town , he stopped them , placed himself at their head , and conducted them several miles ia the opposite direction . On his return , having found the town still occupied bj the soldiers , ho rode up to the major , and nhilst confer , ring with the latter , he was suddenly attacked by an oSB . cer , who ran bis sword through his body , At the same moment a great many soldhrs fired at him . Tie sanlt from hts borse . The soldiers threw themselves on him and literally smashed his brains out with tho butt ends of their muiiiets . Tbey took his horse , drew away the rings from his Sogeia , and took to their heels to save themselves from the just vengeance of the populates . Adoif JiBDEt , Tradesman .

      HORRIBLE MASSACRE BY PRUSSIAN SOLDIERS . BnssLAU , April 25 . —Letters which have reached this town from the Duchy of Posen announce that an unfortunate contest , of which the consequence cannot be as yet calculated , had broken out in many parts betw « en the Pruesian army and the newlyformed Polish troops . Tho Polish troops , in consequence of the arrangement concluded between Genural Williaen , the Prussian commissary , and tbe chief s of the Poles , had proceeded in small detachments to the different quarters which had been appointed for them , in order to their definita organisation . One of these detachments , consisting of eighty young men under the command ot ' a gentleman named Pa « z ) wski , had received orders to march to

      Odolanow ( Odelnau ) , a little town in the east of Posen , to be there organised . On the morning of the 22 : id , a company of Prussian infantry and a squadron of cuir . assiers presented themselves before Odelnau , where the Poles had constructed a barricade in the principal street . The CommandaRtoftho Prussian detachment desired the Puba to retire to Ragzkow , but they having refused to do so for fear of being attacked by the cavalry on their retreat ia the open country , the Prussians attacked them immediately with i ' urv , killed many cf them , and disperse 1 the lvsfc . The inhabitants of Odelnau , hearing the noise of the firing , turned nut , and masses of peasant arrived in

      bands , and without order , armed with scythes , pikes , and axes , to the assistance of their countrymen . The Prussians attacked them aud committed great slaughter . There are said to be 150 peasants killed and wounded in this unfortunate ) affair , whioh has causey great excitement in t ^ c whole country . The Prussians had four infantry soldiers and one cuirasiii r killed , besides several wounded . It is feared that this affair will hi bnt the signal of excesses on both sides , in wakening tha animosities whinh have been so long and ao successfully kept under between the different classes of the inhabitants of tho Duehj of Posen .

      The excesses of the soldiery are said to equal the barbarities of tho worst time * . At Ti zemetzao th ^ y butchered in cold blond seventy scythemen , whom they first deprived of their amis by etratagem . Tie oliicial journal of Posen , giving an account of thia massacre , cays : — ' Dead bodies with veins slit open , arms cut off , faces maimed , and lacerated in the most horrible manner , bellies ripped up , were eecn lying in every street of tt . o town , in Goatyn , to all other atrocities they added that of attacking | the [ people congregated ill tl ) 0 church , and shooting at the sacred ini i £ C 3 and va ^ es . In anovher place , not contented with exterminating the livinjT , they dug out and throw to tho four win-is tbe ashes of the dead . '

      Tho decree for the re-or . canNation of tho Duchy of P ' . ) 3 Cn app' -iV Cl in tho Prussia Gazktte of the 27- b . The following are excluded— 'the cz' devent district a he Netz , excepting only psnt of the district ot Iiowraclaw . Birnbaum , Mesevifz , Bomst , Prtustadt , Samter , Buck , tho western pait of tho districts ! of Ut'ornicK ana Posen , including ihotown and citadel of Posen , tke southern part of the districts of Kroben

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      an ! Krotosohin ; lastly , and in eonftrmity with the determination come to by the German Confed « r » - tion , the town of Kerapen — the German parts will be incorporated with the German Confederation . The organisation of the remainder will be Polish , both in language , infraction , justice , and govarnment . This decree has been received with joy by the Germans , and with sorrow and disappointment by the Polish population , who , in so address to the government , signed Krotoweki ( in the name and on behalf of' Mieroslawski , chief of the staff , ' and the Polish committee ) , which was placarded yesterday , and torn down or defaced by the Berliners as soon almost as placarded , declare this decree to be a spoliation , a seventh partition , and protest _ warmly against it , as tke result of a Convention neither signed nor recognised by the majority of the Polish leaders .

      EXEcnnoKS at Warsaw . The Gazita Polska gives the following intelligence from Warsaw : — ' A . conspiracy among the military having been discovered here , the officers of the Warsiw garrison , who w * ro arrested , ha ^ o already been tried by court-martial , and four of them were f-hot in tho citadel . Throughout the kingdom ol Poland the peasants are said to have been authorised to deliver up their lords of the manor to the gendarmes if there is the alighttBi intimation of an intended rise . Tbe report of a counter-revolution in Galicia , induced by a person in efiuial capacity ,

      similar to tbat of 1846 has again been mooted . It ia not improbable that the numerous incendiary fires now taking place in several of the circles of Galicia may be connected with this . ' Chacow . April 28 . —A skirmish has taken place be * tween the populace and the troops , in consequence of the refusal of government to allow Polish emigrants , not natives of Cracow , to remain in the town . Barricades were erected , and several rockets aro said to have been thrown from the Oastle . Peace was eventually restored by the emi grants voluntarily removing .

      THE f ? AR IN ITALY . The Pikdmontese Gazettb of the 26 th ult . adds but little to what was known already about the army of operations . An affair has taken place at Cles 6 o ween a party of about 1 , 000 Austrians and a body of 150 Piedmontese under Captain Scotti , who , reinforced by some corps of volunteers , succeeded in making his retreat . The Austrians were left in possession of the bridge of Mosticcioio . The Venetian papers of the 2 Ist give the following from Trento , of the l 6 ch ult ;— ' This day twentyone prisoners of tha Italian free corps were shot in the ditch ot the castle called the Cervara '

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

      DECLARATION OF WAR BY NAPLES AGAINST SICILY . It is officially annoussed at Milan by journals oi the 22 nd , that war has been declared by Naples against Sicily , consequent on the late decree of the Parliament of Palermo , dethroning the King . THE WAR INSCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN . TAKING OP SCOLBSWIO BS THE PRUSSIANS—BLOOOY

      OO . VFilOTa . Altona , April 24 .- The train from Rendsburg has brought intelligence of the taking of the town of Schleiwig by tho troops of the Confederation , after an engagement which lasted from three o ' clock in the afternoon of yeaterday ( Easter Sunday ) until eleven at night . The fortification called tbe Ddtinewirk , on whioh the Danish artillery was placed , was taken by the Prussians at the point of the bayonet , after the battery had been silenced by the field pieces of the Hanoverian contingent . Sckleswig then fell into the hands of the Confederation . Tho conflict , it is confessed , was a bloody one , the Danes having a strong position , and doing great execution with their artillery and riflumen before it was carried . The Danes had from 10 , 000 to 12 , u 00 men engaged ; the force of the Confederation was the greatest , but it was not" all engaged .

      The loss of the Prussians , as far as can be gathered from the unauthenticated accounts , is about 300 men killed and wounded , principally of tbe 2 ad and 20 th Regiments . Up to Monday morning 116 wounded had been brought into tbo Rendsburg Hospital ; that of the Danes is not y tt known , That the Danes fought well is freely acknowledged ; they retired fighting from point to point , and held out till the last : One of those accidents that confound the beet calculations rendered tbe mines ,

      which had been relied on as one of the means of defence , useless . The waters of the Schlei , an inlet of the sea rather than a river , at the bead of which Schleawig is built , rose to an unusual height in consequence of a continued east wind , and entered the excavations . The fortified work , or dam , called the Dannewirk , was the main defence of the Dines , and when this was carried the fight seems to have been for some time a battle of artillery , ia whioh the houses of the suburbs were much injured , and several set on fire .

      Rekdbbubo , April 24 , — The Danes quitted Schleawig yesterday at eleven at night ; they had retired from their post at Gottorf some time before , and at daybreak this morning the German flag was flying from the tower . The btarming of tbe fortifications before Schleawig cost a great number of lives . Many wouneled belonging to the two regiments of the Prussian Guards have been brought in ; among them three ofhoers . Tee right wing of our army crossed the Schlei at three points , the boatmen and sailors of the locality giving every assistance to the operations They constructed a number of rafts , by which 1 , 000 men could be carried over at the same time .

      A letter from Altona , dated 25 th April , in the evening , says the following telegraphic despatch bas been received : — ' Schleawig , Gottorp , and Fiendsburg are in our power . One battalion of the Danes has been made prisoners , and another battalion driven into the Schlei . The last accounts , dated the 26 th . state that it was oily after a most sanguinary conflict that tho Danes gave in , and they were in full retreat . Above 1 , 000 prisoners had been taken to Rendsburg . Professor Langenbeck amputated sixteen legs in one afternson . '

      The war reserve of the Danish army is called out , and will be organised with five battalions and two corps of chasseurs . Majar Girsovius is to superintend tlie arming of the people in North Sohleswig . These measures of defence will be hastened on by the late reverse , for the temper of the Danes is in favour of resistance . The most patriotic exertions are being made in tbe national cause ; the Minister of Finance , Connt Moltke , one of the richest men in Denmark , has , from his private fortune , placed 50 000 thalers at the disposal of the Minister of War ; the men of Bornholm have ' . raised 12 , 000 th-lers for the same purpose , besides sending sixty volunteers for the service of the fleet .

      The intelligence from . Copenhagen states , that a great number of Prussian ships are detained in the roads in consequenceof the ersbargo ; they are chiefly from the south , and more are continually arriving , in ignorance of the measures . In the night between the 19 : h and 20 th the Danish brig of war Delphin took nine Prussian ships , with freights from England , Bordeaux , and the West Indies . The blow infl ' uted by the capture of Prussian vessels falls the heavier , as none of them were insured againit the chances of war . Hamburgh . April 28 . — -The Germans allies have entered Apenrade . The main body ot tbe Danes are now , it is said , to skebiortkof Hadereleben . We print the following extracts from a private lettc , dated ll * raburgh , April 29 tb , which arrived at Hull by the Queou of Scotland steamer : —

      ' It is now likely that the Prussians will occupy Jutland , and possibly even Funen , by way of reprisal and equivalent for the large amount ot German property under sequestration by the Danes . ' Schleawig is now almost entirely in the hands of the German troops . 'A gentleman wboarrivedon Saturday last stated , that the accounts published of the killed and wounded are by no means exaggerated , but , in fact , understated . He asseit * further , that 2 , 000 men with many officers were buried in one grave near Schleawig . The harbours of K 7 el and the Scbleswig and IIolsteiri canal are blockaded by Danish ships ; a frigate and two gun boats lie before the entrance . UNITED STATES .

      We have had an arrival from tbo Statew , but ti ) 6 news from that part of tho world is anything but interesting , with the exception of tbe accounts of meetings held in several ef the principal cities to aid tho revolution in Europe . In Now York tho Gormans had raised a large revo-Imisnary fund , to be sent out with fifty pioneers of liberty , and 2 000 del ars worth of muskets , to aid in propagating free principles in Germany . A grand demonstration to celebrate the late French revolution came oft' in the city of Washington , on the 12 th of April . Tho ' Marseillaise' hymn was sung , many houses were illuminated , and a torchlight procession moved throuph the streets amidst the cheers of assembled thousands .

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      Bilston Confederates . —Last week a Confederate Club was f » nr ed at Bi ston . A deputation from the BirmioRhara Repea'eraittended , Birmingham Confederates . —A Repeal meeting wai hsld on the 25 . h ult ., in the People ' s Hall , Birmingham , when resilitions were passed denuncia'ory of tha Gagging Bill , and the persecution of the Irish patriot' , and expressing sympathy wuii the victims of Wtiij villa ' y . Cubert Church , in Cornwall , was struck by lighttun" last wi : ek , and totally destroyed . There nre d 5 G 0 mill-hands atprt-sent unemployed at Stockport .

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      MONDAY , Mat 1 st . HOUSE OF COMMONS . —This house reassembled at four o ' oloak after the Eiattmcesa . llr H . Bimlelei gave notice that , on tbe 11 th inst , he would submit a motion on ths subject of tbe Ballot , On tbe motion of the Cbancellob of tbe Eicheqoeb , the house resolved itself into a committee to consider resolution * forgrantiag £ 5 , 000 for the relief of persons who had been reduced to destitution in tbe island of Tobago , by the hurricane that occurred there in October laat ; and for lending £ 50 , 000 to tke colonics , to enable them to reitoro their property destroyed by tha hurricane . Th © two votss were , after a few observations ; agreed to .

      The Chancellor of the Exchequer then proposed a vote authorising advances to the extent ef £ 206 , 000 for the purpose of promoting immigration of free labourers to British Guiana and Trinidad , Mr Home objected to the vote , at leaot until the -whole question ef the West Indies should be before tbe Iiouae , The report of tbe West India committee wauld ba presented in a day or two , and he , therefore , moved that the Chairman report progrsss , with the view of postponing the vote for a week , Mr WnsoH laid there was no probability that the report of the West India committes would bo presented within a week .

      Mr Hebiies suggested the propriety of confining tbo vote to £ 103 , 000 ( the sum for whioh liabilities had alrendy been incurred ) until after the report of the com . mines shall ba made . The Chancellob of the Excuecdib thought It better to take the vote for £ 209 , 000 , though ho was willing to pledge himself not to sanction any further expenditure . Afior a conversation , Lord J . RifgMLL agraed to modify the vote , in accordances with the suggestion made by Mr Henries , and to take £ 170 , 000 on account , Mr Huub divided tbe committee : — For reporting progress 21 Agaiastlt , 7 G Majority against adjournment —55 The vote for £ 179 , 000 waa agreed to ; and the three money resolutions were reported to tho house .

      Tha hooBD ajain retelved itself into a committee , when tbe GnAt / cation of tbe Excueqozs proposed a resolution authorlstDjr the government to rc-advance , for the completion of puMa works iu Ireland , sums repaid by the counties o « t ef the loans made to them In the years 1810 and 1847 . Tae resolution was agreed to , and reported to the house , RtMOTiL op Amens Bill . — Sir (? . Gbet , In moving tht etcaad rtsdiag of the Removal ol Aliens 3 W , stated tha reasons which had led the government to propose it , and the roaln provisions which it contained , and with

      whioh tho public is already acquainted . Without ex . pressing any opinion oa Republican doctrines , he « oa « tended tha * w « had a right to protect ourselves r . jainat foreigner * who appeared amongtt us as the apnaihs of those Republican principles which they had established in their own countr / e * . Whatever cause of complaint We might have ajalnst individual foreigners , ho waa happy to say that w « had no cause of complaint onthiascore against any foreign govsrnment . If individual foreigners bad come among its to preach . Republicanism , it had beea against the will of their governments , and those government ; , if tbey bad the power , would have prevented it ,

      Sir W . Moleiwjbth maintained that there wan noneotssity for thia bill , and that , even if there were a necessity for It , we ought not to intrust the provisions of it in a spirit of blind confidence te any government . After quoting Hansard in large quantities to show that it was contrary to tbe recorded opinions of every m * n of note and eminence in the Whig party during the last fifty years , espscially of Lord J . Uussell himself , he proceeded toridicats th « notion tbat there was anything i « tilfl present state of either Francs or Ireland to justify It , and concluded by reading a long extract from a speech of Earl O / ey against the Alien Bill of 1793 , and by mevlng as an amendment that the bill be road a second time that day six months .

      Lird D . Stctabt qaofcsd the able protest entwed by Lord Holland in 1823 , against tbe Alien Bill sf 1822 , as his justification in opposing this cruel , unjustifiable , and unconstitutional measure . He regretted that Sir J , Hobbouse wan not then in bis place , for he had -wished to ask Sir J . Hobhonie hon be could support this bill , aft ^ r he had deneuacod a former Alien Bill as ' a bill which ought to be resisted by bodily fores and physical resistance , ' and had proposed to entitle it 'a bill to repeal so touch of the Great Charter as related to the free ingress nnd residence of foreign merchants in England , and to assimilate ths free Government of Great Britain to the despotic governments of the continent , '

      The Att . ienet Gemeeal defended tho bill , wbirt he contended was d ffareRt in principle from all preceding Allen Bills , and not liable to similar objections . He entered into a long examination sf Lord Hol ! irad' 9 protest against the Alien Bill of 1822 , for the purpose of shewing that tMs hill was not assailable en anv grounds on which his lordship had denounced that bill a & urjust , impolitic , cruel , and unconstitutional . There was this wide dlffartnca between tho two measures—nndor the 6 ld bill any party could ba arhitrarily deported ; bnt | under this bill , before any party could be nrreisted , thera must be a statemtnt in writing , deposited with some minister , that he vras platting against the peace aad tranquillity of thfl kingdom .

      Mr W , J . Fex had listened very attentively both to the right hoa . Secretary for the Home Department and to her Mcjesty ' B Attorney-Genorn ) , who had stated more distinct gtoni & i thsn be had yet hoard for the- introduction ef the proposed law . It was a measure of timidity asd apprehension ; it sbotved a want of confidence in tho British people , who had so lately displayed their deterraiaaHoa to mpport peace and order it showed also a want of confidence in the people of Franco , who bad as vet , in very trying circumstances , done nothing ; to excite that jealousy , or any hostile feeling on tbe part of this country . Whatever might have beea the cmo la former time * , convulsed as tho world was , it is now a better time to ahow ivunt was their reliance on those institutions which had s'oodtho teit of so many aires , and

      which so eminently possessed the character of durability but not the less possessed tbat elasticity which accommodated them to the spirit of the age , and enab'ed them to extend themselves so as to take a v ? idsr range and to eomprthond larder numbers , when the statu of society demanded anew adaptation ; and that with ut the eonvulsions to which other countries were subset . ( Hear , hear . ) He could net sse a case of necessity raado out for the bestowment of powers which were of n very obnoxious and cruel charactar ; which placed the convenience , property , and liberty of Indiiiduai 4 at tho mercy of tho Minister for tho tinio being ; which exposed men to that sort of attack against which it wa ? so d'fficult to defend one's-solf—a charge of which ono w . a not aware —anonymous writing to a Secretary of State , who seemed to be brought into contact with a class with whioh it might havo been hoped that a British Minister needed to hava no dealings , and who seemed to have a buds door for the receipt oi calumnies , which under tbo

      pretext of public duty might only open awsy for tho indulgence of individual spite and the gratification of individual vindictlveness ; powers , he would add , which might be used vindictively against men or women ; for it Ciuld not bo forgotten that the first who sufYerrd under the act of 1703 was a woman , a widow—Ii- » dy Edward Fitzgerald , whose namo had sincabsen raised to a very d ff rent position by nritcra of a sister country . He could not concur in the argument of the hon . baronet , t he member for Souihwark , that the measure presented to f ?! arinj ? an instance of inconsistency on the p .-irt of her Majesty's Ministers . If they went back some years tho inconsistency might be brought out ; but if they lacked at the last great measure which her Mujest >' s Ministers had carried through that bouse , tfatn this mutt be admitted to be a very appropriate eequel and supplement to tho me-ieuro ' for the better security of her Majesty'a Crown and Government . ' Tho one belonged to the other .

      Siare such a pair were never seen , So justly f jrmed to meet by nature . ' They wero both framed in accordance with the policy of Pitt , Sidmoutli , and Castlereagh , which , beginning with tho first , might be considered as carried out to completion in the second ; and the Whig Ministers , in originating them , bad , to borrow the pbraso of a former day , effictunily ' un-Whigged' themselve * . The only reason he could make out as assigned by the right hon . baronet for the introduction of tho bill was that he was afraid of Republicin missionaries . ( ITetr , heur . ) Tha opportunist s of nueh missionaries were at the lowest p . int . The p . iwer by ' open and advised speaking * to induce men to violence was surely at the lowest ebb ; and tbo Application , in tbe present instance , of the objection

      stated to tho appearance of tbat most" accomplished of P : ench actors , Talma , in tho character of Hjmlet on tho English stage , ought not to bo forgotten , that the first sentence ho uttered would put the audk nee in a roar . If they fVared Republican missionaries , they ought to direct their law ? rather against the writings if tho iltustl'i-Gua dead of England than any living missionaries from other landa . Tho ^ r _ > Bt Republican teachers of England would be found ok the shelves of their libraries , in their Miltons , SHnojs , Harringtons , and Locke * . They would bo of nativa growth ; uarivalled in the . richness and flower of their language , nwafenimr so many nsooei > tione , cominaudiri !; so much reverence , —ho ixight cv . n Say , idolatry , if they dirf not make couvirte , where was tho persuasiveness of n missionary from France or Gurinnny , or any other region whatever , to stduca tbo people of this country from allegiance to their Qaeenl

      That it might be s . iid , was not the Republicanism of other ' countrics BJt the It . pablicanism ef Uiia country might bear such ardatioa to the Repabliennism of othtr countries as the despotism of this country did to tbo des . potUm of other ? . Let e . n example bo taken from the iioblc . inin 'cd man nho , when Socialism and Cou . munism were tho roi'lc a head , did not depart from hia own eourso . British Communist leaders were in Paris ; but did ho deport any one of tlnm ? ( Hear . ) Those measures were as worihless for tho real security of tha crown nnd government of these rea l ms as another buttress would be to tbe venerable structure which had stood for ctnturies past and would for centuries yet to « :-me . Her Majesty ' s Attorney-Gioeral said these measures would do no harm . Tbey might do hsrm . They might falsify tho Character of this oountrj , leading 0 lura to impute a fkkkneGg of disposition , and a

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 6, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06051848/page/3/