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      - " " 7 HE FRENCH REPUBLIC . MOwmB ^ S ? sama -jjypjED HIPEACHilEKT OF LOUIS BLASC nn Wednesday week the President next comuni-^ un th e Assembly & requisition , signed by the ^ S et-General of the Court of Appeal of Paris , 7 indlng the authorisation to direct proceedings tot Citizen Louis Blanc , one of its members , f | r . « , uisition stated that the witnesses examined , *? , documents collected , and the declarations of rti- » n Lca ' Blanchimself , demonstrated that there w « ted a Eerioos Presumption that he had particie g jn tbe invasion and oppression of the Asssm i uisown _ rrtfR FRENCH REPUBLIC .

      h ron the loiuoi m » j . -um aamission be IS wice harangued the people , once from a window ~ der the peristyle , with Barbes and Albert , and a S * jnd time standing on a stool in the Salle des Pas P ^ rdnE . Citirsn Louis Blanc was frem thence earred in triumph into the hall , where four representatives beard him congratulate the people on having floceuered the right of petition , which , he added S * iJd EOtto filtuw ^* resled ftom them . It ap . I ^ red from all the charges that Citizen Lonis Blsno Ld voluntarily participated m sn attentat , having ftrits object to overturn the existing government , a L jjjb punishable by the 8 < th article of the Penal

      GitiM U PaEKKneit rose and said , that he was stand in , on the 15 th of May , by Citizen Louis Biane wiiom hehad not the honour of knowing , when the Presi dent invited him to speak to the people . He kid followed him to the peristyle , and had heard him sddress to the multitude words of peace and conciliation . Another member proposed to refer the requisition $ s romraittee . Citisen Locis Blasc af forwards ascended the tribute , and said that he did not come forward to defend himself as a man , but aa a representative of the people , and a member of that government which had inaugurated the era of the republic by proclaiming justice and clemency , and the abolition of capital punishments . Belittle expected that snch would be fee reoom pensa reserved to him for wishing to establish a great and glorious Republic free frrm a'l excases . He entreated bis colleagues to abstain from

      sll acts tending to recall the reign of terror , for snch gms might at a future day be turned against themselves . ( Violent tumult . ) He then indignantly repelled the charge ot having violated the principle of the national sovereignty , which he had advocated all his life , and considered the greatest of crimes . The president , he maintained , had authorised him to speak to the people , and at the moment Huber pronounced the dissolution of tbe Assembly , he was at bis seat , engaged in writing those words : —* In the name of the people and of yonr own sovereignty , I entreat yoa to retire . ' A Mshbbe considered it to be his duty testate that having been next to Citizen Louis Blanc oa the day in question , he heard him for half an hour resist every attempt on . the part oi the crowd to make him learehis place , and that it was only after being so tressed that he at last went up and spoke to the President . ( Agitation . )

      A Mssbsb declared that he heard Citfzen Louis Blanc , on the loth of May , say to two persons who asked him to address the crowd , « What can I say to madmen like these ?* Citizen Crehiecx , the Minister of Jastiee , rose and observed that-the Assembly was not called upon to decide the . question stows , and moved that it should retire into its bureaux to appoint a committee to report on the result of the inquiry . The order of the day , on the demand of the Attorney-General , proposed by several members , was rejected by an immense majority . The Assembly subsequently decided that a committee should instantly be nsmed , and was preparing to quit the hall , when Citizen Louis Blanc ran to the tribune .

      Citizen Loeis BiAscsaid that he was not present VFhen the requisition waa read , in which it was asserted , tbat he had himself admitted having addressed the people . He repeated that he had done so , after obtaining the permission ef the President . He declared , moreover , that the words he was reported to have pronounced in the hall had not been uttered by Mm . ( 'They were / exclaimed several voices . ) He had certainly spoken of the right of petition but he understood that every petition should be presented and read b y a representative of the people . He had asked to be allowed to read tbe petition as a member of the Assembly , and had told the people— 'If yen wish the right of petition to ba ttipacted , begin by respecting your own sovereignty . ' But he had never said— 'You have conquered the light of petition . ' "The Assembly afterwards withdrew into its stand . ins committee amidst the greatest agitation .

      On Friday week the President had hardly taken his seat when he announced that he had received a letter from Barbes , a member of the house , now a prisoner in Vincennes , in which he declares that the words attributed to Citizen Louis Blanc and for which the Proonreur Gener & l sought to include him in the prosecution for the occurrences of the 15 th of May , had been uttered by him ( Barbes ) , and not by Louis Bianc . After the di ? pesal ef some © the ? business , the President called en Citizen Jules Favre to read tbe report on Citizen Lonis Blanc's case , when that

      gentleman ascended tbe tribune and began his report , which stated that the resolution adopted had been come to by a majority of fifteen to three . The rasoiution as it ult imately appeared , was for giving the required authorisation for allowing the prosecution . Great excitement pervaded the assembly on the conclusion of the report , in the midst of which Citizen Louis Blanc ascended the tribune . He said it was cot bis intention to make more than one remark , which was , that he considered ^ they had entered on s disastrous coarse . The sitting was suspended for a eoBsidereble time , during which the members seemed all engaged in animated conversation .

      It was settled that the report should ba discussed the following day by the Assembly . THE '* MPEACBH 25 T ' BEFCSED . Satebday . June 3 . —At half-past one o ' clock Citizm Buchez , President , took the chair , and shortly afterwards the discussion opened on the . reqaisitery of th » Attorney-General , demanding tbe authorisation to prosecute Citizen Lsuis Blanc , a representative of the people . Citizen Mathtetj was called to the tribune . He said that after carefully reading the report he had

      not found in it a single argument to justify its contioslms . The ^ ords incriminated , " You have conquered the right of petition , ' . were not ponounced bv Citizen Louis Blanc . Their responsibility was claimed by Citizen Barbes , and the ilonitcur proved that it was by the latter they were ottered . Citizen Lababit , who followed , likewise opposed the grant of the authorisation . Citizen Louis Blanc could render important services by his knowledge of economical questions , and the Committee of Labour should not dispense with his co-operation . xt k

      Citizen Lacbest dz L'Ardeche , the nespeaer , thought that Citizen Louis Blanc , notwithstanding his economical errors , was entitled to the solicitude of the Assembly as an historian and political writer . The committee had not been unanimous , and it might happen that the opinion of the minority was that of the Assembly * For that reason he opposed the zutharisatior . Citizen Bac , who next ascended the tribune , said that he belonged to the minority of the committee . He complained tht tno member favourable to its conclusions had yet come forward . Citizen Louis Blanc had denounced a few days before the existence of a conspiracy ol falsehood . Citizen Bac suspected that there existed also a conspiracy of silence . _ The reporter of the committee had stated tbat the inviolability of the representatives of the people was with

      guaranteed by no lav . He differed in opinion him , and regarded the arrest of a member of the Assemblvai an attempt against the rights of the 40 GOO electors he represented , and consequently against the national sovereignty itseif . It was said that Citizen Louis Blanc had presented himself at tie Hotel de Ville . This was false ; and he ( Citizen Bac ) had in his hand certificates to prove that there was no truth in that statement . Citizen Bac then proceeded to examine the conduct of Citizen Louis Blanc during the invasion of the Assembly , and maintained that if he twice spoke to the riotora , it w ^ at the entreaty of several of his colleagues , and with the authorisation of the President . He was carried in triumph by them , but every member of tbe Assembly must have witnessed his s ' renuous exertions to extricate himself from their hands . In conclusion , he nrsed tbe Assembly nst to grant tbe

      aithoruation . , . ... Citizen Lorn Blasc next appeared at the tribune , aad said that he would not defend himself against tbe charges of which he had as yet no knowledge Tiers was one , however , against whichi he should protest . He had heard the day feefore that he was accused of having oreseated himself at the Hotel oe Vitfe en tbe loth o ' f Mav . This he most formally ^ cied , 0 I 1 hjs oath , and " summoned , in the name ot - ^ llfe , the person who had asserted that falsehood r « come forward and oppose ' Ids' oath to his . Citizen Dc ^ nt , who followed , said , tbat he was no Partisan of Citiz-n Louis BJane ' s doctrines , and had M even the honour of knowing him . On the l & io tiMsy . a man of the neon ' e came up to him ana

      *& ed him where was Louis Blanc . That man said , wat if he harangued the neople , he would ca . mthe POprhr tffsrrefeence . Citizen Dupont went np » o Jitaea LwiU Blanc , and having delivered his mes ' fie , the latter replied- ' No . no ! my place is here . 1 will remain wish mv colleagues . ' Shortly alter' ard . the same man sp ' oke himself to Citizen Louis "lane , who consented to follow him . Tha Phesimsx- hers mentioned that he had re =-ivel a letter from a person present when Citjzm kmis Bhnc addressed the people , and he heara him Potest against the violence offered to the National AiKably . „ , Citiasa Jcls * Favbs , the reporter , nextdiscnssed J ?» different objections raised by the opponents ot is measure .

      Citizen Dcpost uK JtjssaC next spoke , and , m the c ! ar » 5 of ; uis speech , having made soce offensive ai-1 to Citizen lMYereier de HaRraane , cries of

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      ShamMross . A . great agitation was observe at that moment among the members standing at the footofthe tntane , and one of them was seen vio-. entiy gesticulating . and appealing to the President tor protection . hnn ^' ff Ei ^ ^ K < an the . ? ran U P t 0 &* tri-K . f ? . 4 e anse of the tumalt - He ad . nutted that he had perhaps exceeded tho bounds of decorum by engaging in a quarrel with one of his colleagues who had charged Citizen Dupont with having used unbecoming expressions . He had replied to him that truth should alwavs be toldwhenhis antagonist apostrophised him in ' the grossest terms . CiVzen Langlet had retorted in the same The -whole Assembly protested by its murmurs against the proeeedinjj , and shortly afterwards the two members left the hall , followed by a number of their colleagues . 'Shame '* rbss . a »« . » ,, ;»¦ . « , _ ^_ - .. V ¦ ..

      Citizen Raynai having next risen , invited Citiz ° n Marrast , the Mayor ot Paris , to declare whether Citizen Lonis Blano had or not presented himself at the Hotel de Ville on the loth of May . Citizen Makhmt replied , that he had at first believed that Citizen Louis Blanc had been at the Hotel ^ de Ville . He had heard cries of 'Vive Louis Blsno' on the square , and , in the evening , he met a citizen , who assured him that he had seen him there , and favoured his escape by a window on the side of Rue Lobaui Citizen Marrast , hewever , had subsequently-taken tbe most precise information on the subject , and acquired conviction that Citizen Louis Blanc had not appeared at the Hotel de Ville . _ The Pbisideni then consulted the Assembly relative to the grant of the authorisation ; bnt , after two doubtful trials , by sitting and rising , twenty members called for the vote by division . '

      Citizin CaEisiKDx , tha Minister of Jastiee , and all his colleagues of the Cabinet voted against the conclusions of the csmmittee . The vote by division was , however , ultimately adopted . The Assembly negatived the proposition to authorise the prosecution of Citizen Louis Blanc . There were— For the proposition 337 Against it 369 Majority against the proposition —32 On Monday evening a violent discussion took placeibetween M . Portalis and M . Cremienx . A disgraceful Ecene of pergonal , altercation , agitated the Assembly for a considerable time . Tha ballot for the new President , resulted in the election ofM . Senard , for the present month . The six vice presidents elected by the Assembly for the ensuing menthare MM . Bethmont , Marrast , Corbon , Cormenin , Portalis , and Lacrosse .

      _ The Minister of the Interior , presented in the sitting of the Assembly on Monday a bill against the assembly of armed persons in public places , and agairiat the assembling of persons unarmed , if their appearance were held to threaten the public tranquillity .

      atbocious law . On Monday evening , two decrees were introduced which have caused a great deal of excitement , the one for the suppression of armed and riotous assemblages , and the other for the granting to the government the sum of 500 , 000 francs as secret service money . The decree against assemblages is particularly severe . It declares that all attroupement in the . public way is forbidden , whether armed or not . All anaed assemblage ? are considered crimes . When an assemblage , whether armed or not , is formed in a public thoroughfare , the mayor , or the commissary ef

      police , can by beat of drum order it to disperse . If , after being twice summoned to disperse , it does not do so ,. military force is to be used . The . penalt es for mixing in riotous but unarmed assemblages , . vary from twelve to eighteen months imprisonment ; for being concerned in armed assemblages , the penalties vary from six months to two years—from two to five years—and from three to six years . If arms are used by the offenders , from five to ten years solitary confinement ; or if the offence ia committed in the nigbt , from eight to twelve years .. Severe penalties are also to be enforced against tha writers and printers of seditious placards . .- . ,

      On Tuesday , the Minister of Finance laid before the National Assembly the amended budget ol 1843 . The ordinary and extraordinary expenditure , which had been estimated at 1 , 7 S 3 , 000 , 000 francs , would , on the new calculation , stand fixed atl . SSO . OOO . GQOf ., and the resources available to meet this expenditure would be found to amount to 16 S 5 millions . The expenses of the provisional government were included in the estimates , bat not those of the Executive Committee . The government " financial project excites great dissatisfaction , and the Chamber was again a scene of uproar . LOUIS BLASC ' S DBfKKCS . Citizen LouisBlanchas circulated a pr inted statement , explaining the share he took in the events of the ISJh of May . We give the following extracts : —

      ' I commence by declaring , and that only to expose the audacity of certain falsehoods , that I have never had any relation direct or indirect with the . citizens Blanqui , RaspaD , and Huber . I have only seen the two former once in my life , some years ago , and I have never seen the latter at all . Personally I know neither of them . Like teveral of my colleagues of the old provisional government , I waa sometimes with citizen Sobrier before the meeting of the . National Assembly , but since then we have remained complete strangers to . each other . As regards Albert and Barbes , I should be , ashamed of myself , if , knowing them to be prisoners and unhappy , I should ' hesitate to say boldly that I am their friend . I equally deny Barbes and Albert

      were engaged in any plot ; my relations with them anthorise me to declare it impossible . My conscience and not my friendship for them demands this testimony . On the loth of May I took at my accustomed hour my way to the . National Assembly . Some libellers have asserted that on the morning of that day I was at the Cafe Tortoni , with Birbes , Blanqui , and other chiefs , concerting the movement—an infamous falsehood that I throw back en passant . At the Assembly I sat , to bear better , on the seats of the droits , near the tribune , when all at once a distant murmur announced the arrival of the crowd . Many of the representatives entered precipitately ; a cry of * To yonr places !' " was made , and I mounted to the highest seats of the extreme gawfo , where 1

      sit . The noise approached . The tribunes at the end wero immediately filled with the populace bearing standards . A short time afterwards , the doors having been broken in by the crowd , and those persons who were in the tribunes slipping down from the galleries into the body of the hall , it was soon filled in all parts . A thousand different and confused noises filled tbe air . The tumult became horrible . In the midst of this disorder I was determined to observe the same conduct as my colleagues . I remained there , as they did , in my place as an alarmed but powerless spectator of the invasion of a sanetaary that the triumph of universal suffrage ought to have rendered inviolable , as inviolable as the sove reignty of the people . But soon ( and there are not

      wanting witnesses who can certify , if need be , to the perfect exactness of these details ) the huissiers and attendants of the chambers came to inform me that an immense crowd was in the Rue de Bonrzogne , and demanded me veciferously , and that , if I did not go out , they threatened to fores themselves also into the chamber . What was I to do ? Ought I not to remain at my post in the Assembly ? Or if I had abstained when my presence was demanded as a means of calming agitation , would this not have been to incur a grave responsibility ? I refused for some time the requests that were made me , but as they became mere and more pressing , I determined to place myself at the disposition of the Assembly . I then ascended the bureau of the president , and addressing him , I asked if in case he should think it

      desirable that I should speak to the people , I was authorised to do so by the Assembly of which I was a member , and from which . I would not separate myself . Tiie president observed , that at that moment he could not make himself heard by the Assembly from the tumult , it was impossible to consult the chamber . * Then , ' replied I , ' in the name of the chamber , and your own , will you authorise me to interfere ? ' He answered me affirmatively , in presenceofone of the vice-presidents , the citizen Corban . It was then only to restore order , and after having received tffieial authorisation that I addressed the crowd . Standing up on the secretary's desk I asked for si ! eace which was obtained , and I profited by it ( I am supported by the statement of the Moxitevr ) to invite toe people to calm , moderation ,

      respect for its ewn sovereignty , personified in fact by an assembly proceeding from universal suffrage . The tumult continued in the hall , and the agitation withont became every instantgreater . I was again assailed by solicitations . Relying on tho consent of the president of the Assembly , I went to one of the windows of the court which leads to the Place da Bourgogne ; I ascended the sill of the window , where Albert and Barbes also came , and I addressed to the multitude the language most proper as it appeared to ms to appease them . I said to them , in substance , that the lawfulness of their wi'hes for a more equitable division of the profits of labour as a

      means towards the gradual extinction of misery cosld not be denied , but tbat the sacred interests cf the workman would tot ( they might be assured ) b abandoned by the Assembly ; that tho eternal honour of the republic would be to have laboured incessantly to realise the right of all to be happy ; that if there were folly in raising the level of this hope too high , it was at least one of those sublime tollies to which it was quite pardonable to devote one ' s life ; that it was a very touching and noble spectacle to see a people forgetting their own sufferings to attend to those of other nations : that in that wMrecoznisedtheeasentially generouaand universally

      b » cevolent genius of France , but that , lnjustprooortion aa the sentiments of a people were entitled w r ^ RDect , £ 0 it behoved them to present them in a legal and regular manner , and I concluded by besoeching them to leave the National Assembly full liberty in i * s deliberations . I then retired to take my p'a . e am-. n ^ tmy colleagues , when , seized by a numerous eroup ' who had collected behind the window , I was carried across the Sate da Pat Pcrdus , Tcey wished

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      & f J arm . ea . ddresstheni > they insisted en it ; S 2 W aci" > k ; » stair was brought on which they obliged me to mount , and I was forced to address tfcem , It was then tbat , speaking of the in ? vincible force of the revolution of February , but of the absalute necessity of imposing it oa the adniiration of the whole world by its moderation and wisdom , the only means of rendering it victorious over all kings , I pronounced these words , so cruelly tortured- ' This revolution , in truth , is not one that shakes but that overthrows thrones ; ' and at the con elusion of my speech was the cry that all the auditors repeated with enthusiasm—* Vive la Republique Universale ! ' Almost at the same moment I was surrounded on all sides . ; they took me up and would

      carry me into the Assembly . It was useless for me to resist or to answer ¦ the only shout really worthy of the people is * Vive la Republique . ' Ten times I fell among the crowd—ten times they raise me again . Some of them embraced me—others cried Don'tstifle him ! ' If it be wrong to excite sueh sympathies , when one has opposed them by every means , and when one has always served tho cause one believes to be the cange of truth , without condescension , without flattery , without truckling to popularity , I am guilty . Let them find another crime in me . _ It was thus that , in spite of myself , I was carried into the Assembly thiough the compact mass of invaders . They who were present can judge by my conduct if I did not do all in my . to

      power avoid sucha melancholy display . But what could 1 do by physical force or entreaties ? Worn out by fatigue , bathed in sweat , my voice completely lost , I was carried to the extreme seats of the amphitheatre . An ouvrier came to me , and said , ' You cannot speak any more , but if you will write on a piece of p aper , that once more you conjure the crowd to retire , perhaps I can read it in a sufficiently loud voice to be heard . ' I immediately took a pen , and wrote— 'In the name of the republic , in the name of the sovereignty cf the people , in the interest of all I adjure yon to—' when from the tribune were pronounced the fatal words' The National Assembly is dissolved . ' A great movement then took place

      ia tho body of the hall , the impetuosity of which carried me . &> the Salle des Conferences . I was called on all aides . A dense and violent crowd surrounded me , crying , ' To the Hotel de Ville ! ' I answered with profound consternation , that every ore might observe en my countenance , that to go to the Hotel de Ville would ba to risk the effusion oi blood . I asked where were many of my colleagues . I could learn nothing of Albert ; but some one told me they wished to conduct Barbes to the Hotel de Ville , and . that : he had opposed himself to it with much energy , . This was confirmed by many of the persons present , who were strangers to me . Every one rushed to the doors ; the torrent carried me along with it . ' 5

      Citizen Blanc here goes onto disprove that he ever went to the Hotel de Ville . ' At last , having returned to the chamber , I was recognised by . some National Guards . They rushed on me with rage . ' Prosecute him , ' said some : ' kill him , ' said others , ' it will be sooner done- ' Happily S ome others , and I am glad to state , this , defended me with the same zeal that their comrades attacked me . General Davivier appeared in uniform , and was one of the first to protect my life . Amongst those who surrounded me and were most active in protecting me were my colleagues Larochejacquelin , Boulay ( de la Menrthe ) , Wolowski , Adelswaerd , my fellow-countryman Centi , tha citizen Moussette . the painter Gigonx , a lieutenant of the National Guard nsmed

      ierey . adelegateof the Luxembourg . I have since been told that , faithful to our long friendship , Citizen Francis Arago came hastily out of the chamber to my assistance . I am happy thus to express to all these . my gratitude . It is certain , at least probable , that without their intervention I should have been killed . They tore my hair ,, destroyed my clothes ; some wretches tried to bayonet me from behind ; there was one who , not otherwise able to vent his rage , seized my right hand , and bit it . . J entered the assembly really covered with rags . In this condition I might have expected from my colleagues some consideration prompted by mere humanity ; hut such is the . cruel , effect-of certain misunderstandings inseparable from times of revolution , that I only found in part of the assembly the most hostile feelings . '

      RESIGNATIONS . The MosrrnuB of Monday announces the resignation of M . Portalis , the Procureur-General and M . Landrin , the Procureur of the Republic , had been accepted by the Executive government . M . Lacrosse had resigned the .-office . of Vice-President of the Assembly . These resignations have been induced by the vote of the Assembly refusing to prosecute Louis Blanc . ' The MoKTEUB announces the resignation of M . Jules Favre , Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . The Moniteub , announces that M . Cremieux has resigned bis office of Minister of Justice .

      ASRlCtLTUSAL COLONIBS . M . Flocon , Minister of Agriculture and Commerce , attended on Thursday the Committee on Agriculture , and made several communications on the general interesta of agriculture . Anwng others was a bill for the creation of fifty agricultural colonies mobiles , for undertaking , on a grand scale , works of im ' gatUn - and draining in different parts of tha territory . The government has not : determined the localities in whioh theso colonies are to be established . Several members of the committee made some criticisms on the means of execution , and the Minister answered tbat theprojels formed part of a series of measures of amelioration now being prepared . The projrt on the agricultural colonies is to be presented forthwith to the assembly , with demands for different credits , amounting to 30 , 000 , 000 francs .

      MORK ARRESTS— THE PRISONERS . The Constitutionsel announces the arrest of M . Tard , the provisional mayor of fassy , together with M . Large , major of the National Guard of that commune , charged with being engaged in the attack on the National Assembly en the 15 th of May . A number of persons taken into custody were liberated on Wednesday . The CoNbiiTDTio . NSEi , states that Lieutenant Deflotte , of the navy , M . Raisau , Governor of the Luxembourg , and M . Bandin de Nantua , who bad been arrested on suspicion , were set at liberty on Saturday last . The Commdbeds Pabib states that nobody ia permitted to visit Barbes . Albert , or any of the other prisoners confined at Vincennes , without a permission signed by three of the Executive Government . The Commune adds thai if this difficulty had not been raised , more than 250 , 000 of the inhabitants of Paris would have visited the prisoners .

      OCXHRKAK AT 1 IM 0 OSS . Further disturbances have pcoured at Limoges , in con sequenee ef the authorities having determined to close a club . The operatives composing it resisted , and it became necessary to march a large military force . against them . A collision ensued , and some persons were killed and others wounded . The operatives then assembled and withdrew from the town . They encamped at three leagues frem Limoges , near the castle belonging to _ M . Muret de Bort . They propose , it is said , to solicit the aid of the neighbouring peasants , and to march against Limoges .

      THE NATIOHAI . WORKSHOPS . The Monitbur contains two decrees , signed by all the members of the Provisional Government , modifying the syctem hitherto pursued in the national workshops . The first decree substitutes task work for the present system ef daily labour ; the second commands the mayors of the communes throughout France net to deliver passports for Paris to any person who cannot show that he possessess the means of existence . THE COKSTnUTIOH , The Commission on the Constitution has decided , by a majority ol seventeen against five , that the Republic shall be governed by ^ President .

      STATE OF PARIS . Wo read in the Gazette des Tribtoaux : — * At about seven o ' clock on Thursday evening , a tumultuous assemblage , consisting for the most part of men wearing the uniform cf the Republican Guard , among whom were seen some men of the Garde Mobile , paraded the 11 th and 12 th arrondissements . It stopped some time on the Placa du Pantheon , where swords were drawn , and cries of ' Vive Barbes ! Vive Courtais ! ' uttered . The crowd went afterwards towards theBarriered'Italie , going alow ? the line of the exterior Boulevards , alarming all the peaceful

      population . „ „ , ., Generally speaking , Pans was perfectly tranqoil throughout Sunday and Sunday night ; but at those celebrated rendezvous of turbulence , the Fortes St Denis and St Martin , crowds wero to seen on the nights of Saturday and Sunday , who discussed warmly the merits of the candidates whose addresses were everywhere placarded . From among the " roups arose occasionally cries of ' Vive Barbes . Vive Blanqui ! ' with other ultra-Republican demonstrations . Ultimately they were dispersed by the National Guard . ds

      In the course of Tuesday evening , immense crow of people assembled in the neighbourhood of the Partes St Martin and St Denis , and at one timo they leokedvery threatening . The proposed decree ior the suppression of ' attroupements , ' produced immense excitement . About nine o ' clock , some seditious cries were set up , and there was every appearance of a riot . The shops in the Boulevards St Denis and Poisaonniere , and the neighbouring streets , were immediately closed , and troops and National Guards soon appeared . The crowds , however , so far from dispersing , increased every moment . A column of the Garde Mobile , was , at

      therefore , formed , which by beat of drum , and pas de charge , cleared the whole of the Bou levards , from the Rue Poisaonniere to the porte St Martin . The CfO'vd was for a moment dispersed ; but it soon returned , and tbe process had to bo repeated . At i length , however , the assemblage began to dispeisa , and at midnight there was not above two or three thousand persons in the disturbed quarter . About ton o ' clock , a tody , consisting of about three thousand , paraded the Boulevards , as far as the Churcb of the Madeleine , singing the Carmagnole and other revolutionary songs , and crying out , ' Vive . Barla , a las les aristocrats , ' but they did no damar e ; Notwithstanding the proclamation e' , the Mayor oi

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      | Paris against attroupements , an immense number assembled on Monday night , around the Porto St JJonw , The boulevard became impassable , and car . riagej ! were compelled to turn off and find a passage by the back streets . The . subjects of discussion at these open-air nocturnal clubs were the presentation of a sword to General Courtais , the sending addresses to Barbes and Blanqui , & o . At about eleven o ' clock a body ef the National Guard marched from the Boulevard du Temple , and , after the usual summation ( a process similar to reading the riotaefc ) succeeded in clearing the thoroughfare . The Communists and other ultra-republicans were either becoming more bold or more exasperated by the activity with which they were , it may be said , hunted down by the police . Numerous . demiciliary visits daily took place . All the arms found on those occasions were seized and carried off .

      The Commusk ms Paris states tbat the Republi . can Government has dared to . arm the forts round Paris , a measure which the late government feared to adopt . Ammunition is being every day pnbliely carried into the fort of Romainville !' The great popular banquet is fixed definitively for next Sunday . Instead of five sous a head it is to cost ten sous . It is thought that 200 . 000 persons will attend . The dinner is to take place in the h orest of Vincennes . Great alarm is excited by the approaching monster banquet to be held on Monday under the walls of tbe fortress of Vincennes ; the subscription has been raised to ten sous a head , and the party who has organised it announces that there are already 100 , 000 subscribers , the number being expected before Saturday to amount to 150 , 000 .

      Preparations are being taken , to provide the fortress against , a surprise . Notice has been given to the occupants of houses within range of the gunns of Vincennes , to be ready to evacuate at a moment ' s notice .

      LEGITIMIST INSURRECTION . A telegraphic despatch was received on Tuesday evening announcing a legitimist insurrection at Pergignan in favour of Henry V . The government have received information of the presence of the Prince de Joinville and the Dufte d' Atunalein Paris sufficiently reliable to awaken the active attention of the police ^ who are now engaged in measures to discover their retreat .

      NEW J ) URNAL 3 . No less than ten new journals have appeared within the last week , and the names of some are sufficient to indicate their style and character—Ri-bkspiebre , the Sans Culotte , the Cahaillb ,. the Crapole , the Carmaonolb , the Aimablb Faubjuroiek , Apostbe du Peuplb , cjc . stretch op power . , . The Mositbur of Monday published a proclamation , signed by M . Armand Marrast , Mayor of Paris , forbidding . tumultuous : assemblages in the streets .

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      THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION . ; GERMANY . ATTEMPT TO PROCLAIM ! THE REPUBLIC IN SAX 0 N 7 . A correspondent of the Coloosb Gazette from Leipslo of the 28 th ult . lives an account of some republican riots which occurred in that town . Pla cards were within the last week posted on the walls , announcing that the Republic would be proclaimed on the 27 th of May . " The day passed , nevertheless , without any disturbance , until ten o ' clock at night , when by the breaking np of some clubs of labourers the streets became suddenly crowded . A large mob collected , and proceeded with fearful shouts to the house of an architect , whom the masons and carpenters hated . They were prevented from sacking the house by the opportune arrival of the National Guard , who summoned them to disperse , and on

      their call being disobeyed , attacked the rioters and drove them away at the point of tbe bayonet . . Many of the National Guards suffered from the large stones which the mob threw at them . Though dispersed at that point , the rioters soon rallied , and wildly shouting for a Republic , built barricades with theframework-tbat remained from the booths of the late fair . The rapped had meanwhile been beaten , and the whole of the National Guard were underarms . The gates of thetownlwere shut , and the rioters dispersed , after repeated charges . with the bayonet had been made on them . There was some firing at the barrir cades ; but not , it is thought , accompanied with any serious consequences . "A great many arrests took place , and at two o ' clock at night all was over . ANOTHEU INSURRECTION IX VIENNA .

      ' A -fresh- insurrection broke out at ; Vienna on the 38 th ult ., owing to a command having been issued by the Minister , for the dissolution of the Academic Legion , and the immediate laying down of arms . This gavo the first signal for the outbreak . Barricades were erected , as if by magic , at the ends of all the streets , by the united efforts of the workmen and the students ; every communication was completely stopped . At ten o ' elock the collision commenced between the people and military . The populace stc-rmed the red gate of the castle , and drove the military from their position . Men , women , and children , combined to fetch materials ; brewers ' carts , paving-stones , anything was laid hold of for tbe purpose . Stones were collected at all the window ? , to throw down on the heads of the soldiers . White

      flag » , and in many places black , red , and gold flags , were planted on the barricades . Meanwhile the troops , who had that morning been strengthened by a newly-arrived regiment , remained motionless . Tie reveille was beat ; the bells were rung ; and tbe workmen , both of the city and suburbs , who had broken open soma of the gates , were busy at the barricades . The National Guard was drawn up in the court and in the old town ditch . The captain of the company in the Court of the Holy Cross received orders to place fifty of his men under the command of tho officers of tho line , to guard the gates , and allow no students , workmen , or armed National Guard to pass through . Apprehensions were entertained that the four regiments which were stationed atyWicdischgnas would be called in . Should this be necessary , a fearful encounter will doubtless take place . Tranquillity was only restored by the Council of Ministers pledging

      themselves to make good the concessions of the 15 th and 16 th of May , to allow the university legion to remain as at present ; and to withdraw the soldiers to their barracks ; In return , they requested that the . barricades should be palled down . The people refused . ' They knew that six regiments were on the march to Vienna ; they had been deceived before ; they must have these promises in black and white . ' At the University Buildings , a placard , containing tho demands of its garrison , was exhibited : 'The military to leave the city in twenty-four hours ; the concessions of tho 15 th and 16 th of May to be made good ; the Emperor to return within eight' days ; and the barricades not to be removed or arms laid down till tbat had taken place . The Diet must assemble in Vienna , and the troops take an oath to tho constitution , the noblesse give hostages . ' The most urgent requests have been sent to the Emperor to return to Vienna with the least possible delay . Count Hoyos remains as a hostage with the committee of local

      administration . Letters from Vienna , of the 29 th , state that the barricades are being gradually removed . All , however , is complete confusion in an administrative point of view . Ministers have declared that they have ceased to be responsible , and a sort of provisional government has been formed of citizens and students .

      SEIZURE OP AEMS BT THE PEOPLE OF EERLIN . The excitement which has lately prevailed in Berlin appears to be ofi the increase . The accidental discovery that large quantities of new guns were sent away in boats and carts from the Berlin arsenal without any satisfactory account being given of their place of destination , caused immense crowds to as sembie on the 31 st ult ., in tho vicinity of that edifice . A deputation was appointed by the people to inspect the stores in it ; and it was then ascertained that there were five new cannons thara , with the necessary ammunition beside them . The people then demanded that tho Eiilitary should vacate the arsenal , and that they should bo replaced by the Civic Guard , who subsequently took possession of all the entrances . Meantime the assembled crowds had seized on twenty-one cases of new guns' and several barrels of shot , which were being shipped from the

      arsenal , and insisted that tho cannon , whioh were placed in tho front of the artillery barracks , should ba conveyed to the former building , which was acoordingly done amidst the triumphant ^ shonts of tho accompanying thousands . In the sitting of theNa tional Constituent Assembly , in Berlin , a question was addressed to the Minister respecting theseevents . His reply was to the effect that it was true that 10 , 000 guns had been sent away from the Berlin arsenal ; that part of them was intended for the Civic Guard in Luckenwald and other places , and the remainder were old guns sent to Berlin to be repaired . It may be remarked , however , here , that there is no manufactory of fire-arms in the Prussian capital , and that , heretofore , old guns have always bsen repaired in the respeou- 'o head-quarters of the various garrisons . The impression amongst the public was , and is , that it had boon rasoived to 'disarm' Berlin , and that plan may ba set down to the credit of the

      retrograde party . All the political cluba have resolved to go in procession , on Whit Sunday , to Freidriohs-Hain , where , it will be remembered , those persons were buried who fell during the Berlin revolution in March last . It is clear , from public and private accounts , that Berlin is in an alarming state . ,.,.., , On the 2 nd inst , tens of thousands of individuals , principally belonging to the working classes , thronged the public thoroughfares , and loudly demanded the general arming of the people as well as the occupation of the arsenal by the Civic Guard . It is asserted bore , in well informed circles * , that tbe government , t , o appease the operatives , has promised to give a gun to every one amongst them who can produce a certificate from the authorities of his district respecting hia right to be domiciled in Berlin .

      P 0 PULAU » EMOSSTRATIOS . Beeiin , June 4 —The whole popalahon of the vitj lias been w fc > ot for hi > 1 { tise ^ 5 either t 0 ^

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      the great processioa to the graves of those who fell in the days of March , or to witness it aa spectators . It has been in reality a political movement ; it was in . tended to ' demonstrate' to the reactionists that those who effected the revolvtion , and accepted it with alhts consequences , have still strength enough to defend what has been gained . The Civio Guard could not attend it in their military capacity , but some thousands of the citizens joined it as indiyiduals , wearing the number of their battalion in their hate . The students of the University , with whom the movement originated , attended in a strong body , probably two-thirds of the whole number in Berlin .

      About two o ' clock processions began to form , and proceeded by different routes to the point of assembling—the Gendarmen-platz ; from thence the procession set out for the Frederich ' s-hain , through tho K 6 . iigs-strasBe , and across the Alexander-platz . The whole line of the procession was through a double rank of spectators , though beyond a few banners of the German tricolour and flags of the different trades , there was but little parade of decoration . The procession could not havo been leas than three miles in length . At the burial-place of the slain the people were addressed by several speakers . Up to the deparfcute of the mail nothing has occurred to excite any apprehensions .

      PEASANT WAR . In Mecklenburg a regular war of peasantry is being carried on ; numerous gentlemen ' s seats have been destroyed . SWITZERLAND . M . Ochsenbein has publicly expressed his regret In the Swiss Diet at the detestable enormities laid to the charge of his fellow-countrymen in Naples .

      ITALY . THE LATE MASSACRE AT NAPLE " . A letter from Naples , insorted in the PifcDMONTEBK Gazette , states that three palaces have been consumed by the fire . The archives in the Chancery of the Sardinian Consulate have been destroyed and dispersed , it is said by the express command of the government . The Sardinian consul has placed himself under the protection of France , The loss of life is incredible , 1 , 111 corpses were interred on the 16 th . iacluding 450 soldiers . The Genoa Gazette publishes the following from Naples , under date of 22 nd ult . : —

      • A steam-frigate has left to-day for Reggio , where a collision has taken place between the troops and the people . The heights , the forts ofScylla . and Montelone are in the hands of the Liberals , who are headed by the Marquis do Jughardi , a man of great influence . Calozaro has proclaimed a provisional government , and all the provinces are in a state of the greatest agitation . It is said , that Agala is about to put himself at the head of the Calabrians , Naples is still in mourning . The Swiss who are met alone in the streets are murdered without pity by the inhabitants . '

      THE WAR IN LOMBARDT . Letters from Venice state that a popular reaction had taken place at Udine against the Austrian gar . risen , and that grape had been fired on the people from the castle . The provisional government of Milan , ia its bulletin of the 29 th May , announces that on the 27 th an engagement had taken place on the frontiers of Brescia , towards the Tyrol . The Austriansmade an attempt against the , lines of defence towards Hano Moerno and Mondoal , but were repulsed . The Vbniidub Mabzd of Milan of the 28 tb gives tbe following account from Yicenza : — 'In the evening of the 23 rd information was received that the Austrians , who on the 22 nd had retired from

      Vincenzi and entered Verona , were again on their way towards Montebello , and that their advanced piquets were marching upon Vicenza , while the main body , amounting . to abont 15 , 000 ; men , and forty-two pieces of artillery , was at no great distance . General Durando and Colonel Beiluszi immediately disposed the . regnlar and civic forces to receive the enemy with vigour . After three hours ' expectation in the midst of ; a violent storm , the Austrians began their attack at midnight upon three different points , nhder the orders of Marshal Thurn , Generals Chuloz , Sulzioh , Princes Schwarzenberg and Vunleiter , and Count Safgolscb . The night was extremely , dark . The number of shells , rockets , and balls showered upon the town was immense ; a few

      houses were set on fire , but no great damage effected . The Italian forces behaved with undaunted valour , Not one barricade was taken ; a battalion of Swiss and apart of tho legion Galateo , charged the Croatian at the point of the bayonet , and broke them . The conflict lasted nearly tho whole of tbe 24 th . In the evening the Austrians retired to Olmo , and thence to Montebeilo . The loss of the Austrians appears tc have been very great . Many prisoners were taken . Tho Neapolitan troops pissed the Po on the 25 th , at three different points , Francelino , Valige , aud Polessella . They are 12 , 000 strong , and will continue their march towards Vicenza ; 4 000 more are expected at Bologna , j Tho Austrians attacked the defile of Tonale , in the Yalcomonica , on the 25 ' , h , but were repulsed .

      SURRENDER OF PESCHIERA . —GREAT VICTORY OF THE ITALIANS OVER THE AUSTRIANS . Advices from Turin to the 1 st have brought the important intelligence that Pesohiera had surrendered , and was in the hands of the troops of Charles Albert ; and that an engagement had taken place at tho same moment at Goito between 30 , 000 Austrians who last marched from Verona , and 15 , 00 Piedmontese , tbe result of which was that the former were completely routed , and being pursued by the cavalry , when flying in confusion , a great portion were out to pieces . Tha King and the Duke of Savoy were personally engaged in this combat . The former received a slight contusion of the ear from a cannon ball tbat passed near him , and the latter was slightly wounded by a musket ball ; not sufficient , however , to induce him to dismount or to retire from the field .

      FURTHER PARTICULARS . The following account is from General Salasco : — ' Peschiera is in the hands of our troops . The efforts of the enemy to prevent or retard its fall have been vain . Tne day before yesterday , Marshal Radetsky marched during the night from 20 , 000 to 25 , 000 men from Verona to Mantua , with numerous artillery and cavalry . Tho garrison , thus reinforced , cado a sally against the Tuscan troops , who were besieging that fortress on the right ot the Minoia . These troops , wholai several times on other occasions repulsed with valour the sallies attempted by the enemy , resisted during nearly ^ three hours the overpowering forces whicb had bo unexpectedly attacked them , but were at last forced to abandon their

      positions . Lientenant-General Bava immediately hastened with part of the troops of the first division from Costossa to Vola , and his sudden appearance before the enemy brought them to a stop ; at the same time matters had taken a more cheering aspect for our troops at the extreme left of our positions at Larise and Colletarino ; the enemy who had hoped to derange mora directly tho siege of Peschiera on that side , was vigorously repulsed , with great loss , by the 4 th division , commanded by Lieuttenant-General Federioi . This morning the King sent , under the orders of Lieutenant-General Bava , the greater part of tho troops of his own division , and those of the reserve . This army , marching from Valeggio and Volta , advanced towards Mantua

      without succeeding in meeting with the enemy , who seemed determined not to leave the fortress . His Majesty had already ordered the troops to take up their positions on the eminences of Goito , and was preparing to rctnrn to his head quarters of Valeggio , when suddenly the report of cannon was heard , and tho battle began ; the King turned his front to . wards the enemy with satisfaction , and hastened to the fight before Goita . Here the engagement was fierce , but tho excellent orders of Baron Bava , commandant-general , seconded by the well-known valour of the Duke of Savoy , commanding tha reserve ; by Gen . d'Arvillars , commanding the first division ; by

      Gen . Olivieri , commanding thecavalry , and by the artillery , who behaved above all praise , obtained a complete success , and the enemy was routed . _ The cavalry sent against the fugitives at the decisive mowent completed their defeat . At that moment the King received the news ol the surrenderof Peschiera , which he immediately communicated himself to his bravo armv , who received it with loud cries of ' Vjve il Re ! ' 'Viva I'ltalia ! " A cannon ball passed so close to his Majesty , that he received a slight contusion on tbe ear ; the Duke of Savoy also got a a wound from a musket ball , which was not serious , and not heeded by him .

      Peschiera has capitulated on these conditions : — the garrison is to quit with the honours of war , and the liberty of embarking at Venice for Trieste ; but under an oath not again to serve during tho war of independence . THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN .

      BATTLE , —DEFBAT OF TU 11 QRHMANS . The Germans and Danes have bad a severe conflict , by vhich great numbers wero killed and wounded on both sides . The battle lasfcad several hours , tho German troops retreating by Gravenstein , and to the north towards Quars , and the D . mes advanced to near Gravenstein . Private reports speak of the loss of the Germans as nearly 1 , 000 in killed , wounded , and prisoners , and six pieces of cannon . Another sanguinary contest took place at Nubel on Monday the 20 ih , on the evening of whioh day General Wrangel arrived in Flensburg , Christianfold , Hadersleben , and Abonrade arei it ia thought , in possession of the Danes . It appears by the Rens euro Taulatt that the fight at Nubel ( near Sonderburg ) terminated in favour of tho Germans , the Danes retreating .

      POLAND . Posev , May 25 th—Mieroslawski is laid up with a brain fever , and is in a state of incessant Idelirium . Those Poles wbo were taken prisoners and were permitted to return to their country have had their hair cut dose from the forehead to the crown ot the head , in order that they may be recognised . —Cologne Gazette , May 2 lst . _ .. . , , It appears by the Vossncns Zeiicng that tho town of Posenia placed in a semi state ot siege .

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      Ta r .- » . ~ " --vTrHi J-= raJT = E j ||| Mg-fp ¦ CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . DISASTROUS STORM . There had been dreadful weather eastward of thaa Cape , and all along the flontheasu coast , bstweonn April 4 th and G ' fch , resulting in several awful ahip .. wrecks . The barque Joanna , and the brig Martha ,, and it seems almost certain the barque Julian , were a wrecked in Algoa Baj . The Waterloo , a coaster ,, was wrecked in Cawoods Bay , and tbn schoonerr Barry , in Struiss Bay . The schooner Nancy was ? lost in Mossel Bay ; on April C ; hi , tie ship Sutlej ,, from Calcutta to London , put into Table Bay

      to-tally dismasted , part of the cargo having been thrown i overboard during the storm . The Prince of Wales-,, from Calcutta to London , and True Briton , also pu 6 i in . Table Bay much damaged , as also the Countess of Durham . Fears were entertained that terrible disasters had taken place at sea . News had reached the Capo of a terrific hurricane at the Mauritius on March 8 . Several vessels were driven on shore , but got off again . The vessels Mail and Duke had bsen blown out to sea and not since heard of . H . M . S . Euridyce was sent in search of them .

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      MONDAY Juhe 5 , HOUSE OF LORDS . —Austeia and Italy , — The Marquis of Lambdowns , in reply to the Marquis of Loudoaderry , aa to whethtr any communications bad been received from the British ministers at Naples , Rome ana Florence , relative to the troops of those states having entcred the Austrian territory , stated , it was true that such communications had been made , but her majesty ' s mints , ters did not consider there wore any existing treaties or obligations which required thorn to interfere , and there , fore it was not tbeir intcntioa to do so .

      State of ths Mktbopolis . —Lord Brougham wished to refer again to the state of the capital of this country , but he would abstain from entering into any argument further than this , that the crying evil of tumult still continued , that the tranquillity and rest of the peaceable Inhabitants of this metropolis w » re nightly broken and the worst habits wort ) being formed . Large bodies of men were acting together for lawless purposss—they were acting in a combined maaner , between which- and actual warfare there was but a shade of difference . The police , the special constables , the people , and the mill , tary were greatly exasperated , and If the parties proceeded one step further , they would not only feel the dangerous . but deadly consequences of their conduct , The object of these parties was , however , to weary the authorities , and if possible not commit a breach of tbe law . He hoped , however , that some attention would bo early paid to the subject , or it might soon be too late ,

      The Marquis of Lansdowne said that measures had been taken which in the opinion of the government would be successful in putting an end to these disturbances and If they were not , the subject would be brought under the notice of parliament , ( Hear . ) Pbotection or Females Bill . —The Bishop of Ox . fobd , In moving the second raadlng of this bill , said tha espseial object of the bill was to protect females who wero often entrapped to their utter ruin . He understood that there were 80 , 000 of thtae unfortunate women la London , and at Uast one-fourth part of them , wtsie se > duced by persons who made a livelihood by entrapping females who arrived from the country , under the pretence of getting them situations . The most mfartoas means

      he believed were reserted to , to deprive these unfortuaata creatures of their consciousness whilst they were being rained . Some defects had been pointed out in the bill j he should howeverproposa . amendments to meet thrsa objections in a select committee . ( H « ar , hear . ) It was one essential part of the duty of the legislature to stop great moral delinquency where they could do so ; amd If a bill could be framed only to make this abomlaable trade more difficult , and to protect innocent females from the greatest of all evils—a state of physical suffering , of utter hopeless despair , which frequently led the wretched victims to commit suicide—it would be a great boon to society . ( Hear . ) The right rev . prelate concluded by moving the second reading of the bill .

      Lord Bbouobaji thought this bill was not liable to any of tbe objections which . applied to a former measure ou this subject . No doubt a gross evil existed and a remedy was needed . There were many difficulties in the way of legislation on this matter ; and he thought , therefore , that It was most desirable to refer the bill to a select committee where those difficulties might be got over . The bill was then read a second time . The Great Yarmouth freemen Disfranchisement ' Bill was read a secand time , and the Evicted Destitute P ^ or ( Ireland ) Bill was committed pro forma . The house then adjourned .

      HOUSE OF COMMONS . —Jewish Disabilities . -. Lord J . Bc » jeli , , In reply to Sir R . Inglis , stated , with , reference to his notice of motion on tho subjsct of 11 fhi now taken b y members of either house of parllac ( tZ " thatflnding it would first bo necessary to go Into ciffio nalttee of the whole house , for the purpose of considering those oaths , it wan his Intention to propose that motion , on Tuesday , the 2 Tth Instant , Understanding ' that there were some members of the other bouse who ; had scroples with regard to taking the oaths , particularly the oath of supremacy , his desire was to make the oaths more simple , 80 as to enable all the subjects of her ' MijoBty to take them .

      Sir Robebt H . Ingltb asked whether Mahommedans or Pagans were to be included , to w ' h : ch Lord J . Russell replied that he did not think that ' tho intended bill would enible any other than those ' who were born or naturalised subjects of her Majesty to ' teko the oaths , and he was cot aware that thero ware asy MBhoinmedans or Pagans who were so . The- Chabtist Meetihot . —Mr G , Thompson had a question put to the right honourable baronet atthehead of the Home Department on the subject of the occur , rences which had taken plaoa yesterday ( Sunday ) ia various parts of the Towar Hamlets . He ( Mr Thomp . son ) had had communications from a number of persons who had been on the spot , where conflicts hadtaUca . plaoe , and where persons had gathered together iu ' eon . siderablo numbsra , for the purpose , as he was informed , ef discussing political matters and ha bejged to ' sak the right honourable baronet whether he had received any official information on the subject , and upon what

      authority the police , by violence wholly unprovoked . * -, ( oh , oh)—unprovoked , as he was informed , had under , taken to dhpersa the persons ss assembled f He had been told by those who had taken a leading part In tho proceedings yesterday that two meetings had been hold in Bishop Bomur ' s-fields—one at two , and the other at fire o ' clock—and that both had been commenced , had continued , and had ended without any interruption to the public peace , and that , after the business had beea gone through , tbe people had been enjoined to disperse qulatly , and after large namberc had left the fields on their way to their respective homes , tbe police madeoa unprovoked attack on those who remained , and who sofftred considerable injuries . ( Ob , eh ) He was not there to assert or deny the truth of ths statements which had reached his oars , but he was anxious , after such bo . rlotts oofeflicl g , that tho house should have tho benefit of nny information which the right honourable baronet might have in bis possession .

      Sir G . Obit—If the hon . gentleman had given mo notice before I came down to tbe bouse of bis intention to ask the question hs has put to m % I would have brought down soaae documentary evidence from which the house would be led to believe that these meetings were of a very different character to that stated by the hon . gentleman , ( Bear , hear . ) I have no hesitation in assuming to myself the whole responsibility of tho police , acting as they did under tho direct instructions I gave to the police commissioners not to allow meetings to be bold at unseasonable hours . ( Cheers . ) After the experience of the last week *> r fn days , loud , general , and just complaints have bean made from tbe inhobl . tants of the districts in which these meetings assembled , and which meetings had led to acts of violence to

      persons and property , against which ftho inhabitants had a right to look to the governmentfor promotion . ( Cheers . ) They have been assured tbat that protection shall ba afforded , so far as tho law will allow us to afford that protection ; and I believe tho law wilt ba found com . pletcly effectual for that purpose . Hear , hear . ) Tha meeting which tho hon . gentleman has referred to In Bishop Bonner ' s fields was not interrupted by the polioa baoause it was not hold at an unoeasonable hoar ;• bat immediately on the breaking up of thut meeting aa attack was made on a church In tho neighbourhood . I be'lsve it was sapposod some policemen were concealed

      In the church , and they wera in the neighbourhood . A . number of windows were broken , and on tha pollco in . terferlng for the purpose oi dispersing the mob thus riotously assembled they were assaulted , and a conflio * took place . I am happy to aay they succeeded In > dl *> perslng tho mob , hut not until about thirty of them had been seriously Injured , cae man being siabbtd through tho hand ( t he blow having been aimed at hia breast , ) and several others having suffered very severe Injuries . Sir in consequence of the experience we havo had of former meetings , wheio the partias assembling at thtm had net any plausiblo pretext for saying that they were hold for a legitimate purpose , we hav a thought it our

      duty to direct the police not to allow those meetings to bo held , If composed of tho class of persons who havo recently met for that purpose , which meetings havfl given rise to sorions complaints on the part of tho inha . bitants , and to breaches of the pence ; and effectual measure * will be taken for their prevention ia future , I Ohpfiffl ^ MrGoanraaiowdibf anew writ for tho borough oj Horsham , which motion , after a d : 1 8 te ' W T a , A " f ' by a mnjority of 114 , the cumbers being UT to 231 . In answer to a question by Mr Montz , Lord Pa IHEUston said , it was not true that Eogland had interfered in tho affairs of Italy and Austria , favour of tho latter country . Bankes for

      The Spanish QoESTio ^ . -ifr brought . ward a resolution with regard tothe late misunderstand . ine with Spain , and tho dismissal i'f the British Minister from Madrid . It was in tho following terms : — That this house lanrna with deep regret from n correspondence between the British government and the government of Spain now Upon the table of this house , that a proposed interference with tho internal concerns of the Spanish , government , as conducted under the authority and with the entire approval of her Majesty ' s ministers , haa placed tho British government and our representative al the Court of Madrid , in a position humiliating in its character , and which is calculated to affsct tho friendly relations heretofore existing between thogovernmeatsof Great Britain and Spain , Tho honourable and learned

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 10, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10061848/page/7/