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      THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . STATE OF PARIS . ( From the Mr . Bull ' s correspondent . ) The approach of a new crisis at Paris become ? Jai ' ymore imm- ' nent . To the other causes <•{ alarm ftrmonrs of war are now added , and enlistments take place in all direction . The state of siese , which was orieinally to have been taken off on the 10 th or 12 ' , h of July , still continue-, the situation of affairs having grows much worse ; new revelations have been made , tew hatred ha ? been engendered , and vengeance ia enaulderin ^ underthe ashes .

      Meanwhile arrests continue—nay , are nrultip'ied : on the barest denunciations , domiciles are searched " an d perwnal liberty is violated . The powers rub by terror , and the Parisians submit , without even daring to ask wh » t will bethe consequence of this desperate state of things , which can end only in the destruction of Paris , euher by the . insurgent workmen , whenever tbey shall be roused again , or by the suffering provinces , which will not for ever allow the all-absorbing centralisation of this city to paralyse the commerce , the industry , and the arts of all France .

      While desolation thus rei gns on all sides , the Assembly does nothing ; the iene- wished for . and often promised Constitution does not make its appeirance . You would hird ' y hslieve theestent to which listlessness is c-srried ; in its proceedings , and the frivolous manner in which the Deputies waste their time For one thin- * , they have come to an unanimous de termination to jsrsaent Franca , the patrie reconnaistatite , with their own counterfeits , and for this purpose have actually caused a daguerrotyps apparatus to be put up in the hotel of the president for the explosive use of the representatives . Hers tbey tet their likenesses taken , from which their portraits are afterwards engraved , to inundate the country with them . It is the strangest picture gallery von

      caa well imagine . But this is not the only way in which the tide paid for by tfce " country ; is wasted . Witness thepue * i ! e disputes about the pronunciation and the sense of the word' club . ' whether it should be pronounced ' eleub , ' or ' club , ' and whether it was English or French ; to which M . Coquerel put an end by vindicating the word as oae naturalised in France , with a sense peculiarly French . The rest of the sitting wag consumed in settling that women and children are to be excluded from all clubs . Now and then a gittinj- is devoted to some lecture from M . Thiers , which occupies ten or twelve columns of the Coxstitutioxxel on the followine day , either on the rights of labour , or on the qualitv of the national representation , or Byainst tbe nroposition of M . Proudhon , which no one supported .

      ( From the Britannia ' s Paris correspondent . ) TnnssDAr . —I have not seen it stated in any one of the Ltndon papers that General Cavaignac has declared that he has no present intention of putting an end to the stite of siege . I am , however , assured by a representative of the peeple that he S 3 stated in a committee of the Assembly a few days ago , adding , that as many reasons at present exist for maintaining it as there did for first proclaiming it . This fact is of great gravity . By showing that' the snake' of inBurrection 'is scotched , not , killed . * it proves the correctness of the view of the real state of things here which I have taken in my correspondence with von . From all I hear , it seems certain thatthegovernmant looks forward with very great anxiety , not to say dread , to the comins winter . And well it may : for

      the greater part of the few workmen at present occupied will then be thrown out of employ . Under Loais Philippe the winter always excited alarm , owing to the distress occasioned among the working c ! a = s by the suspension of labsar ; but in his days the people had the savings they were able to effect during the spring , summer , and autumn to fall back on ; whereas now they have none—spring , summer , and autumn having scarcely afforded any labour at all . Moreover , in the old king ' s time the people were cowed by the remembrance of many defeat * , and by the constant presence of an overwhelming armed force ; whereas now they know that their forc- > is almost irn shtiblp , February having prsved it , and the insurrection of Jane , though unsuccessful , not having weakened it . But , alas ! wfn can say that an outbreak will not o ; cnr before winter comes ?

      The insurgents of June , the Socialists and Coramnnists , are said to show symptoms of recovery from their state of prostration , and the travailleur s , the idle , dissolute , disaffected , tens of thousand ;* , collected and maintained at the public expense in the ateliers nationaux were fast returning to Paris , whence they had Aid to avoid the cocseq lences of their rebellion . The hotel No . 12 , Rue de Varenne * . opposite to the mansion occupied by General Cavaignac , has been rented by the government , and a detachment of iofantry and cavalry placed in it for tho protection of the general . INSURRECTIONS OF MAY AND JUNE .

      At tne sitting of the French ISational Assembly on Thursday we ? k M . Bauchard ascended the tribute to read the report of the committee appointed to inquire into the events ef May and June . M . Bsuchard , after resding the decree of the Assem & iy which had instituted the committee , said , that it had particularly applied itself to discover the connexion existing tetween those two events , and that it had been seconded by the co-operation of all classes of cit zens , who had bowed to the sovereignty of the Assembly . The proceedings hsd been political , not judiciary . The sacrilegious attempts against social order were justified by no cause , or even pretext , and there was no instance of such an aggression in history . The National Assembly , notwithstanding

      the want of agreement among the members of the Provisional Government , had decreed that they had all deserved well of the country ; and wishing to avoid the least appearance ef reaction , it had preserved ia the Executive Committee the principal elements of the previous government It was at the moment the Assembly was preparing to fulfil its mission that it beheld the majesty of its sanctuary profaned during three hours by a factions band . The Assembly had exhibited the greatest forte irance ; it had not even ordered an inquiry to be instituted , and even maintained the existence of the national workhouses . The two ' attacks were both directed against the national representation by a factious minority , desirsus to impose itself on the majority . Their

      design , however , was different . The object ol the coaspirators of the 15 th of May was te dissolve the Assembly , and to substitute for it a Committee ef Public Safety . Tney were inspired by the Committee of Labourers gittinj in the Luxembourg , who professed Socialist dostrines . No trace of any distribution of money , nor of the interference of pretenders , had been discovered . M . Bauchard then stated that the committee had closely investigated the conduct of the members of the Provisional Government , and resetted to find that some , from a mistaken notion of the situation of the country , and others from seditions Eotives , had produced an extraordinary sensation ia the country with a view of disorganising if . Emissaries from the Parisian clubs had been

      ostensiDiy sent to the departments , and paid out of the sseret service fund . Thus the Bulletin de la Repub tigue openly preacked the revolt of the provinces against the capital ; and one article in particular , written by a celebrated female authoress , Georges Sand , was an appeal to civil war . The elections Were retarded under every pretext , in order to postpone indefinitely the meeting of the Assembly . Then appeared the manifesto of M . Lamartine , in which it was prcclaimei to the world that Fracoe would atstain fr ^ m all propaganda , when the expedition against Belgium was ' publicly undertaken ; the Invaders were supplied with arms by the arsetals of the state , paid out of the Treasury , and supported by the Commissary ef the government in the

      department of the North . The fatal theories developed in the conferences of the Luxembourg excited in the minds of the workmen hopes impossible to realise , and when the Assembly was unable to satisfy them it waa invaded . " All the speeches delivered by M . Louis BIs ec had nob been pnbli .-hed . The committee had obtained the report of ene he had addressed to an assembl y of workmen , in which he said that they were the real assembly of tbe people , and that if the National Assembly refused to render them justice they should dissolve them , and that if he was called noon to regulate the new society he would never forget that he had been one of the disinherited sons Of thepeoi >] eand tookin the presence of Godthe

      > , , path of Hannibal The provisional government , in insUtating the national workhouses , wished to make them iato an auxiliary army , but they soon passed into the hands of its enemies , and w * re at the complete disposal of Messrs Caussidiere and Louis Blanc . It was the latter who organised the popular movement of the 17 th of March . Some days before M . Canssidiere the Prefect of Police , had called together the forty-elght commissaries of police of Paris , and said to thea— ' Tell the inhabitants of the quarters oi Paris sttss & ed to monarchical institutionstell the u pf * r classes , that if they are not wise the s-. ord ofDtaioc ' es is suspended over their heads ,

      and if the deputies « the provinces should resist the wishes of the patriate-of Paris , they shall be exteraieated . Tell youretepid bourgeoisie and National Arnnii thit l { thcj attsm P tiis least resistance , £ 00 , 000 labourers are determined to make table rase and destroy Paris . They will not for that purpose reouire muskets ; a few chemical matches will euiSce . * The committee had , more ** - "er , obtained a letter of M . Grandmeinil ( afriendof M . Caussidiere ) , written on the 8 th of April , to hig uncle at Angers , telling him—' Marc ( Caussidiere ) earnea tl / entreats you to manufacture ia the greatest secresy , ^ sumter of y eur projectile ? , and immediately get out IM P & iia with some of your incendiary bombs . '

      M . Caussidiere repeatedly interrupted the rep flrter , declaring that all he said was false . The result of the investigation ofthe commit tee , continued M , Baucbard . had satisfied it that Mest vs Caussidiere , Sobrier , a * id Ledrn Rollin , had direcU d the movement of the 1 Q ± of April . M . Blanqn . had refused to join it because M . Ledru Rollin was , to have b « n proclaimed dictator . The evidence of •*•* - ^ saartine corroborated that opinion , aad that

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      of Geceral Changarnier was conclusive . The latter waited on tbat day on M . Lamartine at the Hotel de Ville , and found him jrreatly dejected . M . Lamar tine stated that Messrs Louis Blanc and Ledru Rollin were privy to the demonstration of the 100 000 workmen assembled in tha Champ de Mars intended to < nske . The General then called on M . Marrast whom he found well disposed , and the latter wrote under his dictation the order to the municipalities te b ? at the rappcl . which brought out the whole of the National Guard and saved the capital . M . Ledtu Rollin had told M . Lamartine that it was he who had ordered tke rappcUo be beaten . Tho C : ub of Clubs , presided over by Sobrier , and the Club of the Rights of Man took an active part in those events

      They were in direct correspondence with the members of the government , The arms with which they threatened the country were supplied by the arsenals of the state . Sobrier had established hia head-quarters , with the consent of the authorities , in a buildin < - of » he Civil List ; 500 muskets and 30 , 000 bail cartridges , furnished by the Prefect of Police , on an ordt-r of the Minister of War , were stored in that building . Sobrier had taken on himself to send 500 or 600 men to the provinces to revolutionise the country . Those men received lOf . per day ont of the Treasury . Those two clubs possessed manufactories ot arms , the principal of which , situate at the Barriers de la Sante , was directed by Raspail . The reporter then recapitulated the documents found in

      Sobrier ' s possession . One of them proclaimed the institution of a Committee of Public Safety ; another the establishment of an extraordinary progressive tax , and that the proprietors who refused to pay it should forfeit their property : a third the dissolution of the National Guard , and the outlawry of any National Guard who shall appear in arms in the streets . Oa May 15 ' . h , an individual was sent by M . Ledru Rollin to countermand the emcute , to the president of the Club of the Rights of Man . M . Ledru Rollin , on being questioned respecting thst fact , did cot deny it , but on the contrary praised his emissary for the discretion and talent he had displayed in several mission ? . The Executive Committee dec'ared that all the orders issued on that day were adopted in

      common , and that if they were not executed it was owing to treachery . Tbe Commander t , l the National Guard stated , that he had himself devised measures for the protection of the Assembly , which , if executed , would have prevented ita profanation . The Minister of War made a similar declaration , and added that he was tempted to resign when he found his orders disobejed . The Military Governor of Paris , who had brought away the treops fram the Invalided mentioned , having acted in virtne of superior orders ; the responsibility of the non-execution of thoso measures auOBld naturally fall on the government . _ M . Caussidiere admitted that he was aware of the intention of Sobrier to make a demonstration on ths loth of May , but aa he had obtained

      from him a promise that it should n t be armed , he paid no further attention to it . One fact , however , proved that he connived at it . M . Ton had been appointed by the President , Commissionary of Police of the Assembly . That choice displeased M . Caussidiere , who sent for M . Yon , and recommended him to remain at his post in the Faubourg Montmartre . The latter , however , insisting , Caussidiere said to him ' Well , return to the Assembly ; its fate is indifferent te me . ' Another witness examined by the committee declared that he heard M . Caussidiere say , * I will throw the Assembly out of tha windows . ' It was a notorious fact that the Prefecture of Police was , previous to the 15 th of May , a manufactory for ball cartridges . A representative mentioned an

      expression of General Courtais which was quite characteristic , ' We are sure of Caussidiere , ' he said , 'for he has pledged his honour that he would give ns twenty-four hoars' notice before te turned . ' The question of Caussidiere ' s arrest was aritated in the council of the government , but Messrs Arago and Marie atone voted for it . On the 14 th of May a numerous reunion was held at the home of M . Louis B ' anc—Barbes attended it . M . Lonia Blare asserted that no tsention was made of the manifestation intended tbe following day , but others stated the con trary . On the next morning sixty persons called on M . Louis Blanc , who shortly afterwards walked out and proceeded in the direction of the Bastile . M . Louis Blanc said be went to breakfast at the C-fedes Panoramas . M . Bauchard then described the scene

      of the 15 th of May , in which M . Lnuis Blanc acted so conspicuous a part . It was proved , he said , that he had harangued the people and approved the profanation of the Assembly . That he went to the Hotel de Ville , in the evening , was also nearly certain . He was met in the Rue de l'Ecoie de Medecine amidst a band of armed men . and one of his friends having cried . * Vive Louis Elane . ' he silenced him , saying , ' The affair has failed -, don't notice me , or I shall be arrested . ' M . Louis Blanc entered the shop of M , Masson , bookseller , and subsequently pro ceeded on foot towards the Rueds la Harpe . He waa seen on the Pont Notre Dame , escorted by three armed men , and a Lieutenant-Colonel of the National Guard positively decVed having seen him in the building of the Hotel de Ville .

      After a suspension of a quarter of an hour M . Bauchard resumed his report and proceeded to describe the origin of the insurrection of Juze . A letter was iu the hands of the committee , written by a person who had been with M . Louis Blanc that day , declaring that * the Assembly was overthrown ; that he was with Louis Blanc and Barbes ; tbat they were to hold a sitting that night at the Luxembourg . He wrote that note to prevent his friend ( to whom the letter was addressed ) from being uneasy . ' The report quoted several other testimonies of a similar character amidst the constant interruption of M . Louis Blanc . The report came to the conclusion , from all the information that it had received , that M . Louis B ! anc was decidedly implicated in person in

      the affair of May 15 th . The report then proceeded to speak of the insurrection of June , and the causes which had in particular contributed to its coming to a head . Between May 15 and June 23 fortunate modifications had bsen made in the administration : the troops had re-entered Paris , a law on attroupements hsd been obtained , the public powers had shown more vigilance . How , then , was it that there had been new disasters ? Was it true that disquietude was kept alive expressly to prevent confidence from returning , and to organiie misery everywhere ? The chiefs ^ of the insurrection were at Vincenneg , but their spirit survived among the concoctors of insurrection . At Belleville a club cast balls , and the Ciub of the Montagnards covered the walls with incendiary

      preclamations . that body thereby revealing itself , though baring been dismissed it no longer legally existed . Two placards insulting the representatives were stuck on the wall , and on the 17 th of June other placards , calling M . Caussidiere to the head of the Republic , and announcing the organisation of the banquet at twenty-five centimes , were affixed . The inflammatory appeals of tbe club ? , awarding to M . Arago . had alone caused the civil war . A witness , plactd at the head of the administration of a railway , had stated that in that company the enginedrivers earned 5 , 000 f . and upwards a-year . and yet that these men had joined in tbe insurrection on the 24 th of June . A letter wis intercepted , directed to Blanqui at Vincennes , stating that a plot was

      in preparation , that fire and murder would be had recourse to if necessary , and that he might be sura of beia- ; set at liberty . Mobs assembled every evening in the Rue S . Denis acd tbat neighbourhood , and everything announced that something wa ? about to be attempted . Every man having been armed by the Provisional government there was but little dim " culty in procuring the means of combat . The report traced the manner in which the national workshops were organised , and declared that the brigadiers who paid the men were the principal instigators . ( Agitation . ) Yet the police appeared to know nothing ot what was going ou . The insurrection had its manufactories of powder , its chiefs , its organisation ; and the police remained passive . Even on June 22 nd

      the Republican guards , who had teen previously dis missed , received their pay , and appeared the day after behind the barricades . In May , M . Trouve Cbauvel , the Prefect of Police , informed the Executive Committee that the national workshops were the hotbed of the agitation , and the men of the Droits de PHomrae were the princi"al agitators . The report , then , arriving at tbe day when the insurrection broke out , declares that the object of tho movement was nominally a democratic and social Republic , but in reality piliage—it was , in fact , a savage war carried on with poisened balls . ( Movement ) To complete thsir task the committee would notice Unpolitical men it found compromised in the insurrection . M . Trelat , on being examined by the committee , hid declared that he considered M . L ^ uis Blanc as the

      author of all the evil that occurred in June , as the insurrection was only an application of the theories professed oy him at the Luxembourg . M . Trelat had added that he had been his friend ) but that since tbo ^ e events he had not dared to speak to him . M . Louii Blanc had declared to the committee that on the evening preceding tbe insurrection he visited the workshops ef the tailors founded by him atClichy . He pretended that those men were animated by the best intentions , but a great number of them were found among the insurgents . As to M . Caussidiere several witnesses d . clared that in several groups of insurgents regret was expressed at his absence , and complaints were made that he bad n t sent his orders , as it was not known what to do without him . . .

      M . Caussimere said , that if he had gone he should not have returned . # M . Bacchaut .-M . Mauvais , examined by the committee , stated that he had * een M . Caussidiere go over a barricade in the Rue St Antoine , accompanied by hia Montagnards—at least he believed they were Montagnards from their ill-looking faces and accoutrements . M . Boson said , that he taw M . Caussidiere near the church of 8 t Paul ; he passed near him with M . Mauvais , to be quite sure that it was he . The committee had endeavoured to ascertain the source of those testimonies , and why they had c-ime so lite . It learned that they had been communicated to several persons who had related them second hand , but the first witnesses bad pro-1 tested their veracity . On the other hand , several Teprasentativea had affirmed in a certificate that they gd ' -v ? M . Caussidiere at the Assembly daring the days

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      of the 23 : d , 24 th , 25 th , and 26 ; h of June . But it was said that gome of tha signatures to the certificate had been obtained by M . Caussidiere saying to some of hia colleagues , ' Gentlemen , it is pretended that I was seen out ot Paris , in a neighbouring town , during the day a of June . Can ycu affirm that I was in my place in the Assembly during the four days of the insurrection ? ' It certainly appeared from the Monitebb , that on the 23 rd M . Caussidiere had uttered an exclamation , interrupting a speaker in the tribune . The shorthand writer who was employed at the moment in taking down the debates pr . ived that hia turn of duty had not come on until after two o ' clock . Hence it did not certainly res ult from that certificate that M . Caussidiere , thong--present in the Assembly , wag not also in the Rue St

      Antoine . Another representative , M . Proudhon , was also sworn to by several witnesses . Or the 25 th Of June he wan seen on the Place de la Bastille , and was met on the other side of the barricades by two of his colleagues . M . Proudhon had given no otier explanation of the employment of his time than that he had remained two hours in admiration of the sublime horrors of the cannonade . ( 'Oh , oh , ' and laugh ' er . ) When interrogated aa to his presence in the Faubourg . M . Proudhon had answered , that tbe emevie waa Booialist , but that he had condemned it as inopportune . A deputy also had heard M . Proudhon take the defence of the insurgents . M . Proudhon had ( according to this witness ) committed himself so far ss to declare , ' that they ( the insurgents ) had fought with superhuman courage , and that their cause appeared to him a just one . '

      M . Proudhon said , that the deputy had not spoken the truth . M , Bacchakd expressed censure on the conduct of a man , who amidst the horrois of civil war could go to a combat as to a spectacle . ( M . Proudhon struck b ! s Weai * violently , which drew forth cries of ' Order ! ' from all parts . ) The hon . reporter further announced that the details of the ramifications of the conspiracy in the departments , and other matters , would form tbe subject of a second report . The attempt of the 15 . h of May , and the insurrection of tbe 23 rd of June had , he said , extended over tbe whole of France . There were oiher revelations to be obtained and etber truths to be brought to light . M . Bauchard thus concluded his address to the Assembly : — ' Let us , in conclusion , take a rapid survey of

      the vast space which we have traversed , and recal the links which connect the different events to which we have called your attention . If we have remarked any differences in the immediate causes , as well as in the tendencies , of the sedition of May and the catastrophe ot June , it is nevertheless certain that those two attempts are only the different acts of a persevering plot , t-ie idea of which was first manifested with eefot on the day of the 17 th of March . The idea of the factions is always Ihe same— Distrust of the country and hatred of the National Assembly '—a sacrilegious idea , violating tho very principle of popular sovereignty . It is only the form of the idea that varies , and becomes more menacing on every successive occasion . Thus , on the 17 th ot March , the popular manifestation ; on the 16 th of

      April , the conspiracy : on the 15 th of May , the attempt ; and on the 23 rd of June , civil war . The government , which the confidence of the Assembly has invested with the task of watching over the future of the republic , was created in the midst of this sanguinary struggle between order and anarchy . The victory which our national guard and the army sealed with their generous blood has once more strengthened the basis of society , assured to authority its moral force , and restored to the government ita freedom of action . The government has derived fresh strength from this situation ; it ie also conscious that new duties have devolved upon it in consequence . It will be its glory to preserve the Republic from all fre-h aggressions , and so to enable our fine country to accomplish all its glorious destinies . ( Long agitation , )

      The President . —The report shall be printed and distributed . Nduerous Voices . —And the documents . All the documents in support of it . ( Loud cries of - Yes , yes , ' from all parts of the Chamber . ) M . OniLios BARRor , the President ef the Committee , said , it appears to me impossible that when a report of so much importance is published , any hesitation can for a moment be felt as to publishing the documents tbat are connected with it . That follows as a m atter of course . ( Hear . ) The documents were then ordered te be printed and distributed . The President . —The tribune is to M . Ledru-Rollin , for & fait personnel .

      M . Ledru-Rollin . —1 shall demand that an early day may be fixed for the discussion of this report . If I make this request , it is out ef respect to the precedents of the Chamber . But if you consider that it is not possible for a representative to remain ucder the weight of insinuations such as are contained in tbe report , I shall demand to be heard immediately . ( Murmurs . ) The President . —The discussion of tbe report cannot betalked of at this time . M . Ledru- Rollin has only tospeak to a fait personnel , M- Leoku-Rollin . —We wish to have the documents printed . It is not for myself that I ask it . I have been once interrogated ; not one of the charges brought against me is well founded . M . Lagrakae—it is infamous .

      M . Ledru-Rollin —I appeal to men of all shades of opinion . 1 say that the Assembly should be filled with consternation ( ' Yes , yes' ) at the introduction of such a precedent into a legislative chamber . In the first revolution parties were accused and condemned without being heard . You say you have asked for nothing but what justice will have to demand hereafter ; yes , hereafter , when public opinion shall have condemned us . Did I not know ou the 24 th of February that I should one day have to reckon with the enemies of the Republic ? ( Agitation . ) No , youcaanot deny me the right to defend myself immediately , for , I repeat , I cannot remain under the load of such an accusation . I shall be brief ; the concluding worJs of the report invite me to concord ; I shall defend myself without passion

      and without anger . I have been accused of having conspired in March . I conspire ! Yes , I ceuld have done so if I had wished , for could not the people have done then what they had effeotedlea the 24 th of February ? ( Murmurs and interruption . ) On the 16 th of April did I not myself go through every quarter of Paris ? Did I not order the rapptl te be beaten ? As to the the 15 th of May , I am reproached with having protected an agent of tho clubs who came here to warn us that the Assembly was to be as sailed ; but that man I saw at work ; I knew what he was and what he was capable of doing . And when the emcute ' reached this Assembly who made the most vigorous resistance to it ? It was I . My colleagues are present to confirm what I say . ( Cries of Yes , yes . ' ) Who was the

      first at the Hotel de Ville ! It was I ; for M . La martine did not reach it until after me . Who was then tbe most exposed to the balls which might have reached me ? It was I , And yet I am accused of having conspired 1 It is wished to cause to weigh on ua the responsibility of the events of May and June ; accusations of that kind do not judge—they destroy . ( Movement . ) I will not say anything more . I will follow the advice given me by the report—that of crncord and union . But in order for this to be realised , it is necessary that the terms of your report should disappear . I conj ure you to suspend your judgment for four days , for this repot t is not one of justice—it is one of party * ( Denials from the right , and cries of ' It ia ; it is , ' from the left . )

      General Chanoarnier said , that he did not wish to weaken the justification which had just been made to the Assembly , but he felt compelled to declare tbat at one o ' clock in tbe afternoon of the 16 h of April the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Mayor of Paris had no knowledge of the order given by the Minister of the Interior . It was the latter who had written the order for the rappel to be beaten . The President . —The memory of the gallant general was at fault . On ihe 16 th of April the Minister of tbe Interior , in his ( M . Marrast ' s ) presence , gave the order to beat the rappel . That order it is true , met wita some obstacle at the EtafcMajor of the National Guard , and it was for that reason that at one o ' clock in the afternoon he renewed the order in the presence of General Changarnier . ( Movement . ) M . Louis-Blanc —I shall not allude to the prosecution which is about to be brought against the revolution and against the Republic . ( Loud

      murmurs . ) The President . — I request you to confine yourself to the personal fact on which you expressed a wish to speak , M . Louis-Blanc— It I am to be prosecuted as an accomplice in the revolution ol February , that will be all very well . ( Murmurs . ) But if it is for the affair of June , I maintain that it is infamous to confound me with those who were engaged in it . I feel horror at the blood that has been shed . I would not be responsible for one drop of It in the eyes of

      history and posterity . Certainly , if I had considered the insurrection legitimate , I should have gone to the barricades , and as M . Caussidiere has said , I should not have returned from them . With what am I re proached ? I am abjut to take the accusations one by one . ( Marks of fatigue in the Chamber . ) If you consider it just that a man accused as I am should remain under the weight of such charges—( cries of Enough , enough' )—! leave the tribune , but pledging myself to reply to my accusers and to confound them .

      M . Causbidibris . —I protest against the long accusation brought against me . The facts of it are too numerous to reply to them to-day . If I had conspired I should have sacrificed my life at the barricades I protest against those accusations . But 1 shall speak , and I shall come out of it as unsullied as snow in the eyes of all men , in the eyes of the Na tional Guard , to whom I feel the strongest gratitude . Three legions proposed to give me their votes , and those are things which are not to be forgotten . It has been said that I am am bitious ; I )™\ »» f ambition than to see the Republic triumph by free discuss i on here , and not by violence in the streets . Certainly , there have been combinations , and more

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      than one . where I should have had my place . ( Hear , hear . ) We shall speak of all that hereafter ( laughter ) , and until then I bsg you to defer your judgment . M . Mauvais considered it his duty to explain some expressions in the report . In relating a conversation with M . Proudhon , he intended simply to say that his colleague approved of the conduct of the insurgents , and not that he had taken any active part in the insurrection . The Assembly broke up . in a state of great agitation , at a quarter-past six . Fridat Evening . —The government has suffered a defeat in the National Assembly to day . On the order of the day being read for the further consideration of M . Gi > udchaux ' a bill imposing a tax upon mertgages , M : Derode moved as an amendment ' that the duty be fixed , not at a fifth , but at an eighth of the interest on the capital . '

      After a short discussion , the Assembly divided upon tbe amendment , and after two divisions , par assis et leve , which were declared by the President to be doubtful , the amendment was carried by a majority of 329 votes to 313 , which leaves a majority against tbe government of sixteen votes . M . Goudchaux then rose and declared that he withdrew hig bill . ( Approbatisn . ) Saturday , August 5 th . — The chair was taken at s quarter past one by M . Lacrosse one of the Vice-Presidents ,

      THE ABBS LAMENNAIS . The Abbe de Lamennais wished to put a question to the Minister ot Justice relative to the matUr which had alroady been brought before the Assem bly . He referred to the fact that the responsible editor ( gerant ) of the People Constituent being proceeded against for an article which he ( M . de Lamennais ) had written and signed , ' I applied , ' pursued the Abbe , ' to M . Bethmont on this subject , to proceed against me as the writer , and the person really culpable , if there be culpability in the case . That honourable gentleman left office a day or two after , and my application has up to the present time remained without reply . I now call on the present Minister of Justice to declare what he intends to do in the oaap . I call on him to authorise the prosecu tion to be directed against me , and thereby to satisfy my conscience as an honest man . '

      M . Marie , Minister ef Justice , replied , when the matter had been previously brought before the Assembly , it had been met by a previous question , which he considered the only proper mode of disposing of it . The situation had not since changed ; everj thing remained precisely as it was . The existing legislation opposed any other course than to proceed against the responsible editor . M . de Lamennais asked to have the judicial proceedings directed against himself ; but tbe state of the law forbade that course from being adopted . In consequence , he thought that the best thing for the Assembly to do was to pats to the order of the day . THE REPORT ON THB I' -SURBBCTIONS .

      The President— M . Ledru-Rollin wishes to speak on af aitpersonnel . ( Marks of attentien . ) M . Ledbu- Rollin , amidst the deepest silence , said —When the report on the late insurrection was read here two days back , an order was given by the Assembly to have all the documents connected with the report published . But no day was fixed for their discussion . As every one — the representatives , our friends , the whole country look eagerly for a full explanation of our conduct relative to the matters spoken of in the report , I have to ask the discussion to be fixed for an early day ; Tuesday , for instance . M . O . Bagrot , the President of the Committee . — The Assembly having ordered all the documents , without exception , to be printed and distributed , be , as the organ of the committee , had to declare that having the utmost respect for the order eo given , had at enoe given directions to get the papers printed without the slightest delay .

      M . Louis Blanc—We protest against the whole report . ( Movement . ) M . O . Barrot . —With respect to the demand now made for aa early discussion , we shall do all we can to urge the printer to expedition , in order to have the delay as short as possible , for I can affirm to you most solemnly , that the report ia but a weakened expression of what the documents will set forth . ( Sensation ) M . Lrdru-Rollin —An early day is absolutely necessary . These documents , where are they ? Fix a day . M . O . BARHor . —That does not appear to me to be possible . ( Great agitation . ) M . Ledru-Rollin . —I insist on in early day being appointed . ( On the Left . 'Yes ! yes ! ' You can produce the documents . We insist on having them . It is our right . Loud approbation on the Left . ) A Voice . —Go to the printer ' s for them .

      M . LEBRn-RoLLiN . —Who darea to use such language ? There are certain folks who have a itrange idea of propriety and justice . ( Cries of ' question , question ') I demmd again to have an early day fixed ; the words just uttered by the chairman o ( the committee are an aggravation of the sentiments expressed in the report . ( Cries of 'Yes , yes ! ' fr m the Lett . ) We are told , that the language of the report is but a pale and weakened expression of the document' —we shall see that by the depositions when published . But we deny that such documents

      exist . ( 'Ob , oh I' ) A deposition is a thing regularly warranted and known ; your assertion gives us no guarantee of their existence—( loud interruption)—of any such existing as you describe . A Voice on the Left . —They are all pure delations M . O . Barbot : The opinion which the Assembly can form of these matters is the weight that is due to depositions—to decide all this would be to enter on the discussion , and that we are determined not to do before the documents are printed . A Voice : You have already done bo .

      M . 0 . Barrot : I must , however , say , that this denial of yours of tbe existence of the documents is a bad commencement . ( Great uproar , and cries of the order of the day . ' ) M . Lkdru-Rollin : 1 was atttacked , and now I am told no day can be fixed ; I must declare that does not satisfy me ! I demand an early day . ( Agitation . ) M . Bauchard ( the reporter ) : We have given the subject committed to ua the most mature examination and our report is a fair exposition of our imsreasions . ( Agitation . ) We at once gave some of the documents to the printer , and he refused to receive more , declaring that he had sufficient to keep him occupied till Wednesday . A Voica : And that is only part of them . Great agitation took place here , a number of persona vociferating together , and Ledru . Rollin and M . 0 . Barrot loudly apostrophising each other across the house .

      M . Caussidiere demanded that the discussion should be appointed for three days after the distribution of the documents . This was agreed to , and the Assembly then passed to the order of the day . Mosdat , August 1 . —The new Jury Bill waa passed to-day in the Assembly , alter a discussion of no great moment ; after which the project of law relating to the newspaper press was brought forward . M . Lsws Blanc declaimed in favour of the liberty of the press , which bethought was infringed upon by the proposed measure , imposing certain guarantees on the proprietors and editors of papers , lie looked on complete liberty of the press as the correlative of universal suffrage , and would not admit of caution money , because it constituted a monopoly in favour of those who ceuld afford to pay it . M . Leon Foucher made a speech demanding restrictions on the press .

      M . Touret thundered forth an odd oration about the liberty of the press , which created much

      merriment . IBB SU 9 PENDRD JOURNALS . The suspension decreed against La Presse and ten other journals , on the 10 th of June , has been rescinded . The La Presse , L'Abskmbleb Nationalb , and several other journals have reappeared .

      ATTEMPT TO SH 00 I THIERS . The poVics discovered a plot to asBaesiuate M . Thiers , and communicated to him the result of their discoveries , advising him to be upon hia guard , and in particular suggesting that he should cease to wear a white beaver hat , which he is accustomed to use during the summer . Oa the night between Wednesday and Thursday a number of bullets , r . f whioh five at least have been detected , were discharged without report , and apparently from some unfinished houses near that of of M . Thiers ani aimed at hia bed-room window . Some of them struck the Persiennes , one of them penetrating a pane of glass , entered the window and made a rent in the curtain . A little girl was wounded .

      BARBES , HABPAIL , A . NB ALBERT . The Reforms says : — ' As to the three names , it says that the Siecle accuses us of having so often put forward in our columns , we acknowledge our guilt ; and if we have not so often eounded the eu ' ogy of Odil'on Barrot , it is because we have never seen him but on the steps of the throne , while Barbes , Albert , and Rappail have com butted during fifteen or twenty years for the cause of the people , whioh ia ours . The Siecle mark * in italics our declaration that the Citizen Barrot shaU always find us such as we were behind the barricades of February . We maintain and confirm it ; for if ever it shall plea ? e Messieurs the Royalists , to seek to raise up their dynasty , fallen in blood , the Croquemitaincs of tke Republic will take the field , and tnen let the Achillea ef the Siecle devour them if he can . '

      societies . Several secret societies have been discovered here , which are strongly organised , and who know each other by secret signs .

      THB PRISONERS OF JVSE . A party of upwards of 600 of the insurgents of June , whose fate has been decided by the courtsmartial were sent eff on Saturday night to Havre , from which place they will be transported beyond seas . Their ultimate destination is not fixed . The leaders of tbe insurrection acd the murderers of General Brea have not yet been tried . It is supposed

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      that several of them will be sentenced to death and Shot , but their fata will nsfc 1 , 9 decided till alter the others have been teat off . ( From the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . ) Pams . Sunday Morning . —M . Ricoi , the Sardinian envoy , M . Guerrir ! , the commiseioner of tho government at Milan , and M . Amain " , the delegate from Venice , had a long interview with M . Bastide yesterday morning . Aa far as I can learn from what appears te be good sources , the determination come to is this—England and France are to offer Austria their joint and friendly mediation on the Italian

      question , and have already settled the basis on which they shall do so . The first condition is to be an armistice , and total suspension of hostilities . Until the answer of Anstria be received , France is not to send an armed force into Italy , unless Radt-tzky should threaten Milan , but in that event General Oudinot is allowed a discretionary power ( in order to save the capital ) at once to cross the Alps and to enter Lombard ? . From this ic will be seen that if Radetzky should choose to follow up his recent advantages , the intervention of France may commence before the answer of Austria can be received .

      It is confidently asserted that the French charge d ' affaires at Turin , and the English ambassador at the same capital , have proceeded , at the request of Charles Albert , to his camp near Cremona .

      THE ITALIAN QUESTION . The envoys fom Italy having demanded French intervention , General Cavaignac repli'd that the affair was very grave , » b the decision of the French government to interfere might be the signal for the kindling of an European war ; and tbat it would be necessary that he should deliberate upon the subject in the council of ministers . On Friday orders were given for tbe immediate raising of the camp at St Maur , and General Magnan wag ordered to march the troops without delay , and by forced marches , to join the army of the Alps . MEDIATION OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND BETWEEN HALT AND AUSTRIA .

      Wednesday—A courier was despatched last night from hence with despatches to Mr Abercromby , and M . Rsizes at Turin , directing them to go to the head-quarters of Charlea Albert and Marshal Ridetsky , to notify officially to them the offer of the mediation of France and England , and to negooiato an armistice . Despatches were also sent to the English and French ambassadors at Vienna , directing them to offer simultaneously the common mediation of their respective governments .

      ITALY . Bozzolo , July 25 . —The King of Sardinia having demanded a truce from Marshal Radetzky , the the marshal replied that he could only grant it on the surrender to him of all fortresses in Lombardy , and , in addition , the important fortress of Alessandria . These terms were indignantly refused , and the King has issued a proclamation , in which , after eulogising the bravery of his troops , and deploring the want of supplies , he says : —• The enemy has paid dearly for the conquest of his new positions . We retreat with 2 , 000 prisoners , whereas he has no trophy whatever to boast of . '

      In Milan men of every age and condition have been enrolled in the national guard , and several thouiand have marched to join the Piedmontese army . Females of every rank and class were employed in making cartridges ; the faubourgs of Milan were barricaded , and defences were thrown up in the outline villages . Reinforcements from Piedmont , amounting to 12 . 000 men , had arrived at Pavia . The cry of' Death to the priests' is a common vociferation ) and nothing less than a wholesale confiscation ef church lands to support the national cause will satisfy those who are justly disgusted at the selu ' ah policy of these men .

      DEFBAT OF THE PIKDMOKTESE . Lonato , July 27—In consequence of the train of misfortunes which have occurred to the Piedmontese army the probability is Charlea Albert will be compelled to retire on Cremona , and abandon all the positions he a few days since so triumphantly occupied . The King , on learning the disaster of Rlvoli , advanced with 6 , 000 men from Marmirola , giving orders to the Duke ot Savoy , to follow with his troops . A body of 30 , 000 men were thus concentrated at Vil lafranca on Tuesday , and on that night and

      yesterday morning tha whole advanced in good order , and burning to avenge the defeat of their comrades on the Mincio , The Austrians were in full force , and well provided with artillery . After a desperate battle from five in the morning to five in the evening , in whioh the Piedmonteee showed the most determined bravery , Radetzky advanced from Verona with a reinforcement of 20 , 000 men , and Charles Albert was compelled to yield victory for the first time in a pitched battle , and to retire on Villafranc ? , irom whence , at break of day , he went to Goito ;

      Brescia . July 28 . —The Austrians carried an overwhelming mass from Monzimbano on Volta , and from that height attacked Gel to in the rear , and quickly dislodged the Piedmontese . Prodigies of valour were performed by the Piedmontese . A regiment of Savoy absolutely retook and held Vota for several hours by a charge of bayor . e ' s against a strong battery , supported by double tho number of Croats . It is stated , upon good authority , that Charles Albert had demanded the intervention of the French , and applied for 60 , 000 men . Great alarm prevailed in every direction , and the city of Brescia was barricaded . ( From the Daily News . )

      Lombardy . —We have advices ! from Turin to the 1 st inst ., and from Milan to the 31 st ult . The Piedmontese army was encamped on the 30 th before Cremona . It was on the evening of that day , that in a brilliant attack on the enemy the Hulans were routed , and 2 , 000 prisoners taken . It appears from this that Radetski had already crossed the Oglio , so that the theatre of operations , at the date of these advices , was the tract of the Creraonese included between the Oglio , the Po , and the Adda , the Piedmontese lines being formed on the left banks of the latter rivers , and extending from Cremona by Piz zegbettonne towards Lodi , A glance at the map will show how near the gates of Milan the contest has been brought . The report of the evacuation of Peschiera is contradicted ; that fortress is well provisioned , and is , moreover , accessible by the lake .

      A circular has been issued to all the curates of Lombardy recommending them to preach patriotism ' from the pulpit , in the i quarts , and wherever the people meet . ' In a proclamation to tho people the committee of public defence says : — ' Let us raise our barricades again , cut the bridges , the dykes , and the road ?; let us put desolation between ns and the enemy ; let us prove that we can resist misfortune , and that should an overwhelming force menace us , we deserve the assistance and sympathy of all Europe . A letter from Milan says , the proclamation of King Charles Albert has produced a great effect at Milan , and drawn to the King all hearts ;

      The Venice Gazette , of the 27 th , states that the Austrians were repulsed beyond their advanced posts by the garrison of Brondola . Lombardy . —At Brescia , General Grifiini was proclaimed dictator . Two batteries of artillery were sent from Milan to defend the bridge at Lodi . The construction of the intrenohraents round Milan was commenced on the 31 st . Preparations were made to eend waggons to meet the French army , in case it should cross the Alps . Charlea Albert had already made preparations to fix his head quarters at Milan . By an official bulletin , dated Milan , August 1 st , the Italian army has suspended its movement of retreat . The enemy attacked it at Crotta d'Adds , Cerno Vecchio , andJWacoa Storma . but was repulsed . Brescia is preparing a vigorous defence . The con * rage of the inhabitants has been greatly animated by the announced roinforcementd oi the National Guard of Milan , the gallant behaviour of General Grifiini , and especially the recent visit of General Zucchi .

      The Milan Gazette announces that the Piedmontese miniatry , as well as the Provisional Government of Lombardy , had formally demanded tbe intervention of France . Rome . —In the Chamber of Deputies on the 24 th ult ., the Minister of War said , all the force he could send consisted of two thousand men , as there wag no disposable funds in the public treasury . * SS

      ( From the correspondent of the Times . ) Cremona , July 30 . —This morning a heavy cannocadingin the direction of the camp was heard , and in an instant Charles Albert and the Dukes were on horseback and galloping to the scene of action . The firing arose from a reconnaissance enforce made by the Austrians . It was supposed at first to be the advance of a large corps , but our artillery soon silenced the cannon of the enemy , and he retired . The Austrians passed the Oglio , and we are open to the attack of tne enemy at any moment he chooses . Hkad-quarkrs , July 30 . —The King quitted Cremona at one past midnight , and all tbe troops evacuated that position In the course of tho night . At

      eight o ' clock this morning the Austrian videttea entered that city , and I have no doubt it was occupied in force during the day . .. ... Milan was being fortified , the barricades re-established , and a fortified camp formed on the Adda . A new appeal had been made to women of all classes , recommending them to manufacture ball cartridges . In a word , the warmest patriotism animates the Milanese population . Such a people is worthy of independence and liberty . Naples . —Despatches from our Naples correspondent of the 30 . h ult . have been received . Our correspondentgivea the outline of the Sioilrancenstitution , from which every aristocratic element of the constitution of 1812 has disappeared . The peerage for life is abolished , and an elective senate substituted .

      ( From the correspondent of the Daily News , ) Lo mbardy , August 9 . —Our Paris correspondent writing yesterday , says : —Tho Piedmontese army are propably by this time either under the walla of Milan , or on the frontirea of Piedmont . At the last accounts the Austrians were advancing with a force of 90 . 0 CO men , in the face of which it is scarcely possible to imagine that Charlea Albert could make a stand .

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      The Piedmontese army had fallen back to the right bank of tho AdJa- , ifc . waa therefore dotsbtful whether tha purpose of Charles Albert was to fall baok upon Milan by Lodi . or on the frontiers of Piedmont , by Pavia , or finally on the Duchies . The Austrians , who , as has been seen , entered Cremona soon after the Piedmontese lofi , on the 31 at ultimo , imposed a contribution of two millions , and made many prisoners araone ; the citizens . In the evening ot the 2 ad , M . Castagneto , private secretary of Charles Albert , arrived at Turin , and waa threatened by some thousands of perssns with death . M . Pareto had been obliged to quit the miniatry , in consequence of demonstrations of the samn kind .

      M . Gustave de Beaumont has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary to London to-day . Accounts have reached Paris by extraordinary express bringing datei of the 4 thfrom Milan , on which day Marshal Radetaky had reached that city and encamped under its walls . It may , therefore , he considered that the bridge of Carsano , the position of the canal forts , and all the bridges of the Adda , had been either forced or not defended . Milan was declared in a state of siege on the 3 rd inst ., by the committee of defence , and tha greatest terror reigned in the city . The people appear determined to stand a siege , and to imitate the example of Saragassa . Serious disturbances occurred at Florence on the 30 th ult ., occasioned by the news from Lombardy . The people and tbe civic guard went in a body to the Palace of the government , demanding arms to march en manse into Lombardy , and crying , ' A bas la Ministere . '

      The people carried the Italian tri-coloured flag , covered with crape . The next morning the ministry resigned , Tho grand duke went in person among the people , and announced that a levy of 10 , 000 men would be immediately ordered , in which all young men from eighteen to twenty-five , would be included j that all such men , between twenty-fire and fortv , as wished to join the army as volonteers , had only to asaemble , and arms and means of transport would be given them , as well as pay , while they were in the field . This announcement caused the restoration of tranquillity .

      MILAN BESIEGED . A battle is said to have been fought on the 5 th between the Piedmontfse aed the Austrians near Milan . The Piedmontese wer « defeated . Charlea Albert has shut himself up in Milan . Rome —The Cittadiso Italiano of Leghorn states from Rime , 26 th ult ., that Mamiani had hopes to make the pope admit of a declaration of war . AUSTRIA . We have news from Vienna of tbe 1 st of August . The emperor having refused to return to Vienna , he will send Archduke Charles , who is generally disliked , The debate respecting the appointment of a committee for tbe purpose of drawing up an energetic address' to the emperor , urging him to return immediately to his capital , has given much satisfaction to the inhabitants .

      PRUSSIA . The dates from Berlin are to the 4 th of August . A numerously-sigaed democratic address will be shortly forwarded from Berlin to the ninety-two ¦ a ertbers of the Frankfort Assembly who formed the minority on the vote for the vicar . The address urges them to secede from that ' body of royal sarvants . ' The prospect of a renewal of the war between this country and Denmark is exciting the greatest discontent in the three Baltic provinces . r 7 e learn that the English envoy had made representations to the cabinet for the amicable settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein affair , and a note from Sweden to the same effect has been

      received . ( From the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . ) Berlin , August 5 . —The vicinity of the Linden was disturbed last night by attempts to hold meetings of the - street clubs , and by groups singing aa they marchsd to and fro . The Burgher Guard committee have met , and eighty-four companies out of ninety-six voted that an address should be presented te the commander-inchief ( Rimpler ) , requesting him to order a general parade of the whole body to-morrow morning , in order that the Administrator ' s address may be read , and a triple cheer given in his honour . The students and demccratio clubs also held a meeting yesterday , and another thia morning , at which it was resolved that a procession of the people should take place . On the proposition of Ottensoyei and Schramm , it was decided that this procession should traverse all the streets through which the King had passed , upon his unfortunate parade through the city on the 21 st March .

      GERMANY . Frakkfort-on-Mainb . — Abolition op Capital Pumshmentb . —August 4 . —The German parliament have this day abolished capital punishments , and the punishments of branding and bodily chastisement . DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . THE SOHLBBWIQ-HOLSTEIN DISPUTE . — DISSENSIONS

      AMONG THE OEBMAN STATES . Hamboegh . August 4 . —By accounts from Copen . hagen . ot the 2 nd instant , we learn that pursuant to an order of the Minister of Marine , the Elbe , Weser , and Jahde , will be strictly blockaded from the loth inst . The Swedish court is highly displeased at the rejection by Germany of the overtures of peace ; and it was generally thought that the Emperor of Russia will bo equally indignant when he learns the true state of affairs . The order from the Prussian Minister of War that there shall be ne parade ef troops on Sunday next , and consequently no allegiance to the Archduke John , as administrator , is such an act of open defiance of the Frankfort dictation as must considerably impair the ideal of the German unity . '

      The Duke of Brunswick ' s order of the 1 st inst . is , that though he approves of the central power being placed in the hands of the Archduke John , yet that the employment of the Brunswick forces shall be at the disposition of the administration , in the same manner as they were at that of the diet . Thus the three powers , Prussia , Hanover , and Brunswick , may be considered at open variance with tho Frankfort parliament . Advices from Hamburg of the 4 th instant ,

      announce the fact that Denmark had given notice that all German ports would be again placed under blockade , dating from the 15 th current . It was hoped that this decided step might bring about a settlement of the Schleswig question . What effect it may have upon trade remains to be seen . It is still positively maintained here that the whole of the north of Sohleswig is in favour of the Danes , and that on a late occasion the inhabitants of Maacholro , at tbe mouth of the Sohlei , | received two boats ' crews who landed there with open arms .

      Copenhagen , Aoo . 2 . —The opinion is entertained here by many that the dissension among the German states , and the resistance to the central power set up by the particular governments , will be of great assistance to the Danes in the further prosecution of the war . Accounts from Petersburg are awaited with anxiety , as to the determination of the Emperor when he hears of the refusal of General Wrangel to agree to the armistice on the conditions arranged by the diplomatists at Malmce .

      SPAIN , The whereabouts of Cabrera seems not to be very distinctly known ; as some of the letters from Catalonia talk of his having crossed the Ebro , and others of his retreat towards the Pyrenees , The captaingeneral says that he ( Cabrera ) has been obliged to break up bis force into small parties , which are so incessantly hunted by the troops that rebels come and present themselves for pardon from sheer fatigue . M . Mon has refused to go as ambassador to Vienna * and General Manuel de la Coucha has refused to j , o as minister to Berlin .

      BELGIUM . ( From the correspondent of the Morning ChronicU . ) Brussels , August 6—The obstinate refusal of the German Diet to ratify the armistice between Prussia and Denmark will be attended , it is feared , with deplorable consequences for the peace of Europe , From information received to-day , Russia has openly insisted , through the medium of M . de Meyendorff , the Czar ' s ambassador at Berlin , on the conclusion of the armistice . Unices it be concluded by the lata , Denmark will recommence hostilities , and inevitably demand and obtain the assistance of Sweden and Russia .

      UNITED STATES . New York , July 25—The most important item of news is the introduction , by Mr Clayton , to the Senate , en the 10 th , of the bill to establish the territorial government of Oregon , California , and New Mexico .

      WEST INDIES . TUB INSURRECTION O ? THB ST OB 0 IX NKGB 08 S . On Sunday , July 2 nd the blowing of couch shells and ringing of bells announced the revolt , and on the following day about 5000 met armed with swords , bill-hooks , and fire-arms , ana demanded their emancipation of Governor Van Sholton . They aacked the police office and the judge ' s house . The whippingpost was uprooted , and carried in triumph to the wharf , and thrown into the sea . They then destroyed the house inhabited by the judge ' s aaaiatant . After that thev went to the fort and released the prisoners .

      and told the authorities that if their freedom was not proclaimed by four in the afternoon , they would barn the town , and for this purpose they had a quantity ot inflammable matter in their possession . Suddenly at eight o'clock at night a reflection ot fere on the north side was visible , and in a very short time the whole of the northern part of the island waa illuminated with a most terrific conflagration . For two successive nights fires were blazing in different parts of the island , On Tuesday morning the insurgents weie again approaching the town , but learning that the military authorities had determined to fire on

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 12, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12081848/page/7/