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      the win d ow ? nd . aw ihe jwr-fc r ^ n ^ S '" * " «^« - •* i-m « and the police alter them . Gr ^ xarrined hy Mr Serjeant Wilkiks —You „ r « nded * . I believe , b ' ^ th meetin gs ? I did . —Had yon flTiv accomodation offered you by tie persons at S meetings for the ppiprce of porting ? 1 jwd . T anmied for it , and obtained it . Sharp sent f « r a * sn ' e ' ior rre to report . I sat on the chair on which the « pejfew Btocd -llow near were you to Ernest Tones at the time he was speaking i iSot one inch «™ v from him . —Then yon had your tab ' e and he 8 "" . ' """* rT' ... o : * v : * k „ didSupposing this to be

      _ „ must have seen you . He . th chiir he was standing where I am now , and I gat down on the same chair . —We have heard from MrA ttorney-General that there were many pleasuretaking parties on the Common on that Sunday ? There were . —In the course of that Sunday was there any minister cf religion preaching there ? There was , but not in the hearing of the Chartist meeting . —Of course net Tbat wonld have interfered with his vocation . Hai he a congregation around him * He had . I thoucht it was tbe Chartist

      meetis g when I first went there . Lord Chief Justice Wilde . — Do yen mean the Church ? No , tny lord . There was a minister outside under a tree . T ... , Mr Ser geant Wn . srxs . -I suppose both prayer and Viewing were going on ? They were .-For what Teneth of time di d that continue ? The gentleman was welching when I got on the ground , and I was f h <; re for some thirty or forty minutes before the Cham « t meeting commenced . lie was then going on .- Did vou notice whether the preaching continued ? I did .

      bnt he lost a good many of his hearers —( Laughter . ) —Now dcring tbe whole time that tbe Freaking was co " ie" forward , the people tebaved themselves w & il , Peaceably and orderly ? Yes . —I believe yr u h-. ve attended " various meetings at which J ^ nes has spoken . Have you not ? I attencY d the Kennineton Ccrsmon meeting—Any ether ? Not at which Tones spoke . —And did Mr Jones attempt to keep the necplecff you ? He did . He stood close to the ¦ tob e , and " l rather thick he removed a man from the tab ' e . —In order that yen might not be inter-TUP ' ed f There was every facility riven . Wkllsbt attended the

      Re-examined by Mr . —You Secnin ? tpn Common me ^ tirg on the 10 th of April . Jon es attended tbe meeting there ? He did . —Was Jones aware of what yen came for ? lie must have been aware of it , for I attended the National Convention when it sat , therefore every delegate must have known me . —And he must have known that you were from the government ? I infer that be did . Have you been at any ether meeting where Jones was present but where he did not speak ? I do not . recollect that 1 have . —Was iir Jones one of tbe Delegates , er one of the Executive as they call it ? I kcew nothing of the Executive , because that I believe was not appointed , but he was a delegate .

      Mr Sergeant Wrxsixs—How do yon know that -he was a delegate ? Because tbey all brsugbt their credentials which were exhibited and read . —Did you see his credentials ? A ' o . But I relieve I heard them read . —Did I understand you to say that Jones did not take an active part in tbat Assembly ? Ob , they all spoke . Everybody took five minutes' tnrns of it . —( Laughter . ) Joseph SniCKELexamined by the Attchxet-Gene * hai . —1 am as inspector of the Detective Police . We had instructions from the Commissioners to be in readiness for the meetings on Whit Monday , and we were in readiness . The military were ako called out . The following pasted bill was also issued by order of the Coinnjisiioners— 'Notice , —Whereas divers large

      meeungs of persons calling themselves Chartists have lately been held in the open air , in snd near the me ropo-i . ' , at which s'diiions and kfkn matory speeches have bes addressed to the persons there assembled ; and whereas such meetings have excited tenor and alarm , and have caused serious distnrban ces of the public peace , and have led to acts of tumult , violent disorder , and resistance to the law ; and whereas certain persons styling themselves members of the Executive Committee of the Charti & t Association have declared their intention r > f calling together other large rreetiniS , in or near the metropolis , on Monday next , Jnne 12 th ; and , whereas apprehensions

      are entertained by the peaceable inhabitants of the metropolis , that snch meetings will be of the same dansercHS character , and will lead to the disturbance of the public peace , notice is hereby given tbat such meetings are illegal , and that all necessary means nil ! . e aioptc-d to prevent any such meetings taking place , and all well disposed persscs are hereby cautioned not to attend , be present , or take any part in snob meetings . C Rowas , R . Mayke . « Commissioners of the Police of the Metropolis . ' Cross-examined by 2 >! r Serjeant Wmnxs : There vias no meeting on the 12 th , except the pic nt ' c party ofthepclice . ( Laughter . ) Except a small meeting on Stepney . green .

      Jon . v Batxes examined by the Atiorsst-Gesekal . —I am an inspector of the Detective Polic e . I waa at a meeting at Bradford , on Monday , tne 29 : h May . There was a disturbance there . The military were called out . There were no lives lest , but some persona were wounded . There were seventeen or eighteen persons taken into custody . The special constables and the police went out for the purpose of apprehecdicg eeveral periods , and they were stoned . They were , therefore , obliged to call out tbe military to assist in the apprehension of these persons . The Attohnbt-Geseral . —That , my lord , is the esse for the prosecution . The court then rose for a short time . The jury having re-assembled , and the learned judge taken his seat ,

      Mr Serjeant Wilhixs rose to address the jury for ihe defendant . He said—May it p ; ease your lordship and gentlemen of the jury , it is easier to sting than to eradicate the venom . The Attorney- General has certaialy opened this case to you in what would be consracnlv called ft very able manner , but it might have been observed by every person who heard him , that he felt himself called on to urge a great many topics , and to exercise a great deal more of vehemence and energy in opening this esse to you against Ernest Jones , than he had displayed oa any former occasion . It does seem to me as if a consciousness of the weak ness of the case against the defendant had suggested the necessity of supplying that weakness hy as extra * ordinary degree of energy , and , if he will forgive me . by as amount cf sophistry on his part , that I scarcely

      expected . 1 do not state this as a charge against him , for I have learned how almost impossible it is to keep one ' s mind unaffected in cases ot this kind , and how extremely difSeuitit is for an advocate not to receive ¦ with an undonbting belief the impressions of the client in whose case he may happen to be engaged . I cannot help thinking , therefore , that when you came to listen to thespeech delivered by the defendant ( Mr Jones ) as read bv the short-hand writer , it conveyed very different v ' eis to your minds from tnesame speech read , and with such im pressive accent , by the learned Attorney-General , and yon would be apt to ask yourselves , can this be the speech that called forth the observations which we have heard frcm the first Liw OScerof ' the Crown ? Few of yon , only one , I believe , hare sat to trv an indictment of this character

      before . The Attohszt-Gbkeral—No one , Mr Sergean * . It is a new jury . Mr Sergeant Wilkixs . —I am told that not one of yon , and th-. refore , I shall be obliged to recapitulate many of the topics which Ihad on former days urged on the attention cf the other juries . I must ask of yon respectfully bat most earnestly , to treat this case aa th ugh it were the first—as though it were tbe only case that tad been or was to be tried of this kind—you are bound , sitting , as yon are , on that jury —you are boned to forget all tbat you rosy bare heard out of doors—you are bound to forget all that yea haveread , and to remove from your minds all impressions that mav have been made by teat all

      prevailing power in the present day , I mean the public press . I msy here be allowed to say , that I cannot help thinking that it would have exhibited more good taste , and been more consonant to the dictates of sound feeling and oi justice , in portions cf the public press , if they had withheld their comments and animadversions in these cases , until they were entired closed . Bnt be that as it may . you , gentlemen , are bound by the oath yon have taken , to treat this case as though you heard it now for the first time , and the only in formation which jou can take for jour guidane ? , is the evidence that has been laid before you . No matUr whether you have been special conitables ; no matter whether you have bt en injuriously affected by the alarm and the exciteeent

      that baa eo unr . ecEEjardy existed ; your sympathies may extend to the bound of Europe , but all these things you are called upon to lay entirely aside , and you must come to examine this question as if you were without one tittle of informatiin , aa to what u PESsins in other countries ; as if you were withont one influence or one impression , other than has been furnished to your minds by the witnesses that have teen ci . lied into the box before you . "Well , gentlemen , if you do so—if you come to the inquiry in the way I have explained , I cannot help thinking that you will be of opinion first of all , that there has been no evidence laid before yon , tb . it this was an unlawful assembly ; and in the next place , that there was not a word spoken at that meeting sufficient , in a grave charge of this kind , to criminate Ernest Jones . I do not make this observation lightly , or without consideration / 1 am net making it merely as the advocate engaged for the defendant in the case , fot I

      will now proceed to lay before you the result of my reflect ions before I came into this court ; for as yeu ara aware , the whole of this speech , which ia charged against Ernest Jones , was supplied to me in the indictment , and ^ therefore I had ample opportunity of e & lmly criticising and weighing every sentence in it , before I came to this court ; and unless 1 sadly over-rate my own powers of understanding and persuasion , I will be able to convince jiual-othattbereisnot one word or syllable containedin the whole of this address which can with any show of reason er justice be alleged to be criminal . Now , before I enter into tbe facts of the <« e itself let me reply to a few observations thrown out by the Attorney General in the opening of this case . The learned Attorney-General began by say-C 2 that this was tha racst important of the whole of the casei that had been tried under charges of this k -: d . tha ienortaace . cocsisting ( if I can collect hia-

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      meaning ar : : ¦• . [) iu the fact that tbe dercnaant 13 a gentleraau , a member cf the ha ? , and not absolutily a poor man . It seems to me most extraordinary tbat the learced Attorney ' s premises should have led him to such a conclusion , lie begins by saying that the case is rendered more important from tho position , and station , and education of tbe defendant . Now , Gentlemen , let me call your attention to this fac * . What is Ernest Jones ? Beyond all question a man of learning . Perhaps I may be allowed to say , that eince this trial began , and I never bad fhs honour of his acquaintance before , but sinee this trial hss brought up in connexion , he has placed in my band various literary poetical and other productions , proving him to be a man of very superior

      intellect . What is his station ? He is a member of the profession to which I , a humble individual , have ike honour to belong , and it is a profession that gives , if a man conducts himself with integrity and with koaour—it is a profession fhat will place within his ambition the highest honours , the highest position , the highest station in this country , under the Crown itself . What is his education ? Let the facts you see speak for him . Is it true , then , he is a young mm of enlarged intellects , of liberal education ? Is it true that hia station is tornarkfid as to take him out of the same category as those with whom he has been here associated ? Is it true that the profession to whieh be belongs points out to him , if he be honourable , and hieh-minded , and studious , the most

      distinguished place and position in tha country ? Is it true that the profession to which he belongs promises to him the highert honours , the proudest distinctions that this ! and can confer ? Is it true that even it he bad an ambition of the mesfc aspirine character , that profession to which he belongs helds out to him the brightest prospects and the highest objects f > r the exercise of that ambition . Our pro fesaion has received lustre from names , the highest , the most distinguished in the kingdom , and no man whatever may have been his position or hia birth , no matter what his previous station may have been—no man , I say , who is connected with this profession , bnt has the means placed within his grasp , by industry , by peiseverance , and by honour , of bacoming

      the equal of the proudest nobleman in the land ; no man need dtspair , if he pursues the honourable course which best becomes his profession , of becoming the first subject under the throne in the land in whieh he lives . If , then , it be true that Erce « t Jones has that education ; if it be true that he belongs to a profession which promises to the humblest such high honours and rewards ; if all this be trre . do you thick he would wa ^ tonlv throw these advantages away ? Do you think that , unless his c-n-c enee soaded him stronaly , ucleES his sympathies urged him on , do you think that he would cast aocie all these honours and all these advantages to league himself with the poor , 'he impeverished , and ttientpriy , and to stand npa ? the champion of those

      whom he thought were unprotected , and subject hin ? - sel ; to contumely and to reproach from the prejudijfsof his fellow ciuntrympn ? He has edneatirn , and , from what I have seen if that man ' s mind , I do njt he-itate to say that he might aspire to highfr honour- than any man sitting around this table , tie has the hopes , tha imagination , the understanding , aid , I dare say , the ambition , to distinguish himself among his fellow men . I say , then , that the premises of tbe learned Attorney-General would justify opiosite conclusions from these sought to be drawn bv my learned friend . The Attorney-General says his language is more dangerous , because it is more measured—because , as I shall show you by and bv , it is mere moderate . That it mav be dangerous

      to evil government and to party power , dangerous to corruption and to undue kflueHce , I am free to confess . That his language endangers the institutions of the country , I deny . While it may be injurious to the former , I believe tbat its object is to cherish and preserve the latter ; acd I think that you will discover this by and by , when you read his sentiments . There are two principles—one gocd and the other evi '—one always struggling in proportion to the advance of tha other . W ' snail see , by and by , to whom the threa ened danger reaches . My friend , the Attorney-General , quoteaErnest Jones ' s case to show that there is not one law for the rich and another law for the poor , and I think it is rather dangerous for my friendTto do so . Truly , Ernest

      Jones is a barrister ; he is a student of the law ; he is a man of letters—of a cultivated mind ; but , as my learned friend will find , it is equally true that Ernest Jones is a poor man . It is said that Ernest Jo ^ es has received payment for hia advocacy of the wishes and eentiments of these men . Gentlemen , I am instructed to hurl back tbe defendant ' s refutation of that statement , and declare to you , by all that is sacred , by all that is solemn , that he has never , since boyhood , received one single shillins for his advocacy of the opinions which he has felt it hia duty during his life to maintain . By the exercise of his talents he has taken the leadership of his fellow men—he has ca ^ ed upon them to maintain the righ < a to which he contends they are entitled . How does

      it happen that the men who are at present members of the Cabinet achieved that lofty station ? I do not wish to say anything against the Attorney-Gfneral , for I respect him too much to offend him ; but I woald remind him , tha wtere it not for speeches such as these , he would not this day fill the office of her Majesty ' s Attorney-General . I do not mean to say tbat he does tot fill that office wisely , and with credit to himself ; but I repeat , that were it not for the speeches of snch men as Lord Grey—snch men as Daniel O'Connell—but for the agitatisn which they excited throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom , the Reform Bill would not have been introduced and carried—Lord Grey would not have formed a member of the Cabinet—the Whigs

      would not have been in the ascendant , and my learned friend would not have filled the office of the Queen ' s Attorney-General in England . Gentlemen , they treat these men new with contempt . Did they treat them with contempt when they met in their strength in Spa-fields ? When they come forward to-day , you talk of insurrection and sedition , You then talked enly of the majesty of the people . The vox poptdi was , with you , the vox dei . What , then , does the Attorney-General mean by saying that there is not one law for the rich and another for the poor . This observation was perfectly called for , and I think you will be of opinion with me , that it was perfectly just . My learned friend had , in the beginning of his address to yon , recourse to a little figure

      of speech that I confess astonished me not a little . He said that he blushed to own that Ernest Jones was a member of the same profession . I think , gentlemen , you will agree with me , that it is a long time since the Attorney-General blushed . I may say this , certainly , I never saw him on any occasion when he was required to blush for his own conduct . Let ns see whether this blash is called for or not . He says tbat Jones fen"Trs the law—that he knows the rights of the people , and that he addressed to them topics of an exciting and dangerous character , and recommended them to organise , and to fall into bodies . Fart of this I am free to admit—part of it I am prepared to deny . It has been well said by Dr Johnson , ' that a rash man can make more assertions in five

      minutes than a wise man can explain in five hours ' My learned friend has asked youto look to the whole speech delivered by the defendant now before you and I ask you , gentlemen , to do the same . If you do so . I think you will find that the result is not as the learned Attorney-General would have you to believe , an advice to the people to organise and to arm themselves . I hope to prove that nst a single word in the whole of his speech will warrant such an inference . He dees tell tbem to organise ; and I say that all men wonld do well to organise when they geek to carry their poin ' s . It waa not their object to procure any breach of the law , because tbat would rather frustrate them and their designs . They sought to obtain that attention to their claims

      from the hsnds of government , by the same means that had been used , Jtime out of mind , by every political party in this country . My learned friend , the Attorney-General , says that there are commotions in the manufacturing districts . He may show that tbe tarns causes produce the same effects in all cases . He may show that the people of Bradford , and Leeds , and Yorkshire might have felt , in tbe pressure of the times , that excitement which induced themte try and compel the ministry to give them that which tbey conceive to be their rights , not by force of arms , but by the same scans taken in the House of Commons itself , when one party , and one set of men , seek te obtain advantage over a rival party . Did yeu never bear or read that the Whigs took

      advantage of the embarrassments of the Tones , as the Tories did in like manner of the Whigs . There is , in this particular case at least , no difference between them . There is no difference . It has been well said , that the Whigs are nothing more nor ' ess than Tories out of office . My learned friend says that Jones can have no sympathy with this class of persons , because Jones is not a labouring man . He certainly is not , in the ordinary acceptation of the words ; but we are not arrived at that pitch of social and of national depravity , that a man cannot be supposed to act from impulse of patriotism ? Have we come to the conclusion that no man can stand up to advozate the repeal of public miseries , Without some base aad mercenary motives being imputed to him—without its being laid down that be has some base and mercenary objects in view ? If that is so , what was jour object when you called the people together to pass

      the Reform Bill ? What was the object of theAnti-Corn Law League , with their great meetings in the narth , and in Covent-Garden ? What do jou mean when you address your constituents from the hustings—when you place your hand upon yonr heart and say , with all the appearance of truth , at least that you go to the House of Commons to promote , tbe public weal . Is it all humbug—all selfishnessall lying and deceit ? If it is not so , why do you venture to draw these conclnsions of Ernest Jones . If Heaven has planted in the heart of man healthy and ecod impulses , what matters it whether Ernest Jones is a poorman husself , ortbafche is calledfortb to advocate the causa of those who would be otherwise friendless and powerlws , and left withoathope or stay in their cheerless destitution ? But , again , supposing that the people had organised what cnLfe . bar * been the result ? Why , I tell yon what i Caiiinuei to the Eighth FvgM

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      THE FBEJN'CH REPUBLIC . PROGRESS OP THE COONTBB REVOLUTION . . The na ; v government , or , more properly speaking , the Minister of Public Instruction , sustained a signal defeat on Wednesday evening in tho National Assembly . A decree was brought forward by M . Carnot , demanding a credit of one million of francs towards the expense of the teachers in the primary i j . Upon this » M ' Bonjean rose and attacked the principle upon which the Minister of Public Instruction hai conducted his department since the 24 th of February ; and in support of tbe charges which he brought against M . Carnot ot diesemi nating false and dangerous principle ' , he q uoted some extracts from a work entitled ' Tho Republican Manual of the Man and the Citizen , ' a small work published under the auspices ot the Minister , and distributed by his own and at the expense of the State among all the schoolmasters in France . Tbe following is the explanation civen of tho duties of

      man as citizen : — Scholar : Can you tell me what is the first du'y o man f Teacher ; The first duty of man is to live , in tho same way that it is the first duty ol hie ' equals , and of each to furnish the other with the means of living . In the chapter with respect to property , the following question and answer are given : — Scholar : Do any means exist of preventing the rich from being Idle , and the poor from belnfj eaten up fcy the rich ? (' etles pauvrcs d ' ttre manges par les richee ? ' )

      Teacher : Yes , there exist meens , and excellent ones , which will be found by the dirocmia of iho Rrpublic , when they will carry into practice seriously thedosmaof fraternity . It is tho same with property nnd the free use of capital , as with all other liberties , The law which recogniaee them can and must te confined within certain limit * . Without destroying tbe right of heri . tige , it can be limited for tho public benefit ; and without suppressing tbe interest of capital , many measures can be taken to ainke it much less than people would wish . In that way idleniS 3 will be difficult for the rich ,

      and the poor will easily nnd creait in order lo enrich themselves . The law can imp : se all sorts of conditions on those who have lands , andean even assume tbe ri ^ to expropriate them on giving an indemnity , if tbey make a bad usoof them . As regards tbesu great proprietors , whom you have reason to fear , know tbat if they paid n proper amount of impost to the Stato , and good wngesto their labourers , the most of them would see themselves under ihe necessity of selling their lands to cit ' zens who would make a bttter use of them than they i ' o . Laws will be made for this purpose whenever we wish .

      In the chapter with respect to labour , it is laid down that the liberty of indus'ry has produced deadly warfare among the labouring classes , and to have given France a new aristocracy more dangerous than the first . Scholar : The Republic , then , has the right of interfering in the conditions of labour , and in the regulation of prices and wages . Teacher ; Withont any doubt it has the right and exercises It in tho name of tho people . The Republican Insuring liberty to commerce and industry acquires by tbat fact , therljht of submitting thet liberty to al ! sorts of conditions drawn from the common interest , " that is what is called the Organisation ( rf Labour , Scholar : Give me an idea of that organisation ?

      Teacher : All that I can tell you is , that it is founded upon two things : —1 st . The organisation of labourers . 2 d . The regulation of trade and industry by the laws of the Republic . But it is a subject upon which I shell say no more at present . It is not necessary to make you so learned . As regards the family , the teacher declares that the Constituent Assembly can inquire : — If the Republican regime ef equality and liberty cannot add something to the rights of woman in the family ; if in tho interest of marriage itself it is not good that divorce should be established , and if the tax levied on tbe transmission of property by heritage could not be regulated more equitably in the common interest of the republic and families . The teacher thus excuses the Republic : —

      If the Reputlic hare committed some acts of violence it was provoked to It by tho audacity of traitors and the universal coalition of nobles and kings ; but she has been so little cruel , that she has never made those suffer uhom she put to death . Tbe Minister of Public Instruction spoke in justification of his administration , tut the violent exclamations of the Assembly showed its disapprobation of the doctrines which he had assisted to disseminate . M . BoBjean then rose and proposed , avowedly as showing the disapprobation of the Assembly , that 5000 francs should be deducted from the sum demanded . This proposition gave rise to a frightful tumult , which lasted a considerable time , but at length the Assembly divided upon the question , when the numbers were for M . Bonjean ' s proposition , 314 ; against it , 303 ; leaving a majority of eleven against the Ministry .

      After such a vote , it was impossible that M . Carnot should remain in c-fficc : and , accordingly , in the Moniieur of this , day the following decree appears : — French Republic—In the name of the French people . The President of the Council charged with the execu . tivff power determines : The Citizen Taulabelle is eppolnted Minister of Pablle Instruction , in place of the Citizen Carnot , whoso resignation is accepted , Tbe President of the Council , Cavaionao . The Minister of Justice , Betbmont . Paris , July 5 , 1818 . The following description of tho tmtmhh of measurts lor keeping the workmen in subjection is from the Dzbak :

      In the committee of war M . de Remilly has proposed the concentration of a force of fifty thousand men round Paris . This Ir a wise precaution , for the surest way to pr . vent bloodshed is to take every chance of success from those misguided men who would attempt it . 'With this view the representatives of the people who hold a meeting in the Rue de Polctlers , and which now forms the moet numerous fraction of the chamber , from the adhesion of many fresh members , have conceived a set of measures calculated to secure tbe tranquillity of the c & pit & l , and hence of the whole of France , and al . most ef Europe .

      The measures which havo bsen proposed by M . Thiers , are the followieg : — The ' first consists in dissolving the national wtrksbops , by giving to the work , men out of employment assUtance at their own houses ; by ofTeriag to others work adapted to their profession , such as clothing for tho troops to the weavers , tallow , shoemakers , & c . ; artillery waggons to men accustomed to that business ; works on tbo fortifications of Havre , Cherbourg , and other parts of the const , to carpenters and masOBS , who are now bo numerous in Paris ; in a word , to give eroplojment where possible to the men of the ateliers , and to relieve those for whom work could not be found .

      The second measure was tfce complete disarming of the insurgent quarters ; the third , the maintenance in Paris , orcloseto tbe walls , of a force of the line of at least sixty thousand men ! To these measures were added two others , tending to prevent civil war by suppressing the causes whieh lead to it—it was to close tha cluba temporarily , reierving to the constitution to regulate the right of association , and to put a limit te the freedom of the pres » , and prevent effesces against society , snch as provocation to civil war , pillage , murder , provocations Of wbicb certain journals have been guilty by publishing- j for instance , every day in Paris , the list of those inhabitants who were supposed to possess the meat property .

      AU gocd citizens must see with satisfaction that a part ot those measures are m accordance with the views of the Executive and the Assembly . The ateliert nationaux are already in course of dissolution , and several bills are in preparation for affording employment to the workmen . The disarming is being effected , aud already more than one hu & dred thousand muskets have been re . tamed into the government depots . A large military force is being concentrated round Paris , independently of the Garde Mofeile and the Garde Republicaino , thera are forty-five thousand Infantry of the line , and ten teousend artillery , engiaeera , and cavalry . This display of force will show the folly of any fresh attempt at disorder .

      THK LATE INSURRECTION—EXPECTATION OF ANOTHER STKUGOLE . J The Gazette des Tribunaux says—There have been found upon one of the insurgents sufficient evidences of the means by which it was intended that tbe insurrection should reach the National Assembly . The chiefs of the barricades were to assemble In the Qlartur Saint Lazare , near the railroad . They were to cut off the Rue du Havre and the Rue du Tronchet , and having made themselves masters of tho barracks of the Assumption , cut off also the Rue Nationale ( Royale ) and thence menace the Assembly , while other columns were to advance upon it , with the game system of barricades , at tho Place do Bourgogne . But it appears that the alertness with which tho 1 st , 2 nd , and 10 th Legions turned ontand mustered , prevented the insurrection from commencing its attack at these different points at the same time as in the Quarlien PoiMonntere , St Antome ,

      and St Jacques . The Mokiteub db l'Arhbb says—In no battle of the Republic or the empire , with the ezception of the battle of Moscow , ihe most sanguinary of modern times , were bo many generals and superior officers killed and wounded as In the four days of tho late imurrectton in Paris , in which four generals were killed and seven wounded . At the late battle of Aroole , whieh lasted three days , only one general was hilled ond six wounded ; at Marengo only one general lost bis lift , „ nd four only were wounded . At the battb of Auatet-HtE only one gentral was killed and six were wounded . At Wogram two generals only were killed and seven wounded ; and at Waterloo only ono general officer fell on the field of battle ; the other was killed by the Prussians aftei the combat .

      The correspondent o ( theTiKSBsays the insurgents who fled into the suburbs or tbe departments are tracked . bunteadowfl , ar > isoaptured , 100 , 000 soldieiB are in the capital , r , B w » H as 100 , 000 volunteers frorn Ihe nroyinwB , These giw & uense of security to tee

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      most timid but I must not conceal from you that tbe tun ? faxes , ior tha t . ial of the prisoners , and of the punishment of those that may be convicted , is looked to Witn anxiety and misgiving ' Their friordj and associates may not fce able to ' tffect their release by force , aay the alarmists , ' but they are capable of tesrtul acta of revenge . ' The following is from tho correspondent of the MoRKir . 0 Chronicle :-Thore is a very strong and genera ! opinion entertained here , among the parties beat informed u' ) 0 n the subject , that tho working classes although completel y put down for the present , will soon rise again , and that a still greater battle is before us than the terrible one in which the cause of order has so fortunately been the victor . Similar

      firebodinga having come from the same quarters before , and having turned out to bo but teo correct , wc are the more ready to attach credit to them now . Certain it ia , that the working classes about Paris are in a atateof great exasperation ; that they declare themselves to have been betrayed ( by whom «) and that toy are far frora giving up their cause as ruined , ihe common expreasii / n amon ? them at tbe present moment is , ' We shall not rise for the next month ; bu . before three months pa ^ 3 T 76 shall be onoe » or « befa , < l the barricades . ' They also declare J ! h . ? ifth "T . , ? Ctl 0 n was « "P Prematurely ; for that , although the preparations and plan Lai been settled long be tare , there was a sclera aa to the exact moment ol

      commencing the movement , which prevented it lrom being eo general as it would otherwise have been . The lact is that the measures taken by tho envernmont for the suppression of the ateliers . laJioHaiiacrtrnetatbcr unexpected , and precipitated matters . You are already aware that , according to tho most probable computation , the number of conspirato's who actuall y fou » ht , at tho bwrcBdeB was about CO . 1 ) 00 ; but out of tbat number the proportion coming from tho ateliers nationaux did not exceed 15 000 . Thii I learn Jrom one who has the very best means of knowing the . fact , nnd who declares that the next movement ( which , whatever time it may break out , is , in his opinion , certain ) will be joined by more than three times th it number ,

      ARrrst i'F a traitor . Pari ? , July 6 th . — Majir Constsntin , one of the officers charged with tho investigation cf the facts connected with the conspiracy of " Juno , had been firrested . He was , interrogating one of the insurgents , and treating him aomewhut harshly , when tho latter asked bim it he waa not M . Cnnetantin , who was to be appointed Minuter o War had the insurrection succeeded , and whorepe . ieJl y came to encourage them at the barricades , drtseed in a blouse and a catquettc . M . Constants attempt ed no defence and B 9 vcnl other insuroents having recognised him acd confirmed the statement ol their comrade , the Colonel presiding over the Council of War ordered him to be arrested . M . Conatantin , inhabited the haubourgSt Antoine , and was chiefof the Cabinet of the Ministry ot War under General Subervie

      SEIZURE OP ARM ! . Some tumult took place yesterday at tfee Faubcurg St Antoine on the occasion of scutching seme hou es and the seizure of arms , and it was dpemed advisable to support the authorities with a detachment of trcops cf the line . Ono of the distressing features of the state of the public raind is the violence of tho women . Seeing three women arrested , I inquired the csuse , and was informed by the by-standers tbat they had been uttering the most sanguinary threats against the National Guards . Tho soldiery are become very reserved when they have prisoners under their charge , and if know the

      they cause of arrest refuse to state it . 1 metwhh such refusal op making inquiry respecting two m ? n , who had evidently made great resistance . The patrols mt ni ght were stronger ( ban the previous night . Between twelve and one this morning I heard tho report of single and simultaneous musket shots , and I learn that gome of the late insurgents , who had concealed themselves in and about the quaries of Montmartre and vicinity , had attacked a small post , which bad been compelled to give way , but falling back and receiving assistance , tho assailants had been overcome , after the loss tf some of their body .

      Saturday , July 8 —The Dfmcchatic Pacific says . — ' M . Martin Dcmilicre . the most peacable and inoffensive man in Paris , having from the first day of tho combat declared that he would not take part in the civil war , and gave up bis musket to his company , was imprisoned for this circumstance ; ard no effort , thus far , has been able to procure bis release-. It is by hundreds that arrests cf the same kind as this ha ? e bdtn made , and we will cite , if necessary , others tbat are much more odioug . The national workshops for womi n were included intbed « crte dissolving these establishments generally in the department of the Seine . Twenty . five

      thousand women are thus left without occupation . The resource placed at the disposal of the mayors are insufficient to give them the succour which thev are entitled to , that succour consisting of twopounda of bread each per day , whatever may be the family of the women to receiving aid . This state cf things has caused about 400 of these women to wait on ths Minister of Public Woiks to demand assistance . M . Recurfc , having learned that several of them had large families , led them to hope that the propositions which he intended making in their favour to tbe Committee of Labour would be approved of , and that the workshops might be again opened .

      TheDEMOCRATiE reports that M . Cabet has written to the chief of the executive power , demanding government ships to convey him , with a colony of Icarians , to Texas . The Paris papers of Sunday announce tbe death of another distinguished < fficer , General Duvivier . ' General Duvivier was esteemed one of the bravest generate of the army of Africa , ' says our correspondent . ' He was wounded on the 25 th ult , at tbe entrance of the Faubourg St Antoine , and died yesterday morning at the Military Hospital of the Val de Graca . It appears that he disregarded his wound at the commencement , but iriflammatim and fever set in , and ultimately leck-jaw , which terminated hia very brilliant career in the fifty-fourth year of his age . ' ( Frcm the Daily Newt . )

      Monday . —I am sorry t 9 say that nothing can be imagined worse than the situation of this capital at present . We have many thousand exasperated fanatics swarming in every part of it . There are now now nearly 15 , 000 insurgent prisonera distributed through the prisons and ' maisons d ' arret' of the capital , but more especially in the detached forts with which Paris is surrounded . The environs of these detached forts abound with insurgents lying in ambuscade , who omit no opportunity of firing upon all parties who communicate with these prisons , and not a day or ni ? ht passes tbat lives are not taken in this way . Six national guards are now lying dead ,

      Bssagsinated at Rom & inville . Even the streets of the capital cannot be said to be safe , one cannot walk through them without feeling that one is at the mercy cf tho insurgent assassin . Meanwhile , even the arbitrary power with which the executive is invested is insufficient to repress the audacious attempts of journals of socialism and the Red Republic . The recent open attacks on every piinciple of order , and on the assembly itself , the resalt of universal auf frage , and the most barefaced apologies for the late insurrection , appear daily in the columns of La Rbpobmb , Lb Peupib Cokstituamx , and Lb Re-PRKSEKTASr DO PeDME .

      With all his firmness and energy General Gavaignae iB still a democratic Republican , and it is not without difficulty that his eyes can be opened to the disastrous consequences of the abuses of the press . An article appeared on Saturday in the RKmsENTANT dv Pbufms , containing an attack on the As Jem bly . A meeting was held yesterday of the moderate party ; a deputation from which was sent to lay this article before the chief ol the executive power , and to ask what measures were proposed to be taken in consequence . The result has been tbat the Repbeskntant du Peuple was suppressed by order of General Cavaignao this morning .

      Meanwhile , however , M . Prudhtm has put forth in the columns of the Reforms the draft of a project of decree which he says the Assembly ought to be ordered to pas ? , a decree confiscating one-third of the revenue of all proprietors of every sort for three years in favour of the state and the tenants , one half to go to the state and the other half to the tenants . It will be recollected that M . Prudhon is the author of a work whose text is that ' Property is robbery , ' The Represkntant r > v Peuple , suppressed today , says that the late outrages ol the insurgents was merely the result of a generous impatience to accomplish , at a single step , and without transition , ail that wondious distance that separates our egotistical society from unity .

      ( From the Morning Chronlch , ) The vast number of persons implicated in thererent insurrection who crowd the prisons of Paris at the present moment is a source of great embarrass , ment to the government . According to a statement given by some of the best informed of the Paris papers , they amounted on Friday to above 14 , 000 persons , and it is said tbat at the present day the number has increased to 1 G . 000 . What is to be done with such a mass of human beings ? To keep them in prison is impossible , acd to transport them to the colonies is equally impossible . The only alternative , therefore , ia to let them once more loose upon society , and in the present state of feeling among the working classes that alternative is a dangerous one . The Bibn Public says that four extraordinary commissioners are to ba appointed for the trial of the prisoners . Each commission is to be composed of three civilians and three military men .

      There are rumours afloat of a serious BOhisra between the pure-Republican and moderate party in the government , which raay possibly lead id fresh changes . ( From tho Times . ) * Every moment , eaye our private letters , ' new discoveries and now captures are made , not merely of combatants in the revolt , but of parties to the conspiracy whiehipreceeded it , and in which are compromiaed soma , persons in high station , as well aa innumerably professional men . Curiosity is expressed respecting the fate of those in custody , or whc . may jet h % arrested . Numerous thoug h they b /; j examclasyfuniahruent awaits them . Compa «

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      ¦** - •«« W 3 tt 3 >« BJrl 3 BBJCTea > ljaiit ; dBMtf « " » MigJ ''' > t 5 raiiyeli- focv example , among the common herd cf ooabataiits will bo made but tho conspirators and Uiocniofs of the insurrection will be severely deal Mm « lf " wu ava - . " ° ' is tree , rfrrlared himsef against the principle of rovct ^ , but hc r , ever intended Buffering thme guilty of atWcious crimeeither in the conception and preparation of th * re volt , 'or in the execution of their schenr a to esr-ane with impunity . Transportation will bo theemerpi punishment of chose who may be condemned butea pital punishment will not be omitted . '

      No doubt existed that tho partioans of the R « publique ftouge were still tampering with the ouvricrs Tho terrors of the prison and the court-martial weie however , potent in preventing any open or geiu-rai exercise of these functions . They were raid to rely for success upon the c & rtaii . ty that distress and rais-ry from wai t of employment would continue to augment until winter set in , and render the lower clashes desperate , when another revolt would irevi ( ably tnka place . It was calculated that 120 , 000 men werd aad would be destitute of emjiloym ntin Paris , and that , consequently , tbey would be an easy prey to the Communists and Socialists .

      ' It is not now believed , ' Baya our orrKspondent , 'that the insurgents poisoned , or hacked , or jagged the balls , or projectiles th ' : y discharged as has been charged . They made gunpowder , oast bullets , and repaired their arms with infinite dexterity , but necessarily in a hurry . I saw , some days sinca , in the hands of a distinguished member of tbe IIou ? e of Commons a pellet of the size and form of a woman ' s thimble , composed of zinc . It bore the impres-s of a thimble , ha ring , no doubt , been cast in one . It was probably the work of a woman . Its compositionzinc-argued a want of lead , which , for many reason ? , tho in ^ urgen's would have preferred .

      It appears that , althouah a portion of the ex-Modtngnards join ! d the insurgents and fought with the utmost fury in their ranks , tho new 'Republican Guards ' di ? tir . ( oui 9 hed themsolves on the .-idecf the government . In consequence they havo become to the insurgents as obnoxious aa the Mobiles . No soldier of titber cerps can present hinuoli with impunity outside the barriers . Everv day and ni ^ ht conflicts take place in tho Wood of Romainville between re ' ugee insurgents ard tho National Guards . Last Friday six National Guards and r . considerable number of im-uri ents ate said to have fallen . The Nationil Guard of Belleville was disarmed several days ago , but 4 , 000 muskets are still detained by some of the inhabitants , who , it is needless to ssy , are believed to have taken an active part in the insurrection .

      REASONS OF PARIS INSURGENTS FOR EIStNO , A morning journal contains a statement of one of the representatives who visited the barricades with a view to prevail en the insurgents to lay down their arras . He says : —« In the evening of the 23-d the Ciiizm Caussidiere was requested by ecveral of his friends to go with them to the camp of the insur gent ? , to assist in this mission of humanity . 11 m declined , assigning as a reason the decision of the Assembly , taken a few hours before . We arrived at halt-past twelve at night , and , notwithstanding wt had been assured at tha barricades that we shuilo

      have full liberty to return after executing our mission , we were made prisoners by gome of the insur gents , who were drunk , and weie on the point , two or three times , cf being shot . Wo had then an opportunity , having been compelled to remain sith tbem for eleven hours , to hear their real sentiments , and tho cause of tho war they waged . On askini ; them why they fought , some replied , ' To have work ! ' Some said , ' For an association of ouvriers ! Some , who appeared to be the leaders , said , ' We will have tho organisation of Lou'is Blanc ! ' ' Vive Louis Blanc ! ' shouted tbe crowd , he is the only one who will not deceive us !'

      ANOTHER STRUGGLE . The telegraphic signals , whieh serve to unite the insurgents , continue all over Paris on a most extensive scale . There are at least 100 , 000 men ready whenever the next tignol be given , f hey have no faith in the wpublic ruled by monarchists . Monday Evening— Last night an additional seizure of newspapers was effected by order of General Cavaignac . The Peuple Constituent , of which the Abbe Lamecnais is editor , and the Representant du Pkvple . which is edited by M . Proudhon , one ol the representatives for Paris , and tho author of the famous pamphlet written to prove that ' property is theft , ' were sefzd , and the offices placed in the possession of the police . This morning a deputation of

      the members of the club of the Ruo de Poictiers , which , an you are aware , is composed almost en tirely of the old Monarchical Oppotition in the Chamber of Deputies , waited upon General Cavaignac ard the Ministers , and represented to them the danger to which the social doctrines , advocated by some of the ultra Republican papers , exposed tho public tranquillity , and they pointed out especially the article in which tho Rbpbesbntani du Peuplk endeavoured to set the tenants of houses against the landlords , and tho farmers against tbe proprietor ? . General Cavaignac replied that he was quite awara of the danger alluded to , and that orders had already been given for the suppression of M . Proudbon ' a journal , in which the article in question had appeared .

      Ihe Minister of War has inflicted a punishment of one month ' s imprisonment on a captain of artillery and two captains of engineers , who enrolled themselves as members of a democratic club at Me'z . Several military pupils have likewise been punished for having committed a similar offence . The Echo du Nord announces that 2 , 000 of tbe insurgents who fle : l from Paris after their defeat , have been arrested in the neighbourhood of St Quentin .

      ALARMING STATE OF PARIS , Monday Night . —Yesterday , in the midst of the noon-Hay , in the Ruede Richelieu , one of the most populous thoroughiarea of Paris , a private of the Garde Mobile was shot dead from a window . The house was searched immediately , but the assassin could cot be discovered . The environs of Mont Rouge , one of the detached forts outside the fortifications , to the south of the capitU , are alive with men , who lie in ambuab . and fire upon all who approach when opportunity offers . The lives which are taken in this way are much more numerous than comes to the knowledge of the public . Is it not tho intt rest of commerce or the prees that these things should be known ?

      Notwithttandine the general popularity of the President of the National Assembly , there was not forty people at bis first ' reception . ' The example of the secretary of the questorship , shot by a senti nel on the Place de la Concorde , at eleven o ' clock at r . ipht , makes people prefer to stay at home . Yejterday , from four hundred to five hundred unemployed werkmen descended the Faubourg de Roule and the Faubourg St Honore in the mos * . furious manner , uttering terrible imprecations , declaring they were without labour or bread , tbat they had been basely entrapped and deceived by the government and the revolution , and threatening vengeance . The National Guard of the quarter were called out , and the band was driven back to the barrier .

      The cannon which the insurgents made use of in the Quartier St Maur were not cast by them ; they took apiece of cast iron , destined to a different use , tromthe ateliers o f M . Filet , and bored it . It waa ready for use on Monday morning , at nine o ' clock . Two cannon were cast by them in tho foundry of M . Ratcliff , and bored in the ateliers of M . Beaiay . Tho models were made on Sunday , in the ateliers of M Pilet , and trrelve hours after they were cast ; and it they had not been driven from their positions in the afternoon , they would have been ready for use in the evening . The carriages were in course of preparation at tho same time as they were preparing the uacnon . General Cavaignac has taken up his residence in a splendid hotel in tbo Rue de Varennes . whicj belonged to Madame Adelaide , the sister of Louis Philippe .

      1 ubbday Evening — The posts havo been in general doubled in Paris to-day . A great body of troops have been collected at La ChapelledeSt Denis . Stores of ammunition continue to be seized from day to day . The assassinations committed in open daycontinue to prevail . The exasperation of the wounded insurgents , against tho National Guards , exceeds all description . The expressions used by them must be taken to indicate th 'Soof their comrades , who are awaiting to avail themselves of any opportunity toshow themeelveain hostility . Two nephews of Commandant Constantin have just been arrested .

      Several individuals have been arrested at Clermont Ferrand on suspicion of having taken part in tbe insurrection of June . One of them had a wound which he attempted to conceal , though it required immediate attention . The police have discovered in the town a clandestine manufactory of balls . The clubs of Toulouse are agitating . One has just decreed the dissolution of the National Assembly , and another tho condemnation to death of General Lamoriciere ! The courier from Paris to Lyons was detained on the 6 th , at Joigny , in consequence of a telegraphic despatch , ordering the Prefets to search themails of that day , as they contained a vast project of insurreo tion addressed to tho Lyonnese insurgents .

      THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY . Friday , July 7 th . —The reporter of the War Committee stated that it had approved the proposition of M . Remilly , relative to the establishment of a camp of fifty thousand men in the Champ de Mars . It had , however modified it , and recommended that the effective military force , permanently stationed in Paris and its environs , after the 20 th instant , should not be under fifty thousand men . As to the other proposition for granting a sum of one million of franca for the fortifications of Cherbourg , the committee would wait until the law on the general defence of the country , promised by the government , had been submitted to the Assembly . General Cayaignac , President of the Council , re-

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      plied tnatthi ; lixf-cntivo Power had not w . iittdthe order ef ihe Assembly , but taken upon it .-elt the execution of the measure . There were at present fifty thousand men in fw ! about Paris , Citizen Trousseau nest nrked General Cavaignac if it was his intention to c ? ntinue much longer the ifatc cf sie , ' ? e , ard the suspensiin of the journals ¦ j host pre ^ sfs had been placed under sequestration . General Oav . ' . ion"ac felt so energetically supported by public opinion that he did not hesitate to declare thai the state of si ^ ge should be sti'l maintained for sometime . Citizen BiBAND LAniviERE next ask * d if the seen * rity in money required for the publication cf newspapers was to be maintained , and why the government had tii'iyuh' -, proper to revive the law of Da « cember 1830 , which had been abrogated by that oi September 1835 .

      General Cavaio . vac . in reply , repented that tha moment the government felt itself suffieienll , armed against a portion of the press , it would relax the ri . , our of the stcteof siege as respected the journals . it Han thought pro ( er to n-vivc the h . w of 1830 ; it thlt ™ r . t , r , 'Priety Pre « ent a definitive law oa tne press during the state of siej ; e . MEASURES IF THE COUNTKB RRV 0 LCTI 0 NM 3 . lefiSDAY , 0 30 pm . —After some business of no general interest , Citizen Senard , Mishter of the Inceaor , proposed four projects of law :-l . As to tha caution money of the journals ; 2 . As to the abuses ot tne press ; 3 . As to the clubs ; and 4 . As to the theatres . The [ irs (; requires that different classes of journal shall deposit with the Kiatesums varying lrrtn 24 000 to 6 , 000 franci , according to their frequency of pub « lication .

      fho second retains tbo old laws against tbe abuses uf the press with some modifications . The third a ' . ' mits the right to meet in clubs , DT 4 fc subjects thera to a previous declaration , and ; oeuTveillance of the police . The fourth proposes a grant of 500 000 francs , to enaWe the theatres of Paris to rc-open . The Grand Opera is to receive a separate crant of lVO . fjOO frar . es . Paris , Wednesday , 11 30 a m —The ^ sscmb ' y baa voted , by an immense majority , the establishment of a permanent camp of 50 , 000 men in Pan ' s .

      SPAIN . THE CABL 1 ST MOVEMENT . The latest dates from tho Spanish fi-nidie ^ state that the Cnrlistshad made great pr-gress in N . warre the town of Estella hiving pronounced in their favour . The town of Estellais onl y second in ^ maortacoe to Pamplouna . In the Basque Provinees the movement has toea cripnled hy the death of General A ' zaa , who was shot on the 3 rd inst . Navarre has been declared in a state of siege . Gen . Eli- * has issued a proclamation to tbe inhabitants of Navarre and tho Basque provinces , which is in sub * stsnee tho snme as tbat ot Cabrera .

      Madrid , July 4 . —Intslli ^ i-nca mournful imnortsneo has boon received by te ' e » raph from the Basque provinees . The young and distinguished Carlist General , Alzaa , has heen taken prisoner and shot . He was captured at Zaldivia , a vilh ^ e near Tolosa , by tho Commandment of the Civic Guard of Guipuzcsn , and put to death at eight o ' clock yesterday morning . No more is known . From his instmt execution , we may gather the nature of the orders whieh tho commanders of the government forces have received in those provinces . All Carlist officers caught in arms against tbe Quten will be shot ; aad of course blord y reprisals will be used by tbe ia * sureents , so that an internecine war , no longer between the government and hordes of banditti , as during tho past yesr in Cata t onia , but with the great authentic body of the CsrJidt party , may be said alreadj tobaro commenced .

      The ministerial papers do net cease to ascribe tha Montemolinist rebellion which has opened so tragically to the machkatwis of Lord Palmerston and tha intripc of the English . Under the e circumstances , if tho war should take an unfortunate turn for the government , I suspect tbat Madrid will not prove aa agreeable residence ft r our countrymen . Cabrera had penetrated within four leagues of Barcelona , pnssing between La Garriga and Cardeden-When the intelligence of his movement was received in the Catalonian capital two-thirds of the garrison sallied out , under the command of Gen . Boignez , so that the troops remaining ing Barcelona were insufficient to do the duty required . Two companies had to come down from Morjuich , and the mnle artillery had to turn out as guard at many posts , so that u any revolutionary elements remain in that city the moment favours their explosion . Other letters in tha same paper speak of the board of conspirators at Perpignan under the presidency of Amettler .

      GERMANY . FATAL EIOT AT FRANKFORT . Some disturbances took place at Frankfort , OS rather in Sachsenhausen ( one of its suburbs ) , on tha night of the 7 th . A person named Lsuz had beea arrested by eight soldiers , who were cbliged to re * t ea *> with their capture into the court ol' a large building called 'The German House , ' the oldea residence of the German knights . The mob demanded the release of the prisoner , and at last stormed the gate . Firing ensued en both sides , and some persons were killed and wounded . According to the latest accounts , peace had been restored .

      RATIFICATION OF THE ARMISTICE BETWEEN DENMARK AND GERMANS ' . Cologne , July 11 . — -A truce for three months between Prussia an d Denmark has been , at last , agreed upon , on the following conditions : —The two duchies ara to be evacuated , except by the military guarding the hospitals , including those in the island of Alsen . The captured vesaels are to be restored by Denmark , which is also to repay the value of the cargoes disposed of . The war-money levied in Jutland by Germany ia to be refunded . A provisional government will be named in common for the two duchies ( the junction of which is recognised )—this government to consist of five members , of whom two will be nominated by either power , and the fifth by the other four . In the case of any misunderstasding , the fifth member is to be elected by England . No member of the present provisional government or of the former central one is eligible .

      ITALY

      PROCLAIMED JUNCTION OF VENICE WITH SARDINIA . Intelligence from Venice of the 3 rd instant , baa reached us , stating that the union of the Venetian provinces with Sardinia was proclaimed on that day by the united voice ot the people , the chamber , and the Civic Guard .

      POLAND . MORE HELLISH ATROCITIES BY THE RUSSIAN MISCREANT . Warsaw , July 4 . —The numerous arresta in different parts ef the kingdom have rendered it necessary that the prisons should be cleared by theremoval of ocmo of the persons who -were confined for the insurrcction in Cncowin 1846 . Forty of them have been condemned to go to Siberia , and were carried off during the night to Modlin , whore four of them were condemned to run tho gauntlet . Mazaraki , who was arrested in Magdeburg , and given to the Russian authorities , received 1 , 000 strokes , Acord 800 , Wenda 500 , Karasinski 500 . Maziraki . after having received 800 strokes , could not proceed a step farther , and . indeed , could scarcely stand ; be therefore was placed on a cart ana dragged through the lines to receive the remainder of the prescribed strokes . The poor f ellow stands very little chance of recovery , for he ia literally torn to pieces .

      ENTRANCE OP A RUSSIAN FORCE INTO MOLDAVIA . Jasst , Juno 26 tb . —The Russian General . Diohamel , who left Bucharest for Reussich Leona , by the Prufcb , has returned to Jassy , and has communicated to the Turkish commissionei s that a Russian army o 2-j , 000 men , cavalry and infantry , had entered tha Moldavian territory , and might be expected that evening at Jassy . A portion of the army had re « mained in Moldavia to protect the government of Prince Stourdzi , and the greater part of the army was continuing its route to Wallachia .

      Murder By Poisoning.—Colchester, Saturda...

      Murder by Poisoning . —Colchester , Saturday July 8 th . —The discovery of a horrible murder , by secret poisoning , and the general belief tbat as many as fourteen or fifteen human beings have fallen victims under a similar diabolical system , has , during the week created the greatest excitement throughout tha eastern division of this county ( Essex . ) For several days past , Mr Codd , the coroner , has been pursuing a most searching investigation into the whole of the facta , and at ten o'clock last nifiht tho inquiry termi « nated , in a verdict of' Wilful Murder against Mary May , ' for feloniously administering arsenic to her brother , the deceased , thereby causing his death .

      Basb Sycophancy . —A colossal statue ofField-Mar . shal the Duke of Wellington has just been completed bv Mr Thomas Milnes . It is intended to be placed in the now barracks in tho Tower of London , sbbocu as the building is ready for its reception . The execution is higly creditable to the talents of the artist . Ho has accomplished the difficult task of representing the duke is the act of speaking . { How many more statues of' the beat of out-throats —vide Don Juan ~ are there to be erected in this disgraced metropolis ? Shame upon this difgu ? ting sycophantic homage , to a man whore whole life has been a curse to his fellow-creatures . ] Statistics of LoNDON . —London , whioh extends its intellectual if not its topographical identity from

      Bethnal-greon to Turnham green ( ten milee ) , from Kentish Town to Brixton ( seven miles ) , whese houeea are said to number upwards of 200 , 000 , and to occupy twenty square miles of ground , has a population of not less than 2 , 000 , 000 of souls . Its leviathan tody is composed of nearly 10 , 000 streets , lanes , sIUfiB , squares , places , terraces , < fco . It consumes upwards ot 4 , 369 , 000 pounds of animal food weekly , which , ia washed down by 1 , 400 000 barrels ol beer annually , exclusive of other liquids . He rental is at least . £ 7 , 000 , 000 a year , and . it pays for luxuries >* imports at least £ 12 000 . 000 a year duty alone , it haa 537 churches , 807 dissenting places of worstuP upward . ! of 0 , 000 public bousep , and ei ^ een tneatws *

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 15, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15071848/page/7/