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      FRANCE . The War against the _Press . —Tha _ultra-Damocraiic and SociVdst journals bave pnhlished tbs following _annouiicament from the representatives of the Montague : — In the serious circumstances in which we are now placed , on the eve of the elections—at this moment , when we have need of all our forces against the coalition oi all the enenves of the Republicthe ex-ma-dstracr of King Louis Philippe has taken npon itself the " task of crushing the press of the people . The Revolution Dsmocratique et Sociale _^ has again been condemned to three years' imprison ment and 10 , 000 * . _ftae , and the' Peuple'to 6 , < J 00 f . fine and five years' imprisonment . Thus , you see , fine assumes tbe proportions of confiscation , and

      imprisonment those of homicide , attacking not only the propertv , but the very life of the press . This is a rigour , an inveteracy , without example even m the worst times of the monarchy ; , _, s war to the aVath . Our duty , tie duty of all republicans , therefore is to come to the succcour of the journals thus stricken- The representatives of the Montague subscribe a sum of five hundred francs in favour ofeach journal , nnd appeal to all the democrats of Paris and the departments . ' ( Signed by the representatives of the Montagne . ) M . Proudhon publishes , in the Peuple / an address to the subscribers and _adherents to the Banqne du People , ' in which he announces that , in consequence of his condemnation to three years ' imprisonment and 3 _, 000 f . fine he abandons his design of establishing the bank .

      M . Proudhon bas retired io Mons in Belgium to draw np his appeal to the Court of Cassation . On Saturday M . Duchene , the responsible editor of the ' Peuple , ' was cited again before the Conrt of Assize , for another seditious article . As he did not appear , he was sentenced b y default to five years' imprisonment , and C , 000 f . fine . The _Assembvt . —On Saturday M . Victor Considerant having obtained leave to put interpellations , went into a complete expose of the Socialist theories which he has for several years advocated in his journal—the alliance of capital aHd labour , - le droit an travail' as correlative to the ' droit de

      propriete , ' and association nnder various forms . He wished ( he said ) to bring about a marriage of reason and inclination between capital and labour , a marriage for a certain term . Ha had studied the matter for twenty-four years , and wished the Assembly to furnish fcim with the means of carrying his theories into practice , and would be content , if he did not fully succeed , to pass the remainder of his days at Charenton . He _ivas heard with the utmost impatience , and continually interrupted with sarcastic observations and roars of laughter . He concluded by demanding a concession of the forest of St . Germain to found a society , and the creation of a ministry of progress , the president of the council being charged with the execution of the several measures . He failed , however , both _is convincing tbe Assembly of the feasibility of bis plans and in obtaining what he demanded .

      M . Anmand Marrast has been re-elected President of the Assembly by a majority of 417 against 95 votes , which were given to M . Dufaure .

      INTERVENTION IN ITALY FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE POPE ! Paris , Monday . —The sitting of the Assembly today has been of considerable importance . It had been made public , hy means of the evening papers last night , that it was the intention of the ministry to make some communication of moment to the chamber , and members had been requested to be in their places at the proper time . M . Odillon Barret ascended the tribune , and read Ihe following statement •—

      ' Citizen Representatives . —When we informed you of the last events of which Italy has been the theatre , the Assembly felt the necessity in which Prance might at a future period be placed to occupy for a time a portion of the territory of the Peninsula . The initiative taken by you on that occasion is the source from which has emanated the authorisation given to the government to take such a measure if it were found useful . Since the vote I speak of , the situation , then uncertain , has been strongly denned . Tiie Austrian gevernment pursues the consequences of its victories ; and might invoke the rights of war with regard to states more or less engaged in the _strueale which had taken place between it and

      Sardinia . The consequence of these events has been felt in Central Italy . Information we hava received announces an impending crisis in the Roman States . ( Agitation . ) France cannot remain _indifferent to iliis . Tbe protection of the French inhabitants , the care of maintaining our legitimate influence in Italy , the desire of contributing to the attainment by the . Roman population of a good government founded on liberal institutions . ( Interruptions and exclamations on the left . ) All these things made it our duty to use the authorisation that had been granted to ns . Jt would be impossible for us to enter into ampler details withont compromising thc object we have in view . In sueh circumstances as these chance must

      have a part allowed to it in what may happen . But ¦ res may now affirm that from our interventions will arise nought but efficacious guarantees for the _interests of our policy—the cause of true liberty , ( _AvSta'ion on the left . ) The government thinks it necessary to state , with the greatest precision , the exact character and bearing of the vote it demands of the Assembly . Being already Invested by it with a power the importance of which it appreciates , it does not renounce tbat power . It asks for no new poww _, and it would regard as unworthy and contrary to its most superior duties any step , by which , changing the position tiven it by the Assembly , it should try to cover its responsibility with that of

      the Assembly itself . In coming before you to-day to demand a credit which is indispensable to government for ensuring the execution of the powers invested in it , government remains , and must remain , entirely responsible forthe consequences involved . That responsibility would not cease till the time when the refusal of this credit would , by reducing it to necessary inaction , in presence of the events impending , prove to it that it is the intention of the Assembly to annul its vote of the 30 th of March , and make abstention a _iuty . The following is in consequence the project of law which the _governrcem ; has the hononr to submit to your delibeiation : — ' 1 st . An extraordinary credit of 1 , 200 , 000 francs en the exercice of 1849 is opened at the ministry of war for supporting the increase of expenses attendant npon keeping on a war footing , during

      three months , the expeditionary corps of the Mediterranean . The extraordinary credit to be divided amongst the divers chapters of the budget of war . 2 adiy . The expenses authorised by the above article shall be provided for by means . of the resources applicable to the wants of the exercice of 1849 . ' * Gentlemen , ' added AI . Barrot , it is needless , after sueh a communication , to point out to the Assembly that it must examine this question as one of urgency . For the success of such measures as these , it is ne . _ccssary that publicity and execution should be simultaneous . 1 therefore demsud of the Assembly to retire instantly into their bureaux , and there examine the question of urgency , and name a committee which shall report speedily enough to allow the Assembly , ia its sittings of this day , to vote on it . '

      The Assembly , having voted affirmatively on the demands of the President of the Council , retired into its bureaux , and named a Committee , which immediately retired to deliberate . The Assembly met again in the evening , at nine o ' clock , when Jules Favre , the reporter of the Commission , read his report . It declared that the proposition of the government was urgent . M . E . Arago demanded of the government ta explain the object of the expedition . M . Odillon Barrot replied , that its object was to protect the dignity and preserve the legitimate influence of Prance in Italy . M . Ledru Roilin followed , and spoke _with such violence tbat he excited the murmurs of the majority of the Assembly against bim . —Times . General Lamoriciere supported the proposition ; M . Scholcher opposed it .

      A division was then called for , and a ballot having besn taken , there appeared for the first paragraph of the resolution 395 , against it 283 ; majority in _favour of Ministers , 112 . The second paragraph was voted without a divi . _sion , and the _Montagnards deserted the house in a body . M . Deville was heard in the mid | t of the confusion calling on his party to withdraw . This _mauteavre succeeded . On the entire proposition being put tothe vote , there appeared for the gevernment resolution 393 , against it 106 ; majority in favour of Ministers , 287 ; hut as only 499 members -voted , and as the regulations of the Assembly require that 500 members shall take part in every vote in order to render it valid , the ballot was declared void for want of an additional vote .

      The house then adjourned , at twenty-five minutes past twelve o ' clock . On Tuesday the ballot was taken for the last time

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      oa the grant of 1 , 200 , 000 francs for the expedition to Italv . Number , of voters , 549 ; absolute majority , 275 : for fhe grant , 383 _; against it , 1 C 1 ; niajorityfor the bill , 227 . The credit _^ s _aword'ngj voted in spite of the Montague , who took no part in the ballot . . _i-if .- r n r _^ _fToTsa _™^ Barbes Ra Albert are placed in he same cell _Blanqui and _Flotte in another , _Raspail , Sobrier , and _^ Men _^ hk _Fum . -The ' Gazette du Bas Languedoc' says that the discovery has just been made that the club-men at Nismes had organised themselves so as to be able- to act mih anly The Socialist way / as it was called , consisted of companies going by the names of Barbes , Baboeuf , Robespierre & c .

      , -,.,.. ,. A letter from Lyons states that a Socialist dinner had been given there , wbich was attended by about 500 persons . The tribune was decorated with four red flags , on which was inscribed the Socialist motto , ' To live by labour or to die fighting . ' It was remarked that a corporal of the Line ascended the tribune and proposed a toast . Duel —A meeting took place yesterday , at five in the evening , between M . Ledru Rollin and M . Deujoy , near the Pont de Neuilly . The parties were placed at twenty paces' distance . M . Ledru Rollin fired , but the pistol of M . Deujoy hung the . The seconds then interposed .

      ITALY . THE SIEGE OF GENOA . [ FROM A _SUPPLEMENT OF THE ' _NOTJVBLLISTE OF marseixi . es , ' of the 9 th APRIL . ] As early as yesterday evening the repot was current in this city as soon as the Ville de Marseille steamer arrived , that another sanguinary conflict had taken place between the people of Genoa and the troops of the government , It will be

      remembered that , in consequence of an emeute , in which the National Guards and the people took part , the armed force , composed of about 1 , 000 men , and not 10 , 000 , as was published hy mistake , was obliged to evacuate the town . But while tbis was going on , the division of General la Marmora , returning from Parma , and perfectly organised , surrounded Genoa , and took possession of the maritime suburb . During two days some murderous engagements took place between the populace and the troops ; the troop 3 had taken possession of some

      new positions . The attack by General la Marmora was postponed , as we have already said , for two days . The town was defended with inconceivable ardour and determination . Priests and women were to be seen hastening , armed , to the barricades . No troops could have entered the town without being crushed by the stones with which the houses had been filled , for the purpose of being thrown upon those making

      the attack . Many houses have been destroyed , and still more damaged by ball and shell . In the hospitals the sick were struck by the projectiles , and the vessels anchored in the port have also suffered more or less . The French steamer Tonnerre and the French traders served as a refuge to our country _, men , as well as to a crowd of refugees of all nations . Happily , at last , the Consular body succeeded in getting an armisticeconcluded for forty-eight hours . [ Which was subsequently extended . ]

      A Turin letter , of the 9 th inst ., stales that the Sardinian government has answered the deputation of Genoa that , if the town surrendered immediately an amnesty would be granted . The only exceptions _would be twelve chiefs of the insurrection , all the military who have taken a part in it , and the individuals guilty of crimes against persons and property . In order to allow the municipality of Genoa time * to consider these conditions the term of the armistice is prorogued to the 10 th . The Lombards who bad advanced towards Genoa were still at Bubbio _, and had not advanced .

      TALL Or" GENOA . Turin , April 12 . —The news I sent yesterday has been confirmed in all its particulars by the accounts , letters , and newspapers brought to-day . Genoa is in the hands of the Piedmontese troops . The" armistice , renewed for another two days , had been followed by the unconditional surrender of the town though onthe understanding tbat there would be a general amnesty , from which only General Avezzana , David Morchio Pettigrini , Constatina Reta , and eight other chiefs of the insurrection , were _excluded , as well as all such military men in

      the actual service of Piedmont as had taken a part in the rebellion . —To-day immense parcels of the newspapers from Genoa and the south of Italy , as well as Florence , Rome , and Venice , have arrived , after an interruption of several days . From private letters which I have just perused , as well as from what you will have seen in the papers before this letter reaches you , you may be certain that , now that Piedmont has decidedly given up the cause of Italian independence ( at least for the present ) _, neither Florence , Rome , nor even Venice , will hold out long .

      Parma . —Reigv tf Tebror . —The 'Piedmontese Gazette' of thu 10 th announces the arrival at Parma , on the 5 th , ot General d'Aspre , at the head of an Austrian corps , fie immediately published a proclamation , ordering the inhabitants of the city . and territory to give up all their arms within twelve hours . The peasants will have them returned to them , on their producing certificates of moTality . Transgressors of this order will be judged by

      courtmartial , and shot within twenty-four hours . By another _proclamation of the same date , General d'Aspre announces that , by order of Marshal Kadetsky , and in the name of his Royal Highness the reigiiing Duke Charles II ., he assumes the civil and military government of the states of Parma ; that all public acts and orders are understood to be in the name of H . R . II . aforesaid , and that Major-General Wimpffen is named commandant of tbe city of Parma .

      VENICE . —In the _siftine ; of the Venetian Assembly of the 2 nd , Manin communicated to that hody the painful intelligence of the defeat of the Piedmontese . He remarked that the ciicumstances were difficult , and tbat it was for the Assembly to determine the course to be followed . A representative having replied that the government ought to take the Lad , Manin asked , Are you , citizens and representatives , determined to resist at every cost ?' ' We are ! was the unanimous cry . * Are you

      dis' posed to give me unlimited powers , that I may do whatever is useful and necessary for the purpose , without my being obliged to give you explanations ?' ' Yes , yes " "was again the unanimous answer . I did not expect less from this generous assembly , ' said Manin , ' and I accept . ' The loudest applause greeted this declaration . The representatives flocked round Manin and embraced him ; he himself was deeply moved . The following decree was then passed : —

      ' The Assembly of Representatives of the State of Venice , in the name of God and the people , unanimously decrees as follows : — Venice shall resist the Austrians at every cost . ' For this purpose President Manin is invested with unlimited powers . ' President . Giovanni Minotto . 1 Vice-Presidents , Ltjdovico Pasini , Gio . Batt . Vare . Secretaries , Pasini , Ruffini , Somma , Valussi . ' ROME . —Letters from Rome , of the 3 rd , state that a popular demonstration took place that day in

      favour of M . Mezzini , in the course of which the general cry was , ' Long live tbe Red Republic ?' Reported counter Revolution of Tuscany . —On Tuesday the French government published the following telegraphic despatch , dated Marseilles , 16 th inst ., nine o ' clock a . m .: — « The Minister of Fr ance to the Minister of Foreign Affairs . Florence , April , 12 . A reaction in favour of the Grand Duke has taken place at Florence . Tbe whole population pronounced with enthusiasm . M . Guerazzi is kept a prisoner in his house . The assembly is dissolved . '

      THE WAR IN SICILY , The peasantry in the neighbourhood of Palermo bad been provided with 10 , 000 pikes six feet long , and with triangular heads . These they had orders to use inpreference to any other weapons , the priests preaching daily in the piazzas , and urging the same counsel—to rush upon the enemy with the p ike , regardless ef anything else but exterminating them . Besides a large force of Frenchmen and people oi other nations , there was a hody of Englishmen organised , about 300 in number , who were called the 1 Milizia Inglese . ' Ammunition and arms abounded , ; round the city a ditch had been dug ten feet deep and ten feet wide , with towers at the distance of 100 feet from one another , each having six cannons .

      A letter from Palermo _^ ays—* All here lend their aid , even the ladies carrying out the earth in small baskets The army musters 50 , 000 men under arms , and is daily on the increase , 25 , 000 labourers are daily at work in the trenches , and work hard too , so that in a week they have thrown up immense works . They are mos enthusiastic , and only stop

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      working to cry , ' death and destruction to the _bourbons . ' We announced in our last the commencement of hostilities , and the hellish attrocities commuted by the Neapolitans , who had commenced the war by burning and slaying without mercy all that came ia their way . CAPTURE AND SACK OF CATAMA BY THE NEAPOLITANS . HELLISH ATROCITIES I

      ( From the Malta papers . ) * The Neapolitan steamer , Duca di Calabria , arrived on Saturday night last , from Messina , with a despatch for the Neapolitan consul in this island _, stating that the royal troops had taken possession of all the coast from Messina to Catania , and particularly of Jaci , with a view to make a simultaneous attack upon Catania by sea and land . On tbe morning of the 5 th , three Neapolitan steamers took up a beautiful position at a short distance from the city , and opened their fire ; the castle and the small forts of the city immediately replied to the jire with much energy and skill , which injured two of the steamers . On that evening the Neapolitans retired ;

      the next day seven steamers appeared , and again opened a terrible fire on the city . The garrison , and the inhabitants returned the fire , like the day previous , in such a manner tbat General Fdanglerl saw that he must make a simultaneous attack on the city by sea and land * , he therefore ordered the troops at Jaci to advance upon Catania . The Swiss were the advanced troops , supported by ? 00 lancers ; the main array , of 16 , 000 foot , and 32 pieces of cannon followed . These attacked the city at a weak point , which was ill guarded hy the Catanians and got in , notwithstanding the obstinate resistance of the defenders . The city then became a real field of battle . As the troops advanced , the resistance became more obstinate ; the assailants , who were fired on from all the houses , and from barricades , became mere ferocious , and the assailed the more

      tenacious to defend the town , which superior force only could take . The city , bombarded by sea and land , was compelled to surrender , and on the morning of the 7 th , a portion of the _garrison , and a great number of the inhabitants retired to the mountains in perfect order , abandoning the city to fire and plunder . The greatest part of the houses were sacked and destroyed . The public library , the palace of the Marquis" of San _Giullann , that of the Prince Careaci , and many other edifices were burnt . About 1 , 700 Neapolitans were killed , and a great number more of Sicilians . Sucb has been the fate of this fine , city and its inhabitants . General Fdangieri immediately published a proclamation , in which he ordered , that within twenty-four hours all the inhabitants should give up their arms to the Neapolitan authorities . Syracuse was to be attacked on Sunday last .

      Her Majesty ' s steamer Bulldog , arrived last night from Syracuse with an account of the surrender of that city . General Werenski , governor of Syracuse , and his staff , came in the Bulldog . An eyewitness of events in Catania says : — ' The Sicilians fought bravely and well all the night of Good Friday , till nine o'clock on Saturday morning . After the battle we landed , and such a scene of carnage and cruelty I never witnessed . The dead and the dying were crowded on each other . The Neapolitans had buried their own dead ; but in rushing through the streets seemed to find a demoniacal pleasure in mutilating the senseless clay around

      them . I saw three soldiers strike their bayonets into a poor fellow breathing hia last , and numberless were those who lay headless in the streets , the victims of a horrible ferocity . Calania is in ashes ; the streets are encumbered with half-burnt rafters : immense logs of charred wood occupy , with broken guns and overturned carriages , the place lately teeming with enthusiasm aud health . The Sicilian dead lie unburied ; the Neapolitans even kick them as they pass—plunge into the midst of the nearly deserted town—reb , plunder , and destroy , and commit every possible atrocity on helpless innocence or decrepid old age .

      Lieutenant Hobart , who was sent on shore on duty , in remonstrating with a Neapolitan dragging out a poor woman to death by the hair , narrowly escaped being put to death by the assassin ' s bayonet . GERMANY . The Frankfort Parliament . —In the sitting of the Frankfort Parliament of the 11 th instant the following motion was madehy M . Kierulf , and passed by a majority of 276 against 159 votes : —• That the German Constituent National Assembly declare solemnly to the nation that it will unshakingly adhere

      to the constitution agreed to and promulgated on the second reading , aud also to the electoral law passed on the second reading ; that it refer tbe report of the deputation to a committee of thirty members to he chosen by the sections of the chambers , in order that a speedy report may be made respecting the measures necessary to be taken for carrying out the constitution . ' This decision of the Assembly may be set down as the rejection of the claim set up by the respective princes ot Germany for a suspending veto with regard to the constitution . The house then adjourned .

      VIENNA . —By order of the civil and military authorities nobody is allowed to wear any apparel of a red colour . Any gentlemen or lady with red cravat er red ribbons will ba arrested and condemned conformably to martial law . Our garrison being diminished to about 8 , 000 men , the rest being parted for Hungary , ail private soldiers had been ordered to keep out of barracks , and are liable to twenty-five lashes if they return before eight o ' clock . This ordinance can only be explained by the wish to show to the public that there i 9 still a sufficient number of men in town to keep up what they call order just

      now

      DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . The Affair at Eckbrnfohdb . —We are enabled to continue the reports of an eye-witness relative to this affair : — ' It is now proved beyond any doubt that rather more than 200 men were blown up in tbe ship of the line , among whom were twelve superior officers , two surgeons , & c . It is a matter of re . gret that our brave non-commissioned artillery officer , Preusser , who had corr . mr . ided the southern battery and been appointed tothe captured vessel , is among the number . A Norwegianivoluunteer _, Lieut . Wedel-Tarlsberg , the son of the Stadhalter of Norway , jumped into the water iu the very moment of the texplosion , and saved himself by swimming to the

      shore . The effects of the explosion were terrible beyond description : maimed bodies , arms , legs , were strewed about in all directions , mingled with pieces of broken timber , ammunition , & c . The frigate is completely riddled , especially by shots through her stern : sixty men were killed and sixty wounded . The Christian VIII . received sixteen shots through the stern from the southern battery , each of which , at an _average , killed three men . The interior of the frigate presents the most horrible spectacle that can be imagined — blood , brains , pieces of flesh , scattered over decks and walls . The

      frigate now rides safely on anchor in the inner harbour . Captain Donner arrived at two o ' clock in the morning , with about 200 sailors , aud it is expected that the ship will , in a fortnight , be sufficiently repaired to use her as a battery , should the Danes try to retake her . The two war steamers are still prowling about the harbour . They have twice seat , a flag of truce to inquire after the fate of the crew of the Christian VIII ., and of Cadet Garde , the son of their commander in chief , who has been saved . The prisoners of war , to the number of 1 , 023 men , among them forty-four superior officers , have been transported to Rendsburg to-day .

      Schleswig , April 15—On the 13 th theimportant intrenchments ou the Duppeler heights were stormed . From 4 ih . to 9 ih . , a . m ., the Germans played upon them with their light field-pieces ; the Danes replied both with heavy and light artillery . The Danish superiority in wei ght of metal exposed ' our troops to considerable loss . About ten a . m . two columns of Bavarians and Saxons were formed to assault the heights . They moved rapidly and steadily up the steep and broken ascent , the summit of which was crowned with breastworks and cannon . Notwithstanding the incessant firing made lanes through their raDks , they carried their point . A number of prisoners were made , and the captured cannon were turned against the enemy ' s ships in the Bay of Alsen , and their intrenchments on the island . The retreat of the Danes was effected in

      utter disorder . The Danes and their conquerors rolled in one cGnfused mass towards the bridge of boats which connects Alsen with the main . To prevent Alsen being also carried by storm the Danes fired upon their own troops . This occasioned the taking of a greater number of prisoners by the _yictors , but added considerably to the loss by killed and wounded on both sides .

      THE WAR IN HUNGARY . Disarmament of . the Austrian Troops in Wallachia . —Vienna , April 7 . — Since my last , news bas arrived that the Austrian troops which had taken refuge in Wallachia were ordeied by the Turkish authorities to be disarmed . Our ministry

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      is furious on this account , and has ordered the _ambassador at Constantinople to demand his passports . If Bern had taker , refuge in Wallachia , and his troops had not been disarmed , our ministers certainly would have made a great noise about the breach of neutrality . . Tbe imperial army has lost , since the commencement of the Hungarian campaign , one-third of its number , by death in battles and in the hospitals . __ .,., „ , . the Honweds is

      The capture of Zomber by ascribed to tbe blunders of Count Albert Nugent , formerly of the Bandenal Hussars , now commanding a Servian corps . Nugent had declared Zomber in a state of siege , and left the place with his troops ihe same night , requiring the inhabitants alio to take to fli g ht . But they preferred to stay and surrender themselves lo the Magyars . , . .. ' i _, The Magyars have advanced in the country of Bacer as far as Verba 3 , and Perczel has thrown him ' self with reinforcements into the fortress of Peterwardein- All imperially inclined had notice to quit the fortress within twenty . four houfs . A battle bas been fought under the walls ef Pesth . The accounts differ so widely that the

      result is uncertain . The Voss Gazelle ot Berlin has a letter from Pesth of the 5 th , which states that Count Schlick had repulsed tbe Magyars , and compelled them to take up a position at Groengios ; but the last bulletin of the Austrian army published at Vienna , says that Count Schlick marched from Hatvan onthe 2 nd , but finding the enemy greatly superior , he fell back on Godollo to await reinforcements . The Ban Jellachich was attacked by . the insurgents at Tapio-Bieska , but one of his divisions repulsed tbe enemy , though greatly superior in number , and took from him five cannons . On the 5 th Field . Marshal Windischgratz attacked tbe enemy at Hatvan , but all tbat is said of it is that adivisipn of cavalry attacked four divisions of Hungarian hussars , and obtained « a brilliant success . '

      Another account says , — 'Abattle has been fought under the walls of Pesth ,, iii which the Austrians fared worst . The left wing of the Imperialists consists of the _Jablonowsky and Goz brigades , which occupy the ground from Waizen to Gyarmath ; the head quarters of the centre are at Godollo , commanded by Count Schliek . Onthe 4 th and 5 th the fighting was very severe , but the Imperialists did not lose an inch of ground . The right wing did not fare so well . Attacked by overpowering numbers it was compelled to fall back . The Ban has approached closer to the centre , thus permitting the enemy to advance nearer to the city . '

      Kossuth is with the Magyar forces . All accounts agree in asserting that the Magyar troops are very numerous , well armed , and accoutred ; thatthey are very near Pesth ; and that they fight like fanatics . A mechanic of Pressburg has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for propagating ' false reports' ( probably perfectly true ones ) from the seat of war . Later accounts are & till contradictory . A letter from Vienna of the 9 th says : — ' The battle of Hatvan has lasted for two days , and when the last news came away was still raging with great fury on all points . ' Another letter of the 10 th says : — 'We

      have just received the intelligence that the Imperial army is before Pesth , and tbat the retreat of the baggage has been going on for forty-eight hours , ' The ' Cologne Gazette / in a Vienna letter of the II th , says : — ' We yesterday learned that the greater part of the insurgent army took up a position on the Rakosfeld , half a league from Pesth , and that a battle was about to take place . To-day we learn that the insurgents have offered battle to Prince Windischgratz , but their forces being superior he retired on Pesth . ' The ' Breslau Gazette' has a letter from Pesth , dated the morning of the 7 th , which states tbat the Hungarian array , under Demhinski , wa 9 under the walls of Pestb , and that the Austrians were flying from the town .

      DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS . —THE HUNGA

      WAN SAT PESTH . The correspondent of the Daily Neivs writes : — Vienna , April 13 th . —I have just received the information that Waitzen was taken yesterday , by storm , by the Magyar army . General Bern left part of his troops under the command of Messaros , and proceeded with the rest to Pestb , tfbere be arrived the day before yeeterday , in the evening . Damianich , one of the best Servian Generals , was taken prisoner by the Magyars . VYelden has left Vienna for Hungary .

      The _Indepmdance of Brussels says , that it was reported at Vienna that the Hungarians had possessed themselves of Buda and Pestb , and were marching on Vienna . A Paris journal , the Tribune des Peoples , has the following : — 'On the 8 th , a battle took p lace near Pesth , and when the courier left , the Imperial troops were retrograding on all their line . The victorious Hungarians were enveloping Pesth on all sides , and fighting was going on in the streets . The triumph of the Hungarians is no longer doubtful . '

      DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The intelligence of Bern ' s victory at Kronstadt has excited the general expectation that he will take the direct road to Bucharest , excite the Wallachians against their oppressors , and the Osmanli , who are quite read y for it , to take up arms against Russia . He is standing at the Rubicon , and if he crosses it , he will fling a brand whose flames will extend to the Caspian Sea . Tbe garrison of Galatz , we know , has already

      left for Bucharest , and 6 , 000 Russians , with thirtytwo pieces of artillery , have entered Wallachia . Bern wrote to General Luders , that he hoped they should eat the passover cakes together at Bucharest . The relation of Austria to the Porte is very precarious , in consequence of the position taken by Russia in regard to both Governments . The breach is as good as mad , * . The Porte has recalled its ambassador from Vienna , and the Imperial internuncio , Count Sturmer , has responded to it by quitting Constantinople .

      The Porte is said to be possessed of information that an alliance exists between Austria and Russia whereby the existence of Turkey is sacrificed for Russian aid . The Turkish government has sent a note to the Austrian government , stating that the Porte alone has the privilege of intervention in Transylvania , and that the intervention of Russia in a territory of the Turkish kingdom in the internal conflicts of a third country cannot be tolerated . The position of the Turks is singular and painful in the extreme . They yield unwilling and dogged obedience to the command of their powerful _neighbour , wbo can at any moment overawe them by a number of Christian rajahs—a neighbour who has suddenlv assumed the Danubian principalities

      as hia territory _» and now demands the transit of the Dardanelles . Austria was their national ally against Russia , and Austria herself has become an ally against them . No marvel , therefore , if Bern finds friends in them and if we are witnesses of the strange spectacle of seeing Hungarians , Poles , and Turks combined against the Christian _Sclavomans of Turkey , and fighting with the Russians and Austrians . Events are not sufficiently ripe to enable us to prophecy what the immediate future will bring forth ; hut they will be seen ere we are aware . The haughty Czarina once said , ' The way to Stamboul is by Cherson ! ' ere long it may be by Bucharest and Transylvania . —Gazette de Cologne , April 11 .

      RUSSIA AND TURKEY . The ' Cologne Gazette' publishes a letter from Jassy , of the 26 th ult ., which states that the relations between the Russians and the Turks were becoming every day more hostile . The . ' Turks appeared to expect a war . According to a letter from Constantinople in the ' Augsburg Gazette , ' the populations of-Turkey were presenting themselves to the recruiting officers with unaccustomed zeal , there being districts which offered to supply double the contingent demanded , lt appears that the

      religious fanaticism of the people had been excited by the promises of a new combat against the infidels _. At Bucharest there were almost every-day collisions between the Russian and Turkish soldiers , and the animosity even extended to the superior officers _. On the other hand , the Russians were arming with vigour . Their forces in the Danubian principalities amount to 97 , 000 men , and a Vienna journal says that the Russian ministry had demanded from the Porte that the period fixed for the evacuation of the principalities by the Russians should be prorogued to the 1 st May .

      SPAIN . Cabrera [ all alive ! alive !] , Forcadell _, and Genfans , who were said to be reduced almost to inac tion , have suddenly united their columns , and attempted to surprise a column of the royal troops . INDIA " . The despatches received from India oa _Wednesdav

      France. The War Against The Press.—Tha U...

      contain full particulars of the decisive victor ) achieved over the Sikhs on the 21 st of February last a brief announcement of which arrived by the last mail . Lord Gough ' s army , which amounted to nearly 25 , 000 men with 100 guns , encamped on the 20 th in order of battle within four miles of the enemy , whose force was estimated at 60 , 000 men with sixty guns . They occupied the ground around the village of Goojerat , in a position as well chosen as the nature , of the countrv permitted .

      The British army moved to the attack early in the morning of the 21 st , in a line nearly three miles from right to left . The action- began with a heavy cannonade , in which our artillery which was admirably served , did such execution that the enemy's guns were speedily silenced . The infantry then advanced , driving the Sikhs before them in the utmost confusion j the cavalry division was sent in pursuit , and hung upon the rear of the flying enemy until nig ht prevented further operations . Of the

      sixty guns which the Sikhs brought into action , fifty _, three were captured , with an enormous amount of ammunition , and the rest have , doubtless , been since taken by the corps detached in pursuit . Nor was tbis really decisive victory purchased by the terrible loss of life which has rendered Lord Gough ' s prsviou 9 battles a source of mourning rather than of triumph . The British army has to lament five officers and ninety-two men killed , and twenty-four officers and G 82 men wounded .

      On the day after the action General Gilbert , with a force of 12 , 000 men , was despatched towards the Jhelum , to seize and occupy Rhota 3 , Attock , Peshawnr , and the whole frontier up to the passes of _Afghanistan . He crossed the Jhelutu on the 28 th , and took possession of the town of that name , with some mortars and ammunition which had been abandoned by the retreating army on that day . The advices from General Gilbert ' s corps reach to the 2 d of March , at which date they had been compelled to halt on their advance to fihotas by the extreme inclemency of the weather . A report had , however , been received that he had taken possession of Rbotas . The principal objects of the campaign being thus achieved , it was expected that the main array under Lord Gough would soon retire into quarters .

      Our advices from the Commander-in-Chief's army are to the 3 d of March , on which day Lord Gough reviewed and inspected the whole of the troops . Permission to return to their appointments had been already given to several staff officers . There seems indeed , every reason to believe that the Sikh chiefs , who have twice sent Major Lawrence to treat for ( hem , will submit to the only terms which have been conceded to them—an unconditional surrender . It was said that Lord Gough had sent in his resignation . No decision had , it was understood , been arrived at as to the annexation of the Puniaub .

      Surrey Sessions.—Saiurdat. Darixo Highwa...

      SURREY SESSIONS . —Saiurdat . _Darixo Highway Robbery by a Female ox Hux okrfobd Bridge . —Ann Phipps , a well-known prostitute , was indicted for stealing a gold watch , guardchain , and a purse containing twenty shillings , from the person of Robert Brooks , a tradesman residing at Kennington . —The prosecutor deposed that , on the night of the 29 th ult ., a little after twelve o ' clock , he left some friends near liungcrford-mar ket , and proceeded across the bridge towards home . When he arrived a little beyond the centre of Hungerford-bridge , the prisoner accosted him , and wanted to induce him to go home with her . lie told her that he was going home to his wife , and that he wanted nothing more to do with her . While thev were talkinsr , a man ran un nsrainst him , and

      nearly pushed him down , when the prisonor snatched his watch and his purse , and ran away . The man held him down while she escaped ; and when he recovered himself , lie found no person near him . Ho ran to the Surrey side ofthe bridge , calling " Stop thief , " and a few minutes afterwards the prisoner was apprehended . In cross examination , prosecutor said that ho was ranch intoxicated atthe time , and he might have fallen down without being pushed . He was certain , however , that his property was all safe when he met the prisoner . —Hughes , the toll collector , on the Surrey side of Hungerfordbridgc , stated that he knew the prisoner well , she being in thc habit of frequently passing over the bridge . On the ni g ht of the robbery he heard £ a man call out " Shop thief , " and immediately afterwards the prisoner rushed past him into the _Belvidercroad . Suspecting that she had committed some offence , he requested a gentleman who was passing

      to pursue her , and prevent her from making her escape . The gentleman ran after her , and directly afterwards the prosecutor came up to him , and told him that the prisoner had robbed _iiiia of his watch , chain , and purse . He remained with witness a few minutes , when the prisoner was brought back , and identified by him as the thief . —Mr . Parr , a tradesman residing in the Blackfriars-road , said , that a little after twelve o ' clock on Thursday ni ght thc 29 th ult ., he was passing along the Belvidere-road , and ho saw the prisoner rush from Hungcrfordbridge . . Last witness called out to him to stop her , as she had robbed a gentleman . He instantl y went in pursuit , and capured her near Canterbury-street , when he saw her throw the purse into the road . He held her until a policeman came up , when tiie watch and guard were found upon her , In defence the prisoner denied having the purse , but thc watch was picked up by her on the bridge . The jury found her "Guilty , " and tho court sentenced her to sik months' havd-laboui * iu Brixton liouse of Correction .

      Uussuns And Circassians.—At A Great Mili...

      _Uussuns and Circassians . —At a great military review which I attended , the mountaineers , of whom some hundreds daily visited Wladikaukas _, seemed to look on with a peculiar interest . Tlieir eagle eyes were immoveably fixed on the rows of muskets in the Russian ranks . The regular movements of thousands at the word of command—the simultaneous clang , like a single report , of the arms during exercise—the marchings , the wheelings , the roll of the drums , ani the music—all this was a spectacle that excited their attention in the highest degree . The exercise was tolerably severe , for it lasted many hours ; the air was cold , snow lay upon the ground , and during the inspection of the _havresacks , the soldiers were required to kneel down on the snow .

      To me the contrast was peculiarly interesting , between the _broad-shoiildered short-nosed llussiaus and the slender Caucasians , witli tlieir aquiline profile , as they here stood opposed iu numbers _cLise to each other . Iu ( he countenances of the one were uniform traits of patience and brute obedience ; every expression that could indicate an independent thought seemed drilled out of them . On the other side , an audacious bearing , a bold mien , every indi vidual a man , a complete hero in himself ! What must these _fogue-ches these T < sc / _tetschenze _# , hare felt at such a sight as this ? Their inward thoughts would

      hardly have been extorted by __ the closest inquiries ; one could only attempt to divine them from tbe expression of their looks . I may have been mistaken , but I fancied that I read in them little that was favourable to the Russian system . These lookslull of pride , hatred and contempt—seemed to say , '' Behold them , the vile slaves , who would fain make us bow under their ruler ' s yoke ! Is not tlieir lot one ofthe most wretched ? Let us thank God that we do not as yet share it with them ; and let us go on fighting to the uttermost rather than become slaves sueh as they aro !"— Wagner s Caucasus and the Land ofthe Cossacks .

      Tyujlxsy . —Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject , whether practised by a monarch , a nobility , or a popular assembly , is a degree of tyranny . —Blackstone . Tkeaso _. y only bears that name when it falls short of success . — Vane .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 21, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_21041849/page/2/