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      W - «» - —— - —gal THE FRBNCH REPUBLIC . THE ELECTIONS . Visp , Saturday . —It * as not till put tsn o ' clock last night that the laborious operation of conntiog and casting up llie jote * for the election of tae < 2 epartaent of the Seine was bronsht to a conclosian . Having comcenced at sine in the morning , it occupied thirteen hours . The v ? ho ! e of the proceeding was exceedingly orderly , and there wss very little appearance of excitement even amocgthe people congregated in the neighbourhood of the Hotel de Ville . The last rote * added to the list ¦ were these of the

      army and the Garde Mobile . The operation was presided 87 er by M . V g » , the major of the fifth arrondissement , assisted by the other eleven mayor-adjoints of Paris , and M . Flotterd , the general secretary oi the mayoralty . "When the whole of the lUta iad been sammed up , the twelve mayors carried the returns to M . Marrast , the mayor of Virus , who imrsediately afterwards appeared in an estrade in front f the Hotel deVillc , surrounded by the assistant mayors , and proclaimed the following thirty-four persons as having b ? en elected representatives of the department in the National Assembly : — 1 M . Lamsrtine , member of the Provisional Government ... ... ... 259 . 800

      2 Dapoat , de l' ^ are , idea ... ... 245 083 S Fr » ncois Arago , idem , „ ... ... 243 _ 6 tO 4 Garnier Pages , idem ... ... ... 210 . 830 5 Ksrrast , idem ... ... ... 229 . 166 6 ilsrie , idem ... ... ... ... 225 , 776 7 Creinieux , idem ... ... ... 210 , 699 8 Bsrssger , Chaaioanier ... ... ... 204 , 271 9 Carnot , Uiniiter of Public iMtnrction ... 195 , 606 10 Bethtsont , Minister of Agriculture and Commerce ... 189 , 252 11 Duvivier , Gentrsl Commandant of tbe Gards

      Mobile ... ... ... ... 182 , 175 12 Ferdin&Ed de Laitejrie , aacust deputy ... 165 , 38 Varin , ancientdepaty ... ... ... 151 , loS 14 CiviJgnac , Qovernor-GenK&I of Algiers ... . 18 T 15 Berger , ancient deputy ... ... 135 , 669 1 C Psgaerre , Secretary-General of th « ProTisionsl Government ... ... ... 133 , 117 17 BuchtE , Adjunct to the Major of . Paris ... 1 S 5 € 78 IS € onnenlB , President of ths Conncil of State 155 . 650 38 Corbon , cmcrier sculptor on wood , and rftiscteur « s chef of the . ifelUrpaper ... ... 125 , 0 * 3 S 3 CenJEidiere , Prefect of Police ... ... 133 , 775 21 Albert , member of the Proriiiontl Govtrnmett ... ... ... . ¦• 133 , 041 S 2 'Wolowiy . profeisor atth « Soaservatoire aes

      Arts et Mitiers 1 S 2 . S 38 2 S Psnpin . currar Mrlojier ... ¦•• 131 , 969 2 t Ledru-Rollia , member of theProvisien *! Government ... ... ... •¦• 181 , 587 25 J . F . Schmltn , eserier ... ... ... 124 , 283 25 Plocon , znimbtr of she Provisional GoTernmeat 121 , 865 27 Louis Blanc , idem ... ... ... 121 . 140 23 Reenrt , Adjanct to tke Mayor of Paris ... 118 , 075 29 Agrical Pcrdigiaer , outrr icr wCTiwrfsr ... 117 , 290 89 Jules B »» tide , UnSer-Secretary of Stats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... 11 O . 22 S 51 Csquerel , PrsteBUnt clergyman ... ... 109 , 934 52 Garnon , ancient deputy ... ... 106 , 717 oa GuiuMd , colonel of the artillery ef the Xat iosal Guard 166 , S 4 Abte Lameanals 104 , 871

      At the head of the list of UESUccessful candidates was M . Morean . formerly one et the deputies of Paris , who had 09 388 rotes , and M . Boissel , also a gepnty for Paris in the late Chamber , who had 93 . Totes . The ceremony of proclaiming the representatives wa 3 very picturesque . Tha Eq _ uare in front ef the Hotel de Ville w » 3 occupied bj 10 . 000 National Guards , cavalry and infantry , and the estrade was lighted bv a body of the Garde Mobile earrjiag torches . None of the candidates were present , with the exception of M . Marrast himself . After the announcement the Hotel de Ville was illuminated . In the above list the known ultra-Democrats are—Corbon , ouvrier , carver in wood , and principal editor of L'Amjeb , Canssidiere , Prefect of Police , Albert , ou « rier , LsdrO / Rollin , Flocon , Louis Blanc , and Guinard , Colonel of Artillery of tha National Gnard . It isbelieved . however , that several more in the above list will declare themselves on the Diraoeratic aide .

      The Refohue thus expresses itself on the elections : — ' We expected thst the elections would be very bad , hut the resnlt , it must be avowed , has exceeded our expectation . We have said under what influence the ballot was everywhere opened . Tfce functionaries of the fallen reign had only to follow the track which the practice of seventeen yearsmnsfc have rendered easy . The monarchic tree , which we only pruned , has borne its fruiti . It wai this league of royal functionaries that the commissaries of the government had the mission to counteract without doubt ; but the latter had at the same time to promote t&eir candldafceshfps , and when they did not compromise with the parties who could injure them , we may at least believe that they refrained from

      irritating them . In that generaUy , and with some exceptions , has their dictatorship resulted . We could not desire more to show that all the circulars of the citizen Minister of the Interior were right , if thej required to Ire justified . When we demanded that tae incompatibility of the royal commissaries ia the departments with theadministration of which they were charged shouid be formally decreed , sur precaution , S 3 has been seen , was correct . Tha reaction has donetna rest . It has also continued ihe sy&t&m of { he menarchy ; it has Bounded the alarnii cried com munism and anarchy , and it was under this sort of panio that many gosd people voted . But let ua have catience . The ballots are changeable , and we are gifted with perseverance which nothing can

      dis-60 uTZ £ 3 M . filers has not been elected ; MM . de Remnsat snd Leon de Mallenlle have been returned for the department of the Upper Garonne , Three prelates have been returned for the Assembly : the Archbishop of Paris ib returned for Aveyron ; the Bishop of Orleans , for Lozirre ; and the Bishop of Quimper , for Fuiisterre . Leon . Faucher has been elected . Among the well-knowa members of the Chamber of Deputies , who have not sscured seats iathe National Assembly , M . Emile de Girardip is one . He has Ijeenthrownoutby hialatecorstitneDts at Bourgaceaf , to make room for one of M . Ledrn-Itollin s commissaries .

      "Dp to Tuesday evening , accounts have been received of ths result of apwards of 600 elections . The members returned are mostly moderate Republicans , bat a considerable number of monarchists and legitimists have also been elected , and amon ? them the Marquis de Larochejsquelin , the Vfscounfe de Falloux , M . Combsrel , de Seyval . and severalothers who had seats in the Chamber of Deputies . The Bishsp of Langrea and several priests have also been returned . Murat , son of the famous Marat , King of Naple 3 , has been elected . THE DEPABTHESK—SERIOUS AKD EAKGUISABT CDST 1 STS . Rouek . — A serious emevte broke out at Rouen on the 26 th . Groups of workmen assembled in the Pises Saint Oaenand discussed the probable results

      , of the elections . A man having cried , ' Deschamps \ rill not be neminafeii ! ' a crowd of men in blouses r&a after him . The National Guard having tried to Btop them , a collisisn took place . Though it was without gravity , an imposifig force cf infantry , hussars , artillery , and National Guard turned opt , and the Hotel de Ville was occupied . At afoot nine o ' clock in tha evening a band , composed of 200 per-MQ ? , paised along the quay ? , shouting' A bas i'As-63 Eblee Nationale V and ' Vive Deschamps ' . ' afid sineing tne Ca ira . Near the Rue Sfc Lo , a company Of National Guards separated tke crowd , whereupon there were cries of' Down with the National Guard Down with the aristocrats ; ' On the Place des Cannes 2 . troop of dragoons dispersed a crowd , who cried Down with the dragoons . After passing alone the

      Place Sfc Ouen , which was ocenpied by the National Gnard 3 and hassara , the people dispersed . The night pased eff quietly . In the morning of the 23 th much agitation wa 3 again visible . Bands of young men approached the National Guards Iposted near the Hetel de Vilie , and endeavoured to irritate them by making ose of insulting expressions . A fatee report wa 3 soon after raised , that tha people Mad been fired on , and a general cry was raised of' Aux aimes ; ofl as = a ; s ! ne nos freres ; ' At the game time a patrol of National Guards were attacked , and an attempt made to disarm them . This attempt only succeeded in part , and tnS National Gnard 3 at length reached the Botel de Ville . Stones were thrown at tlie armed fore-. A picqnefc of dragoons and some National Guards a cheval charged the crowd , and cleared the

      square . In the meantime barricades were raised _ in seTera ! parts of the town , but they were soon carried tiy the troops . As night approached the rioters became emboldened , and attempted to defend themselves . One man was shot , and another killed by a thrust from a bayonet . As soon as the conflict began , the government commissary went to the Hotel de Ville to concert measures of defence with the municipal authorities and the cominandacts of the armed force . Several were killed and" wounded . At midnight order had been very neatly restored . The journals of Rsuen , of Friday , state that the authorities only attempted the seizure of the barricades after the legal formalities cf summoning the insurgents to surrender hadbeenexerclsf i . When these were witktreatedcon . leapt , a sharp Sre from musketry and cannon was opened upoa the barricades , and the mo 3 t important

      of them surrendered after s terrible resistance . This was in the streets near the Clos St Marc , but near the Martaiaville the insurgents held cnt , and a fire of musketry- was . kept up for an hour , at the end of which the insurgents in that quarter made an" unconditional surrender , and ex pressed ereat contrition for their conduct . The Gaveniment Commissary , M . Desehamps , and the ProvhloEal Mayor , M . Lebelleau , then went thwash the streets which' had been tha scene of disaster , proclaiming p eace and conciliation . Uniappily , howerer , the conflict W 83 renewed . Tue people threw stone ? , and fired at the escort of 3 corami-sary of police , and bezsTL to conBtractner barricades in tha quartiers Mat" * -ainvill 8 and St Hilaire . anderen on Boulevardsbsah ' cgthesen _ ame 3 . A charge ws 3 made by the caTslry u ^ e . a the insur-

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      gents on the Place St Hiliare , and they were driven as far as the railroad bridge on the road to Darnefcid . Three of ths insurgents were killed in this attack . At Saint SeTer there was a large body of insurgents , but these also were routed , and fled across the plain . A barricada was carried by gome National Guards , and tha infantry of tha lisa coming up the pumit of the insurgents was continuedthey attempted to maintain a stand at a barricade at the end of the Rue d'Elbeuf , but it was carried , and two of the defenders lost their lives . Daring th £ remainder of the day the insurgents were comparatively quiet , with the exception of an attack upon & patrol from the windowi of some houses in the Rue Martainville . None of the patrol suffered ; but the Sre being returned , two of the assailants were killed . Up to three o ' clock in the . morning , the date in the article in the Journal de Rouen , no

      farther attempt ; bad been made by tha insurgents , and such precautions had been adopted that it was not thought probable they t ? onld resume their criminal enterprise . The city , however , was still in a state of consternation . The number of killed on the two days is est mated at twenty-two ; but that of the wounded could not be ascertained . It does not appear that there bas been anyserioua loss on the side of the National Guard and the troops . Two hundred and fortyfoar persons have been arrested ; amongst them is M . JDuraBd . deputy-mayor , trad chigf of a dub . A body ol 1 . 200 of the Garde Mobile left Paris on Thursday evening for Ronea . The Joussal de Roubh adds that the workmen of Elbeuf have also risen , and ammunition had been sent off to that place for the troeps and the National Guards . One account states that fifteen or twenty National Guards were killed .

      The Rkfoeue of Sunday , commenting on these sad events gays : — 'The reaction has reached its height . It has separated the nation into two camps—it has established between two classes of citizens that line of demarcation which tha Revolution of February had effaced . The contest between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat has recommenced . Blood has beea shed at Ronen ; it has bsen shed at Elbeuf— a precious blood , whatever may be the rank of the fallen vietimB , and which will snly wflsct the more implacably o& those workers of discord whose receptacles are beside us .

      ' Yes , it is through the instigation ef all those barefaced organs of the two last reigns that the nation is in & disturbed and agitated state—the nation , a little ago so calm , and in which all sentiment ? seemed te be confounded in an equal love ef country . No ; it is not to the commissaries of the government that these disorders are te be attributed ; to those commissaries of the government against whom the popslation has been so often stirred up on their arrival , and even before they had done any act of authority . A p d do they know well whose agents they are , those instigators of civil war ? Did they n 9 t then see the ambassadors of St Petersburg and London at their windows , observing their deed 3 of proweEs on the 16 th of April .

      ' But let patriots rally together , let them discipline themselves : let them be ready for every event , for the danger is imminent , and the moment is not , perhaps , far distant when they may have need of all their courage . * THE ISSUKRECTIOTf AX EOOBJf . —FUBTHER PiKTICCLAB " . Rouen , April 29 . —After two dayi of sanguinary fighting the battle ceased at twelveo'dock this day , but it is to be apprehended that it will recommence at the first opportunity . It has been impossible to ascertain the number of killed and wounded , as each narty removed their mea as they fell . More than 300 of the insnrgentB have been made prisoBers . It was found necessary to carry every barricade with the bayonet , under the protection of vollies of

      grajseshot . The town has beea put under martial law . The chief command has been given to General Ordonner . Sentinels are placed at each house , and a strong guard is stationed st the corner of every street , supported by cavalry and artillery with lighted tnatcbe 3 . It is estimated that there are 30 . 000 operatives in the town of Rmen , and donble tbe number in the vallies adjoining , but the latter refused to riee , saying they had no arms . Some columns of insurgent * quitted Ronen this morning to excite an insurrection at Elbosaf . Louviers . and Evreus . Theysucceeded only at Elbosuf , but their triumph was short , for a military force despatched from Paris , and assisted by the National Guard . 8 uc « eeded in fcuppreuine the insurrection .

      At Elfcceaf the National Guards and the troops of the line had taken possession of all the posts oecupied by the rioters . The general commanding the 14 th military division and theProcureur General of Rouen had arrived in that towe , for the purpose of restoring order , ac < 3 examining into the affair . HfSERRECnONS AT AMIESB , KISMES , KOCHPOET , AND

      UM 0 OE 3 . Accounts have also been received of severe disturbasces which broke out on Saturday at Amiens . The ouvritrs went in a body to the residence of the mayor , to demand that they should be paid their wages on Easter Tuesday , the day of the elections . Tha National Guards and the line were immediately called out , and the crowd having attempted to force their way into the Hotel de Ville several collisions took place between the people and the troops . The mob then b ? gao to build ba rlcade . 3 in the different streets , but the National Guards and the troops took them without any great difficulty , and by the last accounts the rioters had been completely put down . Only one person is stated to have been killed , but a ^ reat number were wounded- Eighteen of the rioters have been taken .

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

      possession , in spite of the remonstrances oi the employees , of the proces verlaux ef the caaton , and the balleting of the army , which were immediately tern to pieces . Immediately afterwards menacing bands paraded the city , disarmed the posts of the National Guard , seized the ^ annon and the magazine . The National Guard immediately assembled , but the colonel gave them orders to disband , and the city was then in the power of the insurgents . A committee was immediately formed , and took on itself the administration of the department . Happily no set of violence to person or property was cemmitced . Some of the National Gnard have been slightly

      wounded . There have been serious disturbances at Nismes and Marseilles . Limeges was still in the hands of the ' insurgents / but tranquility prevailed . THE HALI . OP THE HATIOHAL ASSEMBLY . The JouBNAL DES Debats gives the following account cf the arrangements of the new Hall of the National Assembly : — The shorthand writers , commissioned to report the debates of the new National Assembly , held " another meeting on Thursday in the hall of the bureaux of the old Chamber of Deputies , for the purpose of appointing their syndics ; The new hill of the National Constituent Assembly will be immense ; its form is oblong , with a eircular termination of the extremity which faces the tribune and the arm cfcair of the President . The bencheB are wood , c-. vered with green baize . The representatives of the Republic will be seated leas comfortably than

      in the theatres ; they will be separated from each ether by a rail , covered with baize . Tbe decorations of the tribune and the enstaible are pale green and yellow . About the chair of tbe President ie suspended a sort of drapery resembling the curtain of a lsr- ; e theatre . On the right and lei tare inscri bed in large capital letters the magw words , ' Frehch Republic , Liberty , Equality , Fraternity . ' The hall , which is very well lighted by a double row of trans-Terse casement ? , will be illaminated at night by nine lustres , arranged in three parallel lines . To the reporters of the public press will be assigned ninety places ia the fribanes , and these places will be tbe nearest to the bureaux of the President . The tribune of the 'Editors-in-chief will hold forty two persons . The places reserved for the public without tickets are attheecd of the hzll in the mo ^ t elevated part ; tney are isolated from the other tribunes , and are eatered by a separate staircase . '

      The Jocbsal des Debats publishes the following decree , signed by the members of the Provisional Government : — ' Tbe provisional government , considering that the principle of equality implies an uniformity of costume for the citizens appointed to perform the game function ? , decrees , — The representatives of the people shall wear a black eoat , a white waisceat with lappels , bl . ick pantaloons , and a tricolonred silk scarf , ornamented withgold friDge . They shall attach to the buttonhole on the left side of toeircoat a red riband , on which shall be embroidered the fasces of the Republic . 'Done at a Government Council held on the 30 th of April , 1848 . '

      M , Goizot . —The National announces on authority that M . Ga zit was married ia London three years since to the Princess Lieven , It was agreed for political reasons that tie , marriage should be kept secret as long as M . Gaizit ; remained in office . The Louvre . —The provisional government has decreed that the Palaca of the Lonvre sbsll be terrninated , that it shall take the name of the * Palais du Peuple , ' that U shall bs destined to the exhibition « f paintings , manufactures , and to the national The elections throuahout ' La ' VemJSe had all turned to the advantage of ' the Legitimists , and it is Eaid that net one Republican has been elected .

      TEE CLUBS . OF PARIS . ¦ ' ( From the TiYB « . ) = ¦ Brim's Cltjb , April 26 . —Although I arrived at an early hour , the crowd was bo great that I could scarcely obtain a ; seat on my entering the house . The meetings of that club are held in the concert

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      room at the Conservatoire de Musique , snd the boxes whish ara usually occupied by visitors were thronged yesterJay evening with nltra-republioaps . The reaction' continues to be the all-absorbing topic discussed in the club . M . Blanqui addressed the asapmbly on the events of Rouen : he said that a serioas and painful conflict had taken place in the capital of Upper Normandy between the ' Reictionnaires' and the people ; tcac women , children , and unarmed and inoffensive cifz ns , had been cruelly butchered by the National Guard and the troops , whom he compared to ' bull-dogs' trained for the purpose of worrying and mangling the working class ^ a . Ho stated that the troops who have been lately brought into Paria under the pretext of fraternising with the NationalGuard , had been quartered in private

      housee , where they we ^ e gorged with wine and filled with hatred of , the penpla . He had heard with his own hearg the ' Rfiietioncaires' aay to tbe troopa , There are 20 , 000 p oramuniats in Paris ; you mast assist us in exterminating them . ' The same means had been resorted to at Rouan to induce the soldiers to Bide with the National Guard , and murder tbe people , whom the' Reaotion' hated . The events of Rouen would soon be renewed , he said , elsewhere , and the conflict would finally end in Paris . M . Blanqui did not attribute the responsibility of these crimes to the trosps , who were mere ' instruments ' ia the hands of those who had made them their aocomplices , but be foresaw events of the most dismal nature hoveriBg over the prospects of France , and could wish himself ' far away , not to witness the misfortunes of his country . '

      Several other orators addressed the olub on the disturbances of Rouen , and one of them , who had just arrived from that city , stated that when ho J « ft ( Friday morning , ten o ' clock ) , 62 persons bad been killed . A member of tbe olub having protested against tha term ' bull-dog , ' applied to French soldiers , censured M . Banqui for using so unqualified an expression , M . Blauqui reminded the assembly of the massacres of the Hue Tran 8 nonais , where he raid a young girl had been shot dead , and several infanta cruelly butchered in their cradles ; that it was

      absurd to contend that soldiers could Eot do wrong because they were Frenchmen ; there were bad men in every country , and those who could be guilty of the crimes which had beea committed in the Rue Traasnon&in and now perpetrating in Rouen , wero not soldiers—they wero assassins or wild beasts . He reminded tbe club that aristocracies had ever 1 trained' a portion of the people to defend them against the other . His statement , he added , was borne out by tha history of every nation , but' in the end the people have invariably united to crush aristocracies . '

      FDRTHEB ACCOUNTS FROM THB DEPARTMENTS . Pabis , Tuesday . — Tke ' Committee of Public Safety / established a& Linage ? , ' retains possewioo of and governs that town . Ia Nantes and etbei quarters , movements with similar views are apprehended . At Nantes deplorable disorders have oc curred .

      ACITAMOH in PARIS . The correspoEide&t of the Timss writes as follows — ' I cannot say . with truth that appearances have improved since I wrote you this ( Monday ) , far ranrmra of iatended actions by the Communists and Sections are repeated every moment , and an address of the ' Club of the Rights of Man , ' of a violent and menacing kind , bos been posted up throughout Paris . It calla upon all true Republicans to be prepared to protect the Republic , which it declares in danger . This document , which has caused some sensation , is signed by Napoleon Leboa-Huber , and Armand Barbes .

      • The language of the speakers , and the proceedings at the club presided over hj M . Blanqui were last night , even more threatening than usual . The unfortunate occur / esces at Rouen were the theme of all ths speakers . Ic was > esolved to address the Provisional Government demanding the instant Mmoral of the troops from Paris , an immediate pro-Beention of General Geirard , and other officers commandinfir at Rouen , as well as tbe dissolution of the Garde Bourgeoise , 'for / said the speakers , 'they are not National Guards . '

      ' The representatives of the peeple , ' aays the Reforme , ' are the representatives of the privileged classes . Let us organise a resistance to the attacks they are meditating against our rights , in order that the day en which onr rights shall be openly betrayed or denied may find us united and prepared , but let not our legitimate irritation anticipate that decisive hour . Every partial rising is at this moment a crime and a fault—a crime , for it causes the pureBt blood to &ow uselessly ; 3 fault , because it retards the definite establishment of the Republic on the basis of equality snd fraternity . '

      ABOLITION OP BLAVERY . The Monitedb publishes a decree signed by the members of the Provisional Government , abolishing fally and completely slavery in the French colonies . Tbe system of engagement for a fixed period established in Senegal is likewise abolished . The amount of the indemnity to bs paid to the owners of slaves is to be regulated by the National Assembly . The present decree is to take tflect in the French colonies in tire months from its date . STATE OP PARIS .

      Fans was tranquil op to Wednesday forenoon , that is , no disorder of any Kind had bsen committed—but there existed a great deal of agitation . According to the Times , the language of the club 3 was becoming hourly more menacing .

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      THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION . GERMANY . INSURRECTION AT FRIBURG . Badeh . —The town of Friburg , close to the B ' aok Forest , has been the scsne of great riot and tumult . Under pretext of holding a public meeting , about 2 , 000 peasants came to Friburg last Satarday , the 22 nd ult . They were all armed , partly with guns , lances , scythes , bludgeons , &o . After the meeting was over , which passed some resolutions of a Republican and Communistieal tendency , the whole maB 9 constituted itself into a regular little army ; the leaders were chosen , an attack upon the gates of the town wassuddenly mad * , and the whole town put in tne greatest alarm . The Burgomaster and the

      magistracy called out the National Guards ; but , as it appears now , tb . 3 meeting having been called with the connivance of Borne of the magistrates of the town , no attack was made upon the riotous peasante , but a parley entered into with them ; the peasants gave up their posts at the gates , but they insisted on remaining in the town dnriDg the night , and threatened even to enter the priyate houses if the magistracy did not assign to them proper places of reEt . Deceived by false reports of Heeker ' a defeat , they had at first the intention to march to Qecker ' s assistance soon after midnight , but probably , on finding themselves too much exhausted , they deferred their intention to the next morning .

      Meanwhile troops had been sent from all directions to the assistance of Friburg ; they arrived by railroad and quick marches at noon on the 23 rd , when one detachment waB attacked suddenly by aconsiderable band of peasantry coming from the fields . That detachment was commanded by General Hoffmann , and fcbe fight lasted from three o ' clock in the afternoon until six o ' clock . The peasants were completely routed and dispersed , and the town completely enclosed by troops on all sides . The insurgenti barricaded tbe town and the streets and defied all attack . Genf ral Hoffmann , wh p during the night had ordered a sufficient park of artillery to be brought np , summoned the town to capitulate , and , upon its refusal ,

      the town was bombarded yesterday morning from half-past four o ' clock until twelve o ' olcck , upon which the Nassau troops took it by storm . A great many of the insurgents have been made prisoners , but the majority have taken flight . The town is said to have Buffered considerably , and the number of killed to be more than sixty . [ This account is from the pen of an enemy ] An artilleryman who had deserted to Hecker , the Republican chief , was brought to Carlsruhe ia order to be shot ; a little commotion of the crowd standing near took place , amongst whom another urtillerjman drew suddenly a large knifeagainat an officer ; but the latter killed him on the spot with his sword .

      MORE RISIKG 3 . AtManheim , on the 27 th of April , a sanguinary contest took place between the troops of Nassau and insurgents , armed with scythes . The drums were beaten to arms ; the civic guard quiekly assembled ; one ofthe boats of the floating bridge had been Bet adrift to hinder the arrival of the Bavarian troops from Ludwigshafen . . Quiet was reestablished about six o ' clock , and the Nassau troops were sent into their quarters . A deputation of the townspeople went off to Carlshnre , to demand that the troops should be ordered to leave the town . There were some killed on both aides .

      An attempt at an outbreak was also made at Ileidelberg on the 24 th ulfc . About four _ hundred peasants , armed with guns , scythes , and pitchforks , entered the town , proceeded to the house of the Fresident ( Winter ) , and demanded the proclamation of a Republic . Meantime they were surrounded by the burgher guard and a body of student ? , and upon being summoned to lay down their armSi they did so without resistance . According to accounts from Carleruhe , of the 27 th , the Republican movement in the Grand Duchy of Baden is nearly at an end . Heoker was still at the head of a small band . M ; Herwegb , the demagogue poet , is with the Republicans , together with his amiable lady , who wears a kind 0 ! amasone dres ? , two pair of piste h in her belt . and a sabre , and declares that it will ba the happiest moment of her life in which she shall kill an anti Republi can officer ,- —Mornino Po ^ t .

      The opening of the Constituent Assembly at Frankfort has been adjourned till the lSt-h inst . Tbe Berlin papers have ceased publishing , inconscqaence of a strike of the whole of the compositors andpres&men . Bavaria . —The Minister of Finance of Bavaria had declared that they had not the means of repaying the depositors in the savings bank—in other words , that the government was bankrupt .

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      _ POLAND . Math es Pobei » . ~ H : is admitted both by Germans and Poles that excesses , murders , robberes , and divera acts of revolt and outrage , have be . -n committed even in the very city ef Posen itatlf . On the one hand , the German papers and repu-ta , not only of German correspondents , but of tbe Prussian military and oivilauthorities , attribute the reprehensible and brutal proceedings to the Polec who are declared to be the ^ g ^ ressora . Addresses , publicly placarded , from the German populations co their couutryraen in other provinces , call for protection , and demand tbe incorpftrflticn of the Gsi'iurvn circles or districts with the Germanic Confederation . The result of this has been a most unequivocal reaction in the minds of all Germany against the Poles , and with it a loss of those sympathies which are so essential to the ultimate success of their cause .

      Now listen to the other side . The Poles declare that they have not been the aggressora—that they took up arms , which they have consented to lay down peaceably , solely in self-defence . They do not deny that excesses havo been committed , but they aB 3 erfc that these exoessea have been perpetrated against snd not by them ; that their countrymen have b ^ en inBulted , maltreated , stabbed , murdered , and plundered by Jews and Germans , under the eyea and wi ! h the applause of Prussian soldier * . They profess to have conducted themselves with admirable patience asd endurance . They add that antiPolish

      tha - accounts transmitted to the German preBs , and thence diaBeroinated throughout Europe , oneinate with interested German functionaries , who hold all the administrative offices in the duchy , and who are fearful of losing for themselves and families their numerous official places , which have become almost hereditary in their families . They refer for tha truth of these assertions to General Willissen , the Prussian Commisaiary , who has returned to Berlin , and to M . Dtdier , the agent of M . de Lamartine , who was sent to Posen ( city ) , and other places , to ueport to his government upon the actual condition of the two populations .

      Such iaan outline of the declarations of the contending elements , which contention , unless promptly terminated by some definitive and decided measures , muatlead to the worst of all evils—a civil irar . Fur although tbe Poles have consented to lay down their arms , and to dismiss the ssythemen peasantry , who followed their nobles to the different campstheir hearts are burning with animosity against the German population , and above all against the Jews , who have twen foremost in the outrages of which they complain . Unfortunately , however , the teriiterial arrangement appears to meet with difficulties . A deputation of Poles have arrived at thii place to remonstrate , and protest against this project , as laid down by the Prussian government . Tier declare test if

      the duchy ( which contains about l , 200 , 0 & 0 inhabitants , of whom , according to German statistics , 700 000 are Germans , and 500 000 Poles , and according to Polish statements exactly the reverse ) be stripped of so large a portion of territory , this not would be nothing more nor lees than a renewal of that oppressive act of partition against which tbe Poles have constantly struggled , and from the odium of which Prussia professes a desire to liberate herself by re-establishing Polish nationality in the duchy . The deputation , after having set forth their readi » neas to unite for the restoration and maintenance of tranqaility , and their willingness not ta rotain more

      than four battalions and five or six squadrons of regular or irregular troops , positively assert that they may and will submit , for the present , to the separation complained of ; but , if those populations who are German by encroachment , and aot by descent—Germans through the medium of absorption , and the introduction of Gorman functionaries , settlers and purchasers of property and not by hereditary or historical right , be torn from the proposed nucleus of regenerated Poland , they , the Deputies and the Committee , their employers , will never consent to set their hands or seals to what they regard as an act of spoliation .

      The death of Count Potoeki having produced an immense sensation in the Ducby of Posen , we think it right to extract from the Posen papers the- following letter , written by an eye-witness , a German , ana ntteBted by the principal inhabitants of the town of Znin : — Znin , April 10 , 1818 . Tbe proclamation of the Central National Committee announcing the reorganisation of tbe Ducby has been received by all tha inhabitants of Znin wiih the llvtllett joy end confidence , A local committee , composed of Polts and Germans , was immediately formed . Peace and unanimity prevailed everywhere . On tbe 4 th of April , the Prussian troops entered , expelled the Foliah authorities , and re-established the formcrorder of things . Several peraons wero arrested , ill . Created in tbomoet cruel manner , and cent in chains to the for tress of Bromberg and of Graudenss . Others fled to save their lives- Tbe soldiery plundered their houses ; and what

      could not ba carried away was destroyed by them . After three daya of grossest violence and tyranny , the Fomera . nianfi Uftus , and we began to brcutho again , and all was joy and bapplneso . In order not to disturb peace by tbe slightest change , we allowed to contiaue the regime introduced by the soldiery . A few deluded Germans , instigated by the Jews , pretending to consider themselves in danger , Bent again for assistance , and on the 9 th an . other company of Boldtere entered tha town . The commanding officer , seeing how little occasion there jvas for alarm , expressed himself very strongly against thoBe who called ia the military . Shortly afterwards , the insulting conduct of a soldier , who tora off the Polish cockado from a gentleman ' s breaot produced the greatest irritation among the iBhabitants . Crowds gathered in tbe streets , the tocsiu was rung , and in the space of a few hours the town was surrounded by banda of peasants , armed with sojtbes , pikes , and pitchforks , who came from the neighbouring villages in the belief that tbe soldiers wero murdering the inbabitants .

      The soldiers would have been easily overpowered by the great masses of scythemen , and they were already on the point of lading down their armB , when Potoeki , the proprietor of Slemlour , a highly esteemed person by alt parties , threw himself as peaco-maker between the opposed ranks , and entered into a conference with the general , who also arrived at that critical moment in the town . Au agreement was made . Both parting were to leave the towa . The general gave his word of honour 1 hat the soldiers should be kept from all hoBtlle feeling towarc ' 8 the Poles . As a pladtjB he garo his hand to Po . torfu , and embraced him in the presence of several citizens . Potoeki , ou his part , prevailed on the scythemen to dlaperao , and as another band was just entering the

      town be stopped them , placed himself at their head , and conducted them several miles in the opposite dinctten . Ou his return , having found the town still occupied by the soldiers , he rode up to the major , and tvhiiflt confer , ring with the latter , he was suddenly attacked by an offi . cer , who ran bis sword through his body . At the same moment a groat many soldiers fired at him . He sanIt from his borae . The soldiers threw themeelvea on him and literally smashed his brains out with the butt ends of their muskets . They took his horse , drew away tbe rings from bis fingers , and took to their heels to save themselves from th& just vengeance of the population . Auolf JiRDEt , Tradesman .

      HORRIBLE MASSACRE BY PRUSSIAN SOLDIERS . Breslau , April 25 . —Letters which have reached this town from tho Duchy of Posen announce that an unfortunate contest , of which the conasquonc&a cannot be aa yet calculated , had * brok « n out in many parts between tho Prussian army and the newlyformed Polish troops . The Polish troops , in consequence 01 ^ the arrangement concluded between General Willisen , tho Prussian commissary , and tke chiefs of the Poles , had proceeded in small detachments to the different quarters which had been appointed for them , in order to their definite organisation . One of these detachments , consisting of eighty young men under the command of a gentleman named Parczwski , had received orders to march te Odola .

      now ( Odelnau ) , a little town in the east of Posen , to be there organised . On the morning of the 22 nd , a company of Prussian infantry and a squadron of cun > assiera presented themselves before Odoluau , where the Poles had constructed a barricade in tho principal street . The CotnmaHdaHtofthB Prussian detachment desired the Pules to retire to Raszkow , but they having refused to do so for fear of being attacked by the cavalry on their rotreat in the open country , the Prussians attacked them immediately with furs , killed many Gf them , and dispereed the rest . The inhabitants of Odelnau , hear ing the noise of the firing , turned out , and masses of peasant arrived in

      bands , and without order , armed with soythea , pikes , and axes , to the assistance of their countrymen . The Prussians attacked them and committed great slaughter . There ara said to be 150 peasants killed and wounded in this unfortunate affair , which has caused great excitement in tUc whole country . The Prussians had four infantry soldiers and onecuiraBaier killed , besides Bevoral wounded . It is feared that this affair will be but tbe signal of excesses on both sides , in wakening the animosities which uave been so long and bo successfully kept under between tbe different classes of the inhabitants of the Dachf of Posen .

      The excesses of the soldiery are said to equal the barbarities of tlie worst times . AtTrzemetzno they butchered in cold blood seventy scythemen , whom they firat deprived of their arms by stratagem . The official journal of Posen , giving an account of this massacre , says : — ' Dead bodies with veina slit open , arms cut off , faces maimed , and lacerated in the most horrible manner , bellies ripped up , were Been lying in every street of tto town . In Gosfcjn , to all other atrocities they added that of attacking | tho ^ people congregated in the church , and shooting at the sacred iiniges and vases . In another place , not contented with exterminating tho living , they dug out and threw to the four winds tho ashes of the dead . '

      Tho deoree for tho reorganisation of the Duchy of Posen appeaved in the Prussian Gazrtie of the 27 th . The following are excluded—the ci dev&nt diatricfc . ef the Netz , excepting only part of the district of Inowraolaw , Birnbaum , Meseritz , Bomat , Fraustadt , Samter , Buck , tho western pait of the districts of Obornick ana Po 3 en , including the town and citadel of Posen , theBouthern part of the districts of Kronen

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      and Krotosobin ; lastly , and in conformity with tbe determination come to by the German Confederation , the town of Kempen — ths German parts will be incorporated with the German Confederation . The organisation of the remainder will be Polish , both in language , instruction , justice , and goyernment . This decree has been received with joy by the Germans , and with sorrow and disappointment bj the Polish population , who , in aa address to the government , signed Krotonski ( in the name and on behalf of ' Mieroslawski , chief of the staff , ' aad the PolUh committee ) , which was placarded yesterday , and torn down or defaced by the Berliners a 3 Boon almost as p . ' aoarded , declare this decree to be a spoliation , a seventh partition , and protest _ warmly against it , as the result ef a Convention neither signed nor recognised by the majority of the Polish leaders .

      BXBCUTIONS AT WARSAW . The GizsTA PotsKA gives tke following intelligence from Warsaw : — ' A conspiracy amoag themilitary having been discovered here , the officers of the Warsaw garrison , who were arrested , bave already been tried by court-martial , and four of them were shot in the citadel . Throughout the kingdom ol Poland the peasants are Baid to have been authorised to deliver up their lords of the manor to the gendarmes if thero is the slightest intimation of an intended rise . Tho report of a counter-revolution in Galicla , induced by a person in efibial capacity , similar to that of 1846 has again been moated . It ia not improbable that the numerous incendiary fires bow taking place in several of Clio circles of Galicia may be connected with this . '

      Ceacow . April 26 . —A skirmish baa taken place between the populace and the troops , in consequence of the refusal of government to allow Polish emigrants , not natives of Cracow , to remain in the topa . Barricades were erected , aad several rockota are said to have been thrown from the Oastle . Peace was eventually restored fay the emigrants voluntarily removing .

      THE V 7 AR IN ITALY . The Pieduontkse Gazette of the 26 th ult . adds but little to what was known already about tbe army of operations . An affair has taken placo at Cles be t ween a party of about 1 , 000 Austrians and a body of 150 Piedmontese under Captain Scotti , vrho , reinforced by some corps of volunteers , succeeded in making 1 m retreat . The Austrians were left in possession of the bridge of Mosticoialo . The Venetian papers of the 2 ht give the following from Trento , of the 16 th ult : —• " This day twentyone prisoners of tb $ Italian free corps w > re shot in the ditch of the castle called the Cervara . '

      Letters from Parma say : — ' Vicenza , Ireviso , Padua , Bassano , and all the towns , in short , are filled with barricades . All the bridges are cut . Trenches era opened in all the streets . The poputions are well armed . To conquer Venfetian independence will coat the Austrians dear . The Roman volunteer are received with the greatest

      enthusiasm . The latest news from Italy records bo movement of importance . The Austriana retain tfeeir ground , but in two or three email affairs , the Italians have been successful . DECLARATION OF WAR BY NAPLES AGAINST SICILY . It ia officially annouaecd at Milan . by jourqals of the 22 od , that war has been declared by Naples against Sicily , consequent on the late decree of the Parliament of Palermo , dethroning the King .

      THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN . TAKfNa OP SCULBSWIG B ? THE PRUSSIANS—BLOODT O 0 NFMOT 8 , Altoha , April 24 . —Tae train from Rendsbnrg has brought intelligence of the taking of the town of Schleiwig by the troops of the Confederation , after an engagement which lasted from three o ' clock in the afternoon of yesterday ( Easter Sunday ) until eleven at night . The fortification called the Dunnewirk , on which the Danish artillery naa placed , was taken by the PruBsiana at tho p&inl of the baysnet , after the battery had been silenced by the field pieces of the Ilanoyerian contingent . Sekleswig then fell into the hands of the Confederation .

      Tho conflict , it is confessed , was a bloody one , the Danes having a strong position , and doing great execution with their artillery and rifUmen before it ma carried . The Danes had from 10 . 000 to 12 , 000 men engaged ; the force of the Confederation was tbe greatest , but it was not ; all engaged . The loss of the Prussians , aa far aa can be gathered from the unauthenticated accounts , is about 300 men killed and wounded , principally of the Sad and 20 th Regiments . Up to Monday merning 116 wounded had been brought into the Rendsburg Hospital ; that of the Daneais not jet known . That theDan . es fought well is freely acknowledged ; they retired fighting from point to point , and held out till the last ; One of thoae accidents tbat confound the best calculations rendered tbe mines , 'which had been relied on aa one of tho means of

      defence , useless . Tbe waters of the Schlei , an inlet of the cea rather than a river , at the head of which Schleswig is built , rose to an unusual height in consequence of a continued east wind , and entered the excavations . The fortified work , or dam , called the Dannewirk , was the main defence of the Dines , and When this was carried the fight seems to have been for some time a battle of artillery , in which tho houses of the suburbs were much injured , and several set on fire . Rendshuro , April 24 . — The Dane 3 quitted

      Schleawig yesterday at eleven at night ; they had retired from theijppoat at Gottorfgomo time before , and at daybreak this morning the German flag was dying from the tower . The storming of the fortifications before Schleswig cost a great number of lives . Many wounded belonging to tbe two regiments of the Prussian Guards have been brought in ; among them three officers . The right wing of our army crossed the Schlei at three poiuts , the boatmen and sailors of the locality giving every assistance to the operations They constructed a number of rafts , by which 1 , 000 men could be carried over at the same time .

      A letter from Altona , dated 25 th April , in the evening , says the following telegraphic despatch has been received t— ' Schleswig , Gottorp , and Fiendsburg are in our power . One battalion of the Danes has been made prisoners , and another battalion driven into the Schlei . Tbe last accounts , dated the 20 th . atate that it was o-ily after a moat sanguinary conflict that the Danes gave in , and they were in full retreat . Above 1 , 000 prisoners had been taken to Rendsburg . Professor Langenbeok amputated sixteen legs in one afternaon . '

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

      The intelligence from Copenhagen states , that a great number of Prussian ships are detained in the roads in consequence of the embargo ; they are chiefly from the south , and more are continually arriving , in ignorance of the measures . In the night between the 19 : h and 20 ih the Danish brig of war Delphin took nine Prussian ships , with freights from England , Bordeaux , and tbe West Indies . The blow inflicted by the capture of Prussian vessels falls the heavier , as none of them were insured against the chances of war . Hamburgh , April 28 . -The Germans allies have entered Apenrade . The main body ot the D . mes are now , it is said , to fcholnorthof Haderaleben .

      M'e print the following extracts from a priyate letter , dated Hamburgh , April 29 tb , which arrived at Hull by the Queen of Scotland steamer : — ' It is now likely that too Prussians will occupy Jutland , and possibly even Funen , by way of reprisal and equivalent for the large amount ot German property under sequestration by the DaneB . ' Schleswjg ia now almost entirely in the hands of the German troopa , 1 gentleman who arrived en Saturday last stated , that the accounts published of tbe killed and wounded are by no means exaggerated , but , in fact , understated . He assait 3 further , that 2 , 000 men with many officers were buried in one grave near Schleswig . The harbours of Kiel and the Sohleswig and Holstein canal are blockaded by Danish ships ; a frigate and two gun boats lie befora the entrance .

      UNITED STATES , We have had an arrival from the States , but the news from that part of the world is anything but interesting , with the exception of the accounts of meetings held in several of the principal cities to aid the revolution in Europe . In New York the Germans had raised a Jarge revolutionary fund , to bo sent out with fifty pioneers of liberty , and 2 , 000 dollars worth of muskets , to aid in propagating free principles in Germany . A grand demonstration to celebrate the late French revolution came off in-the city of Washington , on the 12 th of April . The Marseillaise' bymn was sung , many housos were illuminated , and a torch-light procession moved through the streets amidst the cheers of assembled thousands .

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      Bilston Confederates . —Last week a Confederate Club was formed at Bilston , A deputation from the Birmingham Repea ' era attended . Birmingham Coxfbdbratkb . —A . Repeal meefcina was hold on the 25 : h ulfc ., in the People ' s Hall , Birmingham , when resolutions were passed denunciatory of the Gagging Bill , and the persecution of the Ir | ah ; patriot ? , and expressing sympathy with the victims' of Wbij villaTjy . Cubert Church , in Cornwall , was struck by lightuing last week , and totally destroyed . There are 4 . 560 mill-hands at present unemplojed utStockport .

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      MONDAY , Mil I » T . HOUSE OF COMMONS . — TbIb home re-asjembled at four o ' cloek after the Easter receBB . Mr H . Bzbkeley gave notice that , on the 11 th Inat . ho would submit a motion on the safcjflCt ot the Ballot . On the motion of the CnjHCBLtoB of the Bicdeqcbb , tho home resolved Itielf Into a committee to consider renolutions for granting £ 3 , 000 for the relief of persons who had been reduced to destitution in the bland of Tobago , by tho hurricane that occurred there In Ootoberlaet ; and for lending £ 56 , 600 lo the flslollfBia , to enable them to restore their property destroyed by the hurricane . Tbe two votes Were , after a few observation ? , agreed to .

      The CtUNCELtoB of the ExcaiQOgn thea proposed a rote authorising advances to tbe extent ef £ 200 , 000 for the purpote of promoting Immigration of free labourers to British Guiana and Trinidad , Mr Ruife objected to tha vote , at laaet until the whole question of tbe West Indies should be before the house . The report of the West India committee would be presonfed in a day or two , and he , therefore , moved that tho Chairman report progress , with the view Of postponing the vote for a week , Mr WusotJ said there wai so probability that tho report of the West India committee would bo presented within a week , Mr Heebies suggested tbe propriety of confining tho rote to £ 160 , 030 ( tba sum for which liabilities bar ] elready been Incurred ) until afcer the report of tho com . mlttao shall be made .

      Tbe Chancellor of the ExcniQoia thought It batter to tak « the voto for £ 288 , 000 , theagh he was wilting to pledge bimsei ! not to sanction as ; further expenditure . After a conversation , Lord J . Rcssell agreed to modify tbe vote , in accordancswlth the suggestion made b ; Mr Herries , and to take £ 170 , 000 on accounts Mr Huhb divided the committee;—For reporting progress ... ... 21 Againttit 70 Majority against adjournment —55 The vote for £ 179 , 000 was agreed to ; and the three money resolutions were reported to tbe house .

      Ths boats again reielved iteelf into a committee , when the Chancelloe of the Excheo . ( 7 eb proposed a resolution authorisiBg the government to re-advance , for the completion of publie works ia Ireland , sums repaid by the oeantlrs oat eftbe loans made to them ia the years 18 « and 1847 . The resolution was agreed to , and reported to the bouse . Removal of Alieps Bill , — Sir O . Gbet , In moving tha second reading of the Removal of Aliens Bill , stated the reasons wkich had led the goreromfnt to propose it , and the main provisions which it contained , and with

      which the public is already acquainted , without exproieloj any opioioa oa Republican doctrines , he tontended that ire had a right to protect ourselves against ftvalgnera who appaarcd amongtt at as the apostles of those Republican principled which they had established in their enn countries . Whatever cnuto of coaglaint we might have against individual foreigners , he was happy to say that wo had no cause cf complaint on this score against any foreign government . If individual foreigners hud come among us to preach Republican . i « m , it had b * ea against the will of their governments , and those governments , if they had tho power , would have prevented it . ¦ ¦

      Sir W . MoiEsvroETH maintained that there was no nec-cBtty for this bill , and that , even if there were a necessity for it , we ought not to intrust tbe provisions of it ia a spirit of blind confidence t « any government , Aftevqaoting Hansard in large quantities te show that it was contrary to the recorded opinions of every man of note and eminence in the Whig party daring- the Jast Btty years , espoeially of Lord J . KusBell himself , he proceeded to ridicule th « notion that there was anything ia the pre « sent stgto ot either France or Ireland to justify it , and concluded by reading a loug extract from a speech of Earl Grey against the Alien Bill of 1793 , and by msving as an amendment that the bill te read a second time that day six months .

      Lord D , Stua » t quoted the able protest entered by Lord Holland id 1822 , against tne Alien Bill of 1623 , as his justification in opposing this cruel , unjustifiable , and unconstitutional measure , He regretted that Sir J . itobbouee wan not then in his placs , for he bad wished to ask Sir J . Hobhome how be could support this bill , after he bad denounced a former Alien Bill as ' a bill which osght to be resisted by bodily fore * and physical resistance , ' and hod proposed to entitle it ' a bill to repeal so much of the Great Charter aa related to the free ingress and residence of foreign merchants in E : igl » nd , and to assimilate tho free Qovernmeat of Great Britain to the despotic eovcrnmrnts of theoonMntnt , '

      The Atto&hey General defended tbe bill , which he contended was d fferent in principle from all preceding Alien Bills , and nst liable to similar objections . Be entered into a long examination of Lord Holland ' s protest against the Allen Bill of 1822 , for the purpoBe of shewing that this bill was not aisallablo en any grounds on wklch hh lerdship bad denounced that bill as unjust , impolitic , cruel , and unconstitutional . There was this nide difference betweea tho two measures—under the old bill any party could b « arbitrarily deported ; but , under this bill , before any party could be arrested , thero must he a statement in writing , deposited with some minister , that he was pletting against the peace aai tranquillity of the kingdom .

      Mr W . J . Fex had listened very attetntiroly both ta the right hoa . Secretary for the Home Department and to her Majesty ' s Attorney-Qenora ! , who had stated tnore distinct groand $ than he had yet beard for the introduction ef tho proposed law . It was a measure of timidity aod apprehension ; it showed a want of confidence in the Brltlah people , who had so lately displayed their determination to support peace and order ; itshosvetl also a want of confidence in the people of Franc ? , who had as ref , JD Vfry trying circttmstauces , done nothing to excite that jealousy , or any hostile feeling on the part of this country . Whatever might have been the case in former tlraej , convulsed as the world was , it is now a better time to show vrbat was their reliance on those

      institutions which had s ' ood the tett of so many ages , and which bo eminently possessed the character Of durability , but not tbe lees possessed that elasticity which accom . modated them to the spirit of tbe age , and enabled them to extend themselv&e so as to take a wider range and to comprehend larger numbers , when the state of society demanded a Bew adaptation ; and that without the convulsions to which other countries wero sutject . ( Hear , hear . ) He could not see a case of necessity made out for the bestowment of powers which wero of a very obnoxious and cruel character ; which placed the convonience propwrv , and liberty of indiiidual * at the meroy oi the Minister I ' or the time being ; which exposed men to that sort of attack againBt which it was bo difficult to defend one'e-seU—a charge of which one wrs not aware —anonymous writing to a Secretary of State , who sremed to be brought into contact with a class with which it might have been hvped that a British Minister needed to have no dealings , and who seemed to have a

      back door for the reoeipt oi calumnies , which under the pretext of public duty might only open a w » y for tbe indulgence of individual spite and the gratification of indi . vidual vlndielivenese ; powers , he would add , which might be used vindictively egsiast men or women ; for it c ? uldnotbo forgotten that the first who suffered under the act of 1793 was a woman , a widow—Lidy Edward Fitzgerald , whose namo had since been raised to a very diff . rent position by writers of a sister country . He could not concur in the argument of ihe hon , baronet , the member for Southwark , that the measure preeented no glaring an instance of inconsistency on the part of her Majesty ' s Ministers . If they went back somo years the inooneiBtencv might bo brought out ; bat if they lsoked , at the last great measure which her Majesty ' s MinUters had carried through that house , then this muat bo admitted to be a very appropriate sequel and supplement to the measure ' for the better security of her Majesty ' s Crown and Government , ' The one belonged to tho

      other . S « re such a pair were never seen , So justly farmed to meet by nature . ' They were both framed in accerdanco with tho policy of Pitt , Sidmouth , and Caatlereagb , which , beginning wita . liie first , might bo considered aa carried out to completion in tho second ; and the Whig MioAsteiB , ia originating them , had , to borrow tlie phrase of a former day , iffdctually ' un-Whigged' themselves The only reason ho could make out as assigned by the right hon . baronet for the Introduction of tho bill w&a that he wag afraid of Republican missionaries , ( Sear , hear . ) Tha opportuniti' s of Euch missionaries were at the lowost piint . The power by ' open and advised spenkiny' to induce men ti violence was surely at the lowest ebb : and

      tho application , in the prenentinstonci ' , of tho objection stetod to tho appearance cf tkat most ] accomplished of Ffench actors , Talma , in the character of Hamlet on tho English stsge , ought not to -be forgotten , that the first sentence he uttered would put the audit nee in a roar . If they feared Republican missionaries , they ought to atreet their laws yatber agahut tho writings of tlia illustrl-6 ui dead of England than any liviog missionaries from , other lands . The great Rsyubllcan teachers of England would be fouad oa the shelves of their libraries , in their Mlltons , Sidneys , Harringtons , and Lockci . They would b 8 Of nntlve growth ; unrivalled in the riebnesg and power of their language , awakening ao nuny oseoilittons , commanding ao much reverence , —ho might tv . n sayidolatryif they did uot make converts , whete was

      , , the parsuasiveness of a missionory from Franco or Gar . many , or any Other region whatever , to acauca tbe peo . Via of this country from allegiance < o their Quoen ? That it mig ht bo said , waa not the Republicanism of other countrU' 3 . But the R paUicanism ef this oountTj might bear such a relation to tbo Republicanism of other cauntrics as the despotism of this country did to the despotism of other * . Let an oxaaaple be taken from the noble-rein led man who , when Socialism and Communism wero tho rock a head , did not depart'from his own course , British Communist leaders were in Paris ; but did he doport any one of thim ? ( Hear . ) Thoae moaaures wore at worthless for the real security of the crown and government of these realmB ua another buttrass would be to fee venerable structure which had

      stood for centuries past and floalcl for centuries yet to come , Her Modesty ' s Attorney-Gtceral said these measures would do no harm , They might do harm . They might falsity the character of this oountrj , leading O'hsrs to impute a fickleness of disposition , and a

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      . May 6 , 1848 . THE NORTHERN STAR . : 3

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 6, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1469/page/3/