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iS" ' ^ rigbtt- 5 en ' . re- , i : j ; attacked to theie favourable rumours , is ? - ^^ . osd , shire no knowledge of what is actually f 1 ' ' * , ' „ j , i P _ ri * can ps _ etr _ t » . Our journals are f '"^ . . " nn'I ; not that the writer * hare not the cca-*~"* , ss . s _ out ; ibey are bsrnprred by t _ e prcprie-^ rt o pn"w , hat a strobe of the autocrat pen of ' i L-,.- ; i * c 1 S 9 J a ' - any Hiotneiit suspend ih ' . it journal r . nd * 'V ;_ j : rpri v p--rty . As lone as tha s ' . ae of sier ^ con . . ' ..-.- tbep-tP-rs will bs conttnt to record the decrees
_ . . , a- - r « . 5—sue * BStuty ere—for those passed one ' . ' . ST .-o :: > .-ii acnu :: ed thsneit . As I foretold last w : ek , . vii-. irrs-r-onl . -nie cf th « Ea : IUh daily press was wrong I 551 : -onc ^ 'p that the stste of si » ge wou !_ be takrn off on V'iJ- ' . tt . s fcCt i ? she men in poirer bare run headlong , ' ' ; o c Scu'tii-s from which they cannot extrica e thesi' .. \ e -. witt out pay ins with their texds lor their nrbi : rary ' ^ .,. > : . rc . Oa the day on which the stat ^ of eiesc is ! In . ff . I ' ari' may be infl-imsa , and their deed bod ' es - ¦ i & . i ' " ~ ' " ' * blo-nd . Th-y know i : perfectly well , 'li-s .-ir trrrr-r k =--t « = then rivetted in a s ? -te of : n _ c-. '' „ . _ , < , .-..- ¦ _• . y wormo pvw r whivh t _ . > v cv . \ main . t , % -j viiiUiJ ii ' tcal m ( . > a ?_ re =, ' ,.,- . p n jTs ! C-vii ! cs _ i-, nil do ju ^ t' -cc to th ? purity -. 'M- j .-jtontioa * : tut tho wfskn •_» n ; Ms character l " :, ! : t : eil fnjfijemcnt ? be n uad-. r . _ H _ e Isim tbe
,-ril 0 ' a cc " . ste ^ pirty . rnd in the . " . r > iy ! ' » has no fupr r ; ri : " r .: * tq- ^ i * in rank prej ? vo _« «? him , and hi ? ' ' -n --i ¦ ¦ :- is r ' ^ or 'i ^ c' ot ssrvii -e o-j et to his being ! " --vJ . r rlbiir ti < R- » . IT- we ? an officer of inf ri'T ' " ° - _ i : Ai -risiclSoJ , when t '_ e Ja ! y revolution br ., _ e .-- .- * -. & trhc-he Tiaso ^ eof the fi r . 't Rhodeoliicd for the ¦ '" ;•„ ,. . v ^ jj ? h ^ s teen -iltr . o ^ t co-iianlly in Al .-cria V- £ fo t- caiatd ill ti- promotions , sr . u atl- ^ tro'e t > be S . " r ; r _ or . " In Ibis c « - & ci-: v he affi under the Frovi . « m _ 1 G . iTCiiiracnttiil he was appointed to the Ministry J ? Tar . lie had never been dWU-guisne- either for car . 4 tv or decision of character : but the quill-drivers of
,-. a Sa"'C wasted a _ 3 aa who nnderstoo-i the " s-sc- ^ t ' - t . oi gun , ass Ecriert to iheir meci ? UTCs of ^ - . . . anc-. By them ha was raised to the Presidency , vbsre he * oon forgot the dsniers of tke iiimense re-= -. _ = K . ility res-. ing en his shonldsrs , and installed him-«_} . amidst all tf . e luxury in whic ' vi * . hs ntwiangka Re r ;; .- _ nsars = 3 ian _ of r ? vellin _ , in the splendid hottl l ^ : h * R ^ e <^ c Varennes , belonging to the estate of ] Js 5 ? . i _ s A-elaide . Yet even these sumptuous ap ^ rU 3 « st 5 w » re cot-splendid enough for REpubliaan rocep-^ ess : _ phoUt _ cers tcereset to work , a _ d tha l _ st dollars n ; ;' a : e _ ha ^ st < - ( J treasary h _! f « d to finish forth the
-litttrirc rnsjtni-csncein which theSjwer of pure R- ^ pnt-_»!! i ^ ni ia cewly p-jlisaed boots were in . redaced en tfe-nejday last . Oaly t « o ladies ventured to preside at this E'SJinbiy . tbe General's mother and a friend o : hers rftbe olden time . The approaching marriage of the Gf-eral w & s there whisp-rta about ; he is about to unite frSKeKln lawful wedlock , to Rhosi—to the fair Arabian Jimsslwho at Algiers had , to the great scandal of everyto J . estsblifhed feer influencj over the Gensral ' s tear : !—ao , to MdUe , Do ochet the dsn «; cttr of a farmer p _ r ; n = r oi the house ot Taisal , and dirccior of a gas coip-ny . The truth is , the General is going to marry s : > r ' __ f—and , with-tfce ssor _ ofDimoelea su ? pen 4--d over his hca 1 . he is a-out to fall asleep intoxicated with is ^ elishtsof Cbbub .
Ttt treat event of ths week has been the nomiaation ofllsrr-st as President of the Cnamber . Kot that any ore ( r : 5 hc- > 5 to see him in that post ; the real secret of je matter is , that the Chamber wants , at all casts , to sink * oS th ? N _ tioh _ l . lib : came necessary , there ' ; cre , to remove Marrast frem the Prefecture ot the Sdnf , wilfre he had established himself like a r _ aa who iii ' . tcda to rntke a Ion j stay . By dint of some indiscre-_ oa it ccz-i out that he wished to get the E-glish cmta : 5 j ; thertfore the politic hea ^ s of the Chamber sng . ga * -t - the propriety of t _ efeing hia rre-iden ; fir a month . This wonld give bits a standir . g afcro-id , rnd e _ ib : e tbe _ i at th 3 e _ piration of his term of t'S . 'e to ce = p j * . eh him ' past-paia ' to London . In that diflicnlt c 5 ; e heis sura to comt _ it so _ : e tlu _ - er or o : htr , upon wiic ' a be will be recalled , and leit to rrsn _; e hisform < r
_ Toca : ioE 5 a * Captain Grand ef the National , In pnrsaance of'his ec-ems , yon may look for 31 irrast , gilt ail or _ r , in amonih from this tima . Arraind it irrast was born at Gdultns ( Haute . Garo __ e ) in 179 ? . Under the R ^ - toratijn , he o ; c _ pie _ fi-r ?? 3 ie time the chair of rhetoric at the callesre of ro _ Me-Roy , la IS 2 o he c ^ ffle to Paris , and tried t > p _; h himself in : o no : ice by philosophical writing ' , tut ; : was not u _ : il the Rev : Intfon of July that he bepj-. n to cut h ficurc . He wa ? editor euccsssiveiv of the Tsibuse £ _ i t ' jsS-TioKAL . andi _ tolun ; 66 cspacitjesheHader-~ e 2 J judicial punishment , which heipjd to swell his r = p _ at ' . on . At the KsvJation of February he became cse of its rcpreientatires at the Hotel de Ti'le , nr . d w = s SfttrwarGs appointed reporter of ? i . e C _ 3 _ : issJoa en the
C'J 2 : t : tation . He is a thoron ? h goin ^ parfy in » n , a fosterer of violent popular passions , a great for as all G • " - co ^ j r . re , of honied and affable exterior , bu' a m ' -. n of tlsoi in heart , impiaeslli in his hatred , peasant iu the private rtI- t : o _ s ot lift ; , bat sacgiinary and arbitrary ia lis to-i ' . ic-i tcnie : c ' ts . Whi ! e subj » c ; to political impriS ___ l ^ - . in 1532 anl 1 S 34 , he con'r ived to get _! a = e ! f reitoTed to the MdEon de S . ote of Dr PI-ieI , wberehe SM _ go-np a love adventure with a jonng Englishwoman who sras ftayicg therewith hermotler . Witaaproapect o _ dowry ol £ 4000 , iho daughter of a Email tra'itr iu the city , whs was pret'y t _ boo :, and well brought up , was irrsSTStib ' c , and the savsge republican ioon male the far islana-maid his vfiie . Sabreqjen ^ ly he fl d with Ut ro E-gland , wh *?_ they lived for some time in tx . ceeiingly heaible style .
A _ iong the carbons episodes which mark the strange times in which we live , is to be reckoned a c-ase which ws « pleaded yesterday . T _ s pU ' . ntiS sned far 33 . 000 fixnc ? , 'pTurJa bouche' ofhis late Majesty Lonis Phi-Iipp 2 . In l-iw-IangnagspTtw- / a bouchemsans proread-r , feut thit w _ s not the thing . It was the ex-King ' s real mouth tbat f _ rsed the subject cf the slaint . M . D ^ ir . abode , the dentist , sues the ad _ iis gtrator _ cf the Civil Llsifer ths sum of 23 , 000 francs , for services rendered to thf jiws ofhis Majesty for many yesr . past . Citizen Tsrincossidired tbedeman ? out of aii reiroa . Loais Piiil : _ De was of the esm ? ogb . ian before him , and b « d o _; rei { to th ? dentist , in lieu of psiment—what do yon think * _ g le ? s than tbe cross of the L'gion of Honocr
D = * ir _ bo ^ e bad accepied the off r—being Hobson s choice—but tha ev-nts of February having prevtnttd t ' - is _; cora-ionof his person , he naw calls for his money , t ' rss cross beio : r bsstow ; d oa ' y npon Mobiles and N-iti- ^ nal Goirds . That poor red ribbon , which forty years ego w _ t so dearly purchased with the blood of our bravest men . has becosie so awfully depreciated , thatBersnger , ths songstir , tha poet , and the prophet of tha republic , rep ' Jffl . a few day . ago , when the cross was offered to i _ m , ' B > h ! if I accepted it , I should be obliged to wear :: . ' Bat this is not toe onlv honour he has declined ; tey wsnttd toeUct h : m a Mrraber of the Academy , in the j-lica < f H de __ ateau " -rian _ , hit he formally reined , out at disgust for the grasping islfiahnsES cf the esw r .-pablic ^ np .
Paeis , Sunday , 11 . 30 a il — General D-iaesne h- ^ juatdied . He is the stventh general officer 1 8 ' t ~ > France in consequence of the affair of June . fonfral Bsdeau , another of those wounded at the barricades in June , is dangerously ill , and it is reared tbat he cannot gurrlre . [ 'Those who lire by the sword , shnll perish by the sword J ' j The correspondent of tbe Daily News says : — It will be rcmsi-bered thi * soon after tbe coovoeaiian of the AisembTy en the -th of May , M . Becurt , Minister of the Iaterhr , en his owa authority and responsibiiiry , and without con 5 a ! £ in ? : fee Assein'Iy , pao-1 'shed an ordoanancs esUfclishing a corps called ihe Garde Mobile a C _ ev _ l , ' the men composing which wrresfclectedliketh-. se of the R publican Guard , and the other Irr-gu'ar frrm those who bed be-n most sL ; na . ise-i i ^ tbe E volution of February . The officers were _ !* - irrfgolarly Bpcomted , and soma stroeg recnon . straBiei were excited . A comtnktee ef the As £ e _ tblv
rrporTel ycatrrd ^ y tfcat corps was aceless , that us estabHsJiment was illegal . t !?« t the finances T ! -Te cot in a co _ dttio-i to bear tie charge , end ihe Assembly accerdic ;' y refxiied the grnai En ! annulled the decree of the ^ - -Hiaistir of the Interior . The grc-a'est inconrenitnee . are ftltfrom theestabliihmsnt of the Gir . e M . bile and the other corps created r : n ? etbs rerolnt-on . The coidiiioas of ; heir enlistment e _ -3 their psy-reesormoasly mcr ^ faroorablettan those of the rejai ^ r army , while their discipline is ruinously Ur . DiEC ^ ntent among the troops is the son-cquenceof the comparatinly bigb pay and the worst txamplo ia pic-£ snJ-d by lie want ; f disrfp . '; n ? . In the Kati ; cal Assembly on Monday , M . Maugin br vjgvt fewarJ his motion on t _ 3 relations of Franci
^ = ti 1 Q 3 ctier powers of Earope , _ oitvitl »! s _ di _ g _ D sppea ! ma ^ e tn kim by M . Bastide again ! the raising ci such a debate at the pre-en : eventful period , ano ^ o declared that sltbough he could tot prevent M . ; Viaui-irj from making h" 8 speech , hs could , and was in duty bcucd to avoid answering it . M . Ma-jgiri * = s ; " :-e ?_ wa , a veryJorgacd verr rambling one . Spies C 3 i " 2 e 3 of a persoual raturc " , which he br ru ^ ht ^ T . m ^ the memfe trs ti the adraicistratiOB , brought ¦ optide and General Csvaign _ c into the Irihuue ; ^ - uiti-. aie ' . y the Assembly passed to the order of tie day . IBS ClTiZZX PSOCCEO . f A 5 D TUB ASSEMBLT .
( Frora the Daily News . ) On Mo _ d _ y , M . Proudhon rose to reply to M . i- . ' ' ? n ' ortaEainsthiB P ^ c' fer coufiscatine a th-rd of sd rents and debts for tha relief of the _ tatlii was much laughed at as he proceeded wi--h his lnCOMBvabls tneoria . £ __ > _ to _ mU « were weak enr . h to . show anger , but the greater number l indued heartily . Pa-: I 5 , TCE ? i ) it — Tbe Nat-io . al Assemb ? pare isss n ^ ct £ _» coup dc-grace to 31 , Froudhon and ' tbe f 0 ia ; ; ' Tw o _ iy poiu ; about which there was any o . fr .-rence was the m-de of expressing the indisnation oftbat body in a raatrnfir vrhich Bhouldiuffic > eitiy combine force with dienilj . The Mioi . tero ! «* latenor , M . Senard , after the else of M . Proud-, ? * ™< iies * . _ fc ? nded the tribune , and declared '" at tae gorsrament had never imagined that the
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tribune of that house should ever have been go diss ^ -ced , or Frar . cs bo insulted , as they vrere by tbe apology-for crime of every sort , and the excitement o revolt and to every bad passion which had just been uttered . It was proposed by another member , tha * the speech of M . Proudhon should be excluded from the Mo . viiecb , and that all journals reporting it should bs prosecuted . This , however , -was opposed by M Dupin . M- Thiers said : * I asi of opinion tbat an order of the day mo ^' r : will best respond to . the indignation _ f the Asse _ ib : y . I think no one wil ! c-ntest the propriety of the expression ' indignation . ' ( 'JX ' - > , ni , nobody . ' ) If the Assembly should , deem such a course necessary , I am ready to reply to the s-atement which has just been laid before it , but ( Ciies of' No , no ; itls useless . ') I desire tbat it be formally stated tbat if the Assembly considered _ 3 reply to bo necessary , it yras bscausa it thought . mKriMu . tf * t--. i- U _ l i i . . l t ' . ' \ -
better to reply by an order of the day motive . At lans-h it was agreed that the sense of the Assembly would be best , expressed by the following resolution — "T _ 6 National Assembly , csinsldering that tho pro position of the citizen Proudhon is ati odious attack on the principles of public morality ; ¦ hat it is a fljgrant Yfalstion of the right of properly which ia ehe basis of social order ; that it encourages delation , and appeals to tbe vilest passions ; considering further , that the outline of it has calumniated the revolution of February , in wisaingt'i render it an accomplice of the theories which he has developed in the tribune . '—Passes to fhs ordtr of the day . Upon whicii the house dividi-.-I . Th ? total number of representatives voting wa- C 93 _ nd the result of the tiivifion wr . s—For the r :-. ° o !_ « . ip- \ C 01 ; against if , 2 . O . ' theso two , o ! cou ! = t ; , c >; e v » as M . [ Proudhon hisisalf , the other was soec friend of hh wh . 'so name I could not discover .
It is said to day that M . Proudhon will send iu kis re ^ ipnatioii a ? a representative . Paris , Wednesday . —The Paris papers confirm the fad oi a d _ p . i ?<__ havi ' f , * br-cn niaiia by tho Prorisi < - _ al i ; over __ 3 e _ t of . Milan for French assistance ; bn" a _ ree in slowing it t- > be under .-totid , at least that the e ' eaand bm b > xn coldly re . eived .
GERMANY . A good < : eal of discrntent reigns against the proceedings of the Frankfort Assembly ; and fears are entprtaicei that on the 6 th of August—the day ou which rhe * rmy is to tr . ke a kind of oat - of allegiance to tb . e Licntenap . t of the empire—some military uproar may ensue . In the Bitting of the Assembly on ths 28 tb , after ac animated and eloquent debate , in which Jaciezswski and Yenedey were the champions of the Poles tif Posen , Jordan and Lichuow « ky the voters against their cMrng , the Assaniblr went to the vote , end
rejected all the mntiona [ for the independence of the province of Posen . The Assembly approved ot the division of the province ol Posen into German and Po ' ish and admitted the deruties of tho former . It sanctioned prAvhio _ ally the line of demarcation drawn by General Pfnel A motion to eneage Geri _ auy to struma for ths independence of Poland was negatived by 331 votes against 101 , 26 abstaining . I' is worthy of remark that , in the debate , Huge hsvirgaaid that he hoped Rsdeteki would be beaten out of Italy , the expression wa _ cheered by at least half the Assembly .
Berlis . Jaly 24 —The draught of the constitution , as modified bv ' the commission , or ra'her the sections , of fhii Chamber by which it has bem discussed , is rubl ' ished to-day . In gome points the alterations from that laid _ efore the Assembly bv the King end the late Ministry are important . Tha greatest is th e change in the constitution of the First Chambar , which is cow lessened in number and made enti ely elecfiv ? , while no property qualification for its members is to be rf quired . It is a Senate of a _ Republic , not a House of Peers of a Monarchy , which b y tha
original system it was intended to resemble . Every Prussian , twenty-four j ears of ase , not a pauper , is invested with the francais ? . The electoral base of the Second Chamber is a ' so wi-enH . as one elector ia henceforth to b * cro' ? n for every 250 o ? f _ e population instead cf every 500 . The veto of the Orowp is mode * suspensive . ' By amther paragraph ' nobi'ity is abolished' Elections are triennial- It musi be understood that the whtle of the present scheme is recommended only , not sdooted , and ere it passes it Eav be aeain greatly modified .
A Republican movement is espect-d in Wieia _ r . Gera , the capital of tbe lordship of the same name , possessed ia common by the Prince of Renss-Scbliez and the Prince of Reuss-Lobenstein , is in possession of the people . It _ pp oara ibat cnthe 26 : hthe populace became infuriated at the arrrst of a popular leader ( Kranse ) , and forcibly obtained his release . Whilst carrying bim thronjh t ' se streets in triumph , a collision took place between the mob and the so-called gymnastic corps . Several of the latter were killed or wounded , and the remainder were obliged to flee from the city . The next day the town was entirely in tbe hands of thepipuiace ' . SPALN . The formal and explicit acknowledgment of the Qu ^ en by the Court of Austria is rfficially announced .
The Int-rS-Tiosal cf Bayonne publishes a letter from the frontiers of Cata onia , of the 22 nc , in which i t is stated tha' on ( he 16 th Cabrera was in the environs of Vidra , a small to « n of S 00 inhabitants , in ; the province of Vich , asd at six hours' march from the town of ihat name . He had therei it ia said , j 1003 men assembled . It was reported that in a recent encasement he had caused serious losses to the ' Q , _ een ' a troops , but this was tot confirmed . In tho j action of the llih , the Montemolinists had it appeara tw ^ -nty killed and thirty wonndeu . It is said that ' Cabrera caused three officers who fell into bis hands to be shot , for , as be eaid . having adhered to the treaty of Berjara . ^ On ths 19 th an engagement took place at the bridge of Mallagarriga , in which the Montemolinists . headed hy Castellsand Tristany , bad ei ^ ht killed , whilst the Queen ' s troops sustained no loss .
ITALY . REVOLUTION I . V HOITB . A revolution has taken place at Rome . The people invaded the Chamber of Deputies ^ on the 19 th . and demanded an immediate declaration of war against Aus . ria , the Pope persisted in resisting that measure . Upon that Count Mamiani and all the other minister- sent in their resignation ? ! but continued provisionally to exercise their functions till the appointment of their successors . The Pope then endeavoured to form a new ministry , and gave powers to that eff : Ct to apenonage whote name is not eiven ,
bat who either refused to undertake the duty or failed in . accomplishing it . On the 20 th a deputation from the Chamber of Deputies waited upon the Po _ tiff , to present him with an address from that assembly , ia which the members declared that' With the respectful affection of sons they prayed and conjured his Holiness to take such measures , that his government would not delay in seizingarms for defence and attack , and in uniting in a durable alliance with princes worthy of the Italian people , fr ^ rn th s instant that they combatted for Italian independence . '
Tbe answer of theJPope was evasive . He merely said that the more difficult the times were , the more he congratulated himself ou finding that he was surrounded by persons who loved t _ e country , and who knew well tbaS among the elements which constituted it toe religions element was that which , in preference to all other ? , merited their love and their serious reflection . A telegraphic despatch received by the French gevernment , dated the 22 nd , announces that the Pope , not being able to snepsed in forming a ministry on the principles of neutrality , the people and the Chamber of Deputies had established a Provisional Government .
The Co _ T _ yponAKE 9 of Rome , of the 20 th , gives a full account of the proceedings at Rome on the 19 : h . A large crowd occupied the immediate vicinity of the Palace of Deputies at an early hour . Tbe sitting bsing opened , President Sereni announced the r .-ception " of _ petition , declaring the country in danger . Deputy Bonaparte insisted ou the immediate discussion of the petition , lie was interrupted , however , by the clamour of the people in the streets . The C & ambsriiseifwasafc that moment invaded by the peop e . who came to apjlind the decision of tte Chamber . A fter s fruitless ait-rapt to restore order , ihe Bitting was suspended ; the President succeedei in persmdinz tbe people to withdraw , and the Chamber proceed . - d to continue the discussion on the
mobilisation ot the Ci » ie Guard . M . Herbini . after some time , begged the Chamber to postpone the discuea OJ , and to take > n' 0 consideration what was just passing at that moment . The Minister cf Cornce o mounted the tribune , and informed the Chamber that intelligence had juat reached him that the people wanted to takepoisession of Fort Saint Angelo , and of the gales . The Minister of Police had gone in person to take eff- ; ctnal meafures . He then proeedid los'ate that she M ' nistry had given in their resignation , which had been immrdiately accepted , and that tbey only continued in fffica so long as their su-cersors were not appointed . The Chamber then declared icself in permsDeree . Subsequently the G- ? . mber rose , after declaring that the people had
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THE BATTLE fF VILLA FRANCA . A battle has been fought at Wla Franca , which , according to some accounts , resulted in the de eat of the Austrian ? , and according to other accounts , the Piedmootcse . Brbscia , Jclt 25 . —The brilliant achievements of yesterdav wsie greatly to the honour of the Italian arms . After a ' detenaired strugfle the positions ef Somma Cami'agna and Custcz * were retaken , and the Duke of Savoy parsed the night at Somma Campagna . At ten in the morning , the K'Cg fixed bis head quarters at Viila Franca , and shortly afrerwardn 6 , 0 ' 0 Austrian * were brought in prisoners , and locked up in the church . DESPATCH OP S . 'GNOR GUIDO BARROMKO .
Villa Fraxca . Jolt 24 , Seven in the Evening . — The b » Ule is raging- 31 half-post four this evening OM army alTOnced in three columns , tfcefir-fc against Custoza , tbe other towards the low ground between Gust- z \ and Sonoma C-rcpagna , and the third column , towards the last-mentioned point . Half an
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ce-sed SI- the third coluron "Pened its fire , but trie - » * _^ T „ m ° > Ut ? r _ ° _ ftn hmlr firin « - At the Sto ° h _ . J ° , "' the batt ! e ia carried on ' Sd if I mil ^ . Custm and S ™™ Campapna . eraduallS - gefr 0 m the sranfte - <™ troops are It _ Sm . gan u eround and ^ lodKing the enemy . ^ ttfi £ &™~ ' ^*«» . »& StaiMi ?^^ - ^ The impo rtant Verona a division of the e ? ernvwh-T ° f T ^ S ^ S ^ P ^^^ The number of slain and wou * ded on both si < Us has not been ascertained ; if the loss on th . Austrian side is great , ours in not the less so . :
A letter from Villa Fra , Ca , dated the 26 : h ult ., says :- This day here has been a new battle on both sidea of the hill betweim V _ u tfi 0 arid Sonnim Campapna , along ths N incio , and on tbe left bank of ue river . Ihe conflict , which be ^ an on several pomts wa ^ everywhere very animated and obstinate on each _ ide ; ihe engagement lasted from 8 » . w toGpm ., with various success ; still there was no decisive result either for us or the enemy . The latter still preserves hia positions on the left of the Mincio , we ours on the right ; the bridges have beeu brcken by the Piedmontese . who still are masters of the two extremities of the line , Goitoand Peschiera , and ol ths other more remote points on either side of the river . The following is important as furnishing the Austrian version of thos'are of affairs iu Italv .
Vienna , July- 27—The following has been received by te . egnph , dated Pa-lna , July 25 . The Austrian army hss obtained a brilliant victory , and hss driven the enemy out ot his retrenchments in theutmo-t dis srder . _ llivoli , Sor _ m . i CaiDji < a <» na . Casteluunvn , . vid Vr . ll--gio are in our hands- General Mort-n with Charles Albert ' s adjuiam , and many other oiKcais , are prisoners . The utter defeat of the Italian army by the Austrians h confirmed . The greatest alarm appears to have been produced at Milan by tbo iFtelligence from ih" 3 theatre of war , and an insurrection in tbe republican tense appears to have b : cn menaced . The armament and levy en masse are beirg carried on with extraordinary activity .
At Turin complaints had broken out agfl'nst tte conduct of the Lombard battalions and the Mi . d ntsf , to whoso defections the reveres were ascribed . Tumultuous assemblages took place indifferent partiof Turin , in which denouncemenis were made against the mixed ministry tobich had been formed . It is announced that the-Duke of Genoa will not accept the crown of Sicily , which baa been offered to him , until the war of independence is concluded .
THE WAR IN LOMBARDS . The Times says , we hare letters of the 24 th from onr correspondent with the Piedmontese army . On the previous day General A < pre , with 25 , 000 men , came out from Verona , forced the position of Sona and Somna Campagna , and drove the Piedmontese from all thee juntry batween the upper Adige and the Lake of Garda , and the Plain of Verona and t ^ f Mincio . At the same time an Austrian force o 8 , 008 descended the Montebeldo , and . , after taking the heights of La Corona , ejected the Pledmoa ' -ese from the Plateau of Riro'i , The beafen Sardinian . " ,
whose force was not one-fourth that of the enemy , r « tired opportunely , some to Pescbiera , others across the Mincio , and a few to Villafranca . On the 24 lh . General Aspre attempted to force the Mincio at MonzanvanOj and to establish a bridge at Salicnza but , at the hour our courier left , he had not succeeded at either point . He proposed , it was said , descending to Vallegio , and trying to force tbe river at Borghetto , as the heights at his ( the leit ) side of the river command the right . The Piedmontese had , therefore , broken up the bridge , and troops wer . ordered from Goi ! o to defend that important poiat . The Daily News has the following : —
B y letters irom ViUafranefl , dated the 24 th ult ., it is said that the Piedmontese under Charles-Albert had defeated the Austrians , who to the number of 25 , 000 men , had reaeenpied Rivoli , and that he had taken GOO prisoners . The Austrians had recrosscti the Mincio at Salianze , a few miles belotv Pescbiera
REPORTED INSURRECTION AT PADUA . The Pi _ dm 3 kt _ se . Gazette of the 26 th publishes an account from Modena of the 23 rd , that Padua had freed herself from the Austrians . According tc this account , on the 19 th a young man , engaged in a brawl with au Austrian officer , was arrested and shot . The population _ immediately flew to arras , and drovoout the Austrians after an obstiaats resist
ance . It appears that on the 25 _ a new accession of forces , led by Radetski , came out of Verons , where they were concentrated on arriving from Le ^ nago and Vicenzi , and took the Italian ' army in the rear . . fter a sanguinary resistance on our part , seeing the danger of holding such exposed and extended position ? , the Italian army retired on Villa Franca , anil from thence iu the middle of the night , carrying with it 2 500 prisoners , and without the enemy dariog to follow it , fell back on Goito , to recover the fatigue of a battle of three days , and effect a junction with the division of reserve on the line of the Mincio .
To the above it is added , that the investment of Mantua was raised . On the arrival of this news nt Milan nothing could exceed the excitement which was produced , and the idea of asking for the intervention of France , which hitherto was rejected wi'h jealousy and disfavour , was now advanced on every side as the only certain security . It wa ^ , indeed , expected tbat a demand for assistance would be made immediately .
HUNGARY . The Bbbf _ ao _ b . Zeituns has a letter from Pesth ofthe . Olhof July , in which the report ol a defea ' of the Hungarians at St Thomas is confirmed ; but in which it is also stated tbat the insurgents had in their turn suffered a defeat near Taras , where they were twice beaten by Colonel Kissr , and lost a num ber of men .
INDIA . THE LATE CONSPIRACY AT LAHOBK . The design of the conspirators was to have ad mitted 5 , 000 men into Lihore , who were to have fallen npoa and massacred the Europeans- Parties bad been concentrated in the neighb-uring villages for tbat purpose . The arrival of the reinforcement of two native regiments with e _ me artillery and irregular cavalry , bad produced a very salutary effect at Lakore , being generally regarded by the Sikhs as the advanced guard of a larger force . A portion of this body was subsequently despatched to attemnt the capture of an insurgent leader , a Fakir of some note , who headed a body of 500 men , at a point about 100 miles from the capital . Secret stores of ball cartridga to a Great amount are said to have been discovered in the purlieus o ! the city
Two British sepoys have been executed ior their participation in the conspiracy . There has been fighting in Mooltan , in which the British have been successful .
UNITED SPATES . MEETINGS FOR IRELAND . ( From the Correspeudent of the Morning Chronicle ) The principal meetings of the Irish Republican Union , in New York , during the past week , have been at the Shaks ; eare Hall . Jersey City .-and Tinkham Hall , The speeches were so excesdingly similar tbat to detail them wonld be merely to repeat the 'tedium of a tbrice-told tale . ' At pacb . of these thf * R <> porfe of the Irish Republican Union , addressed to the friends of Ireland throughout the United States , ' was read and adopted . ; and this document urges the formation of military clubs in the United States to aid Ireland , and says that the people of Ireland have resolved ' to keep their food by force of
arms , ' and that this will 'bring en the issue . In short , as the Irish papers say , that there will be a rebellion after the harvest . The sa e document says - * We are sending more [ men ] , and shall not o ^ ase until we have established a net-work through out Ireland , to be moved by one experienced band , vhen the people are attrcked , Ac . ; the ' felon fl » s ot that perfidious , brutal , and bloody aristocracy' [ w ° A meeting ' of the ' American League for Ireland hns bfen held . It is termed a convention , at whicn delegates from all the Irish societies attended , nn << ' perfected a thoroug h and efficient representation ot the various organised societies and friends of Ire land in New York / The speeches at all these meetings are similar to those which had been made Ion ? before . At Albany Mr Mitchel ' s brother addressed
the meeting . TRBH-SnOOS HSSIIHG AT PHILADELPHIA-( From the Philadelphia Times of June 27- ) An adjourned meeting of the friends of Ireland was held last night at the Chinese Mujeiun , the ent husiasm and numbers of which equalled almost the great demonstration of Wednesday evening . The large saloon was filed with a dense mass of human beings uoon whoee countenances was depicted a deep sympathy for Ireland ' s martyred ? on , John Mitchel Every man in the assemblage seemsd to feel tbat it was his dut y to be present to give an impetus to the ( flonVw nnnciplts of liberty which are now arousing tho down-trodden of tbe old world . _ , to order
Robbbt Ttlbr , E q , called the meeting , and stated that tbe object of the meeting was to collect subscriptions . < fcc : but that speaking would r « made in the course of the evening , and proposed Francis Tiernan . Eeq ., for president , and John o . Colahan and William H . Dunn , fteqa , as seoret . tries i MrTiERKAN , on taking the chair , made some eloquent remarks , , Mr Colmuk made a few remarks , and then proceedid to collect the subscriptions , which oarao row fast th at it was almost impossible for the secretaries to receive them . Some subscribed one , two , three , and fire dollars , and one er two ten dollars . A number of ladies were present , who steppe d up to the Btand with their mite . Loud chetring greeted
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• ¦ hem . A bumble but noble Swiss contributed a good sum w bicuelicited three . rottaing cheers . A gentleman in the audience got up and stated that he would now give an additional contribution for tae purpose of purchssing two good nikes . ( Cheers . ) Robert Ttlbr , Esq ., said that the last intelligence from Ireland had brought soma glorious news . It had brought over the dcluihtful intelligence of the fraternisation cf the Catholio and Protestant Assoc . ation ; There were no mere divisions—but all was union and harmony now—_ nd in order that the news might be received in a proper spirit , he tui . v-d that the meeting rise en masse and give NINE cheers for this great event , whicii were given with tremendous effect-While the subscriptions were bung received , a lareo delation frora Moyaraensing , with music , banners and transparencies , entered the s'go _ i < Cbftfrrs upon cheers were given .
C . ipt John B Colahan then addressed the meeting in an eloquent spctcli , and sat down amidat , jireut cheering fl bert Ttlkr , Es-q , wj ! s again loudly called for . Mr T . was very eloquent in his remark ? , and was loudly and repeatedly cheered . Some more speeches were delivered , and the Chairman then announced tho subscript ! ms for the e ^ ning , which were ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS . Tnrre hearty cheers were- given forthosubscriptiona to the fun-js , and threa more for Irebmd , when the mcutinK adjourned after a : esaion of great unaniniitv and enthusiasm .
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ASTLEY'S THEATRE . On Monday the performances at this theatre concluik-d with a new equestrian ex ' ravugiEzi , entitled 'Lady Gsdiva and peeping Tom of Coventry . or e ' earinfj the T- 'Jl . ' The an 'ient legend , which tells of the p :.. ; riolic devottdness of the fair lady of Coventry , and the inquisitive propensities of her townsman , 11 ; prying tailor , is made the bssia of thia arouf ing novelty . Such a story as this is admirsoly suited fjr the introduction of those effects in spectacle for vhich this theatre his long been justly famed ; ncr has any opportunity been disregarded , for tho piece is crowded throughout with grand processions , equestrian and pedestrian , table _ ux , charaeteristio groupings , and all the mimic splendours to bo achieved by tha theatrical arf .. The dialogue of the piece is
written in true burlesque rhjms , into which are introduce allusions to th- ? pissing events of tho present ^ ay . j , many of which were received with laughter . Ths story is funnily told , and the author baa made it more atnusing by bringing in several characters <; . hia own . The petition praying Lady Gfodiva ( Mrf Brooks ) to entreat her lsrd to take off the 'Dans Gelt , ' was presented by a deputation of women , in e most humourous manner . Tho Countess Morcia get * to the weak side of her liege lord Leofric ( Mr Orowthcr ) , at a banquet , when he is getting merry , and he declares laughingly tbat if she" will * nrie tinough the town without bonnet or gown , the ve y first thing in the morning , ' ehe shall have her request ; to the astonishment of all the lady consents . Tom ( Mr Adrian ) makes a determination to have a look at the beauteous lady as she proceeds on her
way , like ' a ' trembling sunbaam . ' He carries out this baie intent , is ciught and duly punished . The characters of Lady Godivr . Leofric , and Tom , were well sustained , as also were tho humorous parts of Unity Toity ( Mr Silver ) , an old Lord Mayor , with a dssire to make orations , and his factotum , Wyn « k'n Gatherwool ( Mr Rochez ) , tho town crier . The dresses and decorations am of a very excellent order , and gavo . a very effective appearance to the ' ensemble of the piece . Some very excellent scenery has also been painted for the extravaganzi . Among the best executed and most attractive were tho followine : —• Br ; d ? e and part of the town of Coventry ; Highstreet of Coventry , with Market-cross , by day-break j outside ( if the city walls , & s . These were duly applauded ; indeed the piece generally was well received by a vary larae audience .
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The largest cargo of wool that ever arrived in Hull , entered that port on Sunday . It was brought by the Lion steamer , and consisted of 1 , 600 bales . Colonial ExTRAVAGANC _ .--The revenue of Jama ' ci is £ 300 , 000 a-year , " and no less than £ 33 , 000 are spent in its collection . The provisions of the late alien bill have been brought into silent but effective operation . It is said that about four hundred foreigners , obnoxious to the Government have been compelled to quit our shores .
The Castle of Newcastle . —A fine specimen of the old Norman keep , which rears its lofty turrets and massy form above the houses of Newcastle , like some giant of the olden time—is undeigoing a complete restoration , at the expense of the antiquaries of that town . The corporation also granted £ 2 S 0 towards the object . The Antiquarian Society intends to hold a banquet in the great hall of the castle , on the 3 d of August next . An Intelligent Negro . —A negro , while undergoing an examination at Northampton , Massachusetts on being asked if bis master was a Christian , replied 'No , Sir , he ' s a member of Congress . '—American Paper . [ A white man being asked if his master was a Christian , replied 'No , Sir , he ' s a member of Parliament . ' ]
Thb _ ate Mrs Cobb _ ti « . —The remains of Mrs . Cobbett . widow of the late Mr Cobbett ,. M-P ., were on Wednesday last conveyed to Farnhara , in Surrey , and there interred in the same spot where those of her husband were deposited in 1835 . The deceased lady , who was married to Mr Cobbett in 1792 . was in her 75 th year at the time of her death . A curious case of injury is recorded respecting an insurgent engaged in the recent outbreak in Paris . It is related that a ball went in at one cheek and out through the other , but as his mouth happened to he open it touched neither his jaws nor his teeth . Vi : nY True . —Referring to the threat of the King of Hanover to leave the kingdom , if the Frankfort assembly went beyond certain limits , theBremer Zeitung of the 13 th' remarks , that'if his Majesty can do without his dominions , his dominions can do without him . '
An American writer says , — ' Poetry is the flower of literature ; prose is corn , potatoes , and meat ; satire is the aqafortis ; wit is the spice and pepper ; love letters ere the honey and sugar ; and letters containing remittances are the apple dumplings ' Important Announcement . —Yesterday , the bellman made proclamation through the town to the effect ' that the commanding officer of the 2 nd battalion of Rifles , on recruiting service at Manchester , will not be responsible for any debt or debts contracted by the said corps after this day , July 21 st . ' The crier clenched the important notice with ' God save the Queen . '—Manchester Guardian
The gunpowder magazine of le Bouchet , in France in the department of Seine-et-Oise , containing 3 , 000 lbs , ot fulminating cotton , lately received from ViHceunes , was blown up last week with a dreadful shock , which destroyed the building to the foundation , Four young men who were in the house perished . 'There is no harm , ' says the Rev Mr Montgomery , 'in smoking tobacco , except that it leads to drinkin- —drinking to intoxication—intoxication to bilebile to indigestion—indigestion to consumptionconsumption to death . That is all . '
Fire . on Board a Vessel in the Bristol Docks . —On Monday night , much consternation and alarm prevailed here in consequence of a vessel in the Upper Basin having been discovered to be on fire . The vessel , which belonged to Newport , was called the Neptune , Edwards , master , and she had come on Sunday from that port to this , with a cargo of charcoal and other matters . When she was moored in the basin , she was left in the charge of the mate , and a young seaman named Edwards , who was related to the captain , either as a son or a nephew . At half-past one o ' clock this morning the mate was awakened by a sense of suffocation , and upon looking up he found the berth filled with a
most offensive kind of smoke . He tried to arouse his companion but could not awaken him , and as the vapour continued to grow more and more dense he was obliged to rush to the deck for air . After he had recovered a little he attempted to remove a batch , when an explosion took place , and he found that the ship was on fire ' , a large quantitity of charcoal in the hold having by some means become ignited . He gave an alarm , and the police soon came to his assistance , as did the public engines . As soon as possible the young man was brought up out of the hull , but he was found to be quite dead , means were taken in the hope of reaousitatiiig hira , but without effect . It vas also discovered tbat
anotherman , a ship ' s porter , named Jeff , who had been engaged to unload the cargo , and who went on board to sleep in order to be at his work by daylig f » f , had perished from the effect of the poisonous effluv ia , Information of the sad event was conveyed to the coroner , J . D . Grudon , Esq ., who held an inquest at the Royal Arm ' s Tavern , Wapping , and a verdict of accidental death was returned . An old manuscript in the Hull Workhouse proves that in the year 1722 the annual amount of the rates for the relief of the poor in the parishes of Holy Trinity and St Mary , of that town , was . £ 1 . 400 , while now it is about £ 18 , 000 .
A vessel , arriving in the Thames , from Odessa , has brought , as a portion of her cargo , between two and three thousand of old balls and shells , consigned to order .
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SATURDAY , Jolv " 9 HOUSE OP COMMONS , — State op Ireland — . , hcuao met at wo . ve o ' clock , and tho adj , Uri .: d dh .-on the State of Ireland , was resumed ov Mr M . J . O'C MHEI . L . « ho fi . r . nirlj r . m-. n- rv <•' against tho do . n « t > nnu policy of tii * fin-.-rnra-in m ro 6 p « etad Iwiaud , _; . _ gava hU ocrdiol % _ 0 , . ' ,, ' . . motion . Major Blackah . drnied that tho tMiiuroMiceB in In . land ' . vere to bo nvtributed to tp . o E'tahi 4 h > 1 Cmrch tho sto'o of ( lie r ' r .-. uohiBO , or ttio dintr-m nf rhe country , but ! o t-io hir . _ igues o ? Armors . Hot'it-iin-h , that r . 'vemiuni 1 ml fioiio for Inland . vt-ryhhi- r ! mr could lie expected at I'S bands .
Mi' P . 5 sO ! loPE contondd thai ' , th tJiiuf : ; of Hid operatid aaa m-vt cru"lg . i <) vauc"e it , Indsa'l , aud kw ' o . : Parliament prepared itsolrtodoal with th « - > vil it « vois ! - > bo hop Oo'S to put dr > "n th" re ' i . ilion now -. ; , -ca cur-. ! ' i , thut county . If ^• . taething' worn rlo-: « >¦• chock Mi clopranco system ( he amount of di nff . ction wou' 3 be gr . 'at ' y diminished . Sir G , Obey roaiily admitted th « f ; mnny mc-purftf weru required for Ireland to remedy in po ial c lvl'tinbut the pr ; Bent was not 'he lim i for tlv r . consider . inn The l . on . membur for ifidnhsex li'id ri-comru' : rt d p unlvtrsal evRti . m -fcoWUntion . fcuk * _ <> rtitulu o ' bUL ' L
a plan must necessarily bo slow , nr . d would , ind e ' , ' '' « foarcely perceptible . Ho believed th v msny < v 'be evils of Ireland arose from tho nniur-i nf i :: en . l 3 : i"n >! ¦>' I-ind , but many of them could no : , in n ! .- . vimon , !» .- rmoved by leg . hiQiion , but by private in liviiu-la ic'irv In their respective iocnlities . A bid win ulroa ^ y nnd-r tha cjnsideration of Parliament to prevent ; i rs 'ii ? ' ' rbeing turned out of ihoir booses , tinri o inpMM to e' - . ¦¦ underhec'gep . Tho subdivision of lnnd p . oioci-t ! .. nfof the poverty prevailing In Ireland , and in hia opi . v-ri capitalists in that country vnuld do n v .. st ansoiin ; o ! tfood if fcheytcok larger farms nnd erapfojfd thi- pt > a , an try at weekly wuiren .
Colonel Dunne hoped the governmtnt would ns » nr the house that n bill on t _ h subject , foun Vd on just an ' . enlig _ tinad principles , would he introduced at ttic . 'urdi'n : jwsib / e perlcd . Mr R . M , Fox said there were Crown lands wUc ' i yielded but £ 50 , 000 . although they cost a great rea : i ' o , - thoir manaKemen ! . Thoso lands i > ight bo sul ¦ . f r £ 250 . 000 , which , lent at five per _ en ' , ml ; ht be mndi , fxmeans of improvise ; waste landa , nnd thus emp oy 1 , 000 , 000 of tho people . In his opinion tho Cuurcti of Ireland did far more good than injury . Mr Ci / ehents opposed the motion of Mr Shorman Crawford . Sir D . Nourets espi-eased his dlaappotiitmant Ihsu p . o measures had baen introduce- by government to iraprov ^ the condition of Ireland .
Sir W , Somerville admitted that the law relating ; o landlord end tenant required groat improvtmuir , . _; could not agree tea ; it Jay at the roat of all cho socU-i evils of Ireland . With respect to the poor law of Ir-i ; md . ho was ready to admit that it wag defective , an i ifit should bo tl ' o wish of Irish members , there w . ould be no objection on the part of government to grunt h co __ ; :. tee to consider the rubject early next session . Mr O'Connor said : Sir , if my : peech has no otln-r merit it shall be short , and I think I can no * illustrate the present position of the Irish members by an apposite anecdote . " There was once upon a time , a Roman Catholic clergyman , who was supposed to be gifted with supernatural powers ; this
rev . gentleman was appointed to a parish in tbe county of Kildar e ; when he entered upon his functions , the weather was excessively changeable and precarious , and his flock with perfect reliance upon his power , applied to him for a change of weather , and to which the divine replied , that a deputation of four should wait upon him on the following Monday , and that then he would comply with : heir request ; they did so ; when one asked for rain , another / or dry weather , another for heat , and another for cool weather ; and mark his reply , ' 1 cannot give you four kinds of weather at once , but go home , agree amongst yourselves upon one description of weather , and that you shall have . " ( Laughter . ) Now , that
was critically illustrative o { the Irish members—there were two parties upon that sideof the house , and two parties upon this side of the house , and their opinions , both social and political , were as much at variance as the four points of the weathercock ; so he would tell the Prime Minister to say unto those four sections , ' Go home , agree amongst yourselves , and then I will give you the measure you agree upon . ' ( Hear , hear . ) He told tbe house that the main grievances of Ireland , arose from the unfaithful and unrighteous discharge of those duties which nature and justice imposed upon the landlord , and that it was pusillanimous , mean and absurd , to come to that house , and ask parliament to do for them what they
were capable of doing for themselves if inclined . ( Hear , hear . ) But then was it fair or just , tbat the poof should suffer while the rich differed , and as he ( Mr O'Connor ) had listened attentively to every speech delivered upon the question , he found , as was invariably the case , that the irenzy and madness of Irishmen was traceable to the criminality of their rulers and the landlords . He knew he would not only have proof , but confession of this fact before the debate concluded j and now how would lie rstablisb his proof ? Why , the honourable secretary for Ireland , who had just sat down , in alluding to tbe speech of the hon . member for Kerry , adopted his assumption , and it was one in which he ( Mr O'Connor )
acquiesced , that tbe tenant was a tyrant over his labourer . Yes , he would say , as he had said before , show me a tyrant in broadcloth , and I will shew you twenty in friezs ; nine-tenths of the cases tried at petty sessions were complaints of labourers against tenant employers . ( Hear , hear , ) Ay , but who undertook to make the laws to protect those labourers , and who , by the confession of the right hon . baronet , was chargeable with offences committed by men , whom he had thus admitted were tyrannised over by their employers ? But he would go farther , and trace the tyranny of those tenant employers to the Irish landlords . The right hon . baronet , and indeed every speaker upon the
measure , had admitted that the non-employment of the population upon the land was the primary source of distrust and dissatisfaction , and he ( Mr O'Connor ) contended that the inevitable consequence of distress must be the abandonment of relisnce upon those who created it . Then he would attach this irrevocably to the landlord class , as the right bou . baronet had read extracts f . om a Blue Hook , showing that men who could net get employment promised £ 12 an acre for land , which the middleman held for 18 s . —and what did this proceed from ? Why . irom the fact that the Irish tenants had not such a tenure in their land as would induce them to expend the amount of capital , that a better
cultivation would insure if they had permanent tenure . ( Hear , hear . ) Would the right hon . baronet expend the same amount of capital , and apply the same amount of labour upon a farm , upon which he had a capricious tenure , as upon a farm of which he had a secure tenure ? ( Hear , hear . ) Then hence arose the non-employment of labour , hence arose the distress , and hence , naturally , arose the disaffection , and , as he anticipated , he had the confession of guilt from the rig ht hon . baronet , Now , if the labour market svas open and profitable , the labourer would not have promised £ 12 an acre for land not worth a pound , but be would have been satisfied with a fair remuneration for his work as a labourer .
If the house wished for a compendium of Irish history they would find it in the graphic and unanswerable speech ot the rig ht hon . baronet the member for Itipon ( Sir J . Grahau ) upon the discussion on the Sale of Encumbered listates Bill . He said the Irish Catholics have been long out of the pale of the Constitution , the land mart being closed against them—they have uphusbanded their treasure—let this bill be so framed as to enable them to purchase land in the retail market , and do not deter them from doing so by the heavy amount of stamp duties ; facilitate the transfer , and then , from the sound social system which such a state of things will produce , will arise a sound political system , which will
not endanger the security of the British Crown . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , that was the speech of a statesman—it was a speech worthy of being chronicled ; and he ( Mr O'Connor ) contended that the master grievance of Ireland was the sway of an alien Protestant Church over a Catholic people . And they need not go to the peasantry for just and deeprooted causes for hatred to your Protestant institutions , they had only to look to that bench where Irish Catholics , gentlemen of education , sat , and even yet they were excluded from scholastic honours in their Universities . ( Hear , bear , and cheers . ) But that was not all , their hatred was hereditary . Their ancestors mig ht be called to the bar . but , however great their talents or acquirements maybe , they while
should sit behind tbe bar in stuff gowns , Protestants , their juniors and inferiors in talent , sat inside the bar in silk , and were elig ible to honours and promotion . ( Cheers . ) They mi g ht serve as soldiers , but their suspected loyalty did not entitle tlfem to promotion . Well , then , he would ask if it was wonderful that those angry feelings should rankle in the Catholic breast , and should explode in vengeance ? But Irish members were taunted with not proposing any remedial measures for the benefit of their country , He ( Mr O'Connor ) was not liable to tbat charge , but the fact was , that every Irish question was disregarded by that house , and heard reluctantly by the house , while questions of minor importance , connected with sugar and distant colo-
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nies , so occupied their time , that he should not wonder if every honourable gentleman started at a sntrar hogshead , and fell into bystf-rics at the si ght of a grocer ' s shop . ( Laughter ) When be entered ihat bouse ( in 1833 ) , lie was an avowed , a sincere , ami ardent Repealer , but lie soon discovered in the .. ords of the right hon . member for Dungarvon , ' ibat it was a phantom , a mockery , a delusion , and a snare ;' and , being so emmneni , ho turned his consideiation to practical measures ; and , having been twitted by the hon . and gallant member for Middlesex ( Mr Osborne ) that he ( Mr O'Connor ) reminded the house that he had said so-and-so , and so-and-so , while the honourable and gallant gentleman himself published his Irish almanac for next year , and stereoty / ed his chronolojv for all time to ome b y telling us that he would do so-and .
so . iat his first so-and-so was his acquiescence "n the suspension of f e Irish Constitution , and h : 3 a- com ! so-and-so was to secure absolution by jiiopiwing some twenty measures of amelioration to be introduced next session , and w hich were to goon P * " !**™ w « th coercion , to which he gave his assent W ; perhaps it may not be out of place to illustrate tbe position of the gallant gentleman bv a military anecdote . "In the veur of the IriMi rebellion , there was a Kerry gentleman , bursting with lovalty , and he undertook to raise a yeomanry corps , at his oaii expense . 11 » said that he was independent of the old liuin-dnim system of discipline , and that lie wi . u ' . d establish a new system for himself ; and when he thought that he had completed his tactics , he invited his nci . hhaurs to a grand inspection of hia loyal corps , and when drawn up in double rank and file , his first word of command under tbe new svs .
tern was . ' i lie front rank will advance three paces forward—march ; the rear rank wi ! J advance three paces backward—march !'" ( Laughter . ) Ncv , the three paces forward were illustrative of the coercive measures to which the ban . aud gallant gp . nlle . man gave his assent ; and the three paces advanced backward were illustrative of the hon . gentlemen's remedial measures , which were to advance pari passu with coercive measures . He agreed with the hon . and gallant member that the standard of incumbency in the Protestant church should be congregational and not territorial ; but he also contended that the representation of the Catholic
people of Ireland should be measured by the numerical standard , and not by tbe standard of territf ) . rial Protestaniism . Now , one of his ( Mr O'Con . nor ' s ) so-and-sos proposed to that house in 1835 was , that the landlords should be compelled to make leases for ever , at a corn rent , and to that they must come at last ; and then there would be a market large enough for the employment of all the population ef Ireland . Oh . ' but this would be a violation of all tbe ri ghts of landlords ; but let them see if tbey could not discover a precedent . The property of the church in the land was the first charge upon tbe land : it was a lien of which the
land could not be discharged . Tithes are a hi gher description of title and more ancient than the title of the landlord lo rent—tbeir render was of the year , and paid in kind ; but this house substituted a septennial averago for the annual average , and money for a produce render . If , according to the old system , the harvest was a bad one , the parson , tbe highest landlord , took bis tithes in kind , thus participating in failure ; and be would ask , if any . thing could be more absurd or preposterous than the notion of paying a fixed money rent for thirtyone or sixty-one years for a raw material , the value of the produce of which may be depreciated or tampered with by legislation . ( Hear , hear . ) Would
it not be as just to presume that the purchaser of raw wool or cotton should give a fixed price for a stipulated period without reference to the fluctuations in the price of the manufactured article ? ( Hear , hear . ) He would now come to the question of Protestant landlords' solicitude for their Catholic tenants as regarded the payment of tithes . In 1735 , the Irish parliament , being Protestant , passed an act to exempt their own grass land from the payment of tithe for the support of the ministers of their own religion ; and from that period to 1825 —nearly a century—when the right hon . gentleman the member tor the University of Cambridge ( Mr Goulburn ) passed an act , the effect of which was
to bring those Protestant grass lands to bear their fair share of tithes ; for these ninety years the Protestant landlords of Ireland , as grand jurors , petty jurors , as magistrates and captains of Yeomanry corps , persecuted , prosecuted , and murdered every Catholic who offered the slightest resistance to the payment of tithes . And every war has been an anti-tithe war and an anti-Protestant war ; but to show the value of agitation , as soon as the Protestant lands were brought into gavel , the Protestant landlords became loudest in the deprecation of the tithe system , and were rewarded by twenty . five per cent stolen from the Protestant church but not given to the Catholic people . ( Hear , hear . ) And he would
now tell those English landlords sitting upon the Protectionist benche * not to deceive themselves with a notion that they had seen the end or even the beginning of free trade . No , it was the key . stone of the social arch , —the minister recklessly struck it out , but failed to prop the edifice of which it was the foundation , with those timely and prudent concessions for the want of which agricultural Ireland has been the first to suffer , but ultimately the infection will spread , and they will find themselves struck with the same bliuht . But while they dilated upon Protestant iniquities let them not forget Catholic atrocities ; for he ( Mr O'Connor ) asserted , that a little Catholic middleman was one of
the greatest tyrants in existence ; but to the ho _ ou _ and fine feeling of his Catholic countrymen he attributed the suppression of those grievances committed b y Catholic middlemen to the fact , that they would rather bear oppression than tinge tbe professors of their creed with criminality . ( Hear , hear . ) In conclusion , he would advert to the two great points relied upon by the noble lord , —the one was an extract fror a a pamphlet written in 1796 upon the state of Ireland , and he ( Mr O'Connor ) suspected tbat he knew the author of that pamphlet ' hue the noble lord ' s justification was that the writer states that in 1796 the Irish people were the worst housed , worst clad , and worst fed people upon the
face of the earth . But was not the same admission made in the repoit of the Devon commission , and what was the conclusion ? why tbat Ireland had been united to paternal England for now forty-eight years ; that tbe anticipations from that union , and the promises from that union , was the improvement of the condition of the Irish people ; and yet , although all other nations are rapidly hurrying on in the course of civilisation and improvement , the only reliable argument of the noble lord is that Ireland is no worse than we found it . ( Hear , hear . ) The second ground of distress , as stated by the noble lord , is population , consequent upon early marriages ; but be ( Mr O'Connor ) would ask
whether the prevention of early marriages would insure a less population , although it may insure aa illegitimate for a legitimate breed . Instead of coercing the Irish Catholic people to bear oppression tamely , while it was now manifest from the confession of every member who had spoken , that neglect of duty by the Protestant landlords was the cause , let that house compel the Irish landlords faithfully to discharge their obligations to the people , and then , but not till then , justice would be done , and tranquillity instead of disturbance would
reign through that unhappy land , and then would be perfect security for life and property , when justice was done to the Catholic people of Ireland . He had now kept his word by being brief . ( Laughter . ) Mr Newdeqate then esaujed to address the house , but was vi . ry partially beard In the grailery , la oonsequencs of the loud eXprtsBionB of impatience for a dlvi « sion . Ho endeavoured lo tlefsmd the Established Caurch of Ireland from the attacks with which It was assailed , contanding that its overthrow would be the destruction of the last link which bound the two countries
together . Mr Reynolds denied that the people of Ireund were contented with the Established Cbwcn , as had been BtotodlbyMr Anaify ' aud Major BI _ ok » ll . Tha Catholio popuUticmamounted to npwardiJofS . oeo OBO . The nembe ? of those professing the religion of the Established Church „ a 5 only 700 , 000 . The Catholic population had not only te support about 4000 of their own prieats by voluntary oo _ : ribattonr , but were compelled to support tbe clergy of the Established C . urch , with whom they couli have no eympalns- whatuvor . to the amount annually o _ £ 700 080 . ( Hear , hear . ) In an assembly composed 0 . rattunnl . ' intclllgeut men , ho thought it was unnecessary to say one word m-sre to convince tho house of the folly of flacti st-temoDtfl , ( Hear , hear . ) Mr St _ ffouo cud Mr Grace opposed the motion .
MrGR _ T __ Hros <> , amid loud cries of 'Oh , oh ' . ' an _ ' Divide , divlda . ' He nald : —I rim merely to mako aa apology to tho house , and to my countrymen for 00 * spealilBg . ( 'Hjar , hiar . ' and laughter . ) The house the divided , — For going intoo .. mmittee of rupply IW For Mr Crawford , resolution ... z * MM . mty , r ~_ - The house shortly after adjourned at Half-part sevea o ' clock .
MONDAY , Jolt 30 th . HOUSE OF LORDS . - Tho BUtop of LoWOH IUU qbired whether government Intended to proceed witt OlOCopjbold Enfrax . chUeaeflt Bill . He thought , COS
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 5, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05081848/page/7/
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