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and the fim sound that Btrikts my ear is , Death to th « traitor ! Letoscrncjf ^ him !' Thou bast sold thy bruhren for gold , Bajs the prostituted pen of ifie drunken reveller . Qoic , to die by inches in a tomb \ wist the erust of Hack bread and the cap of angaUh J And what hare I done with that gold f I Hto In a garret on fifty centimes a day . My fortune , at the present moment , consists of sixt y franc ? . And li is I , thU miserable atom , who drag my wearied bodv , wrapped in threadbare clothes , through the streets , who am jserefi at as the paid informer ! whilst the valets ef Lonis PWlippe , changed into gaudy republican butter ' flies , settle on the dias of the Hotel de Ville , and from thtir well-fed virtue of feur courses heap calumnies on ths head of the poor Job who has tEoaped from the prisons of their master ! Oh ! soas cf man ! who have always a stone ready to hurl at the innoct ' nt' out upon ye , despicable race !
The hoar has etruak for a public explanation . It sonnded in the tocsin of February . It is time to pour oat in the daylight these quarrels which hare BO long been simmering in the dark . My portriit h » B not the hsuour of aplace in the gallerj , which a charitable hand has just withdrawn from the mosenm of the police . To fill op this Mask I shall girt it , fuchasitis , such as I have seen it drawn twenty timsshy secret enemies of other days : — ' A dark and brooding spirit , proud , savage , and sareastie , of unboanded ambition , cold , inexorable , breaking men like reeds to pave hb way , heart of marble , head , of iron . The profile is not a SMei ' mg one . Bnt is there not a background to this portrait , and is tht cry of hatred gospel ? I appeal to those who knew my home : they know whtther my whole cxisttnea waB not concentrated in one deep and vivid affection , which endowed me with renewed vigour for my political struggles .
Death , when it snapped the bands of that affection ftssnder , struck the only blow , I own it , which vront home to tny eouI . Aught else , calumny included , glides to me like a shower of dust . I shake my clothes and advance on tny path . Sycophants , that wish to make me out a moral monster , unlock the stcrets of jonr homes , lay bers the We of your hearts . What would be found concealed beneath your hypocritical itmeanour ? Brutality of the senses , perversity o ? the soul . Pale sepulchres , I shall raiie the stons which hides your rottenness from the eyes of msn . Yffeat you persecute in me U my nsfltnehing revolutionary spirit , and obstinate devotion to my principles . YOU Wish to pull d 0 WR tae indefatigable gladiator . Waat have been your deeds for tbe list fonrteenytars ? Deiertion ! I was with yon in the breach in 1831 . 1 was there without jou in US 9 and ISiJ . In ISiSLam tberft aeainst SOU !
The 12 th May left me your hatred as a legacy . The affront of the 12 th May still burns hot npon your cheeks To fancy jourselvee a Republic , and not to know that a Republic dares the bati ! e ! How pardon go bold a etep , which held upyourimpotence to the sneers of the public ! Your outburst againft the vanquished insurrection is known to all . The National dressed our wounda each morning with gall and dirt , and cowardly ineinuatioHB have preceded the calumny which vengeance hat at last let loose npon me . During my sufferings at Hont St Michel , those resentmerits 6 iambsretJ , A dy ing man was no longer to be feared , and on the rumours of my speedy dissolution many quilla doubtless were cut to pen a magnificent funeral eration over my grave . But death withdrew , and February baa chanced those pens into SO man ? daggerg .
I arrived on the 2 ith , elated with triumph , what a chilling reception ! It was as if a ghost bad started np before the new possessors . "Whom do they look upon with that cold ejp of aversion and horror ! I see ! It is the detested author of the 12 th May , the clear . gighttd and unbending patriot , who is neither to be made a teol or a dope , or to be cheated out of his revolution . The now programme of the Hotel de Yillo wbb already drawn up , A change of plan ; the old foundation , the edifice of privi . lege without one stone less , with a few additional phrafea and mottoes . The banishment from the Luxembourg awaited tboss nho desired more . It was on the 25 th , that Citoyen Rscurt addressed IBB as follows : —* You wish to overthrow us!—No ! but to cut off your retreat ! ' And the struggle commenced , loyal and moaerateoa the < ms hand ; perfidious andimplacable on the other .
A thousand reports were set afloat : he is mad—grief and then joy have turned his hrain . He is ill—ha is doting _ he is dying . He is a man of blood—he demands trro thousand heads . These rjport * were spread through Paris , and through the provinces ; but not a wcrd transpired of the great ealnzBn . F- ' if . < 3 e Lamartine , at the Hotel do Yille , addressed ms 33 follows : — ' Persecution has been your martyrdom and your glory . ' Snch language is not held to an informer . The Deuochitie Pj . cifique of Monday has the following on the above demonstration : •— ' A meeting of the fri-nds and partisans cf citizen Bfanqui was held vesterday mnrniDg at tbe Hippodrome . Their number amounted to between 4 000 and 5 000 . They
intended , it w ^ s said , to proceed lo the Hotel de Ville , proclaim the dismissal of several membeis of ths provisional f overnment , and among ; them MM . « 3 e Lamartine , Dupont ( de l'Eure ) , Marrast , and Garniei-Vagts , and substitute in their places eit'Zm Blanqui and some of his friends . The different trade coip ration ? of the cspitalhad fixed a rendezvous in the Champ de-Mars , to Dominate some of tbeir comrades for fcrming part of the officers of the stfffof tbe Nati-.-ral Guard , as was s-ome time agreed upon with General Courtais . Tb . 3 friends of citizen Blanqui went to the Chatnp-de-Mars , and invited the corporators to join them . This was refused . Their operations beins terminated , they commenced their march towards the Hotel de Ville , by the Pent de la Concorde , the Place de la Revolution , and the
Q , uayg . Two legions of the National Guards of the Baniieue happened to be on the Place de la Revolution , for the reception of their officers . When the Blauqui meeting , wholly detached from the trad . 9 corporations , appeared npon the PJace , the National Guard of the Baniieue drew up before it , and stopped its passage . Upon this it dispersed . Foreseeing this Blanqui demonstration , the drums were ordered to beat to arms in the quarter of the Hotel de Ville , not , as it is important to remark , fo oppose the patriotic promenade of the ttade corporations to the Hotel , and there present their candidates for officers of the staff ot the National Guard , hut against the manifestft on of the Blanqui meeting , whioh seemed to bear an aggressive cha * racter . '
A document has appeared entitled Regulations to be adopttd for the Elections by the General Assembly of Delegates cf the Operatives , ' and signed by Lonis Blanc and Albert . The object of this manifesto is to ensure the election of twenty operatives ont of the thirty . four memrers to beretu > ned by the department cf fleSeiBP . Ru ' es , of comse , are given by which all members of the assembly -will be bound to return the same list of twenty Dames , and , to use the words of the manifesto , ' the total list of the thirty-four definite candidates of the department of the Seine being published with the sanction of the general assembly of the delegates of the operatives , the people will be earnestly invited to secure its success by voting for it as one man /
KEKEWID AGITATION . Paem , Tuesdat . — This morning at sis o ' clock the rappel for the assembling of the National Guards was beaten in all quarters of Paris . This alarming Hpmmons was said to be the consequence of information brought to the government that the Communists acd most violent of the cIhds had determined on another attempt to upset the provisional government , and to establish a . ' ccmtnittee of public safety , ' and that they intended to attack the Hotel de Ville . Last niglt tie Communist clnba were in a state of great commotion , and the severest censure was passed in many of them en the conduct of the provisional government for having thrown any doubt on the ir . tentioES of the owners who met in the Champs Elysees on Sundav .
The Mokiteur of this morning contains a proclamation signed by all the members of the government , congratulating the citizens on the demonstration of Snr . day . Another decree dec ' ares that the law rendering the magistracy irremovable is suspended , and this is followed by a series of decrees dismissing a great number of public functionaries of the first order . TasTCBiPr . —The Na Fiona ) Guards are all returning to their homeF , and the whole city i 8 perfectly tranqnil . A great ; number of Communists have been arrested , iBcludiDg , it is said , the CitizeBB Blanqui and Cabet . THE WOHK- TNO iCES OF PARIS .
The delegates of the" . Corporations of Wariunen have addressed a letter to tho provisional government , in which tney declare that their object ia assembling on Sunday waa :--l . To elect fourteen of their body to the staff of the 1 National Guard . 2 . To prove that the ideas of the organisation of labour , and of association , bo maintain ed by men who had devoted themselves to their ca . is ? . . are the ideas ot the people , and that , in the opi . " ?? . ° [ % P , P «» the revolution or February would fa Uittheetteototit were not to put an end to the explo . to . lim of man by man . 3 . After haviEg expressed the tr wishes to the provisional government , to offer it . 'ie a , ? ., ? their patriotism agaiasfc reaction , the > ' ajkwny the National Guard was called put , and why their represen ( ative 3 and friends . Louis Blanc and t ubBIt were
received with distrust ? They nay it was b « c 3 Hi = e the Reactionists had spread a rumour that the ^ 5 !" intended to overthrow the government , a du tuai Louis Blanc aad Albert' had encouraged then \ f ^" deavour to do so . They tstoutly protest again . « ine intentions falsely ascribed to Iheni , and say , in exclusion— ' Let it bb well known that nothing m "J demonstration of Sunday was calculated to ere . «» alarm . The people know that they are strong , ai w they can remain calm . They » w there to defem i the revolution , as they understand it , and ander their protectioa it shall not perish . ' On Menday afternoon a yellow placard was etuok up ia Paris , oa which wa 9 prioted , ' Wprhmen , take good care of year arms and ammtinition , for the reToltttioa is not finished !'
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upon us ineessaatly . In a short tima the passage of the Minclo tras forced over the smokiBg ruine of tho bridge ; the enemy , pursued without Intcrrupllonj fled towjids Mantua , leaving a great numl ?» ' of pmowrs and dead , and among- these some officers , Th » trull of this victory is bur remaining ; mastero of the passage ofthe Mincio , of which we . at present occupy the left bank . A posteript to this despatch , ' received an hour after , adds thefollowing particulars : — The battle lasted two hours ; the cannon did grea t execution ; we made two thousand prisoners , took four pioceo of cannon , and tho position is ours .
After the aceotnplishmen . t of this success , and the rout of the Austrians , who fled right and Iefd some to Mantua and some to Verona , the Sardinians repaired the bridge by planka , making a roadway sufficiently wide to enable the entire army with the cavalry , artillery , and baggage , to cross the river , which they were about to do when the last accounts left ,
ANOTHER BATILB . Another engagement took place on the Oth , at Borghetto , and at Mozambano , to force the passage of the Mincio at this point . A'Piedmontese column of General Sonnay ' s diWsion , under General Broglio , obtained a complete victory . The Austrian batteries , placed between Mozambano at Valeggio , were dismounted , and the Piedmontese troops enoamped on the left bank , at the place previously occupied by tho Austrhns , who were pursued by the tirailleurs . There hare been serious disturbances at Aix-h Cba pelle , in which several parsons have been killed and wounded .
m ^ ITALY ; The Patrie of Monday says : ' A letter from Venice which has juat amred states , that Verona has been taken by the Piedmontese army . ' This news has been confirmed by the latest accounts . Twelve hundred Venetians Have been . defeated at Montbello , near Vicenzi , by a bedy f 6 , 000 Austrian infantty aad oav&lvy . The greator pare of the Venetians were the students who volunteered from Padua and Venice . Many were killed . : HbaD . Q , oartbh 3 at Voma , April 12 —Yesterday the Croatians set fire to the town of Oaatel Nuovo . The cries ot the unfortunate inhabitants were heard at this place . . A body of the Austrian army numbering 9 , 000 tnen > which was on its way to Italy , haa been c mntermanded , in consequence of fears entertained regarding a movement in Galioin , D . Utnatia , and fJrrinfiia .
DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG HOLSTE 1 N . Letters from Hamburg confirm the fact of the Danes having entered SchJessviff , to the number of two thousand men . After the battle of the Oth , the SchleswiE'Holstein troops re-assembled afc Idstedn , near Schleswig . The Prince of Noer has retired to Hntten , with a great part of the Schleswig Holsfeein army . There are seven thousand five hundred Prussian troops at Rensbur ? . Rendesburg , April 14 . —A skirmish has taken place near Eckentorde , ia which the Danes were da . feated with a loss of forty prisoners . The Danish army of 8 , 000 advanced yesterday , aud took possession of X > annarzirhie , near Schleswig .
POLAND . Posbn , Asril IOih—In the tirat moments of alarm the Prussian authorities entirely abdicated their power into the hands of the Polish committee . . A passive acquiescence , and , in many cases , an active support on their part , marie the Poles believe that everything thatwaa done by them bad theaanction of the king ' sjgovernment at Berlin . And now , after three weeks of indecision and higgling with our depoiationi that samo government , having assembled about thirty thousand of Prussian troops , suddenly sets its face against tbe Poseoers , and calls on the-mighty torrent to fall quietly into its former channel . You also know what hopes and promisoa were given us of an immediate war with Bufsiai General Willisen came actually on ihe 25 th of March to the Polish deputation then assembled afc ( he Hotel de Rome in
Berlin , and assured them in most solemn terras , that the King , having determined to plaae himself at the head of the Germans and the Po ' ei against Russia , approved the general ri > iag ia Posen , and was go ' mg to get them organised into a regular array . Now this same general , after thirty taoasand peasants bad been collected by the nobles , and so many refugees had come from France aad from Belpium , all of a suddtn publishes an order enjoining the Poles to disband their levies , and intimates that tho existing lasdwehr will be quite sufficient for preserving peace and order in the duchy . Tho higher daises , although thus shamefully deceived , are willing for the salie of peace and moderation , to comply with tbese injunctions . But it is not so easy to send home thirty thousand peasants , who were led to believe that they were going to form an army against Russia ,
The Polish committee have sent commissaries and agents all over Europe—to the Pope , to Bohemia , to Hungary , to France , arjd to England . I conclude with copying the fallowing address they have issued to the people of Great Britain : — « Poland , sustained by the sympathy and tho most vital interests of regenerated Germany , is already on foot to repel the invasion meditated by Rufsia , to prove herself once more the protectress of European liberty and civilisation , and to recover her independent exigence or . the termination of this terrible conflict . While this conflict can be nothing leas than a tost crusade against the enemies of the human race , Poland calle
on the people and the governments of the West , awaiting from them that faithful and vigilant support which every army owes to those \* ho march foremost against the enemy . To us those vanguards , money and arms , are wanting . "Will regenerated Eurepe , like despstio Europe , tranquilly look on , while an unarmed nation is exterminated before her eyes ? Rejecting this dreadful suspicion , the National Committee of Poland address themselves especially to the government and people of England , _ to obtain from them the material means for fulfilling this great task , which God and the unanimous voice of a heroic people have imposed upon them .
TURKEY . The Pkesse states that a revolution has taken place at Belgrade . The Turks , it sajp , have been driven away , and Prince Bibesko deposed .
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THE EMPIRE . The cordition of Ihe British empire is such tint , independent of the agitation of Chavtism , ( t cannot long resist the force of circumstances ; its public credit must in a short period collapse ; these events come upon a nation in tho terms of Holy Writ , ' like a thief ) n the night , ' and it bshoves those drivellers who have invested their small sums in the Savings Banks to be upon the look out ; the great bulk 0 ! the depositors are English , and the total amount deposited is not less than £ 25 . 000 . 000 at the prestnfc time . When tbe amount oi" gold at the bank is pretty large , there is not enough to pay ene half , and in tbe event of a run upon the barjk for the repayment of the denos-its , the coffer * of the bank will be goon drained , for those who hold ( heir EOtes will prf ss for payment , as well as ' the depositors , ( ogether with those partie s who have banking accounts . These combinations of demand ¦ will aoon exhaust
the Old Lady , and empty her stores of tbe precious metals . When the ability to deliver geld has ceased , and the bank are compelled to resort to one pound notes , go ! d will rise in price , and a sovereign may be soon worth twenty-five shillings , or more . With regard to the probability of a run on the bank for gold , it may be slid that it haa commenced in Ireland ; and as nobody can say what a day can bring forth , the poorer depositors , who cannot afford to ] O 3 P | and who would rather that it should constitute a Chartist fund than lose it , must take time by the forelotk . The Savings Back deposit fund , established to bind the lower orders in one common interest for the preservation of the great debt , is likely to prove the means of its destruction ; it is the most vulnerable point in the who ' o system of English finance . The precursor to tho French revolution was the withdrawal of the deposits frum tho Savings Banks . The same causes produce the same effects , Akon .
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Noiiincham , Tuesday Evening . —Yesterday evening , according to a requisition numerously signed , a meeting was held in the Exchange-hall of this town , composed of the middle classes of all shades of opinions , from the high Tory down to ihe Chavtist , to take into consideration the distressed state of the country , but more especially of the working classes . There were about S 00 persons present , and but one opinion pervaded tie whole assembly ae to the widespread distress which existed amongst the working classes , and the necessity of something being dene to ameliorate their condition . There were on the platferm the Revi J . W . Brooks , vicar of Sfc Mary ' s j Revs . Benjamin Carpenter , and M . Linwopd . fJnitarian ministers ; Revs . Messrs Hunter antl
Edwards , Baptist ministers ; Mr Bailey , proprietor of the Nottingham Mercury ; Mr BradsnaWi of the Joubhal ; Ichabod Charles Wright , Esq ., banker ; and many of the most influential classes of Nottingham . The mayor , John Heard , Esq ., was called upon to preside . Resolutions and a petitiaa were adopted , tho spirit of which will be seen from the following extracts from the petition : — That your- petitioners view with deep regret , and entire disapproval , the attempts which have lately been made in Great Britain and Ireland to obtain , by intimidation and by threats of having retort to
p hysical force , political changes . 4 That , while your petitioners reprobate in the strongest manner and are willing to assist to the utmost of their power in repressing any such attempts , they sympathise deeply with , and are ready to use every exertion to alleviate and remove ; the Bufferings and privations under which large numbers of their fellow subjects are now labouring , and to improve and elevate theit social condition . Your petitioners , therefore , pray your honourable house to take early measures for reducing the national expenditure , and equalising the national taxation , and for irapming « former extending the eleotlvo franchise . '
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CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL . Speech of F . O'Connor , Esq ., in the House of Commons , on Friday , April 14 th , in committee on the above Bill . Mr O'CoiiNOB said ; Sir , I must confess my astonishment , amazement , and surprise , at the hypothetical and figuratiye speech of the honourable and learned member for Reading—a speech replete with exuberant eloquence and poetic fiction . ( Hear , hear . ) A speech which mig ht have suited the darker ages , but my consolation was , whea I heard that speech , that the author of Ion ( cheers ) was safe from the ex post facto operation of this law .
But to deal With his facts , or rather , his assumptions , because his reasoning was all hypothetical , and inconclusive against the necessity of the proposed measure . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir , I will divide his oration into two parts , beginning with his exordium , and ending with bis loyal peroration Now , what was his first admission ? Why , that in more disturbed times the law , as administered at Monmoath and Stafford , had been successful . ( Hear . ) Can he point out one single instance in which the ordinary Jaw has not been saccessful—nay , beyond the expectation of the government ? If , then , the
answer " must be in the affirmative , why dishonour the Queen , and commit treason against the people ? ( Cheers . ) Thus I show the law ' s potency , gathered from the poetical gentleman ' s flowers —( hear , and laughter)—and now I will prove the people ' s loyalty from the honourable and learned gentleman ' s anticipation of failure from what is expected from high anticipations abroad . Now , what has he . told the house ? ' Why , simply that he felt convinced , that , e ' er many days had elapsed , the failure from foreign changes would have tbe effect of wedding every man , who was now a Republican , more firmly to
our institutions , and of establishing in our hearts a more devoted loyalty to the Queen . _ ( Loud cheers . ) Well , then , why not await this jubileethis national rejoicing—instead of rushing iato ptemature legislation , which will convince the world that loyalty in England will be henceforth measured , not by reverence , love , or respect for Ihe Throne , but by dread of the law ? ( Hear , hear . ) Would it be possible for mortal raan to have stated a stronger case for postponement in the one case , and no necessity for the measure upon the other hand ? ( Hear , hear . ) Thus , sir , it has been throug hout the entire of this discussion . Every constitutional lawyer in the house , who has risen to support this bill , has
unwittingly , unintentionaUy , but conclusively , proved , that it is not wanted , and , if passed , that it will be inoperative . Now , sir , with all his legal knowledge , I defy him , and the Attorney-General , to frame an indictment under this bill , if the exposition g iven of its provisions by the Attorney-General is correct . ( Hear , hear . ) That learned official has told us that an overt act must be the crime , and that words spoken must be proof of the intentthen was there ever such nonsense ? ( Hear , hear . ) Ia it not truly an . ac 4 to entrap men into cumulative acts of felony ? ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Not to suppress crime , but to invite criminals —( hear , hear ) —and with such'a definition of old' statutes , which
the improved mind of the day is to abstain from explaining , this country is now to be governed . ( Hear , hear . ) Why , if the noble lord and his party were to be tried under this act , for words spoken and deeds incited to , during the agitation for reform , all the hulks at her Majesty ' s- disposal would not afford accommodation for the Ministers and their felon accomplices . ( Cheers , ) But that was to enable them to carry their princi p le , that taxation without representation was tyranny , and should be resisted ; but now they had possession of the exchequer , law was to be strained against tlielr friends , and the Attorney-General was to be England ' s Prime Minister : —
Tho tool of tbe Minister , not of the Grown , Made by Ma smile , and unmade by hla frown . If the provisions of this bill had so much puzzled the lawyers in that house in their endeavours to explain them , what would be the case when they came to be interpreted by the juries of the country ? ( Hear , hear . ) As for himself , he felt that he stood in no danger in reference to this Act , and such was the peaceable disposition > of the community and of the Chartists , that it was , in his opinion , wholly unnecessary to introduce an unconstitutional measure of this sort—a measure of the monstrous character of this gagging bill . The government were now kicking down the ladder by which they had
risen , and pursuing , under some extraordinary infatuation , a course which was not only reirogade as regarded this country , but was the direct opposite of everything that the governments of other nations were now doing in reference to the liberties of the people . This bill was , in fact , nothing but a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . He had opposed it in its several stages , and the support given to it on that ( the Conservative ) side of the house had led to an union between the labouring and the middle classes uhich would , after Easter , manifest itself in the form of a pressure of constituencies which it would be utterly impossible to resist . He then advised the noble ' lord at the head of the government to
beware how he adopted advice which came from the Opposition side of the house , from . which nothing could emanate favourable to his government . The late Attorney-General ( Mr Thesiger ) g ave it as his opinion that it was not necessary to put the precise words in the indictment ; all that was required was tbe mere construction . He bad never in his life heard such an unconstitutional doctrine . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) The bill was , in reality , a suspension of the Habeas Coi-pus Act ; it took away the right of hail and the right of traverse ; a prisoner might remain in gaol for eight or nine months hefore he was brought to trial , unless a special commission were issued to try his offence . To show
the danger of relying upon language attributed to public speakers , he would read to them an extract from the Sun newspaper , in which he was reported to bave said , ' Let them pass that bill , and on that day week one hundred secret societies would be established throughout tbe country , and he would go about aad organise them , ' Now , when such a mistake as that could be made , where everything was conducted calmly and deliberately , what might they expect at meetings where excitement and tumult prevailed ? Every person was aware that be said the very contrary of what was there attributed to him , and that he had positively stated his determination to oppose the formation of all secret
societies . ( Hear , hear . ) He would put it to them what would be the feeling of the country if he bad abandoned his duty by not having taken his place at the head of the procession on Monday last , although it had been forbidden by the government ? Had there been a collision with the authorities , what would have been his own feelings if he had not been present to shave the dagger aud responsibility , as he had previously identified himself with the movement ? The hon . member for York had attributed to him the authorship of an article in which he asserted that he ( Mr Peargus O'Connor ) advocated a republican form of government over that of a monarchical . WhaC was the fact ?
The article complained of was written in condemnation of the mode of electing the president of the United States , from which he deduced the fact that the present mode of election led to party feuds and quarrels for two years before the event , and did not subside for two years after , thus making the whole population parties , as it were , to a class squabble , and thus frittering away that which would otherwise be the united power of a people against a system which is yearly becoming more despotic . He ( Mr O'Connor ) claimed the same right of canvassing men , measures , and policr , that was eonceded to other journalists , and under that right , which he was not about to surrender , the article alluded to was intended as a caution to the French
people to avoid a course which must ultimately lead to similar results , and advising them to elect a president for life , responsible to the people , and removable for cause—this recommendation he offered for the purpose of saving the people from the consequences of those party jealousies which were sure to be engendered by the election of the Executive government . Not one word throughout the whole of it referred , to England . The entire press was opposed to the Chartist movement , and he might tell them what was very well known , that the press was paid , not for representing the truth of public
opirion , but for the purpose of mis-reporting and colouring it , in order to meet the views of those who read it . The Times newspaper , of the 10 th instant , reported a very violent speech , said to have been delivered at a Chartist meeting , held at Blackheath upon Sunday , the 9 th instant . Now he had received a letter from William Napier , Majbr-Gfeneral , stating to him that no meeting of any kind was held there that day . ( Hear , hear . ) Would , any man define to him what was the meaning of open and advised speaking ? He defied a definition . ' Oh , ' said the Solicitor-General , ' we preserve this vague and ungrammatical clause merely because we
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found it ungrammatical ; and we are tenacious ef our Saxon forms of expression , even where they mean nothing / What was foolishly , mhly , and interaperately spoken by a man opposed to the ( rovernment , would be considered open and advised SSSw «** the real truth of the matter . The people of this country had borne more tyranny and in Sice'ban any other people jh be world , ThcXeit more tamely and more patiently , ana h waned the government not to press , hem . toofar . They had a large standing array . The r shopkeepers Jere bankrupt , and their merchants were losing their capita ) . Yet » o Mtencfiinent « g made in the expenditure of the country . Why did they not reduce the civil list ? Why did they pay £ 27 , 000 to a foreign king , to the King of Hanover ? This was a monstrous iniquity , and one which ought to be remedied . The present government was a
most truckling government to its opponents , and the most unjust to its friends . ( Hear , hear . ) Why should he be charged with what Mr Cuffay hai said ? One honourable member would make him answerable for Mr Cuffay ' s language under great excitement , and another would charge him with what every , tomfool in London may be inclined toutter to a cheering audience , but he would be held responsible for his own words , and his own words only . This bill would remove the safety valve through which their folly would pass harmless away .
Let them once extinguish . the mind ' s fire , and it would be substituted by the Mazing torch , and where then would be the security for property ? Did they reflect upon this fact , that whereas the taxation of the country was measured by the full employment of the working classes—that expenditure bad increased in the same ratio in which their ability to meet it had diminished ? ( Hear , hear . ) T he whole question was one of laf j our , aud as long as he remained in his position it should remain so . Here was their present
position—if it . required the full employment of three millions to feed the idlere and support the gov eminent , and if one million of those three be » came unwilling idlers , they became a competitive reserve , and their poverty not only tended to the reduction of the wages of the two millions employed , but it also imposed upon those scantily employed , the further necessity of supporting one million of their fellow men as unwilling idlers . ( Hoar , hear . ) Well , then , with this damning fact before their eyes , how dare they attempt to gag public opinion , by the factious howl of those placemen and pensioners sitting behind the noble lord , and living in luxury upon the industry ofothersj ? ( Hear , hear . )
Let the noble lord remember that tvhafc caused tbe French revolution was the bold audacity of a tyrant minister , who , like the noble lord , attempted to awe the national will by paid officials , placemen , and pensioners . ( Hear , hear . ) And now he . was a ttempting to do the very thing which the French republic , and all other countries that had broken down despotism , Lad required as the first measure of justice , namely , the liberation of political offenders . ( Cheers . ) Tijey may array all the unconstitutional force at their command , against the constitutional right of freemen to denounce tyranny and oppression , but the voice ofa united people would silence the terror of a centralised faction . This was the
measure of justice to Ireland—this was the answer to the people ' s appeal for justice to this house . I Hear , hear . ) They ^ were panic-stricken , and were now taking council of the ex-King of the Frencn , whom he should not mock in his misery , or taunt in his sorrow , but he told the noble lord to beware how he took council from evil advisers . ( Hear , hear . ) Many attempts bad been made to define what open and advised speaking was ; but the only definition it would receive after the passiag of the bill would be ' anything spoken against the government . ' ( Hear > hear . ) The present government had got into power by unadvised and intemperate speaking , and now they wished to gag the people . Ministers were not
so squeamish about speaking in 1832 , when multitudes were assembled in every part of the country , and addressed in the most exciting language , and when Nottingham and Bristol were in flames . Ministers would be better occupied in reducing the pension list than in forcing an unconstitutional measure on Parliament . He defied the government to carry the bill into operation — they dare not do it . It was his intention to propose an amendment when they came to limit the duration of the bill , to the effect that it should be maintained in operation as long as the noble lord remained in office . Why they once thought that the income tax was to be temporary . Did not the smooth-tongued . and cunning-lipped baronet , tlie member for Tamworth , assure them that it would be but temporary' , aud beg
that they would not refuse to thestate whatthestate stood so much in need of } Wei ) , now Ihey were told in the same way that the state stood in need of this bill ; but were they once to pass it , they would be told , ' Oh , as V Xoye it now , we may as well keep it . ' Supposes should turn out inoperative it would then be said , ' The law is a dead letter . Let it alone : there is no need for meddling with it . * But suppose it should be used : then the answer to any arguments for its repeal would be , ' See the utility of the law / Depend upon it , the bill , once passed , would become as permanent as was the income tax . Let it become law , and he would traverse the country—morning , noon , and night—and his constant cry would be , ' Down with the base , bloody , and brutal Whigs , ' MOND . \ Y , Apkii 17 .
HOUSE OF LORDS . — State of Ibeiand . — Tho Earl of BlJ / B » B 9 Bou < 5 B followed np a motion for a return of the number of arms registered in Ireland between ( lie 14 th of March acd the Uth of the present ; month by refering to an article in the United Ieisbjian ' calling upan tne people to arm , with the rlojr , n-hen the-BjBtem of organisation was complete , of plunging them , in the hearts' blood of their enemies . If no preparation was to be made f « r defence while the enemy ' was preparing for an attack t&oso w 6 o rrisJied now to aid tho * government in maintaining peace and order would bff
disheartened , and would begin to confide * -, and perhaps entertain , the question of compromise , on a sutgect with re 6 peet to which no compromise could take place—viz ,, tbe Repeal of the Union . Ho was unwilling ' to prsss the subject too prominently forward ; he only wiBhe 3 to know distinctly what wwa the intentions of tbe go « vernment ; and ho woald , therefore , concludebj putting the qaestion of which he had given notice—namely , whether it was the intention of the government to es-U-nd tho provisions of the Crime and Outrage ( Ireland ) Act to the city and county of Dublin , or to bring in a Erasure to amend that act ?
Tfce Marquis of Lansdcwne Intimated that thero could bo no objection to the production of tha return moved for ( by the noble earl , inasmuch as hia object was to procure tho latest information in reference to a very important subject . With reference to ths question with which the noble earl concluded , ho must say he thought the Lord-Lieutenant was , ths he&t judge both of tho time , the place , nndthe mode in which the power of the government should be put into action , and he did not think that house irns tlio place—if any part of Ireland was to be brought suddenly under tflc operation of the act—in which it was consistent that such a proclamation should be announced ; he thought it should coma at once diroot from the Lord-Lien , tenant . After referring to various exaggerated
Btatemets in reference to the condition of Ireland and tbe arming of the disaffected , tbe nobla marquis said , tba * while he should be sorry to pledge the Lord-Lieutenant to arm all persona making application to iim . indiscrio mlnateiy . yet that noble lord had accepted the ' services of a large and efficient body of persons composed ^ beth Protestants and Oatuolics , and firms had been cent over to bo placed in theli hands . Tbe noble oari bad ailadeiJE to a compromise , of which certain rumours had been spread abroad ; and when a compromise was mentioned ho was bound to take the first opportunity of , stating that there could be none . * It was tae determination of her Mojesty ' a ministers to resist all attempts to subvert the well government of tbe country , and with tbe interests of which government : the pf ^ gu'vation of the UniOQ was inseparable .
Lord Bbocgbah was of opinion that the Repeal of tho Union was only sought for by a very small body , who drove a pecuniary trade , by advocating that measure . Tho return was agreed te , ; Removal op Aiiens Bill The Marquis of LANSdowne proposed that this bill should pass through com » mittee pro forma for the purpo 96 Of prlntlBg certain amendments of a verbal character , and one which gave a right of appeal to the privy council . The . Earl of EtLENBoitooan said an oppeal . to the privy council would defeat the object of the bill , Th © foreigners in this eonntry whom it might ia desirable to send awuy by steamerfula wero not respectable traitors , but peraoui of the lowest clasn , and to give each the right of a separate appeal to the Queen in council , would keep the privy eouncll constantl y sitting . that if %
Tho Marquis of Iansdowne aaid they were no mpeotable traltora ' - ~( ia » gfctcr ) --thoy would ? ot bo able to bear the expense of Buob an appeal . The Earl of Eiienbobodgh said he wouldjiot oppoB © the clause afl it appeared to be useless . ( Tho bill passe d through committee . The EUfltion RacogHiz . inces Bill was read a seeonfi ' time and their lordehips adjourned at half . past . elgafc oV . ook , HOUSE O ? COMMONS . — Kepbesehxatioh ; o ^ . the : People . —Mr Hsmb pre Botiee , arald loud chesty thafe . shortly after the recess , he would call attention to the * present state of the representation of tbe peoptkanjk take the flense of the houBe on that question * > f 1 vf KJ * * ^ MflW WSIT POE DEBDT : —Mr EYANB . EOifeO l ^ &J ^^^ writs for Darby , nt ae room of Mr Strott BBa-tWHCTrifta ^ < F . Goff 6 r - ^ ! l& J ^ i i 8 Mr MA . C 5 IHN 0 H Bc « oade € tflVttot&n , « q- pS ^ Sf ' ^^ w l- ^ XiylrW 1 ' f \ i i * , g' » ' -J 7 7 v V ~^ l Vtef ffiift
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TBE FHENCH REPUBLIC . PiSI '» SnwJay . —The Mositedb of this morning j , b ] jsnesa long report from the Minister of Finance * on the abolition of the duty on salt , and a decree to jis foll owing effect :-Tbe prov&onal government , coasiderfog that citizens efcould contribute to tie public ch » rgea ia proportion to iheir fortune , and that the object of tne republican farm ofsovemaitnt is to put that principle of justice and humknity in practice ; considering that it is especially im » portsat to abolish the imposts of consumption , which ^ eig hopon the poor , and that of all imposts , that up-in E is the aost onerous and most iuig , aitou 3 ; considering tbat the health of the people , the prosperity ofagricul : nw . * fcs development of incusiry and trade , imperiously rt ' qcire tbe abeliiion of it , and wishing to repair to me peop'e -ne of ths moit crJinsi acts of injustice of paBt gges ; on the report of the Minister of the Finances , decrees— .. .
_ „_ Art . 1 . Tram the 1 ft of January , I 8 i 9 , tha duty npon gsltis abaliihed , &c ,, &o ,, &c . Another decree declares that the woods and forests belonging to the private domain of the ex-King loais Philippe shall bs managed and administered by ths administration of the forestsot the etete . WOKKUEli ' S DOKATIOSS . A few days ago a deputation ef the journeymen bakers proceeded to the Hotel de Villa to present a gam of 6 , d 5 ii- which they had collected amongst themselves . A considerable number of women and voting girls accompanied there , as well as a child of
about seven years of age , dretsed ag the Goddess of Liberty- ^ an appropriate address had been read . M . Fagaerre returned to the depatation thanks for their patriotic gift , and allading to the young perrons tresent , observed that the lesson which they that day received would no doubt be always indelib y im « printed en their minds , and that , more fortunate than their parents , they wonld nst hate to pass throush two ereat trials to behold liberty established In R anee , He then embraced the little girl who ispresenttd the goddess , and the deputation , withdrew .
THE PAKTHEOS . The Minister of the Interior baa decided that the internal walls of the Panthecn are to be covered with paintings by M . Paul Chenav&rd and snch assistants as he may think fit to associate with himself ia the task . M . Chenarard is to be allowed 4 , 000 f . a year for the work , and Ms assistants 10 ? , a dayeack , as aumimuia , colours and other materials being famished by the state , KATIOSAL WOHKSH 0 P 3 . It is said that tbe provisional government is engaged in or £ aa . sini ' AtelUra fraternals' in the twenty detached forts which surround Paris . Each fort , ft is said , can lodge about 2 . 0 GO workmen . ESTBAOKDISART JI-TEMEST . On Sunday morning the organ of the elub 3 , the Comjiosb de Parts , publishes the following announcement : —
AH the trades are canvoSed to asseable by their delegates to-day at eight o ' clock in the morning precisely , snd to inarch in bodies to tbe Champ-de-iTars , in order to elect the captains of the staff of the Nattonsl Gnar 3 , ¦ wh o are to ba chosen from amoag tie different industries . This notice is followed by the following paragraph : — TTe beg of all revolationaries , onr friends , known and ¦ snfajOK-n , all the presidents of claba , all the chiefs of corporations to call at our oSses in order to give us information of tae sitiia'ion , which becomes moreaad more grave every flay , More tbsii ever is It of impert&Ecs that wa shsuld cling together and coneer ^ in order to moke bead against re-actios .
The effect of the above notice was , thai ; tbe whole of this ( Sunday ) raorniog the boulevards and sf reers Lave been crowded with processiocs . making their ¦ wa y towards the Chairip-de-Mar . , tut it was not till iosrsrd 3 twoo'eloekthaE the alarm appeare to hare been taken by the government . At that hour the rappel began to beat , the shops were ekaed , and a universal panic seised upon the public . The rnmour got abroad that it was the intention of tfce clubs , headed by Blanqui , to se ^ ze upon the Hotel de Ville , on tkeBinko [ Francs , the Post-office , the Bonrse , the Mint , and the Tuileries ; to upset the present provisional governaient , and to install a new gove nment , composed of Blarqui as President , with the former ultra-republican members of the provisional government , namely , M , Ledru-Rollin , M . Albert . M . Louis Blsne . and 31 . Flacda , and tire addrtien of M . Sobrier ( the ex-delegate of the police ) , aud some others .
The origin of this movement is stated by some parties to have been an aktre . xtion between Ledra-Itoliin and Marrast , bat thi 3 report cannot be relitd on . The assemblage cf ouvricrs to-day in the Champ de Mars is the largest that has taken pkee s ' wea the Revolution . It is said to bs upwards of 150 , 000 jnen . I understand that when they hid met , a consultation of delegates took jl ? . ce , after which the digerenc trades , which were marslal ! ed under distinct lesders , and marched in columns ten deep , directed their steps towards the Hotel de Vil ! e . I Isare not been able to ascertain what their exact object is , bat I presame it must ostensibly be merely to present a petition . I have just retnroed from the
quay of the fnileries , where I saw tLcm passirgfor np wards of an hocr , and before my arrival they had been passing for nearly an hour previously . Each trade had a flag at its brad , with the name of the trade inscribed upon it-, snd npan all the flags there ¦ was a larje placard affixed , wiih the words * Abolition de Sexploitation del'homme parl'honune . Organisation du travail par 1 'Association . ' They marched very peaceably , sisging from time to time the' Chant dea Girondins , ' aiid cried out occasionally , Vive Ia RepuH : que . ' Most of them had the red riband of the republic at their button holes , which is in oppcsition to the tricolour . The Na : ional and the Garde Mobile are all uBder arms , and show the best spirit in favour of the Provisional Government ,
Five o'Clcck . — It appears that there were two meetings held to-day-one at the Hippbdrerse , and the other in the Charap-cc-Mars . The former was nominally for the purpose of discussing the interesting subject of organisation dn travail , ' and the other as mentioned above , for the nomination of a certain number of officers for the staff < jF the National Guard , the working classes dsclaring that they bad not been represented in the late elections of officers . It is said that when they complained to Loui 3 Blanc that they iad been thus ' negiepted , ha d ^ ired them to meet together , and appoint them themselves . This they did to-day with perfect order , to the number of fourteen . After this operation they made a collection for the republic , and then proceeded to the Hotel de Ville to present it to the government .
At the other meeting , which wa 3 avowedly Communist , cries of ' a bas Ie Gouvernement Provisoire V ¦ were over and over again heard , asd very kflammatory speeches -were inade . These men afterwards joined the other body , and appeared to take the chitf posts . The club of Barbes remained sitting all the night of Sunday , in order to support the Provisional Government should any attack be made en it , aad to preserve order thronehont Paris . AXOTHEH ACCOCXT .
A body of operatives , variously estimated , bnt probabiy not exceeding 25 000 , marched , at about two o ' cleek , from the Champ de Mars and the Champs Eiysee 3 along the quays towards the Hotel * Ville . . . ... When the head of the column arrived at the . Bridge of Areola , their farther progress was rendered Impossible by tbe denso mass of National Guards they there encountered . They then demanded that s deputation should be allowed to proceed to tbe Hotel de Ville , to the Provisional Government . They repeated again and again that they had only assembled to name their officers of the etatmajor , whom they desired to present . The deputation was atcjrdiBglj admitted , aad tbe main body filed cff .
CIIOTEK EUKQUI ASD HIS ACCUSEB 3 . Some weeks sgn a document was published in the Eetob RErEOSFSCllVE inculpating Blanqui , the president of the Central Kepubiican Club , as a traitor . He had safiered much under the falleH dynasty , and was trusted by the ex ? reine Republicans as one ot the most devoted cf that party . A few days ago he published n £ s reply , winch has excited & great sensation in Paris , and completely satisfied his admirers . We give the following extracts : — Taken by surprise py aa unforeseen attack , I was compelled to lose some days in collecting information on the dark machinations which led to that odious sggresgion . The state of my health prevents me from conti-Euens labour , Tbose two motives alone retarded my reply . * * *
Calesmj- it ajfrajs a welcome gnesr . Hatred nad credulity inaele it with delight ; It needs no recammendatiea provided it tills , what booU the likelihood of its probability ; downright absurdity is BO drawback . It possesses a Eecret advocate in every heart nnder the goUe of enry . Kb protfs are demanded from it , it is the victims tbit are called up . An entire life of devotion , of austerity , of fingering , siaks ia and leaves an abyss at the slightest motion of its hand . I em sccased cf tr £ fl ? on ! Tv"h trefoi 6 ! To Bave my Dead which ran no riEfe , as all are aware . When Tingeaace was ia s paroxjsm it was incompetent to erect a Ecaffold , and could it do so fcf > er eight monthH of calm au $ o&IiviQa ! It * presence w&e st least rtgolsite ; and if the exeeBS of terror turned with ench / earful rapidity into a vile informer , how comes it , I ask again , that a signature pas not exacted from snch a subject of moral aaaihilatlou t
Did I , moreover , allow my fetters to be knocked off ? The Mont St Michel , the F « n ; tsneier of Toara , are there to answer for me . Amongst By companions , who has flrunk eo fletply of the cop f anguish ? Pot fe whole year zny thonghts riveted on a beloved wife , sinking fast anier ths effects of despair , and powerHts to soothe ber ; end then four whole years of an eternal tttea-Ute , In the solitude of my dungeon , with the departed spirit erf her wao was no more . Sneh were the tortures wbicb I tad to endure , alone , in that hell of Dante . I ltf t it , zs / fceir pisasbed t > y angxtiab , bn&x and raind crushed ,
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IHE COMMUNISTS . .. ., M . Cabet hss addressed a letter to the provisional government , in which , he remonstrates againac tne manifestation which took place on Sunday ana Monday , directed against him and his fellow Communists , declaring that their intention is to withdraw to America , to realise ther « an Icaria similar to that described in the published work ef M . Cabet , and disavowing all intentions hostile to the government . .. The . Rwobmb denounces the armed manifestations as the work of the reactionary party . , ^
ihb clubs . , . The Mokitecr des Clubs invites all revolutionists , known or unknown , all the presidents of clubs , and all the chiefs of corporations , to come to the office of that journal , andtogive information as to the aituation of affairs , which is becoming every day more serious , and that it becomes necessary to unite against the party of re-action . ., The Cmjb Central Repdblioias , of wnicn M . Blanqui is the president , held a secret Bitting on Monday evening last , at whieh M . Blanqui himself presided . The object of this meeting was to arrange the military organisation ot the c ) ub , and to divide Paris into sections . Fortj-eight chiefs of sections were appointed , who have the supreme command in theqoartera over wheh they are placed . Thia prothe
ceeding is considered aa showing an intention , on part of the club , t- > take to the streetB . Alter the secret sitting a public meeting was held , which was enormously crowded ^ For horn before the doors were opened , the Btreet in tho neighbourhood was crowded by pergons anxious to witness the proceedings , but none but members were admitted . M . BJanqui delivered along aRd violent address on the subjeel ; of the meeting m toe Champ de-Mars on Sunday . He declared that the demonstration made by the National Guards was treason against ihe people ; that the whole aimir was a trap , pot up by the reaciionaivus and the monarchists , lie called npon the people to * arm themselves , and to be prepared tor whatever events miehfcbappen . . '
_ , __ _ , _ , __ The report ot the arrest of Blacqui and Cabeti on Monday last , was not true ; but it was stated in Pan ' s on Wednesday , that orders for the arrest ot Blanqui and several of his party , had positively been issued . Up to Wednesday morning , Paris vras tranquil .
GERMANY . WOHKISO CUBS HOVEMBNTSi ' Bebun , April 12 . —Oneof theohiefobjeefs of the working classes ia to obtain the appointment ^ ( if a minister for promoting their interests , conjointly with those of persons whose capital affords employment ; and it is very probable that aueh a minister ¦ wi ll be shortly nominated . There is no laek of communist leaders and preachers in this capital . The irst decisive * fcep towards getting the interest of the working classes property represenied and upheld , was taken yesterday at a great popular meeting , at which a provisional committee of twenty-eight was
elected , 'in order ( as stated by cne of the speakers ) to conduct the general affairs of the working classes . ' This committee has already nominated a special one ef eight members , who have been instructed to draw up the statutes for the trades unions .. Several manufacturers agreed yesterday to diminish the hours of labour to ten , and at the same time to raise wages- Ifc is proposed that tho committee be authorised to enter into negotiatiens with , the government respecting tbe general interests of the working classes , and in a particular manner to give the benefit of their advice to the future ministry of industry and labour—for such , it is thought , will be his title , .
A few days ago some popular orators wfii'S arrested by Prussian soldiew in Blasdorf ( Silesia . ) An immense crowd soon assembled , and the authorities were obliged to release the prisoners . Bohemia . — Important concessions have been made to the Bohemians . The Austrian Emperor in reply to a petition addressed to him has determined : — ' 1- Tee Boheraian language shall in future be equally valid with the German in all official branches of the legislature , and in public instruction . 2 . To the Bohemian diet immediately to be convoked all the states of the kingdom shall ba assemble . ! , tho following changes to be effected in the number of delegates : The city of Prague to send twelve de ' egates of the burgher class , every other city of the
kingdom one ; every eity containiDa 8000 inhabitants ( o send two deputies to the Diet ; the University of Prague to fee represented by the rector , and every faculty of the university by a delegate ; every vicarial district to send two delegates from the other classes of the people . Every burgher may vote who pays taxes to the city and is above twenty-five years of age . The delegates must ba natives and above ths age of thirty years . Np man can either bean elector or a de-legate Vfho is in debt , under guardianship , or amenable to the laws for some crime . 3 . Responsible central authorities for Bohemia are aecovded in the city of Prague . 4 . The petition of Bohemia , Moravia , and Silesia shall be deliberated at th 9 approaching Diet . 5 The
abolition of privileged and patrimonial tribunals , -Xc , shall be referred to the Minister of the Interior . His Majesty nevertheless now concedes—the abolition of the robot , the free exercise of the Protestant and Jewish religion , as well as the Roman Catholic . The admission of the Israelites to . burgher privileges to be taken into consideration at the Diet . 0 . Selfdependent religious communities with liberty of choosing their superiors is also accorded . 7 . A neir law on the press will be fixed by the Diet . S , Personal immunity againEt arbitrary imprisonment is accorded . 9 . Government offices in Bohemia shall in future be filled only by persons who are versed in btth languages . 11 . The abolition of the tax on provisions has been in part conceded , and will be further considered . 12 . The new military law for , the
levying of recruits has been a ready promu ' gated . 13 . Liberty of petition has been already accorded ; the right pf association will be regulated by the fundamental Jaty . li . Public seminaries , &c , for instruction , through the medium of the Bohemian lasguage , will be established under the special charge of the Minister ot the Interior . The request that all the military and the civil officers EhnJl take the oath lo their constitution , can be established only by the fundamental law . ' A letter frem Peirth , dated April 6 , says : — 'The political world csntinues quiet , but confidence is gone in the fullest sense as to money . Tie bank notes are eo much waste paper . JNo oca will take them , and the Irancli banks which still profess to give silver in exchange are besieged from break of dav until dark with crowds clamouring for silver .
Hesse Gassel . —The insurrectionary movement at Cassel ( Hesse electoral ) appears to bave been serious . The Elector having determined upon dismissiog Genera ] Lepel , the Commandant , as also the Miaister of War , who would not counteraign the ordonnonee of h * i 3 dismissal , determined also upon dismissing the latter minister . Upon this the Cabinet sent in its resignation en masee , which was not accepted , and the ordonnantcs ieaucd against General Lepel and the Minister or' War were withdrawn ! When the facts became public , a mob of people , composed of artists , members of the Polytechnic School , and tradespeople of different sorts , assembled on Sunday night en the Place RoyaJe , for the purpose of making a demonstration . They wanted to applaud tho ministers . The mob after this , accompanied by
a patrol of the civic guard , assembled opposite tbe residence of M , Eberhard , and from thence repaired ta the house of M . Baumback , one of the ministers . "Without any previous warning , the soldiers from a neighbouring street charged the people . Many of the civic guards were wounded , and the body guard were ultimately driven back into their barracks . For many hours the greatest anarchy prevailed in the town , and the chiefs of the Natiena ) Guard bad no command over their meD , and fighting continued during the entire night . On the mcrning of the 10 th a proclamation appeared , in which the Elector expressed his deep regret at the events which had transpired , promising to punish , with tbe utmost rigour of the law , the culpable parties . On the 11 th , tranquillity was completely restored ; other troops were called in . which fraternised with the people .
THE WAR IN ITALY . FORCING OF THE PASSAGE OF THE MINCIO BY THE SARDINIAN TP . OOPS . A battle , though not a decisive ' one , haa at length taken place between the united Italian army and the Acstrions , Tbe decisive battle will npw be lough * , in all probability , under the walls of Verona . The Pibdmouibsb GiZBTiB of the 10 th instant , publishes the following bulletin : — Prom thebeu&gurters ot the JOng , a * Castiglione delle Stiviere . Aptil 8 . 1848 , p . m . . for
The Austrian troops had been retiring several days before the Piedmonteae troops , who preceded by their ancient renown for valonr and dlseipl no . had been crossing the linen of the Oglioand CnieBe without an obstacle . The enemy had already abandoned the positions ofMentachlaro . Lonato and CantigUono delle Stiviere , which had been considered very advantageous for them , They bad already retired beyond the line Of the M . nciO , to concentrate themselves between Pesehiere and Mantns ; but onr iroops pnrsuea them with prodigious rapldity , converging towards the passages of the Mineio . This mornfnff , the King boWIy established his headquarters in Oasti g ltoae delfe Stiviere , and at obont nine o ' clock , the Brigade Regias , tbe Battalion Heal No ? i , and a part of the corps of tirailleurs , reached Qoito to attack the Austrians . The war of Italian independence w&b destined to be opened viith an important action , which might really deserve toe name of a victory , and we shall oall it the vietory of the'Bridge of oito .
Our men led by General Bava , mado a brifek attack upon Golto , where tho enemy had fortified himself , bar-Heading the streets , and occupying the windows , from whence he directed an uninterrupted fire Hpon us ; but ev « ry obstacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the tirailleurs , placed at tho head of the column , and sop . ported by some piece * of artillery . The snemy twb forced to abandon his position ; on his retreat over the river , 'e blew up the bridge , that had been mined a short timo ) t fore ; still one of the parapets remained nearly entire ; Il 8 tirailleurs intrepidl y ventnred upon It , and by mf » B ore . ¦» ^ Ok Possession ot the artillery that was ploying
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 22, 1848, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1467/page/7/
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