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Fnewcz.—The President of the Republic made his first appearance in public since the change of Ministers on Saturday; and his reception was deemed of some political significance. It was the day appointed for in- stalling the high judges of the land under the new Constitution; a cere- mony performed in the ancient fane of St. Louis, the Sainte Chapelle. The President went in state, accompanied by his new Ministers; and passed. slowly along the faubourgs and quays between the Elysde and the Palais de Justice. The Parisiaus assembled in great crowds, and with a feeling of curiosity for results—a coup d'etat having been prophesied by some: but everywhere the President was well received—though some accounts say that his welcome was less hearty than usual. At the Palais de Jus- tice he was met by the aggregate Magistracy of France, and escorted by them to the Sainte Chapelle; where the Archbishop of Paris, in grand pon- tificals, celebrated the mass of the Holy Ghost. After the religious cere- monies, the cortege returned to the Palate de Justice, and the installa- tion commenced. M. Ronlaer, the Minister of Justice, spoke first; then M. Portalis and M. Dupiu. The President of the Republic delivered a speech which is described as a "beau succes de tribune," and is much praised. Going over some of the remarkable events of the Revolution, he recalled the act of his uncle, when Consul and Emperor, in restoring the immoveability of the magistracy. Declaring that the magis- tracy had ever been the safeguard of society and of real national freedom, he expressed his conviction that the present magistracy would.cooperate with him in closing the zera of revolution and entering on that of real ame- lioration—in crushing anarchy, and in supporting the Republic which he had sworn to uphold. M. Rouher then rose and repeated aloud the oath to be independent and firm in justice, faithful and secret in deliberation. As he' spoke the'words, the whole of the judges rose, repeated them after him; and, holding forth his arm before the crucif4, pae4 staid, " Je le jure." The President then returned to the lys0-e. )0 44;,,, • • Iii the Assembly, on Friday, General d'Hantpoul, /Meister of War, read the following programme of Policy.— "The programme contained in the message' f the President of the Republic is so explicitly defined as to place beyond all equivocation the policy which he has

called us to follow. ,

" When he was pleased to call for our cooperation, he had already thought paper to use his,constitutional initiative. WO shall not certainly be precluded from seeking in the ants of the Cabinet that preceded as more than one example efglorious devotedness to the country and of an exalted appreciation of its inte- rests.

" In the situation which had been made for us, all individual sympathy ought to be silenced, or rather to give itself up, in adhesion to a single and solemn testi- mony of friendship and gratitude.

4 The future had been pointed out to us, and we became convinced of the ur- gency of providing for it.

" The new Cabinet, as our antecedents sufficiently indicated, has not been formed against the majority. On the cootrary, it develops with energy the averred principles of that majority. It has and cannot have any other. " We mast maintain the union of all shades in oue party—the party to save France. [" Celat de la France a sauver."] We shall arrive at that result by a unity of views; by confidence in the strength of the power elected on the 10th of December, resting on the majority of this Assembly; and finally, by the imperious sentiment of duty awakened everywhere in the minds of the functionaries of the State. " Such is the object which the Chief of the Government has invited us to pur- sue with him; putting according to his right, nobly understood, his responsibility along with ours, in that difficult but patriotic effort. "Peace abroad, guaranteed by the dignity becoming to France; persevering maintenance of order at home; an administration more than ever vigilant and eco- nomical of the finances of the state ; such is the programme which is dictated to us at once by the interests of the country, the confidence of this Assembly, and the personal convictions of the Chief of the Government. "In the first rank of our duties we place the protection of labour in all its grades and all its forms. We desire that the farmer and the labourer, more and more assured as to the morrow, should at last completely regain that confidence which begins to revive. But we also desire that that security should spread to other regions of society, recall the labours of intelligence, and restore to capital and to credit an elastic vigour too long relaxed. "The Cabinet, in accepting the burden of affairs which it did not seek, is bound to count on your sympathies and your support: your exalted reason and patriot- ism have given it that right." There were no marks of approbation or of disapprobation during the reading of the programme; but when the Minister retired from the tribune, there was a slight laugh from the Left.

The Hon/tear of Tuesday publishes a decree by the President of the Republic, dated the 4th, appointing General Baraguay d'Hilliers Command- er-in-chief of the Army of Expedition of the Mediterranean, in place of M. d'Hantpoul, now Minister of War.

SPAIN.—The high-handed mode of Narvaez's return to office has not contributed to the stability of his hold on the future. The King Consort has found a party to back him, in the numerous officers of the household who have been dismissed in company with him; and there are reports of plots brewing for new modifications of the Ministry, and even its overthrow once more. The Queen Mother plays a temporizing game between both parties; and the young Queen herself, to save annoyance and trouble to herself on either side, seems to be dissembling with each in turn.

IONIAN ISLES.—Teodoro Vlacco was tried by court-martial, at Argostoli, on the 17th October; found guilty, and sentenced to death. Many witnesses deposed that Vlacco was concerned as a ringleader in the insurrection, and that he led bands who forced peaceable villagers to bear arms or render supplies; some persons deposed to witnessing his participation in the mur- der of the late Cavaliero Niceolo Metaxa, when his house at Scala was burnt down on the 28th of August, and he with four others was put to death. Two witnesses swore they saw him fire the fatal shots. Called on for his defence, Teodoro Vlacco uttered this speech—

have none to make. I leave my defence to God, and throw myself on the mercy of the court. All the witnesses have been sworn in together against me. I had nothing to do with the death of the Cavaliere Metaxa Capsoliveri. The Scala men did it, because they owed him a grudge. Dr. Momolo Pretender; and Dr. Republica Focca offered me three hundred dollars to shoot the Lod High Commissioner. On such and such a day, they told me that the Lord High Commissioner was going to the convent of San Gerasimo in July, with Mr. Pangali and Mr. Claden: I was to take a few young men with me, and they offered me three hundred dollars to kill him, and a hundred and fifty more to kill Mr. Fyers. Focca added, that Canada had risen, and they ought to take advan- tage of this opportunity to throw off the English. He added, that all the people in Cephalonia had sworn teesupport nee. Cephalonia, has ruined me. If I had

life, 1 had rather deist the,dkenorti of hell' than to the Greeks. Out of the seventy thousand inhabitants of .Cephalonia, at least fifty thousand were concerned in the outbreak. am. not more responsible than they. The letter I gave to the authorities was given by a boy from Messrs., Republica Feces and Pretenderi. (The letter was here"translated to the court, but was not signed.) This boy told me that another boy had written it for Dr. Pretenderi, and at his dictation, as well as that of Signor Focca. I deny positively that I have any other documents; nor do I wish to accuse Dr. Momolo Pretenderi or Signor Re- publica Feces in particular. I only wish that the court may know the real truth."

The sentence of the court-martial was confirmed' by Lientenant-Colonel Charles Trollops, Commandant of the forces; and was carried into effect, at Argostoli, on the 19th October, in presence of many thousands of the islanders. ' • The Globe publishes a letter describing the execution, and giving some other particulars of interest. Vlacco was at first pusillanimous, and cried bitterly. But "on getting into the boat he changed, and from that time was to all appearance fearless of death. Just before his execution he said, am to die, why trouble me; I'll say no more; let

me go up yonder,'—pointing to the gibbet. Vlacco died instantly. The body was conveyed by his wife to Speglia. He said to her at his last interview, ' Whether I go to heaven or to hell, if you fail in obeying my dying wishes, I'll torment ;you for ever. Take up my mother's corpse awl place her ashes on my ' body; and if her head be still there, wash it in the best wine and keep it, with the saints in your houee: put a plate on my tomb and, *rite on one side • He was not killed' by the English nor Yet by the Government, but was desstroyed by treachery of bis own eoluitrymen' On the other side write, 'Teodoro Viacco was sold to the.English by the treachery of Daragato.' " CANAbA.,--The Caledonia eteam -ship, which left New York on the 23d ultimo,' and arrived at Liverpool on Monday night, brings, news from Mont- real to the 22d SepteMber. The papers are occupied with the two questions o" annexation " and " r transfer of the seat of government." The latter question is reported in the papers to have received an unexpected solution by the definitive re- moval of the seat of Government to Toronto; but we understand that the strongest doubt still hangs over this conclusion. It was expected that the Corporation of Montreal would satisfy Lord Elgin with assurances that the peace would be kept. It was therefore considered that the question had really been settled against transference.

The Annexation question is debated with increasine° earnestness and

perception of its imminent practical importance. The 325 signatures to the Montreal " Declaration in favour of Annexation to the United States" had been swelled to 997, and were expected to reach 1,00 in another week. But this overt act had roused the Loyalists from their apathy, and driven them to make the following counter-declaration.

" Protest.—We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the city of Montreal, owing and acknowledging allegiance to her Majesty the Queen, having read a certain address to the people of Canada, in which separation from British connexion and a union with the United States of America are recommended as presenting the only practicable remedy for the evils which affect this province, do hereby solemnly and deliberately record our dissent from the precipitate and ill-advised conclusions which the authors and signers of that address have arrived at. We believe that there is nothing in the present depressed condition of Canada which may not be promptly and effectually remedied by the adoption of a well- considered system of legislation, without having resort to a measure revolting to our feelings, revolutionary in its character, and tending to the dismemberment of the British empire. These views we are prepared to maintain by all constitu- tional means. Anxiously alive to the importance of promoting the material inte- rests of this our native or adopted country, and of preserving unanimity and good- will among all classes of our fellow citizens, we cannot but express an earnest hope that means may be devised, without delay, to restore prosperity to this pro- vince, cement the ties which have so long existed with the Mother-country, and allay an agitation which may otherwise prove formidable."

The number of signatures already appended to this document was 630, and it was expected that 2,000 would be obtained by about the time that the Annexation address obtained its 1,500. It is observed by Canadian correspondents of American journals, that the opponents of Annexation at Montreal were lukewarm till the publication of the address, but had been roused by that step into activity and effective organization. Great num- bers, we understand, refused to sign on either side, because, although op- posed to Annexation, they were too hostile to Lord Elgin to do anything that would strengthen him. Numbers also refused because the Annexa- tion move was not in earnest, and had better be suffered to die out quietly; or because the move, although not in earnest, might do good by rousing attention to Canadian affairs in England, and in that way might extort justice. The following protest by thirteen members of the Provincial Legislature had also been published.

" Montreal, October 15, 1849.

" We, the undersigned, members of the Provincial Legislature, residing in the city of Montreal and its vicinity, have read with astonishment ar.d regret a certain address to the people of Canada, recently published by divers persons, with the avowed intention of exciting in the midst of our population a movement in favour of the separation of this province from Great Britain, and of its annexation to the United States of America.

"Sincerely attached to the institutions which the Mother-country has acknow- ledged, and convinced that those institutions suffice, through a system of wise and judicious legislation, to secure prompt and efficient remedies for all the evils which this province can complain of, we consider ourselves urgently bound to protest publicly and solemnly against the opinions enumerated in that document.

" We deem it our duty at the same time, and without awaiting the concurrence of the other members of the Legislature—upon the approval of whom, with few exceptions, we may, however, confidently rely—to appeal to the wisdom, the love of order, and the honour of the inhabitants of this country, and to call upon them to oppose, by every means in their power, an agitation tending to subvert a constitu- tion which, after having been long and earnestly sought for, was received with feelings of deep gratitude towards the Metropolitan Government—an agitation, moreover, which can result in nothing beyond the continuation of the scenes from which this city has already so severely suffered, the disturbance of social order, and a renewal of the troubles, commotions, and disasters which we have had to deplore in times now past.

J. Leslie, M.L.C.- Jos. Bourret, M.L.C.- A. N. Morin, comt6 do Bellechasse; L. M. Viger, M.P.P., county Of Terrebonne; Malcolm Cameron, M.P.P., county of Kent; J. H. Price, al.P.P., South Riding of York; Louis T. Drummond, M.P.P., county of Sheffert); N. Dumas, M.P.P., county of Leinster; Gee. E. Cartier, M.P.P., county of Vercheres ; Pierre Davignon M.P.P., county of Renville; L. Lacoste, M.P.P., county of Chambly; Wcdfd.'Nelson, I1.P.P., county of Richelieu; A. Jain, M.P.P., county of Montreal."

The New York Tribune states, on the authority of the Minerve, a eana- din paper "edited for M. Lafontaine," that "among the thirteen there are salaried officers in the receipt of more than 20,000 dollars a year." It is observed by another American writer, concerning this paper, the Minerve, that the counter-declaration, or "some such step, had become necessary, as the Minerve, M. Lafontaine's official organ, refused to say a word against annexation previous to some specific declaration on the part of the leaders; and even now the editor appears more neutral than otherwise." The opinion of Mr. Baldwin, the leader of the Upper Canada Radicals, has been published, in the shape of a letter to Mr. Perry, for guidance of his party at the election for the East Riding of York, where Mr. Perry was about to become a candidate. Mr. Baldwin declared-

" I have not changed my opinions; but I retain unaltered my attachment to the connexion with the Mother-country; and 1 believe now, as I did when last I addressed my constituency from the hustings, that the continuance of that con- nexion may be made productive of mutual good to both the colony and the parent

state The Mother-country has now for years been leaving to us powers of self-government more ample than ever we had asked; and it does appear a most impious return to select such a time for asking for a separation from her for ever. I ean, at all events, be no party to such proceeding, and most not suffer it to be supposed that I have a moment's doubt respecting it: and, let the declaration which I have above made lead to what it may as respects the relative political position of either myself or others, I feel that I am in the path of duty in making it, mull abide the consequences."

A correspondent of the New York, Tribune gives the following general view of opinion extra Montreal-

" In Quebec, all the papers without exception have tome out against the move- ment. One paper, Le Canadien, which was supposed to agree with L'Avenir and its supporters, hag, to the surprise ef many, come out dead against it. There will be no movement at all in Quebec, I think, nor in all the populous district 'around it. There have been no pronunciamentos, in imitation of Montreal, in the country as yet, but some ace-talked of. In Upper Canada, the press is openly and decidedly in opposition to it. The Globe, the organ of the party in authority, is violent on the subject. The Tory journals, the Hamilton Spectator, Toronto

Colonist, and Patriot, are quite as bad; and such is the feeling displayed, thatho wil be a ha- dy wight that will hoist the flag of separation in Upper Canada.

One Tory paper in Kingston, the Chronicle and News, alone gives an uncertain sound on the question." Several official resignations had occurred, which they collocate with the supposed Governmental migration to Toronto; but the events are not expressly coupled. Mr. Viger, of the Ministry, had resigned; and Mr. Loiger Troupon, Receiver-General of Canada, and Mr. Leslie, the Provin- cial Secretary, had done the same.

"Lord Elgin was still at Drummondville."