forrigu null Colonial.
FRANCE.—The Paris journals depict a state of considerable alarm at the prospect, real or imaginary, of an insurrectionary movement on the 4th of May. A very violent proclamation, by the "Central Committee of Resistance," appeared early in the week, directly appealing to arms, and counselling the Republicans to rise and exterminate the Royalists throughout the land. The document had an apochryphal air ; it bore no signatures, and it over-affected to be an official emanation ; and its au- thenticity was very indignantly denied by the Republican journals. They ascribed it to M. Carlier, the Prefect of Pollee, as a device to in- crease the respect of the country for a Government which can suppress such tremendous menaces against prosperous order and peacefulness. But on Wednesday there appeared a real document, signed by the leaders of the extreme Democratic party, which deprecated emeute with such a grave earnestness, and yet such vindication of the insurrectionary right, as only increased the general distrust. At the Bourse, there had been for the week preceding a serious decline of the Funds, and on Wednesday there was a sort of panic, which completed a decline within ten days of nearly five per cent—from 94 francs 30 cents to 89 francs 95 cents.
A Belgian paper had published an alleged conversation between M. Persigny and General Changarnier, in which the Bonapartist diplomate was said to have counselled the Orleanist General to reconcile himself with the President Napoleon, as the Assembly was vanquished in its quarrel with him and would remain vanquished ; but in which General Changarnier had rejected official blandishments with a very peremptory style. The Fable contradicted the report; but M. Chambolle, in the Ordre, which pretends to be the organ of General Changarnier, has pledged himself to the correctness of the Belgian account. The result is, much additional exacerbation of the quarrel between the late party of the Majority and the Napoleonists, and an increase of the general uneasiness. But there seems to be no really serious grounds for anticipating disturb- ance on the 4th of May.
Porrreoar...—The scanty accounts which came from Portugal during the week were all of a tenour adverse to the insurrection, till yesterday. Saldanha had entered the town of "Viseu with only twelve horsemen and the Fifth Battalion of Chasseurs, and had found the garrison and inhabitant,- of thai t6wr, agalr.st him, 13* :mtcrshi."; report from Por- tugal, through Paris, informed London that the garrison and inhabitants of Oporto had pronounced for the insurrection on the 24th of April; and had recalled Saldanha from Vigo, where he was about to embark, ,to place himself at their head. If this be true, Saldanha is very likely to be soon "master of the situation" in his country.
GERMANY.—It is announced that the 12th of May has been defini- tively fixed for the reopening of the Diet at Frankfort. Count Thun will preside, and open the sitting with an inaugural speech; the business of the first sitting will be formal only, and will include "the same en- gagement to maintain discretion which was observed by the members of the old Diet, and was promised, but by no means observed, by the pleni- potentiaries of the Dresden Conferences."
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