foreign anti itolonfal.

FRANCE.—The Government has taken into its hands the Paris and Orleans Railway, reserving the rights and interests of shareholders and- third parties. The excuse made for the measure is, that the workmen on the line are in so complete a state of disorganization that they threaten to mutiny and to stop the works; so that it is necessary for the Government to provide for the working of these important lines, in order that the pablie service may not be interrupted.

A decree relieves taxpayers from the additional 45 per cent lately added to their burdens.

The depreciation of the French Funds in the Paris market is exhibited by this comparative statement, taken from the notifications of the COW.

60 Five per Cents

Authentigue— ur April Three per Cents

74 60 I Three per Cents la 50 Five per Cents 117 96

64-

February 8, 1848, Faris Bose— Apr 8, 1848— On Thursday the Three per Cents fell to 32i and the Fives to oot Bank Shares fell to 1,080.

A decree, dated the 31st March, ordains— "I. Every Frenchman shall be permitted to contract in that portion of the service which he chooses a voluntary engagement, the length of which cannot be less than two years. 2. In no ease can the volunteers who have so engaged them- selves be placed in non-activity without their consent."

Another decree confers on the brother of every Frenchman killed or severely wounded during the days of February last an exemption from the conscription-laws.

A proclamation, signed by all the members of the Provisional Govern- ment, recalls the citizens to orderly and peaceful employment-

" Take care, citizens, that no noisy affectation of patriotism should become* cause of alarm and disturbance in our city, the seat of the Republic. In a city eta remarkable for the calmness and dignity of the people, it is impossible to tolerate or endure any tumult in the streets calculated to impede business and stop the works, and to allow the firing of muskets, which frightens the peaceable in- habitants."

Another proclamation, addressed to the Army, exhorts the soldiers on their new duties of citizenship- " You had only one law—discipline; you have now two—discipline and the love of order. Discipline and order have been disturbed in some regiments. The Provisional Government of the Republic immediately turned its attention to suck events. It is determined to repress them with the justice and inflexibility of a

Republican Government; but before acting it desires to warn Great duties are reserved to you. Keep the Army intact and strong for the eventuali- ties of the country. We are about to increase your ranks; there will be place and glory for all patriotism. We shall shortly assemble deputations of the Army around the national centre at Paris, to fraternize with the people and the National Guard.'!.

The Ministry of War has gone begging. General Cavaignac and General Changarnier are said to have each refused it, except on terms that the Provisional Government dare not accede to. The first required liberty to much 80,000 soldiers of his own choice into Paris, and uncontrolled liberty as to the measures he might think necessary for protecting the delibera- tions of the National Assembly. Generals Bedeau and Lamoriciare are no more mentioned. Oudinot, Negrier, Schramm, and Freya!, are said to have been offered the Ministry; but there seems a universal reluctance to take it.

The Ministry of War has been definitively given to M. Arago: no sol- dier of note could be found to take it.

The preparations for war are unostentatious, but extensive, in both null- tory and naval departments The officers of the French armies have established a Republican Club In, Paris, and elected General Girardin President.

The elections of Colonels to the National Guard took place on Thursdlty4 they went generally in favour of the Republicans.

Thiers has suddenly retired from his position of candidate for the representation of the Aix in the National Assembly. Reasons are given for this step; which has created some sensation in Paris.

It is explained that AL Thiers has retired from the contest to represent Aix, on account of a feeling, become general in the late party of the Dy- nastic Opposition that it had better not take any share in the discussion'

of the National Opposition, on the settlement of the Republican form of go- vernment.

Several electors requested Victor Hugo to stand for a seat in the Ng- gone' Assembly: he refused to become a candidate, but if elected he will serve.

There is reason to believe that serious trouble and disorganization Vs prevalent in the Departments, though few details of such appear in the papers. The Twenty-second Regiment of the Line, at Lyons, continued in open mutiny, and resisted all the efforts of General Bourjolly, com- manding the division, to bring them back to duty. The Thirteenth, on being ordered to the Piedmoutese frontier, sent a deputation to the General to request he would have the goodness to excuse them because of their still labouring under the fatigue of their campaigns in Africa! At L'Orient the non-commissioned officers and gunners were in mutiny against their superior officers on the night of the 28th. At St. Omer, disorders broke out on the occasion of the removal of a statue of the Duke of Orleans. At Lillebonne, between Rouen and Havre, in a conflict of the people with the authorities, the troops were obliged to fire: four men and two women were killed on the spot, and twenty severely wounded.

At Sarrebourg, near the Prussian frontier, there has been pillaging and maltreating of the Jews; who have been in fact driven from the town. There were collfsions'of the people and troops before order was restored. The authorities, however, were vigorous, and were conducting a judicial investigation into the affair.

The Irish deputation had their formal reception on Monday. The members of the deputation have not been welcomed with any remarkable cordiality, or with great offizial demonstration. The Provisional Govern- inent thought it unnecessary to attend in full, and M. de Lamartine per- formed the whole of the French part of the c2remony. Mr. Smith O'Brien read the address of " the people of Ireland," Mr. O'Gorman that from Dub- lin city, and Mr. Meagher that from 'Manchester. M. do Larnartine's re- ply, which he is said to have delivered with unusual spirit and aplomb; was to the following effect- " Citizens of Ireland—If we required a fresh proof of the pacific influence of the proclamation of the great Democratic principle—this new Christianity, burst- ing tbrih At the opportune moment, and dividing the world, as formerly, into a Pagan and a Christian cOnirnunity—we should -assuredly discern this proof of the omnipotent action of. an idea in the visits spontaneously paid in this city to Re- publican France, and the principles which animate her, by the nations or by frac- tions of the nations of Europe. "We are not astoniehed to see today a deputation from Ireland: Ireland knows how deeply her destinies, her sufferings-, and her successive advances in the path of religions liberty, of unity, and of constitutional lutility with the other parts of the United Kingdom, have at all times moved the heart of Europe! "We said as much, a few days ago, toanother deputation' atimii fellow 'citi- zens. We said as much tcrall the children of tFat glorious isle ffritiwilich the natural genius of its inhabitants and the sir kig events 'of it history render equally symbolical of the poetry and the heroism of the nationa of the North. 'Reid assured, therefore, that you *ill find in Fiance, under the Republic, a response to all the sentiments you express toWards it. " Tell vonr fellow citizens that the name of Ireland is synonymous with the

name of liberly courageously defended i

.against privilege—that it s one common name to every French citizen. Tell them that this reciprocity which they in- voke-e-that this hospitality, of which they are-not oblivious—the republic Will be proud to remember and to practise invariably towards the Irish. Tell them, above all, that the French Republic is not and never will be an aristocratic republic, in which liberty is merely abused as the mask of. privilege; but a republic embracing the entire community, and securing to all the same rights and the same benefits.

As regards other encon i ragements, t would neither be expedte' nt for us to hold

them out nor for you to receive them. I have already expressed the same opi- ilea with reference to Germany, Belgium, and Italy; and I repeat. it witk refer- ence to every nation which,is involved in internal disputes, which is either divided against itself or at variance with its Government- When there is a difference of race—when nations are aliens in blood—intervention-is not allowable. We be- long to no party in Ireland or elsewhere, except to that which contends for justice, for liberty, and for the- happiness of the Irish people. ISO other part would be acceptable to us, in a time of Team, in the 'interests and the passions of foreign nations. France is desirous of reserving herself free for the maintenance of the rights of all.

"We are at peace, and we are desirous of remaining on good terms of equality,

not with this or thatpart of Great Britain, bet with Great,BrItain entire. We be- lieve this peace to be useful and honourable; not only to Great Britain and the French Republic, but to the human race. We will not commit an act—we will no& utter a word—we will not breathe an insinuationat neriancew,ith the princi- ples of the reciprocal inviolability of nations which we.*Aangtelaimed, andpf Nhiclir the Continent of Europe ia already gathering the thins. -The fallen Metier- e...hy had treaties and diplomatists: our diplomatists are natiods—our treaties are sympathies ."AVe should be insane were we tmenly-to, exchange such a diplomacy for untnean- i4 and partial alliances with even. the niost-"IegitirriaM' parties in the countries which surround us: We are not competent either to judge them or to prefer some of them to others: by announcing-our partisanship of the one side we should de- clare ourselves the enemiea of the other. We do not wish to be the enemies of any of your fellow countrymen. We wish, on the contrary, by.a. faithful observance of the Republican pledges, to remove all the prejudices which may- mutually ex-

ist between our neighbours and ourselves.- - "This entirse, however painful it May be, is imposed on its by the law 6,1' na-

tions, as well as by our historical remembrances. . "Do you know whatIt was which most served to irritate France and estrange her from England durhig the first Republic? It wes the civil war in a Portion of our' territo.ry,, iupportM, subsidized, and'aiiiistektry Mr. Pitt. It was the en- conrogainent and the arms given to Frenchmen, as heroical as yourselves, but Freifehmen fighting against, their fellow citizens. This was not honourable war- fare. It was a Royalist propagandism waged with French blood against, the Re- public. This policy is not yet, in spite of all our efforts, entirely effaced from the memory of the nation. Well, this cause of dissension between Great Britain and os we will 'never 'renew by taking any similar course. We accept with gratitude expressions of friendship from the different nationalities included in the British Empire. We ardently wish that justice may found and strengthen the friendship of races—that equality may become more and more its hams; but while• pro- claiming with you, with her, [England,] and with all, the holy dogma of fraternity, we will perform only acts of brotherhood, in conformity with our principles, and

Mt feelings towards the Irish nation." - .

On the same day with M. de tainartine's speech appeared a letter from Mr. Smith O'Brien to the Irish Club in Paris; informing them, that their countrymen are arming forte conflict against the English Government; that Mr. O'Brien has ascertained, since his arrival at Paris, that 50,000 French- Men are ready to come to their assistance when they are wanted; and he recommends no one to come who is not prepared to die on the scaffold or in the field! -

The Union, the great Catholic journal of France, spoke thus of the Ira deputation and their objects, even before their cool reception by M. de Lamartine-

" The delegates of Young Ireland only represent a small portion of Irish pa-

triots. The enterprising spirit and audacity of the partisans of revolt make them dangerous; but they have no chance of making their cause triumph, and their temerity cannot fail to lead to the complete rein of their country.. Although few in number, they will engage in a movement; but the great majority of the Irish nation, which disapproves of them will have to submit to the disastrous conse- quences of their folly. The-French patriots would be most sorry, whilst believing that they serve Irish nationality, only to serve a fraction, whose principles and

acts are rejected by Ireiand." .

The Girardin and La Presee affair has subsided; though during Friday and Saturday last week it still threatened serious results. A -manifesto published by the editors of the other leading papers had considerable- ef- fect in shamu g the -violent actors into propriety. •

It is said ,hat the Government has 'ordered the Chateau of Pau to be prepared for the reception or Abdrel-Eadati hiefiniffif, and suite. •

, Liao, ,■tit a.,57v - BELCH the Belgian Senate, on the 29th March, the Baron de Roger made some inquiries respecting the invasion of the Belgian territory by the French legion. The Foreign Minister stated that M. de Lamartine had given the most formal and explicit assurance that the Provisional Go_ vernment was a perfect stranger to the ridiculous events that barbecotated, he considered Belgium had the absolute right of repelling by force all ire_ tacks of such a nature.

Sramr.—Madrid has had its outbreak, its hlooly struggle, and its defcat. In Spain first, where revolution has been normal for so many years, has the energy of Karvaez checked the spirit which had worsted auttairisy throughout the rest of Europe. Plots were organized, and the-Kheit rising was fixed on the 26th. It was calculated that certain regiments had been secured to the populace. At the very eve Of the movement, -,however, the leaders discovered errors in their information,- and .endeavoured countermand the rising. The populace became restive, thought they 'were betrayed, and flew into open violence without their leaders. Narvaez was abroad instantly; and in a few hours took every barricade, hareVand cleared every defended house, and put down every Sigh of ilaietance.

Several hundreds were killed or wounded on both sides. . •

Madrid is now declared in a state of siege, and a council of war Is sitting constantly forlhe trial by court-martial of' every person implicated in the movement, or'aitteareeted'IrY the -Gevernibent. Balboa, the butcher of La Mancha in 1837, presides. Olozage, Cortina, Escosura, and Menslizabal, disappeared on the 28th; and have all remained concealed save the last: who, learriinibe,relkiet-dcieso safely, has ettierged from his hiding-place aid his concealed inflk3filYefal0:. It is fully believed; by all that other at- goes at large arr. ITiikehrtes_pondence and papers, as well as those of at- tempts against iiiiricoireintiSht*ill.be essayed. 'Pt-. Scription and banish- ment are therefore,frt,e4 rase -leak) in self-deferice: The Queen-pokbk—NNWlifedrid-onille0-7.t14; and it does ngtapear

that she has,relairt. r s •

Irany.—TheenifirelnerraLerolanity continues favouralale-dataltuar inde- pendenoe: still.ltpgiverriaoseeeryndiatinct narrative ratsevents. It is not clear where Radetski now igobreehatforces he retains command of: but the accounts. most byeangtheatimiktbaS,be is confined within a, diatrict be- tween Lodi Mantita,,,nnk,Verena„.9.4 of, which have risen- and are in the hands of the people; and that hniasakfaringsa succession of small losses. which will at-,hrst reduce him to-a capitutatien. Some detachments of his army have been enspeged. by superior: .nrimbers- of Sardinian and Swiss troops,- and routed_ with much -less of ;artillery and materiel; and others have been forced to capitulate..hy the peculiar warfare of the country. The people have cut their dikes, and /aid:, itine tracts of 4;lortutrY. trader water which has enabled them to reduce Some bodies Of troops in dettiL .

The foreign --areayenow.iu Lonabardy,ls large, .1"avia he been entered by 30,000 Sardinians, and Lodi is 'ocoupied.by 8,000 -Wider the King; Who will shortly be joined: by the Duke of Savoy with 2,000 mote and 100 pieces of artillery. The Pope has blessed aii,d sent an expedition of 10,000 men; and Tuscany haa contributed 7,000, to assist in the complete expul- sion of the Austrians. :

The Provisional Government of Milan -is organizing forces; and has agreed with .CharlessAlbert to furnish. the commissariat of the Sardinian -troops in Lottrbardy, he finding their Ifikse: ' • The Times correspendentjeeektaketkAw Iterplam of Milan—

'"I was numb paned today on or'flrese barricades by a

daring boy, of neniore than twelve -"tarc , 4th8btOed snord in bundes officer of that''P*,lksisted by five jun[61'10'011 eralbitifned.'With shert'sticks

famished with -411611f anion seeing theVirrick-room -which thc•se fine lads had 'fitted up in papa's carriage; commanding thelida wing."

The expedients resorted -,.thirtadtittlettitietio sacrifices made in raising barricades—)" bE sd. , _ "One of the -first barricades _made was forrtled:bythe Vioenigal carriages, which the people seized for the occasion. All the Milanesertoblenasn devoted their hand- somest equipages to the same: -timely and patriotic ureia The ladies drew their pianos to the windows te afford _screens to the rifigaresiond with their maids earned enormous,quantities,of litoaes in bardfeta to the4etafg4renee they were hurled on 04 heads of the yoops. The Airs states thritt,'Serdiqie,-,ItenKkaples,,futstXrpreariy, have en-

tered'intoe,Jeague4defencs and offitaedsgainst Anstirin, '

Parmaltrsukset4reebijajitoke seceiyipec,fimixAlit a Liberal constitu- te_ In ande prenagreetejoin nilempecagalaet Austria. Alm-5a and Pagano...ma Filiyo toe. reunited to Tuscany. The Grand Duke was lately saluted' at e,kargola Theatre as " King of

Etruria." • Rome was highly excited on-receiving the news of the successes of the Milanese. The Austrian Ambassador was insulted, and the Austrian arms publicly burnt. The Ambassadors of the other courts met to consider this grave offence; and complications threaten to arise.

Naples and Sicily appear to be now-finally- parted. The Sicilian Par- liament is said to be likely to declare, under its President Ruggiero Settimo, for a Republic. The King was forced by the Neapolitans to make the most sudden concessions' in relation to the movements in Lombardy. They assembled and overawed him, notwithstanding his military preparations, into distinct promises to send troops to cooperate with the Sardinians and Milanese.

AUSTRIA.—In Vienna the Government is advancing steadily in the con- cession of Liberal securities. Still, uneasiness and fear of reactionary mea- sures seem prevalent.. It is stated that the Ministry is now responsible and Liberal; and that it has chosen twelve members of the Diet and twelve citizens to assist it in preparing measures adapted to the new principles of government. Baron Pillersdorf has abolished the secret Court Of Police, and written to all the Austrian agents of police to inform them that many of their former functions have become illegal; and to suppress the use of spies, "since the free press will not fail to reveal dangerous conspiracies and plots if they exist." Liberty of the person and a kind of habeas corpus is also officially proclaimed; and 150 State prisoirers have been released from the fortress of Spielberg. The events in Lombardy became known in Vienna on the 26th and 27th, but were concealed from the public. The whole Imperial su-ury has been placed on a war footing; and it has been resolved to increase the Italian division to 80,000 men.

In Presburg great dissatisfaction has been manifested at two ImPansi decrees there received,—one proposing a compensation to, proprietors of urbarial rights, which have been abolished; and the other making the Hungarian War and Finance departments somewhat suirject to control at Vienna. Kossuth said in the Diet, the robot was gone already, once for all, and that 511WerY 40 longer existed in Germany. He charged the Archduke Ludwig, by name, as an evil counsellor, and one who pronVn4

measures without being responsible as a Minister. Several other speeches were made in this strain; and the Presburgers were so elevated that they burnt the unpopular counsellors of the Crown in effigy.

The Bohemians have, by Baron Pillersdorf on behalf of the Govern- ment, been promised all their demands; including the use of their own lan- guage in schools and law courts, a national representation, and a national guard.

ERANIE.F011T.—The Congress of Deputies, appointed to make arrangements for convoking a German Parliament, was constituted on the 31st of March. Mittermaier was chosen President. A very animated debate arose on the question whether the Congress itself, or a Committee of 50 chosen from it, should declare itself "in, permanence" till the Constituent Assembly had met. M. Welcker supported a Committee; M. Hecker and a party of about 36 Republicans tried by speeches and tactics to carry the perma- nence of the whole Congress. The question was at last determined in M. Welcker's view, by 368 to 143; the members voting by rising and sitting down. It was also resolved that the Committee of 50 should be empowered to communicate with the German Diet, and give its advice in all matters of policy ; and that in case of urgent danger the Committee might reas- semble the present Congress.

These resolutions were also adopted-

" The elections in each state are to take place as hitherto; the Assembly re- serving to itself the right of ulterior rules on the subject. All. citizens without distinction of creed, are eligible. Every German citizen may be elected deputy for a state without being a subject of the state he is to represent." The National Constitutional Assembly to meet at Frankfort.

The sittings were continued on the 1st and 2d of April.

'The Assembly has resolved to demand that the Germanic Diet, in taking into consideration the establishment of a National Constituent Assembly, should disavow any exceptional resolutions of the -Diet contrary to the federal act, and remove any of its members who may have concurred in passing them and putting them into execution.

Paussrs.—The Ministry undergoes almost daily changes. Counts Arnim and Schwerin have resigned, and been replaced by M. Camphausen and M. Bekerath of Crefeldt. The other Minieters (all Ultra-Liberals) are- Hauseman Finance; Dr. Borneman, Justice; Baron Arnim, Foreign; Anerswald, Interior; General Reyher, War ad interim.

Two important state documents appeared on the 1st of April. First, a memorial, signed by the whole Ministry, prayed in specific terms the genu- ine burdens and rights of responsibility: its gist was comprised in the last sentence— "We will have the honour to submit to your Majesty, without loss of time, the necessary proposals for the national constitution; and in ease, as has sometimes happened, written petitions or prayers for a personal audience on matters relating to the constitution should again be presented, we respectfully request your Ma-' jest.), to authorize .us to reply to them, in eider that any displeasure excited by the rejection or only partial concession of these requests may be directed against us."

The King's direct and favourable deliverance was— " "1 from this data- refer all petitions relating to constitutional affairs to my

Cabinet Ministers and authorize them to re to the petitioners."

Decrees have appeared naming C1ausen in place of the Ex-Minis- ter Arnim, to act ae AKat Ce utter` in the United Diet; and ap-

pointing Count Ard to I mestgandaal, and the Prince of Sohns-

Hohan-Sobna-Lich I4a,t qj ç.,lt;jnd also establishing the publi- city of the Prussian Parhanzeintairat: detatitaf-a limited number of orders to be issued daily, with the peeffirestee to the,press.

The United Diet commenced its sittings on the 3d instant. The public right to be present was not very emphatically asserted. Some Ambassa- dors, among them Lord Westmoreland, and the correspondents of the Ger- man, Belgian, and English newspapers, were almost the only public who claimed to be present. The address was somewhat canvassed; and an amendment was proposed, but rejected by a great majority.

Berlin has regained a tolerable degree of quiet; though clubs and club oratory have become prevalent. A- few breaches of press propriety have been revenged by Lynch-law -btailitctas of press liberty. Some 'editote of journals, in escaping the constraint of the abolished legal censure, 'forgot the existence of a censure of public opinion. Those editors have been' sheeked and puzzled at receiving authoritative commands from student deputations to mend their manners.

Some regiments of soldiers have been reintroduced to the city. A little agitation arose for a short time but the citizens generally-are much *pleased at the event; and there have been most amicable and fraternal demonstra- tions between them and the troops.

The Princess of Prussia has given 15,000 dollars for the widows and orphans of the victims of the Berlin revolution, and has promised to give Use same sum every year.

The Germans of Posen, who are very numerous in the towns, are thrown into collision with the Polish population. The committee of Poles ap- pointed by the King have gonetoo fast or too far; and the Germans are rising in alarm in Lissa and other places, aud waging war on the nobility. Count Brinsky has been attacked in his castle, and, forced to fly. The rallying-word.is " Long live the King of Prussia!" The Polish deputies have resolved, after deliberation, not to separate themselves at present from the Prussian Diet, but to enter it, and register a protest in favour of nationality for Poland. Prince Adam Czartoryski has publicly declared his determination: to grant the ownership of the laud cultivated by them to all the peasants

living on his estates in Gallicia. .

Professor Gervinus, in his Deutsche Zeitung, deals ably and influentially with the question of the headship of Germany. He first 'determines on the alternative of a Censtitutional,Monarchy, in preference to Republicanism. Ile then argues that the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria are the only two possible candidates; and ends by declaring for the King of Prussia.

DE:meas.—Preparations go on by both sides for a Danish war, but no serious blow has yet been struck. The Ministers of the King of Denmark have declared that the Sound is free, and that no Prussian vessels have been or shall be detained. The King was at Colding, with 17,000 men; and the vanguard of the Schleswig army had taken possesion of Apeu- rade, dislodging a small force of Danes. Meanwhile, Prussian and Hano- verian troops were concentrated on the frontiers of Holstein, in an attitude of watchfulness.

The Prussian Mlaiirlor' o1 Fttitign Affairs has stated to a deputation, that he some time ago-4610M Ilia 'protection of the British Government to

the Baltic trade, in case extremities occur between Denmark find her Dutchies.

Swans:tr.—Stockholm has witnessed violent disturbances, the object or which does not plainly appear- for the King goes abroad, and is very po- pular, though there has hews fighting and slaughter of people and troops. The account received end with this jumble of explanation-

" What the police has yet been able to discover seems to indicate an amalga- mation of Prohibitionists irritated by the new customs tariff, of Commumeta, anarchists of confused ideas, of thieves and bad characters, whom the usual num- ber of idlers joined. It is notorious that a quantity of money was distributed."

RUSSIA.—The Emperor Nicholas has issued the following manifesto—

"After the benefits of a long peace, the West of Europe finds itself at this moment suddenly given over to perturbations which threaten with ruin and over- throw all legal powers and the whole social system.

"Insurrection and anarchy, the offspring of France, soon crossed the German frontier; and have spread themselves in every direction, with an audacity which has gained new force in proportion to the concessions of the Governments. This devastating plague has at last attacked our allies the Empire of Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia; and today in its blind fury menaces even our Russia, that Russia which God his Confided to our care. "But- Heaven forbid that this should be! Faithful to the example handed down from our ancestors, having first invoked the aid of the Omnipotent, we are ready to encounter our enemies from whatever side they maY present themselves; and, without sparing our own person, we will know how, mdissolubls united to our holy country, to defend the honour of the Russian name and the inviolability of our territory. • We are convinced that every Russian' that every one of our faithful subjects, will respond with joy to the call of his Sovereign. Our ancient war-cry, 'For our Faith, our Sovereign, and our Country !' will once again lead us on the path of victOry ; and then, with sentiments of fallible gratitude, as now with feelings of holy hope, we will all cry with one voice, God is on our side; understand this, ye peoples, and submit, for God is on our side.'

"Given at St. Petersburg, the' 14th (26th) of March in the year of Grace 1848, and the 23d of our reign."

The Cologne Gazette states that a courier has brought a memorial from St. Petersburg of the 26th March, expressing the Emperor's determination -to remain perfectly neutral before Western Europe, and strivis to maintain peace; but to punish- aggressions on Russia, and particularly to show no mercy to the Poles if they dare cross his frontier.

The Russian Governor of Warsaw has called for the delivery by the citizens of all fire-arms, knives above a certain size, and other weapons; and has subjected to trial by a court-martial every person who shall appear after dark without a lighted lantern.

Tnitssr.—The Ottoman Porte has resolved to be governed in its policy towards the French Republic by the conduct of Great Britain, as the most conservative power in Europe. A levee en masse of spabis of the empire, to the amount of 300,000 irregular cavalry, is to be added to the regular, army -of:1-51000 men. •" •

• Gazacs.—The fall of M. "Guizot has given the Liberal party at Athena the ascendancy,' and the Tzavilla Ministry have resigned. On the 18th, M. Cizairiotti accepted the King's commission to frame a Liberal Cabinet.

Moimurro CotraTriv.—The Medway Westladia steamer arrived at South- ampton on Wednesday morning. The only hews Of-interest is some detail of operations which certain officers of our fleet have been conducting against the Republic of Central America, in league with our ally thaltirig of Mosquito. It is not at all clear what objects or what rights have led to our interference; but it is certain that we have sent an expedition against Truxillo in Honduras, and afterwards up the river San Juan Nicaragua, against several Nicaraguan forts; and that we have lost officers and men in the combat, while we have killed some thirty of our- opponents. The expedition seems to have been originated by Mr. Walker, the British Con- sul at the King of Mosgaitore court; and consisted of the Vixen steamer and the boats of the ships Daring and Alarm, under the command of Cap- tain Lech. The only clear result is, that Mr. Walker has himself been drowned ht-the course of the expedition.