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one by one, the three northern powers,—those to whom the event ef oar three days will be theamdst displeasing, “and let us see what they can really do against us. CONTINENTAL AFFAIRS. Austria has in face ofher the whole of Italy, which 18 Beveium is firm. She plainly refuses to fraternise arming and preparing for the struggle, aod oe Es with French Republicanism. She ts fortifying her cita-! was a war against us, would be a porte rani ry dels, and arming her population, in order to maintain} france. An Austrian army eee mbardy, _ her independence. ‘The conduct of Leopold seems vig-}{ombardy at each instant menaces her OP ae a orous afd firm, under the trying circumstanees in which/an insurrection. On the flank of Austriajand stretching

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SwiTZERLAND Is greatly © a ; Directory has addressed a letter to the Cantonal autho-/cause. There, from the summit of her mountains, as rities, in) which, C : 5 . movement, they declare the first duty of the Swiss Con- quiet and impede any military demonstration on the part federation to be to maintain, under all circumstances, |of Austria, and would render the situation perilous. Aus- the neutrality it has acquired. _ tria has plenty to do to maintain her statu quo, and,

Prussia is rapidly arming, but has expressed an in- consequently, it is improbable that she will first give the tention not to interfere with the internal affairs of France, | signal of battle. ‘The great German power, Prussia, is

ask further delay on due Bills, and were pefused.

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The Helvetic! over the Sonderbund, and wholly devoted to the popular

at the same time looking with deep alarm towards the} not, certainly. } | Rhine, where the main force of the Frenelis collecting, !¢9 maintain her liberty ; but she has not the advantage of’ and whieh former boundary a vast number of the French | being free in her movements. Who is there that is not peovie regard as the natural limits of France by previews | aware how much revolutionary and social ideas have right of conquest. W hether Lamartine wishes to res-| advanced in Germany, and who does not foresee what, train this rising passion for aggrandisement and glory, is'an impulse they will receive from the triumph obtained even doubtful, since he boldly “declares that it will be/hy Paris? The Prussian Government 1s about to find | fortunate for France if war is declared against her, and itself in presence of the increasing exigencies of that ifshe be constrained thus to increase in strength and in| assembly which it consults, and of German public opin- | glory, in spite of her moderation.” In order to be pre-|ion, of which the voice becomes every day louder and pared for defence, the Diet at Frankfort has determined joyder, On what grounds could it decide the Germans, to intrust to Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Baden, and! to invade our provinces, and to wage war on us when we the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the guard of the, western] jo not meddle with them? We are satisfied with our frontier of Germany. All that portion of Europe seems power, glorious of the example which we are giving to, on the brink of a volcano, which one act of temerity or| the world, proud of the sacrifices which we are making: imprudence may light into a flame. : for general civilisation, and we only ask to work out,

Austria, Pavssia, and Russia, by special treaty, amongst ourselves the difficult problems which ania: were previously concentrating a numerous army on the Never, on such conditions, will Germany be induced vd Italian frontiers, with a view to protect Austrian Lom-|march against us. Russia, then, remains, lying far a- bardy, and the establishment of the Republic willno}way in the north; but what can she do if she is depriy- doubt accelerate these movements. The Russians have! eg “of Germany? And, besides, is she not occupied already considerable forces on the frontiers of Austria, enouch in keeping down Poland, which has not renounc- commanded by Prince Paskewitsch ; and when the events! ed her claimto nationality, and which will soon gather in France shall have fully reached the Russian capital hope from the cry that has burst. forth on the banks of little doubt can be entertained but that a large combined |the Seine? Let us, therefore, allow to vanish like a army will be assembled. hantom, these fears ofa coalition against us, and let not

In Spaty, the French party is completely overthrown.!our jdeas in that respect be troubled by any remem- Christina is in utter despair. Narvaez has proposed in|prance of 1814 and 1815. Then, by the most disas- the Chambers a suspension of the individual guarantees |trous of mistakes, we had for our adversaries, besides of public liberty, and has obtained £2,000,000 sterling |the kings, our natural enemies, the people, who, in exas- to enable the Government to protect the throne of the peration at the conquests of Napoleon, precipitated them- Queen and the independece of Spain. No republican! selyes on us. At present, nothing is more clear than our feelings exist, but the Progressistas strenuously oppose! position; we are friends of the people, and the people the surrendér of their liberzies to the executive. know it--the kings will not succeed in deceiving any

[ray is, however, the point to which all eyes are di-| one on so manifest a matter. Shall we attack ? That would rected, in the expectation that the Milanese will again/phe a capital fault, and thereby we should afford a pre- become the seat of war. Austrian authority totters;and/toxt for all kinds of calumnies. Reminicences of the according to the shape which affairs may take in Lom- past would be turned against us; our spirit would be dis- bardy will be the grea'er or less danger of an explosion. | cussed : the chord of our national pride would be touched ;

forth the hand to Italy, is Switzerland, radical, victorious,

although they sympathise with the!f,om the top of an impregnable fortress, she would dis-;

/squl'secutes him against. the greatest dangers of versa- tility. M.de Lamartine fora length of time occupied a very a position in the chamber, but he eyent- ‘ually ranged himself on the side of the opposition. 'The “cay on which he announced his intention of join- ‘ing the camp ofthe gauche was as gloomy an one for ithe ministry as the memorable desertion of the treasury ibench of the English House of Commons by the..grent Burke. From that period M. de.Lamartine..took a ‘decided part in favour of progressive reform, and ridi- ‘culed the Guizot cabinet as the ministry of “Jimita- 'tion.” Hevoted against the Pritchard indemnity, and ‘was proised by the opposition asan invaluable aequisi- ‘tion. |

| M. Aracois one of the first savans in France, and ‘his reputation as an orator is scarcely Jess brilliant. He ‘was born in 1786, and is perpetual secretary of the

in the presence of Italy calling for arms| Academy of Sciences, member of the office of long-

itudes, and most illustrious scientific man of the age. In politics, M. Arago is an excellent patriot, a sworn enemy of previleges and monopoly, and an ardent de- fender of the rights of the people. He voted against the Pritchard Indemnity Bill, and has ever supported all the measures of the gawehe, although he goes much further, and belongs tothe extreme gauche. He is now Provisional Minister of Marine.

M. Carncr, the new Minister of Public Instruction (including the administration of religious affairs), was born in 1801, and isa son of a famous conventionalist ofthat name. He is a devoted partisan of democratic ideas, and belongs to the extreme left. He voted against the Pritchard Indemnity Bill, and for M. Rume- sat’s project of Parliamentary Reform. “He would,”

‘says the authors of the work, writing in 1846, “support

a large and complete reform which would have the effect of restoring sincerity to the Government, and 21! their rights to the citizens.”

M. Duponr (de l’Eure), the new President of the Council (deputy for Evreux), is highly esteemed for his virtues by the French people. At the elections of 1842, M. Dupont, indignant at seemg the deputies of the Eure servilely voting in favour of the execrated Guizot ministry, contested four. colleges of thet department simultaneously ; he was elected in all four, and chose Eyreux. ‘The votes of M. Dupont need not, be pointed out; he invariably voted against the corrupt and | dis- honest administration which has fallen with the King, its protector.

M. Armanp Marrast is not precisely a member of the government provisiore, being a secretary, merely-— but he will, nevertheless, exercise an immense influence. He is a writer of great merit, who has displayed an in- domitable energy. and an uncommon talent, in the di- rection of the .Vational. He has shown himself a worthy successor of Armand Carel. Between the Go- vernment of Louis Philippe and M. Marrast, there has

in the Two Sicilies a further popular movement may be/and soon we should be misrepresented in the minds of always beena very decided enmity. The former was feared ; but the people will be wise if they are satisfied/the nations which are at present so much in favour of | irritated atthe obstinate resistance of the latter, which with real guarantees without rashly changing the forms) Trance and so confident in her; the fatal dissensions could not be put down either by processes or fines, of liberty. Sardinia will be critically placed with the) which brought about the fall of the empire would be re- While M. Marrast carried in his heart the most bitter French Republic on the north amidst the general com-| newed, and the fraternity of nations would be broken, |hatred, which was excited by the arbitrary persecutions motion in Italy. It would be rash to predict what will! an expectant state, therefore, is the course which it is and imprisonments, and principally on account of the take place by the lesser Italian States for the consoli- important for us to follow,—it is the policy which will| great obstacle which Louis Philippe proved to the dation and emancipation of that beautiful country from} .aye our interests and those of Europe. We shall in that promulgation of his political views. M. Marrast has thraldom. It will be upon these events, whatever they| state behold events proceeding—we shail recognise a- certainly very exalted opinions. A native of the south- may prove, that the conilict of opinions and the pretence mong the nations those which have the greatest tend-|ern portion of France, his acts bear the impress of fiery for hostilities wil! be seized upon, by those who thirst] eney to renew their social state, and we shall not in any temperament, and great mental vivacity. But he isa for war. For the sale of the commerce, the interests, the! way trouble the work of an opportune intervention of, man possessing too much strong sense, and his views happiness of mankind, we earnestly trust the peace of|jgeas_ which is enfranchising them. Our. example, our of the future are too profound for him to give way to Karope will not be interrupted. _ |moral support, are sufficient to modify Europe; our arms the excitement which success is. apt io produce. He

In Germany, tumults have broken out in the chief| would only serve to retard the modification, it would be will be well calculated to restrain the impatience. of commercial cities along the western frontiers of Ger- necessary to quit an expectant state; and that would be those who are to partake of success with him. It is many, but not the slightest tendency to fraternise with! if 4 ystria, not confining herself to remaining on the de-|quite certain that he will be one of the most decided

the French is exhibited by the phlegmatie Germans,! fensive, should of herself attack and invade Italy Whe- whose prejudices tend all the other way, and Germany |+he; she marches on Tuscany, Rome, or Naples, or sends

oppositionists against any measures favourable to the exiled family.

will rise toa man to defend “ Faderland,” should the French push forward to the Rhine.

At Mumch a rising has taken place, and a constitu- tion has been extorted from the infatuated King at the point of the boyonet. It is positively stated that Prince Matternich resigned office on the &thinstant. The Prince WVAumale and Prince de Joinville having appeared off Toulon,2 vesseljof war has beenfplaced at their disposal to go where they please. An American squadron has ap- peared off Genoa.

FOREIN POLICY Pes bate FRENCH GOVERN-

The following interesting and important article ap- pears in the .Vattonal, of which the chief editor, M. Marrast, is a meniber of the Provisional Gevernment :—

“TItis useful to examine tlie situation of the French Republic with respect to foreign powers. Never have ‘the relation of nations been so close—never ought the the counter blews to be so deeply felt in the west, and never have any blows been struck of greater violence then that which has just carried off the dynasty of Orleans, and withit the monarchy. France, contemplated at pre- sent with admiration and astonishment by all nations, wiil become their guiding light from the mement that the new Republic shall have surmounted the difficulties which encompass it. Aniongst those difficulties are the

forces against Piedmont, the French Republic would be) Manz, Minister of Public Works, and one of the under a strict obligation to oppose that act of aggres- members for Paris, is.sixty years of age, and also an sion and violence, and offer to Italy the aid of an army advocate by profession. He attainad the rank of Bat- and fleet. Not that we consider the Italians as weak onnier ofthe order. After a youth passed in laborious and incapable of defending themselves; but the strug- struggles, he rose in 1830 to the place occupied by the gle would be doubtful, and it.is important that it should Dupins, Maugins, and Berreyers, and has since been not be so. They must permit their friends in France to considered the leading counsel for political causes. share their dangers, and to pay to Italy a debt of grati- His defence for one of the conspirators of the Pots des tude forall the blood which the Italians have shed in the| Arts was a masterpiece of cleverness. One should French ranks. think that the fame of so remarkable a pleading might wars Thus an ex-under enerenny for foreign affairs, , . at so accomplished and reading a person as the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE: |<, member for Canterbury wouldnot speak ofa man As our readers must be anxious to know the charac-|in every, senses his superior, “ as a person whom nobody ters of these men, we give a sketch of them in a few/has ever heard of.” . Marie is not a person who would words. Extreme in opinion, though respectable in cha-| go beyond the Barnayes or Thourets, or the constitu- racter and sincere in conviction, we do not conceive tion of I791. them to represent the intelligence, the wealth, the in-| Garnier-Paces,the Mayor of Paris, and deputy for finence, or the commercial or mannfacturing industry) Mans, was also bred to the bar. Though rather a and Janded wealth of France. They unquestionably re-. tedious and solemn man, without the science of his late present the triumphant party—an extreme section of brother, yet he is of upright and respectable cbarac- the national guard—many of the sous offcieres of the ter. line, a majority of the schools, and proletuires—a| M. Lepru-Rour, the Provisional Minister of the

section of the shopkeepers, and some of the youngerof Interior was elected for Mans, vice the late M. Garnier the Jearned professions. ‘Pages. His speech to the electors subjected him to a

M. pe Samartrve, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, prosecution on the part of the Government, and the trial isas famous in the republic of letters as his colleague, of the case produced a great sensation. M. Rolin re-

foreign relations. ‘Three alternatives are possible. Shall we beattacked? Shall weattack? Or, lastly, shall we cemain in a expectant state? First of all, shall we be

M. Arago, in the department of science. He repre- presents,the ultra-radical interest; and has oftemattack-

ssents Macon, and his political opinions have been freely ed not only M. Guizot, but also the policy ofsuch men and copiously expressed in his newspaper, Le Bien as Thiers and Odillon Barret.

He sits on the extreme