The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 221, 12 July 1848, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

\ic just and fear not: Let all Uie e>ids thoii aims't at, be tliy Country's, '1 liy God's, and Truth's.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1848.

Yesterday, pursuant to proclamation, various town, suburban, and country Allotments were submitted to public competition, by the Colonial Tleasnrpr. Th<» following aw tlip Ini"! whirli were sold, and the prices they lealised. Town Lot, 13, of section 36, — containing 2 roods, 8 perches, purchased by the Rev W. La wry, for the me of the new Wesleyan Seminaiy, at tlie upset price £100. Suburban Lot 23, of Section 4, containing 12 acres, purchased by Mr. David White, at the upset price £200. At Onehunga, Lot 3, of Section 20, containing 2 roods, and 1 5 perches, by Mr. David White, at the upset price of £50. Two Country Leases in the parishes of Manurewaand Paknranga, containing, No. 1, 1798 acres, 2 roods, 24 perches ; No. 2, 1817 acres 1 rood, 6 perches, were purchased by Messrs. 11. & T). Guahui, at £10 each per annum. The Money reaLrod by tins sale amounted t) the " prodigionh" s nr n of £349 \>>. 9d. TnRhK Hundred and Fokty Niiie Pounds TIIIRTEKN SiHLUN(.S \NU NINE- PENCE ! I.S it frjmsuch splendid lcsulis as there that the long proirii'C-' iide of immigration is vO flow '\ If so, we tear it w/J pjove a ne.ip tide.

We ivck rul ripon ths 1 <jdi we, 01 Sdturd?'/ rooming, by the amvpl of i)u Klkanor Lancxstrr, which ye learnt hail brought "lie jipwspp t pBi, of a late date, aom Sydney, continuing

the details, in extenso, of the French Revolution. That solitary Journal — an Extraordinary to the Herald of the 22nd June— *\ve did our utmost to procure, in order that we might issue a Supplemental y Sheet of our own; but, so keen was the political appetite, and so rapid w us the intelligencei passed fiom hand to hand that we were unable to obtain even its tempoiaiy possession until an hour much too late to attempt any dissemination of its contents. The subsequent arrival of the Ospuey, from Hobart Town, has, however, placed the Van Die men's Land Journals within our reach, and as they have had news from England to the 13th of March, by Ihe Ann\ Maria, which made the unexampled passage of Eiyhty Five days, we hasten to lay a statement of passing occurrences I befoie our readers. To do so concisely and connectedly we have been compelled to decipher a mass of disjointed material and weave theiefrom the narrative which follows. It has already been shown that the fatuous obstinacy which induced Louis Phillippe and the Guizot Ministry to interdict any further Reform Banquets had sjirred the people of Paris to resistance. That resistance engendered an cmeute, and that tfmeute led to a change of Ministry ; — Mole succeeded Guizot — Molr giving place to Tiiikrs — and Tiiiers vacated in favour of Odillon Barrot, who, on the memorable 24th of February, governed France in tlnee distinct capacities — firstly, as the Minister of Louis Philippe, to whom he suggested two remarkable acts ; — the laying down of their arms by the soldieis of the line, and, when that panacea failed, the abdication i;i favour of the Count of Paris. Secondly, as Minister of the Young King, during his hour and a half's reign ; — and, lastly, as having named for his cabinet the very men now forming the Provisional Government. For nearly two days the object of the people was to get rid of an obnoxious Minister and to obtain some security that the national demand for Parliamentary reform would be complied with. This was the limit of their aspirations ; the same voices which yelled A has Guiuot shouting Vive Louis Phillippe. — When, therefore, it became known that the Guizot cabinet was dissolved and Mole sent for, an instantaneous cessation of the insurrection ensued and theie was eveiy prospect of an immediate return to tranquillity. But these hopes were soon destroyed. About 9 p.m. large bodies of insurgents, flushed with triumph, came up the Boulevards from the Quaiter St. Martin. Except hooting Guizot, and forcing the inhabitants to illuminate their houses, their conduct was perfectly pacific, evincing not the least inclination to outrage, nor tha smallest tendency to revolution. It, however, struck some of them that Guizot's hotel might as well be illuminated as that of his neighbours and a proposition to that effect was made to the soldiery on guard. While the parley was going on — the street excessively crowded, not only with insurgents, but a vast body of respectable persons drawn to the spot by curiosity — the whole line of troops fired without warning along the Boulevards, making frightful carnage among the inoffensive throng. At first the people fled in consternation, but consternation gave way to indignation and a thirst for vengeance. "To arms ! Down with the assassins ! Down with Louis Phillips ! Down with all his race ! Banicades ! Barricades !" were the universal cries. That volley pealed the knell of royalty converting a riot to a revolution. Shortly after, another murderous volley was poured upon the crowd in the the Rue de la Paix. They flew to the construction of barricades, labouring without interruption throughout the night, and, in the morning there was not a leading street which was not a fortress — every gate, every lane, every court had gained an enormous barricade. Trees were felled in every direction. The roads were covered with broken bottles, which the hundreds of wine merchants of the Boulevards sent for the purpose, full as well as empty. All the barrieis were gutted, and their fittings burnt ; and adjoining their sites nests of barricades were formed. These barricades were luosl formidable, tlieii foundations being laid of the immense stones with which Paris is paved — each of these weigh a cut., and at each barricade about fifty inches of pavement were taken up. On the outside a trench was dug, and, in the centre, slips of boarding were arranged so' as to form a chevaux de frise — whilst in important thoroughfares, the iron gates of clfurches, foundries, and houses, were piled in the most formidable and defensible manner — laden waggons, omnibusses, private carriages, tables, chairs, beds, blankets, rags, all were pressed into the service, and on every house ' might be seen chalked " Our arms have been given up." It was upon a spectacle such as this that the morning of Thursday, the 24th of February, dawned. That fateful day beheld the abdication and the flight of the King — the lise and tall of a icgency — the overthrow of monarchy, and the resuscitation of a republic. In another page we have "*given copious details of these events : we shall heie endeavoui, as well as our materials will admit, to pursue the course of the movement. When the abdication ot the King became known to the ministers of the late Government (then assembled, at noon, at the Mimstiy of the Interior), they a,U leaped Uom the window's

into the garden, .separating m a soil of suuve (jiti pent fashion at the gate. With customary enlightenment, the " patriotic" people destroyed hy fire the 'ex-King's favourite lesidence at Neuilly, the Palace of St. Cloud, the bridge over the Seine at Amiens, and an elegant residence on the hanks of that livci, belonging to M. Rothschild. E\en under the noses of the new authorities an onslaught upon Avoiks of ait was made ; a workman with a double gun, anxious to have a shot at the King, having discharged both barrels into a picture of Louis Phillippe, swearing obedience to the charier. Perhaps the honest ouvricis deemed this exhibition a mere caricature ; at all events, two others flew at it, sabre in hand, and were only prevented from sacrificing it to theit blind fury by one more intelligent of their fellows, who, 1 mining up the steps of the tribune, exclaimed, " Respect the public monuments ! lespect property ! Why destroy the pictures with balls'? We have shown that the people will not allow itself to be ill governed ; let us now show that, after victory, it knows how to govern itself." The victory cost the French nation upwards of 3000 in slain, and in the several hospitals of Paris there were 428 wounded, 350 of who^i were civilians, and 78 military, for whom a subscription amounting to 387,412 francs had been collected. By half-past twelve o'clock, of the 24th, Paris was in the handsof its inhabitants, and on the morning of the 25th the Provisional Government issued the address [which we gave some time since] to the French people. Since then they have been engaged on the perilous undertaking of framing a republic adapted to the instable views of that fickle nation. A transfer of offices has already occurred. M. Gamier Pages, being appointed to the Ministry of Finance, is to be succeeded in the Mayoralty of Paris by M. Arago, who retires | from the Ministry of Marine, an office which has been confided to Admiral Baudin, who had proclaimed the republic at Toulon, and hoisted the newly arranged flag (blue, white, red, and vertical) amidst the cheers of the squadron. The Admiral had received instructions to sail for Algiers, to proclaim Algeria an integral pait of the French republic, and take possession of whatever ships he might find there. Intelligence of the transactions at Paris had been received ; relative to which the Due D'Aumale, the Governor General, had issued uvo notices, in which he intimates that " nothing is changed in our duties towards France ; the population and the army will wait with the greatest calm for the oiders of the mother country." Marshals Soult, Molitor, Sebastiani, Bugeaui), Reille, and Dode de la Brunerie had sent in their adhesion to the new Government ; to whom the Peers, in convocation, had also made tender of their services. At all the outports, and throughout the provinces generally, a spirit of obedience prevailed, although some disturbances (summarily and energetically repressed) had occurred in the department of the Haute Garonne. All the property of the ex -royal family (reported to be very large) had been seized, and would- be confiscated, and much that had fallen into the hands of the people at the sack of the Tuilleiies, and saved from the conflagration of Neuilly, had been honorably delivered to the authorities. The new executive had expressed a desire to surrender its trust as speedily as possible into the hands of a definite government. The elections were called for the 9th, and on the 20th of April the National Constituent Assembly was to open its session. We shall copy into our next a letter (evidently from an influential source) which appeared in the London Times of the 9th of March. It depicts, in vivid colors, the true state of Paris, and points attention to the great probability (as we ourselves dared to do) of the game of '93 being played over again. Libcrtb and Egalite are again the pass-words ; and these straws to tickle an excitable multitude were about to be stamped with undue im- ; portance through a project of the Northern Railway Company, and the proprietary of the Presse newspaper, who, in manifestation of their devotion to a bubble that never did, nor ever can exist equality- had detei mined, after payment of salaries and interest on capital em barked, on participation of a community of profit — the one — from the chief engineer down to the meanest stoker — the other, from its principal editor down to its most illiterate errand boy ! To do yet further reverence to this genius of humbug, the Due d'Harcourt, the Marquis de Boissy, and some of the umwhile nobles, were to be sent on foreign embassy as simple citizens ! The Sydney Herald asserts that with the exception of Spain and Russia the Republic had been acknowledged by every European State. We know not from what quarter the Sydney Editor derives his authority — we have searched our files but in vain. On the contrary, we read that the Parisian movement had created " the deepest consternation at Vienna" and that the Prussians of Saarlouis had required all the French to leave that place ; whilst ceilain of their corps d'armec, although countermanded in the inaich which had been ordeied towaids the Rhenish frontiei, were instructed to hold themselves in immediate readiness. We lejoice to perceive one marked feature of diflerence between the piesent and the fmt calamitous revolution. It i& — that, then, RcH-

gion was scoffed at and persecuted , now it is, professedly, at least, held in rcmencc and in honour. Throughout Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, convulsions pievailed. In many of the States of the former, the Libeify of the Pi ess, the establishment of national guaids, and other popular priveleges had been conceded. Neufchatel had thrown off the yoke of Prussia; and Geneva had requested to be amalgamated uith the Fiench Republic. The Pope appeared most anxious to adopt that form of Constitutional Government which should be deemed best adapted to the requirements of the States of the Chineh — his own opinion being in favour of two chambers — one to comprise ecclesiastics and nobles — the other the representati\ es of tho people. England, it is reported, kid signified to the King of Naples, her intention to support the Sicilians in their endeavour to establish their independence. In Belgium there was a sensation, but Leopold evincing a willingness to vacate the throne at the will of the sovereign people, they could not consent to part with so indulgent a ruler, and therefore "the inviolability of the Belgian territory " was loudly cheered. In London there had been a chartist demonstration, which the truncheons of the police sufliced to quell, after a few lamps and windows had been broken, and sundry pockets picked. A more daring riot took place at Glasgow, where the soldiery were compelled to fire, and a few lives were sacrificed. From Glasgow and from the Sarsfield Confederate Club in Limerick, sympathetic addresses to the French Republic had been dispatched ; and preparations on an extensive scale, were making for a demonstration in the Irish metropolis, on St. Patrick's day. The authorities, however, were on the alert. Lord John Russell's proposed addition to the Income tax experienced such a tempest -of opposition that his Lordship was compelled to withdraw the measure, leaving thereby a deficiency of two millions between the expenditure and the probable receipts. Trade appears to have been uninjured by passing events, although the operations of the numerous French buyers at the February wool sales were paralysed by the astounding news from Paris. The second reading of the New Zealand Government Bill was moved by Earl Grey in the House of Lords on the 29th February, and went through committee.