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having been driven back, they mude a charge, but were repulsed. They then fell on the people mid used their sibres rij;ht and left. It is laid that some posts of infantry also fired. A cry of "To arms" was then beard. The citizens then dispersed in all directions. A massacre between the citizens and the soldiers then commenced. Two soldiers fired opposite the Bank and were immediately killed. An officer soon after shared the same fa'e. More than 100 have been killed. If the so dieri do not cjuit the city this evening there will he a regular massacre. Firing is still heard. The evening journals of the JB'h were dosnatched, and the couriers, with let'ers and papers, cou d not get out of that city. It ii said that ten discharges of cannon took place.

T.XI'ULSION OF BELGIAN WORKMEN IN FRANCE. While ihe Belgian democrats are congratulating the government, their fellow countrymen are turned out of France. The Belgians, being better farm servants tlinn the French, aro found in almost every farm house, where, many people are employed, doing the drudgery »nd hard woik without as well as within doors, liny fire most i industrious and tractable, yei their employers aic told that they must get rid of them, us no more foreigners are to be allowed to work in France. The authorities do all they can to quell this inhospitable spirit, and in some places the military have protected the poof fii'lgians ; yet the idea that foreign labour haa no right to interfere is too rooted to be easily reasoned'down.

FLIGHT OP I HE ENGLISH. A correspondent in Paris says :: — '• I have now ascertained the cause of the numerous departures of "Fnglish horn Paris within the List few day?. Ouo of them, a person of great influence, Iml said that he had seen a letter from the Minister of the Interior, advising the En^li'h to leave, as he could not answer for their t>afety. This statement created an immediate panic, but it was grounded in miutike. The fact is as follows : — A large body of French workmen wuiled upon the minister to demand a decree for the expulsion ol all foreicn workmen. In vain d d the minister reason with them— ull be could obtain was a promise to wait a few days. He then wroto to a fiiend, requesting him to adviae his conespondenta in Kngland that it would be un-.afe to send over more workmen, and that even those who were already in France might find themselves in danger from tho excitement of the French Woikmen. It was this letter which led to the error about Ei'gash resident! genet ally, who, with the exception of workmen, have never been in danger, but who, on the contrary, were tnated by all daises of .French with politeness and kmdncsi, The reports which you have had to the contiary are all inventions. As to the fuieign workmen, not only English, but many Geimans and Belgians, have fled ; and you ore aware tluit the government has published adeeiee, cautioning foreign workmen against coming to Pans, as they wouli be entitled to none of the relief affoided to natives- M. Ledru Rollin would not go farther lh<in tins ; and it has had the effect of tranquillizing the "Fiench operative!. A better spirit, politically fpeakuilj, is beginning to pervade tho mass. More than 20,000 woikrnen have tent up addie^ies to the go veinmcnt, entreating it not to postpone the elections There is now reason to hope, that although men of all daises will be sent to the National Assembly, the great majority will be men of intelligence. I hear that the renegade republican p»rly, under the late {rovemnaent, his been foun I to have bi eu guilty of theft, and that he is to be tried for that offence. The journals do not mention the fact, but every body is ucquamted with it. It will do ftood, for it will thiow disfavour upon the red hot Republicans, who vim at anarchy."

EVENTS IN ITALY. TRIUMPH OF THE SICILIANS. A letter from Naples says : — " The quest'on of Sicily appears solved. Scovuzzo, who had retiied so honourably from the ministry, is nppointed Minister for Sicilian uifaira at Naples. Ruggiero Settimo, president of the Provisional Government, lias buen named Viceroy, and Scoidio, Monte Aiso, and Calvi, presidents of the different committees of the Provisional Government, have decn named Minister. T«e Parliament of Sicily is convoked for the 25th. The proclamation issued by the Sicilians for that convocation, anJ the electoral law, have been recognised by the King. Evciy Sicilian is on elector; and to be eligible to election it is necessary to possess a revenue of 18 ounces (about 230r.) As to the questions common to the two kingdoms, the two Pailiaraents will endeavour to pace themselves in accord. In t e event of their not agreeing, the d.fficulties are to be solved by Charles Albert and the Gmnd Duke of Tuscany ; and if their resolutions are not sntUfuct-iy, Pope Pius IX will be rcfeired to as the final aibitrator. Lord Alinto has left for Palermo in a line of battle [ship, in tow of a steam frigate. He is tha bearer of the above mentioned determinations to ike Sicilian?. The latter have thus obtained all they desired. A Milan letter of the 14lh confirms a previoas report that the Viceroy and all his family were on the point of leaving the capital for Verona, intending to transfer the ieat of got t-rnrLCnt to that town. Naples, March 8 — The news of the proclaitittion of the Republic in France, which reached here on the 6th, has put our government into a state of great agitation. The ministry, to the greut disapprobation ot the public, has betn confirmed, with some slight exceptions.,