PROCLAMATION OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 321, 26 August 1848, Page 3

PROCLAMATION OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

Milan, March 23 — Citizens — Marshal Radetzky, who had sworn to reduce your ciiy to i heap of ruins, could no longer resigt.

Without arras, without ammunition, you have defeated an army enjoying only two days ago an ancient lenown for valour and discipline. The Austrian Government has been driven away for ever from our magnificent city, but we must octupy ourselves with energy to complete the victory, and to conquer the deliverance of the rest of Italy, without which there will be no independence for ourselves. You have borne your arms with too much glory not 4o guess that you are not to be in too great a hurry in la) ing them down. Keep then, your barricades. Run and inscribe yourselves as volunteers in the regular battalions which the committee of war is about immediately to form. Let us put an end at once to all foreign domination, of whatever kind, in Italy. Embrace this tricolour flag, which by your courage waves over your country, and swear never more to let it be taken down. " Vive l'ltalie!" "Vive Pius IX!" Signed by the members of the Provisional Government. P.S. — We have to inform you that the citadel is to be given up to us immediately, ou conditions which we have fixed.

The Runaway Team. — The state of France can be made very clear to the English capacity. It is simply the most desperate case of runaway that can be imagined. Let the drag chain of an overloaded stage coach snap just as the ponderous vehicle has committed itself to a precipitous descent. There is a mile to be run before you come to the less dangerous level. It is a mile of sharp turnings, of banks, of parapets, of rugged ness, of collisions. Soon all is whirlwind and dust. Your team is mad. You seem to fly through the air, you bound, you swing, you are carried to this side and to that. Twenty desperate passes are before you. Is it possible you can he saved ? Will momentum carry you through? Will timely check iotervene? What can reins avail ? There is nothing for it but resignation. To attempt to escape is certain death. There is no assistance the spectator can render that will not precipitate your ruin. We will not extinguish hope by describing the catastrophe. There you have France just a month after a glorious revolution ! — Times.

Coincidences. — la ? March, 1844, the Prince de Joinville* inspected our southern coast, and published his famous report, in wlich he remarked, that in case of hostilities, New haver, in Sussex, would be the best spot at which to attempt a fending. "3fh* March, 1848, his own parents succeeded in effecting a landing at Newhaven, in Sussex, but under circumstances unforeseen and unimagined alike by the Prince, his parents, and by us I An Economical Ambassador. —M. Cottu has arrived in London as representative of the Provincial Government of France, in the place of the Count de Jamac. The new ambassador's stipend h> only £400 per annum whilst the yearly cost of the late embassy was between £14,000 and £15,000.

A Dropped Crown. — During the debate on the window duty, General Evans, usually a quick speaker, waxed warm, and " suited the action to the word." Lord John Russell, sat immediately before him ; and the gallant speaker, in one of his flourishes, inadvertently brought his hand in cuntact with the Premier's head and sent his hat rolling upon the floor. The house roared with laughter. His lordship looked back, as much as to say did you mean that? and then, instead of running away like Louis Phillippe, quietly picked up his crov/n and replaced it on his head.

Political Pasquinade. — The nick name for Louis Philippe, among the Revolutionists of Paris, is •• Philippe fil vite," ot " Philippe cut away quick."