The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

th Portraits Jest ready , in 1 vols. l ive,ons, , and numerous other HISTORY of the JESUITS, A FROM THB FOUPOPENDATIAULON 111. OF , THEIR SOCIETY, BY P TO ITS SUPPRESSION BY POPE CLEMENT XIV. THEIR REVIVAL AND PRESENT STATE. By ANDREW STEINMETZ. Author of " The Jesuit in the Family," " The Novitiate." Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street, (Pablisher In Ordinary to her Majesty). HER MAJE.STY'S THEATRE. M. THABSERG. GRAND SACRED, CLASSICAL. and MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT, on MONDAY EVENING, April 17. It is respectfully announced that on MONDAY Evzsixo, April 17, 1U be given a GRAND CONCERT, with great Orchestra, Chorus, Me., on which occasion M. Thalberg will execute the following pieces : I. Grand Concerto in C minor • • • . • • .. Beethoven. 2. Fantasia on Subjects from Mozart's Don Giovanni Thalberg. i. Fantasia on Subjects from Auber's Masaniello .• Thalberg. 4. " Lieder Ohne Worte" .. • • .. Mendelssohn , The Vocal portion will include ![adage Tadollni. Mdlle. Schwartz, And Mdlle Sofia Cruvelt. Motor Gordon!, Signor Belletti, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Colin!, Signor Bouche, Signor Cuzzani, And Signor Lablache, Ait4 comprise selections from the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Gluok. Mendels-ohn, Weber, Spontini, &c., and include a Grand Trio for Three Basses,by Meyerbeer— Signori Lablache, Belletti, and Celettl. Conductor, 3f. Balfe. Prices of Admission. Mddlle Vera, Boxes.. •• • • ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 2 and 3 guineas Pit Stalls ... •• • • • • • 10s. 6d. each. Pit Tickets ••••• • • • • ..... ...... ss. Od. each. Gallery Stalls • .• • • ..... ss. Od. each. Gallery Tickets •• • • .... ........... 2s. 6d. each. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and the Concert to commence at Eight o'clock. 111.15.0.1. second Grand Concert will be presented on Wednesday Isorsing, April 19. T IiEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. The , Publle is respectfully informed that, at the request of several ramilies of Distinction, another GRAND MORNING PERFORM ANCI will be given by the French Equestrian Troupe, on Turas- DAY, April 6, on wl2ich occasion a variety of the most Novel and Attractive Entertainments will be produced. Doors open at Half-past One o'chick, performance to commence at two. First price as usual. No second price. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Verdi's new Opera, entitled ATTILA. Odabella, 31dUs. Bona Craven': Foresto, Sig. Gardoni ; Erzio, Sig. Canzani ; 'Ladino, Sig. Guidi ; Leone, Sig. Siolari ; and Attila, Sig. Italetti. After which will be revived the admired Ballet (by M. P. Taglioni, the Music by Sig. Pugni) entitled TIIEA ; OU, LA FEE LUX FLEURS, By Mdlle. Rosati, Mdlle. Petit, Mesdlls. Thevenot, Ansundon, Ju lians, Lamorenx, and Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Paul Tagiloni, and M. Charles (his first appearance). Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office of the Theatre. - - Prices of ♦dmission :—Boxes—Pit Tier, Five Guineas ; Grand Tier, Six Guineas ; One-pair, Five Guineas ; Two-pair, Four Guineas ; Pit Stalls. 211. ; Gallery Stalls, ss. Pit Tickets, of which a limited number only will be issued, can be lad at the Box-office as usual, 10s. 6d. each. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS. THIS EVENING, A 'Varlets. of New Performances :—The Pyramid of Decanters— The Two Panchinellos—The Villager's Wedding—The Two Clowns —The Roman Games—The Chinese Jugglers, &c , by M.M. A. Sie grist. Aariol, Andre, Loissetaine, Weble, Niel', la petite Loissot, &e. The Man4e, by Mdlls. Caroline and Mathilde. Various novel and daring acts of Equitation—The Voltige—The Tarantell, &c., by Malls Palmyra, Anato, F. Stanley, E. Lambert, Coralie, Ducos, Florentine, Amaglia. Le petit Anato, &c. Laughable and groteque representa tions by the Clowns MM. Auriol, Leclair, and Arlol, AIL Viers open at half-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight. Second price, Half-past Nine. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Taller the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Comedy et THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Si: Peter Teazle, Mr. Farren ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, mr. A. Wigan; Joseph Surf ace, Mr. Creswick ; Charles Surface, Mr. Henry Farren ; Careless. Mr. R. Tandenhoff ; Rowley, Mr. Gough ; Moses, Mr. Webster ; Snake, Mr. Braid ; Sir Harry, Mr. Caulfield ; Crabtree, Mr. Rogers ; Trip, Mr. Brindal. Lady Teazle, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover; Lady Sneer well. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Maria, Miss E. Messent. After which, a new condo Drama, entitled LAVATER THE PIITSIOGNOMIST ; and Good Judge too. Lavater, Mr. Webster ; fixes, Miss Forteacue. stage manager, Mr. Farren ; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, Box-book keeper. Boise, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, Is. ; tipper Gallery, Is. Deers open at Half-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction 01 Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Wlll be performed a new and original Drama, called HARVEST 10342. Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Drank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c. After which a new and original Farce, entitled OUR NA TIONAL DEFENCES; or, the Cockshot Yeomanry. Principal ebaractere by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, Sanders ; Ma dame Celesta, Miss Emma Harding, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Woolgar. is conelude with THE COMRADES; an Anecdote of the Span ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Boyce, Mun yard, rani Lsgrand, C. J. Smith, Ryan, Miss E. Harding. Sec. . . . -. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 2s. , Gallery, Is. I boors open at Halt-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Matlews. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new comic D:ama, entitled NOT A BAD JUDGE. After which, a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN BRANCH. Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hall, Harley, lier ridge, Madame Vestris, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conclude with a new Piece, entitled DONE ON BOTH SIDES. Dress Boxes, bs. ; Upper Boxes, 45.; Pit, 28. ; Gallery, is. N o MD• price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the Public* every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, 04 Bond -street. Last appearance Malle. Nathalle. TO-MORROW EVEN ENO, The Entertainments will commence at hall-past Seven o'clock with A new Comedie-vaudeville entitled UN VOEU DE JEUNES FILLE , . M. Fichelin, M. Tourillon ; Octave, M. Montaland ; Andre, M. Josset ; Cecile, 3idlle. Marot ; Fanchette, Mdlle. Elize Grange. After which LE DERNIER AMOUR. Madame de Mondel. Ilifdlle. Nathalie. To be followed by BLONDETTE, To conclude with (for the second time in this country), the new Petite Comedy of EXTREMES SE TOUCIIENT. Le Chevalier Jalllen, Xensienr Lalont ; La Comtesse Rosine, Madame Paul Ernest. Boxes and Stalls may be obtain , d at Mr. Mitchell's lioyal Library, 3s, Old Bond-street. PkINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-strett, Portland. place. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE ROMANCE OF THR RHINE. After which, anew comic Drama, called MT SISTER'S SECRET. Lovechace, Mr. James Vining. Torpid, Mr. Compton; Margaret, !ibis E. Montague ; Alice, Miss Vi,lars. To be followed by the Musical Piece el " NO." Sir George Doubt ul, Mr. Bodda ; Commodore Hurricane, Mr. Neville; Maria, Miss E. Stanley. After whiek the new Interlude called MAMMON and GAMMON. To conclude with the comic Drama of " LADIES, BEWARE!" Dress circle, Ss.: Boxes, as.; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. NBW MANAGEMENT. THIS EVENING Will be presenled Auber's new Opera, entitled HAYDEE ; or the Secret, with entirely new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Eaydee, Miss Poole ; Rafaela, Madame Florence Brunel ; Leredieu, Mr. D. W. King; Malapierl, Mr. Borrani ; Hadieu, Mr. C. Horn ; Gonzalvo, Mr. S. Jones ; Domenico, Mr. Horncastle. Li order to give dee effect to this celebrated composition, the hand and chorus have been augmented to upwards of Fifty Performers, under the direction of Mr. J. F. Tulley. To coaclude with a now Extravaganza, called TIIE CRUMM r. KsEs ; or, A Retwarsal Rehearsed. Nicholas Nickleby, Mr. Summers; Mr. Lenville, Mr. Oxberry ; Smike, Miss J. Coleman; Mrs. Cruamles, Mrs. L. Reds. Private Boxes, H. Is.; Boxes, 4s. ; Stalls, 38. ; Pit, 2s. Cal lery„ I s. Half-price at Nine o'cicck. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. Oxherry. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Last Five Nights of the present Grand Spectacle, and unprecedented Equestrian Entertainments, in order to make preparation for this agniflcent Easter Holiday Enter.alnmen a. THIS EVENING, The New Gorgeous Spectacle, TILE BATTLE OF TIIE AMAZONS, with all its splendid appointments, &c. To be followed by, and the evening's entertainments to terminate with A GRAND EQUESTRIAN FETE, in which the Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes wiil appear each evening lit their fwd incomparable Feats and brilli an t Scenes in the Circle. peculiar Box-office open from II till 5. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. WEATUE.R.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 4. T aX II3 IOIIIETER, Lowest, 49 ; Highest, 69; Noon, 67 BABomETER, 30.—WIND W.S.W. ; fine. Mon:t t n i ,.. "" 2 7 .. / LTXII AT LANDO N-BRIDOE TUTS DAY. after 2.1 Evening .. 25 aitnntes nf , e 2 1. j ork . , 4 , V 4 41 4. 4?. ';‘d - - -^ a' a' r.) = 711 'Woe • r , ,"•:,1146, 3 , 03 0, , THE THIRD EDITIONS “THE SUN” CONTAIN, AS USUAL, VIE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, AND ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun-ogiee, 112, Strand. klienin4 *Mt LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1 A very important explanation was elicited yester day evening from the Lord President of the Council, by a question put t o t h e Noble Marquis by the Earl of ABERDE EN . Th e question had particular refer. once to the extraordinary events which are now transpiring in the northern territories of the Italian peninsula ; and, in interrogating Lord LANSDOWNE upon the suhject, the late Secretary for Foreign Affairs evinced a peculiarly conservative solicitude that England should endeavour, by an untimely pro test, to hamper the movements of his Majesty of SARDINIA. As if England was the advanced guard of Austria! As if PALMERSTON was the beefeater of METTERNIcit ! As if the Ministerial advisers of Vlcroata. were to chop logic for the benefit of FER DINAND ! To any observer, whose mind was not thoroughly obscured with the phantom of an obsolete system of diplomacy, it must have been manifest that the members of the Russell Administration sympathised to the very uttermost with the reforming Princes of Italy from the first moment the Lord Privy Seal left our shores, as an unaccredited plenipotentiary to the Court of that heroic peninsula. Not so with my Lord ABERDEEN ! He could no more compre hend this fact than he could at one time conjecture the geographical position of Bali. He, forsooth ! His sympathies were with the ghosts of the defunct policies of NESSELRODE and NARBONNE. Very dif ferent, indeed, are the views and aspirations of his successor, the Noble Viscount, the representative of Tiverton. Those views are of a largeness commen surate with the character of the age, and those aspira tions are coloured by the sanguine temperament of a hopeful and ambitious generation. Instead of intermeddling in any clumsy or ineffi• cient manner in the respective affairs of Turin and Vienna, England has, through her Ministers, con tented herself with repeated recommendations to Calm) ALBERTO that he would deem it advisable to preserve a perfect neutrality in the convulsions of the Lombardo-Venetian dominions. By this gene rous, and, as we may term it, emollient advice the English Cabinet proceeded in a manner worthy of its gigantic influence and of its conciliatory disposition —it strove, by the language of its ambassadors, to prevent any unnecessary effusion of blood, and to preserve, as long as that was practicable, the tran quillity of the European continent. At the same time, Lord PALMERSTON refrained, with the most scrupulous care, from employing expressions such as the most jealous could distort into words of intimida tion. Meanwhile a variety of memorable occur rences took place in a hundred opposite directions. The democracy of the Viennese had destroyed fur ever the prestige of Austrian absohitism. Prince METTERNICH was hurled from supreme power into unutterable insignificance. The Hunga rians were already bestirring themselves along the banks of the voluptuous Danube, and among the fortified streets of Peterwaradin. A new cause for anxiety was furnished by the revival of the spirit of patriotism among the citizens of Poland. The ener gies of Schoenbrunn were districted moreover in another quarter by the insurgent shouts which re sounded among the gorges of the Tyrol. It became evident to the Lombardo-Venetians that the doomed hour had struck, that that opportu nity for which they had yearned was within their grasp, that Austria was too much paralysed by its own internal and immediate disasters to resist them by any formidable concentration of strength. The Lom bardo-Venetians rose like one man! Resurgamsl was visible for years upon the escutcheon of their nationality. And this was the day of their resurrec tion. Venice shook off in a few hours the thraldom of the German, and arose once more in its re publican splendour and puissance amidst the billows of the Adriatic. Milan fought the holy fight of freedom within the circumference of her walls ; the blood of her patriotic children stained the porch of her cathedral ; Milan fought the holy fight, and con quered the myrmidons of the Viceroy. Lombardy responded to the cries which accompanied these first struggles against the mercenaries of despotism. Everywhere the passion of revolution began to reveal itself ; city rose after city ; contingent arrived after contingent, to swell the main army of the insurgents. One thing alone was necessary to render the valiant Lombards victorious. That was the co-operation of some adjacent power. CARLO ALBERTO recognised this emergency from his Council Chamber at Turin. His noble heart beat with emotion for his compatriots be yond the frontiers of Piedmont. He hesitated not for an instant, but flung down his gauntlet at the feet of the EMPEROR. That chivalrous movement was not unworthy of ARMAND CARREL, of whom it has been said— " A wrong to conviction he would not endure, And he fought for his love, when he fought for the poor.'' Thirty thousand Piedmontese marched to the assist• ante of the Lombards under the royal banner of Sardinia, and of this proceeding Lord LANDSDOWNE observed only last night in the House of Lords— " There cannot be a doubt, from the state of the Milanese territory, but that the King of SARDINIA found himself justified in the course he has taken in that part of the world Since then, indeed, his example has been followed by the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, whose troops have has tened to aid the population of Lombardy. Twelve thousand men have marched from Rome with a similar destination, under the command of General DURAND°, and followed by the benedictions of the l'oNTlrf. Beyond this, the last proclamation issued by the Provisional Government of Milan testifies the sublime spirit of the insurrection. The proclamation is addressed to the inhabitants of Lodi and Cremona, And says, among other things, " Everything tends to favour our designs. The Archbishop of MILAN has given his blessing to the barricades; justice and reli gion are with us. Piedmontese are on our territory. By the union of their force with our own, it will be easy to drive the great enemy of Italy beyond the Alps. Let your cry be ' Long live Italy!" Long live Pius IX. !"The miracle of our deliverance can only be the work of GOD. Salutation and frater- Ility." Such is the disposition of the reviving na• tionality of the Italians—a nationality which is visible to the whole world, but which is incomprehensible to my Lord ABERDEEN. The strong and universal anxiety now existing with respect to the threatening aspect of affairs in Ireland induced Lord JOCELYN last night to question the Government on the subject, and elicited from Lord Jons Russeee a reply to that interrogation. Lord JOHN'S explanation was necessarily somewhat ambiguous, as a Ministerial statement must needs be, under the circumstances ; it was, moreover, in some respects both alarming and satisfactory. Alarming, for it ev i nce d no a tt emp t t o ex pl a in aw ay or to ex tenuate the serious nature of recent proceedings in Ireland, and the imminent danger in which those proceedings have involved the country. " It is quite true," said Lord JOHN in that explanation, " that language has been used in Ireland exciting rebellion against the Crown—exciting the people to acts of violence against persons and property, with a view to establish Ireland as a separate nation, independent of the Crown of these realms. Such language," pur sued the Noble Lord, " may at some periods be passed over as the mere ravings of a distem pered fancy, which may have no dangerous effect. Unfortunately it is not so at the present moment." So far all is assuredly sufficiently alarming. " MY belief certainly is," added Lord JOHN RUSSELL, " that those who have used the language to which I have adverted have done so for the purpose of raising themselve s , care l ess of the bloodshed and ruin they may occasion." Awful, indeed, will be their responsi bility and their gu il t who have this to answes. for. Partaking of the criminal ambition of the " youth" who ruthl ess l y set fire to the temple ois f ' aspiri n g Divinity, d es t roy i ng a glorious work of art, th cherished obj ec t o f a people ' s veneration, solely f e or the purpose of acqu i r i ng notoriety by the shameful deed, these in cen di ary agitators are indifferent as to the extent of bloodshed and sorrow and suffering that may ensue to an entire nation, so that they them selves in consequence may acquire a notoriety which they mistake for fame. But is it possible that these insensate men can sway the destinies of Ireland ? Is it possible that their desperate harangues can exert sufficient influence over the Irish people to render them insensible to every moral and religious duty incumbent on them as citizens, as pa triots, and as Christians ? We confess that, even yet, we have too much faith in the Irish people to credit such a lamentable supposition. The inconsistency and forgetfulness of the multitude are proverbial ; nevertheless, is it credible that a people, so enthu siastic and warm hearted, should be so utterly forget ful of sentiments which once powerfully agitated their hearts, as never to call to mind, whilst listening to the vehement declamations of their new orators, t i he e arnest and i mpassioned eloquence of the i r once ( early beloved champion and friend DANIEL O'CON NELL. If they call to mind his animaied discourses, they may perchance remember some fallacious arguments a m n u d s i t l I a - j l s u o d ge infallibly clexhortations remember bnt o a f l IR, his e p e adl discourses breathed breathed one spirit, that all h is hi e s xhortations w e re unanimous in one object—that stppeonretrgecaeppeal s most impressive were invari us e a l b o l g y ue e n li c c e ite a d nd me insu that that sp i r i t and that oft t i at greatca cause—and Peace, ord er , submission to at the lawWawes PEA : E. tinually insisted upon and advocated b' re l e i' n. and yet t we l ve months have not passed yoveruhnis; grave when the Irish have forgotten him and his injunctions, and Ireland is arming herself and about to break out in rebellion. Alas! for the mutability of human hearts. Alas ! for the brief endurance of the memory of the dead. If there was one thing which DANIEL O'CONNELL prized most especially, if there was one thing in which he peculiarly exulted, it was the love with which he was regarded by the Irish people. At some of the public meetings which he attended in London he expatiated in glowing terms upon the love and veneration enter tained for him by his countrymen. " Oh, could you see them as I pass by !"_ was his simple and exultant exclamation on one occasion when he proceeded to describe how young and old pressed eagerly forward to greet him with gratitude and joy, mothers holding up their children to catch a glimpse of him. It was only perfectly natural that he should feel gratified by such simple and cordial testimonies of affection, for the regard of our fellow-men is one of the sweetest and most honourable satisfactions of human life. But if the regard of the Irish people was a subject of gratulation to O'CONNELL, how great would now be his grief and disappointment to find the same multitude that pressed upon his way, that hung in rapture on his words, now eagerly submitting to strangers, proclaiming doctrines totally in opposition to his ? Mr. SHELL eloquently lamented that the old man was not spared " to tread with feeble steps the galleries of the Vatican, and receive the sanctifying benediction from the descendant of St. PETEN ;" but, instead of lamenting, we have rather now cause to re joice that he was not spared to see Ireland—his be loved Ireland—prepared to act in opposition to the doctrines of his life. Yet we will still persist in hoping that she is not so prepared. As we hare said already, we have faith in the great body of the Irish people, not withstanding the threatening aspect of the disaffected minority. Nevertheless, that minority must not be suf fered to infect the well-disposed. The best method of preserving peace is to be prepared for war. Accord ing to this doctrine, the Government are prepared to act, and now, having treated of the alarming, we come to the more satisfactory, portion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S explanation of yesterday. While Lord CLARENDON is zealous in promoting every means for effecting the amelioration of the condition of the people, he is also prepared not only to prevent, by peaceable measures, but, if necessary, to put down by force, any further proceedings of the seditious and insurgent. And, notwithstanding our antipathy to coercive measures, and our advocacy of freedom of speech and the liberty of the subject, we cannot, in this instance, but approve of the determination ; for this interference with the liberty of the subject is only equivalent to the forcible removing, from the hands of an insensate and desperate man, of some offensive weapon with which he would infallibly injure himself or others. Hence, for the protection of all—of the innocent and the well disposed —it is advisable that the movements of the disaffected should be arrested. Nevertheless, we will venture to hope that preparation may be all that will be required of the Government, and that the good sense and good feeling of Ireland will prevent that preparation from being reduced to practice. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. Paris was quiet, but there had been serious dis turbances in some of the provinces. The Courrier de la Sarthe states that a regiment of carabineers, in garrison at La Fleche, had mutinied, and released some of their comrades who had been imprisoned for a breach of discipline. On the arrival of the General commanding the division order was restored. At Lyons the troops refused to obey their officers, and left their barracks contrary to orders, remaining in the town all night. They afterwards proceeded to rescue one of their comrades who had been arrested, and then they made certain demands as to the dis position of the troops, and also, it is said, required the suppression of the Military an I Polytechnic Schools, and the adoption of a law enacting' that hence forth all officers should be taken from the ranks. Tranquillity was restored through the intervention of the soldier who had been rescued from arrest, at whose request the troops returned to their barracks. These scenes took place on Thursday. At Raonna serious disorders have !taken place, and at Lillebonne (situated between Rouen and,Hav re) the people assembled on Friday last, and insisted on the liberation of some seditious persons who had been arrested and imprisoned. The authorities re fused compliance, and the troops and National Guards, who opposed the populace, were attacked by a shower of stones, and replied by a volley of mus ketry, which killed four men and two women, and for the moment put an end to the riot. At half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN and his companions proceeded to the Hotel de Ville to present their address. They were received by M. LAMARTINE alone, no other member of the Provisional Government being present. Besides the address of the Irish Confederation, ad dresses were presented at the same time by Mr. R O'GoamaN, jun., from the citizens of Dublin, by Mr. MEAGHER from the Repealers of Manchester, and by Mr. AlDEamorr from the members of the Irish Confederation resident in Liverpool. M. DE LAMARTINE replied to the whole of these addresses in one speech. He began by thanking them for the generous sentiments expressed in the different addresses, and said that France re turned in full the sympathy therein testified. But though they did so, he begged at the commencement to recal to them the declaration made by the Re public at its birth, that it by no means intended, directly or indirectly, to interfere in the affairs of any of the constituted Powers of Europe —that though they trusted to see those ideas of full and democratic liberty extend through the world, yet they must be permitted to do so by virtue of their own goodness and truth. He said that he hoped to see Ireland take that rank in prosperity and happiness which it merited ; but he cau tioned them against entertaining any hope of assistance from them in resistance to their own Government. He bade them not forget that the glory of England was theirs, and that their strength lay in unity. He said that in giving any promise of assist ance to one party in a state they were sure to offend equally another ; and recalled to their attention the mistake made by Mr. PITT in 1798, when, by sup porting one party in France, he armed them against the opposite, thereby giving rise to the sad spectacle of Frenchmen fighting against Frenchmen. France, he said, did not now intend to commit such another fault. In conclusion M. LAMARTINE thanked them once more for the admirable expression of sympathy conveyed by them to the French Republic, a testi mony of regard which he said was one of the most glorious they could receive. The report with respect to the intention of the Marquis of NORMANDY to quit Paris is contradicted from authority. It appears that Lord NORMANDY never contemplated leaving Paris either on account o f public or private business, and that he had no conversation with M. DE LAMARTINE upon the subject. oc —This has been a dreadful theeverything having been offered from the commencement of business, and a heavy Ta Bourse,n33E °o IiCRLSEx. PArus, MONDAY, APRIL 3. closed at 35f. 25c., the lowest tfal l havingda at lower than the last quotation Cents.. opened at 39f., and taken place. Cents. opened at 59f., and wenotfd%cen The Three a r w ; I t t h h e F a iv f of withoutth day, aay, checkand 4 t o f. e nd sbseyf.o, nadlsothteheprloeswseinstgpwriacnetofforthmeotl fall of 41. 25c. No reason was assigned a ; u r tis heavy decline sally felt. Bank of Fiance Shares s y l which is so univer sally at 1,135 f., showing a fall of 40f.; Rowan is 21. c lower, closing at 501.; Obligations de la Ville arc at 9601. or 951• lower; 50 th f. e I o g w e h e r e r . : i ß d e e l - g p r i e a e . e n dia F t i ii v ? e h s ( a nosd4lo')ieftolmrmonath aetxc6espotfi.,,)horth Shares th being better, at 5 lif. In Railway is nut altogether so heavy, though they also have decline Marseilles at 190 f., a fall of 10f . ; fered. Orleans, after being done as low as 505 f , clossued at 5201. being a fall of 51.; Rouen closed at 32 . 71. 50c , being a fall of 151.; Vierzon, at 2101., a fall of 101.; Bordeaux, at 3801., a fall of Bf. 75c.; Northern, at 315 f.; and Lyons at 215 E, being each 6f. 25c. lower ; Strasburg at 333 f. or 31. 75c. lower. Bons du Tresor were at less loss per cent, to day, it being only 43 in place of 44, which it was on Sa turday. French gold is at 70f., the English sovereign is at 261., and the charge for changing a I,ooof. note not more than 12f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Arm 3. Boulogne and Amiens, 5"S i —Dutch Rhenish, 1 4—Namur and Liege, I—Northern of France, `2!i —Paris and Lyons, 1,4 —Rouen and Havre, 7 Sambre and Meuse, VA. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1848. SPAIN. Madrid papers to the 28th have been received. Tranquillity w as quite restored, and the court inertial was sitting for the trial of the prisoners made on the night of the 26th. It is stated in some of the journals that the troops have lost about 40 men, that 116 wounded are at the military hospital, and that the prisoners exceed 200. The QUEEN bas bestowed a pension of 12,000 reals on the mother, with roversions to the sisters of Don KuAm. DE ESPANA, a Captain of Light Infantry, who was killed yesterday in the conflict. General NARYAIE has published the following bulletin : " TO THE POLITICAL CHIEF OF THE PROVINCE OF MADRID. " Excellent Sir,—A horde of seditious persons and conspirators disturbed public tranquillity last night, threatening the fortunes and compromising the lives of the pacific citizens who reposed tranquilly under the safeguard of the laws and of the constituted authori ties. " These vagabonds, without cry or flag, have sacrificed the defenders of the throne and of the constitution, and have been the cause of shedding the blood of men who were perhaps deceived, whose efforts ought to have been more useful to the country. Their defeat, although covered with the shadow of night, has been the glorious fruit of the serene valour of the armed force and of the active and imposing co-operation of the sensible popula tion of Madrid (1) Their triumph would have been, on the contrary, that of the most abominable passions— pillage, vengeance, and assassination. " The whole inhabitants of the capital have thus easily comprehended it, when shutting their doors against the insurgents, and repelling their violences, they opened them to all who presented themselves in the name of the law, and when a considerable number of persons of pro perty offered their co-operation to the constituted authorities. " The population of Madrid is, therefore, worthy of the gratitude of all Spain, for having saved her from a shameful scandal, and for having contributed so effica ciously to the defence of the most sacred interests of society. " The Government, in proclaiming this, and present ing her as a model to civilized people, fulfils an honour able and a pleasing duty, being able to add that it trusts in her to maintain public repose, and to remain sure on her side that all the authorities, firm in their resolution to preserve, not only the throne and the constitution, but social order, threatened in its foundations; strong with the loyalty and adhesion of the armed force, and stronger still with the justice of their cause, are resolved to accredit themselves as loyal guardians of such high interests, and worthy to preside over a people so noble. "The which I say to your Excellency by royal order, by accord of the Council of Ministers, for your intelli gence and the information of the loyal inhabitants of this worthy capital. " God preserve, &c. (Signed) "EL DUQUE DE VALENCIA. "Madrid, 27th March, 1848. " NARYIEZ has taken advantage of this emeute to endeavour to crush all who are opposed to him. Upwards of 900 arrests have taken place. Orders have been given to arrest all the Progressista and Puritano leaders, although there is not the least pre tence for connecting them with the outbreak. Escosux♦ and CORTINA have been arrested. General Ruiz is a prisoner in the barracks, and General NOG ÜBRAS is sent to Cadiz, from whence he will be transported to the Philippine Islands. MIINDIZABAL, OLOZAGA, SALAMANCA, CORRADI, the Marquis of ALBADI, Colonel GANDARA, and several others having received information of the intentions of Nix VAEZ, effected their escape. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 28.—The Three per Cents., 211 cash, and 1 buyers, 4 sellers, after the close ; Five per Cents., 131 buyers, 13 sellers ; Pas sive Debt, 4/ to 4 sellers; Coupons, 10 sellers; Ex change on London, 44 90. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The Allgemeine Preussische Zetung, of the Ist instant, publishes a royal proclamation, in which the KING desires all petitions on constitutional matters may be directed to the Ministry, and not to him. This decree is occasioned by a memorial of the Mi nistry, signed by CAMPHAUSEN, ScawERIN, Auxas- WALD, BORNEMANN, ARNIM, HANsEMAN, and RaTHER, in which the Ministers claim their right of deciding on all points which refer to the constitution, since it is they who are responsible. The same paper publishes a decree prohibiting the exportation of horses from the Prussian States. It was rumoured in Berlin that Count SCIIWERIN had resigned his office in the Cabinet, and had been succeeded by M. BECKERATH, Deputy of Cofeldt, near Dusseldorf. This would make the Ministry still more liberal. The Minister of War, General DE REYIIER, who only accepted office provisionally, is to be replaced by General HAusER or by General WILLEEREw. The latter is called for by the Polish Deputies to be placed at the head of the army of the duchy of Posen. The Ministry is entirely taken from that portion of the Diet which was known as the ultra• Liberal party ; it is thought it will satisfy the general wishes of the country, especially those of the Rhenish pro- vinces. The Cologne Gazette publishes a letter from Posen, from which it appears that that province is now in a state bordering upon anarchy. The old rancour between Germans and Poles breaks out in many places. The Germans in the Grand Duchy of Posen (they are 500,000, out of a population of 1,160,000) do not quite sympathise with all the wishes of their Polish neighbours for a new kingdom of Poland. They wish to participate in the brilliant future which they think is now opening for Germany Meetings held at Bromberg and Moseritz protested against a secession of the Grand Duchy of Posen from Prussia. The resolutions adopted by the Germans of the latter town conclude as follows : " We refuse to be governed by the Poles, whose lan guage is foreign to us. [This is an untruth, for two thirds of the German inhabitants of the Grand Duchy s province, because she an the unit e d F ren ch and obtaineds v p r e u e s k si a much is sti a justly j betteruesnt entitled t,a ; Polisherd to against h t than they do German.] Poles. The fathers of the inhabitants of the Prussian frontier districts fought on the battle•fields of 1813-15. They shed their blood for Germany. It would be rank treason if we were to be sacrificed." In the same journal we find it stated that some gentlemen from Riga and the country districts of Courland have arrived in that town, in order to as certain whether the Russian provinces of the Baltic may rely on the assistance of Prussia and Germany. An official deputation from those German countries under Russian authority is shortly expected at Berlin. THE FRANKFORT DIET. The Frankfort papers contain the following ex tract from the minutes of the Diet of the 30th of March : "The Federative Assembly, assisted by men of public confidence, has already begun to trace the out lines of a new federative constitution. For the further advancement of this important matter, the Federative Assembly resolves to call upon the Federal Go vernments to cause national representatives to be elected in their German States, which election shall be either held in the mariner which the constitution of the respective countries prescribes, or if there be no such constitutional manner, then shall the same be in troduced. These national representatives shall assemble in this town, the same being the seat of the Federative Assembly, and they shall try to effect a German consti tution between the Princes and their people. Since circumstances tend to necessitate the adoption of a cer tain standard of the population , according to which the said national representatives are to bo chosen in each federative State, it h as appeared convenient to found these proceedings on the existing condition of federative matriculation, and the Federative Assembly ordains that one representative should be elected to each 70,000 souls of each Federative State, but that such states the popula tion of which does not amount to the aforesaid number of 70,000 souls shall nevertheless be entitled to elect one representative." The Frankfort Journal says— " FRANKFORT, MARCH 31, lIALF-PAST NINE A.M. --The election of the President of the Preliminary Assembly has just been announced from the balcony of the Kraiser Saal. MITTERMAER is Chief-Presi dent ; DADLMANN, STzSTIEN, BLUM, and JORDAN act as Vice-Presidents. At this moment the Deputies are proceeding to St. Paul's Church, amidst the ringing of bells and firing of cannon." The Journal Francfort of the Ist inst. says— " The Preliminary Assembly for the establishment of a National Parliament commenced its work yesterday. The Assembly declared itself competent to establish a constituent assembly; they resolved to admit and effec tuate the incorporation of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, as well as the western and eastern pro vinces of Prussia, into the Germanic Confederation, and declared for the re-establishment of Poland. The As sembly also decided that the number of Dep , ties should be 1 to every 50,000." BAVARIA. A Munich correspondent of the Deutsche Zeitung says, on the subject of the invasion of revolutionary labourers, that the Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Count WALDHIRCH, stated in the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies, that M. DE LAMARTINE had some time ago informed the Bavarian Legation at Paris of pre parations made by 6,000 German workmen to invade the country, and that measures of defence had conse quently been taken. The Deutsche Zeitung adds— " French diplomacy never changes; it was the same under the Empire, under the Restoration, under Lours PHILIPPE, and under the Republic. While MATERAVEGU'S band fancied themselves applauded and assisted by the Provisional Government, we find the same Government informing the Belgian and Bavarian authorities of the impending danger." LOLA MONTES, whe is at Berne, talks of pur chasing a country house at Vevey, where she ex pects King Louis will join her. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. The Bremen Zeitungen from the 29th of March to the Ist of April are filled with details of the insur rectionary movements in Schleswig and Holstein, and the military preparations of the Danes. Almost all the towns in the Duchies are up and arming ; some of their corps have actually marched to the frontiers to repulse the Danish invasion, while the Danes, in their turn, are not less ',eager to have re course to arms. The corps of German republicans of Paris are said to have resolved to hasten to the rescue of Holstein. The Carlsruhe Gazette, which brings this news, thinks t hat.their trajet from Paris to Ham burgh might be effezted in 48 hours. HANOVER. The Deputies to the Assembly of States of Hanover have published a document containing their pro gramme for the present session of the Assembly. They pledge themselves to vote for a re-construction of the constitution on the basis of the principles ex pressed in the Ministerial programme, and for the abolition of all privileges of the nobility, and, con sequently, the abolition of the Upper Chamber of the Assembly. And if they are not strong enough to carry these points, they will move for the dissolution of their body, and the convocation of a constituent National Assembly. ITALY. VENICE. The news of the proclamation of a republic at Venice is confirmed. The whole of the Austrian garrison has been sent to Trieste. The republic was proclaimed on the 23d. The following are the names of the Provisional Government of Venice : " Daniele Manin, President ; Nicolas Tommaseo, Foreign Affairs; Antoine Paoulucci, Marine; Jacopo Castelli, Justice; General Francois Solera, War; Pietro Paleocopa, Public Works ; Francesco Camerata, Finances ; Israelite Leon Pirscherle, Interior." PA RMA. We have received accounts from Parma of the 28th instant. The Duke of PARMA. has been restored to his throne, and has given a constitution to his sub jects. He has thereby acquired a high degree of popularity. The parties which wished to join Pied mont, and those who wished to join the Fora, are not quite satisfied. LOMBARD Y AND PIEDMONT. The Risorgimento of Turin, of the 30th ult., an nounces the arrival, in that capital, of Prince EUGENE of . Savoy Carignan, Lieutenant• General of the Kingdom. A large body of Austrian troops having stationed themselves between Lodi, Soresina, Arzi novi, &c., a few engineers left Milan on the 27th, and cut the dykes of the Oglie, so that in less than two hours the Austrians found themselves during the night knee-deep in water, and had to surrender with out striking a blow. The Austrian arms of the Embassy and the Consulate at Florence and Leghorn were pulled down by the people on receiving the news from Milan. MaEsa and Carrara, Fivvizzano, Garfagnana, Pontremoli, and Val di Zera have all proclaimed the Tuscan Constitution. At Cremona, 600 hulans from Piacenza were attacked by the citizens, and surrendered on condi tion of giving up their horses and cannon, and being escorted to the frontier. The Milanese have pub lished a Latin proclamation to the Hungarians, de claring that their cause is the same as that of the The last accounts from Milan of the 29th ult. act nounce that RADKTZKY was at about a mile from Brescia with 14,000 to 15,000 men. Count BoLzA is under prosecution at Milan, and the preliminary examinations have already revealed most important facts, which will be published shortly. The Provisional Government of Milan has issued the following decrees :-1. Proroguing the payment of bills of exchange by fifteen days. 2. Declaring that no payment shall be received in Austrian bank notes at the public offices. 3. Recommending inn keepers to receive people at any time of the day, and to be moderate in their charges. 4. Declaring enemies to the country all those who spread lists of persons suspected of having been spies of the late Government. 5. Prohibiting citizens from forcibly entering houses to arrest suspected persons, unless formally autho rised for the purpose by the Provisional Government. The following proclamation was published by Count RADETZYT, at Crema, on the 25th ult. : " The events of Milan and other towns have induced me to concentrate my forces, and to draw nearer to the focus of my military operations and of my resources. The peaceful inhabitants have nothing to dread, and will meet with protection for their persons and property ; they are warned, however, not to offer any opposition to the march of the imperial and royal troops. I shall cause the severest discipline to be observed; whoever is taken with arms in his hands shall be judged by a military commission, and, upon conviction, be immediately shot. The tried fidelity of the army I command, and the numerous troops that compose it, will answer for the fulfilment of my present declarations." A letter from Trieste states that, on the receipt there of the news from Venice, the Governor made an appeal to the loyalty of the people to the Em peror of AUSTRIA, and that it was responded to by the cries of " Long live the Emperor and the Constitution." A Provisional Government is organized at Pavia, under the Presidency of M. CALCAGNI. A letter ,from Genoa, i❑ the Lega lialiana, dated the 26th ult., says— " The day before yesterday the Neapolitan General Pepe, who made himself so celebrated in the revolution of 1821, landed here from France. As there was a public parade, all the Geonese National Guards went and passed in rank and file before the windows of the hotel in which he lodged. Yesterday he embarked for Naples, with the intent of urging the new Ministers, nearly all of whom are his personal friends, to send im mediately a corps of Neapolitan troops to Venice in the twelve steamers belonging to the Government." The Patria of the 26th publishes in a supplement a letter from Reggio of the 24th, announcing that the Piedmontese had attacked the Austrians at Pla centia and defeated them with a loss to the Austrians of 6,000 men. ROME. The Gazelle di Roma publishes a decree by the Minister of War, directing that a corps of operatien shall be formed of four regiments of infantry, two of cavalry, three batteries of field artillery, a company of artificers, detached from the corps of artillery, and two companies of engineers. Foreign troops in the service of his HOLINESS are to be joined with the army of operation. The administrative section of the Council of State has been charged with the careful preparation of the electoral law, according to article 54 of the New Fundamental Statute, as also, a provisional law for the Council of State, in acco.•dance with articles 52 and 53 of the said Statute. The POPE is daily engaged in presiding at the Mi nisterial Council table. The Gazzetta has the following significant an nouncement :—" Captain LOPEZ has been charged with a special mission to Naples, for the purpose of obtaining arms and ammunition." T Y R 0 L. It is said that an insurrection has broken out in Tyrol, but the report is not generally credited. TIIE COAL TRADE AT WIIITENAVEN.—We re gret to announce that some of the pits at and in the neighbourhood of Whitehaven are closed for the present on account of the inactive state of the coal market. Vast quantities of that useful commodity are lying on the banks, waiting only for orders for shipment.—CilKsk Journal. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 4.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W light breeze, and fine clear sultry weather. DEAL, APRIL 3.—Wind A.M. N.E., P.M. S. to S.E.— Arrd. Sophia Elizabeth, Jorgen, Rio Janeiro ; Louisa, Moldenhauer, Surinam. Arrived from the River, Tasket, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; Asia, Quebec. Arrived from the River and sailed Mary, Bayley, Rio Janeiro. OFF BEACHY HEAD. —Richard Cobden, Bailer, New Orleans, for Bremen. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3.—Wind S.S.E.—SId. Media tor, New York. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 2.—Sid. Vittoria, Quebec. 3d, Tagus steamer, Constantinople. PLymorrm.—Sld. Nestor, Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, APRIL 3.—Wind E.—Acrd. Lady Hunt ley, Charleston. GLOUCESTER, APRIL 3.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Collins, Quebec; Ireland, ditto. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 3.—Wind S.—Arrd. Camilla, Young, Demerara; John Currier, Knapp, New Orleans; Pursuit, Williams, New Orleans; John R. Skiddy, Lucy, New York, sld. 15th ult.; Funcheon, New Orleans. Sld. Persia, Bombay; William Drowse, Bombay; Sarah Sands steamer, New York; Prince Royal, New York; John, Quebec; Sir R. Jackson, Montreal; Montezuma, Montreal; Hope, Newfoundland. Off port, Salim, --; Prima Donna, --. The Carysfurt, of Wicklow, has been got off the rocks with serious damage; cargo saved in a damaged state. HOLYHEAD, APRIL I.—The smack John and Eliza struck on a sunken rock inside the Middle Mouse, and went down in the Bay this morning; crew saved. BRISTOL, APRIL 2.—A bark, waterlogged, with main and mizen masts standing, blue sides, nine ports on each side, female bust head, with upper part of stern frame gone, chain cable and large warp on deck and gaff along side, was passed 23d ult., in lat. 43 N., lon. 11 W , by the Content, Hannaford, arrived here. POOLE, APRIL I.—Sid. Findon, Quebec. TORQUAY, APRIL 2.—Sld. Margaret , Quebec. OFF THE START, MARCH 31.—Brothers, Charleston. for Havre; Oriental, Taylor, Bombay; Victoria, D'Eng mann, Bahia for Hamburgh ; Jorgen Beck, List Charle ston; Trio and Saffron, Bahia, both for Stettin; Sophia Elizabeth, Jorden, Rio Janeiro for Hamburgb. GUERNSEY, MARCH 30.—S1d. Alarm, Azores. April 1. Lily, Azores. OFF SCILLY, MARCH 29.—Katherine Stewart Forbes, White, Bombay; Swea, Lofgren, Porto Rico for Ham burgh. CORE, APRIL I.—Sld. Pero, St. John's, New Brunswick. LONDONDERRY, MARCH 31.—S1d. John Kerr, Phila delphia; James Titcombe, New York. BELFAST, MARCH 31.—S1d. Eagle, Quebec. PETERHEAD, APRIL I.—Joseph Green, Davis' Straits. SWANSEA, APRIL 3.—Arrd. Auricula, Hogg, Cuba. SHIELDII, APRIL I.—Sld. Patriot, Quebec; Robert and Ann, ditto; John and Hannah, ditto; Theron, Riotigouche; Douglas, Boston. 2, Ulverstone (of Leith). 3d, Wm. Wallis, Montreal; Romulus, Almeria. HULL, MARCH 31.—S1d. Argyle, Quebec. LONGHOPE, MARCH 25.—Sid. Chieftain, Davis' Straits; Regalia, ditto. 26, True Love, ditto. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NAY 11TAIIKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2115 s to 31 15s; Clover, ditto, 31 15s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 112 s to 1183 per load. A fall average supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 15s to 41 12s; and Straw, 11 4s to 1/ Ss per load. Supply moderately good, and trade dull. WIIITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 14s to 31 15s; Clover ditto, 31 15s to 41 16s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 118 s per load. Trade dull. at the above quotations. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is quiet, only 180 hhds having been sold at a decline of 6d per cwt. The public sales have comprised 9,000 bags Mauritius, 1,500 bags Bengal, and 1,000 bags Penang. The Mauritius was only about one-half realised at easier rates, brown at 31s to 355, grey and yellow at 35s 6d to 39s 6d; Bengal brought 37s 6d to 42s for low to fine white ; but Penang was taken in at 29s to 35s for low to fine brown. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 667 hhds 29 tierces Si barrels. There were taken for home con .sumption 913 hhds 66 tierces 120 barrels. The stock in the same place is 9,560 hhds 1,018 tierces 1,785 barrels. COFFEE.-1,61 6 bags 50 casks plantation Ceylon was partially disposed of, at the full previous currency. Run.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 365 puns 80 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 197 puns 30 hhds, and ex ported 150 puns 6 hhds. The stock in the same places is 12,143 puns 2,756 hhds. _ _ RICE.-440 bags Penang sold at 6s 6d to lOs for ord cargo to good mid white, being Gd to is lower. SALTPETRE.-899 bags Bengal at auction brought rather higher prices, viz., 32s 6d to 35s for 17i to 21 per cent: refraction; one lot sold at 35s 6d per cwt. SPICES.-610 bags Black Pepper, 81 bags White, 283 bags Pimento. 9 cases Mace, and 25 cases Nut megs have been offered by auction ; the Pepper sold without alteration, Black at 2d to 28d for ord dusty; Penang at 2id for fair sifted Eastern; and White at 4id to 4id per lb; Pimento sold at a decline of id to -id, chiefly at 3id to 3jd; Mace at 2s 5d to 2s 6d, and Nut megs at 2s 5d to 2s lld per lb, being about the value. Tonecco.—There was great disinclination to pur chase by the trade last month, and sales, in consequence, were in most instances limited; recent events on the Continent have seriously contracted most operations, and export business which was previously gradually im proving has a!most entirely ceased; prices for most de scriptions have, nevertheless, been supported, and may be considered steady. Saks may be estimated at 920 hhds ; imports, 29 hhds ; deliveries, 969 hhds, against 916 hhds in the corresponding month of 1847. Stock, 29,548 hhds, against 30,970 hhds in 1847. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 52s 6d to 52s 9d per cwt on the spot, and Town 545. TEA.—The market is quiet ; deliveries good. COAL MARKE' Carr's Hartley Davison'sWestliartley 14s 6d Holywell Main North Pontop . 123 6d New Tandeld l3s Od Ord's Redheugh Walker's Primrose Wylam West Wylam Eden Main l6s NI '. -YESTERDAY. Lambton Russell's llettoa Shotten Hartlepool Hudson's Hartlepool l6s Od lleugh llail Thernley South Durham I Cowpea Hartley Ships at market 47 Wall's End, &c. Hato' ... l7s 03 CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Charles Watson, aged 22, pleaded Guilty to stealing a carpet bag from a carrier's cart in Cheapside, which, with the contents, was valued at 51. ss. The prisoner was not known to the police. Ile was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour in the House of Correction. James May, aged 24, a trimmer employed in the foundry of Sir John Rennie and Mr. John Rennie, jun., in Holland- street, Blackfriars, was indicted for stealing, on the evening of the Bth of March, 361bs. of metal, value 305., and a piece of copper pipe, value Is. 4d. Ile was stopred with the metal upon him. The prisoner, who received a good character from persons who had known him for many years, said this was his first offence, and that he could not account for its commission. _ _ _ The case was clearly proved, and the jury found him Guilty. It seemed, from the statement of the fireman, that metal had been frequently missed of late, but that no suspicion had previously attached to the prisoner. His wages were 12s. a week, and he was a married man. More than 300 were employed by the firm. The RECORDER said in consequence of the good character the prisoner had received, he should have felt disposed to pass a more lenient sentence than the one he was about to pronounce; but where a large number of men were employed, each of whom might be unjustly suspected, and where a foreman was accountable for the quantity of metal in his possession, it was incumbent upon him to make an example. Tho sentence was that he be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six months, and kept at hard labour. Thomas Myers, a young man, was indicted for stealing, on the 26th of February last, several brass articles of the value of 21. 3s. from the window of Mr. Knight, a plumber, in Rotherhithe. The prisoner and another youth were seen by a boy to break a pane of glass in the shop window, to purloin the articles in question, and to run away. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour. N E 1V COURT. (Before the COMMON SZRGRANT and Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER.) The Court was occupied the whole morning with Mint prosecutions, none of which possessed any circum stances of the slightest interest. SOUTHWARK.. -(THIS DAY.) In the course of the morning, several respectable shop keepers, residing in the district of this Court, attended for the purpose of being sworn in as special constables, to preserve the peace on Monday next , in consequence of the Chartistmeeting on Kennington Common. ELECTION COMMITTEE. (TIIIS DAY.) BODMIN. The Bodmin Election Committee re-assembled this morning; Mr. Hamilton in the chair. At the sitting of the Committee some laughter was excited by an announcement on the part of Sir Edward Faliner, that he had received a note from an individual named Dighton, stating that he had taken a pen-and.ink likeness of him as he appeared in the Committee, and requesting the favour of a " short sitting." The other members of the Committee and the Counsel had received similar notes. The price asked was two guineas each. The Committee proceeded with the petition, and the whole of the morning was taken up with evidence of treating. GLASGOW, APRIL I.—The price of Scotch pig-iron delivered here may be quoted to-day at 424. 6d. for No. 1, and 425. for No. 3, per ton, cash, in fourteen days. Our Iron market has manifested a gloomier aspect this week than it has done for a considerable time past. The unsettled state of continental affairs continues to mar exports and keep the market depressed. houses on the continent who bought largely last year, for shipment, this spring have instructed their agents here to delay shipping, and in some instances to :sell their contracts. These circumstances depress prices and prevent buyers from operating unless from immediate wants. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. (THIS DAY.) This great Convention, to which delegates are sum moned from all parts of the empire, met to-day for the first time, for business, in the Literary and Scientific Institution, John-street, Fitzroy-square. The number of delegates returned for the convention is 49, the object in limiting the number being to keep this political meeting within the provisions of the Con vention Act. At half past ten o'clock Mr. FRANCIS moved and Mr. GRANT seconded a proposition that Mr. M'Grath, presi dent of the association, take the chair; which having been carried, Mr. M'Grath took the chair accordingly. Mr. Christopher Doyle was elected secretary to the convention. The delegates then proceeded to deliver in their credentials. A discussion arose on a question put by Mr. C 01171.7 with respect to Mr. Bronterre O'Brien's claims as a Chartist. Mr. BRONTERRE O'BRIEN said, that as his name bad given rise to the discussion, he would at once say that if he imagined that this convention only represented that section of Chartists presided over by Mr. Feargus O'Connor he should mot have attended at all. He re presented the people, and only as a delegate elected by them did he sit there. _ Mr. REYNOLDS said he was a member of the Chartist Association. His opinions, however, went beyond the Charter. Ho was a republican, and had advocated these oponions in all his writings. Here Mr. Feargus O'Connor entered the room, and was loudly cheered. Mr. CUPFAY objected to the election of any delegates from places not contemplated in the plan determined upon by the Association. Mr. WHEELER thought that these questions ought to be submitted to a committee. Mr. FEARGUS O'CoNzfon seconded the proposition. Several delegates expressed an opinion that if they in creased the number of delegates from London, it would be doing a gross injustice to other places which were at present altogether unrepresented. The question was put that a committee, consisting of five members, be appointed to take disputed matters into coasideration. The resolution was carried, and a committee consisting of Mr. Leach, Mr. Fussell, Mr. West, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Cuffay was appointed. Mr. O'CoNiioß explained that any delegate had a right to move an instruction to the committee. Mr. B. O'Barezi: moved as an instruction to the com mittee, that all delegates, whether members of the executive or not, should be permitted to vote. Mr. REYNOLDS seconded the resolution, which was opposed by Mr. Julian Harney, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Er nest Jones, and other delegates. _ _ Mr. F. O'CoNNon trusted that he would be forgiven if he interrupted the discussion for a moment. He had that instant received a letter from Mr. Thomas Dun combe, M.P., informing him that he looked with the greatest interest to their proceedings ; that he was gra tified with the progress Chartism was making; and that, as his health was daily improving, he hoped, before the end of another month, to be able to attend to his public duties.—(Loud cheers.) The question having been put to the vote, the resolu tion proposed by Mr. West, that members of the exe cutive be allowed to sit and vote, was carried by a great majority. The Conference then adjourned till two o'clock. CATHOLIC POOR SCHOOLS. (THIS DAY.) A public meeting of the Catholics of the London Dis trict was this day held at No. 16, Great Windmill street, Haymarket, to promote the interests of the Ca• tholic Poor School Committee, to whose care the vicars apostolic of England and Wales had committed the cause of education of poor Catholic children. The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by the Rey. Dr. Wiseman. A considerable number of other Ca tholic clergymen were present, and took part in the pro ceedings of the meeting. The - Rev. Chairman - having stated the objects of the meeting, The Rev. Dr. MORRIS moved, and Mr. BARNEWRLL seconded the first resolution. " That the bishops having entrusted to the Catholic Poor School Committee' the important and sacred duty of providing aid for the education of the poor, it is in cumbent upon all who have this object at heart to co operate to the utmost with that body, in carrying it out as effectually as possible; and that as no place in Eng land stands more in need of additional aid and efforts for promoting education among the poor than this me tropolis, in which it appears from the authentic returns collected and prepared by our Right Rev. Chairman, that there are at present at least 15,000 children of both sexes wanting Catholic education, it behoves the Ca tholics of London more than others to exert themselves in this holy cause, and to organize, as quietly as pos sible, the most efficacious plans for collecting funds, to be placed at the disposal of the committee for the pur pose." _ _ Other resolutions of a similar nature, inviting the co-operation of Catholics and organizing the means of carrying out the recommendation of the resolution, were also agreed to. After which the meeting broke up. THE GERMAN'S FATHERLAND. What is the German's Fatherland? Is't Prussian land? Is't Suabian land? Is't on the Rhine, the rich vine's borne? Is it the Belt, where sea-mews roam? 0 nay, 0 nay, 0 nay! His Fatherland must greater be! What is the German's Fatherland? Is't Styrian land? Bavarian land? Is't where the iron mines are found? Is it the moors where herds abound? O nay, 0 nay, 0 nay! His Fatherland must greater be! What is the German's Fatherland? Is't Pom'ran' or Westphalian land? Is it where sand-hills guard the shores? Is't where the rapid Danube roars? 0 nay, 0 nay, 0 nay! His Fatherland must greater be! What is the German's Fatherland? Name now to me that mighty land! Is it llElvetia? Is't Tyrol? I love those lands and people well! O nay, 0 nay, 0 nay! His Fatherland must greater be! What is the German's Fatherland? Name now to me that mighty land! Surely it must Austria be, In honour rich, and victory! 0 nay, 0 nay, 0 nay! Ills Fatherland must greater be! What is the German's Fatherland? Name now to me that mighty land! Is it what Princes, by deceit, Fileh'd from Empire and from State? 0 nay, 0 nay, 0 nay! His Fatherland must greater be! What is the German's Fatherland? Name, then, at last that mighty land! Where e'er is heard the German tongue, Wherever German hymns are sung! This shall it be, This, gallant Germans, shall it be! This is the German's Fatherland, Where clasped hands for sworn oaths stand, Where pure truth glances from the eyes, And faithful love, in warm hearts, lies. This shall it be, This, gallant Germans, shall it be! This is the German's Fatherland, Where true worth finds a friendly band, Where foreign toys no favour know, And a criminal 's deemed a foe— This shall it be, The wide-spr ea d land of Germany! • The wide-spread land of Germany, 0 God! from heaven look down and see. To all true German hearts now give, That we may love it while we live. This shall it be, • The whole of wide-spread Germany! J. J-, Bridport. THE SPECIAL CONSTABLES AND 111 INTENDID MONSTER MEETING ON KENNINGTON COXMOic—In consequence of the Chartists having announced a mon ster meeting to take place on Kennington-common on Monday and Tuesday next, the commissioners of police them have forwarded circulars to nearly all the householdersl Southwark, Newington, and the ad jacenti , B c e a r l m lin o g nd u sy, empeon to assist the police in protecting property and preventing brea c h es o f th e iou parishes, peace on those occasions. The call has been warmly responded to, as almost every householder and re spectable workman have given their intimation of at .. tending before the magistrates to be sworn in as special constables. Nearly 200 attended at Southwark Police.. court yesterday, and had the oath administered to them, and warrants handed to them signed by the magistrate. fil liTllB. On the 31st ult., at Wandsworth, the wife of Arthur Byer, Esq., of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Gresham-place, Dalaton, Mrs. F. W. Price, of a daughter. On the I st inst., at Porteus-road, Maida-hill, the lady of Dr. Westmacott, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Turvey, Beds, the lady of Hary Thorn ton, Esq., of a daughter. On the let inst., in Portland-place, Islington, the wife of Mr. Andrew Forbes, of a son. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at St. Mary's Church, Pembroke, W. Crofton, Esq., R.N., to Frances Emilia, only daughter of Captain 11. James C. Dunn, Royal Navy. DIED. On the 31st ult., at Pelham -crescent, Brompton, Madam• Guizot, aged 84. On the i '2th ult., in Chester, Edward Hogg, Esq., M.D. On the 18th ult., at Pisa, the lion. Heater, wife of Sir G. W. Crawfurd, Bart. On the 27th ult., at St. John's-wood, Mrs. Elizabeth Bush, relict of the late Lieutenant G. Bush, R.N. On the 2ilth ult., at Tewkesbury, Thomas Vernon, Esq. On the 25th ult., at Lauriston louse, Edinburgh, Mrs. Vans Agnew, sen., aged 87. On the 31st ult., Mr. William Rushy, of the Ship Tavern, Water-lane, Tower-street, aged 61. On the Ist inst., at Inverness-road, Bayswater, Ophelia, relict of George Cooper Burnand, Esq. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, iu the county 40 hlidd 1 ese x , Tuesday, April 4, 1848.