The Sun. — London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

TO THE SECRETARY OF T HE BRADFORD REFORM Sir,—On Wednesday , th e sth, as S ) the motion for the second reading of the Outgoing of all the previous arguments.g Tenants (Ireland) Bill. It was suppor ted B by the r ut the times are unfavourable to interf erence between the owners of capital and the us ers ; Louis Blanc has for the present put a stop to the march of experiment in that direction. The feel ing was made apparent by a majority against the Bill, of 145 to 22. On Thursday Mr. Feargus O'Connor presented a petition from 49 delegates (50 being stated to be un lawful), professing to represent five millions of per sons, praying for the liberation of Frost, Williams, and Jones. The Attorney-General demurred to its reception till he could look into precedents; which was agreed to. After a little intervening business, SirJ. Walsh rose and asked the Government a series of questions on the subject of the intended meeting of Chartists on Kennington Common, in the style so well understood by political tacticians when a fire is not to be allowed the chance of going out for want of stirring. The Government replied in a tone of moderation, that they had been advised the meeting and procession were illegal, and a declaration to that effect would be out in half an hour. Mr. O'Connor appealed to pre cedents, where similar demonstrations had not been opposed ; and Mr. Hume intimated that unnecessary evil might be the result of interference. With which the subject for the time was dropped. After a question had been asked on another subject (Mortality in Ireland) and answered by Sir W. Somerville, the Secretary of State for the Home De partment rose and gave notice, that on the following day (Friday), before the other orders of the day, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill fJr the better security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom. Of course there were expressions of ap probation from some quarters, but nothing like what is understood by " prolonged cheering," as given out in some of the public prints. Cool-headed men were probably engaged in ominous reflections, on the velo city with which mischief makes head when all par. ties combine to send the ball aloft. Contrary to the expectation of the mover, Mr. Feargus O'Connor's motion for an address to the Queen for the liberation of the individuals named, came on in the course of the evening. It is impossible to deny that their counsel exerted himself ably and well. With the exception of the points unfavourable to his success, for which it is probable he was not respon sible, there was nothing which could irritate any party, or which would not have been approved by an experienced practitioner bent on doing his best for the cause in his hands. The Government answered with mildness and self-possession ; though an effort was made by an ex-Solicitor-General to give the House a taste of what such officers had been, and might be again. An admission was virtually discern• ible, that the case must at some time be looked into ; and on the whole a fair stand was made on the side of conciliation and clemency, though the numerical stren4th of its supporters was on division only 23 against 91. On Friday, the Secretary of State fur the Home Department moved to bring in his Bill for the better security of the Crown and Government. There are tokens of genius in it ; and with the omission of half a dozen words, it might have been good. It begins with cutting the Act of 36 Geo. 111. into two parts. The first which relates to offences against the per son of the Sovereign, it loaves unaltered, and extends by name to Ireland ; on which last point it appears there were some technical doubts. The other part, which relates to such as shall " compass, imagine, invent, devise or intend to de prive or depose &c.," or "to levy war within this realm, in order by force or constraint to compel &c.," or " in order to put any force or constraint upor, or to intinlidate or to overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade this realm or any other of his Majesty's dominions &c.," and " such compassings, irlaginations, inventions, devices or in tentions, or any of them, shall express, utter or declare, by publishing any printing or writine, or by any overt act or deed," it first repeals, and then reenacts in the san.e words with trivial variations to suit the• time, but changing the punishment from "suffering pains of death, and also losing and forfeit ing as in cases of high treason," to " being deemed guilty of felony, and every person so offending, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to he transported beyond the seas for the term of his or her natural life, or for any term not less than seven years." This might be well, if this were all. There appears no reason why Ireland should have any monopoly of treason; and there was genius in repealing the capital punishment of a number of not very distinct offences, and thereby multiplying the chances of their practical sup:,r4ssion. . But there are precisely six words which mar the general effect. After the words "by any printing or writing" in the old Act, are introduced in the new one the words "or by open and advised speaking." Here then are all men triaf!e transportable for words, at the discretion of their neighbours who may hold a contrary opinion. For what is "open and advised speaking ?" Who are the men that say an) thing which is not open and advised ? Every man there fore, is to be transportable for saying anything for which a jury, in all times and seasons, can be got to ccnvict. It is a sad reversion to the time, when a passionate man was executed for wishing a deer's horns in the king's belly ; for it is presumable that in that instance, too, a jury was found to convict. The case is made woree by a succeeding paragraph on the punishment of necessaries ; which, though possibly nothing but what is common to all cases of necessaries, throws light on the dangers from the whole. Is every chairman of a public meeting, and every man who may have put his name to a requisi tion to call it, to be an accessary before the fact, to all that may be said amiss by any of the two or three thousand who may be present ? There will he a wonderful harvest of accessaries before the fact, if this should be discovered to be the law. The motion fur bringing in the Bill was carried by 283 against 24. It was an error in the leaders of the opposition, to divide against bringing in the Bill ; because n any of their friends disliked voting against leave to bring in a Bill of which the contents were imperfectly known, and it was consequently display ing their party in a needlessly small minority. The Government also were imprudent in their declaration afterwards, that if the Bill was read a second time on Monday it s h ou ld he committed the same evening. It was reviving the recollection of the Tory times, when " breathl ess h aste " was the order of the day the; whe severities never anyth of in th g e law was increasing I be d one towards I am, Sir, your obedient servant T. PERRONET THOMYSON. Blackheath, London, April 10, 1848. COURT CIRCULAR, The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by t h e Prince of Wales and the Prin cess Royal, left Bucki ng . ham Palace in a carriage and f our , at twenty past ten o'clock on Saturday mornin g for herMZnesfitt;'ss marine residence, Oaboine, Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted to their carriage by the Hon. Miss Kerr, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness, Lord Waterpark, Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, Colonel Wylde, and the lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. Four royal carriages and tour followed, conveyin g their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Infant Princess, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Viscountess Cannieg (Lady in Waiting). Hon. Eleanor Stanley (Maid of Honour in Waiting), Lord George Lennox (Lord in Waiting to the Prince), the Master of the Household, Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal). Equerry in Wait ing, and Colonel Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert. The august party was escorted from the Palace by a party of Light Dragoons to the terminus of the Loudon and South -Western Railway, at Nine elms, and left by a special train for Gosport. tier R ma . 3esty opal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited h er and Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace, pre vious to their departure on Saturday morning _ ----------- Her Roy a l H ighness the Duchess of Gloucester the Duke and Duchess of Carnbrioge yesterday, lie r , Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent visited their Royal Highnesses on Saturday, at Cambridge House. Their Royal Highnensos the Duchess of Cambridge end the Princess Mary, attend, d Divine serviceester day morning, i n St. Mirth a el'a Ch urch. y Her Royal Highness the Duches s of Kent, a t ten d e d Lady August a B ruce, Sir fleurge Co oper, and Lordy jeJames Murray, h onoured the performance at her M. sty'i Theatr e , on Saturday evening, with he er Inesence. Russ A Cabinet Cincil Wa s h e ld on Saturday, at the po reign a, •otlica. the Lord M C The ihancello rnisters present were—Lord John , the Marquis ul Earls downy, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl uf Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. IL Lab , :uchere, the Marquis of Cl %nricarde Viscount .M ore st l , anti the tun Right H un. ' l ' . B. Macaulay. The Df Wellig , Comtnand,-r in. Chief, and his secretary, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, after view military wards arrived at the Foreign. office, and had an inter view with the Ministers. Tire Council sat three loair s Thc Cabinet Ministers again met in deliberation yes terdaT. Tne L , •rd Uaynr had an interview with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office, on Saturday, and also vi,ited the Earl of Auckland at the Admiralty. Yesterday the Lord Mayor attended at the office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Marquis of Salisbury had an interview on Satur day with Sir George Grey. The Attorney-General attend( d at the Home Office yesterday, and on Saturday. The Principal civil and military authorities of the metropolis also attended on Saturday and yesterday at the Home Office. Captain Mangles Denham, RN., F.R.S., had inter views on Saturday with Lord Auckland, at ►h• Adtnirtlty. and the Right Hon. H. Labonehere, at the Board of Trade, to explain his plan for steering a ship when on fire abaft, or i❑ the event of twisting th.:t rudder hca 1, or breaking the tiller short off in a gale of wind. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, the Lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the Communion Service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Archbishop of York. The anthem was " 0 sing unto God" (Greene). Sir George Smart presided at ;he organ. The Dukes of Beaufort and Leeds, the Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis of Anglesey, Ladies Jersey, St. Germaine, and Palmerston, were among the nobility present. THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING. The British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Harrison, arrived here this afternoon, with 46 passengers, 4,000/. in specie on freight, and the semi. monthly mails from Canada and the United States. The Cambria sailed from New York on the 25th ult., and Halifax on the 28th. Her news is therefore nine days later than that brought by the Fidelia. The United States steamer Herman, from New York to Bremen, put into Halifax, with machinery damaged, on the 28th ult. The Caledonia was at Halifax on the 26th ult. By the arrival of the Cambria we are in possession of files of papers from New York, Philadelphia, Bal timore, Boston, Washington, Montreal, and Halifax, which contain intelligence of much interest. Fol lowing the subjects in the order of their importance, we shall first notice the effect produced by the Cam bria's news, which took out accounts of the French Revolutiou. The Cambria sailed from Liverpool for New York on the 26th February, and carried out the first inti• mation of the Revolution in France, the abdication of Louis Philippe, and the formation of a republic in that country. From a continued series of opposing gales, her voyage was exceedingly protracted, and she did not reach New York until the 18th, and no sooner was it known that the Orleans dynasty had fallen, the monarchy of France abruptly brought to an end, and a Provisional Government declared, than the utmost excitement prevailed all over the city. Everywhere the intelligence was received with symptoms of the most unbounded delight, joy, and satisfaction, by all parties and all classes. Public meetings of the most enthusiastic and ex citing character have been held in New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, to congratulate the French on their victory. It one of the many assemblages convened for that purpose, one held at New York was rather singular fur its enthusiasm, and manifested an unusual degree of zeal without discretion. A Colonel Hart proposed to collect a large sum of money fur the purpose of forwarding Republicanism in Ireland. The gallant colonel said he would keep the in.iney in America, and when the moment for action had arrived, he would send it to Ireland in the shape of brass cannon ! He proposed the collection of a million of dollar s! ! and he was confident it would be realised !I I The report says that " dollars were here handed to the Chairman in great profusion, some giving five, others three, and so on till over one hun dred were collected I" The news also created great sensation in Washing ton, and the matter had been mentioned in Congress. Mr. J. D. Cummings, of Ohio, having asked leave to introduce a resolution in the House of Representa tives, expressive of sympathy with France in her recent revolution in favour of a Republic, objections having been made, leave was not granted. It is said that the Cambria brings fresh instructions to the Ministers in London and Paris, in order to meet the new position of things in Europe. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.—The Ten Regiments Bill had at length passed the Senate. That body has appointed a committee to investigate and ascertain the means by which the treaty with Mexico and the secret correspondence recently bee( me public in the, newspapers. The first correspondence with Mr. Buchanan and his department, in relation to the ne gotiation with Mexico, which ended in the recent treaty between Mr. Trist and General Scott, and both these gentlemen and the department, had been laid before Congress and debated. It shows that General Scott and Mr. Trist in the early part of the negotiation entertained no great love or respect for each other ; but that they had become sAorn friends. The Senate had been for two days de bating the propriety of revealing the proceedings of that body on the treaty with closed doors, but had come to no conclusion. It was agreed that an ambassador should be sent from Washington to the Court of Rome, and General Shiels was named for that office. General Cass had proposed in the Senate to raise an additional force, in order to pre pare, if necessary, to force Mexico to accept the terms of the treaty recently passed in that body. The proceedings in the House of Representatives were un important. MEXICAN AFFAIRS.—Later advices from Mexico had been received at New York, from which we learn that there had been more guerilla fighting, the cap ture of the noted chief Jaranta, and the successful issue of every affair in which the American troops had been engaged. Two Mexican schooners had been captured loaded with cocoa and other merch,n dise. Their cargoes were valued at 16,000 dolls. In telligence has been received from Yucatan of some horrible massacres. -... GFNERAL Ns.ws.—The two great parties for the Presidency had organized conventions to meet on the 24th of May and the 7th of June. Mr. Clay's pros pects were well spoken of. It is settled that Mr. Van Buren would be brought forward, but had no chance of success. The ship Oswego, Captain Gar rick, a new vessel, from Liverpool for New York, with cargo and 327 passengers, had been totally lost on the I2th of February, in long. 53.34 W. The passengers were saved, but five of the crew and the second officer were drowned. CANIDA.—The reform party is growing rapidly throughout the provinces. Under the new tariff grain and flour were to be admitted into that country free for exportation. A gold mine was said to have been discovered near Quebec, Canada. Out of the eighteen grand jurors for Montreal, ten make their mark—they mu l e ' cannot write. hhecnhews of a commercial nature does not exhibit from ange from our last report. The intelligence Prance had produced markets, Which were dull. Prices of domestic especially the case - pro duce were dull, no sensible effect on the denisnd limited ; this was more in respect to flour. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, C° YENT•GARDEN.--iier Maje,ty' s b ox was occupied on Saturday evening by the Countess of Jersey, Lady Clement in e Villiers , and Lord f i l w an ch o e v s e s ri p a n ow N a l g in er is o te f r iie t d he ior N d l ,aarnv i Ls and Lady Slalmesbury. there t the itl?itpchhreitiselndu , s the Frttle i r , • o ic r k and It sell, Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lo y td ad nfa a e Lady Lady Ernest Augusta Bruce, ru Gordon, ce , y i s c t o h u e n t E c a a r n l t o u l u peMunster,Viscount N. d e and v I, l, Lady Charlotte Denison, Earl Granville, Lady tree, Lord Brownlow Cecil, Lind Suffield, Lo r d il°t- Lady Compton, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord and d d Lady Mahon, Lord and Lady Colborne, Lord Elphin stone, Lord Ossulston, Lord Hawley, Lord llotharu, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Anson, Lord Chief Justic e Doherty, Mr. Justice James Parke, Sir Compton and Lady Doraville, Sir Bellinghatu and Lady Graham, Sir Henry, Lady, and Miss Tyrwhitt, Lady Clay, and the Miss Temple Bowdoins, Sir John and Lady M•Donald, Sir W. and Lady Moleswortb, Sir Percy Shellep, S.r E. Colebroke, Sir John Edwards, Sir Graham Slontgo. mery, Sir H. Foley, Sir Henry I'aulet, Sir W. P. de Bathe, and Captai n de Bathe, Sir Thomas _ Hare,. Sir A r mitage, Sir 11. Vivian, Sir tArchtbuld George M`Donald, 84c. t of Mr. Vi he, of log Ih'll Farm , in in the employmen u HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.-11,:e . dnesda , y , week a man, . •tated to the groun d, and tailing upon the hay- instrument passeu completely was prec ipi tated the parish of Doynto n, while occu p ied in cutting hay, knife he was using, the through his body. His dea th was instantaneous.—Muth Journal. THE MURDER AT TOULOUSE.—The trial of Louis Bonatous (Fr. i e Leotade) for the murder of Cecile Combettes terminated on the 4 th before the Court of Assiz e o f t h e Haute-Garonne. The prisoner was foun d . 1 guilty. but th e ver di ct was atten d e d with a dt clarettor of extenuating circumstances, and consequ,:ntly he was i labn,,t eoi:o.e:o. tnheedcto death. His sentence is il ll P ris ` ) )- ,1 di t to r life with hard labour, to stand on the pillory, his se ntenc,i t tr, 6 I , „, id of ut ilisnitesting any emotion. .1 ce establishment of t e lre d f eta. of the prosecution. Leotade heard the Tribunal announced that it would decide upon the the jury. The argurar'. fixed to be heard in a w e ek , action for damages against the res without the intervention of ARRANGEMEN T OP TU R C of counsel on this part were (13::Z3:s ° N in T h v ei l r lo p u re sE se o n e t I TTER-ROOMS IN TIIE These rooms nre, perhaps, we may as well, while they scarcel yopen to criticism ; but b t o T h e p l psi t e d to suggestre ndering that, in finishing them, attention shaouudldi 12 which they will them well adapted for the often contain. At present, with reverberation of sound in them oft tizrlers the loudest e, kard walls, the and clearest speakers inaudible.— loet t if) 37*.11114'4' t• -tlO4l t,"N G Pl SE . "P 7! 9Ch • KENNINGTON COMMON. About ball-past two o'clock the waggons which had previously contained the petition and the members of the Convention were drawn off the common and for warded to a livery stable in the neighbourhood. We have been present upon various occasions of contested elections in the borough of Lambeth and elsewhere, and we are most decidedly of opinion tl at the number of persons present on the common did not at any time exceed that which we have seen upon other occasions. It is a matter of congra tulation that the demonstration has ended so peaceably. Too great praise cannot be bestowed upon the autho rities for the manner in which they have carried out their arrangements. There was not a single person connected with the police or military force present upon the occasion to offer the slightest disturbanceorin duce the least provocation. A person on horseback, how ever,:rode several times round the common, and informed the people in the most courteous manner, that immediately upon the meeting breaking up the persons present would be expected to disperse quietly and peaceably. We believe that not a single accicb nt worthy of note took place throughout the whole proceedings. At the conclusion of the meeting on the common it was announced by Mr. E. Jones, from the waggon, that a meeting would be held to night at the South-London Chartist Hal!, is the Lilackfriars-road. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met this afternoon at Five o'clock. ODD FELLOWS AND BENEFIT SOCIETIES. Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions from Odd Fellows' lodges, praying to be admitted to the legal privileges of benefit societies. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was understood to present similar petitions. KENNINGTON COMMON. In answer to a question, The Marquis of LANSI)OWNE said that he was glad to inform the Noble Lord that the proceedings which had so alarmed the public, had been happily put an end to without the interference of the soldiery, indeed, without the appearance of the soldiery being required. He was glad to say that that meeting had been dispersed by the police, and the police alone. The petition which had beet► made the occasion of all this preparation, had been brought quietly across the bridges in cabs, he believed hired for the purpose, azd had, in the other House of Parliament, received that attention which all petitions emanating from the people were entitled to have. Lord BROUGHANI thought some steps ought to be taken to prevent the reeurrence of these meetings, whether in Ireland or in England. He thought that all monster meetings were ill-gal, and he trusted that en deavours would be made to put a stop to them. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that the City of London had, within the last few days, been kept in a state of alarm, which must have told seriously on the trade and commerce of this great city, and occu pation of every man in the metropolis. The present had yet been a short session, yet during its existence the metropolis had been twice alarmed and disturbed from this cause, once already at Kennington-common, and again at Kennington common they had been alarmed with a threat of holding a meeting of 200,000 persons. Now, this number could not be met for the purpose of discussion, and he hoped that measures would be introduced for the pur pose of prevent , ng meetings of such dense numbers for the purpose of discussing questions of policy, because he felt assur,d that the evil to the country, if these were allowed, would be greater than the good to the persons concerned. The Marquis of NORTHANIPTON deprecated the gathering of large crowds in the metropolis, while he at the same time desired to preserve the Lull right of the people to petition. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE passed a merited eulogium upon the police, and assured the House that the middle classes had vied with the well-disposed of her Ms-tjesty's subjects in preserving the peace, while the admirable arrangements of his Noble Friend opposite, although fortunately they were not required to the full extent, bad the effect of overawing the masses that had been assembled. Ile'lliad to give notice, on the part of a Noble Friend, that as he was in the country, he was to postpne naskin ,, any inquiry on the subject of corn law returns till Friday next. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. The House was exceedingly full of Members, an untkual circumstance at so early an hour. THE NATIONAL-PETITION. The national petition, which had been previously brought to tie house in three cabs, lay on the floor at the foot of the table. It consisted of three very large bundles, and was dragged into the House More the Speakt-r had taken the chair, by Mr. Feargus O'Connor, assisted by two strangers. NEW MEMBER. Mr. P. HowaßD took thm oaths and Lis seat for Carlisle. MANCHESTER CEMETERIES. Mr. BROTHERTON moved that it be au instruc tion to the Committee on the Manchester General Cemetery Bill, to entertain the petitions (f purchasers of graves and vaults in the Manchester General Ceme tery, and of subscribers and hotde•rs of shares in the Manchester General Cemetery, notwithstanding that the 5 acne were not presented within the time limited by the standing orders. The motion was opposed by Sir W. HEATIICOTE, and ultimately withdrawn. IIi:NE:AGE'S DIVORCE BILL. This Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS. The following reports were brought up and agreed to:—Sufferance Wharfs (Southwark) Bill, Shrewsbury Market Bill, o:wettry .Markets and Fairs Bill, Leicester Navigation (Sale of Lands on Forest Line) Bill, Wor cester New Gas-light Company (Additional Capital and Amendment) Bill, Morley Gas-light Company Bill, Southampton Gas. light and Coke Company Bill. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from the inhabitants of Brighton, stating that it was the duty of all Governments to protect life and give security to property; to Educate the people, and to make such laws as should provide fur the happiness of the multitude; and the petitioners, therefore, prayed the House to make such alterations it the law that every class in the empire should be fully and fairly represented.—(Hear.) THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, amidst almost breath less silence, said—Sir, I rise to present a petition, signed by 5,760,000 persons ; also another petition, signed by 100,000 persons, whose names are not appended to this large muster. TKe petitioners pray for Annual Parliament., Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Equal Eh-ctoral Distr;.ets, no Property Qualifica:ion, and Pay [Lent of Mem hers. I beg, Sir, to state, that from tho courtesy I have already received from the House, I shall say no more than simply move that the petition be read by the Clerk at the table. The petition waa accordingly read by the Clerk. At the concimion of the reading of the petition, Lord ISIORPETH rose amid much cheering, and said—Sir, icy , flight Honourable Friend the Secre tary of Sato for the Howe Department would have been in his place had he not been greatly occupied the necessary business of his department this morning.— (Hear, hear.) I may, however, in his absence, state that, whatever may b. his opinion of the sentiments contained in ths.t petition, he does not wish that he should be considered by his absence as wanting in that respect which a petition so numerously signed was un doubtedly entitled to.— (Hear, hear.) Ho T u h se e b p y eti t t o i u o r n zv f a t s be th m en ess r e e u m g o e v r e s. d from the floor of the Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from Brad ford in favour of the People's Charter. Nr . W o A i k e Ii B LE i 1 1C f o presented t protectionou fromof the c a r yl e r b o o w n u e against and Governm e nt, an d p ra yi ng her Majesty to dismiss her p resen t a d v i sers. a e better e Mr. lIASTLE presented a petition from Paisley in favour of the People's Charter. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from Carlisle prayin g for a modification of the criminal code. Colonel 111.1 RE presented a petition from Glasgow and other place!:, in favour of the People's Charter. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the delegates of Manchester in favour of the Charter, and praying for the establishment of local boards for the regulation of trade and payment of wag es. X COLONIAL EPENDITURE. Sir W. lIOLESWORTII gave notice that he wouls!, upon an early day, bring before the house the question of the colonial expenditure of the country . BEWDLEY ELECTION. Sir F. lIAX2IER gave notice that he would, upon the moving of the issue of the writ for Bewdley. move the delay of the issue, for the purpose of affording on opportunity of inquiring into the state of the el, ctive fruarchise in that borough. GREAT Y&RNIOUTII DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. Mr. STAFPORD gave notice that upon the second reading of the I ;ill he would move that it be read a second tune that day si x months. TILE CHARTER. Mr. LUSHINGTON gave notice that on Friday next h e wou ld a,l; the Noble Lo; d at the head of the Govern_ the t eliether be would told out any distinct hope that he would, during the present session, introd uce any measure tor the , vxtensiou of the sulTrage—(Hear, hear) — the abridgment of the duration of Parliament, the forma tion ofelector)l districts, and the vote by ballot.--(Hear.) PROTECTIO , N OF CROWN AND GOVERNMENT BILL. Mr. G. THOMPSON gave notice that upon the sceond reading of this Bill, he would move that it be read a second time the t day six months. ME.ASURES FOR IRELAND. Mr. F. PREI , ICEI gave notice that he would briny before the no tice of the Ilcuse the necessity o f repealing the • present penal poor-laws, and adoptin* some measure to prevent the destruction of the pet)= perty of Ireland, in order to provide for the desti-, tution of its Tropic; the necessity of adopting means for the employment of the people, to ,assist coloni zltion to a limited extent; that the medical chart-. ties of the country might be placed upon a different basis, and an adjustment of the claims upon the counties for the re-payment of the moneys advanced to Ireland during the last two years ; and also the exr pediency of making a State provision for the Catholi,l clergy of Ireland. MANUFACTURE OF PIKES (IRELAND). Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL gave notice that he would renew his question, upon Thursday next, upon the pike affairs in Dublin.—(Laughter.) HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. In reply to Mr. URQUHART, Lord MORPETH stated that he feared he would be unable to bring in this Bill on Friday, in consequence of the arisrpzements that had been made for that day. GOVERNMENT COERCION BILL. Mr. HUME presented a petition against this Bill. MARINE MUTINY BILL. This Bill was read a third time. MUTINY BILL. This Bill was also read a third time. CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill being real, Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN said he did not rise for the purpose of entering at length into a discussion on the details of the Bill, because he cared very little about them, and because be saw in it a desire to meet the claims of Ireland rather by coercion than by concession. (Cries of "No, no.") It was on account of that, and not of the technical for mation of the Bill, that he was there in his place to oppose it. He could assure the House, in all solemnity, that this attempt which they were making to coerce the people would prove utterly futile —it was an attempt to indict a whole nation, but it would prove, as he had said, ineffectual.—(Cries of " No, no.") He had a duty to perform, and he should perform it. In 1843, before he joined the Repeal Association, he felt it his duty to make one last appeal to the House for what was then termed justice to Irelaud—namely, a series of measures which were calculated to give satisfaction to the Irish people consistently, at the same time, with the maintenance of the union between the two countries. The House refused that appeal. They had now an opportunity of meeting that demand by granting a separate Legislature—Queen, Lords, and Commons for:lreland. I am here to tell you, said thellen. Gentleman with marked emphasis, that if you do not concede the rights for which the people of Ireland ask, you will have, in the course of the present year, a republic established in Ireland.—(Great surprise and cries of " Oh, oh," and "Order.") Unlike all the Govern. tnents of Europe, the liberal Government of England meet the just demands of a country intimately connected with this—by coercion and prosecution—(Cheers) —and this, too, at a moment when the Foreign Minister was countenancing the efforts of every other people to obtain their freedom. He asked for no other example than that of seicilly, which presented a parallel to Ireland. And what had the Noble Lord said, but that Sicilly was justified in what she had done? Charges had been brought against him, and those with whom he acted in his absence; he was there to answer them on their behalf and on his own—on behalf of his companions in the glorious struggle now going on.—(Roars of laughter.) He was proud to say that their motives were disinter ested.—(Cheers.) Now, with respect to himself, he had been called traitor.—(lmmense and continued cheering.) He was not disloyal to the Queen, but he was disloyal to that House; and if that was treason he was guilty of the offence. As long as he lived it should be his study to overthrow the dominion of this House in Ireland. He unhesitatingly avowed that to be his intention. (The Attorney-General here turned towards Sir G. Grey and Lord John Russell, and entered into animated conversation with them connected apparently with the words of the Hon. Gentleman.) With respect to himself he might undertake to say that no man in Ireland bore a higher public cha racter than he did.—(Cheers and laughter.) He did not deny that there were many entitled to far greater respect, but he believed he was justified in making the statement he had ; but since his election for Limerick he had never any but sincere votes. He challenged any man to state the con trary ; and now that be was to be arraigned as a criminal, he declared to that House that he would glory to receive the most ignominious death that could be inflicted upon him rather than see his country sub jected to the treatment he had seen during the last thirty years of his ilfe. He had not gone to France to seek aid; but if he had wished, he believed he should have come back with a tolerably large muster of troops. —(Laughter.) He only wiahed they had been in France when he was there.—(Laughter.) No, the freedom of Ireland must be won by the courage of her own sons —by Irish courage. It was not his intention to place his country under the protection of foreign bayonets. He went to France, at the revest of a large body of his countrymen, as their delegate, to congratulate the Pro visional Government upon the resent overthrow of a Throne which had long forfeited all claim to the respect of the people. Ile went there for the purpose of offer ing the Provisional Government the congratulations of the people of Ireland for having set an example to Europe which the world had already seen with what effect.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He had no hesitation in declaring that a great amount of sympathy for the people of Ireland prevailed in France, and it should be the business of those with whom be was about t act to encourage that sympathy to the utmost degree, but that sympathy was not confined to France, but it extended itself to every nation and to every enlightened statesman and citizen in Europe. Every enlightened man in the civilised world looked upon Irslaed us England looked upon Poland. Every enlightened man in Europe looked upon the con dition of England, in reference to Ireland, as analogous to that of Russia in reference to Poland.—(llear, hear.) Could the House wonder, then, that Ireland excited so much sympathy in the minds of free and enlightened iudividuals.—(Rear, hear.) He was happy to thiek that a very large amount of aympathy was evinced towards Ireland by the people of this country, and he was not ashamed to declare. although he did not agree with many of the views of the Honourable Member for Nottingham, that it gave him great satisfaction that the majority of the Chartist body felt for the sufferings and were most anxious to aid the cause of the people of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The Chartists, like Ireland, felt that they had been unjustly dealt with by the Parliament of this country, and he was not at all surprised of their availing themselves of a time when Government was involved with Ireland to press their complaints upon that House.—(Hear, hear.) But whether their sym pati:y resulted from policy, or from their generous feelings, he freely accepted it on the part of Ireland. — (Hear, hear.) Now he owned—whether the senti ment be considered legal or not he did not know—that he had been instrumental in asking his country to arm.—(Sensation, and cries of " Order, order.") He conceived that under present circumstances of all coun tries of Europe, it was the duty of every man to obtain possession of arms. — (Oh , oho There was scarcely a nation in Europe which did not make it part of its duty to instruct its citizens in the practice of arms, and he con• ceived it to be the peculiar duty of the people of Ireland to obtain arms, when itwas openly announced by the Government that they intended to crush them, not by arguments, but with the aid of brute force.—(Laughter) Let him remind the Hon. Gentleman of what took place in 1782. It was no crime then for them thus to arm for the protection of their own liberty, and :why, ;let him ask, should they not be psrmitted to do so now ? Was ; it moreover nut necessary that they should be in possession of arms to enable them to preserve order.—(Laughter.) The intentions, however, of the people of Ireland were mis understood, and in order to convince the House of this he would just read the last resolution come to by those with whom he acted.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution was to tho effect that the Narionrl Repeal Association of Ireland denounced as gross calumny the vituperation which had been thrown upon them by the Noble Lord at the Head of the Government as the object of the associati in was only to procure a repara tion from the English Parliament and they thereby declared that they were determined to obtain their national independence if possible. without civil war.—(Laughter.) A national council of 300 representatives was about to assemble in Dublin for the purpose of carrying out the spirit of these resolu tions, and he would recommend the Noble Lord to put himself in communication with that body as soon as possi ble. The Government relied upon what ? Why upon the assistance of spies.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord has been asked by the Honourable Member for Limerick a question upon the subject of manufacturing spikes. —(Heer.) Were the Government, he would ask, serious in thinking that they could govern Ireland by a system detective police.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble 'lord relied apon packed juries in Ireland, because i he hadNa fbair ir one he could not get a verdict. — ( $ .) The o Lord little knew the spirit that wa s abroad in Ireland if he thought ho could put down the exertions of the Irish people tor their rights by sending men to prison for en deavouring to serve their country.—(Hear, hear ) Did he not know that by the adoption of such a course he would increase the number of converts to the cause of the people, and against the Government. It was true that if some means ur other 2 80,000 pe rsons had been induced to place a sor t of qualified reliance on the Go vernment, but such was the state of things in Ireland at the present mom e nt, th a t the Government would b e in a great difficulty to s ave themselves even i f thei r bayonets.—(Hear, h ea r, and laughter.) He believed that the principal Nobles in Ireland who supp o rt ed the Government of the Noble Lord would not get a single relation or friend of theirs to support their views. If these matters were to be settled by resort to the most extreme measures which he trusted would never be the case. He felt no no doubt that the Irish gentry, to a man, would protect themselves and their property, and care little what became of th e G overnment. —(C r i e s of " Oh, oh.") Could it be Supposed that the Irish p eo p le could have much affection for a Government that was about to deprive them of their inheritance and their means of subsistence.—(Bear, hear.) The Government relied upon the orangemen a nd the p olice force of Leland. He believed that in doing so they would find thernselbes in the wrong, for it was his firm be lief that the greater portion of the orangemen in Ireland were in favo ur o F t h e I r i s h c onfederation.—Ccries of " Oh , oh.") The Government next relie d u p on the rrmy—the army at the present momen t in Ireland was i s ) ut an insignificant part of the whole popula tion of th at cuuntay, and under t h ese circumstances was it to b e supposed, if the c ame to a struggle, that y 30,000 m en wou ld or could offer much opposition to the attempt of th e I r i s h people for free d om . It was utterly impossible for the cavalry to act in Ireland, and there could bo no just re li ance place d on the military there. lie believed they could not rely upon the army in Ire. Etel.—(oh, oh !) If there were to be a struggle to morrow, he believed that the army would refuse to act against the people in Ireland —(Loud cries of " On, oh !") The ofjeet, o f my ei.ge eement, said the Honourable Member, has been this :—I need not say that I treat with the most uttor di,,dain the attempts of the Government to gut me down by their prevention. —(Laughter.) My object has been this, to show that if ever it is possible for these two great countries to come into collision the result would be extremely uncertain and could sot be otherwise than disastrous. IF England were to fail she would henceforth stand alone; and it may not be unadvisable to consider what would be the condition of England with an independent Republic upon one side for independent Republic upon upon the other side of her. (" Hear," and laugh ter.) If England were to be victorious, they would make a desolation, they would desolate the country which you have for a long period made discontented, and you are disgraced in the eyes of all mankind. Now, under those circumstances, I do implore the House, be fore it is too late—before those ominous woord " too late," which have su:h porten tious meaning in other countries—has struck the knell of English power in Ireland, I do beg of the Crown to reflect and concede to the people of Ireland their national rights, those rights which they are resolved to possess, and which by every title human and divine they are entitled to claim. I have spoke hitherto without reserve, and as I did so at the beginning I shalt not fail to do so at the end.— (Laughter.) When the Noble L , rfl tel: , me that I am a traitor to the Crown, I not only repel the charge but retort it.—(Laughter.) I say that if in the present position of Europe he attempts iu regard to his own fellow-countrymen of this country, to crush all the efforts upon the part of the democracy of this country, to obtain those rigl is which the demo cracies of other countries are obtaining—it with respect to my country he refuses their demands for self government —if he plays towards this country the part of Guiz , tt or Metternich in their respective countries, then I tell him teat it is not me and mine, but he and his colleagues, who are traitors to the country. The Hon. Member resumed his seat amid marks of dissatisfaction from all parts of the House, Sir G. GREY, who upon rising, was loudly cheered, said, Sir, after the long absence of the Hon. Gentleman from his place—(Cheers)—and now rising in his place upon the moment that the second reading of the Bill is now before the House, I certainly entertained some hope, albeit a faint one, that ho had risen to disavow with indignation—(Cheers)—that indignation which all loyal subjects of this realm must feel at the imputations which have b..en upon his loyulty—(Cheers)—not only in that House, but by every newspaper circulated throughout this realm for some weeks past, and that he would, with that fervid eloquence which characterises his harangues elsewhere, if nut in this H o use.— (Cheers and laugh terl—to disavow those sentiments and profess that, by virtue, i; of no better feelings, of that oath of allegiance—(Tremendous cheering)— which the Hon. Member has repeatedly taken—(Renewed cheer ing)—to the Sovereign of these realms, that he cast off the imputations which have been so frequently cast upon his name.—(Loud cheers.) What, then, was my astonishment, nay, what were my feel ings of pain and regret—feelings shared, I will venture to say, by every Honourable Member in this House—(Tremendous cheering)—when, with the miserable pretence of still professing loyalty a faint shadow of loyalty to his Sovereign, not without that boldness and daring—(Loud cheers)—which has characterized his speeches elsewhere, repeating the sen timents which he has elsewhere uttered, and charging my Noble Friend in defending the constitution of the country with charges similar to those made against himself. viz., that of treason.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Hon. Member said that in his absence he had been called a traitor, perhaps the Hon. Member will allow me to say, that I am not in the least degree responsible for the absence of the lion. Member.—(Cheers.) The cause of that absence no doubt the Honourable Member is the best able to explain.—(Laughter.) (LEFT SPEAKING.) stftt Wbition SUN OFFICE, Half past Eight o'clock. CROWN AND GOVERNMENT SECURITY BILL. Sir G. GREY (in continuation from our Fourth Et tion), said — I did not, however, call the Hon. Member a traitor; this however—l did do, I read to the House a portion of the report of the Irish Confederation, at which an asso ciate of the lion. Member, Mr. Duffy said in his speech that he had received a message from that Honourable Member who was then in Paris, and rejecting that discouraging repulse which the Hon. Gentleman had received from M. Lanmrtine—(Loud cheers)—and which I must say reflected the greatest credit upon him—in which he refused to encourage those designs, tie they seditious, traitorous, or loyal as the Hon. M_mber pretends to assure the House—and stated that he should in so doing be violating the law ofnations and giving a good cause of war to Etigland.—(Cheers.) Does the lion. Gentleman deny the statement which was made by Mr. Duffy at the Irish Confederation, and which had the effect of setting aside altogether the answer of M. Lamartine to the Irish deputation?— (Hear, hear) That statement was to the effect that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. O'Brien) was informed by a club in Paris that the French people alt deeply moved at the grievances of the Irish, and were able, should they require assistance, to send 50,000 of their bravest citizens to aid them in obtaining their rights.—(llear.) Mr. O'BRIEN was understood to request the Right Hon. Baronet to read the next paragraph. Str G. GREY.—The next passage of the reply to which he referred stated that Mr. O'Brien offered his sincere thanks on the part of Ireland for that offer.— (Lou ► cries of " Hear, hear," ar d cheers.) Is the Hon. Gentleman now satisfied?—(Laughter and cheers.) The next passage was to the effect that Ireland would conquer by the energy of her own chil dren. That meant that, although they could them selves institute a successful insurrection, still, if the worst should happen of the struggle, France had pro mised, as Mr. Duffy had said, in contradiction of M. Lamartine's reply, the assistance of 50,000 Frenchmen. —(Cheers.) I hoped the lion. Gentleman would have disavowed the intention of seducing the soldiers and police from their duty! to the constitution with the view of their joining the mob.—(Hear, hear.) I said I did not call the Hon. Gentleman a traitor.—(Hear, hear.) I read tha statement of Mr. Duffy, and bec use it con tained the sentiment to which I have alluded, he said I called him a traitor.—(Cheers.) The House drew the inference from it, and I find that inference given in the unmistakable manner in which the words of the Honourable Gentleman were rt ceived when he said he had been called a traitor.—(Great cheering.) The Honourable Gentleman said that the effect of this measure would be to alieuiate the Orangemen from sup porting the Government, but I will say that a very large portion of the population of Ireland, including all creeds and persuasions, is determined to support the present constitution of the United Kingdom, and I am moreover sure that they will indignantly deny the right of the Honourable Gentleman to expound their feelings to this House.—(Loud cheers.) He also said that the body, of which he constituted a part in Ireland, was supported to a man by the Chartists of this country. Now, I disbelieve e ntirel y that asser tion, for it has been lately stated in this House by a leader of the Chartists that they are firmly attached to the monarchy of this country.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) I believe the Hon. Gentleman will find him eulf miserably deceived if he thinks that he will obtain any assistance from foreign ;conntries. —(Loud cheers.) Ireland, England, and Scotland would rise in indignation against the dictation of the Hon. Gentlemen, atid against the exposition which he pretends to give of the feelings of his Own country. — (Cheers.) Far be it from me to speak of the tone of the Hon. Gentleman, and of the accusation which he has made against the Government with respect to their in. tcntions to Ireland, for it is their great desire to make it rich, happy, and prosperous, and to give it those constitutional rights which every person in the kingdom eujoys.—(Cheers.) We want the real union of all men, and the reasons for this Bill will, to a certain extent, be found in the dangerous and mischievous language and threats which have been resorted to ; and in the Bill rests not only the security of the Crown and the Government, but the true interests of the great b ely of the people.—(Great cheering.) Mr. F. O'CONNOR said, as he had been alluded to, he rose simply to state that he had used the sentiments enunciated by the Hon. Member both within and without that House. He said that the voice of the people was greater than that of the Crown ; but, having taken the oath of allegiance, he was prepared to defend the Crown, not only against its enemies, but against the machinations of her Majesty's Ministers, if neces sary. The Right Honourable Baronet (Sir G. Grey) had alluded to the allegiance of Orangemen, and to thet loyalty of the troops and police, and said they were sufficient for the defence of the country, meaning thereby to imply that the words used by him— " ridiculous and foolish "—were levelled a:suit's. those who favoured the repeal of the Union He would ask the descendant of Lord William Russell it' it became him to ferret out old Acts of Par liament, in order to fetter the sentiments of the people? To show that his sentiments had been entertained by others, he might cite the speeches of the lion. Baronet the Member for Harwich (Sir J. C. Hobhouse), and ask if anything could go further than the sentiments that lion. Baronet had enunciated? But they were success ful—they led to the passing of the Reform Bill, though that measure had proved destructive to tens of thousands of the people of Ireland. They had been trying to do something for forty-eight years, but they had failed. They bad tried too long. He had thought on the speech of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Oldham (Mr. W. J. Fox), that the G overnmen t would have paust d before th e y p rocee d ed further with the Bill. Every man who wrote advisedly would be liable to transportation. Why, if this were an ex poste facto matter, it would not require very much to carry the Right Hon. Baronet to the other side of the Atlantic. The United States had sent over 1,000,000 of dollars to aid the Irish in their struggles. Now, he had refused to be one a deputation to Fiance, because he thought with Shake s ere that "if England cannot keep the dog from h er own door, that she hod better be worried." If a foreign army came to invade this country, he would risk his life in resisting it ; let them rely upon the mind and will of the people of England and Ireland. Why, but for the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) hundreds of the usands would have died of famine in Ireland. He had at tended the demonstration to-day, and, thank God ! it had passed off peaceably.--(Laughter.) Honourable Gentlemen laughed. Ile repeated that he rejoiced it bad passed off peaceably.—t Cries of " Hear, hear.") If the night Hon. Baronet wished to destroy the expression of the free opinion of the people he would induce them, as did a portion ot former Convention, to go about the , country establishing club;. Many of the former Convention were mere rabble, ssho only joined it to get paid ; and when they went into the country promoting the formation of clube, he ft , llo+Ned them in the dead of winter at his own expense, attacked Them wherever they went, at d succeeded in driving them out of Scotland. He hated secresy, and had never written a private political letter in his life.—(Hear, hear.) And now they intended to pass a Bill to enable them to prosecute the Hon. Gentle. man the Member fcr Limerick (Mr. S. O'Brien), but they might depend, if they did so, that their triumph would be weakness they would weaken the law, and bring the Government into contempt. Until they had a really constitutional opposition in the House, they might depend upon it they would con tinue to experience similar daring from the Government benches. The Bill was an infraction upon the right of the subject. Many voted, by courtesy, for the introduc tion ot the Bill who did not intend to sup port it in its future stages.—(Hear.) Now, he was made of " sterner stuff," and therefore he begged to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. G. TIIOMPSON seconded the motion. He wished to express his delight that the proceedings of the ay had tone off with order and good teeling.—(Hear.) He wai glad to find that they sat in peace and quietness. Do not let the House Imagine that this peace resulted from tear on the part of the people. No, it was trout their conviction that great political changes could only he effected in this country by the force of argument. He had mingled amongst working men for the last 20 years, and while he had never shrunk from censuring when he thought they were in the wrong, he cordially sympathised with them whets he believed they were in the right.—(hear, hear.) He came now to the Bill before the House. In the first place, be objected to the haste with which this Bill had been introduced. A more important Bill than this had not been introduced into that House during the last century, and he would warn the House not to make that felony w hieh universal humanity did not characterise as such. —(Hear, hear.) But let them pass the Bill, with its " gagging clause," and he would answer for it they would not find their prisons large enough to hold nor ships sufficiently numerous to transport the felons whom it would make.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") So tar as the other parts of the Bill were concerned, he did not object to th,m ; but in Heaven's name don't attempt to make it felony for a man to speak his thoughts openly and without disguise. Pass it, however, and what would be the result? Why they would make one hun dred and one thousand of felons, who would, when they were dragged through the world, be greeted with the cries that met the ears of Lord William Russell while being conveyed to the scaffold, namely, " There goes Liberty and Virtue side by side."—(Hear, hear.) But let Government persevere with this Bill as it stood, he would oppose in every stage. Sir B. HALL rose, and was (LEFT STEALING.) CHA RTIST DEMONSTRATION. (THIS DAY.) SUN OFFICE, Eight o'Clock. It is satisfactory to state, up to the time of our going to press with this Edition, that no disturbance of the public peace has taken place. The demonstration has passed off as peaceably as we stated we believed it would, in writing our reports for the earlier editions of The Sun. Up to this hour it would seem that the apprehensions of an outbreak have not yet lett the minds of the public, as the shops which were closed in the morning remain so now, with very few ex ceptions. It may be said with truth that business has been almost suspended in the leading thoroughfares of the metropolis during the whole of the day. The special constables remain, with very few exceptions, at their posts, and many will not be relieved of their duties until nine o'clock, or even later, should any outbreak be intended. The conduct of the demonstration in not going in pro cession is spoken harshly of by many unthinking per sons, who no doubt would have been gratified had it been our painful duty to have announced loss of life as the result of what, considering the determination of the Government, would have been foolhardiness in the extreme. The proceedings in the Convention to morr..w, afar the " split" of to-day, will be more than usually interesting. lIAMBURGH MAIL. RUSSIA AND POLAND.—TiIe Koniysburg Gazette Con tains the following account, dated March 20, which has every appearance of being authentic, from the Russian frontier :—" The bridge at Kownow was finished on Sunday as the Emperor had com manded. In Kownow three divisions of 240,000 men are stationed, who are to enter Poland next Sunday, for the Commander-in-Chief cannot come till these 160,000 men march to Warsaw and the Austrian frontier, and 80,000 men to the Prussian fron tier. The field artillery left for Warsaw on the 26th. Five Cossacks are still stationed on every post, in order to escort a gentleman travelling incognito. The Polish peasants speak of a dreadful irruption of the French. The streets of Warsaw, where a terrible fire is still raging at this moment, are mounted by cannon. The Breslau Gaaette says—" It appears from authen tic accounts that 16,000 Russian troops entered Caen stoctiaw the day before yesterday, and that a further body was expected there and in the vicinity. The mu nilesto of the Emperor caused the greatest con sternation here. The Stadtholder was urged from all quarters to give an explanation as far as was possible, and, says the correspondent of the Silesian Gazette, I pledge my word that the following expression was made, as if by the Prince Stadtholder, " Withi n e i g h t or ten days Europe - will witness the spectacle that three hundred thousand Russian troops will be concentrated in Warsaw."' Every thing appears to be going on as usual, but this apparent calm of Warsaw is like the calm which precedes a storm." The Leipzic Gazette contains a letter from St. Peters burgh, March 28, which says—" An Imperial ukase, o! the 23d, forbids the issue of passports to Russian subjects going abroad, and that even merchants, who in that case are generally privileged, will not be allowed to leave the empire."—lhniburgh Borsenhalle, April 6. A letter in the Aix-la-Chapelle Gasalke says—" That Sir Charles Napier has been commanded im mediatel y ahe to set sail with his whole squadron for the Baltic. fleet had been lately recalled from the Tagus, whereonl y a ship of the line is now stationed. I t consists of ships of the line, and a great numbe r of steam-fri gates mrigat from esad s t e am-vessels. if we may rely uponassuran ces c e r id e e d d it l a y bl o e n quarters, the t h h f ep E ru n i, g si li a sh hh C t a h b e in p et ol w is i h ll -i a tu ct u d in e n in - ques tion, and the English flee t is pa from mßussian destinedto protect the German and Prussian harbours aggression."—Hamtburyh Borsenhalle, April 6. ENGLAND AND PHYSICAL FORCE CHARTISM. In a country where the right of petition and of public meeting, the license of printing and the licentiousness of speech are unlimited, where every male adult possessed of 20/., may, by the existing franchise, command a county vote, and the door of the constitution is open to at least three times the number of those who choose to take the trouble of entering it, sedition inust be supported by the credentials of the most disinterested patriotism, to make itself at all respectable. But at our present advanced stage of intelligence, and in the state of implicit mutual dependence, in which, in our artificial social condition, we all exist in this country, any man who proposes to accomplish any political good by means of disorder and violence can only command credit for his sincerity at the expet!e of his understanding. Order is the first law of nature—it is the very life and soul of civil society. To twenty-eight millions of human beings crowded together on two small islands, surrounded every where by rivals or enemies, and so broken into civilization that even the poorest and the meanest cannot be helped to the supply of his most ordinary wants without the assistance of many of his fellow-subjects, the peace, regularity, and security of the movements of every purt of the social machinery are as essential to the stability of the fabric on which all de pend, as the harmonious working of bees is necessary to the existence of the hive. Our soil does no. nearly support our population, increasing now at the rate of 450,000 souls every year. Our mere natural and physical resources are totally inadequate to our subsistence. Our very being depends on mann factures and commerce. We are the ministers of the artificial wants of the world. We cannot, like Animus, fall upon our mother earth and gather our strength from that. Not one-fifth part of our population find employ ment iu the cultivation of our soil. In the present year we have led nearly six millions of our people entirely on foreign produce. Three millions of Irish have been maintained exclusively at the a public cost. The failure of a bank may whole county starve. Send half a dozen in . an b u e t n i a t k u e rers educed into the Gazette, and tens of thousands_ I to ruin. A run tor gold in Threadneedle-street, of 10 per cent. in stocks, the bankruptcy 1 A ' sid of all the merchants, consigns millions to beggary. Those who have sufferers, the poorest are the land can fall back upon tbat2rhe:se who have capital, can is left. But those take flight with it so lot) who live from hand to anything m ou g th as at t idexist on wages, who can get no food w n? ithout employmentem ployment, without capitalists, and no capitalists without and no credit,emp who so helpless and destitutea. these, when anarc hy and distrust bring the social en. Oiler) to a stand st ill ? It we grant that the French Revolution was n e cessary , we mut,t also concede that is w as only a necessary evil. It has transferred the money market of the Continent of Europe from Paris to London. It has driven. th e whole available capital of France into our st , cks. It has brought employment, and therefore wag es , an d therefore the means of mere physical existence, to a temporary close in that devoted Republic. The heroic men of France have lost their capital, and have no means of conducting manufacturing enterprise. Their powers of production are arrested by want of money, and they have, consequently, nothing to sell. They have no current coin, and they can, there fore, buy nothing. Cargoes of p ro duce, n c g ha la r n te d re t d o for French ports, have been sent directly to E sell for what they would bring. Whole fleets of mer chantmen, laden with the raw material of manufacture, cotton, silk, wool, and leather, have turned helm at Havre, Toulon, and other Gallic harbours, the moment their captains heard of the disorders of the. Republic,' and steered their ships at once for Liverpool, Bristol, and Southampton. Upwards of 6,000,0001. of English_ man, y were annually sent in France by our absentees—as touvii mer e was ;earl y scptaiioered in the other countries of Europe. The°, 12,000.0001., and their owners have all been frightene d home. Hosts 01 weali.hy conni:ental foreigners, fusing faith in the stability of then. property from the threatened violence offered by the people h av e col lected all th e i r mone y, inve s t e d it i n our securities, and are troopi ng h ere t o s p en d it am ong ne• Vast consign men t s o f co l on i a l p ro d uce i nten d e d for the , continental market are sent on to us, - and large orders for manufactures, originally destined for Germany. Switzerland, Belgium, end France, have been trai" ferred to England. Five millions of dishonoured bill' have been returned to the United States alone from Havre. Trade has no lofty aspirations. Commerce has no preference for one paper constitution more than an other. Money is sordid, timid, and without magnani mity. They look to profits alone. Liberty, Equality'. Fraternity, are to them but sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, unless they mean security, prompt payment, and sure profits. They fly from the Continent, because they cannot trust it. They' come here because they think they are safe. They refuse to give 35i for French Three per Cents., because they cannot rely upon payment—they give 811- for English Three per Cents., because they have confidence in their stability. So timid is capital, so nervous a thing is trade, that in a few months we might be in possessiun of that which made us great, omnipotent, during the war —the commerce end manufactures of Europe. Intro duce order among us, shatter our credit by creating tears of violence, destroy confidence in our security by threats of rebellion, treason, or the subversion of our . stability, and the goldEn opportunity will be lost, capital and trade will fly from us to the United States, and the. masses of our population will suffer an amount of misery and permanent disaster, far greater then that which is the lot of any other country in, the world. The majority of the population 0 ' every other state, except Holland and Belgium, is dependent upon the soil, which can never fail them, whatever other changes may happen. The masses of our kingdom are as completely dependent upon credit and commercial security, as the price of Consols, or the rates of discount at the Bank. France, with her 6,000,000 of yeomen may survive a shock to credit. Eng land must sink irredeemably under it. At this moment we have the ball at our foot. The fine weather is rapidly reducing the price of food. The returns of the revenue tire less discouraging than was anticipated, exhibiting an increase on the quarter ending on the sth of April, of no less than 402,375:. In the next three months the in crease of consumption from the influx of absentees. foreigners, and capital, must be materially enlarged, and it is just at this turning point in our fortunes that the physical force Chartists du their best to frigh ten out prosperity away fr o m us , b y t h e open avowal of designs of treason, disorder, and violence. They import the Cetic fury of Meagher and Mitchell, and the cellar martyr (O'Brien). into the sober regions of the more calculating Saxon► and considerately warn us that if their Irish patriots become martyrs in Dublin, the whole Milcsian popula tion in England will rise en masse. and revenge on us the punishment the law inflicts on the heroes of the Code duration. While we should be enjoying the advantages of our insular position, of our political neutrality, of the profits and the credit which are the material fruits of a con viction among mankind of our stability, good faith, and love of order, the most strenuous efforts are made by those who must inevitably suffer most by popular convulsion to saw off the branch on which they are mounted front the tree that supports it. Three months of tranquillity. harmony, and peace, would see us with the whole trade and the greater portion of the capital of Europe in our hands our revenue flourishing—our labouring classes in tuner's ployment—our middle classes afforded breathing time to devise and enforce needful reforms and extensive retrench 'neut. Our internal distraction may not only deprive us °fall these advantages, but encourage the violent and turbulent spirits of the continent of Europe to overbear the peaceful tendencies of the Provisional Governments, by pleading our weakness as their opportunity f o r striki ng a fatal blow at our power, and plunging us with Ireland on our hands into a war that must be paid fur out of the sweat of our toiling masses, and which may so embarrass oar finances as to end in our ruin. The Reform Bill has placed Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and Annual Parlia ments, within the reach of the people by peaceable. constitutional, lawful means. Nothing can keep the Charter from them, if they choose patiently to fight the battle of the Constitution in the registration Courts. The power which achieved Free Trade can achieve a Universal Franchise. There are thousands of the loudest bawlers for the Charter, who are qualified to be registered wider the existing law, but refuse to take the trouble. There are tens of thousands more who could buy a life rent charge of 40s. for £lO or 151., but prefer to spout and plot, and pick the pockets of their gaping dupes, rather than to work out their political salvation. It we are misgoverned, it is in I %i° to deny that, with our present opportunities, it is our own tault. We could puiut out many physical force Chartists in the large boroughs, who sold their Tote°, at the last election, for T o ry g o ld. W e k no w 0' hundreds who were placed on the register b 1 the exertions of the Anti Corn-law League, in the metropolitan boroughs, who hawked their franchise to the highest bidders, and at last knocked them' selves down to the monopolist candidates. It is time that all this tomioolery were put a stop to. Let the Irish, who are maintained in England, beware how they abuse our hospitality, by putting into execution ens attempts to create a disturbance among us, as the sym pathisers of the Mitchell conspiracy. It' they once stimulate the national animosities of John Bull, end the prejudices of the Scotch, they may be the first to repent the retaliation their ruffian bluster may provoke. Meanwhile,. it is time for the well-aff ec t e d t o b e u p an d doing. The best vref to suppre s s di sor d er i s to [Hove t h at i t cannot succeed- It the Government is paralysed, that is no reason why the people should be unprepared to suppress violence, or to concert measures to meet any emer gency which may result from the state of Ireland. The cause of order is. the cause of liberty. Tyrant* and thieves alone thrive by confusion. The progress of popular power is founded on knowledge, and the best fruit of knowledge is peace. It is kings and autocrats whose trust is in the bayonet, and whose only faith is in the rifle and parks of artillery. Let the people *how they are worthy to be free, by practising the vit tues of freemen—by a reliance of the power of resew]. on the march of intelligence, on the force of public opinion, on the justice of their cause, and the certain triumph of truth and right, naked and unarmed. except in the panoply of vi rtue, an d t h e majest i c spirit of humanity. Let them look upon the moral miracle which Lamartine is working and be ashamed at their own scepticism of the efficacy of moral forces. And let our middle-classes and rulers redeem this stitring time, and by timely reform avert merited revolution. Not an hour should be lost in pro posing to Parliament the more necessary and pressing of many wholesome measures, which may relieve industry. and promote popular contentment. Let them mingle li t ut h sg e e y l bf ,e e h n oi f rn o d r b c .e— e i a gl, u v t e h e o k r ly i t reformed,y. conciliation wi t h fi rmness, and eoncede. redress while Dispatch. W it h w i I l l a 1 not l E u d r o o p f o o r i s E r a e g f l o a r n m d i ntog EAVA - 1 - AIiKET RACES.~ (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) _ (Continued from our Third Edition.) Match—Festus beat Lovelace. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each. D.ll St. Antonio walked over. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, for three yrs old not en- gaged in either Riddlesworth, he. D. M. Dover walked over. HMI MAJUSTT'S TIIRATRE.—On Saturday this House was honoured by the presence of the Duchess of Kent, who occupied the Queen's box. Her Royal High ness's suite comprised Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Sped), Lord James Murray, Sir George Couper, and Mr. Bruce. The Queen Dow ager's box was occupied by the Marchioness ut Ormond', Lady Adelaide Paget, and Colonel Dixon and party. There were also present the Duke of Wellingtou, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, the Prince Galitzin, Prii ce Louis Napoleon, the Baroness de Brunnow, Madlle. Olga de Lechuer, the Hanoverian Minister, the Swedish Minister, the Count de Backe, the Sardinian Minister, M. de Berg, the the Marchiones s Ladies, B roo of Ely, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marqui s an d the C utie Couatess Marchioness o t ssDowa g er of l e sbn ry, Sligo,the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl Spencer, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Besbo rEusuiVi,citrbsen Earl yle , r theD'the Ear! Bruce, the Earl of Deltswarre, Visc ount O ssulston, Viscount Canterbury, &c. oariiley the Earl of Pembroke the , of Cardigan, NAM% ------ On the 81st ult., at Pakenham, near Bury St. F.dnound i e, Mrs. S:edntan, of ...daughter. On of Dav id the Fu 2d inllerton st., it Es! king. street, Po rtman - square, the wife , ughter. 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