The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-07 00:00:00

IRELAND,

Serjeant Sullivan said his clients were satisfied
of Mr George Lardner's legitimacy, and withdrew
from all farther opposition.

Protest of the Genevese against Mazzini's
Expulsion.

BERNE, April 4.
The following protest against the decree of the
Swiss Federal Council renewing the order for the
expulsion of Mazzini from S witzerland has been
forwarded by a Committee of Genevese citizens to
this city :
To THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE SWISS
FEDERAL COUNCIL.
Gentlemen,—As representatives of the Swiss people, you
have thought it right to renew the order of expulsion pro-
nounced against the citizen Joseph Mazzini at a deplorable
period by your predecessors.
Ic is the duty of the Genevese section of Helvetia to raise
its voice in protest against your decision, which is contrary
to the principles of hospitality professed in all ages by free
and Republican Switzerland.
Switzerland has received proscribed persons of all opi-
nions. Madame de Steel, Louis Philippe, Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, the Count de Chambord, the Duchess of Parma,
and many other persons have been happy to find an asylum
in Switzerland, and while there have sometimes engaged
in intrigues very compromising to the future of the Confe-

deraration. _
Does Republican Switzerland no longer exist ? Could
not the man who has atpported and defended in his own
country the institutions which we have the happiness to
possess at home enjoy the same favour as has been granted
to his enemies ? Should the Confederation, regenerated
since 1848, refuse to proscribed Republicans the asylum
which the Confederation of 1838 granted to proscribed Re..
actionists.

You have thought it advisable, gentlemen, to base
your opinions upon the recent condemnation by contumacy
of which the citizen Mazzini has been the victim in France.
You believe no more than we do, gentlemen, no more
than does the French Government, in the culpability of
that illustrious patriot of the so-called attempt to which the
Emperor of the French did not succumb,
You know, as we know, that this affair was arranged by
the French police, by whom Greco was paid.
The rigour you exercise against the greatest citizen of
Italy is therefore inopportune, and may give riso to the be-
lief (which is far from being our opinion) that the Federal
Council follows or anticipates the wishes of the Court of the
Tuileries.

This is not our opinion, gentlemen. We know that the
interest of Switzerland is the only inea by which you are
animated, and it is in the name of this interest we protest
against this decision, leaving to the authority which has
taken it all responsibility for the future of our beloved
country.
The citizen you proscribe may, in fact, in consequence of
political events which we cannot foresee, return to Swit-
zerland as the plenipotentiary of a friendly and allied State.
He may, as has already once happened, become the chief of
the Administration of a Republican consitry.
Tho same thing occurred to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,
now Emperor of the French.
We ask you, therefore, gentlemen, for the take of placing
yourselves in accord with the immense majority of the
Swiss people, to recall the unseasonable decree you &axe
pronounced against Joseph Mazzini.
This protest being intended for publication, we beg of
you, gentlemen, to notify to us its reception with the least
possible delay.—Receive, &c.,

THE COMMITTEE.

MARKETS—This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

Increased supplies of fruit are on sale here to-day; the
demand rules steady, and last week's currencies are fully
supported. The show of vegetables is seasonably good ;
the inquiry for most kinds is firm, on former terms.

PR UIT.

Pine a S. d. s. d.
8 0 to 10 0
Coloniapples / do., each 0 0 to 0 0
Grapes,per lb 6 0 to 10 0
Foreign do 2 0 to 3 0
Melons ...
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per hf-sv. 3 0 to 4 0
Pears, per do 0 0 to 0 0
Oranges, per 100 4 0 to 10 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 0
Gooseberries hf aye° 0 to 0 0
Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0

s. d. s
Ilrulberries,prpt..o oto 0 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0
Foreign ditto, pun() oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb 2 oto 2 6
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0
Peaches....
Currants, per ham 0 oto 0 0
Plums, per do 0 oto 0 0
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0

DUBLIN, May 6.
The extraordinary Larduer case was decided by
the Master of the Rolls yesterday. Your readers
may remember that an application had been made
on behalf of the Reversionary Interest Society of
London that a sum of £3,070 in court be paid out
to them. It was stated in the affidavit on which
counsel moved that George parley Lardner, son
of the late Rev. Dionysius Larduer and Cecilia
Lardner, otherwise Flood, his wife, had in 1850
assigned his interest in the reversion of the £3,070
to the petitioners for a sum of £550. This motion
was thereupon resisted by the next of kin of Celia
Flood, the wife the Rev. Dr. Lardner. The case
was that the person calling himself George Darley
Lardner was an illegitimate ton of the Rev. Dr.
Lardner, and that the legitimate " George Darley
Lardner," who was born t,nd baptised in 1818, died
when young, in Italy, of consumption. It was
further alleged that the Rev. Dr. Lardner there
substituted the present G. D. Lardner, and repre-
sented him as the legitimate son, and that he did
this for the purpose of preventing the money now
in question going out of the family. The evidence
of Miss Lardner, his aunt, completely disproved
this case. She identified several letters written by
Mr, George Larduer to her during several years.
She stated that, having read an advertisement in
the Times in February, 1842, asking information
as to the death of George Lardner, son of the Rev.
Dr. Lardner, she went to the solicitor named in
the advertisement, Mr. H. Mayne, of Dorset-street,
Dublin, and told him George Lardner was not dead,
but was at the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. Mayne
assured her he would have the rumour contra-
dicted, but refused to state who authorised him to
publieh the advertisement. She swore that George
Ladner was always recognised and treated by all
the members of the family as the legitimate son of
the Rev. Dr. Lardner. Counsel also opened an
affidavit made by Mr George Lardner himself at
Barbadoes, on the 24th of March, corroborating
his aunt's statements.