The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

UN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1849.

ELE GAL_ ASSURANCE porters' of the cause of the Sovereign, the assumed
COMPANY. justification go es for nothing. In the same way it
(ProTisionally Registered, January 17, 15,9.)
capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,00 Shares, of 251. each. requires no very large amount of logical sagacity to
Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share, dissipate the paradoxes advanced by the Solicitor-
speetuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo-
-75, Offices of the Company, 13a, Caimon•row, Westminster, on ap. General (Mr. HlNcxs) by way of argument in
rfit cation to favour of the Ministerial proceedings. For example,
it is clearly absurd to reason that because the
claimants are few in number, that therefore the
validity of their claims should be examined less scru-
pulously; the inferential conjunction being in this
instance as exquisitely irrelevant as the " gunpowder
running out of the heels " of the gentleman's boots in
that immortal rhapsody which is familiar to every
schoolboy.
As the matter is beginning to assume a rather serious
aspect, in reference to the relationship of the Govern-
ment of Canada towards ourselves, it will not be un •
advisable to transcribe verbatim the most important
resolutions and amendments which were successively
rejected or accepted by the Assembly.
First, as to the fifth and most important clause in
the original resolution introduced by Mr. LeroN-
TAINE, it decided—" That in order to redeem the
pledge given to the sufferers of such losses, it is ne-
cessary and just that the particulars of such losses not
yet paid, should form the subject of more minute le-
gislative inquiry ; and that they should be paid and
satisfied, so far only as they have arisen from the total
or partial, unjust, wanton, or unnecessary destruc-
tions of the property and effects
.of the said inhabi-
tants, or by the taking Tor carrying away of their
property and effects." According to this, it will
be observed that no line of restriction what-
ever was marked for the Commissioners appointed to
superintend the distribution. Very considerable
disturbance resulted from the loose wording of this
resolution, and in order, in some degree, to allay the
excitement of the province, the Minister caused the
subjoined condition to be interpolated :—" That none
of the persons convicted of high treason alleged to
have been committed in Lower Canada, or who,
having been charged with high treason, submitted
themselves to the will and pleasure of her MAJESTY,
and were transported to Bermuda, shall be entitled
to indemnity." Although opposed with much viru-
lence by Mr. PAFINEAU, that emendation was ulti-
mately carried, but as if to weaken its whole beneficial
influence, the supplementary amendment of Mr.
CATLEY, to the effect that compensation should not be
awarded to any save those "who remained true to
their allegiance, and risked life and property in defence
of their country," was thrown out. Two similar amend-
ments were afterwards rejected; one worded thus--
"Nor any person who aided, assisted, or 'abetted the
said rebellion, shall be entitled to any indemnity,"
and the other, proposed by Mr. RoniNsoN, run-
ning as follows—" Nor any person who was in
any manner implicated in the said rebellion, or
who refused, when called upon, to aid in sup-
pressing it." Against all these just and loyal
amendments the members of the Administration
voted unanimously, thus placing themselves on the
side of those who are manifestly solicitous to propi-
tiate the good will of the rebels by insulting at once
the Supreme. Government, the mother country, and
the SOVEREIGN. Putting entirely out of view the
immorality and indecency of the policy adopted by the
Ministry—its immorality, for inasmuch as it is opposed
to all the principles of justice, and its indecency in as far
as it would be more becoming in a faction of con.
spirators than in a cabinet of statesmen—we ask any
rational lover of his country, if the recent acts of
the Canadian Administration are not subversive of
all order, and pregnant with calamities to England
and to her dependencies ? We ask the supreme Ad-
ministration, if these things are to be permitted—if
the Assembly is to propagate insurrection by com-
pensating rebels ; if the loyal adherents of the
QUEEN are to be lowered to an equality with the
men who fought against her authority, and who shed
the blood of its defenders ?
Can Lord ELGIN permit these things to pass un-
noticed ?
Will Lord GREY remain apathetic while the vindi-
cators of insurrection fan the smouldering embers of
rebellion into a new and more disastrous conflagra-
tion ?

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern.

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lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MDLLE. LIND.
It is respectfully announced that a Series of SIX CONCERTS
will be given at Her Majesty's Theatre, comprising the following
Operas:,—The Flanto Magico of Mozart; Oberon, Der Freyscbutz,
and Euryarithe, efs Weber ; La Nectate and Fernand Cortez of
Spontint ; and Fidelio of Beethoven; which will be sung by Mdlle.
Lind and the principal Singers of the Establishment, accompanied by
a full Orchestra and Chorus. The dates and particulars will be duly
announced.
The Subscribers are respectfully informed that they will have the
option of including any number of these Concerts in their Season's
Subscription.
The First Concert will take place on Thursday, April 12.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are
respectfully informed that
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented Verdi's Opera of
ERNANI.
•
Elvira, Mdlle. Giuliani; Carlo V., Signor Gardoni ; Ruy Gomez,
Signor Belletti ; Ernani, Signor Bordas.
To conclude with (the Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall) the cele•
bated Ballet, entitled
LE DLkBLE A QUATRE.
In v•lich will appear
Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, I Mdlle Marie Taglioni, and
Mme. Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Carolina Rosati,
It. Paul Taglioni, M: Chutes, M. Louis D'Or ; Mdlles. Theyenot,
Julien, Lamoureux, and Atarandon.
Applications for 80xe3,3t ails, and Tickets to be made at the Box-
office, Opera Colonnade
QT.
1-7

JAMES'S THEATRE.
Season 1849.
FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA. COMIQUE.
On,IsiONDAY EVENING,
The Performances will commßEence
DEFA at Half-
MILLE .past Seven o'clock with
LE ME

YY
To conclude with
LES DIAMANS DE L& COURONNE.
Mr. ,Mitchell begs also to announce that, notwithstanding the in-
creased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis-
sion are determined as follows:
Boxes .. • • .. ss. Od.
Pit• • • • .. .. 33. Od.
Amphitheatre .. • • .. 2s. Od.
Subscriptions for the season may be arranged a Mr. Mtch s
ell'
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. t James'sistreet ;
Mr. Andrew?, New Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the
Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till 'lye.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
kr. B. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENHiG,
Will be performed THE BRIGAND. Characters by Messrs. H.
Vandenhoff, Rogers, Ilewe, Wallack; Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and
bliss P. Horton.
To be followed by THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. J.
Wallack.
To conclude with THE TRUMPEEER'S WEDDING. Charac-
ters by Messrs. Bland,_Cauldeld Keeley ; Miss P. Horton, and Mrs.
S. Buckingham.

THEATER ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed THE HOP PICKERS. Principal characters
by Messrs. Lambert, Boyce, Wright, Paul Bedford, Hughes, Mon-
yard, 0. Smith, Cullenford, Worrell, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar,
Airs. F. Matthews, Miss Taylor, Miss E. Chaplin, &c.
To conclude with COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA. The principal
characters by Mr. Manyard, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mrs. F. Matthews,
and Miss Turner.

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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestrls.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Ma. he ws.
THIS EVENING
' Will be performed a new Drama, called A ROMANTIC IDEA.
After which, a new Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha-
racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, acid Parselle ; Miss H. Gil-
bert, Miss Jane COleman, and Madame Vestris.
To conclude with a Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF
/HE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve,
Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil-
•lam, Miss L. HOwarel, Mrs. 9facnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L.
Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris.
Dress Boxes, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No
ball-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.

PRINCESS'S THEAT.afi,
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed the celebrated Opera of THE SYREN. •
After which, M. KLA RE will execute most extraordinary feats of
Dexterity and Elegance on Le Globe Roulant.
To conclude with the Opera of LA VIVANDIERE.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, &c.
The greatest triumph ever witnessed within the walls of the Am-
phitheatre has been achieved by the celebrated American Equestrian
Young Hernaniez, whose unparalleled feats have nightly called forth
expreshions of wonder amounting to enthusiasm, and gained for him
the title of the that rider in the world.
TII Is EVENING.
The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the
magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled
.CORASCO ; or, the Warrior's Steed.
To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE, in which Young Hernandez will appear, supported by the
Arst Equestrian talent of the day.
After which the double Tight-ropes.
To conclude with a favourite MELODRAMA.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five.
stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

Tab WEATHER: SUN OFFICE, MARCH 24.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35; Highest, 42; Noon, 40.

BAROMETER, 30.03.
WIND N.N.E.—Morning, fresh breeze and cloudy, slight

snow ; Afternoon, fine.

' WWI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY orning, 46 min. after 1 1 Eveninq. 6 min. after 2
TO-M.ORROW—Morning, 23 min. after 2 1 Evening, 41 min. after 2

If the Canadian Cabinet carries into effect its late
resolutions it is impossible to foresee the perilous
consequences of their temerity. The loyal popula-
tion of the province will not submit quietly to the
insolent disregard of their services, and to the unde-
served encouragement of their antagonists. The
sentiment which prompted them to burn the effigy of
Mr. LAFONTAINE on the Place d'Armes in Montreal
is not an evanescent feeling of enthusiasm; neither
is the ardour displayed on that occasion by Sir
ALLAN 2I‘NAB peculiar to himself alone. It is
sympathised in by thousands throughout both the
Canadas, and those thousands will not remain idle
spectators of occurrences now transpiring.

There is now, at least, a prospect of some decisive
step being taken with respect to Indian railways.
From what fell from the President of the Board
of Control on Thursday evening, in answer to
the question of the Noble Lord the Member
for King's Lynn, it appears that a plan had
been submitted on behalf of the Government
to the Court of Directors, by, which it was be-
lieved the Court could fairly come to terms with the
railway companies. The serious differences which
have so long prevailed may thus happily be arranged,
and the advantages of railway communication may be
extended, even at the eleventh hour, to our vast pos-
sessions in Hindostan.

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive the reasons by
which' the Court of Directors could have been influ-
enced to understand the grounds of their policy, in
suffering a matter of such vital importance to the
British interests in India to remain in abeyance, while
they were engaged in wordy warfare, in undignified
squabbles, and fine•drawn arguments, as to the con-
struction of their contracts with the several railway
companies. If India is, indeed, to have railways;
if its vast resources are to be properly dee
veloped by additional facilities for cheap and
expeditious modes of transit, something must speedily
be done either by the East India Company itself, or
by such private parties as may be induced to enter
upon the speculation in consideration of the favour-
able terms that may be offered. No unnecessary
delays should be interposed to the attainment of the
great desideratum.

It may possibly be deemed more expedient that
these gigantic undertakings should be carried out by
private enterprise in India as well as in this
country. But if such enterprise should prove
inadequate to the purpose—if the only alter-
native should be, either that the several lines
should be neglected, or that they should be
constructed at the expense and for the benefit
of the East India Company itself, surely,
no rational doubt can be entertained as to the course
that should be adopted. In whatever point of view
we regard the question, whether we examine its com-
mercial or its political bearings—whether we desire
to see the trade and commerce of the country ex-
tended, and its productions increased and made easily
available, or wish to consolidate and strengthen the
British power, so as to render our Indian empire:as
permanent as any merely human institution can be,
the introduction of the railway system seems equally
essential. The production of cotton is languishing
and failing. America is rapidly attaining a
monopoly in the supply, in consequence of the
great disadvantages attending the carriage of the
cotton wool from the place where it is culti-
vated to the markets where it may be disposed
of. If additional facilities for transport were afforded,
British India might speedily be enabled to compete
with the United States, and, if necessary, furnish an
abundant supply of the raw material for the use :of
the factories of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Mr MAC-
GREGOR, in his admirable work on " Commercial
Statistics," tells us (vol. iv., p. 731) :

" As some one of the several species of cotton plants
may be found in every district of Hindostan, from Cape
Comorin to the Himalaya mountains, it is assumed that
no portion of the globe of equal extent is capable of
yielding so large a quantity of this useful material; and,
from the earliest ages, cotton is often alluded to as a
special production of India. It is also assumed that no
part of India has a climate unsuited to the production of
superior cotton. That this assumption is demonstrated
by the fact that the best samples are produced in
Guzerat, at the north-west extremity, in Behar, in the
centre, and at Tumivelly, on the most southern point."
We are also told, on the same high authority, that
" At Omrawutte cotton is grown at the rate of two
pounds for twopence, in moderately favourable seasons,
and did good roads exist, this article could be delivered
at Bombay at a handsome remunerating price.. It is
now carried on the bads of bullocks, and the extra cog

thus incurred, amountl to a penny per pound more. This
cotton is but little inferior to that grown in Guzerat,
which is looked upon as the garden of India."
Surely, under such circumstances, if no other ad-
vantage were to be derived, either at home or in
India, something should be done to confer so great a
benefit on both countries. We need not speak of the
incalculable quantities of wheat and other cerelea,
which could be obtained at so cheap a
rate, although
." about two-fifths of the whole
fertile soil of India are at present untilled, which
would necessarily be brought into cultivation, to meet
an Increased demand for cereal supplies," or of the
other productions of its soil, although we are told by
Mr. MACGREGOR'S (" Commercial Statistics," vol.
iv., p. 541), that—
" The great desideratum which prevents their infi-
nitely greater development is the great want of cheap,
speedy, and convenient transport to and from the ship-
ping ports. The waters of the Ganges have been, and
may yet, for all purposes, be rendered the means of
this transport for the regions drained by that river and
its branches. Over all other parts of India the effect of
the rains and torrents in destroying ordinary roads
leads us to conclude that the constitution of railroads will
alone obviate the present incalculable disadvantages, under
which India is paralysed by the obstructions to speedy and
cheap transport."

Surely the benefits to be derived from a cheap,
certain, and abundant supply of cotton alone would
be sufficient not merely to justify, but to render im-
perative every exertion to remove the only impedi-
ment to its more extensive cultivation in British
India.

But the political advantages are no less striking
than the commercial. How greatly might men and
money be economised—how might our forces be
reduced if they could be concentrated in a few
days on any spot where their services might be
deemed essential. One man might do the work of
two or three when facilities for locomotion were
afforded. In place of crawling up the country,
with quantities of luggage borne on bullocks or
camels, at the rate of ten or twelve miles, three
hundred or four hundred miles might be traversed
with the utmost ease in the twenty-four hours.
The native Princes would no longer be tempted
to revolt, when certain that any acts of treachery
would be speedily chastised, that a sufficient force
could be brought into the field on a brief notice.
The five months during which, according to the un-
questionable authority of the conqueror of Sinde, the
new Commander-in-Chief of India, hostile operations
can alone be carried on, would not be unnecessarily
consumed in moving a body of troops to the locality
where they were required, to be detained in inglorious
inaction during the remainder of the year until the
recurrence of the time when hostilities could
be resumed, or rather commenced, while the prestige
attached to the British name was gradually depart-
ing, from the temporary impunity afforded to the in•
surgents. Those evils would all be averted by a
judiciously arranged system of railways, which would
thus afford the strongest guarantees for the preserva-
tion of peace and tranquillity, for few will attack
the powerful, or provoke those who could
speedily punish their transgressions. But if,
indeed, hostilities should be rendered inevitable—.
if we should be compelled to take the field, our army
would do so fresh and ready for action, without
being exhausted by a prolonged march, or incumbered
with the enormous quantities of baggage or the innu-
merable hordes of camp followers, whose attendance
is so inconvenient, but who cannot, under the present
system, be left behind. The conveyance of the troops
a few hundred miles by railway would speedily get
rid of these worse than useless incumbrances.
In any point of view, then, we repeat, commercial or
political, the construction of railways would confer
inestimable advantages upon our Indian empire. It
is but a question of time, for they must inevitably be
completed at some period, sooner or later. And if the
Court of Directors should continue apathetic during
the remaining term of their charter, and omit the
means within their power, for the de-
velopment of the resources of the mighty
empire that is placed under their govern-
ment, it will indeed become a serious question
whether they shall be granted a renewal of their
charter, or again entrusted with extensive powers
similar to those which they would have so grievously
misapplied.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
There are two additional protests against the law
for the suppression of clubs, published in these jour-
nals; the one from the "Democratic Association of the
Friends of the Constitution," signed by MM.Bucinz
GEEVY, and several members of the Moderate Repub-
lican party; the other from the Editors of the Reforme,
Democratic Pacue, Republique, Peuple, Revolution,
Democratique et Sociale, Populaire, and Travail
Ajjerauche. The Committee on the proposed law, to
which th e amendment of M. VICTOR LEFRAISC has
been referred, met on Thursday. M. CREMIEUX
officiated as chairman, and M. SENARD and the other
Members who had seceded on the previous day were
present. M. DE LAPOULIE has been appointed to
draw up the report.
M. PROUDHON'S journal, Le Peuple, was seized on
Thursday on account of two articles. The one headed
" Resistance is Legal," advises that a club be formed
and that in case of dispersion, the people should be
called on to refuse to pay taxes or to take military
service, or to obey the law in any way. The other
article refers to the stoppage of the allowance of bread
to the necessitous people on the 26th, by which
300,000 persons would be left to starve. In this article
the Government is accused of having violated its com-
pact with the people by not bringing forward the
organic law for the relief of the distressed.

'The ,Patrie of Thursday evening publishes the fol-
lowing official contradiction of the statements con-
tained in Le Peuple with regard to the stoppage of
relief. It says :
In a new article on the relief granted to the citizens
in want, the Peuple persists in the system which it has
adopted, for the purpose of spreading alarm • and not-
withstanding the contradictions which have been given,
it again affirms that the distribution of relief will
cease on the 25th instant, and that 300,000 persons are
on the point of being given up to the excruciating tortures
of hunger in the city of Paris. We can only repeat that
the allegations of the Peuple are false in every point.
Not only will :the distribution of relief not be discon-
tinued on the 25th, but it may be affirmed that it
will be continued as long as necessary to the profit of
the truly necessitous by means of the resources which a
wise foresight has been able to economise. We will add,
that the figures cited by the Potpie are pure invention.
It results from official returns that the number of citizens
who have received relief, deducting those inscribed on
the ordinary lists of the Bureaux de Bienfaisance, has
fallen to 126,048, and everything leads to a hope that
this number will continue to diminish weekly under the
influence of the resumption of labour. It is proved, in
fact, that in almost every branch of industry in Paris
there is a very sensible movement of amelioration, and it
is precisely this system, evident to all, which causes the
despair of the journal of anarchy."
The Ministers, had they been well advised, would
have abstained from publishing this official contra-
diction in the Patrie. The statements in Le Peuple
are never received as articles of faith. M. PROUD..
BON is too well known for his exaggerations to pro-
duce any disastrous effect; but when we have it from
official authority that there are at this moment
126,048 necessitous persons in Paris receiving relief
from the State, in addition to the average number of re-
gular paupers who receive relief in the ordinary man-
ner, alarm for the preservation of the public peace must
necessarily be created in the minds of every reflective
person, and that very alarm, by diminishing public
confidence which was about to revive, will increase
the amount of destitution, and thus add to the evil.
This official declaration is worse than a fault, it is a
mistake.

The Government has prohibited the further represen-
tation of a new vaudeville at the Gymnase, called La
Dance des Bears, because it contains certain satirical
hits at the Ministry, which were exceedingly well re-
ceived. M. ODILON BARROT and his col-
leagues are much more thin-skinned than were
General CAVAIGNAC and his friends. While the
General was the chief of the Executive, the Govern-
ment and the Assembly were constantly ridiculed by
the vaudevillists, but so far from showing any an-
noyance at this continued fire of "paper pellets,"
General CAVAIGNAC attended the theatre, and was the
first to laugh at the witty attacks of the satirical
dogs directed against himself. The suppression of
this vaudeville is another mistake, on the part of the
Ministry, more damaging than a fault. "It is only
little men who fear little writings," says FIGARO.
The National Assembly was occupied during the
greater part of the sitting of Thursday in discussing
the budget of the Minister of Public Works.
M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE left Paris for Madrid
yesterday.
The section of the Tours and Nantes Railroad
between Saumur and Angers was opened on the
18th inst.

The trial at Bourges was continued on Thursday,
on which day 26 witnesses were examined.

The amount of business transacted at the Paris
Bourse yesterday was limited. The Five per Cents.
opened at 82f. 40c., fell to 82f,, rose to 82f. 75c., and
closed at 82f. 70c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, B%—Namur and Liege, 83,i
Rouen and Havre, 11.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived.
Senor GALIANO, in the sitting of the Chamber of
Deputies on the 16th, put a question to the Minister
on the subject of the proposed armed intervention in
support of the PorE. General NARvAEz, in answer,
said that the Government of Spain had offered its
assistance to the PorE, and that it was ready to fulfil
its promise, but that it was necessary to act with
great judgment and reflection in the matter, and that
in the present state of affairs he felt it his duty to
decline giving further information. The fact is, the
Spanish Government has neither money nor credit ;
and the expedition cannot be fitted out for want of
funds.

MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 17.—Tbe Three per
Cents. were done at 23 1.16 cash, and 23 buyers,
after the close ; Five per Cents., 104 to i ; Coupons,
61; Passive Debt, 3 13-16 to i.
Treasury Bills, 66 ; Exchange on London, 50.

" FERDIN AND.

(Signed)
" Gaeta, March 12, 1849."
Countersigned by the
" Minister of Foreign Affairs, CARIATI.
Public Works, CARA SCOSA.
Agriculture and Commerce, TORELLA.
Grace and Justice, GRILL
Public Instruction, B(.2ELLI.
War and Marine, D'EaCEETELLA.
Finance, RUGGIERO.
Interior, LONGOBARDI."
This decree is preceded by a report of the Ministers,
setting forth the reasons which have induced them to
recommend the dissolution, which reasons amount to
this—that finding they did not possess the confi-
dence of the Parliament, they, instead of adopting
the Constitutional rule of tendering their resignation,
and advising the Kira to call on those who did possess
the confidence of Parliament to form a ministry,
thought it better to stick to their places and dissolve
the Parliament, without fixing a time for the calling
together of another. This is a hopeful beginning of
the Constitutional KING, and must tend greatly to
reassure the Sicilians, and to induce them to trust the
word of one who is so punctiliously observant of his
promises to respect constitutional guarantees.
Naples is represented as on the eve of revolution. No
troops can be spared for Sicily, as all the effective force
is required to keep the Calabrians and the city of Naples
quiet; the frontier between Naples and the Roman
States is almost unguarded, and an attack from Rome
occurring simultaneously with a rising in Calabria,
and a renewal of active hostilities by the Sicilians,
would shake the throne of FERDINAND, and probably
end in the junction of Naples with the Roman
Republic.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS D V.
LONDON, MAncit 24.-1 V hid this day at noun N.N.E.
light breeze and fine dry weather.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 23.--Wind N.E.—Arr3., 22d.
St. Anne, Le Boutellier, Pernambuco; 211, Mallon;
Temis, Porto Plata, for Altona. Sid. 22d, Victoria,
Trinidad.

HULL, MARCH 23.—WindMiS Turner,
Bombay; Naprina, New York; Forager, St John's,
New Brunswick.

BELFAST, MARCH, 22.—Wind S.S.W. Arrd. 21,
John Stewart, Mauritius. Sld. Peru, Demarara.
LONDONDERRY, MARCH 19.—Arrd. Abercromby,
Loutett, New Orleans. Sld. Admiral, New York.
KINGSTON, MARCH 22.—Sld. Don Pedro, Rio Grande.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. 22,
Coquette, Barnes, Smyrna for London. SR Jessy,
Beyrout. 23, Patna, Batavia; Duke of Wellington,
Calcutta; Anne Melhuish, Lima; Selina, V.,lparaiso;
Choice, Buenos Ayres; A tala, New Orleans; Swanton,
ditto; Woodstock, ditto; Niagara, Mobile ; Abbey Lands,
Staten Island; St. Lawrence, New York; Iconium,
Boston; Thomas, St. John's, N. 8.; Adelaide, Halifax;
Montreal, Montreal.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Emily,
Wilson, Gambia; Invincible, Doff, Jaffa, with sails split.
OFF SALCOMEE, MARCH 23. Wind N.E. 22,
Louise Maria, Bie, Batavia for Amsterdam.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd.
Ellida, Thessen, Singapore for Hamburgh.
DEAL, MARCH 23.—Wind E.N.E. to N.E., squally.—
Arrd. from the River and ald., John Witt, Donovan,
Sydney, N.S.W.; Brankenmore, James„Adelaide, S.A.;
Loharee, Errington, Bombay; Mountain Maid, Wishart,
Cape of Good Hope; Rose, Palot, Gambia; Concord,
Potter, Antigua; Acadia, Dunn, Halifax; Gaulle, Owen,
New foundland.

HOLYHEAD, MARCH 23.—The Corsair, Leadley, of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Liverpool for Windsor, Nova
Scotia, has put in here this day leaky, having been on
shore near Taskar.

WIVENHUE, MARCH 23.—The Jeanne D'Arc, of
Honfleur, from Valery Sur Somme to Blyth, has been
assisted in here, having been on shore on the Long Sand.
SUNDERLAND, MARCH 23.—Wind W. by N.—Sid 22d,
Woodman, Havannah; Royal William, New York.
SHIELDS, MARCH 23. Wind N. to N.E.
22d, Neptune, New York; Rhodes, St. John's, New
Brunswick.

DUBLIN, Minn 22.—Wind S.S.E. —Arrd. Anne
Johnstone, Hooper, Barbadoes. Sid 21st, Countess of
Zetland, Porto Rico; Prima Donna, ditto.
Burma., MARCEL 23.—Wind E. Sld 22d, Hindustan
New York. ,

ALISOIVSHISTORY OF EUROPE•

Eighth Edition. yol. j --
-
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTR AITS .
Another edition of Mr. Alison's renowned " His-
tor y of Europo, from the Commencement of the French
Revolution to the P►estoration of the Bourbon.," is
now being issued from the establiThinent of the
Messrs. Blackwood. It is the eighth edition pub-
lished of this extraordinary work—a work not less
remarkable for its laborious research than for the
lucidity of its style and the eloquence of its composi-
tion. On the 9th of June, 1847, when speaking of
the smaller volumes then appearing in succession, we
observed in The Son as follows :—" It only requires
now the publication of a series of engraved portraits
of the many extraordinary personages whose lives
are comprised in this European history to render the
edition perfect." In speaking thus, we were only
expressing an opinion which had doubtless already'
occurred to the historian himself and to his eminent
publishers. 'The labour is now accomplished--the
narrative has at last received its crowning decoration.
We have here submitted to our consideration the first
volume of an edition superbly embellished—printed
in octavo with new pica type—and accompanied with
a re-issue of the costly atlas produced by the distin-
guished geographer, Alexander Keith Johnston. The
engravings introduced in the opening chapters are,
very appropriately, the likenesses of the unfor-
tunate King Louts THE SIXTEENTH and his beautiful
Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE—the interest attached to'
the portraits being enhanced by the assurance con-
tained in the " advertisement," that they are copied
from originals " selected with the strictest regard to
authenticity and correct resemblance." Both plates
afford a striking corroboration of that assurance.
One, taken from the painting by Callet, represents
the gentle-hearted descendant of Capet—that good,
forgiving; amiable Louis whom Robespierre always
mentioned as " the tyrant!" The features although
clumsily chiselled and almost obese, are nevertheless
suffused with the delicacy of expression and softness
of outline peculiar to the race of the Bourbons, that
race at first so august and heroic, at last so weak and
effeminate. In the formation of the mouth of Louis
you have the clue to his destiny ; it reveals at once
the goodness and the vacillation of temperament that
led to his misfortunes and ultimately to his destruc-
tion. It is nearly impossible to look at any truthful
effigy of the greatest victim of the Revolution without
regarding him as a man who has completed at least
five decades—and yet Louis was only thirty-seven
when he perished so bravely on the scaffold! His
career constitutes one of the most affecting pages in
the annals of humanity, and his portrait is conse-
quently associated with all the privations and pomp,
the agony and joy, the serenity and the melancholy,
the weakness and the valour, the tears and the blood,
which make up the chequered materials of his biogra-
phy. A fitting companion, and yet a striking contrast,
to the portrait of the last of the Feudal Sovereigns is
that of the graceful, haughty, and lovely Antoinette.
Her countenance—the very mirror of her character—
has been here transferred, from the celebrated minia-
ture of Benezack. Both of the plates have been ex-
quisitely engraved by the hand of T. W. Harland.
They are only the forerunners of a long catalogue.
They are to be succeeded by others of—MtuaneAu,
the Orator and Genius of the Revolution—DAN-rote,
the author of the massacre of September—lUAßAT, the
bloodhound, who demanded 300,000 heads from the
guiIIotine—ROBESPIERRE, the creator of Terrorism—.
MotteAu, the victor of Hohenlinden—Ner, the
bravest of the brave—BURKE.—SUWARROW--the
ARCHDUKE CHARLES--NELSON—Pirr—Fox—WEL-
LIN GTON —GEORGE the Titian —CASTLEREAGH--
JOSEPHINE—MURAT, the great horseman of the
Empire—BLUCHER—METTERNICH—TALLEYRAND—.
ALEXANDER—NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, the General
—and, besides many more, NAPOLEON the Emperor.
The volumes, we have said, are accompanied in succes-
sion by a re-issue of the illustrative atlas; and the
history would be almost as incomplete without the
atlas as the atlas would be without the history. We
shall watch the progress of this splendid edition with
considerable interest, as the work will, when brought
to a conclusion, constitute a double testimony of the
genius of the historian and of the enterprise of the
publishers.

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