The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-16 00:00:00

lated amounts, in carriage for the goods and tolls for
the passengers. Every thing in the, arrangement h::s
gone on hitherto as merrily as " a marriage bell "
that being, in the estimation of Childe Harold (though,
unhappily, his estimate was uncorroborated by his ex-
perience), the most hilarious article of ironmongery.
But on the Bth and 9th instant certain documents
were exchanged between the secretaries of the two
companies, announcing, on the one part, the deter-
mination of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
not to allow the trains of the East Lancashire Rail-
way to pass the Clifton Junction in future, without
delivering up the invoices of the goods, or the tickets
of the passengers, and intimating, on the other
part, the resolution of the East Lancashire
Company, to proceed as usual, the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company to the contrary, neverthe-
less, notwithstanding. Now, both the companies
appear to possess in a very large degree that national
quality which Mr. EMERSON considers to be the pre-
vailing characteristic of Englishmen. They both
have pluck. Both abound in what the Scotch term
"wilfu' men," and all the " wilfu' men" of both
companies would "gang their ane gait." The
consequence was, of course, a collision, but un-
fortunately the collision was of a physical descrip-
tion. Instead of knocking their own heads together
(which would doubtless have been mutually service-
able), they tried to knock together the heads
of their passengers, and by that means settle their
dispute in a right royal way, by deputy. As we
are rather of the same mind, however, with Made-
moiselle Jeannette in the song; and as we would wil-
lingly, if possible, lay it down as an universal axiom—
" Let those who make the quarrels
Be the only men to fight!"
we do at once, and most earnestly, deprecate the
conduct pursued by the officials of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company in obstructing the
line with barricades of timber, and in otherwise
striving to gratify a pique at the expense of the un-
conscious and unoffending public. Well may the
general manager of the East Lancashire Railway,
when recounting the result of these extraordinary
proceedings, express the horror and astonishment
with which he saw one of the trucks backed on to
another shunt and impelled along a different line of
rails in the face of other trains approaching from
Manchester I

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived.
It is said that NARVAEZ is extremely anxious to
take the command of the expedition for the restoration
of the POPE.

The Marquis of BEDMAR is laid up with inflamma-
tion of the lungs. He has been visited by the QUEEN
incognito.

GERMAN Y

AND

THE NORTHERN STATE

AUSTRIA.

Letters from Pesth announce il;e arrival of Prince
WINDISCHGRATZ at Buda. He is said to have been
wounded in some of the recent battles.
Great excitement prevails at Prague, and it is ex-
pected that the city will be declared in a state of
siege.

. Comparatively speaking, it matters little to the
public whether or not the conduct of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway authorities was dictated by
feelings of jealousy, but it does concern the public
most deeply, both in regard to its convenience,
and especially in regard to the safety of its
life and property, that trains full of goods
and travellers should be jeopardised through
the irritability of Captain LAWS, or through
the illegal " pluck" of any general manager, be he
Captain, Commodore, or Admiral-of-the-Fleet. Any
occurrence so disgraceful has not hitherto been re-
corded in the annals of our great railroad under-
takings. Until the proceedings of last Monday
morning at the Clifton Junction, the rivalry of dif-
ferent companies has scarcely ever proved otherwise
than advantageous to the public—and, most certainly,
until then, that rivalry had never imperilled
public life and public property. Before Captain
Laws, with a temerity which may yet recoil
severely upon himself, ventured to adjudicate upon
his own case, and to fight the battles of his company,
in true railway style, by steam—the competition be-
ween line and line had only furbished up the abilities,
the promptitude, and the enterprise of different com-
panies, just as bits of iron are polished by the friction
of an ingenious instrument called the scrap-drum in
one of the railway workshops in the railway town of
Wolverton. Here, however, is a case so un-•
paralleled that it must always be looked
to hereafter as a precedent. Let the law
render that precedent beneficial to the na-
tional interest. Otherwise, the petulance, or
as Mr. EMERSON might perhaps call it, the pluck of '
Captain LAWS may on another occasion compel us to
catalogue the number of killed and wounded in one
of his Battles of the Steam-engines.

The French Five per Cents, have fallen no less than 3f. , diture was, by these successive augmentations, in-
-400. Finee ye,lerlsy, and the ether le,.uritivs lifts been 'cr !1-,, ,' !., 7'7 097,490 11, -: i,,, ; .. :,,..,. i:,, bi,,,, ! ol
equally tlepre;s,:!d, Fur a ,llort time to day tl-,ere Wit' w;:yi and tneann, which was calculated at 71 646,451
'he th.rins, realised only 65,948;947 florins. Ni. 5i.01..7.
a complete panic, which ~vrts gr.,atly incr..,:5..4-1 by
rep.rt that. F.,,giand .v.... preparing a large fleet t . e ' pr.
cover the
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poses to Lhe ounsitielahle deficit. 01 the Ex-
sent to the Mediterranean. the Bank of France Shares
chequer by the sale of land in Java. This proposal
and the Railway Shares also gave way. There were
various contradictory reports current, but they do not appears to be highly approved both by the members
appear to have had any good foundation. Exchange of the Chambers and by capitalists. it only remains
on London (thirty days), 25 22} to 20; ditto (ninety to be seen whether buyers will offer themselves ; it is
days), 25 12i. expected that this will be the case, for the Govern-
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE ment will of course offer great advantages to pur-
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 15. chasers, especially on a large scale.
Boulogne and Amiens, 841—Central of France (Orleans The .6taats Courant says,—Several journals are
and Vierzon), 12—Nan= and Liege, 8% Northern of
France, 11—Orleans and Bordeaux, VA—Luxembourg, 14 circulating the report that the projects of law pre-
sented by Government to the Second Chamber are to
—Paris and Strasbourg, 414—Rouen and Havre, 121/,,
be withdrawn. This report is entirely without foun-
dation. There has not even been a question of with-
drawing even a single project of law. The Govern-
ment is waiting to know the observations which the
various projects will give rise to in the Chambers. It
will take note of them, take them into consideration,
and introduce into all the projects those ameliorations
which may be proposed by men so capab!e of pro-
posing them. The projects, thus duly weighed and
amended unanimously, will be submitted to the vote
of the Chamber, which, whether it approves or re-
jects them, will certainly have in view the best in-
terests of the country.--. Dutch Papers, March 14.

ITALY.

The Ministers of England and France have given
notice to CHARLES ALBERT ,that if he recommence
hostilities against the Austrians they should demand
their passports.
The following manifesto has been published at
Rome :
" THE ROMAN REPUBLIC TO ALL NATIONS.
" THE CONSTITUENT ♦SSEMBLY.
" A new nation presents itself to you to solicit and to
offer friendly feeling, respect, fraternity. The nation
that formerly was the most illustrious on the face of the
earth, presents itself to you as a new one. But between
the ancient grandeur and this resurrection the Papal
power stood for upwards of a thousand years. People
of Europe, we knew each other when the name of the
people of Rome inspired terror ; we have known each
other whe❑ our name excited pity. Yoti may abhor the
memory of that age of dominion and violence, but you
cannot condemn us to excite for ever the pity of the
world. Which of you would wish to be pitied? The
people of the Roman State have determined to re-
form their political constitution, and have created a
Republic; and before this great act of the imprescripti-
ble sovereignty of the people, the past is destroyed and
vanishes. The people have willed it. Who is above the
people? God alone; but God created the people for
liberty. The people have willed it, and they need not
seek justification for the past; their reason is anterior to
every human act. But, if we turn our eyes to the past,
we may with tranquillity contemplate the ruins of the
Papal power, much more so than the latter, when it con-
templated the ruins of our ancient political greatness.
The history of Italy was a tale of sorrow, and a large
portion of it was ascribed to the Papal power. And,
notwithstanding, when the Pope came forward and
placed the cross on the national banner, the world saw
that the Italians were ready to forget the faults of the
Holy See, and the revolution began in the name of
a Pope; but that was the touchstone of what a
Pope could or could not do. The predecessors of
the last Sovereign had been too cautious to attempt the
trial, and their power was measured only by the
misery entailed upon the people. The last Sovereig❑
was the first to risk the attempt, anti wished to atop
wr:t•n he discovered that he had revealed a terrible truth,
namely, the impotency of the Papal power to render the
Italian nation tree, independent, aed glorious; he wi.•bed
to withdraw from the work, but it was too late, for
Papacy had judged itself. It is hence that the down-
fall of Popery has been so near its glory; the glory of
the Papal power was the northern light that precedes
the darkness. We still hoped, but a system of reaction
was the answer that came from the Papal power. Re-
action fell; the Pope at first dissembled, saw the tran-
quillity of the people, and fled; and in his flight he bore
with him the certainty of exciting civil war; he violated
the political constitution, lett us without a Government,
repelled the messengers of the people, fomented
discord, then threw himself into the arms of
the most ferocious enemy of Italy, and excommu-
nicated the people! These facts sufficiently show that
the Papal Sovereignty neither could, nor would,
modify itself, and nothing was left but to bear it or de-
stroy it. It was destroyed. If the liberality of kings,
or the toleration of nations, had placed the Papal power
in the city of the Scipios and Ctesars, instead of in the
heart of France, or on the banks of the Danube or the
Thames, was that a reason for depriving the Italians of
all the rights common to nations—the country and li-
berty? And if it be true that the possession of a tem-
poral Sovereignty be necessary to the spiritual power of
the Pontificate, although it was not on such a condition
that Jesus Christ promised immortality to his Church,
was Rome then destined to become the patrimony of the
Pope, and be so for ever? Rome, the patrimony of a
Sovereignty, that to subsist was forced to oppress, and
to be glorious was forced to fall? And, as a patri-
'mony of Papacy, was Rome to be the permanent
cause of the ruin of Italy? Rome, whose tradi-
tions, whose name, nay, whose ruins so loudly
speak of liberty and patriotism? Provoked and aban-
doned to ourselves, we have effected the revolution with-
out spilling a drop of blood—we have re-edified almost
without letting the sound of demolition be heard—we
have completely uprooted the sovereignty of the Popes,
after having patiently submitted to it for so many ages
—not from any hatred of Papacy, but from love of our
country. When a revolution has been effected with such
morality of purpose and means, it is at once proved that
this people did not deserve to be under the sway of Papacy,
but was worthy of being its own master, worthy of the
Republic! It is worthy, therefore, of being admitted
into the great family of nations, and of obtaining your
friendship and esteem. The Roman Republic will bear
the stamp of its origin. It will make a free people de-
fend the religious independence of the Pontiff, to whom
the religion of a republican people will be worth more
than a few roods of territory. The Roman Republic
proposes to apply the laws of morality and universal
charity to the line of conduct it intends to follow, and to
the development of its political life.
" For the Assembly,
" Rome, March 2."

The President, G. GALLETTI.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in his court in the
Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn.
EVANS V. PROTHEROE.-JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment today in this
case, the arguments in which were concluded on Wed-
nesday last. The case came before his Lordship upon
appeal from the decision of the Vice• Chancellor Wigram,
who had refused to grant a new trial of an issue relating
to the ownership of a house in Wales. The contest.
which was a family one, turned upon the question whe-
ther the title under which the plaintiff claimed was a
legal one, by means of an assignment to one James Evans,
or only a permissive one. The jury at the trial found a
verdict in favour of the plaintiff, and the defendant ap-
plied by motion io the court below for a new trial on the
ground that the verdict was against evidence. The Vice-
Chancellor Wigram refused to grant the new trial, and
from that decision the defendant appealled to this branch
of the Court. His Lordship, after going shortly into
the case, stated his opinion to be that the defendant was
entitled to a new trial, thereby reversing the decision of
thu Court below.
Judgment reversed and new trial granted.
Th., Court then proceeded to hear unopposed lunatic
petitions.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The Master of the Rolls heard causes to-day, but no
case of any interest except to the parties concerned came
before his Lordship during the morning.