The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

11111 E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1849.7

(Ironical cheers.) They had never played them false.—
(Renewed ironical cheering, and cries of " Oh, oh.")
Honourable Gentlemen opposite had over and over again
said that the Right Honourable Baronet (Sir R. Peel)
was pledged to support the corn-laws, and the ree-
traders had always told them it was no such thing. The
Right Hon. Baronet had repealed those laws because
be happened to be the Prime Minister, but a y one
who stood in his place must have done the same.—
(" Oh, oh 1") Every year more of the farmers were
coming round to free-trade opinions.—(" Oh, oh !") ,
Had they not seen the farmers at their country meet
ings giving up all hope of restoring protection, and
looking to a reduction of taxation as a means of relief?
Some proposed an alteration in the malt-tax, but Gen-
tlemen who knew a little better: what was passing in
the mind of the Chancellor of the Exchequer candidly
told the farmers that if they went to Downing-street
and demanded the reduction of that tax, tle--y would be
asked, " What had they to offer as a substitute ?"
(Hear.) The question had Leen put to him in deputa-
tions over and over again, and had always placed the
deputations in a fix ; but then they were appointed
not to propose the substitution of a new, but the-
removal of an old tax.—(Hear.) The farmers would
naturally answer they did not know what to substitute.
but that it appeared to them Government spent more
money than America did—for farmers now knew there
was such a country as America, because corn came from
it.—(" Oh, oh," and a laugh.) Sometimes, too, they
would stroll along Pall mall, and see the magnifieen:
clubhouses in the course of erection—(" Oh, ob")—and
the thought would come into their heads that
17,000,0001. was a larger sum than they ought to
spend for army and navy, for the farmers were not afraid
of the French, though very much afraid of French corn.
—(A laugh.) No doubt there was distress, particularly
in the southern counties. It was the duty of the agricul
tural Members to press on the Government with the fri e
traders—(" Oh, oh!")—not if they did not like it—th..
necessity of making every practical reduction in expen-
diture, in order to effect some diminution in agricultural
as well as in manufacturing suffering. Let them recol-
lect what that taxation really was They were accus-
tomed to vote millions as if every county in England was
Calitornia, and as if the gold was not produced by the
sweat and industry of men who were as much entitled
to their honest, merciful, and just consideration a,
the proudest and wealthiest in either House of Parlia
meat. When he turned to the last three years, during
which the manufacturing population had suffered tht
most intense misery, and when he saw how noble hart
been their conduct, he thought that the present ques-
tion, supported by opinion so universal and fortified by
facts and arguments which there had been hardly an
attempt to meet, deserved the greatest consideration at
the hands of the House, and that if they would not con
cede the whole, they would at least go as far as they could
in reducing the expenditure, and lessening the ►uffering
of the people.—(Cheers and counter -cheers.)
Mr. DRUMMOND said that the Manchester Guar-
dian was a great libeller, if the statement of the Hon.
Gentleman opposite as to the spirit of their meetings wa-
c ,rrect. If the free• traders went to the farmers, the latter
might, be reminded of the saying—trust not your erne
mien, even when they bring you good news. The grounds
oa which the motion was justified were a gross delusion.
When a man lived in a tranquil village in Cornwall or
Wales he might leave his door open, but he suspected
the Manchester gentlemen used locks and bars, and
took precautions, according to their opinions of their
neighbours. In the same way the present ques-
tion was not one of finance but of safety. They
must look to the state of their neighbours.
It was a delusion in the farmers to bring
this motion forward as a means of relieving their
burdens.—(Cheers) The free-traders swallowed the
camel of 28,000,0001. interest on the national debt without
an effort, but they could not get down the little gnat of
18,000,000/. for military and naval expenditure. What
they ought to do was not to diminish taxation, but
to relieve the public debt, which was the only means
of freeing capital, and it was deluding the
people to tell them there was any way of in-
creasing employment but by increasing the capital of
the employer. In the meantime the Manchester school,
not the mass of the people, were using every effort to put
our population out of work, and, no matter what Mi-
nister was in Downing-street, there was not one member
of any Government who dared to stand up for the
English labourer against the foreign labourer, and every
one of the free-traders was going to employ foreign labour
alone, and to discard English labour altogether.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 7B
Against it
Majority —l97
. _ _

The House then went into Committee of Supply pro
forma. The House resumed; the Chairman reported
prcgress, and obtained leave to sit again on Friday next.
RELIEF OF DISTRESS (IRELAND).

This Bill then passed through Committee.
In reply to Mr. STAFFORD,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that he would endeavour to
bring on the Irish P ior Bill on Thursday.
VICE-GUARDIANS (IRELAND).

The House re:o ved itself into a Committee on this
Bill.

Sir W. SOMERVILLE proposed to fill up the blank
in the Bill with the date of the 25th of March, 1850, as
the period to which the power of the vice-guardians
should extend.

Several Irish Members objected to that date, and
wished that of the 29th of September next to be fixed
in preference.
The Committee then divided, when there appeared—
For the original motion 5O
Against it
Majority for the Government
Colonel DUNNE then moved that the Chairman should
report progress.
Sir G. GREY hoped the Committee would allow the
Bill to pass through this stage, and take the discussion
on bringing up the report.
The motion was then withdrawn, and the Bill passed
through Committee.

The Overseers (Cities and Boroughs) Bill, and the
Out-door Paupers Bill, were read a second time.
The Petty Sessions Bill, and Distraining for Rates
Bill, were committed pro forma for the introduction of
amendments.

Mr. HEADLAM moved for, and obtained leave, to
bring in a Bill to consolidate and amend the laws relat-
ing to the conveyance and transfer of real and personal
property vested in mortgagees, trustees, and persons
under I• gal disabilities.
The House adjourned at One o'clock.

ROBERT HOUDIN. - ST. JAMES'S
THEATRE.
Close of the attractive Entertainment.
M. ROBERT HOUDIN will have the hoz.our to repeat his extra-
ordinary SOIREES FA.NTASTIQUES, at this Theatre as follows:
This Evening (Tuesday) February 27.
To-Morrow Morning (Wednesday) „ 28.
Thursday Evening .. .. March 1.
Saturday Evening .. • . „ 3.
Being the last Entertainment, owing to M. Houdin's departure for
the provinces.
Evening Performance at Half-past Eight ; Day Performance at
Half-past Two.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, ls. Gd.
Boxes, Stalls, and Ti diets for this extraordinary Entertainment
may be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ;
and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven
till Five o'clock.

• A Mt; nu VAL, HAYMAItKN.a.
Mr. B. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton.
The public is respectflilly informed that this Theatre has, during
Le recess, undergcne very extensive repairs sad alterations and the
'hole f &decorated.

TURA MX ROYAL, ADELNIL
nder the direction o: Madame Celeate

During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the
riginal designs by Digby Wyatt, Bag , executed by Mr. Sang. A
.iew Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved eye-
tam of Ventilation, Sec., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered mere comfortable.

THIS EVENINi
Will be performed COCKNEYS IN CALIFORNIA.
After which, the original Drama, called HARVEST
NOME. Principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Lambert,
Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, Sec.

To conclude with JOHN JONES. Guy G•odluck, Mr. Lambert
Eliza Melton, Miss E. Chaplin.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEAT ttE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestrib
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mwhe
THIS EVENII•TO

Will be performed SHAVE YOU DIRECTLY.

After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF
ruz PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve,
Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil-
lam, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L.
Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris.
To conclude with UsED
Dress ,oats, rm.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s ; Gallery, Is. No
.alt-1 rice to any Part of the house.

PRINCESS'S
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and t.anager.
DurtnK the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel-
Ished In a superb and costly manner ty.Mr llurwitz. A new Chan-
lelier has been fitted, and the best fil.rar men is have been made for
the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the co inert and convellenee
of the audience.

Will be performed the THIS EVENING.Opera of LA VIVANDIERE.
To conclude with a new gr.md Pantomime, entitled BLUFF
KING HAL ; or, Harlequin ana `At Charmed Arrow. Harlequin,
roic,gtia; Pantaloon, Mr. Paula; Clown, Mr. Flexmore; Sprite,
Mr. De Barr; Columbine, Ales Fawcett.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL
&AMPUITREATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
3 Royal
I7ader the Patronage of her Majesty
rt, c the Queen hiHirhe„,,
Prince .
Mr. Batty respectfully announces that he has entered into an en-
gagement with the celebrated American Equestrian Young Harnett-
(l4 z, who has just arrive d in this country, and whose talent has
gained for him the title of the firstMa rider in the world. He will make
his first appearance on Monday, rch sth.
The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the
magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball, entitled
CORA SCO ; or, the Warrior a Steed.
To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day.
To conclude with a romantic Melodrama.
Box-office oven from Eleven till Five.
'•tage Manager, Mr. W. West.

THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
—DEATH OF MR. THOMAS LONG, THE ASSISTANT
SECRETARY.—This gentleman died yesterday morning of
pleurisy, after a few days' illness. He had been con-
nected with the London and Birmingham Company
almost from the commencement of the undertaking, and
enjoyed the entire confidence and the esteem of Mr.
Glyn and Mr. Creed, the respected late secretary of the
company. Mr. Long was a man of excellent business
habits, full of courtesy and honourable feeling, an in-
valuable officer, rigidly attentive to his duties, warm.
hearted in his friendships, and kind and benevolent to
all who sought his advice and assistance. His death will
be deeply lamented by all who had the pleasure of know-
ing his public usefulness and private worth.
_:-FUR BEER BILL.—We understand that the Earl
rFowby has promised to bring in a Bill for the
gradualcs re_peal of the Beer Bill early in the present
B s. lon. Yorkshire Gazette.

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Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 255. bound,
MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF
SIR ROBERT MURRAY KEITH, K. 8.,
MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY
At the Courts of Dresden, Copenhagen, and Vienna, from 1769 to 1793;
with a Biographical Memoir of Queen Caroline Matilda, Sister of
George 111.
Edited by Mrs. GILLESPIE SMYTH.
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This day is published, in post Bvo., price 10s. 6d.,
RECOLLECTIONS of an OLD SOLDIER;
being Memoirs of Col, F. S. Tidy, C. 8.,

24th Regiment,
With Anecdotes of his Contemporaries.
By Mrs. WARD,
Author of " Five Years in Kaffirland."
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street,
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty).

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE. FEBRUARY 27.
ra ,:RMOMETER, Lowest, 31; Highest, 45, Noon, 43.
BAROMETER, 30.08.

WIND E.S.E., light breeze, and fine clear weather.

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lieve it, and he was glad notto believe it ; and with re-
gard to those persons sentenced to transportation for lire,
he hoped it would be remembered that this country was
exposed to the electric shock of the French revolution, and
they had reason to congratulate themselves that it had
taken such little root in this country, and that
herefore it was their duty to be merciful. The con-
dition of the people of England was no ex-
cuse for keeping up our forces ; therefore,
the House ought to call upon the Government,
as an act of justice to the taxpayers, to reduce largely
the military and naval forces of this country. He would
not dwell upon the advantage it would be to commerce and
agriculture to reduce taxation. He would not remind
country gentlemen of the benefit of the reduction
of the malt and hop duty. But it was no use
talking of the reduction of those duties unless they re-
duced the naval and military establishments. There
were all sorts of taxes which different persons desired to
see removed; but none of them could be removed unless
they reduced the expenditure. They ought
to consider the probable amount of danger to the
country from reducing the forces, and the probable
amount of danger from continuing the burdens; they
could not but conclude that the country was in
more danger of being crushed beneath these bur-
dens than of being injured from abroad.
It might be said that we must increase our forces because
other powers had done the same. With regard to the navy
we were the first offenders. We had begun the increase,
and now France was willing to reduce, and we should
follow her example. In the cost of collection of the
revenue there was great extravagance, and they
might make a considerable reduction in that item.
Then, with regard to the Woods and Forests, i
the Noble Lord the Member for Bath (Lord Duncan)
saved by his Committee only half the 600,00001.
be would enable the Government to make a great reduc-
tion in taxation. He would if he had the management
of the expenditure devote ten millions sterling
and no more for armaments, which would give
him 1,600,0001. more for civil expenditure than in 1835,
without exceeding the expenditure of that year.—
(Hear, hear.) He was convinced that every step
they took in mitigating the pressure of taxation
on the people did more for the securing that at-
tachment of the people to our institutions and,
by so doing, for securing the country against foreign
attacks, than all the armaments that they might maintain.
—(Cheers.) The Hon Member concluded by moving
his resolution.
Mr. HOME seconded the motion.

A long and interesting discussion followed, in which
the C,ANCELLOR of the EXCHKQUEB, Mr. HuMz, Sir
DE LACY EVANS, Mr. HERMES, ?tfr. MILNER GIBSON,
Mr. BRIGHT, and several other Members took part, and
ultimately the motion was negatived by a majority of
275 to 78.

The cause of Financial Reform will be materially
promoted by the debate of last night. The Hon.
Member for the West Riding was never more suc-
cessful in the House of Commons. His speech will
bear comparison with the happiest efforts of RICHARD
COBDEN on the platform of Covent-garden Theatre.
There was the same simplicity and earnestness of
purpose—the same order and arrangement of
materials—the same clearness and lucidity, and
that plain and unadorned eloquence for which
the , Honourable Gentleman is so eminently
distinguished. The fair and temperate manner
in which he brought forward his views de-
servedly elicited the marked encomiums of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and the Hon. Member for
Stamford. The tone of the debate too was encourag-
ing, and afforded the strongest indications of the
progress which the question has made, and of its high
standing in the public estimation. Economy and re-
trenchment are not fashionable topics. Sneers and
ridicule would have been freely resorted to, if they
could be used with safety. The elaborate arguments
advanced by Sir C. WOOD and Mr. HEMMEN the finan-
cial leaders of the Whig and Protectionist parties,
proved how fully they were alive to the importance
of the subject. Men do not bring forward their
utmost force, or open their heaviest fire, to repel
some trifling demonstration or mimic attack. An
active and vigorous defence exhibits the strongest
evidence of the formidable character of the onslaught
that has been made. It is now manifest that the
great question of financial reform has obtained a
tooting in the House, that it will receive a fair discus-
sion,tia and that its advocates will be listened to
with attention and courtesy. This alone is
astephaos beenfnotraifltnigned
from consequence;
whenceantihe future
mportant
posi-
tionope
rations may be conducted. How many years elapsed
before CHARLES VILLIERS received similar attention

when dilating upon the iniquities of the core-law
monopoly, and the injustice of taxing the nation's
food for the benefit of a privileged class. How long
was it before a Cabinet Minister rose to reply to his
arguments ? The task was entrusted to some third
or fourth-rate Ministerialist—some candidate for
place, who was put forward to break his
first spear, to flesh his maiden sword against the free-
trade champion I How long was it before the entire
strength of Ministers was put forward, and every
vote anxiously canvassed by the Government
whippers-in ? Free trade was virtually carried—
the corn-laws were tottering on their foundation,
when more than 300 representatives of the people
divided on the motion annually brought for-
ward by the Honourable Member for Wol-
verhampton. Last night 353 Members re-
corded their votes, and the entire debate was lis-
tened to without impatience or interruption. Are
we not justified in saying that the cause of financial
reform made important progress, and that the most
sanguine anticipations may be indulged in as to its
future success ? It is true that the amendment was
rejected by a large and decisive majority, that 78
Members only walked into the same lobby with the
proposer and seconder, while 275 voted with the Go-
vernment. Still, for the reasons we have assigned,
we regard the proceedings of the evening as consti-
tuting a decisive triumph, and affording a most pro-
pitious omen of future success.
It must be borne in mind that Mr. Conners did not
profess any expectation that his proposition could be
carried into immediate execution—that the Budget
for the present year could be reduced to the standard
of 1835. That would take time to accomplish, the
retrenchment should take place gradually. Many
expenses must be suffered to die away—we cannot at
a moment's notice turn 100 admirals adrift, or
cashier 100 generals. It is by abstaining from
filling up vacanciesthatthatthe
hanvuembeornce been
can ben
reduced within reasonable limits. It is so in other
respects ; undertakings
commenced must be brought to a conclusion. It
would he an unwise economy to sacrifice all that had
previously been expended, for want of a small addition,
to permit the outlay of thousands to remain
worse than useless for Jack of a few remaining
out. They
Everything must be
slowly hundreds. Vast reductions cannot be effected by the
must be patiently looked for. The great object
o ur ld
mere
o w l
y wave
and of an
steadilyenchanter's
carried
wand.
cannot be lost sight of for a moment. Now
specific
it
would
e-
it was that constant and unceasing desire
for economy that
Mr. Conners wished to
d u enforcectre-
ductions. ns; didhis not
motiondemand b
had
immediate
d
been carried,
imply nothing but the attempt to bring the national
expenditure within the limits which fourteen years
since had proved to be sufficient, the House would be
committed to no particular course. A general
prudent economy wherever practicable was all that
was required.
Many persons voted against the Hon. Gentleman
because, although desirous of limiting the national
expenditure, they did riot believe that so much
as 10,000,000/ could be cut off, or that
the " Cobden Budget," could be fully carried out.
Had every real financial reformer voted for the
amendment, to say nothing of the professing
reformers, the minority would have been very con-
siderably increased. The Hon. Member for Glasgow
took the correct view when be stated " that he should
vote merely upon the principle of economy
in regard to the finances of the country, and without
reference to the expenditure of 1835, or of any other
year." This
was the true point from whence the
matter should be regarded. We should consider the
present wants and exigencies of the country ; we
should reflect upon the
many important changes
that have taken place, and suit our establish-
ments to present circumstances rather than to
those of a former period. Let our expenditure
be reduced to the utmost extent, but also let
the amount be more equitably apportioned and
fairly distributed upon those who have the ability
and who are in justice bound to sustain it. This is

what the country demands, and what ere long the
country will have.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following
account of the recent occurrences at Turin, from
which it will be seen that GIORERTI has overcome
his colleagues, and that an armed interposition on
the part Of CHARLES ALBERT, in support of the
Grand Duke of TUSCANY is imminent :

•• The intervention of Piedmont in Tuscany appeared I
imminent, from the inttnti. ns manifested en that point
by M. Giuberti, President of the Council, and from what
has just passed at Turin. We shall now narrate, with
some details, these events at Turin, since they will
necessarily exercise a decisive influence on the resolu-
tions of Rome and Florence. In of der to bring back
internal peace and true liberty, and in order to restore to
the national cause of Italian independence the forces
turned away from that object by civil discord, M. Gio-
berti, on the 19th, proposed in the Council of Ministers an
intervention in Tuscany, in order to re-establish there the
Prince and the constitutional regime That proposition
was strongly opposed by all M. Gioberti's colleagues,
except M. Rata zzi. They declared that such a measure
would excite in the majority of the Chamber of Depu-
ties the most violent tumult, and, in fact, that majority
has already more than once given proofs of its ultra-
democratic tendency. M. Gioberti insisting in his pro
position, his colleagues appeared to yield, but they
demanded, by way of compensation, that the Roman Re-
public should be recognised. This M. Gioberti formally
refused, for to do so would have been to act in contra-
diction to his principles and his recent manifesto,
which has done him so much honour. The next day,
M. Gioberti, not being able to remove the grave
difference which existed between him and his
colleagues, sent in his resignation, as did M. Rstazzi.
That intelligence, when it became known in the city of
1 Turin, was received with a universal sentiment of
regret and disquietude. The patriotism of M. Gioberti,
the decided services which be had rendered to the cause
of national independence, and his late declarations in the
Parliament in favour of real liberty, and against the wild
follies of the Republicans, had gained him throughout
Piedmont a great popularity. His unexpected resigna-
tion was looked on as a public calamity. All the classes
of the population collected in the streets, discussing the
retirement of M. Gioberti, the causes which led to it, and
the opposition of his colleagues and of the Republican
party to his policy. The intervention was approved
of doubly, under a social and under a military point of
view. •If we do not enter Tuscany,' said they,
e the Austrians will be beforehand with us, and will oc-
cupy against ourselves a strategic line which the Tuscans
are not in a state to defend.' Soon after a great manifes-
tation took place spontaneously, and the people prcceeded
en masse to the square del Costello, crying Long live
Gioberti!' Long live the King!' Down with the Re-
publicans!' M. Gioberti appeared at the balcony of his
hotel and addressed the people, thanking them for this
marked approbation of his principles. Ile declared that
ho could not remain in power except on the condition of
persevering in his policy, and of keeping apart from the
fierest errors which troubled Central Italy, and that the
confidence of the people was the best support that his
conscience could desire. After the ovation thus
paid to M. Gioberti, the crowd proceeded to the re-
sidences of M. Valerio and M. Brofferio, ultra-leaders
of the Ultra-Democratic opposition in the Parliament,
and both editors of journals, suspected of Republican-
ism. A dreadful charivari was given them, sarcasms
and abuse were uttered against them, and showers of
stones were thrown, which broke all the windows.
Fortunately, a patrol of cavalry came up, and disrersed
the crowd. This day was a complete triumph fur the
policy of M. Gioberti, and in the end his colleagues sent
in their resignations, and he remained master of the
position, the King having charged him to compose a new
Cabinet. It was believed that the dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies would he the necessary conse-
quence of that event. As to the entrance of a Pied-
montese division into Tuscany on the 20th, we have
not yet received any certain intelligence on that point,
and the news appears to us premature, although we con-
sider, that its course must speedily take place. We learn
in a more certain manner that the Sardinian steamer the
Virgilio went to San Stephano for the Grand Duke of
Tuscany, and took him en the 18th to Via Reggie, where
General launder was remaining with his troops. Via
Reggie is a small port, about four leagues from Lucca,
in the north of Tuscany. The Grand Duke is about to
establish himself first at Lucca, with his own soldiers,
causing himself to be supported or followed, as may be
required by the Piedmontese. Thus will be avoided the
grave inconvenience of a foreign intervention—all will
pass amongst Italians. Several of the old Liberal mem-
bers o; the Chamber of Deputies of Florence have pro-
ceeded to Turin to Charles Albert and M. Gioberti, for
purpose of soliciting their active aid for the re-establish-
ment of the constitutional regime."
The Assembles Nationale declares that the Sardi-
nian Envoy had, on Sunday, spoken of the entry of
the Piedmontese into Tuscany as certain.
The Members of the corpe dipiontatique (with the
exception of the Belgian and American Ministers)
were absent from the celebration of the anniversary
of the Republic on Saturday. The National is very
indignant at what it considers as an insult studiously
ofiered by the Monarchical Powers to the French
Republic, and animadverts more particularly on the
absence from this ceremonial of the Marquis of .Nox-
MszaßY.

The PRESIDENT of the Republic, on Sunday, pre-
sided at the opening of the Compeigne and Noyon
Railway. He afterwards held a levee in the Palace of
Compeigne.
The negotiations been the club of the Rue de Poic-
tiers and the central Bonapartist committee is at an
end, and the latter has put forth its programme. At
the desire of the President, M. IsiaroLEort
BOrA-
PARTS, although in reality the soul of the movement
does not come forward publicly, General BACHELER
is the ostensible President of the Committee, which
has the Liberte as its organ.
BOURSE—Rams, MONDAY, FEZ. 26.

T=REK o'CLoca.—The unfavourable accounts re-
ceived from Italy have not had much effect on the French
funds to-day. The feeling is so completely established
here, that both France and England have determined
that there shall be no war, that any warlike tendency
shown by Charles Albert and these small Italian states
has little effect. It is generally supposed that Eng-
land and France have agreed as to the policy to be pur-
sued, and that they are determined to interfere for the
restoration both of the Pope and the Grand Duke of
Tuscany. Exchange on London (30 days), 25 20; ditto
(90 days), 25 07*.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 26.
_ .

Boulogne and Amiens, 10—Central 'Franre (Orleans
and Vierzon), 123/4—Namur and Liege, 93/4—Northern of
France, 101/! Orleans and Bordeaux, 3%—Paris and
Or-
leans, 34—Paris and Rouen, 211,x—Paris and Strasbourg,
41,g—Rouen and Haire, 13%—Sambre and Meuse, sk—.
Tours and Nantes, 23A.

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

It was reported in Vienna, on the 20th, that the
Hungarian General GORGE'!" had retaken the town
of Kuschan .

PRUSSIA.

It is said that before the meeting of the Chambers,
Baron BONIN will be appointed Minister of Finance,
and Count Amax Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The KING will open the session in person.

ITALY.

The Grand Duke of TUSCANY has protested against
the revolution in Florence, and has di.patched copies
of his protest to all the Courts of Europe. The
foreign diplomatic corps have all left Florence to join
the GRAND DUKE, who is at Villa Reggio.
The union of the Tuscan and Roman Republic
has been proclaimed, under the name of the Central
Republic of Italy. Ro-ne is the capital of the new
Republic.
The Prince of CANINO has been named President
of the Constitut-nt Assembly, in the room of Signor
SAFFS. The Roman Ministry presented, on th-• 17: h.
a prograr..ine of their policy to the Assembly, of
which the following is an abstract
The policy of the Republic should be in a frank,
conciliatory, and worthy, and truly demi c:atiic spit- t;
and, above all things, they should promote the estatiltsii•
tnent of the Italhn Constituent. In unison with the
Constitt-nt they would carry on the war, and would not
cease to do so until they had brought it to a prosperous
issue. They should, with this view, organ•izt these gal-
lant bands who were ready to exhibit the valour and
spirit of warriors and patriots indef., nee of their country
and in the sacred cause of liberty. The war ended,
the Government would do all i❑ their power to
cherish the arts and sciences as the sure sources of na-
tional grandeur. Public instruction should be careful'
given, but this should no longer be left, in the hands of
the clergy, who ought to confine themselves solely to the
discharge of their sacred functions. This conclusion
they had come to, as they were satisfied that the present
system was pregnant with evil. Social questions would
occupy a large share of their attention. That liberty,
they said, that does not ameliorate and comfort the
greatest number, is a bastard liberty. The poor,
that numerous class, who had been left in the
lowest degradation by the ancient society, should be
the objects of their assiduous care, and it would be
their especial duty to cure their physical ills and pre
pare them for a moral regeneration. Property should
be placed under the safeguard of the Republic. Liberty,
of worship, and perfect tolerance and freedom of opinio❑
should be granted, with security to person stud pro-
perty, even of those who were opposed to them in their
principles and views. Acting on these principles, their
Republic would be entitled to the regard of Italy and of
Europe."

The Risorgimento announces the occupation of
Ferrara on the 19th by a corps of 10,000 Austrians.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman Crum.)
Robert Duncan, a young man about 23 years of age,
Mary Duncan, described as a single woman, a few years
his senior, and Pierce Wall O'Brien, apparently about
45, surrendered to take their trial, on a charge of con-
spiracy to defraud the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company, with a view to obtain money by false
pretences.

Mr. Clarkson prosecuted; Mr. O'Brien defended the
prisoner Mary Duncan; Mr. Metcalfe defended O'Brien;
and Robert Duncan was undefended.

It appeared from the opening statement of the counsel
who prosecuted, that on the sth of September last, very
early in the morning, the mail train from York to Lon-
don was travelling on the London and North-Western
Railway. Oa the same morning the down train
coming up had arrived near to the Leigh-
ton Buzzard station, when a collision took
place between the two trains, which was fortunately un-
attended with loss of life. On the 26th of October fol-
lowing a communication was received by the London
and North-Western Railway authorities, representing
that by the York mail train that came from York on the
morning of sth Sept., one Mrs. Duncan, the prisoner, and
her brother, Pierce Wall O'Brien, another of the pri-
soners, having been in the same second class train toge-
ther coming from York had sustained very serious in-
juries, for which they had been advised to apply for
compensation. The prisoners, in the first instance, had
put themselves into the hands of a air. Harrison, a soli-
citor, who had been imposed upon by the plausible story
which the prisoners related to him, but afterwards, sus-
pecting or discovering its falsehood, declined to proce_d
further with their case. On the receipt of
the letter the railway authorities directed Mr.
Porter, their medical officer, to make inquiries
into the nature of the injuries alleged to have been sus-
tained by the prisoners, Mary Duncan and O'Brien; and
accordingly on the very day on which the letter was read
at a meeting of the board of directors, on the 28th of
October, Mr. Porter made his appearance at the house
ot Duncan, quite unexpectedly as it respects the latter,
for the purpose of ascertaining or inquiring into the
nature of the injuries stated to have been sustained.
When Mr. Porter entered the house he saw the male
prisoner, Duncan. " Oh," said the latter, on seeing Mr.
Porter, " I expected to have seen a lawyer, not a medical
man ; Mrs. Duncan is ill at this moment, and you cannot
see her." Mr. Porter, at that moment, not teing pre-
pared to anticipate any fraud, thought he heard some
rustling noise at the back of the shop in
which he was standing, talking to the male
prisoner Duncan, and after some further conversation
with the latter, Mr. Porter was ushered into the hack-
room, where he found Mary Duncan, the prisoner, lying
in bed, and he was told of the nature of the injuries
which she bad sustained by the collision. Among other
things Mr. Porter was told that the collision had brought
on premature labour, and that she had suffered a mis-
carriage forty-eight hours afterwards. He took it for
granted that this story was true, and from motives of
delicacy, did not make any examination of Mary Dun-
can's symptoms. Mr. Porter then asked to see O'Brien,
whom he found in another room up-stairs, and who
described his symptoms to him. Upon this Mr. Por-
ter reported the circumstances to the board of directors,
having first endeavoured to find a Mr. Hunt, a medi-
cal man, to whom O'Brien, the prisoner, had referred
him, as having been in attendance on O'Brien; but Mr.
Porter was not able to find the medical man, Mr. Hunt.
Shortly afterwards, on the 2d of November, a second
letter was written by the male prisoner, Duncan, to the
authorities of the railway, on the subject of the injuries
in question. The letter bore the address of 59, Great
George-street, Bermondsey, and stated that he, the male
prisoner, Duncan, was willing to accept 601. for the in-
juries done to Mary Duncan, the female prisoner; and
that the prisoner O'Brien was willing to accept other
601. for the injuries which he alleged he had sustained,
provided the money was paid within a week. On the
7th of November the prisoners employed an attorney,
who proceeded forthwith to bring an action against the rail-
way company, to deliver a declaration, and so forth. In the
meantime the company had proceeded quietly, in conse •
quence of the suspicions that arose in the mind of Mr.
Porter, to make inquiries on the subject matter of this
family; and then they found that the prisoner, Mary
Duncan, who was represented to have sustained all those
injuries by the collision, so far from having been at
York, or anywhere thereabouts at that time, that she
was at home perfectly well, that she was never in the
train at all, and never bad sustained any injury by any
collision what. ver, and that it was altogether an inven-
tion from beginning to end. With respect to O'Brien,
the prosecutor was not in a condition to show where he
was at the time ot the collision, fruitless inquiries hav
ing been made with that view.

The trial was procefchng when our report loft.

IVEW COURT.
(Before the COMBION SERGEANT arid Mr. Alderman

Moon.)
A young woman, named Harriet West, was in Hoed
with uttering a cuun:erfeit shilling.
It appeared that the prisoner, on the 7th Ft,bruary,
went into a chandler's shop, kept by a Mr. Her,haw, at
Mount crescent, Gray'a Inn-road, and purchased an
ounce of tobacco and some other articles, amounting
altogether to 7d. She tendered a shilling in payment to
Mrs. Hensbaw, who, on taking it to the light, discovered
that it was a bad one, and imam diately gave the prisoner
into custody. On being taken hold or by the policeman,
she endeavoured to put her • hand to ber mouth, but was
prevented doing so, and in her hand were found four bad
shillings done up in a piece of paper.

Theprisoner, in defence, deified knowing that the
shillings were counterfeit, and said that they had been
given to her by a man with whom she lived.
The COMXON SERGEANT—That is very probable.
The jury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to
imprisonment for six months with hard labour.
Ann Smith, a young looking woman, dressed in
widow's attire, and having an infant in her arms, was
indicted with three distinct cases of uttering counterfeit
coin—on the 27th of January, of uttering a shilling
upon James Grant, greengrocer, Clerkenwell; on the
Bth of February, of uttering a half-crown upon George
Reed, coal-dealer, Wilson-street, Clerkenwell; and on
the 10th of February, of uttering a sovereign upon a
Mr. Wiseman, a broker, in Clerkenwell. The latter
case led to her detection. She purchased a bedstead, and
gave the sovereign in payment. A man was waiting
outside, who carried the bedstead away, but some suspi-
cion having arisen in the mind of the broker, the woman
was pursued and taken into custody, The man suc-
ceeded in getting away.
Mr. PAYNE, for the prisoner, denied that her identity
in the first two cases had been proved, and said with
respect to the latter case, that she was not aware that the
sovereign was other than a good one.

The ColiMoN SERGEANT having summed up,
The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mary Francis, a young married woman, was indicted
with uttering three counterieit half-crowns.
The jury found a verdict of Guilty, but recommended
her to mercy on account of her previous good character.
A man, who called himself the prisoner's husband,
said, the witnesses had been entirely mistaken in her
identity.

The COMMON-SERGEANT.-Fully believing, prisoner,
that you were the instrument in the hands of another
I will not mention, but who, I am sure Rill be here one
of these days, and whom, if he does come, I assure I
shall take cure of, I will only sentence you to three
months' imprisonment in tlae House of Correction.
The prisoner left the dock very much aff,cted.
Several other minor Mint prosecutions were tried in
the course of the morning, but none of them possessed
any feature of importance.

LLOYD'S 6HIPPIN G.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 27.—Wind E.S.E., light breeze, and
fine clear weather.
STATE OF WIND AND WEATHER AT THE PROVINCIAL
PORTS THIS MORNING, AT 9 A.M.
Colchester S.W., fine.
Glasgow S.W. by W., frosty.
Gloucester N.N.E., frosty.
Gosport
Leith

Lowestoffe N W., frosty.
Liverpool
Newcastle
Portsmouth
Yarmouth N. W., fine.

YARMOUTH, FEB. 26.—The Ann Elia+, of Sunder-
land, from St. Valery, has been kssisted into this har•
boor will cotwderatile damage to hull and cargo. having
been struck by

DEAL, FEB. 26.—Wind Hydrabad,
Castle, Madras; Pilgrim, Clark, Cuba, b:)th for London.
811. 1.0., Neweistle; Planet, ditto. Arrd. from the
River anti sld., Lady Peel, Frw,er, Sydney, New Souti
I,l7des•' India, Camp ha, .Bornbay; Satthamby, Jennin4
ditto; Gratitude, Aden; Alexandritia, Falconer, Algol
Bay; Cliam!,ion, S!,-,1, Rio ,j,,n,,jrn; Tyn'
A-? kUtlyy

LONDONIERRY, FEB. 23.—Acrd. Java, Duffy, S;
John's, K .13,1titti

PETERHEAD. f' En. 25.—S1A. lt,:iulution, Greenland
En

LIVERPOOL. FEB. 26.—Witn1 N.E —Sid. 21st, Rei
ittnitTion, United St,t,s ; 25,11. i)unirnerce,
L-i Grande; Zi!ixony, Nr (Means; Brandon,
d.rro; Et e:1, s-,,,mtnah; Rub Virwria; Franklin,
B dtimore; Ar,bella, New York; Joni, S. de Wolf,
61v o; B 11,1tfax; MAura, dine; Arehimed.
Ne‘% foul land; Roilon, Sene-tai; Plyrnou,h, Halifax.
26. Plata, Bueno. Ay re; .in Fisher, Rio Janeiro;
E,rl of Durw.m. Bahia; Irene, Pernambuco; Sesostris,
Maranham; Jane. AroTgoa; .Express, St. Thomas and
St. Dornit,g,; G4rolimi, La Guayra; Buena Nista. New
°deans ; Cornelia, Balavia ; An and Jane, Singa-
pore ; Courier, Calcutta ; Linton, Calcutta ; Bland,
Calcutta ; Duke of Lancaster, Bombay ; Robins,
Bombay; Belle Isle, Cape of G.(l Hope ; Belle, Africa;
Rothesay, Africa; Pl 5 a, Buenoi Ayres; William Ft‘h,r,
Rio Janeiro ; Dauntless, Apalachicola ; Catnilfus, Sa-
vannah ; Intiinsie, Savannah ; J. C. Calhoun, New
Y,,rk ; Jane, k\ ilmingion, United States.

li ULL, FEB. 26.--Vind N.N.E.—Arrd. Royal Vic-
toria, Hunter, Savannah.

SWANSEA, FEB. 26.—Wind E N E.—Sid. Jenny
Jones, Adelaide, South Australia.

NEWPORT, FEB. 26.—Wind N.E.—Sld. 25th, Adolph
Werner, St. Thomas; Catherinde, Minde, St. Thomas ;
Apollo, Havannah.
GLOUCESTER, FEB. 26.—S1d. 25th, Emu, Calcutta.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 26.—Wind E.—Sld. 25th, Bon
Accord, Calcutta.

SOUTHAMPTON WATER, FEB. 27.—Arrd. Severn
steamer, West Indies.

DEAL, FEB 26.—51,1. Victor, Hobart Town ; Alice
Maud, Port Natal ; Lalla Rookh, Demerara ; Superior,
Demerara ; Ellen, Trinidad.

OPEN-AIR, IVIEETING in COVENT-
GARDEN.—(TEAS DAY.)
An open-air meeting, which had been called by the
High Bailiff, was held this day in Covent-garcen, to
take into consideration the treatment of pauper children.
A platform was erected in front of Saint Paul's Church,
for the accommodation of the speakers and the re-
porters. There were more than 1,000 persons present.
The High Bailiff, Francis Smedley, Esq., presided, and
said he had convened the meeting in consequence of a
requisition addressed to hint by a numerous and most
respectable body of the rate-payers of Westminster, to
take into consideration the recent awful destruction of
human life, resulting from the system of farm-
ing out the pauper children of the metropolitan parishes,
which, it seemed, had received the approval and sanction
of the Poor-law Board, and which had been acted upon
by the various boards of poor• law guardians. The
meeting had also been called for the purpose of consi-
define'. whether the present poor-law was or was not
suited for this country.
Several resolutions, condemning the treatment to
which the pauper children had been recently subjected
at Tooting, having been put and carried, the meeting
separated.

WEST INDIA MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The Royal
Mail steam-ship Severn, Captain Vincent, arrived hers
at 9 o'clock with a portion of the West India Mails,
principally from the Leeward Islands, &c. She has
no mails from Mexico, Honduras, Jamaica, or
Havannah, which were to have been brought up to
Bermuda by the Forth. The Severn sailed from Ber-
muda on the 13th in-t., after waiting nearly eight days
for the Gulf steamer. No intelligence of the Forth's loss
had reached Bermuda; the fact, however, of the mails
being so long delayed is almost a confirmation of the un-
favourable newt,.

The Severn was dispatched home, in consequence
of having broken her starboard paddle shaft between
St. Thomas and Bermuda. The Avon met with a
precisely similar accident near Demerara; she will
consequently be the next ship home from Chagres
and Bermuda. The Severn came across the ocean
with only one paddle, and performed the voyage in 13i
days; she has a very trilling cargo, and only 3,000.
specie on freight.

There is very little news of importance from the
various islands.

At Barbadoes the weather was fine and the crops fa-
vourable; business was dull. The fever had re-appeared
in St. Ann's Garrison.

PEN INSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's ship Indus has just arrived with the heavy por-
tton of the Indian Mails, and chtes from Alexandria
10:h February, Malta 16th, Gibraltar 21st.
She brings seventy passengers; specie on freight,
value 24,3001., and a large general cargo.
Her Majesty's ship Gladiator had arrived at Gib-
raltar. A detachment of Marines were embarked on
board seven of the steamers of Sir Charles Na-
pier's fleet, which sailed to the eastward on
the 19,h to chastise the pirates on the Moorish coast,
under the command of the Admiral. As, however, no
boats or piratical vessels could be discovered, the aqua- _
dron re entered the bay without being enabled to accom-
plish its design.
By the Atalanta steamer, which has just arrived here
from Havre, we learn that yesterday the Cotton mar-
ket opened very brisk, and sales amounted, up to two
o'clock, to 1,256 bales, which were disposed of at ad-
vanced rates.
In other articles little doing.

RUMOURED LOSS OF H.M.S. ST. VINCENT.
A letter from Toulon, of the 23d inst., mentions a re-
port of the loss of tho British ship-of-the-line St. Vincent,
off Tangier, bearing the flag of Admiral Napier.

THE CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS ♦T DRAB!
LANE THEATRE.-- A. morning performance takes place
here to morrow, which will be attended by the whole
of the Blue-coat boys, the proprietors having
kindly invited one thousand of the scholars of
the Christ's Hospital to be present on the occasion•
The performances will be precisely the same as they
were on the evening of Saturday last when her 'Neat)?
and Prince Albert honoured the Cirque National with
their presence. It is quite a treat to watch the joyous
countenances of the juveniles at these delightful morning
performances, which ure now fast drawing to a close, as
the presant is the last week but two that the company
remains in London.

OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.--The
first performi.nce of Richard Cceur de Lion, and the
Concert ala Cour, was attended by a brilliant audience;
amongst whom we noticed—The Conde de Montemolim
her Serene Highness the Princess of Parma, the Mar-
chioness of Down,hire, the Eitil of Kilmorey, the Russian
Ambassador, and Baroness Brui.now and Mdlle. Olga de
Lechner, the Turkish Ambassador and suite, Lady do
Dunsierville, Lady Louth, Comtesse de Lansfeliit, Car
rain Ryder Button, Lord Cranbourne, Baron Nicolas,
Ludy J. ddrt 11, Sir George and Miss Talbot, Lady and
Miss Goldsraidt, Sir Henry Webb, the Hon. F. Byng,
Mrs. and the Misses Standish, Mr. Henry Greville, Mre.
Dennistoun, and Sir William Hoste.
ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW CROSS. Lieut.
Colonel Petit, C. 8., of her Majesty's 50th Regiment, has
presented the liberal donation of 50 guineas to this in-
::titution, a gratifying evidence of the good feeling exist-
ing between the two services. We understand that Mr.
W. Drew, who was a pupil of the Royal Naval School,
came out as Eighth Wrangler at the last Cambridge ex-
amination, and that at the head of the list of a large
number of marine cadets, who last week received their
commissions as second-lieutenants in that valuable corps,
is Mr. de Conroy Meade, son of Commander John
Meade, who has just completed his education at this
school.

THE GUARDS.—The Ist battalion of Scots Fusilier
Guards will be removed from Chichester to London on
the lit of March next, and will be replaced by the 2d
battalion of the same corps at Chichester on the satae
date.

MEETING OF THE UNEMPLOYED.--BIRMINGHAM,
MONDAY.—An open-air meeting of the artizans of Bir-
mingham was held on Gosta-green this afternoon, for
the purpose of memorialising the Government on the
subjk ct of the distressed state of the trading and working
classes of the town and district, and " requiring imme-
diate measures for the employment of the poor." Out of
a population of about 200,000, from 400 to 400 persons
were present. The meeting was addressed by several
Chartists, and a memorial to the Home Secretary to the
effect above stated was adopted.
PLUNDER OF THE IMPERIAL ARSENAL AT VIENNA.
—The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police have
transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs De-
partment a list of weapons, banners, models, &c., which
have been stolen from the Imperial Arsenal at Vienna,
and which it is supposed will be brought to this country
for sale, and requested that the same may be commu-
nicated to the several officers of the revenue, in order
that, in the event of any of the said articles having been
landed, or being hereafter landed at their repective ports,
they may r, port the circumstances, for the information
of the Commissioners of Police.
BARLEY MAIN COLLIERY ExrLostox.-- By the
list of sub6criptions tor the numerous families bereaved
by the catastrophe at Derby Main Colliery, it appears
that upwards of 1,200/. has been put down for this bene-
volGnt object.

BIRTHS.
On the 22d inst., at Eatington Vicarage, Warwickshire,
the wife of the Rev. R. Wedgwood, of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., at Northwich, the wife of the Rev.
M. Wilde, of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., at Haresfoot, the lady of A. S. Dorrien,
Esq., of a daughter.

DIED.
On the 2eth inst., at Dorking, Surrey, Gertrude Henrietta
Hickman, widow of the late Lieut.-Colonel Gregory nick-
man, of the Ilea. East India Company's Service.
On the 22d inst., at the Rectory, Roan Llannyhorne,
Cornwall, the Rev. Richard Budd, in the 40th year of his
incumbency, aged 75.

London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, !::1
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 111!:
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county 4:0
Middlesex, Tuuglay, February 27, 1849

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