The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-15 00:00:00

SECOND DISPATCII.

MONTREAL, APR 28.
All day yesterday a most fearful excitementlL existed
throughout the city.
At two, P.M., the mass meeting called to take into
consideration the best means of preserving the peace of
the country, was held at the Champ de Mars, and an
immense multitude was present. Strong resolutions
were passed, and a petition to the Queen to recal Lord
Elgin was drafted and adopted.
At the earnest request of the principal leaders, the
people dispersed quietly.
The fire gentlemen arrested have been committed for
rioting.

A man by the name of Perry, the great leader of the
firemen of this city, has been committed to gaol on a
charge of arson.

TJwards evening a rumour rapidly spread that the
French party were being sworn in as special constables,
and armed. It proved correct.
The British portion were persuaded by the leaders to
wait till armed, and an encounter took place between
about twenty English gentlemen and these constables,
who most wantonly fired on them.
Only a few of the small party had arms, which they
discharged upon the mass and slowly retreated, bearing
off ono of the party, wounded in the leg by a pistol
ball.

From the cries uttered by some persons in the crowd,
one of the gentlemen who fired informs me that their
discharge must have taken effect.
During the whole night these were drilled, armed
with cutlasses and pistols, in the Bonsecours Market.
The military were under aims all night, and the ar-
tillery drawn up in the square.
I have the bast authority for stating that Sir Benjamin
d'Urban, commander of the forces, at the meeting of
the Executive Council last night, made remarks to the
following purport to Colonel Tache, ono of the ministry.
He demanded to know by whose authority these men
had been armed. lie said he was there to protect her
IlejeAy's dominions, and by the aid of Heaven he would
do that. It was unconstitutional to arm one portion of
the population against the other.
Turning round to General Gore, he said, " Go to his
Excellency the Governor-General, and say, I send hima body of British troops to protect him, and that I will
Lot consent to this clandestine arming of the French
population. Disarm these men, and find by whose autho-
rity they were armed."

It is understood that Colonel Bruce and Colonel Tache
10 it on an order from the Government.
The arms are refused to be given up.
The British are rapidly arming, and a dreadful fight
expected.

The 71st llngiment arrived from St. John's this
morning, and the provincial cavalry are momentarily
expected.
Upper Canada is in a fearful state of excitement.
At Coburg, the Governor was burnt in effigy. The
light could be seen at the lakes 30 miles off.
The whole upper provinces are arming.
In the eastern townships immense quanties of laid
have been sold, and large bodies of sturdy riflemen are
expected to the assistance of the British.
On the Ottawa, the lumbermen are also preparing to
assist Montreal.
It is probable that immediately after the Bill wag
signed, conflagration was resolved upon, as just be-
fore the Parliament House was fired there were cries
in the mob of " They come ! they come !" and imme-
diately there was a considerable accession to the pre-
viously assembled crowd. Then arose the cry " Let
us burn down the French Parliament !" An exclama-
tion that will at once show you the feelings by which
the multitude were actuated.
Notwithstanding the prophetic alarmth: Hopedt
per-
vades the second dispatch of the 28th, it i
and believed that there will -be little or no more
rioting.
There is some additional intelligence from Califor-
nia. The large number of arrivals at San Francisco
had caused all articles of merchandize to become dul
of sale at extremely moderate prices. Gold was
still found in %bundance, and new places were dis-
covered daily. A report was prevalent that another
plaee had been discovered in Lower California,
which bids fair to rival in richness those in the
Sacramento.ie
Her Majesty's
ships Calypso and Constantia were
at Mazatlan.

The election of delegates to the Convention to
form a provisional constitution had taken place, and a
unanimous opinion had been expressed against slave
labour.

From Mexico we learn that cholera was on the
Lncrease.

Accounts from St. Domingo city, of the 13th ult.,
state that President Soulouque was within sixteen
miles of the city with 20,000 well disciplined troops;

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The steamer Cambria, he4nce, arrivediti Boston on the 27th ult. • , :
The screw steamer Sarah 'Sands arrived at New
York on the Ist inst., after hating- suetaingd dainake
to her machinery.
The West India mail steame____ r ~Thatnek,liom Vera
Cruz, arrived off Mobile on the 21st ult. She had
on freight 45,000 dollars specie, of which 35,000
dollars were for New Orleans, 160 bales cochineal,
several packages Vanilla, and 19 passengers for
England. She was detained 36 hours at Vera Cruz
for the mails, but was compelled to leave without them
in consequence of a strong norther.
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OIkIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
• Yonx 2.
Oar money market to-day, and NEW
or ,e ee,
kMAY or more,
has been easy. United States' Sixes of '6B sold )ester-
day at 112 to 1121, but to day they are in less demand;
the greatest portion of the purchases needed for remit-
tances for Europe had been completed. Good bills on
London are somewhat scarce to-day, and a good deal of
business was done at from 107 i to 108. The St. Denis
Havre packet, which sailed yesterday, carried about
50,000 dollars in five-franc pieces, but the current of
coin is this way now notwithstanding; Ohiu State Se-
curities, 7k per Cent., '5l, at 101; Pennsylvania Five
per Cent., 83k; Maryland Six per Cents., 99; Alabamas
Five per Cents., 65; Arianas Six per Cents., 64it. The
business of exchange for steamer has been considerable.
Bills have been very scarce, and higher prices have been
obtained. We quote on London, 7i to 8 per cent. pre-
mium; Paris, sf. 32c.,
.sf. 324 e.; 60 days, if. 25c. to
sf. 27ic.; Short Eights closing very firm, and scarce.
Amsterdam, 39i to 394; Antwerp, 532 if. to 535 f.;
Hamburgh, 354 to 34i; and Bremen, 771 to 76e. The
business of to day will also add to the aggregate trans-
actions.
Cotton—The sales of the day were 700 bales at the
following quotations;—New Orleans, Texas, and Mobile
ordinary, 61; middling, 71; good middling, fair, 7i;
fair, 8; fully fair, 8i; Florida and Upland ordinary, 61;
middling, 61 to 7; good middling, 7i; middling fair, 7f;
fair, 7f; fully fair, 8. The market is gaining strength
daily from the firmer attitude assumed by holders and
the withdrawal of cotton from sale. The advices by the
Southerner confirmed those previously received as to
the destruction by frost in Carolina, Georgia, and Ala-
bama, and portions of Mississippi, Louisiana, of the
growing crop; prices have been advanced throughout
the south in consequence, and the purchasers making
planters account. The shipping list states .that the
total receipts of cotton at all the ahippiag ports are
2,390,169 bales against 1,940;796 to sane date last year,
being an increase this season of 449,379 bales. The
total foreign export this year is 329,896 bales more than
last, say 269,365 bales to Great Britain; 37,234 decrease
to France; 17,494 increase to north of Europe; 19,779
decrease to other foreign parts. Shipments from
southern to northern ports are 173,215 bales more this
season than last, and there is a decrease in stock of
16,348 bales.
Bread Stuffs—Soon after the sailing of the Niagara
steamer, on the 17th of April, the flour market began
gradually to improve, and ,has been since strengthened
by the favourable news from Cambria, received on Fri-
day last. Prices are now about 25 cents per barrel over
those current on tho 17th ult. on flour; 4 cents per
bushel on Indian corn.
Freights to London—We heard only of engagements
of tallow at 30s. and of tobacco 3s. To Liverpool-100
barials of lard, 275. 6d.; butter, bacon, ashes, and hams,
255.; turpentine, 2s. 6d.; cotton 5-16ths; and corn, 6id.
Glasgow—Square cotton, id.; Sea Island, id. to id.
There is no change, the packets demanding i of a cent.
Tu Antwerp—Cotton j of a cent.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrivals at New York—The Independence, from Lon-
don; Sarah Sands, Liverpool; Seabird, Galway; Acadia,
Newry; Swan, Cork; Hirundo and Sidonia, Newcastle;
Washiegtcn and James Fagan, Dublin; Marchioness
Clydesdale, London; Urania, Youghal; Warrior, Newry;
Hudson, Glasgow.
Arrived at Philadelphia—The Albion, from Galway.
The Austrian ship Gregorius, from Bristol to New
Orleans, ran on shore on Carrysford Reef on the 18th of
April last, and was got off after being on 36 hours.
The ship Swatara, from Liverpool to Philadelphia,
struck in the Delaware on the 27th, and afterwards filled;
crew and passengers saved.

UO URT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Priace Albert, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess Augustus of
Saxe Coburg Gotha, and attended by General Wemyss
and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, left
Buckingham Palace at ten minutes past three o'clock
yesterday afternoon for the Paddington terminus, tra-
velled by a special train on the Great Western Railway
to the Slough station, and from thence proceeded to
Windsor Castle. Major• General Bowles preceded her
Majesty and the Prince to the Castle, and attended the
august party on their return to town, the Royal circle
leaving the Castle at 6ve minutes before six o'clock, re-
tuning by the same rcute, and arriving at Buckingham
Pahce at seven o'clock.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
his Royal Highness the Duke Augustus, of Saxe Coburg,
and attended by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Got-
don, rode out on horseback yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the
Princess Alice took an airing yesterday in an open car-
riage and four.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa,
took their usual exercise yesterday in the royal garden.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess Augustus
of Saxe Coburg Gotha, honoured the performance cf
the German Opera at Drury-lane Theatre with their
presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite consisted
of the Countess of Desart, the Earl of Morley, General
Wemyss, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander
Gordon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough
House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent honoured
the performance of the French plays with her presence
yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness was attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir George
Couper, and Lord James P. Murray.

DR UR Y -LANE THEATRE.
The announcement that her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert would attend the performance of the German Opera
Company at this theatre last night drew a crowded au-
dience. The opera was Der Freischutz, which is always
an attraction with a large portion of the musical public
of London. Of the style in which the opera was given
we are able to speak in terms of general praise. It was
characterised by that artistic feeling which animates
German musicians and actors from the highest to the
lowest and most insignificant performer, and of
which, unfortunately, we as yet know so little in this
country, though; what is known is so immediately
appreciated. We have so recently praised the
chorus of this company, as constituting, at present
and with the exception of Pischek, its chief strength,
that wo need do no more than say that the fine choruses
of Der Freischutz received ample justice at their hands,
the character and animation of their acting being only
second to their singing. Of the principal singers we
cannot speak so highly. The Caspar is a basso, who did
not appear in the first opera given by the company. His
voice is coarse and worn, and his dramatic style, though
animated, deficient in character. A Mdlle. Romani was
the Agatha. She has a voice of considerable compass
and power, but wanting mellowness and (quality of tone.
She sang the grand scena in the second act, however,
with much effect. The other parts were filled by per-
formers whom we have already noticed; but the Aanchen
of Madame Marlow deserves a word of praise, for the
archness and geniality of her acting, and the correctness
of her singing.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
These delightful gardens opened for the season la 4
evening, and were crowded with visitors. During the
recess the proprietor has greatly improved the gardens,
which have been laid out anew, with flowers, trees,
and !Aunts. The turf is thick, soft, fresh, and
velvetty, and the' parterres are beautiful. The
animals look particularly fine and healthy, and the
menagerie is perhaps the most complete in the world,
In redemption of his pledge to give the public a new
exhibition every year, Mr. Tyler has this year erected
an elaborate and beautifully designed model of the city
of Badajoz, exquisitely designed by the Messrs. Dausen
from sketches and prints in the British Museum. Tho
lake represents the river Guadiana, on which this
fine and strong old city is situated; and the py-
rotechnic display which takes place at dus
k fortress
repre-
sents the storming of this itnportan
soon as the skies are
d the effects, and aft r a furious can-
nonading by the British troops, real as well as mimic
dark enough to aid by the British troops under the Duke of Wellington.
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successful piece of pyrotechny ever exhibited, even at
these gardens, and it was received with shouts of
applause, giving unbounded satisfaction to the thousands
who thronged the gardens.

FRENCH PLAT, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by
Mr. and Lady Mary Christopher, honoured the French
Plays with her presence last evening. Her Royal High-
ness was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroness
de Spetb, Sir George Couper, Lord James Murray, and
Rinasay Cooper, Esq. There were also present the
Russian Ambassador, the Baroness Brunnow and Mdlle.
Olga de Lechner, the Turkish Ambassador and suite,
the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Blantyre, the Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Countess of Wilton, the
Marquis of Douro, Lord Maynard, Viscount Clifden,
Lord Cranstoun, lion. Mr. Joes, Sir Archibald Mac-
donald, Hon. James Macdonald, Lady and Miss Mac-
donald, Lady Quirtin, M. and Madame lizielli, Colonel
Rice Trevor, General Wildman, Major Tierney, &C.
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