The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

S N 7 APRIL 1, 1847.

MR. O'CONNELL IN PARIS.
From private letters it appears that the arrival of Mr.
O'Connell in Paris had produced a considerable sensa-
tion. Although his medical advisers found nothing,
alarming in his case, they had, however, deemed it ex-
pedient that ho should remain within doors in the wet
and changeable weather that had succeeded to the late
heats. On Saturday and Sunday the visitors and in-
quirers were numerous. Among the former were Lord
holland, the Archbishop of Paris, the President of the
Irish College (the Rev. Dr. M'Sweeney), Archdeacon
Keating, Sir Richard O'Connor, Colonel Romilly, the
qarquis de la Rochejacquelin, &c. Among the latter
was the Marquis of Normanby.
At about two o'clock on Sunday the members of the
electoral committee instituted for the defence of religious
freedom waited on Mr. O'Connell, to offer him their con-
gratulation, and to tender to him their respectful sym-
pathy. At their head were the Marvis de 13artheleray,
Peer of France; Viscount de Falloux, Count Qaatre-
harbes, and Messrs. Clappier and I)u Rozier, Deputies;
the Marquis de Dampierre; Messrs. L,,normant and
Rauvais (members of the Institute), Baron de Montigny
(Judge of the Royal Court), Viscount de Bonneuil (Pre-
sident of the Petition Committee), Messrs. l)ecoux and
Veuillot, editors of the Univers, &c. When all the
members were introduced into the saloon of Mr. O'Con-
nell, the President of the Committee (Count de Mont-
alembert) addressed him in the following terms—and
which, we suppose, left the Learned Gentleman nothing
to desire in the way of compliment:—
" Sir and illustrious Friend,-....When I had the plea-
sure of seeing you for the first time, sixteen years ago,
in your castle of Derrynane, on the shores of the Atlan-
tic, the revolution of July had just taken place, and your
solicitude was already ardently directed towards the
future stability of religion in France. I heard with
respect your wishes and your lessons. You then pointed
out to us the course we should pursue, and the rules we
should follow, in order to emancipate the Church from
the temporal yoke by legal and civic means, and at the
same time to separate religion from all political causes.
I am happy to have it in my power to show you that your
lessons have fructified amongst us. lam come to present
to you the men who in France have enrolled themselves
as the first soldiers under a banner you were the first to
unfurl, and which will now endure for ever. We are all
your children, or rather your pupils ; you are our mas-
ter, our model, our glorious preceptor. It is for that rea-
son we are come to tenderyou the affectionate and respect-
ful homage we owe to the man of the age who has done
most for the dignity and liberty of mankind, and espe-
cially for the political instruction of Catholic nations.
We admire in you the man who has accomplished the
noblest achievement that can be given to man to con-
ceive in this world—the man who without shedding a
drop of blood has reconquered the nationality of his
country and the political rights of 8,000,000 Catholics.
We are come to salute in you the liberator of Ireland, of
that nation which has always excited in France fraternal
feelings. But you are not only the man of one nation,
you are the man of all Christendom. Your glory is not
only Irish, it is catholic. Wherever Catholics begin anew
to practise civic virtues, and devote themselves to the
conquest of their legitimate rights, after God it is your
work. Wherever religion tends to emancipate itself
from the thraldom in which several generations of
sophists and legists have placed it, to you, after God, it
is indebted. May that thought fortify you, revive you
in your infirmities, and console you in the affliction with
which your patriotic heart is now overwhelmed. The
wishes of Catholic France, of truly liberal France,
will accompany you in your pilgrimage to
Rome. The day of your meeting with Pius
IX.—when the greatest and most illustrious Chris

tian of our age shall kneel at the feet of a Pontiff Rho
recals to our recollection the most brilliant period of the
Church, will be a truly momentous event in the history
of our time. If in that instant of supreme emotion your
heart should entertain a thought not absorbed by Ireland
and Rome, remember us; the homage of the affection,
respect, and devotion of the Catholics of France for the
chief of the Church could not be better placed than on
the lips of the Catholic liberator of Ireland."

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceeding.s of the House of Commons.)
TUESDAY, DI•11.C11 30.
The nndernamed Railway Bill was presented, read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time:—
Edinburgh and Northern (Branch from Burntisland to
Dunfermline Branch, &c.—No. 2)—" to enable the Edin-
burgh and Northern Railway Company to make a Deviation
and Extension of their Branch Railway to Dunfermline; to
•ake another Railway from their Strathearn Deviation
Railway to the Scottish Central Railway; and to make an
alteration in the manner of constructing the said Branch and
Strathearn Deviation across certain Roads, and the Halbeath
Railway."

The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction.
Chester and Holyhead (Extensions at Chester and Holy-
head, &c.—No. 2).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31.
Caledonian (Branches to \Vilsontown, to Fauldhouse, and to
I3iggar and 13roughton).
Caledonian (Edinburgh Station, and Branches to Grauton
and to the Eiinburgh and Glasgow Railway).

PRICE SD.

KITING UPON RAILWAY WORKS
IN IRELAND.
(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)
It has bees our painful duty, upon more than nne oc-
casion, to direct the public attention towards the system
which has been pursued by certain railway contractors
in this country in the payment of their labourers. The
public indignation which foliowQd our first notice of this
matter had, wo believe, the useful effect of rousing the
directors of the Great Southern and Western Company
to an interference sufficiently active to put an end to the
enormity, and we have heard no more of its perpetration
on the works of that taidertaking. With another com-
pany, however, our remonstrances have not been equally
successful. More than a year ago we informed the pub-
lic that the labourers upon the Midland Great extern
or Mullingar Railway, were paid by promissory notes,
having many days to run, and which, to our knowledge,
were issued for sums so small as four shillings, and, we
regret to find, that the evil is still in active and most
mischievous existence; in proof of which let all c‘m
corned behold the following copy of a document now
lying before us:—
No. 000

DUBLIN RAILWAY OFFICE.
30, Upper Dominic-street, Dublin,
16th March, 1847.
We owe Patrick O'Rourke, or Bearer, the Sum of
TEN SHILLINGS
which wo promise to pay at our Office on Friday, the 23d
April instant, or any following Friday.
For WILLIAM and THOMAS JESTS,
£0 10 0 J. J. VERSO.
The original of this docnment was given in payment of
wages to a labourer employed upon the Mullingar Rail-
way, and working, at the time, at a distance of twelve
miles from Dublin, who is thus subjected to the grievous
oppression of the most griping usury. At a period when
so much difficulty exists in bring the cost of bare sub-
sistence within the limits of the highest unskilled labour
wages, thirty eight days' credit is enforced by those con-
tractors upon the wretched pittance of the labourer; and
he is placed under the necessity, if he denies to escape
commission and agency fees, of forfeiting a day's work
for each week's wages. The result of the operation, as
we are informed is, that these notes are cashed for the
unfortunate holders at a discount of eight per cent. per
month, being at the rate of ninety-six per cent. per
annum.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY OFFICIALS.
—We learn that some important changes have been
made on the list of gentlemen intrusted with the prac-
tical IA orking of this line. Mr. Miller becomes consult-
ing engineer; Mr. Adie has been appointed acting engi-
neer; Mr. Latham, of the Manchester and Birmingham
line, has been appointed manager ; and Mr. Henry
Guthrie Wright retains the situation which he has so
ably filled as secretary to the company; Mr. William
Paton has been appointed superintendent of locomotives,
in room of Mr. Forsyth, who has accepted a more lucra-
tive situation in England. It will be remembered that
some time since Mr. Paten was subjected to a length.
enedimprisonment, in connexion with nhich much
public sympathy was excited; and the Lord Justice
Clerk, after complimenting Mr. Paton with having
proved to be a most meritorious and excellent officer of
the establishment, concluded with these words, "I do
not hesitate to say that you may be readily intrusted
with the same or any similar situation."—Glasyoul
Herald.

SLAVE-TRADE—ITORRIDLE MASSACRE.—The fol-
lowing has just been received from a very intelligent
naval officer at Ascension :—" ASCENSION, JAN. 1, 1847.

—We have just received news of a most horrible mas-
sacre on the coast. A slave depot called Gallineas,
known to have 2,000 slaves ready for shipping, was so
closely blockaded by our cruizers, that the slave owners
finding it impossible to embark the slaves, and not wish-
ing the expense of feeding them, actually in cold blood
beheaded the whole number. placing their heads on poles
stuck in the beach, saying if you will not allow us to
make profit of prisoners we take in war, we will kill all.
—Cork Constitution.

FRACAS IN AN EMIGRANT SIIIP.—An affray took
place on Thursday last on board the Albion, bound from
this port with emigrants to New York, which threatened
to terminate in the loss of life. It appears that on that
day a bailiff got on board for the purpose of executing
a decree against one of the emigrants for the price of
one cwt. of meal which he got last year from his land-
lord, a gentleman in the vicinity of the town. The
bailiff having seized the man, he rescued himself from
his grasp, and the bailiff then proceeded to claim the
protection of the police. lie applied to Sir Thomas E.
Blake for an order for the purpose, and Sir Thomas ac •
companied a party of police, under the command of Mr.
Lynch, S. 1., to the vessel. The bailiff then attempted
to get on board but the other emigrants opposed it. The
police interfered to assist him, but they too were resisted
the excitement became very great, and at length the
emigrants and police got into collision. Fearing that
loss of life would be the result, Sir Thomas Blake
ordered the police to desist, until they got a reinforce.
ment of the military to overawe the emigrants. A
party of the 49th were then sent for, and upon their
arrival the man against whom the decree was executed
immediately surrendered himself to them, requesting
the other emigrants not to offer any further opposition.
lie was then conveyed to the town prison, and is likely
to remain there until discharged by the insolvent judge.
—Galway Mercury.
AccrDENT.—on Monday evening last, as Mr.
Rowe's van was coaling bite Truro from liodmin, at the
top of the hill, about a mile from Truro, Mr. Rowe threw
the reins on the horse's back, and was about to get off
to track the wheel, when the horse started off, and Mr.
Rowe, in attempting to stop him, was thrown to the
ground, and had his shoulder dislocated by the violence
of the tall. Mr. Pearce, of Lemon-street, Truro, who
was riding outside, was also thrown to the ground by the
starting of the horse, and received a serious cut on the
eye, besides other contusions of the face. The horse
proceeded at a rapid rate into Truro, without a driver,
and was not stopped until he arrived at the George and
Dragon, in St. Austell-street. Mr. Rowe was after-
wards taken to the Seven Stars Inn, where he is now
under medical care, and is progressing; favourably. The
passengers who were riding inside the van received no
injury.— West Briton.

Some specimens of ancient gold coins have been
discovered near the foundation of the late rectory-house
in St. Martin's, Stamford, by the labourers employ ed in
excavating for the Syston and Peterborough Railway.
The coins, seven in number, were found in a wooden-
box, and were nearly as bright as gold just issued from
the mint: they consist of "nobles" of the reign of Edw.
111., and " angels" and " half-angels " of the reign of
Henry VIII. The nobles are believed to have been
coined 500 years ago. On one side they present a figure
of the king standing at the helm of a ship (supposed to
be emblematical of the sovereignty of the seas), and on
the reverse a rich cross fleurie, with lions under crowns in
the angles, and surrounded by, the words " Edwardus Dei
Gra. Rex Anglo. et France, D. Hyb." The "angels" and
" half-angels,' so called from having a representation of
the archangel Michael piercing a dragon on the obverse,
are believed to be more than 300 years old ; the motto
on the reverse is " Per cruce tug salva nea X. re rede.'
—These interesting relics are in the possession of Mr.
Norton, silversmith of Stamford. A few days before
the finding of the coins, and at a short distance from
the spot where the box, in which they were contained,
was dug up, the workmen came upon a kind of cavern,
or subterranean passage, which at the distance of fifteen
feet from the surface ran east and west for about thirty
feet. The height of the passage was six feet, and into
it opened several cavities, sustained by rude columns of
stone. The conclusion is, that it was, originally, a
place of refuge in connexion with some of the religious
houses with which Stamford abounded in bygone cen-
turies.—Lincoln Mercurrl.
DESCENT OF Mx.GYPSON'S BALLOON.—The as.
cension which Mr. Gypson, the aeronaut, made on Mon-
day, in company with Mr. IL Coxwell, editor of the
Aerostatic Magazine, was continued for sixty miles, to
Sandhurst, in Kent, where a safe descent was effected,
near the residence of Sir John Herschel, the illustrious
astronomer. The aeronauts intended to cross the Chan-
nel, but a shift of the wind suggested the prudence of
altering their original determination. Lady Herschel,
and some of her family having witnessed the descent,
Mr. Gypson and Mr. Coxwell were induced to pay their
respects to the distinguished observers of the aerial
chariot, and the gentlemen from the clouds having been
hospitably received, the merits and probable utility of
aerostation were discussed with enthusiasm and with
considerable competency and knowledge of the science
on the part of Sir John Herschel. The aerial voyagers
at one period of their lengthy journey attained an ele-
vation of three miles, and some ingenious machinery,
invented by Mr. Gypson, to raise and depress the bal-
loon without loss of gas or ballast, was worked with
advantage.
HOUSE ROBBERY.—A heartless robbery was com-
mitted at Caister, next Yarmouth, on Sunday. The
house of a poor man belonging to the preventive service,
was entered while he was on duty, and his family at
church, and robbed of 101. in money, a silver watch,
some silver plate, and gold rings. Part of the money
belonged to a child, a grand-daughter of the owner of
the cottage, whose son and his wife were lost at sea last
y
namedßensley, was taken up, and era,
Yarmouth magistrates on Monday. No
minedear. before A
the
evidence was adduced sufficient to _warrant the magis-
trates in detaining him, and he was discharged ; but in
consequence of informatioa since received, the police
are again in search of him.—Norfolk Chronicle.
ANCIENT Itnracs.--A further portion of the old
Roman wall has been discovered in digging the founda-
tions for some new houses, which are in course of
erection in the Park, Newland. The wall is in excellent
preservation, both stones and cement being hard as
marble. The stones are in rows, placed edgewise, and
the crevices were evidently filled up by the mortar or
cement being poured upon the stones. Some old coins
have been found but the inscriptions are not traceable.--
Lincolnshire Chronicle.

ARTICHOKES AS A ►SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES.—
It has latterly been much urged upon the cottages the
utility of extensively substituting in- their ;allotments and
gardens the Jerusalem artichoke for the potato. No weather
hurts it, it appears - to- grow almost anywhere, and yields
quite as large a crop as the most prolific potato. A friend of
ours (says a Bath contemporary) planted iri April last, -and
is now digging an average produce of hidf-a-peck;Woaell
root planted.

•
COURT CIRCULAR. a
Mr. Charles Buller, Ju ige Advocate-Gereral, hrd an
!
audience of the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, to submit to her Majesty the ptoce.d:ngs of
some courts-martial.
The Queen and Prince Albert left town yesterday
afternoon for Windsor Castle. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness left Buckingham Palace at five minutes
past three o'clock, accompanied by the Prince of Wales,
and the Princess Royal, in a carriage and four, for the
Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway.
Theirltoyal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, and the Princess Helena, and the Countess o
Gainsborough, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Napier,
the Marquis of Ormonde, Major-General Bowles,
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore,
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel
Bouverie, followed in four carriages and four.
The august party left Paddington by a special train
for the Slough station.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Princess Helena, and attended by the Lady in Waiting,
the Maids of Honour, the Master of the Household,
the Private Secretary to Prince Albert, the Lord, the
Groom, and the Equerries in Waiting, arrived at the
Castle from town, at ten minutes parr four o'clock this
afternoon.

A party of the First Regiment of Life Guards formed
the escort from Slough to the Castle.
Her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent arrived this
afternoon, in a carriage and four, at her residence, Frog.
more House, from toe n._

The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening,
will consist solely of the Ladies and Gentlemen of the
Royal suite.

her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at
Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her re-
sidence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Frogmore House. Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George
Couper attended her Royal Highness.
The Earl of Roden and a deputation had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday.
The Earl of Radnor had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Marquis of Lansdowne was much better yes-
terday.
Earl Grey left town yesterday for Datchet.
The Earl of Clarendon left town yesterday for his seat,
Gove Park, Herts.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governors of New South Wales and
South Australia.

The Commissioners for Metropolitan Improvements
had a meeting yesterday at the office of her Majesty's
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-
place. There were present Viscount Morpeth, Lord
Colborne, the Right Hon. J. C. llerries, Sir Robert 11.
Inglis, Mr. Alderman Ilumphery, Mr. Milne, and Mr.
Barry.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
NE WTON, 1847.
The Gold Cup (Handicap) of 20 sous each, 10 ft, and 5
only if declared on or before the 15th of April.
Age. st.lb. Age, st.lb.
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Inheritress ......
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Pan tasa
Morpeth 6 8 6 Duke of Richmond 4 6 12
Grimston
Aristotle a 8 2 Camera Obscure... 4 6 10
Intrepid
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Mickey Free
Princess Alice
Coeur de Lion 5 7 11 The Milliner
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Crim Con.
Arthur
Sheraton 4 7 7 Br gby Stansty.,. 4 5 7
Plaudit
The Maid of Lyme 5 7 5 out of Tiffany... 3 5 5
Wooton a 7 4 The Premier, by
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Fitzwilliam 4 7 4 Sagacity
Pal
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Sharston 4 7 2 Marlow
The Premier 47 2 The Wave
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The Magnet
Burgundy
11 the highest weight ace(
be raised to Sst 71b, and the

,pting is under Bst 71b it will
others in proportion.

ROME.
The Pontifical Government has issued an edict, signed
by Cardinal Gizzi, relative to the censure on the press.
The first chapter states that the Council of Censure at
Home shall be presided over by the Rev. Master of the
Palace, and cannot be composed of more than five mem-
bers, to bt, chosen by his Holiness among the most emi-
nent literary men. In the chief towns of provinces the
council is to be composed of two censors. Ohe-half of
the censors are to be chosen every five years, but may
be maintained by the Pope. The members of the council
arc to deGide among themselves the enterent seicatific
political matters of each journal or writing submitted
to them. If one censor shall decide against the substance
of an article, an appeal may be made to the whole coun-
cil, If he be in doubt on any matter an appeal may also
be made to the whole couneit. There is to be no appeal
from the Council of Censure at Rome, which is to act under
its responsibility to the Government. In caso of equality
of votes among the provincial censors, the president
is to decide without appeal, as regards journals or
p.,mphlets ; but as regards works el greater importance,
the president rn,ty appeal esti his conned to that of
Rome. No writing disapproved by the council of Boma
can be sanctioned by the privincial cans .rs. The pro-
visions of the second chapter declare that the Council of
Censure cannot sanction any new journal or other
periodical publication, without written permission from
the general direction of police, after declaration has been
made of the matters treated by the journal, of the names
of its principal contributors, of its mode of publication
and means of existence, and after a responsible pub•
fisher shall have guaranteed, by the deposit of caution
money, the exact observance of the laws on the press.
It is permitted to treat of all seicetific subjects, of letters,
hf arts, of agriculture, industry, commerce, navigation,
public works ; to reproduce the Acts of the Govern-
ment when published in the official journal ; to insert
advertisements of religious ceremonies, public spectacles,
and every other in conformity with existing decrees. It
is forbidden to treat on subjects tending to the injury of
relieion and of the Church, or militating against the
honour of the magistrates, and of the Governments of
foreign Powers.