The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-10 00:00:00

THE KING OF BAVARIA AND

LOLA MONTES.

The Debats publishes the following letter, addressed
to the King of Bavaria by four of his Ministers, on ten-
dering their resignations:—
" Sire,—There are circumstances in which men,
invested with the inappreciable confidence of their
sovereign, and charged by him with the direction
of affairs, have only the sad alternative of re-
nouncing the accomplishment of the most sacred
duties, their fidelity, their attachment, and their
gratitude, or of not fearing, in order to satisfy their
conscience, to expose themselves to the unhappy danger
of incurring the disapprobation of their beloved
monarch. Such is the sad necessity in which the
undersigned find themselves placed by the royal de-
cision, which has for its object to grant to the Signora
Lola Montes Bavarian letters of naturalisation. We are
all incapable of betraying the oaths which we took to
your Majesty, and our resolution has never been tor a
moment doubtful. This question of naturalisation was
frankly characterised by the Counsellor of State de
Maurer, in the sitting of the council of the Bth inst.,
as the greatest calamity with which Bavaria could be
afflicted. This was also the conviction of the whole of
the council it is at the same time the expression of
the opinion of all the faithful subjects of your Majesty ;
and it was not necessary for the Council of State to
assemble to cause it to be entertained by the under-
signed. Since the month of December last the eyes of
the vs hole country have been fixed upon Munich. In
all the provinces of Bavaria nothing is thought of but
what is passing here, and which forms almost exclusively
the subject of all conversations, whether private or public;
and the opinions manifested on this subject are
exceedingly grave. The respect for the Sovereign be-
comes weaker and weaker in all minds, because we hear
from all parts only expressions of the most bitter blame
and the most energetic disapprobation. Moreover, the
national feeling is offended, in cause Bavaria believes
herself to
i be governed by a foreign female, whose re-
putation s branded in public opinion, and, in presence
of such facts, nothing can root out the idea. Men like
the Bishop of Augsburg, whose fidelity and attachment
to your Majesty cannot be disputed, daily shed bitter
tears for what is passing before their eyes; the Minis-
ters of the Interior and of Finance have been witnesses
of his profound affliction. The Prince Bishop of Bres-
lau, on learning that a rumour had been circulated here
that he had set forth an opinion tending to excuse this
state of things, has hastened to write to persons in
Munich, requesting them to contradict this in the moat
formal manner, and to declare that he disap-
proved in tote of what was going on. His letter is
no longer a secret, and in a short time it will be known
to the whole country. Foreign journals are every
day relating the most scandalous anecdotes, and
making the most degrading attacks on your Majesty.
The number of the Ulm Chronicle, which we subjoin,
is a proof of what we assert. It is in vain that
the police endeavours to prevent the introduction
of these journals, as they are circulated everywhere,
and read with the utmost avidity. The impression which
they leave on men's minds is by no means doubtful ; it
is renewed day after day, and in a short time nothing
will be able to efface it. This opinion is the same
from Berchtesgaden and Passau to Aschaffenburg and
Deux-Ponts—it is the same throughout Europe, in the
cabin of the poor and the palace of the rich. It
is not alone the glory and the well-being of your
Majesty's Government that are compromised, but even
the existence of Royalty itself. It is this which ex-
plains the joys of those who aim at overturning the
throne, and all whose efforts tend to annihilate this
same royalty. But it is also the cause of the profound
grief and despair of all who are faithfully attached to
your Majesty, and who cannot shut their eyes to the
dangers to which the country has not perhaps at any
other period been exposed. In this state of things it is
beyond the reach of human power to prevent the effect
of what is now passing acting in the end on the army s
and if such an unfortunate event should take place, it
that bulwark should give way, what would then
be our resource ? The statement which the under-
signed, whose hearts are torn with anguish, venture to
place before your Majesty, is not the effect of an ima-
gination struck with terror, but the result of the obser-
vations which each of them, in the circle of his attribu-
tions, has been in a condition to make for several months.
It may be easily foreseen what will be, in the ensuing
Parliamentary session, the result of these circum-
stances. Their effect cannot be calculated if the delibe-
rations of the Chambers should open under such im-
pressions. Each of the undersigned is ready at any
moment to sacrifice for your Majesty his life and for-
tune. They believe they have given you sufficient
proofs of their fidelity and attachment, and it is for them
a doubly sacred duty to point out to your Majesty the
dangers which are daily increasing, in orch r that you
may deign to listen to their humble prayer, and
give up the supposition that what is taking place
is the effect of passions or of opposition to your
august will, when this opposition is really directed only
against a situation which, in the eyes of every faithful
Bavarian, threatens to destroy the fair fame, power,
and future happiness of a beloved King. 1 hey. have
respectfully and minutely weighed all the circum
stances connected with a course of proceeding to
which their profound and sincere attachment to your
Majesty have alone decided them. Their firm convic-
tion is, that if your Majesty should not deign to attend
to their supplications, they are bound to resign the
situations to which the kindness and confidence of their
sovereign had called them, and that nothing else remains
for them but to respectfully pray your Majesty to re-
sume the portfolios which you had intrusted to them.
(Signed) D'ABEL, Minister of the Interior.
GU NI PEN BERG, Minister of War.
SHRENKE, Minister of Finance.
SCENSHEIM, Minister of Justice."
M. de Bray, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has also given
in his resignation, as has been already stated.

BURNING OF A THEATRE.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
We read in a letter from Carlsruhe of the 28th ult.:—
" The grand ducal theatre has just been destroyed by fire;
it is at this moment a heap of ashes. Soon after five o'clock,
and when a considerable number of persons had already en-
tered the theatre, the third tier of boxes being nearly filled,
the tire broke out suddenly in a box on the second tier. It
is said that one of the gas pipes burst, and this was probably
the case, for in a few minutes the whole of the interior of the
theatre was in flames. Assistance was soon procured from
all sides; but as it was impossible to save the theatre, all the
efforts were directed towards the preservation of the adjoin-
ing houses. At ten o'clock all danger was over as regarded
them. But what is most terrible in this affair is the loss of
life. Several persons in the boxes lost their lives, for, as
soon as the fire had declared itself, escape was difficult.
Some, who were in the third tier, jumped into the second,
and then into the pit ; others threw themselves out of the
windows into the yard."
The Carlsruhe Gazette of the 3d gives the following parti-
culars:—
: "It was not in one of the boxes of the second gallery that
the fire first broke out, but in one of the court• boxes, imme.
diately after the gas was lighted. The inquest is not yet
terminated ; but it is already known that there was no fis•:ure
in the gas pipe, and that the flames driven by a current of
air, caught the hangings. The rapidity with which the fire
spread is easily accounted for by the interior arrangement
and decorations of this banding in common with all old
theatres. As soon as the audience part of the house was be-
ginning to be filled with the volumes of smoke, the confu-
sion and alarm became general and frightful. Many persons
on the third tier of galleries were stifled. The number of
persons dead and missing amounts, according to the police
returns, to 70. Tue Grand Duke, although he had for seve-
ral days been confined by indisposition, hurried to the scene
of disaster, and by his presence encouraged the firemen.
His Royal Highness has to-day expressed, through the au-
thorities, his warm thanks to the inhabitants of Carlsruhe
and its environs, and the military and gendarmery, for the
zeal with which they all lent their assistance on this lament-
able occasion."
A letter from Carlsruhe, in the Mannheim Journal, says—
" Among the victims the following are named—viz., a
brother of M. Homburg, the man of letters; a son of M.
Wabel, the prompter; a whole family who had just arrived
from Ludwigsburg, and an English iamily who had got lost
in the corridors, besides many women and children. Most of
the bodies are completely reduced to ashes; and of many
others nothing was left unconsumed but the limbs, which
have been carried to the cemetfry. Some threw themselves
out of the windows of the fourth story: one, in attempting
to do so, was withheld by a young female, to whom he was
affianced, and thus remained suspended till the building gave
way, when they both sunk into the flames."

A GunsT STORY, BUT not BY CHARLES DICKENS. i
—A fellow, named Philip Emmerson, a coal porter, has been
for some time past annoying the inhabitants of Ipswich, by
personating a ghost. He succeeded in frightening several
persons in Water-lane, leading from the top of St. Helen's
into the Woodbridge-road ; and in some cases, and particu-
larly with females, the cowardly miscreant proceeded to
personal violence. Notwithstanding the vigilance of the
police, who were upon the look-out for him, he
managed to escape detection until Saturday last. Just at
the witching time of night the ghost stopped a young man
in the above lane, and after indulging in a few antics such
as ghosts are prone to, he seized the young man by the
cc,llar, tore the boa ,m of his shirt, and gave him a severe
blow on the wrist with a stone, cutting away a portion of the
flesh. He then attempted to escape. This time, however,
be had reckoned without his host; the party assailed proving
a match for the aggressor. Imagining that ghosts are not in
the habit of inflicting blows, or rending shirt-fronts, he soon
recovered from the fright into which he had been for a mo-
ment thrown, and gave the would-be supernatural such a
chastisement as will probably deter him from indulging in
such foolish and wanton tricks for the future. It is to be
regretted that no horse pond was near: a good ducking
would, no doubt, materially assist his memory if be ever feels
again an intention to indulge in such unpardonable sport.—
Ipswich Express.
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SEGRETS Or THE OCEA .
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stone. On Friday last one ut those vessels I
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