The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1847

Letters from Rome of the Bth inst. contain the

following :
" Petitions are daily received by the 'Government de-
manding the institution of a civic guard throughout the
Pontifical dominions, the re-organization of district and
provincial councils, and the appointment of a Consults,
or Council of State, composed of the notable inhabitants
of the provinces. The Pope and Cardinal Gizzi are dis-
posed to grant those concessions, for the Roman states
want both administrative and political reforms, and those
required are certainly moderate. But the other Govern-
ments, and Austria in particular, are unfortunately op-
posed to the establishment of liberal institutions in Cen
tral Italy. The gratitude of the people to the Holy
Father has been of late enhanced by an abundant distri-
bution of money from his own private chest to the indi-
gent of Rome. He has even ordered that one-half of the
collections made in the churches for the souls in purga-
tory be divided argongst the poor. Pius IX. is accord-
ingly called NOM della carita' (the charitable man).
A Committee was to be charged with the re-organiza-
tion of the army, of which General Armandi, the Mi-
nister of War under the Government of Central Italy in
1831, is to form part. It is also believed that M. Orioli,
the Minister of Public Instruction at the same period,
would be appointed member of the Committee on educa-
tion. M. Silvani, the Minister of Justice, is one of the
lawyers attached to the Committee of Legislation; so
that three members of the insurrectionary Government
in 1831 have been chosen by Pius IX. to take part in
important labours. The Pope is to hold on the 10th
Council, at which the expediency of instituting a Council
of Ministers will be discussed; and on Monday he will
preside at a consistory for the nomination of several
bishops. It is said that on this occasion Pins IX. will
nominate two French Cardinals, one of whom will be the
Archbishop of Cambria."

All diplomatic relations between Turkey and
Greece ceased'on the 31st ult.

Madrid journals of the 12th and 13th inst. have
arrived.

The Afrancesado party are frantic, and in their un-
governable frenzy have endeavoured to remove all
obstacles to the succession of the Duchess of MONT-
PENSIER, by attempting to, assassinate the QUEEN.
On Sunday her MAJESTY. rode out in her phmton as
usual, and 'was received with loud cheers by the
people. In passing through the street of the Pla-
terias a shot was fired at the carriage, which
wounded a police officer. Several arrests of persons
supposed to be concerned in this atrocious attempt
were made in the course of the evening. Among the
persons arrested were Senor FRANCISCO Cnrco and
Senor AVIRANETA, late chiefs of the police
under the Afrancesado Ministry. An order has
since been issued by Senor ESCOSURA, the Political
Chief, forbidding all cheering on the passage of her
MAJESTY. Thus the Herald() has obtained its wishes.
Senor OLOZAGA took his seat in the Chamber of
Deputies on the 12th. It was reported that news had
been received from Portugal, announcing the relief
of Estremoz by the QuEEN's troops, after an engage-
ment with Count MELLO.

MADRID BOLSA, Aram 12.---The Three per Cents.
were done on the 12th at 324 for cash ; the Five per
Cents., at 201 ; the Debt without interest at 6 ; and
the Coupons at 17. On the 13th the Three per Cents.
closed at 32 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 201 ;
Debt, without interest, at 6 ; and the Coupons at 17.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
It would appear from the statement of the Union
Monarchique that M. GUIZOT is sorely puzzled by
the speech of the King of PRUSSIA. So accustomed
has M. GUIZOT been to use language for the purpose
of concealing his thoughts and intentions, that when
he meets with a straightforward man who uses
language for honest purposes, he cannot comprehend
him.

3 Although," says the Union Monarchigm,—
__ _ .

" The Friday's receptions at the Ministry fox Foreign
Affairs are in the eyes of the diplomatic world bul
friendly. and non-official meetings, still the representa-
tives of all the great and minor Northern Courts at-
tended, at M.Guizot's on Friday last. The cause of this
eagerness was, as may be easily conceived, the desire to
discover what effect had been produced in the higher
regions of Government by the speech of his Majesty
the King of Prussia, received in Paris that morn-
ing. We are, however, assured, that notwith-
standing dexterously combined efforts, the curiosity
of foreign diplomacy was not gratified, M. Guizot having
throughout the whole evening adhered to the following
evasive phrase,
twisted and turned twenty different
ways:---AT. That it had been out of his power to form a
correct opinion at the first view on the speech of his
Prussian Majesty, for he had only read a translation of
itinto French, and that the French language was, he
thought, wholly inadequate to giving the full sense of
the German language, especially where there were
poetical images and philosophical ideas.' Was this said
by M. Guizot ironically or diplomatically? This ques-
tion no one ventured to decide."
A petition was presented to the Chamber of Depu-
ties on Saturday praying that the decoration of the
Legion of Honour should bear the portrait of NAPO-
LEON, as it had done at its first institution, instead of
that of HENRY IV., which had been substituted for it
at the restoration ; also that the name of Napoleon-
ville should be restored to the town which at the re-
storation was ordered to be called Bourbon Vendee ;
and also for the repeal of the law prohibiting the re-
turn of the Bonaparte family to France. The two
first prayers were ordered to be referred to the Pre-
sident of the Council ; the last, which was warmly
opposed by the Ministry, was rejected.
The prices in the Paris corn market still evince a
tendency to rise.
There was little done in the Funds in Paris on
Sunday. The Three per Cents. were nominally at
77f. 80c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 19.
Demerera, 33/4—Dutch Rhenish, 4.1%, —East Indian,
Madrid and Valentia, 3/4—Northern of France, 12%—Paris
and Lyons, s—Paris and Strasburg, 2—Sambre and Meuse,
6—West Flanders, 4IA .

These attempts must be watched with the utmost
vigilance, and the greatest caution must be exercised
in consenting to any change whatsoever. Already two
clauses of doubtful propriety have been introduced
avowedly for the benefit of the landowners. The
provision, that no person who shall be in possession
of any quantity of land exceeding a quarter
of an acre, can by any possibility, or under any
circumstances, be afforded relief, either in or out
of the workhouse, until he shall have absolutely
parted with his holding, is in every respect objec-
tionable. It may possibly, in some few instances,
deter such persons from seeking assistance, but in
many others it will greatly increase the sufferings
of those, who, by illness or some other casualty,
have been driven to accept temporary aid, and make
them perpetual incumbrances on the rates, when a little
aid in the extremity of distress might have enabled
them to overcome their difficulties, and maintain their
independence. The clause, too, relating to the as-
sistance that may be rendered to the emigration of
any cottier tenant surrendering his holding to his
landlord, is one that we fear may be carried to an
extent far beyond anything at present contemplated.
The system of emigration is one that is fondly re-
garded by a large class of landlords as a
panacea for the ills of Ireland ; there is
nothing that they will not gladly undertake to
forward their pet projects, and to drive the poorer
inhabitants into banishment from their native land.
They would gladly have the expenses of that which
they erroneously believe to be for their benefit de-
frayed from the national resources. They ask the
imposition of an income-tax, by which not only all the
property of every description in Ireland, but the skill
and labour of the professional man, and the enter-
prise of the merchant, should be taxed for their ex-
clusive advantage. They forget even the claims of
humanity in their zeal. They know not how, or by
what means, the pauper emigrant will be supported
in the place to which he may be consigned. Quad
volumus facile credimus, they desire to believe that
he will be able to earn a subsistence for himself, and
they easily persuade themselves that such will be the
case. The recent dispatch from the Governor of Nova
Scotia to the Colonial Secretary shows how futile
are the hopes held out in too many instances.
lie emphatically warns the people against the delu-
sion ; he tells them " there is no demand for un-
skilled labour ;" and " that the means of remunerating
agricultural labour are greatly diminished;" and
" that extreme misery and privation must necessarily
be the lot of any who should go to that colony in search
of any kind of employment without the means of self-
support for two years at least." These are
home truths, coming from a person whose
trustworthiness and means of information can-
not be impeached, and should induce great deli-
beration before any general system of emigration is
sanctioned. Lord MONTEAGLE is avowedly the
strenuous and indefatigable advocate of that system,
and peculiar care must be taken that the principle is
not advanced or recognised by the Legislature in the
shape of some further extension of the twelfth section
of the new Act.