The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1847.

should be introduced by which due and fitting ac-
commodation would be provided for the sick, with
suitable medicines and medical attendance.
,The dead
should be properly and respectfully interred, and
every means of prevention had recourse to. Some-
thing must speedily be done, or many
valuable lives will be lost. A few days
would be sufficient to introduce the enac-
ments, and to organise the staff that might be
required. Every hour's delay may increase the evil to
a fearful extent. Local committees should be formed
without loss of time, and whenever the persons more
immediately interested put themselves in communi-
cation with the Executive, and show that they are
really anxious to help themselves, we doubt not but
that they will receive the most prompt, ready, and effi-
cient co- operation of the authorities.

Madrid papers of the 17th have arrived.
The Gaceta announces the appointment of General
RONCALI as Captain-General of Gallicia, in the room
of General VILLALONGA, who has resigned. Her
MAJESTY has nominated Luis Lopez Ballesteros,
Beltram de Lis, the Duke of Sotomayor, Joaquim
Fagoaga Mendizabal, Cantero, Carriquirri, Mariano
Miguel Reinoso, the director of the Sinking Fund
Board, the Accountant-General of the kingdom, and
the Director-General of the National Property, as
members of a Committee to prepare a plan for regu-
lating the Public Debt of Spain.
It is said that the Marquis of GERONA will be ap-
pointed Ambassador to Rome.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 17.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 311 for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 20 ; the
Debt without interest at 6 ; and the Coupons at 17.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The motion of M. DE REMUSAT was negatived on
Wednesday by a majority of 49, the numbers being,
for the motion 170, against it 219. It is said that
the Ministers expected a much larger majority.
The Address of the Prussian Diet, in answer to the
speech from the throne, is the subject of a very well
written article in La Presse. After stating that it is
to be hoped the draught of the address may be
modified, in order that too decided an opposition may
not alarm the good dispositions of the Crown, or
furnish to it a pretext for withdrawing the conces-
sions which are in the course of execution, the
Presse thus comments upon the personal situation of
the KING :
" The personal situation of Frederick William, as a man
and as a monarch, is serious. He will have committed an
imprudent act if he have not calculated all its bearings, for
he can neither accept the pretensions of the united Diet
without abandoning the absolute power which he is endea-
vouring to maintain, nor can he dissolve the Diet without
weakening his consideration abroad and the affection of his
people at home. Such a demonstration as that at present
made in Berlin is an irrevocable fact. Prussia wishes to be
a constitutional monarchy. She proclaims her will in that
respect by the organ of her Diet. This determination must
prevail, or it will be demonstrated that the Prussian mo-
narchy is no longer in accord with its people. We must,
therefore, hope that those opposite pretensions will be con-
ciliated—that the Diet will assume the initiative of the com-
promise—and that the King will lend himself to it."

The National has the following gunpowder article
on the dispute between Turkey and Greece :
" The diplomatic relations between Greece and Turkey are
decidedly broken of. The Greek Cabinet has allowed the
period prescribed by the Divan to pass, without submitting
to the humiliating terms dictated by it. The Greek Charge
d'Affaires at Constantinople has no longer any official commu-
nication with the Porte. The Ottoman Government has made
known this state of things to the Great Powers by a memo-
randum, in which it explains the motives of its conduct, and
its determination to persist in its pretensions. Three English
ships of the line, the Vanguard, Albion, and Spartan, have
entered the Piraeus, and are waiting the orders of the British
Ambassador at Athens. This force is evidently designed
to decide the fall of the Greek Cabinet. Thus will be ob-
tained, by the intimidation proluced by the English can-
non upon the Hellenic Government, the result which
had been hoped for from the fear of a rupture with
Turkey. The intention of Great Britain is evident. It is
resolved to have, coute qui coute, the overthrow of the Coletti
Ministry, and, as a consequence, the admission into power of
men who would be under the thumb of Sir E. Lyons. To
establish the preponderant influence of England in Greece is
the avowed object of Lord Palmerston. Defeated on the
diplomatic ground, the English Ministry does not shrink
from making a warlike manifestation, and the three ships
now in the Piraeus testify that Great Britain is ready to use
force if it be necessary to ensure the triumph of its interests.
But, we will ask the French Government, do you intend to
submit to this state of things? Will you stiffer England to
arrogate to herself the right of imposing her will on Greece,
and by main force overthrow a Cabinet whose only crime is
having shown a degree of preference for France? Will it
allow a country placed under our protection to be violated
by a foreign power ? Does not the armed demon-
stration made against Coletti directly attack us ? If we
submit to it, will it not establish a dangerous precedent for
the future? Let+these questions be answered if they can be.
The question lies between England and us. If Coletti suc-
cumbs, we shall be vanquished. If the Ministry does submit
to this, we shall not be surprised, but is there no one in the
Chamber to call the Cabinet to account before the facts be
accomplished? In the presence of this strange daring of the
English Cabinet, the path of the French Government is
clearly traced out, that of first protecting diplomatically, and
of supporting its protest by sending immediately a squadron
to Athens. We know no other mode of proceeding. Great
Britain must be convinced that France is firmly resolved to
maintain the independence of a nation placed under her pro-
tection, and at the same time to defend her interests in the
Mediterranean. The gauntlet has been thrown down—it
must be taken up

With regard to this article, we would fain ask,
when, and by what treaty, Greece was placed under
the exclusive protection of France, as assumed by this
writer, and whether Russia and England have not
the same rights, as protesting Powers, that France
has ? This assumption of exclusive protection is an
usurpation on the part of France, and the the de-
struction of French exclusive influence in Greece
will be merely a restoration of the status quo.
Four influential Arab chiefs, Si-damedi-el-Sakel,
Caid of Tlemcen ; flamed-ben-Adri, Agha of the
Ouled-Soliman (nephew of General Mustapha, who
was killed in the service of France) ; Si-Brahim, son
of Osman, Khalifa of Mascara; and El-Chahat, son
of Zen-Bach, formerly Agha of the Beni-Amer, are
about to visit France.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on
Thursday, at 781. 5c.; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 75c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2351. ; Rouen, 9351. ; Havre,
6781. 75c.; Great Northern, 627 f. 50c.; Avignon, 777 f. 50c. ;
' Vierzon' 5921. 50c.; Bordeaux, 515 f. ; Boulogne, 4201. •
Basle, 1901. ; Dieppe, 317 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 4311.
95c. ; Tours and Nantes, 4221. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 432 f.
50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 455 f.; Spanish Domestic Debt,
304.
MARSEILLES, Ariur 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 775 E;

Northern, 618 f. 75e.
LYONS, APRIL 20.—Paris and Rouen, 895 f; Avignon and
Marseilles, 763 f. 75e. ; Northern, 621 f. 25e. ; Paris and
Lyons, 425 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE