The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT MOVEMENTS.

A Privy Council sat to-day, at which it has been de-
termined to proclaim Limerick under the Crime and
Outrage Act. The following warning against the Con-
vention of Three Hundred and the proposed National
Guard has been issued this day:--
"BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
" CLA RENDON.
"Whereas divers ill-disposed persons have in various
publications, in newspapers and otherwise, and by ad-
dresses and speeches at public meetings, advised the
election of a representative body in this part of her
Majesty's dominions, to be called a' National Conven-
tion or Council,' or the 'Council of Three Hundred,'
and have invited and exhorted her Majesty's subjects to
proceed to the election of delegates, or members to re-
present them, or certain districts or divisions of the
country, in such an assembly; and the same or other ill-
disposedand pretended allegations,
earniiacjoelsotuyc or lawful
a u thori
ty, personsinvited
h aavnedi inexhorted
eo
without
manner
willing
g false
o
in Ireland to constitute themselves into an armed
association, to be called a National Guard, or
to enrol or register their , names
be members of and embodied in such associa-
tion ; and it is i-epreaented, and manifestly appears to
us that such proceedingS are devised an intended for the
purpose of thereby, and by force and intimidation,
effecting changes in the laws and constitution of this
realm; and whereas it appears to US that all such device a
and intentions of such evil-disposed persons are not only
unconstitutional and unlawful, and tend to the disturb
ance of the public peace, but that they cannot be car-
ried into effect by the election of such a convention, or
the formation of such ,au armed association, without
violating the express: prohibitions of certain Acts of
ev
Parliament—that is to say, an. Act passed in the Parlia-
ment of Ireland, in the 33d year of the reign of his late
Majesty George 111., entitled ' Au Act to prevent the
election or appointment of unlawful assemblies, under
pretence of preparing or presenting public petitions 'or
ethnetiutlseed of ' A
anrm Ase , tantod
other addresses to his Majesty or the Parliament ;' and
an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
et
practice
ttircaei training got
military person
os
to
lu-
in the 16th year of the reign of his said late Majesty,
13tor"td%n h
lions and exercises :'
"Now, therefore, we, George William Frederick, Earl
ral
of Clarendon, her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant-Gee
and General Governor of Ireland, do hereby declaree
every such National Convention or Council, as
aforesaid,
and every other the like Convention or Council, by
whatever name it may be called, and all elections o f members or delegates thereto, and every such armed
association, by the name of a National Guard or whatever other name it may be called, to be unlawful
and we hereby absolutely prohibit the election, consti-
tution, or formation of any such Convention, Counci
National Guard, or other the like association ,
drilling, use of arms, or practice of , and all
military evolutioll6

... . . • •

" And we call upon and require all' sheriffs, magis-
trates, constables, and other her Majesty's subjec:s acting
NI their aid, to be vigilant in the prevention and repres-
sion or all such conventions, elections, associations, and
illegal practices, so far as by law they are authorised and
empowered to do.
"Dated at Dublin Castle, this 29th day of April, 1848:'
"By his Excellency's command. •
signLAM M SOMERVILLE." In addition to the ofl vitality. on the part of the
Executive, the proiincial papers contain evidence that
they aro on the alert in other' quarters. 'ln Youghal a
prosecution has been instituted a
themagainst some persons
(among a Mr. liodnett, a solicitor) for " practising
the use of arms," and the parties are bound over to take
their trial at the ensuing sessions.
The authorities have also very properly ordered an
investigation into a charge of disaffection, brought by
Mr. Henry Sheane,- relievingfofficer of Banagher,
against two sub-constables 'of±po_fice, named Johnson
and Kilmartin, upon which the VVestern Star makes the
following obserrittions:
.. As the finding of ' the Court cannot be known until
the minutes 'of the proereilings have been submitted to,
Every
character,on e o f
andth e
and sanctioned by the Inspector-General, vie are not in
a position to state the result; but we can say for our-
selies, that we never saw charges more satisfactorily
excellentcase
ntfli et h.per emsenns;
they gave theirevidence in. the clearest possible. manner."
It is highly probible' that the. great rjurity'of simi-
lar' allegations made respecting
inthe a peLicoearand soldiery.
exposare of
would, if inquired into, .
their groundlessness. .
COUNTY LIMERICK PRO-
OF
disprovedwitnesses
sthaaninaina
E CITY AND
TH
CLAIMED!
(From the Dublin Pilot of Monday.)
following cla to publish the pr ma.
o
eld
We stop the press
f the Privy Council h
d to at a meeting e
tion agree
Dublin Castle :
!' By the Lord-Lieuthis afternoon in
tenant and Council of Ireland.
_ .
• . - . : CA pßocLAra ATIUN. • "

" CLARENDON.
" Whereas by an Act passed in this present session of
Parliament, in the eleventh year of her Majesty's reign,
intituled An Act for the better prevention of crime
end outrage in certain parts of Ireland, until the first
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-
nine, and to the end of the then next session of Parlia-
ment,' it is amongst other things enacted, ' That when-
ever in the judgment of the Lord-Lieutenant or other
Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by and with
the advice of the Privy Council of Ireland, it shall be
necessary for the prevention of crime and outrage, that
the said Act should apply, to any county, county of a
city, or county of a town, or any barony, or baronies,
half barony or half' baronies in any county at large,
or any district of less extent than any barony or half
barony in Ireland, it shall be lawful to and for the Lord-
Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of
Ireland, .14 and with the advice of the Privy Council of
Ireland, to declare by proclamation, to be published in
the Dublin Gazette, that from and after a day to be
named in such proclamation, the said Act shall apply to
any county, county of a city, or county of a town, or any
barony or baronies, half barony or half baronies in any
county at large, or any district of less extent than any
barony or halt barony in Ireland:'
" Now we, the Lord-Lieutenant, do, by this our pro-
' clamation, in pursuance and execution of the Act, and
by and with the advice of her Majesty's Privy Council in
Ireland, declare, that from and after Friday, the sth day
of the month of May instant, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-eight, the said Act shall apply to and be in
force in and for the county of the city of Limerick.
• " And of this. our proclamation all justices of the
peace of the said county of the city of Limerick, con-
stables, peace•oflgcers, and all others whom it may con-
cern, are to take notice.
" Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, this Ist
day of May, 1848.
" Maziere Brady, C., Thos. Tuam, &c. &c., Oranmore,
T. B. C. Smith, D. R. Pigot, E. Blakeney, Thomas
Lefroy, R. Keatinge, Richard H. Greene, W. T. Tighe,
J. N. Fitzpatrick.

" GOD SAYE THE QUEEN."..
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association
was held this day at Coneidation-hall.
The rent for the week a►nounted to 454 -

SPIRIT of tile PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
TIMES..—The catastrophe so long feared in Ireland
hits at length come to pass. We have to announce a
serious collision at Limerick. There has been fighting
in the streets. Shots have been tired, and the long.
hoarded ink. s brought into actual use. llouses have
neon attacked, and military and police, horse and toot,
and even the artillery, have been called out to protect
;he lives of citizens assailed by the tury of the mob. The
victims of popular exasp, raii,.n have had to fly to hide
them.elves, and io be escorted to [laces of satety by an
armed force. A Member of the Imperial Legislature,
abused, hooted, beaten, wounded, bleeding, flying, and
ierritied, has resigned the political po-i ion a hich in-
v,,lved such perils. Here, then, is the beginning of the
end. It is scarcely possible to calculate the effect
Hof this terrible outbreak on the seditious spirits
..f John-street, and the 300,000 " holy bayonets" et
Paris. But stop a moment, M. Ledru Rollin, before you
send out your commissaires to Dublin or your ships to
Bautray Bay. An important particular remains to be
told. The fighting in the streets was between Repealer
and Repealer. The assailants were the moral force fac-
tion, while the physical force stood, or, rather, did not
stand on the defensive. The pikes were pointed against
the friends of the late Mr. O'Connell. The military and
police were called out to protect Messrs. Meagher and
Mitchell. The two valorous chiefs, after thunderii;g
threats against the Viceroy and his army, fled from a
few lively Old Irelanders, hid themselves in a pantry,
threw their pikes into the housemaid's closet, and
dropped the vitriol pot into a dust hole. The blood
that flowed was Mr. Smith O'Brien's. He has lost
several teeth, and one of his ribs is broken. The future
King of Ireland has accordingly abdicated the sove-
reignty which his subjects refuse to confer. He
has written for the Chiltern Hundreds, and, we be-
lieve, may shortly be expected to join the illustrious
circle of refugees in this country. Sic transit gloria
mundi. So ends rep eal. Of all the revolutions and
catastrophes we have lately witnessed, the catastrophe
of humbug is the most complete. It leaves nothing be-
hind. It is really too flatulent, too empty, too rotten.
The Chartists ought for the credit of England to have
done something to justify the preparations made against
them,
cowardice. m. After stunning us with bombast, they beat us
ait The citizens of London have been
obliged to defend, not their lives, but their reputation
fur sense, endangered by taking the Chartists too much
at their word. The Irish branch of the Confederation has
irhdone even worse than the heroes of Kennington-common_
ey will kill Lord Clarendon, not with pikes or bul-
ets, or broken glass, or vitriol, or sulphuric acid, but
with the ridicule of their own impudent hoax. Why
these fellows, so far from bein
Ireland g prepared to slip all
against th© " butcher- his myri-
dons," dare not, show
their owngeneral faces inn the streets mto
their own fellow Repealers, except under an escort of
"peelers," under Lord Clarendon's orders, and paid by
the British Exchequer. They charged his Excellency
with endeavouring to provoke a collision, that his
soldiers and police might have a pretence for inter-
tering and slaying the physical force leader's. They
have themselves provoked the collision, and th soliers
and police have interfered, not, however, toe destroy,
but to save. Something of this we happened to know
before. What sounded oddly enough to English ears,
it had already transpired that the physical force gentry
could not go home from their meetings with-
out an escort of police to protect them from their mural force rivals. It was quite evident that whatever
the theoretical relations of these terms,. the things for
which they actually stood were very different from the
English notion of the words. Physical force meant
mouthing and bragging, blarney and bombast, and
was, in tact, a branch of the rhetorical art. Moral
force, on the contrary, meant knocking a man's
teeth down his throat, giving a black eye, punching in
the ribs, dragging through the mud, stoning, kicking,
Pommelling, and contusing. There has been a contro-
versy at Limerick. The advocates of physical force
mustered in grim state at a soirée. They drew there
knives and out plenty of bread and butter, while tea
flowed in profusion. Cups and saucers were marshalled
in -awful array. In the intervals were posted plates of
buttered toast. Ornamental lestoona hung o'er the
tented field. Hideous drill ! Sanguinary armament !
We do not wonder to hear that Limerick, the scene of
this tea-kettle emeute, is to be proclaimed. Such was
the fearful audacity of the physical force .demonatration.
On the other hand the advocatea of moral force had
recourse to their own gentler arguments. They rea-
soned with fists and persuaded with shillelahs. Their
figures of speech were brickbats, and their climax a tar
barrel, surmounted by an effigy of Mr.'Mitehell in flames,
which they brought so "convenient" to the fortress
of the physical force tea-drinkers, that it was soon in
flurries also, and the desperadoes threw down their un-
finished bread and butter and fled for their lives. The
unfortunate hotel keeper received a moral argument in-
tended for Mr. Meagher's head, and is ready to acknow-
ledge its force. It weighed several pounds. Moral force
prevailed. Its reasons were too solid, its considerations
too weighty, its eloquence too burning
of
ato be withstood.
Physical force acknowledged the superiorityits. d
o w s ,
an-
tagonist, got into the Cork coach, drew up
theiw
had the hotel gates suddenly thrown back, ad fled out of Limerick as fast as four horses could carryit. hod
to find
fled two of the chiefs, doubtless no little.r.neohee.ve
themselves tolerably sound in wind and n bone. Not so
He
fortunate was the descendant of Brianm Boru. s
toye is minus
d in. His
four teeth, and has one of his side
50,000 arguments from Paris availed
The Saxon put him
l him nothing.
When will O'Brien's miseries e.n___ws his teeth and frac-
tures a coal-hole and the Celt an.'
his ribs. 'Bed for the much-sbeeed rnilitory and

votii*.

police, it is clear that his.friends would: have had to put
him together, if qhey could, when the tea party had
broken up. It is, however, never. too late to be wise.
Mr. O'Brien has given up politics; that is, politics have
afroille b ses '
the
ears, b
given up him. • • He' is resolved to 'renounce.th
occupation of setting Celt and !Saaon.by:
for
finds that they only agree all the more in nunnishuisnegilit Lim.
He will take his pike to his paternal estate, ad
setting cabbage plants -or dibbling in beans.
recreations he will soon forget us, and
forgetl these
him.
Thirty years hence he will tell some ma atrbve uelloduvsoteaaltees
of
his youth, how he stood up o
physical force, and was morally but
utmaost cruelly worsted;intbe
and he will also relate that he once took a part
farce of Repeal.
Cbio.bleialti,eoirNif CbLonE.on—raA. de
whichl mLaodmearrntibnie,thoar3s achieved
~perbaps, the
highest civil honours which modern bitory, perhaps, re-
person,eovfer
werea
before represented by one man. The election
Napo-
leon to the Consulate and the Empire
c largerords . n
ullme
breera l
oi sfe s 8
uaffn
rda
greer
amn
de 8 ,
voiltieshitshoawnn
cannot be con-
the hopes
of a majority, no
have fulfilled the necessities of order and
sidered as exceptional; because,
.how greatly soever he
may
be'thoie elections
even M. Titters) has ventured to (mien
annalist, lowev, er panegyrical, (nut
as honest or spontaneous.
ea, its foremost
Rtiturnea ,bedthus 'to the new
Assembly,-as M. de Lamartine. has •
much of that homage (which commonly precedes'man and most -popular ,citizen, we. cannot wonder at
Dic-
tatorship) which is now offered up,
'prone to hero:worship and idolatrous.
by a
of peoplerea tneeveear.
We read' that at the .11,116tre
amidst universal
Opera) the whole house stood up,
These de la Nation (the old
acclamations, in recognition and excitation.
however,
tri-
butes are dangerous. to a pOet's head:
hope' that his may be strong enough to ride the
, whirl-
wind of applauee, and direct the storm of approbation,
which. his statesmanship-like let us,
what prematurely admitted) have iippiirintly provOked
'and aroused. It Would be- eartainly impossible to deny
qualities (perhaps &Imp.
that X de,Lamartine.at this moment rallies rOuud him,
_
and-concentrates in himaelf, eve') mure_of European than
of French
sympathy. Little less • than Octavius Cesar,,
he typifies to a 'world, flung back -upon chaos, the prin-
ciple 'of regeneration; ?redinre • non And• public order.
Here we Zeit? littlelittle or nothing about our neighbour's
must be ' confessed, have followed that eccentric and
the - Chamber by which, it
read,.and ewer
reniembe
abated something of. the Present %Foreign Minister
1:
thleteng . 'l
articlese w
o fi
nupsr ohvainv
e
fatigued the patience —smell
:cal teual attempts upon M.
cial newspapernby w-hieh rb
uf his admirers ; the ins;
all
igone the Common fate
Sauzet's chair, which 'lied
pritiuccessful ambition,.
of vulgar ridicule inevitable to
the untoward attempts to form a
allr, /2,bdwith a spiritual
as 0 ern aseemblies.
creed, its the most' material of.
The " History of the Girondins;"
publication, as it was great in its
principle, universal in its fame, compensated atunnoci: fort 8
previous misadventures among a nation so changeful
and capricious as the French. But among
deergPZrttarne in its
us, upon this
side of the Channel, his renown had undergone no vise,.
situdes of disparagement or blight ; it had become a
household word in its connexion with our let-
ters and ourselves. The boyish verses which
were addressed to Lord Byron at Ravenna, and
which had given such pleasure to the great
poet's vanity at a time when it knew little enough of
pleasure, were unforgotten; and it was further known
that M. de Lamartine had married an English wife, had
paid a visit to Lady Hester Stanhope, and (almost alone
among his countrymen) could make allusions to England
and the English without a blunder. It is, therefore, not
surprising that his recent triumph should have here been
entertained with such unanimity of appreciation and
such universality of joy. We would fain, at such a
moment, say nothing which might appear inharmonious
with a concord so honourable and so general; but we
have read French history to insufficient purpose, and the
fate of M. Guizot will have taught us little, if it is not
in the hour of exultation, and the meridian of an
ovation, that we should the most distrust and fear.
There is another statesman in France whose fate
in the elections of 1848 may serve to point their
moral, with a philosophy as instructive as the glory of
M. de Lamartine. It is in vain that we look for the
name of Alphonse Thiers in the returns. Greater as a
writer, thinker, speaker, economist, financier, politician,
than the greatest of those who now predominate and
rule, he has been rejected by his fellow• citizens, after a
career which for eighteen years had been the cynosure
of their regards and the type of their future destinies.
No man doubted that, under the coming regency, he was
to personate Prime Minister. lie made (it was nut
too much to say) the Revolution, which Frauken-
stein-like, has destroyed him ; and the catas-
trophe of so great a fortune has given one more
'iustration to the melancholy truth of sic vos non
It is true that M. Thiers only intended
.eform (by the movement which he directed and
anpeiled;, and, with it, the restoration, more or less
complete, of the Government of the First of Match.
But even his friends, coadjutors, and sato' dinates hay(
been less uosueeeso•lll than hitnseli. MM. (Alton Bar-
rot, Vivien, Duvergier d'llaurannes, Billault, have
been returned. The reason of his postponement to
men, so much his inferiors, is plain enough, and tug
gestive of painful reflections. It is not that his great
: capacity or long services were ungratefully questioned or
disputed; but he was considered as the symbol of a
a system which had used the hopes, passions, pr,judiees,
a, aspirations, requirements ut the people (in all countrie,
id honest, even when most blin .)to swell ends and ignoble
n- purposes; a hich, in all the prescriptive impunity of
ht. success, had unblushingly paraded the spectacle of
eel avowed apostacy and unexplained corruption; which
Tits flagrai tly professed and taught, in rites and practices,
et an infidelity in public virtue and political consistency.
you POST.—The violent outrages which have been occa
is to sinned in several parts of France by the success of the
,o be more moderate candidates for election to the National
seer Assembly seem, at first sight, rather difficult of explana-
e fac- lion. As the suffrage is universal, no candidate can
Id not have been successful except there were a majority of the
,gainst men population in his favour. How, then, happens it
try and that multitudinous assemblages burst forth' in violence
ter and against the elective results, alai that armed citizens have
ndering to be brought from other•neighboUrhoods to put them
I from a down? We suspect that these Emeutes are the result of
s pantry, certain plans and operations organized in Paris, into
iset, and which many persons are drawn more by fear than
he blood favour, and that many who, in the crowd, seem to be
has lost against the moderates, are the same who have placed in
£he future ti.e electoral urns the names of those very moderates.
the sove- It is easy to see why a very considerable number of
onfer. He the French populace should be dissatisfied with even
ad, we be- republican government, or any other government that
e illustrious the wit of man could devise. What they want is a state
ransit gloria of Do-government. Their notion of liberty is the liberty
olutions and of helping themselves to that which is not theirs. Their
e catastrophe perfection of right is the unlimited license to rob. It is
s nothing be- nothing to them whether power be held by a King or by
ay, too Totten. a Chamber of representatives, if there be a power to
agland to have maintain order and the rights of property. If the laws
s made against be upheld, the power which upholds the laws, be it a
t, they beat us republic or an absolute government, is, and must be,
don have been in their estimation, a tyranny. What these people
their reputation want is an assembly sitting at Paris, not to rebind
artists too 'much the loosened cords of society, but to cut them asunder,
onfederation has that the separate fragments, of society may dash
aington-common. against each other and make prey for the spoiler.
with pikes or bul- They do not want a Government to repair or rebuild
,ulphuric acid, but those social institutions which have been shaken or
,dent hOax. Why thrown down in the revolutionary shock; but they want,
epared to slip all a power to throw down what as yet has been only
al and his myrtni- shaken, and to shake what as has yet stood firm. The class
es in the streets to of robbers upon principle---of calculators upon the gain
under -tan escort of of confiscation—we believe to be in France 'very consi-
srders, and paid by derable, and of course there is in them no lack of the
rged his Excellency boldness of desperation. It. is this class, we apprehend,
i collision, that his that has organized the &scales against the results of the
i pretence for inter- elections, and which pretends that the candidates elected
force leaders. They by universal suffrage owe their election tTobae
w"breoalction"
altwybich robberyeisintahte
.sion,"and the soldiers ache spirit which overthrew rOy
however,' to destroy, ter we believe to be a fraud, of
we happened to know object, and-of which murder is the doped means. We
hope the Provisional Government, or th
°ugh' to English ears,
majority in that Government, will be physical force gentry
tuailorbse desperate men, who preponderating
able to resisteffec-
their meetings with-
nsake politics the pre-
otect them from their text plunder. We have, littl faith in the permanent
te evident that whatever efficacy of republican government,: but any government
se terms,. the things for is' better than anarchy and robber
.
quence, and moderation
e very different from the HERA.LD.—Never was the triuYin. ph of genius, virtue,
ls. Foysical force meant courage, elb
arney and bombast, and more signal than in h more certain and
t e homage paid to Lamartine ba-
the rhetorical art- Moral half a million of his countrymen, all free
iand unpur-
meant knocking ga man's chased electors. There is scarcely a department of the
g a black eye, punching in 80
odd in his name is not introduced among the
the- mud, atoning, kicking, .11st of candidates, and he heads the pull in Paris, the
There has been a contro- Seat and centre
of French civilization—in Dijon, the old
advocates of physical force Parliamentary city, the capital of Burgundy—in Rouen,
s'soirie. They drew there the capital of Normandy, and one of the most ancient
bread #rid butter, while tee and most manufacturing cities—in Bordeaux, the capital
sand saucers were marshalle of the G. irunde, famous formerly for its colonial. trade—
intervals' were posted plates in Marseilles, where the greatest merchants of France
rental festoons hung o'er have long abided—in Marseilles, the seat of the Levant
frill: Sanguinary know trade, which has the most -eloquent speaker in France
... ar that Limerick, the cc, which sie-
tor one of its members--aßerryer—und in of Lamar'
s to be proeleimed. $t Thiess, better known than- trusted, We, one h aluch
le physical force denaor
advocated of moralunder the tow.
tine's competitors. These ' are the triew.P_l
of
ea.
must console in eminent man
gentler arguments.
nor his works.
ersuaded with shine' lumny to which -he has
Wier his history
who
it
is
Plain know neither
.* in his own country, and
brickbats, and thei, The most eloquent prose writer
bees s.ubje.cted by those
excepting one—we of
an effigy of Mr..Mi in France,
so " convenient " course mean the extplazite.
the greatest living poe.t.l
called a poetaster by foreign
- afford to be
tender, and graceful Beranger
1 tea-drinkers, th —can well
desperadoes thre writers. his poetry' and his prose, as all Europe
eater and fled 1 - • whenmillions of his own countrymen. set the seal
of approbation on
tiOU on that honourable, straight-
eeper received rwhich L •
meanie has
egher's head, ar forward, and
sets its seal
courageousofapproba.
conduct
'Dee the 24th of February. The name :Ind
weighed save
of Lamartine have sot roily conciliated the
sons were to tehtt.ehicbointedduesti
esteem and confidence of foreign nations, but caused the
oquence too
knowledgee - heart of France itself to rise up as one man against the
the Cork
imperious ordinances of M. Ledru Rollin, executed
,
by myrmidons, in many...cases not Merely of the
much good.
' worst manners, but of the worst character. Yet,
tea sudden'
after' all, perhaps, the Home Minister has been
eat as fog
des era :attempts to lofve- if
hiefs, do. the
were unconscious ofnosrc iboi
his
s violent instrument
an
d d
'ably so'
bear his colleagues—to beard the Country at large—and
se deso
to rule in the ' spirit of fetal, c'est
has Or
7?101- Ledru Rollin,
Brie supreme sans foi et sans
tents
lei —the great mass of'.
Frenchmen would have allowed- elections to have
Brie,
. gone on in *74 lltnilly Ws hi....0,n,,,n0 etripumuch about
le, ,
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)
them one way or another. .. ,when it be apparent -•
that)this burly Horne Minister wished to upset and overt.
turreeverything, every honest man wished to baulk him,:
and resolved to vote for men csl moderate opinions, no
matter what the colour of. their politics. Hence it .is
that we find a great number of landed proprietors- and
of farmers—a considerable number of iron-masters and
propietors of foreste—sOme rnerchants—inimy retired
officers—about 150 adVocates-.-very many aetair.es, but
an inconceivably small number of.tradesmen,.mechratica,
and working men—elected. Flotte, the cuisine,
has failed in his ambition ;it is p?at manqut, and he may
now go back to his casseroles, lest the broth should fpoil,
Jai r
min, too, scieur de longonsyagaindeseenditohis aawpit, for .s no one constituency will take him as a top sawyer. The
journalists, toot who, aborts a 'month ago amonnied,. as
candidates, to-sixty-Six at the, least, are non', reduced; ea„.:: elected, .to less than-20. Neither Poapart, nor Rorie, '-
nor Durrieu, nor Casson, nor .-Degeoe, nor rGnlioie,
our Dupoty, nor Rey, nor Crepu;%or Crgonsiderant; nen
Rautinonn, nor .Duras, are returned and in the place of "..7
Many of these publicists and scribblers, several tried mew - •
of the late and of formerichambers arereturned. Thee
MM. Teulon, Lavay, and. Bousquet ..are 4ug- cassfel for
Gard; M. Lavarret, for Gers; MM. 'Bacot; Ltutienlais;
Tascl•ereau, end Gouin, for Indre et Loire ; Azt, lard Ravin, De Tocqueville, Dubois, and 140Perinr, for
Manche ; M. Bigot and Chenais, for Msyenne; 31, Pier.
ron, for the Pas de Calais; M. Mauguin, for the Cote
d'Or • MM. Benille and Ramify, for the Seine et Oise_
M. Laboisnere, for Vaucluse. Our readers will see
from this hasty glance, that the old Democratic -
opposition,
called the Extreme Gauche, have been
elected in the greatest number —that the Gauche, or
the opposition Barret, have also been largely returned,- 4
—that the Droit, or Legitimists, have also in the west
had some successes. Whereas the left centre and the
right centre have been generally. wOrsted.—the Docui•
mitres, or Guizot party, most signally so, for 'we.l3t:
lieve not one 'personal adherent of theex-MinisterlilC
be found in the- new Constituent.- , The; 'mere., tridiag:,
politicians-- have also been signally discomfited, and it-is ----
a curious but instructive fact, that M. Thiers, who
fancied himself so very clever and so very cunning, six
months and-three months ago, .in not attendinuthiew
banquets; and not pronouncing any: opinion. upon-
them, is left to meditate on,' futnre nerkt of inni-
nation, which he calls histary, in the 'Rue St..GeOrgese .)
Alas ! for his poor publishers. If they have not.
failed long • ago, they must indeed have, more
resources than. works of imagibation; This triumph
of moderate and well-disposed men has Maddened
the clubs and Communists, and by. their eminsaries*the,f':';
bave aroused all the claugerous. spirits ,in2Ronen
Amiens, and in Limoges. But in the two former pi:L.6lu! )
the insurrection .has been speedily put 'doyen* thoi
National Guard and the military; and 'we hare no doubt
the next accounts will bring satistectory tidings from -
Limoges also.- Every sane man in France now-feeili,"--
that, with perfect liberty of the press—with perfect
liberty of public meetings, and. with wavers:al suffrage,
there is
o
f nothing
goo men
combat
ti for.
down
to
anything like insurrection, fur, with perpetual insuiree..
m owriel therefore gain
ounite
in
dons, no Government of any. kiud—monarChihicalca,orm of
government l,
classes
garc $
or republican—can live. As to the f
to be decided on by the National Aisaetubl y,
there can be no doubt that that body will ratify the .
A Republic is now the only form of government
proclamation of the Republic on the 24th of February.
possible in France; and we believe we do not err in
satanic that it will be a Republic with a single
President, as in America—with a single Ch.unber, and
without a senate. That Lamartine will be the first
President elected we entertain no manner of doubt;- as
little that plenary powers will be accorded to hint.
Much has been said in one English journal of the rob-
bery of the late King of the French and of his family. ••
We cannot too otten repeat, that the property of the
Duke of Orleans has not been confiscated but segues-
;r
private
vtahtee ppaeyrsmoenns,t certain
aonfdfor
adnude
dilapidation
aredgedto
tthoeharvoeyabeel, narcim alittednowon.ththee forests. When these debts are
national,property
paid,
and of t t
hmweaht
domains
allegedanderase
defalcations provided for, wehakvee no doubt the real
and personal property.of the D
—for the futuure o. 11.) Orleans will be
reinionfs_haozutrbeajsindinn:tterersi
gentleman,
of the •
iwrieeesionarosel diao
mitson
na honaifmga
as
signalised himself in private life by pound, with of
ll
ijlustice has
is.tatber's
creditors twenty shillings in the pound, gwaita
fourteen or fifteen years after that father
silk trade, in the city in which M. Guizot and M. Cre-
mieux were both born. Men like these are not likely
to rob any one, still less an aged and discrowned Prince,
in exile and iu alleged poverty. We say in alleged po.
verty, for the fact is denied in a very curious and in-
teresting work, just published by Mr. Newby, of Moe.
timer-street, Cavendish-square, entitled, " Analogies and
Contrasts," which has been while before ua hile we
write. Poor or rich, however, the late King of the
French is entitled to justice, and that he will hare to
the fullest extent laid down by Sirey, the French law
authority on sequestrations and the Code Civil.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, MAY 2. —HEADSUIP OF ST. MARY lIALL.
—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor of
the University of Oxford, has appointed the Rev.
Philip Bliss, D.C.L., formerly Fellow of St. John's Col-
lege, to be Principal of St. Mary Hall, vacant by the re-
signation of the Lord Bishop of Hereford. This day
was appointed for the admission of the new Principal,
when the Vice-Chancellor, proctors, with other univer-
sity ctticers, «munch d at St. Mary Hall, when the iti-
stiumeut of nomination and the usual statutes having
to en read, in the prt•senco of the members of the Hall,
the Principal Elect took the neeess.,ry oaths, and was
~ninitted by the Vice-Chancellor to be Principal of the

Dr. Bli,s has fur upwards of 20 years held the im-
portant uffices of ke. per of the archives, registrar of the
Univerxity and the Loiversit) Court, arid cicrk of the
market. Tile appointment has given very great -

GRAND ComaEsicnenoN.--The Lord Bishop of
lietutord has, we• underatami, consented to preach the
annual commemoration sermon in July next, on behalf
of the funds of that very excellent institution the liad-
cliff Infirmary.
The members of the various colleges and balls who
attend keeping Easter Term, Hill meet on Friday and
Saturday next. The public or final Examinations com-
mence on Friday, the 12th inst.

ROUEN AND HAVRE RAILWAY.
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
of the above company was held at Paris on Sunday. M.
C. Laffitte in the chair. The report was read by M.
Thibaudeau. The report, which is of unusual length,
after giving a full statement of the working of the line,
the damage sustained in the revolution, and all other
particulars, says— _

"It results from the details which we have just laid
da
ut s it 7
y spitedu r i
no
gf ththeed i
firsts a a -
tbreoluosrest3a.oteu ooff ycooumrmeenrcteerprailside,
year of your undertaking, a revenue of about 5 per cent.
has been realised to you over and above the service of
your loans, and that there is reason to hope for a notable
amelioration in the next year."
The report concludes as follows
" The statement which we have just laid before you
does not permit us to distribute amongst you in money
the amount of the last year's dividend, but we propos%
to settle it by bonds, without date, bearing interest,
which is the same plan as has been adopted by the St.
Germains, Orleans, and Northern Rail% ay Companies.
These bons will be delivered to you in exchange for the
coupons of the second dividend from the 10th of May,
at the office of the company. The coupons of the first
dividend, which have not been paid, will be settled is the
same manner."
On delivery of the receipts for the dividend the ac-
counts were approved of, and the meeting separated.

THE NEW REFORM MOVEMENT IN MARCUM/I
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.--Last night there. was a.
arge meeting held in the Corn Exchange, Manchester,
n favour of Parliamentary Reform and a reduction of
axation. Not less than 2,500 people could have been
present, and hundreds were disappointed in consequence
of not being able to gain admittance. On the platform
were several gentlemen identified with the Antipeara-
law League movement, and ,John Brooks, Esq., late
member of. the League council, and the unsuccessful
candidate at the last election for the repreientation of
Bolton, presided. He declared himself favourable to
universal suffrage, but thought they were more likely
to be successful in - obtaining household suffrage. In
rasgueirrwagoueldwdnouvlderydwt)elml,nbnuht
universalimnanlyargtoewntsnwns
household
uffbetter.—(Cheers.) However, he declared his willing•
s
ness to go for the reforms sought by Messrs. Hume
Cobden, and others. The other speakers were
Messrs. J. C. Dyer, A. Prentice, J. Watts, Alder-
man W. Bird, Councillor A. Be) wood, E. C. Copper,
W. H. Smith. and Henry Vincent; and resolutions were
passed declaring—That the present House of Comesons,
of taxation and
penditure, has forfeited the. confidence of the people--
that tranquillity cannot exist until the industrious classes
by its recent deeisionsonquestions
ex,
arelislieved from their oppressive burdens, and property
is made to contribute its just proportion of the
eff taxes;
upon the ruinous
peanudptehraistmina.nodrcdreirmteo,
consequent
and imbecility of aristocratic Govern
measure of reform, consisting of a wide mew' a further
franchise, equal electoral districts, extension of the
duration of Parliaments, andvote by ballot, shorter
for Members, is imperatively no-property qualification
exigencies of the times. Must
demanded to meet the
loud cheers, declared themselvesst of the speakers, 'amidst
suffrage, and even of the '
in favour of universal
they were willing, as statesdixb points of the Charter. but
something less, becou y the Chairman, to go for
ese they wanted to tally all the
strength they could
meeting,
as
an
amendment,
t. A. resolution was put to the
. in favour a the six points of
the Charter, but 'it uas rejected by the majority. The
meeting, which. was a
most enthusiastic one, did not
separate till a late hour.
TH
E
PLUNDER OF THE TUILERIEB.---Th • e police
continue to seize every day some of the articles stolen
from the Tuileries on the 24th of February, and to ar-
rest the authors of those robberies. A chiffennier, who
had carried away a richly ornamented pistol belonging
to the Duke de Nemours, of which he had sold the gold
stock for 300 f., was apprehended on Friday and com-
mitted to prison. On the same day a city sergeant, in
whose possession a considerable quantity of the plunder
of the Tuilleries was found, was likewise arrested.
Among other articles concealed in his straw bed were a
-beautiful double-barrelled gun, with the initials of the
Duke of Orleans, the sword of a superior officer, a
cavalry sword, an embroidered flag, &c. The police are
every day seizing arms and ammunition, stolen by the
people during the revolution, in the different Witch of
Paris.

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TREAT RL ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
LAST Wig BCT ONE.
CIRQUE NATIONaL DE PARIS.
GRAND MORNING PERFORSfANCIS.
The Managers of the Cirqne National de Paris are Induced. by the
"brilliant saocese of their Morning representations, to announce that
new selection of those unique And splendid Entertainments will be
riven on Friday next (the sth of May).
Doors open at Half-past One, perManance to commence at Two o'clock.
First Price as usual. No Second Price. Private Boxes to be had
at the Theatre, and at Julllen and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
First Appearance of Mille. JENNY LIND.
'The 501%4 Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera. and the pub-
lic am respectfully inform d that TO-MORROW EVENING (being
a Stilmc riptioa Night) will ise perormed, Bellini's Opera. entitled
Anitna, Media. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Mdlle. Vera ; Count Rodoipho,
Sig. F. LablAche ; Elvin°, Sig. Garden'.
To eonchude with the admired Ballet Divertissement, entitled
LA VIVAN MERE.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and tickets, to be made at the
Box-officiz of the Theatre.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
CIRQUE NATIONAL DE PARIS.
Last Week but One, the whole of the troupe of the Cirque I..Za-
iletsal. being obliged to return to Paris on the 16th of May.
11116 KV
The complete art of riding exemplified by 31dlls. Caroline and Ma-
thlide.—Daring Feats of Equitation, by Mdlls. l'almyre, Anato, Co-
take, Ducos, Lambert, Le Petite Anato, &c.—The Manage, exhibit-
ing the perfection or training, and wondertul docility of the Horse,
:Illustrated by M. Adolphe Franconl.—Varied and original Eques-
.lrian and Gymnastic Exercises, by the entire troupe.
Doors open at hall-past Seven, performance to commence at Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING
WITh be presented a new conic Drama, called OLD HONESTY.
Michael Bradshaw, Mr. Webster ; Joseph Bradshaw, Mr. H. Van-
danhoff ; Sir Perkins Besborough, Mr. riovre ; Mr. Septimns Hook,
Mr. Tilbury ; Toby Perch, Mr. Keeley ; Dame Bradshaw, Mrs.
(clover; Mary, Miss Reynolds.
After which, a new Comedietta, called A CONFIDENCE.
Mr. Gresham, Mr. Webster; Mr. Arthur Williams, Mr. H. Vanden-
hoe; Mrs. Gresham, Miss Reynolds.
To conclude •rith a Grand Romantic Extravaganza. founded on
Maraca Walpole% mysterious production, and called THE CASTLE
OF OTRANTO. Manfred, Mr. Keeley ; the Marquis Viecensa, Mr.
J. Bland ; naeodore, Miss P. Horton ; Odonto, Mr. Caulfield ; Hip-
polite, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Isabella, Miss Reynolds ; Matilda, Mrs.
Caulfield.
Stage Manager, Mr. Farren; Acting Manager, Mr. F. WebAsr.
J. T. Archer, I4ox-book keeper.
Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Waif-past Six, Performance to commence at Seven.

THEATRE ItOY.AL,
ruder the direction c 4 Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING
Will be performed a new and original Drama, called HAR
Lambert,VEST
HOME. Principal eharactors by Messrs. li. Hughes, Mrs.
Wright,?. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, Miss Lam,
)'rank Matthews, Miss Turner, &c.
Alter which, a new Piece, entitled THE FOUNTAIN OF ZEA ;
er, the Child of Air.
To conclude with THE COMRADES ; an Anecdote of the Span-
ish War. Principal characters by Messrs. Cullentbrd, Boyce, Thin-
yard, Peal Legrand, C. J. Smith, leyan, Miss E. Harding, &c.
Boxes, es.; 25.„ kiailery, H.
1.1,1- oven at Halt-past Six. Performance to commence at Seven.

ILOYA.I. LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestris,
Sole Lessee• Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVEN ING,
Will be performed THE SCARECROW.
After which, an entirely. new and original Classical Extravaganza,
titled THESEUS and ARIADNE ; or, the Marriage of Bachus.
principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, H. Hall, S. Smith, F.
Cooke ; Miss FitZWillialrt, Miss Jane Coleman, Miss Marshall, and
3.18.4.0na Vestris.
conclude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX.
Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckstune, and Mrs. Mac-
Ran tara.,
I,eBs Poxes, 58.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 23. ; Gallery, Is. No
hat price to any part of the house.
'Cite ..Cew Bux-office, No. 2, Wellington-street, Is open to the
rabile every day, :row '[en till Six.

ktlf.Nt;ll JAMLS'S 'I4IEATKE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mrtchell, 33, u d iloud-street.
Last Appearance of M. Lalont.
11In EVENING,
The Entertainments will commence at halt-past Seven o'clock with
'NE .11111t1IDIC.N.JE. Duoar, 31. Montaland ; Armand. 31 St.•
Marie; ne.manae, Mdlle. Baptime ; 31adamo Verdier, Mdmo. St.

Ange.
Alter which, the new Petite Comedy of EXTREMES SE
TOCICHEN'C. Le Chevalier JuLben, Monsieur Latent; La Cointesse
Amine, Madame Paul Ernest.
To be !Wowed by an entirely new comedie-vaudeville, en-
titled LA DERN [ERE CONQUr. rTE. Le Karon do
M. La.ont ; Atadarne Pau. Ern,st.
'Co conclude with (lry siridre) the S. cowl Act of CATIIERINE ;
eu„ La Croix d'Or. usterlitz, Latent ; Catherine Mdme. l'aul
lamest ; Louise, Mdlle. rote'.

ST. JAMES'S THE A I RE.
ROBERT HOUDIN (o. the Pa'als Royal, Paris).—The stir-
Imsing and intere,ting performances of ROBERT HOUDIN, which
:Zast night excited the highest and moat enthus ast c aim ration. will
be repeated TO-SORROW EVENING, and continued every Tues•
day, T:.ursday. and Saturday Evenings, during tne present month
Doors open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at kalf-past
Right, and term nate uetore Eleven.
Boxes and stalls. may be had at Mr. NtITCH ELL'S Royal Li-
brary, 33, Old Bond•street.

TtiLAIRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-Street

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112, Strand.

t'ortland• place.
TIIIS EVENING,
Will be presented Le Brun's comic Opera, entitled THE NIGHT.
ZNGALE.
To be followed by the new and original Operetta, entitled "RUE
'YOUNG, GUARD. lon Guzman, Mr. 11,,dda; Don Alvarez. Mr.
Barker; Donna Olmpla, Mizs Sara newer ; Estella, lirdame Anna
Thillon.
After which a new Commediett, entitled DOMESTIC BLISS. Mr.
Goodleman, Mr. Cooper; Adela, Mrs. Stirling; Rhoda, Miss Villars.
To conclude with a Grand Ballet, entitled ES3IEICALDA; or, the
Hunchback of Notru Dame. Esmeralda, Mdlle Acrid.
Dress Circle, Ss.: Boxes, 4i.; Pit, za. ; Gallery, Is.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr. Kerschner.
Last Six Nights of Cinderella.
Matchless Performances- Unrivalled Company—and the only
Pantomime in London.
Children under T, elve admitted for half-price.
The Pantomime at an earlier hour to accommodate the juvenile
branches of Families.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed a Drama, entitled THE BOHEMIANS. Cha-
racters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks, E. F. Saville, It. Honner, Dale, J.
Herbert, H. Lewis, E. Jones, Mrs. R. Homier, and Miss E. Terry.
After which, a Grand Fairy Comic Pantomime, entitled CIN-
DERELLA AND THE FAIRY QUEEN ; or, Ilanequin and the
Little Glass Slipper. Colun bine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Harlequin, Mr.
Maskell ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; and Clown. Mr. T. Barry.
To conclude with JACK JUNK and the OLD COMMODORE;
or, a Seaman's Fireside. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. F.aTille.
Manager and Treasurer, Mr. B. S. Fairbrother.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Immense hit of the Easter Spectacle. Overflowing houses to wit-
ness the celebrated Mr. Van Amburgh and his unequalled eollectlon
of trained animals, amongst which will be fauna tke greatest no-
velty ever seen, a Black Tiger, the first ever known to mingle with
other animals, and has hitherto been con-idered untameable.
THIS EVENIfia,
Will be presented a grand romantic Spectacle, written by Boyle
Barnard, Esq., expressly to introduce Mr. Van Amburgh in his
astounding performance, founded upon a passage in Eugene Sue's
celebrated novel of " The Wandering Jew," and will be produced un-
der the title of MOROK, THE BEAST TAMER. Armand Dugard,
Mr. Van Amburgh.
The Spectacle will be succeeded toy an incomparable routine of Mr.
Betty's Scenes of the Arena, in which Signor Chiarini and Nldlle.
Marietta Orsinago, from Italy, will have the honour of appearing.
Diaing the recess the Theatre has been entirely re-decorated.
Box-office o, en from Eleven till Four.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

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