The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-06 00:00:00

EVENING., APRIL 8, 1648,

scene; we deplore it profoundly, because we foresee the
issue of it, and because we ere firmly convinced that
repeal would be a disastrous thing. for Inland herself.
A war between the poor and rich, between proprietors
and tenants, would continue its fatal course through any
number of political changes. It is not the legislative
union with England that is the source of that intestine
struggle; it is not the separation of the Parliaments
that will cause it to cease. We will allow ourselves a
last remark. We see with a certain degree of sur-
prise that the Irish delegates, in the aldresses
which they have presented to the Government of the
Republic, give themselves several times the titles of
slaves. We suspect that in this word there is a slight
degree of Irish exaggeration. For, in short, of the
three delegates who have come to Paris, there are two
if we do not deceive ourselves, who are at the present
moment under an accusation of sedition in their own
country. Eight days ago the magistrates of Dublin de-
creed warrants of arrest against them, and cited them to
appear before the Queen's Bench. The three persons
accused gave bail, and bound themselves to appear before
the court on a certain day. Besides this, the thirst remains,
in the meantime, in Ireland, to continue his harangues
as usual, while two embark very quietly and tranquilly
to come among us, and inform us that they are slaves.
Seriously and sincerely there is not too much slavery
under such laws. No; that is not the slavery of Ireland.
It is in the territorial constitution in its moral state
that it exists. It is in Ireland itself, rather than in
England. The first necessity of Ireland is not indepen-
dence---it is regeneration.

The Pa triesay s

" The Committee of Dafeace has just demanded
30,000 horses for our cavalry. They cannot be found.
It has addressed itself to the horse dealers in all parts of
France for a supply of 15,000 saddle horses. The
dealers cannot furnish them. The committee has con-
sequently asked them if they would be able to deliver
any number from 300 to 2,000 horses, the produce of
France, fit for chargers; and the dealers have replied
that they can make no promise."
The Memorial de Rouen of Monday says that Lil-
lebonne and Bolbec are in a more tranquil state.
Both towns, by way of precaution, are still occupied
by a considerable military force. The same journal
gives an account of disturbances at Brionne and
Barnay. At Brionne and its environs the local
authorities have shown deplorable weakness. The
workmen in several spinning mills had been very
violent in demanding a reduction in their hours of
labour and an increase of pay, although great conces-
sions had been already made to them. One day last
week the discontented men quitted their establish-
ments, and, drawing many from other manufactories
with them, went to Barnay, where on the follow-
ing 'day there was an immense assemblage.
With flags flying and drums beating, they
encamped on the market-place, and sum-
moned the it masters to appear before them,
under the penalty of having their establishments pil-
laged and burnt. The masters, to avoid the
threatened disasters, obeyed the call. Some of the
boldest of the ringleaders surrounded M. Boucfixa,
the Government Commissary, and imperiously dic-
tated terms to the masters, insisting upon their being
signed by them. Upon this M. LEYMOYNR, jun., in-
dignant at this imposition, loudly protested against
it, and declared that he would never sign it. This
had very nearly cost him dear ; for, at a signal from
some of the leaders of the riot, seven or eight hundred
of the people made a move towards his establish-
ment, and would probably have reduced it to ashes
had he not yielded to the instances of his friends
and signed the conditions. Then came the turn of
another manufacturer, who had an English carding-
machine, which they would have destroyed, had not
M. BOUCHER promised that it should be placed under
seal and not worked, though the owner clearly de-
monstrated that, instead of being an injury to them,
it afforded employment to at least forty men. In
fact, on Wednesday, the commissary fulfilled his
promise. All the manufactories are in a state of
consternation, hourly expecting some serious ca-
tastrophe.
Some agitation was manifested on the 30th ult. at
Bourg (Ain), in consequence of its being rumoured
that M. CEIAMPVANS, the Government Commissary,
was to be removed, and his place taken by another
officer.

" We are informed," says the Courrier de Lyon,
" that Savoy has refused to receive such of the na-
tives of her soil as were sent back to her, as well as
the republic which they wanted to present her with."
On Saturday evening the workmen employed in
the neighbourhood of the Chartreux at Lyons pro-
ceeded in order, with a drum beating before them, to
the front door of the establishment, and demanded to
see the superior. 'When he appeared they presented
him with a flag, which they destined for the dome of
the building. The superior accepted it, and thanked
them for the mark of respect which they wished to
pay to the house. The pupils, who had come to the
windows, cheered the men loudly, in which they were
joined by a number of persons who had assembled
outside. The superior then asked permission from
the workmen to be allowed to go and see them on the
Monday, at the place where they worked, in order to
present them with a return for the flag which they
had given him. This, of course, was acceded to.
Lyons had become more tranquil on Sunday.
It was reported in Paris that Savoy had declared
itself a republic.
We read in the National .

" There have disappeared from the Tuileries two
enormous portfolios in which Louis Philippe kept his
most curious correspondence, and the papers which he
might make use of against those who conceived the
idea of turning against him or his Ministers. By what
means have these portfolios been carried off ? It was
not done cn February 24, or on any day immediately
after that. Their disappearance is recent. Many per-
sons, and we are among the number, who earnestly de-
sired that these documents should be published, are lost
in conjecture."
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL L
THREE O'CLOCK,—The fall continues to make fresh
progress, and the universal question now is, " Where is
all this to stop ?" To-day's Bourse was an exceedingly
bad one, everything being offered, and the decline going
on from the opening of business almost without a check.
The French Five per Cents. opened at 54r. 50c., and
closed at 50E, or 3f. lower than the day before ; the
French Three per Cents. opened at 33f. 50c., and after
touching 32f. 50c., closed at 33f., or If. lo,er ;
Bank of France Shares, after being done at 1,050 E,
closed at I,OBOE, or 33f. lower ; Belgian Fives
are at 48E, or 2f. lower ; and the Roman at 4eff.,
or ! lower. Quatro Canaux closed at 680 E, being a
fall of 20E, whilst Piedmont is 10f. better, at 6501.
Bons du Tresor closed at 50 per cent. loss, after having
been at one moment at 51. Railway Shares, par-
ticularly of the lines on which the whole of the
calls are paid, were offered the whole day, and present a
very marked tall. Tho measure determined on by the
Government relative to the Orleans line was looked on
most unfavourably, and theshares have!golle down not less
than 80E, closing at 410 f. Rouen and Havre were also
exceedingly offered, from a belief that they will be next
under sequestration. Rouen closed at 275 E, or 32f. 50c.
lower, and Havre at 275 f. or 30f. lower. Vierzon are at
282 f. 50c., being 201. lower, and Bale at 701., or llf.
25c. lower; Northern at 305 E, or 311 75e. lower; Lyons,
Nantes, and Strasburg are somewhat better, as it is
supposed that if they were taken into the hands of the
Government it would be rather an advantage for the
shareholders.:Nantes are at 328 f. 75c., or 3f. 75e. better.
Strasburg at 336 f. 25c., or lf. 25c. better; and Lyons at
295 f., also If, 25c. better. French Gold is still at 70f. ;
Silver I,OOOE note was from 12f. to 15f. ; and the sove-
reign is worth 26r,
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 5.
Boulogne and Amiens, 534,—Ntimur and Liege, 11,4
Northern of France, 23 —Orleans and Bordeaux, I%—Paris
' and Lyons, IIA
—Paris and Orleans, 19—Sambre and
Meuse, 4.

ber of IRELAND.
(111 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Dnnuse, APRIL 5, 4 p.M.—The moment the London
evening papers of yesterday were delivered al, the Cham-
behalf of the. Provisional Government of Paris, in reply
to the Irish deputation, was read aloud, to the manifest
Commerce, the speech of ;}i. de Lamartine on
gratification of a crowded room.
There has been a considerable decline this day in all
securities, especially
in the shares of the Bank of Ire-
land, which fell no less than six per cent., caused by a
simultaneous rush to ofet sales in all stocks and shares,
under an apprehension of a serious outbreak.
(From the Pilot of April 6.)
A meeting of the members of the Royal Dublin Society
was held this afternoon at three o'clock. It was not
called by advertisement but by private circular; when
Alderman Box]) moved,
and Sergeant WARREN se-
conded, resolutions to the effect that, " under the exist-
ing circumstances of the country it was expedient that
the members of this society be forthwith armed, and that
Sir E. Borough be
re-
quisite weapons, and carry this resolution into imme-
diate effect." authorised to procure the

—About half past one (?clock this morning
DREADFUL FIRE
fire took place —..-7-,,--- - -- -
a dreadful
IN MA&TLEBbNE•—(TIIIS DAY.)
French polisher. 'the first discovery took place in the
the proprietor is -i
shop, and the family were saved by escaping over the
roof. The engines quickly arrived, and there was
,a
good supply of in Maryiebone-lane, the premises of a
water, yet, notwithstanding every exer-
tion, all the valuable comtents or the shop were de-
stroyed, as also
, serious damage done to the other por•
tions of the :house. The cause was not known, but
ion. neure the
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adopted, expressed full confidence that a cornplete
national representation would for the future guide
the destinies of the country. But at that moment
they were still the legal organ of the nation, and,
as such, had certain duties to discharge. They re-
minded the KING of all his promises of tl.e 18th,
21st, and 28th of March, and declared that they
accepted with gratitude his assurance of projects of
law on the liberty of the press, individual freedom,
the right of meeting and association, and the pub-
licity of judicial proceedings, trial by jury for
political offences, civil and political equality for all
religions, and general arming of the people. They
would pay the deepest attention to the measures to
be submitted to them.

The Committees to which the consideration of the
two projects of law ars referred were then named,
and the sitting was adjourned till Tuesday.
The Borsennachrichten has a letter from Stettin,
of March 31, stating that a deputation from the mer
chants of Stettin have been sent to Berlin to consult
the Minister for Foreign Affairs concerning the dan-
gerous position of the Prussian trade in the Baltic.
The Minister assured them that a note had already
been dispatched to the British Foreign-office, with a
view to induce the English Government to protect
trade in those seas, if the Schleswig-Holstein ques-
tion should make such protection necessary. The
same paper adds, that English trade is so much in-
terested in the Baltic trade, that Lord PALMERSTON
must necessarily accede to the demands of Prussia.
Letters from Posen and Breslau, in the Cologne
Gazette, confirm the former reports of the disorderly
state of the Grand Duchy. The Poles are preparing
for war, while the German inhabitants of the Grand
Duchy excite their hate by protesting against the
intended separation from the German empire•
Breslau, part of the province of Silesia, on the other
hand, seems to have overcome the convulsions which
necessarily attend so sudden a change as Prussia has
undergone. The citizens, who keep order admirably,
are armed, and muster a force of no less than 12,000
men. The country districts are still agitated, and
exhibit the melancholy consequences of protracted
fiscal misrule. Bands of armed peasants are still
here and there attacking the royal domains and seats
of noblemen. They destroyed the palace of Count
SAURMA, at Geltsch, and robbed him of his plate.
Their depredations in this single instance amount to
50,000 dollars. Count YORK, of Wartenburg, the
newly-appointed Chief President of the province of
Silesia, is said to be very unpopular, and it is ex-
pected that he will be forced to resign.
The Elberfelder Zeitung has a letter from Berlin,
stating that the Princess of PRUSSIA has given 15,000
dollars for the widows and orphans of the victims of
the Berlin revolution, and that she has promised to
give the same sum every year. '
The Hamburgh Borsenhalle contains a letter from
Berlin, which says :—" A note is said to have been
received here from the Russian Government, to the
purport that that power does not intend to inter-
fere in the domestic affairs of Prussia; but that if
Prussia should resort to measures which might
affect the integrity of the Polish-Russian dominions,
Russia would act independently, according to circum-
stances. It is, however, asserted that letters have
in the meanwhile been received here from the fron-
tiers, which mention the appearance of the Cossacks
at Tilsit to 50,000 strong. Numerous aggressions
had been committed by these hordes on the Prussian
frontier."