The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-07 00:00:00

revolutions,

The session and the season draw to their close, the
echoes of St. Stephen's no longer resound with Par-
liamentary orations, and the streets of May-fair no
more re-echo with the midnight roll of carriages.
London is rapidly returning to its state of primitive
desolation ; hereditary and representative legislators,
weary with many months of arduous and monotonous
exertion, seek a temporary relaxation in private and
provincial life. Peace be with them! May their
hours of idleness give them new vigour for future la-
bours. The present session has drawn to its close at
an inauspicious period. The disturbances in the
sister country have cast a gloom over our political
horizon. Happily the mists are now dispersing.
The threatened tempest has melted harmlessly away.
Still, the disturbances and the apprehended disturb-
ances on the other side of St. George's Channel
have frustrated an event which was to have marked
the termination of the season—namely, her MA-
JESTY'S long-projected visit to Ireland. There are
few political or semi-political events which we should
hail with such sincere exultation as Queen Vic-
TORIA.'S visit to her Irish dominions, and, it is need-
less to add, her hearty reception by her Irish sub-
jects. It is certainly needless to say that her recep-
tion would be a hearty one, her MAJESTY would be
hailed with enthusiastic transport by that warm-
hearted, generous, and impressionable people. Her
visit would be no ordinary royal visit—it would be
an event in the national history. VICTORIA. would
appear in Ireland not as a sovereign among her subjects.
she would come as the angel of peace, as
the harbinge;
of hope, as the living evidence of the unity of the
British empire ; and, above all, her visit would
attest that truth which we continually assert, and
which the Irish malcontents as continually deny, that
Ireland is not despised and neglected, and unjustly
used. Queen VICTORIA'S visit to Dublin Castle
would infallibly do all this, and infinitely more, but,
unhappily, that visit is again necessarily retarded for
a time. We recognise the necessity, but we regret it
most unfeignedly. We will trust, however, and our
" wish" is most certainly " father to the thought,"
that, ere long, our anticipations in this respect may
be realised, and that the Queen of IRELAND may be
welcomed in one of the most beautiful portions of her
dominions by the most devoted of her subjects.
We anxiously look forward to the day—Gon grant it
be not distant—when peace shall again abound in
Ireland, and not peace only, but comfort and content-
ment—when the voice of the malcontents, of those
evil-disposed men who would gratify a personal vanity
or a mad ambition though torrents of blood should
flow in the attempt, shall be no longer heard ; or, if
heard, unheeded. Unhappily, these political fire-
brands have recently been only too effectual. Their
words found a ready echo in the bad hearts whom they
appealed to. Heaven knows, the Irish people have
been sorely tried, and none have recog-
nised the extent, or sympathised with the heavi-
ness of their trials, more readily and more heartily,
than the people of England. In this we have done
only right—" Are we not brethren ?" That we
recognise the relationship has been,: unmistakeably
attested by our sorrow for their sufferings and our
assistance in their need. Would that the Irish on
their side would recognise the relationship ! Would
that they would see in us not Saxons and strangers,
but fellow-countrymen and fellow-Christians. They
will do this yet we trust. All may yet be well. The
severe measures recently adopted by the Legislature
have been sanctioned, and even rendered merciful,
by the exigency;of the case. It is the first duty of
the Government to repress tumult and disorder, but
that being repressed, peace and order being again
established, it becomes an object of paramount im-
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BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6.
THREE o'CLocK.—The tenor of the Queen's Speech
in London, and other rumours favourable to peace,
caused a rise of per cent. on the closing prices of yes-
terday. Bons du Tresor are at 22f discount.
90,000 f. Rentes, Five per Cents., were discounted To-day.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 6.
Vierzo
Boulogne and Amiens, 6—Central of France (Orleans and
n), 5 and Amiens,
of France, 6% ex int.—Paris and
Lyons, s—Ditto ditto, 4,4—Paris and Strasbourg, 11/2.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the Ist instant have arrived.
The Count of VISTA HERMOSA has resigned his
office of Political Chief and Corregidor
of Madrid.
He will be succeeded by the Marquis of PENNA..
FLORIDA.

The mail from Madrid to Sarragossa was attacked
on the 27th ult., in the neighbourhood of Barbastro,
and robbed of 401,000 reals.

General VILLALONGA has taken the command of the
troops destined to act against the Carlists in Valencia,
and Maucia.

A body of 500 political prisoners sailed from Cadiz
on the 27th, for their place of banishment the Phillip-
pine Islands.

The Padre CIIILLO, Archbishop of CUBA, one of the