The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1848.

The Government have at length resolved on grap-
pling with the monster grievance of Ireland. The
threatening aspect of affairs in that country may be
estimated from the character of the remedy it has
been found necessary to apply. The disease has
now reached to such a pitch, that it must be eradi-
cated, or no hope can remain for the recovery of the
patient. War has virtually been proclaimed, and it
mutt be carried on with vigour and efficiency by those
to whose care the national honour, sad the national
safety is entrusted. Never, at any former period,
have the consp?rators against the peace of the empire
proceeded with such unblushing effrontery, such cool
audacity, in the preparations for their enter-
On other occasions their operations
were concealed from the public view, and enveloped
in mystery. The organization was effected in se•
crest The hour of the intended outbreak and every
circumstance connected therewith was kept strictly
pr• le arid the Government could only obtain in-
who crept into the councils of
formation from spies,
the conspirdlors for the sole purpose of betraying
&ern. But there is no occasion for such infamous
expedients on the present occasion. The most
open and unreserved communications have been
made by the very /leaders of the movement.
The means at their disposal—the numbers en-
listed in their several clubs or regiments_
the state of their armament, and the very period
when active operations may be commenced, are freely
announced. Reviews publicly take place, at which
the police are invited to attend, and the general pays
the highest compliments to those who exhibit the
greatest knowledge of military discipline, and prove
themselves best skilled in the use of arms. Uniforms
are exhibited by parties just released from custody
on bail, and the must solemn pledges are extorted
from the peoplei either to free their country within
the present year, or to let it go from them for ever.
The beneficial results of the arrests that have
taken place, and the prosecutions that have
been instituted, are nsore than neutralised from
tse apparent impunity with which defiance may be
hurled at the Government, and the inflammatory
harangues of those awaiting their trials occasion far
greater excitement, and are productive of snore in-
jurious results, than if no steps whatever had been
taken.

orise.

Under these circumstances it is an act of mercy
to the misguided peasantry to save them from the
consequences of their own folly, to protect them from
Nothing
effectual temptations to which they are exposed.
effectual can be done so long as the emissaries of
rebellion are suffered to go at large, and to instil
their pernicious doctrines into the minds of the
over-credulous multitude. The summary arrest of a
few of the leading agitators may preserve
the country from all the horrors of civil war. Their
temporary seclusion may avert the loss of many valu-
able lives. However objectionable any interference
with the Habeas Corpus Act, the great palladium of
the national liberties, might prove on ordinary occa-
sions, it must be admitted that the time has arrived
when its temporary suspension is essential to the
safety of the kingdom in general, and that it is due to

the loyal inhabitants of Ireland, and also to those who
may be induced to participate in any insurrectionary
movement, to remove the ringleaders, the men who
are now proclaiming open war against the Crown
and Government of these dominions, and to retain
them in close custody until the crisis has been
encountered.

The announcement made in both Houses of Par-
liament last night, that it was the intention of
Ministers to bring in a Bill " to empower the Lord-
Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of
Ireland, to apprehend or detain until the Ist of
March, 1849, such persons :as he shall suspect of
conspiring against the person or dignity of her
MAJESTY," was received with the loudest expressions
of approbation from persons of all varieties of political
feeling and party. The necessity for such a step
could not for a moment be controverted, or denied.
It would strike at the leaders, and it could not be said
that the persons who had so far forgotten the allegiance
they owed to their SOVEREIGN, who would encourage
their unfortunate dupes to lift their fratricislal hands
against the lives of their brethren, and who would
involve their unhappy country in anarchy slid con-
fusion for the gratification of their own selfish ambi-
tion, would not richly deserve the inconvenience to
which they might be exposed by a temporary deten-
tion. Indeed that very detention may save them
from the commission of more atrocious crimes, which
could only be adequately expiated by an ignominious
death upon the scaffold. We de not, therefore, sup-
pose that any unnecessary delays will he given to the
passing of these most salutary enactments, or that the
forms of either House of Parliament will be suffered
to impede the progress of a measure so imperatively
called for. It may be impossible to avoid a collision.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE last night acknowledged
that he feared a conflict was inevitable. The unaniL
mous feeling of ev...ry loyal subject, then, will be that
so happily expressed by Lord BuouGusm—" Let the
most effective measures tfor ,repressing rebellion in
Ireland be instantly passed and put into execution."
The most sincere friend of the :people, the most
ardent and enthusiastic lover of liberty, will readily
submit to any personal restriction or inconvenience
that may be beneficial to the community in general.
It is consolatory to know, that if occasion should re-
quire it, the hands of the Government are not bound.
There is, it appears, an Act of Parliament, of the Irish
Parliament too, before it had been absorbed in the
Saxon Legislature, by which, if an insur-
rection should take place, the Lord-Lieutenant could
immediately seize any person whom he might suspect
of being an accessory to that rebellious proceeding.
On this statute he is prepared to act if necessity should
arise ; but we trust that the, speedy concession of
the powers now demanded, and the imposing force,
naval as well as military, that has been concentrated
upon the disturbed districts, may avert the evil, and
that the peace of the country may be preserved—we
should rather say restored—without any greater de-
parture from the constitutional law of the country
than may be involved in the summary arrest and de-
tention
of some of the principal agitators.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived.

The Gaceta publishes an amnesty for all persons
concerned in the revolts of Alicant and Valentia,
except the leaders. The Duke of SOTOMAYOU left
Madrid on the 16th for La Granja.
The QUEEN has refused to annul the marriage of
tiao Infanta JosEPA.
There was no Bourse on the 16th.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The election of Colonel of the third legion of the
National Guard of Paris, in the room of M. TIIIRION,
resigned, took place on Monday, when General DH
BAR was elected by a large majority, the numbers
being—

M. General DE 13Am. .. 3933
M. DUBOCEINT ... 522

M. Pia ..
M. HOYTN .
M. THINON . ..

274
161
38

These elections are essentially political, and vie

.. .
Constitutionnel sings its "song of triumph" on the
occasion of the election of General DE Bee, which
may be considered as a victory of the reactionary party.
The Committee of the Assembly to which was re-

(erred the proposition of M. LIYDRE for the mobiliza-

tion of three hundred battalions of the National
Guard, has determined in favour of the mea-
Bare. The Committee, while they express in
their report their hopes and expectations that peace
will be maintained, insist upon the necessity of keep-
ing up a large armed force to preserve the influence
of France abroad, and to put down anarchy and dis-
order at home.

In the Committee on Labour, M. WoLowsur pro-
posed to prohibit the employment of children under
nine years of age in factories, and to limit the hours
of labour to six hours per day for children from nine
to thirteen, and sixty-nine hours per week for young
persons from thirteen to eighteen years of age.
There was a slight inseute at Strasburg on the 18th
among the ouvriers employed in the communal work-
shops. The National Guards were called out, and
their appearance alone was sufficient to restore order,
without a collision.

General OUDXNOT has been ordered to resume the
command of the army of the Alps.

The magazine at Le Bouchet, containing upwards
of 3,000 lbs. of gum-cotton, blew up on Monday.
Four persons were killed by the explosion.

Trade in the provinces seems to be gradually re•
viving.

The funeral of M. DoRNES took place yesterday.
It was attended by almost all the Members of the
National Assembly.

We read in the Union :

" We are assured that the Committee of Foreign Af-
fairs was yesterday occupied with the affairs of Italy.
There was a question of imprinting on French policy
in Italy a different direction from that followed
since the 24th of February. All the speakers who have
been heard thus far combatted M. de Laniartine's mani-
festo to Europe. M. Mauguin discussed it with reference
to certain relations and communications between the
different Cabinets of Europe. M. X. Durrieu examined
the respective situation of the nations of Europe, his ob-
ject being to show that great things are preparing one
of the bloodiest struggles in Italy. He also dwelt
on the movement beyond the Rhine for German
unity, and on the system of pression practised by
Russia from Holland and the Danish Archipelago to the
Moldo-Wallachian provinces and the Greek Archipelago.
M. Drouin de Lhuys especially occupied himself, it is
said, with the situation of Italy, and he sought to prove
that the present crisis can only terminate by the triumph
of King Charles Albert. M. Napoleon Bonaparte is said
to have proposed a treaty of alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, with King Charles Albert, and he was supported
by MM. d'Aragon, Allies, Lc. M. de Laniartine having
demanded to reply to the different attacks on his policy,
it was arranged that he should address the Committee at
its next sitting."
M. LAHADXItE has proposed to the Assembly to
annul the decree of the Provisional Government abo-
lishing imprisonment for debt.
The Deputies for the west of France assembled in
the Bureau on Thursday, to decide about the direc-
tion to be followed by the Great Western Railway
The route of Alen
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est and least expensive.
BOURSE, p
TEREE O'CLOCX.—The market was buoyant at first,
but business became slack towards the end of the day.
The Rente was, however, firm throughout the day,
anci
shows an advance on the quotations of the day before.T6hsrr.e
Bank of France Shares have
buthar littleeris risen
variation.is e l 011 gTaht. ise
pßearilCweanytsS.hheaarres pre
risen 75c., closing at 48c.; and the Five
per Cents. If. or 77f. 25c. Bons du Tresor were done at
17 per cent. discount. Spanish not quoted. Roman has
risen closing atis4l-uf.ailwEay Shares,xchgeo snLt. Germainondon(3O days)have
25 45, at sight. In
fallen 10f. since last done (on April 3), closing at 340 f.
Orleans and Marseilles have risen 2f. 50c.; Nantes, If.
25c.; Havre have fallen 2f. .50c.; Rouen and Strasburg,
If. 25c.; Lyons and Bordeaux are unchanged.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 21.
Namur and Liege, 2%—Sambre and Meuse, 214.

DEPARTURH OF TRH COURT FOR OSBORNE HOUSH.
—This morning, about eleven o'clock, her Majesty, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the rest of the
Royal Family took their departure from London by the
Nine Elms entrance of the South Western Railway, for
Osborne House. It was expected that the royal travel-
lers would reach their destination about two o'clock.
Her Majesty and family were loudly cheered, and their
presence in the neighbourhood caused the greatest en-
thusiasm. The suite, luggage, &c., went by the same
route at an early hour this morning.
hloac CURIOUS THAN TacE.—An American editor
has discovered that the initial letters of the names of the
late French Provisional Government—Arago, Lamar -
tine, Ledru-Rollin, Munn, Albort, and Dupont—
formed the words all mad!"

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG
HOLSTEIN.

HADERSLIBEN, JULY 17.—Dr. General VON
NIEIIMANN, general Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty
the King of Paussu., has just arrived here, bringing
the reiterated command to General WRANGEL, that
the negotiations already commenced for the armistice
with the Danes shall be concluded under the con.
dition that the ratification of the same by the Regent
of Germany may be confidently looked for.
The Hamburgh Correspondent of the 17th states
—"We have just received intelligence from Rends-
burg, stating that the conditions of the armistice
hare been declined, and that consequently the war
with Denmark will be immediately recommenced."
COPENHAGEN, JULY 17.—Last night the steamer
from Kolding brought the intelligence that the com-
manding generals of the German and Danish armies
could not agree upon the terms of the armistice,
upon which orders were issued during the night that
the 8,000 men who hare been last trained should be
ready for immediate embarkation.