The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

CHARTIST CONVENTION,

(THIS DAY.)

The delegates met this morning at the usual hour.
UNION WITH TIIE MIDDLE CLASSES.
Mr. CLARK supported the motion in favour of coali-
tion with the middle classes. He felt fully convinced
that it was impossible for them, unaided by that class, to
obtain the ends which they were seeking to attain, espe-
cially as they had not even now the assistance of the
whole of the working classes themselves.
Mr. WEST was of opinion that the people of the coun-
try were slaves, and he did not think that any associa-
tion with that class which had established the Anti-
Corn-law League, in order to promote their own inte-
rests and oppress the people, would be likely to prove of
any service to the cause of the Charter. The war that
they were bound to wage was a war against the aris-
tocracy of the country, and if he could obtain the
assistance of the middle classes in that object, it should
be without a surrender of their principles.
CHARTIST MISSIONARIES.
A DELEGATE brought up the report of a committee
appointed to inquire into this subject. The report
stated that the committee had divided the country into
eight districts, and had appointed two missionaries to
each district.

Considerable discussion took place upon the propriety
of sending any delegates to Ireland. It was contended
in support of the proposition that Ireland was a portion
of the United Kingdom, and ought to be agitated as well
as the other portions of the kingdom. Upon the other
side it was maintained that Ireland was now fully occu-
pied with the question of repeal, and that no portion of
the national petition had been constituted by the people
of that country. Subsequently, however, three of the
delegates were appointed to go over to Ireland as a de-
putation from the Convention.

Nearly the whole of the missionaries nominated by
the committee either moved for leave of absence, ex-
pressed a wish to go home and see their wives and fami-
lies, or declared in favour of working in their humble
capacities as local agitators in the neighbourhood of
their own homes, and were dissatisfied with the dis•
tricts assigned to them, and a motion was made to the
effect that the delegates upon whom the choice had fallen
should retire, in order to settle their differences.
Mr. CLARK moved, as as amendment, that the dele-
gates should not retire. It was most important for them
to be present, to hear the debate that was to be
resumed.

A DELEGATE said that he did not see the slightest
necessity for the whole of the delegates sitting there to
listen to the same arguments and facts a dozen times
repeated.
The amendment of Mr. Clark was ultimately agreed
to, and the debate upon the motion with respect to the
union of the middle classes was resumed by Mr. Reynolds,
who was followed by several other speakers.
The motion was then agreed to.

ALIEN ➢ILL.
Mr. KIDD brought forward a motion condemnatory of
the Bill introduced by Lord Lansdowne in the House of
Lords on the subject of aliens.
The Convention then adjourned until the evening
sitting.

COMMON COUNCIL.-THIS DAY

The Viscountess Jo3elyn„, Lady
COURT CIRCULAR.
in Waiting to her
Majesty, arrived at Osborne
_on Tuesday..
Her Royal Highness tho Princess Helena was taken
an airing in the pleasure grounds of Osborne on Tuesday.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party at
Osborne on Tuesday eyening,

LITERATURE.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF FEB-
RUARY, 1848. 1 Vol., pp. 383. By Percy B.
St. John.
The author of this attractive volume has been
doubly fortunate—as a man and as a writer—in wit-
nessing the late remarkable and glorious revolution.
We, residents in England are fortunate likewise in
the circumstance that Mr. Percy St. John was a
sojourner in Paris during the immortal days of Feb-
ruary. He has appreciated so accurately the
position of parties in the French capital ; he ob-
served the emeutes so vigilantly; he sympathised
with the people so thoroughly; he has de-
scribed recent occurrences with a pencil so vivid,
so rapid, and so inimitably copious (considering
that the book under consideration was completed
within a fortnight after the transference of the Go •
vernnaent from the Tuileries to the Hotel de Ville),
that we may well congratulate ourselves on the coin-
cidence of his presence throughout the disturbances.
Those who may erroneously anticipate from the
title-page a narrative of the entire revolution from
personal observation are sanguine overmuch, and (if
the apparent play upon words is allowable) frivolous
over more. They are associating the divine attribute
of übiquity with the body of a mere bookman. No
sueh deacription of the progress of events among
the Parisians can be expected until M. Etienne
Arago shall (like M. Alphonse de Lamartine)
given us his confidences in the shape of an autobio-
graphy, or until a semi-romance or demi-history shall
appear from the pen of M. Alexandre Dumas the hero
of which shall be the Marquis de la Pailleterie.' For
the brother of the great astronomer seems more
than any one else to have been in half a dozen
places at once, even according to the explicit reve-
lations of Mr. Percy St. John, and the gifted but
eccentric author of the " Monte Christo"
some time
Under-Secretary to the Due d'Orleans, now the
most worshipful devotee of the Republican' regime
—figured in nearly twenty different quartiers
simultaneously, clothed in the trappings of the Garde
National, and elevated on the shoulders of the gamins.
Mr. St. John has judiciously collected his materials
from a variety of authentic sources---from his own
experience as an eye-witness, from the hearsay of
trustworthy informers, from orations, reports, pro-
clamations, and printed sketches. ',lle book evi-
dences in every sentence the hurry in which it was
composed and the excitement with which it was pro-
jected; yet these very characteristics—characteristics
which at firstsight might seem to be absolute blemishes
—are among the principal merits of the volume, seeing
that they authenticate in a remarkable manner
the actual hurry and excitement of which they con-
stitute the congenial record. The work is partitioned
into seventeen chapters, and partakes of the confusion
consequent upon the late catastrophe. Chapter I. de-
fines " the causes of the recent revolution"—causes
which date back even to the three days of July,
18$0, when the transference of the crown of Charles
X. to the brow of Louis Philippe I.—a miserablestock-jobbing trick from first to last—was the earliest
blunder of the dethroned despot. No one will gain-
say for an instant the accuracy of our author's asser-
tion that—
" The causes of the recent French Revolution may be
variously stated to be:—the Revolution of 1830; the
reaction which has taken place ever since; the personal
government of Louis Philippe; the appointment of the
Due d'Aumale as Governor of Algiers; the ruling of
France by purchased majorities ; the entrance of cor-
ruption into the administration of affairs ; the Teste
trial; the suicide of the Due de Praslin; the Reform
banquets; the King's Speech; the prohibition of public
meetings."
This accumulation of reasons for an insurrectionary
movement has long been notorious. Chapter 11.
displays the overt progress of the popular opposition
as revealed by the " Reform Banquets' in the vicinity
of the capital, and in the departments ; and thus
preludes the opening of the newly-elected Parliament
of 1847 :
" To face the Legislature, composed of a compact
majority of contented placemen, ministers, and personal
friends of King and Cabinet, there was an old King, who
for eighteen years had succeeded every day in adding
some link to the chain of power, with one son, the future
regent; another married to the heiress presumptive to
the throne of Spain ; another Viceroy of Algeria ;
another with a high position in the navy; a daughter the
wife of a neighbouring King ; in close alliance with the
Monarch of Austria, and ruling in Spain through his
creatures; with an army generalled and officered at his
will ; a capital surrounded by the most extraordinary
fortifications in the world, and commanded by eighteen
detached forts ; a police the most perfect and extensive
known to civilized society, and composed not only of
constables, but of regiments of horse and foot;—he
seemed to occupy an impregnable position, from which
nothing but the thunder of the Almighty could dislodge
him; a Cabinet, headed by a great orator and historian,
though an impracticable statesman, enjoying the friend-
ship and support of its Sovereign, and commanding a
perfectly servile cohort of Deputies in the Chamber.
" The Opposition was in itself weak, but in the errors
of their opponents they were mighty ; for the Cabinet
of the 29th of October stood before the country con-
victed of corruption and servility; of alliance with abso-
lutism ; of opposing the liberal intentions of the Pope;
of conniving with Jesuits to enslave Switzerland; of im-
pelling Ferdinand of Naples to resist the just demand of
his subjects ; and, worse than all, of having, in their
anxiety to curry favour with the dynasty, given way to
every counter-revolutionary scheme of Louis Philippe.
In Chapter 111. " the opening of the Chambers "
(the last session of the Parliament of the French
monarchy) by Louis Philippe, in person, on the
28th December, 1847, is described with graphic
brilliancy. Chapter IV. glances at " the February
sittings of the Chambers, and recounts very mi-
nutely " the preparations for the great Reform Ban-
quet.' Chapter V. begins the diary of the revolution
with " Sunday and Monday, February 20 and 21 ;"
Chapter VI., " Tuesday, February 22 ;" Chapter
VII., " The night of the 22d and 23d ;" Chapter
" The last night of the French Monarchy."
Chapter IX. is an interpolation, detailing a " per-
sonal narrative." Chapter X. depicts " the fall of
Louis Philippe." Chapter XI. gives a rather
meagre outline of " the taking of the Tuileries."
Chapter XII. details with a punctilious nicety
" the last sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,,'
a scene which Mr. St. John correctly declares to be
" unparalleled in the history of any revolution."
Chapter XIII. is another episode or "personal nar-
rative." Chapter XIV. records " the proclamation
of the Republic." Chapter XV. pourtrays " the
25th of February." Chapter XVI. is devoted to a
biographic epitome of the careers of Louis Philippe
Franqois-Pierre Guizot, born 14th October,
1787—0 f Louis Adolphe Thiers, born 16th April,
1797—0 f Louis Mathieu /Mk, born in 1780—of
Odilon Barrot, born 19th July, 1790—and of Thomas
Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, born in 1786.
Chapter XVII. concludes the volume with eight very
different profiles, namely, those of the Ministers of the
Provisional Government-- Alphonse du Prat, after-
wards called Lamartine, born 21st October, 1790;
Dominique Franqois Arago, born 26th February,
1786 ; Cremieux, Ledru Rollin?, Marie, Marrast,
Flocou, Louis Blanc, and Albert. Here are a few
anecdotes of the revolution, culled from the present
volume, in consequence of their novelty and signifi-

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce and Baroness de Speth, left her
residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-pasttwelve o'clock yesterday, for Frograore House, Windsor.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia visited their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
yesterday, at Cambridge House.
Mr. Scotland had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day, at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a
committee meeting yesterday, at their office in White-
hall-place.
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ORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if
declared; for three yrs ols, &c. Cambridge Course.
(7 Subs., 2 of whom paid 5 sovs. each to the owner of
the second horse.)
Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, 4 yrs, ist 71b (Pettit) 1
Baron R. Maltzahn's Armin, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ..• ••• 2
Lord Clifden's Mantilla, 3 yrs, sst 41b ••• 3
Mr. Roles The Cur, aged, 9st •••
..• ••• 4
Mr. Shelley's Bayonet, 3 yrs, Est
••• "' ".
5
Betting-7 to 4 agst Fistiana, and sto 2 each agst
The Cur and Armin.
The Cur took the lead at starting, and made running
at a good pace to the turn of the lands, where he was
passed by Fistiana, Mantilla, and Armin, the former
leading; half-way between the Duke's Stand and home
Fistiana and Armin joined issue, and ran a head-and-
head race to the cords, where the horse gave way, and
the mare ran home a clever winner by a length, Mantilla
a bad third. Run in 2 min. 8 secs. (This race came
off immediately after a heavy storm of hail and rain.)
Sweepstakes of 100 sous, each, h ft; for three yrs old
colts, Bst 71b each, &c. D.M. (9 Subs.)
Colonel Anson's Backbiter (F. Butler) 1
Lord Exeter's Swordplayer" •
•• ••• 2
3
Colonel Peel's Sesostris (allowed 31b)••• •••
Lord Glasgow's Clerk of the Council ••• •" 4
Even on Sesostris, and sto 4 apt Backbiter. Back-
biter made all the running, and won cleverly by half a
length, Sesostris a bad third. Run in 1 min. 42 secs.
Match, 150 sovs ,50 ft. A.F.
Duke of Bedford's Saddle, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (F. Butler) 1
Sir J. Hawley's Cecilia, 5 yrs, 7st 81b ••• ••• 2
9 to 4 on Saddle, who waited into the cords, and won
very easily by half a length. Run in 2 mins. 22 secs.
The Column Stakes of 50 soya. each, h ft; for three yrs
old, colts, est 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b. R.M. (26 Subs.)
Mr. Adams's Ellerslie, Bst 41b (Wakefield) 1
Colonel Anson's Corsican, Bst 71b ... 2
Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, Bst 41b .. 3
The following also started, but were not placed:—
Lord Exeter's Swordplayer, Bst 71b 0
Lord W. Powlett's Jest, Bst 41b ••• 0
Colonel Peel's Jenny Lind, Bst 41b ..• ... 0
Colonel Peel's Teetotum, Bst 41b
•••• • 0
Betting—Even on Corsican, G to 1 eget Ellerslie, 5 to
1 agst Jest, and 6to 1 agst Teetotum. This race admits
of very little in the shape of description, Ellerslie having
made all the running, and winning very easily by a
length, Hornpipe a good third, and Swordplayer fourth.
Run in 1 min. 47 secs.
Match, 200, h ft. A.F.
Lord Glasgow's Conspiracy, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Gre-
vine's Geraldine, 7st 121 b—off by consent.
Subscription Plate of 50/. T.Y.C.
Lord Exeter's Bishop of Rosoford's Cob (Bartholomew) 1
Lord Stanley's Bowstring, 4 yrs ••• ... 2
Mr. Barnes's Sotterley, 3 yrs ... •.• 3
Mr. St. Aubyn's Julie, 5 yrs ... ••• ••• ... 4
5 to 1 on the Cob, and 7 to 4 on Bowstring. A splendid
race between the first two was won on the post by a neck.
Run in 1 min. 12 secs.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each; for three yrs old. T.Y.C.
Mr. G. H. Moore's Wilmot, Bst 31b ... (Butler) 1
Sir G. Hawley's Lovelace, Bst 31b• 2
7t04 on Lovelace. Won by half a length. Run in
1 min. 20 secs.

LATEST BETTING.
CHESTER CUP.

14 to 1 agst War Eagle
17 to 1 agst Glen Saddel
25 to 1 agst Inheritress
30 to 1 agbt Lightning
TWO THOUSAND
6 to 4 agst Blaze

DIS
9 to 1 agst Springy Jack
0 to 1 agst Surplice
1 to 1 agst Glendower—t
3 to 1 agst Loadstone—t
OA

40 to 1 agst The Magnet
50 to 1 agst Giselle—t
50 to 1 agst Sunnyside--t

GUINEA. STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Flatcatcher
tint'.
17 to 1 agst Eagle's Plume
28 to 1 agst Swiss Boy
50 to 1 apt Sponge

10 to 1 agst Lola Montes 16 to 1 agst lodine
15 to 1 agst Queen of the 16 to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth
May 20 to 1 agst Prairie Bird
ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY.
Subscription Plate of 50 sovs. P.M.
Mr. J. S. Douglas's Sam Hood, 3 yrs
Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Black Ball, 3 yrs
Mr. Lowther's Black Doe, 3 yrs
Mr. Hussey's Embrace, 3 yrs
Mr. Francis's Nautila, 4 yrs
Sir J. Hawley's Millwood, 4 yrs
Lord Orford's Craftsman, 4 yrs
Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, 4 yrs
Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 4 yrs
Mr. Hargreirre's No go (late Crim. Con.), 6 yrs
Handicap of 20 SOTS. each, &c.; for four yrs old, &c. A.F.
Mr. Barnes's Tutthunter, 4 yrs
Lord Clifden's Sagacity, 4 yrs
Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 4 yrs
Mr. Payne's Marquis of Conyngham, 5 yrs
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 11 O'CLOCK.

TWO TIOUSAND GUINEAS STASES.
6 to 4 agst Blaze
I 4 to 1 agst Flatcatcher—t.
CHESTER CUP.
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Sir Peter
) 1 agst War Eagle 40 to 1 agst Magnet
1 agst Glen Saddle 50 to 1 not Giselle
1 agat Inheritress 50 to 1
git
1 agat Lightning—t Laurie—t
50 to 1 agst Sunnyside—t.
DERBY.
1 agst Springy Jack 18 to 1 agst Eagle's Plume
1 agst Surplice
28 to 1 agst Swiss Boy
co 1 agst Glendower—t 50 to 1 agst Sponge
3to 1 agst Loadstone—t 50 to 1 agst Coma
50 to 1 agst Rosalyn.
The Handicap Sweepstakes for Thursday is no race.
CHELTENHAM STEEPLE CHASES—TUESDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, &c., with
100 added. Four miles.
Mr. Storey's Standard Guard, 10st 121 b (Taylor) 1
Mr. Kitten's Link Boy, 9st 51b
........................... 2
Mr. Brown's Dubious, lOst 101 b ........................... 3
All ran but Pull
away, Beltshazzar, the Dove and
Gayhurst.
Sweepstakes of 5 soy& each, with 30 added. About
three miles. (17 Subs.)
Mr. Davenport's Thurgarton (Archer) 1
Mr. 011iver's Vanguard 2
..................................
All started but Redshank.
Sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each, and 20 added; 12st each.
Three miles
Mr. Brotheridge's Free and E ........... 1
asy 2
Mr. Hawkina's Dursley ..........................
Mr. W. Arkell's Conrad
...................................... 3
Match-100 s. ..... ..••.
Four miles.
Captain Little's Pull (olliver) 1
Mr. Stuart's The Dandy .................................... 2

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THE LATE EXTENSIVE FIRE IN THE CITY.—
Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Payne, the City Coroner,
and a numerous jury, assembled -t
the Cross Set's hotel,
Gracechurch-street, for the purpose
circumstances connected with the late destructive fire
which occurred upon the premises ofMr. Gladwell, carver
and gilder, No. 21, in the same street. The jury re-
turned a verdict that " There was not sufficient evidence
inquiring into the
to prove how the fire originated, but they believed it was
purely accidental."
TIIE CONWAY Tung.--The Conway tube, weigh-
ing 1,300 tons, was raised 14 feet on Idonday morning,
during a storm of hail. Only ten men were employed
in the operation, and the presses were found to answer
admirably. The rising was at the rate of twelve feet
per hour. The operation was conducted by Mr. Edwin
Clark, assistant engineer to Mr. Robert Stephenson, at
Conway.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL—At 11 Court of Governors
of Christ's Hospital, held on Tuesday, his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred was appointed a Gover-
nor. Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to
transmit to the hospital a donation of 5001. on behalf of
the youthful Prince,
with the expression of her wish that
he should be appointed a Governor, in a letter written
by Mr. G. W. Anson to Mr. Richard Hotham Pigeon,
the treasurer, from which the following is an extract:—
" I am authorised by the Queen to announce to you that
it is her Majesty's wish that his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred should become a Governor of that excellent
institution of Christ's Hospital. Her Majesty most
highly appreciates the benefits which Christ's Hospital
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Majesty to foster and extend the blessings of a sound,
moral, and religious education to the poorer classes of
your Majesty's subjects, which fits the objects of it for
the business of life and prepares them to be useful mem-
bers of society, to be good men and loyal subjects. The
Governors desire to express their ardent hope that your
Majesty may live long in the enjoyment of health and
happiness, to continue to Christ's Hospital the benefit of
your exalted patronage, and to the United Kingdom the
blessings of paternal government." There are now five
members of the Royal Family Governors of Christ's
Hospital—her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince George of Cambridge.
SUPPOSED SHIPWRECK OF THE SHIP EWART. A
plank has been thrown on the beach in the Bay of
Dinan, near Camaret, on which the name Ewart is
written in gold letters. It is supposed to be the wreak
of an English ship, lost in the storm of the 26th of
February.
THE POSTMAN BRADLEY...—The Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury have, upon the recom-
mendation of the Postmaster-General, granted Bradley,
the letter-carrier who was so brutally treated in Mitre-
court, Wood-street, some time ago, while in the execu-
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SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, lB4B.

" Have you no printed copies?' exclaimed many.
" They are all exhausted,' said another, 'they were
printed in the night. We did not expect such a de-
mand.'

" Will the Reforme appear to-morrow ?'
"' I know not. I believe the writers will be too
much engaged.'
" I believe them, for from the lead of a journal with
scarce enough abennes to keep it alive, they have, by a
bold stroke, attained to the lead of a nation. Fer-
dinand Flocon is one of the Provisional Government."
Two of the subordinate actors in the Revolution of
February must not be overlooked, namely, the work-
man (THEODORE Six, a carpet maker) who
by a burst of rude eloquence preserved
the works of art in the Chambre des Deputes from
destruction, when the people were firing bullets
into the great painting of "Louis Philippe
swearing obedience to the Charter"—and the English
compositor (GEORGE GooD, formerly a working
printer on an establishment in London), who was shot
through the breast while cheering the combatants on
to the assault upon the Palais Royale. Two engrav-
ings are prefixed to the volume—one a wretched
caricature of the noble countenance of Lamartine, the
other a beautiful sketch of the sinister visage of Guizot.