The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, SEPT. 26.—Wind E.N.E., moderate breeze
and cloudy weather with rain.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Arrd. Harmonic, Laguna;
Alice Jane, Jamaica; Eli Whitney, Savannah; Arche-
laus, Charleston; Samoset, ditto; Vendalia, New York;
Montezuma, St. John's, New Brunswick; Harmony,
Quebec. 25th, Lady Amhurst, Singapore; Arcadia, Ja-
maica; Ranger, ditto, Swan, Quebec, Sid. Amelia, Orgry,
Boston. Off port, Nile, Hiscock, Valparaiso; Amistach,
Matanzss • Robert Watts, Apalachicola ; Helen, Quebec.
25, the dlasgow, of Bath, United States, from this port
to Boston, with a cargo of iron and salt, was fallen in
with in a sinking state, 19th ult. lat. 45, lon. 31 ; the
crew taken off by the Tadmore, arrd. at St. John, N.B.
LYTHAM, SEPT. 25.—The smack Peggy, Lewis, of
and for Camaeo, from this port, struck on the Salthouse
Bank yesterday, and was abandoned.
SCARBOROUGH, SEPT. 25.—The sloop Agnes, Mar-
shall, from Sunderland to Hull, was driven on the rocks
near this port during a gale yesterday, and wont to
pieces ; crew drowned.
HARWICH, SEPT. 25.—The Betty, Lewis, of and from
Port Madoc to Woodbridge, got on shore en the Cork
Sand last night and filled ; crew and part of materials
and cargo saved.
NEWHAVEN, SEPT. 25.—The John Carnell, Rownell,
from Fowey to Frockton, put into this port to-day with
considerable damage, having been in contact in the night
with the smack William Pitt ; the former lay to, but
the smack was not to be seen in the morning.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.S.E.—SId, Juniata,
Child, New York.
DEAL, SEPT. 25.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. from the
River and sailed, Huntress, Poole, Nassau, New Provi-
dence. The Amelia Hadley broke up last night.
YARMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—The Johnson, Carruthers, of
Sunderland, struck on Sherringham shoal yesterday ;
came off and sunk ; crew landed.
The Angus, from Hull to Sunderland, upset about ten
miles north of Flamborough head ; crew drowned.
The Teviot steamer, from the West Indies, arrived at
Southampton, reports having experienced a heavy gale
on the :9th and 20th instant, commencing from the
N.W., and veering to the S.S.E.; she also reports that
during the hurricane of the 21st and 22d ult. a schooner
from St. Martin's was lost with all hands, and that on
the night of the 22d minute guns were heard at Nassau,
and on the following day thirty sail of wreckers got
under weigh to look out for vessels in the various chan-
nels that had gone on shore.
WELLS, SEPT. 25.—A brig, apparently with close
reefed top sails, was seen to founder during a strong
wind from E.S.E. yesterday, about ten miles S.E. of
this place.
CORK. SEPT. 23.—Wind S.—Arrd. 21st, Cremona,
Davey, New York.
JERSEY, SEPT. 22.—Arrd. Bolina, Nautier, Labrador.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The markets for British Plantation was
again well supplied, and the demand continuing good,
760 hogsheads have found buyers, and prices have ad-
vanced 6d since this day week. The public sales have
comprised 530 bags Mauritius, 1,750 bags Bengal, and
230 bags Madras, which was all realised, at an ad-
vance of about 6d. Mauritius brought 27s 6d to 28s
for very low brown, and 34s to 35s for mid yellow;
Bengal 46s to 48s for grainy white, and 40s to 40s 6d for
Mauritius kind; Madras, 29s to 31s 6d for low brown to
low yellow. The quantity of British Plantation landed
last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,429
hhds, 236 tierces, 889 barrels; there were taken for
home consumption 1,748 hhds, 116 tierces, 371 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 27,284 hhds, 3,587
tierces, 6,997 barrels.
COFFEE.-182 barrels 51 bags Jamaica
,at auction,
consisting of low qualities, were disposed of at very
reduced rates.
Rust.—The qmantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 1,143 puns 26 hhds there were
taken for home consumption 307 puns 31 hhds, and ex-
ported 59 puns 48 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 21,116 puns 2,864 hhds.
SPICES.-1,000 bags black, and 40 bags white pepper
at auction sold steadily, good heavy Malabar at 3d to
3id, good half heavy do at 2kd, and mid white Singa-
pore 4id per lb.
TALLOw.—P.Y.C. is 47s 9d per cwt on the spot, and
town 49s 6d. The market is very firm.
TEA.—There are public sales coming on to-morrow,
of 17,000 packages, and in the meantime there is very
little doing. The accounts from Canton of short ship-
ments are rather encouraging for holders here.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before BENJAMIN BOTCH, Esq., and a bench of
Magistrates.)
The adjourned September sessions were opened this
morning (in the absence of the Assistant-Judge), by B.
Botch, Esq., formerly chairman of the Middlesex Magis-
trates.
The grand jury having been sworn, the Learned
Judge addressed them in a brief charge, in which he
said it was his duty to go through the same "farce,"
which the Assistant Judge had gone through so often,
of informing them of the useless duties they had to
perform. There was a time when the intervention of
grand juries was necessary, even in this Court, for the
protection of the liberty of the subject. But, at present,
and since the establishment of the Police-courts, the in
stitution was unnecessary and useless.
The calendar this session is about one-half lighter
than usual. g
Robert Griffiths, aged 25, a chimney sweep, was in-
dicted for stealing a copper cowl of the value of fifty
shillings, the property of William Brougham, Esq., of
No. 2, North Audley-street,
It appeared that the prisoner and another were em-
ployed to sweep the chimneys of the house next door to
Mr. Brougham's, for which purpose he got upon the
roof, and carried away the cowl in question.
Two witnesses gave him an excellent character for
honesty.

The prisoner was found Guilty, and
The Learned JUDGE sentenced him to three months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

REGISTRATIONS. - (THIS DAY.)
CITY OF LONDON.
The revisions of the lista for Bread-street, Castle
Baynard, Cheap, Cordwainer, and Dowgate, were pro-
ceeded with to-day.

WESTMINSTER.
Francis Bayley, Esq., held his first court for the revi-
sion of the list of voters for the city of Westminster,
this morning, at twelve o'clock, in the Vice-Chancellor's
Court, Westminster-hall

There are no objections, and the only claims are two
for St. Clements) eight for St. George's, Hanover-square;
one for St. James's; three for St. John's; and two for
St. Martin's in• the-fields.
In the course of the morning the list for St. Anne's
parish was passed.
The eight claims for the parish of St. George's
Hanover-square, not being objected to by the overseers,
were allowed by the Revising-Barrister, and the further
revision oF the list for this parish postponed until to-
morrow.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Very few subscribers present, and business duller
,han ever. The closing quotations will show two or
,hree changes.

THE TRIENNIAL STAKES.
2 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron
7 to 2 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor—taken
5 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Nina—taken
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
2to 1 agst Mr. M. Clancy's Lanesborough, 4 yrs,
7st 91b—taken
.2 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter,3 yrs, sst 71b
14 to 1 agst Mr. Crawfurd's The Cur, 6 yrs, Bst 31b
—taken
20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dacia, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b—t
20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Palma, 4 yrs, sst—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Remembrance, 3 yrs,
sst 9lb
33 to 1 agst Mr. Murphy's Dough, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b
33 to 1 agst Mr. Disney's Cawroush, 5 yrs, Bst 31b
3340 toto agstagst A
J. Day's The
leiklam'sPo3T,arttona, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b
r, 4
yrs, 7st 81b
50 to 1 agst Mr. Johns's New Forest Deer, aged, 7st
—taken to 501.
,000 to 10 agst Mr. Quin's Attraction, 3 yrs, 7st—taken
Lanesborough was backed for four or five hundred
pounds at 12 and 13 to 1, and closed first favourite. 12
to 1 was taken to about 100/. agst The Cur, and 14 to 1
afterwards offered. Palma was very much out of favour.
No odds quoted agst Surplice.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
20 to 1 on the field
20 >lO 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
—takes to 50/.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glendower, 3 yrs, 7st 71b
1,000 to 30 agst Mr. Crawfurd's Pic Nic, 6 yrs, 7st Blb
—2O to 1 taken once
DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
12 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron
17 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor
40 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb
1,000 to 10 agst Duke of Bedford's Newport—taken
Offers to take 13 to 1 to a " sum" about Elthiron

DEFENCE OF LAMARTINE.

(Continued from The Sun of tho 16th of Sept.)

SIXTII ACCUSATION.
After the inauguration of the National Assembly,
I refused, say they, through feebleness, to assume
ALONE the direction of the Government, for which so
many suffrages seemed to have pointed me out to the
choice of the Assembly. I thus induced the National
Assembly to form a Commission of Government with-

out unity.
I reply to this reproach by a candid analysis of the
deliberate and detply reflected sentiments which
caused me to come to this determination.

At the moment when the National Assembly—that
Assembly so long yearned for by myself—at last
arrived at Paris, and when the spontaneous and ill-
deserved favour of the country, signalised by two
millions of suffrages, appeared to entitle cue to become
a candidate for Government, three separate courses
lay open for my adoption.
Either I could demand that consolidated power
which aien seemed disposed to offer me, and exercise
the sole anthority in the name of the Assembly—
precisely as General Cavaignac does to-day, but
without having, like that General, the mournful
excuse of necessity consequent upon the recent sup-
pression of civil war, without the well-merited pres-
tige of military command, and without the strength
derived from the maintenance of the state of siege and
the military force constituted in the army of Paris.
Or, I could isolate myself simultaneously from the
old and the new Government, withdraw my name
from all responsibility, and await patiently upon my
bench, enveloped with popularity, with regrets, and
with aspirations, the choice of the country to the
great magistracy of the Republic.
Or, again, I could sacrifice myself, lose myself,
annihilate myself in the waves of difficulty and of
inevitable unpopularity, by consenting to become a
member of an Executive Commission, a power at
once necessary and impossible, good to use and to
abuse All this I knew.
Let us examine together each of these three parts,
not in reference to my ambition, but in regard to the
foundation of the Republic.
To accept the sole direction of the Government, and
consequently to exclude from-all participation in it
my republican colleagues of the 24th of February,--
was to create at one and the same time a majority
and a minority leagued one against the other in the
bosom of the National Assembly,—it was to form
even in the first days two distinct parties, when I
wished above all things to found, at least during the
preliminary epoch of initiation, one patriotic and re•
publican party possessing unity of action,—it was to
give chiefs to those parties, and to give arms to those
chiefs. Intestine wars in the head of the Republic
could not fail to produce convulsions in its extremi-
ties. When once this majority and minority should
have become strongly developed in the As-
semblyjeach discussion would become a tempest,
each storm would have its rebound and its reverbe-
ration without; to divide the Assembly was to divide
the Republic ; to divide the Republic at a time when
it could scarcely be said to exist was either to doom
it to destruction or to incarnadine it with the blood
of the citizens. In fine, between this majority and
this minority, my Government would have been
compelled by necessity to make a selection. I—but
newly emerged from February would have found
myself bound to place my support exclusively in the
party of the morrow, in preference to the exas-
perated party of the yesterday. Thereupon
the Republic, held together in my hands, would
become suspected by the Republicans of Feb-
ruary. They would forthwith have marshalled them-
selves in opposition to me ; they already pos-
sessed, for the accomplishment of their plans, the
tribune, the press, the clubs, the half-licensed dele-
gates of the Luxembourg—the army of the hundred
thousand men of the Ateliers Nationaux—the Bona-
partists, the Terrorists, the Socialists, whose ghef
aim was universal subversion;—all these would have
been united, accumulated, aggregated, and bound
together, by their hands, into one strong fasces of
Opposition. The National Assembly would have
found itself compelled to combat, single-handed,
against these formidable forces of disciplined disorder.
This is true. But, vanquished, the Assembly would
have been dissolved, and replaced. by an anarchical
despotism. Victorious, she -would have been com-
pelled to become violent and conventional against
her own inclination. Thus, in two ways, that
Republic which we had hoped to be pap, constitu-
tional, and even unanimous, would have been lo'st
beyond redemption, and my inconsiderate ambition
would have been the cause of its doom ! History
would, with reason, have accused and convieted4ne of
having calculated neither my own strength ifocifiitt of
the Assembly, which was barely raised above its foun-
dations. That which so many men, who were without
reflection, or who viewed things from a distance,
presented to me as the happy audacity of a states-
man, was to my own intimate knowledge nothing less
than the blunder of an ambitious adventurer without
a morrow ! My place was marked out to me among
those men of opprobrium and misfortune who had lost
both monarchies and republic from the impatience
and the presumption of dreaming themselves capable
of saving their country alone and without assistance.
SEVENTH ACCUSATION.

But, say they to me in reply, you could, at least,
refrain yourself from entering into the Executive
Commission, and thereby remain free and invulnerable
in your isolation.
It is true ; egotism sufficiently prompted me to
that resolution. I could only increase by such a
withdrawal; I could reserve a popularity untouched
to the Republic ; I could, with ease, render myself a
candidate for the suffrages and enthusiasm of all. But
what, let me ask, would have imported this candidate-
ship when there would no longer have remained a re-
public ? Besides, it was evident to me that if I had
withdrawn my name, at that time significative and, as
it were, the ligature of parties, from all participation
in the Executive Commission, the National Assembly
would have formed a Government of a single colour,
chosen exclusively from amongst men who were
unjustly suspected of entertaining a resentment
against the Republic! It is, therefore, evident that
this Government would have created forthwith in the
Assembly the same antagonism and distraction which,
according to my opinion, would have caused either the
destruction or the exasperation of the Republic. I
would not consent to listen to egotism—behold my
crime! I consented, though. with sighs and lamenta-
tions, to annihilate myself for the purpose 'of preserv-
ing to the Government every possible guarantee of
conciliation between .tbe practicable and political
men who represent the different great,parties of the

revolution.
It is that which has caused all our calamities! they
cry out against me. It is that, too, which has caused
all the good which has occurred ! I cry out to you.
It is that which has led,- not to the destruction of the
factions, but to their decapitation and dispersion, and
which has enabled you, instead of having to fight
against them in a solid mass before your force was in
any degree consolidated, to annihilate them in their
piecemeal and powerless adventures--4t. circumstance
which has rendered the Republic ultimately tri-
umphant I It is that which has still preserved unani-.
mity to the National Assembly in regard to all the
vital questions connected with the preservation of
society, of property, and of the nation I It is that
which will enable us to maintain this position for a
yet longer period ; which will reconcile still further,
and confirm us more and more, in all the days of
dangeryin a common spirit of patriotism, and which
will enable us, with one accord, to vanquish those
lures to dissension which are being perpetually cast
in to us from without, but which we will never be in-
duced to accept.

DEATH OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER OF NAPLES.-
Accounts were received in town last evening, from Na-
ples, which confirm the demise of the Dowager Queen of
the Two Sicilies as having taken place in the Neapolitan
capital on the.llth inst., after a gradual decliningrilln ess
of several months. 11er deceased Majesty, Isabella
Mary, was only daughter of Charles IV. of Spain, and
consequently sister of the late King Ferdinand VII.,
Don Carlos, and Don Francisco de Paula. She was born
July 6, 1789, and married Oct. 6, 1802, Francis I.,King
of the Two Sicilies (then Duke of Calabria), within 12
months of the decease of his first wife, the mother of the
Duchess de Berri. By her marriage she had a family of
ten children, namely, Maria Christina, the Queen
Mother of Spain; Ferdinand 11., King of Naples; Charles,
the Prince of Cape; Leopold, the Count do Syracuse;
Antoinette, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany; Amelia,
married to Don Sebastian of Spain; the Princess Caro-
line; Theresa, Empress of Brazil; Louis, Count d'Aquil a;
and Francis, Count de Trapani.