The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-27 00:00:00

THE FRE

given to a better system of agriculture, to bring
the lands into the highest degree of fertility. Capi-
tal, the chief want of the nation, will rapidly flow in,
when its possessors are assured that they will reap
the fruits of their investments, and not be deprived
thereof by agrarian outrages, and the turbulence of
discontented men. The waste lands will be reclaimed,
affording in the process full ,employment for the
myriads of labourers now remaining idle, and unpro-
ductively consuming the national resources, in place
of adding materially to the national wealth ; and
when brought into cultivation a vast addition will
be made to the quantity of food applicable to the wants
of the people; and many of those who bad
been engaged in the work of reclamation
will be rewarded by having houses and farms as-
signed to them on the lands "thus made valu-
able, and be enabled to spend the remainder of their
days in their native land, among their friends and
kindred, in place of having to seek their fortunes in
another hemisphere, and to submit to the toils and
privations which invariably accompany the enterprise
of the emigrant.
But before these desiderata can be attained perfect
tranquillity must be restored. All the energies of
the Government must be exerted for that purpose.
The time of the Legislature, the consideration of the
Cabinet, is necessarily devoted to the means required
to preserve public order. A Coercion Act, or a mea-
sure for the security of the Crown, will consume at
least as much time in passing through Parliament as a
Rill for the improvement of the relations between
landlord and tenant, for the sale of encumbered
estates, or for the reclamation of waste lands. While
the law officers of the Crown are wholly occupied in
prosecuting for sedition, for felony, or for treason,
they cannot mature provisions tor simplifying titles
or legalizing tenant-right. A certain quantity of
business only can be disposed of during the session;
and the Irish cannot complain if the Acts intended
for their relief, to promote
,the prosperity of their
country, and to develop all its magnificent resources,
are postponed for still more essential eaactments for
the suppression of tumult and disturbance.
Those who have disregarded the benefits of savings'
banks, and endeavoured to convert the advantages
conferred upon the industrious classes by turning
these institutions into a means of embarrassing the
Government, and creating an additional loss to the
national Exchequer, must not be surprised if they
find a Bill introduced to deprive them of the bless-
ing they have misapplied, and to recruit the public
purse either by the imposition of a direct tax upon
the country, or at least the withholding of the money
that would otherwise be made applicable to Irish
purposes. In every instance they would only have
themselves to thank for the prolongation of the
grievances by which they are afflicted, and the evils
under which they are suffering.
But if they thus deprive themselves of Government
assistance, by their delusion in listening to the trucu-
lent harangues, and following the insane counsels of
the sedition-mongers, bow much more so do they
prevent the required capital from flowing into
Ireland, and being expended in permanent and
valuable improvements, or in sustaining the lan-
guishing and almost extinct manufactures of their
country. Capitalists are a sensitive and prudent race.
They will not make investments where they have
to encounter not only the ordinary risks inci-
dental to every speculation, but also the danger of a
total loss of their property from the establishment of
anarchy and confusion. Manufactures will not
flourish in a neighbourhood where the " Queen of
Weapons" is in the hand of every idle vagabond who,
too idle to work himself, would gladly destroy the
productions of the better disposed and more indus-
trious. Railways will not be created where the
people are openly exhorted to take up the rails, and
to convert them into weapons of offence. Better to
keep the money lying up, hoarded and unproductive,
than risk its total loss. Before, then, capital can
be hoped for perfect quietude must be obtained ;
then, indeed, those who have the means will
gladly employ them in a country possessing so
many advantages from its natural resources, and the
great cheapness and abundance of food and labour.
The great enemies of Ireland are those who, by their
denunciations and outrages, keep English capital and
capitalists from their island. Let the people free their
3011 !rum these vermin, more pernicious than the
shakes and vipers, which their Patron Saint is re-
ported to have banished. Let them become peace-
able and orderly, applying themselves earnestly to
the duties of Oar several stations, respecting the
rights and properties of others, and zealously labour-
ing to improve their own position in society. Let
them but pursue such a course for a brief period, so
as to give an assurance that they are really deter-
mined to persevere in such conduct, and they will,
,ndeed make Ireland what she ought to be—
"Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth, and tirst gem of the sea."

aonfatcy ien isnot the writings and the genius of SHAKSPEER con-
tributed in no inconsiderable degree to augment the
consideration and influence of England ? I myself
feel that I could bear witness to this when travelling
among our transatlantic brethren of the great Ameri-
can Republic, for I found that, however willing any
one might be to raise a dispute about the Maine boun-
dary or to pick a quarrel about the Oregon, or to boast
how they had licked the Britishers at New Orleans,
yet I never found a single American who was not
eager to claim brotherhood with the countrymen of
Suansentz." After alluding to the expression of
similar sentiments by the French and Germans, he
proceeded to ask, " Do we not now feel every day
that the most startling events of contemporary in-
terest connect themselves with the associations of
seassrzaz ? While the tide of war seems now let
loose upon the plains of Lombardy, and is perhaps at
thisluernent breaking upon the ramparts of Verona,
least we may hope that the violence of opposing
factions a
may spare the tomb of Juliet. And Venice
__perhapsphpo
in this country we do not care very much
whether it is a republic or an imperial fief—but we
should care very much if we thought that a man
__perhaps
could no longer swim in a gondola and walk
Danes, although we ourselves have not been
—' aye, many a time and oft on the Rialto.' Then as
quite regular with that nation, yet the thought
LET, the image of the ' buried majesty of Den-
faomolfr as
awratyls
kh,e' deepens and enlists our sympathies with that
g
people, and we should look upon it almost as a
naaltlitnal
insult, if armed invaders were to bombard
the palace of Elsinore. Am I not right, then, in say-
ing that her
of the mind or play
of
circumstanceshardlya ni*
of passing events which
s has not anticipated and hate not chroni-
cled ?" The hearty cheers of the audience answered the
Noble
issLord'sis inquiry with an unhesitating affirma-
tive.:lai:nar
Eits
do honour to the memory,
of six
and to suit his observations to
the character of the times, Lord MORPETU
nittnlr s,
to
could hardly have seized upon a happier idea than
that of exhibiting the departed poet as an instrument
in promoting that spirit of peace and amity among
nations which is the glory of these times. Having,
by the charm of his writings, associated the histories
' of foreign countries with the most familiar and pleasing
associations of the English people, and having, at the
same time, by the genius and truthfulness of these
same writings,
inspired other nations with a warm
• and lively interest in England and the English lan-
guage, &unseen'', as Lord MORPETH justly re-
marked, has done much to facilitate the kindly inter-
change of national sympathies ; and hence it is
' peculiarly fitting that, at the present time, the me-
mory of SuansrElti should be especially comme-
morated.

PUBLIC. '

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his Commissioners have in
every district in the provinces exercised the most odious
tyranny to procure if possible the return of those who
will be willing to aid him, either as dupes or accom-
plices, in his schemes for betraying the Republic.
At Rouen the communal schoolmasters, who are all
in the pay of the Minister of Public Instruction,
were convened and commanded to sign collectively
an engagement to vote for the Government can-
didates or resign their places. At a little town
called Neufchatel a body of two hundred con-
scripts were stopped by the mayor, put into the
Hotel de Ville, and there kept under lock and
key until they had voted. Instances are given of
electors being stopped on their way, their lists taken
from them, and they obliged to return home, by hired
ruffians. The Memorial de Rouen says it is useless
making complaints to the Government Commis
sioner, " who is so good a man that he refuses to
believe any evil of others." The Journal de Rouen
contains accounts of men being beaten, and the lists
taken from them, because they were not democratic.
The Gazette de Lyons contains accounts of similar
proceedings in its neighbourhood. It says that in the
Place des Terreaux they were burning heaps of lists
of names which had been violently taken from elec-
tors. There was a grand demonstration of the clubs
of Lyons, of the workmen employed in the Government
ateliers, and of the voraces, in favour of the democratic
candidates. The Journal de Toulouse contains also
some curious proceedings of the Government Com-
missioner. Having menaced the inhabitants of a par-
ticular town to have its privilege of chef lieu con-
veyed to another place, unless the votes were for
the Government candidates, be next proceeded by
way of corruption, having changed the guardians of
the bureau de bienfuisance, and then told them to vote
money for the poor, who would not otherwise go to
the polling place. The same Government Commis-
sioner threatened that he would smash like glass any
officials whom he suspected of not going with the
Government, and that he would make a patriotic
offering to the Republic of the money due to them.
Another Government Commissioner writes to the
curate of Limoux, that he had received a dispatch
from the Commissaire-General of the department,
prescribing the most energetic measures against the
members of the clergy who use the influence given
them by their character to lead public opinion astray
by recommending candidates hostile to the revolution,
and threatening the clergyman to whom the letter is
addressed with his displeasure. So much for the
system of terror and corruption practised in the pro-
vinces. The following extract from a long letter in
the Constitutionnel contains some indirect revelations
of the terror practised in the capital :
" There are men who dssire to make a sort of repub-
lican restoration, with similar persecutions, and who
dream about a certain revolutionary history which is
gone by for ever. These men affect to date the Republic
at its 56th year. imitating the ludicrous example set ti.%
Louis XVIII. Instead of the flag of glory and liberty,
they demand the ctrapeau of blood. They revive the
costumes and head-dress of what they call la bonne
epoque. They give to journals the titles of the oin
dewagogie; they admit no title but that of citizen; they
call on the people every day to plant trees of liberty ;
they demand that public tables be set in the streets for
repasts in common—doing the Spartan republic and the
fraternity Lamourette; these are peurilities resembling
those practised by the Restoration. But there are
other doings much more alarming—they are not satisfies,
with calling themselves Jacobins and Montagnard.;
they also take their doctrines, and seem to renew theii
acts. They can only comprehend a republic under th,
form of a revolution en permanence. They demand the
right of deliberating in arms iu their clubs; they deman,
that the Assembly shall be opened on the 31st of May
in order to place this inauguration under the auspices 01
a sanguinary reminiscence. They evoke all the horror:
of the past. They belong to the historic school loundec
on what we shall not call the worst times, but the
worst of deeds of our history. All that is old. Who
that France will have nothing to do."
It is generally believed, however, that all the at
tempts of the Ledru-Rollin faction to carry the.
elections of Paris have proved abortive. M. DL
LAMARTINE is, it is said, at the head of the poll, and
General CAverorisc, the Governor-General of Al-
giers, second. The returu of General CATAIGNAc
for Paris will be one of the most severe rebuffs that
LEDRU ROLLIN has yet received, inasmuch as Ge-
neral Cs.vAiomec threatened to transport from Ai-
geria the commissary, sent thither by M. LBDRI
ROLLIN, if that personage attempted at all to interfere
with the Government or the inhabitants of that co-
lony; and General CAVAIGNAC is just the man te.
have kept his word, even had the meddler bet'
LEDRU ROLLIN himself instead of his man
fhe commissary M. Courier was, it seem,
sent to Algiers, by: LEDRU ROLLIN, without
knowledge of his colleagues, - and the Provisioew
(lob ernment has annulled the appointment.
An attempt was made on the 16th and 17th to get
up a Ledru-Rollin demonstration in Algiers, but it
signally failed. The great body of the people nos:
against the anarchists, and acsistfd by the Civic
Guard tore down the bonnet rouge, and dispersed tie
mob.
The llioniteur contains a decree opening a credit o;
two million francs to the Minister of Public Works
for continuing the railway works between Hommar-
ting and Strasbourg.
It is said that M. ODILON BARROT has beet,
elected by an immense majority for the department
of L'Aisne.
On Monday night there was "a scene "in the
Cabinet of the Provisional Government between M.
LAMARTINE and M. LEDRU ROLLIN. The latter
desired the further postponement of the meeting (0
the Assembly, the former peremptorily opposed it.
the latter threatened a popular demonstration, the•
former treated the menace with contempt. N.
LEDRU ROLLIN then declared that he would have
Paris covered with barricades. M. LAMARTINE rose
and declared that he set his colleague at defiance
that the majority of the Government were quite pre.
pared for any measure of that description promotes
by the Minister of the Interior, and that they would
resort to effectual measures of defence. After this,
report says, M. LEDRU ROLLIN lowered his tone.
In every section of Paris in which the result of
the polling has become known it has been favourable.
to the moderate members of the Provisional Go-
vernment, while MM. LEDRU ROLLIN, ALBERT.
Louis Bnastc, and FLOCON hold places which shoot
that their popularity, even among the great body of
the working classes, was over-estimated. It appears,
however, that all the members of the Provisions,
Government will be returned for Paris. The follow-
ing is the order in which they at present stand :—M
Dupont (de rEure), the venerable President of the
Provisional Government, is at the head of the
poll ; then follow M.M. de Lamartine, Cre-
mieux, Garnier Pages, Cormenin, Beranger, Marie,
Carnot, Bethmont, Guudchaux, and Wollowski,
all of whom have very large majorities. After them
come MM. Vellu, Peupin,. Lamennais, Co-
querel, Marrast, General Duvivier, Victor Hugo, and
Ledru Rollin. Louis Blanc, Albert, and Flocon
have fewer votes than any of the above. It is right
to state that the returns from the districts in which
the ouvriers are most numerous are not yet known,
with the exception of the seventh, in which M. LEDRU
ROLLIN and his friends appear in a minority. On
the Bourse the funds rose considerably in consequence
of the turn taken by the elections.
The Presse gives the result of the scrutiny of the
7th section of the third arrondissement, in as far as
regards the first nineteen names at the head of the
poll :--
Lamartine
Dupont(de l'Eure) 648,
Arago 64o'
Marrast
Gamier Pug& 635,
Marie
Bethmont...
Duvivier
Beranger 564
Berger

" The beings of the mind are not of clay," said
BraoN, And consequently he argued they are im-
mortal. If, then, they, the creations of the poet's
imagination, endure, how unfitting were it that the
memory of him who created them should pass away.
How sorrowful would be the lot of genius it for-
gotten after death. Happily, such injustice is of
very rare occurrence. The poet mey be too often
neglected or contemned during life, but with his
existence his unjust treatment ends ; friends are loud
in lamentation, and even fees join in celebrating his
praises—

When his bark is buried deep,
Will envy be the first to weep ?"
The love which all mankind bear to the name, and
the honour which they delight in paying to the
memory, of the dead poet, is invariably excessive, and
might be deemed extravagant were it not most na-
tural that they should seek to lavish their tears
and praises—all they have to give—upon the grave
of him, their great benefactor, appreciated it may
be too late. But not his contemporaries
alone, every succeeding generation which benefits
by the lessons of the bard, joins its voice to
that grateful chorus which perpetuates the
praises of those benefactors of mankind—" Poets
whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world." An
instance of this noblest form of hero-worship has just
been afforded by the meeting at Stratfurd•upon-
Avon, which we reported yesterday, held in honour
of the anniversary of SHAISPERE'S birth. SHAN..
SPERE certainly does not come within the cate-
gory of those unfortunate poets to whom we have
just alluded—that, indeed, would have been impos-
sible. What age could have been insensible to his
merits? Nevertheless, he furnishes an example of
the enthusiastic veneration with which a great name
—a great literary name—is invariably regarded. At
the present time, when extraordinary political changes
in foreign countries are engrossing public attention,
and when disturbances nearer home have hardly
ceased to occasion alarm, a body. of men, some
among them of the noblest :and most powerful in
the land, meet together fur the purpose of celebrating
the birthday of a man who has been in his grave
two centuries ! Far, however, front wishing to
cavil at such a proceeding, we are rejoiced at it. We
are inexpressibly rejoiced by so unmistakeable an
evidence of the strength and tenderness of the popular
attachment to poets and poetry even in this practical
age. And were another evidence of these sentiments
required, we should find it in the cordial and eloquent
remarks uttered by Lord Moat-writ at the Shak-
spere Festivity—himself a poet, and distinguished
by many peculiar traits of character, which render
him a fitting participator in such a scene. The dis-
course of the Right Honourable Member for the
West Riding was on this occasion most graceful and
appropriate. One of his introductory observations
deservedly elicited loud cheers from all his
auditors—" I have no sympathy," he said, " with
those who see harm in everything—in fic-
tion, in poetry, in plays." I have no
sympathy with such as these, said Lord MORPETH,
and so say we. " A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever;" and they who, by cultivating and idealising
the beautiful, rejoice the hearts and elevate the minds
of their fellow-men, are the true benefactors of their
kind. And as such Szaitsrzaz is deserving of as
much commendation as is the most zealous patriot
or philanthropist that ever existed. His celebrity,
according to Lord klosmra has also another wilt.
tar' n base. After expressing an intention to eschew
politics in his discourse, the Noble Lord, however,
added that he thought that in a wide and compre-
hensive bearing
**ln ta :to" lire sot," he saked, 47.
he might OVNI there allude to politics,

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Wollowski
Cormenin
Cavaignac
Vavin
Bucher
Ledru Mullin
Albert
Louis Blanc .... 109

As far as the accounts from the departments go,
the elections appear to have proceeded as calmly as
in the metropolis. At Rouen the balloting Was
over, and the election day had passed more quietly
than Easter Sunday and Easter Monday usually
do. At Havre and Lille the same tranquillity
existed. At Brest the military part of the elec-
tion was over. The Journal de la Marine says
the different corps of the Marine at Brest were
called on yesterday to vote for their representa-
tives in the National Assembly, to wit, the officers
and military functionaries at the prefecture of the
Marina) the seilore hot extbarksistthe head-paters

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27,' 1848.

of the crews of the line, and the staffs and crews of over the Sley, and the villages of Fluckebye, Hunt-
armed ships on their respective ships. It then gives melfeld, and Cosel are now their fore posts.
the result. The only member of the Government in The embargo enforced at Copenhagen ou Prussia.n
the list is M. DR LAMARTINE, and he is at the head ships has been extended to all German vessels. It is
of every list. The other favourites are-MM. La. reported that a number of Prussian ships have already
CROSS DECOUVRANT, ROSSEL, Le BRETTON, Son- been taken, and it is now (eared that the Elbe and
vESTRE,E, GRAYERAU, BRUNEL, LB GRANDAIS, &c. Weser will be blockaded by the Danes.
With the exception of M. DE LAMARTINE and
M. LACROSSE, who was a member of the Chamber •
RUMOURED DDELANTmEIAORFK.THE KING OF
of Deputies, the whole of the Brest candidates are A letter from Altona, dated the 23d, one O'CIOCkt
new men. P.M., says-
A decree has appeared in the Manitear putting an " A report, the truth of which, however, is "IT
end to the organization of armed bands of foreigners doubtful, prevailed in Rend
bur
this morning, that
in France. the King of DENMARK was dead. Though this may
• illness
It is said that M. LAMARTINE has concluded a treaty not be true, there seems to be no doubt that hts
offensive and defensive between the French Republic, 'bronchitis) is of a serious nature."
Switzerland, the Italian States, and that portion of
Germany represented in the Diet at Frankfort.
A large quantity of troops entered Paris yester-
day. The infantry of the line are now doing duty
regularly at the prisons at,d some of the public build.
ings, in the pluee of the National Guards.
BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26.
THREE O'CLOOK.-A very considerable amount of
business was transacted to-day, and the Bourse, ilt
some measure, exhibited the activity which it was ac
customid to manifest before the revolution. The re-
sult of the Paris elections being now pretty well
known to be decidedly in favour of the more moderate
party, speculators augur well from the tact, and con-
sider the moment favourable for purchasing stock.
In consequence, demands flowed in throughout the
whole day's business, and almost in every case the
last prices are the highest. Lists of the returns made
up in the different sections were all day being
handed about at the Bourse, and from them it would
appear that, even in the arrondissements most remark-
able for their democratic tendencies, the ultra party have
not the advantage. The Three per Cents. opened at
411. 75c., and closed at 44f. 50c., being an advance of
3t. 25c.; the Five per Cents. opened at 631. 50c., and
closed at 65f., or 31. higher than the day before. Bank
of France shares were again exceedingly demanded, and
show an advance of not less than 1701. ; Roman ha,
risen 2-If., closing at 54ff.; Belgian Fives (1840), lit.,
at 631.; ditto (1842), 2t, at 63iE; Rothschild's Neap°.
litan, If:, at 53if.; Obligations de la Ville, SE. at 1,030 t, ;
and Piedmont, (Of., at 8601.; Bons du `ft Cor were
done at first at 39 per cent. less, and towards the close
of the day at 37f.; but it has been remarked, that few
persons at present consent to make this heavy sacrifice.
Railway Shares were also exceedingly buoyant, and
some of the lines exhibit a remarkable improvement :-
Orleans have advanced 55f., closing at 570 f.; Rouen 501.,
at 425 f.; Vierzon 25E, at 260 f.; Marseilles 20L. at 2251.;
Northern 121. 50c., at 362 f. 50c.; Havre 7f. 50c., at 207 f.
50c.; Bale 5f., at 87f. 50c.; ersailles (Right Bank)
21. 50c.. at 1171: 50c.; Nantes lf. 25c., at 345 f.; Lyons
are 31. 75c. lower, closing at 311 f. 25c. ; Versailles
(Left Bank) 51. lower, at 102 f. 50c.; Strasburg 2f. 50c.
lower, at 335 f.; Bordeaux are unvaried, at 395 f. French
gold remains at about 301. the thousand. and the charge
for obtaining silver for a I,ooof. note is about sf.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 26.
Boulogne and Amiens,VA-Namur. and Liege, 3-Orleans
and Bordeaux, 134- Paris and Lvons, 214-Paris and Or-
leans, 24 with div.-Paris and -Rouen, 14-Rouen and
films, 814.

7AND•

SWITZERL
A letter from Berne, of the 21st inst., sitY39—
" The Directory last night received accounts which
rendered it necessary to hold a meeting this molting.
Ihe following particulars have transpired:—It appears
that a serious collision has taken place in the Grad
Duchy of Baden between the workmen who
wished to
establish a republic in Germany, and the troops of the
Grand Duke, in which the Republican party were routed,
god sought refuge on the Swiss frowner. The cantons
Sehaffhausen, Bale, and Argau, immediately oiled
,ut some battalions, in order to secure the frontier.
of
„
•' The Genovese section of the general association
the Swiss people has unanimously decided on pror resing
to the Upper Diet, and to the states through the
lfin
tory, the convocation of constituent assembly 1:104...
by the ,le."

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