The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-15 00:00:00

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In 2 vols., royal 13y0., 2/. 10s. bound,
BURKE'S HISTORY OF
LANDED GENTRY;
A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY
OF THE UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND,
SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

Admiiably, however, as the King of PRUSSIA may
be disposed to aggrandise the Germanic Confederation,
by territorial encroachments, and by audacious lar-
cenies upon the states of every contiguous monarchy,
we cannot persuade ourselves that he is so entirely
blinded by egotism, and so recklessly excited by
ambition, as to associate his name with a project so
extravagantly opposed to the laws of nations and to
the rights of nationality.
To prove the criminality of the proceedings of the
Duke of AUGUSTENEURG and his rebellious -con-
federates, it is not necessary to dip very profoundly
into the historical researches of Professor DAHLMANN.
Many of the facts recounted by that distinguished
and erudite historian of the southern provinces of
Jutland were already notorious throughout Europe,
when he himself was lyii.g in his cradle—before,
indeed, the possibility of his existence had been
conjectured by his ancestors. From tht se facts alone,
sufficient e%idence might be obtained to show the
intimate and count xion subsisting be-
tween :Schleswig and northern Jutland—to demon-
strate, in short, the actual identity, as it were, of
those divisions of the peninsula. Even as far back
as the rise of the Carlovingian race, his.
tory declares that the river E.) der was the
southern boundary of the Danish sovereignty.
Eydera Germani terminus imperii was the
fragment of a distich among topographers many
centuries before COLUMBUS earned his bread by
drawing maps in a garret at Lisbon. Until,
therefore, that frontier- line of Germany can be
passed without a violation of the rights of sove-
reignty, it is necessary to show that the channel of
the Eyder has shifted like that of the waters of
Babylon, when BELSHAZZAR drank to the might and
the glory of the Gentiles. Geography, however,
still raises a stubborn obstacle against such sophis-
tries of rebellion—there the Eyder rolls on in its
eternal current, from its junction with the canal of
the Baltic to its diffusion among the billows
of the German Ocean—there the fragment of
the distich resounds from the distance of antiquity—
Eydera Germani terminus imperii ! A summary of
the occurrences which have illustrated the records of
Jutland since the establishment of the empire of
CHARLEMAGNE will demonstrate still more forcibly
the futility of any such sophistical reasoning as that
adventured upon by the Duke of AUGUSTENEURG.
Somewhere about 1450, Denmark, Schleswig, and
Holstein, were declared to be one kingdom under
the sway of the Oldenburg dynasty. Treachery
among the minor branches of that family succeeded
for a moment in 1658, when, by the treaties of
Copenhagen and Roeskilde, Schleswig and Holstein
thewereni
begfoirnmendg into an independent sovereignty. In
of the eighteenth century Schleswig
was again incorporated with Denmark, and, in 1720,
according to the stipulations of Stockholm and Fre-
densborg, the Danish dominions were consolidated
by the agreement of the contracting powers. HO

seditious harangues and patriotic revolt in Ireland.
The rights of the people can have no more appropriate
advocates, and the liberties of the people can have no
more constitutional defenders, than the popular repre-
sentatives in the House of Commons. From the re-
cent demonstration on the part of those representa-
tives, we are inclined to hope and believe that they
feel the responsibility of their honourable and onerous
position, and are prepared to fulfil its duties in a
manner worthy of themselves and of their consti-
tuents, in a manner demanded of them by the expecta-
tions of the country and the exigency of the times.
For their success in such endeavours they have our
most hearty and unfeigned good wishes.

We said, some days since, in speaking of the
manner in which the foreign affairs of this country
had been mismanaged by the Earl of ABERDEEN, that
it appeared to have been the height ot the NJble
Earl's ambition to be considered head clerk to M.
CuizoT. We were aware that throughout the whole
ot his administration the President of the Society of
Antiquaries had invariably and systt matically treated
the interests of the British people as actively subordi-
nate to those of the King of the FRENCH. We were
aware that he had neglected to vindicate the
honour of England in Otaheite, that he had
neglected to support the interests of England in Spain
and in Morocco, and that he had actively interfered
to ruin the British commerce in the Rio de la Plata,
in order to secure the ascendancy of M. Guizor and
Louis PrnLlrrE in France, by enabling them to boast
that they had bullied and bamboozled England in
every quarter of the world. Of all these facts we say
we were aware, for they were unfortunately patent to
the observation of all mankind; but we never suspected
that any British Minister for Foreign Affairs
could be capable of receiving instructions from a
foreign power as to what course he should pursue as
regarded his relations with independent states, or
could so far forget what was due to the honour and
dignity of his SOVEREIGN and his country as to
habitually submit dispatches addressed by him to his
own diplomatic agents abroad to the approval of a
foreign power. Yet such it appears from the re-
cently published letter of Louis PHILIPPE to his
daughter the Queen of the BELGIANS, was the
custom of " cet excellent ABERDEEN"—a custom so
constantly observed that Louis PHILIPPE seems to
have considered Downing-street as a mere bureau of
the Hotel des Capucines, and the British Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs as mere Under-Secretary
to M. GurzoT. So rooted was this idea of the
subordination of British to French diplomacy that
Louis PHILIPPE actually makes it a subject of grave
accusation against Lord PALMERSTON, that he had
on his accession to office ventured to send off a
dispatch to the British Ambassador in Spain
without having first submitted It to the French
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of St. James's, the
Count DE JARNAC, and through him to M. Guizor
for approval and alteration before it should be for-
warded. " Procede," adds Louis PHILIPPE, with the
most engaging simplicity, " qui n'etait guire con-
forme a noire entente cordiale et a ce a quo/ nous
etions HABITUES par noe rapports de confiance reci-
proques avec Lord ABERDEEN." The reciprocity was
of rather an Irish character—a one-sided
reci-
procity, We will venture to say that the dispatches
of Louts PHILIPPE or of M. GUIZOT to Count
BR ESSON were never submitted to the supervision
of Lord ABERDEEN before they were sent off to
their destination; not that the interests of France
would have at all suffered by such a proceeding, fur
" the travelled Thane " was too faithful and too dull
o have, for one moment, been capable of attempting
to thjouer the intrigues of M. GUIZOT, however
much the interests of " noire bonne petite Leine"
may have required bim to do so. Sed non omnma
possuraus omnes. If Lord ABERDEEN had not said
ditto to M. GUIZOT, during the whole period he was
in office, and thus saved himself the trouble of thinking
about foreign attars, how could he have had time to
meddle in the Free Church squabbles in Scotland ?
True, we should not have had the Ashburton capitu-
lation, or the expulsion of ESPARTBRO, or the invasion
of Morocco, or the seizure of Otaheite, or the Dutch
conquest of Bali, or the "little war" in La Plata, had
the Foreign Secretary attended to the business of
his department. But then we should never have had
the lucubrations of cet excellent ABERDEEN on the
discipline of the Scottish Church, or his immortal
mea sure for the regulation of patronage. Neverthe-
less, it is possible to " pay too dear for one's whistle."

'tein, on the other hand, it cannot be forgotten, was
)i-iginally one of the grand feofs of the Germanic
-rnpire, was re-united to Denmark on the destruc-
ion of that empire by NAPOLEON in 1806, and
was at last once more, in 1815, declared to
be a portion of the Germanic Confederation. From
the few but indisputable facts here enumerated, it
mill he perceived at once that the attempted incorpo-
ration of Schleswig with Germany is an effort of
criminality. Any interference on the part of
Prussia would be as infamous and unjustifiable as
though one of the continental powers sent an army of
sistance to a hand of rebels in one of the shires of
%ales. Yet we have no fear whatever, either for the
Lattottai4 oi the Dane:, or for the sovereignty of
iiug FREDER:CK the resolution of the latter, and
he patriotism of the former, assure us that there is
no longer "something rotten in the state of Den-
.

-nark," and that the lust of power will very speedily
be expiated by the Duke of AOGUSTENBURG and his
royal accomplices.

SPAIN.

Madrid papers of the Bth have been received.

The capital continued tranquil.

The Gaceta publishes a decree, ordering the sale of
the property of the four military orders, the edifices,
and rent-charges of every kind belonging to the
State ; as also the property, rents, and revenues
proceeding from fraternities and communities of all
elapses.

The Duke of MONTPENSIER has dismissed all his
French attendants, declaring that henceforth he re-
gards himself as a Spaniard.
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL B.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 21i ; the Five per Cents., 13f ; Debt with-
out Interest, 41; Coupons, 9f.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

PROCEEDINGS AT PARIS.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The following appointments have been made by M
DE LAMARTINE :—M. LEON FAVRE is appointed
Consul• General at New York; M. BUQUET Consul-
General at Amsterdam ; .M. CASTELNAN Consul-
General at the Havannah ; M. PATORNI, Advocate,
Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General at Guatemala,
(Central America); M. MAECESCHEAU Consul-
General and Charge d'Affaires at Tunis.
Great preparations are snaking for the fete of the
20th in the Champ de Mars. There will be 200,000
of the National Guards and of the Garde Mobile,
present, and about 20,000 regular troops. The
Garde Mobile have just received percussion muskets.
Serious disturbances continue to occur in various
of the provincial towns of France. On the 10th and
11tn Troyes had been the theatre of serious disorders.

l'he National Guard was constantly on foot, and col-
lisions had taken place between them awl the work-
men, in which several persons were wounded on both
sides. The Commissary of the Government was
obliged to resign and depart for Paris.
A letter from Troyes, of the 11th inst , says :

" A dr. adtul aecidt nt has just occurred at Romdly, on
the Menteresu to Troyes Railway. The workmen tore
up about 340 metres ot the line, to prevent the National
Guard of Nugent sur Seine from reaching Troyes; in
consequence a locomotive went off the rails, and the
engiue driver was killed sad the stoker severely wounded.
We have just been informed that no other persons have
been hurt, but we have not received details.

" At Tonnerre, the two commissaries having twice dis-
solved the Municipal Council, its members were twice
re-elected by a majority of 900 out-of 930 voters, and
the commissaries, experiencing the most obstinate re-
sistance on the part of that body, were •ultimately
obliged to retire. At Dolus, in the island of Oleron,
the bourgeois having incurred the displeasure of the
country people, and not considering themselves secure in
the town, abandoned their houses, and withdrew into the
fart with their families, leaving their homes at the
mercy of the peasantry, who had threatened to plunder
the town and set it on fire."

against A t A uthxee r rGeo
vtebr c
ne
m leunb had
ts
Commissary,gt u o p a demonstration
an da
collision
was every moment expected.
The Patriote des Alpes announces that tranquillity
had been disturbed in the department of Isere, in
consequence of the pretension of the inhabitants of
Autrans to cut wood in a neighbouring forest. The Courrier de la Sarthe of the 12th states that
fresh acts of insubordination have taken place in the
2d Regiment of Carbineers, now in garrison at Le
Mans. Four privates who refused to obey the offi-
cers were arrested, and taken to Tours to be tried by
court-martial.
The Journal des Debate states that serious disor-
ders have oecurred at Toulouse, but the Emancipation
of Toulouse makes no mention of the circumstance.
There were several seizures of arms made in Paris
on Thursday, and various conspiracies against the
Republic, have, it is said, been discovered.
The Democratic Pacffzque complains bitterly that
all the Socialists and Communist leaders have been ex-
cluded from the Government list of candidates for
the National Assembly.

The Central Club of Women of Lyons have agreed
to an address to the Provisional Government, de-
manding the right of voting for women.
It was rumoured that the Sardinian Ambassador,

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, _B4B.

in reply to a demand made for explanations as to the
l views of France in assembling so large a force on the
Piedmontese frontier, had received the most satisfac•
tory assurances.
At the interview which took place on Wednesday
between the Minister of Finance and the principal
railway directors, the intentions of the Government
with regard to railways was thus explained by M.
GARNIER PAGES, who addressed the meeting at con-
siderable length :
" He had been kept waiting," he observed, " expect-
ing M. Marie, the Minister of Public Works, but as his
colleague had not arrived, he thought it better not to
detain the gentlemen present any longer, but at once
proceed to inform them of the motives which had cc-
mated him in calling them together. He bad no doubt
that tht y were already aware that certain parties con-
nected with the railways had already been treating with
mai relative to the expropriation of the lines by the
State.—(Cries of • No, no, no one was entitled to do
that,' here burst forth.) At all events they must have
heard at the B,,urse, and from public report, that to
tak,
the rsileays into its own hands was the intention
ot the Government. During the late revolution the
companies bad suffered exceedingly from the excesses
ot certain brigands and ill-disposed citizens, and had it
nut been for the exertions of some of the pupils of the
Polytechnic School, and others who were struck with
the enormity of the damage that might be thus
effixted in a shirt space of time, they would,
in all probability, have nearly disappeared altogether.
If any other disturbance were to take place, he feared
that their lines might be again placed in a similar disas-
traus position, not having the power to prevent any
attack from the ill-intentioned. Owing to the present
troubled state of things, the workmen had, in many
cases, deserted the workshops of the companies, and the
latter had been obliged, in other instances, to make con
cessions to the men who still remained at their duty; the
Government had, in fact, already considered it necessary
to place one line under sequestration. As to the lines
still in course of execution, it was notorious that some
had not been able to repay to the State at the appointed
time the sums which it had expended in their works;
in others the companies would evidently not be able to
finish their lines, from the extreme difficulty which they
would experience in getting their calls paid up; whilst
in the lines that were finished and at work the companies
were not able to work them with certainty and safety.
—(Expressions of denial from several directors.) Look-
ing, therefore, at the general position of railway pro-
perty, he would put this question to the gentlemen pre-
sent : Was it not their interest to treat with the Govern-
ment to take the lines into its own hands? Were they
not, in fact, forced in self•detence to such a course? If
sonic such course were not adopted, he could not see how
the unfinished lines were to be executed, or the finished
ones worked. To guarantee complete security to rail•
way property, whether when tranquillity prevailed, or if'
any new disturbance should arise, which, however, he did
not apprehend, he thought the only means to be adopted
was, that they should become the property of the State.
In the present situation of the finances it was impossible
for the Government to afford pecuniary aid to the com-
panies, and consequently there was nothing to be thought
of but the re purchase (rachat) of the lines. He said
that the question as to the resumption by the State
of the railways had come now to such a
point, that it was of immense importance not
only to the Government, but to the shareholders
of railways themselves, that it should be promptly,
settled. For his own part, he thought that, in the pre-
sent circumstances of the republic, it became of urgent
necessity that the Government should take possession of
the railways, but he had no:wish that that should be done
on any terms, excepting such as would be perfectly fair
and perfectly equitable to all the part es concerned.
There were two propositions which he should propose
to the directors, and which he was willing to recommend
to the Provisional Government, if approved of by the
meeting. He would propose that the railways should be
taken at the prices of the present day, and paid for by
the Government in cash or .5 per cent. stock at the pre-
sent prices; and if that were not approved of, he should
propose as an alternative, that they should be taken
at the price bf the 15th February last, and paid for in
5 per cent. stock at the price of that day. It neither o

these propositions was approved of by the directors of
the railways, the Provisional Government was not in
dined to force the measure upon the companies, but
would leave the question to be settled by the National
Assembly, and by the definitive Government of the Re-
public when it should have been constituted. In the
course of ris speech M. Gamier Pages alluded to a plan
which had been proposed, and by which the Government
should take the lines which have already been opened at
a price to be fixed upon the average of the receipts for
the last six months ; but, in reference to that plan, he
said that railways were a new experiment in Francs.
and that he would not be• inclined to recommend it to
the Provisional Government. Throughout his speech
he begged the meeting to understand that he was speak-
ing his own individual feelings and sentiments, and by
no means the sentiments or the determination of the
Provisional Government. He concluded his address by
expressing a wish that any of the gentlt men present
who might be inclined to do so would state their opi-
nions."

The speech of the Minister was very coldly re-
ceived, and the plan proposed was utterly scouted as
being nothing more nor less than confiscation of the
property of the shareholders.
A serious diff?rence of opinion has arisen between
M. LEDRU ROLLIN and his colleagues. A deputation
came to Paris from Amiens, for the purpose of pre-
senting a petition for the removal of one of M. LEDRU
ROLLIN'S commissaries, on account of some violent
proceedings in which he has been indulging, in the
exercise of the unlimited powers with which he and
his colleagues are invested. MDE LAMARTINE and
some other members of the Provisional Government
are said to have admitted the misconduct of the com-

missioner, and expressed an opinion that he ought to
be recalled. M. LsDau-RomaN refused to sacrifice
a functionary who, if to blame at all, was only guilty
of over-zeal in the cause of the Republic. A violent
scene ensued, and words passed between the mem•
bers of the Provisional Government which indicate a
wide breach in the councils of the nation

The &forme, the organ of M. LEDRU Roma;
thus alludes to the affair :
" A statement of grave facts which have occurred in
the Cabinet of the Minister of the Interior has been
communicated to us. Those who know the citizen Le-
dru Rollin are aware that it is not of inertness that he
must be accused, but of placing too much confidence in
certain men well Placed for deceiving him. We shall
have to explain ourselves with respect to these facts to-
morrow."

At length the regular troops have been suffered to
enter Paris. The commerce thus relates the return
of the 61st Regiment :
" The entry into Paris of the 61st regiment of the line
was attended with an incident wor►h relating. Consider.
able groups of people were assembled at the top of the
Faubourg St. Antoine, and showed a disposition to pre
vent the troops from coming through the Barriere.
Upon this the column debouched by the Barriere du
Trope, with muskets shouldered and bayonets fixed
Cries were uttered, and some workmen seemed disposed
to surround the Colonel. He, however, with perfect
coolness, advanced, and said—' Citizens! Is the Provi-
sional Government overturned?' No, certainly not!'
was the reply. 'Then suffer me and my men to pass,
for here are Its orders.' The assemblage immediately
bowed to the popular authority of the Government.
opened a cledr way fur the troops, and suffered them to
pass, amidst shouts of Vive Jr Colonel!'"
Lyons has again been the scene of fresh dis-
turbances.

BOURSE.—PARIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 14.
THREE o'CLocx..—The weakness manifested the day
before in the Tv:le continued 10-day. and the Three pe:
Cents. and the Fives have both fallen ; on the other
hand, Railway Shares have advanced. The French
Three per Cents. opened at 39E. and closed at 38f., being
a fall of lf. 75c.; the Five per Cents. opened at 571.
57c.; and after being done at 561. 25c., closed at 57f., or
It. 25c. lower. Bank of France Shares are 13f. lot.er,

the closing price being I,llof. Bons du Tresor are nut
so well today, the rate being 45 per cent, less. Roths-
child's Neapolitan was done at 49f., being If. 50c
lower. The Belgian Funds continue firm, the tran-
quillity in that country being considered favourable
for investment ; the Five per Cents. (1840) closed at
60if, , or 31. better; Piedmont are 201. higher, at 720 f.;
Obligations de la Ville 10f. higher, at 9401.; Quatre
Canaux at sf. lower, at 6551. Railway Shares continue
to be researched, the present prices being considered
altogether too low. Still the persons who are of this
opinion are afraid to purchase extensively, the deter.
mination of the Government relative to railway property
being so uncertain. Dieppe are 25f. higher than when
(Left
quoted two or three days past, the price now being 105 f ;
Versailles (Right Bank) are 10f. higher, at 1101.; ditto
105 f 4551., 3201.,and 175 f.; Vierzon and Bordeaux, 2f.
105 f.,
Bank), Orleans, Rouen and Havre, sf. each, at
50c., at 2251., and 3901.; Strasburg, If. 25c., at 3421.
50c. Nantes have fallen 21. 50c , at 332 f. 50c.; and Lyons
and Northern, It. 25c., at 308 f. 75c., and 335 f. French
gold is cheaper, being now at about 551.; the English
sovereign is at 26f.; and the bank note 251. 70c. The
exchange on London for one month is 25f. 70c., and for

three months 25f. 15c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THII
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 14.
Boulogne and Amiens, 53/ —Namur and Liege, I%_
Northern of France, 3—Orleans and Bordeaux, I;i—Paris
and Lyons, 2—Paris and Strasburg, 1%.

DARING BURGLARY AND SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF
THE DEPREDATORS.—This morning, about four o'clock,
with
bra atnid
as Police constable Ellstone 246 G, was proceeding on
his beat, in Old-street-road, St. Luke's, he perceived
that the front door of the Grapes Tavern, in the occu•
potion of Mr. Jarmain, was ajar. The constable, on
h some
examining the pavement close to the door, discovered
some drops of liquor thereon. These, after arousing
the inmates of the " Grapes," he traced through several
streets, and at length came up to a man, who was bar-
gainingy.
ih
itinerant The constable,
vendor o f coffeeat
o onto
c feu rt
took
k vessel
charget o
holdd
at.
f the individual
and c( nveyed him to the st i ~
.0n.h0,,
where, on searching bill), two bottles of brandy, a large
quantity of fsrthings, and other monies, and some 1
bt-"otutr,.l:rWaking implements were found upon him. The
,• 're identified by Mr. Jarmain; and an acc,.rn
Noe, who had aided was captured during
the prisoner,
the morning. Both th
Plies, --• privonere are known to the

" The First Chamber will be elective, like the Belgian
Senate.

" Nearly all the articles of the treaty will be revised,
the provisional courts of justice will be dimini,hed lo
tho number positively necessary for the course of judi-
cature."

The same journal states that N. LUZAR. will quit
the Ministry of the Interior, which will be under-
taken by M. TUORBICKE, and that M. DE KEMPA-
NAER will take the portfolio of the Finance.
THE BOURSE.—The happy issue of the Chartist
demonstration having been made known, every in•
quietude ceased at the Bourne, which assumed a
favourable aspect, and all the funds improved more
or less. There was a good deal of business, chiefly
in national funds and integrals. The Russian funds
were in demand, and the Five per Cents. rose from
70 to 76 ; there was afterwards a sliglA reaction, but
they closed 8 per cent. higher than yesterday.