The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, MARC R l6, 1846.

KING O'PHILLIPS FOR IRELAND.
(From Punch.)

CH-S-LM A-ST-- Y TU JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P.

" Sir,—Although I have not yet made it a part of my
impeachment of Lord Palmerston, I intend to do so.
Yes ; the accusation—l have to prefer—will be con-
tinued in my next. In the mean time, I take the
widest, the strongest, and the deepest means (need I
allude to the pages of Punch ?) to inform all Ire-
land of the chains at this mement being forged
for her ; forged by the traitorous Foreign
Secretary, to whom treason is a labour of affection.
" For many days the whereabout of the ex-King of
the French has been kept a secret. He has been at
Dreux—at Fu—at Tettport—at Herne Bay. Such have
been the conflicting rumours of a venal press. All, of
course, to put the world upon a wrong scent until the
iniquity, for some days hatching, shall receive portentous
birth.

" Now, sir, prepare to be astonished; for I am about
to inform you and the bamboozled world at large of the
real hiding-place of the late King of the French. Know,
then, that his ex-Majesty is at this moment—and has
been for some days past—at No. 3, Carlton-house-ter-
race. Yes; in legal phrase, he is there • harboured and
comforted' by Viscount Palmerston, the Foreign Se-
cretary.
" I am the last man to suggest any intrusion upon the
privacy of fallen greatness; but—if you doubt the vera-
city of nay information—l have only to direct you to the
above address. Knock at the door, rush by the porter,
run up stairs; and on the third-pair back (turning to the
right, you will see a cut glass handle to the door) you
will find the royal fugitive. There he is, seated in
an arm-chair covered with Russia leather, which
(stuffed with Russian bank-paper) was a grateful
present of Nicholas, for work done, to the Foreign
Secretary. There is the ex-King, in that Russian
chair, with his feet upon a Turkey carpet, the bribe
of the Sultan ; there he is, with a Persian cat (the
souvenir of the Shah) bridling at his royal knee ;
with his royal but exiled elbow leaning on a Spanish
mahogany table, the gift of Christina for winking
at the Spanish marriage. There is the King, air
(at the hour I write), with a cup of tea before him
—the tea the gift of the Emperor of China, in recom-
pense for a certain foreign treaty that sacrificed the in-
terests of the English merchant; the tea sweetened by
the sugar of Brazil, originally sent in a loaf, to purchase
destruction of the West Indies—milked from a Brahmin
cow, the gift of the East India Company—and stirred
by a spoon, a small item of the extensive service
of plate manufactured at the mine's mouth in
Peru, to buy the Foreign Secretary to the interests of
the republic. I might, sir, give many other particulars
touching the furniture of that back room—nay of
every moveable of No. 3—but I am the last man to be
personal.
" Well, sir, you will ask wherefore should Lord PP 1-
meraton—the Foreign Secretary of England—give an
asylum to the castaway Louis Philippe. Listen.
The King of the French cannot leave off a crown.
After wearing one for nearly eighteen years, it is—he
declares—as needful to his health as flannel.

" The King of the French is desirous to purchase an-
other kingdom—to lay down so much ready money for
it—and, sir, (now prepare to shriek)—Lord Palmerston
proposes to sell him Ireland
" Yes! You clench your patriotic hand—you strike
it on your heart (I knew you would)—you gaze towards
the ceiling and—no, you are too much of a gentleman
—you don't swear.
" Fur these past three days, whilst even the Chronicle
—a public organ that Lord Palmerston has ceased to
grind—has preached of Louis Philippe's wanderings in
France, his Majesty has—l repeat it—been lodged at
No. 3, Carlton house- terrace, bargaining for the purchase
of the first flower of the earth and first gem of the sea;'
and they are now—after much haggling on the King's
part—sold to him as though the flower was of no more
worth than a daisy, and the gem as common as Margate
shingle.
" 'lreland was Peel's difficulty'—said Palmerston to a
friend I could name but I have turned it into ready
cash. We are the first Ministry who ever made a penny
by it.'
" I have not yet made my mind up to publish the
precise sum paid by Louis Philippe for the throne of
Ireland; but I shall be quite prepared—when the time,
comes—to summon to the bar of the Commons the
identical clerk from Coutts's who cashed his Majesty's
cheque.
" I shall also be quite ready to call Mr. to the
bar, to prove that he received instructions to make out
the conveyance deeds. This much I will, however, ven-
ture to state without further hesitation.

" Of course, Ministers said nothing of the transaction.
It was their selfish policy to keep it secret until they
secured the income-tax.

"It is not yet settled when his Majesty will take pos-
session of Ireland, but I think I may venture to predict
that it will be on the very earliest day of April.
" The King—in order that certain passages of his
Paris life may be forgotten—proposes to cast aside his
present name as he would change dirty linen, and to
mount the throne (which in this case he has ordered of
cast iron, not to be consumed by fire) under the title of
O'Phillips the First.
"I can assure you that the King re-enters upon
Majesty with the greatest vigour, and in the highest
spirits. Mr. Sheil, the Master of the Mint, has already
been to advise with him respecting the new coinage:
and already Mr. John Leech and Mr. Richard Doyle
have been solicited to supply designs for the five pat
piece and the O'Phillips-d'or. (A hand closing an um-
brella, for the obverse has been suggested, as significant
of the brevity of the royal reign.)
" Messrs. Storr and Mortimer have taken the King's
hat to measure for the new crown (of gilt silver): a light,
tasteful thing composed of shamrocks, and enriched with
polished fragments of the real Blarney Stone.
" Mr. Moses, from the MinOries, has been honoured
with an order to make the royal robes of the vety best
cotton velvet, to be trimmed with real fox. Mr. Moses
was as I am informed, kept in ignorance of the rank of
of his customer; Lord Palmerston in his wily way,
assuring the single-hearted tailor that ' the old gentle-
man was a bit of a character, and only wanted the robes
for the purpose of a masquerade.'
" And now, sir, having communicated to you a part
of the designs of iord Palmerston, it is for you, as the
Patriot of Erin, to determine for the seven millions who
look all the way up to you; it is for you to say whether
you will take the Son of Gaul in exchange for the hated
Saxon. I will not tell you the name I have already heard
as determined upon by King O'Phillips as his prime
minister for life; but it begins with O'C.
"Again, it cannot be denied that King O'Phillips
comes with a ready made royal family. There is
Nemours, and D'Aumale, and Montpensier, each ready
to head an Irish invading army; whilst Admiral Join-
vine, in command of the armada of the Liffy, may pour
his thunder on either side of the Thames. This, it must
be confessed, will be revenge on the blood-thirsty Saxon
—revenge sweet and unctuous as butter-milk I
" That Ireland will benefit by the change—that the
country which has been blighted by the rule of the
Saxon will run with oil and honey under the beneficent
auspices of the Gaul—is not to be doubted. Neverthe-
less, be assured that the corrupt and avaricious states-
man who has transacted the bargain—selling a whole
nation for a bank cheque—will, in the proper place,
namely, the House of Commons, at the bar of the coun-
try, bo duly impeached by
" Your obedient servant, . _ _

" CM-8-1:31 A--ST--Y.

" J. O'Connell Esq., M.P.
" P.S. It is a small matter, but I have just learned
that Louis Philippe binds himself and his heirs for ever,
to supply for the same time mountain dew and potatoes
to the cellar and the kitchen of a certain mansion in
Carlton• house-terrace."

SALE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF Ex-
GRANINGS.—On Tuesday a sale by auction of a valuable
collection of engravings; principally artists' proofs, was
proceeded with by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, the
auctioneers, of Wellington-street, Strand. Out of the
132 lots, forming the sale, the following were worthy of
notice:—La Madonna di S. Sisto, by Muller, sold for
81. 155.; Highland Drovers departing for the South,
after Landseer, by Watt, a superb proof before the
letters, sold for 41. 1 ls.; "The Reading Magdalen,"
after Correggio, by Longhi, choice proof before the
letters, 141.; " Deerstalker's Return," by Willmore, after
Landseer, artist's proof on India paper, sold for 8/. 155.;
" Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time," by Cousins, first-
class proof on India paper, sold for 41. 10s.; The Queen
and Children, by Cousins, India proof before letters, sold
for two guineas; Deerstalking in the Highlands, a fine
set of artist's proofs, sold for 131. 55.; the Protestant
Protest at the Diet of Spiers, after Cattermole, engraved
by Walker, artist's proof, sold for 51. 155.; "The Death
of the Stag," artist's proof, by Ryall, sold for 71. 10s.;
" Not Caught Yet," artist's proof, sold for 61. 125.;
" Christ Weeping over Jerusalem," after Eastlake, by
Cousins, a fine artist's proof, sold for 71.; " Prince Charles
Edward's entry into Edinburgh," engraved by Bacon,
an artist's proof on India paper, sold for 51. The other
engravings, although of the choicest description, fetched
but low prices, those noticed above selling for about
ono-fourth of the price they were originally pub-
lished at.
A meeting to congratulate the French people was
held on Monday evening at Bath. Some excitement was
created in the city by the announcement of the gather-
ing, and a considerable number of special constables
were sworn in on Monday morning, but the precautions
taken by the magistracy turned out to be quite unneces-
sary, the meeting being, considering its extent, one of
the most orderly ever held in the city. The speakers
enforced the necessity of peace and order, and declared
their motto to be " Republic for France ; the Constitu-
tion for England." The address to the French people,
and a petition to Parliament in favour of the people's
charter, were carried unanimously.
ALLEGED PREMATURE BURIAL.—The most extra-
ordinary reports are in circulation concerning the death
of a respectable householder, for many years a resident
in the neighbourhood of Red Lien-squares It appears
that on Sunday last the deceased, shortly after his return
from church, fell down and expired in a fit. The next day
the undertaker attended and placed the corpse in a coffin,
the lid of which was fastened down. Shortly afterwards a
noise, which was attributed to the bursting of the body,
was heard in the coffin, but of which no further notice
was taken until a relative arrived, who had the coffin
opened, and found the body in such a position as left no
doubt the suspended animation had returned, and that a
death struggle ensued after the body was enclosed in its
narrow shell.—Sunday paper.
SHOCKING MILL AcciDENT.—Yesterday week, en
inquest was held et the house of Mr. Thomas Walton,
the Queen's Arias Inn, Manchester road, on view of the ,
body of a youth aged 16 years, named Richard Mang.
han. It appears that the deceased was employed at
Messrs. Waud's mill, and on the previous day he had
got entangled in one of the !straps, by means of which
he had one leg and one arm torn completely from his
body. The poor unfortunate lad only survived the acci-
dent about twenty minutes. The verdict of the jury was
"Accidental death."—Leeds Mercury.