The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

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MR. COCHRANE'S DEMOMSTRA-
TION.-(THIS DAY.)

About twelve o'clock our own reporter, going to
Leicester-square, found a posse of police, about one
hundred idlers, and an open carriage, with two horses
and a blue postillion, standing at the door of the soup
depot. A waggon, in which were four or five pictures,
copied in the most approved caravan style from a defunct
weekly work published under the auspices of Mr.
Cochrane, was paraded round and round the square and
about the streets in the vicinity. There were twenty or
thirty men distributing little bits of paper, on
which the words "No Bastile" were printed.
At one o'clock Mr. Cochrane and two persona,
one of whom carried something like an address or a
petition under his arm, ascended the carriage, and started
at a slow pace with the caravan at its heels along Pan-
ton-street. The crowd, who with Mr. Cochrane'e adhe-
rents, numbered about 80 or 100, seemed disposed, out
of curiosity, no doubt, or to make up for the paupers
who were absent, to follow the imposing cortege; but the
police stood across the road and effectually prevented
them. A slight skirmish took place, and one fellow
who stoutly resisted was wounded badly in the back of
his head, for we saw blood trickling through his hair,
and down his neck. But if all had followed, adherents
and all, the procession would hot have numbered 100
persons, and not 20 certainty had the slightest approxi-
mation in their appearance towards that of paupers.
The carriage and the caravan passed down the Hayeaat-
ket, Cockspur-street, and thence round Trafalgar-square;
the rushing of the crowd, which, as the impos-
ing cortege moved along, vastly increased, for,
notwithstanding the Inclement weather, Easter
Monday had brought a reat number of
holiday folks into the streets, being shut off by the police
at the most prominent part of the routes The entrance
of Mr. Cochrane into the carriage Was the signal for
much applause from his adherents, who were well
fugled in their voettion, and hisses from several
respectably dtelecd persons who happened to be neat,
Owing IQ One of the horses of the carriage having
become in some way entangled with the harness, when
opposite the National Gallery, it became necessary to
take them out of the carriage. While this proceeding
was going on Mr. Cochrane commenced addressing the
people, but his harangue was immediately stopped by a
body of the police charging the crowd, who rah in
most precipitate manner in all directions. A Fivhtleman,
standing by the carriage at the time, who, in addition to
his qualification as an elector of Westminster, possessed
also that of a spccial constable, produced his stair, and
addressing Mr. Cochrane, said, " What a eonsurnmate
ass you must
be to get up this distiFbar
for the [sake of obtaining a littie ocotiety.
You deserve to be well trounoe' zd ducked in the
basins over there." This eleaturst excited considerable
laughter among the byelanders, at which Mr. Cotheane
seemed
prmopuecril.ja
nsuencYureedd., The horses having by this time
down the opposite side of the squatty, ge
ft- Morley'sont or
the carria sloWly proeeeded
A strong detanhment 4 the police then formed
in fine two deep across the road, immediately in front of
King Charles' *Who, and having allowed the carriage to
effectually
pats throttgh, immediately closed, thus preventing most
any concourse of persons from following.
The carriage then
Me proceeded toward.; the Home-office.• Cochrane then alighted at the Home-office, and
enquired of the hall-keeper whether Sir G. Grey was
aaltith,o.rinueo,tn7hoArfctecirttwesattg a s
him toh eorratllteimlleD, A
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few persons who, in spite of the efforts of the
police, surrounded the carriage, and proceeded at
once to his residence in Cayendish-square. The
caravan was not allowed to proceed with the car-
riage to the Home-office, but parted company at Tra-
falgar-square, and proceeded up St. Martin's-lane to-
wards Leicester-square.
,A: ~f • I;;. in,; to pr,s; there was net the
egetest lilptUlLl of diSttaballCt 3 there were scarcely
uuy persons in Trafalguf-,quare, amid a few idlers alone
remained in the neighbourhood
.of the sours-kitchen in