The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

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NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY.)
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES
Flatcateher
Glendower

Blaze

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Five ran. Won by a neck. Loadstone did not start.
Handicap of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old, &c. D.. 111.
Dromedary

Discontent

Cotice-Room Stakes of 50 sovs. each. A.F.

Sesostris

Lovelace

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Queen's Plate, for mares. R.C.
Miss Whip filly ... ... ...

Fistiana .
Tarella

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THE BANKRUPTCY OF M. JULLIEN.—This bank-
rupt, so well known iu the operatic and musical circles
(residing in Regent-street, and Harley-street), was
staying at Dublin when he was aroused to the imminent
peril which his embarrassments had placed him in.. It
appears that one of the " touch and take" fraternity had
mistaken a foreigner not unlike the great musical direc-
tor for M. Julhen himself, and
_placed the former in
" durance vile." The circumstance reaching the ears of
M. Julhen, he started off for the metropolis, where he
consulted his legal adviser, Mr. Chappell, of Golden-
square, and forthwith he was advised to make himself a
bankrupt. This the world already knows, from the
columns of the London Gaielle, he did without loss of
time. The fiat has been drafted to Mr. Commissioner
Fane, and Mr. Cannan has been appointed official
assignee. His debts are said to be between 9,0001. and
10,000/., and his assets nil. Mr. Banks, of Fish-street.
hill, has been retained by M. Jullien to make up his ac-
counts. His difficulties are attributed to his bringing
out the opera at Drury-lane Theatre. M. Jullien, before
making himself a bankrupt, offered his creditors 1,600/.
per annum out of his future professional earnings, which
the general body would have accepted, but as a few in-
dividuals pertinaciously pressed their demands against
him, and refused his offer, he was driven into the Bank-
ruptcy Court for protection. The first meeting for the
proof of debts and choice of assignees has been appointed
to take place on the Ist of May, at eleven o'clock.
EMIGRATION OF MILITARY PENSIONERS.--The
Government, it is said, intend to encourage the emigra-•
tion of out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital to British
North America, in order to colonize the debateable land
next the United States frontier. For this purpose a
detachment of forty-five men, fifty-six women, and
twenty-nine children leave the river for Quebec during
the ensuing week.
PUBLIC PETITIONS.—From a return just printed
it appears that the number of petitions presented to Par-
liament during the five sessions ending 1837, was 37,183,
with 12,118,213 signatures; in the five sessions ending
1842, the numbers were—petitions, 70,072; signatures,
23,450,909: in the five sessions, 1843-47, petitions,
81,985;
tious presented in the above fifteen years, 189,240; total
signatures, 17,275,981. Total number of peti-
signaturepsr,instd
2e,84w55,15 7.6
013.01. f the above petitions the total
number
ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—A robbery
and determined attempt at murder took place yesterday
ounersigohfbtowuorhaonodd
tohfreSeto.
,Kolooathkearinwea'stoDhutocakt;
64 years of age, whilst on duty at the
13mLn aeeomitrtwnheeidneagnßn drit. nahsetshehet
Glasgow wharf, w a s suddenly attacked by
throe men, whe came on shore in a boat. They !struck
the poor old
i-tthreament, which soon rendered him insensible.
ml
iafne severalpresery
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ohtheeard t, al
us
nhte
and
-
is presumed, that life was extinct, they
thrust him into a cellar, and fastened the door on the
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Believing,
it
,
outside. After some little time the poor fellow rallied a
little, when his moans attracted the attention of a police-
man who was on duty in the neighbourhood, and who
hastened to his assistance. He was found in a very
exhausted London
nes t
constable
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had
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lies
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dangerous state. The constable then having procured
assistance proceeded to search the premises, when it was
found that the thieves, after having removed the watch-
man, proceeded to ransack the place, and broke open an
iron sate which they rifled of its contents. The neigh-
bourhood is constantly infested by a number of depraved
fellows, who come down from the purlieus of White-
chapel, and keep the place in a state of continual excite-
ment and alarm.

PEDESTRIANISM.—SAMUEL EAST AND CHARLES
BEE'S TWENTY NILE MATCH FOB. 501. ASIDE.—The
competitors, Samuel East and Charles Bee, are well
known to all who teal interested in pedestrian feats, in
a word, their by-past pert,,rmances have been such that
as long-distance walkers they ranked upon a level as to
their merits in " sticking to it." Yesterday theme men
entered on their twenty mile match at Cranford-bridge,
a few yards beyond the White Hart, in the direction of
Harlington, to walk a mile out and in, until a score
should be completed. In this competition Bee was given
the advantage of half a mile at starting, which he took
by walking three-quarters of a mile out, and dropping
one quarter short of the first mile, walking in again to
the starting crease. The man's endurance told, and in
the seventeenth and eighteenth miles, his speed, utterly
leaving Bee without a shadow of a chance, brought him
up to his man, who beings given the " go-by" in the
nineteenth, resigned dead beat, and East completed the
distance in three hours eighteekminutes.

of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—Mr. Charles Cochrane is bent upon
:rusting himself into notoriety at all events. He is
t struggling in. the surf, and waiting for the wave
• 'nich shall bear "him up high and dry upon the de-
;red beach. Whether it be the first, the second, or
the third, mud'iy or clean, impure or pure, is all ,
- like to him, so it he frothy, and rolling, and strong..
"fo represent he tempestuous constituency of West-
ioinster is his object. To attain that end all he asks
; 3 a grievance ; but then it must be a virgin grievance,
—a grievance which half-a•dozen other political car-
-ion crows have not already appropriated to their own
use. Such a one is not so easy of discovery as might
be at first imagined. Ask any one you meet to name
you a good hustings grievance; he will tell you they
are as plenty as blackberries. There are the army,
and the navy, and the national debt, and church and
state, all National grievances in their way. So they
are, but esmewhat too wide for the purpose. Then
ten to I)ne your spokesman will descend from
generals to particulars, and consider his own
peculiar case. He will talk to you of burdens
anon 'buttons or Lisbon toothpicks. These, on the
then hand, are too narrow. You are turned back
epon. yourself. Ireland eon% do any longer. If
oil were as ready to gulp down the Repeal bolus as
Ter Saturn was to swallow his little ones, the time
a. that is gone by. Nothing less than a solemn
endertaking to pistol Lord Clarendon, and dash his
howling soul against the blue walls of Pluto's resi-
dence, would win you a single vote on the other side
ui St. George's Channel. The six points of the
Charter ?—No, Mr. Feargus O'Connor and the dele-
gates hare dealt with that topic. Free trade is dis-
posed of, saving a small residuum about the Naviga-
tion Laws, upon which it would be impossible to get
up any noticeable agitation on this side of Rotherhiche
pr Wapping. The " Fifty" are to take up fiscal mat-
ters on scientific principles. What then remains ?
Foreign Affairs ? The Schleswig euestion would not
tell in Westminster, although the Eider were to run
red with blood. The Church? Not a mouse stirring.
So on of other subjects. Mr. Charles Cuchrane has
boxed round the compass for a good grievance, and
has at last hit upon the poor-law as the only point
of possibility. Now, we are as aware as any persons
can be of the defects in the administration of the
poor-law. Over and over again have we returned to
this subject, nor have our efforts to attract public
attention to the sufferings of the poor remained
aitogeth sr uncrowned with success. Much, very much
remains to be done,, and this subject will ere long
force itself again on the attention of the Legislature.
A merciful administration of the poor-law is the
condition of the continuance of tranquillity in Great
Britain. We should rejoice to see so noble a cause
as :the poor man's taken up in some respectable
quarter—it is too sacred a one for the mere political
adventurer. The sufferings of the poor must nut be
rendered ridiculous by indiscreet or interested advo-
cacy. With what antecedents does Mr. Cochrane
approach this subject? We are not so far removed
"nom the time s% hen, in a ridiculous costume, and
with a cracked guitar strung before him, he twanged
his way through the provinces of England as Don
-Juan de Vega. Next we find him coming forward
to contest Westminster as the " lady's man."
Then followed in order the disturbance of the
most crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis for
foe space of three days, of which Air. Charles Coch-
rane was the cause. He did nut, indeed, head in
rerson. 'the rascal mob of pickpockets and idle boys
-who 'paraded the streets in search of mischief and
plunder. He summoned them together, though, and
on the first warning of the police, relieta non. bene
parmuld, left his worthy followers to their fate. That
time it was not the " poor-law," but the "income-
tax," on which Mr. Cochrane had staked his political
fortunes. That question happened to be up at the
moment. The Itaja of Sattara or the Oregon ques-
tion would have answered his purpose equally well,
could either of them have been made the subject of a
" row." With such entries as these upon the certi-
ficates of his political character, Mr. Charles Coch-
rane now comes forward to see what he can do with
the poor-law. The history of this last precious at-
tempt upon the credulity of the public would appear
to be this :—Mr. Cochrane has identified himself with
an institution in Leicester square, called the " Poor
Ilari's Guardian Society." Humanity and philan-
thropy, or at least a good deal of talk upon the
subject, are here stored up and ready for delivery on
the shortest notice. The society, we find, is given to
types and symbols, for at the head of the letter we
have received from Air. Cochrane we find a huge
eye of Providence" engraved, significant of Mr.
Cochrane's watchfulness over the fate of his country-
men. It would now appear that this would-be re-
presentative of Westminster, not content with having
been the first to disturb the peace of the metropolis
by the gathering of his mob in Trafalgar-square, is
about to favour the inhabitants of Charing • cross and
its:neighbortrhood with a repetition of th nuisance.
Mr. Cochrane is to head another rabble of rogues and
pickpockets to the Home-office, under pretext of their
being persons who are suffering or who have suffered
under the administration of the poor-law. But, as
would appear from the report of the proceedings of
the board of guardians at the Marylebone workhouse,
which we printed on Saturday, by way of mixing up
a sprinkling of Simon Pures with his questionable
myrmidons of Trafalgar-square notoriety, Mr. Coch-
rane has written circular letters to
,Tom Smiths, Jack
Robinsons, Robert Joneses, &c., in the various London
unions, on the chance of their containing inmates who
may be distinguished by these uncommon patrony-
mics. That was the statement made on Saturday
at the Marylebone board of guardians. Mr. Cochrane
has written to us a letter, which we print to-day, in
which he states "that he did not wish the inmates
of the establishments to take part in his demonstra
Lion of public opinion, but that they should urge on i
their friends, more fortunately situated than them.
selves, out of the workhouse, to devote an hour or
two to aid him in his arduous but glorious under-
taking." We leave the charge and the answer to the
judgment of the public. This letter is accompanied 1
with a kind of circular, in which Mr. Cochrane
recalls to the recollection of the poor of England the
circumstances attendant upon the fault of the ex-King
Louis Philippe—" The oppressed and persecuted
people have simultaneously risen, and demanded
Justice and retribution. The Sovereigns, con-
science and panic-stricken, have acceded to every
.ist demand, and have become so powerless
to be compelled to appeal to the people
IT mercy and protection The victories.
ained by the people over their despotic Sovereigns
producing a powerful effect on the minds and
••elings of every inhabitant in o
and all this tarn own country" &c.
go of incuerndiarism and absur:
is addressed to th„ectmralptsesco,fcinions and work
~ousel, and signed
Grey, we see, on Satur,—sy informed'rathe:HousSeirthGat.
every due precaution had been taken to prevent such
procession as that one contemplated by Mr
Ch
rune from proceeding through the streets. The
police will, no doubt, easily dispose. le_
ofr7-
the
assembhige. Should it be otherwise, and if these
few remarks, unhappily, have effect of serving for
they
will advertisement to Mr. Cochrane, we trust, also,
will serve as a notice to any recipients of the 900,060
staves distributed a fortnight ago who may dwell',
the line of this contemplated procession, that they •
are authorised to make use of their sticks for a period
of three months from the date of their taking the
oath of office.
HElZALD.—Yesterday (Sunday), the 23d April,
must ever be considered a mtiniirnble day,
good sdth.erd fodr
or for evil, in the anni4e'of France—if indeed
France is henceforth to have any annals, whichseems
'to be a matter sufficiently problematical, in the opi-
nion of a majority of' the writers for th English
press. But, though we are ourseltes not without
anxieties and misgivings
—nut to say fears—we are
more inclined to be hopeful, than to he despondent;
because we have a saving faith in the progress of mo-
derate opinions, and because we believe Provi ence,
in its goodness and mercy, will spare a great and a
civilised people the horrors of an internecine civil war.
On the result of the elections, to be commenced yeF
terday morning at six o'clock, however, must depend
--we will not conceal it from our readers—the safety
or ve
the ruin, the weal or the woe of France The
maintenance of ordefr at home and of peace. abroad,
the resuscitation of the return of confidence,
the distribution
labour, the fixation and fructifica-
tion of capital, the settling
al downl to honest industry,
or piece-work, of work of the
ehiands or work of the
head, all—all depend on
yesterday.eol:teeacnntirtpsorotfioiofthat
If the people of France
fraternity which they ao
and so
‘lvt:ott:ola7ct towards
diurnally proclaim—it they desirea
each other without proscriptiorb—
ut menaces
—without cries of vengeance—without
train
or without violence—they will allow to every man
liberty of opinion, and permit each citizen freely and
fairly to give his vote for Republicans of yesterday,
Republicans Republicans of to-day, or Republicans of to-morrow,
ae may suit his principle or his passion—his fancy or
his whim. Without perfect freedom in this respect
there can be no liberty of choice—there can be no
rder ; and if order perishes, liberty must perish
'mg with it. There are many kinds and degrees
tyranny-, as Frenchmen of all classes have known
i felt for the last sixty years, hut the worst of all
,annies is the tyranny of anarchy. The desp, tism
a mob is the most unbearable of all despotisms,
it is the capricious fancy of a multitude
. of cruel and unreasoning tyrants. Of the elec-
eions in a majority of the provinces of France
we have, however, no great fears. lVe believe
that the great body of the electors will return men
of sense and -substance, and known in their vicinage,
-who will rally round the Republic,—first, because it
ciready exists; and secondly, because it is the only
form of government at present possible, without a
civil war ansi without the shedding of oceans of
blood. Many of these men who will be so chosen

did not desire the Republic—a majority of them, had
they been polled on the 24th of February, would
have doubtless deprecated with all their might such a
form of Government. But finding it now established,
they will cling to it because it is established, if for
no better reason. Men at all advanced in life have
been so wearied with perpetual and violent changes
in France—by which neither general liberty nor
general prosperity have been much advanced, that
they will accept at the present moment the work of a
young, an ardent, and a determined minority, more
especially as the form of Government can only
now be changed by a fresh civil war. But
though this will be apparent in a majority of
the provinces where the people wish with Lamartine
a democratic community—but a community definite
and practical, devoted to amelioration, and yet not
destructive of social order—still there are restless
and turbulent spirits in Paris—the Montagnards of
our time, fostered by Ledru Rollin, and banded
together by Blanqui and others—who would com-
mence a re-action against everything savouring of
moderation, and who are only for pursuing extreme
principles by violent and extreme means. But the
events of Thursday the 20th, of Friday, and of
Saturday, the 21st and 22d, must awaken these men
from their delusions, and ought to convince them
that the National Guard and the army now perfectly
understand each other, and are prepared to put down
any manifestations of the mountain of 1848. That
the great body of the line—the soldiers—corporals,
sous officiers and captains, have been for the last
fifty years more or less republican, we have never
entertained any doubt. But though these opinions
have been deeply felt for the last eighteen years,
they were not demonstrated, because the revbolution
of 1830 was accepted as a quasi republic, and ecause
also the superior officers did not participate in the
opinions of their men. But now that a great change
has taken place in the personnel of the army, and that
more than '250 officers have been removed from active
command, and allowed to retire, the great body of
the line shows itself as democratic as it was in 1799,
1800, 1801, and 1802. The Provisional Government
and the National Guard are well aware of this, and
hence the Minister of War, Arago, in presenting the
identical colours both to the line and the National
Guards, said, " You have the same standard and the
same heart." But though the line are democratic in
a moderate sense, they are lovers of liberty and order ;
and they will not, any more than the National or
Mobile Guard, allow communists and clubs to over-
bear electoral opinions, or to interfere with electoral
liberty. That a complete homogeneity of
opinion—a complete identity of character and
of views exists between both branches of the
service is apparent from this—that several pe-
titions for the recall of the line emanated from the
National Guards; and that not only several squa-
drons of the latter desired to go out to the environs of
Paris to meet their brethren, but also offered each to
quarter one soldier in his residence in the capital.
Nor did the Garde Mobile, though so lately enrolled,
exhibit less admirable spirit. Each company among
them expressed its willingness to be first called on in
case of need; " for," said they, " we feel that the
National Guard have their business and callings to
attend to, and we know that if we are engaged with
superior forces, they will hasten to support us. Un-
der these circumstances it was no marvel that the men
of both corps fraternised, or that the National Guard
of Montmartre went out to meet the detachments of
the sth light infantry, and the 74th of the line. Such
manifestations, on the eve of the election, are more
especially consolatory, and joined to the amazing
and well-merited popularity of Lamartine, they are
of the very happiest augury. If the Minister of the
Interior would but demean himself like the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, and choose his instruments among
sensible and moderate men, how much more readily
would the Republic become consolidated—how much
more speedily would it conciliate respect, if not affec-
tion, amongst foreign nations. Instead of following
this course, M. Rollin has preferred what Lord Mans-
field called the popularity which precedes, and which
does not follow, and he will find this pseudo popularity
before long, to use the memorable words of the same
eloquent man, but "the shadow of folly and the echo
of renown." A great and civilised nation, like
France, with so many glorious traditions of the past
—with so many memories that can never die, is not
to be governed and overborne by the clubs of Paris,
even though these clubs be led on by Ledru Rollin,
Louis Blanc, Jules Faeres, and Citizen Raspail. It
is satisfactory to know that if these men are disposed
to proceed to extremities, the Provisional Govern-
ment are prepared to put them down. M. Rollin had
therefore better be wise in time, and follow the advice
which the ever glorious Beranger gives to Lise, with
a little variation :
" Pour to faire adorer sans cesse,
Mets a profit ces
Ledru abjure to sceleratesse,
Et respecte nos liberti.3."

To Gamier Pages, the Minister of Finance, a
laborious and conscientious man, but an economiser,
and a theoriser, we would also say a word. 'We are
aware of the very difficult task that is imposed at
this moment on a French Minister of Finance, but
these difficulties can only be vanquished by respecting
private property, and religiously maintaining public
faith. Any interference, therefore, with great joint-
stock companies, such as railroads or banks, or private
establishments, unless on a fair and equitable basis,
and with the perfect consent of the shareholders and
parties interested, is nothing else than spoliation
and tyranny, however it may be disguised by an
epithet borrowed from the economists at the Bourse.
CHRONICLE.—We have no hesitation in pro-
nouncing our old friend Cochrane the victim of one
of the widest and best organized conspiracies of mo-
dern times. The great families are dead against him.
"The Smiths, the Browns, the Joneses, and the Ro-
binsons would seem to have registered a vow to "put
down Cocky." These great houses will not give the
patriot the smallest lift in any one of his " arduous
but glorious undertakings." They will neither help
him to make the law, nor to break the law, nor to
mend the law. They bring him in third on the poll.
They decline his invitation, and violate the secrecy
of his letters. They mock at his minstresly, keep away
from his picture exhibition, won't wear his paper hat-
bands, and damn his Easter farce. It was but yester-
day that a gentleman of the name (we believe) of
Smith was rude enough, amid an assenting chorus of
Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons, to apply to the
blighted philanthropist the shamefully vulgar epithet
" consummate ass;'' and a Vandal of a van-driver,
belonging to another of the powerful and influential
families above named, actually insulted the hero in
the public streets, by insisting on prompt payment of
a little account for waggon hire, at the very moment
that he held "five oil paintings" as collateral security.
It is grievous to have to add, that the authorities are
zealously at one with the Smiths, Browns, Joneses,
and Robinsons, and lend an unmistakeable support to
the combined machinations of the eminent Houses.
The Home Secretary makes no scruple of affirming
the Cochrane "statements" to be "entirely without
,oundation ;" and the Home Secretary's porter answers
the Cochrane double-knock (though the visit was by,
special appointment) with a gruff " Not at home.'
The Chief Commissioner of Police, though not eh-
' solutely declining the honour of the Cochrane ac-
quaintance, should it be positively forced upon him,
throws a freezing rigidity into all his epistolary com-
munications, which must strongly indispose their reci-
pient from cultivating relations of personal intimacy ;
is
and the Chief Comm sioner subordinates take no
other notice of the Cochrane presence than by giving
the word of command to "move
are,,
on." Can we won-
der at the indignant patriot's reply—" You are a
nice set of fellows, you
very melancholy business yesterday. Altogether, it was a
jeeFhe,ataea,danndobtihne.
police, and the Smiths, Browns
sons were all against Cochrane. The veryemaaven.ts rained
down discouragement on the friend of ha
"No Bastiles' got sadly wet. The humanity
as
The
-poiled all the best views of the " illustrations," and
those highly-coloured pictures of humanity's wrongs
were consequently quite unappreciated. The ninety
thousand wouldn't muster, except in the pitiful pro-
portion of 1 per cent. The blue postilion and pair
was money thrown away, considering that there was
a cabstand close to the scene of action. The finale,.
of the gentleman's leaving, his business with he
clerk, and, his petition on the table, was only too
appropriate a wind-up to a spectacle in which official
superciliousness vied with popular ingratitude and
meteorological
,c Poor in damping down the gener,us
Man's Guardian." We hardly
ambition of a
know how far a .serious word or two will strike pur
readers as befitting. an occasion whose incidents are
nearly all of the ridtihculous sort ; and we are spill
ssible effect of grave re-
more sceptical as to .
monstrance on the minedpoof the chief actor in this
most silly exhibition. Yet, ads we really should not:be
justified in taking forgrante
.that Mr. C. Cochrane as
any deliberate wish to do gratuitous mischief, and as he
certainly possesses sufficient discretion to know how
to keep out of harm's way, we would hope that ,he
may not be totally insensible to the consequences
of those proceedings with reference to those wilpin
he affects to serve. If Mr. Cochrane has a grain; of
honest sympathy with the poor, he will henceforth
have done with " demonstrations," which not only
.disgust and annoy the general public, but are deeply
injurious to the industrious classes. Literally, ;all
that he accomplished
and damaging re, •
yesterday (beyond a ludicrous
little holiday indulgences
personal display) was to abridge he
tunscees of the inmates of cer in
metropolitan work
for not a few s'
and
to spoil a day's tr de
You struggling
eanasehtopkeepers and hardwo
k-
ing- artizans.
getaduypervaene ‘f‘eexciti b
show in the public streets and
and make quiet people uncomfortable,' and r put he
police on taking extra precautions, without clock g
something off the week's wages of those who ve
by indnstry. T AM these 4' demonstrations" resolve'
themselves, at last, into a tax on the poor.
They break the continuity of peaceful and gainful
traffic. They diminish production, and interrupt ex-