The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

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N OVEMBER 25, 1848.

REPRESENTATION OF THE

WEST RIDING.

NOMINATION OF MR. DENISON.

Yesterday an influential meeting of Conservative and
Whig electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire was
held at the Royal Hotel in Leeds, to consider what coursis
should be taken with respect to the election now impend-
ing. 11. Hall, Esq., of Leeds, was called to the chair.
and amongst the gentlemen present were the Hon. A
Lascelles, the Hon. J. W. Scarlett, Col. Tempest, Col.
Markham, John Rand, Esq.; H. W. Wickham, Esq.;
L. W. Wickham, Esq.; W. W. Brown, Esq.; Thomas.
Benyon, Esq ; Charles Hardy, Esq ; 11. Wormsld,Esq ;
John Gott, E,:q.; John Sykes, Esq.; George Noble,
Esq.; John Haigh, Esq.; Ralph Marl;land, Esq.; J. R
Atkinson, Esq.; J. 11. Hill, Esq.; T. J. Dibb, Esq.; H.
P. Hope, Esq.; J. G. Uppleby, Esq.; Samuel Smith.
Efq.; T. E. Upton, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Holmes, Rev. Gee.
Levithvvaite, Rev. William Sinclair, C. Kernplay, Esq.;
George Young, Esq.; John Wilson, Esq.; J. W. Ten-
nant, Esq.; Richard Church, Esq., &c.
After a few brief introductory remarks by the CHAIR-
MAN on the circumstances which had taken place with
regard to the representation of the Riding during the
last few days,
COI. TEMPEST rose, and suggested the desirableness
of the representation of so important a constituency
being vested in the charge of a gentleman who had some
standing in the county, and who had some acquaintance
with its local interests. Ile, therefore, begged to suggest
that Mr. Denison, the late Member for the riding, was
an eligible candidate to put in nomination in the present
emergency.

Mr. SYKES begged to inquire what were Mr. Denison's
views with regard to free trade, as upon that would de-
pend whether or not he could give him his support.
Col. TEMPEST said, that although he had no authority
to answer for Mr. Denison, he believed that he regarded
that matter as a settled question, and that he was disposed
to give the new system a fair trial.
Mr. SYKES intimated that be was satisfied. Some
discussion took place upon incidental matters, which
resulted in the moving of the following resolution by Col.
Tempest:—
" That under present circumstances, as respects the
representation of the West Riding, it is desirable that
some candidate should be selected who will unite the
votes of moderate men of all parties, and that for this
purpose this meeting thinks Mr. Denison a fit person to
be brought forward on this occasion."
The Hon. J. W. SCARLETT seconded the motion, and
it was carried without a single dissentient.
It was then resolved:—

" That the foregoing resolution be immediately ad-
vertised and circulated, and that this meeting adjourn to
the Ncrmanton Station Hotel to-morrow (Saturday), at
one o'clock, to take proper steps to carry the same into
effect; and that the attendance of all gentlemen favour-
able to that resolution be earnestly requested."
Some other routine arrangements having been made,
the meeting terminated.
During the afternoon the friends of Sir Culling E.
Eardley, Bart., met at the Reform Registration Rooms,
to make arrangements for promoting the Hon. Baronet's
return, and for giving him a suitable reception to-day
(Saturday).
Mr. Edmund Denison, who has been in London during
the early part of this week, loft town by the four o'clock
train yesterday afternoon, for Yorkshire.

SPANISH AMERICAN BOND-
UOLDERS.

The Committee of Spanish American bondholders
have received the following letters from Mexico:—

" FROM MESSRS. MANNING AND MACKINTOSH.

" Mexico, Oct. 13, 1848.
" Sir—The annexed is a copy of our last respects,
dated 12th ult., since when we are favoured with yours
of the Ist of ugust, and Ist ult., the contents of which
have been attentively noted; and in respect to the 20
per cent. of the customs duties of Vera Cruz and Tam-
pico, you will have found by our last that remittances
bad already gone forward on account of them; and we
trust that in due time the other portions of the revenue
assigned to the bondholders will be brought into effec-
ual operation. According to advices from Vera Cruz,'
there are import duties owing by the merchants there
the 20 per cent. of which amounts to about 80,000 dolls.,
but not being due, are not yet recoverable.
" A good deal of excitement has been caused here by
the extraordinary announcement of Senor Mora, pub-
lished in the English newspapers; and the subject was
today taken up in Congress, when the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs was called upon to produce the communi-
cations bearing on the subject. The result of the dis-
cussion we are unable to state by this opportunity. The
copy of your letter to Senor Mora is being translated,
and will be laid before the Mexican Government, and
every exertion in our power will be used to uphold the
rights of the bondholders in this particular. .
" We observe that it was contemplated to accept the
offer of Mr. W. P. Robertson to proceed to this country,
for the purpose of acting in conjunction with us in the
representation of the bondholders; and we beg to assure
you of our zealous co-operation, and that in the mean
time our exertions will not be spared to uphold the inte-
rests of the bondholders.—We remain, Sco.,
(Signed) " MANNINO AND MACKINTOSH.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq."
FROM MESSRS. MANNING. MACKINTOSH, AND CO.
" Vera Cruz, Oct. 16, 1548.

" Gentlemen,—We inclose duplicate of our last re-
spects, and have now merely to inform you of having,
at the last moment, succeeded in collecting, and having
shipped by this opportunity, 5,064 dolls. 92c. on account
of the bondholders.

"By an approximate calculation, the duties upon vessels
entered in September amount to 150,000 dolls.—We
are, &c., " MANNING, MACKINTOSH, AND CO.
" Mr. Glass, ur:der date Tampico, Oct. 12, advises
the shipment at that port. of 22,226 dolls., which has
duly arrived."

The committee have also received the followink from
Mr. Price, a partner in the house of Messrs. Manning
and Mackintosh:—

" London, Nov. 24, 1818.
" Sir,—Being at this moment in London, end learning
that some :surprise has been expressel that a sum of
money which my house in Mexico hful received from
the Mexican Government (being the proportion of the
produce of duties received by the Mexican Government
from the Government of the United States) had not been
remitted to England, I think it right to, state, for the
information of the committee of bondholders, that, no
conducta having left the city of Mexico since this money
was received by my home, it could not possibly have
been remitted except in bills of exchange, which would
have been attended with a loss of 10 per cent.
" The money, being Government funds, will be shipped
free of export duty. Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh
would by no means have been justified, under such
circumstance, in remitting bills of exchange.
" I remain, &e.,
(Signed) " DANIEL PRICE.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq., M.P., Chairman, &c."

DEATH OF SCHWANTHALER, THE ScuLrToß.---We
regret to announce the death of the eminent sculptor,
Ludwig von Schwanthaler, who expired on the 14th
inst., at Munich, in his 47th year. He was buried with
great pomp on the 17th inst., thousands attending his
funeral. his remains were deposited in the tomb of
General Heidegger, where they will remain until the
tomb is finished which King Ludwig was causing to be
built for him and his friend, the late director Gartner.
Sehwanthaler showed at an early age a love for the arts.
He was first destined to the study of the sciences, and
applied himself, when a boy, to the deepest study of
Eimer and the Greek tragedians. The death of his
father obliged him to take to the business of statuary, a
profession which had existed in the family for genera-
tions, and was that of his father and uncle. In the
Academy of Arts, at Munich, Schwanthaler did not
find that support which he deserved. The di-
rector, Langer, a pedantic man, considered him
too free and independent in his notions ; and it was
in opposition to that person's opinions that Schwan-
thaler followed the lectures on archaeology at the
Lyceum of Thiersch. The quickness with which he
became a proficient in drawing from the antique, and
the talent he possessed for composition, are shown by
the first great work which he undertook. It was King
Maximilian I. who commissioned him to execute a large
silver Epergne in the midst of a plate or table, with a
border of upright figures. This was to be upwards of
100 feet in length, and the figures to be six inches in
height. The composition of this border was to repre-
sent the procession of the Gods of Olympus to the pa-
lace of Jupiter. Schwanthaler began it, but before it was
near being completed King Maximilian died. That por-
tion of it, however, which was finished is described as
being very beautiful. King Ludwig and the Duke Max.
now extended their patronage to Schwanthaler, who
executed for the latter the myth of Bacchus in a series
of relief compositions for the freize of a room in his pa-
lace. King Ludwig, however, was his greatest patron,
and ho executed for the King the statues of painters in
the Pinakothek, the protectors of plastic art in the
niches of the Glyptothek, the dramatic poets on the
staircase of the theatre at Munich, and the compositions
for the pediments of the Glyptothek, the ludustre ge-
baude, and the Walhalla, besides many other relief
pieces also at the Glyptothek and in the royal palace.
He also modelled many figures which were afterwards
reproduced by foundry. A series of statues of Czech
heroes and heroines, which he had been commissioned
from Bohemia to execute, has been interrupted by his
death.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following nobility
and gentry have honoured this favourite theatre with
their presence during the week to witness the Merry
Wives of Windsor:—The Duke of Rutland, Lord
Ward, Earl of Munster, Dowager Countess of Essex
and Miss Johnson, Lord William Paulett, Lady Baring,
Sir John and Lady Doraville, Lord Brooke, Lady
Frances Gordon, Lady Augusta Baring, Lady Webster,
Lord and Lady Duncan, Hon. Captain Somerset and the
Ladies Somerset, Lady E. Ponsonby, Lady Bateman,
Marquis of Douro, Sir Char:es Shakerley, Lord G.
Manners, Earl of Chesterfield, Lady Mac;lonald, Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Phipps, Sir W. 13arlowe, Sir P.
Ackland, Bart., Colonel Udney, Mr. Hubert de Burgh,
Captain Peel, Captain de Bathe, Captain Ibbetson, E.
Delafield, Esq., &c,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
At the close of the sitting of the National Assem-
bly on Thursday, M. JULES FA..vrtE ascended the tri-
bune. •
to give notice of his intention to address certain
questions to the Ministers on the subject. of a rumour
which had prevailed that certain electoral circulars in
favour of General CAVAIGNAC had been sent into the
provinces under Ministerial covers. The time was
aptly chosen, as no. Minister was present but the
Minister of Public Instruction, and M. JULES FA VRE
consequently calculated on a circulation for three
clays at least (as Saturday was to be taken up with
3ther matters), of his notice, without the pos-
iibility of contradiction or explanation. He
reckoned, however, without his host. The
Minister of Public Instruction declared that
the Government was quite ready to meet the
accusation when it might be brought forward, and
the next day was fixed (greatly to the chagrin of the
enemies of General CAVAIGNAC) as the day for the
interpellations to be addressed to the Minister.
A new journal, the Credit, publishes the following
very important correspondence, which has taken place
between M. ODIER, a rich banker of Paris, and a
Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce, and 11i. Du-
',arum, the Minister of the Interior, on the subject of
the candidature of General CATAIGNAC :
"TO M. DUFAUEE, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.

"Paris, Nov. 17, 1848.
" Sir,—ln the decisive circumstances in which our
unfortunate country is placed, after what it has suf-
fered, and in the sad perspective of the agitations with
which it is menaced, all the friends of order and peace
interested in the return of confidence and the resumption
of labour, which alone can put an end to the public
misery, should neglect nothing which may restore
to the moderate party its unity and its influence.,
the policy of General Cavaignac is known ; his
official acts have given pledges to order by the energetic
repression of the insurrection of June, and guarantees
of good and honest government by the last composition
of his Cabinet. But his personal character is not known,
and his intentions are suspected. Indecision and con-
cealed motives are attributed to him, and in this respect
it is important that all persons who have been in relation
with him, and been connected with him in business and
friendship, should declare themselves frankly and openly.

You are now, sir, the chief and the guide of the most in-
fluential portion of the Moderate party—of that party
which would not allow France again to be plunged in
conspiracies and revolutions—of the party which accepts
freely the regular government which we have suc-
ceeded in establishing at the price of so many sacri-
fices, and which sincerely desires an honest
Republic—a Republic founded on respect for en.
vagements and the maintenance of order, realis-
ing progressively. the institutions promised by the
Constitution. It is as the personification of the Mode-
rate party of the Government, and as being by your
character, your experience of mankind, and your well-
known caution, the person whose judgment has the
highest authority, that I entreat you, in the name of the
most sacred interests of the country, to reply to the fol-
lowing questions, and authorise me to make your reply
public. Is General Cavaignac really, as lam persuaded
he is, a straightforward, honest man, a man of good
sense and good heart-, in whose intentions France may
place trust ? Do you think that, if made President of
the Republic, his policy will be, as new, a policy of order
and progress, opposed to all convulsion, all rash move-
ments, in the sense of extreme parties ? Do you be-
lieve, from the bottom of your heart, that you are
both in accord for a long time to come, that there does
not exist between you any difference, any rimier pensee,
and that you personally—you, M. Dufaure—will be
called upon to give to the President of the Republic the
same co-operation that you give to the President of the
Councils? This step, which is entirely personal, is
quite out of the modest habits of my life. The step that
you will take, if you reply, will also be out of the habits
of your life. But since we are destined to live in Repub-
lic, let us, in the first instance, endeavour to have the

virtue of republicanism. Let all who have merited public
respect by an irreproachable life have the courage of
their convictions. Moral influence is the most important
of all influence. And what man has now a right to as-
sumo the initiative, if he be not the man in whom this
initiative becomes the most sacred of duties from his own
conscience, and the esteem which all entertain for him.
" J. ODIER,
" Banker, and Judge of the Tribune of Com-
merce of the Seine."
" TO N. J. ODIER.
" Paris, Nov. 22, 1848.
" Sir,—You are right when you say that the declara-
tion which you require from me is contrary to all my
habits. My official position may, unknown to you, dimi-
ni,h the confidence which you are disposed to place in
me. You press me, however, to give an answer. My
silence would authorise suspicions which would be far
from the truth. It would of itself be a reply to your
questions, but a very incorrect and faithless one. Ac-
cording to you, the policy of General Cavaignac is
known. He has given pledges of his love of order,
and guarantees of a good and honest government.
But some doubt still exists as to his character and
his intention. You desire to know how I appre-
ciate them. I will tell you plainly in few words,
and with perfect sincerity. I had directed my atten-
tion for a long time, in my Parliamentary studies, to
those young officers who, on the soil of Africa, so glo-
riously sustained the honour of our flag ; prepared by
a severe education, tried by the fatigues and varied
chances of the military life, I saw them, strangers to our
constitutional conflicts, resolutely pursuing the line
traced out to them by their duty, and laboriously gain-
ing, at the price of their blood, all their grades on the
field of battle. I felt that they formed the strongest and
most serious part of our generation, and I respected
them from the bottom of my heart before I saw them,
and without divinint, that society in France would one
day owe to them a debt of gratitude for the repression
of the most criminal disorders in the terrible days of
June. I have been for two months in intimate and con-
tinual relation with one of these officers of Africa, now
become chief of the Executive Power. The opinion
which I had conceived is now more firm and more
fixed. lam not new in the study of men in the direc-
tion of public affairs, I have been able to see closely,
I have observed at leisure, for four years past, all
the statesmen of these times; I have known none
whose language was more sincere, whose heart was more
correct and more disinterested, whose mind was more
just and more clear than those of General Cavaignac.
I consider him to be the true republican of our times, a
republican of wisdom, firmness, and conviction. He has
a very decided opinion that the Republic can be founded
in France only in the midst of peace. Ho fears that a
war would expose us either to internal convulsions or the
domination of victorious generals. Hence his efforts to
maintain peace; and he is assisted in this noble enter-
prise
by the confidence which he has been able already
to inspire in all the Governments of Europe. Gene-
ral Cavaignac knows as well as you and me that a
Republican Government, like any other, would be
impossible in France, unless it should make it an al),
solute duty to protect all liberties and energetically
maintain public order. He has not, in any respect, or
in any degree, those despotic or anarchical ideas
which by different modes would alike lead the coun•
try to ruin. He combats both with equal resolution.
I am really astonished that his intentions should appear
doubtful to those who have seen for fivo months how he
has maintained order under tile most difficult circum-
stance, amid the warm emotions which followed the days
of June, and the ardent anxieties which precede the elec-
_ _ .

Lion of the 10th of December. I could not conceive the
shadow of a doubt in those who can read at the bottom of
his heart. As for me, sir, as you speak of my personal
feelings, I am sensible how delicate and difficult would
be the position of a Minister under the form of govern-
ment organized by the constitution. Nevertheless, lam
ready to accept it with General Cavaignac, convinced
that we should have the same views, and seek to realise
them by the same means. lam quite sure that we
should neither of us have any other ambition than
that of solidly establishing the first founda-
tions of the French Republic by an honest, regular, and
enlightened Administration; and I venture to believe
that we should succeed if the National Assembly should
give to us its sovereign support. It is said, I know,
that the day after his election General Cavaignac would
choose other Ministers than those of the 13th of October
last. You will comprehend that Ido not demand from
him any engagement on this subject. What I can
affirm to you very positively is, that the fears propa-
gated on this head appear to me unreasonable, and that
General Cavaignac will certainly accept, without hesita-
tion, the Ministers who may be indicated by the majority
of the National Assembly. Whoever they may be, they
will only have a sure and honourable part to perform.
Placed between those who find our new constitution
too democratic, and those who reproach it with not
being sufficiently socialist, they will only have to govern
in the spirit and according to the dictates of the con-
stitution. They will leave to others the deplorable
courage of dreaming already of overturning it, and of
attempting another revolution in an unfortunate country
which desires the repose which would render it so
fruitful and prosperous. This, sir, is my reply. If
it leaves still some doubt on your mind, I am ready
to give you all the explanations that you may desire.
In such grave circumstances, and in a question on which
the future fate of our country is so strongly engaged,
I am resolved to exercise, although a Minister, the
right possessed by every citizen to express his opinion
freely.

" J. DIJFATJRE."
M. MARIE and Di. LAMARTINE have both arrived
in Paris.

At Toulouse the Monarchists endeavoured to get
up an emeute when the Constitution was proclaimed,
but failed in their endeavours.

The ci-devant Vicomte D' ARLINCOURT, an old
Legitimist, and well-known writer of puerile senti-
mentalities was tried on Thursday for having endea-
voured to excite discord among citizens and hatred
to the Republic by the publication of a Legitimatist
pamphlet entitled Ask nut, 119 WM Acquitted,