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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Earl of Auckland, Cap-
tain Milne, and Colonel Irvine arrived this. afternoon
from the Admiralty, on a semi-official visit of inspection.
Their Lordships arrived at Gosport at 25 minutes past
12, and proceeded to the Royal Marine Barracks, Por-
ten, where Colonel Aslett, the Commandant, received
them, and conducted them over the quarters, which are
being enlarged and improved so as to fully and comfort-
ably accommodate upwards of 1,000 men, the more effec-
tually to accomplish which,. and to provide more room
for manoeuvring and the officers' quarters, a number of
small tenements on the site at present inhabited by a
miscellaneous class of occupants are about to be pur-
chased by the Admiralty and pulled down.
From the Marine Barracks their Lordships proceeded
to the Royal Clarence Victualling Establishment, over
which they were conducted by Captain Superintendent
Sir W. E. Parry, Mr. Grant, the storekeeper, and Mr.
Davies, the master attendant; here their :Lordships re-
solved to abandon the recently adopted plan for erecting
a suitable place of reception, &c., for the Queen, and de-
termined, with a view to economy, to make the slaughter-
house servo the joint purposes.
Their Lordships crossed over the harbour in the barge
of the Commander-in-Chief at half past two, and landed
at the King'E-stairs in the dockyard, where Sir Charles
Ogle, Rear-Admiral Prescott, Captain C. Eden, Flag-
Lieutenants Cochran and Aplin, Mr. Murray, C.E., Mr.
Vinter, Mr. Fincham, and Mr. Brown, comprising the
chief officers of the port and dockyard, were assembled
to receive them and conduct them over the establish-
ment.

The official party first went on board the Plumper,
screw-schooner, in dock, thence to the Arrogant, Prin-
cess Royal, Royal Frederick, the new slips, new caisson,
building by Fairburn for the steam basin, the docks
building by Mr. Bramble, the steam-basin and work•
shops building by Mr. Rolt, the docks for ditto, the new
foundries, the temporary boiler manufactory, the
smitheries, wood-mills, the Ajax steam guard-ship, and
the Jackal, in dock, receiving Hay's preparation. This
concluded their Lordship's inspection of the dockyard,
and occupied until four o'clock, at which hour they
embarked in the Commander-in-Chief's barge, with
Lieutenant Cochran us Flag-Lieutenant, and went on
board the Blenheim steam-frigate, 56, Captain Austen,
and the Centaur steam-sloop, and inspected their state
and efficiency; after which their Lordships returned to
the Admiralty-house, and were entertained by Sir
of
fhief ;
the
Charles Ogle.
The dinner party consisted of the following i
officers:—
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Commander
Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Superintenrde.nta.
Dockyard; Major-General Lord Frederick itzelar
olonel Irvine,ence,
garrison
G.C.H., Lieutenant-Governor of the
; Colonel
Aslett, Commandant of Royal Marines; C
Director of Engineering and Architectural Works to
the Admiralty; the Earl of Auckland,
the Admiralty; Captain Milne, L First Lord of
Lord of the Admiralty;
Captain Sir E. Parry, Superintendent
Clarence Yard; Captain Chads
and Royal Naval College; Captains C. Eden, of the
, C,8., of the Excellent
Victory; Yates, of the Illustrious; Baynes, of the Bel-
lerophon; Austen, of the Blenheim;
Powerful; Morgan, of the Dundas, of the
of the
Clarence
• M Hastings; Mr. Grant, F.R.S.
Yard; r. /Indiana, Master Ship.

wright ; Mr. Murray, Chief Engineer; Flag-Lieutenant
Cochran; and Captain James, R.E.
Mr. Wise, boatswain of this dockyard, is superan-
nuated on a pension of 125/. per annum. His successor
is not yet known for certain, but it is rumoured as likely
to be the present master-rigger, Mr. Harvey, a very
meritorious and highly deserving officer.
The Howe, with her Majesty the Queen Dowager on
board, is reported to be off the Wight. She has not
been seen from the port as yet.
The band of the 9th is gone to Osborne, to wait on
the Queen.

Wind N.E.; moderate breezes and hazy, with rain at
times.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 22.—The East Indiaman Framsjee
Cowasjee, Captain Edwards, which was supplied with
a new mast from her Majesty's dockyard Devonport, and
left this port for Calcutta on the 14th, put back on the
20th, and having anchored outside the breakwater, was,
by a Government tug, towed into Hamoitae yesterday.
She has been as far west as eight degrees, where she
experienced heavy gales, which, among other damages,
have carried away the head of her new mainmast.
Several commercial houses at Plymouth have received
orders from the owners of Prussian, Danish, and other,
vessels bound to the north of Europe, to detain them
here, if possible, on their passage up channel ; and gra-
tuities of 51. and 101. will be given to those pilots who
look out for and deliver written instructions on board
such vessels.

APPOINTMENTS.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL 22.---C. 0. H. P. St. John, Lieu-
tenant, to the Bellerophon • W. M‘Dowell, Lieutenant,
to the Excellent ; Edmund Squire, Midshipman, to the
Ganges ; A. R. Owen,Midshipman, to the Sharpshooter;
Robert Grahame, Surgeon, to the Bellerophon ; Francis
Martin and John Brown, Inspectors of Shipwrights,
Portsmouth yard.

WHITTINGTON CLUB CONCERTS
The members and friends of this.excellent insti-
tution held their first concert of classical and popular
music last night, in the large room of the Crown and
Anchor Tavern, Strand, which has now become the
property of the club. The attendance was numerous,
and judging from the success of this, their first con-
cert, the design of the managers of the institutution,
viz., the gratification of the musical members of the
club, and their friends, will be most complete and
satisfactory. In a selection of music where all was
excellent it would appear almost invidious to select
any portion for particular notice, but we cannot
forbear noticing in the most favourable manner an
instrumental trio of Mozart's, arranged for the piano-
forte, clarionet, and viola, consisting of three move-
ments, allegretto, minuetto, and rondo. The effect of
the combination of the three instruments, although
uncommon, is still exceedingly pleasing, and the trio
selected last night was eminently successful. The
melody with which the rondo commences is one which
Mozart alone could produce; its tenderness and grace
was exquisitely beautiful. Mr. Sims Reeves was
most deservedly encored in Beethoven's cantata
" Adelaide." The extraordinary compass of voice of
this deservedly celebrated vocalist was shown with
admirable effect in this cantata, and throughout the
unceasing change of its harmonies,and the great variety
of its modulation, the easy and graceful flow of the
melody was never for a moment interrupted. The
varied inflexions of the voice required in the repeti-
tion of the name " Adelaida " were most beautifully.
executed, ;and, notwithstanding its reiteration, pro-
duced no fatigue to the ear; every time that it was
repeated its expression was more touching, until at
last it appeared lost almost in a whisper. Miss Miran
also sang with great judgment and ability the cava-
tina " Elena! oh tu," from Rossini's opera "La
Donna del Lego." The cavatina was loudly encored,
it appearing to be a rule with the audience that the
more difficult the piece, and the larger the amount of
physical execution required on the part of the voca-
list, it could only be justly appreciated by being
" encored ;" the application of this rule fell with con-
siderable weight upon Miss Miran, who, we regretted
to hear, was labouring under the effects of a slighty
which ich
cold, which caused her great difficulty in enunciating of the notes. fantasia
uponofjtheen
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airs rendered popular by the singing
y Mr. Lazarus, in
,
introduced s
was warmly applauded. Several madrigals were
sung in a most efficient manner, and a four-part song,
"The
son ,
salncog with "
on
great
Hunting Chorus," by Mendelssohn, elicited
ge oft
great approbation.
Loder's most popular"rhllip'the Fne
songs, was sung
taste and judgment by Mr. Bodda. At the conclu-
sion of the concert the National Anthem was
generally called for, and was sung in that enthusiastic
style in which Englishmen love so well to display
their loyalty to the Throne. The company separated
at eleven o'clock.

THE BANKRUPTCY OF M. JULLIEN.—This bank-
rupt, so well known in 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. Jullien himself, and placed the former in
" durance vile." The circumstance reaching the ears of
M. Jullien, 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 Gazette, 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 9,000 L and
10,000/., and his assets niL Mr. Banks, of Fish•street-
bill, 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 1,5001.
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-
was
37,183,ending
lwi
tmheln2t duringl3t hs
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av et
usreesss;i oni
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fin gvelB3 sessions 7,
1842, the numbers were—petitions, 70,072; signatures,
23,450,909: in the five sessions, 1843-47, petitions,
81,9815; signatures, 17,275,981. Total number of peti-
tions presented in the above fifteen years, 189,210; total
signatures, 52,845,103. Of the above petitions the total
number printed was 17,661.

INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE
DAUGHTERS OF MISSIONARIES.—The tenth annual
meeting of the friends and supporters of this institution
was held yesterday at Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate-street
Within. S. Peto, Esq., M.P., occupied the chair. The
cathl
ho,oBdemulessmobaeltmi. taoiteders
je's report
.suoulipn:
besides
desi;i a
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3501.awishhhiohc whr
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disbursements
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committee
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incurred
the premises of the institution at Wal-
thamstow. The report concluded by making an earnest
appeal to the meeting to use its utmost endeavours to
collect a sufficient sum to liquidate the above liability;
and on the motion of Dr. Hoby, it was approved and
adopted.
PEDESTRIANISNI.—SAMUEL EAST AND CHARLES
BEE'S TWENTY MILE MATCH FOR 501. ASIDE.—The
competitors, Samuel East and Charles Bee, are well
known to all who feel interested in pedestrian feats, in
a word, their by-past performances have been such that
as long-distance walkers they ranked upon a level as to
their merits in " sticking to it." Yesterday these 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
tohnee
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nineteenth, resigned dead beat, and East completed
distance in three hours eighteen minutes. ,
STRIKING " SIGN OF THE Trams. '—The new
movement now being
made clearly
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yo day
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classes--the
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deeply. excessivelymtheattersand circumstances
poor.Classleg,insilias:iobne
and other gross abuses, have worked their unhallowed
cwphynndgeen i.
d, very much, and directly.—Frog. Corre-
sROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.__A robbery
and determined attempt at murder took place yesterday
morning in the neighbourhood of St. Katherine's Dock.
Between the hours of two and three o'clock a watchman
named Brasset, 64 years of age, whilst on duty at the
Leith and Glasgow wharf, was suddenly attacked by
three men, whe came on shore in a boat. They struck
the poor old man several blows on the head, as he be-
litved with a life preserver or some other blunt and
heavy itht;utnent, which soon rendered him insensible.
Believing, it is presumed, that life was extinct, they
thrust him into a cellar, and fastened the door on the
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 bis assistance. He was found in a very
exhausted state, having several severe contusions on tho
head. The constable had him conveyed immediately to
the London Hospital, where he at present lies in a very
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.
Failures continue to be reported from the conti-
nent. We have the stoppages of the banking firm of
Poppe and Co., at Berlin; of J. C. Van der Beek, of
Elberfeldt, manufacturer; and of Dusmenil Leble, of
Havre, merchant.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.I
TIMES.—Mr. Charles Cochrane is bent upon
thrusting himself into notoriety at all events. He is '
yet struggling in the surf, and waiting for the wave
which shall bear him up high and dry upon the de- i
sired beach. Whether it be the first, the second, or
the third, muddy or clean, impure or pure, is all
alike to him, so it be frothy, and rolling, and strong.
To represent the tempestuous constituency of West-
minster is his object. To attain that end all he asks
is a grievance ; but then it must be a virgin grievance,
—a grievance which half-a-dozen other political car-
rion 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 somewhat too wide for the purpose. Then
ten to one your spokesman will descend from
generals to particulars, and consider his own
peculiar case. He will talk to you of burdens
upon buttons or Lisbon toothpicks. These, on the
other hand, are too narrow. You are turned back
upon yourself. Ireland won't do any longer. If
you were as ready to gulp down the Repeal bolus as
ever Saturn was to swallow his little ones, the time
for that is gone by. Nothing less than a solemn
undertaking 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
of St. George's Channel. The six points of the
Charter ?—No, Mr. Feargus O'Connor and the dele-
gates have 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 Rotherhithe
or Wapping. The Fifty" are to take up fiscal mat-
ters on scientific principles. What then remains ?
Foreign Affairs ? The Schleswig question 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 Cochrane 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
altogether 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 not be
rendered ridiculous by indiscreet or interested advo-
cacy. With what antecedents does Mr. Cochrane
approach this subject ? We are not so far removed
from the time when, 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
the space of three days, of which Air. Charles Coch-
rane was the cause. He did not, indeed, head in
person 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 bad staked his political
fortunes. That question happened to be up at the
moment. The Eaja 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
Man'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 Mr. 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 neighbourhood with a repetition of the nuisance.
Mr. Cochrane is to head another rabble of rogues and
pickpockets to the Horne-office, under pretext of their
being persons who are suffering or who have suffered
under the administration of thy, 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-
tion of public opinion, but that they should urge on
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
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
just demand, and have become so powerless
as to be compelled to appeal to the people
for mercy and protection The victories.
gained by the people over their despotic Sovereigns
are producing a powerful effect on the minds and
feelings
of every inhabitant in our own country" &c.,
&c. and all this farrago of incendiarism and absur-
dity is addressedto
, Charles
hrnmates of unions and work
houses, and
signed es Cochrane." Sir G.
Grey, we see,
on Saturdaya l
einformed the House that
every due precaution bad
a procession as that one contemplated taken to prevent such
thefd by Mr Coch-
rane from proceeding throughpstreets. The
dispose of the
regular police will, no doubt, easily
ande if these
assemblage. Should it be otherwise,
*nlg for an
few remarks, unhappily, have effect oef
advertisement to Mr. Cochrane, we trust,s-thae 2sod they
will serve as a notice to any recipients of
staves distributed a fortnight ago who :may o,foool
in 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.
HERALD.—Yesterday (Sunday), the 23d April,
must ever be considered a memorable day, either for
good or for evil, in the annals of France—if indeed
France is henceforth to have any annals, which seems
to be a matter sufficiently problematical, in the opi-
nion of a majority of the writers for the English
press. But, though we are ourselves not without
anxieties and misgivings—not to say fears—we are
more inclined to be hopeful, than to be despondent;
because we have a saving faith in the progress of mo-
derate opinions, and because we believe Providence,
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 yes-
terday morning at six o'clock, however, must depend
--we will not conceal it from our readers—the safety
or the ruin, the weal or the woe, of France. The
maintenance of order at home and of peace abroad,
the resuscitation of credit, the return of confidence,
the distribution of capital, the
offructifica-
tion4ieettling down to honest industry,
uzual daily routine of task-work
or piece-work, of
.w
head, all—all depend nr, of the hands or work of the
the elections of yesterday.
If the people of Pranee feel
any portion of that
fraternity which they teptatiously and so
ptiotre
diurnally proclaim—if they
yvrthoU
each other without proscri
allow
menaces
—without cries of vengeance—without constraint,
or without violence—they will constraint,
liberty of opinion, and permit each citizen freely And
fairly to give his vote for Republicans
Republicans of to-day, or Republicans of to- ay,
as may suit his principle or his passion--his morrow,
his whim. Without perfect freedom in this respect
there there can be no liberty of choice--there can be nt,
order ; and if order perishes, liberty must perish
along with it. There are many kinds and degrees
of tyranny, as Frenchmen of all classes have known
and felt for the last sixty years, but the worst of all
tyrannies is the tyranny of anarchy. The despetism
of a mob is the most unbearable of all despotisms,
for it is the capricious fancy of a multitude
of cruel and unreasoning tyrants. Of the elec-
tions in a majority of the provinces of France
we have, however, no great fears. We 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
already exists ; and secondly, because it is the only
form of government at present possible, without a
civil war and without the shedding of oceans or
blood. Many of these men who will be scrhosen

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 revolution
of 1830 was accepted as a quasi republic, and because
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 180 g. 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 fer the recall of the line emanated from the
National Guards; and that not only several squa-
dronsraris o
tof the
ni eelattertheir d ebsriertehdretno gbouotu
at the
ltsoooff e r environs ro ns of
to
quarter one soldier in his residence in the capital.
Nor did the Garde Mobile, though so lately each
e 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 detaohments 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 glo:ious Beranger gives to Lise, with
a little variation :

" Pour to faire adorer sans cesse,
Alets a profit ces verit 43
Ledru abjure to sceleratesse,
Et respecte nos libert43."

To Gander 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 perftct 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, 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
foundation ;" 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 ab-
solutely declining the honour of the Cochrane ac-
quaintance, should it be positively forced upon him,
thrown a freezing rigidity into all his epistolary com-
munications, which must strongly indispose their reci-
pient from cultivating relations of personal intimacy ;
and the Chief Commissioner's subordinates take no
other notice of the
Cochraneto
the word of command
" move on." Can we won-
' der at the indignant
patriot's reply—" You are a
nice set of fellows, you are." Altogether, it was a
very melancholy business'r yesterday. Fate, and the
1, police, and the Smiths, 1 Joneses, and Robin-
' sons were all against CochraonwnThe very heavens rained
down discouragement on th:friend of humanity. The
"No Bastiles' got sadly The umbrellas
spoiled all the best views of tlivieet"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
of the gentleman s leaving his business with the,
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 caprice in damping down the generous
ambition of a " Poor Man's Guardian." We hardly
know how far a serious word or two will strike our
readers as befitting an occasion whose incidents are
nearly all of the ridiculous sort; and we are still
more sceptical as to the possible effect of grave re-
monstrance on the mind of the chief actor in this
most silly exhibition. Yet, as we really should not be
justified in taking forgranted that Mr. C. Cochrane has
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 whom
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 theo industrious classes. Literally, all
that he accomplished yesterday (beyond a ludicrous
and damaginglittle holidayindulgences personal display) was to abridge the
metropolitan workhouses, and of the inmates of certain
h
and to spoil a day's trade
for not a few styruogh,,iien!
shopkeepers and hardwork-
ing artizans.
show in the public streetsnn and get up an " exciting "
nd.advertise for a mob„
and make quiet people uncomfortable, and put the
police on taking extra precautions, without docking
something off the w '
ee wages of those who live
by industry. Air these " demonstrations" resolve
tax on the
themselves, at last, into a
poor.
They break the continuity of peaceful and gainful
traffic. They diminish production, and interrupt ex-