The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-20 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

As it was expected that Mr. Steele, who is in cthtody
on a charge of attempting to commit suicide, would be
brought before the Court this morning, the examination
was looked forward to with great interest. It
was, however, at length announced that, so unwed was
the lion. Gentleman, he could not be brought before the
magistrate to-day. To-morrow being Good Friday, the
matter must stand over till Saturday.

CHARTIST CONVENTION.

(THIS DAY.)

The delegates met at the usual hour.
Mr. CHILDS brought forward a motion recommend-
ing that meetings should be held throughout the
kingdom in the Easter week for the adoption of peti-
tions in favour of the Charter, and that such petitions
should be presented to the House of Commons by
the Member representing the districts in which such
petitions were agreed to.
In answer to a question put by one of the Dele-
gates,
Mr. M‘GRATII said that it was the intention of
Mr. O'Connor to bring the Charter before the House
of Commons after the Easter recess.
Some further discussion took place, upon the mo-
tion of Mr. CHILDE, atter which,
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. M`Grath), who supported the
motion, denied that the National Petition had been
rejected by the House of Commons. He had always
been opposed to a national petition, because he
thought that if the petitions in favour of the Charter
were presented by each of the 658 Members of the
House of Commons they would have a case a great
deal stronger in the House, and he thought that the
petitions presented in accordance with the terms of
the resolution would tend materially to strengthen
the hands of Mr. O'Connor when he brought on the
question of the Charter.
Mr. MURPHY said that his constituents had told
him that they would never sign another petition,
except with steel pens. He did not know what they
meant.---(Laughter and cheers.) He would there-
fore move an amendment to the effect that they should
not petition any more.
This amendment was ultimately agreed to.
An address to the middle classes was then agreed
to, and the Convention adjourned till Tuesday next,
at nine o'clock.

The following lines were very extensively circu-
lated among the persons present during the sittings
of the Convention to-day :

BATTLE SONG.
"To battle ! to battle 1 to battle away
For God and our country On, on, to the fight 1
The bright torch of Freedom shall blaze high to-day,
Or for ever be quenched in our blood ere 'tis night.
"To battle ! to battle 1 Arm, citizens, arm 1
The hirelings are coming ; hark, hark there's the
drum,
The cannon's loud rumble, the trumpet's alarm—
'Tis they—'tis our tyrants ; they're coming—they're
come.

" They're come, all besmeared with the blood of the
slain—
The martyrs of yore, 'who for liberty died
But. lit ! they are risen, they're come back again
To fight, and e'en could they, to die by our aide.
" Then on ! and their blood shall like water be spilt,
To cleanse the fair land they've polluted so long,
And the sword of our vengeance be fiesh'd to the hilt ;
The sword of the weak in the heart of the strong.
" For the God whose religion they've so long defird,
Whose holiness served as a cloak for their lust,
Shall rise in his wrath with his vengeance thrice pil'd,
And scatter for ever their pride in the dust.
" Then charge, brothers ! charge ! for your God, for
your all !
And cursed be he who cares aught for his breath!
We're free, if we conqutr ; we're free it we fall.
Hurrah fur our country ! On ! Freedom or death ! "

THE
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Lozi y
before Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., and a jury, on the body• s
held
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inquest SND
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of
Georg° Perry, aged 39, a porter in the employ of Messrs,
wessrass,
Chaplin and Horne, the railway carriers, who
killed on the hue of the London and North-Western
Railway. The deceased, while crossing the line of rails
at the Camden-town station, was caught between the
buffers of an engine and those of a stationary carriage,
and bruised in a shocking manner. Mr. Barker, the su-
perintendent of the railway, having stated that the com-
pany did not attribute blame to any of their officers, the
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."
DESTLI or A VETERAN.—Died a few day since at
sChelsea,pent
the
Mr. W.grealer portion of
oaft
his
se lifead vianntcheen
laigtehof Ile
Regiment
of Foot, and when discharged was attached to Chelsea
Hospital, where he was much respected. The greater
number of the pensioners followed his remains to the
grave, the Sergeant-majors being the pall-bearers.

COURT CIRCULAR.
We are authorised to state that it is her Majesty's
intention to return to town on Tuesday, .he 2d of May,
to hold a Chapter of the Garter on Thursday, the 4th,
and a Ccurt for the Investiture of the Knights of the
Bath on Saturday, the 6th, and the first Drawing-room
on Thursday, the 11th.
The Christening of the Infant Princess is to take place
on Saturday, the 13th.
Her Majesty's Birthday will he kept on Saturday, the
27th.
Her Majesty intends to give State Balls on Friday,
May the 19th, and on Friday, the 16th of June, and a
Concert on Wednesday, the 31st of May.
Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert,
accompanied by their Royal Visitqr the Prince of Prussii,
walked in the pleasure grounds of Osborne.
The royal children took their usual airings yesterday
on the beach.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the Fo-
reign-office. The Ministers present were—Lord John
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans
downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord
Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of
Clanricarde Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. 1.8.
Macaulay. The Council sat one hour.
Lord James Stuart attended at the Home-office yes-
terday, and was sworn in Lord Lieutenant of Butesbire,
before the following Lords of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council; viz., the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir George Grey, and the Hon. Fox Maule.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Tues-
day. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had also an interview, on Tuesday, with the Right
lion. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope and of the Mauritius were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-
Kong.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow, M.P., Mr. Lockhart,
M.P., Mr. Sheriff Alison, ano Mr. Fairfull Smith—a
deputation from Glasgow on the unemployed—had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-
office.