The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-08 00:00:00

EVEN I MARCH 8, pB4B.

and be strengthened, I",etween the two Governments.
The persons who 'had possession of the Tuileries
have been dislodged

The Moniteur PI üblishes a decree of the Provisional
Government abrogating the law of the 9th of Sep-
tember, 1835, relative to crimes and offences com-
mitted by means of the press, and replacing it, until
the meeting of *lie National Assembly, by the laws
previously in..6Aree. The verdict of the jury will re-
quire in fututv a majority of nine votes.
In the cearrse of its leading article of Tuesday, the
National makes the following just observations on the
causes of the late Revolution. We entirely concur in
everything that the National says on this subject ; in-
deed at the time the Spanish marriages were con-
tracted, we said that LOUIS PHILIPPE was risking the
Crown of France for the chance of securing the
Crown of Spain for his son
The Spanish marriages," says the National,
"contracted in accordance with the calculations of a
merely personal ambition, have contributed their
share to our revolution. They embroiled the Orleans
dynasty with England—they threw it into the arms
of Austria. They rendered it the enemy of Switzer-
land—they made it the adversary of Italy. In a word,
they caused the adoption of that retrograde policy, so
insane that it was impossible to explain it, and so
odious that it raised a universal feeling of indigna-
tion; they were even the cause of the maintenance
in office of the Guizot Ministry, and of the fall of
the monarchy ; for Austria declared that if the least
modification were made in the Ministry with a view
of conciliating " the left," she would at once separate
her policy from that of the French Cabinet, and in-
vade Italy. If the revolution had not occurred, the
most serious consequences would have ensued from
the Spanish marriages. It was determined by the
Court party to send the Duke DE bIONTPENSIER to
Madrid, in case the Queen of SPAIN should die or
abdicate. England, on her side, %1 as determined to
oppose any :arrangement which would place the Go-
vernment of Spain in the hands of the chief of the
Orleans dynasty ; and Spain was far from being
satisfied with the authority which the French Go-
vernment arrogated to itself. So that it would have
been possible to see a new war of succession arise in
the midst of the 19th century. Happily these com-
plications have been annihilated in their germ, by
the proclamation of the French Republic."

The Presse states that the Provisional Govern-
ment intends to place the tomb of NAPOLEON under
the care of the EMPEROR'S brother JEROME, who is to
be appointed Governor of the Invalides. It adds, that
Marshal MOLITOR, the present Governor of the Inva-
lides, highly approves of the appointment, and was the
first to give it his sanction.

It is said that two more banking-houses stopped
payment in the course of yesterday.

The intelligence received in Paris from Italy is of
a mixed character. The King of SARDINIA had de-
termined to be guided by the :example of England,
and had ordered his Minister, if the Marquis of Noa-
MANET acknowledged the French Republic, to ac-
knowledge it likewise. The POPE seemed disinclined
to enter into diplomatic relations with the Republic,
and had refused to make any further concessions to
his own subjects.
General PEPE had received an address from the
National Guard at Naples, inviting him to place him-
self at their head. General PETE is to leave Paris
for Naples o❑ the 15th inst.

The Slick has the following on the sequestration
of the private property of the ex-Royal Family :
" By a decree of the Provisional Government all
the personal and real property belonging to the ex-
King and the Princes and the Princesses of the ex-
Royal Family are placed under sequestration. As a
provisional measure this is good ; but what is to be
done with all this property ? We shall not disguise
'that this question is delicate ; but it is precisely on
that account that we should take advantage of the
present calmness of the public mind to lay down the
bases of a solution. Confiscation is abolished by our
laws; and were it not, it is not for the Govern-
ment, which has generously proclaimed during the
excitement of conflict the inviolability of human life
for political crimes, to be believed capable of making
,any attack upon the inviolability of property. At
the same time, the estates belonging to persons
.of the royal race cannot be restored to them
without danger to the repose, if not to the safety,
of the Republic. The solution of this pro-
blem, therefore, must be sought either in the consti.
,tution of the appanages and privy domains, or in the
acts of the ancient royal family. Is there vested in
the late King and Princes' property, legally called
freehold, composing either the appanage of the House
of Orleans, or the private domain ? In principle,
'appanage:, conferred upon princes of the blood by
'sovereign munificence, gave but a temporary and
eventual title, returning to the State either by an ac-
'cession to the throne of the prince who granted them,
or by the will of the Sovereign. They were, indeed,
granted only to support the dignity of the throne.
There is no longer a throne, and therefore there is no
longer any need of appanages to support its dignity.
According to the very terms of the monarchical law,
the sovereign, that is to say the nation, returns into the
enjoyment of the property, the usufruct of which
had been alienated for a political interest which no
'longer exists. The privy domain existed only by a
derogation of the constitutional laws of the monarchy.
By conveying over to his children on the eve of his
accession to the throne the estates descended to him
,from his ancestors, or granted to him by royal muni-
ficence, the Duke of Orleans defrauded the State of
a property which belonged to it by an immemorial
title. Upon even the monarchical right the State is
warranted in resuming the possession, and claim-
:in4 the arrears. We lay it down, therefore, as a
principle that the Orleans family is no longer pro-
prietor either of the freeholds composing the appanage,
nor of those which composed the privy domain. The re-
sumption, therefore, of these estates is not a confisca-
tion, and cannot be called an attack upon the inviola-
bility of property. But, independent of this legal
question, and also as concerns the personal property
of Louis Philippe, it must be inquired whether he is
not a debtor to the State. Proceeding in chronological
order as to public acts, we find that in 1830 the Civil
!List received a surplus of 9,000,0001., to which must
be added interest for 17 years • we also find clepre-
Aations in the forests of the drown and of the Civil
List—depredations the amount of which must be
'ascertained. Relative to the conditions upon which
the Civil List was granted, we have to notice the
unfinished state of the Louvre, to which 2,000,0001.
per annum were to be appropriated. In fine, there
Must not be a confiscation—there must be a segues
tration."

BOURSE, PARIS, TUESDAY.
Business was resumed here to-day, after nearly' a
fortnight's interruption. The attendance at first was
exceedingly limited, the public in general not being
aware that the re-opening had been ordered; towards
the close, however, the hall became better filled. As
the hand of the clock approached the hour of one,
great interest was expressed to learn the opening
price of the French Three per Cents. At last
the bell rang, and the first agent-de-change who
spoke was M. BEZARD, demanding the Rente at
55 francs ; another agent-de-change offered it at
60 francs ; so that it was evident that the
price would be between these extremes. The first
official quotation was 58 francs, which was
the highest price of the (lay ; the lowest was 55f. 50c.,
and the closing one 56f. The Five per Cents. opened
at 97f. 50c., dividend detached (or at par with it),
and gradually declined to 891., at which they closed.
If compared with the prices of February 23, the
last day on which business was done before the Re-
volution, the Five per Cents. will be found to have
undergone a fall of 27f. 50c., and the Threes 17f.
70c. The Four per Cents., which closed to-day at
80f., and the Four-and-a-llalf at 85f., dividend de-
tached from both, have each fallen 16f. 50c.
Some of the other stocks show a tremendous de-
preciation ; Bank of France Shares show a fall of
8401.; City of Paris Bonds, 335 f ; Bank of Algiers
Shares, 155 f.; Quartre Canaux, 1501. In Foreign
Stocks, Piedmont has gone down 651., and Roman

10F. 50c. In French Railway Shares the decline is
very remarkable : thus Orleans closed at 950 E, or
230 f. lower ; Rouen at 525 E, or 333 E 75c. lower ;
Havre, at 250 f., or 1671. 50c. lower; Northern, at
375 E, or 161 f. 25c. lower; Vierzon, at 375 f., or
126 f. 25c. lower ; Lyons, at 292 f. 50c., or 92f. 50c.
lower; Bordeaux, at 405 f., or 70f. lower; Stras-
burg, at 337 f. 50c., or 631. 75c. lower; Nantes, at
325 t.., or 55f. lower; and Bale at 105 E, or 52f. 500
lower.

No business was done in the Coulisse, as the
transactions in the Parquet were, without excep-
tion, for Money. The official lists, it is true, give
prices for the Account, but it was impossible to
find amongst one's acquaintances any person able
to say that he himself knew of any such transaction
taking place. As soon as the bell rang for three
o'clock almost all the coulissiers withdrew, contrary
to their general custom. It was remarked during

the day that M. ARCHDEACON. a most respectable
ag-ent-de• change, was constantly a buyer ; he is said
to bave laid out about three millions of francs in

the purchase of French Threes and Fives. Nothing
was done during the day in Bons do Tresor, it

being almost impossible to negotiate them. There
was no agitation whatever during the day, every-
thing being exceedingly calm and orderly. Several
of the agens-de-chunge were in the uniform of Na-
tion.l Guards.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Tilt
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. MARear
Boulogne and Amiens, 8 Ln2 —Namur and i.iege, 4A ex int.
—Northern of France, 4—Paris and Lyons, 2.

THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE
FRENCH MONARCHY.
We have received the following interesting history
of the half-hour's reign of the Comte de Paris, from a
gentleman who has been a resident i❑ Paris thirty
years, and who was an eye-witness of the occurrences
which he narrates :

" Et quorum pars magna fui."
PARIS, 'IARCH 1,1848.—0 n Thursday, the 24th
ultimo, about a quarter past one, P I was in company
with a friend, leaning on the inner rails of the terrace
called Des Feuillans, near the Rue de Rivoli, and over-
looking the gardens of the Tuileries. .Keenly alive to
passing events, I turned my eyes towards the Palace,
when I saw a small cortege issuing from it, and proceed-
ing hurriedly down the grand central alley which leads
towards the Place de la Concorde (now Place de la
Revolution). I immediately ran to juin this party, when,
to my astonishment, I found it was composed of the
Duchess of Orleans with her two children, the Count de
Paris and the Duke de Chartres, all on foot, attended
by a General officer, two or three aide-de-camps, and
escorted by a few of the National Guard. The most
profound silence prevailed, and every one pre-
sent seemed to be paralysed by an undefined
apprehension. When we approached the grand
gateway which separates the gardens from the
Place de la Revolution, M. Dupin, the great
friend and intimate adviser of his ex-Majesty Louis
Philippe, came from the Chambers to meet her Royal
Highness; he eagerly inquired from one of the aide-de-
camps if a carriage could not be procured to convey the
Duchess to the Chambers; he answered in the negative,
adding, that even if one could be had, it could not pus
sibly proceed, so great was the crowd outside. Not
being distant more than one pace from her Royal High-
ness, I narrowly watched her changing countenance;
she appeared to me so oppressed by her awful position
that I thought she would have fallen to the groand—
maternal affection, however, supported her sinking
frame, for she firmly grasped the hand of her eldest
son, who is a charming boy. Amiability rather than in-
telligence strikes me to be the characteristic of this
Princess. who is delicately formed, but not prepossessing
in her appearance. I am assured that her mental powers
are highly cultivated.
Having said so much about the principal personage of
Cie group, I shall continue my narrative. We pro.
ceeded between two ranks of National Guards and troops
of the line, to the Chambers; we were joined imme-
diately after by the Dukes de Nemours and Montpen•
sier. The pressure here became so great, that I felt much
for the Duchess, who must have suffered extremely. The
I)uchess and her son were much cheered by the National
Guards and people. The rush into the Chamber was
tremendous. The persons, who, like myself, were
anxious to witness the important proceedings in the
House, presented such a compact front, that we bore
down all opposition. When we had entered the salle,
which precedes that in which the sittings are held, the
officers of the House remonstrated with violence, but a
man of gigantic stature cried out, that he was a repre-
sentative of the people, and as such he would enter in
spite of all opposition, to maintain their rights, and
" pour voir qu 'on ne lea trompe plus." No further diffi•
cult), was offered. The Duchess was placed in a large
arm chair under the tribune, and near her were
seated her two children. Her Royal Highness was well
received by the " Centres," but a sullen silence reigned
on the benches of the " Gauche " and " Centre Gauche.'
This circumstance struck me to he ominous of evil to
the hopes of the Court. The Chambers at this moment
presented an indescribable scene. When silence was
obtained, M. Dupin ascended the tribune, and brit fly
stated that the King had abdicated in favour of the
Count de Paris, and had named the Duchess of Orleans
Regent of the kingdom. This announcement was re-
ceived with enthusiasm by the " Centres " (the Conser
vative part), but with coldness by the Opposition and
the public in the galleries.
M. Marie, Member of the present Provisional Go
vernment, a leading member of the ,Opposition, then
rose; and fePresented tb the House that " would
be guilty of a glaring illegality if it named a
Regent, inasmuch as the Duke de Nemours had
already been appointed to this high station,
by all the powers of the state; that the moat prudent
measure to adopt in the present critical state of affairs
was to appoint a Provisional Government to stop the
ffusion of blood and prevent a civil war. M. Cremieux,
a distinguished lawyer, and also a member of the Oppo-
sition, spoke to the same effect; adding that the law
which established the first Regency should be duly abro-
gated before a new one could be enacted, and he finally
moved the nomination of five members to form a Pro-
visional Government. M. A. de Genoude and de La-
rochejacquelin, the chiefs' of the old Legitimist party,
tried in vain to address the Assembly, but they were
literally cried down. M. Odillon Barra entered the
House at this moment, and being loudly called for, he
ascended the tribune. His appeal in favour of the
Duchess of Orleans and her son was most impressive.
I never heard a more eloquent harangue;, he -called upon
his colleagues." de se ralleir cette doube representation
do la Revolution de Juillet," and concluded a
noble and most pathetic address by proposing, first,
the regency of the Duchess of Orleans, secondly, a Mi-
nistry, to be composed of the most liberal and tried
Members of the House, and, thirdly, a dissolution of Par-
liament. But the die was cast; the scene now shifted,
and the real actors uppeared on the stage. A band,
composed of National Guards, workmen in their smock
frocks, and individuals of the lowest grades of society,
burst in the doors of the Chambers. They were armed
with all kinds of offensive and defensive weapons. They
bore on high tri-colour flags, no longer surmounted by,
the coq Gaulois—to me a most significant proof of what
would next take place. Four of these flags were planted
on the tribune. The Speaker, M. Sauzet, having put
on his hat, cries of "Hats off!" ware uttered by the in
furiated mob. Nearly' all the members of the House
then withdrew; there remained only to the last M.
Dupont de l'Eure, who occupied the' Speaker's. vacant
chair, MM. Larochejacquelin, Cremieux, Ledru-Rollin,
and de Lamartine. M. Ledru-Rollin, after having
demanded silence in the name of the people, exclaimed
" Irethe name of the-iffeople, I'protest'against that sort
of GoVernment which it has just been proposed-to you to
a tabliSh;,l demand the constitution of 1791 and a Pro
visional Government." Here applauses burst forth from
the galleries 'and benches, now filled by the populace,
who brandished their weapons. Bedlam let loose could
not have offered a greater scene of confusion, and this
uproar was continued for nearly two hours. The Speaker's
chair', the tribune, the seats usually occupied by the se
cretaries and other officers of the time, were filled by a
motley crowd. Papers, on which were written the
names of the members of the Provisional Government
were Thrown about, and received of course with great
acclamation. Standing on-the flight of steps leading to
the tribune, I looked at my neighbour, of whom the fol
lowing is a faithful description:—He was a man about
sixty years of age, with kvery long beard, almost white,
falling upon his breast—his head would have been a model
either.for a painter or a statuary--he had under one arm
half a loaf of a pain de munition (soldier's brown bread),
and in his right hand he held au enormous sword, the
hilt of which would have suited the brawny arm of
Brennus, or that of Brian Boru, the Irish King of
Munster. At one time he brandished this fearful
weapon, uttering a few gutteral sounds, such as Nous
sommes aujourd hui les vrais representans du peuple"—
in other respects be was the best, conducted man in the
whole assembly. I have been since informed by a
friend that be is, in reality, what is called a " modelle,"
that is a person who hires himself out to painters and
statuaries. On the first irruption of these representa-
tives of the people, who filled the house with cries of
" Vive la Republique," the Duchess of Orleans, seeing
that her hopes were blasted, hastily withdrew by a back
door with her children, and attended by a few faithful
friends.
At five o'clock cries of' " To the Hotel de Ville" were
uttered. Many then left the House to join the proces-
sion formed to inaugurate the Provisional Government
at the Hotel de Ville. I proceeded into the salon called
Salle de Diane, where a large crowd was collected, con-
sisting of reporters for the daily papers, and of persons
warmly discussing the events of the day, I perceived a
man attempting to climb upon the mantelpiece of the
immense chimney, on which were placed two allegorical
figures in marble, and in the centre a fine bust of Louis
Philippe ; this he was on the point of throwing down
when a voice exclaimed, " Respect the arts," upon which
he took his pocket handkerchief and Put it over the
head of the King. This conduct met with loud appro.
bation. After my departure I was informed that a fine
painting, which represented Louis Philippe holding his
grandson, the Count of Paris, over the baptismal font,
was fired at and much injured.
Thus has fallen a monarch reputed the wisest in
Europe; his fate is a warning to all, but particularly to
constitutional princes, not to forget their true support,
the affection of theippeople. He was in the fullest sense
of the word a " cheat," his hypocrisy was only equalled
by his obstinacy, for almost to the last five minutes pre-
vious to his flight from the Tuileries, he would not be
lieve that the people dare to attack the Palace. • Those
who indulge in fatalism will look upon his downfal as a
remarkable instance of Divine retribution. I have
mixed up with all classes of Frenchmen, and I have not
yet heard one regret expressed for his fall, not one
" God bless him." VERAX.

SHIP ON FIRE IN THE IRISH
CHANNEL.
TO THE EDI I'OR OF THE SUN.

Six,—On Friday night, 6.30 P.M., I came up with a
vo:isel On fire in the Irish Channel, sev©n miles distance,
Tasker light a
it was a complete wreck, only
part of her starboard side quarter deck out of
water ; spars were flouting away on fire ; evidently
a brig who a white streak; no name visible; took a
small 21b. iron swivel off her quarter taifrail, marked
"F." Saw nothing of the crew.—Yours, &e.,
THOS. J. ROCHFORT,
Master of the Rose, screw schooner,
Dublin to London.

London, March 8, 1848.

Captain Fitzgerald had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office,

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
FRANCONrS EQUESTRIAN :TROOP.
Franconis Equestrian Troop, whose performances
at the Cirque National in the Champs Elysfs have
been so long the delight of the Parisians, has been
engaged by M. Julien for a month, and opened here
last night. It is little more than a week since the
opera season closed here, and in that time the in-
terior of the theatre has been so transformed that
none of the old habitues would recognise it. The
orchestra and the greater portion of the pit have been
formed into an immense arena, between forty
and fifty fert in diameter. The stage has been
fitted up as an immense amphitheatre, with
seats rising tier above tier to the roof, and which gives
accommodation to 800 persons. The portion ot the
pit not occupied by the arena is similarly fitted uP•
The musicians are located in a gallery at the very
top ot the house, at the back of the stage, over the
heads of the occupants of the amphitheatre. The stage
portion of the ceiling of the house is covered by $
ceiling of coloured calico, arranged in fluted
columns. Numerous lights are tastefully er
ranged, and the house and the whole sou)
(Twit is very effective. The performances com•
menced with La Lutte des Voltigeurs, in Which
several wonderful feats of vaulting were performed
with ease and neatness. Then came divers eques'
trian scenes in the circle, performed by various gen'
tletnen sad ladies, and enlivened by the witticism.
of the two Auriols and Leclair, who were the
"clowns to the ring," and then some wonderfu
feats with chairs by Auriol, whose quaint-
" La, La," at the conclusion of each feat,
produced a very droll effect. The most wonderful
performance of the evening was that of M. Leroy
with the globe. Standing on a globe, he causes it
to ascend an inclined plane, and again to descend it,
M. Leroy himself standing on it the whole time.
But if this was the most wonderful, certainly the
most interesting performance, was that of the
little Marie Anato, a beautiful child, apparently
not more than eight years of age, who, on the
back of a steed at full speed, danced the Me"
nola, keeping time with the castagnettes, with en
elegance, a grace, and a precision that nothing could
surpass. Mademoiselle Caroline, whose per-
formances are already so well known and so
highly:appreciated, managed her horse Jupiter
of the high school in the most surprising manner,
and the Spanish dwarf, Don Francisco Hidalgo, ap-
peared in a pantomimic scene; with M. Montero, who
acted the part of an ape as though he had been to the
manner born. At the conclusion there were loud calls
for " God save the Queen," the meaning of which the
musicians did not at first appear to understand,
and were about to leave the orchestra. The matter
having been explained to them they at once pr'
formed the national anthem, and were honoured with
an encore. The house was crammed to the ceiling.

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THE RIOTS IN LONDON.
(THIS DAY.)
Trafalgar-square may now be said to have resumed
its wonted appearance. With the exception of a few
extra policemen, and half-a-dozen idle spectators, there
is nothing to denote that anything unusual has taken
place. At an early hour to-day a gang of a similar
class—if not the same—began to congregate at Charing-
cross; the police resolutely kept then out of the square,
Their only object seemed to be either to participate is
any " lark " with any of their more reckless compeer'',
or to play their part in any system of plunder that
Might be started. The authorities of Scotland-yard,
being determined to put an end to such riotous
proceedings as those which have taken place during the
last two days, not only sent out additional police, but
engaged two or three men with boards to carry about
the notice which appeared iu our Third Edition of yester-
day. These persons were grossly insulted by the mob,
notwithstanding they were protected by the police.
['hey were chased down the Strand, and the mob gain-
ing strength as it passed along rushed after them with
renewed vigour. The boards were one moment
-levated iu the air the next they were
rattling on the heads of their pursuers. The bearer*
were very roughly handled. At length they were res-
cued from the violence of their assailants, who, followed
by the police, rushed towards Fleet-street. There could
not have been less than 2,000 or 3,000 men and boys
The bearers of some boards belonging to a weekly
periodical were also badly used.
Many of the shops is the western portion of the Straw'
were kept closed during the morning, and the windows
of a few of those kept open were broken by the web,
partly accidentally and partly intentionally. A cry
of " The mob is coming," ran down Fleet'
street and Holborn like wildfire. A vast
number of the shops in Fleet-street were iastautlY
closed. In Fetter-lane not a shop, save the public-
houses, was open. All the shops, with the same excep-
tions, from Middle-row, Holborn, to the bottom of
the hill were closed. Scarcely a shop was closed at
twelve o'clock ; by one the shops along the line we hare
mentioned were shut up, and business nearly altogether
suspended ; the doors alone were kept open. It is
almost unnecessary to add, that the greatest excite-
ment and consternation prevails. Small detach-
ments of police are patrolling about theme
places, all of which are inconveniently crowded
by idle persons, boys, and children, who are
looking eagerly for " the mob." A more insensate, a
more unmeaning, or a more perposeless mob than that
which has disturbed the quiet of the western part of the,
metropolis for the last three days surely never congre-
gated. If they had any object they did not proclaim it;
and if they had, they were utterly wanting in moi.al
courage te_give even utterance to it in words. The en-
counters that took place between them and the police
were just similar to those that take place on a smaller
scale in the poor and densely populated neighbourhood',
every day of our lives. They were wanting in dignity,
purpose, and sense.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday, the 6th, the debate was on Alt.
Hurne's motion to limit the income-tax to one year.
Among other follies mustered is the course of the dis-
cussion, was the malevolent fallacy that to levy 8
smaller rate on the poor than on the rich, would
amount to confiscation ; and a writer on political
economy, eminent for mistakes, was quoted as sayiail
that the man who would propose it was "a savage.
The fraud is simply this. If it was proposed that A
man of 2001. a year should pay three per cent.,
a man of 4001. a year six per cent., of 8001.
a year twelve per cent., and so on, the result
would be that a man of 6,5001. a year or upwards
must pay all he had ; an insane termination, which
because it was insane, was by nobody ever thought
The utmost that has ever been put forward in a
practical shape is the proposal, that in addition to
the present freedom of incomes below 150/. per
annum, every man should be charged only for the
excess of his income above 1501. From consults
tion of the return asked for by Mr. Moffatt, (or-
dered by the House of Commons to be printed
23d of July, 1847,) it appears that to do this
and obtain the same sum from the tax as at present,
would require the rate to be raised from 3 per rent.
to 41. In such case, the income on which the change
would be of no effect would he 460/. ; those below
it being relieved, while those above it are surcharged
to an extent which, instead of confiscation, sr
proaches, on an infinite income, to 50 per cent.
Sir Robert Peel took the opportunity of ex-
pressing very pacific sentiments on the subject or
continental politics. Lord George Bentinck followed
with profuse compliments to the admirable eonduot of
the French people, but endeavoured to hisert an inti-
mation of the necessity there would be for war if they
should attempt to occupy the Rhenish provinces ;
which was received with faint cheers from his own
corner of the House, and loud groans from the other
side. He also, in his list of taxes which he would
propose, included doubling the postage on letters, con-
jointly %%ith continuing the Corn duties and restoring
the Timber duties; so that we know now whence
proceed the feelers on that subject in the public prints.
No proposal could be more characteristic of the " part,'
of the extinguisher," and more likely to destroy the
probability of its own success.
On Tuesday the principal debate was on Mr. Shar-
man Crawford's Bill of Tenant Right, which was
finally brought in without a division, and the House
adjourned at six o'clock.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, March 8, 1848.

JIBE MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty's bo%
was occupied last evening by Lord and Lady Blantyre,
the Hon. W. Lascelles, M.P., and the Misses Lascelles.
The general company in the boxes and stalls included
his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency
the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Ma'
demoiselle Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish
Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, Si. de
Berg, M. de Brchmer, the Duke of Devonshire, the
Duke and Ductless of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of
Montrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburyt
the Marchioness of D,uro, the Marquis of Clanricarde.
the Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo, the Countess
Poulett and Miss Dormer, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount
Anson, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady Sey—
mour, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Elphinstone, Lord
Sandy a, Lady Frankland Lewis, Lord Suffield, Lady
Quentin, Lady Mary Howard and the Hon. H. Howard,
the Count de Barke, M. C. de Koudriaffsky, Major-
General the Hon. C. Cavendish, the Hon. Mr. Wil-
loughby d'Eresby, Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the
Misses Hobhowe, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Sir
Thomas Hare, Sir John and Lady Bayley, Mr. and Airs.
Hubert De Burgh, Mr. Macke, M.P., and Mrs. PRl:ke
Reading, Mr. and Miss Ewing, Mrs. Villebois, !Air.
Baring, Mr. Cornewall, Mr. and Mrs. Grote, ike.