The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JUNE 6.—lt is said that the Confederates
are to have a grand field-day all over Ireland on Whit •
Monday, Simultaneous meetings to protest against the
alleged jury packing, in the case of Mr. Mitchel, are to
be held in every city, town, village, and hamlet through-
out Ireland.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

THE QUEEN V. THE GRAND JURY AND TREASURER
OF THE CoUNTY OF ARMAGH.—At the Spring Assizes
for the county of Armagh, the Grand Jury refused to
present for the instalment demanded by the Commis-
sioners of the Board of Works, in repayment of the
advances made by the Treasury, under the Labour-rate
Act. On application on the part of the Crown, the
Chief Justice, and Judges Crampton and Moore, this
day gave judgment, commanding that a mandamus
should issue against the parties to compel them to com-
ply with the provisions of the Act.
Judge Perrin dissented from his brethren on the
Bench, and declared that, in consequence of some am-
biguities in the certificate from the Board of Works, he
was.of opinion that the mandamus should not issue.
STATE OF SKIBBEREEN.
A correspondent of the Cork Examiner gives the fol-
lowing description of the condition of Skibbereen:—
" On the footpaths may be seen lying crowds of squa-
lid beings, whose tattered rags are insufficient to protect
them from the burning rays of the sun. Others swarm
about the shops with supplicating looks. Some weeks
since a steam-mill, the property of Mr. Marmion, was
consumed by fire. A quantity of Indian corn was also
destroyed. The rubbish was subsequently removed out-
side the walls. Since that period hundreds of miserable
womea may be seen watching an opportunity to plunge
into the ruins and carry off by stealth a few grains al-
ready reduced to cinders. I saw them overturn and
carefully pick largo heaps, and their reward was a few
burned grains. This has been the employment of hun-
dreds for the last three weeks."
ARREST OF MR. MEAGHER.
As Mr. Meagher was proceeding at the head of his
club (the Grattan), yesterday evening, he was stopped b
wehe
was
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the police, who refused to let the members walk
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station,abreast, but h e
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cation took place and some blows
were given, when Mr.
g
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police-constable in the discharge of his duty. Mr. Meagher was, immediately after thecharge, Jibe,
rated on his own recognizances.
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_HE CHARTISTS AND A OF SOME OP THEIR
ORATORS.—Ernest Jones, Williams, Fussel, and Sharp,
were arrested yesterday, and were examined at Bow-
street, ordered to find bail, and meanwhile lodged in
Newgate. The full effect of this decisive measure ap-
pears to have been shown in the preservation of the
public peace. Last night Clerkgnwell-green, which, for
the previous fortnight, has been in a state of constant
agitation, from the frequent meetings of the Chartists,
assumed its usual appearance. During the evening
there were but six policemen on duty, and who had only
to patrol the locality. A large body of the G
however, were at the station in the Bagnigge-wells-
road, in readiness, lest their services should have been
required, and who attended there as early as seven
o'clock in the evening. The usual places of rendezvous
of the Chartist leaders at Farringdon Hall, the National
Hall, the institution in the Blackfriars-road, &c., were
entirely deserted. After the termination of the pro-
ceedings at Bow-street, at which there was a numerous
attendance of the friends of the prisoners, these pro-
ceeded to their several lodges, evidently much discon-
certed as to the course that should be adopted under the
existing circumstances. It is expected that, in conse-
quence of the determined steps of the Government, the
demonstration intended for Whit- onday will not ho
oarried into effect.
THE APPREHENSION OF ERNEST JONES.—OLIT
readers are already aware that, at a Chartist meeting
last night, Mr. Ernest Jones, of London, " barrister-at-
law," was the principal speaker. This (Wednesday)
morning, at seven o'clock, Inspector Haynes, of the A
division of the metropolitan police, waited on the mayor
with a note from the Home-office, requesting that the
mayor would direct that every assistance should be given
to the officer in apprehending Ernest Jones. The officer
was the bearer of a warrant, signed by Mr. Jardine, the
magistrate of the Bow-street Police-court, and we pre.
sume the offence with which Jones is charged is that of
seditious speaking at a meeting in London, which, by the
recently passed statute, is a felony, punishable with
transportation. The mayor immediately communicated
with Mr. Beswick, chief superintendent of police, who
accompanied Inspector Haynes to the Mosley Arms
Hotel, where Ernest Jones was staying. They found
him just up and dressed; and having acquainted him
that they held a warrant for his apprehension, he
quietly surrendered, and the London officer, accompanied
by Mr. Beswick, proceeded with him in a coach to the
London-road railway station, and conveyed him by the
nine o'clock train to London. The officers also took
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CIIARTIST MEETING IN DIANCHESTER.—A Char-
tist meeting was held on Tuesday evening in the City
Music-hall, Camp•field. About 1,200 were present. Wm.
Grocott presided. Daniel Donovan explained his con-
duct on Wednesday, and was applauded. Mr. Ernest
Jones, " barrister-at-law," addressed the meeting at
great length, detailing a plan of organization, by which
500,000 men could bo promptly assembled, without
issuing a placard ; and expressed his belief that Mit-
chel and Frost, Williams and Jones would soon re-
turn, and Russell, Palmerston, and Co., be sent away
in their places.—(Cheers.) lie announced a Chartist
camp meeting on Sunday next, on Blackstone Edge, and
the proceedings then terminated.—Manchester Guardian.

8, 1848.

moaOrLahWallCtbire.
VISIT OF PRINCE GEORGE OF
WOOLWICH,
BJRUNIEDG7E._TpieIdW_
Marquis
of Anglesey, K.G., G.C.8., and G.C.11., Master-Ge
of the Ordnance, attended by Lord Clarence Paget,
secretary, and Major Thurlow, aide-de-camp to i
Master. General, arrived at the garrison shortly after
eleven o'clock, A.M., to-day, and were joined by Lieute-
nant Sir Thomas Downman, C. 8., and K.C.H., com-
mandant of the garrison, Major-General J. Webber Smith, C. 8., director-general of the Royal Artillery
Colonel Campbell, Colonel Cleveland, Colonel J. E. Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General ; Lieut.-Colonel
Cruttenden, Lieut,-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director..
General ; Lieut-Colonel Brereton, C. 8., and .K. 11.,
Lieut.-Colonel Hardinge, K.H., Lieut.-Colonel Ander-
son, Lieut.-Colonel Warde, Captain Tylden, Deputy-As-
sistant Quarter-Master General, Captain Wingfield, and
Captain and Adjutant Maule, Acting Brigade Major.
The Master-General, the Commandant, and the staff of
officers, proceeded to the front of the Repository
Grounds, and waited there about twenty minutes, until
the arrival of the Major-General his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge, his Royal Highness Duke
George of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Hesse, and then accompanied the
royal visitors to the common, where the Royal Horse
Artillery were drawn up in review order, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bell. The exercise of
the guns, and the evolutions of this branch of the corps,
were gone through with great celerity, precision, and
effect.

Their Royal Highnesses appeared much gratified, and
with the. Gallant Marquis, the Commandant, and staff,
galloped to every position taken up by the Royal Artil-
lery, to have a closer inspection of the manoeuvres, in-
stead of remaining at the staff-flag, as usual on former
occasions.
After the review on the common, their Royal High-
nesses proceeded to the mortar battery, where they wit-
nessed excellent practice with mortars and howitzers
firing at a flag-staff 150 yards distant, the gunners being
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Warde. On
leaving the mortar battery, their Royal Highnesses
visited the barrack-rooms of the men, and then entered
the mess-room, where they partook of an elegant
djeune with the officers of the garrison. At three
o'clock the royal visitors proceeded to the marshes, and
witnessed firing from a garrison battery 700 yards dis-
tant from the target, and from two of Captain Grant's
9-pounder guns for the Royal Horse Artillery, equal in
weight wily to the former 6-pounder guns of that
branch of service. The practice was also carried on
with these guns with a si-inch howitzer, and a field
battery of 9-pounder guns, at 1,100 and at 1,200 yards
range; and the firing was excellent and effective at the
latter distance. A number of rockets were discharged
from Boxer's tube and salvos from the ground, and
practice carried on at the ricochet battery. The royal
visitors left immediately after the rockets were fired,
being desirous of returning to London by six o'clock.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
In compliance with the wish, as it was stated, of
several suburban residents, a morning performance was
announced to take place Yesterday, at Covent-garden
Theatre, of the Nozze di Figaro. The house probably
would have been filled had this chef d'cruvre of Mozart
been played, but the " sudden indisposition" of Grisi
occasioned the substitution of the Cenerentola, and con-
sequently the attendance was comparatively small. The
audience at first expressed considerable dissatisfaction at
the change, but the delicious singing of Alboni soon put
them into good temper, and they forgot the disappoint-
ment they had experienced. An excuse was made at the
outset of the entertainment for Salvi, on the score of
hoarseness. This popular tenor, however, seemed hardly
to require the services of an apologist, for there was but
little indication of vocal incompetence in the style with
which he delivered the music. Alboni was encored in
the largo which introduces the famous " Non piu mesta."

.
The hero oLf
thYCe farce EUM
entitITHEATREed Anything for a Change,
brought out last night at this theatre, is a Mr. Swop-
pington—a personage endowed with the inconvenient
propensity of coveting everything that is not his own—
his neighbour's watch, stick, servant, or coat, no matter
which, and to obtain the evanescent object of his wishes
he is anxious to buy or swop, as the case may be. Now,
his friend Honeyball, urged by certain inscrutable mo-
tives, perceives in him a desirable husband for his sister,
and, in order to accommodate matters to his peculiarity,
instructs his wife and sister to exchange places, knowing
that Mrs. Honeyball, because she is Mrs. Huneyball,
will be likely to attract the notice of the mercurial suitor
rather than some one who is not already appropriated.
And so it turns out. And it also turns out that Mr.
Honeyball is made jealous, but that is soon cleared up,
and the whimsical Swoppington finds himself matrimo-
nially engaged, when he calculated only on an elope-
ment.
Such a piece as this, it is clearly apparent, depends
for its salvation solely upon the quickness and neatness
of the acting. The capricious bwoppington is repre-
sentedcreates with eligible liveliness by Charles Mathews, who
inggreat deal of diversion by his brisk mutabili-
ties
oannbdeaconstitutional disregard of the obligations of
nzeum and tuum. His friend Honeyball, who prides him-
self" a man of intellect," is equally well sus-
tained by Harley, whose nervous and spasmodic alarm
sus-
when he fancies that his scheme has not taken the di-
r?ctiou he intended, is highly comic. Miss Kathleen
It ita
.william plays the young lady who absorbs the fan-
bulllioney ball very prettily—taking occasion to sing
aad or two, and to exhibit some dexterous facilities
on the pianforte.
The farce looks as if it were a translation from the
French, whether it is so or not, report assigns it to Mr.
Shirley Brooke.

.PECIAL CONSTAMLES.—Yesterday, pursuant to a
notice for the renewal of the warrants of special con-
stables, and the app
ointment of others, the magistrates
of several police offices were engaged in this duty. The
appointments are to continue in force for six months on
this occasion instead of three as on the last. The re-
mainder of this and the whole of the following week have
been fixed by
constables. the magistrates for swearing in special
Bell's Life in London, Sunday, June 11, will
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Ascot Races, including engravings of the cups.—Price
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RETURN OF LORD HOWDEN FROM THE BRAZILS.—
His Excellency Lord Howden arrived at Portsmouth last
night in her Majesty's steamer Firebrand, having left
Rio de Janeiro on the 2Sth of April. By this arrival we
hear of the effects of the news upon the Brazils of the
revolutionary affairs of continental Europe, which were
moerunexpectedly astounding. French business was stopped;
nt
on ry
business was suspended; and a blank Bourse
thei
Ent par was all but the result. The exchange with
rough
land was at 25- to I. The Emperor was in Rio,
affected by the expatriation of the House of Bour-
bon, with which he is so closely allied. The affairs of
La Plata are mending, but so slowly as to bo almost
imperceptible.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Weimar
and suite embarked at Blackwall yesterday morning, on
board the General Steam .Navigation Company's steam-
ship Giraffe, for Rotterdam.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert left town at a quarter
past ten o'clock yesterday morning, for her Majesty's
marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. :Her Majesty
and his Royal Highness, acccompanied by the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, occu-
pied a carriage and four. Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cess Helena were in the next carriage and four, accom-
panied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Equerries
in waiting, Col. Buckley and Col. Bouverie, occupied a
chariot and four. The Princess Louisa, the Countess of
I)esart, Lady in waiting, Hon. Miss Macdonald, Maid of
Honour in waiting, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and
Major-General Bowles followed in two carriages and four.
The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted to their
carriage by the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Earl of Merton, Lord George
Lennox, Sir Frederick Stovin, and Col. Wylde.
The august party proceeded from the Palace to the
terminus of the London and South-western Railway at
Nine Elms, and left by a special train for Gosport.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bernhard of Saxe
Weimar visited the Duchess of Kent, yesterday forenoon
at her residence Clarence House, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness do Speth, and Sir George
Couper, left town, at half past one o'clock yesterday
afternoon for Frogmore House, Windsor.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Duke of Wellington with his company yesterday
evening, at Ansley House, at the dinner given by his
Grace to the Noble Directors of the Concert of Ancient
Music. His Royal Highness afterwards accompanied
the Duke of Wellington to the performance of the Con-
cert at the Hanover-square Rooms.
A deputation from Bradford, Yorkshire, consisting of
Mr. William Murgatroyd, Mr. William Rand, Mr. Alfred,
Harriss, Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. W. Walker, and Mr. H.
W. Ripley, were introduced by Lord Morpeth, M.P.,
Mr. Richard Cobden, M.P., and Mr. William Bushfield,
M.P., to Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home Office.
A deputation, including Mr Arthur Mills, Mr. Francis
Scott, and Mr. Hodges had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Tuesday.
Sir John Davis' Bart, from Hong Kong had an in-
terview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office.
A deputation from the Steam Shipowners' Association
of London, comprising 21 companies, and representing
upwards of 100,000 tons of steam-shipping, had an inter-
view with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official
rersidence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted
K' James,
Wilson, Mr. Williams, Mr. W. J. Hall, Sir John
mes, Mr. Morgan (Secretary), and Mr. Bryden
The PMarq.uis of Sal:. French, M.P.
(Parliamentary Agent), and '
received ryh aydesat
yesterday
accompanied by Mr.
Brown, and "8 accompan
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