The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.

This bridge is placarded with notices, calling upon
the public not to loiter, but to pass on at once, as
the crowding of such a thoroughfare would be at-
tended with danger. The authorities have made
arrangements for taking possession of this part should
i;; be necessary to do so.

(FROM ANOTHER REPORTER.)

The trains which arrived at the Euston-square
station of the London and North-Western Railway
brought an immense quantity of persons from Man-
chester, Birmingham, Rochdale, Liverpool, and other
parts of Lancashire, anxious to be present during
the proceedings of the day. Some from as far even
as Edinburgh and Glasgow were travellers by this
train. Many of them were third-class passengers,
who amused themselves during a great part of the
journey by singing, with more strength than
harmony—

" Sons of Freedom ! break your slumbers ;
The day of glory's drawing nigh ;
Against us tyranny's red numbers
Rear their bloody banner high.
To arms, brave citizens ! Array each gallant band !
March on ! march on ! your tyrants' blood
Shall drench the thirsty land.
We'll march ! We'll march ! Our tyrants' blood

Shall drench the thirsty land."
The persons thus delegated to attend the great metro-
politan demonstration brought with them large rolls
of signatures, amounting to many hundreds in num-
ber, to be appended to the monster petition, to be
presented this evening to the House of Commons,
which is now several miles in length.
The Great Western Railway brought up a consi-

dPrrthia ntanni-ifer of nprann hut hu nn manna en mane,

as the London and North-Western. The South.
Eastern, London and Brighton, Eastern Counties, and
South-Western also contributed their quota—indeed
there is not a single town of any importance through-
out the country that has not sent up a body of per-
kons, more or less numer.uq. to demand from L-
gislature the enactment of the People's Charter.
During the night the following notice was exten-
sively circulated and placarded throughout the
metropolis :—" Men of London,—A great revolu-
tion must be accomplished to-day. Old principles
of legislation are out of date; our laws and institu-
tions are behind the spirit of the age ; they meet not
the exigencies of the civilization and enlightenment
of our time. You men of London possess an im-
mense power, which, when concentrated and directed
in connexion with that of your brethren throughout
the empire, could sweep the huge fabric of tyranny,
hypocrisy, and fraud to utter annihilation, and thus
secure to yourselves and posterity those blessings
which truth and justice can alone confer. Survey
the political horizon of Europe. It now pre-
sents one dread upheaving of society, one
grand scene of nature's supremacy against
the despotism of man. Everywhere the people
are arousing themselves; despots are either
conceding their demands or quailing before their
omnipotence. Nations whglse wretched destinies
monster injustice had sealed for their blood, are now
looking up with hope, and struggling for liberty and
nationality. May God strengthen their holy as-
piration, and endow them with power for their
consummation. In this bright era of the world's
progress how far are ye prepared to go ? In this
epoch of popular victory what achievement do you
seek to accomplish ? We leave the recompense
to your good sense and discretion, but we tell
you frankly that the liberty-seeking German, the
emancipated Italian, the struggling Pole, and the
proud French Republican, will regard you with
an eye of disdain if your aim be not to demo-
lish oligarchic usurpatian, and to substitute for it
the legitimate power of the whole people.