The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

CHARTIST CONVENTION.

The delegates composing this convention appear
t)(
be, like the public, completely weary of their old routine
of rapid and monotonous speech-making. Upon the
occasion of their last assembling the sitting were
adjourned till Tuesday (yesterday.) Upon our arrival
at the usual place of meeting we found however a notice
upon the door, informing the few disappointed idlers
standing near the spot, that the Convention would not
sit there that day. We find that a similar notice is
again posted to-day. What may be the reason of this
breach of faith with the public, and neglect of duty to
the constituents who sent the various delegates up to
London, of course we are not aware of—probably either
the Easter festivities and free exhibition of the metro-
polis have too many charms, or the measure which has
recently received the sanction of the Crown too many
terrors to allow of their assembling in the usual manner.
There is also another circumstance which has no doubt
had considerable weight in influencing the proceedings
of the delegates. Upon looking over the Northern Star
we find a letter headed " The People's Charter and no
Surrender," which proceeded to state that " Not only
from all parts of the kingdom, but in the House of
Commons. I have received assurance that the people's
charter will be the adopted principle of the opposition;
and the landed aristocracy of this country having proved
themselves the greatest enemies of liberty, a prompt
assault will be made upon their unconstitutional and
worn-out privileges. * •
" The middle classes, the shopkeepers, and Irish re-
pealers, are but recent converts to our principles, and
that, thus augmented in force, it is our boynden duty to
try its pressure upon the House. If you doubt the pre-
sent temper of the former supporters of Whigg,ery, you
should have been in the House on Friday night last,
when every member of the Government, as well as the
Attorney-General, was received as he rose, with the
hootings, the howlings, and the yells of their former
Supporters, though not one word of it is reported by the
press, although they were actually hooted down every
time they rose.

* ' • 4" In conclusion, then, what I have to implore of you
is, to postpone your National Assembly, whose enthu-
siasm may be operated upon by spies, until you see the
effect of this new combination (of disappointed hope,
when arrayed against an intolerant liberty-slaying Go-
vernment."

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Died at Turin on the 10th of April, 1848, the
Hon. Anne Elizabeth Cholmley, widow of Lieutenant-
General
Sir John Murray, Bart., and only daughter of
Constantine John, second Baron Mulgrave, by his wife
Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Cholmley, of
o
I,sham, county of York, Esq.
FIRE ON THE RIVER THAMES.—Some excitement
was caused yesterday afternoon along the river side, in
the neighbourhood of Hungerford- bridge, in conse-
quence of the sudden outbreak of a fire in one of the
large sailing barges lying at Bennett's-wharf, Belvidere-
road. The vessel, which was loaded with hay and
clover, took fire in the cabin, through the overheating of
the stove. Nearly two hours elapsed ere the flames
could be extinguished, and not until the cabin was
burned out and nearly thirty loads of clover consumed.
The barge was named the Belaes, belonging to Mr.
Benjamin Cockett, of Hull-bridge, near Malden, in
Essex, and is understood to be uninsured.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA' COVENT-GARDE7.—Her
Majesty's box was
.occupied last evening by Sir Henry
and Lady Wheatley, and the Misses Wheatley. Among
the visitors were her Royal Highness the Princess Mary
of Baden and the Marquis of Douglas, the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Blanche Somerset, Lady
Henrietta Somerset, and Lady Geraldine Somerset, the
Duchess Dowager of Bedford, Lady Rachel Russell,
Lord and Lady Alexander Russell, and Lord Dungarvon,
the Duke and Duchess de Melfort, Viscount Dupplin,
Viscount Neville, Lady Charlotte Denison, Lord Ernest
Bruce, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord and Lady Tem-
plemore, Lady Webster, Lady Quinten, Lady Tyrwhitt,
Lady Rolfe, Lady Stanley, Lady Holland, Sir John and
Lady Burgoyne, Hon. F. Chichester, lion. Mr. Leslie,
Hon. George Mulles, Hon. H. Coke, Hon. F. Scarlet,
Mon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashburnham, Hon. A. Willoughby,
Miss Mitchell and the MiAs Copley`, Miss Burdett
Coutts and party, Baron de Sternberg, Sir John Hob-
house, Bart., M.P., Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir
Charles Marshall, the Miss How ards, the Miss Richards,
Colonel Blane, Captain Meynell, Captain:de Bathe, Cap-
tain Tyr vy hitt, Captain Juddy, Colonel Brownlovr Knox,
M.P., H. Baring, Esq., M.P., Mr. Pattison, M.P.
A MODERN VERSION OF THE EAGLE AND CHILD.
—Several days since, as a gentleman was driving down
the strath of Kildonan, his attention was attracted by
piercing cries of a young child, which appeared to pro-
ceed from a rocky cliff; and, on looking; up, he saw Ta
eagle sitting on the ledge of a projecting crag, busily
employed in tearing the clothes from off the infant. He
immediately scrambled up the hill, and rescued it (morer
dead than alive) from the talons of the ferocious bird.
nibotrd.
He then conveyed the child in his gig to the first
tage on the roadside, when it, was discovered to
_ belong
to a shepherd, who resided tome six wilco further up
the gleu.--Veas•shirc iiderOser•