The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-05 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ... ... ... ... •• • 836
Females ... ... ... ... ... 845

Total ... . . ... ... ... 1,681

THE IRISH DEPUTATION.
M. DE LAMARTINE'S REPLY.
M. de Larnartine replied to the address of the
deputation of Irish gentlemen from Dublin, Man-
chester, Liverpool, and Belfast, in the following
speech :
" Citizens cf Ireland,

"If we required a fresh proof of the pacific influence
of the proclamation of the great democratic principle,
this new Christianity, bursting forth at the opportune
moment, and dividing the world, as formerly, into a
Pagan and a Christian community—we should assuredly
discern this proof of the omnipotent action of an idea,
in the visits spontaneously paid in this city to Repub-
lican France and the principles which animate her by
the nations, or by fractions of the nations, of Europe.
" We are not astonished to see to-day a deputation
fry m Ireland. Ireland knows how deeply her destinies,
her sufferings, and her successive advances in the path
of religious liberty, of unity, and of constitutional
equality with the other parts of the United kingdom,
have at all times moved the heart of Europe!
" We said as much, a few days ago, to another depu-
tation of your fellow-citizens. We said as much to all
the children of that glorious isle of Erin which the
natural genius of its inhabitants and the striking events
of its history render equally symbolical of the poetry
and the heroism of the nations of the north.
" Rest assured, therefore, that you will find in France,
under the Republic, a response to all the sentiments
which you express towards it.
" Tell your fellow-citizens that the name of Ireland is
synonymous with the name of liberty courageously de-
fended against privilege—that it is one common name to
eve!), French citizen! Tell them that this reciprocity
which they invoke—that this hospitality of which they are
not oblivious—the Republic will be proud to remember
and to practise invariably towards the Irish. Tell them,
above all, that the French Republic is not, and never
will be, an aristocratic Republic, in which liberty is
merely abused as the mask of privilege; but a Republic
embracing the entire community, and securing to all
the same rights and the same benefits. As regards
other encouragements, it would neither be expedient
for us to hold them out, nor for you to receive them.
I have already expressed the same opinion with re-
ference to Germany, Belgium, and Italy ; and I
repeat it with reference to every nation which is in-
volved in internal disputes which is either divided
against itself or at variance with its Government.
When there is a difference of race—when nations are
slims in blood—intervention is not allowable. We
belong to no party in Ireland or elsewhere, except
to that which contends for justice, for liberty, and for
the happiness of the Irish people. No other part would
be acceptabe to us, in a time of peace, in the interests
and the passions of foreign nations. France is desirous
of reserving herself free for the maintenance of the rights
of all.

" We are at peace, and we are desirous of remaining
on good terms of equality, not with this or that part of
Great Britain, but with Great Britain entire. We be-
lieve this peace to be useful and honourable, not only to
Great Britain and the French Republic, but
to the human race. Wo will not commit an
act —we will not utter a word —we will not
breathe an insinuation at variance with the princi-
ples of the reciprocal inviolability of nations
which we have proclaimed,' and of which the continent
of Europe is already gathering the fruits. The fallen mo-
s rchy had treaties and diplomatists. Our diplomatists
are nations, our treaties are sympathies ! We should
be insane were we openly to exchange such a diplo-
macy for unmeaning and partial alliances with even
the most legitimate parties in the countries which
surround us. We are not competent either to
judge them or to prefer some of them to others;
by announcing our partizanship of the one side we should
declare ourselves the enemies of the other. We do not
wish to be the enemies of any of your fellow countrymen.
We wish, on the contrary, by a faithful observance of
the Republican pledges to remove all the prejudices
which may mutually exist between our neighbours and
ourselves.

" This course, however painful it may be, is imposed
on us by the law of nations as well as by our historical
remembrances.

•‘ Do you know what it was which most served to
irritate France and estrange her from England during
the war, first Republic ? It was the civil in a por-
tion of our territory, supported, subsidized, and assisted
by Mr. Pitt. It was the encouragement and the
arms given to Frenchmen, as heroical as yourselves, but
Frenchmen fighting against their fellow-citizens. This
was not honourable warfare. It was a Royalist propa-
gandism waged with French blood against the Republic.
This policy is nut yet, in spite of all our efforts, entirely
effaced from the memory of the nation. Well! this
cause of dissension between Great Britain and us,
we will never renew by taking any similar course.
We accept with gratitude expressions of friend-
ship.
from the different nationalities included. in
the British empire. We ardently wish . that jus-
tice may found and strengthen the friend.ship of. races;
that equality may become more and more its basis ; but
while proclaiming with you, with her (England),
_and
with al!, the holy dogma of frstt‘rw.ty: rrf.orm.
only acts of brotherhood, in cunfurin!ty with. our princi-
ples, and our feelings towards the lush nation." (Vive
la Republique 1 Viva le Gouvernement Provisoire !
Vive Lamartine

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
BODMIN.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
A witness named Moocuw, an agent of Mr. Lacy,
produced a minute book of one of the canvassers, in
which there were entries of the names of certain voters
pen to bribes. A note was appended
represented to be o
that 204 would do them no harm, and that the system of
issuing refreshment tickets was practised at the last and
the three previous elections.
It was subsequently proposed to put in evidence of
treating on the part of Mr. Lacy, but
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM objected to this course,
insisting that sufficient evidence of agency had nut yet
been adduced. _

The Committee cleared the room on this point, and
having consulted for a short time, they came to the fol-
lowing decision:—
" That sufficient prima facie evidence of agency had
been put in to entitle the petitioners to proceed with the•
examination of the witnesses whom they proposed to
call to prove the acts of treating.
The Committee adjourned at four till eleven o'clock
to-morrow morning.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF

TUESDAY.
CROWN-OFFICE, APRIL 3, 1848.

11EMBER rtETUENED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Harwich. —The Right Honourable Sir
John Cam Hohhouse, of Berkeley-square, London,
Bart., the last election for the said borough having been
declared void. 3
WHITEHALL, APRIL 1.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev.
William Jacobson, 11I.A , the office and place of Regius
Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford,
together with the place and dignity of a Canon of the
cathedral church of Christ in the said University, pro-
perly belonging to the Regius Professor of Divinity in
the said University, void by the promotion of Doctor
Renn Dickson Hampden to the see of Hereford.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 4.

The Queen has been pleased to direcz letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, nominating and ap-
pointing John George thaw Lefevre, Esq., to be Clerk-
Assistant of the Parliaments, in the room of Bejsmin
Currey, Esq., deceased.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 1.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Alfred Guppy, of
Honiton, in the county of Devon, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 18.

The Lord Chancellor bas appointed Isaac Bryant, of
Wimborne Minster, in the county of Dorset, Gent., to
be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.