The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

7rMINESDAY

representative to Parliament.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 934 Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 171/4—East Indian, 15%—Luxembourg, 3A
—Northern of France, 15—Paris and Rouen, 243—Rouen
and Havre, 10—West Flanders, 31%.

ISPAIN.
Madrid journals of the Ist have arrived.
Their contents are without interest.
MADRID BoLsa, MAY I.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 358 for time; the Four per Cents. at 148;
the Five per Ct nts. at 16; the Debt without Interest
at 6 7.16; and the Coupons at 88.

GERMANY.
The Presburg Gazette publishes a letter from Vienna
of the 29th ulr., stating that the Emperor of AUSTRIA
has, for some time past, exhibited symptoms of pulmo-
nary consumption.
Voss's Gazette of Berlin states, on authority of a
letter from Vienna, that Count DIETRICHSTEIN, who
has been sent to Paris by the Austrian Cabinet on a
special mission respecting the entrance of Austria
with all her States into the Germanic Confederation,
has forwarded satisfactory intelligence to his liovern-
ment.

REUNION DES ARTS.—On Monday evening this
society opened its first soirée at the private rooms, 27, Queen
Anne-street, with a variety of excellent vocal andinstru-
mental music, to which Miss Day, Mademoiselle Rum-
mel, Mademoiselle Lavinia, Mr. De Munck, Mr. Goffrie,
Herr Schmidt, and Mr. Frederick Chatterton admirably con-
tributed, amidst the great applause of a very select
audience. The lower apartments were appropriated to
the fine arts, where amongst the paintings we remarked
some of the best of . Landseer, Taylor, Zweeker, Haag,
Kempf, Bartholomew, &c. During the interval of the mu-
sical performance, Mr. F. Chatterton delivered ashort and
appropriate address, and announced that the soirees would
be continued every Monday throughout the season. The
party broke up about 11 o'clock, with great satisfaction to
the committee and its members

BANQUET TO THE FOREIGN COAanseroNEus.—At
a meeting of the Coancil of Chairmen of the Metropolitan
Commission, presided over by their Noble President, it was
unanimously resolved to invite the Foreign Commissioners
to an entertainment. The invitation will be extended to
the foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, and the principal
.
completed, members of the Royal Commission Executive. The banquet
will be upon a scale of great splendour, and fully maintain
our national character for hospitality.
The third of the series of public bathing-places,
onrioginceted, and will be opened for business on Mondayated and carried out by the corporation of Liverpool, is
nett
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e regret to announce that Viscount Newry ex-
annGornenate,wdas the rejoicing in the
contest p, pired yesterday at his residence in Grosvenor-crescent.
ERR
clever aeactcreess, in
ATIAI -In the notice of the performances at
When Mr. CAVENDISH CLIFFORD most unexpectedly r
Protectionist cam
the Strand Th
yresterday's impression, the name of
that
td. C. Horsman, was erroneously
to .0 thatthe representation
toefthtehederiemination not
of Wight. printed " Housman."

This most unexpected announcement took the Free-
traders of the island completely by surprise, and the
Protectionists, believing there was no time to seek for
another Free-trade candidate, and that, consequently,
their man would enjoy a quiet walk over, raised high
the song of triumph—soon, however, to be changed
into a song of lamentation, for the very day after Mr.
CAvENDIsa CLIFFORD had announced his resig-
nation, an address was published from Mr. DAWES,
soliciting the suffrages of the Isle of Wight
constituency as a Protestant, a Liberal, a Free-
trader, and a Reformer, and containing this ominous
sentence—" It is my firm intention to go to the
poll." We rejoice that such is the intention of
Mr. DAWE3, and we doubt not for one moment of
his success. lie is the man of all others best suited
to represent effectively any constituency in the House
of Commons. His address, which appears i❑ another
column, contains such a profession of political faith
as entitles him to the energetic support of every one
who really bolds truly Liberal principles. He is a
large landholder, but is an advocate of free-trade
policy, because he is convinced that its adoption has
increased the comforts of the working classes, has dis-
armed the disaffected, and probably saved the country
from confusion and ruin. As a remedy for agricultural
distress, he recommends the re-adjustment of rents,
a recommendation which the landlords are in justice
bound to adopt, seeing that the total rental of the
kingdom in 1850 exceeded, as shown by the pro-
perty-tax returns, the total rental of the kingdom in
1815 by 3,000,0001., while it is obvious that not one
single acre of land has been added in the meanwhile
to the superficies of the island ; with a reduction of
rents to the amount of 3,000,0001. annually we
should not hear much of agricultural distress.
Mr. DAWES is a determined upholder of the civil and
religious rights of the community against sacerdotal
usurpation, whether the usurper be Papist or
Puseyite, and he pledges himself to support a
measure for placing conventual establishments
under salutary regulations, and for regulating
bequests devised for charitable and religious purposes ;
in other words, he will do his best to prevent
heiresses being imprisoned for the purposes of plun-
der, or parents bullied on their death-beds into dis-
inheriting their children, while at the same time he,
in common with every other real Protestant, would
allow to " the Church of Rome the same amount of
religious liberty, and the same means for its propaga-
tion as are enjoyed by other religious denominations."
To yield to them more than this would be unjust to
all other religionists and a flagrant violation of the
principle of religious equality, without which
religious liberty cannot exist. On the question
of the suffrage, the opinions of Mr. DAWES are
such as to fully entitle him to the support of the Li-
beral electors of the Isle of Wight, while from his
declaration that his canvass shall be carried on in a
spirit of fairness and candour, we take it for granted
that should be be returned Mr. DAWES will be found

supporting the motion of which Mr. HENRY BERKE-
LEY has given notice for the ballot. A more desirable

candidate than Mr. DAWES could not have solicited
the suffrages of the Isle of Wight constituency, and
we have no doubt but that the electors of the Royal
Island will at the same time confer honour on them-

selves and on Mr. DAWES by returning him as their

THE S

,KE TS

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur says—" The Minister of the Interior
hai received dispatches announcing that the anniversary
of the 4th of May was celebrated in the departments in
the midst of complete calm. The rumour of an insur-
rection having broken out at Lyons on Sunday, which
was spread at the Bourse jesterday as a culpable ma-
r osavre, has not the least foundation. A telegraphic
dispatch, sent from Lyons yesterday morning, states
that that town then enjoyed perfect tranquillity."
M. DE LAMARTINE has published in the Pays an arti-
cle which occupies one side of the paper, urging the im-
mediate repeal of the Electoral Law of May, 1850.
The National, in a notice of the check recently re-
ceived by the English Ministry, expresses its surprise
and regret that the Liberals of the House of Commons
should have compromised their honour and their inte-
rests by playing the game of the Tories.
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN publishes an article in the
Presse in which he accuses General CHANGARNIER of
having, in March, 1848, offered M. LEDRU ROLLIN to
invade England with 12,000 men, and proclaim a re-
public.
The Paris correspondent of the lndipendance of
Brussels, writing on Sunday, says:—" The affair of the
conversation between General CHANGARNIER and M.
DE PRESIONY is not terminated. lam assured that M.
DE PRESIGNY is disposed to cause to be printed let-
ters written by a third party, who represented himself
as an intermediary invested with the confidence of the
General, and being able to speak in his name. The let-
ters, lam told, are twelve in number. If the fact be
real, it will only prove one thing, namely, that M. DR
PRESIGNY, who long had friendly relations with the
General, very ill appreciated his character, which is so
cold, re.erved, and prudent, that a prince of the Orleans
family justly said of him, 'lf the General thought
that his hat had divined what ho thinks he would
burn it.' " ,

Monday being the anniversary of the death of the
Emperor NAPOLEON, a religious service was performed
in the church of the Hotel des Invalides. The PRESI-
! DENT of the Republic, the VICE PRESIDENT, the Ex-
KING of Westphslia, and several other members of the
BONAPARTE family, were present. The congregation
was very numerous. Several of the generals and other
officers of the empire attended, as did also Marshal NAR-
VAEZ. The railings of the column of the Place Ven-
dome were on this, as on former occasions, covered with
funeral wreaths, brought thither chiefly by old officers
and soldiers of the empire.
Two reports were presented to the Assembly. The
first recommended the rejection of a proposition of M.
Min' for a General Exhibition in Paris. The seem d
opposed a proposition of M. HoWIN-DE-TRANCIIERE
for the formation of a Committee to fellow the opera-
tions of the Agronomical Institute of Versailles.
At the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, M. PIERIE
PRADIE laid on the table the following proposition:—
"The President of the Republic and the Ministers shall
be impeached if they do not dissolve, according to the law,
the committees and rd-unions which ostensibly have for their
object to promote the election to the Presidency of the Re-
public of a candidate who cannot be eonsti utionally elevated
to that dignity. They shall also be guilty of high treason
if they do not enforce against the distributor of lists, of pro-
fessions of faith, or writings of every description having the
same object, the laws intended for the repression of such
acts."

The speculators at the Bourse appear to have re-
covered from the' panic of Monday, and public securi-
ties improved in price. The Five per Cents. opened
at 90f. 50c., and closed at 90f. 60e. Tho Three per
Cents. closed at 56f. 40e.; Orleans Railroad Shares,
820 r. ; Havre, 252 f. 50c. ; Grea►t Northern, 477 f. 50c.;
Avignon, 210 f. Basle, 143 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 403 f. 75c.;
Paris and Strasburg, 367 f. 50c,; Tours and Nantes,
276 f. 25c.