The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-23 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The question of the revision of the Constitution is dis-
cussed in all the journals.
The Presse gives the following account of a conversa-
tion in the Assembly on this topic:--
" The 28th May is drawing nigh, and on that day the
Assembly, having entered on the third year of its existence,
can entertain the question of revising the Constitution. In
that prevision, perfectly legal, MM. Moulin and Morin had
presented a proposition having for object to regulate the
manner in which all applications to revise the Constitution
are to be examined. M. Godelle moved yesterday that this
proposition should be brought iorwardfor discussion this day.
General Cavaignac opposed that course as illegal, but the ma-
jority of the Assembly declared against him. We attach no
importance to that decision. For us, the question does not
relate either to tricks or to po'itical stratagems, or to the
manner of proceeding. It is quite indifferent to us what for-
malities the Assembly may think fit to employ for the pur-
pose of examining any proposition for revision. We shall
never have but one reply to make to all such propositions, a
reply clear, straightforward, and simple, to which the friends
of reaction can find nothing to reply, in whatever manner
the battle is engaged. That reply is—No revision without
the repeal of the law of May 31. However the struggle may
be conducted, such is the right, such the truth I"
The Committee charged to examine tne proposition of
M. CHAPOT, relative to the right of petition, assembled
yesterday. Among the clauses adopted by the Com-
mittee is one which interdicts women and minors from
signing petitions, except on affairs concerning them-
selves personally. M. QUENTIN BAUCI3A.RD WAS Chosen as reporter.
M. DE CABRAL, an attach) of the French Embassy at
Naples, has arrived in Paris, and will be followed in a
row days by M. NV ALEWSKI. The Bulletin de Paris
states that General AUPIC declines the embassy to Lou.
don, and that the appointment will probably be given
to M. WALEWBRI.
We read in the Bulletin de Paris:—
" The French Government has just addressed detailed in-
structions to General Getneati, relative to the aggressions
against the French soldiers at Rome. It is recommended
among other things that the officers and privates shall only
appear publicly in rattier numerous bodies, so as to be in no
danger of assassination, and that in the event of insult or ag-
gression they shall enforce respect by vigorous action."
The Bourse was again dull, and mere was but little
business transacted. The Five per Cents. opened at
90r. 50c., arid closed at 901. 20c.; the Three per Cents.
dosed at 55f. 90e.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 820 f.;
fiouen, 615 r.; Havre, 2061.; Great Northern, 417 f. 25c.;
Avignon, 2201.; Vierzan, 4301.; Basle, 1131. 75c.; Bor-
deaux, 397 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 361 f. 25c.;
Tours and Nantes, 271 f. 25c.
dUSID.ESS Ul/iNh IN I,t)HEIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, ISIA.Y 22.
Boulogne and Amiens, 92—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 1676 1
—Great Indian Peninsula, 2
.--.l4lixem-
boarg, 2% —Northern of France, 14%—Paris and Rouen,
24143—Tours and and Nantes, 576 Strasbourg, 1012—Sambre and Meuse, 3%
—T.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived.
The rumours of an approaching modification in the
Ministry have been officially contradicted.
The Epoca gives the following synopsis of the result
of the elections:—" There are 47 Progressistas elected,
49 of the Moderate Opposition, 19 of the Conservative
Opposition, 8 Monarchists, 50 Independent Moderates,
12 double election, and 12 elections for the Canary and
Balearic Isles (the returns from which have not been re-
ceived)—in all, 197. The number of deputies being 349,
the Ministry reckon in the new chamber 152 decided
Ministerialists."
MADRID BOLSA, MAY 17.—The Three per Cents. 36;
Five per Cents, 16 1-16. Exchange on London, 50 70
money.

PORTUGAL.
The KING has asked permission of the QUEEN to be
absent from Portugal for three months, in order to avoid
being present at the arrival of SALDANHI. in Lisbon.

GERMAN Y.
The Cologne Gazette has the following from Vienna,
dated 14th:--" The camp which is to be formed in the
neighbourhood of Olmutz will be on a larger scale than
was at first contemplated. It will be composed of
picked troops from the corps d'armle of Moravia, Silesia,
Bohemia, and Upper Austria. Several Generals have
already gone to inspect the troops. We have already
stated that BACRONINE had been condemned to impri-
sonment for life; the truth is that he had been eon.
demned to death, but the EMPEROR commuted the sen.
fence. He has already left Olmutz."
The New Gazette of l'Odef states that M. Becico-
NINE was delivered up on the 17th to the Russian au•
thorities near Miglowitz.
The King of PRUSSIA arrived, on the evening of the
18th, at Warsaw. The Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA
went to meet him as far as Wiernirvice.
The Spener Gazette states that *it Emperor of AtTS.
TRIA was to leave Olmutz on the 20th. It is said that
his MAJESTY will have an interview with the King of
Paussu at Warsaw, and will afterwards proceed as far
as Cracow.
M. DE ITANTEUFFEL left Berlin on the 18th, for
Warsaw; General DE ROCEIOW, Prussian Ambassador
to the Germanic Diet, has also started for that city.

Accoun ITALY.
the g ts from Rome represent that city es a prey to
reatest agitation. Several French soldiers have
been attacked and killed in the streets, and Roman
police agents have also been stabbed. The inhabitants
of Rome have, by common consent, given up the use of
tobacco, in order to Prevent the exchequer deriving any
revenue from the tobacco duty.
The French general had issued a second proclamation 1
requiring the inhabitants to give up,
within a week, all
arms in their possession, under pain of being brought
before a council of war. tits prohibition extends even
to the carriaze of walking sticks of a certain dimension. 1
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ously uled ib, the Senate of fiurin nua p .

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Last evening was one of the delightful " long Thursdays,"
and long before the commencement of the performances every
nook and corner from which a sight of the stage could be
commanded was occupied. It was the first performance
this season of the most brilliant, moat delightful, and most
effervescing of operas, Il Barbijre, and the cast was
amazingly strong. Madame Sontair, who was in ex-
cellent voice and spirits, was the Rosins, and sang
the " Una Voce" and the Rode's air with variations with, if
Possible, increased brilliancy, creating a complete furore.
Both these pieces were of course redemanded. Lablache
was the Doctor Bartolo, and we were glad to perceive that
his recent indisposition had not deprived bins of one jot of
his unctuously rich humour, or of his mar-
vellous activity. Signor Ferranti appeared for the
first time as Figaro, and gave an admirable
version of the part; Ferranti is what we very seldom see on
the Italian stage in these northern climes, a par ercellence
Italian buffo, thoroughly impregnated with the restless
activity and mischievous love of fun which is so characteris-
tics
of the buffh of Italian opera. His performance
wa most amusing, and bis singing worthy of all praise
for its admir ble correctness and its purity of intonation.
Signor Casanova was the Basilio, and gave "La Cal mnia,"
which we are glad to see restored to its place in the opera,
in magnificent style. Calzolari made a sprightly and viva-
cious Almivava, and sang the music with great taste and
sweetness. The opera was preceded by the second and third
acts of La Muta di Portici, in which the acting of Monti
and the singing of Pardiisi andiMassol were superb. Between
the acts of the Barbiare, Carlotta Grisi danced the Truan-
daise, and after the opera there was the divertissement of the
Cosmopolites. We understand that it is the intention
of Mr. Lumley to open Her Majesty's Theatre on
the evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for
Soirees Extraordinaires, and certainly the crowded state of
the house on the nights of the regular performance (on the
night of Tuesday, and again last night, for example), not
only justify, but almost demand of him the adoption of some
such plan for the gratification of those strangers at present
in London, who are anxious to avail themselves of perhaps
the only opportunity they may ever have of visiting the first
lyrical establishment in the world.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by the Baroness do Speth, went to Frogniore yesterday
morning, and returned to her residence, Clarence House,
St. James's, in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness,
accompanied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Lei-
ningen, and attended by Lady Fanny Howard, Sir
George Conner, and Lord James Murray, honoured the
Princess's Theatre with her presence last evening.
A deputation to urge the repeal of the present receipt
stamp tax, or for its reduction to an uniform rate of one
penny, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, at his official residence, Downing..
street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Brotherton,
MT., Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Messrs. Bradbury, Schofield,
klackblock, Sim, ard Christy.
The Right Honourable Fox Maule gave a dinner to the
Cabinet Ministers on Wednesday, at his residence, Che-
sham-place.
Mr. Tollemache, M.P., and a numerous deputation had
an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Rev. Dr. Rogerson had an interview with Earl
Grey at the Colonial. office, yesterday.
HEE MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—To-morrow her
Majesty enters her 32d year (which is her natal day, having
been burn on the 24th of May, 1819), but the anniversary
will not be celebrated until Saturday, the 31st instant, at
Court and in the metropolis, so that the usual national de-
monstrations on this auspicious occasion (illuminations, &c.),
will not be made until next week, when it will be observed
as a holiday at the Custom-house and dock companies, the
Excise and Stamp offices (which will also be closed on
Thursday next, the 29th instant—Ascension-day, Whit
Monday and Tuesday, 9th and 10th of June), all the dif-
ferent public depa.tments at the West-end, King's and Uni •
versity College; and the different public schools in the me-
tropolis and vicinity—Christchurch, Chelsea, Greenwich,
Woolwich, &c.

Tns Caysr&L PALACE.—It would seem as if the
genius of invention had presided over the erection of the
Exposition Building even to its minutest details, so sud-
denly are unexpected urgencies met by novel means. The
whole of the outer basement and deal-skirting which but
now presented a raw and cold surface has, as if by the ma-
gician's wand, become a highly granulated wood, of a rich
and cheerful hue, This has been effected by a most simple
aid—a stain for wood, invented by a Mr. Stephens, of Stam-
ford-street, which, while it brings up and preserves the na-
tural vein, converts even the softest-working wood into an
enduring and hand-orne material, and thus altogether dis-
pensing with tediaue, expensive, and artificial graining. The
doors of the Crystal Palace are similarly treated, and being
on a better planed and more choice description of wood,
exemplify the capabilities of this facile application in a very
satisfactory manner.—Morning Herald.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—Lord Belhaven, the
Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly, arrived
in Edinburgh on Wednesday. There being, as last year, no
access to the Royal apartments in Holyrood Palace, lila Lord-
ship is, during thecontinuance of the Assembly, to reside at
leo, George-street. The Lord Provost and magistrates, to-
gether with the treasurer, the Dean of Guild, and the Con-
venor of the Trades, dined with his Lordship in the after-
noon, on which occasion the usual ceremony took place of
presenting him, as the representa ive of her Majesty, with
the keys of the city. Yesterday (Thursday) his Lordship
was to proceed in his private carriage from his residence in
George-street, along Princes-street, by the North-bridge to
the County-hall in the High-street, where he was to hold
the usual pre irainary levee. A large party were to dine
with his Lordship at Barry's Hotel, Queen-street, at the con-
clusion of the business in the General Assembly yesterday;
and a drawing-room, we understand, was also to be held. A
second levee is to take place in the County Hall on Saturday.
CAVALRY REGIMENT FOR THE CAPE.—There is no
longer any doubt that a cavalry regiment will shortly be
ordered to the Cape, and take up the troopers of the dis-
mounted Riflemen, orders having been issued to many
cavalry corps now at home to suspend the purchasing of
their remounts, as the horses of the regiment ordered out
will be distributed among the cavalry regiments requir-
ing horses. As is customary upon these occasions, many
reports are in circulation as to which is to be the regi-
ment selected for this service, and that which finds most sup-
port is either the 12th Lancers or the 3d Dragoon Guards.
We incline to the former, as heavy cavalry has already been
tried at the Cape. The blue' jacket will nut be so conspicuous
as the red coat was, and the lance will be a new feature, not
only of great service, but in all probability tending by its
appearance alone to strike terror into the minds of these half-
civilized hordes. The regiment ordered to the Cape will
not proceed to India, as the expense of conveying them
thence from ;be Cape would be greater than conveying a
corps from England, as in both cases the transports would
have to sail from home.
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NUMEROUS AND FATAL ACCIDENTS RETURNING
ItPeNoalt.
FROM EPSON ON THE DERBY DAY.—Late on Wednesday Do. No.
night and yesterday (Thursday) morning, the following se- Eastern U
rious accidents were admitted into the Borough Hospital. guarm 6 i
which occurred on the way from Epsom to London :—Shortly
Do. 101. Del
after eleven o'clock, a man named George Jackson, aged 26, East
..Lanca
residingin Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate. street, City, was re- t,.cBrit.q,Z
turning from the races at Epsom, in company with several "
Edin. Per. &
friends, when the cart in which they were riding came in Gl asgo & s
contact with a pleasure-van, whereby those in the former
at Nowrthe r
vehicle sere thrown out on to the roadway. The man Jack- Great
_r Bonet/
son was so seriously injured that it was deemed necessary to L(.1., (Ireland)
convey him by railway to St. Thomas's Hospital, where it :Ile, ;
was found that he had sustained a severe scalp wound and Do. 6 per c
fractured "
ribs. Another accident Kappened near Ewell, Leeds and
which wes unfortunately attended with fatal con•equences. cent., teo;;•
o
A party of gentlemen in a dog-cart were proceeding at
London,D .(1
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a rapid speed towards town,
when they drove the
vehicle cn to an embankment,
which capsized the Heath Coas,
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whole of them, when one gentleman, named Tomlinson, et. De. pef., 1
was so mach injured that he expired on the way home
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to SouthAmptoa-street, Camberwell, where the body
E o pondnar
now lies awaiting an inquest. A third accident took place
Lokiunecieondehrr2
to a cabman, named Charles Palmer, aged 42, of Coburg-
road, Old Eent-road. It seems he had been engaged by mulch.: st
Jemmy Welsh, Barnash, and other pugilists, to convey them Line., qua
to Epsom And back, and when near Sutton, the driver Doo. izei.w, 2 (Palmer) was knocked off his seat, when the wheel of a car- D., rings passe( over his left arm; he also received a serious Midland Con
injury to the head and various contusions on his body. He Do. Censeinwng.,
was placed in the cab, and brought at two o'clock in the Do. Bristo
morning to Guy's Hospital, where very faint hopes are given Norfolk Exti
of his recovery. Several other accidents happened near the
Do.. Waves
Elephant and Castle. where many thousand persona had
assembled to witness the return of the company from the North Britithie.Wor.&'
races. A flan named William Harcourt, aged 40, was

Shrewsbury
standing in the roadway near the Obelisk, when he was New Gua
knocked doe by a phaeton and four horses, and before the Shrews. and
driver could stop the off wheels passed over his legs, causing W. Min.)
compound fractures of both limbs. He was placed on a 'r-o___uttih,-lElvt°e'
"u
stretcher ant conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where he now re-
mains in a dangerous condition. Many other casualties were Waterford&
West London
admitted into the hospitals, but after having their wounds .
Cla dressed they were taken home.
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SUDDEN DEATH OF FREDERICK SHARMAN CRAW-
DGot. N. of
FORD, ESQ. —We regret exceedingly to announce the death, York and N(
at Crawfordamrn, of Mr. F. S. Crawford, fourth son of
11. and s.
William Sharman Crawford, Esq., M.P. for Rochdale. He
was in the nth year of age, and was in his usual state of
hearth up tc Saturday last, the 17th inst., wh-n an attack Boulogne am
of idlinuna.ion suddenly removed, from a scene of useful- Central of I
ness, one of the most benevolent men that ever graced society. D leans and '
DEATH )F MR. MoTT, THE POOR-LAW AUDITOR. Duemtcehrnial
—Mr. Chafes Mott, the auditor for the South Lancashire East Inditto
Poor-law district, expired on Monday last. Mr. Mott had Do. do.
Great Indian
incurred the displeasure of the Poor-law Board, on account
of the defalcations of the late collector for Hyde, who ab- Louvain
a lad
sconded wits moneys belonging to that township in his pos- Luxembourg
session. Mr. Mott, it was considered, had neglected to Ditto
verify certa n accounts, the examination of which would Madrid and'
have led to the detection of the state of the collector's ba-
lances Marta Anton
Ditto, Nei
lances befcre he had time to get away. Mr. Mott was, Namur and I
therefore, luspendeil from the further prosecution of the Northern of
audit he Ziad then commenced. In this stet , things con- Orleans and
tinned up to a recent period, when we believe Mr. Mott re- Paris and Or
ceived instructions to proceed with his work, and he wiis to Paris and it(
have commenced again on Monday morning week. On Sun- Paris andaSEO
day, however, he was found in his bedroom, having been Rouen ._
alamoreaannd
seized with paralysis, and th..ugh conscious at frequent in- Tours and N
tervals, he never spoke from the time the appalling affliction Tourney, .1(
fell upon ban up to that of his death, which took place List den, and
Monday. Mr. Mott was considerably past the prime of lift: w•d1".
—Manctietter Courier,

22.
ARRIVAL OP TIIR ROYAL FAMILY IN THE ISLE OFMAY
WIGHT.
—Soon after one o'clock this day, the Royal children ar-
rived at Cowes, and at six o'clock in the evening, the Fairy
yacht came into harbour with her Majesty and Prince Albert
on board; the Royal party were saluted by the Castle, the
R. Y. S. battery, the Titania schooner yacht, G. R Stephen-
son, Esq., and from the Scindian troop-ship, Capt. Comma
from which the soldiers cheered most heartily.

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