The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TITV'g-nAeri MORNING, APRIL 9, A 844,

, The Irish papers give most glowing accounts of the
enthusiasm with which Mr. O'CONNELL has been re-
ceived on his way to Cork, where he is to be enter-
tained at a magnificent public dinner. At every town
and village through which the " convicted conspira-
tor" passed, the people assembled in vast crowds, and
testified their unabated confidence in him by repeated
bursts of acclamation. " I have had many opportu-
eities," says an eye-witness, writing to a Morning
Contemporary on the subject, " of observing the
manner in which the Liberator was received when
journeying through the several districts of Ireland
during the period of the monster-meetings, but
on no one occasion have I ever seen a more
enthusiastic reception given him, than that which
he has this day received as the convicted' for
conspiring' to liberate his native land by re-
storing her legislative independence." This strong
manifestation of national sympathy for Mr. O'Cox-
NELL at a ticklish period like the present, is another
of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Irish " difficulties," greater,
if possible, than any that he has yet encountered. In
what spirit will he meet it—by what means will he
overcome it ? He has already tried his utmost to
cripple the power of the " convicted conspirator,"
and the only result of his strenuous efforts has been,
to arm that " conspirator" with more power than ever.
Influential as Mr. O'CONNELL is, while at liberty to
go where he pleases, and address enormous masses of
his countrymen whenever he sees fit to do so ; he
will be infinitely more influential when confined
within the four walls of a prison, for to admiration
of his talents and confidence in his sincerity, will then
be added a deep, heartfelt sympathy in his fate. Ireland
will be continually bearing in mind—and the reflec-
tion will render Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government still
more odious than ever in her eyes, and reduce it to a
completer state of insignificance than it is in even at
present—lreland, we say, will bear in mind that it is
for her that Mr. O'CONNELL is suffering imprison-
ment—that it is for her he is debarred from the fresh

air of Heaven, and the enjoyment, so dear to him, of
a stroll over his native mountains; and this thought
incessantly fermenting and sinking deeper in the
national mind, will arm the object of it with a moral
influence compared with which that of the Govern-
ment will appear an absolute nullity. The Tories
have always been famous for their dexterity in
building up brick walls against which to run their
own heads, but they have never exhibited
their skill to greater advantage than in the present
instance. Instead of crippling Mr. O'CONNELL- as
they fondly hoped they would do by their State trial
—they have armed him with fresh means for annoy-
ing them. Already we perceive he has entered his
protest against their Irish Franchise Bill, and his
opinions on this subject will now be regarded with
more implicit deference and respect than ever

Through the medium of the Committee of the Repeal
Association Mr. O'CONNELL thus expresses himself on

the subject of the Bill in question :—" That the te-
nant-at-will clause in the English Reform Bill, com-
monly called the CHANDOS clause, has been found, by
experience, to work most mischievously, and, in fact, to
destroy the independence of the English county voters.
It is the worst species of franchise known in England,
and, therefore, is brought forward as the principal
franchise to be given to Ireland ; while the low rates
of franchise existing in England have been most un-
justly taken away from the people of
.Ireland, and
are, with a similar injustice, still retained from them.
That another objection to the present Bill is, that it
makes no provision for an increase of the representa-
tion of the Irish nation." When these objections
come to be repeated by " the convicted conspirator"
week after week ; when, dating from a prison, he en-
forces his objections by those impassioned and argu-
mentative appeals to the feelings and intelligence of
his countrymen, of which he is so consummate a
master, it is not difficult to foresee the effect which
this martyr to the cause of Ireland will produce on
the popular mind, and the additional—and perhaps
also we might add, inextricable—difficulties in which
he will involve his Ministerial opponents. We can
scarcely anticipate any other fate for Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S Irish Franchise Bill, than that which a 3 ear
or two since befel Lord STANLEY'S Registration
Bill. As Mr. O'CoNNELL upset the one, so will he
now upset the other, leaving to Government nothing

but the sorry consolation of knowing that they have

made him a " convicted conspirator."

A report prevailed in Madrid that, on the birth-
day of CHRISTINA (the 27th inst.) an amnesty would
be proclaimed. Rumours dre very prevalent of a serious
misunderstanding between NARVAEZ and M. GON-
ZALES BRAVO; the former supports a return to an
akolute Government, and the continuance of martial
law; the latter is disposed to resort to the forms of
the Constitution. The part taken by the QUEEN-
MOTHER Will probably decide which of the two will
gain the ascendancy.

RONCALI has announced his entry into Carthagena,
in a dispatch to the Minister of War. He states
that the chiefs of the late insurrection have escaped
from the city, and that he has secured only a few of
the subordinates, whom he deems unworthy of the
bullets he had destined for the leaders.

The Three per Cents. were done at 36i at sixty
days, the Fives at 231 at sixty days.

The French funds were slightly affected on Satur-
day by a report that an attempt had been made on
the life of the Duchess of ORLEANS on the previous
day. The following account of the incident that gave
rise to the rumour is given in the Moniteur :
" This morning (Friday), at the church of Chauchat,
a man, who was in the gallery, in front of that occupied
by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, made
some gestures which drew upon him the attention of the
persons placed in the church to keep order. At the mo-
ment that they were ordering the individual to quit the
church, he drew a very small dagger from his pocket,
without, however, appearing to have any intention of
using it. He was taken out of the chapel, and recog-
nisf-d as a German by birth, who in general resides in
Hanover, and whose mental faculties are deranged."
The account of the affair given by the Paine rather
varies from the above :

" The commencement of the Bourse (says the Petrie)
was great'y agitated to-day. People who pretended to
be well informed, stated that the Duchess of Orleans bad
escaped becoming the victim of an assassin in going to
pay her devotions at the new Evangelical church in the
Rue Chauchat—that a man `armed with a puignard, had
rushed upon her, and that an officer in the service had
warded off the blow by receiving it himself. The ru-
mour of such an attempt made against a Princess so
kistly popular as her Royal Highness, created an im-
mense sensation. The rumour at first lowered the
Three per Cents. 25c., but fortunately the Bourse is not
far from the Rue Chauchat, and as soon as the real
truth was known, the Funds rose again to 83. The fol-
lowing is the truth, according to information taken on
ale spot :—A man of about 50 years of age, pretty well

doctrine of Ministerial responsibility and public
control over official action ; the language and
the votes of Mr. SCARLETT halted between large pro-
fessions of abstract constitutional opinions,—and dan-
gerous concessions to proposals for their practical
discouragement and defeat. Mr. SCARLETT was at all
times too strongly imbued with the impressions and
doctrine of a high prerogative lawyer to be a good
Whig ;—we do not concern ourselves to know how
far his Whig habitudes and associations damaged his
Tory or Conservative utility. We shall always in-
sist upon the fact, that his conduct was to be deplored
for the sanction it afforded to that laxity, or facility, of
political principle, the example of which became a
sort of epidemic in succeeding years. At the har, as
a leading counsel, the name of SCARLETT Kill ever
stand among the highest on the list of accomplished,
astute, and winning advocates. His knowledge of
men, which was extensive and well digested, he
brought to bear on what " al ways
aptly termed his " management " of jurors ;
and his capacity in this art was pro-
found. He wielded it through a long and dis-
tinguished forensic career, with a success absolutely
marvellous. It would have conduced much to his
reputation as a judge, could he have forgotten, on the
bench, the habits of thinking and modes of arraying
facts and evidence which had achieved for him so
signal a reputation at the bar. But on the seat of
justice, Lord Anrsasa always appeared, to us, haunted
by a sort of involuntary partisanship; and if this was
the error of his judicial conclusions, he was liable to
occasional errors still more grate, both of temper and
discretion. We are loth to exceed, in our notice of
the dead, the limits of a temperate and even a lenient
censure; nevertheless, we cannot abstain from re-
marking, that, were we personally interested in the
posthumous reputation of the deceased nobleman, w
should have been better pleased that his career had
closed upon him as Sir JAMES SCARLETT than as
Lord ARINGER; and better still if on Mr., than on Sir
James, SCARLETT.

dressed, had been pointed out to the police as being
furiously deranged. A peace officer seeing him enter
the cltur,th where the Duchess of Orleans was, rushed
to stop him. A struggle ensued, and the officer received
o'i the hand a blow from a poignard. He, however,
overcame the man, who was carried to a place in the
neighbourhood and searched, when another knife was
found upon him. The affair, as may be conceived, made
a great sensation in the church, and the Princess, who
was in a raised gallery, having asked what was the
matter, was informed that a thief had b en made pri-
soner. But the rumour in travelling increased and im-
proved, and we know what it became by the time it
reached the Bourse, when it so happened that they had
no other rumours of any kind to talk about."

The Massager publishes a long report from the
Duke D'AUMALE, Commandant of the province of
Constantine, on the expedition in the Ziban, and on
the commencement of the operations in the chain of
the Aures mountains. It appears that the army has
overrun all the oases known under the name of the
Ziban, in the first plains of the desert, has drive❑ off
the Caliph who governed the district in the name of
ABD-EL-KADER, and dispersed the troops sent
against it. In a rather sharp action that took place
at Mechoueche, the Duke de MONTPENSTER, who was
engaged with the army for the first time, was slightly
wounded in the face.

The repeal of the stamp duties on new:papers has
been carried in the Chamber of Deputies by a ma-
jority of 6, the numbers being, for the motion brought
forward by M. de MONTLAVILLE, 146; against it,
140. The proposal was strongly opposed by the
Minister of Finance on behalf of the Cabinet, princi-
pally on the ground that the revenue could not spare
so large a sum as that raised by the duty.
There is little intelligence from Italy in these
papers beyond what has been already published.
A letter from Stockholm, dated the 22d ult., com-
municates the death of the KING'S foster brother,
General CAMPS, and gives the details of the post
mortem examination of the remains of the late Mo-
narch :

"General Camps, the foster brother of the late King,
and who had for many years been one of his Aides-de-
Camp, has closely folloAed his master to the tomb. He
died the day before yesterday. Of all the French who
came into Sweden with the Prince Royal in 1810, the
General was the last survivor. The obsequies of the
deceased monarch are announced for April 27. Our
journals publish the report of the autopsy, made by the
celebrated Retzius, in the presence of ail the witnesses
required by the ceremonial in such cases. Externally
there is nothing anormal but the scars of a gun-shot
wound in the head, and of a wound in the thigh from a
"ince; but it is ascertained that there was in the brain
I..mollitio alba, or a softening of the fornix; some serous
effusions and morbid adhesions, and in the arteries of
the lower members the ravages of the gangrene senilis.'
The process of embalment is now going on. General
Count de Lowenheim (our late minister at Vienna), is to
be the bearer of the letters to the King of the French,
and other generals will carry them to London, Vienna,
St. Petersburgh, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Munich. The
States-General are about to be convoked. The King
will be crowned in Sweden in the course of the summer,
and later in Norway."
PARIS AND ORLEANS RAILWAY.—The following is a
return of the traffic on the Paris and Orleans Railway,
for the week ending the 2d of April:— 41‘
22,075 Passengers 78,639f. Gsc.
Luggage
Carriages and horses 1,552
Goods • 27,572 65

Total for the week 116,977f. 76c.
Total receipts from the
commencement of the
year 1,233,578 f. Olc.
THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, APRIL 6.

First

Highest Lowest

French Five per Cents •• • • 122 Price. 90 .. 123 Price. 10 122 Price. 90 123 Price. 10
Three per Cents....• 83 05 .. 83 05 • • 82 95 .. 83
Bank of France 3130 .. 3135 —3130 ..3130
Latiltte Bank, I.ooof. Sharesllss .. 1163 . • 1155 .. 1165
5,000 f. Bharessl4s ..5150 • • 5145 ..51M
Belgian Bank .. •• • • ....... • 660 .. 660 660 .. 660
1842.... • • • •1087 50 .. 1087 50 • • 1087 50 ..1087 50
Belgian Fives, ex div •••• • • • 1021 .. 102} • • 1021 • . 1021
1840, ex div 105 f .. 105: .. 1051 .. 10.51
1842, ex div 1071 1071 •• 1071 .• 1071
Dutch Two-and-a-Half 61 •61 •61 61
Spanish Active •••••• • • • • • • 341 • • 341 • • 34,1 • • 341
Threes •• .
Passive • 61 • • 6! • • 61 • • 61
Old Deferred....... 71 71 71 71
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 461 • • 461 • • 461
Neapolitan. ••• • • .. •. • • 101 30 .. 101 30 • • 101 30 .. 101 30
Rowan • ••• • 106 •• 106 .. 106 .• 106

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain • • • • • • • • • 835 835 835 835
Versailles, R. 8.• •••••• • • • • • 390 .. 390 .. 390 .• 390
L. 8.• •••••• • • • •• 260 .• 270 .. 260 • • 270
Rouen 940 .. 940 .. 940 .. 940
%men to Havre •••••• • • • • • • 695 .. 697 60 • • 695 695
Orleans •• • • • • ..... • • • • • • • • 916 25 .. 916 25 .. 916 25 .. 916 25
Strasburg to Bale •• • • •• • • 267 50 .. 278 75 • • 267 50 • • 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles •• .. 755 .. 755 • • 755 .. 755
Mulhausen to Thant' ....... 390 .. 390 .. 390 • • 390

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
Versaffie5,R.11... ..
L. 8.•• •••• •• 260 .••270 -.• 257 50 267 50
Rouen . 942 50 .. 945 . 940

•• 945
Rouen to Havre-
Orleans ..... .. ••• • •
50 • • 917 50
Strasburg to ..... 265 .• 280 • • 265 .- 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles 755 •• 755 .. 752 50 .. 752 50

DEATH OF LORD ABINGER.
BURY ST. EDMUND'S, APRIL 7.—Lord. Abinger is
dead. His Lordship expired this day (Sunday), at pre-
cisely a quarter before two, P.M. His death was tran-
quil. Lady Abinger and his Lordship's physician left
Bury for town about six o'clock. The remains of his
Lordship will be removed on Tuesday.
As• all matters connected with the Chief Baron of the
Court of Exchequer are now subjects of history, it may
be interesting to state that the present Lady Abinger
was formerly Mrs. Ridley, the widow of the late Rev.
Mr. Ridley, of Ockley-green, near Ripley, whose hus-
band was a descendant of the celebrated Protestant
martyr, Bishop Ridley. Among other relics of this
pious individual in the possession of Lady Abinger, is
the chair in which he used to study.

FLANDERS MAIL.
gRUSSELB, APRIL s.—The King has received the
letter by which his Maiesty, the King of Sweden and
Norway, notifies to his Majesty the decease of his Ma-
jest,' King John Charles XIV., and his own accession to
:nhoeurn throne,irig
for O
three
ire thislv teekicsc,acs(i)omninthe
c
King will go into
this day.
We have spoken of a plan of the Russian Govern-
ment for the conversion of the Polish debt bearing e
in-
terest at five per cent. We have now before us the list
of the ukase. The first article is as follows :—" The
holders of the Five per Cent. Stock have the option of
exchtingirg the Five per Cent. Stock for a new Four per
Cent. Stock, or of receiving the capital in ready money
on the conditions and at the periods which will be here-
after fixed." _

On this occasion we cannot but remark that there has,
perhaps, never before been seen in Europe a similar
financial fact, consisting in a perfect unifv,rmity of sys-
tem, a great equality in the conditions of interest, and
sufficient confi:lence in the capitalist to attach almost as
much value to the funds of the poor States as to those of
the rich, Spain and Portugal alone excepted.
avnerdyth happy prospects. Theere is not too great
Letters from Frankfort of the 29th of March, say :
O Easterr
manufacturers
eopens i
satisfied,
tdh,
an abundance of goods as has been the case at preceding
fairs. The increase in the prices of raw materials has
permitted the manufacturers to charge high prices for
their goods.

many years made the greatest sacrifices of blood and
treasure to a cause with which the people have no
concern without deriving tiny advantage from it,
which,
.in fact, no reflecting person ever expected.
Yet it appears that further sacrifices are contemplated
which, it they should be made, must render the Greek
cause still more unpopular. Much money has been
sent from Bavaria to Greece; thousands of our coun-
trymen have there found an early grave, and the
remnant of them have returned home wretched and
miserable, we may say, from exile. The Greek Go-
vernment is in the ..most pressing financial distress.
The protecting Powers have refused all further ap-
plications for pecuniary aid, as not even the interest
on former loans has been paid. But the King has
now opened a negotiation with the house of Roths-
child to contract a loan to the amount of several mil-
lions of drachmas. This house, as we learn, from
good authority, is not indisposed to accede to the
proposal, but it requires, as a condition, the assent of
our Crown Prince, who holds his court at Bamburg.
The Crown Prince appears to be of opinion that this
sum will be a burden on us, and yet will not -fill up
the abyss Of the Greek financial distress. If he per-
sist in his refusal, the house of Rothschild will de-
cline the contract. —Hamburgh Papers, April 5.
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