The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 7
.1845

Grand Council, which has this day sent to the Vorort a I
request that the Diet may be immediately convoked.
This convocation, it is feared, will come too late. As
soon as the news of the Government having put impedi-
ments in the way of the projt cts of the Lucerne refugees
was spread abroad, free corps were at once formed at every
point, and set out on the march. Even the more iii;tant
cantons have taken part in the movement. To-day nearly
fifty men have arrived from Schaffhausen, in post or
private carriages ; there are some also from St. G ill, the
Grisons, an'l Glaris ; others are coming from Zurich
and Berne ; Bale country is coming en masse; and in
Argeu and Soleure there is not a village that dues nut
send out at least ten fighting teen. This evening aql the
free corps will be united at Z ;fingue and its environs.
They will, no doubt, commence their operations in the
night, and to-morrow morning, or at least by mid-day,
will, in all probability, be at the gates of Lucerne. It
is not expected that they will meet will any resistance,
unless, indeed, the smaller cantons should come forward.
In fact, they cannot sustain the assault ; hut still
blood will be shed. If, on the contrary, the small cantons
do • not come to the assistance of the Gorernment of
Lucerne, it is to be presumed that all will be brought to
an end on 'Wednesday.' "
The Constitutionnel also gives important information
to the effect that a number of officers and soldiers, called
under arms by the Government of Lucerne, had refused
to obey the call, and some who had joined had deserted
to the free corps. The majority of the inhabitants were
greatly ircensed against the Executive.
Since the previous account was in type, we regret to
state that intelligence of a still more distressing nature
has been received from Paris by express. The following
appears in a second edition of the Morning Herald :
" BATTLE IN SWITZERLAND.—GREAT
LOSS OF LIFE. •

PARIS, FRIDAY.
" The Debuts published this morning the following
most serious intelligence:—
" From the accounts we have received, which are
somewhat confused, we collect that the free corps pre-
sented themselves before Lucerne upon the morning of
the Ist, and were received by a fire of musketry, and two
attempts to enter the town were repulsed. It is added
that the besiegers, believing in a capitulation, retired to
the Faubourgs, where they were received by a fire of
;rape-shot so terrible, that from 800 to 1,000 were
killed. Notwithstanding this terrible loss, the free corps
mastered the town. On hearing of this loss, the Radicals
of the other cantons put themselves in movement against
Lecerne. Those of Bale Campagne left on the Ist. On
Bale Ville there was the greatest alarm, and at Bale
several incendiary attempts were made. On the other
hand, the Catholic party of Argovia had risen to go to
the aid of Lucerne, and the tocsin sounded throughout
the canton. The Vorort had convoked 17 battalions
and Berne 7; but it is not likely they can put down a
struggle began in a manner so bloody!"
The domestic intelligence in the Paris papers is of
little in'erest. The Opposition journals, with the excep
tion of the Constitutionnel, have articles on the discus-
sions hi the Committees on the grant for arming the
fortifications of Paris, but we find no new arguments,
though much violence, against the measure. M. DE
LAMARTINE said the Chamber of Depwies must cease
to exist the moment they had to deliberate under two
thousand pieces of cannon. M. Ansao and M. BARROT
could not say much, for the latter had Toted in tavour of
the fortifications, and also the former under certain re-
trictions. General PAIXIIANS, fir the consolation, or
rather in ridicule of the Parisians, assured them that the
two thousand guns with which they were to be presented,
would not be more troublesome than the guns of Lille,
Strasburg, and Metz were to the inhabitants of those

towns.
The Three per Cents. closed onsthe Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 85f. 80c.; the Five per Cents. at 117 f. 80c.;
Orleans shares, 1,303 f. 75c.; Rouen, 1,162 f. 50c. ; Havre,
972 f. 50c.; Avignon, 1,130 f; Basle, 341 f. 25c.; Belgian
Tw•o and-a-Half per Cents., 62f, 50c. ; Spanish Actives,
40. ; Ditto Three per Cents., 411 ; Ditto Passives, 7i.
Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 20f. ; Paris and Lille
(Blunt), 50f. ; Paris and Lyons (Blunt), 50f. ; Ditto
(Calon), sf. 7f. 50c. ; Ditto Ganneron), 17f. 50c. 20f.;
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 17f. 50c. 20f. ; Paris
and St. Quentin, 10f. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Espelette),
35f. 40f.

DurßEz.—This extraordinary singer makes his
first - appearance amongst us this season to-night, at
Drury-lane theatre, and we rejoice to 1, arn there is every
prospect of a complete overflow ; indeed it would be a
great reproach to us if the theatre were Lot crammed
every night he appears.
IN RE " THE QUEEN AND OSBORNE ESTATE."—
Mr. George Robins received instructions from Lady
Isabella Blackford, the fair proprietress of Osborne, so
far back as January last., to proceed to the sale by
auction of this far-famed place and its demesne in
.June next. This was the consequence of her Ma-
jesty having availed herself of a clause in the purchase-
deed, to be relieved from it on paying 1,0001. for one
year's occupation. The snow and the continued frost
alone prevented the preliminary steps being taken by a
personal visit from Mr. Robins ; when, all on a sudden
the Queen became again enamoured of the beauties of
Osborne, and Mr. Robins had his reluctant commands,
and necessarily his unwilling consent to stop all further
proceedings. He has, however, been Uirected to sell a
place close by, of equal pie tensions—the Thornhill Park
Estate. This Edifice cost Mr. Roy, M.P., near 30,0001.,
and, with the domain attached, it is said, approached
fifty thousand guineas. This Sale, with the costly ap-
pendages within, comes off on the sth of next month,
and extends over seven or eight days. It is said Osborne
House Estate will bear no comparison with Thornhill
Park.
Leaving to the brilliant author of '•Coningsby" the
task of portraying, the new generation, the mysterious
author of " Cecil seems determined to amuse the world
at the expense of the old. The Court of George IV.
has already been laid open by his caustic pen, with a
degree of fearlessness that would make us tremble if it
d.d not make us laugh—and " SELF " may be :regarded,
Lawrence illustrated by the pen of a Gram-
e Sire are told, as a catalogue ralsonuee of the portraits of
mont.
REVELATIONS OF SPAIN IN 1845.—The important
work just published under the above title is excit-
ing extraordinary interest. The editor, in his pre-
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nities which his long residence in the country had af-
fordedis wt with Spam
sa rc forel :—" There
and its inhabitants that the author has not handled in
detail The country, under all its aspects, and the people,
in all the phases of their contradictory and bizarre y extensiveansulijecatn
cha-
racter, pass before our eyes. Spain fighting and feast-
ing, pronouncing and fraternising ; Spain in the Circus
and in the Senate-house, torturine bulls and baiting
Ministers ; Spain in its hours of mad folly and .its rare
moments of reflection.
MAYNOOTH MEETING AT CHELTENHAM.--The
Cheltenham Journal publishes, in a second edition, a long
report of a meeting held in that town on Monday, for the
purpose of adopting a petition to Parliament against the pro-
posed grant to Maynooth College. There were about eight
hundred persons present. On the platform were C. Cole,
Esq., Sir R. Wolselv, the Rev. A. Boyd, T. Jerram, Esq.,
Captain Schreiber, C. T. Cooke, Esq., Rev. J. Browne, Rev.
C. H. Bromby, Rev. J. R. Watson, Rev. M. Brown, Rev.
G. Lewis J. Lewis, Esq., J. H. Hulme, Esq., Rev. J. E.
Riddle,Major Davies, Rev. Mr. Burgess, Elliott, Esq.,
T. Bodley, Esq., &c. The Rev. F. Close, incumbent of
Cheltenham, was unanimously called to the chair, Resolu-
tions in accordance with the object of the meeting were una-
nimously carried, and a petition to the House of Commons
to withhold assent to the Bill for the proposed additional
grant was agreed to.
LORD ROSSE'S TELESCOPE.—We understand that
Dr. Robinson, of Armagh, Professor Macullogh, and
other scientific gentlemen, have been staying for some
weeks with the Earl of Rose, at Parsonstown, wit-
nesses of the first achievements of the great telescope.
We have seen a private letter from Dr. Robinson, in
which he says:-.--" We had very good work at Parsons-
town. OF forty-three of Herschell's nebulae, considered
unresolvable by him, all were found to be composed of
stars. The bright centres which some of them have,
and which Herschell considered proofs of condensation,
prove to be central globular clusters, of' much larger
stars; and this seems to be a general arrangement. No
planets were visible. It defines very well, showing
Gamma and Xi, Virginis, under very unfavourable cir-
cumstances."—Northern Whig.
THE WEATHER.--A HURRICANE AT GLASGOW.—
During the forenoon of Thursday, dad{ heavy clouds
hung gloomily over the city, and early in the evening,
rain began to pour down in torrents,—the wind raged
violently, and continued so during the whole night.
Early in the morning it had increased to a perfect hur-
ricane, and, when daylight appeared, the ravages of
this fearful, although invisible element, was to be wit-
nessed on every side. The streets were strewed at but
very short distances with broken chimney-cans, tiles,
slates, &c., showing that the damage done to property
must have been very considerable. At the Broomie-
law, the work of desolation was more apparent.
A fine brig, named the James Mitchell, the pro-
perty, we understand, of Bailie Mitchell, was driven
from its moorings about three o'clock in the morn-
ing. and as the wind was at that time blowing
with hurricane force from the west, the vessel was
carried speedily up the river, until it came into violent
collision with Glasgow-bridge. The effect was, that
about 40 feet of the handsome parapet of this splendid
bridge was b-oken down ; but we are glad to hear that
the vessel suffered very trifling damage. Several small
boats were sunk in the Clyde, unable to encounter the
storm which had roused up its placid waters. The
storm was still raging yesterday forenoon, and continued
till evening, accompanied at intervals Kith torrents of
rain, while, ever and anon, bright glimpses of the sun
broke forth, sadly mingling, as it were, smiles with de-
solation. No lives, we are happy to say, have been lost
in our city during this hurricane; but we stand in
trembling expectation of the result on the coast, as also
in various districts of the country.— Scotch Reformers'
Gaz(tt

BRISTOL SITGAR-MARKET, APRIL 4.—The market
hag been rather quiet this week, and the sides only reach 400
hhds. West India, and 1,000 mats Mauritius ; in some eases
at rather easier prices.—Bret Mercury.