The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

PrIlE OPERA•COLONNADE HOTEL (late Feuillade's), Charles-street, Haymarket, IS ;NOW OPEN. t—.— ItUnder P m ß anaz lN em e en E t .Sf I S E ' r S cha T „ H es xEcAanT. THEATRE. " U Y n AL the On EASTER MONDAY, will be produced Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. On Easter Monday will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far ren, Rogers ; Miss Amy Sedgwick, After which, a new Classical ExtravaF. , ,acza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Messrs. Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. p And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. on EASTER MONDAY, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. B. Webster, &c. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERCr. Mr. B. Webster, Billington, Eburne, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and Arden. Acting atanager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box to Office open from 10 to 5 --no charge for booking. No fees servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough On Easter Monday will or be prod t uce h e d a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., supported by company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, and Miss M. Tertian. Commence at 7o'cloek. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. On Easter Monday, with extraordinary magnificence, the splendid romance of IVANHOE ; or, The Lists of Ashby. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being the gpeatest amount ot fmale equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theaetre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with a Farce. Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, &l. Private Boxes, £4 4s, .£2 2s. mad £1 Is. Commence at Seven : Carriages at 11. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips (-IANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. On and after MONDAY, the 25th inst., will appear THE DELEPIEIIRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz.. Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierrc, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu- Mastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE ROYAL ACADEMY OVER THE WATER. Vide "PUNCH." CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. OPEN EVERY EVENING. The Musical Entertainments commence at Seven. Comic Vocalists :—Mr. E. W. 3fackney, J. G. Porde, and Miss Kate Harley. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 11 in the morning until 12 at night. THE WEATHER.—SrN OFFICE, Arun, 22, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 54—highest since noon yesterday. 40 lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day at noon. BAILOMETER-20'89. WIND, South-Easterly ; fresh, and very squally. That there will be a war, and that of a very formidable character, is now all but certain. Ano ther day will dispel all doubts on the subject. And, as we have already stated, Easter Sunday, the day of general festivity and rejoicing, has been appro priately selected by FRANCIS JOSEPH, the Papal champion, for the commencement of hostilities. He has flung his gauntlet into the arena, and invited a contest, as decidedly as the Irish belligerent of humbler rank, who with shillelagh in hand, was ac customed to invite the visitants toDonnybrook Fair to tread on the skirt of his coat, which he trailed along the ground for the purpose. It is possible that, having no faith in the proposed "Bubble Congress," and foreseeing that war was inevitable, he was determined to take the initiative and strike a formidable blow, gratifying his vindictive feel ings against Piedmont before France can possibly take part in the contest. He may, however, have ample reason to regret his reckless haste. A fair and reasonable proposition had been put forward by the British Government, and acceded to by France, Russia, and Prussia. Even Sardinia had consented to the disarmament, as proposed by Austria. What plausible pretext, what adequate excuse can be put forward for this most unjustifiable conduct—this flinging away of the scabbard, and proclaiming " war to the knife" against a neighbouring nation, which, although unable to bring equal force into the field at the moment, will speedily have such auxiliaries as will incline the scale very much in its favour, and against Austria ? All these considerations have, however, been set at nought. Anger and irritation have mani festly influenced the decisions of the Cabinet of Vienna, as must invariably be the case under a despotic Government, where " the Sovereign is the State." We know not what may be the private assurances of support which may have been given. The placing of 70,000 Prussian troops on a war footing, although declared to be "merely for defen sive purposes," bears, as we stated yesterday, a very significant aspect. We have had too long expe rience of such matters, to place implicit faith in the " sayings" either of diplomatists or official organs. Preparations for war, made at vast expense and great financial inconvenience, far exceed the most pacific assurances that can be tendered. It will be for Austria now, if possible, to justify or even ex tenuate her rash and hasty proceed.ng. When all the other great Powers had acceded to the condi tions which might have averted any conflict—when her own proposals had actually been accepted—she thought proper to " let slip the dogs of war," and fling the firebrand. One duty now remains to be discharged by tho British Government. They have endeavoured nobly, energetically, and ably to avert the threat ened evil. It has not been through any act of commission or omission on their part that matters have arrived at the present untoward stage. There has been no failure on the part of the Cabinet of St. l ames's, and if war should unfortunately arise it will be from causes wholly beyond their control. But they Owe a great obligation to the people of this country. They must take care that we are not to be implicated in the struggle under any pretext. lire cannot sympathise with any of the parties, engaged. Neither France nor Austria are deserv ing of support ; and although circumstances may arise to render action indispensable, we should wait until the last moment and do nothing that could possibly render Great Britain a particeps criminis on either side. It is true that our neutrality must be an armed .one—that our army and navy must be maintained on a war footing, arid that the necessary outlay May compel a revival, and possibly an increase, of the moribund income tax. This however, be a comparatvely trivial evil compared with a war, in which, as usual, British blood would be lavishly shed, and British gold would be required to subsidise those who had occasioned all the mischief. It is certain that we could not send a single . Man or a single shilling to sustain Austria. Her gross injustice Itnd mat- ,:'.,..,, "`• *- .._ . ...s . t ))' vo ~?e ~ • ,- :k- , lf S c at au , 4 44 . .. -.. ". i -. . , ---,.'-;.--° \ 46 • °Y-(3 t ~.- , ‘ , 7 ttr ..,. s ' s Ne ; . >y, 10114 IT l;'1- Ol ... 0 * ~,, , ..:1 1 )); .... .:1.„1,..4 ,',. ' -• THE SUN. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1859. a dministration of the important territory confided to her charge in 1815, by . THE HOLY ALLIANCE (!) destroyed every sympathy that could be entertained in her favour. She had, however, Treaty engagements to rely on, and might insist on doing what she liked with that which was made her own some forty-four years since. But there could be no possible justification of her interference with States which ought to be perfectly independent, and to the level whereof she seeks to reduce Piedmont, so as to become the absolute and autocratic mis tress of Italy. Had she even a better case, her latest proceeding would prevent any assistance that might be granted by this country to an ancient ally. France has scarcely a better claim. It was the criminal ambition of the EMPEROR that has brought about the crisis. He probably thought that a little " bluster and bunkum" would make Austria yield to every requisition which he might think proper to put forward. He, however, " reckoned without his host," and may well stand aghast at the requisitions of the demon he had himself evoked. Sardinia will be the chief sufferer. If not ruth lessly ravaged before French aid can be obtained, and the Austrians clearly understand that portion of military: tactics, her fertile plain, will be made the cockpit of contending parties ; and no matter what may be the ultimate result, the people will have ample cause to deplore the events that led to such a lamentable catastrophe. She has, how ever, brought it on herself by becoming the tool and instrument of a despotic Prince, and the nation may have as much cause to deplore the ruthless sacri fice so recently perpetrated as the unfortunate baby Princess herself. The truckling and shuffling now going on before various constituencies in regard to the Ballot can- not be regarded as calculated in any degree to raise ;he character of our leading statesmen. In some .nstances this shuffling in regard to the Ballot is carried to a degree little less than absolutely dis graceful ; insomuch that it cannot but inevitably tend to lower the standard of political morality, and to weaken the confidence of the public in the Leaders of party. It was only the other day we found ourselves constrained to point the finger of scorn and indigna tion against the gross and flagrant inconsistency of the so-called chief among the champions of the Ballot, the member for the City of Bristol, the Chairman of the Ballot Society'. The extraordi- nary course pursued by MR. BERKELEY upon the submission of Mr. \VYLD's admirable, well-timed, and most manly amendment to the House of Com mons—the amendment declaring the necessity of the Ballot in whatever Reform Bill might be even- tually submitted to Parliament—Mr. BERKELEY'S extraordinary conduct upon this occasion had awakened the suspicions of every staunch and con- sistent advocate of that most essential of all the changes required in our system of popular representation. Those suspicions were only too painfully justified in that audacious letter in which the member for Bristol urged upon the electors of London the acceptance of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, notwithstanding—these are Mr. BERKELEY'S own words—" his (Lord JOHN'S) disinclination to afford the only true pro tection to the elector." In spite of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S direct and avowed antagonism to the Ballot he is, according to Mr. BERKELEY'S written declaration (dated the 15th of April, 1859), en titled "to the gratitude of all good Reformers," and ought, according to the Chairman of the Ballot Society, to be returned by the City of London as one of its four Liberal representatives ! This self- same Chairman of the Ballot Society having only ten days previously signed his name to another document (dated the sth of April, 1859), equally pithy and equally positive—a political round-robin, in which the electors of the United Kingdom were told (even more plainly than the electors of the City of London were told ten days afterwards exactly the very reverse)— " Reject every candidate who is opposed to, or hesitates on the Ballot." So that Mr. BERKELEY blew cold on the sth of April, and hot on the 15th of April. A power of lungs, a toughness of con science, and an elasticity of principle to which we do most earnestly commend the attentive considera tion of the Liberal Reformers who have been hitherto his confiding constituents. That is an instance of most flagrant shuffling in regard to the Ballot on the part of one of its advocates. To it we referred on Wednesday. To it we have now even more briefly reverted, as per haps, of all, the most glaring case in point in the whole catalogue. Now, as to the truckling to the growing neces sity for the Ballot manifested in rather a conspi cuous manner by one of the chief of its reputed Antagonists. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who has the consummate effrontery to accept as an accurate definition of himself the derisive soubriquet of a weathercock— recently applied to him by a local antagonist—rather piquing himself, indeed, upon the aptness of the;m plied similitude—talks to the electors of Carlisle about the Ballot. Haw does Sir JAMES GRAHAM talk to the electors of Carlisle about the Ballot? How in the name of conscience does he talk to them about it ? Why, in plain English after this fashion.' 116 says to the electors—the Ballot being such an extremely ticklish question just now that he feels he must be about as meally-mouthed as possible under the circumstances—he treads on this delicate corn thus tenderly—" Now there is the Ballot"—he says—" of course it would be out of the question to pretend for a single instant that I am otherwise than against the Ballot. I AM against it. I acknowledge that candidly and frankly. But I have for some time past observed such a growing disposition on the part of the electors to have the Ballot in spite of my opposi tion to it upon principle—on my sacred honour upon the highest and purest principle—that I have carefully abstained from voting against it of late whenever it has been dragged before Parlia ment. lam so perfectly aware of the advisability of keeping upon the best terms with one's sup. porters down in the borough of Carlisle that I have :swallowed my high-principled objections to the Ballot of late, and have abstained from wound ing the mistaken susceptibilities and fantastic pre dilections of my own particularly free -thinking and liberal-minded constituents. I believe, even as things are at present, that you really are begin ning to want the Ballot: Only say so now plainly and point-blank by returning to Parlia ment my nephew—a capital fellow, by the way, and a right good hunter across country, and one who, as a politician, goes slap dash even over that rasper, the Ballot—declare plainly now for the Ballot by returning my nephew (who likes it) and myself (who don't) and—[the right hon. baronet lays the forefinger of his right hand significantly On the side of his nose]—l have not the slightest doubt of it, we shall manage the thing comfortably for you in the new Parliament ! My nephew—(you won't find him stick at a trifle) —he begins where his uncle began before him, at that lowest rung of all in the social ladder, the rung of Radicalism) —will vote for the Ballot. As for me—just in the • nick of time I'll slip out of the way ciinveniently THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1859 and the thing's done ! Only make a judicious choice like this from among the rival candidates : and let other constituencies act in like manner, thus judi ciously—and the triumph of the Ballot is assured in the new Parliament. True, no doubt, as I said at the beginning—l don't like it—l am opposed to it on principle. But you, on the contrary, do — and therefore principles must slip away to a quiet chop at BELLAMY'S, or to a cheroot in the smoking room, or affect to be busy in looking up some precedent in the library—at anyrate, some how or other get out of either lobby and out of the clutches of any of those harpies the tellers. So— my dear, honest, virtuous, unpurchaseable consti tuents, only put the weathercock upon the top of the poll, and show the country which way the wind blows !" That is the " high argument" of the baronet of Netherby. That—as Mr. SNAGSBY would say, " not to put too fine a point upon it " is just about the English of it. A highly moral tone this surely ! One calculated to raise the standard of statesmanship—to elevate our estimate of our public men—to enhance our appreciation of their honesty, of their unswerving rectitude, of their rigid consistency. Finally—there is the once arch-type of Finality. There is Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who dodged his way into Parliament at the last general election by one of the sharpest bits of practice recently in dulged in, in regard to any constituency ! There is Lord JOHN, who contrived to get in (the third on the poll) for the City of London, just two years ago—because of a declaration, made rather boldly it must now be confessed, by the noble lord's brother, Lord CHARLES RUSSELL, the Serjeant-at- Arms of the British House of Commons. Recol lect that Lord JOHN RUSSELL has very recently— because driven to it—declared most positively within the house and out of the house, by word of mouth and by writing—that he is still (in 1859) against the Ballot, that he will continue to oppose the Ballot, and that he pledges himself to vote against the Ballot if it should be introduced into any further Reform Bill to be submitted to the House of Commons by the DERBY Government. And then recollect what it was that his own brother, Lord CHARLES RUSSELL, said upon Wed nesday evening, March the 25th, 1857, at a meet ing of the electors of the City of London, then holden in Threadneedle-street, at the North and South American Coffee-house ! Lord CHARLES RUSSELL there and then said, upon the very eve of that critical election—" But was his brother so determined an opponent of the Ballot as some gen tlemen seemed to suppose ? He had heard his brother say that in the abstract he was favourable to open voting, BUT TIIAT HE MIGHT BE DRIVEN TO THE BALLOT." A great deal more to the same effect was uttered by the same speaker, at that same time and in that same place. We content ourselves with a revival of those few words, how ever, as altogether quite sufficient. They give the gist, the pith, the marrow of the whole " artful dodge"—a dodge, however, so extremely artful as not to be by any means easily repeated. Everybody knows how it was, once upon a time, said of the Noble Lord by the present Chief of her MAJESTY'S Government— "JOHNNY'S upset tho coach." Since then he has done the same trick over again repeatedly. And by all manner of ingenious and disingenuous contrivances—by slipping the lynch pin out—by teazing the leader—by unbuckling an important strap in the harness—by turning a diffi cult corner rather too abruptly—by dropping off himself with an affected cry of alarm, causing a general bolt of the whole train down hill just be fore reaching some narrow toll-bar. This last time, however—instead of upsetting the coach—he has only floundered,into a slough of despond by the way side. Will the electors of London endanger a few splashes to themselves by picking him out of it ? If they care not for having been dodged the last time—if they care not for that first and most essen• tial of all Reforms, the Ballot—if they want par ticularly to oblige Mr. HENRY BERKELEY —surely a matter of the very first consideration. In any such extraordinary contingency, then, of course, they will return Lord JOHN RUSSELL as one of their four representatives. Not otherwise. Unless, that is to say—unless the electors of London have set their hearts upon sending to the House of Com mons what the present leader of the House was at the outset of his political career, down at Wycombe, taunted with being, by a flippant Whig aristocrat—namely, a Conservative in disguise ! It was the first, as it was also one of the most brilliant witticisms to which Mr. DISRAELI has, even in his happiest moments, given utterance. " A Conserva tive in Disguise !" exclaimed the young author of Vivian Grey—" I will tell you who is a Conserva tive in disguise—it is a Whig in place." If the electors of the City of London want such a repre sentative, they will meekly do the bidding of the Central Committee, and return Lord JOIIN RUSSELL as M.P. for the most important of all our great re forming and ballot-loving constituencies. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, APRIL 22. •, _ , His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg dined with her Majesty yesterday, attended by le Baron de Meyern, le Capitaine de Reuter, and Colonel Francis Sey mour, C.B. Lady Caroline Barrington, and Sir James Clark had the honour of being included. The Queen and Prince Consort, with Princess Alice and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, attended Divine service this morning and received the Holy Sacrament. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor offi- ciated. The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Horatia Stop ford, have succeeded the Hon. Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Flora Macdonald as Maids of Honour in Waiting. FOREIGN COURTS. or PARLIAMENT. (From a Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, April 22.) By the QUEEN. —A PROCLAMATION For Dissolving the present Parliament and De claring the Calling of another. VICTORIA R.—Whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament, which stands prorogued to Thursday, the fifth day of May next : We do for that end publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do hereby dissolve the said Parliament accordingly ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for shires and boroughs, of the House of Commons, are discharged from their meeting and attendance on the said Thursday, the fifth day of May next ; and We, being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our people, and to have their ad vice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our loving subjects Our Royal will and pleasure to call a new Parliament; and do hereby furtlier de clare, that, with the advice of our Privy Council, We have given order that Our Chancellor of that part of Our United Kingdom called Great Britain, and Our Chancellor of Ireland, do, respectively, upon notice thereof, forthwith issue out writs in due form, and according to law, for calling a new Par liament ; and We do hereby also, by this Our Royal Proclamation under Our Great Seal of Our United Kingdom, require writs forthwith to be issued accordingly by Our said Chancellors respec tively, for causing the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral and Commons, who are to serve in the said Parliament, to be duly returned to, and give their attendance in, our said Parliament ; which writs are to be returnable on Tuesday, the thirty-first day of May next. Given at Our Court at Windsor, this twenty third day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine, and in the twenty-second year of Our reign. GOD save the QUEEIC. By the QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. In order to the Electing and Summoning the Six teen Peers of Scotland. VICTOEIA R.—Whereas We have, in Oar Coun cil thought fit to declare Our pleasure for summon ing and holding a Parliament of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on Tuesday the thirty•first day of May, next ensuing the date hereof; in order, therefore, to the electing and summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland, who are to sit in the House of Peers in the said Parliament, We do, by the advice of Our Privy Council, issue forth this Our Royal Proclamation, strictly charg ing and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood-house, in Edinburgh, on Tuesday the tenth day of May next, between the hours of twelve and two in the after noon to nominate and choose the Sixteen Peers, to sit and vote in the House of Peers in the said ensuing Parliament, by open election and plurality of voices of the Peers that shall be then present, and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly signed by four witnesses, and both the constituent and proxy being qualified according to law), and the Lord Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the Session as shall be ap pointed by him to officiate in his name are hereby respectively required to attend such meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes ; and immediately after such election made and duly examined, to certify the names of the Sixteen Peers so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers, the electors, and return such certificate into our High Court of Chancery of Great Britain. And We do, by this our Royal Proclamation, strictly command and require the Provost of Edinburgh, and all other the Magistrates of the said city to take special care, to preserve the peace thereof during the time of the said election, and to prevent all manner of riots, tumults, disorders and violence whatsoever. And We strictly charge and command that this Our Royal Proclamation be duly published at the Mar ket Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland, ten days, at least, before the time hereby appointed for the meeting cf the said Peers to proceed to such election. Witncs3 Ourself at Windsor this twenty-third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Our reign. PAItIS, APRIL 22. The Emperor Napoleon 111., having been born on April 20, 1808, has completed his 51st year. His Majesty has signed the contract of marriage between Lieutenant Chauvet, of the 4th Hussars, and Mdlle. Dubois, daughter of Baron Dubois, accoucheur to the Empress. Prince Michel Obrenowitch, of Servia, has arrived in Paris, and alighted at the Hotel Bristol. A letter from St. Petersburg says :—« The Empress Dowager has adjourned her visit to Berlin, as her Majesty desires to meet her brother, the King of Prussia, who will not return from Italy before the middle of May. From Berlin the Empress will go to Ems and Schlangsnbad, as already arranged, to take the waters." • The Duchess of Manchester, after the ceremony of the confirmation of her Royal Highness Princess Alice, left for Kimbolton Castle, where the Countess Bloudoff and the Lady Arthur Hay are at present staying The Duke of Northumberland has much improved in health of late. The noble duke and duchess are still at Aluwick Castle. The Earl and Countess Spencer, who arrived in town from' Florence on Tuesday, after a protracted sojourn in Italy, left Spencer House on Thursday for Althorp Hall, their seat in Northamptonshire. On the arrival of the earl and countess at Althorp they were most cordially wel corned by the principal tenantry. His Excellency Sir James Hudson, our Minister Plenir otentiary at Turin, loft town last evening by the way of Paris, to resume his diplomatic duties at the above capital. A NEW SPIRITUAL. PEEL—By the death of the Bishop of Bangor, the llon. and Right Rev. Dr. J. T. Pelham, Bishop of Norwich, succeeds to a seat in the House of Lords. The new BiShop of Bangor will not have a seat in the Legislature until the avoidance of a bishopric other than those of Canterbury, York, London, Durham, and Winchester. This arrangement is in accordance with the provisions of the act constituting the see of Manchester. ST. PETERSBURG. — It is stated that Mr. Richard Close, late Lieutenant in the North umberland Light In fantry, and grandson of the late Mr. W. Scaife, of Halt whistle, Northumberland, has been appointed Professor of the English Language in the University of St. Petersburg, and presented with the 13th rank of Russian nobility, ac- COmpanied by a coat -of-arno, DISSOLUTION LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reutcr's office : PARTS, SATURDAY, APRIL 23. The Moniteur of to-day contains the following The Austrian Government has invited Sardinia to reduce her army to a peace footing and to dis band the army of volunteers. This communication was transmitted to Turin by the aide-de-camp of General Gyulai. That officer appears to have been instructed to declare that he would wait three days for an answer, and that any evasive reply would be regarded as a refusal. England and Russia have not hesitated to protest against the c onduct which Austria has adopted under the present circumstances. The Emperor has allotted the command of his troops in the following manner :—Marshal Mag nan remains Commander of the army of Paris ; the Duke of Malakoff becomes commander-in-chief of the Army of Observation, the head quarters of which is to be at Nancy ; General Castellan is commander-in-chief of the Army of Lyons ; Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers is appointed commander of first Corps &Armee of the Alps, General M'Mahon of the second, General Canrobert of the third, and General Niel of the fourth. Prince Napoleon will command the Corps of Pioneers. General Randon is appointed major-general of the Army of the Alps. The Corps Legislatif has been convoked for Monday next in order to receive a communication of the Government. PARIS, APRIL 22. The Patrie of this evening contains the follow 'rig :- The delay granted by Austria to Piedmont for disarming will, as it appears, expire on Sunday evening next. Till now nothing has confirmed the report here circulated that an engagement has been fought on the Ticino. It is rumoured that General Bandon will be appointed Major-General of the army to be concentrated on the frontiers of Pied mont, and that Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers will take his departure to join the army of the Alps. General Canrobert has arrived in Paris from Nancy. The report is current that the Austrians have entered the Duchies of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena. It is also asserted that the French soldiers on renewable furlough are to be called in. VIENNA, SATURDAY, APRIL 23. The official Wiener Zeituny of to-day says Austria insists upon the previous disarmament of Piedmont, and desires that the Congress be composed only of the great Powers. TURIN, APRIL 22. The Chambers have been convoked for to-morrow for a communication of great urgency. All the military measures are taken. VERONA, APRIL 21. All trains on the Lombardo-Venetian Railway have been stopped for some days. ATHENS, APRIL 16. The French squadron stationed at the Piraeus has been ordered to Marseilles. MARSEILLES, APRIL 21. Advices have been received from Naples to the 19th inst. A fresh discharge of matter has relieved the King's chest, but the fever, which has now lasted three months, has reduced his Majesty to.the last stage of exhaustion. Letters 'state that Sicily is threatened by dearth. The Queen of Prussia has to-day left Naples for Rome. Letters from Leghorn announce warlike man festations. BOULOGNE, APRIL 22 (Evening). The French army is in full march to the frontiers of Piedmont. This is official. " I have received a letter from Athens, dated April 15. Government has ordered the army and navy to be placed on a war footing It is generally believed the Queen has arranged to place the Greek mercantile navy, such as it is, at the disposition of Austria. On the other hand, as the people of Greece are enthusiastic friends of Italy, Government agents say the war preparations are intended for Turkey. By this means Government and the Queen think to deceive the people. There exists much political excitement throughoat the Christian population of the East." A semi-official journal of Turin states that placards have been posted up by the local authori ties in the villages near the Lago Maggiore, re commending the people, in the name of the Govern ment, not to oppose resistance in case of an Austrian invasion, and to pay any war contribution that may be imposed by the enemy—the Government promising to indemnify them. A Paris letter, in the Independence of Brussels, says :—" According to the latest accounts from Turin, the Sardinian Government is no longer master of the movement ; and, consequently, if by the adhesion of Austria to the pacific propositions of France the meeting of the Congress should be definitively decided on, an insurrection in Pied mont is to be dreaded ; at all events, disarming is impossible. In a word, the master of a situation is no longer Count de Cavour, but Garibaldi; and it is quite possible for the Piedmontese army to find itself opposed by the free corps which repre sent the revolutionary spirit and the cause of Italian independence." A letter from Vienna of the 18th, in• the National Gazette of Berlin, says :—" The corps d'armee of Prince de Liechtenstein has begun to leave Vienna for Italy. At Venice nine large palaces, each of which can contain from 300 to 1,000 men, and the whole more than 5,000, have been set apart for the troops who pass through. Five Lloyd's steamers are appropriated exclusively to the conveyance of troops from Trieste to Venice. Between the Mincio and the Ticino, theatres, convents, and churches are employed for lodging troops. The Austrian army has commenced a movement on the Ticino. With the exception of the ship of the line Kaiser, which is now being fitted out at Pola ; of the frigate Schwarzenberg, which is to leave the dockyards of Venice in a few days ; of some paddle-wheel steamers, which are used as transports on the coast of Dalmatia ; of the frigate Novare, which is engaged in a voyage of circumnavigation ; and of some vessels stationed in the Austrian ports and at Ancona—all the Imperial fleet is assembled at Malamocca, near Venice, under the command of Commodore Scopinich." Letters from Berlin state that Prussia has decided on putting on foot an army of 130,000 men, des tined to protect Germany in the case of a conflict. This measure is not the result of Archduke Albert's mission, but is the natural 'consequence of the general arming. The attitude of Prussia would be analogous to that of England—that is, an armed neutrality. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says I am able to assure you on official authority that a Russian army have received orders to pro ceed to the Austrian frontier. I pointed out the possibillity of such an event some time since. The public will understand the importance of such an event. Austria is said to be about to occupy Tuscany, Parma, and Modena. To this information I may add that Austria has called upon Naples to send troops into the Adriati, without delay. " The Austrian army iu Italy has permission to seize on all private dwellings and occupy them. Franas Bowitsch, Prince Milosch's favourite, now i Ferrara is turned into a garrison, the Cardinal in the service of the Austrian Steam Na v igation Company, is to be placed at the head of the pro- Governer having gone to Bologna. jetted undertaking. The same letters states that " Prussia has formally refused to assist Austria. orders have been given to the Servian artillery to The refusal reached Vienna yesterday by telegraph. practice firing at a target daily. GOD save the QUEEN. ANOTHER GROSS OUTRAGE IN MARYLEBONE, AT THE COLOSSEUM.—The hand of some diabolical miscreant has been again at work in the parish of Marylelione—not this time in a church, but in one of our most interesting places of public amusement, the Colosseum. It will be re collected by our readers that underneath the portico of the grand entrance in Regent's-park there are two equestrian statues of the Queen and Prince Albert. At an early hour this morning information was received at the Albany street station, S division, that during the night some one had gained access to the portico and completely severed the head from the statue of the Queen. The chin, nose, and a portion of tho face of the statue of Prince Albert had been chipped or knocked off. The horses' heads were very much disfigured. Underneath these two statues was a lot of scroll work in chalk, as well as some verses, the writing of which in every way resembles that lately done by the miscreant in St. Marylebone and All Souls' Church, Longhorn-place. The statues of some lions close by were very much chipped about and written upon. There is not the slightest doubt but all tho shame ful and sacrilegious acts have been done by one and the same person. "THE REV. CHARLES GEARY."—Notwithstand ing his notice of appeal when sentenced by Mr. Elliott to j three months' hard labour as a "rogue and vagabond," in the Wandsworth House of Correction, and his boast to the officers who had him in charge, "that he should have his case argued by the most eminent counsel at the bar, and the iniquitous decision of the magistrate reversed," he has allowed the time to pass within which he could give a legal notice of appeal and is therefore doomed to the full term of his imprisonment and hard labour. It will be recollected that not only did Geary recommence his practices of gross public imposition the moment he was released from the Queen's Balch Prison, but that during his incarceration he actually formed the members of his committee, and appointed his treasurer from his fellow-prisoners. At present, however, he will not have an opportunity of picking up or selecting from his companions a sufficient number of "esquires" to form a committee of management, but it is probable that at the end of three months, when freed from Wandsworth, he will start some similar "dodge." The only chance the public have at present in checking the. rascalities of such persons as Geary and others is the Men dicity Society, the officers belonging to which have been always ready and willing to give their assistance in expos ing and punishing impostors. It would be well, therefore, that all future appeals for assistance by Geary or any of his gang should be at once forwarded to Captain Wood, secre tary to the Mendicity Society, who will adopt the necessary means to check the imposition. When taken to Wands worth Gaol, the wardsman, as is the custom when prisoners are brought there, asked Geary first his name, and then his business or profession, upon which he replied, " I am the Rev. Charles Geary, a clergyman," thus carrying out his imposture ; but the officer was not to be done ; his observa tion was, "No, I know better than that; I shall put you down as no business." FIRE AT FARM-STREET CATHOLIC CHAPEL.— Yesterday morning at a quarter before ten o'clock a fire oc curred inthe Catholic chapel, Farm-street, Berkeley-square. The misfortune arose from some unexplained cause near the side altar, but owing to the timely arrival of assistance the flames were confined to that part of the sacred edifice, which however was extensively damaged by fire and water. The loss will fall upon the Alliance Fire-office,—Another fire happened in the Horseferry-road, Westminster. but fortu nately the damage done was trifling. CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday, as the policeman on duty in Goldsmith's-row, New-street-square, was going his rounds, he ob s erved a bundle lying on the steps of a doorway, and on opening it was horified to find that it con tained the body of a fine male child. Ho conveyed it to the station-house, where a medical gentleman was sent for, who, on examination, found sufficient marks of violence to cause death. -- - STRIKE Air RUABON COLLIERY.—Owing to anew plan of cleaning the coal before getting it out of the pit having been introduced by the proprietors, the workmen are now ou strike, believing they c Innot get good wages if they comply with the new arrangement. Many are still suffering from the effects of the last strike at Acrefair which took place two years ago. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. —Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners have given notice of their in tention to receive tenders next Thursday, the 28th inst., for a ship to proceed to Sydney, New South Wales, to be ready for the reception of * passengers on such day as the Commissioners may appoint between the 2d and 9th June. IRISH JURIES.—The Irish Attorney-General is at present being abused heartily in some Irish papers for hav ing, as is supposed, read in the House of Commons a state ment from the report of the Crown Solicitor, to the effect that a particular juror had been set aside at one of the re cent sedition trials because he was an atheist. It is only just to Mr. Whiteside to state that he did net read the passage in question. The Crown Solicitor's report was handed to our reporter, who, in preparing his report, omitted to strike out the passage which. was not read, and this has side of the Chmulel l i n advertently raised the sto rm w hi c h i s r aging on the other THE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, with mails from Lisbon of the 17th inst., Oporto and Vigo of the 18th, in charge of Lieutenant Bolton, R.N., Admi ralty agent, arrived at Southampton yesterday. She brought 17 passengers (14 of whom were first class), £2,710 13s. in specie, 948 half chests of oranges, 85 packages and two cases of elephants' teeth, 218 boxes and 100 baskets of potatoes, 154 boxes of eggs, and 20 packages of sundries. The following ships were spoken with :—April 12, in lat. 43 5 N., long. 9 32 W., the Ringwood, bound to Alicante; 18th, off Oporto bar, the steam ship Minho ; 21st, at 8.30 a.m., off Ushant, the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pera, outward bound. When the Tagus left Lisbon on the 17th the con tinued want of rains had greatly increased general alarm respecting the harvest. All descriptions of grain had risen considerably, and although the admission of foreign wheat, maize, barley, and beans had some time since been decreed to the end of May, the Government was about to apply to the Cortes for authority to keep the ports open until the end of December. It was also about to introduce a bill for the reduction of the duties on foreign rice to one-third the actual rates. The liberal modifications in the electoral law had been submitted to the Ministers by the Committee of Deputies, and, being approved, were likely to pass the Cortes during the present session. In consequence of the scarcity of bills the Lisbon exchange for three months on London was effected generally by this packet at 531, and something at 53 7 ,; Paris, at 532 to 536. Money offered on Am sterdam at 421; Hamburg, 471 ; and Genoa, 530. Three per Cent, stock had. declined to 471 to 48, registered ; Coupons, 47 to 471; and Deferred, 31 to 32. Bank shares remained unaltered. THE SENTENCE ON TILE NA WAB OF FURR UCKABAD. The Nawab of Furruckabad has been found guilty of the crimes laid to his charge. On the day the sentence was delivered an anxious crowd of natives, deeply excited, occupied every approach. Very many of the civil and military officials, and other residents of the station, were also present in court. The president, having ordered the prisoner to be placed at the bar, proceeded, amidst profound silence, to pass sentence upon hith in the following terms " Prisoner at the bar,—Your trial has lasted one month, and the fullest investigation that was possi ble has been made as to your guilt or innocence. You have been defended by an able English gentle man, who, relying on your own statements, has taken the greatest pains to prove you innocent of the heinous crimes with the commission of which you were charged, and he has also endeavoured to procure your release by every argument of a legal and technical nature which he thought would assist your cause. Nevertheless we three judges, sitting. calmly and deliberately to hear the case for and against you, have unanimously decided that you are guilty. In arriving at this judgment do not for an instant believe that we have given implicit belief to every word uttered by every witness for the pro secution, or that we have not allowed all the weight that it was worth to the evidence for the defence. " You yourself have never attempted to deny the facts—i.e., the occur rence o f t h ose dreadful crimes - which have conferred an historical infamy on Futtygurh and Furruckabad, and which have led. to your being brought to the bar of justice. And now, prisoner at the bar, consider what are the crimes with the commission of which we, your judges, have convicted you. For what crimes, I repeat, is it that, as far as we are concerned, we have condemned you to suffer death ? " Her Majesty the Queen's gracious amnesty has saved you from that extreme punishment for the crime of being a principal leader and instigator in treason and rebellion which you so ungratefully committed. But if you had committed only that offence you would have to pass the remainder of your life in a miserable exile. But you stand at that bar convicted, first, of being accessory after the fact to a wholesale massacre of English gentle men, ladies, and children, with most of whom you had been living on terms of intimacy—that is, le the language of the law, you received, comforted, and assisted the perpetrators of this massacre, and not only that, but honoured and rewarded some amongst them. " Secondly, you stand convicted of being acces sory both before and after the fact to the cold blooded slaughter of 22 Christians, including amongst them women and children, who were killed for no other cause than that they were Christians ; that is, you not only received, com forted, and assisted the perpetrators of this crime, but you previously procured, counselled, coal' manded, and abetted those who took away these unhappy victims from your own door. And, as if thin were not enough, you have been convicted of this, same double crime in regard to three poor natives (ails there is reason to believe that others perished in s similar manner), whose only fault was that one was faithful to his salt, and that the others wera carry" ing English letters. " And what is your excuse for all these crimes ? What, but that you were afraidoil;;Wyoll,t wretched life (which after all h as b een f or f e ited), at the hands of the mutinous soldiery, and that you were a puppet in the hands of their leaders, some of whom were of y our own ki t h an d li nea ge. Even if it were true that you occupied this position,' what a degraded o ne it was —h ow muc h 01 cowardice it showed i n th e d escen d an t an d re pro" s . entative of a family an d race hi t h er t o we ll knoll Hindostan for courage a nd manly qualities' But it is quite impossible to believe that this plea of duress is true, even if there had not been pro' duced ample and trustworthy evidence to refute " You were abl e to save the lives of Christians , and you twice did save such, once to appease the anger of Heaven, when you were sick and though yourself dying, and once to gratify your own feel' ings and inclinations. You were not a close pry soner, and you did exercise all the powers of a ruler in this territory, and in their exercise you coo" mitted the awful crimes which I ha ve enumerated. If for the innocent blood that is crying to us from this river and this land we did not sentence you to suffer death, which is mercy itself to the cruel deat h inflicted under your sanction on so many victim° , we should fail in our duty both to God and man. " It is for the Government, which is our maste r and your master, to decide finally as to your fate: You may rely on the whole of your pleas of defence being submitted to that authority. In the mal l ; while I implore you to repent of your crimes, so, to make your peace with that God whose laws yo u have so ruthlessly violated." " The prisoner," says the Bombay Telegraph , "was not able wholly to maintain his uncoil; cerned demeanour. Just as the enumeration 0 the fearful crimes of which the sentence of the Court convicted him approached to a close:a change passed over his countenance, and his look became downcast. Soon h e con t ro ll e d hi s f ea t ures , and: recovered the usual expression of his face, excep t that he continued to cast down his eyes. Th e sentence of death by hanging did not produce any further outward and visible sign. W e need ye,' add that no emotions of rem orse were m anifesto' . The prisoner has been placed, for securer custody , under a European guard in Fort Futteyghur." ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examination/ in Anatomy and Physiology at meetings of the court of 3 aminers on the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 20th inst., admitted to the pass examination when qualified—T', Messrs. Samuel Meire Ward, T. C. Mitchell, Wal l '', Wickes IV. Andrew, G. M. Egles, Octavius C. Han% Joseph Hocking, Harry Mead, Richard H. Hunter, Tho mas Leeds, Charles Gordon Sprague, Thomas James Schollec . " John Lovell Arnott, Alfred Catt, Evelyn P oc klingt° ll ; Thomas Smith Ellice, Alfred ‘Vinkfield, John Bonit a Collins, Thomas Mapleson Butler, Joseph Ridge Green/11 0 John Langton, Alfred Coleman, William Gimson Ginn i°l 4 and Edmund Strickland, students of St. Bartholoran w o Hospital; Delamarc Freeman, Samuel Farrant, Thal , Drake, Thomas William Blake, R. Metcalfe, Charles 1 1 7, Braddon, William Harling Sissons, J. A. Harding, 1° . 0 , Harward Hooper, Charles Parker Ward, Samuel Mo."; 1, and Benjamin George Everett, of St. Thomas's Hosp . d John Francis Lovegrove, John Woodman, Edwin 1 ,1 ,1,4 Edgar Becket Truman, Allen L. Haynes, and Francis 11,,, Cann, Walter Watkins, Edward tppelbee and Joseph ,turdtell, of Guy's Hospital; Wm. John Hunt, Wm. King, Henry Tofts, John Palmer Gannon, Wm. Trui n f ri n Harry Pedgrift, and Walter Harris, of th e U n i v ersity L':"„.. lege; John Clayton Hodson, Edward Parker Young, 1 1 ° , 3 1'. min Simmons, Alfred J. Belemore, George Henry Dar',. v 's Edward G. 'Hocking, and Fredk. J. Rogers, of St. In„%,'' o ll Hospital ; John S. Cumming, Thos. Mitchell, Jas. and William George Payne, of the London Hospital Phillips Collins, Thomas H ar b o ttl e M uncas t er ; and 11 '„ * . James Horton, of the Middl esex Hospital ; J a mes ga c- o f mara, Francis Blake H u t c hi nson , and 'William E,dg i e l ?ota King's College Thomas Rut Ik3rford Adams, John " ' ter Middleton, and William Bruce Slayter, of the Wesbnins of Hospital ; George Mayon, and William Charles Worlei:o,o the Charing-cross Hospital ; Edmund Eccles, of St. Ogil o o Hospital ; Peter Thomas Dean, Octavius Dean, a j o as Hoyle, Willi am H enr y Barlow, David Taylor, and lv 'g a r Walls, of Manchester ; Morland Hocken ; Walter F r of kenzie, John Lloyd Th o mas, and Albany John Parer;ser Dublin ; Francis Hamilton Homfray, and T. B. 9 ,„a Seabrook, Edinburgh; George Murray Brumwe"o h Ison, Henry Wheeler, Newcastle; Robert Hicks B . Nic caw Hull; William Copley Wodhead, Leeds; and John bill, Birmingham, FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Emperor has given orders for the assembling of a French army at Lyons. Another Council of Ministers was held yesterday afternoon at the Tuileries, the Emperor presiding. Both Prince Jerome and Prince Napoleon were present. The Gazette de Lyons states that the 7th and 23d Regiments of the line in garrison in Marseilles and the 34th and 37th Regiments of the line in garrison at Toulon will form, along with a regi ment of Zouaves expected from Algeria, a 7th division of the army of Lyons. General Bourbaki has arrived at Lyons to take the command of the division to which he was recently appointed. The General was a pupil of St. Cyr, took part in the campaigns of Italy, was at the Alma, Inkermann, and Malakoff, and on his return from the Crimea had a com mand in the expedition of Kabylia. He is one of the youngest French generals. General Trochu has also arrived at Lyons. One of the brigades of the division of General Bourbaki is commanded by General Ducros, and is composed of the 46th and 59th of the line and another regiment. BOURSE, April 22. The official refusal of Austria, and her ultimatum to Sardinia, was con sidered on 'Change as paramount to a declaration of war, and the market has been consequently very heavy, owing to large sales effected. Threes have declined to 64f. 90c. ; Mobilier, to 580 f. ; Austrian, 470 f. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 475 f. ; Orleans, 1,195 f. Northern, 885 f. ; Southern, 495 f. Lyons, 790 f.; A rally suddenly took place, towards the close on the report of an energetic protestation addressed to Austria by the English Cabinet. The following were the last quotations : 41- per Cents. .... 92 75 Credit Fonder 640 Do. end month .. 92 75 Belgian 41 3 per Cent 5....... 64 90 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 65 25 Roman B4 Bank Shares 2650 Austrian Credit Mobilier 595 Spanish Threes Do. Account 600 Home Debt 3B RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. s O Northern . 865 .. 865 New ditto 755 . • Lyons and. Mediterranean 785 .. 795 - NOW ditto — • • Geneva 5OO .. 475 Southern ...... estern 5OO .. 500 Ea sternE 580 .. 59 5 Ea dins 350 .. 350 Aust r i a n Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25 f. 10 c. ; mone y , 25f. sc. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 92Ac. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, APRIL 20, According to the Hamburger Nachrichten, a paper which sometimes has authentic information from Berlin, the Prussian peace project is as Follows : " Prussia offers to conclude with Austria—and, if possible, with England—a treaty, in which the Imperial Government shall pledge itself :-1. Either to annul the Italian Special Conventions, or to change them into simple treaties of defence, renouncing all and every right to inter fere in the internal affairs of the Italian States. 2. In future to adopt the principle of non-intervention in its Italian policy. 3. To reduce its position in Piacenza to the measure stipulated in the treaties, which is simply a right of garrison in the fortress. 4. To evacuate the Papal Legations at the same time that the French quit Rome and Civita Vecchia. 5. On the Turin Cabinet promising not to make any attack on the Aus trian possessions in Italy, the Imperial Government to promise not to attack Sardinia. 6. To agree to a European Congress, whose aim it shall be—due respect being paid to territorial and sovereign rights—to bring about the neces sary measures for removing those abuses which prevail in the Apennine peninsula (Apenninischen llalbinsel). " If Austria accepts the foregoing conditions, Prussia, and, perhaps, eventually England, pledges herself-1. To endeavour to prevent France and Sardinia from going to war. 2. Eventually to oppose any armed intervention of France in Italy ; and, 3. As the ally of Austria, to declare war against Franco if French troops should cross the Alps." There is nothing unreasonabie in the foregoing, but still the last condition induces me to suspect that the Hamburg paper has not learnt the exact truth from its Berlin correspondent. Prussia is an exceedingly cautious Power, and she is not likely to do more than defend the so-called " Rhein-Linie" (the line of the Rhine) against the French. The Swiss Confederation is in what, in familiar parlance, is called a "fix," both General Dufour and Colonel Ziegler having declined to take the command of the Federal forces. The Bund has ordered the cantons Waadt and Tessin to observe the strictest neutrality. WURTEMBURG. A latter from Stuttgart, of the 19th says " From the moment that the Government of Wur temburg, following the example of Bavaria and of the other States of Southern Germany, assumed a decidedly warlike attitude, public opinion has loudly called for the convocation of the Chambers, and accordingly a Royal ordinance has at last been issued, convoking them to an extraordinary session. It is believed that the first bill brought forward will be for according a credit of 6,000,000 florins to complete the arming of the contin gent which Wurtemburg will have to supply to the Bth coops d'arnzee of the Germanic Con federation. The Ministerial order for a forced levy of horses must also be submitted to the Cham bers for their sanction, but the measure is already being everywhere carried into execution. It appears that, on the pressing solicitation ofAustria, the Bth corps•of the Federal army, composed of the contin gents of Wurtemburg, Hesse, and Baden, and the 7th, supplied by Bavaria, are to be the first placed on a war footing. It is stated that a certain num ber of students of the University of Tubinguen have requested to be allowed to serve as volunteers in the battalion of riflemen. The students of the Univer sities of Munich and Wurtzburg have presented a similar request to their Government." ROME. A petition intended to be addressed to the Con gress, should it take place, is now being signed in the Roman States. It sets forth that the peti tioners, " after having in vain implored the Roman Government to alleviate the evils under which they labour—evils which have been frequently pointed out by Piedmont, and admitted on solemn occasions by the delegates of the European powers—see themselves obliged, without offending the sanctity of religion, before which they bow, to protest against a system of government kept up by foreign interests, contrary to the principles of modern civilisation, and opposed to the national independ ence to which they aspire. They express the hope that the Congress will be able to put an end to the abnormal state of the country, where apparent order is only maintained by Austrian arms." Advices from Bucharest of the 13th state that the police have discovered in a low inn, kept by a Pole, a number of bombs nearly finished, and have arrested several men suspected of intending to make another attempt to assassinate Colonel Couza. Some of the persons in custody claimed the protection of Austria, which was refused them. A letter from Belgrade of the 10th, in the Augs burg Gazette, states that Prince Milosch has of late been actively engaged in negotiating for a regular line of French steamers, starting from Belgrade, to carry on trade on the Danube ; and that Captain