The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

NCEAW E E K. ONo. 1., price 3d. London : Bradbury and Evans,ll, Bouverie-street. MR. GLADSTONE'S COMMITTEE SITS DAILY, at the UNION HOTEL, Coekspur-street. HOURS OF POLLING. Wednesday, June 2 9 11 11 2 to 5 7 to 8 Thur;day, June 30 3.30 to 5.30 ~ 7 to 8 , July 1 .A. 3 to 5 Mr. Gladst'o ' ne's friends are requested to poll ,as early as possible. Friday, R YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will bepresented Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. ♦fter which, IF THE CAP FI £S. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LlNflee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence arles Mathwith KVERYBODY'S FurEND. Messrs. Chews, Upton, and Buckstone ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins, Ind Reynolds. Alter which. MARRIED FOR MONEY. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. N-EW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, sad Laidlaw. and Hrs. Billington. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or , T HE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laidlsw. And (by desire) THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan, Kr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. &Ay and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Mee open front 10 to 5 reg istry charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, Was A. Burditt. Alter which. CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. To conclude with KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE — This Even in g LOUIS XI. Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C. Calvert, Mrs. C. Calvert. After which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT LETORIERES. Mrs. Hermann Vezin. ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERT EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, Oonsisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jule, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR s , SIX, and ]EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eve; written for the 'violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ZLEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER. — SUN OFFICE, JUNE 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 77—highest since noon yesterday. 64—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.96. Wm), S.E. ; light, with very sultry weather. The Wind at N.E. this morning. Some rain. The Ministerial elections will not be completed when the country will have to listen to the Minis terial Explanations. Mr. COBDEN has not yet re turned. The office set apart for his refusal or ac ceptance is not as yet occupied, of course, in conse quence. It remains still a matter of uncertainty whether the Hon. Gentleman will take part with Mr. MILNER GIBsoN who has, in two senses, been taken in—or with Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, who has been shamefully and most unadvisedly left out; whether the election at Rochdale will have to be gode through all over again—this' ,mm With RICHARD COBDEN addressing his constituency from the hustings in his new character as a Privy Councillor. Besides, this particular and exceptional uncertainty as to a Ministerial election still left to be an incident purely conjectural in the history of the new Parliament—there is one of the most im portant of all these various appeals made to the electors by the various members of the Coalition Cabinet having seats in the House of Commons — there is the appeal made by Mr. GLADSTONE to the possessors of the electoral franchise in the Univer sity of Oxford, the reply to which appeal will not be known until the morrow of the re-assembling of the Legislature on Thursday to listen to Lord PAL MERSTON'S explanations. At the Oxford University election in truth,more will be decidedprobably than the immediate fate both as a member of Parliament and as an administrator, of the right hon. gentle man the Chancellor of her MAJESTY'S Exchequer. What Lord GEORGE BENTINCK nobly called "the chastity of the honour " of our public men will have then and there the opportunity of being signally vindicated. Nothing, we may be certain, but his sense of the absolute necessity for that vin dication could have induced the hon. gentleman the member for Dorsetshire to assume, in direct anta gonism to the individual interests of his friend and fellow Oxonian, the prominent post of Chairman of Lord CHANDOS' Committee. As yet, it is true, but the commencement of the five days' contest affords us some faint clue as to its result on Fri day afternoon. Already it is sufficiently apparent however that it will be close enough to render that ultimate decision up to the close of the fifth day's vote a matter of positive uncertainty. The Mar quis may yet distance the Orator Statesman in the struggle. Yet before the res ult of this important contest can be by any means arrived at—before it can be known positively whether the most gifted and remarkable man in the whole Cabinet will be enabled by his re-election to his former seat as M.P. for the University of Oxford to take his more authoritative' seat at the Cabinet council boar]. in his capacity as HER MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord PALMERSTON as First Minister of the Crown will have to explain to the House of Commons the intentions and policy of the new Government. Before it is understood whether Mr. COBDEN will consent to accept office as President of the Board of Trade, before it is known even whether be will have returned home to make his choice between the position occupied by one of the subordinates of the existing Adminis tration, or be one of the leaders of the Independent Opposition, the First Lord of the Treasury has undertaken to sketch out the design intended to be realised by his new Coalition Administra tion. It is certainly a decision this, to say the least of it, sufficiently premature and pre eiPitate. It; is like planning out a campaign before the i3ommand assigned to the Generals of Division heave been distinguished. It is not merely counting the chickens before they are hatched, but positively before they are laid. It is a preposterous anticipation of the nesting as well as of the incuba tion. Lord PALMERSTON does not yet know—he cannot even on Thursday do more than simply con joeture—Neh ether or not it is -within his power to form this lOW Coalition Government. 'Yet on Thursday he is to take its formation for granted, and to lay before the House of Commons thv inten tions and thi 3 policy of his Administration. Friday afternoon v hill have to arrive before it can be definitiv ely known whether the University of Oxford t ,y consenting to the right hon. gentle man's re-el ection will enable the coalition to retain its intende d Chancellor of the Exchequer. 'Wh en the prescu t member for Rochdale will reach our .• • o r • ...A stA - V ‘\ • 0 ,, 3 %ego: : ' 411111,4xisiisitk' ' 6 410 „0. • . ) 41',1k • THE SUN. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1859. shores from those of North America remains yet to be learnt—and when it is learnt it will have even then to continue for a little while longer matter of uncertainty whether the Presidency of the Board of Trade, a seat in the Cabinet, and the right honourable designation of one of her MAJESTY'S Privy Councillors, will form sufficiently powerful temptations to surrender thenceforth abruptly the political fortunes of BRIGHT and COBDEN, hitherto the economic and reforming Siamese leaders of the Manchester school of statemanship. Yet before it can be reasonably imagined when the vessel bear ing Mr. COBDEN homewards shall have been actually telegraphed as within sight at Liverpool, Lord PALMERSTON has undertaken to expound the views of a Ministry that must remain until then a Cabinet purely and simply supposititious. Let Mr. GLADSTONE be precluded from assuming the Chancellorship of the Exchequer by being sub jected to the disaster of a direct rejection by his old University constituency—let Mr. COBDEN de cide upon continuing still to unite his fortunes with those of his fidus Achates, the member for Birmingham—and this vaunted strong Govern ment will collapse before it can well have passed hrough the seeming ceremony of its inauguration. The meeting on Friday at Willis's Rooms, and the presentation of a memorial to Sir JOHN LAW RENCE, cannot be without its influence on our Indian Secretary and Council ; and we must add that the influence will be in the right direction. The meeting was of a highly influential character —such a one as no English statesman can ignore ; for it comprised all the elements of great activity, and that on a question of no small interest to an energetic class. Be their zeal right or wrong, wisely or unwisely directed, the large party to whom missions aid the circulation of the Bible in India are an object of intense interest have too often showed their power in Parliament and the country to permit a Secretary of State for India to disregard their views. The memorial to Sir JOHN LAWRENCE was also signed by such a large number of all classes—at least of the educated classes—that it must be regarded as a truly honourable testi monial by Sir JOHN, and an emphatic declaration to the Government that the intelligent English public fully appreciates both his past achievements and the policy which he now recommends. It is not often that we have had to differ from the opinions of Lord STANLEY, but we must con fess that his views of religious neutrality—probably more correctly, the views of his Council of old Indians—are not so much in accordance with those of the country generally as are the views of Sir Jon LAWRENCE. The point of difference seems to be, practically, just now, whether, in the Govern ment schools, the teachers, if competent and willing, shall be permitted to use the Bible and to explain its teachings. This, however, involves the larger question, whether we are to take all feasible measures to enlighten the people of India as to the true nature of our national faith or not. The technical term " neutrality," as interpreted by the traditions of the Company, has not, it appears, the meaning we assign to it in common discourse. We should accept it as the indication of a rigid impar tiality, on the part of our Indian Administration, between 'all religions—ldolatry, Mahomedanism, and Christianity. It seems, however, that it rather means the policy of treating Heathenism with respect, almost with honour, and even, in certain ways, doing it a kind of homage. That every care is to be taken that we do not allow the natives to suppose that we think our own religion better than theirs ; much more that we hold it to be the only tin,. 0.0. That we sill not only to bear with their most absurd superstitions and pre judices, but almost to dandle and foster them. Sir JOHN LAWRENCE avows boldly the senti- ments which such men as Sir CHARLES NAPIER and the lamented JAVBS, of the Scinde Horse, had so strongly asserted before him—that, while we ought in no way to insult the superstitions of the natives, or wantonly grieve them, we should let them understand that, at least, we pitied them, and believed onr own religion to be an infinitely better one than theirs. Sir JOHN LAWRENCE is strongly of this opinion. He affirms, indeed, that any other course makes them either despise or sus pect us. They are sincere enough in their own beliefs, and if they think we are not, of course they do not respect us ; if, on the other hand, which is more common, they cannot believe that we are in different, they only suspect us of some deep-laid plot to make them Christians by cunning or by force. He points, reasonably enough to the late mutiny, and asks whether the nonsense of the greased cartridges could have been so extensively believed if we had taken any pains to apprise them of the real nature of Protestant Christianity ? If they had been only as extensively acquainted with the principles of the Bible as even educated Pro testants are with those of the Koran, it is impro bable that we should have had any mutiny at all. It becomes, therefore, a question of high State policy in India, not of religion simply, that we should not only not be ashamed of our faith, but that our public acts should show what we think of it compared with these superstitions. Of course, anything like proselytism by bribery or compulsion is wholly out of the question ; they, indeed, would know this if they were rightly taught and dealt with ; but it is quite another thing that they should be enabled to understand merely the reli giousi principles of their masters ; that is but justice to ourselves. The missionary aspects of the matter, then, we leave to those whotn it concerns ; but we confess it does seem a very desirable, even an essential, thing that the subject nations of India should fairly comprehend the principles and general views of the nation which governs them. How, indeed, as Sir lous argues, can there ever be a fair under standing between them and us till they understand the leading features of our religion ? It is but the dictate of policy that they should know enough of our sacred book to know that it is avow thyTiaot crisy or some unde rhand trick, if we t Christianity knows not and permits not conversion by the sword, like l‘fahomedanism, or by fraud, after the fashion of Jesuits once in India itself, or of the POPE and his Cardinals in the case of the little MoRTARA. Besides, the morality of the Bible is the basis of English morality, of English social thinking, and of much of the moral prin ciples which underlie our law. If it concerns an Englishman to know the mythology of Greece and Rome, much more a Hindoo to know the Bible of the country which is shaping his own country's destiny. We should say that there are two books to which the English people owe the greatest part of their habitual thoughts and sentiments on religious, moral, and social topics. We trust it will not be thought profanity if we place together, though of course at an immeasurable distance, the BIBLE and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. The latter, indeed, owes his morality and his religion to the Bible. But for the latter all in SHAKESPEARE that guides our higher moral sentiments would never have been ; for Heathenism could not have produced a SHAKESPEARE. If any foreigner would know air that he could know of us through our literature, let him be drilled in our Bible and our SLIAKES- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1859. ......--..................1116 1 PEARE. It was through study of the latter, when shut up in an Austrian dungeon (for the Bible he had known before) that -KOSIITII himself learned to love our language and our institutions, and to attain his marvellous eloquence in this tongue of ours, so difficult to a foreigner. And, if we want to form the minds of educated Indian youth to a just appreciation of our national, moral, and social standard, we say put into their hands the book to whose authority any Englishman bows at once and without question in all matters of religion ; and put also into his hand the book full of the de velopment of English ideas in every imaginable sphere of life, and you will do your best for him. Education cannot be given up—cannot be put back in India. We must go on to educate. The simplest European education we can give them overthrows their creed ; and it is absolutely im possible that they should learn our astronomy, our geography, our chemistry, and our science gene rally and remain believers in the Koran or the Shasters. We must, therefore, destroy their old creed, whether we wish it or not, by education merely, and it certainly cannot be right or safe to leave boys and lads to grow up with no check whatever from belief in some religious principles. Altogether we must think Sir JOHN and the other two great men to whom we have referred are quite right. The future security of our empire must ultimately depend on a better understanding be tween the governors and the governed, and that will not take place until they understand what we are as a Christian nation. LATEST NEWS. AUSTRALIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) FALMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNI3rG. The ship Result, Dickenson, Master, from Mel bourne, arrived off the port this morning, and landed 27 passengers and mails. She brings 200 passengers, and 36,400 oz. gold dust. The progress of events has since brought the mo ment nearer for realising it. If the authority of Prussia, her resolutions, and her action are to be protected in the crisis in which Europe is at pre sent placed, it is necessary that she should comprehend in time what the situation imposes on er. The Franco-Sardinian army is now in the neighbourhood of the German frontier. The Prussian Government has several times de clared, with the assent of the Chambers, that it considers the security of Germany as confided to its care. The Italian conflict every day extends more and more, and assumes wider proportions. England and Russia, although at a greater distance, are making considerable armaments. Where is the Prussian who would wish that in presence of such circumstances Prussia should remain in an ex pectant position ? The Prussian Government would fail in its duty towards the nation if it were not to act in conformity with the spirit to which the country owes her grandeur. Prussia is free from any engagement. She only obeys obli gations resulting from the very nature of her in terests as a State. The Prussian Government would misunderstand the bases which constitute her force if it were to act in opposition to the na tional movement, The interests of Germany are at the same time those of Prussia, and it will be soon seen whether the initiative assumed by Prussia will be supported by the States and by the populations of Italy with that force which its execution de mands. These populations are animated with a desire to acquire in Europe the importance due to a great natiion so richly endowed by nature. Prussia is ready to throw the weight of Germany into We balance which is to decide events. The Government relies on the patriotism of the Prus sian and the German people. Its policy is firm ; those who seek to throw impediments in the way of its progress ought to reflect that by so doing they render service to the enemies of the country." The National Gazette of Munich, under date of the 21st, states that the troops intended to be called into active service will be concentrated pro visionally between Nuremberg and Wurtzburg. Their ulterior destination will depend on the mea sures taken by Prussia, and it is to inquire respect ing the intentions of this latter Power that Gen. de Tann, aide-de-camp to the King, has gone to Berlin. The New Prussian Gazette says :—" In addition to the Bavarian General de Tann, the Hanoverian General Sicherz has arrived here on a politico-military mission, and other federal officers are expected. The rumour that Bavaria had raised objections to the passage of Prussian troops through her territory is not correct." The _Monitore Toscano of the 24th announces that the Neapolitan Consul-General at Leghorn, having announced his intention of recognising the authenticity of the acts emanating from the Tuscan Government, has been reinstated in the exercise of his functions. The same paper publishes the fol lowing official note : " A despatch addressed by the British Minister Plenipotentiary at Florence to the Earl of Malmes bury, dated the 2d of June, and published in the Times of the 18th, gives an account of a conversa tion between that diplomatist and the undersigned. The undersigned regrets that in the account of this conversation, addressed to his Government, Mr. Scarlett, no doubt led into error by an imperfect recollection of what had passed, should have attri buted to him opinions which he does not entertain, and ex.,yessions which he never uttered; the under signed having simply declared that to the causes which render a restoration of the dynasty of Lor raine in Tuscany impossible there must also be added its having taken refuge in Austria, and remained there permanently. (Signed) "C. RIDOLFI." THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, JUNE 27, 11.55 P.M. Order of the day of the Emperor Napoleon to his soldiers published at Cavriana on the 25th inst : " The enemy, who believed themselves able to repulse us from the Chiese, recrossed the Mincio. You have worthily defended the honour of France. Solferino surpasses the recollection of Lonato and Castiglione. In twelve hours you have repulsed the efforts of 150,000 men. Your enthusiasm did not rest there. The numerous artillery of the enemy occupied formidable positions over three leagues. Your country thanks you for your courage and your perseverance, and laments the fallen. We have taken three flags, 30 cannon, and 6,000 pri soners. The Sardinian army fought with the same valour against superior forces, and worthy is that army to march beside you. Blood has not been shed in vain for the glory of France and the hap piness of the peoples." Count Cavour has returned this evening to Turin from the camp. THE EMPEROR TO THE EMPRESS. CAVRIANA, JUNE 26, 11.55 A.M. The Austrians, who had crossed the Mincio to attack us with the whole of their army, have been compelled to abandon their positions and retire to the left bank of the river. They have blown up the bridge of Goito. The loss of the enemy is very considerable; ours is much inferior. We have taken 30 pieces of cannon, three flags, and captured more than 7,000 prisoners. General Niel and his corps, as well as the entire army, have covered themselves with glory. General Auger has lost an arm. The Sardinian army, which occupied the extreme left of our position, inflicted severe losses on the enemy, after having contended with great obsti nacy against superior numbers. The 21Ioniteur adds that the battle of the 24th of June is to bear the name of "the Battle of Sol- erino." PARIS, JUNE 27. A message from Cavriana announces that on the day of battle, the 24th inst., the Emperor was con stantly in the hottest fire. _ General Larrey, who accompanied the Emperor, had his horse killed ; two horses of the escort of the Cent Gardes were also killed. The dangers which the Emperor ran increased still more the enthusiasm and daring of our sol- diers. VIENNA, JUNE 27 The Austrian Correspondence of this evening con tains the following : " The Emperor will soon return to Vienna on ac count of important Government business. " The Command-in-Chief of the army, which is preparing for a new battle, is given to General Hess." BERNE, JUNE 27 A detachment of Chasseurs des Alpes, commanded by Major Medici, has occupied the Pass of Totale, between the Val Canonica and the Tyrol. FRANKFORT - ON - THE-MAINE, JUNE 27, The Bank discount has been reduced from 31 per cent., at which rate it was fixed on the 31st of May last, to 3 per cent. The Journal de Rouen publishes the following extract of a letter from the camp at Montechiari, dated the 23d, the day before the late battle : "To reach this place, we had to cross a wide plain which might have served as a battle-field for the Austrians ; in front, when coming from Brescia, stands the village of Castenedolo, on an eminence, which, like a long embankment, bounds the plain on one side. This plain is about ten kilometres long and extends to Montechiari, which is built on rather uneven ground against a mountain-spur, on which the ruins of an old castle may still be seen. From that height the eye commands a view almost to Cremona, certainly far beyond Peschiera. With a telescope the Austrians can be seen throwing up their defences. The Grenadiers of the Guard are encamped on this hill. The plain seems a very advantageous battle-field for an army coming from Brescia. If I had been able to write to you the other day I should have sent a letter, which would have been a true picture of a day with Napoleon 111. at the army of Italy. It was the 17th at Tra vagliato, the day before we entered Brescia. The Emperor had taken up his quarters at a large farm house, inhabited by the mayor. Just imagine a spa cious yard ; on the left the dwelling-house, on the right a large garden separated from the yard by a railing. The yard is crowded with travelling car riages and waggons.' The Emperor's attendants and the people of the farm are passing and repassing. It is six in the evening; the Emperor comesdown from his room, attended by Marshal Vaillant. The whole military household comes down and stands apart. The Emperor sits down, and a map is brought to him. Marshal Vaillant presents several papers to his Majesty. The Emperor remains alone for a mo ment, and rests his elbow on another chair beside him. A spy arrives, and is introduced. His Ma jesty listens to him, but apart. A colonel is called ; he gives ten napoleons to the spy, who seems well satisfied with his pay. Marshal Regnaud de St. Jean d'Angely arrives; the Emperor converses with him. Other generals come in. The map is called for several times. The King arrives in a carriage, and the two monarchs shake hands. Soften down a little the hectoring air which some portraits give to King Victor Emmanuel, give him a very plain cavalry uniform, and you will have the portrait of Victor Emmanuel. You must also darken his com plexion a little, give greater distinctness to his fea tures, so as to have the true physiognomy of a frank soldier used to the life of camps. The Em peror and he go a little apart and converse, both making cigarettes in rapid succession. The Em peror, tired of standing, leans against the shafts of a waggon close by ; the conversation is lively and long. Other generals come in. The light, though now declining, is still sufficient to allow of seeing the map, which is again brought forward. At last, the King left at ter o'clock, and the Emperor.dis missed his household ; a quarter of an hour after wards he retired to his apartment. The Emperor eats little. Ile sleeps more by day than by night. He works till one in the morning, and is called up at three or four." The Prussian Gazette gives the following ex planations respecting the mobilisation of the Prussian troops : "When the Government applied to the Chambers for large sums of money it did not conceal the po litical object for which they were to be employed. The Chambers unanimously approved of that object. SURREY THEATRE. Shakspeare's " Richard III." was last night performed for the purpose of affording Mr. Hermaran Vezin another opportunity of displaying his great abilities. According to our notion Mr. Vezin's conception of the character of Richard is unexceptionable ; and, although we must say we had some fears as to the result, owing to the difficult nature of the tragedy, the whole performance went off in the most triumphant manner. The great beauty of this gentleman's acting is its wonderful truthfulness. We have none of those mannerisms and unnatural peculiarities that have of late been so prominent on the London stage, and which have marred and spoiled the best efforts of the few actors yet remaining capable of embodying the sublime conceptions of the great master mind of Shakspeare. With some the "modesty of nature " has been entirely overlooked, and we have had Richard made a ramping, roaring bully, without one jot of dignity or nobleness; but such was not the case last night. Mr. Vezin's version of the character was all the most ardent lover of Shakspeare could desire. From first to last his reading was faultless, and the result was perfect and complete success. The tragedy was fol lowed by a new comedy, entitled "The Viscount of Letorieres," in which Mrs. Vezin admirably sustained the leading part. The plot is simple, and mainly turns upon the straights and strategies a young French Viscount is put to while waiting the result of a trial, in which he is one of the claimants of a fortune of two mil lions of francs. He has to make love to all the ladies, talk over his judges, defeat his enemies, and having done so, he meets with his reward by being declared the rightful claim -I:nt to the disputed prize. Mrs. Vezin acted the handsome dashing Viscount to perfection. Nothing could be prettier than the love making scenes, or more refreshing than his arguments with the judges why they shotild decide in his favour. The audience was quite in extacies with the lady's acting, and the curtain fell amidst the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Calvert, as the Baron d'Hugean—an empty-headed rival claimant for the two millions—was capital; and Messrs. Neville and Voltaire acted their respective parts with great ability. ALHAJIBRA. The entertainments at the Alhambra Palace, Leicester square, continue to attract crowded audiences, notwith standing the heat of the weather is so much against in-door amusements. The present lessee, Mr. M'Collum, seems determined to outrival his predecessors by the novelty of his productions—for, in addition to the splendid troupe of equestrians at present engaged, he has secured the services of the Qua Hard Family, whose performances nightly elicit the most rapturous applause. The pretty little ballet of " The Sprite of the Silver Shower" was considered to be very good, when it was first produced under the manage ment of Messrs. Howes and Cushing; but it has been totally eclipsed by the grand fairy spectacle, " Cinderella." At each of the perfOliminec , , morning and evening, it has called forth unanimous applaus. W trust Mr. M'Col lum's efforts to please will be duly appreciated. THE AUSTRIAN NAVY. The following account of the Austrian naval development in the Adriatic is taken from the Constitutionnel : " What proves that Austria has had a clear view of her interests and has displayed great ad dress in protecting them is the progress of her mercantile navy in the Gulf of Venice, and the ex tension of the commercial movement in that sea. Her three trading ports are Venice, Trieste, and Fiume. The last two are free ports. Venice lost that privilege in 1849, but was made an entrepot in March, 1851. Before the present war began exportation was receiving wonderfully rapid de velopment at Trieste. The Lloyds of Trieste, the chief trading company in Austria, possessed in 1856 no fewer than 68 steamers, of 13,260 horse power. The Company of the Danube was far from reaching so important a figure. That is easily ac counted for. Lombardo-Venetia is the most in dustrious province of the Austrian empire ; next come Bohemia and Lower Austria; and these three absorb more than half, if not two-thirds, of the whole commerce of Austria, as the imports there exceed 54 per cent., and the exports 72 per cent. of the whole trade of the empire. Now, Venice, Trieste, and Fiume are the only ports where this business is transacted ; they tend, on the one hand, to deprive Hamburg and Lubeck of their old relations with Central and Southern Germany ; and, on the other, they open up new markets in the East by Constantinople and Alexandria. To protect this trade a mili tary marine was necessary. Austria did not neglect it. The insurrection of Venice in 1848 suddenly stripped the Government of Vienna of its war ves sels, chiefly manned with Italians. The move ments of the army were greatly embarrassed in consequence, and the siege of Venice became diffi cult. This circumstance, stimulating the incurable jealousy of Austria against Prussia, which power was then meditating the creation of a military , navy, convinced the Vienna Cabinet of the neces sity of possessing a naval power proportioned to the military and commercial requirements of the empire and the no less urgent necessity of placing this power elsewhere than at Venice. The task of organising this navy was confided to the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, the Emperor's brother, and a new Ministry was created for the formation and management of the fleet. The first act of the Austrian Admiralty was to forbid all foreign military vessels to enter the military ports of Venice, Pola, and Lissa, and afterwards the bay of Cattaro also, which was declared a military port in 1854. The Marine Academy was trans ferred from Venice to Trieste in 1848, and from Trieste to Fiume. The dissolution of the German fleet having occurred at this epoch, Austria took into her service a number of German and Danish officers, and more recently, in 1857, she applied to her ports the French system of maritime inscription. Since 1848, Pola has become her principal naval port, with its dock, arsenal, and large storehouses distributed in perfect order. She there built her first line-of-battle ship , which, it is said, is now concealed behind a stockade in M the pass of Malamocco. At Venice and at uggia, near Trieste, steamers are being constructed, and in order to stimulate the zeal of her engineers she has purchased vessels in England to serve as models for them. It is in this manner that she has created the nucleus of a fleet composed of one screw liner of 90 guns, three screw frigates, two screw corvettes, ten sailing frigates and corvett es, and a certain number of brigs and gunboats. The whole together form a fleet of 108 vessels, carrying 910 guns, exclusive of five floating batteries, and manned by 595 officers, 7,275 sub-officers and sea men. There is evidently nothing in this force that can be placed in comparison with the naval power of France. The Austrians are well aware of this, since, following the example of the Russian fleet at Sebastopol, they hide themselves behind fortifi cations." week lensing June 25 :—Morn- MUSEUM OF PATENTS, SOUTH KENSINGTON. evenings, 82o . ; tota, ,061. Since the open ings, of the Museum free daily (May 12, 1858), 111,911. iNngusin, b1e,2r306f ;visitors for the_ ,87. On the three SOUTH KENSINGTON. .MUSEUM. Dining the t e o ve t ru he ng p s tib 2 lic 6d.), 1,181 ; one week ending Stine 25 the visitors have been as follows : On Monday, T ue ,-4,,y, and Saturday,. free days, 3,936 ; on total, 7, 5 07. From to their continued s Monday tudents , a d n a d y s Tuesday, (adraiss tr o e il e ' byafter the tshtuedoepnetns'inegveonfinthge, I,3Viw;edenuemsd,a9ys,9,olBowt ;.g The Sadler's Wells troupe of puutom m i o n: i s n t: a protracted stay in Germany, success, arrived in London early yesterday General Steam Navigation Corapany'steam-ship Neptune, froa Ilautburg. SAXONY. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saxony has addressed the following despatch to M. de Kcen neritz, Saxon Minister at St. Petersburg, in reply to the circular of Prince Gortschakoff:— " Dresden, June 15. " Prince Volkonsky has read to me a despatch addressed to him by Prince Gortschakoff, for the purpose of setting forth the attitud6of the Imperial Government in presence of the complications which have arisen in Italy, and of the war which has re sulted therefrom, as also the manner in which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg thinks right to judge the position of the Governments of Germany in the midst of these events. " The King's Government, placing entire confi dence in the noble and elevated sentiments of H.X. the Emperor of All the Russias, has no doubt as to the benevolent and equitable character of the dispositions by which the Government of H.I.X. is animated towards Germany and the different Governments of the Germanic Confedera tion ; it is therefore with gratitude that we have received this important communication, and I beg of you, sir, to express it to Prince Gortschakoff. "Wo think that we shall give the Imperial Government the best proof of the sincerity of these sentiments by replying with equal frankness to the different observations which have been made to us. " The despatch of Prince Gortschakoff consists of two distinct parts. The first, which is retro spective, passes in review the negotiations which preceded the commencement of hostilities, and recalls to mind the Congress proposed by Russia to prevent them ; the second, which occupies itself with the present and the future, states the views of the Imperial Government as to the task now reserved to the Germanic Confederation. " As to the first part, Prince Gortschakoff will know how to appreciate the considerations which induce us to manifest a certain reserve on entering on the subject. He will not consider a German Government less excusable for permiting itself not to share the severe judgment passed on the conduct of the Austrian Government, which, according to the despatch of Prince Gortschakoff, is alone re sponsible for the calamities of the war. The King's Government at the time did full justice to the efforts made by the St. Petersburg Cabinet to prevent those calamities by means of a European Congress; but unless we fail in the duty of impar tiality towards a confederate Government, it would be impossible for us to dwell on the episode of a congress, which was a mere phase, and not on the circumstances which preceded and brought about the war. If, instead of so doing, we regard the origin of the complications which caused the war to break out, we cannot forget that the Austrian Government, having done nothing which could give offence to its neighbours or to any power whatever in Europe, was first of all disquieted and afterwards menaced in the peaceable exercise of its rights of sovereignty. It is still difficult for us not to entertain the conviction that if such enterprises, instead of encountering the sympa thies, had incurred the unequivocal blame of Europe, the scourge of war would very probably have been averted from humanity even before the question of a congress was raised. " We shall be more explicit on the questions connected with the position and attitude of the German governments. In this matter we have a mission to fulfil, and we owe sincere thanks to Prince Gortschakoff for having afforded us the opportunity of entering into some explanations calculated to enlighten foreign Governments as to what is now taking place in Germany. " The despatch of the Minister of Foreign Affairs expresses regret on the subject of the e xcitement which prevails in some part of Germany ; it ex presses the fear that this agitation arises from a misunderstanding ; and that misunderstanding it sees in the tendency of some States of the Ger manic Confederation to occupy themselves with an imaginary danger, and to cause real ones to arise from it, not only by not resisting passions the development of which may place in peril the se curity and internal force of governments, but by giving serious grievances to a neighbouring and powerful State at the very moment at which it makes reassuring declarations. " There is evidently a misunderstanding, but it is not on the side of the German Governments that we must seek for it. " Prince Gortschakoff is kind enough to remind us, further on, that the Confederation is a combi nation purely and exclusively defensive ; and that if it were now to engage in acts hostile to France, it would falsify the object of its institution, and disregard the spirit of the treaties which have con secrated its existence. On this subject we must make a slight reserve. Without stopping to ex- amine to what extent the word coombination can be applied to a union of independent States re cognised as indissoluble, and counting amongst its members two great European Powers, we will permit ourselves to remark that, though the Ger manic Confederation, by its organisation, has a character principally and essentially defensive, it cannot be pretended that it is a combination ex clusively defensive. The treaties on the basis of which it entered into the public European law—l use the very words of Prince Gortschakoff—and to which Russia has attached her signature, admit that it has the right of peace and war. The Ger man States have always shown themselves very anxious to conform to the fundamental laws of the Confederation, but for that very reason they are en. titled to maintain that those laws shall be preserved intact. We, however, beg Prince Gortschakoff not to lose sight of the fact that in our opinion there is no intention of disregarding this defensive character par excellence, nor of abandoning the circle of the defensive dispositions of the funda mental laws. " Art. 47 of the Final Act of • Vienna, which has latterly been so often referred to that it is not necessary to cite the text, has foreseen the eventuality which is now a fait accompli ; and in order that the German Governments may prepare to fulfil the duties it imposes on them, they need neither cede to passions which compromise their security nor occupy themselves with a danger to come. We may besides here state that the Con federation has not yet taken the decisions which excite the solicitude of Prince Gortschakoff, and inspire him with fears for the solidity of our in ternal situation ; but, far from raising a question of opportuneness, we prefer to give him an additional proof of our confidence in the friendly dispositions of the Imperial Government by accepting an anti cipated discussion. " This is not the first time that the Diet of Frank fort has been called on to discuss the extent of the federal obligations of Germany to the two great powers which form part of the Confederation. It is not without utility to recall precedents of a very recent date; they will prove in what manner its defensive character has hitherto been understood without giving rise to any objection on the part of the great Powers which signed the treaties on the basis of which Germany entered into public Eu ropean law. " Some years ago Russia, owing to a difference with the Ottoman Empire, caused her troops to oc cupy the Danubian Principalities. The interven tion of the great Powers having for its object to bring about an understanding remained frualess, in consequence of the refusal of the Ottoman Porte to accept purely and simply the arbitration of the conference of Vienna, and Turkey then declared war on Russia. She had for allies England and France. At that epoch the Germanic Confedera tion, on the proposition of Austria and Prussia, took a resolution that any act of aggression against the non-German possessions of Austria and Prussia should be considered as equivalent to an attack on the Federal territory, and when some months after the Austrian troops occupied the Danubian Prin cipalities, the Confederation amplified the said re solution to the effect that an attack on that armed force, which was not only out of the Federal but even of the Austrian territory, should be considered as an aggression against the Confederation. " I am not aware that these decisions drew forth protests or remonstrances from Paris or Lon don or even from St. Petersburg ; and yet the Im perial Government of Russia would certainly have found cause for opposing them if the attitude of the Confederation had been contrary to treaties. But if the Confederation then remained within the limits of its rights and its duties, why should it now falsify the object of its institution, and disre gard the spirit of treaties, by taking similar resolu tions? Or is there no analogy between present circumstances and those which then existed ? There is in truth a difference to be noted. In 1854 the Confederation had in view the cl:cntuality of an aggression coming from the east, and it now turns its regards towards the west. But at that epoch the intervention of the Diet was not preceded by any act or demonstration tending to menace the Austrian or Prussian territory; but now, on the contrary, the intervention has not yet taken place, but the Austrian territory is already invaded. " Will it be objected to us at St. Petersburg that at that epoch Germany had more to dread from Russia than she now has from France ? The de spatch of Prince Gortschakoff reminds us that the French government has solemnly proclaimed that it has no hostile intention towards Germany. It at the same time informs us that this declaration was received with ready assent by the majority of the great Powers. We, however, remember a ma nifesto proclaiming the intention of delivering Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic. Has this declara tion also obtained the ready assent of the great Powers ? " The despatch of Prince Gortschakoff states once more the intention of the Imperial Government to watch over the maintenance of the European equi librium. We are profoundly impressed with the reassuring character of this manifestation as re gards the future of Europe., We can appreciate in the same degree the importance of the interest which the Imperial Government professes to attach to the integrity of Germany. We flatter ourselves with the persuasion that if Russia has made sacrifices in favour of Germany, she does not regret them, for, as stated in the despatch of M. de Gortschakoff, Russia acts in accordance with her own interests, and circumstances have arisen in which Russia, in her turn, has had reason to be satisfied that Ger many was equally inspired by her own interests. Germany at present calls for no sacrifices ; she only claims her independence in the accomplishment of her federal duties. In thus speaking we have no pretension to be the organ of Germany; but in matters concerning federal affairs and the mainte nance of the rights as well as the obligations of the Confederation, we think each of the German Governments is called upon to speak, and, on our part, we do not fear any contradiction from our confederates. You will please to read the present despatch to Prince Gortschakoff. ct BEUST,7 FRANCE. --- PARIS BOURSE, Juno 27. The market has again become heavy, and prices have given way Threes have been done at 62f. 30c., and 62f. 40c. Mobilier varied from 640 f. to 645 f. ; Orleans, 1,215 f. to 1,217 f. 50e. ; Lyons, 822 f. 50e. to 827 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 410 f. to 415 f. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 465 f. to 467 f. 50c. The following were the last quota- tions :- 41 per Cents. 92 30 Do. end month 3 per Cents 62 30 Do. end m onth 62 30 Bank Shares 2775 Credit Mobilier 637 50 Do. ACCOUllt Credit Fonder 630 Belgian 41 — Piedmonteso (5) Roman B2 Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt RAILWAYS. _ Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 927 50 .. 927 50 New ditto 790 .. 790 Lyons and MQditerranean 822 50 .. 823 75 Geneva — — Southern Western 5lO .. Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 375 Austrian • Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 10c. ' • money, 25f 81c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 21f. 95c. EXECUTIONS OF ITALIAN SOLDIERS. —During last week and the week before there were so many deser tions from the Austrian regiment " Alemann," which re cruits at Bergamo, in Lombardy, and from " Aivoldi," which is raised at Lodi, that drum-head law was on Wed nesday last proclaimed in both regiments. Four deserters from the first-mentioned regiment, which is in garrison in Vienna, were brought in on Wednesday, and, as two of them were taken after drum-head law had been instituted, they were tried and ' shot within the next twenty-four hours. TIIE MAIL SERVICE.—The screw steamer Orissa, Captain Joy, left Southampton yesterday for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the heavy Bombay mails, 40 passengers, and 591 boxes of specie and jewellery, value £164,979, for Bombay. The Sultan, screw steamer, Capt. Cook, also left yesterday, with mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, and 20 passengers. THE. NAVY. The paddle-wheel steam vessel Locust, 3, Lieut. B. Field, from Queenstown, arrived. at Plymouth on Saturday. The screw steam frigate, Curacoa, 31, Capt. T. Mason, sailed from Plymouth on Sunday morning with stores for Portland. The screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Schoen berg, has been ordered to proceed from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound. Two Russian gunboats—viz., the Souksson, Capt. Farmer, and the Killissoury, Capt. Drew, put into Plymouth on Saturday for fuel, and are appointed to sail to-day for Odessa. Her Majesty's steam vessel Bann, Capt. Williams, on surveying service, put into Falmouth on. Satur day from the westward, and after coaling sailed again for Fowey. The Arid, 9, screw, Com. C. Bromley, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Mediterranean. The Agamemnon, 91, screw, Capt. T. Hope, had her topsails set and sheeted home at 6 p.m. yester day preparatory to leaving Spithead for the Medi terranean. A large number of seamen volunteers arrived in Portsmouth yesterday from Liverpool and the coast of Scotland. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Commanders—H. A. Reilly to the Pioneer, vice May, promoted ; J. K. E. Baird to the Devastation, vice Wake promoted ; H. C. Strode to the Vulcan (commissioned). Master—Frederick Kirkham to the Gladiator. Dr. Alexander Armstrong, M.D., to be Deputy-Inspec r-General of the Naval Hospital at Malta. THE ARMY. The hired East India troopship Earl Balcarras, 1,800 tons, Commander: Bremnar, from Bombay, and the screw steamship Melbourne, Commander Keet, from Corfu, Malta, and Gibraltar, which ar rived in the Thames on Sunday, with sick and wounded troops on board, disembarked their de tachments at Gravesend yesterday, when they were immediately forwarded to Fort Pitt Hospital, Cha tham. The Earl Balcarras sailed from Bombay on the 2d of March last, the passage to the Thames oc cupying 119 days. The number of troops who em barked at Bombay was 30 men of the 14th (The King's) Light Dragoons, and 77 of the 86th (Royal County. Down) Regiment, under the command of Capt. J. Boyd and Lieut. J. D. Brockman, 86th Regiment, and in medical c h arge o f M r . Maloney, civil surgeon. A large number of the East India troops also came home in the same vessel, but these did not land at Gravesend. The Earl Balcarras touched at St. Helena on the sth of May. During the voyage one birth and ten deaths occurred on board, and one man died as he was being brought on shore at Gravesend. Five men belonging to the Royal Artillery, 24th, 33d, and 31st Regiments, who had been tried by court-martial in India, and sentenced to various terms of transportation, were sent home as prisoners, and landed at Gravesend under military escort ; one officer who had been cashiered, and one who had become insane, also ar rived in the same ship. On the arrival of the in valids at Fort Pitt they were medically inspected by Surgeon-Major J. S. Prendergast, M.D., when 36 men were ordered to be admitted into hospital. The screw steamer Melbourne brought home 51 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d Bat talion 2d Royals, 2d battalion 3d Buffs ; 2d battalion 7th Royal Fusileers ; 14th, 25th (King's Own Bor derers), and the Royal Artillery, with 7 women and 17 children, the whole under the command of Lieut. A. M. D. Page, 2d Foot, and in medical charge of Staff-Assistant Surgeon J. Michael. Her dates are Corfu, June 5 ; Malta, June 7 ; and Gibraltar, June 16. One death occurred during the voyage. Capt. J. Logan, 2d Royals, came home on sick leave. The Royal Wilts Militia, under the command of Lord Methuen, have received orders to hold them selves in readiness to proceed from Portsmouth to Aldershott. The Royal Wilts will be relieved in Portsmouth by the East Kent from Aldershott. PRESENTATION TO MR. BUSSELL. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Last evening the members of the Philharmonic Society presented Mr. Henry Bussell, the Hon. Secretary and conductor of the society, with a magnificent service of plate, value about £3OO, in token of their appreciation of the valuable ser vices he has rendered to the society for a period of thirty-three years, during which, having been one of its original founders, he is connected with it. Mr. Bussell was entertained at dinner at the Salt-hill Hotel, at half-past seven o'clock, on which occasion the presentation was made. The services, which were manufactured by Messrs. West and Son, included a dinner and tea and coffee sets com plete, with a handsome centre piece and salver, the latter bearing the . following inscription :—"Pre sented, with a service of plate, by members and asso ciates of the Philharmonic Society, to Henry Bussell, Esq., their Honorary Secretary, as a token of esteem and regard for him personally, and as a mark of their appreciation of the zealous and highly effi cient services he has rendered to the society since the year 1826, when, through his exertions mainly, it was founded, and from which period he has un interruptedly held office.—Dublin, June, 1859." About 40 gentlemen connected with the society, and the representatives of the other musical societies of Dublin, sat down to dinner. The chair was oc cupied by Alderman Kinahan. The cloth having been removed, the usual loyal toasts were drunk, The CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of the evening. He said—l now rise for the purpose of pro posing the health of Mr. Henry Bussell. (Applause.) We ve assembled here this evening to perform one of the most pleasing duties that can devolve upon men in their corporate capacity—namely, that of rewarding, if we possibly can, the labours of a deserving officer whom we have known and tried for years. Such, I look upon it, is the case of my respected friend on my right hand. For nearly thirty-three years we have known him as the honorary secretary 'of the Philharmonic Society, and during the entire of that time he has added from year to year to the number of its friends by the manner in which he has conducted himself in his office. (Cheers.) I shall not speak further on the subject, but shall propose to you with great expectations of the reception the toast will meet, "The Health of our excellent Honorary Secretary, Mr. Bussell. Mr. BUSSELL, on rising to res p ond, was received with loud cheers. The toast was drunHkewsitahidt—hrmeen times three. and members of the Philharmonic Society—l may truly say that this is the p roudest ni g ht of m y life. If on past occasions I have experience embarrassment in endeavouring to return thanks for favours received from the Philharmonic Society, I now feel completely at a loss for words adequately to e xpress my sense of the kindness which i s ma nifested in th ipf i t s r:s : e a ns l ot u e a dm bl : e onci and splendid m in a .e n se n n e t r a in i° l n v . hich h i e t is g o fi m ce p n i t i , m an en d ta t h e ry that I fell myself quite unworthy of the honour. (No, no.) lamat a loss to know how I could have deserved so great a compliment, but I conclude that it has emanated altogether from generous hearts and from kindly feelings towards and old and anxious servant of the society. Gentlemen, I beg with all sincerity to thank the society, not only for this great favour, but also for their uniform kindness towards me. Several other toasts were afterwards drunk, and the company separated. POLICE EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT.—Yesterday an interesting scone was presented at the Blackheath station of the R or Greenwich division of metropolitan police, by the assembling of the men belonging to the educational class of the force preparatory to the Midsummer vacation. The class, which was originally established in 1857, through the instrumentality of Mr. Mallalieu, the superintendent, con sisted at first of 45 members only, but now numbers 96, the salary of a certificated schoolmaster and all the expenses of the class being defrayed by contributions among themselves, which since its commencement have amounted to £44, the expenditure being .C 39 12s. The class had met on 207 occa sions during the past session, and 20 lectures had been given on different subjects during - the same period by clergy men and other gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood. At the conclusion of the proceedings the men were addres sed by Mr. Superintendent Mallalieu upon the importance of education, and the benefits to be derived from a steady application to the subjects taught in the class; Mr. Garland, the master, co ngratulating them up on the improvements made in their studies. The ba nd belonging. to the force was in attendance, and playe d some choice pieces.. M. JULLIEN IN TROUBLE.—Jullien, the well known chef d'orchestra of London, having come to Paris in May last, was arrested for the non-payment of a bill of ex change given to a M. Chapelle ; but in order to obtain his Delepierre, who holds the bill of exchange, release from prison, he had himself declared a bankrupt. opposed his discharge, applied to the a o il n d Tail o r shd had opposed Tri bunal of Commerce to order the declaration of bankruptcy to be set aside, on the ground that M. Jullien had been natural an Englishman, and could not therefore enjoy the privileges of a Frenchman in a case of bankruptcy. Jullien, in reply, represented that as the letters of naturali sation he had obtained in England stipulated that he could be neither a member of Parliament nor a Minister of the Crown, nor a grand dignitary of state, he could not be considered an English subject, but only as a denizen of England ; that letters of full naturalisation in England can only be accorded by Parliament, whereas his had been given by a Minister and that, having returned to France, he had recovered his French nationality. But the tri bunal held that having obtained all the rights and privi leges of a British subject to certain restrictions, allowed by an act of Parliament of 1832, and having taken the oath of submission and allegiance to the Queen of England, he was a naturalisd Englishman, and consequently could not be declared a bankrupt in France. In consequence of this decision an application made by Jullien to be set at liberty was rejected.—Galignaiii. prof e : beei beli find te: Pa ne tie to Ra lut ten Pa da: Fu sio: cei the is Old slig Can nad dull Ro3 ea IttLq Sara Spa: D: Tur. Bel E atan a pc aeon aWa