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N " A No. 1., price 3d. London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street. WEEK. mit. GLADSTONE'S COMMITTEE ROOM, UNION HOTEL, Cockspur-street, S.W. The Foil will close finally at 5 p.m. on Friday. HOURS Or POLLING. Friday, „ July 1 / 3 to 5 TRAIN s. 5 a.m.—Arriving in Oxford 8.25 a.m. 7.15 a.m. ~ ~ 9.50 a.m. ~ „ 10.30 a.m. ~ „ 11.45 a.m. ~, ~ 2 p.m. 01 11 The Committee regret that they must still urgently request every member of Convocatirn who desires to secure the IT- U= of Mr. Gladstone to persevere in recording his vote. Committee-room, 2 p.m., June 30. INDIA OFFICE, Bth APRIL, 1859. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next Examination of Candidates for the appointment of Assistant-Surgeons in her Majesty's Mihtary Forces, will be held in this Office on MONDAY, the llth July, 1859, and succeeding days ; and that the probable number of vacancies to be then filled up will be forty. J. COSMO MELVILL. C O MMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS, for Orphan and Necessitous Children, Pinner, Middlesex. p ATR ON—IIis Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT. A GENERAL HALF-YEARLY COURT was held at the London Tavern, THIS DAY, June 28, 1859, GEORGE MOORE, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair, When an election of Twelve Children, Seven Boys and Five Girls, took place. The following is the result of the poll SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. BOYS. Thompson, John H..... 6,6 89 Share , A.E 617 Black, Jame' Wright, S. F Freeman, F.A. GIRLS. D 13114011, S. W 11,770 1 Bradbury, L. A. Carpenter, L. A. Norris, E. UNSUCCESSFUL BOYS. Lewis, G. A 3,251 Goodchild, W. J 1,301 Moore, S. J. Locke, J. J. Masters, R. M 1,326 UNSUCCESSFUL GIRLS. Pinto, F ]Edwards, S. ii . j,.. .... 3,205 I 3fassing-ham, E. S 503 ALFRED LENCH SAUL, Secretary. Oakes, Si, Cheapside, June 28, 1859. I.Z OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, 110 Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENMG will be presented Shakspeare'S historical plsy of RING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP FI fS. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with a new Comedy, entitled THE CONTESTED ELECTION, in widen Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear, After which, NOTHING TO WEAR. To oonolude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. NTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL .A.l Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J.. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington• Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laidlaw. And (by desire) THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Billington, Miss M. Keeley. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for booking. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, Miss A. Burditt. After which. CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Hr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. To conclude with KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening LOUIS XL Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C. Calvert, Mrs. C. Calvert. _ . After which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT LETOIIIERES. Mrs. Hermann Vezin. ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. CANTERBITRY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERT EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and LIGHT 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 ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SUN Orricz, JUNE 30. THEIt3fO3IETER, IN THE SHADE. 76—highest since noon yesterday. 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 70—this day at noon. Mutomrrmit---30 . 18. WIND, Northerly ; rather fresh, with fine weather. The schoolboy cry in the playground of " slips over again" really appears to express plainly enough the actuating principle of our politicians this year in the Lower Chamber of Parliament. This after noon the session of 1859 actually makes its Fourth Commencement. The original beginning of this miserably wasted and all but used up session tran spired of course in February, when the old Parlia ment re-assembled for the last time to hear a Speech from the Throne, to vote a loyal Address in reply, and to listen, it was hoped, with magnanimous and dispassionate candour to the Reform Bill honour ably submitted to the consideration of the legisla tion by the councils of the DERBY Government. How those rational hopes were dissipated the nation bears vividly enough in its remembrance. Immediate and comprehensive reforms were at the commencement of the springtime of 'fifty-nine within the grasp of the popular representatives under circumstances which secured to them the possibility of at once moulding those reforms in committee exactly in accordance with the wishes and aspiration s of the population. Simultaneously with the advent of this long-looked for and golden opportunity, it was matter of European notoriety that the tranquillity of Chris tendom was precisely at that very juncture trem bling imminently in the balance, and that the dread ultimatum of Peace or War depended at the moment, if not entirely, at any rate in a very great measure indeed upon the circumstance of the English Government remaining unembarrassed and unweakened in the midst of its most delicate and complicated diplomatic negotiations. The Opposition knew all this perfectly. The leaders of that Opposition knew to absolute cer• tainty that by embarrassing Her MAJESTY'S Go vernment at that most perilous and difficult juncture they could only hope to secure advantage to themselves by the wanton sacrifice of the interests at once of the nation and of Christendom. The entire session was before them, and in its regard it might be said of them truthfully that— " They gave up to party what was meant for mankind." Lord JOHN—henceforth, as the Earl of WARWICK is known in the annals of our civil wars by the 'fame of the " King-maker" to be known in his turn in our Parliamentary history, not less in re gard to friends than in regard to foes, as " - The Cabinet-breaker."—Lord JOHN, of whom it might be said as accurately as ever the Roman poet sang of the first CESAR Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina"—recognised 9 ,e a glance how he might best, according to his usual custom, avail himself of this most tempting opportunity. Granted that, by so doing, that very Reform for which he bad once shed tears in the House of Commons, that R e f orm w hi c h was t h en clearly within his grasp, within the grasp of the riegislature, within the gras p P of the population, would, in all human likelihood, b e thrown back for, at least, another twelvemonth! Granted that War, then trembling like the swo rd of D EMOCLEs upon tho 'suspension of a hair, the gossamer thread of diplomacy, might by any untoward and precipitate prweeding in the British House of Commons, a i t: AA au , 4 - , - ,p,....:‘,,,,v_L im,,..,.. '4fl4 , 'Mak 114 c. (-.:`,t,, . — **--%„,,•,'Z'..,, -,." ss''';, , ,,,, * — : 4. , ~, r' % tt s t . O, ..,„„, <,:, 7,-.. ' , 41042 ~,,, , ~ , V iii THE SUN. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1859. fall like a thunderbolt in the midst of the anxious deliberations of the European negotiators ! No matter—Perish the sacred interests of Reform —Perish the long-continued peace among the na tions of Christendom—so that the Great Families w ere but restored again to Power—so that new i life might but be breathed afresh into the ashen corpse of Whiggery, so that the great House of Vipont might but once more be rehabilitated. Hence Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S notorious Resolu- tions. The momentary success of those Resolutions —a success brought about exclusively for the merest party purposes—necessitated, what did those Reso lutions not necessitate ? They in a manner compelled her MAJESTY to dissolve Parlia ment. They threw over to another year the mere prospect of a Reform in the popular represen tation. They interrupted, at the most critical juncture of all, the diplomatic negotiations con ducted with honourable and patriotic consistency from first to last by the Earl of MALMESBURY— and lead as a matter of course to the disastrous out break upon the plains of Lombardy, of that san guinary conflict now raging between the Po and the Rhaetian Alps. Tant pis for England and for Europe ! Tant rale= for the great Whig leaders and their followers ! So long as the latter were but restored to place and power and patronage—what matter that at home we were denied the chance of any reform at all in 1859 ? what matter that the two best disciplined and most formidable armies of Christendom were brought into bloody and terrible collision ? Well, the results that were alone inevi table came as the necessary consequence of the factious triumph won by those specious and detest able Resolutions. Pprliament was of course dis solved. The negotiations of Lord MALMESBURY between the Courts of Turin, Paris, and Vienna were of course brought at once to an abrupt and disastrous termination. War broke out upon the boundary line between Piedmont and Lombardy. Reform was rendered hopeless in 1859—was thrown back at least another twelvmonth. Not until the beginning of the very month that terminates to day could the New Parliament—the sixth of VIC TORIA—be assembled together down at Westmin ster. That was the Second commencement of this monstrously wasted Session of 1859. Scarcely, however, had the new Parliament listened, at the beginning of June, to another QUEEN'S Speech, when the customary loyal address was immediately followed up by a factious amendment. One of the narrowest majorities ever obtained (13) in the largest house upon record (638) in the annals of Parliament, resulted in an abrupt and total change of Administrations. After a mysterious week, spent in secret compromises and reconciliations, the Third Beginning had to be made in this most unfortunate and fruitless session of Parliament. The Third proved this time, however, anything but the charm—and this for a sufficiently obvious and a wholly unavoidable reason—the new Ministers had to be re-elected by their respective constituencies ! Whether they will all be so re elected is, of course, yet a matter of uncertainty— cannot possibly be guessed, indeed, until the result of the Oxford University contest is known to-morrow evening. But, without waiting for this all-essential preliminary to the Minis terial explanations, Lord PALMERSTON is this very afternoon, by indulging the House'of Com mons prematurely with those explanations, formally and deliberately to inaugurate the Fourth Com mencement of the Parliamentary Session of 1859! So that the real business of the year will actually begin—thanks to the Whigs, and Peelites, and Place Hunters, et hoc genus mane—simultaneously with the commencement of July ! And that Business will really consist—thanks to the Whigs and the rest of the factious Chiefs of the Coalition—of (among others of a like kind) the following achievements : I. The postponement of the Question of Reform till 1860. 11. The preservation, if possible (!), of the Neu trality inaugurated by the late Government. 111. The re-imposition of the iniquitous Income tax in all its (want of) integrity. IV. The reduction, if in any way practicable, of the Naval Estimates, nobly increased by Sir J. PAKINGTON. V. The renewal, if it can only in any way be managed, of the Hudson's Bay Company's Charter. And these extraordinary advantages have been gained—to what end let us ask ? To the end that Lord JOHN RUSSELL may be enabled still further to complicate the diplomatic entanglements of Christendom by presiding at the head of the Foreign Department ! To the end that Sir CORN E WALL LEWIS may try his 'prentice hand as Home Secretary ! To the end that Sir CHARLES WOOD may yet further and yet more signally illustrate his administrative fatuity as the ruler of our vast Indian Empire ! To the end that Mr. CARDWELL may be rewarded for his abortive motion of last year by his nomination to the Chief Secretaryship in Ire land ! To the end that Sir GEORGE GREY may be comfortably shelved as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ! In order moreover among other extraordinary advantages to the country—that Mr. LOWE may be made Vice-President of the Pzivy Council of Education, and Mr. WILSON, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. " 0 mon strous ! But one halfpenny worth of bread to this intollerable deal of sack !" All concurrent accounts seem to indicate that the terrible conflict of the 24th instant, was as desperate as it was decisive in the utter defeat of the Aus trians. It was not a battle of an hour or two—but a long drawn out sanguinary series of attacks and counter attacks, each gallantly striving for the mastery, spread over a long space, intersected by hills, valleys, broken ground, dusty roads, and, finally deluged and swept by a hurricane of thunderstorms! It was ind ee d a scene almost too Then, what must it h ave been lub to to contemplate.th combatants—exhausted, wounded, and famished by the bloody work of the day— an d suc h a day—prolonged from nig ht till morn — from morn till bloody eve ! The heart almost sickens at the direful and sanguinary calamity which must spread dismay and sorrow, not only throughout Germany, but all over France and Piedmont. Still there i s one consolation that each did what he considered his duty, and the God of Battles decided in favour of the Bravest. Well, be it so. We only trust that it may teach a lesson to the young but fool hardy monarch of Austria, who is returning hurriedly home—not covered with laurels--but down-hearted and shrinking within himself at the sackloth and ashes which he has diffused over his Fatherland ; he must now repent his temerity, and, abating his pride of birth, may listen to reason, leave Italy to herself, and, taking better care of what remains, become a wiser and a better man. If the Emperor FRANCIS-JOSEPH will but look back just a month or so—and think of the inso lent bluster with which his councils threatened the weak but patriotic State of Sardinia, and compare the past with the present condition of his own affairs, he will shudder at the madness of his pro ceedings ! Instead of conquering one kingdom, he THE SUN, _LONDON, has actually lost two, with disgrace and humilia tion, almost unparalleled in so short a time. And all for what ? That being great, he would fain become greater—boasted. of his immense armies— would not hear of reasonable advice, nor take any course but his own; and behold the fitting retri bution! There is undoubted generalship in victory, but there may be still greater generalship after defeat ; and if his Commander-in-Chief can retire with the main bulk of his army out of the kingdom of Venice he w;11 achieve wonders, seeing how sorely he is now beset by the pursuing con querors, and soon to be met by the combination of conspiring forces preparing to harrass if they cannot cut off his retreat. Indeed, the official accounts from Vienna already betoken the shadow of coming events, for the authorities of Lombardy, both civil and military, are now to take up their head-quarters at Laybach ! Did we not indicate that they would do so some weeks ago ? But will they even find repose there unless an armistice be agreed upon ? There is no rest for the wicked, and the Austrians have too long established their claim t• such by the utter wickedness of their ways, and. may now well dread the avenging retribution of their burning foes ! Let us hope that a due sense of his own position may now suggest better councils to the German Emperor, and that he will not lean for help on the Prince of PRUSSIA, because such help would:be:effec tive and not avail either. It would unquestionably plunge all Germany in a war from which not one of the great or little States would escape with honour. Hitherto the Emperor NAPOLEON has acted with consumate skill and moderation, even in victory. Let him but act up in the same spirit, wholly regardless of territorial aggrandizement, and he will not only add to his own increasing fame, but put his opponents and calumniators in the wrong, and so win the admirati on of Europe as well as the conscientious applause of his own heart. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. VERONA, JUNE 28 (via TRT_ESTE). Count Pourtales has arrived here, at the head quarters of the Austrian army. Laybach has been fixed as the seat of the mili tary and civil Government of Lombardy, and of ;he employes of the Government. General Gyulai has, in the capacity of Colonel, assumed the command of the regiment which be longs to him and bears his name. BERNE, JUNE 29. On receipt of the news of the massacre at Perugia the Swiss residents at Milan were ill-treated by the populace, but the police interfered. The Federal Council has addressed circulars to the Swiss Consular agents in Italy, in which the Council protests against denominating regiments composed of foreigners as Swiss regiments, and re quests that use may be made of the - circulars in order. that this subject may be put in its proper light before the eyes of the public. VIENNA, JUNE 29. On the 28th the following French ships were at Antivari :—Five ships of the line, eight frigates, six war-steamers, thirteen floating batteries, nine gunboats, nine brigs, and two three-masters. The fleet has many troops and enormous supplies of provisions and ammunition on board, so that it can act independently of the mother country should any other Power attempt to interfere. Admiral Bouet is about to open sealed orders. Consul Hecquardt is in continual correspondence with Montenegro. THE BATTLE OF SOLFERINO FRENCH ACCOUNT. The Moniteur has received from Cavriana, under date of June 25, the following details of the battle of Solferino " Yesterday was marked by one of those battles which, if they do not finish the war, permit us at least to foresee its solution. The Emperor of Aus tria commanded in person. " The Austrians, in their previous retreat, were planning an attack. Their withdrawal, so decided, behind the Mincio was intended to inspire us with adventurous confidence by leaving a vast field to the rapidity of our movements, thereby exposing our columns, distant from each other through the order of march, to a sudden attack that might have weakened them by separation. But, fortunately, the Emperor has not deviated from that exalted prudence that prevails even over his courage—the further the allied army advanced, the more our columns strengthened themselves by serrying their " In the night between the 23d and 24th we learned that the Austrians were re-crossing the Mincio and marching to meet us. A battle was imminent. The entire army of the enemy, retrac ing its steps, was preparing to dispute our passage. Solferino, San Cassiano, Cavriana, formidable posi tions, were occupied by the Austrians, who, sup ported by a numerous artillery, were crowning all the heights as far as the Volta. On their left, in the plain, between Volta, Guidizzolo, and Medola, numerous columns were advanc ing with artillery and cavalry to out-flank our right, and turn it. The enemy had, m3re over, between Solferino and Peschiera, considerable forces, that were to be opposed to the King of Pied mont. marching from Des enzano to Pozzolengo. The armies were occupying these positions, when, at five in the morning, the Ist corps (Marshal Baraguay &Millers) commenced the engagement before Solferino. The heights and village were carried and occupied by sheer force, after a fierce combat. During this time the 21 corps (Marshal M'Mahon), which was to the right of the Ist, in the plain, extended itself towards it own right, in order to join Gen. Neil, who was marching on Medola. " The Emperor had taken the command of the whole army ; his Majesty caused the infantry and artillery of the guard to advance for the purpose of establishing themselves between the Ist and 2d corps and carrying San Cassiano. Then, with a view to reinforce Marshal M'Mahon's right (2d corps), a little vulnerable on account of General Niel's distance, his Majesty sent all the cavalry of the guard and the two divisions of cavalry of the Ist and 3d corps to fill the void between the 2d and 4th corps. " Marshal Canrobert had been directed to watch the movement of the Austrians expected from the side of Mantua. " There was fighting the whole day and a slow advance, but always advancing in good order, the corps keeping up their junction. The Ist corps, after taking Solferino, carried all the positions one after the other in the direction of Pozzolengo ; night alone could stop it. The guard bore upon San Cas siano and Cavriana by crowning the eminences. The last-named village was carried was great spirit before the eyes of the Emperor, who was himself directing the fire of the artillery. " As for the 4th corps (General Niel's) it advanced step by step, always gaining ground. There was a moment, about four o'clock in the afternoon, when in order to support their retreat the Austrians made a final effort to effect a lodgment between the 4th and 2d corps. A fierce conflict ensued ; the in fantry- and artillery took part in it, and the cavalry in several charges finished by deciding the success of this great day. This was the last act of the battle ; the Austrians began their retreat along their whole line. This retreat was favoured by a fearful storm that lasted more than an hour; the thunder, hail, wind, and lastly a frightful deluge of rain, produced such an effect, that nothing could be any longer distinguished on the field of battle. " When the weather cleared up the enemy had disappeared, and in the distance we could see the direttion taken by his retreating columns. The Emperor of Austria, who was lodging at Cavriana, in the very place where the Emperor set up later his headcinartersc left the field of battle about four o'clock, and withdrew on the side of Goito. From the heights of Cavriana the strong column of dust could be seen that was raised by the steps of his escort. "The Emperor Napoleon has been in some sort superior to himself ; he was seen everywhere, al ways directing the battle ; every one around him shuddered at the danger that incessantly threatened him ; he alone seemed to be unaware of it. The protection with which God has covered him was extended to his staff; one of the Cent-Gardes alone was wounded near his Majesty ; several horses of the staff and the escort were killed or wounded." A letter from Castenedolo, dated June 24, even ing, says : I had just posted my yesterday's letter when an officer of the general staff told me of intelligence having arrived from Peschiera that the Austrians intended to attack our lines on the following morning. _ _ _ I therefore viade up my mind to follow the Pied montese army as soon as Victor Emmanuel had left Lonato for the front. I was, however, obliged to change my plan, for the simple reason that the horse I had obtained at Brescia was lame, and, therefore, unable to follow the staff even at a dis tance. As it was quite out of the question to get a horse in Lonato, I was obliged to accept the kind offer of an American gentleman who follows en amateur the operations of the allied armies. He was fortunate enough to be in possession of a car riage, and I hastened to take the opportunity thus offered to me. At first I thought we should drive on the Desenzano road, but he said he had some reason to believe that the French army would be first engaged, and that he had decided on starting for Monteehiari. Although I thought THE QUEEN'S STATE BALL. Her Majesty the Queen gave last evening, at Bucking ham Palace, a State ball to a party of 2,000. The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the Grand Hall, under the command of Captain Macdonald, the Exon in Waiting. Major-General Sir Travell Phillips, the Lieu tenant of the Corps, attended. At ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Consort were con ducted by Viscount Sydney, the Lord Chamberlain, to the ball and concert room. Her Majesty and his Royal High ness were accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of "Wales, the Princess Alice, the Duke of Oporto, and the Count of Flanders. The Ladies-in-Waiting, the Great Officers of State, and the Gentlemen-in-Waiting, were in attendance. The Queen wore a dress of lilac silk, covered with bouil lonnes of lilao tulle, trimmed with white blonde and bunches of green leaves ornamented with diamonds. Her Majesty's headdress was a wreath of green leaves ornamented with diamonds. The Princess Alice wore a dress of rich pink glace, trimmed with bouillonnes of pink tulle and white roses. The Princess wore a wreath of white roses and pearls. The ornaments were diamonds and pearls. HAYMARKET THEATRE. A new three act comedy by Tom Taylor, Esq., was pro duced at this theatre last evening with great success. It is entitled " The Contested Election," and the object in view is to saterise the proceedings of both candidates' agents and electors during a contest for a seat in Parliament in a borough with not an over pure reputation. Mr. Dodgson, an attor ney in a country town, dunned by creditors, is in despair, for the election is at hand, and neither of the candidates has made overtures to him to become his agent. An oldfriend, Mr. Wapshott, c&nes to him to tell him that a young lady with whom he is in love is kept from him through the machinations of a step mother, a Mrs. Honeybun, a very pretty and im perious lady, who rules Mr. Honeybun with a rod of iron. Wapshott is exiled from the house, but he thinks that the young lady has some money of her own, and he is come to ask Dodgson to look over the will, which is in his possession. While Dodgson is engaged in this business he is visited by Peckover, the president of a club of venal voters (the Blue Lambs), who comes to announce that the two candidates are about to make a "cross" of it--one to retire on the eve of nomination. The constituency is irate, and wishes that sharp legal agent, Mr. Dodgson, to find them a candidate with plenty of money and flexible purse and principles. Dodgson sees an opportunity for distinguishing himself, and bethinks him at once of Mr. Honeybun, the hen pecked ; he has plenty of money, and he is utterly under the guidance of his wife, who is to be got over by flattery. Dodgson effects an introduction, and breaks his plot to Mrs. Honeybun, who is enchanted at the prospect of a life in London, and Ministerial attention. Honeybun is put in nomination, has to send up to town for £BOO, has to see bands of ruffians on electioneer ing matters, and is in agony lest he should be elected. From this misery he is rescued by Wapshott, who, on con dition of receiving his' daughter's hand, volunteers to oppose him. The money has been sent by the bankers in notes, which Wapshott cuts in half, making Honey bun send half to Dodgson, while he himself keeps the re mainder. Wapshott goes to work, and, by judiciously planting the half •notes, achieves great success, and on the day of poll heads his opponent, finally retiring after he has convinced both Mrs. Honeybun and her husband of the mere flippant nature of Dodgson's attention to hiin, and so won both their consents to his marriage. Honeybun is also permitted by his wife to retire from the contest, and one of the original candidates walks over. The part of Dodgson, the attorney, was of course sus tained with much success by Mr. Charles Mathews, but he seemed to lack much of his usual spirit. Mr. Comp ton, as Honeybun, played with the greatest artistic care. He must be seen to be appreciated; his bewildered help lessness during the election, was inimitable. Buckstone, as the patriotic butcher, Peckover—the leader of the Blue Lambs—was irresistibly comic ; and Mr. Rogers, as Toper, the beerseller—the chief of the Green Lions—excellent. The Mrs. Honeybun of Mrs. C. Mathews was anextremely good piece of acting, although we do not think it was quite the sort of lady meant by the author. At the fall of the curtain the leading personages had to bow their acknowledgments, and as Mr. Buckstone was announcing the piece for repetition every evening, a loud call arose for the author. The talented lessee, after giving the audience one of his most comical looks, said :—" Ladies and gentlemen, I was this morning desired by the author, Mr. Tom Taylor, to say, if he should be called for, that he was not in the house." The observation was received with the loudest laughter, during which Mr. Buckstone retired. PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO MR. JAMES WILD. —A committee of the depositors of the Royal British Bank has been formed with the object of obtaining sub • scriptions:from their fellow-creditors, for the purpose of presenting - testimonials of a 'suitable character to Messrs. J. Wyld and R. Taylor, the assignees, and Mr. J: Link later, the solicitor, under the bankruptcy. To the exer tions of those gentlemen is ()Wing in a great degree the comparatively successful result of the winding up of the the estate of the Royal British Bank, and they have cer tainly a claim to the gratitude of their fellow-sufferers for the assiduity and skill with which they have laboured on their behalf. The Russian Government have re-opened their account with the Bank of England, which was closed at the commencement of the Crimean war, and an arrival of £160,000 in half-imperials from St. Petersburg has been taken to that establishment. The failure has been announced of Messrs. Stevens, Brothers, merchants and East India agents, of Liverpool, shipping chiefly to Bombay, with liabilities stated to amount to £140,000. Mr. Justice Blackburn, the new puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, presided for the first time yes terday morning at Guildhall. We believe it is not intended to oppose the elec tion of Mr. Massey as Chairman of Ways and Means. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—A terrible accident, by which three children lost their lives, occurred near Brad ford on Tuesday. The children had been playing in a narrow arched and rapidly descending tunnel, only 'wide enough to allow a coal train to pass, when a set of waggons came down at the moment of their play. There was room enough to allow the train to pass, and the children F had apparently placed themselves against the wall for that purpose, but unfortunately the guard had placed a wooden bar in one of the wheels to act as a "brake," and the the whole of the children were struck by it and fearfully mangled. The head of one was struck off, and the bodies of the others presented a woful spectacle. No blame is attached to the guard. ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.—Last night the 42d a nniversary , of this exc e ll en t char i ty was celebrated at th e Freemasons' Tavern, in the presence of a large assem blage Sir C. Forbes, ill.. Wemys, M.P., of persons, includingthe Earle? Elgin, who presided ; ' crae, &c., &c. After the usual loyal Lord Kinnaird, the Hon. F. Dundas Sir J. Maxwell, , Pi t a. he Chairman, in an excellent speech, " Prosperity to the constitutional3,3,ll r a j . o A r n C d . re ß w ruc t e Aolar A s.t l s . evening,a;d alluding to the fact, that p ß r o o y p a o l s ecdaltehdeontioanas Asylum,"t the institution originated in the misery which resulted from the close of the last war, he called upon the company and the friends of the charity to increased exertions in the pre of the pre sent complicated state of European affairs. The asylum had relieved 550 boys and 130 girls, all of whom belonged to that class of persons who especially claimed their sym pathy and support. The funds collected amounted to over £7OO. TITURSDAY JUNE 30, 1854. this decision rather eccentric, I could not succeed in persuading him to give it up, so we left Lonato at about nine o'clock in the evening. The night was beautiful, and the camp fires scattered all round on the hills produced such an effect as I could not have imagined. We were driving towards the plain along a narrow road ; the hills on our left presented a sharp outline against the starry ground of an Italian sky. Now and then a distant vil lage clock or the barking of farm-dogs broke the silence of the night, adding to the solemnity of the surrounding scene. It was about two o'clock in the morning when I arrived, with my companion, at Montechari, at which place the head-quarters of the Emperor have been established since Tuesday last. The place was all confusion, for the troops were already in move ment towards the front. Being well acquainted with the country, I advised my companion to leave the main road, and we made our way through the stony ground of the Campagna towards Castiglione delle Stivere. We had not yet arrived in the town —which is celebrated as having given birth to St. Louis Gonzaga, and the name to one of the most illus trious faits d'arnzes of the Napoleonic campaigns— when the report of field guns on our right gave the signal that the fight had begun in the direction of Medale. And so it had, for when we reached the town of Castiglione we found that the Imperial Guard was already marching in haste towards hat direction. Our horses were too tired to fol- low the movements of the army, so I thought it was better to proceed at once to the Monte del Belvedere, an elevated hill from which one can overlook all the Campagna of Meddle, a large plain, only circumscribed by the far distant horizon. Once arrived at the Roccolo Beschi we could dis tinctly see the smoke of field guns and muskets—in a word, all the operations of the army. The French body which was first thus engaged was the corps d'arince of General Niel, which since the preceding evening was marching on the direction of Medale. The advanced guard of General Niel had met three divisions of Urban's corps, at a farmhouse called the Casa di Maioralsice, and was obliged to make its way amid a tremendous fire of musketry and artillery. As soon as Marshal Can robert was made aware of the enemy's attack, he ordered his troops to throw aside their knapsacks, and with all possible speed hastened to the scene of action. After an hour's fight the action became general all over the plain, and the arrival of the Emperor soon converted it into a regular pitched battle. Marshal MacMahon was soon engaged on the left, and the distant report of artillery, which was carried by the wind blowing from the Lago di Garda, apprised us that the Piedmontese army was equally engaged somewhere near Rivoltella and Peschiera. It was about two o'clock in the after noon when the Piedmontese, proceeding from Rivoltella, succeeded in making their junction with the French army. The French centre had been compelled by the events of the day to concentrate the mass of its forces towards the hilly village of Solferino, where the Austrians were disputing the ground with an energy unprecedented in the pre sent war. The battle became then a tremendous one. The Piedmontese, led by the King, really performed wonders. Tho Ist and 2d Regiment of the Guards emulated the Zouaves to such a degree that a French officer told me it was impossible to imagine anything more grand and heroic. Gene rals Durando's and Fanti's divisions took position after position at the point of the bayonet, till they succeeded in routing the enemy, which was obliged to fall back on Cavriana and Volta. This back movement was soon stopped by the enemy's reserve coming from Guidizzolo, Cerlungo, and Goito, so that the conflict was renewed, and lasted till night. Of course it is impossible for me to send you a correct account of this great and bloody struggle in which the Austrians mus tered not less than 140,000 men. The allies had as many as that, though not until nearly the close of the day. The losses on both sides have been tremen dous. The Sindaco of Castiglione, a Dr. Poli, told me half an hour ago that he,thought the two armies had not less than 40,000 hors de combat. Field pieces, prisoners, flags, I hear, have also fallen into our hands, and I saw myself batches of prisoners sent to Castiglione and to Brescia. At about eight o'clock in the evening the smoke, which had en veloped for more than ten hours the hills which stretch away from Castiglione as far as Volta,, was gradually dispersing, so it was clear that the great struggle was drawing to a close. I descended from the Monte del Belvedere, and, almost ex hausted by the sleepless night I had passed, came baek-to Castiglione, which I found all in confusion. Thousands of wounded were arriving at every mo ment, and it would have been useless to stay in such a place at that time. In the confusion which prevailed I had lost my companion, so that I was obliged to walk on in the direction of Montechiari. At about three o'clock in the afternoon a tremen dous hurricane came on, which must have greatly added to the fatigue of the fighting armies. The heavy rains and the fatigue of a long walk had harassed me to such a degree that I was obliged to come back to Castenedolo on a small cart belonging to a farmer, whom I met on his way home. When I get further particulars of the result of to-day's fight you shall have them ; but I hope you will not underrate all the difficulties I have to surmount in order to get proper and correct infor mation. Our lines are now so long that it is almost impossible to get news on which one can really depend. Another letter from Castiglione, dated June 24, says : • A great battle has been fought, and a great vic tory has been won ; but another battle may be fought again to-morrow, and another victory still more complete may be gained. But at present all I have to tell you is of what took place to-day. Marshal M'Mahon's corps left Castiglione this morning at four a.m., without expecting to be at tacked, but before it had marched more than three miles on the Mantua road it was fired upon by the Austrian advance on the left of the high road. The corps kept up a waiting fight until it was sup ported by Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, who brought the Ist corps from between Lonato and Castiglione to its assistance. The fight began on the road, and then diverged to the left, and the village of Solferino was attacked by the French. At this time General Niel, with the 4th corps, was at some distance, wait ing for the approach of Marshal Canrobert, who, had got very far on the right towards Mantua, but leav ing a very great distance between them. The CaValry of the Guard then caine up and had tohold a distance of nearly two miles between Marshal M'Mah9n and General Niel, covering the marshal's corps, but itself without artillery. This division con sisted of two regiments of Cuirassier of the Guard forming the first brigade, the Lancers of the Guard and Dragoon de l'lmperatice the second brigade, and the Chasseurs and Guides formed the light brigade, which, commanded by General Cassag nolles, made a brilliant charge, directed in person by General Maurice, who commanded the whole. The Chasseurs de France also made a great charge, commanded by General Goudin de Villene. This part of the battle took place on the plain imme diately in front of Castiglione, the field of battle beginning at about seven miles in advance of the town. In the meantime the battle raged on the heights between the Austrians—whose line extended nearly, if not quite, from Peschiera along the range of hills down into the plain—and the Turcos, Voltigeurs of the Guard, Grenadiers, and Artillery of the Guard. The Turcos suffered immensely, as they distinguished themselves by their usual impetuosity ; they lost their colonel, mortally wounded, and many of their officers. The Artillery of the Guard there lost a very great part of their officers, as they engaged at half rifieshot, and the Tyrolese s harpshooters, who are exceedingly good, picked the officers off at their guns ; for this reason their loss has been very severe. The whole Cavalry and Artillery of the Guard had not even had their coffee when they went into action. So little was a general affair expected that the offi cers of the Grenadiers and Voltigeurs were looking for quarters for the day, when a staff officer rode into Castiglione and ordered them forward at once. General Maurice had been remaining with his division of cavalry as a reserve at Castenedolo, not expecting to be called t,lou so soon, nor did Marshal M'Mahon's officers when they marched at three o'clock in the morning ; but at four firing began to be heard at slow intervals, which continued for some time, and at half-past six the Guard arrived at Castiglione and was immediately pushed on, as I have before mentioned. Being on foot I had no chance of reaching a good place near the field of battle in time to be able to distinguish the different manoeuvres ; I therefore mounted the steeple of the church, from which I saw the fight going on slowly in the plain. A cloud of dust, which grew thicker as it ap proached, at last showed a column of Austrian cavalry and artillery coming from Volta ; but Mar shal Baraguay d'Hilliers' corps made a detour from within three miles of Lonato, which is easily seen from Castiglione, where he was encamped, and attacked the Austrians on the heights, the Artillery of the Guard coming up into line at full gallop. General Maurice's division was marching slowly from Montechiaro, when a colonel of the staff brought them up in a hurry to fill up the gap be fore mentioned. Marshal M'Mahon's corps then made a movement to the left, and supported Mar shal Baraguay d'Hilliers and the first corps. General Devaux's brigade of the Ist and 3d Regiments of Chasseurs d'Afrique made a charge into a dense wood and at first missed the square they were to attack, but made a second and most successful and brilliant charge. They are allowed to have distinguished themselves most highly. I could not learn in the hurry and confusion after the battle what had become of Gen. Canrobert's division, but I heard it said he was away on the right to support aad act with the fifth corps under Prince Napoleon, who is reported to have gained a great success over the corps of Austrians opposed to him, and to have crossed the Po, but I cannot state at what poini% The Emperor is constantly under fire. At one itne he remained with a battery of the Artillery of the Guard whose firing had been very successful, and said to the officer in command, " Capitaine, que vous etes content." " Tres content, Sire," replied the officer, " j'espere que vous etes aussi content de la journee que j'en suis de ma part." A Cent Garde behind the Emperor had his epaulette carried away by a ball. The Emperor is passing the night at Solferino, a village in advance, and all the cavalry bivouac on the field of battle. The firing of the Austrian artillery slackened perceptibly about six, and I could see that along the line, which must have extended some miles from its extreme points, the Austrians were slowly fall ing back; but they fought well, and with great resolution. The Sardinians are pushing on from Lonato, and are trying to get up to Peschiera in time to cut off the Austrians before they cross the Mincio, near that fortress, as they originally in tended. At present it is not known how the thing will end. The battle was continued till dark ; the last shots were fired about nine. Between six and seven o'clock the most violent whirlwind I ever saw brought such clouds of dust along the road and across the fields that nothing was to be seen a yard or two in front. It was SOON followed by a deluge of rain, most violent and most incessant, for more than an hour, aggrava ting frightfully the sufferings of the wounded on the field. I walked for two or three miles along the road to Mantua, and met about four hundred Austrian prisoners coming in. The greater part of them were Italians, who cried " Vive la France" as they marched along ; but it is a very short time ago since they shouted equally loudly, " Vive notre Empereur," so that I did not feel much interest in them. There were some Hungarians, who seemed to feel acutely their position. The people of Cas tiglione have behaved most disgracefully. Most of the houses were shut up, and the inhabitants said they had nothing, when asked for refreshments and wine. The French behaved with the greatest mode ration, and took every refusal as if it were a fact that there was such a general want of the neces saries of life ; but it is a disgrace to the place that many wounded and tired soldiers, who had gone into action in the morning, having eaten nothings should be refused at night even a loaf of bread, as was very often the case. The French Artillery at long range beat the Austrians and soon silenced their pieces, but when they came nearer the Tyrolese picked off the officers, who were easily distinguished. One regiment, I think the 74th of the line, has been cut all to pieces. There were many superior officers killed and wounded ; but, to-night, I have not been able to learn who they were. To-morrow morning I intend to get to the field, and I will then write again, and send you all the details I can collect. It is a most painful thing to witness such an amount of human suffering as I have to-day—first, in the wounded I have met walking in, but later, when the ambulance mules brought in many stretched out at full length and motionless on their backs, and many others carried by the prisoners, perhaps their comrades. The greater part, as at Magenta seemed to be wounded in the hand and forearm, and several also in the head. The Austrians were brought in indiscrimi nately with the wounded French, and the dismal cortege has not ceased long, although it is past midnight. The Sardinian army, with General Cialdini's division in advance, were operating on the fortress of Peschiera yesterday in conjunction with the fleet of iron gunboats, which must soon reduce that place, for these vessels are armed with guns which carry to a distaxce far beyond the range of the guns of the Peschiera batteries. When the action began the Sardinians were far to the left, and sur rounded by bad roads and imperfect means of com munication, that they had considerable difficulty in getting up in time to act soon enough in con junction with the French, as their road was through a series of mountain ranges. There is one singular feature in French military operations, which is the comparatively small importance they attach to outposts and videttes. Last night the Austrian spies may have, and probabiy did come into Castiglione and Montechiaro, for there is no doubt whatever that they are perfectly well in formed of all the French movements. The beginning and foundation of the Austrian movement to-day has been an attempt to cut off Marshal M'Mahon's corps, they having detected the gap left between it and the next to it. lam told the Austrians fought better and displayed more judgment in their operations than they have ever shown before since the campaign has opened. They retreated slowly, and kept up the firing until' quite dark ; but unless they were intercepted by the Sardinians, there was nothing like a rout. They fought thinking it probable they would lose - the day; but in their style of operations such a contingency can be allowed for. Everything in the Austrian plan of campaign is calculated and prearranged, from the first movement of all, and their army is such a perfect machine that they can with confidence make their dispositions ac cordingly ; but what they want is elan (dash) — just what the French soldier has—but the want of which at the same time renders them more patient under defeat, and less sensible to its effects, except so far as their numbers diminish in consequence. A letter from Vienna of the 26th, in the National Gazette of Berlin, says : " The first rumours of an engagement on the Mincio were spread yesterday morning, and a suc cess was hoped for, inasmuch as it was stated that the Piedmontese had fallen back. The blow was therefore all the graver, when the terrible truth became known by the French Moniteter, and when the statement of that journal was confirmed by Austrian accounts. Little by little, profound dis couragement spreads amongst the population ; Giulay has retired, and the chiefs in - whom confi dence is felt are at the head of the army, and yet the results remain the same. It may be readily seen from the official communication§ that the slaughter on the 24th was frightful. The war has now been going on for two months, two pitched battles and several smaller combats have been fought, and already an army has been sacrificed. which would formerly have sufficed for a long war. It is generally believed in well-informed circles that the next mail will bring an account of an armistice, which will serve as the basis for nego tiations for peace. The same cpinion prevails at the Bourse, where prices have improved." The Piedinontese Gazette publishes a decree organising the Modenese provinces on a Piedmon tese footing, as had previously been done with those of Lombardy and Como. According to a letter from Brescia in the Milan Gazette, the Austrians left on the field of battle ten thousand killed and wounded. A Paris letter in the independance of Brussels says: -- "The Emperor of the French had one of his epaulettes carried away by a shot. The Emperor Francis Joseph, it is said, ordered that the Hun garian and Italian corps should take no part in tho battle. The struggle was therefore supported solely by Germans, which may account for the san guinary nature of the contest." PARIS BOUR6E, June 29.—The announcement of the crossing of the Mincio by the Allies without opposition from the Austrians has produced a good effect on the market, and Rente, which was quoted at the opening at 62f. 30c., improved rapidly to 62f. 75c. There has been a report of disturbances at Vienna, and of General Bourbaki having landed with his division before Venice. Mobilier firm from 640 f. to 647 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,217 f. 50c. to 1,225 f. ; Lyons, 825 f. to 830 f.; Northern, 927 f. 50c. to 930 f. ; Eastern, 600 f. to 605 f. ; Austrian in de mand at 430 f. and 435 f.; Lombardo-Venetian, 467 f. 50c. and 470 f. Large sales were effected towards the close. The following were the last quota tions : per Cents. • ... 92 60 I Credit Fon.cier.... 635 -- end month Belgian 4} . 3 per Cents 62 50 Piedmontesa (5) .. 82k Do. end month 62 40 Roman B2 Bank Shares 2720 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 642 50 Spanish Threes — Do. Account ..... 640 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 932 50 .. 932 50 New ditto 790 .. 795 Lyons and. Mediterranean 827 50 .. 827 50 Geneva 490 Southern Western 515 .. 515 --• Eastern Sardinian 375 .. 375 '— Austrian ' • Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; m oney, 25f 9c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 97&c.; money, 24f. 950. CIRCULAR OF COUNT CAYOUR. The following is the text of a circular addressed by Count de Cavour to the Sardinian Ministers at foreign courts : " TURIN, 14th June. " Sir,—The knowledge you possess of the principles which have always directed the policy of his Majesty's Go vernment, and the frequent communications I have taken care to address to you in these latter times, must have enabled you to appreciate, and to cause to be appreciated, the military and political events which have just taken place in Lombardy. It is, however, useful to examine once againthe origin and causes of these events, and to set forth. still more clearly the intentions and the acts of the King's Government. "As soon as the Italian question—the existence of which was denied by some, and the importance of which was lessened by others—assumed the first place in the preoccupations of Europe, his Majesty's Cabinet, with the frankness which characterises it, made known the extreme difficulty of the situation. To do this, in the memorandum of the Ist March last addressed to the British Government, and which was afterwards published by the press, I endea voured to set forth the results of Austrian domination in Italy—results which have no analogy in modern history. " I showed that the universal antipathy to and hatred of the Austrian Government arose, first of all, from the sys tem of government inflicted on the Lombardo-Venetians; and next and more particularly from the sentiment of na tionality wounded by foreign domination. The progress of enlightenment and the spread of instruction which Austria, could not entirely prevent have made these populations more sensible of their sad lot—that of being governed, dominated by a people with whom they have no community either of race, manners, or language. " The Austrians, after half a century of domination, had not established themselves in those provinces ; they were encamped in them. This state of things was not like a transitory one, of which the end nearer or more distant could be foreseen, but it became aggravated and grew worse every day. We said that that state of things was not contrary to treaties, but that it was contrary to the great principles of equity and justice on which social order is based. If, we added, Austria could not be induced to modify existing treaties, we should not obtain a definitive ,And durable solution, and we must euuteut ourselves with palliatives more or less efficacious. Nevertheless, in the hope of rendering the condition of the Lombards and Vene tians more tolerable, and of temporarily modifying such a grave situation, we hastened, on the demand which was made to us, to indicate the expedients which appeared to us best calculated to obtain the result desired. " Unfortunately, Austria showed herself more than ever contrary to any conciliation; she was determined to main tain by force the illegal preponderance which she had obtained over States recognised by treaties as independent. She redoubled menaces, and accelerated the formidable military preparations directed against Piedmont, which was the sole barrier opposed to her exclusive domination in Italy. The petty States which had bound up their fate with that of Austria, and in the same degree had incurred the animadversion of their subjects, could no longer show themselves desirous of fulfilling their duties to their people. Serious and inevitable complications consequently appeared imminent. " The repose of Europe was thus endangered. It was then that the proposition of a congress was made by Russia, was consented to by the great Powers, and was accepted by Piedmont. The basis of the congress was the maintenance of the territorial status quo, that it is to say the treaties which assured to Austria her possessions in Italy. " What then took place is known ; Austria, which saw placed in discussion not her legal rights, which were ex pressly reserved to her, but the occupations she had accom plished in spiee of European stipulations, threw off the mask all at once. In spite of the formal engagements entered into with England not to attack Piedmont, she sent an army into his Majesty's States, and her generals loudly de dared that the Emperor would come to Turin to treat. "Events have not, it is true, responded to the boasting' of the Austrian staff, and the Austrian armies have had . to confine their exploits to shameful spoliati ons and acts of cruelty on inoffensive populations. The enemy has been driven from Piedmontese territory, and the victories of Palestro and Magenta have opened Lombardy to us. Then events confirmed our appreciation of the moral state of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces, and of the petty states which had made common cause with Austria. The sentiments of the populations broke out ; the municipal authorities, the very same municipal authorities who had been instituted by Austria, proclaimed the overthrow of the Government; they renewed the union of 1848, and unani mously confirmed their annexation to Piedmont. The mu nicipality of Milan proclaimed the same thing even within reach of the Austrian cannon. " The King, in accepting this spontaneous act of the na tional will, does not in any manner encroach on existing treaties, for Austria by refusing a congress the basis of which was the maintenance of those treaties, and by invad ing the States of his Majesty, has put an end, so far as she is concerned, to the arrangements of 1814 and 1815. " The Italian provinces which the fortune of war had subjected by force to her domination have entered into their natural rights ; twice made free in the course of eleven years, their will has been manifested without obstacle and without pressure. In 1848, as in 1859, these provinces spontaneously united themselves to Piedmont, like brothers who meet brothers after a long and painful separation. _ " The object of the present war is, his Majestly frankly avows, Italian independence and the exclusion of Austria from the Peninsula. This cause is too noble for us to dis simulate the importance of it ; it is too sacred not to obtain in advance the sympathies of civilised Europe. We must even admit that those sympathies have never failed us, for the policy of the King's Government has always been the same, and it has obtained the approbation not only of public opinion but of Cabinets. " Europe, by the voice of her most eminent statesman, has testified to the interest she feels in the fate of unhappy Italy. But in these latter times somo distrust more or less disguised has appeared. The generous intervention of the Emperor Napoleon in favour of an ally unjustly attacked and of an oppressed nation has been to a certain extent misunderstood. Ambitious views and projects of aggran disement are said to exist where there are only noble de votedness to the cause of justice and right and the impera tive duty of protecting the dignity and interests of France. The explicit declarations of the Emperor Napoleon 111. at the moment of drawing the sword have, however, greatly calmed these apprehensions. The proclamation of Milan, so clear and becoming, must have dissipated all doubts which may have remained in prejudiced minds. " We have the most absolute confidence that the Euro pean equilibrium Powot be disturbed by the territorial ex tension of a greater and that there will be in Italy a kingdom strongly constituted, and such as is naturally in dicated by geographical configuration, the unity of race, language, and manners, such has diplomacy wished to form in other times in the common interest of Italy and Europe. With the domination of Austria and of the States which have united their destinies to those of Austria will disappear a permanent cause of troubles ; order will be guaranteed ; the flame of revolutions be extinguished; and Europe can abandon herself in full security to the great en terprises of peace which are the honour of the century. " Such is the point of view in which you must present the events that are taking place in Italy. The conflict which Austria has excited must have for result her exclu sion from a country which force alone subjected to an odious and intolerable yoke. Our cause, I take pleasure in repeating in terminating this despatch, is noble and just; we can, we must oponely avow that, and we have full con fidence in the triumph of right,—Accept, &c. CAVOUR." YE to T 1 on .£1 tu E M 11