The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

It. GLADSTONE'S LONDON COMMITTEE. S . ITS DAILY, at the UNION HOTEL, Cockspur street. CIIA:IRMAN—Sir Frederick ogers, Bart., M.A., late Fel low of Oriel Marquis of Kildare, M.A., Ch. Ch. The Right Hon. Stephen Lushing,ton, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, late Fellow of All Souls The Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge, D.C.L., late Fellow of Exeter The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, M.A., late Fellow of Merton The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, M.P., M.A., Ch. Ch. The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Cape Town, D.D., Univer sity The Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman, M.A., Queen's The Ven. G. Sandford, Archdeacon of Coventry, M.A., Balliol The Ven. A. Grant, Archdeacon of St. Albans, D.C.L., New College The Ven. R. Lane Freer, Archdeacon of Hereford, D.D., Christ Church Roundell Palmer, Esq., Q.C., M.A., late Fellow of Magda lene The Very Rev. H. H. Millman, Dean of St. Paul's, D.D., late Fellow of Brasenose The Very Rev. A. P. Saunders, D.D., Dean of Peterbourgh, late Student of Christ Church The Rev. J. Keble, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel Granville E. Harcourt, Esq., M.A., late Student of Ch. Ch. Herbert Kynaston, D.D., Head Master of St. Paul's School The Rev. G. Trevor, Canon of York, M.A., Magdalene Hall. Robt. Phillimore, Esq., Q.C., D.C.L., Chancellor of the Dioceses of Salisbury, Oxford, and Chichester, late Student of Ch. Ch. The Rev. W. Scott, M.A. Queen's, late Michel Fellow The Rev. W. J. Crichton, M.A., Merton. R. W. Jell, D.D., Canon of Ch. Ch., and Principal of King's College, London. W. Cureton, D.D., Canon of Westminster, Ch. Ch. The Rev. R. W. Browne, Prebendary of St. Paul's and Wells, Professor of Classical Literature, King's College, London, M.A., St. John's. The Rev. Bagot, D.C.L., Late Fe low of All Souls. Thomas Greene, E:q., M.A., Oriel. Mr. G. K. Rickard, late Professor of Political Economy, M.A., Queens. The Rev. A. W. Haddan, 8.D., Rector of Barton, late Fellow of Trinity College The Rev. H. A. Woodgate, St. John 's, Hon. Canon of Worcester The Rey. Ernest Hawkins, 8.D., late Fellow of Exeter, Prebendary of St. Paul's C. Forster, Esq., M.P., MA., Worcester 'The Rev. E. A. Ommanney, Prebendary of Wells, M.A., Exeter Sir Stephen A. Glynne, Bart., Lord-Lieutenant of Flint shire, M.A., Ch. Ch. The Right Hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis. Bart., Secretary of State for the Home Department, M.A., Honorary Student of Ch. Ch. Nassau, W. Senior, Esq., late Professor of Political Eeo• homy, M.A., Magdalen Chletiester Fortescue, Esq., M.P., late Student of Ch. Ch. T. Dyke Acland, Esq., M.A., late Fellow of All Souls' Charles Parton Cooper, Esq., Q.C., M.A. Wadham The Hon. Augustus Barrington, D.C.L., Fellow of All souls' G. Osborne Morgan, Esq., M.A., late 'Stowell Fellow of rnftersity (*ollege. Martin Farquhar Tupper, D.C.L., Christ Church. The Rev. J. Russell, D.D., Canon of Canterbury, Ream of St. Botolph's, Bishopegate, Christ Church. The Rev. W. H. Lyall, Rector of St. Pionis Backchurch, M.A., St. Mary's Hall. The Rev. Baden Powell, SaVilian Professor of Geometry, M.A., Oriel. H. W. Burrows, 8.D., late Fellow of St. John's The Rev. Sir George Prevost, Bart., M.A., Canon of Mon °ester, Oriel The Rev. E. Coleridge, Fellow of Eton College, M.A., Exeter The Rev. T. James, Honorary Canon of Peterborough, M.A., Ch. Ch. The Rev. J. Forshall, F.R.S., F.A.S., MA., late Fellow of Exeter The Rev. J. G. Sheppard, M.A., late Fellow of Wadham The Rev. G. Marshall, M.A., late Student and Canon of Ch. Ch. The Rev. A. Pott, 8.D., late Fellow of Magdalene Melville Portal, Esq., M.P., )LA., Ch. Ch. The Rev. J. Bramston, M.A., late Fellow of Exeter The Hon. and ttev. C. L. Courtenay, M.A., Ch. Ch. The Rev. E. B. James, M.A., ilector of Carisbrooke, late Yellow and Tutor of Queen's The Rev. J, Lawrell, M.A., Merton M. C. M. Swabey, Esq„ D.C.L., M.A., late Student of Ch. Ch. The tt ev. George Maberly, Head Master of Winchester, D.C.L., Balliol E. A. Freeman, Esq., M.A., late Fellow of Trinity, Dan rumny, Cardif The Rev. J. A. Hessy, D.C.L., Head Master of Merchant Tailors' School, Preacher of Gray's-inn, late Fellow of St. John's. The Rev. Mayow Wynell Mayow, M.A., Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts, Rural Dean, Proctor for the Diocese of Serum, and late Student of Ch. Ch. John W. Childers, M.A., Ch. Ch. ARTHUR MILMAN, Esq., M.A., Student of Ch. Ch., Hon. Secretaries. JOHN W. OGLE, M.D., Trinity, ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Linder tne Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS EVENING will be presented Shakepeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP FI TS. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. WITS ETENING the perfosmanoes will commence with MVIRTBODY'S FRIEND. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, and Buckstone ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins, and Reynolds. After which, THE CRITIC. To conclude with THE WATER WITCHES. Commence at 7. JEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI, a-1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Miss Woolgar, Miss IL Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C. Selby, Billington ; Airs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Mims. Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Baloy and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. To eonclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. ft L. Toole, Chas Selby. Killington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Hrs. Billington. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Oflice 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 will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. THIS IrirENLNG, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. Followed by THE BONNIE FISHWIFE. After which, KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Last Three Nights of the Season. Tremendous Success of the National Military Romance, the Battle of Waterloo. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the revived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, reproduced with all nl effects. Su ported by Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. W. Cootske,o jun., a Mr. Hollowa y, Mr. R. Philips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Wortoys, &c. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton, Miss Rivers, dm After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world. and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic concentration of unequalled male and female talent s Madlle. Francisco; Miss Holloway. To conclude with a Novel Entertainment called THE VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brivide. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 29, ; Gallery, la. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. On Saturday next, 25th June, filo last niv.r.ht of the season, Grand Change and Brilliant Routine of Novelties, for the Benefit of 31r. William Cooke, proprietor. CANTERBURY MALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIF.RRE FAMILY, aossisting• of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre , aged , respectively, FOUR : SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evt written for the violin, has excited mingled wo n d er and admi. ?Mien in Continental Musical Circles, and drawnforth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Publio Journals of Fran ce and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING. at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 74—highest since noon yesterday. 62—lowest this morning and during the night. 67—this day at noon. BAILONtram--30.08—rising slowly. WIND, Westerly ; rather fresh, with cloudy weather. The only news we have to-day reflects no credit on his Holiness the POPE, who has sent a body of Swiss mercenaries to attack Perugia. After a desperate resistance for three hours outside the town by a small portion of the people they were overpowered, and the Swiss entered the town, where he combat continued for two hours in the streets. The Swiss trampled down and killed even women and children, and next day they recommenced their atrocious barbarities. It is said that there is only o ne step from the sublime to the ridiculous, and the brutal conduct of these so-culled children of the free mountains of Switzerland is so nearly allied to slavery that one is lost in wonder how really to define what liberty consists in. If it be true independence to crush the weak and to cringe to the strong, then, indeed, may the men of Switzer land read a new lesson to the p a t r i ots of other lands about the glory of liberty, freedo m , indepen dence, or whatever ot her satanic mock ery with which they choose to disgrace the dearest object of our earthly ambition. Without freedom we are comparatively slaves. Now ) the Swiss are the wild embodiment of freedom in their mountain solitudes, yet are they the veriest slaves in the mercenary service of other lands. How is this ? It is utterly incomprehensible. Why not stay at home and enjoy their liberty ? They are not sought for by any but depraved and worthless rulers—despots who are afraid of their own lives because of their oppressions to their subjects. We think the only cure for such willingness on the part of the Swiss to become such hired bravos would be to give them no quarter if ever they come within the chances of war with free soldiers. That would soon teach them the value of self-respect, and put a stop to such villanous prostitution of the honourable art of war. The Allies have moved on to the Mincio, and Prince NAPOLEON is near the Po, on his advance, while the flotillas on the Po and the Adige are moving up, so that in a day or two we may expect to hear of a grand concentration of various elements which will render the Austrian defence% erected at so much labour and heavy cost, rendered perhaps useless for the purpose intended, and serve only to make confusion worse confounded. The postponement for yet another week of the opening of the third Parliamentary session of 1859 was, of course, unavoidable under existing circum stances. The issuing of the writs, the nomination of the different Ministerial candidates, the return of each Minister by his .individual constituency, required this additional interval of preparation— again, be it said, under existing circumstances ! But—was " the situation" rendering all this neces sary, in itself essential ? Was it requisite for the advantage of the Crown, or of the country, of England or of Europe, that the period of a great war between France and Austria, upon the plains of Lombardy, should have been selected as precisely the fitting time for a total change of Administra tion—a dislocation threatening at any moment to snap asunder the delicate web of diplomacy, and necessitating the procrastination of all the ordinary labours of legislation ? It is impossible, we main tain, up to this moment, to adduce any one suffi cient reason for so total, abrupt, and peculiarly in opportune a bouleversement. Could it be forced upon us in any way by a minority in regard to the reform in the popular representation ? It were preposterous to assert this seriously for a single instant—for it is a matter of general notoriety that all the reforms we can hope to obtain from the newly-installed Ministers, with any prospect of being passed through the House of Lords, we should certainly have obtained from their predeces sors. Was the change of Ministry rendered essen tial as a means of securing the maintenance of neutrality as the guiding principle, at this Euro pean crisis, of British diplomacy ? It were absurd to hint at this now for a moment, after the appear ance of that historical blue-book containing Lord MALMESBURY'S late correspondence with the Courts of Vienna, Turin, and the Tuileries. THE mistake, we believe, of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet was really this—the non-publication, until after the division upon the want-of-confidence amendment, of that truly chivalrous, patriotic, statesmanlike, frank, honest, and most honourable correspondence. Had Lord MALMESBURT'S correspondence been laid upon the table of the House at the moment of the assembling of the new House of Commons the vote of want of confidence would have been scattered to the winds—supposing even that the leaders of the Opposition had had the temerity, under those circumstances, to have thus flagrantly tempted their own destruction, or, at any rate, their own discomfiture. The independent Liberals who were lured into the lobby in favour of the amendment would have seen then betimes, what they have now only recognised too late, that the misrepresented foreign policy of Lord MALMES BURT could not possibly have been more truthful, more honest, more resolute in its staunch and un ' flinching adherence to the principle of neutrality. The mistaken postponement of the issue of that important blue-book has led to the lamentable postponement of the commencement of what is literally the third session of 1859. So far, indeed, the Derbyites have in a manner to thank them selves for their own overthrow. The shaft aimed at them (taken from the quiver of Whig cunning) would have fallen, blunted and innocuous, from the impenetrablf shield of that blue-book. Now that the late Cabinet has been stricken down thus foully and basely, by this poisoned dart of Faction—the ' shield that might have still preserved it in exist ence can only now, when it is too late, extended over its inanimate remains, preserve those remains, at least, and its memory from dishonour. The success of the late manoeuvres on the part of what was yesterday the Opposition, but is to-day the Government—you would have thought possibly might have rendered its organs at least a trifle less spiteful and splenetic against their political anta gonists—against what was yesterday the Govern ment but is to-day the Opposition. Not a bit of it, however. If anything, the flavour of their argu ment is a little more soured—it has an infusion of a drop or two of additional verjuice. The expres sion of the Coalition countenance, so far from bearing upon it even a momentary smile of satis faction, is settled more hopelessly than ever into a confirmed scowl, half sardonic, half sullen, wholly ultrabilious. Let anyone glance down the columns of the chief organ of all upon the side of the Coali tionists, or Palmerstonians, or whatever else we are to call them, ever since that early morning of Saturday, the 11th of June, when the Ins were beaten.by the Outs, with a narrow majority of thirteen in the largest house upon record—and it is impossible to say otherwise. Judging from what those columns of the Times have contained in re gard to the late Ministerial changes, it is quite impossible to say otherwise than that the victorious party are about as far as possible from entertaining any feelings of real contentment or satisfaction. Instead of looking good-humouredly about them, and making, as you would fancy they had every reason to do, the best of the existing situation— they are casting about them upon their discomfited antagonists the most bitter and venomous sneers of depreciation. The New Corners boast of their strength as unrivalled and unassailable, if not ab solutely unprecedented. Yet they altogether lack, in their whole conduct and bearing, the distin guishing mark of any such strength as this— magnanimity. Nothing ever done by their prede. cessors in any one department of the public service but is, according to them, in the highest degree reprehensible. The Administrators who have just gone out, if we arc to believe their successors, have done no single good action from first to last, from the date of their coming in, during the February of 1858, to the date of their going out in the June of 1859. There is a wise old saying written down somewhere in one of the works of one of the world's philosophers, which tells us : " If ever, in a quarrel between two men, you see one of them utterly lose his temper, be sure he is in the wrong." There are rare exceptions, of course, to this rule, as to all others ; but in the main, in the vast average, we believe it to be perfectly accurate. And certainly, judging the two political parties now confronting each other by that rule—it would not be very diffi cult to pronounce a decided, opinion as to the alter native. Anything more paltry, more meanly spiteful, or more despicably splenetic than the tone adopted by the "conquerors immediately after their triumph upon the division you would perhaps find it difficult to adduce by way of apt illustration. So weak these men are, by reason of their internal divisions—in spite tif their undoubted power, genius, ' and aptitude for office, individually—so weak are they at heart, as a Cabinet, that they cannot posi tively afford to be magnanimous. Hence every syllable applied by them to their outgoing prede cessors is a word either of perverse depreciation or of wilful misrepresentation. Each administrator in the late Government is taken in tow, and passed under the distorting-glass of the Times. Lord DERBY is, of course, submitted to criticism first, by reason of his supreme position as First Minister of the Crown. Ail that the Times can find in its spiteful frown to say of him is—that he contrived to pass enactments that had failed to be passed by his predecessors. Dreadful accusation ! Then as to Mr. DISRAELI—was there ever such a mumb ling, harmless, toothless bite as this ? " Mr. DISRAELI could issue bonds and spend money as well as other people." Wonderful ! Why of course he could—it - was his duty so to do as Her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer. But the Times omits to remind the public that Mr. DISRAELI could do all this without imposing fresh taxes, and without breaking faith with the country in regard to the diminution of the Income Tax. His successor, it would now seem, is to break faith with the country in this matter—Mr. GLADSTONE having a fresh rod in pickle, in the shape of a reimposition of the In eome Tax ; not in its integrity, it is true, but rather, it should be said, in its want of integrity. The In come TaiNeveryone knows,is notoriously, essentially, in its very character—a War Tax. But then we are not at war—the sword has not been flung into the scale (yet!)—we are still delicately suspended in the equilibrium of neutrality. No matter. Mr. GLADSTONE is quite as well aware of all this as ourselves—but he wants money at once and easily —and opportunely remembering that both Mr. COBDEN and Mr. MILNER GIBSON are, for the first time in their lives, among the number of his col leagues, he decides upon giving the country off hand, the benefit of the Income Tax—as a new reading, we presume, of Peace-at-any-Price ! We know now, at last, the full significance of the phrase. The price we are to pay for peace is—the Income Tax ! But returning to the Times' criticisms upon the ex-Ministers—we find it said, among other pretty things, " Lord MALMESBURY has been most respectably unsuccessful." How ?—of course, by staunchly adhering throughout to the principle of Neutrality, and by handing over the diplomacy of England to his successor, my Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with that principle honourably recognised by the belligerents in Lombardy ! He has been " respec tably unsuccessful," we presume, because the blue book, recently giving to the world all that diplo matic correspondence of his has incontestably esta blished that, under his (Lord MALMESBURY'S) guidance of affairs at the Foreign-office, from first to last the honour of England was most nobly vindicated. But again —Mr. WALPOLE and Mr. ESTCOURT are swept aside succcessively with this one remarkable sneer from the Times—" We have had no disturbances to try the Home-office." Wonderfully sarcastic! Then, as to two of the most laborious and meritorious of our late Adminis trators—General PEEL and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, —what says the Times? Why, it says, first of all, with surprising irony, " The army has not broken down under General PEEL'S management "—no not quite !—adding, " whether it has improved time will show." Most meaningless evasion ! Most insane generality ! And in the next place the Times goes on to observe, " Whether the navy is prepared for a naval war, l 'happily remains also to be proved." For which, of course, we have to thank the " respectably unsuccessful " Earl of MALMESBURY ! Not a whisper about Lord STANLEY'S career as Indian Secretary ! Not a syllable in re gard to Sir BULWER LYTTON'S career as Colonial Secretary ! Tell it not in Gath that there has ever been any colony created under the title of British Columbia. Publish it not in the streets of Aska lon that a term has been put, almost simultaneously, to the monster monopolies of the East India Com pany and the Hudson's Bay Company. Enough, however. The dishonest untruth, the innocu:ius spite, marking no less glaringly the reticence than the utterance of all this envenomed hatred for the out-going Administrators, on the part of the Times, as the organ of the new Government, show as plainly as possible the inherent weakness of that Government. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were, Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Lord J. Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Duke of Somerset. the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Earl of Elgin, Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. Sir W. Erie will succeed Sir A. Cockburn as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and, although it is not officially stated, we believe it is most probable that Mr. James Wilde will succeed to the Puisne Judgeship vacant by Sir W. Erie's promotion. Lord Bury has accepted the office of Controller of the Household. Mr. Bagwell has been appointed one of the Lords of the Treasury. Mr. Samuel Laing, Financial Secretary of the Treasury, has for several years withdrawn from all con nection with commercial undertakings, with the exception of one or two foreign railways, the directorship of which he has resigned on taking office. " A soldier, born at Delettes (Pas de Calais)," says a letter from the army in Italy, "was decorated at the battle of Magenta for having saved the life of his captain. This man, who received a musket shot in the action, fell with his musket still loaded. Not far from him the cap tain of his company was parrying with some difficulty an attack made- by a powerful Austrian soldier with his bayonet. The wounded man seeing this, rose with great difficulty, and firing at the Austrian killed him on the spot, and then fell to the ground himself in a fainting state, quite exhausted by the effort. For this act he has received the cross." THE TRAFFIC OVER LONDON-BRIDGE.—On Mon day morning last a number of workmen commenced repaving that portion of King William-street which adjoins London-bridge, and as this necessitated the clos ing of one-half of the thoroughfare an immense amount of confusion was created, and much inconvenience arose from stoppages owing to the great increase to the ordinary carriage traffic occasioned by the Handel Festival, which opened on that day. Complaints having been made that the work was not postponed for a few days, the subject was noticed at the meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers on Tuesday, to whom Mr. Haywood, their engi neer, subsequently submitted a statement, in which he said he had commenced the paving of King William-street be cause it was in a condition immediately needing it, and be cause it was the most fitting time of the year for doing it. Moreover, it would be finished just at the time the paving o sow f ufi i t nst h ttp e reeur e,bridgepublic street s hhetoeoryo i bu t ee donestehu conveniencel] f fad w re o ns uld be commenced, so that the whole work wo u ld go o ff a l one j o b . Th ere was i mmense diffi cu l ty, if not i m p oss ibili ty, in arranging to do these streets so as to o. annually, not be Tb f oehr They paved ahNae, including in there were ld n taht t e w bo ! :1 awoi e paved ay, vsa three ensddomi miles ntewt ha im portantse needful to keep everything clear upon days in which pro , cession t s o w c e h re ri t s o es pa H ss o . spi T ta h l, er e was the visit of the Corpo rationof the Clergy, the Lord Mayor's some special event, such i h aa e sy Anniversary otehse i Day,na ga : r ad o t f i o tnh everye of a public building, the visit of an Emperor, or an election took placeo and everythi ng h a d to be cleared away for them ; and frequently gas and water companies had to be waited for, so thnadtbi:noctighanuendysieiesnmtiihiegcodhts. Then a l execute large works City ty adjacent ththereor were thoroughfares lfaa t er h ee the en b ()c c ue r o el d r s e s i nott t h e s e b paving a f v to i s n uu g er hr was oedu were so, and, when the best arrangements were made, rain might spoil the interval seized upon, and thus, if every oc•• William -street could d up entirely, for the large casion of a probable increase of traffic was waited for, he did not see when paving works could be done at stopped ft 00 rp pd King er a w i a g material in and out, not m. O g l b d oeLr o o of itself London -bridge the half channel left. Good paviors, moreover, were a very limited class of workmen in number. The truth was, that the thoroughfares of the me tropolis were in respect of their capacity a perfect disgrace to the country, and there was not in Europe a town or city in which the main streets were so utterly inadequate for the traffic that passed through them. Year by year the neces sity of re-paving streets increased, and the p ubli c inconve nience must therefore increase likewise w h i l e the present state of things existed. This explanation was accepted by the Commissioners as being entirely satisfactory, though we fear that it may not be viewed in the same light by the general public. • 1. •, • • ••• . 11j1111?. L. . • ti.V. , , • , 7. 411M11 • . ' 14111 1U 101 7:1-..."" - «,..I.erze THE SUN. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1859 DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Madlle. Ficcolomini appeared last night for the second time since her return from America as the "Daughter of the Regiment," and with triumphant success. She was most ably supported by Signor Belart and Signor Vialetti re spectively as Tani° and Sulpizio. The house was crowded in every part. TEE .HANDEL COMMEMORATION. The " Dettingen To Deum" formed the first part of yes terday's performance. The second part was devoted to selections from " Belshazzar," " Saul," and " Samson." From "Belshazzar," the recitative, " Rejoice, my coun trymen," and the chorus, " Sing, 0 ye heavens," were gives., and Mr. Weiss delivered the former with the greatest force .and feeling. The selection from " Saul" consisted of the well-known chorus, "Envy, eldest born of Hell," and the squally well-known " Dead March." The selec tion from " Samson" consisted of five pieces, including the air, "Return, 0 God of Hosts," which was most beauti fully given by Miss Dolby; and in the splendid air, " Let the Bright Seraphim," the singing of Madame Novelle and playing of Mr. Harper were everything that could be desired. The other selections from " Samson" consisted of three choruses, the best executed of which was " Let their celestial concerts." Selections from " Judas Maccabmus" formed the third and concluding part of the performances. " Sound an alarm," was most splendidly rendered by Mr. Sims Reeves. The selection concluded with " See, the conquering hero comes," the trio in which was admirably sung by Mesdames Novelle and Rudersdorff and Miss Dolby. It may be interesting to our readers to give the following statistics respecting the present festival and that of 1857 1857. Saturday (Rehearsal) Monday (Messiah) Wednesday (Judas Maceaba3us)* 11,649 Friday (Israel in Egypt) 48,414 THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tagus, Capt. W. B. Hall, arrived at South ampton at 4 p.m. yesterday, with mails from Lisbon of the 17th inst., Oporto the 18th, and Vigo the 19th, in charge of . Lieut. Card, R.N., Admiralty agent. _ . . - The Royal Mail steamship Avon, with the out ward Brazil mails, arrived at Lisbon on the 13th at 4 p.m., and sailed again at 11 a.m. on the 14th. A letter from, Lisbon, dated June 17, says " The Prince of Wales attended Divine service at St. George's Chapel on Sunday, when the sermon was preached by the Rev. G. S. Prior, resident chaplain, who had pre viousiy had the honour of being presented to his Royal Highness with the deputation of British merchants and the gentlemen connected with the embassy and other depart ments of her Majesty's service. On Monday the Prince was prevented from paying a promised visit to the Free School, which has been so liberally built and supported by British residents, in consequence of the King of Portugal having unknowingly arranged for the same hour a trip to one of the Royal palaces south of the Tagus. During the last three days his Royal Highness, accompanied by his Majesty the King Dom Pedro V. and Mr. Howard, the British Minister, has been absent from Lisbon upon a shooting excursion at Mafra, whence the Royal party started yesterday for the lines of Torres Vedras, intending to visit Batalta Agabarotta and other points of historical interest, en route for the capital, where they are expected to arrive by the Santarem Railway to-morrow evening. It is understood that the Prince will entertain their Ma jesties at dinner on board the yacht Osborne on Monday, and leave the Tagus on Tuesday for England, when he will be accompanied by the hearty good wishes of the British residents as well as by the Portuguese, who have been delighted by his kind, affable, and amiable manners. " There was a want of first-class bills on London this packet. London, at three months, was generally effected at 521 ; Paris, 543 ; Amsterdam, ; Hamburg, 461 ' • and Genoa, 535. Three per Cent. Stook Registered, 46 to 46i ; Coupons, 45 to 46 ; Deferred, 30 to 32 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 5I to 51 j per cent. premium; Bank of Oporto, 22} to 231 per cent. premium. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY. VICEREGAL COURT. Mr. John Hatchell, jun., who lost his seat for wexfo r d County in the contest with Mr. Solicitor- General George at the general election, has received the 'appointment of Private Secretary. to the in coming Lord Lieutenant—a kindly recognition of political services on the part of Lord Carlisle. Mr: Evetard and the Rev. Mr. Creyke are to be the Assistant-Secretaries. It is stated that Mr. J. A. Lawson, Q.C., is to be reinstated in the post of Law Adviser to the Castle, which he held at the break up of the Palmerston Ministry in 1858. THE IRISH CHANCELLORSHIP. Up to this morning nothing certain is known respecting the successor of Mr. Napier in the high office of Lord Chancellor, and no one can tell whether the post of honour is reserved for Mr. Br,wster or Mr. Brady. THE RE-ELECTIONS. The Right Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald arrived in Limerick yesterday en route to Ennis. It is stated that there will be no 'opposition to the re election of the Attorney-General. Mr. Pierse Creagh was spoken of a few days ago as a Conser vative candidate, but the learned gentleman has up to the present time made no sign of battle. A telegram from Odessa mentions a sudden fall in freight at that place from 60s. per ton for tallow to 45i. A consideraqle contraction has taken place in the shipments of grain. THE VANDERBILT.—The steam-ship Vanderbilt left Cowes Roads last evening for New York with the French and English mails, a full complement of passengers, and a large cargo. The Genoa Gazette announces that the Spanish Generals Pronio, do Livers, Orrian, Coello, O'Donnell, and Lopez Domugnez have arrived at Genoa, and are about to proceed to the allied camp, being duly authorised for that purpose. " The town of Varese," says the Milan Gazette, " has decided that its principal promenade shall be called the Corso Victor Emmanuel 11., and the principal street named Garibaldi." The first number of the Monitore di Bologna heads its columns with an official announcement to the effect that - Count Cavour, in reply to the telegram received from the Provisional Junta, had expressed the firmest hope that the King would accept the protection of Bologna, and send a commissioner extraordinary there with troops. Last night Warren Stormes Hale,. Esq., and Edward Coner, Esq , the Sheriffs of London and Middle sex, in accordance with long established usage, entertained her Majesty's judges at a sumptuous banquet in the fine old ball of the Tallow Chandlers' Company, Dowgate-hill. The " Senate" at Hayti have passed a billdecree in6 the banishment of the Emperor Soulouque and his principal ministers, Generals Delva, Vil Lubin, and Dessa lines. Proceedings are also to be taken before the regular tribunals to force Soulouque and Delva to restore the large sums of. which they had defrauded the state ; and in the meantime the sequestration of their property will be main tained•. as security. ; FIRE- IN FETTER •LANE.—TIIIB morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a fire' broke out in the premises of Mr. king, tiniber merchant, Graystock-place, in the entry or thoroughfare between Fetter-lane and Cursitor-street. The flames, owing to the inflamable nature of the materials, raged with the greatest intensity, and the conflagration was not extinguished before the premises were totally con sumed. The surrounding property was much injured. - - GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners will receive tenders to-day (Thursday) for a ship to proceed to Adelaide, South Aus tralis to be ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the Commissioners may appoint between the 9th and 10th of August. THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The weekly meeting of the executive committee was held at the offices, 5, Guildhall Chambers, on Tuesday, Mr. Elt in the chair. The com mittee were engaged during a long sitting in concerting measures to be taken at the re-election of the new Ministers for calling their attention to the increased need for the ballot, as shown by the bribery and intimidation prevalent at the late elections. INNS OF COURT RIFLE CORPS.—A numerously attended meeting of the members of the Middle and Inner Temple was held yesterday at Middle Temple-hall ; Mr. W. Elmsley, treasurer of the Middle-Temple, in the chair. On the motion of the Hon. Augustus Liddell, seconded by Mr. W. S. Grey, a resolution suggesting the expediency of forming a rifle corps for the Inner and Middle Temple hav ing been adopted, it was also agreed that the members of those societies heartily concurred with those of the other Inns of Court in the formation of such a corps. Subse quently, however, it was resolved to postpone the further eonsideration of the matter until after a general meeting of the members of the four Inns of Court. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The North American (screw steamer) sailed to-day for Quebec and Montreal with the mails for Canada, and 120 passengers. The City of Baltimore (screw steamer) also left the same day for New York, carrying a ship's mail and 200 passengers. She will c at Queenstown to-day (Thursday) for letters and de spatches. On Friday next the Afi icon Company's steamer Ethiope will be despatched with the mails for Madeira, Teneriffe, and West Coast of Africa. The box at the post office will be open on that day until 12.45 p.m., with extra fees till 1.15 p.m., and on the landing-stage till 2.0 p.m. On Saturday next the Cunard steamer Asia will be de spatched for New York with the American mails. Letters, &c., may be received up to 12 at noon on that day, with extra fees till one p.m., and on the landing-stage till two p.m. THE INDEPENDENT LIBERALS.---The meeting at Fendall's Hotel yesterday was the best that the Parlia mentary Reform Committee have yet held, and the discus sion terminated in a resolution expressing only so much faith in the new Administration as to entitle them to " a fair trial." Out of about sixty letters which had been re ceived from the country, about one-half conveyed the opinion that the compact at Willis's Rooms had not been fairly carried out in the composition of the Ministry ; and as it was on the faith of this compact that this committee had, during the debate on the amendment, called on all Reformers to vote against Lord Derby, the meeting would, perhaps, have been justified in speaking less favourably than they have done of the new Ministry. But it is undoubtedly best as it is ; for while moderation is at all times and in all causes a virtue, it is one that the Independent Liberal party 'Will find to be the very keystone of their influence and pro gress.—Morning Advertiser. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIIEATRE.—On Satur day Mr. William Cooke, the talented lessee of this popular place of amusement, will take a benefit, on which occasion ho will be assisted by Miss Rebecca Isaacs, who will appear as the Daughter of the Regiment. A number of other eminent performers will give their services, and altogether a very great treat may be expected, if we may judge from the bill of fare. - • On Tuesday, whiich was the longest day, the sun rose at 15 minutes past 3 a.m., and set at 47 minutes past Bp. m. The length of the day was consequently 17 hours 32 minutes, and that of the night 6 hours 28 minutes. CULLERCOATS LIFE-BOAT. NORTH SHIELDS, June 22.—The new life-boat and carriage which the Royal National, Life-Boat Institution has sent to this station had their quarterly trial on Monday. The life-boat proceeded to Tynemouth and then back to Cullercoats. Some trials of speed in rowing were made with other life-boats, but the National Life-Boat Institution's life-boat proved to be the fastest even in smooth water; in a heavier sea she would undoubtedly have had greater advantages. This life-boat, being of different construction to the excellent boats of the pilots, excited a good deal of attention, and, as a matter of course, there was a variety of opinions expressed about her. As a life-boat she had already been out to rescue during heavy seas, and proved to be an excellent sea boat, and her crew like her much. She has been built from the most approved design of the institution; and as the society now has the experience of eighty-two life-boats, it is only reasonable to assume they will havo learnt which is the best sort of boat for every purpose and locality. The lifeboat house has recently had considerable improvement made in it, amongst which we notice a new room set apart for storing a couple of mortars with all their necessary ap paratus for saving life where it is impossible for the life beats to approach, and a separate room for the life-boat stores, well lighted and ventilated. The ways and flooring of the boat-house have been all relaid and a thorough system of drainage and ventilation adopted. The road from the boat-house and the haven to the bank top is now in progress of being widened and otherwise improved under the able superintendence of the borough surveyor, and when completed, this lifeboat establishment will bo equal to any of the other establishments of the .Royal Na tional Life-boat Institution, which now has no less than eighty-two life-boats upon different parts of the coast. We again heartily recommend this truly national institution to the support of the community at large. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Last evening Mr. Bedford, coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest in the board room of St. George's Workhouse, on the body of Anne Oliver, 60, a single woman, who was in the employ of Lord Stratford do Pedeliffe, and lost her life by falling from a window on to some lends at the rear of the premises, 39, Grosvenor-square. There was no evidence to show how the accident occnrred. She had received a compound frac ture of the thigh and other injuries, and expired in the course of a few hours. A verdict of accidental death was 18,59. Saturday (Rehearsal) Monday (Messiah) 4 17,109 Wednesday (Te,Denm and Selection) 18,000 Friday (Israel in Egypt) 54,789 Thus it will be observed that, without reckoning Friday —which is pretty sure to bring the largest attendance of the four—the number of visitors is already more than 6,000 in excess of the sum total of 1857. The Queen and the Court, and the King of the Belgians, are to be present to-morrow. The most pressing representations have been made to the directors of the desirability of continuing the festival for another day, but we are requested to state that they find it impassible to arrange this, and therefore the festival will positively close with the performance of " Israel in Egypt" to-morrow, * Her Majesty the Queen present. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. - - The Duke of Montrose, K.T., had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty his seals of office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.8., had an vudience of the Queen, was sworn into office as Chancellor of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, and re ceived from her Majesty his seals of office. Mr. F. D. Danvers, Clerk of the Council and Registrar of the Duchy, attended. The Queen gave last evening a concert, to which a party of 360 were invited. The following vocalists assisted : Mesdames Titiens, Novello, Pyne, Didiee, and Meyet Signori Gardoni, Reeves, Ballad, Zolger, and Ronconi. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, arrived at Buckingham Palace at a quarter before ten o'clock. ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. — DOVER, Wednesday.—His Majesty the King of the Bel gians arrived at Dover this morning at half-past 12 o'clock, in the Belgian Government steamer Emerald, Captain Hood, and escorted by the Topaze, Captain Picard. On landing his Majesty was received by Lord Raglan and General Wylde, of the Queen's Household. His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Ambassador, and M. Del fosse, Chargé d'Affaires, were also in attendance. A guard of honour of the 32d regiment, the head-quarters of which gallant regiment, the heroes of Lucknow, are expected to arrive in this garrison in the course of a few days, was drawn up on the landing place to receive his Majesty on his debarkation. His Majesty, dined at Birmingham's Im perial Lord Warden Hotel, and left for the South-Eastern Railway, for BuCkinghard Palace, at 3.30. The Royal train was in charge of Mr. J. P. Knight, the superinten dent of the South-Eastern Railway, and the arrangements at the Dover station, which were of the usually efficient character, were under the direction of the superintendent of the station, Mr. E. T. Way. His Majesty was accom panied by his Royal Highness the Count de Flandres, Colonel Count de Moerkerke, General Lahure, Minister of Marine ; and Colonel Burnell, Aide-de-camp to the Count de Flandres. A Royal salut e was fi re d f rom th e h e i g ht s ' battery on his Majesty stepping on shore, and again upon the train leaving for the Bricklayers' Arms. The Royal train arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms at a quarter to six, and his Majesty was there received by the Hon. James Byng, Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway Company, several of . the directors, and Mr. C. W. Eborall, general manager. CRYSTAL PALACE. —THE HANDEL FESTIVAL.— The most pressing r epresentations have been made to the directors of the desirability of continuing the Festival for another day, but we are requested to state that they find it impossible to arrange this, and therefore the Festival will positively close with the performance of " Israel in Egypt' to-morrow. Handel Festival.—Seccknd day, Te Wednesday, June 22, total visitors, 17,664. The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's ship Adelaide, carrying her Majesty's mails, will sail from Galway for St. John's, Newfoundland, and New York, on Saturday, June 25. Mail closes in London on Friday evening at six o'clock. With reference to the announcement yesterday in The Sun that the works of the Suez Canal have been sud denly suspended by order of the Viceroy of Egypt, and that the reason assigned is the absence of the firman of the Porte at Constantinople, the following statement is of fered :—" According to the terms of the concession granted by the Viceroy the duty of obtaining the firman rested with the Viceroy and not with M. de Lesseps or the company, who contend that the arrangement subsisting was with the Viceroy only, who, if he intended protesting at all, should not have encouraged and sanctioned the commencement of the works, and then have suddenly ordered their discon tinuance. It appears that three vessels laden with materiel for the works were permitted to enter Egypt free of duty, lc,y order of his Highness, and that the Viceroy openly fhci litated in every way the operations of M. de Lesseps and the engineers in Egypt. The present step is, therefore, attributed to the exercise of British Government influence, the particulars of which are - shortly to transpire." We quote the following paragraph from the Herts Guardian ; but Mr. Cowper not having accepted office, there will be no new election for the borough. It is gene rally supposed in the neighbourhood that the threatened contest deterred that honourable prOntleman from joining the Palmerston Ministry :—" The Borough.—On Saturday last a handbill was issued stating that Mr. Cowper would probably take office, and asking the electors to make no rash promises of their votes, for he would be opposed. It is highly desirable for many reasons that the strength of political parties should be fairly tested at a single election. Mr. R. Dimsdale will be the Conservative candidate; and the long connection of las family _with Hertford, his supe rior abilities, the attention he gives to all matters affecting the various interests of the borough, and lastly, and•hbt least, the manner in which the trade of Hertford is patrol' nised by Essendon-place, are all cogent reasons why he should be heartily supported; but when we add that he is a thoroughly staunch Conservative, a devoted adherent of Lord Derby, that he is in the prime of life, ready and anxious to devote his best energies to the public service— we have .said enough to recommend Mr. Dimsdale to the support of all who do not desire to see Hertford degene rate into a mere pocket borough." MR. BRIGHT's DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE Mrsiszßv.—The Manchester Examiner of yesterday (Mr. Bright's provincial organ) says In looking over the list of the new Ministry one name will occur to every one as conspicuous by its absence ;' we refer, of course, to Mr. Bright. His claims to a place in the Cabinet, judged solely by his political abilities and the weight of his per sonal character; are so obvious and indisputable, that some mystery 'is supposed to rest upon his exclusion. To set misapprehension at rest we deem it advisable to state that there is no mystery at all 'about the matter. He has not been asked to take office, and wo believe that no fact could be more in unison with his per sonal inclinations ; but why this course has been adopted towards one whose Parliamentary influence is so great, whose pre-eminent services to the cause of Reform are acknowledged on all sides, and who, if any member of the section of the Liberal party to which he belongs were to be admitted to office, had certainly a prior claim—this is a question more interesting than- difficult of solution. Such things have, doubtless, an inner as well as an outer history, but the whole case may be easily comprehended, without descending to recondite surmises. That Mr. Bright's po litical principles were not, deemed an insuperable bar to office is obvious from the selection of Mr. M. Gibson and Mr. Cobden, whose views are identical with his own. The objection is a small one. Mr. Bright, by his eloquent ad vucacy of great truths, has had the insufferable misfortune to render himself personally obnoxious to a few proud and feeble oligarchs, whose influence is mighty iu the serener heights of aristocratic Whiggisin, and not unfelt perhaps at Court ; and to their intrigues, incessant and bitter, he is indebted for the privilege of remaining unattached. What could be more natural ? Exclusion from office on such grounds is the best tribute which could be paid to his abilities and his political worth. We have only to add that if the necessities of the Cabinet, and the desire to retain power, compel them to co operate with Lord John Russell in fulfilling the just ex pectation of the Liberal party, then it will undoubtedly re ceive the support of the country, and the independent party in Parliament; but if the same dishonest intrigues which, have characterised the admission into the highest places in the Cabinet of incompetent men, and the known secret opposition to the more liberal policy of Lord John Russell of a portion of those who have already violated their deli berate pledges, should ultimately prevail, then we may rest assured that there will be a speedy end of Lord Palmerstof Administration, and the reign of Whig incompetency will bt closed for ever." LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : TURIN, JUNE 22. Advices have been received from Arezzo to the 21st inst. The Swiss regiments which left Rome attacked Perugia on the 20th inst. Great resistance was made, notwithstanding that the defenders were few. After three hours' fight outside the town the Swiss entered, and the combat continued for two hours in the streets. The Swiss trampled down, and killed even women and inoffensive persons. The next day the outrages, arrests, and firing on the people recommenced. The town is in a state of siege. TRIESTE, JUNE 22. The following advices have been received here : CORFU, JUNE 19. According to letters from Malta to the 16th inst. a fleet of eight steam liners is ready for departure, destined, it is asserted, for the Adriatic sea. VENICE, JUNE 20. The commander of the fortress has announced that several disturbers of the peace (Rukesterer) have been expelled the town. The arrival of foreigners at Venice is only allowed on special per mission. The Archduke Maximilian has returned from Verona. PARIS, JUNE 22. The Prussian Government persists in affirming that the measures which it has taken are in no way the result of any concert with Austria, and that Prussia is free from any engagement. The rumour that a part of the Prussian army is to take up positions on the Rhine is not confirmed up to this time. The French troops have entered Lonato, Castig lione, and Montechiaro. TURIN, JUNE 22. Yesterday the Emperor and the King quitted Brescia for the camp amid the vivats and acclama tions of the populace. The allied armies have oc cupied Lonato, Castiglione, and Montechiaro. BERNE, JUNE 22. Austrian troops are constructing a telegraph line between Botzen and Landeck. Austrian troops of the Italian regiments are re passing through the Tyrol for Germany ; 3,000 of them have arrived at Malo, and 3,000 more are to follow. The Austrians continue to construct blockhouses, redoubts, and fortifications at Nauders. VIENNA, JUNE 22. The Austrian Correspondence announces that the French Government has strongly disapproved the conduct of the Admiral of the French fleet before Venice in capturing some barks belonging to fisher- men. BERLIN, JUNE 22. The official Preussiache Zeitung of to-day in a leading article says, among other things, as fol- lows : " The Franeo-Sardinian army is moving near the frontiers of Grennauy. The Prussian Government has repeatedly declared that it regards the security of Germany as intrusted to its care. The Italian conflict is assuming ever-increasing dimensions. England and Russia are arming on the greatest scale. The Prussian Government would be faith less to its duty, and to the sense of the nation, if it should neglect to act commensurately with that spirit by which Prussia has become great. Prussia is free from every engagement ; she obeys only those obligations which spring from the innermost nature of her State interests. It will soon be seen whether Prussia's initiative will be supported with the necessary weight by the German States. Prus sia's policy stands firm, and whoever lays obstacles in its way may consider that he is rendering ser vices to the enemies of the Fatherland." TRIESTE, JUNE 22. Advices have been received from Athens to the 14th inst. A change of Ministry has taken place. Major-General Milius has been appointed Mini ster of War ; Riga Palamidi, Minister of the Inte rior ; Conduriothis, Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Zainis, Minister of Instruction and Public Works. A letter from Brescia, in the Sleek, relates a fresh exploit of General Urban, as he passed through Calcio some short time back : " Being desirous of continuing the traditions of his pre decessors, ho immediately, on his arrival, summoned to his presence the heads of the municipality. When they ar rived, ho ordered them in a peremptory manner to deliver to his army, within the delay of seven minutes, 100 oxen, 100 sacks of oats, 100 casks of wine, and 12,000 swanzigs. The delegates remonstrated, say ing that the village was poor, and that the time allowed was too short. The only answer made by the ge neral was to draw out his watch, and pointing at the hour, to say, The delay I allow has commenced, gentlemen, The delegates looked at each other in alarm, and after a minute's consideraton proposed a sum of 14,000 swanzigs in lieu of the other objects demanded. The general made no answer until the seven minutes had elapsed, when ho said that he would make no compromise, and arrested the delegates as hostages. On the following day, during the hasty retreat of the A .0 - flans, the three prisonera effected their escape and returned to Calcio. These gentlemen, who are M. Ricci, advocate, and MM. Reselli and Benetti, landed proprietors, have been presented to the Emperor at the Villa Odofredi. The system of the Austrians is everywhere the same—blowing up bridges, cutting down trees, and burning houses. The stone bridge over the Oglio resisted the effect of the mind which they had pre pared, and was merely shaken, and a few fragments thrown into the river. A house at the extremity of it, on the banks of the river, was pillaged and burnt. Nothing remains but the four walls, which were loopholed. A barricade made of trees and earth was thrown up to de fend the passage of the river, but abandoned." A letter from Alessandria of the 18th says : " The passage of French cavalry through this place has ceased, and now comes the turn of heavy artillery and all the imposing materiel composing a complete siege park. I have also seen here several officers of the French navy, which rather surprised me, as this placo is more than 50 leagues from the sea. I went to the railway station to get some explanation relative to the appearance of those officers so far inland, and I there saw an immense quantity of naval articles, and among the rest six large waggons carrying gunboats taken to pieces, so as to be easy of conveyance. The passage of those boats through this place, accompanied by a number of sailors, has been going on for two or three days. These boats when they left France wero intended to operate on the Po and perhaps to act against Piacenza, but the battle of Magenta caused their destination to be changed. They are now being sent to the Lake of Garda, where they will lend a powerful aid to the army in the siege of Penchiera, as it is against that place, report says, that the allies- will •first direct their forces." A Paris correspondent of the Nord of Brussels says : " In what sense , and at what moment will Prussia bring forward her mediation ? This is a question which every one asks. According to diplomatic despatches from London and Berlin, one would be tempted to believe that it is after the first great battle in Italy that this mediation will ho pro posed ; and if we may believe rumours which are current, the Cabinet of Berlin is at this moment occupied in concerting the basis of it with the new English. Ministry. These bases will, it is said, be as follows :—Lombardy shall become an independent State ; Venetia shall be governed by an archduke, and an energetic application shall be made to Imo() sad Atifitria to bring aboitt szt artuiptice. Will Lord Palmerston, who refused these bases when proposed by Austria herself in 1848, accept them now ? They are evidently propositions which may be from one moment to another modified by the results of the war." A letter from Paris in the Independance contains he following : " If victory should crown the French arms in a decisive manner, it will not, it is stated, be impossible that the Em peror Napoleon may propose an armistice. Advantage would be taken of it to recommend negotiations on the fol lowing bases :—Lombardy to remain annexed to Piedmont; Venice and its territory to become free, nearly like the Hanse Towns, and be restored to its Italian na tionality, and the famous quadrangle with all the Venonais to remain to Austria, in order to protect the alarmed interests of the Germanic Confederation. If there be any authenticity in these rumours, the siege of Verona or of any of the fortresses of the quadrangle would not be undertaken, more from political than strategical reasons, for with the means of destruction now in use those fortresses could be readily reduced by the French. Other rumours are in circulation, and among them is one that Venetia is to be given to the Duchess of Parma as a com pensation for her States annexed to Piedmont. But in sup• posing that these overtures were accepted by Germany, Austria certainly will not easily renounce her fine provinces in Italy, the defence of which, after so short a struggle, cannot have exhausted hei• resources." The Independent.; of Turin announces that a por- tion of the Piedmontese fleet, composed of six war steamers, including the frigates Carlo Alberto and Vittorio Emmanuele, is to set sail immediately on active service. The following circular, relative to the interrup tion of the works of the Suez Canal, has been ad dressed to the French Consul-General at Alex andria, by Sheriff Pacha, the Viceroy's Minister of Foreign Affairs : "His Highness, in granting the concession of the cane across the Isthmus of Suez, laid down the conditions on which that great enterprise should be realised. His firm relating to this subject formally express the reserve of the ratification of his Majesty the Sultan, and the condition that the earthworks shall not be executed until after the authorisation of the Sublime Porte. His Highness has been pleased to manifest his sympathetic and friendly dis positions in favour of a work of such universal interest, but he is, nevertheless, resolved not to permit the cont. mencement, under any pretext, of operations which ought only to be executed after the approbation to which they are subjected should have been obtained. In thus making you acquainted, sir, with the determination of hi' Highness to stop the works actually in course of execution, which, from their nature and the qualification applied to them, have in nowise the character of preparatory surveys► I request you to have the kindness to intimate to those of your countrymen whom it may concern to immediately cease taking any part in the said works, in order not to place the Egyptian Government under the necessity of having recourse to measures which would be indispensabl e to secure the exercise of its rights.—Accept, &c., " The Minister of Foreign Affairs, " SHERIFF PACIZA• " Alexandria, June 9." FRANCE. PARIS BOURSE.—The market has been dull, with declining prices. Threes varied from 61f. 95c. to 62r. 5c.; Mobilier, 622 f. 50c. to 627 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 815 f. to 820 f. ; Orleans, 1,207 f. 50c. to 1,212 f. 50c.; Northern, 917 f. 50c. to 922 f. 50c. The fk lowing were the last quotations : a/. 8.1. 41 per Cents. _.... 92 Credit Fonder .... Do. end month .. 92 Belgian 41 -- 3 per Cents. 62 15 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 61 95 Roman Bl 1 "" Bank Shares 2775 Austrian - __ Credit Mobilier .. 622 50 Spanish Threes - 5 Do. Account 632 50 Home Debt 39 i RAILWAYS. Cash. A.ecount, Orleans Northern . 922 50 .. 917. otl New ditto. — .. 78 0 F ,, Lyons and Mediterranean Bl7 50 .. 817 uu Geneva 495 .. Southern Western 6lO .. '-.. Eastern Sardinian 370 .. -- Austrian ... , 4 OO .. 4 00 --. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 1210. ; moneys 25f 71c. ; three months, paper, 251..; money, 24f. 971 c. - - THE DISCOiVTEN7'_ IN TILE INDIAN ARMY. • (From the New Times, May . 11.) The example set by the 'European - troops of the late Coln"' pany at Meerut in endeavouring to obtain a settleniefit of 'their claims for their discharge efncl bounty on ment has been followed at Allahabad, and during the past week there have been unmistakeable Manifestations of dis content and insubordination among the men of the Light Cavalry and 4th Europeans. These proceedings have been variously described in the station, and a great many ex' gerated reports have naturally obtained circulation, which the " own correspondents" of the journals will pro bably do justice Co. For those 'of our readers, howeve4 who prefer to such stimulating mental food a mere record of things as they are' we offer the following, which, after great deal of sifting of impossible and improbable state ments, we may venture to recommend as reliable. On Friday evening the notification of the - "Governor- General, announcing the decision of the Home Authorities against the claims of the soldiers, was read to the 4th En ropeans on parade. It was received without any manifests* tion of feeling, and the men quietly dispersed to their bar racksbeem. e A m t a a n b i o f u e s t nine t A o n ' c o l o i s c e k of some vo seye s w p t o a sms heard, o f ds a n t u rd bsome shots were fired in the lines. The officers of the regiment thereupon proceeded to their respective companies, and en deavoured to ascertain the cause of such unusual proceed ings.' The men listened respectfully to the remonstrance/ made, and offered no violence, but they plainly declared that they had a grievance and would have it redressed. The cause of their discontent was, as bad been suspected, the communication which had been made to them. The disorder continued for some time, and it was remarked that the most noisy of the men were under the influence of liquor. By 11 o'clock, however, the men appeared to be tired of keeping up an excitement which seemed to have no immediate object in view, and gradually retired to their cots. On the following morning everything was quiet, and the ordinary duties of the day—orderly room, &c.—were gone through as usual. The peace continued throughout the day, and at about 1 o'clock Sir John Inglis, to whom a summons had been sent through the telegraph, arrived in the station by train. At five o'clock a parade of the regiment was ordered, when the Major-General, accompani ed by. the Assistant-Adjutant-General, the Brigadier, and the Bngade Major, appeared on the ground. Si; John Inglis then de livered an address to the men, telling them that he had come from Cawnpore solely to listen to any complaints which they might have to make , and he pled g ed himself that he would forward such complaints to the Commander in -Chief, who would see justice done, but who would never approve any unsoldierlike way of urging their grievances. Some of the men upon this fell out and explained the nature of their demands ; but as it was considered better that they should be received in writing, it was ultimately arranged that a certain number of men from each company should attend the orderly-room on the following morning, and their complaints be formally taken down. The men were then dismissed, retiring peaceably ; nor was there any re currence of the disorderly scenes that night. On Sunday morning a special orderly-room was hold as arranged, and the statements of several men from each company were received. They were all to the same effect, and a repetition of the same arguments which have been so often heard. It did not appear that the main object of the men was to get their discharge for the purpose of leav ing the service ; they were ready to serve their Queen a nd e n co f m t. e e r n y I , i e n t l i a n n g y s o r f ntehte as m s t ahiedy, pleased,b they a nclaimedtheme a t r n h e e o u p t ti e el the bounty as their right. In the afternoon a parade was again ordered, and Sir John Inglis again addressed the men, expressing his big sati.faetion at the manner in which he understood their officers they had conducted themselves sinc e the Pre' vious day, and assuring them that their representations hd been despatched to the Commander-in-Chief, who was thean at Kussowlie, and from whom he had just received a tele gram, dated that morning, stating that the case would be submitted to Goternment without delay. The men again dispersed peaceably, and since then, up to the latest accounts that have reached us, seem to be waiting patiently for the decision of the Governor -General, With whom, as may be supposed, a constant communication fie maintained by telegraph. The regular duties of the regi ment are all gone through, and the demeanour of the men in generally steady and respectful. This was sufficiently manifest at the several parades, where nothing occurred to distinguish them from ordinary occasions of the kin d. In the meantime the men of the Ist Europe Cavalry had been making similar demonstrations. Indeed, it is stated that they took the lead in this respect, and that they commenced rioting on Thursday, on which day they had seen a copy of the notification. Since that time their conduct had been systematically irregular and insubordi nate, so much so as to require that a careful watch should an Light be placed over them. After leaving the 4th Sir John Inglis proceeded to visit their lines, a parade having been pre viously ordered. He made an address to the them similamountar to that delivered to the 4th, and with much of success. The men showed no disrespect, and wore con tent to wait until the decision of the Governor-General should be known. On the same evening Si r John paraded the Bengal H orse Artillery now in the station (half troop, 2d troop, 2d Bri gade), and his address to the men was met in a very satis factory manner. Th e y disclaimed any sympathy with or participation in the movement, and it is due to them to state that their general conduct has justified the assertion. We have not heard of any irregularities being laid to their charge, and now that Tombs's troop has been cleared from the aspersions cast upon it it may be expected that the Bengal Artillery will not incur the reproach of having shared in these unsoldierlike proceedings. The week has passed away, pending the decision of the Governor-General, without any great excitement, though some uneasiness is of course felt, and even alarm by foolish persons who are to be found everywhere. There has been some disorderly conduct at night, now and then, but nothing worth particularising, exc ept on Wednesday nigh t, when a collision took place b e tween a non• commissio ned officer and two of the cavalry men—the former interfering in the cause of order, and it is believed in eelf-defence—in the course of which one of the men was killed (shot by a revolver) and the other severely wounded. The General returned to Cawnpore at the beginning of the week, and revisited Allahabad o n Thursday, when a para , de was ordered of the late Company's European troops in the station, each in their own lines, for the following morning. It is due to the men who have been so ill-advised and imprudent as to take this mode of obtaining their objects to state that they are generally among the youngest enlisted. The old soldiers generally know better, and have nothing t 9 Day to the progeidiugs, I ~o 1 1