The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-13 00:00:00

. ,~ ON CE A WEE K. A Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, and Popular Information.. Tobe Illustrated by LEECH, TENNIEL, MIL HABLOT K. BROWNE, C. KEENE, WOLF, &C., &C. Will be publisbed every Saturday, price Threepence. The First Number will appear on the 2d of July. All Literary arrangements will be made by the Editor, who is to be addtessed through the Publishers, Messrs. BRADBURY and EVANS, at their Offices, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. The Publishers will also receive Orders for the Miscellany itself; and a limited number of Advertisements for i nsertion is the Wrapper to be issued with it regularly " ONCE A WEEK." I ?OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. w under the alanagement or Mr. Charles Kean THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP FI rs. 'IIIIEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Blackstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with EVERYBODY'S FRIE.ND. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Compton, and Buckstone ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins, and Reynolds. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA. IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. Commence at 7. STEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. .1-1 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 M. Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly. Follow6d by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. n Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wiga, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE RIFLE VOLITNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. To conclude with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby , Billinp,ton ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. 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. Lesset and Directress, Miss Swanborongh THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta b supported Merton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO? by the company. After which, KENILWORTH. Followed by CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. Commence at 7o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Grand Holiday Attractions for Whitsuntide. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with the revived military spectacle of THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, reproduced with all its original effects. Sup ported by Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., Mr. Holloway, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. J.W. Anson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Worboys, &c. Mrs. Dowton, Miss Dowton, Miss Rivers, &c. 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; Madlle. Francisco ; Miss Holloway. To conclude with a Novel Entertainment called THE VOLUNTEER CORPS ; or, Female Brigade. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. fIA.NTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS ki GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY 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 EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu 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 OFFICE, JUNE 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday. 65—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.86. WlND—Changed from South-West in the morning to West, and then to North-West about noon, when a heavy shower of rain fell. The morning was very dull and dark. Half-past 12—A very heavy thunderstorm—light ning and torrents of rain for about two hours. JUNE 13. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 60—lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day at noon. _ BanommTEß-29'97. - WIND, Variable, S.W. to E., with fine weather. THE SUN. MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1859. The news from the seat of war is still in favour of the Allies, and promises to be still more so in a very few days. The Austrians, who boasted that they would accomplish everything, have actually performed nothing save falsifying their own pro phecies. They are also on the move in the wrong direction. They have evacuated Piacenza, and blown up the citadel. They have now bolted from Bologna, in deference to the approach of Prince NAPOLEON from Florence, just as we said would be the case. The Austrians have now taken refuge behind the Adda, but they will find its waters too hot to stay there long. If they do—GARIBALDI will be down upon them from Bergamo, and, in fact, the French too have crossed the Adda, and there will soon be a very good excuse for the brave Austrians to make discretion the better part of valour. The proclamations of the Emperor of the FREN cH to his army and to the people of Lombardy are admirably timed, and the tone reminds us of the terse but laconic bulletins of the immortal First Consul and Emperor. If NAPOLEON the Third but keep up to his sayings in the proclamation to the Italians, it will add a lustre to his doings in this war which will go far to make amends for former shortcomings, and give a com pl e t e answer to the interested falsehoods of his enemies. In fact, if he will be but content to set Italy free and then retire within the boundaries of his own dominions he will do more to strike terror into the German Confederation than if he marched right on to Vienna. There will be plenty of opportunities for paying off the Germans hereafter if they give themselves any more airs about their "Fatherland," as if no other people had any fatherland or na tionalities but themselves. The conduct of both Austria and Prussia during the late war was so utterly selfish, hypocritical, and dis honourable, that we hope a heavy day of reckoning is in store for them. Indeed, while we now write the EMPEROR of Russia has issued a manifesto to the effect that if the EMPEROR of the French localises the war to Italy he will not interfere ; but if the German Confederation interfere he will help to teach them a lesson they will not readily forget. The doom of Austrian misrule and savage constraint is all but sealed, and the sooner she gives up quietly what she must yield to necessity, the better will it be for the remaining portions of her discordant empire. The recognition by her most gracious MAJESTY of the eminent services rendered to the country by the leo,,,ing members of the late Administration, ought at length, surely, to silence those factious scurrilities which have been indulged in for a long time past by the more spiteful and splenetic section of the Opposition now merging into a Government. The SONEREIGN could hr dly mark her approval more s than by accordin g, as her MAJE.STY is nov r doing , the insignia of the most glorious order of knighthood in the gift of aMonarch to the noblo Earl the late First Lord of the Treasury. Lord DERBY, it will be r ememb ered, fifteen month s ago,. accepted the responsibilities of the Premiership With relwetanee ! He consented only to resume the supreme past he had formerly occupied for ten Mantrts in. 1852, because it was rendered obvious, even to :himself, that his so doing, if not absolutely essential to the interests of his party, was at any rate of such extraordinary advantage to that party, and was calculated, moreover, to facilitate the organisation of what was really the only possible Government in the February of 1858. What other Ministry, in truth, could have been installed in power at that period with any reasonable chance of continu ing in existence for a single twelvemonth? Viscount PALMERSTON'S Cabinet had been shattered to pieces with scorn by his own Parliament. Lord JOHN RUSSELL sat below the gangway powerless from his [glaring unpopularity, Lord ABERDEEN, fallen into the sere leaf as a political chieftain, had been long previously shelved as an utterly used-up and effete administrator. Lord LANSDOWNE bad invariably, pertinaciously, declined every oppor tunity which had been offered to him in times past of even attempting to form what might at the best have proved indeed to be in two senses of the phrase, a Petty Administration. Lord GRANVILLE had rarely assumed any other office than the purely ornamental. We have recently seen him, in obedi ence to the command of the Sovereign, adventure upon one futile attempt to rise to the altitude of a Prime Minister from the resplendent but far in ferior elevation:of the positions he has already occu pied —one while (fortunately a very brief one while it was) Foreign Secretary—another time President of the Council—latterly leader of the Liberal Opposition in the Lords, and simultaneously Chan cellor of the London University. A delightful, charm ing, good-natured leader of the Liberal aristocracy —an intelligent and laborious Chairman of the Royal Commissioners for the International Exhibi tion of 1851—a capital Master of the Buckhounds —a respectable public servant enough in the earlier part of his public career, in such minor posts as Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Treasurer of the Navy, Paymaster of the Forces, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster— GRANVILLE GEORGE LEVESON GOWER, second Earl GRANVILLE, could hardly be thought of seriously for half an instant as Prime Minister of England. On Saturday Lord GRANVILLE'S Premiership proved, upon experiment, to be as impossible in the June of 1859, as in the February of 1858, it would, if suggested, have been necessarily deemed pre posterous. Among the Commoners, Mr. GLAD STONE might have assumed with all becom ing dignity the curule chair of power—but Mr. GLADSTONE, fifteen months ago, would have entered office without colleagues. Lord ELGIN might have reasonably been recognised as a likely aspirant enough to the supreme post of the Pre miership ; but Lord ELGIN was sixteen or eighteen thousand miles from home, conducting with admir able ability the diplomatic negotiations with the Chinese and Japanese Governments. Scanning every party and section of a party, looking to the Lords and the Commons, to the Whigs and the Tories, to the Peelites and the Radicals, to the Liberals and the Conservatives—there was really no alternative submitted at the close of the month of February in 1858, to the choice of England's Constitutional SOVEREIGN. The powerful Ministry of Lord PALMERSTON had been shattered to pieces, and cast down into the very dust. Its reconstruction in any case at that period was absolutely and en tirely out of the question. Apart from the national jealousy excited (mistakenly or other wise it matters not at this moment to consider) by the obnoxious Conspiracy to Murder Bill—the PALMERSTON Administration had fallen deplorably " from its high estate " in the general estimation. Mr. SMITH had shown himself utterly incompetent at the head of the Board of Control. Lord CLANRICARDE had outraged the popular feeling by assuming the delicate, though chiefly honorary, post of her MAJEsTY's Lord Privy Seal. Lord CLARENDON had forfeited the confidence of many among his former admirers by his lamenta ble vacillation. Sir CHARLES WOOD had allowed the royal navy of this sea-girt isle, hitherto the mistress of the deep, to dwindle down to compara tive insignificance. And so on through the rest of the Administration. The reconstruction, again We say it, of Lord PALMERSTON'S Government, in any shape whatever, in the February of 1858 was not for two seconds ,to be thought of. Her MAJESTY had but one constitutional course to pursue, and—according to her invariable wont during these twenty-three years of her happy and glorious reign—she pursued it. Her MAJESTY entrusted to Lord DERBY the supreme responsibi , lity—a responsibility at that juncture doubly onerous—of forming an Administration. The Government was obviously, was avowedly, was necessarily a Government of a minority. It had to be formed, moreover, in the midst of a momentary feeling of jealousy between France and England—a feeling that might have cooled [into a serious estrangement—if it might not even have become heated into a positive and disastrous rupture. It had to be constructed besides, this DERBY Cabinet in the presence, in the very teeth of an angry and irritated Opposition, Lord DERBY however had to obey the necessity of the hour. Preferring him self his high patrician seclusion he had to accept frankly the responsibility imposed upon him at once by circumstances, by his party, by his country and by his SOVEREIGN. Honourably and nobly has he ac quitted himself since then during these past fifteen months as the chief the of British Government. And as honourably, and as nobly have his colleagues co operated with him in conducting, under circum stances of extraordinary difficulty, the weighty affairs of Administration, We say this as ultra reformers, as the organ of throughgoing liberal in dependents. [Not independents, by the way, like the honourable and learned member for Southampton.—wh o protest one thing loudly in debate, and then vote in direct opposition to and ar v e o s c o i l f u e t r e ous lu d d ec e l p a e r n a d ti e o u n t s s : but e ttrue,he i r volunteered staunch, and mean like the hon. and learned member for Sheffield —who speak and act, from first to last, with unflinching and inflexible consistency !] We recognise, we repeat, as ultra• Reformers, as the organ of thorough-going Liberal Independents, the zeal, the industry, the complete self-abnegation and patriotic self-sacrifice with which the country and the Crown have been served during the fifteen months last past by the leading members of Lord DERBY'S Administration. During that brief interval—they have done what neither Lord JOHN'S Government, nor yet Lord PALMERSTON's, ever attempted—they have laid a substantial measure of Parliamentary Reform upon the table of the House of Commons. That measure, with all its shortcomings, might have been developed and ripened into everything the most ardent reformer could wish in Committee. It would infallibly have been followed up in the ensu ing session by a better and more carefully matured bill—one that would have left compara tively little to be done in committee in the way of its improvement. Thanks to the DERBY Ministry again, the Royal Navy, all but ruined by the pitiable inefficiency of Sir CHARLES WooD, has been reorganized, and all but reconstructed. by the zealous and patriotic labours of Sr JOHN PAKINGTON. Unembarrassed by any European war, Lord CLARENDON almost allowed the diplo matic relations between France and England to drift to ruin between the Scylla of a rupture and the Charybdis of an estrangement. Whereas Lord MALMESBURY, though embarrassed by a great European war, has preserved intact England's neutrality During the comparatively short period of the existence of the DERBY Ministry, again, have not two vast portions of the globe—one in the eastern, one in the western hemisphere been brought directly under the jurisdiction of the Crown ? Lord STANLEY, as Indian Secretary, has swept down one vast monopoly—Sir EDWARD LYTTON as Colonial Secretary has swept down another. As ruling powers, the East India Company and the Hudson's Bay Company are no more. And while the noble lord the member for King's Lynn ha s left the impress of his rule over Hindostan ap parent in the very outlines of the grand scheme for the imperial reorganisation of the Indian Government, the right hon. baronet the member for Hertfordshire has raised a lasting monument of his genius as an administrator in the creation and organization of the superb and gigantic colony of British Columbia. It is in re cognition of their great services to the Crown and to the country, that her MAJESTY awards to Lord DERBY, at the moment of his retirement from the Premiership, the insignia of the Most Noble 'Order of the Garter—conferring the Grand Cross of the Bath, at the same time, upon Sir JOAN PAKINGTON, who has reconstructed the navy, and upon the Earl of MALMES BURY, to whose wise caution the country is indebted for the maintenance of neutrality in the midst of a sanguinary war between the two most powerful military empires in Christendom. A coronet placed upon the brow of Sir BULWER LYTTON would complete the royal meeds awarded to the chiefs of a loyal and patriotic Administra tion. It would tally, moreover, as a national and regal tribute to genius, with the elevation of - MACAULAY to the peerage at the close of the pre ceding Government. Mr. WYLD is not in the House, thanks to the want of the Ballot in Bodmin. It may be hoped, however, that a petition will give him an opportu nity of testing the electors of the little borough and that he will then resume the place to which his moral courage last session so justly entitles him. It will meantime be, we are sure, no small consolation to him if the cause which he repre sented, when a forlorn hope was needed, is not sacrificed again to Whig convenience. Lord J. RUSSELL is plainly of opinion that a Reform Bill might even be introduced this session ; that if it be not, a distinct session ought to be held for it later in the year. Well, we quite agree with him. The understanding was that this Parliament was to pass a Reform Bill—to pass one acceptable to the coun try, and to pass it while its impressions were yet fresh, of what constituencies desire in a Reform Bill. The Conservatives have commended Lord JOHN'S straightforwardness this time in not veiling a party move under the form of resolutions on a second reading ; and we trust they will have to commend his straightforwardness in either laying on the table his Reform Bill very promptly, or in convening a session in November for the purpose. We trust they will have to own that his speech on this point was not opposition claptrap. Now, taking Lord JOHN at his word, we entreat the friends of the Ballot to lose no time. They ought to know at the earliest possible moment, and the country ought to know, whether we are to have the cardinal reform or not. We trust the Ballot Society will be alive to its duties. Its President played them sadly false at the London election ; they had even to vindicate themselves by a resolution advorticnd r ihliols-, to pnt themcPlroc right with the electors. We hope Mr. BERKELEY will be guilty of no such coquetry with Whiggism in future —it is only by hoisting the banner of " no compro mise," that this Reform can ever be wrung from the Whigs any more than from the Tories ; and what to thoroughgoing reformers is the difference between a RUSSELL or a DISRAELI Reform Bill, if the Ballot be omitted ? What the difference ! We much fear just this—Mr. DISRAELI would, as now instructed by the last election, have given us a Bill within a little, if not quite, as liberal as the one Lord JOHN may give us; but Mr.DISRAELI could have carried his through the Upper House, which the Whig lord can hardly do. We do not, indeed, justify this fac tious preference of their own side on the part of the Peers ; still we must acknowledge they would be more patriotic than most parties, if they would not concede for the advantage of their own side in the House of Commons what they will not concede to benefit opponents. The Whigs, therefore, if we are not mistaken, will not be able to carry anything for us by the simple force of Whiggery with merely a majority of 13 in a house, including a few pairs, of 643 mem bers. They cannot, with such forces, coerce the Lords, who will certainly yield to nothing but po litical coercion. Reformers must then rely solely on the merits of their measure. It must be one which the house dares not refuse—one which, if dismissed again to the country, the country will insist on, under the penalty of excluding for life all recusants, and we affirm that, without the Ballot, no such enthusiasm can be aroused. Let this be offered, whether by Whigs or Tories, and the country will have the bill. Let it be withheld, and the country will say, as it has said, " What is it to us which of two Conservative Pre miers and parties is in office ?" We hold the ques tion to be vital. Justly did a Conservative speaker, Mr. KER SEYMER, tell the House on Thursday : " It was said (he observed) that the great Liberal party was now united. (He (Mr. Seymer) took leave to doubt it. He did not believe it, because there were questions on which the country called for a decision, and with respect to which there were most decided differences of opinion among hon. members opposite. He would refer to one or two of them. The question of reform was not one on which they could act in common. There was the ballot, a vital question. That was not a matter of detail, and it was a question which he did not see the possibility of the united Liberal party settling satisfactorily. The noble lord the member for the city of London might be squeezable on this point. (A laugh.) The right hon. gentleman the member for Carlisle was, he suspected, half squeezed already. But the noble lord the member for Tiverton was staunch. He had made many excellent and manly speeches against the ballot. It would not do to say that the ballot was to be an open ques tion. How could it remain an open question with hon. gen tlemen opposite who maintained that an extension of the franchise without the ballot would be worse than nothing, and only place the unfortunate labourer in a more dependent position than the present constituency ? (Loud cheers.)" We shall b e t o ld, we know, that we want to get up divisi on i n th e camp at once, to make govern ment ththat t impossible,the s settlement m a e l n l t t , h t a o t sort take o fp proper thing. op e r effec t, l\r e reply, must be made before the consummate on of marriage with a new Government. If not dealt with will be fi rm ly at first, th e y unmanage able afterwards. " Don't emisarrass the Whigs," m ay be a very good cry for the Tory Whigs, but we deem Whigs who are emba rrasse d b y th e cr y for the Ballot not to be the men for whom we should care to turn Tories out of office. We want Liberals and Reformers, not Whigs. We want men who have the inclination and the courage to give some thing tangibly different from those whom they accuse of being the party traditionally hostile to all reform. What should the difference be if it be not the Ballot ? Each party has approximated so closely to the other on the franchise, and on the redistri bution of seats, that there is little left by which to ) ‘A i t spoi r A* 10" " lk oli o THE SETN,TLONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1859. distinguish the sincac advocates of political liberty from their opponens and sham friends, except the liberty of voting. \s we have repeatedly said, we know in reference to Reform but two parties — those who trust the people, and those who trust to their own mastery o: them. The Ballot is the test of this. The party which offers it shows that it is not afraid of an uncoerced, unbought, jury. The other party, on whiebeverside of the house it sits, intends to pursue a public pdicy which the people must be bribed or compelled to ratify. Political honesty does not, and cannot fear an honest Ballot. We hope, then, Mr. WvLD's place will be sup plied in the new house—that some one will be found to stimulate Mr. BEIKELEY to early action, or to undertake the subject himself. "A few such unquestionably honest Liberals as Mr. ROE BUCK and Mr. LINDMY voted against the amend ment ; it is men of this stamp to whom we must look to insist on measures without reference to men. This was their only reason for deserting the majority of the Liberals last week, and they are, therefore, as it were, pledged to stand by the measures most needed by the people, without respect of persons. It is also, as it strikes us, highly impor tant to test the new members, and the old members :00, to see whether they have benefited, as many of them needed to do, by their visit to the country. Let us know the quality of our men. Bud gets, and ways and means, and current business, will do but little in this way. Let us see at once, by a simple, yet great, Re form question —one needing little discussion, one which every one understands ; one which is simply asking the members—Are you for free elections or contested elections 9—Are you for landlords en grossing their tenants' votes in addition to their own, or for treating the tenant as a man ? Are you for enabling every man to do his own voting, or for his voting at another's dictation 9—Let us see, we say, by the Reform which involves these questions, what is the real character of the new House. Not a day should be lost. Mr. BERKELEY ought to give the notice : if he does not, we trust some independent member will. THE NEW MINISTRY. From the various rumours in circulation this morning at the West-end and the Clubs relative to the formation of a Ministry by Lord Palmerston, it is impossible at the present time to speak with any degree of accuracy. Some assert that the arrangements made by Lords Palmerston and John Russell after the meeting at Willis's Rooms were only for a moment interfered with, Earl Granville being sent for by her Majesty, but upon Lord Palmerston receiving a message to attend at the Palace, everything immediately resumed its proper position. We cannot, of course, guarantee the correctness of the following list, but those who profess to be in the secret say it will be found accurate : First Lord of the Treasury .. Lord PALMERSTON Lord Chancellor - Sir R. BETHELL. Foreign Secretary Earl GRANVILLE. Home Secretary, Lord J. RUSSELL. Colonial Secretary Earl of ELGIN. Indian Secretary Duke of ARGYLL. Chancellor of the Exchequer . Admiralty Woods and Forests Sir B. HALL. Board of Trade Mr. M. GIBBON. Secretary for War Mr. S. HERBERT. Postmaster-General. Mr. VILLIERS, or the Duke of SOMERSET. Attorney-General Sir H. KEATING. Solicitor-General.. Mr. EDWIN JAMES. Under Foreign Secretary .... Lord WODEHOUSE. Under Colonial Secretary.... Lord HARTINGTON. According to the above Lord Cranworth, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir C. Wood, Sir G. Grey, and Sir C. Lewis, are excluded from office, a circum stance, we should imagine, not at all pleasing to either of them. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, JUNE 12. There have been various rumours here to-day and yesterday in the clubs and at the Four Courts. The Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Carlisle have both been mentioned for the Lord-Lieu. tenancy. Great interest is attached to the ques tion of who will be the new Chief Secretary, as, in consequence of the numbers of fresh members who voted for Lord Derby, the new Chief Secre tary will have a difficult duty to discharge. Mr. More O'Ferrall is mentioned on strong authority as being likely to be selected, but his nomination will give offence in influential quarters, as it is believed that the right hon. gentleman is too sub servient to clerical personages in his church ; and Irish society in general would much prefer that, Lord Fermoy, on account of his personal popu larity and practical talents, were selected. It is known that several of the Parliamentary leaders are in favour of Lord Fermoy being chosen. The reports about the legal offices are more cer tain. The following appointments, it is said, will be made : Lord Chancellor of Ireland.. Mr. Brewster. Attorney-General Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald. Solicitor-General Mr. Deasy. And rumours are afloat that on the occasion of his old friends coming into power Mr. Justice Perrin will give that resignation which he refused to the Derbyite Ministry. The Hcn. P. Plunket, Judge of the Bankruptcy Court is in very bad health, and is likely to resign; and both these Judges are entitled to retiring pensions. In addition to these offices there will also be the Sergeantcy vacated by the promotion of Mr. Deasy, and the Law Advisership to the Castle. It is expected, also, that some Whig chairmanships may by compulsory resignation become vacant at no very distant date. For these and other posts likely soon to be at Ministerial disposal, the fol lowing gentlemen of most unquestionable ability and character arc currently named, viz., Mr. Hughes, Q.C. ; Mr. Lawson, Q.C. ; Mr. Ball, Q.C. ; Mr. Rolleston, Q.C., and Mr. De Moleyn. All these gentlemen are of moderate opinions, and stand deservedly high in professional and general regard. We have authority to state that the House of Commons, being adjourned till Friday, the lith inst., the House of Lords will not meet until that day, except for the discharge of judicial business. The - Queen has conferred on the Earl of Derby the very high honour of making him an EXTRA Knight of the Garter. Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to mark her sense of the services rendered by the Earl of Malmesbury awl Sir John Pakington by conferring upon them the Civil Grand Cross of tho Order of the Bath. Advices from Canada state that the Customs' receipts this year from the Ist of January to the 12th of May have amounted to £288,000' against £160,000 in the corresponding period of 1858, when the province seemed threatened with embarrassment. The opinion is that should the coming harvest, which at present promises well, prove even moderately favourable, the revenue for 1859 will fully equal the expenditure. Mr. Peter Brown, of Basinghall-street, carpet warehouseman, who suspended during the panic of 1857, paid to-day his final instalment, makin g 20s. in the pound, with interest. His liabilities amounted to £16,000. CHARGE OF FORGERY.—At the Mansion-house police .court, on Saturday, John Lockhart Morton was re examined on the charge of having forged a bill of exchange purporting to have been accepted by Messrs. Flower and Co., of Princess-street. The prisoner read a paper giving an account of the inducements that led him to commit the forgery charged against him and others ; but he said that a.l the bills w4uldhave been duly paid if the present pro ceedings had not been taken against him. Ho was com mitted for trial. The will of Baron de Goldsmid and Da Pal tneira (Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Bart.) has been administered to by the executors. The personalty, though estimated at over two millions sterling, is only required to be sworn to as exceeding one mil lion, that the highest amount of probate duty (X 15,000) might be stamped on the grant. The real estates are spoken of as being of an equal amount with the personalty. The will is of im mense length, and there are upwards of forty codicils, making together a bulky affair, embracing 500 or 600 folios, LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JUNE 13. The Moniteur of to-day contains the following :elegrams MILAN, June 12.—A part of the French army has passed the River Adda without striking a blow. In the hurry of their retr eat from Piacenza the enemy abandoned a great number of cannons and magazines full of provisions and ammunition. TURIN, June 12.—A telegraphic despatch from Bologna announces that the Austrians have eva cuated that town. ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 11. The Itivalicle Russe of to-day announces that the Russian Gouernment has concluded a financial convention with Messrs. Rothschild, through the medium of the commercial house of Kapherr and Co., of St. Petersburg. The details of the conven tion are not known. The following proclamation has been published at Milan, and in yesterday's Moniteur The fortune of war has conducted me to the capital of Lombardy. Let me tell you why I am here. When Austria unjustly attacked Piedmont, I resolved to sustain the King of Sardinia, my ally. The honour and interests of France made this my duty. Your enemies, who are my enemies, have endea voured to diminish the sympathy which exists throughout all Europe for your cause, by trying to persuade the world that I am carrying on this war only for personal ambition, or to aggrandise the territory of France. If there are men who do not understand their epoch, I am not of the number. In the enlightened state of public opinion which prevails, men are greater by the moral influence which they exercise than by barren conquests, and this moral influence I seek after with pride, in contributing to emancipate one of the most beauti ful parts of Europe. Your reception has already proved to me that you have understood me. Ido not come here with any preconceived plan to dispossess sovereigns, nor to impose my own will upon you. My army will occupy itself with two things :—To combat your enemies and to maintain internal order. It will place no obstacle in the way of a free manifestation of your legitimate wishes. Providence sometimes favours nations like indi viduals in giving them occasion to rise suddenly to greatness ; but it is on condition that they have the virtue to profit by it. Profit then by the for tune which is offered you. Your desire of inde pendence, so long expressed, so often deceived, will be realised if you show yourselves worthy of it. Unite then for one sole object, the enfranchisement of your country. Seek military organisation. Hasten all of you to place yourselves under the flag of King Victor Emmanuel, who has already so nobly shown you the path of honour. Remember that without discipline there is no army, and ani mated with the sacred fire of patriotism be nothing to-day but soldiers. To-morrow you will be free citizens of a great country. Done at the Imperial quarters, at Milan, the Bth of June, 1859. NAPOLEON. RUSSIA. The Russian Government has issued a circular to all its representatives at foreign courts, explaining the views of Russia respecting the political situation of Europe, more especially as regards the attitude of Germany. This circular says : " Our desire, like that of the majority of the great Powers, is now to localise the war, because it arose out of local circumstances, and because it is the only means of accelerating the re turn of peace. The line followed by some States of the German Confederation tends, cn the contrary, to generalise the struggle by giving it a character and proportions which go beyond all human pre vision, and which, under any circumstance, would lead to increased devastation, and would cause torrents of blood to be shed. "We can the less understand this tendency as, independently of the guarantees offered to Germany by the positive declarations of the French Govern ment, accepted by the great Powers, and the very force of circumstances, the German States thereby deviate from the fundamental basis which unites them. " The German Confederation is a combination purely and exclusively defensive. It is on that condition (a ce titre) that she participated in the international law of Europe, on the bases of treaties to which Russia's signature is affixed. " Now, no hostile act has been committed by France against the Confederation, and there does not exist any obligatory treaty for the latter to attack that Power. " Should, consequently, the Confederation take measures towards France on conjectural data, and against which it has obtained more than one guarantee, it would have falsified the object of its institution, and disowned the spirit of treaties upon which its existence rests. " We confidently entertain the hope that the wisdom of the Federal Governments will set aside determinations which would turn to their prejudice, and would not contribute to strengthen their own position. " If, which God forbid, it should happen other wise, we shall at all events have fulfilled a duty of frank and sincere friendship. Whatever may be the issue of the present complications, the Emperor, our august master, perfectly free in his action, will only be inspired by the interests of his country and the dignity of his Crown in the determinations which his Majesty will be called upon to take. " GORTSCHAKOFF. " St. Petersburg, 15th (27th) May, 1859." (OFFICIAL BULLETIN.) TURIN, JUNE 12. The Austrians evacuated Bologna last night. A movement in favour of the national cause im mediately followed their departure. TURIN, SATURDAY• The Austrians have evacuated Piacenza, after having destroyed the citadel and the other forti fications. They abandoned to the allies a great quantity of provisions, cannon, and ammunition. Our troops entered the town, invited by the muni cipality. The Austrians have been reinforced at Brescello, a village in Modena. The news of the evacuation of Pavia and Lodi by the Austrians is c onfirmed. After having crossed the river Adda, the enemy destroyed the bridges. The Monitcur contains the following telegram : TURIN, SATURDAY EVENING. The Austrians evacuated Piacenza yesterday, after having blown up the citadel. The Moniteur al o says that the statement put forth by certain journals that the Papal Nuncio has officiated at Vienna in the religious ceremony of calling down the protection of Heaven on the Austrian arms is true. BERLIN, SUNDAY. The Preussische Zeitung states that the Prince Regent has renounced the pleasure of attending the Hamm and Cleves jubilee festival, in consequence of the present position of political affairs, in which, as his Royal Highness lately remarked in Pomerania, it cannot be foretold whether the next hour is our own. The Regent had previously accepted the invita tion to the festival. BERLIN, JUNE 11. The semiofficial Preussische Zeitung contains the following :—" Reports are current that the whole Prussian army will be mobilised, and that Prussia will soon take part in the existing conflict; but we believe," says the journal, " that we are not mis taken in stating that no resolution of such a naturo has as yet been taken, nor is it immediately immi nent. If Prussia should be caused to take further steps for the development of her warlike power, her only object would be to make the position she has hitherto held of greater avail." DRESDEN, JUNB 10. The Dresden Journal of to-day contains the fol lowing :—" Prussian commissioners were here yes terday, negotiating for the transport by railway of considerable bodies of Prussian troops. A satis factory result was without difficulty arrived at, and the commissioners then started for Munich with a similar object." VIENNA, JUNE 11. Prince Metternich, Duke of Portella, died today at 3 o'clock p.m. The deceased prince was born at Coblentz, on the 15th May, 1773, and was conse quently in his 87th year. VIENNA, JUNE 11. The Duchess of Parma arrived 'yesterday at Verona. The troops of the Duchy have gone to Modena by their own inclination, and with the consent of the Duke of Modena. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY. PARIS BOURSE. The market has been very buoyant, owing to the result of the division in the English Parliament, and to the proclamations posted up at the Bourse. Threes improved from 6lfr. 95c. to 62f. 60c. ; Mobilier from 630 f. to 647 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,205 f. to 1,220 f. ; Lyons, 820 f. to 835 f. ; Northern, 910 f. to 922 f. 50c. The market continued improving to the close, when the following were the last quotations : 4t per Cents. 92 Credit Foncier Do. end month .. I Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents. 62 70 Piedmontese (5) Do. end month.... 62 65 Roman Bl Bank Shares. 2BOO Austrian Credit Mobilier 642 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . 912 50 .. 917 50 New ditto 775 .. 777 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 832 50 .. 832 50 Geneva 495 .. 500 Southern Western 5lO .. 505 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 25f 71c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 921 c. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the ith, says :—" Baron de Bernstorff, the Prussian Minister in London, has been sent for by telegraph. It is stated that at tempts are to be made, in concert with England, to re-establish peace in Italy, and in case of negotia tions failing, that England and Prussia will come to an understanding as to the limits beyond which the European equilibrium would be considered menaced." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 6th have arrived. The Senate had commenced the trial of M. Collan tes, and he had objected to the President of the Senate (the Marquis del Duero) and a number of other senators sitting to try him. The journals had been ordered to publish none but the official accounts of the proceedings. Several French deserters who had taken up their residence in Spain had requested from the authori ties permission to return to France in order to take service in the army. A great number of persons had called on the French and Sardinian Ambassadors to congratulate them on the last success of the allied armies in Italy. A small Carlist band had appeared in the province of Saragossa. The Austrian journals relate but little, and that little very imperfectly, of the results of the battle of the 4th. The Journal de Francfort brings for ward arguments to prove that a second attack must have been made by the Austrians, and the Franco- Piedmontese forced to recross the Ticino. The same journal discusses at some length the report of Gen. Nlacmahon, and seeks to establish that, if the French conquered at Magenta, they were worsted at Tur bigo. A march on Milan was regarded by it as im possible. The Post Anzpt Gazette of Frankfort says that the battle remained undecided, and that it was to recommence on the following day. The Vienna Gazette admits that " the authorities, as well as the feeble garrison of Milan and of the citadel, prudently withdrew by order of Field-Marshal Count Giulay." The same jour na l a dd s th a t th e city was tranquil. The Pr esse of Vi enna s till discusses "the admirable strategical movement of the Austrians on the left bank of the Ticino, and the choice of Abbiate-Grasse for headquarters." The Augsburg Gazette is more resolute. It consoles itself for the defeat of Magenta by affirming that " this combat is completely insignificant for Austria, who can, without being either morally or physically weakened, lose ten battles." " When Au stria, adds that journal, " shall be driven back to the foot of the Alps, she may say, it is only now that the war commences." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, VIA HALIFAX.) NEW YORK, JUNE 2 (EVENING.) The news by the America has caused a decline in our cotton market of lc. to -1,-c. per 81b. The de mand is limited, and the sales of the two days only amount to 2,000 bales. Middling uplands is now quoted at 10ac. to 101 c. Breadstuffs are dull and drooping, and flour has declined 12c. per barrel. Provisions a l so t en d downwards, and prices generally are e as i er. S ugars are heavy, at a decline of le. to C. lower. Spi r it s o f turpentine closes flat , and prices are weak. JUNE NEW ORLEANS, 1, EVENING. The sales of cotton to-day have been 4,000 bales, and the market is without change. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. Last night the Cunard. Royal Mail Steam-ship Canada, Capt. Lang, arrived in the Mersey, from Boston and Halifax, with advises from the former port to the Ist inst., the latter to the 3d, and New York to the 31st ult. Besides the mails the Canada brings 78 passengers and 1,208,514 dols, in specie. The screw steam-ship New York, from Bremen and Southampton, arrived at New York on the 29th ult. ; and the screw steam-ship Hammonia, from Hamburg, on the 30th ult. The Secretary of the Treasury, at 'Washington, has prepared a circular, addressed to the collectors of customs, saying :—" The immunity of our mer chant ves se l s a t sea f rom se i zure , search, detention r or visit, in ti m e o f !peace, by the vessels of war of any f ore i gn nation being now ita admitted veryby all the maritime Powers of the world , desirable that the nationality of our yesselssho o u f ld a always be promptly displayed in_ presenceththee Treasury is ship of war. The Secretary ostruct . f n c ollectors of directed by the President to the customs to request the service, at their respective ports,as possible, whenever captains l in the merchant always to display their colours as promptly they meet upon the ocean an armed cruiser of any nation." General Walker arrived in Nest York on the evening of the 28th, in company with his two companions in arms, Colonel Frank Anderson and Major Dolan. The last accounts we had from New Orleans of his movements represented him as having landed at Acapulco at the head of 300 men, and it was expected either that he would join one of the fighting factions in Mexico, or make another descent on Nicaragua. But neither lof these movements has been made. The 300 men have come down to three; and these three are conducting themselves like rational gentlemen, and enjoying their ease in one of the quiet hotels of the metropolis. So, for the present at least, the Mexicans may enjoy the privilege of cutting their own throats in their own way. and the timidin offensive people of the Isthmus may rest free from any apprehensions of an immediate visitation from the " grey-eyed man of destiny." The War Department have received a communi cation from Brigadier General Clark, commandant of the Californian military department, dated `at Los Angelos, May 2, informing them of the com plete success of Lieutenant-Colonel Hoffman 's United States Colorado expedition ; and adds that the troops engaged in the expedition, with the exception of two companies, were then in march for economical stations on the sea-board. The first lot of new crop wheat was sold on the 28th, in St. Louis, for five dollars per bushel. The wheat was raised in De Soto County, Mississippi. In the Money Market there is no particular change. There is very little demand for money, either by merchants or brokers, at the banks ; in the street money is offered, with but few takers, at five per cent. on call. The bill brokers continue to report first-class four to six months' endorsed paper at 7 per cent ; strictly prime acceptances, 60 to 90 days, 6 per cent. ; second-class paper, four to eight months, 8 to 10 per cent. ; second-class sugar paper is perhaps a trifle harder to sell than it was. COTTON.—The news had a tendency to unsettle the market, which was inactive. The sales were confined to some 300 or 400 bales in lots, at unestablished prices. MANNING THE NAVY. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. perceive that I am reported in The Sun of this evening to have stated, in reply to a ques tion put to me by Sir Charles Napier, that it was intended to extend the bounty to seamen already serving in the fleet. I have to request that you will insert in your second edition the enclosed correct report of the answer given by me, in order to obviate the very serious consequences which might result from the erroneous belief that such a measure was in con templation : Mr. Corry said, in reply to a question put to him by Sir Charles Napier, that it was not intended to extend the bounty to seamen already in the Navy. The only alterations contemplated were that, whereas by the existing proclamation a bounty of £lO was offered to able seamen, of £5 to ordinary seamen, and of £2 to landsmen, the Order in Council about to be issued would limit the offer of boun'..y to able and ordinary seamen, and would extend the period until the 31st of July. I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, H. CORBY. Admiralty, 11th June, 1859. [We regret the mistake into which our reporter has fallen, but the above arrived too late for our last edition on Saturday evening, the paper hating gone to press.—ED. Sun.] (From a Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday last.) At the Court of St. James's, the 11th day of June, 1859, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council—Whereas her Majesty was graciously pleased, by her Royal Proclamation, bearing date the 30th day of April last, to promise and declare that the bounties of £lO for every able seaman and £5 for every ordinary seaman fit for her Majesty's service should be paid, in the manner thereby directed, to every such able and ordinary seaman not above the age of 45 nor under the age of 20 years who should, on or before the 15th day of June then following, enter themselves to serve in her Majesty's Royal Navy, either with the cap tains or lieutenants of her Majesty's ships, or officers employed in tenders, or at rendezvous on shore for raising men for the service of the Royal Navy; and whereas her Majesty was also graciously pleased by her said Proclamation to declare that all able bodied landsmen not above the age of 25 nor under the age of 20 years who should so enter themselves as aforesaid should receive the sum of 40s. each man, as her Majesty's Royal bounty : And whereas the time limited by the said Pro clamation for payment of the said bounties will expire on the 15th day of this inst. June ; and it being judged expedient for her Majesty's service that the said bounties should, so far as they relate to able seamen and ordinary seamen, be continued to be paid for some time longer, he' Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council, doth therefore order, and it is hereby accordingly ordered, that the time limited for payment of the said bounties of £lO to able seamen and of £5 to ordinary sea men be prolonged and extended from the said 15th day of this inst. June to the 31st of July next inclusive ;_ whereof all persons concerned are to tak e notice and govern themselves accordingly. W. L. BATHURST. THE THUNDER STORM YESTERDAY. The pleasure of the holiday-makers was yester day considerably marred by one of the most terrific thunder storms which have passed over the metro polis for many years. It commenced about half past 12 o'clock, and lasted with more or less violence for about three hours. In the north-west district, where we believe it raged with the greatest vio lence, the claps of thunder were as loud and start ling as we can ever remember to have heard, and the lightning which preceded them was of the most vivid description. The rain came down in sheets, the streets being completely deluged, and from this alone the destruction to garden property , must have been very great. At Bishop's-walk, Fore-street, and High-street, Lambeth, where the ground lies low, a considerable amount of property was de stroyed in consequence of the basements of the houses being inundated by the great flow of water. From Bishop's-walk the river presented an extra sea considerable considerable wnsptreorpebliges over flowed inearythaeppbeaarnaknsc,e.aAndt B a a t tt c er h s e ea the water over- Be tweendam a Hu g e was n .r foe done r d n t o the waterside Westminster serious accident o ccurred. A boat containing four boys was caught by the current and capsized, the boys being thrown into the water. One of them, a lad about 16 years of age, swam to the bank, and was followed by two of his companions. The fourth, however, being unable to swim, was rapidly' drifting away, when the eldest of the four succeeded in bringing him in an insensible state to the bank. Near Hateham-park, Old Kent-road, an elderly gen t e don, n 1 a s n u , who dd en wasy fell p tov c t e h e e d g n r g o u i in t d h a e s d if i r s e t c r t u i o c n k of b y L t o h n 0 - at h hn a ed s t groundef froth t d h t a o ni h td i wsb blood o s d i fsot wereua n n d c e , he e n o z d wm. o a g n s r qf a . ru i o s i n e n lightning. A police con s t a bl e an d severa l pers ons In the neighb our h oo d o f S y d en h am, N orwoo d, and the Green lan es a t D u l w i c h t h e d amage d one t o the g h i n i h s s i e m m n o s f i u r bre . , flower-gardens was considerable. At Goose-green a large tree in a meadow was struck by the light ning, a heavy branch being torn off, the electric fluid burying itself in the earth, and scattering in its course showers of gravel and earth. in the Dulwich-road an accident oocurred which nearly resulted in loss of life. A gentleman was driving a phaeton, in which were his wife and three chil dren, and on reaching the brow of the hill the horse attached to the vehicle was suddenly startled by a clap of thunder, and notwithstanding the efforts of the driver, it contrived to get the bit between its teeth, and started off at a furious pace. Three men who were proceeding along the road real in front of the infuriated animal with the intention of stopping it, when one of them was struck in the breast by the shaft, and thrown to the ground senseless. His companions were, however, more fortunate, and succeeded in stopping the horse, but not before the lady in the phaeton had received a severe cut on the left cheek by falling forward on the iron rail of the driving box. At the back of house in Beresford-street, Walworth, the electric fluid struck some steel ornaments on the top of a summer-house, and passed through the roof, split ting and scorching the woodwork. At Rotherinthe, as at Lambeth, the lower portions of premises adjoining the river suffered much. At the East end of London, the storm, although not felt so -violently, was severe, the rain falling in torrents. Among the craft down the river and close to Greenwich several accidents took place from the overturning of small boats, but no lives were lost. The Princess Gauromma of Coorg, who has now attained the ago of 18, has been placed by the Queen under the charge of Lady Catherine V. Harcourt. We have much pleasure in adding to the list of Queen's counsel created by Lord Chelmsford, the name of Mr. Archibald John Stephens, whose reputation as a most learned lawyer, especially in matters ecclesiastical, and as the author of many valuable legal works, has long been appreciated by the profession, and by the clergy. CIIARGE OF IVILFUL MURDER.—At the South wark Police-court, on Saturday, a young man named Jere miah Collins, who has been frequently remanded, charged with having cut the throat of James Fielden, his brother in-law, in Merrick-place, Bermondsey, during a quarrel and fight, was again brought up, as Fielden had silica died. He was conpuitted for trial. •