The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

MR. GLADSTONE'S LONDON COMMITTEE SITS DAILY, at the UNION HOTEL, Coekspur- street, S.W. The Polling will commence on Monday, the 27th, at Twelve o'clock. It is earnestly requested that promises of sup7ort be communicated immediately to the Secretaries. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the slanazement of 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 FIN. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with KVEIRYBODY'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. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI 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. Followed by THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C. Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laidiaw. After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C. Selby and Moreland; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly. To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; 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, 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 EVENING, CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers and Miss F. Hughes. After which, KENILWORTH. Commence at 7 o'clock. AS'rLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager. ..... ...Mr. William Cooke. Last Night of the Season. For the Benefit of Mr. William Cooke, proprietor. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a variety of interesting Entertainments, including THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, in which Miss Rebecca Isaacs will appear. 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 Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 is. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS 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 eve: written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JUNE 25. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADZ. 72—highest since noon yesterday. 67—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BAnontETmt-30.02. WIIcD, Southerly ; light, with fine weather. Our readers will perceive that, as we anticipated, another engagement of a most decisive character has taken place. Fortune, as before, has declared herself on the side of the allies, and the successes of NAPOLEON THE THIRD in Italy seem worthy of his brilliant predecessors. The telegram is dated Carriano, Friday evening. It gives, as is'usually the case, with the first intelligence of a battle, but a very brief summary of events ; but it is evident from the 'mere outline given, that it has been the most hardly contested field of the campaign. The Austrians having assembled their whole Throe, which extended over five leagues, appear to have made a desperate attempt to retrieve their former reverses. They were unable, however, to withstand the onslaught of the victorious allies, inspired on the one side by hatred of the oppressors, and fired on the other by the recollections of Lodi and Marengo. The battle lasted sixteen hours, which proves the severity of the contest. Com mencing at four o'clock yesterday morning, it did not terminate till eight o'clock in the evening. The losses on both sides must have been considerable, but the Allies, we are told, have taken all the Austrian positions, and captured many cannon, flags, and prisoners. To-morrow, we shall no doubt have further particulars as to the exact locality of the engagement, and the number of killed and wounded. The gallant Allies, we fear, must on this occasion have sus tained the loss of many brave men, but the discomfiture of the Austrians appears to have been complete, and it is not likely they will again risk an encounter on the battle fields of Italy, the scene to them of so many disasters and defeats. They have done little to increase their prestige as a military power, and their merited discomfiture may teach despots that it is hopeless to count on efficient service from the enforced levies of oppressed na tionalities. They will now probably display that dexterity and rapidity in retreat by which they compensate for their inefficiency in combat. Austria must finally surrender those fair Italian provinces which' she has held so unjustly and ruled so tyrannically. It only remains for the victorious allies, having gained the vantage iround, to dis play in the readjustment of civic affairs a rnag namity which shall equal the heroism whi c h has so brilliantly distiriguished their military manceuvres.- Let them wear worthily the laurels they hare so gloriously won and prove themselves in deed as well as in name the Liberators of Italy. If NAPOLEON 111. can resist the tempta tions that surround him, and seek no sway in Italy save over the grateful memories of its people, he will occupy a nobler position in the records of his age, than, if, like his great predecessor, he dic tated terms on the outskirts of Vienna and wore the iron crown of Lombardy. We do not wonder at Sir CHARLES NAMER per sisting in his motion for a Committee to remodel the present constitution of the Board of Admiralty. We readily admit that the administration of the late board under the presidency of Sir JOHN Pig- INGTON was a great improvement on the working of its predecessors. But we must not take excep tions, however good for the time 'eing, as a gene ral rule. No. We want a good plan or system that shall work of itself, be the managers, or, it may be, the incumbrancers ever so clever in their own opinion. We want a system that shall work independently of My Lords," be they Whig, Tory, or Liberal. Of all public departments in the State that of the Navy is the very soul and pride of Eng lishmen; and yet, strange to tell, that department, on which our national salvation depends, is made the very sport and disgra ce of office. And why ? Because Englishmen are so bound up in their pride and natural respect for the true blue, that they cannot imagine anything can be wrong at head quarters in the management of their darling Pet. Thus it comes of o ver-confidence, and the sharks of office seize on the credulity of hones t men, and turn their ignorance to selfish profit. Nor does the evil rest lane matters are wrong at hem'. quarters the areruption spreads most magically throughout every department—to the dockyards at home and abroad--in short, wherever there is any thing to be made out of the frank genet osity of the tax-payers—all is right, for—" wh cares for the country," is the sardonic grin witir which those rats in the national granary disport themselves. Nobody cares for the country in private practice, but everyone blusters loud enough in pub lic about " our national interests—and the sacred independence of our fellow men." Aye ! strike up the National Anthem, and every brave speaker will talk you asleep about upholding the institutions of the State—tho QUEEN (GoD bless her), and that he would die to raaintain her crown, dignity, and all the rest of it. Now, what we want is fair play for the country at large, and for her brave sailors in particular. Her soldiers are now better provided for—no thanks to the Horse Guards—a right Royal Institution, which seems to take more care of animals, because they cannot complain, than of poor merit, which may weep out its soul, and die none the better. Still the " Horse Guards " has its redeeming quali ties—it does good by fits—albeit, those fits ema nate from a favourite fountain. But all men, and all public institutions have their weaknesses, at which the greatest wrong-doers are the first to find fault. Now, in every change of Ministry the Lords of the Admiralty have to turn out, be it first, middle, or morning watch—it's all alike—the ship has struck, and all your fairy top-gallant sails now flutter in the wind—the cold wind of Opposition— just for nothing, or something worse. And why should this be ? Simply for political patronage. The very life-blood of the nation is to be at the mercy of a political Butcher. Rome was not built in a day—nor was the British Navy—and yet with every change of Ministry we have a change of " Ship Husbands," as they are termed, for man aging the office of the "Lord High Admiral." If we have that on the very arm, which is our only and true salvation, why not in the army. Wait a bit. The one basks in the sunshine of Royal flat tery "ashore "—the other finds— " Its march is on the mountain mares— Its home is on the deep I " and a very cold home it often proves. Now, what we ask is this !—Why should the Board of Admiralty be changed with every factious change of Political Fortune-Hunters ?—and the red tapists be allowed to wave their banners in the wind of indolence and Royal favour. Everything in the way of rational legislation has, for this year, been disgracefully prevented by those most unpatriotic party measures of the so called Liberal Opposition, now transformed into the Coalition Government. Never was any year more clearly or more:perversely wasted, for mere selfish ends, than 1859. Instead of being, as it might easily have been allowed to be—a model year in the way of bold, sweeping, and comprehen sive legislative improvements—it has been com pelled by the Whig leaders, aided in this evil work by their abettors and accomplices—it has, we assert, been compelled to degenerate into one of the most fruitless years of Parliamentary toil and trouble upon record. Considering 1859 apart from merely party struggles for place, power, and patronage— it will figure as nil upon the pages of Hansard. Yet, with a trifling modicum of self-abnegation, the leaders of the quasi-reform party, yesterday seated upon the benches of the Opposition, might have so regulated the proceedings of the House of Commons that _Hansard should have recorded a the most remarkable changes and improve ments. A reform in the popular representation was actually within our grasp, including within it almost every one of the great boons we have so long, and hitherto almost hopelessly, clamoured to possess. A cluster of legal reforms were prepared, and some of them introduced to the House, by Mr. WALPOLE, as late Home Secretary ; by Sir FITZ ROY KELLY, as Attorney-General ; by Sir HUGH CAIRNS, as Solicitor-General—such as would have added many a luminous page to the statute-book, and have tended greatly to the advantage, more or less, of the entire population. Colonial reforms were being rapidly carried out, with a daring yet cautious aptitude for organisation, by the creator of British Columbia, and—but for this untoward interruption of the labours of 1859—the destined destroyer of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly. The navy of England was rapidly advancing towards its entire reconstruction. The army of England was gradually progressing to the goal of perfected efficiency. The Indian Empire, under the governance of the Crown of England, bad been brought within view of a more complete and rational scheme of administration. The depart ments were all in full activity. Much in each might by this time have been securely and happily accomplished. Now—reforms of all kinds have been swept aside for 1859—by the so-called Re formers. Everything will have to be deferred until 1860—now the Coalition ha . s undertaken in that year to inaugurate the new political millennium. Although the greatest social reform of all— National Education—advances but slowly, and, so to speak, incidentally, it does make way neverthe less. Of this we have positive and reliable Assur ance, upon authority, in the substantial form of a blue-book, numbering no less than 700 pages alto gether—a historical document, comprising within it the annual report for 1858-1859 of the Committee of Council on Education. It is an attestation that the department recently presided over by the Mar quis of SALISBURY has, during the past twelve months, lacked neither zeal nor industry. It is an evidence at the same time—yet more welcome— that the good cause flourishes. Within this last year of grace, the blue-book tells us, 376 additional schools have been built in various parts of the United Kingdom. Within the same space 287 of the old schools have ipro v improved. d. either bee Duringn this last year other wise greatly m whole of this vast intellectual hive has been thus busily peopled—under the direction and supervision of fifty-four inspectors ! Namely, peopled by a noble aggregate of 821,744 scholars—distribut e d in clusters among 9,38-1 daily schools—those daily schools being conducted by 5,495 certificat e d teachers, and as many as 13,281 minor teachers, who are apprenticed. Besides these day schools— there arc no less than thirty-eight separate training colleges, containing a total of 2,709 —students, schoolmasters, and schoolmistresses. There are 118 reformatory, ragged, and industrial schools — having exactly, in all, 7,793 inmates. And in addition to this, there are 539 schools for pauper children, having inmates to tho very considerable aggregate of 47,527 ! Evidence surely that the Council of Education (such as it is) is fully in ope ration, has something to deliberate upon, and has full encouragement for its deliberations. So that, as the Times profoundly remarked the other morn ing, that the army had not been disbanded under General PEEL'S management, that great puffing organ for the new Coalition, and depreciator of the departed Government, might condescend with perfect truth to add that the cause of education has not been interrupted in its development under the Marquis of SALMI:III'S Presidency. The Times, however, said nothing at all, in its sneering analysis of the policy of the late Cabinet—the Times said absolutely nothing whatever in that analysis—of the President of the Council—any more than it breathed a whisper of the Indian Secretary, or uttered a syllable on the Colonial Secretary. Better adhere to a system of strict and direct reticence upon those Ministers and their respective depart ments than run the hazard, while directing any attention to them whatsoever, of inconveniently reviving to public remembrance achievements like the re-organisation of the whole complex machinery of the Indian Government, or like the creation, ab initio, of the gigantic colony of British Columbia. Comparisons might be unpleasant under the cir cumstances. Mr. VERNON SMITH'S—we beg his pardon, Lord SMITH, or whatever his high mighti ness is now to be called upon his elevation to the peerage—the late member for Northamptonshire's conduct in office, while presiding over the old Board of Control, might look rather poorly if brought into distinct and vivid contrast to the career of the head of the same department under another name, of the noble lord the member for King's Lynn. And so also—in regard to the Colonial-office, under its recent chief, the right hon. baronet the member for Hertfordshire. The least said about that also would probably be the most agreeable—both to the Duke of NEWCASTLE and Mr. LABOUCHERE. Therefore we are to go on tip toe past both the Colonial-office in Downing-street and the great Asiatic central point of government in Leadenhall-street. If possible, those two de partments are to be drowsed back into the old syncope of circumlocution. If they cannot be brought to a full stop—they may, at any rate, by a little judicious Whig tact or Peelite contrivance, be allowed to lapse back into their old state of coma. Hist ! Let us speak under our breath ! A little more caution and the country itself may again fall a prey to the old drowsy influences ; and then—and then—well among other things, in that case A New Charter may yet, even at this eleventh hour, be shuffled over to the Hudson's Bay Com pany by their accomplices the Whigs, and be thus smuggled unperceived through Parliament. ARRIVAL OF IHE PRINCE OF WALES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING. The Osborne Royal yacht, with his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales on board, arrived in Portsmouth Harbour from Lisbon at 9.30 this morning. The military and naval authorities have proceeded on board to receive his Royal Highness's orders. The Prince of Wales and suite landed at Royal Clarence Yard, and leave by special train for Vaux hall at 11. EARTHQUAKE AT ERZEROUIf. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 16% Erzeroum was well-nigh destroyed by an earth quake on the 2d inst. At half-past 10 o clock a.m., apparently without any warning, and while people were engaged in their ordinary pursuits, a shock was felt, which, in the space of 15 seconds, destroyed almost every building of importance in the town; mosques, churches, barracks, prisons, khans, and bazaars are either heaps of ruins or in such a state as to make it dangerous to approach them. After the first great commotion nothing of a serious nature had occurred up to 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the following day when the courier left; but them had been a continuation of those vibrations, which every one who has lived in countries subject to volcanic action must have experienced in a greater or less degree. It is sufficiently disagreeable to feel the tremulous motion of even a distant eruption, when the house seems to undergo a spasm, the windows and. doors rattling in their frames. No wonder, then, that the scene in the neighbourhood of the destroyed city should, up to the latest hour of which we have intelligence, have been one of indescrib able terror and confusion. Every living creature had left the town, all the inhabitants who escaped being encamped on the plain of Cavate. The loss of human life is variously estimated, the most ex travagant statements prevailing ; but I fear there is good reason to believe that 600 or 700 people have perished. The English, French, and Austrian Consulates have been either destroyed or rendered unfit for further occupation. /, •‘",',,,,'''-- ..i.- - 1 4 Y , . Apa r ; ,= , : ,z.;- -'•' • ''.,....,-.-.-4,,,, . ""' --,iNt, Apr ...--- , It` ' pia %-' • - ' . 4 4 1160 - "' 4 --- `'. l w,M,llil', ,l ' ' ....1.0,7p . ...t . •'• THE SUN. SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1859 THE NEW MINISTRY. The following is, we believe, a complete list o: the present Ministry : THE CABINET. First Lord of the Treasury Viscount Palmerston, Chancellor of the Exchequer ... Mr. W. E. Gladstone, SECRETARIES OF STATE : Foreign Affairs Lord John Russell. Home Colonial War Mr. Sidney Herbert, India. First Lord of the Admiralty Duke of Somerset. Lord Chancellor Lord Campbell. Lord President of the Council Earl Granville. Lord Privy Seal Postmaster-General Earl of Elgin, President of the Board of Trade Mr. R. Cobden. President of the Poor Law Board.. Mr. Milner Gibson. Chief Secretary of State for Ireland Mr. Cardwell. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Sir-George Grey. The above form the Cabinet. President of the Board of Works Mr. Fitzroy. Vice-President of the Board of Trade Mr. J. Wilson. Vice-President of the Privy Council j Mr. Lowe. for Education •••• ( Sir Wm. Dunbar. Junior Lords of the Treasury-- . Mr. Hugessen. ( Mr. Bagwell. {Joint -Secretaries Mr. Brand. UNDER SECRETARIES OF STATE : Home Mr. G. Clive. Foreign Lord Wodehouse. Colonial Lord C. Fortescue. War. Earl of Ripon. India Mr. T. Baring. Civil Lord of the Admiralty Mr. Whitbread. Secretary to the Admiralty Ld. Clarenco Paget. Attorney-General Solicitor-General Sir H. S. Keating. Lord-Advocate of Scotland Judge-Advcc,ate-General... Mr. Headlam. Secretary to the Poor Law Board Mr. Gilpin. THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD. Lord Chamberlain...... Viscount Sydney. Lord High Steward Earl St. Germans. Vice-Chamberlain. Lord Castlerosse. Master of the Horse Marquis of Ailesbury Master of the Buck Hounds. Far! of Bessborough. Controller of the Household Lord Bury. Mistress of the Robes .. Deliss. of Sutherland Lords in Waiting—The Earl of Caithness, the Earl of Torrington, Lord Canioys, Lord Rivers, Lord Creniorne, Lord de Tabley, and Lord Methuen. IRELAND. Lord-Lieutenant . Lord Chancellor.. .. Earl of Carlisle. Right Hon. M. Brady Attorney-General Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Solicitor-General Mr. Sergeant Deasy. THE REPRESENTATION OF Ti VEItTON.—The electors of Tiverton have, with excellent taste and feeling, and with proper regard for the heavy public duties which devolve on their representative, decided on dispensing with Lord Palmerston's per sonal attendance at his re-election. The formal ceremony will be duly performed on Monday next. We are authorised to state that there is no truth in the report that the work in the dockyards has been relaxed. In the course of last month certain artificers were put on extra hours with the view of hastening the completion of works in progress, but, additional artificers having since been entered for that purpose, the order to work extra hours has been suspended. The Eight Hon. Henry Fitzroy, the First Com missioner of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings in the present Government, has appointed Mr. AMA Bonham Carter his private secretary. There is every reason to believe that we shall soon have important news from the Adriatic— perhaps the occupation of Venice by the Frenchas a very large force, naval and military, is mustering in that sea. 40,000 men arc embarking in Algeria for the Adriatic. Admiral Remain Desfosse's squa dron was signalled in the evening of the 21st from Syracuse, proceeding to Africa for men.—Times' Kona edition, LATEST NEWS. GREAT VICTORY BY THE FRENCH AND SARDINIAN ARMIES. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JUNE 25. THE EMPEROR TO THE EMPRESS. CARRIANA, Friday Evening. Great battle ! Great victory! The whole Aus trian army formed in line of battle, which ex tended five leagues in length. We have taken all their positions, and captured cannon, flags, and prisoners. The battle lasted from four o'clock in the morn ing till eight o'clock in the evening. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. This morning the cannons at the Hotel des Invalides have announced a victory. The greatest excitement prevails to know the details. The Moniteur has appeared, and announces the victory as follows : " CARRIANO, 8.34 p.m.—A great battle and a great victory. "The line of battle extended five leagues. " The Allies carried the whole of the positions, took a great number of cannon, flags, and pri- soners. " Further details are unknown. " The battle lasted from six o'clock in the morning until eight in the evening." VIENNA, JUNE 25. Private telegrams received here announce that yesterday a vigorous combat on the Mincio began, as it is asserted, at one o'clock in the morning. At Verona heavy cannonading was heard. Authentic news is expected. TRIESTE, TUNE 25. The French Government has sent letters of pro tection to three Austrian vessels in Fiume laden with tobacco on account of the French Govern ment. PARIS, JUNE 24. The Patrie of this evening contains the following It is announced that a corps crarnace of 40,000 men, taken partly from the regiments in Africa, is expected in the Adriatic Sea. Judgment has been given in the matter of the licensed (parquet) against the unlicensed brokers (coulissiers). Each unlicensed broker is condemned to a fine of 10,500 francs. BERNE, JUNE 24. Despatches from Milan confirm the news that 5,000 French have been despatched towards the Valteline at Bormio. 300 Austrians and one com pany of volunteers consisting of students of Meran, in the Tyrol, are marching to occupy the passage of Stelitio. The Archduke Governor of the Tyrol has arrived at Nauders to overlook the enrolment . of 24,000 men in the Tyrol and Voralberg. The Tyrolese raise difficulties about entering military service. PARIS, JUNE 24. The following official telegram has been pub lished to-day : LONATO, June 23d.--This morning the Emperor accompanied by the King traversed the environs of the town, and pushed a reconnaissance as far as Desenzano on the borders of the lake. MARSEILLES, JUNE 24. Advices have been received from Rome to the 21st inst. On Sunday the crowd assembled before the French garrison, and were about to display the tricolor flag, and to proclaim the dictatorship of Victor Emmanuel, but General Goyon prevented it. Strong patrols traversed the town yesterday. The Pope has notified his protest against the dis memberment of his States to the Powers repre sented at the Paris Conferences. At Gaeta yes terday the Pope addressed the Consistory on the separation of Romagna from the States of the Church. His Holiness communicated to the Cardi nals a letter of the Emperor Napoleon, guaranteeing the independence of the Papal States. The delegate of Ancona has withdrawn into the fortress with the troops who have there fortified themselves. The Monitore Toscano publishes a ministerial circular ordering the Prefects to respect free manifestations and the popular wish for annexation with Pied• mont. The circular denies the possibility of a return of the former dynasty, and declares that divisions of territory would enfeeble Italy. Victor Emmanuel is the symbol of union and of liberty. The French Government has received the follow ing telegraphic despatch : " Montechiari, 22d, 10h. 40m. p.m. " The French army to-day completed the Passage of the Chiesa to Montechiari, which was evacuated by the Austrians the day before yesterday. The cavalry has pushed reconnaisances, skilfully con ducted by Captain de Coutenson, of the Ist Regi ment of African Chasseurs. An advanced post of Hulans was surprised. Some of them - were killed, and nine with their horses taken prisoners. The Piedmontese on their side fell in with an enemy's advanced guard near Peschiera. A rather smart engagement took place, in which two Austrian officers and some men were killed. The municipality waited on the Emperor to-day to offer him a pious souvenir of the former victories of the French. A column on which were engraved the names o the French officers who were killed, had been erected on the field of battle of Castiglioni. In 1818, the Austrians threw down this monument, which the town of Montechiari caused to be re moved, and have since carefully preserved. His Majesty accepted the present, and ordered that the column should be replaced on the spot where it had been originally erected." " It is well known," says a letter from Vienna of the 19th, in the Constitutionnel, " that at the moment when hostilities commenced, the Austrian Government ordered the directors of the public treasuries in Lombardy and Venetia to immediately send to Vienna all the specie and paper securities which might be in their possession. Everything was therefore in a place of security before any invasion was feared. The tax-collectors were at the same time ordered by every rigorous measure to get in the taxes due. These measures, which were supported by a numerous army, caused the greater part of the money in circu lation to disappear, and it is in consequence of that circumstance that an imperial rescript dated the 17th authorised the Directors of the Finances in Lombardo-Venetia to issue paper money for 50 millions of florins or 125 millions of francs. This new paper money will have forced currency in all the parts still oecupied by the Austrians, under pain of the most severe punishment, and the in habitants will be compelled to receive it for the supplies furnished to the army. It is thought that these 50 millions are intended to make up for the deficiency in the late loan of 75 millions, the reali sation of which with the exception of about 12 millions was prevented by the entrance of the Franco-Sardinian troops." A letter from Berlin of the 21st says :—" A ru mour has been generally current to-day that a sudden check has taken place in the prepara tions for mobilisation and that the execution of that important measure has been suspended. The rumour is founded on two real facts. First, the arrangements made on the different railways for the conveyance of a number of troops have been countermanded; and, secondly, a part of the men summoned to Berlin for the landwehr have not received their uniforms as they were to have done, but have been paid and sent home with orders to hold themselves in readiness for a future day. It was stated, it is true, that the uniforms were not yet ready, but that is not correct, as the military storehouses contain everything necessary. The change in the arrangements on the railways is a more important fact than the interruption in the clothing, which can only be momentary. A great part of the Prussian troops must pass over the Bavarian territory, and the Prussian officers who had been sent to make the necessary arrangements speak in the most glowing terms ',rof the enthu siasm with which they were everywhere received. The Bavarian Government has, however, suddenly changed its ideas, and now declares that it will not allow the passage of the Prussian troops until Prussia has clearly and categorically explained the object of the military measures which she has adopted. It is not yet known what answer will be given to that demand." A letter from Naples, in the Presse, says : " For the amnesty, three decrees have been pub lished. The third relates to ordinary offences only ; it diminishes by three years the punishment of persons condemned to the galleys, imprisonment, or transportation, and remits all fines and sen tences for minor offences, with certain exceptions. The two other decrees relate to political offences. The second mitigates the measures against those who were placed on the list of suspected persons in 1848 and 1849. These unfortunate men, who were under the strictest surveillance of the police, were imprisoned on the least disturbance, confined to their province, and deprived of civil rights ; they are now relieved from the strict surveillance. The first decree, relating to political prisoners, deserves to be literally translated ; it is as follows : —‘ The rest of their sentences is entirely remitted to all condemned to irons, solitary confinement, banishment, and imprisonment, for political offences committed in the years 1848 and 1849, not included in the decrees of the 27th of December, 1858, and 18th of March, 1859, according to the lists existing at the Ministry of Grace and Justice.' All persons condemned for offences committed since 1849 are, therefore, excluded from the benefit of this decree, several hundreds of whom are now at the galleys, in prison, transported, or in exile. In short, these decrees, which have been regarded as a favourable omen for the reign of the young King, were already prepared by the late King as a complement to his pretended amnesty, and cannot be considered as amounting to much." FRANCE. PARIS BOURSE, June 24.—A brisk rally took place at the opening of the market on a report that Venice and Peschiera had been taken by the Sardo-French armies ; but as the report was not afterwards confirmed, the prices again receded. Threes, wnich at the opening rose to 62f. 25c., are now at 62f. Mobilier varied from 632 f. 50c. to 625 f. ; Austrian, 415 f. to 410 f.; Orleans, 1,215 f. to 1,210 f.; Lyons, 820 f. to 817 f. 50c. ; Northern, 922 f. 50c. to 917 f. 50c. A judgment of the Tri bunal Correctionnel, which condemns the coulissiers to 10,500 f. for infringing on the functions of the agens de change, produced a great sensation on the Bourse. The following were the last quota tions : 41 per Cents. .... 91 95 Credit Fon,cier 635 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 6l 90 Piedmontese (5) .. 80 Do. end month 6l 75 Roman , Bl Bank Shares 2750 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 625 —. Spanish Times Do. Account - ItiILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 920 917 50 New ditto 7BO 780 Lyons and Mediterranean BlB 75 .. 817 50 Geneva 495 Southern Western 5lO .. 510 Eastern Sardiniaß 370 370 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money, 2,5 f 'Tic.; three months, paper, 25f..; money, 24f. 97fc. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S ARMY. (From a Special Correspondent of the Times) HEAD -QUARTERS, PIETRA •SANTA, BORDERS OF TUSCANY, June 18. I have had the honour of getting over the first day's march in the suite of Prince Napoleon Jerome, from Lucca to this place. His Imperial Highness left Florence on Thursday . by a railway train, which conveyed him to Lucca in about three days. He rested at Lucca on the evening of that day and all yesterday, and this morning, soon after 5, he was in the saddle at the head of his staff. The whole of the Coffiniere Division, with a fine regiment of Hussars and a very formidable park of artillery, preceded and followed the Im perial Commander-in-Chief. None of the Tuscans were with him, with the exception of a small body of cavalry. To-day's march took us over 18 Italian miles of ground. Our to-morrow's destina tion is Massa, about seven miles to the north of this place. Prince Napoleon treads over the debris of departed Royal greatness. Last evening he slept at the Palace which was owce the residence of the Bourbons of Lucca. To-morrow he will rest at the other Ducal Palace once tenanted by a branch of the house of Este. _ . We know that to-morrow's journey, a short one, Will take us .to Massa. Further than that we either do not know or are not allowed to say that we know. I wish it therefore to be distinctly under stood that anything I may say about our past or future movements is matter entirely of private conjecture of my own. His Imperial Highness's Staff do not admit me to the secret deliberations of their council. I am therefore all the more free to speculate over the allies' further movements... There is the 80th Regiment of the .Line, drag ging itself, wofully footsore and exhausted, in our rear. These men landed at Leghorn about the same time as the Prince, but, instead of following him to Florence, they were marched upon Pistoia, and sent to the Tuscan confines at . the Abetone Pass, on the road to Modena. There they spent a few uncomfortable weeks in the company of the Tuscan vanguard, daily awaiting their orders to go down into the plain and give battle to the Modenese and Austrian troops. They— that is, the 80th Regiment—have been suddenly summoned down from their mountain fastnesses, hurried over their own footsteps as far as Pistol* and Lucca, and, however anxious for one day of rest, they were spirite I away from their comfortable bivouac on Lucca 's shady bastions, and bidden to follow their leader hitherward with so little consi deration for their physical powers, that an officer assured me one-half of the regiment would have to lag.bekind as stragglers ; and. I myself saw hun dreds of them lying by the roadside in a very de pressed condition indeed. On the whole, and in a strategical point of view, the march of Prince Napoleon from Leghorn to Florence, and from Florence back again to Lucca, greatly resembles the epic expedition of that French monarch renowned in nursery minstrelsy, who attained a certain mountain summit, and then effected his descent down it again. May be it would be•sheer injustice to apply the principles of military science to the movement of the sth Corps. Prince Napoleon had a political mission to fulfil in Tuscany. I need not say what it was, nor give any opinion as to the way in which he acquitted himself of it. Enough thatas a military commander, his career may be said to begin to-day—that is, very nearly one month As after his first setting his foot on Tuscan ground. the leader of a detached corps which was to co-operate with the great Franco-Sardinian army, his duty w as to attack, or at least to watch, the Austrians on the southern bank of the Po, arranging his movements precisely as the Allies succeeded in driving the enemy before them on the northern bank. Had the sth Corps landed at Spersia, and thence made its best way across t he Cisa Pass, it might either have stationed itself at the debouche of the great Appenine valleys at Fornovo, or advanced into the plain at Parma, and then either marched upon Pia cenza, if that fortress were bent on showing fight, or else crossed the Po at any point where its ser vices could not fail to be of consequence in the attack of the great square of fortresses. Had, for instance, Prince Napoleon been at Sacca, opposite to Casal Maggiore, on the P . O, on the day of the great battle of Magenta, there .s no doupt but •by a b o ld push across the river he could have cut off the Austrians in their disorderly retreat to the Adda. But, as the Prince " snugly"—as some English critic ill naturedly rernm . l:cil—kept his headquarters at Florence till long utter the bloody day at Magenta, it was natural to expect that his plan of operations would be altered by the astounding results of that victory, and that he would make his best way now either across the Filigare Pass, the shortest road from Florence to Bologna, or by the Porretta Pass from Pistoia, where the main body of his troops lay encamped, to the same city, whence he could either attack Ferrara, or, even disregarding that second-rate citadel, he might crass over the Po into the Venetian territory. The objections hitherto raised against any occupa tion of Bologna as part of the neutral Papal States on the part of the Imperial French forces have fallen to the ground, since by the retreat of the Austrians the whole of the Legations have shaken off the Papal Government and proclaimed the Dic tatorship of the King of Sardinia. Still, even then, even supposing that the Papal territory, with so much impunity violated by the Austrian garrisons, should be held inviolable by the French armies, which already garrison Rome, the next road which might and should have taken the Prince from Florence to the Lombard plain was that of the Abe tone Pass, from Pistoia to Modena, where, as I have said, French and Tuscan troops already occupied the mountain defiles, and had, indeed, already sent their vanguard to the capital itself of the Duchy, the city of Modena. Instead of this, again, what does the Prince do ? He withdraws by forced Marches the troops he had already sent to the Abetone, and brings his main force all round by Pescia, Lucca, and Massa, very near that very port of Spezzia, " where the merest tryo in military matters would have advised him to land; and now the common rumour—mind, I do not say I heard it at head-quarters, but the common rumour says that we are all travelling—whither, in the name of Alexander, Catsar, Frederick 11., and the First Napoleon ?—why, to Piacenza !—to evacuated and dismantled Piacenza! • To Piacenza from here, or from Massa, there aro two principal roads—one across the Duchy of Modena, over the Cerretto Pass, and another across the Duchy of Parma, across the Cisa Pass—both of them compelling us to at least eight or ten days' march to find ourselves about 60 and more miles in the rear of the Franco-Sardinian allies, supposing the latter to have achieved no further progress between this day and the date of our arrival. IN the meanwhile General Ulloa, who is at the orders of the Prince, and who was to leave Florence on Friday last (yesterday), has withdrawn his Tuscans from the Filigare road to Bologna, and is forward ing them over the Abetone Pass to Modena. He will most probably join the Prince at Modena or Reggio, and it is, indeed, to be hoped that the officers who name Piacenza as their ultimate desti nation are mistaken, and that the rendezvous is to be Brescello or Guasta]la, on the confines between the two Duchies of Parma and Modena, whence, by merely crossing the Po, the sth Corps will be in time to bear a hand in the investment of Mantua. I need, however, hardly observe that Prince Napoleon is not the author of his own move ments, but is at the beck of the French Emperor, who has given proofs of knowing perfectly well what he is about, and if he thinks lie can play out his great game of Chess without the Queen or a Rook, and is still sufficiently strong with four corps to checkmate his adversary without the means of the sth, he must have good reasons for sending the latter-named corps on an indescribable errand all about Central Italy. Prince Napoleon's double march across Tuscany and his long sojourn in Florence have been, strategically speaking, mere loss of time. What good his so doing may have done politically we cannot as yet satisfactorily make out. The parties which were at variance at Florence before his arrival are almost on the eve of a hostile outbreak at his departure, and, whoever else may have a party ready to declare for him in Tuscany, he has certainly none disposed to act on his behalf, for he has all the time been most fairly, openly, and consistently proclaiming that he has no de signs on the throne of Tuscany, and the people, after long hesitation, have been compelled to be , lieve him and take him at his own word. The Prince, be it said, for the sake of truth, leaves Tuscany an honoured and respected - guest. His exhortations to the people to consider themselve as Italians, to aspire to the union of Italy, and above all things to lay aside all thoughts of political arrangements for the present, and to turn all their energies to that war on which the destinies of their common country depend, could not be more loudly nor more constantly spoken. No thing, also, can equal the good taste and breed ing, the good humour and forbearance, of the French troops towards the people in that part of Italy they are to-day leaving. Some old grognard, it is true, may be caught muttering in his teeth words which he hopes may not be heard or understood against the rapacity, and' indeed downright roguery, of innkeepers, shop and booth keepers, retail dealers, and other highwaymen of modern civilisation, incorrigible here as elsewhere, and incapable of distinguishing between friends and foes—nay, always ready to fleece an ally rather than an enemy, as fear is with them a far stronger motive of restraint than gratitude. The people of the lower classes here call the French Tedeschi, in contradistinction to the Tuscans, whom they style Inostri, or " our people." For them every man who speaks a foreign language is a Tedesco, an ab stract word barbarian. Years will pass before the ignorant mass may be able to distinguish between the soldiers of their oppressors and the troops of their generous liberators. THE BOMBAY MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamship Behar, Capt. G. W. Hicks, bringing the heavy portion of these mailg, arrived at Southamp ton yesterday at 6 p.m. She left Alexandria on the 10th inst., Malta the 13th, and Gibraltar the 18th. As far as Gibraltar she had moderate winds and fine weather; thence to Cape Finisterre strong gales, with heavy head seas; fine weather in the Channel. This packet brought 83 passengers, among whom were Majcr-General Blood, Brigadier Stisted, Majors Hay and Mein, Captains Heatley, Womb well, Paget, Etheridge, Roberts, Creagh, Levine, Taylor, Archer, Austin, and Forrest ; Colonels Tur-. ner and Timmins: Drs. Naylor, Johnson, Gibson, Currie, and Williams—all from Bombay; Captain. tgb Hon. Pennington, from Malta; Capt. Camp bell, from Gibraltar, &c. On freight she has three packages of specie, value not stated, four ditto of valuables, 110 bales of silk, and general cargo. On the 18th inst. the Behar spoke H.M.S. Doris; 20th, H.M.S. Exmouth ; 22d, signalled a sloop of war, but received no reply ; 24th, spoke American ship Sonora, in lat. 46.27 N., lon. 6.56 W., and the English ship Benjamin Flaxte, in lat. 48.17 N., long. 5.40 W. The usual Egyptian fleet was at Alexandria. At Malta were her Majesty's ships Hannibal, Caradoc, Boxer, Lapwing, and Hibernia. The Orion and St. Jean d'Acre were cruising outside. Her Majesty's ship Vulture was at Gibraltar. The Peninsular and Oriental steamship • Indus, with the outward Australian and Bombay mails of the 12th, arrived at Gibraltar on the 17th, in five days from Southampton. Capt. Tomicich, of the Austrian bark Mercede, arrived at Gibraltar, reported that he was chased, about a fortnight previous, by a Riffian boat off Cape Tres Forcas, for a considerable time, but, thanks to a smart breeze which sprang np, he was enabled to clear the coast, or the pirates would have succeeded in their design of boarding his vessel. Her Majesty's steamer Banshee, Capt. Campbell, from Plymouth, arrived at Gibraltar on the 14th ; hg re rah i tasnhPdAe Asuadbaglife and the steamsloop Intrepid, also from Plymouth, on the 16th. A eorrespondent at Gibraltar writes as follows on the 18th : " The anxiously expected east wind set in be tween ten and eleven o'clock last night. The ves , sels in our bay, including many which have been westward.hind the Rock, The here since the 16th ult., as well as those in the road dirfoornithbee st weighede d yee o et Aurora a feh likewise htaoes rlbeaeare vrnie vdfaoelrt took aftri the eme detained rasincetladvant ageli ae anchor ti Sardinian hhee 10A5futthehi. Aurora, fa s t or Capt.e May,favourables Villa franca, waiting for a fair wind. 0 •ng to the lightness of the wi n d this morning, the entrance of the Straits was observed to be very crowded with vessels under sa il . What with those that have already taken their departure and others that con tinue to wend their way from the eastward, the number now proceeding Atlantic greatly exceeds 500 sail. The Thor, Capt. Wulff, D • Danish 'sh war steamer, which arrived yester day,_ is from Cadi z an d T ang i er, and remains. The Russian steamer Odessa, f r om Marseilles and Va lencia, with oranges for London, arrived yesterday afternoon ; and the Bceotia steamer, from Liverpool for Palermo, and the Alice steamer, from London for Genoa, put in this morning. All. these steamers will leave for these destination in the course of the day. Her Majesty's steamer Intrepid, 6 gun vessel, left for the eastward at half-past 1 p.m. yesterday; the Indus steam packet shortly after for Malta, &c. A French screw liner passed to the eastward about 4. Wind continues east. " Exchange.—London, 507 1 ; Paris, sf. 20c. ; Marseilles, sf. 26e. ; Genoa, 5 29." We have great pleasure in stating that the Board of Admiralty have paid a very gratifying tribute to the services of Mr. Corry, as their seerptary, by promoting hi s nephew, Lieut. the Hon. Arma r Lowry Corry, now serving in her Nitioty'o f 3 l iP NeroM to the roao ocinuandur, Ml. GLADSTONE AND THE DEFENCE, OF THE COUNTRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Statements having been made attributing to Mr. Gladstone a desire to reduce the defences of the country, the chairman of Mr. Gladstone's com mittee would feel glad if the Editor of The Sum would insert the following letter which has been addressed to him. 11, Carlton-house-terrace, June 24. My dear Sir F. Rogers,—Statements have ap peared. in the public press with respect to the defences of the country which render it necessary for me to trouble you with a few lines. It is alleged that, when Chancellor of the Ex chequer, I starved the Crimean war (that is, I pre sume, limited the expenditure upon it), and that when the war was over, I caused the Government to reduce the estimates and forces, and even to break faith with seamen. In neither of these statements with respect to the past is there one word of truth. It is also said that there are menaces of present reduction. On this I have to say that I know no thing whatever of any proceedings calculated to diminish the efficiency of our defences. And lam confidently of opinion that, when the estimates for the year are finally submitted, and when the de mands necessary to meet them are made upon the House of Commons, those who are most anxious re specting defences will find in them complete satis faction. I am able to add, that no orders for reduction of any kind have been given or suggested by the new Board of Admiralty, which has not yet been con stituted, and that, if any such order is in operation, it must have been issued by the late Govern lent in the course of public business. I remain very sincerely yours, (Signed) W. E. GLADSTONE. A rumour having been circulated that the pre sent Government are likely to neglect the national defences, the Junior Proctor wrote to Mr. Glad stone on the subject, and received the following re ply : 11, Carlton-terrace, June 23, 1859. My dear Sir,—l have received your letter of yesterday, in which you acquaint me that much uncertainty exists with regard to the views of the Government on the defences of the country, and inquire whether it is my intention to endeavour to maintain our navy it a strength sufficient to cop e with any combination of European Powers, and to encourage the formation of rifle corps throughout the country. You are without doubt aware that my duty is to deliberate upon those subjects in co cert with my colleagues, having special regard to the judgments of the Ministers of the respective departments, and that my peculiar duty is t o sug gest the means of meeting the charges which the decision of the Cabinet may entail. I was not aware that any uncertainty existed with regard to tbe in tentions, on the question of defences, of a Govern ment having Lord Palmerston at its head, no r do I believe that it exists beyond the sphere in w hich it has been suggested from particular quartdra as a means of influencing a contested election. At the same time, I thank you very much for bringing before me the doubt which those sugges tions might naturally produce; and while I ca n neither give pledges nor enter into details, I ven ture with confidence, to express my opinion that 'if I am permitted as Chancellor of the Exchequer ,;:to submit to the House of Commonsithe demands of the public service for the current year, those de mands will probably be found such as to afford' to all persons anxious about the sufficiency of the defences of the country an ample satisfaction. Believing that you will find in this comprehemiive answer full means for the removal of any doubts you may . have entertained, I remain, my dear sir, very truly yours, W. E. GLADSTONX. To the Rev. the Junior Proctor, Christ Church. (From the Times.) Mr. Gladstone must think that his. countrymen have lost their memory, or that the last copy of Hansard has been consumed in some recent fire. We commented yesterday on the retrenchments in the Royal Navy, which, it was reported, the present Government were about to carry out, and in relation to this scheme, of which the Chan cellor of the Exchequer had the chief credit, we re ferred to Mr. Gladstone's proceedings during his tenure of office in 1854, and his subsequent opposi tion to Lord Palmerston's Government. In a letter, which will be found elsewhere, Mr. Gladstone denies that he limited the expenditure upon the Crimean war, or that when it was over he caused the Government to reduce the estimates or forces. With respect to Mr. Gladstone's conduct in &it Crimean war, it is, unhappily, fresh enough in the memory of all Englishmen. He began by insisting that the expenses of . the war should be met out Of the ordinary revenue, and to this hopeful proposal we believe that the ttrrible disasters of 1854-5 were originally owing. After the war was concluded, Mr. Gladstone's exertions to break up the fleet which had just been reviewed at Spithead were only, too successful, and we declare, what every naval man knows, that faith was broken with the seamen who had been invited, nay, almost implored, to en list in 1854, and who were turned adrift two years' later, to fill the American ports with complaints Of the ingratitude of the mothe r country. We are glad to learn that as yet no reductions have b beei eezt made, the new Board of Admiralty not having c onstituted, and we trust th at the p ublic indigna tion which the mere apprehension of any design to diminish the armaments necessary for our national defence has excited will prevent the possibility of any such design being entertained even by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Gibson. THE HANDEL COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL. The Handel Commemoration Festival, the greatest tnneli meeting ever known in this country, terminated yesterday , morning with a' very fine performance of "Israel in Egypt." On this occasion, for the first time, the Palace was crowded in every part, and the increase of attendance was chiefly remarkable in the expensive parts ofthe area, all of which were quite full. Much of this extraordinary peen pnirae:yencsuecocfehssermmaya je d s e ty ub an tle d ss th b e e K a in sc g ri ascribed the th Belgians, th e expected and considerable disappointment was very naturally created by the absence of those illustrious personages. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Alice and Helena, and the Pikes . of Leiningen, with a nu merous party, honoured the enter tainment from its very commencement with their . presetioe. The Prince Consort and the Princesses were moat mama siastically cheered on entering and quitting' the royal. box, w hi c h had been prepa r ed for them with every attribute of luxury and splendour in the middle of the central gallerYt immediately opposite the immense orchestra, and they ap peared to take a deep interest in the performance, which most assuredly was well worth their attention, for so grand massive vocal met vocal w p i o th we i r n an an d y m co us un ic t al ry. precision was , paedrihsapplasyof ln never before At the termination of the oratorio " Gbd save the Qua" was sung by , all the principal vocalists and chorus. Amongst the most distinguished visitors was Herr Meyer beer, who has just arrived in town to superintend the pro duction of the new opera, "Le Pardon de Ploermel," at the Royal Italian Opera. The total number of visitors yesterday was 26,827, all ' excess of nearly 10,000 over either of tho preceding days. To Mr. Bowley, the general manager of the Crystal • Palace Company, belongs the immense credit of having originated the festival, which nothing but the zealous co operation of M. Costa, the popular musical director of the . Sacred Harmonic Society and of the Royal Italian Opera, and the unlimited confidence of his board of directors at, the palace, could have enabled him to carry out. The griv! tifying fact remains that his exertions have been acknowledged by the unqualified approbation of eve's"' visitor attending the festival, and the treasury of the com pany will be enriched by a sum considerably. exceeding £lO,OOO. The secretarial arrangements of Mr. Grove were perfect. During the festival the consumption of creature com forts was something as follows :-1,600 dozen sandwiches, 1,200 dozen pork pies, 400 dozen Sydenham pasties, 800 veal and ham pies, 650 pigeon pies, 480 hams, 3,509 chickens, 120 balontine of lamb, • 240 fore quarters of lamb, 2 y s, o o n o n ci aise, ditto 300 at score two pence, 150 galatines of chicken, 60 ra ised game pies, 3,052 lobster salads, 3,825 dishes of sa l of lettuce, 40,000 buns at a pe nn y 32,249 ices, 2, 419 dozen " beverages," 1,152 ditto ale and Stout, 403 Crys tal :11 Inc a Palace puddings, 400 jellies, nine tons of roast and boiled beef, 400 creams, 350 fruit tarts, 3,506 quarts of tea, coffee, and chocolate, and 485 tongues. • The consumption of wines, which was enormous, had not been ascertained when our account was made up. DEATH OF BARON KNESEBECIC—We regret to announce the death of Baron Knesebeck, Equerry to his . . Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, which took place , yesterday morning at St. James's Palace, after a few daye'• illness. Baron Knesebeck was for many years comptroller of the household of his Royal Highness the late Duke of , • Cambridge, and since the duke's demise has continued his ' valuable services to his Royal Highness's family, who most deeply deplore the loss of a faithful and devoted servant and friend. RUMOURED VOTE OF WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN MINISTERS.—It is currently reported in the highest poli tical circles that Mr. Roebuck, whose hostility to Lord Pal merston is well known, will, on th e resumption of business, move a resolution in the •house—“ That the foreign policy of the late Governtudnt,• as 'disclosed by the publicatiorof Lord Malmesbury's despatches,, was beneficial to the coun try." And should. thiß , tuottnn, is !Antamount to a. e v zu ot b e arro of ItiangttooftL3oncifiodyeenranice, ebzagg, it will be most