The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-26 00:00:00

HOUSEHOLD WORDS.—Messrs. BRADBURY and EVANs be to state that their connection with SOUSEHOLD, WORDS will cease from and after the 28th ot., and that On Saturday, the 2d July they will commence a new Weekly Illustrated Periodical, to be called "ONCE A WEEK." All communications for the Editor to be addressed to No. Bonverie-street, London, E.C. 0 YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. it) Under the Management 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. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The char acte rs by Messrs. Comton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far- Pm, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c. After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled XLECTRA. IN -A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT. Messr s c em pton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wrigt , Baba Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Bole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with THE TALKING FISH. Messrs. J. L. Toole, O. J. Smith, Garden, Moreland ; Miss K. Kelly and Miss L a idlaw. Followed by THE HOUSE? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C, Selby, Billing,ton ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms. Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STIC KS. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Late Kelly. Acting manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-put six—Commence at seven. Box Moe 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 .M' Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? supported by the company. Alter which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Unparalleled and Continued Success of INANIIOE. Overflowing Houses Nightly. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled IVANHOE ; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievemer ts in extraordinary maznificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, Jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst ; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. 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. To conclude with the Farce of KILL OR CURE. The preparations for Whitsuntide are on an extensive scale already. stage Manager. Mr. R Phillips Dress Circle, 4e. ;-BoxeGallery3s. t, 28, ; Gallery, le.; Upper 6d. Private Boxes, £4 48, £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, SLY, 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, MAY 26. THERMOMETER, 'IN THE SHADE. 68—highest since noon yesterday. 65—lowest this morning and during the night. 68—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29'98. WIND, Easterly; light, with very fine weather. THE SUN. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1859. It is more than hinted that Loris NAPOLEON is by no means satisfied with the " great" victory achieved by his troops at Montebello. Like OLIVER TWIST he wanted more, and cannot be contented at the enemy being allowed to march off with all the honours of war, drums beating, and colours flying, in perfect order and discipline. Had the battle been of the decisive character represented in the French and Sardinian journals, this would not have been the case. The first NAPOLEON would have managed these matters better, and his successor does not desire that invidious comparisons should be instituted at his expense. The affair was manifestly not another Marengo. The old general who won his way through the camp to an Imperial diadem, headed his men in person. He participated in all their dangers, and always followed up his victories with almost miraculous promptitude, heaping triumph on triumph until the national enthusiasm was excited to the highest pitch, and nothing was heard but the glory of France. It was scarcely prudent of Louis NAPO LEON to enter on such a rivalry, or to hope that he could possibly emulate the deeds of such a man. He ought to have considered that every act of shortcoming will be regarded as a decided failure, which must prove highly injurious to his own interests, and hesitated before incurring the chance of forfeiting the prestige belonging to his name rather than to himself personally. He has, however, wilfully and deli berately plunged into difficulties from which he may find it impossible to extricate himself. It should be remembered, also, that the Austrians have turned their former defeats to practical advantage. They have profitted by the painful lessons they received have erected powerful fortresses in contempt of all treaty obliga. tions and the rights of other States, w hi c h will render the carrying of the war to any distance into Italy a task of a very arduous character. The men, too, are better trained and disciplined, the officers more experienced than formerly. It would be hard to discover more skilful engineers than those employed in the armies of FRANCIS JOSEPH, and with such strongholds as Pavia and Piacenza to fall back upon there is sharp work cut out for the Franco-Sardinian army before they match the exploits of those arrayed under NAPOLEON the First. It is said that revolutionary movements have already taken place in Lombardy, and doubtless such a course was anticipated by the Allies. We must, however, avoid yielding too ready a credence to such statements. We have already witnessed many fabrications which have turned out to be un mitigated canards, without a particle of foundation. We shall, therefore, await a more authoritative account llefore we can place implicit reliance on any assertion proceeding from either of the hostile camps. Even " our own corresponden ts" are included in the prevailing prejudices, and regard every matter that occurs through either French or Austrian spectacles. According to one the Austrians are the mildest, best of men, and are actually respected and esteemed by those on whom they have been levying contributions. We are told that " the people of Mortara are loud in their praise ;" while, on the other hand, they are held out as sanguinary assassins, who butcher whole families of inoffensive peasants, and leave no pretext for plunder to pass disregarded. It is hard to say which side is to be credited. The truth probably lies between the two; and we cannot believe the Germans to be either such angels or demons as they have been represented. The same may be said of their opponents. The French have not earned high distinction for moderation either as friends or enemies. In the olden time it was the principle that every war should pay its own expenses, and we are yet to see whether NAPOLEON 111, will abandon the " Good old rule, the simple plan-- That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." General GYUALI has removed his head-quarters to Garlasco, and has ordered that the arms in the possession of the people should be in every instance given up, under the penalty of death to those retain ing them. This is, of course, one of the striking manifestationq of confidence in the good will of the inhabitants. If they welcomed the Austrians as liberators (!) it can scarcely be supposed that such stringent measures would be adopted towards a friendly population. Indeed it seems to be almost decisive on the other side of the question, and to prove, what might easily be imagined, that Austria had no Italian sympathies in the course which she had adopted. She may keep the people enthralled, but she cannot hope to retain the good wishes of any, save Government e mployes or the veriest cowards that can be im agined. It cannot be denied that the French were, to a certain extent, taken by surprise at Montebello, and but for the extraordinary exertions of General DE SoNNAz, who struggled even against hope, the result might have been very different. That Gene ral FOREY displayed great gallantry, bravery, and when in the field, skill and efficiency, is indisput able ; but even when the firing had commenced, he thought it was but a mere reconnoitring force, and brought up but a small party in the first instance, although it was redeemed by subsequent good con duct. The mistake, however, probably occasioned the deaths of General BEURET and Colonel MORELLI, and of many others of inferior rank and position. The great majority of the Austrians have now withdrawn across the Po, and we shall see what effect can be produced when the war is carried into Lombardy, and Pavia and Piacenza are to be cap tured before anything great can be accomplished. The first battle has been fought, the first victory has been gained, and now the great work to be ' accomplished lies fairly before the Army for the Liberation of Italy. It must surely be a work of time, of labour, and of blood. Unless the Austrians prove cowards where even cowards might from circumstances be expected to be brave, unless all accounts of the strength of their position prove false, or unless some unexpected plan of operation be devised, or some unlooked-for event occur to drive the hated oppressors from the land they burden, it must be a work of years rather than months. Suppose all Italy to rise, Italy is un armed; and what are multitudes against soldiers ? To suppose the soldiers of Naples to be marched against the Jesuit-ridden Austrians by the Jesuit ' trained son of the Jesuit-loving King just dead, is, with a witness, to make SATAN cast out SATAN. Neapolitan troops, indeed, are the hirelings of Austrian despotism, and care nothing for Italian independence. The States of the Church and the Duchies on the south of the Po can do nothing of military importance, except furnish roads to take the Austrians in flank, and if NAPOLEON have a sufficient force for that of course he will not wait on their leave. But this flank attack is not now so easy. In 1796 the first NAPOLEON found a ready way for his rapidly marching battalions. Piacenza was then an easy road to the rear and flank of BEAU LIEU'S army ; he promptly used it, surprised the brave old general, and forced him to move back and to cross the Adda very quickly. Now, in defiance of treaties, by which Austria was most unfairly allowed to keep a garrison in the citadel of Piacenza, she has converted that place into a strong fortress—one which could delay the allies probably for some time ; nor could it well be masked without danger to their communications via Genoa. Then, if Prince NAPOLEON receive sufficient reinforcements to enable him to move north from Leghorn, and to attempt the passage of the Po more to the west, this could not be a surprise ; his army must march fully a hundred miles through the Duchies; and Cremona and all the regular passages of the Po east of Piacenza are said to be strongly fortified, at least as far as Mantua, be yond which natural obstacles, and distance from the present bases of operation, render precautions needless. Again, as to the Adriatic, nothing could be done by landing an army south of Venice, ex cept to leave it to perish in the marshes ; and Venice itself, which the Austrians have almost ruined in favour of Trieste, will be not an easy place to cap ture and use as a place of debarkation. Suppose, then, the south, -the left wing of the Austrian defence, to be effectually protected by the Po ; suppose its mighty stream impracticable, especially during this season of melting snows, by pontooning and by masking the fortified places—let us then look at what the Allies have to do. It is to be remembered that if they advance far, their left and rear will be open to the attacks of an Austrian army descending through the passes of the Alps, the annoyance of which even the first BONAPARTE experienced, and on one occasion, but for what seemed like the lucky mismanagement of the Austrian Generals, he would have been irrecoverably ruined by having left WURMSER in Mantua, and by help coming to the brave old General through the, Alps. And then what a hundred miles of rivers and Tortresses have the Allies to force before they find the great plain of Lombardy theirs, as far as Verona and Legnago. Let the reader but glance at Mr. WYLD'S map ; on the north, the left wing of the Allies, he will remember that the Austrians, who had been plundering Piedmont there, have retreated, and that Prince of Irregulars, GARIBALDI, is on their side the Ticino ; in the centre, at Vercelli, the Allies appear to have driven back the hungry and ragged plunderers, who seemed chiefly intent on cloth, forage, and loaves of bread ; these they took, with a flogging to boot ; and the Ticino now lies between them and the Allies. On the south, the right wing of the Allies, the marauders have just received their first great defeat at Montebello, on the south side of the Po, in Sardinia ; after which they appear to have crossed that river, and as the Austrian EMPEROR'S head-quarters are said to be at Garlasco, near the Ticino, we suppose that the whole Austrian army will soon be behind the Ticino, with that river and Pavia and Milan as their reliance. Not far from this line, however, we see the line of the Adda, with its fortresses of Pizzegghettone, its famous bridge of Lodi, and other fortifications. This line forced, and other rivers crossed, the Allies will soon be in face of the supposed impregnable rectangle of fortresses on the line of the Mincio, and with all the Austrian' Tyrolese passes of the Alps open behind them. The line of the Mincio may be about twenty-five miles long, not more, from Peschiera to Mantua. The former town, on its little Island in Lake Garda, is very strong ; and Mantua,' in the midst of its own dangerous lake, is to be taken, we are told, only by famine; again, at the back of these two fortresses, j. on the Adige, we find Verona capable of holding an army in its fortifications, and on the south Leg nago—all these four places being capable of sup porting each other. Such is the severe part of the task [before the Allies. Accomplish it they must. Loris NAPOLEON cannot afford a failure. The cause cannot afford it. May military success be on the side of right, and then may the conquerors themselves do justice to Italy ! At the very time when the organ of the Opposi tion is throwing ridicule upon Messrs. RUSSELL and Co. for assuming to themselves the right of claiming a monopoly in the supply of the genuine article of Reform, that same organ, almost in the same breath, is inconsistently expressing a vague, almost despairing, hope that even now " a simple and moderate measure" may be carried through Parliament by Messrs, BRIGHT, and RUSSELL, and PALMERSTON. The meaning of all this is surely obvious. The Times is fairly bewildered as to how events may go in the new Parliament. It cannot for the life of it conjecture which side will be uppermost. Parties are by this time so exquisitely balanced—six of one to half-a-dozen of the other—that it leaves the judgment as to the future, if not by sympathy, in perfect equipoise, at any rate alternating now in favour of this, now in favour of that, in a series of bewildering and tantalising oscillations. Prudence would appear to dictate at one moment a peculiar regard to that arch-recommendation to the worldly wise—" to treat your enemies as though they were sometime to be your friends"—an axiom which seems to condense within it all the better part of the philosophy of RoCIIEFOtiCAULT. Another, with a yet more prudential instinct, would appear to inculcate the practice of that contrasting ver bum sapientie—" to treat your friends as though they were one day to be your enemies"—a sugges tion containing within it the very quintessence of the wily policy of MACHIAVEL. And so the Times has during these last few days alternated between conciliation and scurrility as applied in equal moi ties now to the Government, now to the Opposi tion. The Parliamentary trimmers, in fact, don't know what to be at. And if, as SYDNEY SMITH once humorously said of the late Lord MELBOURNE, "he appeared to play at chuck farthing with the constitution"—the corresponding farthing has but just now been " chucked" by the Times—it is still spinning in mid air, showing (to those who watch keenly enough) now this side, now that in its rapid revolutions ! The ultimate decision of the toss-up we shall know now speedily—whether heads or tails will win—whether the Times will declare eventually for her MAJESTY'S Opposition or for her MAJESTY'S Government. It is certainly a bewildering moment enough for a particularly loose and moveable weathercock. Now—when in this lull of the political storm the wind seems to be blowing intermittently from all points of the compass in turn—N.E.W.S.—blow- ing together, however, by this very means, a more than ordinary supply of that acceptable commodity, the problematic origin of the name of which was once upon a time thus wittily defined by some anonymous epigrammatist—North, East, West, South—and the solution's made. Each' quarter brings accounts of War and Trade. And so—even as the wind blows in rapid variations—the vane creaks round and round, to and fro, hither and thither respectively. Hardly to be wondered at, certainly, under the circumstances—remembering the liability of all weathercocks to " turn and turn, and yet go on and turn again," as readily as in OTHELLO'S eyes the varying whims and fancies of DESDEMONA. Especially remembering, too, the looseness of this one and its proverbial fickleness. There is a peculiar temptation, moreover, in the apparent uncertainty of the situa tion, now that the newly- elected House of Commons is upon the very eve of assembling, for the first time, down at Westminster. According to the showing of the hitherto avowed organ of the Op- position, there are returned to that new House 353 Liberals and 302 Conservatives. Examining more closely, however, the Ins and Outs of the 655 representatives thus returned to the popular branch of the Imperial Parliament, the proportion appears to be in reality yet more equally balanced —balanced almost into a state of equipoise. For while the 302 may be defined as to all intents and purposes 302 Derbyites— the 353 confronting them can hardly be marshalled together by any such distinctive cognomen, under any one over shad&Wing banner, under any one great statesman's chieftainship. They cannot in reason be spoken of as 353 Brightites, or Russellites, or Palmerstonians. They are a heterogeneous concourse, includin g among them all sorts of impracticables—men l i k e HonsmAN and ROEBUCK, whose course Could hardly be defined with any degree of tcrtainty, whether in a debate or on a division. Bewildered as utterly as ever was the love - dick GENIVIEVE in the ballad of COLERIDGE, b, - y the ;:nat kindle hope, " Hopes and fears guishable throng ; AndAngue r nd ,a i e s Il -ishes long subdued, SP:odued and cherished long"— our hesitating contemporary indulges in alter natr.Ay wistful looks askance now at the strength ened and reinvigorated ranks of the Government, now at the (if united) still powerful and formidable ranks of the Opposition. PARIS could hardly have been more bewildered between JUNO and MINERVA —as there is no glimmering yet before the eyes of the expectant swain of the benign face of the supreme Aphrodite. It is still no more than the customary choice between the blonde and the brunette ; but the chances of which are so equally distributed that the judgment, long held in suspension, is at length piqued at moments into something like the petulance of the lawless MAc- ~ 43 , 5, fie % \'--,,7,7,4,„ . , ~ , ..._— .. .,-- i: -. : _,_,-, c l O . • a lott \ ‘, '4 aiii.*;:t7-.;,p ~;,--,/ , % .•,440. ',,t,4 : '- - ~, , - 4. '" ‘.l ' , , ,•-•''''.- b„ bl: 0 l't -‘4,7:4- ;It. '...".' '..lllkMo'r4e;°4 ' i'. +;, "'I t ''.' 1)1 • - 21 '.;g4',-.,. ~ ~ THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 185 g. HEATH :- " How happy could I be with either Were t'other dear charmer away; But since you both tease me together, To neither a word will I say:' The eventual decision, indeed, rests at this mo ment, not with the wisdom of Sir ORACLE, but simply, in truth, with the result of the first division list. No one can tell what the Times will now be, but the Tellers. THE DUCHESS OF KENT. A rumour was current this morning that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent had expired at Clarence H o u s e, St. James's, during the night, but, upon making inquiry, v. , e are enabled to s,iitte that such rumour i s w it : h ou t f oun d a ti on . H er Royal Highness was c'drtainly so indisposed as to prevent her joining the royal circle, on the occasion of her Majesty's birthday, at Osborne, where she would have met her daughter her Majesty the Queen, an.d hee granddaughter the Princess Frederick -William of Prussia ; but she has since rallied, and so far recovered under the care of Sir James Clarke, that her Royal Highness was enabled to rise, and partook of luncheon as usual. Her Royal Highness is now awaiting the arrival of the Q ueen and the Princess Frederick William, The Court will return to Windsor on the 14th pro - kimo, for the Ascot race week, when it is expected her Majesty end the Prince Consort, with their brilliant suite, will honour the course with their presence on the first and third day of the races. AMERICAN MAIL.—The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's ship Argo, carrying heieMa jesty's mails, will sail from Galway for St. John's, New foundland, and New York, on Saturday, the 28th inst. FRENCH CRUISERS ON THE IRISH COAST.—W e understand that 14 Austrian vessels, laden with grain, and bound for .this port, have been telegraphed as having passed Gibraltar, and for some weeks past there have been three French cruisers watching the Trish coast from Cork to Cape Clear.—Cork .Reporter. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received a t Mr. Reuter's office : The Moniteur publishes the following telegram: ALESSANDRIA, MAY 25. The Emperor has passed several hours at Voghera. Nothing is yet decided respecting the departure the troops. MARSEILLES, MAY 25. Advices have been received from Constantino?le to the 18th inst. The Porte has at last in confor mity with the protocol of the Paris Conferences promised to recognise Prince Couza. The Sclave population on the coast of the Adriatic begin to show hostile feelings against Austria. Three Turkish war steamers have been despatched to the Adriatic. Advices have also been received from Athens. In reply to a question by a member of the Chamber of Deputies the Greek Ministry denied that Austria had called upon Greece to take the Austrian com mercial marine under the protection of her flag. GENOA, MAY 26. The Courriere Mercantile di Genoa affirms that the Bey of Tunis has offered two auxiliary regi ments to Piedmont. TRIESTE, MAY 25. The Austrian barque Scanderbeg has arrived here from Cardiff, laden with a cargo of coals. Up to the day before yesterday the Commandant of Venice had received no notice from the enemy declaring the town to be in a state of blockade. TURIN, MAY 25. The official bulletin published to-day confirms the news of Garibaldi's entry into Varese, and announces that the arrival in Lombardy of the first of those troops destined for its liberation has caused great enthusiasm among the population, who declared at once for the King of Sardinia and the national cause. The bulletin further announces the death of the King of Naples, and that Francis 11. has ascended the throne. The proclamation published at Naples of the ascending of the throne by Francis IL is countersigned by Signor Carafa. DRESDEN, MAY 25. The King opened the Landtag at noon to-day with a speech announcing the demands for money supplies. The Royal speech says :—War threatens to make those treaties doubtful on which the rights of Europe now rest. His Majesty is :upheld as well by the consciousness that he has always raised his voice in behalf of that which the honour of Ger many and the maintenance of just principles dc• mand, as by the consciousness that these his senti ments are shared by the whole Saxon people. Should war ensue for the protection of the just cause, his Majesty hopes with confidence that God will be with Saxony and Germany in general. BERNE, MAY 25. 2,000 Austrians are at Camerlata waiting for reinforcements and artillery. Garibaldi is expected at Como from Varese. Yesterday his advanced posts were at Alairate. It is reported fron Lugano that General Gari baldi, with his 5,000 men, has barricaded himself in the town of Varese, but is without cannon. The Austrians posted in the neighbourhood of Varese are on their side provided with artillery, and a fight has commenced. The following version of the battle of Montebello, has been received, via Vienna, forwarded from Head•quarters. It is dated Pavia, 22d May : " Count Stadion passed the Po on the 20th by the strongly fortified bridge at Vacarizza, with 25,000 men, to ascertain the position of the French. " He found them in Casteggio, which he stormed. He then came upon Baraguey d'Hilliers' army near Montebello. He attacked it so as to make the enemy display his strength. " In the fight Stadion was wounded, and had 10 offie:ers killed and 16 wounded. About 500 men were killed or wounded. The French brought up fresh troops by rail during the battle. " At night Stadion retired, having effected his purpose. " General Zobel retired from Vercelli on the 19th, and blew up the bridge over the Sesia. " The Austrian head-quarters are at Garlaseo." " Since the publication of the English declara tion of neutrality," says the Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels, "the armaments have been suspended in the French arsenals, and enlistments for the navy have also ceased." A letter from Alessandria of the 22d, in the Constitutionnel, gives some further details of the combat of Montebello :—" The extensive plain round the village of Montebello is dotted here and there with clumps of trees, and intersected by strips of land sown with corn or artificial grasses. When the Emperor arrived the ground was still strewn with dead bodies. The whole night and part of the morning had been employed in collect ing the wounded, but the Emperor came soon enough to see the field nearly as it was left by the two armies. The Emperor was accompanied by Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers. As Generul Forey had received a contused wound in his left leg from a ball which struck the sheath of his sabre, he was merely able to present himself to his Majesty, who, after embracing him, spoke in the highest terms of his brilliant conduct. Col. Cambriels was also em braced by the Emperor, and this brave officer, it is said, is to immediately receive a high recompense for his conduct. Several of the Austrian officers who had been made prisoners were presented to the Emperor, who conversed with them. The attitude of these officers, nearly all young, was very becoming. Some of them were recognised as havingbeen at Paris last winter, and one had even been presented by his ambassador to the Emperor, and was even invited to a ball at the Tuileries. The Emperor's visit to the field of battle did not surprise the soldiers, but it delighted them exceedingly. - The wounded, on seeing the Emperor, saluted him with the loudest eivais, and their comrades who were carrying them to the hospital stopped to raise the shout of Vive l'Empereur.' In their turn, the soldiers remaining under arms greeted his Majesty with enthusiastic acclamations, and the officers who have this even ing returned from Voghera were unable to find adequate terms to express the feelings of satisfaction which, they said, beamed from the Emperor's noun• tenance. The Austrian prisoners, too, regarded the sovereign of France with much curiosity. Montebello, when taken, was defended by 5,000 kestrians, supported by two batteries of artillery. A body of 1,200 French advanced with the bayonet in order to save their few remaining car tridges, and succeeded in their gallant attack. The exact number of our wounded is 360, as I have been informed by a surgeon, who also stated that very few of the wounds were likely to render operations necessary. The Forey division, which has thus had the honour of opening the campaign, is an object of no little envy ; there is not a single officer who would not wish to have been in the place of his brethren in arms. The moral effect has been immense here, and wo have no doubt it will be equally great in France, The Emperor's ardent desire is gratified, as the army has shown that it has not degenerated. On his return to Alessandria his Majesty met with quite an ovation. The inhabitants cheered him loudly, and the soldiers followed his carriage crying out Vivo la France !' Vive l'Empereur !' I must not omit to state that the Austrians did not take a single prisoner from the French or Piedmontese." A correspondent of the Debuts writes as follows : —" Various rumours have been in circulation as to the first cause of the encounter, It has been said that the national guards of Casteggio barricaded themselves in their houses, and repulsed a strong Austrian patrol with musket shots. A column of Austrians afterwards advanced to punish the inha bitants of the village, who had sent of their syndic to request the protection of the allied troops. It was then that the Piedmoutese cavalry under Gen. Sonnaz took up a position. Having been attacked in his turn by a very superior force, he was obliged to solicit support from the division of Gen. Forey. This version will give to the combat of Friday the character of such an incident as frequently occurs in war. But the composition of the enemy'scolumns,their nu mber,and their tenacityin maintaining Montebello —everything leads to the belief that it was a pre concerted plan. Two officers of the regiment of Novara have been wounded—Capt. Piola and a Frenchman named Corealis, who serves as a lieu tenant in the Sardinian army. As at Constantina, at the Mamelon Vert, and at Malakoff, the French officers led on their men to the battle cry of 'En avant,' and all resistance was overcome. This fact explains the relative considerable loss among the officers, but they have been well avenged, for the streets of the village were covered with Austrian bodies, and some of the houses were full of them. We entered black with powder, and we came out red with blood,' said one of the wounded men, who had however fought to the last. Col. Morelli, who was killed, was only 43 years of age. He was two or three months ago sent on a mission by his Government to England to procure horses for the cavalry, and was considered as one of the best officers in that branch of the service. Colonel de Bayl, of the Novara Light Horse, although always in the heat of the conflict, escaped without a wound. The news that the division of General Cialdini had crossed the Sesia the same day in front of Vercelli is now official. The Austrians on that point were also repulsed with severe loss. The compaign has commenced for them under very sad auspices. The regiment of Nice cavalry, in which the Duke de Chartres serves as lieutenant, and which has been for some time encamped at San-Geramo, at the extreme advanced posts, followed the movement of General Cialdini. The villiage of Montebello, it has been stated, was taken three times from the Austrians, and it was in the last attack that Gen. Beuret was killed. Colonel de Bellefonds, one of the superior officers wounded, expired the night after the combat." The Piedmontese Gazette publishes the following bulletins : " No. 44, MAY 22, EVENING. " The Modenese have evacuated Fivizzano, Fos dinovo, and the neighbouring places, and have retired by the Cerreto road. The inhabitants of those communes have unanimously proclaimed the dictatorship of King Victor Emmanuel. The tri colour waves throughout the Lunigiana." " No. 45. MAY 23d, MORNING. " Yesterday the enemy was foiled in an attempt to prevent a reconnaisance towards the Sesia, com manded in person by the King. The small island opposite Terranova was occupied by the King's troops. We have had but few killed or wounded ; among the latter is Major Ferreri, Captain of the Staff, who has lost a leg. In a cavalry encounter beyond the Sesia, Captain Brunetti, of the Nice Cavalry, was killed by a stroke with a lance. From further accounts we learn that the conduct of the 10th Infantry was admirable, in crossing the Sesia with water up to the waist and vigorously attack ing the enemy at Il Torrione, killing many, and, making several prisoners. In the battle of Monte bello, besides Col. Morelli Lieutenants Blonay, Scassi, and Govone were killed ; and Lieutenants Ghilini, Salasco, Milanesio, and Mayr were wounded. Gen. Sonnaz received a slight contusion in the face. The enemy is in force at Mezzanino and Vaccarezz. It is confirmed that at the inn del Fumo, near Torricella, the Austrians shot the whole family Ciglione, consisting of seven or eight individuals, including two boys under ten years of age, for having German muskets in the house. At Casatisma they first bastinadoed and then shot a youth of 17, because, being asked whether there were any French at Montebello, he replied in the negative. They also arrested the Vice-Syndic of Pinarolo, in the province of Voghera, threatening to shoot him if the Syndic did not inform them of the movements of the French. The Garfagnara, lately belonging to Modena, has declared for the national cause." The Indipendenta of Turin states that Leopold 11., Grand Duke of Tuscany, has assumed the cm mand of the Bth regiment of Austrian Dragoons, which is his property. The Milan Gazette announces that the Neapolitan steamers in the Mediterranean have received orders not to touch at Genoa. ENGAGEMENT ON THE SESIA. The Alessandri t correspondent of the Constitu• tionnel, writing on the 23d inst., says : " Since this morning there is great excitement in the town. There is a report that some sharp en counters took place yesterday evening and during the night between the Piedmontese troops en camped along the whole line from Valenza and Casale to Vercelli. The sound of cannon was heard at midnight, and it was asserted that the whole army, commanded by King Victor Emmanuel in person, was engaged on the banks of the Sesia, after having made a forced march from Occmiamo. " A thousand other rumours were afloat, and the opinion was that the moment of a general attack had arrived with the concurrence of the Imperial Guard. "As yet all that has been confirmed of these reports is this:—The main body of the Piedmontese army, commanded by the King, holds the banks of the Sesia, and is exchanging a well kept up can nonade with the Austrians. The reports which have reached head-quarters contain no details. " 4 O'CLOCK P.M. " The news of an engagement between the King's troops and the Austrians on the banks of the Sesia, is confirmed, but details are still wanting ; but, as none of our troops were engaged, our infor mation will not bo extensive," THE BATTLE OF MONTE BELLO. The Milos Turin correspondent, who dates his letters from the Austrian head quarters, gives the following extraordinary version of the battle of Montebello ; "TURIN, MAY 23. " A brief Vienna bulletin (or probably the abridg ment of one) of the combat of Montebello has reached us here, and although it will of course be ridiculed by the Turin papers, it is hardly to be called incon sistent with the French report yesterday transmitted to you, except on one point, and that is with respect to numbers. Each party says that it was in presence of forces numerically superior, and very probably each party believes itself correct. On such points there always have been and probably always will be discrepancies, often greater than the most impartial historians, writng long subeguently to the events, and with many documents before them, are able to reconcile. Contemporary chroniclers cannot hope, then, to be more successful, and can but weigh and compare conflicting testimonies, often without ven turing an opinion which there are not sufficient grounds to render positive. According to the French account of thq late affair the Austrians fought gallantly and obstinately—so much so that it is difficult to believe that if they were 12,000, 15,000, or (as it has also been said) 18,000 strong, they would have been repulsed by 4,000. It ap pears also from the French bulletin that, before the attack on Montebello, General Forey's second brigade came up. The two brigades top. ther made more, it is presumed, than 4,000 men. The Austrian statement that their troops retired in excellent order receives confirmation from the French aceount, which does not talk of them as routed, but as retreating, and as pursued only by the skirmishers, and by the fire of artillery. If all bulletins were as fair as this French one seems likely to be (setting aside the question of numbers, in which mistakes are easily made, and, as far as I can judge of it, by an Italian version of a telegraphic transmission), the truth would be less difficult to arrive at. Even if it be admitted that the Aus trians were in superior force, they still would natu rally retreat when their object of a reconnaisance, to ascertain their opponent's strength in that quar ter, was accomplished. It is strange that no mention is made of any cavalry being with them. The French seem to have been unprepared for their coming, and would, it is here said, almost have been surprised, but for the gallant resistance made by the Piedmontese cavalry. This consisted of the regiments of Novara and Aosta and part of the regiment of Nlontferrat. They lost four officers killed and five wounded, which, if taken according to the usual proportion, would imply a heavy loss of men ; but, judging from the French loss of field officers, old rules will hardly hold good in the present war, in which it seems likely that improved weapons and skilled marksmen will be particularly fatal to leaders. In any case, there can be no doubt that the Pied montese cavalry did their duty manfully, and gave time for the French to come up before the Austrians had advanced further than Ginestrello, less than an Italian mile on this side of Montebello," MALTA. The Malta Times of the 17th contains the fol lowing :—" The Mediterranean squadron has been increased during the past eight drys by the arrival of the line-of-battle ships Victor Emmanuel, St, Jean d'Acre, Brunswick, and Orion, and the steam frigate Racoon from England and Gibraltar. The Orion was last from Genoa, where the Conqueror from Leghorn relieved her. The St. Jean d'Acre and Brunswick did not enter port, but joined the Commander-in-Chief, Vice - Admiral Fanshawe, outside. The admiral has been sailing on and off the island since the 10th on board his flagship the threedecker Marlborough, accompanied by the twodecker Princess Royal. Yesterday the ships were at general quarters, practising firing shot, which was distinctly seen from the shore. The liner Hannibal (flag of Rear• Admiral Mundy) is hourly expected from Gibraltar. We have now, in addition to frigates, corvettes, and smaller ves sels, ten line-of-battle ships in the Mediterranean all provided with screw machinery. The two decker Centurion was by last accounts at Naples, the steam-frigate Terrible at Civita Vecchia, the gunboats Osprey, at Athens, Wanderer, at Con stantinople, and Recruit, in the Danube, and the surveying steamer Tartarus at Candia. The gunboat Coquette is at Marseilles awaiting Admiralty orders. The following is a list of her Majesty's ships of war at present in the Mediterranean besides the above :—Hibernia, receiving ship, off Malta ; Euryalus, 51, in port ; Vulture, 6, Gibraltar ; Ariel, 9, in port ; Argus, 6, in port ; Scourge, 6, Gibraltar ; Lapwing, 4, in port ; Vigi lant, 4, in port; Azov, 2, in port ; Kertch, 2, in port ; Caradoc, 2, in port ; Boxer, in port ; Bustler, Gibraltar ; Hearty, in port ; Medina, 4, in port ; Tartarus, 4, Candia ; Supply, 2, in the port. The present British naval force (23 pendants), large as it is in these waters, is to be still further vastly increased; and we think that our assertion will be confirmed by the fact when we state that our fleet in the Mediterranean is to be, and that very shortly, made up to 97 pendants, 22 of which are to be line-of-battle ships. We have also good authority for saying that the garrison of this island is to be raised to a strength of at least 10,000 men. P.S.—H.M.S. Renown has just joined the fleet off the port. The hired transport Pembroke Lass is under orders to sail from Woolwich, laden with war stores for Malta." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. A private letter from Genoa, dated on Monday, mentions that a serious affair was expected from day to day. The writer was on the point of starting for Leghorn, but so general was the belief that such an event was nigh at hand that he postponed his de parture. When he wrote cannonading had been heard. Another letter, from the head-quarters of the French army, received here this morning, says that no important affair was expected before the end of the month or the Ist of June. Yet there is a rumour here to-day that a battle began yesterday between Stradella and Pavia. The French troops are described as in the highest spirits, and, though the difficulty of driving the Austrians from their positions be greater than was anticipated, the French army is full of confidence. It is said that all the Powers, with the exception of France and Sardinia, have acknowledged by telegraph the new King of Naples, BOURSE, May 25.—The market has been rather agitated by various rumours. One was that the English Cabinet had sent a note about the occupa tion of the Tuscan territory by the French troops ; and another, that a serious engagement had begun yesterday between Stradella and Pavia, and had continued this morning. Threes, after having been done at 61fr. 40c., receded to 61f. ; Mobilier varied from 585 f. to 570 f.; Orleans, 1,170 f. to 1,162 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 772 f. 50e. to 767 f. 50c.; Northern, 880 f. to 867 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 590 f. .to 582 f. 50e. ; Southern 440 f. to 435 f. ; Austrian, 357 f. 50e. to 352 f. 50e. ; Lombardo-Venetian, 425 f. to 422 f. 50c. The following were the closing quotations :- 4 per Cents. 88 50 Credit Foncier 625 Do. end month .. 88 751 Belgian 4f 3 per Cents 6l 30 I Piedmonteso (5) 77 75 Do. end month 6l 20 Roman Bl 50 Bank Shares. 2700 Austrian Credit Mobilier 582 50 Spanish Threes Do, Account RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 1167 50 .. 1167 ,50 877 50 .. 875 New ditto 745 .. 747 50 Lyons and. Mediterranean 775 .. 775 Geneva 455 — Southern - .. 442 50 Western 495 • • E astern Sardinian 342 50 .. 337 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 7, 3 / 4 c, ; money, 25f, 21,04 three months, paper, M. 90c. ; money, 24f. 8710. A letter from Vienna of the 21st says :—" After various delays occasioned by diplomatic reasons, theEmpei or will definitely leave Vienna on Tuesday next for Italy, attended by a numerous suite. Among the personages who accompany his Majesty are the Archduke Leopold, and Generals Hess, Hanslabb, Grunne, and Schlitter. The Emperor has no intention of assuming the command of the army, but only of personally ascertaining the state of things, and of inspecting the troops." Advices from Vienna state that the Belgian Colonel Lagrange had arrived there on an extra ordinary mission, and had been received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Ost Deutsche Post and other Vienna journals recently published a most improbable report to the effect that Prince Alexander of Ilesse, brother-in law to the Emperor of Russia, had received a letter from his Imperial Majesty, asserting that in no case whatever would he attack Austria. A subsequent number of the same journal contains an authorita tive contradiction of the assertion, which is declared by the St. Petersburg official presS to be altogether unfounded, as no such letter ever ex isted. Prince Eugene of Savoy has issued a decree, dated the 21st, and countersigned Cavonr and De Foresta, enacting that all civilians committing delinquencies to the prejudice of the allied armies shall be punished according to the military penal code. The Madrid journals o f the 21st state that the Government was taking active measures for strengthening several fortresses, and had sent a number of galley-slaves to Santona to work at the fortifications. The officers ordered to Italy are to receive in addition to their pay an allowance of £2O a-month, and £4O for an outfit. It was re ported that the Queen was in an " interesting situation." The Prince of Wales was at Granada. THE MANNING OF THE ROYAL NAVY. The following letter has been addressed to a con temporary : " Sir,—Among the grave public questions the consideration of which by the House of Commons has been interrupted by the late dissolution, there is one to which recent events have given greatly increased importance—l mean the question of man ning the navy. The report of the Royal Commis sioners, as soon as it was submitted to Parliament, was printed in extenso in your columns, and thus the widest circulation was given to it. It does not appear, however, to have hitherto provoked that full public discussion which the importance of the subject demands. I venture, therefore, to trouble you with a few remarks, which a careful perusal of the report and of the evidence on which it is founded has suggested to me, in the hope that other naval officers may be induced to follow me, and, through your aid, to give to the public the benefit of their practical comments on the recommendations of the Royal Commissioners. "The Commissioners are of opinion that the dis inclination on the part of merchant seamen to enter the Royal Navy is to be traced chiefly to ignorance of the usages of the service, and the advantages which it offers. If this ignorance really exists, the Admiralty might easily remove it by promulgating through the shipping offices, as the Board of Trade have done in regard to the regulations of the mer chant service, a full and explanatory statement of those advantages. But some of the witnesses exa mined before the Commissioners have suggested other reasons, such as the grievances and discom forts to which men on board her Majesty's ships are subjected. There is much in the evidence on the subject of these grievances which was once, but is no longer true. I can bear witness that all the Boards of Admiralty during the last 40 years have used their bests efforts to remove them, and many of the grievances alleged by witnesses exist only as traditions. One naval officer who was examined before the Commissioners gives as a grievance the practice of calling men out of their names,' and evidently would wish us to believe that so unaccus tomed are merchant seamen to be addressed in rude language by their superior officers, that the reports they hear from coastguardsmen of the language used on board her Majesty's ships sufficiently accounts for their disinclination to enter her Majesty's ser vice. Now, I will appeal to every officer who has commanded any well-regulated ship since 1815 whether such conduct on the part of the middies,' or of any other class of officers, has been tolerated. This grievance is purely imaginary, and the mer chant seamen may now enter her Majesty's navy with the full assurance that he will not be shocked by language offensive to ears polite. Another naval officer gives a long story about sailors being detained in bad weather, hanging on in shore boats, alongside, till it suits some ill-condi tioned first lieutenant to allow them to come on board. This officer had evidently read Glasscock just before his examination. Glasscock was the first man to show up the caprices of naval discipline , and the publicity thus given to them caused their removal. " Other witnesses complain of the discomforts of the hulks. The hulking system is coeval with the existence of the navy; it has been bad from the be ginning, and there seems to be no remedy for it so eligible as the establishment of naval barracks in the dockyards. This would be the best, and, with out question, the most economical system. Nav al barracks have been established for some years in Dockyard, where the evils complained of were intolerable, and there is no doubt that the dis comfort of the hulks increased the difficulty of mart ning ships at that port. Men of war shoul d from the basins complete, and should return to themto service, only sacrificing the time necessary should be their ammunitton ; and the crews be allowed to walk out, if they wish to do 0, and to return the next morning to close their acc ounts. n But the exaggerated fears entertained by the Ad miralty of fire in the dockyards are such that their eyes are closed to the many advantages which the service would derive from the establishment of naval barracks at every port where ships are fitted out. " Capt. Mends makes some very good suggestions in regard to the establishment of an uniform system of discipline, and any suggestion from so practica l an officer is deserving of consideration. Such a system is much wanted, as at present every captain. is at liberty to carry out his own notions of disci pline. It happens too frequently that an idle lieu tenant, who never could and never would do his duty, and who could scarcely be trusted to keep his eyes open in his day-watch even, has sufficient in terest to get himself promoted to the command of one of her Majesty's ships. Such a man, without knowledge and without discretion, immediately enters upon some harassing scheme of discipline, to the discomfort and dissatisfaction of everyone but himself ; he makes no allowance for a crew who have been instructed by his predecessor in command of the same ship upon quite a different system, but follows up his caprices regardless of the detriment_ to the service which is the inevitable consequence of any just cause of dissatisfaction given to his crew. There is no doubt that this want of system is a grievance which goes a long way in accounting for the disinclination which seamen have to enter the Royal Navy. " Although I cannot allow that there is anything oppressive in the proper discipline of a man-of-war yet it must be admitted that under the most favour able circumstances the Royal Navy will always have some drawbacks for men brought up in 0 10 merchant service. The duties of gun drill, musket , cutlass and pike, field pieces, &c., are irksome in themselves, but they are especially so when carried to excess ; and the military preciseness exacted by some officers renders these duties particularly dis tasteful to seamen. Add to these exercises those of boating, shifting sails, and occasionally masts and yards, hoisting boats in and out, which have all to be done against time, and are in excess of the coral mon everyday work of a merchant seaman, an have stated quite enough to account for the d is T clination he evinces to serve in a man-of-war. 11, every movement he makes he encounters restr ain '' of some description or other which he has not been to in the merchant service. There are but three and frequently two masters in a merchant s d h iff ip e , re e n x t ce i p n t ainmoaunr-loafr-gwearl.ndipenitenm;c tnho, e t c h as o e w i e s v f e a r r , di be misunderstood, for how ever irksome and s amgur t e a b be en n t f h o e r c d e u d t es s m 1 a h k a e v e officerbe, t discretion e i ffi n c e i e n n fo c y r c ; i n a g n only yt hn s g u f fic i i n e e n x t d e esrlsi of to f it m i s a ian a error. The evil reports of the excessive drill and of the caprices of discipline spread widely ; let the Admiralty, therefore, be cautious how they intrust commands to officers endowed with so little judg ment and discretion as to be unable to steer clear of such mistakes. " I fear that a voluntary supply of seamen fro the merchant service will always be confined to small numbers, and that it will certainly not furnish the best and most contented of the class ; we lira s " therefore look to other means for securing a perma nent supply of good men for our navy ; but I hav e already encroached so extensively on your o t h er that I must reserve my further remarks for an othe a letter, if you consider them worthy of a piac i :, your columns. " BLUE JAGI' E ` . " United Service Club, May, 1859." THE MURDER AT LEDBURY. Detective Williams L o E n, D ß fr U om ßY scot , V --- diligently prosecuting his inquiries in to this affair, which is still enveloped in mystery. Suspicion hay . N l E a n n N d E - y s ar n A d l , • 1 5 fallen upon John Jones, one of M r. MascfieldS w hew clerks, who lodges in the house tex t to that the murder was committed, who worked in ti t° back lower office, and who produced the key of the door, and was the first to enter the house andpr o ' claim the discovery of the cr ime. lie is strtly' watched, but has not been apprehended. Before o the coroner he said he went h ome about ten 'clocic on the night of the murder , an d Mrs. Baker `vas last seen a few minutes before ten. Ile had to pse, her door to go to his lodging. In a path near phew her mark n; place, a quantity of silver money was foun,apP sisting of fourpenny piece s, six p ences, in small pieces of pape r. One piece w ith a upon it has been ident ified as belonging to gr' M a sefield. Tuesday , the day preceding the m urders was market day at Ledbury , and several persons ca lled at the offices to pay money , and wee sent 1 3 1 ) to the private offices ; a large amount wa s accumu lated in the course of the day , and w as taken to he,. b a nk in the afternoon by Mr. Woodw ard, the chict clerk, when he went to his dinner. Jones's effects have been rigidly searched, a° have those of a female with whom he keeps cony pany ; but it is supposed that the same fruitless result attended both examinations. The ages" trates have held long private consultations each dal this week., but nothing has transp ired as to the result of their cogitations. Mr. Masefield will ear , a reward of £5O for the conviction of the murd and the magistrates have applied to GOVCr lllne nt to add £lOO to that sum. The inqu est will be resumed to-morrow (Thursday). LATEST PARTICULARS. cell Since the above was wr itten it has been as ._ tamed that the magi strates, at the close of thei o r investigation, directed Superintendent T a nner t take John Jones i nto custody on suspicion of being the murderer. H e was accordingly apprehend ten o'clock last night.