The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-22 00:00:00

The hopes that had been entertained respecting a pacific solution of the existing complications have been greatly diminished, if not destroyed. Austria is, in the present instance, unquestionably the aggressor, having thought fit not only to reject the propositions put forward by the English Govern ment, and acceded to by France, Russia, and Prussia, but to send an ultimatum to Sardinia, to the effect that unless she consented to dis arm, and to send away those volunteers who had rallied under her standard, war would be proclaimed within three days. The term will expire on Easter Sunday. The great festival, commemorative of the resurrection of the SAVIOUR of mankind, is to be thus desecrated by a Power professing to be actuated by Christian principles, and, beyond all others, subservient to the Papal authority. Austria could not, by any possibility, have aupposed that its arrogant demand would have been accepted, or that Sardinia should consent to her own humiliation. The brief period allowed for a categorical answer, for it appears that an " evasive reply will be considered as a refusal," proves beyond doubt that she has resolved upon war, and is determined to precipitate the crisis, so that she may take Sardinia at a great disadvantage, destroy her forces, and ravage the country, before French aid can be rendered available. Eighty thousand Aus trian troops have been ordered to the banks of the Ticino, in addition to those already there, making up two hundred thou- sand in all, which it is supposed will be suffi cient to sack Turin, and devastate the intermediate country before adequate assistance can be obtained. It is also rather significant that Prussia has ordered three corps darmee amounting to 70,000 men to be placed on a war footing, and although it is stated that " these measures are merely of a defensive character, and without any aggressive in • tention ,"we cannot altogether accept the statement by a semi•ofcial journal as completely satisfactory, or one in which implicit credence can be reposed. It seems, therefore, more than probable that the Cabinet of Vienna has received assurances of sup port, which induced it to suppose that it can gratify its vindictive feelings against Piedmont with impunity. We do not by any means desire to justify the conduct of VICTOR EMMANUEL. That it was highly irritating and calculated to produce strife is beyond dispute. But he was merely the tool in the hands of a more powerful monarch, and he may have bitter cause to deplore the part he has been induced to act. FRANCIS JOSEPTI is now, however, manifestly the aggressor, and has thereby forfeited any sym pathies that might have been entertained on his behalf. He has cast the firebrand that mast create a conflagration throughout Europe which cannot be quenched so easily as FRANCIS JOSEPH may fondly imagine. That there will be indignant remonstrances from the British Cabinet may be readily conceived, and it is barely possible that they may be of such a character as to induce the Cabinet of Vienna to - pause in the reckless course on which it has so unwisely entered. Telegrams, however, cannot enter into such matters as fully as more deliberate written communications. Nor will they be accepted as of equal authenticity by a Power apparently resolved on war. We fear, therefore, that hostili ties will be commenced on Sunday next, of which it is impossible to predict the results, but which must inevitably produce vast expen diture and bloodshed, not only on the parties con cerned, but on those who have kept themselves free from the scrape and are perfectly innocent in every respect. We only hope that Great Britain may avoid being implicated in any way-or on either side ; and although an armed neutrality may be very costly, and lead to a considerable increase of taxation, it will be far better than letting our gallant soldiers bleed in a cause where neither party can come into court with clean hands, or reasonably anticipate any intervention on their behalf by the English. Government. There is one fact relating to the Election and to Reform Bills, which has hardly received the distinct attention it justly claims—the position taken by the working classes. Perhaps we might better say their taking no position. They are just now one of the cards of party, the football, or the corpus vile, with which some play, and on' which others make experiments, but they hardly make any movement themselves. We have Mr. ROEBUCK, one of the authors of the Charter, honestly appeal ing to the middle classes to confer the franchise on those who, in 1832, helped them to obtain it. We have LORD JOHN RUSSELL bidding much higher or lower, as we may please to regard it, than ever he did before; the Government having, as he thinks, given him this opportunity to outbid them. We have Mr. BRIGHT consistently endeavouring to enfranchise the class which he well knows and trusts ; it is a part of his scheme of Reform. We have even Mr. HENLEY and many other Conserva tives desirous to give a low borough franchise, and thinking such a step a really Conservative one. Meantime, we hear next to nothing from the working men themselves ! Time was when they could sign petitions almost a mile long for Univer sal Suffrage and the Ballot ; and, a fatal step for their object, could drill and arm themselves, as if they would win by the pike if they could not by petition. Now, except a few noisy fellows inter rupting meetings here and there; a few gatherings, in which Mr. ERNEST JONES figures as the fugle man ; the organisation of the working people round Newcastle,, and a few other insignificant meetings, —there is hardly anything to show that our "in telligent artisans "who, every one says, "ought to have the franchise, care a straw about the matter." This is surely a singular fact, explain it how we will. We do not deny that, whenever operatives of any class assemble, they demand manhood or universal suffrage. Of course they do. When the question comes before them, they cannot—" write themselves down asses." Working men who vote on the subject will, of course, vote themselves into the Register. The wonder to us is that they do not bestir themselves universally. When, in 1831, it was proposed to enfranchise the middle classes, there was no lack of enthusiasm, of almost terrific enthusiasm for the boon ; less the actual electors of the time, than those whom it was proposed to make electors, compelled the proud British Muse of Lords to give way to their demand. But for this we should have never heard of ten-pound house holders. It seems to us that the attitude of the working classes entirely exonerates the Government for making no offers to them beyond what Mr. BRIGHT terms " fancy franchises." Ministers were unques tionably better acquainted with the temper and views of the operative class than was commonly supposed. Had there been a national and strong feeling amongst those who live on weekly wages to share with shopkeepers and. tenants-at-will the privilege of a vote, doubtless Mr. DISRAELI would have been as ready as others to content that feeling in any way which would not frighten the present electors. But he probably thought it needless to give what was hardly asked ; whether he was wise in so thinking, wise for the interests of his own party, may well be questioned. Some of them who would not make the slightest pretensions to a frac tion of his genius, but who were men of wide prac tical knowledge, differed from him, and we must think that, in the interests of their own party, they took the sounder -view. We must confess the apathy of working men has somewhat chilled our own zeal in their behalf. Political rights don't, as the Germans say, " Fly into our months, like ready roasted pigeons." It is a thankless task to labour to get them for those who do not want them; or perhaps an idle task, as they would not be used if gained. Let not the working classes imagine that a few noisy meetings for the purpose will have any weight, much less will interruptions of other meetings by roughs hired to disturb. All such things rather indispose Members of Parliament and electors to extend the suffrage. If working men intend to be made electors in another Reform Bill they must do two things— they must bestir themselves pretty universally; and they must do it in modes which will convince those in power that they may be trusted. We should say that non-electors should hold meetings, in every borough at least, in the kingdom. That they should take especial care to conduct them in an orderly manner ; that they should abstain from vituperation and threats, while they may be as firm and decided as they please in the assertion of their rights. The most intelligent and businesslike resolutions are those which have most weight with Parliament and electors. The same remark applies to petitions—let the arguments be brief and unanswerable, but free from anything which can be thrown aside as indicating ignorance or passion. Why not, also, memorialise the electors in each place ? If every non-elector who can write his name signs a memorial to the electors of his own town, requesting them to elect a candidate who will give them also votes, it would be a step which must have weight, not only with the elec tors, but with Governments and Parliaments, who do not fail to notice such movements. Were the non-electors of some two hundred boroughs thus to petition Parliament and memorialise the electors, they would find Lord DERBY in the coming session proposing to give them the franchise. Without some such reason as this he will not offer it him self, and will probably, in the Lords, prevent its being done by others should he not continue in office. If Lord STANLEY should, with or without his own consent, be put in nomination for the City, he will probably run Lord JOHN RUSSELL very hard, and, more likely than not, defeat him. There is, to our knowledge, a strong feeling in the minds of many Liberals that Lord STANLEY is at least one stage further advanced than the ex-Minister on the now testing question of protected voting. We believe Lord STANLEY has never voted against the Ballot. We have heard that he has expressed himself in favour of it. We all know that he walked out of the house in the most marked way he could when the late division was taken, while the two Whig ex-Premiers, and some of the old family party, walked into the lobby against it. Perhaps, although Lord STANLEY is not the man ordinarily to shrink from voting or speaking as he thinks, we could hardly, in his peculiar circum stances, ask more than this. Lord STANLEY, as far as public action is concerned, is neuter on the Ballot ; Lord JOHN RUSSELL is hostile to it. As at present advised, we should therefore feel compelled to vote for the three Ballot candidates, and for Lord STANLEY. We cannot conceal from ourselves that, for him to be neuter on the Ballot, when he is in office with his father and the Conser vatives, is to be, personally, for it. We cannot refuse to see that he has more confidence in the electors than Lord JOHN has; and that he must feel assured that, voting free from undue influence, they would subject the candidates to his favourite competitive examinations, and make their appoint ments by merit. Lord JOHN'S own meeting of electors the other day, after Mr. DILLoN had carped and cavilled at the Ballot, cheered Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY'S defence of it so enthusiastically, that Lord JOHN saw that even this self-elected committee was strongly in its favour. If, then, notwithstand ing all, he remains obdurate and hostile, he surely deserves to be postponed to Lord STANLEY. MR. G. 2'. F. SMITH'S MINISTERIAL PREDICTIONS. It is again my province to submit another proof of Ministerial predictions to the marked attention of the public, deduced from the " Horoscope of our loved and gracious Sovereign," a work published by the proprietor of the Cheltenham Examiner in the year 1848, and therefore now matured by a lapse of 11 years. Prediction—Summer of 1859: A Government Crisis, and also much aggression following in the interim of summer 1859 and 1860, ere the predic tion is complete. But, firstly, upon the Ministry that forms only one of a series that have been con secutively before the public, both in Cheltenham and the metropolis, namely : William the Fourth's Ministry of 1835—Qucen Victoria's Ministry of 1839—Louis Philippe's of 1842—the Queen's Mini try of 1846, their very critical position in 1850, the Resignation of 1851, the Resignation of 1852, the Resignation of 1857, and lastly, the Resignation of Lord Derby's Ministry, summer of 1859. Thus a mass of specific evidence and published facts, so many years prior to occurrence, and without equi vocation, have been from time to time before the public ; but hostile aggressions tending to warlike proceedings ere the autumn of 1859 transpires still are looming in the distance, before the prediction is complete.* Predictions on the Emperor of France.—The Emperor of France will encounter much hostility from the autumn of 1859 to spring of 1860. Government conspiracies or attacks will harass his position. * Predictions only, and not qualifications alone, induced the great poet Dryden, and the magnates of every age, to study and delight in its most philosophical truths. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, APRIL 21 The confirmation of the Princess Alice took place in the private chapel at Windsor Castle this morning, her Royal Highness having been examined on the previous day by the Dean of Windsor, in the presence of the Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford (Lord High. Almoner), the Bishop of Chester (Clerk of the Closet), the Dean of Windsor (Resident Chaplain to the Queen), the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell (chaplain to the Prince Consort), and the Rev. H. J. Ellison, took their seats within the rails of the communion table shortly before 12 o'clock. The ministers and other company invited to witness the ceremony assembled in the Green Drawing-room at a quarter before twelve. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting on the Queen and Royal Family assembled in the corridor. The company were then conducted to their seats in the chapel. At 12 o'clock Princess Alice entered the chapel with her father, the Prince Consort, and stood in front of the com munion table. The Queen, and the Duchess of Kent, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, Princess Mary of Cambridge, and the Prince of Leiningen also entered the chapel. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the members of the Royal Family, occupied chairs in the centre of the chapel ; the great officers of State and the ladies and gentle men in waiting took their seats immediately behind the Royal Family ; the remainder of the company were placed in pews on either side of the chapel. The Prince Consort, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg appeared in the Windsor uniform, and each wore the Ititaand, Badge, and Star of the most noble Order of the Garter. _ The gentlemen of the Queen's and Prince Consort's household wore the Windsoruniform; the members of orders of knighthood wearing their respective insignia. The gentlemen of St. George's choir attended and per formed the following CHORALE. 0, happy bond that seeks my vows, To Him who claims our highest love I Let cheerful anthems fill His house, While to that sacred shrine I move. 'Tis done : the great engagement's done; I am my Lord's, and He is mine : He drew me, and I followed on, Glad to confess the voice divine. High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow, -That vow renewed shall daily hear, Till in life's latest hour I bow, And bless in death a bond so dear. The archbishop having performed the service, the follow ing anthem, composed for the occasion, was sung : Psalm cxvi., verses 12, 14, 16.—W. G. Cusins. " I will receive the cup of salvation : and call upon the Name of the Lord. "Behold, 0 Lord, how that I am thy servant : I am thy servant; Thou has broken my bonds in sunder. " I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people : in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, 0 Jerusalem. Praise the Lord." Mr. W. G. Cusins presided at the organ. - His Grace then delivered an exhortation. The ceremony being ended, the Queen and Prince Con sort, with the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and the Royal Family, quitted the chapel and entered the Green Drawing-room, where her Majesty received the con gratulations of the company present. Her Majesty the ex-Queen Marie Annelle, his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, her Royal High ness the Duchess Auguste of Saxe-Coburg, accompanied by the Duke de Montmorency, the Baroness de Finguerlin, General Count Dumas, and a numerous suite, arrived yes terday at Grillion's Clarendon Hotel from Claremont. The Duke of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett, who came to town a few days since from Raby Castle, left St. James's-square yesterday to pass three weeks in Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will leave Stafford House to-morrow for Cliefden for the Easter holi days. The Duke of Leeds has arrived at Grillion's Clarendon Hotel, from Flomby Castle, Catterick, York shire. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury had a dinner party, last evening, at their residence in Whitehall gardens, when the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Chevalier Massimo d'Azeglio, his Excellency Sir James Hudson, and Mr. Bidwell, were among the guests of the noble earl and countess. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough left town, yesterday, for Tunbridge-wells. We are happy to learn that the health of the noble earl has lately improved. The Earl and Countess of Ashburnham and family left Ashburnhatn House, yesterday, for their seat in Susses. The Earl of Donoughmore left London, on Wednesday night, for Ireland. Lord and Lady Gardner have arrived at their residence in Dover-street, from Scotland. Lord Alexander Paget and Lord Berkeley Paget have arrived at Howchin's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat, Beaudesert. Mr. Secretary Estcourt returned from Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon, and was present at the Cabinet Council. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster and family have arrived at the Oatlands Park Hotel. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Estcourt, the Earl of Malmesbury, General Peel, Lord Stanley, and Lord John Manners. TRIAL TRIP OF THE MERSEY.—The Royal Mail Company's new steamship Mersey, built by Samuda Bro thers, left Southampton yesterday, under the command of Captain Bas, for Stokes Bay, where her speed was tested by the measured mile. The result was highly satisfactory, an average speed of 13 knots per hour being obtained, the result of four successive trials, two of them being against a strong head wind. The Mersey is of 1,000 tons burden and 250 horse power. Her engines are oscillating, and were constructed by Messrs. Mandalay. She is schooner rigged, and of the following dimensions:—Length between Terpen diculars, 260 feet ; breadth, 30 feet ; depth, 16 feet ; draught of water, 10 feet. There is accommodation for 92 passen gers, and the berths are exceedingly roomy, equal to any of the ships belonging to this company, the whole of which are noted for their excellent accommodation. Among'those presant were Mr. Tufnell and Captain Wilson, directors of the company ; Captain Vincent, the company's superin tendent ; Messrs. Hughes and Luke, Admiralty surveyors; Mr. Ruby, surveyor of the Board of Trade ; Dr. Normanby; Mr. Ritchie, the company's superintendent engineer ; Cap tain Strutt, &c. The Mersey is fitted with every new ap - pliance , Clifford's lowering apparatus is attached to seve ral of the boats, and Normandy's excellent filtering con denser is on board. She will leave on. Monday next with a mail for the Brazils, and is intended to occupy the station between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. • - ' S `fi t .47. - • A -DROTT 46 THE SUN. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1859. t HE OPERA-COLONNADE HOTEL (late •Fenillade's), Charles-street, Haymarket, IS NOW OPEN. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY-LANE Lessee and Director, Mr. E. T. Smith. Thety Lessee and entry Director has thepubli honour to announce to the g., subscribers, and c, that the SEASON wiIIO3MENCE on MONDAY, April 25, on which occasion will be produced Bellini's grand Opera . LA SONNAMBULA. Amina Madlle. Victoire Balfe. Conte Rodolfo (on this occasion) Signor Badialdi. Lisa Teresa Madame Heinrich. 11 Notaro Signor Bellini. Alessi° Signor Castelli. Elvino Signor Mongini. (His first appearance in this country). After the Opera, the National Anthem. Musical Director aßd Conductor, M. Benedict. To conclude with a Divertissement, entitled ARIADNE. The Ballet by M. Petit. The Music by Adolphe Adam. Mdlle. Stefanska, Mdlle. Corilla, Madlle. Morlacchi, Madlle. Mathet, Madlle. Pasqua% Madlle. Maraquita, Madlle. Rosa, Madlle. Amina Bosehetti. And the corps de ballet. On TUESDAY, LA FAVORITA : Leonora, Madame Guar duccl (her first appearance in this country); Inez, Madlle. Elena ; Baldassare, Signor Lanzoni (his first appearance) ; D on Gaspard, Signor Corsi ; Alfonso, Signor Fagotti (his first appearance); and Fernando, Signor Guiglini (his first appear ance at this theatre). Dress circle, 78. ; second circle, ss. ; pit, 3s. 6d. ; lower gallery, 29. ; upper gallery, Is. ; stalls, 10s. 6d. Box-office open daily from eleven to six, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton. There • will be Three Grand Morning Performances : en Friday, May 27 ; Friday, June 17 ; and Friday, July 8. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. On EAS mit MONDAY, will be produced Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. On EASTER MONDAY, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. B. Webster, &c. After which, THE DEEIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Followed by THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG • Mr. B. Webster , Billington, Ebnrne, Misses Woolgar, Keeley, and Arden. 'Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. D oo rs open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Unice open from 10 to 5 --no charge for booking. No fees to scrrants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough On Easter Monday will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton, Esq., supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark, and Miss M. Ternan. Commence at 7o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Wes tmins ter- road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. On Easter Monday, with extraordinary magnificence, the splendid roman NHOE ; or, The Lists of Ashby. Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phi ll ips; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing the great Star Riders and Miss Emily Cooke, Madame Blanche, Madame Bridges, Madlle. Fleurette, and Madame Francisco, being-the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever seen in one night in any theatre. Grotesques—Messrs. Hemming and Thorne. To conclude with a Farce. ;Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 Is. Commence at Seven : Carriages at 11. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. On and after MONDAY, the 25th inst., will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE ROYAL ACADEMY OVER THE WATER. Vide "Privcrt." CANTERBURY HALL, West minster-road. OPEN EVERY EVENING. The Musical Entertainments commence at Seven. Comic Vocalists E. W. Hackney, J. G. Forde, and Miss Kate Harley. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 11 in the morning until 12 at night. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53—high est since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day at noon. BARomETERr-2 0 ,'76. Wtign, Northerly ; light, with fine weather. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1859. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. LATEST NEWS. THE QUESTION OF PEACE OR WAR. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, APRIL 22. The Moniteur of this morning contains the rollowing : " Austria has not given in her adhesion to the propositions made by England, and accepted by France, Russia, and Prussia; besides which, it appears that the Cabinet of Vienna has resolved upon addressing a direct communication to the Cabinet of Turin, in order to obtain the disarma ment of Piedmont. In consequence of these facts. the Emperor has ordered the concentration of several divisions of the army on the frontiers of I Piedmont." VIENNA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22. The following official statement has been pub- Lished to-day : " Piedmont, which has for some years past endangered Austria's rights, has been summoned most urgently by Austria to disarm. Besides this demand especially addressed to Piedmont, Austria adheres firmly to the proposal of a general disarma ment, although she cannot make that proposal subordinate to the summons she had addressed to Sardinia." TURIN, APRIL 21. The following most important telegram from Turin appeared in a late edition of The Sun of last evening : • u - Gyulai has been ordered to presont an :Ulti matum for disarmament, and the sending away of the volunteers. " If refused, war is to be declared in three days. " Two more divisions of the Austrian army of 80,000 men have been ordered to the Ticino. " The English proposal for a Congress upon the same conditions as that of Laybach has been refused." Threatening movements of the Austrian army on the frontiers of Piedmont have taken place. The Austrian authorities have directed the mana gers of the Lombard Railway to suspend the usual trains to-morrow, the 22d inst. All the locomo tives have been ordered back for the transport of soldiers. Troops are expected on the road from Milan to the Ticino. This evening a Council of Ministers was held, under the presidency of the King. This message was delayed nine hours on its way by telegraph. PARIS, APRIL 21. The Paine of this evening states that serious reports have been in circulation here to-day. The entry of Austrian troops into Piedmontese terri tory has been spoken of, but till now nothing is officially confirmed. It is, however, certain that General de la Marmora has informed the French Government by telegraph that the Austrian army has made a significant movement on the strategical line of the Ticino, and that he feared being attacked at any moment. The report is also current that Austria has re fused to give in her adhersion to the propositions of England, which Power had asked for a reply within twenty-four hours. A council of Ministers has been held to-day under the presidency of the Emperor. The Princes Jerome and• Napoleon were present. The day before yesterday Austria forwarded a categorical summons to Sardinia to dissolve the free corps. A reply is to be given within three days from the receipt of the summons, and an evasive answer will be considered equivalent to a refusal. DRESDEN, APRIL 21. According to a statement in the .Dresden Journal of to-day, Austria is said to have sent a communi cation to Turin, in which three days for considera tion are given to Sardinia. TRIESTE, APRIL 21. The Austrian Lloyd steamer has arrived here to day, bringing news from Constantinople to the 16th inst. • The submarine cable to Candia and Alexandria will be laid most likely on the Ist of May next. The Grand Duke Constantine will accompany King Otto on a visit to the holy places. According to advices from Smyrna to the 16th inst., it is asserted that a Greek butcher had con fessed to being on a footing of understanding with some Jews respecting the assassination recently committed there. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. The Gazette de Lyons, of Tuesday, says:—" Gen. Renault's division, which some days ago took pos session of the camp at Sathonay, has received orders to proceed to the frontiers of the Alps, and has com menced a movement in that direction. The troops are to be echeloned in the fortified places and in cantonments. The Bth battalion of riflemen of that division having been ordered to leave for Vienne and for Grenoble (these places are on the road to the Italian Alps) set out at midday, but when it had marched about four miles it was overtaken by a mes senger with an order to return. It re-entered the city at about five o'clock in the afternoon, and took up a position in the Cours Napoleon, in order to be ready to leave anew, but this time by railway. The departure was to take place in the night, or early in the morning. It is said that all the division, Including the artillery, is to go by railway to Grenoble. It is to be replaced in the camp of Sathonay by the sth division from Africa, the first detachments of which, consisting of a battalion of the 45th, have arrived in our city." The Salut Public of yesterday announces that the battalion referred to left Lyons for Grenoble by railway, as stated. _ BOURSE, April 21. The market has been much agitated by a variety of rumours. It was stated that Austria had sent no answer to the pro positions, and that as the time fixed for receiving it was twelve o'clock this day, war must be consi dered as inevitable. Threes were offered at the opening at 67f. 65c., to 67f. 50c., then fell to 66f. 25c., rallied to 67f, 25c., and are now at 66f. 90c. Mobilier were done at 635 f. and rallied to 655 f. ; Austrian varied from 505 f. to 512 f. 50c. ; Lom bardo-Venetian, 495 f. to 501 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,245 f. to 1,255 f. ; Northern, 895 f. to 900 f. ; Southern, 475 f. to=4lof. ; Eastern, 617 f. 50c. to 620 L ; Lyons, 817 f. 50c. to 825 f. The following were the last quotations : 41 per Cents. ....••'. 94 50 I Credit Foncier Do. end month .. • 95 60 Belgian 41 . — 3 per Cents. 66 501Piedmonteso (5) 75 Do: end month.... 66 45 Roman B4 Bank Shares. . 2700 Austrian — Credit :111obilier .. 640 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 632 50 Home Debt — The season of this great metropolitan club was inaugurated yesterday by the opening trip to Gravesend. The vice-commodore, Mr. R. Green, in the absence of Lord Alfred Paget, the nobe com modore, hoisted his flag on board the Phoenix, off Blackwall, at a little after two ; and in a few minutes the fleet of yachts, consisting of the Shadow, Whisper, Capella, Romp, Lotus, and several others, were under weigh, and proceeded to Gravesend with a very favourable wind from the northward, with a little west in it. The party of gentlemen was in creased by the railway trains, and about 50 sat down to a very fine dinner at the New Falcon Hotel. Mr. Green presided, and the toasts of the evening were—" The Queen, our Royal Patroness, the Prince Consort, and the rest of the Royal Family," " The Navy and Army," " The Royal Yacht Squadron and other Royal Yacht Clubs," "Prosperity to the Royal Thames Yacht Club," " The Commodore, Lord A. Paget," " The Vice-Commodore," " The Treasurer," and a variety of others , all f which were done ample justice to; and a most agreeable evening was spent by all present. PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB. The opening of the season of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club was one of the most successful any club ever boasted of. Yachts, assembled at the Folly House, Blackwall, at four o'clock, and, led by the commodore, Mr. R. Hewett, in his beautiful yacht, the Emily, sailed under a fair north-west wind to Erith. There the members disembarked, and, joined by a number of gentlemen who had come by land, repaired to the new club-house, the Pier Hotel, where no less than 60 members and friends sat down to an excellent dinner, presided over by the commodore faced by the vice-commodore. The usual loyal toasts having been proposed and drunk, the commodore proposed " The Prince of Wales Yacht Club," dwelling upon its success, and hoping it would ever continue great and prosperous. Mr. Bartlett proposed " The Health of the Commodore," and spoke of his many virtues. Mr. Le gg p ro p osed " The Health of the Vice-Commodore;" and other toasts followed, the evening being spent very agreeably. BOAT RACE FOR £5O.—A scullers' race for £5O, in old-fashioned boats, came off yesterday afternoon over the usual metropolitan enurse, from Putney Aqueduct-bridge to the Ship, at Mortlake. The competitors were almost unknown to fame, having only contended at their plying-place at Bankside— both being watermen, and one having rowed two small races. Their names were Benjamin Neville and William Hunter, and what little money there was laid out was at the rate of 5 to 4 on Neville. The Venus, Captain Sharplin, accompanied the men, and was well filled. George Driver having been chosen umpire for Neville, Frederick Lett for Hunter, and Thomas White, the late opponent of Chambers, of the North, referee, they got to their places ; Neville having the best station. Neville went away with the lead, held it all the way as he liked, and won by 20 lengths. SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY. MARGATE, THURSDAY EVENING. Much excitement was caused this morning in the lower part of the town of Margate, by the dis covery of the body of a young lady under the new landing-place. It appears that in the first instance a lady's mantle, of fashionable shape, was observed On one of the platforms used for the debarkation of steam-boat passengers. An alarm was given, and soon after eight o'clOck a boat came in with some mariners, who, on landing, discovered the body entangled between some of the cross bars which support the jetty. Life was quite extinct. The body was immediately taken out of the water and conveyed to a building near King-street, and has since been identified by Dr. Walters, of Broadstairs. The name of the deceased, we understand, is Blake more. She is an only child, and has been living with her father and aunt near the Wheatsheaf Inn, at St. Peters, a village about two miles from this town. The family are in very good circumstances, and it is stated that the unfortunate young lady would have been entitled, on coming of age, to considerable property. She went away from home about seven o clock last evening, and left a note stating that she intended to put an end to her existence. It is needless to say that, as soon as this was discovered, no time was lost in searching for her. The search, however, did not extend to Margate, and it is gene• rally supposed that she had been walking about all night, as, from the dry appearance of the mantle, and its position with reference to the tide, it is probable that the suicide had not been committed many hours before the body was found. The deceased was about 19 years of age, and of prepos seising appearance. An inquest will doubtless be held, at which some clue may be obtained to the cause of the rash act. At present none has been VIENNA, THURSDAY, NOON. I assigned. We regret to announce the death, at the Palace Armagh, on the 11th instant, after a short illness, of Mrs' Dunbar, wife of Mr. George Dunbar, niece of the Lord Primate of Ireland, and cousin of the lamented Marquis of Waterford. The double affliction which has thus befallen the venerable archbishop, who is in his eighty-sixth year, has called forth the deep sympathy of his large circle of friends. DEATH of THE BISHOP OF BANGOR.—We regret to announce the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Christopher Bethell, Lord Bishop of Bangor, the oldest prelate on the Episcopal Bench, which occurred at his palace, in Carnar vonshire, on Tuesday last. Although his lordship has been for some time past indisposed, his death was not so soon ex - pected. Dr. Bethell was a very distinguished scholar, and was during the whole of his life identified with the theolo gical views of the high Church party, which he constantly defended in his speeches and his various writings. The deceased prelate was born in 1773, and had therefore at tained the good old age of 86. Dr. Bethell was the son of the Rev. Richard Bethell, and was born at Isleworth. Hewas educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1796, and shortly afterwards became a Fellow - of his College, and second member's prize man. In 1824 he was nominated by Lord Liverpool, the then Prime Minister, to the bishopric of Gloucester, and was consecrated to the episcopal supervision of that see. In 1830, the Duke of Wellington, the then Prime Minister, transferred him to the more lucrative see of Exeter, and again in the same year to the still more lucrative see of Bangor, which he held up to the time of his death. His lord ship was the author of several theological works, the principal of which was " General View of the Doctrine of Regenera tion in Baptism," which has become a standard work among high Churchmen. The see which Dr. Bethell's death leaves vacant is worth £4,000 a-year, and includes the Isle of An glesea, and portions of Camarvon, Denbigh, Montgomery, and Merioneth. Attached to the bishopric is the patronage of 81 livings, of the gross annual value of £23,000 aancel h-year, in addition to the deanery , w orth £l,OOO a-year ; the c lorship, treasurership, and precentorship of the cathedral, the prekends of Penmynridd (worth £4OO a year, ander held by a son of the late B isho p of Bangor) and Llanfa, h the first, second, and third canonries in the cathedral, and the archdeaconry of Merioneth. Notice was given yesterday from the General Post-office that ship mails will be made up there for New York, to be sent from Southampton by the e steamer Van which der bilt, which leaves M a y 1; by the steamea , leaves May 4 ; and by the steamer Hainmonia, which leaves May 18. GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OF ART.—The public examinations in drawing held in the Metropolitan District School of Art have just been completed, and show satisfac tory progress. 1,039 students hare been examined, of whom 298 have taken rewards of the second' or higher grade, and 1,750, being almost entirely parish children, have taken 334 of the lower grade. The numbers at each district school are as - follows :—At the Training School, South Kensington, 280 students in the second or higher grade, of whom schools 113 ob tained rewards, and 400 children of parochial ,of whom 50 obtained rewards in the lower grade At St. Mar tin's 232 students in the second or higher grade, of whom 82 obtained rewards, and 552 children of parochial schools, of whom 88 obtained rewards in the lower grade. At Gower street 102 students in the second or higher grade, of whom 30 obtained rewards. At Spitalfields 155 students of the second or higher grade, of whom 52 obtained rewards and 180 chil dren of parochial schools, of whom 52 obtained rewards in the lower grade. At Finsbury 55 students in the second or higher grade, of whom 12 obtained rewards. At St. Thomas, Charterhouse, 68 students of the second or higher grade, of whom 8 obtained re wards, and 274 children of p arochial Schools, of whom 56 obtained' rewards in the lower grade. At Lambeth 71 students in the woad or higher grade, of whom 20 obtained rewards, and 222 children of parochial schools, of whom 56 obtained rewards in the lower grade. At Rotherhithe 36 students in the second or higher grade, of whom three obtained rewards, and 159 children of parochial schools, of whom 25 obtained rewardein the lower grade. At Hampstead seven students in the second or higher grade, of whom four obtained rewards. At St. George's in the East, 34 students of the second or higher grade, of whom seven obtained rewards, and 76 children of parochial schools, of 'whom seven obtained rewards of the lower grade. EXTENSIVE FRAUD AND FORGERY BY A LIVER POOL BARBER. —Yesterday (Thursday), at the Liverpool Police Court, a man named quantity of Iri manufaCtured tobacco by means of for g ed bank notes. Thep risoner, it appears, carried on business as a haircutteran nandme -street and about a fortnight ag o he engagod a mDavid son as an assistant. A few days after Davidson commenced work Lambert asked him to take some letter paper, with the address, " Samuel Goodier' w h o l esa le and retl and wr deale ite to i home. and foreign manufactured t o bacco," Stc., several tobacco manufacturers in Ireland asking their prices and samples. Davidson did so, and the letters were re quested to be directed to 28, Exchange-street East, which was the number of the Crooked Billet Hotel. The prices and samples came, the letters were directed to Davidson, who called for them, and in return large orders were sent out, accompanied by the halves of £19,-£2 O , and £.50 notes in payment. Messrs. Carroll, of Dundalk ; Johnson, of Belfast ; and Murray, Belfast, were among those who received the order, and despatched tobacco to Liverpool, in the meantime Davidson and Lambert quar relled; the former gave information to the police; a watch was kept, and Lanii9ert detected in the act of despatching fresh orders, with more forged notes inside the envelopes. Several of the prosecutors attended, and c:eposed to receiving orders with halves of notes enclosed, the other halves o f which were to follow by the next post. The notes, how ever, on examinat ion p roved forgeries, and at the time the; intelligence of the fraud they had disc sentr nv ere 4 that th% no t es were surreptitious , The prisoner was also was to trial a t the assizes. An old man Milled Thomas Fowler rem anded for a week , in order that luqufrics might be made as to the extent of his connection with tills stated toast 1 3.0 011 accessory to the fraud, ease, Pit was • - - THE DECLARATION OF WAR. The hour is at hand ! Proud in the command of an overgrown army, and flattered by the base sub serviency of European statesmen, the Emperor of Austria defies the sentiment of the civilised world, and precipitates war. To stamp out ideas with the hoof of the war horse has been for ages the dearest delight of the family of Francis Joseph ; and he is worthy of his ancestors. Austria has rejected the proposal of a Congress, on conditions to which all the other Great Powers, and also Sardinia, had assented. She dares not sub mit the frightful system she . has pursued in Italy to inspection. Better war—better even defeat and Icompelled concession—than that horrible exposure and condemnation before Europe. To surrender at the point of the sword her arbitrary interfer ence in the independent States of Italy would be tolerable, a soldierly submission to the fortune of war, a reverent homage to brute force; to retire within her treaty frontier in consequence of the deliberations of a Congress, would be a slavish deference to reason, opinion, and the force of ideas, such as the Austrian Emperor will never consent to. After months spent in bringing the impartial opinion and disinterested statesmanship of Europe to the solution of Italian difficulties—at a moment when England, Russia, Prussia, and France had agreed on the means of preserving peace and doing justice—when King Victor Emmanuel had given a signal proof of his readiness to make sacrifices for the preservation of the general peace, Austria, with out nptice, withdraws her quarrel with Sardinia from the domain of diplomacy, and insists on settling it simply with the sword. This is a monstrous insult to all the neutral Powers, but most of all to Eng land. For the mean and grovelling compliances of Lord Malmesbury—for the flattery of Lord Derby —for the sacrifices made by the entire Cabinet in preferring Austrian favour to the approval of their just and generous countrymen, this is the fair return, the righteous retribution. _ _ Count Gyufai presents an ultimatum to the Court of Turin : Sardinia must disarm, not as taking part in a general disarmament, by voluntary agreement with the Great Powers, and under the regulations of a joint commission, but at the peremptory order of Austria, and in such manner as her generals and marshals may dictate. Before all things she must send away the 16,000 volunteers who have flocked unbidden to her standard from all parts of Italy. Let her refuse to do this within three days, and Anqtria will declare war. Austria has declared war. This ultinzatum—to speak of it for a moment as if it were a bona fide diplomatic' demand, intended for serious considera tion—is a monstrous proposal to extend to Piedmont the same infamous policy which has reduced all the other States in Italy to subjection to Austria. It is a demand that the one Constitutional State, which is the hope and joy of every Italian patriot, shall strip naked, and prostrate herself at the feet of the great oppressor of Central and Southern Europe. We will not insult the King of the noble Twenty five Thousand who fought at our side in the Crimea —we will not insult our readers, by discussing this mock proposition. It will not be accepted ; it will not be entertained • it is already rejected. The Sovereign, the People, the Army are unanimous. " I will fight a second ,Novara," said Victor Em manuel, a day or two ago, " rather than surrender the noble Italian youth who have placed confidence in me." Count Gyulai's declaration of war follows hard upon Count Buol's recent exposition of Austrian policy in Italy as pursued for nearly half a century, and is its rational consequence. In the despatch of the Austrian Foreign Minister, dated Feb. 25, it i s solemnly declared that Italy can never have free institutions, but must always be governed by the bayonet—that the Princes of Italy have a legiti mate right to deliver their territory to the military possession and their subjects to the stripes of Aus tria, and that to contest this is to deny their inde pendence—that the Papal Government needs reform in its army, and that if other reforms are needed in Italy, none can be undertaken while Piedmont retains her system. Such is the sum of Count Buol's declaration, and he is not expounding an idle theory. To defend bad governments against peoples weary of suffering, Austria has successively occupied every State in Italy.. Since 1815 her armies have been for five years in Naples,'for six in Tuscany, for six in Modena, for six in Parma, for 25 in the Papal States. There is not one of the petty princes south of the Po who does not know that, however badly he may behave, there is a great power at hand which will infallibly protect him against the in dignation of his people. In 1815 Austria bound the King of Naples by treaty to administer his government according to her absolutist principles. At Laybach, when there was danger that constitu tional government might strike root in the same kingdom, Prince Metternich declared that "if the King himself wanted to establish the constitu tional system, the Emperor would make war upon him." In 1822, the Austrian Minister declared, in the name of his master, that " the institutions of representative Government could not and should not be established in any single Italian State." When the Austrians left the Pontifical States in 1822, the Emperor informed the Cardinal Legate of Forli that " he should return, as he had come, un asked, whenever he thought proper." When, in 1831, the French Government remonstrated against a renewed occupation of the Papal States, Metter nich replied that his master was determined to intervene, at the cost of a general war. And now we ask—Who is it that has associated freedom with war in'ltaly ? Who but the Power which declares that only by the sword shall Italy become free ? This is the policy of Austria-- , -" dignified, conci• liatory" Austria, as Mr. Disraeli has just described her. And now can any one doubt what has im pelled the flower of the youth of Italy to thebanner of the monarch who has exerted himself to put an end to the oppression of his countrymen ? Blind of heart must he be who does not see that this is a renewal of the undying struggle between freedom and tyranny. Every Englishman will follow it with his sympathies and prayers. Let those who are fighting for freedom know and feel that our hearts are in their cause. Let them be assured that, while we are sternly forbidden by duty to engage actively on their side, the universal judgment of this free nation condemns their enemies ; and that, come what may, no sword of England shall be drawn to pro long Austrian tyranny in Italy. Let no one be deceived by the languige of Ministers on sufferance, for the people of this country will confound and overwhelm any Cabinet that shall dare to array the name and power of England on the side of de spotism.—DailylNvws. (From the Times.) Yesterday this kingdom was alternately soothed and startled by two successive telegrams which airrived from Paris and from Turin. We were compelled within the course of the same morning to hold out to the English public a prospect of almost certain peace, and to withdraw that promise and to substitute for it the probability of almost instant war. Lord Derby, in his explanation on Monday night, intimated thiat in the interests of peace Ministers had made the other and last sugges tion to the Powers at difference, and that upon the acceptance or rejection of that suggestion their present hope of peace rested. The Moniteur of yesterday at once informed us of the substance of that proposal, and of its acceptance. The proposition was to effect a general and simultaneous disarma ment under the supervision of six Commissioners, one of whom should be a Sardinian. It suggested also that the Congress should assemble and delibe rate contemporaneously with the Commission, and, following the example of the Congress of Laybach, that the representatives of the Italian States should have seats in the Congress. To this suggestion, which appeared reasonable and practical, France, Russia, and Prussia had given their adhesion, nor was there any intimation in the telegram convey ing this information which constrained us to believe that the absence of the name of - Austria proceeded from any other cause than that she was more deli berate in her action than the other Powers. Close, however, upon the heels of this good news followed the telegram from Turin, stating that the English proposal for a Congress had been refused, and Oat the Austrian General commanding i n Lombardy had been ordered to present an ultimatum demanding immediate disarmament, with th e alternative of war after the lapse of three days from the delivery e n o z . n t e T i n h p e o k r anroywf .ldeedtgsemo,faslesasdddeeedi.siv_eb: b of u t t h c i o s n u s / i t s i t 'i e n n a t t:t reinforement of 80,000 men had been ordered to the Austrian army now o n th e b anks of the Ticino. Prussia had mobilised three Corps d Armee, con • sisting of some 70,000 .then. Every act notified was a preparation for immediate war on the • part of Austria ; every movement was directed either to aggressive operations upon Sardinia or to the defence of her own German provinces. Such is now the state of affairs. Austria has 200 ,000 men eith er upon t h e Ti c ino or within such a distance that they can be placed upon the banks of that frontier within the three days of grace fixed in the imperative demand of the Austrian General. Sardinia occupies the opposite bank with a force which could not, probably, delay for one day its own destruction by that gigantic enemy. It may be that Sardinia can show 70,000 men in arms, including her free corps, gathered from all parts of Italy, and comprehending no small portion of the discontented spirits who have passed their lives in making mani festations of hatred to the foreigner. Of these 70,000, perhaps, after garrisoning her, great fox - tresses, Alessr n lHa and Genoa, she may be able to range 40,000 in line of battle. Three days of re spite are all that is given. If, as we read the te l e rm, the demand has been already made, next Sunday may see an Austrian army in quick advance upon Turin. The position of Sardinia is perilous, but it is a position from which she cannot escape by a tame compliance. Even if Victor Emmanuel could accept the ignominy of succumbing to the first pressure of force after putting forth such loud defiances, the men he has called around him would not suffer him to retreat. If Austria and Sardinia are left to themselves we shall hear in a few days of an invasion and a battle. Everything points this out as the natural sequence. The sudden ultimatum and the short reprieve are evidently part of a well-considered military policy formed by Austria. It is clearly her interest, if she is resolved upon war, or if she feels that she will be compelled. to accept war, to crush the Sardinian army before the French can arrive to its assistance. The march from the banks of the Ticino to Turin is through a plain country unprotected by any place of military strength, well known by operations in a recent campaign, and offering every facility for the advance of a great army. Three days would bring the Ailstrian General to the unpro tected city of Turin. There is nothing between the frontier and the capital but the arms and bodies of those 40,000 Sardinian troops, who are so vastly outnumbered by the Austrian hosts. To crush that army, to effect by force the disarmament demanded, and to dictate terms at Turin, would be but the effort of a few days, if Sardinia remained unfriended. When we see her in this imminent danger we look around anxiously to measure how far off are her friends, and what may be the chances of timely assistance. We may assume, perhaps, that the passing of the Ticino will be considered by the Emperor of the French as a declaration of war by Austria, and that while the Austrians are march ing from the East upon Turin the French Emperor will be pouring his columns from the West and marching through the passes of the Alps to meet the Austrian invaders, and to anticipate, if possible, their arrival at the Sardinian capital. For this pur pose we may consider Grenoble or Briancon as con taining the whole force of the French empire, for the chains of communication by rail are so complete that continuous columns might be directed from all parts of France upon those cities. The columns, however, that should take their way by Chambery and Mont Cenis would find themselves 180 miles from Turin when crossing into the Piedmontese territory at the Pont de Beauvoisin. Those which should advance by way of Embrun and Briangon and over Mont Genevre could find a better road and shorter cliotonoo on the Piedmontese side of the Alps, but would still scarcely hope to win the race against the Austrian troops coming by the plains. Again, help might quickly arrive from Toulon and Marseilles by way of Genoa ; Toulon is rich in transports, and a few hours might land a respectable force at Genoa. From Genoa there is a railway to Turin, but, unfortunately, it winds away far up to the north-east, and an important portion of it would probably be reached and destroyed by the Aus trians in their first day's march. We should not be very confident in trusting the safety of a king dom to the possibility of uniting before Turin columns which had to penetrate the Alps and •to arrive from Genoa, if one condition of the military success of such an operation were that the con centration should be effected in three or four, or even in five or six days. Perhaps we may count something for the delay which may be reasonably expected to be interposed by the Sardinian army either fighting or retreating; but, failing this, or those other chances of war which never can be fully calculated, the military heads who seem to have conceived this plan of opening the campaign have not failed in strategic ability. Physically speaking, if the war is to come, the Power which strikes the first blow and chooses its own field of action will commence with an advan tage. Morally speaking, of course, the picture is reversed. In former times there would be little more to say about this crisis but to await the issue of the inevitable, invasion. But the telegraph has altered all things. The same wires which have told us of the demand which General Gyulai has made by direction of his Imperial master has by this time carried to the Court of Vienna the strongest protest of England against this hasty and haughty menace. The Emperor of the French is now in possession of those significant words which were spoken by Lord Derby at the termination of his speech. Na poleon 111. has, moreover, heard of the movements that are being made in Germany ; and he cannot but suspect that, when Prussia puts her troops in motion, it is not without some knowledge of the part which Russia is prepared to play in the great drama. He can look around, therefore, and see that his chosen antagonist is likely to be ablo to devote the whole resources of his empire to the contest which he has challenged. He must by this time have meditated on the fact that Russia, Ger many, and England have assumed an attitude already passively hostile, and are tending towards a state of even active coercion, if fortune should give him victory in the war, and if his ambition should carry him beyond certain very narrow limits of aggression. We may discern a spark of hope, therefore, that Louis Napoleon may not make a hasty rush to take up the glove that is now so rashly thrown down ; and that time may yet enable England to prevail upon Austria to retract it. There is still a faint chance that we may induce Austria not to precipitate a war just at the time when matters have taken such a turn that there was some real hope of an a ccommodation. It would not be right, however, to hang much weight upon this slender thread. It is not a very promising prospect to hope to change the purpose of a stub born Power, exulting in her military superiority, by diplomatising her through the telegraph. A letter from Naples says :—" The Neapolitan police has received information that two steamers manned by filibusters have left Genoa, it was not known for what place. It is believed that the men on board, taking advantage of the trouble and in decision which will follow the death of the King, will disembark in some part of the kingdom and make a revolutionary attempt similar to that of Pisacane at Salmi." DEATH OF JOHN ELLIOTT HYNDAM.—DIIRLIN, Thursday Evening.—The evening papers announce the death of John Elliott Hyndam, Esq., City Coroner, and agent at Dublin for foreign passports, which occurred this morning at his own residence. THE SHIP ROSE OF SHARON.—The Board of Trade have directed an inquiry into the circumstances attending the stranding of the Rose of Sharon, Maxton, from Calcutta for London, near Cape Rosal. The municipality of Perugia has issued a notifi cation announcing that the Papal Government has opened recruiting lists for volunteers willing to enter the P on tifi ca l army. The bounty offered is twenty scudi (th e scu d o i s sfr. 35c.) instead of six, which it was before; besides two scudi per man to recruiting-officers. The l eng th of service is limited to four years instead of six. TlehgeraKphiincg and Queen of P russ i a left Naples, a t e despatch from that city to Berlin states, on Monday for Rome, and intend to remain there to the end of the ipresent month. Their Majesties proposed to visit Venice before returning to Potsdam. PRESENTS FROM HIS HIGHNESS SAID PASHA, VICEROY OF EGYP T. — lmmediately on the arrival of the Pasha of Egypt's steam -yacht, Paid Gahaad, at Alexandria t his Serene Highness came on board and expressed himself in the highest terms of admiration with the manner in which the vessel had been fitted up and his wishes respect ing her carried out by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and, as a proof of his satisfaction, he personally presented the captain and chief officer (Captain Kellock and Mr. Pinkey) with two large gold snuff-boxes studded with brilliants, a large plain gold snuff-box to the three other officers, and a purse of 500 guineas to be divided amongst the officers and crew. We have been favoured with an inspection of the presents made to the captain and chief officers, and must say that they are of the most valu able description, the brilliants being of the first water and of a very large size. THE MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.—There is now a vacancy amongst the knights of this ancient order, through the death of Lieut.-Colonel John Clarke, late of the 66th Regiment, an officer of high merit, and whose ser vices emb race a lengthened period, including the war in the Peninsula to) its close, from March, 1809. He was at the battles of Oporto and Talavera, the lines of Torres Vedras, the actions of Arogo de Molina and Campo Mayor, the battle of Albuera, the siege of Badajoz, the battles Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Nivelle, the Nive, the action of the Palais, the battle of Orthes, the action at Aire, and the battle of Toulouse. At Albuera, in command of a company, he was struck down by a Polish lancer, and was taken prisoner, but made his escape in a charge of cavalry. He received the war medal with eight clasps after the Peninsular war. Colonel Clarke served for a long time in Canada ; and during the captivity of the Emperor Napoleon I. at St. Helena, being one of the officers having frequently the sur veillance of that great and extraordinary man, and happily united. in no ordinary degree a firm fidelity to the impo tant trust reposed in him to the kindness, courtesy, and humane consideration due to fallen majesty. He was alike The officer, the gentleman, and the Christian. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON A HUSBAND AT HULL.—At the Hull Police-court, on Wednesday, two women, named Betsy Ferguson and Mary Hansom, were charged with attempting to poison John Ferguson. The . prisoner Ferguson is the wife of the intended victim, and the woman Hansom, who is about 70 years of age, was the landlady of the house at which the Ferguson had furnished lodgings. It appeared they had not lived comfortably to gether, and for some months past the man Ferguson had been annoyed by repeated vomitings and sickness, which 'generally attacked him after he had taken his meals. Ac cording to medical advice, he had watched the proceedings of the two women for some time past. On Monday last he had some broth and mutton for dinner, and the fbmalest though at the same table, did not partak6 of the broth. After dinner Ferguson was sick, and when he got home at night he went rather gently into the house. It was about 10 o'clock, but by the light of a candle he saw his wife and Hansom standing over a saucepan in the kitchen. His wife was taking a powder out of a paper and putting it into the saucepan. Ransom, while she was doing so, said, ti you had better put a little more in, we are dallying too long with it." He stood so that they could not see him, and he saw Hansom take a paper up stairs, and heard her lock a door while she was there. The next morning his wife gave him some broth for his dinner to take to work with him, he took it to a c h emist, who analysed it, and round it to contain arsenic. A paper of arsenic was also found up stall; s in a locked closet. Mr. Stead, wh pri soners, examined the. witness, for . the purpose of showing that he had trumped up the charge, tut he failed to do 8?. The case was remancled,— . o appeared for the m - and/peer Guardian. RAILWAYS. _ ....___. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto 897 50 .. 890 -- Ly o ns and Moditerranean 775 —. .. 772 50 815 .. 817 50 New ditto • • . Geneva 5OO .. Southern Western 525 .. 520 E aatern Sardinian 355 .. -- Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper 25f. se. ; money, 2,5f.5e. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 e.; money, 24f. 90Q.