The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATC H E S. " Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold Silver 2 to 50 guineas. Bend 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descr,p tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. - - 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T HEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. And PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. After which, a new fairy romance, THE PILGRIM OF LOVE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S OUT. Mr. Widdicomb and Miss L. Keeley. Followed by THE FOOL'S REVENGE. Bertuccio, a Jester, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with the extravaganza of THE SYLPHIDE. Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Louise Keeley, Miss Helen Howard, Miss Rose Leclercq, Mr. Shore, Mr. Saker, and Mr. Frank Matthews, Commence at 7. AD ELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr.Bent._Webster. THIS EVENING, the popular - original ATlelphi drama of THE DEAD HEART. Robert Landry, Mr. B. Webster; Messrs. P. Bedford, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Stuart, C. J. Smith, Billington, Eburne, Powell, Romer, Page; MissWool gar, Miss IC. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. After which the Grand Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymose, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount Verysoso, Sir. C. J. Smith ; Graceful, Miss Woolgar ; Queen Lueldora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa, Miss K. Kelly. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss JULIA DALY, the celebrated American Actress. Mr. LEIGH MURRAY is engaged, and will shortly appear in a favourite Drama. Acting Manager—Mr. Wrn. Smith. ROY AL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Under the management of Mr. Wm. Brough. THIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhaem, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames E. Travers and K. Saxon. After which, the burlesque of THE FORTY THIEVES. Miss Lydia Thompson, Hiss Clara St. Casse, Miss E.Travers, Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, Stc. ; and a numerous Corps de Ballet. Followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. Sir W. Don. To conclude with THE MIDDY ASHORE. Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING the performances will commenae with a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED. F. Robinson, C. Young, &c. After which, A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A PE CULIAR PERPLEXING PREDIC AMENT. Mr. Charles Young and Miss Wyndham. Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E. Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de Ballet. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform Ince commences at 7. A STLE Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY. Sole Manager, Mr. EDWIN HUGHES. The New Management, in announcing the Triumphant Success of the Re-opening of this Popular Theatre, have the utmost satisfaction in stating they but re-echo the senti ments expressed by the entire Press and the Public nightly, that the NEW GREAT MILITARY SPECTACLE, with its unprecedeutedly magnificent scenery and effects, splendid and appropriate costumes aad appointments, and grand mis-en scene, is the most perfect and imposing hippo-drama ever produced. The renowned Continental and British Eques trian Artistes are also 'received each evening with the un bounded approbation of astonished and delighted audiences. The novel and elegant arrangement and conducting of the Acena give the most complete satisfaction ; and with the truly gorgeous decorations render the evening's amusement in this far-famed Establishment one of the most varied, trilliant, and recherche in this great metropolis. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, To commence with the Great Military Spectacle, in Four Acts, entitled "THE HISTORY OF A FLAG." To be suc ceeded by an inimitable routine of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of the Arena, supported by a host of Star Riders of the day, and Last sights of the Wonder of the World, Jonathan Jack. Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. CONCERTS: CANTERBURY HALL THIS EVENING. C. 11. COUNOD'S OPERA, FAUST. First Time in this Country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marguerite Conductor Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is, Hall, 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come Alan and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Maokney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER...-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 28, 1860. land. We bethink ourselves at once of our own national share in the guarantee solemnly entered into by the eight leading Powers of Europe, in the 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna. Remarking which—no wonder the member for Horsham, addressed those urgent inquiries of his to the noble lord her Majesty's Foreign Secretary. As we have intimated, Lord J. RugsELL's reply to these inquiries yesterday in the House of Com mons will be found, upon examination, to have resolved itself into a Ministerial statement of the very last importance. " It is proposed," said the noble lord, " that there should be a Conference of the Powers of Europe who signed the Treaty of Vienna on a particular subject, and that subject is, as it is stated by the French Government, to reconcile the 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna, to which all the Powers of Europe who signed that treaty are parties, with the second article of the Treaty of Turin, which has lately been concluded between the Emperor of the FRENCH and the King of SARDINIA." The noble lord observes further on in his statement, that " From communications I have received, and from the de clarations which the Emperor of the FRENCH has made from time to time, I conceive that to any measures that may be properly called the dismem berment of Savoy we should find in the Conference that the present Government would be decidedly opposed ; but it is obvious that there may be other measures which would not amount to dismember ment, but which would yet give a military fron- THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.35, still rising. WIND, Northerly and Westerly, moderate ; with cloudy weather and sunshine occasionally. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA-Y.—Morning, 6h. 25m.—Afternoon, 6h. 56m. To-moRROW.-Moming, 7h. 31m.—Afternoon, Bh. 18m. ,:1,,,, ,, , ~, .--.4.,,,, ,, etr. bn . '''‘',._,..,,: - : ;` , 10 , 1! \ 1: ,... * .A. "5' , 7' • li i 14 ,0 , : , .2:1 .. ...._ . i .i f i 7 _ 7_ ., r: 0 i., ~ , .., ---.: v:. _~-<~ THE SUN. LONDON, SA'IURDAY, APRIL 28, 1880. tier to Switzerland, which might be pro posed by Switzerland." That is the glim mering of a possible compromise in the hereafter. Bat, meanwhile are these not ominous portents of a difference already spring ing up between France and England ? Let Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S own remarks yet further be our answer—" We have stated," he says, "more than once at Paris, and Lord Cow LEY has stated it even since his return to Paris, that, in our opinion, it is most desirable that no civil or military occupation by France should take place until the Conference has considered this question of the neutralised parts of Savoy, and under what restrictions those neutralised portions shall be hereafter held, and in what manner they shall be disposed of. The French Government, however, I must say, on the other side, state that they see great difficulty in as senting to such a proposition, because it would seem to assume that the Treaty of Turin did not perfectly do what it purported to do—namely, transfer the whole sovereignty of Savoy from the King of SARDINIA, its late or present Sove reign, to the Emperor of the FRENCH." So that already—before the proposed Conference is decided upon being held—the two Governments are avowedly at cross purposes. Bearing which significant fact in our remembrance, we cannot but apply to this question of Savoy those solemn and impressive words with which Sir E. B. LYT TON closed his masterly speech upon Re form upon the preceding evening, when the right hon. gentleman referred to the visible and awful necessity fast coming upon us, namely, that threatening to render, very speedily, imperative " the cautious consideration of dangers which would alarm the boldest statesman and menace the strongest thrones ! " Happily, we can all bear in mind in these emergencies the epitomized encou ragement which the wisdom of ages has condensed into a proverb that familiar proverb, which avers that those are " Forearmed who are Fore warned !" in the district of Yorkshire whence the sandstone flags of our•pavements are largely brought a pecu liar mode of building even large houses prevails. Each wall is composed of two comparatively thin facings of stone, an outside and inside one, perfectly independent of each other ; the intervening space is filled with small loose stone or rubble. The two walls, which thus should form but one, would of course bulge out with the weight and pressure of the rubble, and soon totter and fall ; but they are connected at proper intervals by longer stones called " throughs," which, passing from the front casing-wall to the back one, connect the two firmly together, and make the whole fabric very strong. Germany is just now much like one of these walls, with the sad difference that it wants the " throughs." There arc the two principal States, Austria and Prussia, and the abundant rubble of smaller States between them. The Diet should answer to the " throughs ;" but, failing in its object, it rather aids than otherwise the lateral action of the rubble states, and instead of serving to bind all together into one strong fabric—one which might resist the shock which threatens the western front of the "Fatherland"—it rather serves to invite the Emperor of the FRENCH to try whether the experi• ment of the ram's horns might not be again suc cessful. Austria and Prussia combined, and strengthened by the states otherwise insignificant, might bid defiance to the legions on the other side of the Rhine. In their present relation to each other they almost call upon an ambitious military power to give them the ruinous push. The debate in the Prussian Chamber, an account of which appeared in The Sun of Thursday, shows that Prussia still aspires to the lead of Germany. The Diet, under Austrian influence, does not favour Prussian ambition. Prussians, therefore, are prepared to treat the Diet as a dead and buried thing. While it confines itself to words she will take no active steps, but if the Diet seeks to con strain Hesse again by violence, it may be necessary for Prussia too to draw the sword. Such is the language of speakers who support the present Government of Prussia. They acknowledge that he whom we may now call the late King did de grade his country by a crouching submission to Austria, and to despotic counsels, at the instigation of the puppy aristocracy which then controlled his vacillating mind. They have now a firmer hand at the helm of affairs, and the REGENT, if very far from a liberal in the English notion of the word, is liberal for a German Prince, and seems to feel with his Chambers the necessity of having the German nations, and not their rulers only, well affected to wards the Headship of Prussia. This cannot be unless Prussia avow herself the friend of free in stitutions. To these the people, after almost half a century of falsified promises, still look as to their right. The resolution of confidence in the Government was carried by an overwhelming majority after what must be called, for Germany, a thoroughly radical debate ; one in which—Prussia at the head of the German peoples—was the domi nant idea. If we may recur to the illustration with which we commenced, Prussia is trying to cement to her the loose rubble of States between her and Austria, by pouring in the cohesive strength of liberal sympathies. Meantime what is Austria doing ? Falling to pieces. Her military strength is disorganised. Her exchequer bankrupt. Her finance Minister, after years of fraud on the State's behalf and on his own, has dismissed himself from the world, after his Sovereign had dismissed him from office. Venetia paralyses alike her army and her Exchequer. Hun gary would do both, but that coercion has extorted, there, ruinous loans from the people. But the co ercion itself probably costs almost if not quite as much as it extorts. The states around the heredi- Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary made last evening in the House of Commons some very im portant statements. They were elicited by the in quiries addressed to the noble lord by the hon. gentleman the member for Horsham as to the course which it was in any way likely might be pursued by the English Ministry with a view to the preservation of the liberties of those provinces of Savoy immediately contiguous to Switzerland ! Provinces, the neutralization, or comparative independence of which, in certain con tingencies, was, so to speak, formally guaranteed by the 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna, solemnly entered into, in 1814-1815, by the eight chief' powers of Christendom. The circumstance of this arrangement to the carrying into effect of which those Great Powers solemnly pledged themselves, forty-five years ago, is now—as all Europe knows —laughed to scorn by the imperial French Government ! That Government conspicuous among the rest of the leading States of the world, as the one which alone goes to war for an idea—only, however, ex plaining the nature of the idea really battled for, at the close of a campaign by means of a new treaty expanding the frontiers of the magnanimous champion of nationalities at the ex pense of the ally deluded into a belief in his Im perial Majesty's unselfish magnanimity ! Such are the superb " ideas" for which France now makes war whenever it suits her pleasure and convenience. These are, we presume, the veritable—ldees 11 a poleonnes ! The latest elucidation of the mystery to which we have been reverting has been .that wonderful Macchiavellian " do" perpetrated upon the King of SARDlNlA— whereby his august and imperial ally has adroitly filched from his Majesty :VICTOR EMMANUEL the pride a n d glory of his ancestral dominions. England, that has had no hand what ever in the warlike conflict of last year upon the plains of Lombardy, has, in her character of spec tator, awakened at last only when too late to ob serve how cleverly the magnanimous Liberator of Italy (not yet, by the way, quite liberated?} h as—in the instance of his conduct towards Savoy_ e stolen a precious diadem and put it in his pocket !" The consummate cleverness with which this transfer has been managed by the French EMPEROR, in spite of the wily CAVOUR and the chi valrous VICTOR EMMANUEL—might almost ex tort our applause, in spite of our indignation en beholding it—but that there comes in instantly as a painful afterthought, the situation of those provinces of Savoy that ought to be neutralised — the provinces immediately contiguous to Switzer tary archduchy which the Germans have attempted to assimilate are now more separated from her in heart than they have been for half a century. She has been labouring to amalgamate them all into one Germanised Empire ; the result of all her labour is that they are more Magyar, more &la vonic, more Italian, more of Croats, Czecs, Tran sylvanians, and so forth, than they have been for the last quarter of a century. Austria's treatment of Hungary is what all eyes are now fixed on. It is here the battle of her salvation or ruin is to be fought. It is in her power to be strong, with Hungary cordial—it is her determination, probably, to break up altogether rather than make a frank concession of the rights of which by perjury, fraud, and violence she has robbed that noble nation: The truth is, grant Hungary her old and free institutions, and the haughty young man who represents the Hapsburgs must confess that the detestable policy of a detestable family has failed ; or, what would be as provoking —give Hungary her rights, and that vigorous kingdom, with the states which properly form part of it—Transylvania, Croatia, and Sclavonia, would, by their flourishing condition and strength, soon surpass in political and commercial importance the smaller and less energetic German portion of the Empire. We are accordingly by no means surprised to learn that the Hungarians perceive in the letter to General BENEDEK, and in his appointment to the office of Governor of Hungary, merely an illusory concession to fear. BENEDEK has, it seems, been absent from his youth from Hungary, and is com pletely Austrianised, while the letter has no legal force—may be carried out or not—will serve to ad vance upon if the Court must really yield, and equally serve to be dropped, if the EMPEROR finds himself strong enough to rule by terror ! Such a rule deserves to fall. The aspiration of every Englishman is—may Hungary rise on the ruins of Austrian despotism, not Austrian despotism on the ruins of Hungarian liberties. many as six-and-thirty officials at Rochforte, there proved to have been guilty of serving out to the seamen of the Royal Navy of France grain and other provisions, 38 per cent. composed of adulte rations—consisting, if not of deleterious, of wholly innutritious ingriedients ! Did not these despicable disclosures elicit at last from M. DE LAMARTINE towards the close of 1847—what we can almost imagine to be now in 18E0 prophetically applicable to the Cabinet of Vienna those scornful words in which the Poet-Statesman exclaimed—" Yes, a re volution is approaching, and it is the revolution of contempt !" The suicide of Baron BRUCK cannot but be re garded as a very sinister occurrence, and as one darkly ominous for the Austrian Government. Fol lowing, as it has done, upon so many disasters, and upon such miserable disclosures of peculation in high places at Vienna, it not unnaturally recalls to mind the numerous and dismal portents of evil which preceded the downfall of King LOUIS PHILIPPE and his entourage. The accomplished author of the History of the Dix Ans has but very recently been recalling to recollection the fantastic prophets of disaster whose advent heralded unconsciously to themselves the awful coming of the great French Revolution. M. Louis BLANC had free choice of his epoch of course, and has chosen that immediately anterior to the sub versioe of the old Bourbon dynasty in the decapita tion of King Louis XVI. and of his unhappy Queen, MARIE ANTOINETTE. He need not have gone so far back for his illustration, had he simply required an illustration of the kind to which we are now alluding. He has selected the particular period specified, however, simply because it suited his whim that that time and no other, earlier or later, should be the theme of his eloquent disquisitions. And it certainly must be allowed to possess beyond all other eras in human history, ancient or modern, supreme attractions. Otherwise if contented (to point the moral and adorn the tale he would tell) with a lesser degree of fatuity on the part of the rulers thus blindly rushing on to their own destruction, thus frivolously dancing away their last hours of pride and power over the flower-strewn crater of the hidden volcano, thus marching in solemn procession (as to a crowning ovation) over the edge of the unseen Tarpeian—M. Louis BLANC need not have gone further back than to a period so absolutely contemporary, that he, though but now in the 47th year of his age, 12 years since, personally and conspicuously, participated in the events which grew out of the catastrophe alluded to! The catastrophe of the abrupt and ignomini ous downfall of the Orleans dynasty in the revolution of 1848—an occurrence portented by a series of dark and evil doings, not unlike in some particulars those which have now been brought to a hideous climax at Vienna by the sui cide of the distinguished Minister of Finance in the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH'S ominously ill-fated Government. We quote in another column an article from the Manchester Examiner and Times, on the report of the National Lifeboat Institution, We have lately called attention to this interesting report, and have frequently brought the claims of the institution before the public. We are glad to see its value and importance becoming more generally recog nised, and a grateful sense of the benefits it confers more widely diffused. As our contemporary justly observes, there is a general indifference, or rather ignorance, among the residents in inland places of the great need that exists for such an association. The perils of a sea-going life are only vividly brought before them by some great catastrophe, like the loss of the Royal Charter, or, it may be, one of the many unfortunate emigrant vessels which occasionally strike public humanity, as it too often occurs. But, as we gather from the report, or may learn from personal inquiry, the loss of life in stirred by one of such terrible disasters is far out weighed by the vast aggregate of deaths incurred by two and three during the year. In the course of last year the losses by shipwreck on our coasts amounted to 1,646. Surely if anything can be done to diminish so great a loss of life and mitigate the suffering inflicted by it, such an attempt should be aided and encouraged to the very utmost. The members of the committee are untiring in their exertions to keep the lifeboats in full efficiency and readiness for service, and have many excellent rules to secure this desirable end. Each lifeboat must be taken afloat for exercise every quarter fully manned and equipped, so that the crew may be familiar with her properties and management. Other precautions are taken in order that the boat may be kept in good working order, and be ready fir service on the shortest notice. The local com mittee are bound to make quarterly inspection, that every defect may be remedied, and the stores may be repaired or replaced if in the least degree doubtful. We hoartily commend the benevolent and able manner in which the association endea vour to carry out the objects of the institution; and we trust that their claim on the assistance and sympathy of the public will be recognised in a manner that will speedily enable them to diminish the liabilities they have incurred, and increase their sphere of action and utility. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil arrived in Grosvenor-square yesterday from Burghley House, near Stamford. The Countess of Clonmel and family have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have arrived in Grosvenor-square—the noble earl from Newmarket and the countess from Milton-park. Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived at No. 12, Hereford-street, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness Townsend, Vis count Itaynham, M.P., Mr. St. Aubyn, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, have arrived in Lower Grosvenor street. Sir John Dick-Lauder, Bart., and Captain A. Mitchell Inns have left Fenton's Hotel for Omenford Castle. Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Suffolk. Mr. snd Mrs. Petro have arrived at their house in. Berkeley-square, from Paris, for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Norton, have arrived in Mansfield-street, from Elton Manor, Notts, for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Disney and the Misses Disney have arrived at tha Brunswick, Jennyn-street, from the Hyde, near Ingatestone. Mr. and Mrs. James Pletcher have arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Wootton-hill, Lancashire. LATEST Reuter's office : DOVER, April 27.—His Excellency the Earl of Elgin, with the countess and their youthful son, arrived at the Lord Warden hotel last evening. His lordship sailed by mail packet last night for Calais. Her ladyship slept at the hotel, and will return to London to-day. What were some of the more conspicuous of these lamentable auguries at Paris in the winter of '47-'4B, justifying again in a literal sense the wis dom of the poet's dictum that— " Coming events cast their shadows before ?" Count Cavour has been presented with the citizenship of Florence by the municipality of that city. A Vicuna letter says :—" It is considered certain here that as soon as the reorganisation of Hungary is com pleted, the Archduke Maximilian will be placed at the head of the administration of that kingdom. It is stated that this office was proposed to him during his recent stay nt Vienna, but that he declined to accept it at the moment." The German Journal of Frankfort states that the Austrian clergy, comprisin 13 archbishops, 52 bishops, 700 convents of men and 276 of women, amounting in all to 28,000 persons, and possessing property to the amount of 500 millions of florins, only subscribed 300,000 forins to the new loan. Let the historian of Modern Europe answer in one sentence. Sir ARCHIBALD writes in his " Con tinuation" (ch. xlvii. p. 682)—" The corruption among the public functionaries at this period had become such that it could scarcely be credited if not attested by the incontrovertible evidence of judicial proceedings and judg ments." And he immediately goes on to remark yet further that " Every day revealed fresh instances of it either in the public function aries or in some persons connected with them ; and so common that they reached not only the in ferior persons, but some of the highest in office and rank, and even some of the Cabinet Ministers were not altogether free from suspicion !" Bold words of imputation—bold words of accusation. But were they not notoriously justified in their utterance? Answer this—M. TESTE, Minister of Public Works in the last Cabinet of King Louis PHILIPPE! Are they not, moreover, strictly applicable now, these sinister accusations; to another Government, apparently yet more seriously threatened with disaster—the Government of the Austrian KAISIR ? Ans wer this—even in death—unhappy Minister of Finance in (shall we say?) the last Cabinet of the Em peror FRANCIS JOSEPH—the unfortunate Baron VON BRUCK, who, having received an autograph letter from his sovereign on the 22d, in which his MA JESTY wrote " I tempora-ily remove you from office according to your request, &c."—was found bleeding t t o throat bed histhe morningofthe w ithto t oof o a w d l nl kedge n is t a r f a t t e i r y e s o p e many l at o n ignominious al ]di‘ Ministerial disclosures st orial em bezzlement, this suicide of one of the Cabinet Ministers of the Austrian EMPEROR recalls irre sistibly to mind the kindred incidents which were the forerunners at Paris, in 1847-1848 of the February Revolution. It reminds us of how M. TESTE, Lous PHILIPPE'S Minister of Public Works, resigned his situation as Peer of France and President of the Court of Cassation, upon the evening of his trial before the Chamber of Peers, " in order," as he said himself, " that he might be defended only by his innocence !" It revives the remembrance of how previously to this the Comp troller of Subsistences committed suicide rather than face his accusers, and ga through the frightful ordeal of a judicial investigation. It reminds us of all those other wretched circumstances preliminary to the downfall of the last French Monarchy—the exposure and condemation not only of M. TESTE, but with him also of M. PELLAPRA, of M. PARMAN TIER, of General CUBIERES —the condemnation also of M.Dnoun LARD in gaining his seat by bribery as Deputy for Quitnperle—together with the trial and sentence to various degrees of imprisonment of as PASSENGERS FROM BOMBAY.—The following is a list of the passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamship Euxine, Captain Woodgates, which left %lalta at 9 a.m. on the 17th inst., with the heavy Bombay mails, and was due at Southampton yesterday :—From Bombay—Sir H. and Lady Somerset, two Misses Somerset, and two servants ; Capt. and Mrs. Hutchinson, three chil dren and servant ; Capt. Hcwitt, two children and servant; Mr. Yardley, Capt. Swanson, Dr. Baxter, Col. Vandeleur, Lieut. Waterfall, Capt. Strutt, Capt. Cameron, Mr. Barnes, Mr. Rooprain and servant, Mr. Inman, Mr. C. Davis (late chief officer Norna), Mr. J. Chevalier (second officer Sin gapore), Mr. Clive (late chief engineer Cadiz). From Alexandria—Lieut. Lewis, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Clark, Mrs. Rowley, child, and servant. From Malta—Capt. Brock, R.N., 13 non-commissioned officers Royal Artillery. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NATHANIEL CAMERON.— This gallant officer, whose death took place on the 20th inst. at St. Leonard s-on- Sea, was the third and last surviving son of the late General Sir Alan Cameron, K.C.8., by his wife, a daughter of Nathaniel Philips, of Sleibach Hall, in Wales. Deceased served actively with his father's regiment, the 79th Cameron Highlanders (or " Reisemaid Alain an Errachd," as it was popularly designated by the colonel's countrymen), a battalion of which he commanded for some years. His commission was dated 1805, which he continued to hold until after the peace of 1815, when, like others, he accepted half-pay on the reduction of the army in 1816. Colonel Cameron was descended from the old family of Camerons of Errachtlin Lochaber, Inverness-shire, a branch of the family of the chief of that clan, Loehiel. Thoy also gave numerous hostages for their country's honour, many of whom fell figkting gallantly for its cause ; and prominently among them was Philip Came ion, brother of the subject of this paragraph, who was killed in 1811 at Fuentes D'Onor while defending that village in command of a brigade (71st, 79th, and 88th regiments). The Duke of Wellington, with whom he was an espec'al favourite, regretted his loss sincerely, and wrote a letter of condolence to his father on the occasion, which is among the " Gurwood Selections," and is remarkable for the dignified feeling of grief in which it is couched. Colonel Cameron was twice married, and by his first wife left. a large family. THE LATE FIRE IN REDCROSS-STREET.--An in quiry was inQtituted yesterday by Mr. Payne, coroner at the Fountain Tavern, Redeross- street, regarding the origin of this fire, which on Sunday last resulted in the entire de struction of four tenements and the injury of two others, 1 forming the wGstern termination of the above street, adjoin ing Barbican. The inquest was adjourned for a fortnight. TIIE COAST-GUARD SERVICE.—The value of wrecked property saved by this useful and gallant body of men amounts, for the year 1859, to a sum of upwards of £BOO,OOO ; and the number of persons:rescued by them from a watery grave during the same period to no less than 1,250. The total charge for the coast-guard force provided for in the estimates for the past year was £724,958.—Civil Service Gazette, The Madrid journals of the 23d contain no news. The remains of Ortega had been interred in the cemetery of Tortosa. Count de Montemolin and his brother continued to be detained in close custody in that town. General de Lamoriciere arrived at Perugia on the 19th. After a short stay at the hotel he had stepped into his carriage a r ,c , ain, in order to go and present his respects to the Cardinal Delegate, when one of the wheels of his carriage came suddenly off, by which the vehicle was nearly upset. Fortunately the General was not hurt, and the mischief was soon repaired. SUICIDE OF A VOLUNTEER.—An inquest was held on Thursday, at Huddersfield, on the body of Mr. Joseph Brook, a sergeant in the second company of the rifle volunteer corps, who died that morning from the effect s of a gunshot wound inflicted under most mysterious cir cuntstanus The decea,:cd was a young man generally respected, and in good circumstances. His father is one of the proprietors of the Apsley Silk Mills, and the deceased was employed there as overlooker. On Tuesday week the enginetnan found tEadeceased lying in the engine room in a helpless state, his shirt saturated with blood, and he was suffering from a wound about three inches below the heart, from which blood flowed freely. The vicinity of the wound was blackened with gunpowder, causing the belief that by whatever means the wound was inflicted, the weapon must have been applied close to the body. A bullet had pene trated entirely through the body. The jury ratunael a ver dict to the effect that the deceased died from the effects of a gunshot wound, inflicted by his own hand, but there was no evidence as to the state of his mind at the time, THE ( SUN, toWIiON, SATURDAY - EVENING, APRIL 28, - 1860, FRANCE. NEWS• AUSTRALIA. The following telegrams were received at Mr. QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY. The Lightning has arrived off this port in 79 days from Melbourne, having sailed from thence on the Sth February. She brings 15 first class, 170 second class and steerage passengers, and 13,479 ounces of gold. MADRID, APRIL 27. In the conference of Wednesday between Marshal O'Donnell and Mule' , Abbas all difficulties to the re-establishment of peace were removed. Morocco is to pay the indemnity for the expenses of the war during the course of the year. Being desirous of regaining possession of Tetuan she has decided to advance the time of payment: TURIN, APRIL 27. The Government has received the following des.. patch, dated— " Roads of Palermo, Wednesday Evening April 25. " The insurrection at Palermo has been suppressed. The state of siege is rigorously maintained, and great numbers of Royal troops are quartered in the city. Messina is tranquil. The armed bands in the interior of the island are insignificant, and appear to be dispersed in all directions. The coasts are watched. Great agitation prevails throughout the island, including the province of Trapani. It is only in the province of Marsala that the royal authority has not been re-established." NAPLES, THURSDAY. The insurgent bands are being pursued continu ally, and are retiring before the royal forces. They had entrenched themselves in the small town of Car lini, which was surrounded by the royal troops, by whom they have been completely destroyed. The remnants have made their submission. Throughout Sicily and in the kingdom of Naples the most per fect order and tranquillity prevail. The head-quarters of the royal troops have been removed to Aqiila. It is rumoured that they are destined to co-operate with General Lamoriciere. PARIS, FRIDAY. There is every probabilieflhat the Conference on the Swiss question will be held in Paris about the end of May. All the Powers are agreed, but France demands that it shall not take place till after the discussion in the Turin Parliament on the annexation of Savoy. The Turin Parliament will doubtless be as independent as the Legislative Corps. The Pays announces that the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia will shortly arrive in Paris. Lord Elgin, the English Commissioner to China, arrived in Paris yesterday from London. He is to leave to-day for Marseilles, and will embark with Baron Gros for Hong Kong. A dreadful storm of thunder, hail, and rain burst over Marseilles on the 24th. All the lower streets were instantaneously converted into tor rents, and the Canibiere assumed the appearance of a formidable river. This deluge of rain has done much damage in the country around, especially to fruit trees in bloom. BOURSE, April 27.—The market improved at the opening, but the amount of business has been li mited. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 70c., declined to 70f. 55c., and again rallied to 70f. Gsc. ; Austria, 531 f. 25c. to 532 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 542 f. 50c. to 543 f. 75c. ; Northern, 980 f. to 982 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 941 f. 25c. to 943 f. 75c. ; Southern, 521 f. 25c. to 522 f. 50c. The following are the last quo tations : 41, 1 per Cents. .... 96 10 i Credit Fonder 795 — lio, end moutk .. 96 20 ! Be%Tian 41 93 3 per Cent 5....... 70 40 : Piedmontestt (5) Do. end month.... 70 35' Roman „ .. < Bank Shares. 2825 Austrian Credit Msbilier .. 740 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 740 , Home Debt 46 Consular body at Messina to General Russo, Com• mander-in-Chief of the province : " MESSINA, APRIL 13. " General, grave excesses were again perpetrated last night in this town, contrary to the hopes which your assur ances had caused us to entertain, with the view of re-esta blishing peace and confidence, and of bringing back to the town the population, almost all of whom have left. Inoffen sive persons, even an old man, have fallen victims of an unjustifiable agression. Foreigners, English and others, have been so grossly ill-treated as to tremble for their lives. The entire population of Messina having remained inoffensive, and not having c ommitted any act of real rebellion, have a right to demand that their repose, their wives and children shall be respected. And yet terror is greater than ever, and we feel under the necessity, in order to reassure the subjects of the State which we repre sent, to set forth here the promises you have made. You have been kind enough to declare, on your word of honour, which we have never doubted, that the citadel and the forts shall not fire on the town ; that in no case shall soldiers enter houses by force ; that the town shall not be troubled in the night by the interminable discharges of musketry and cannon, which for several days past have not allowed the population an instant of repose, and, lastly that if aggres sions should take place at the town gates (they are impos sible in the interior of the town) they shall not be resounded to by platoon firing and cannonading, but that an attempt shall be made to seize the assailants by means which from the large force you possess, you can easily employ. Such, General, are the promises you have made to us, and you must permit us to state the fact to you, in order to give them an authentic character. These promises permit us to reassure our own people, and at the same time all the popu lation of the town. We beg you to be kind enough to acknowledge to one of us the receipt of this document. Accept, &c." (Signatures.) THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL, 28. The Royal Mail Company's steamer, La Plata, Captain Waller with the West' India and Pacific Mails has arri'red. She brings 238 passengers, 137,860 dollars in specie, and a large cargo. The La Plata left St. Thomas on the 13th inst. A Japanese frigate had arrived at San Francisco to announce the coming of the Japanese Commis sioners to the United States. The American steamer Roanaki was at Aspinwall to receive them. News from Chili was satisfactory. The country was tranquil, and commerce improving. Mines were flourishing. The grain crop was abundant. In the upper frontiers the savages had committed many outrages and murders on the inhabitants. At Lima the trial about the murder of Captain Lambert occupied attention. The judge had de cided that he had committed suicide, which the court refused to admit. At Barbadoes the cane crop was generally healthy, and a fair quantity of sugar had been made. Seve ral vessels had sailed with cargoes. Exchange on London-30 days, 485 dols.; 60 days, 4821 dols. ; 90 days, 480 dols. The Dora had arrived at Demerara with 387 emigrants. The weather was fine for growing crops. Trade dull. Breadstuffs slightly improved. Stocks much re duced. Business at Jamaica was exceedingly dull, the supplies were excessive, and the demand was limited for immediate consumption. Coffee limited. Sugar market plentifully supplied, and prices had declined. -Pimento very scarce. Coffee was sold at 425. to 435. for ordinary. Pimento was held for 3d. cash. Sugar prices ruled from 17s. t 6 18s. Exchange on London, 90 days, ; 60 days, 1 ; 30 days, 1 per cent. premium. Merchants' bills 90 days, par. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-APRIL 27. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on question, "That the bill be now read the third time." Question again proposed—Debate resumed—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the ques tion to add the words " upon this day six months." Ques tion put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the ques tion." The House divided—Ayes, 235 ; Noes, 226. AYES-23L Adam, W. I'. Ferguson, R. North, I'. _Akdeane, H. .T. Fitzwilliam, C. W. O'Brien, P. Agar-Ellis, lion. L. Foley, J. H. O'Conoi Don, The Agnew, Sir A. Foley, Hon. 11. W. O'Donoghue, D. Alcock, T. Foljambe, F. J. S. Onsloiv, Guildford Andover, Lord Forster, charleis Osborne, Bernal Antrobus, E. Fortescue, C. S. Padmore, It. Atherton, W. Freeland, H. IV. Paget, C. Ar.on, A. S. Garnett, W. J. Paget, Lord C. E. Bagwell, J. Gavin, Major Palmerston, Visct. Bailey, C. Gibson, T. M. Paxton, Sir J. Baines, E. Gifford, Earl of Pease, H. Ball, E. .- Gilpin, C. Peto, Sir M. Baring, Thos. Geo. Glyn, G. G. Pigott, Francis Bass,- M. T. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pilkington, James Baxter, W. E. Gower, F. L. Portman W. 11. B. Bazley, Thomas Greene, Capt. J. I'ryse, Capt. E. L. Beale, Samuel Greenwood, J. Pugh, D. (Carmar.) Beamish, F. B. Gregory, W. H. Ramsden, Sir J. W, Beaumont, W. B. Gregson, S. Redmond, J. E. Berkeley, IL Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Ricardo, .I.TL. Berkeley, F. Itadfield, Geo. Ricardo, 0. Black, Adam Hanbury, R., jun. Ridley, G. Blake, J. A. Handley, John Robartes, T. J. A. Blencowe, J. G. lianmer, Sir J. Robertson, D. Bonham-Carter, J. Harcourt, G. G. V. Roebuck, J. A. Bouverie, E. P. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Rotlischild,BaronL. Bouverie, P. P. Itartington,Marquis Rothschild Baron M Bowyer, W. Headlam, Thos. E. Roupell, W. Brand, H. B. Henley, Lord Russell, Lord J. Bright, J. Herbert, 11. A. Russell, Hastings Briscoe, J. I. Hodgkinson, G. Russell, A. J. E. Bristow, A. Hodgson, K. D. Russell, Sir Wm. Brocklehurst, John Horst - flan, E. St. Aubyn, J. Brown, James Howard, Hon. C. Salorrions,Alderman Bruce, H. A. Hutt, W. Scholefie, d, W. Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Ingham, R. Scott, Sir W. Bulkeley, Sir R., Bt. Ingram, 11. Scrope, G. P. Buller, J. W. Jackson, W. Seymour, Sir M. Butler, C. S. James, Edwin Seymour, Dig,by Buxton, C. Johnstone Sir J. Shafto, R. D. Byng, H J Zion. G. H. C. Kershaw, J. Sheridan, It. B. Caird, James Icing, Hon. L. Smith, J. B. Calthorpe, F. H. Ki ng lake, A. W. Smith, Augustus Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Kinglake, Serj. J. Somerville, Sir W. Castlerosse, Vist. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Stacpoole, W. Cavendish, Hon. W. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Stafford, Marquis of Childers, H. C. E. Laing, S. Stanley, Lord Clay, James Langston, J. H. Stanley, 0. Clifford, C. C. Langton, 11. G. Stansteld. J. Clive, George Lawson, W. Steel, John Cobbett, J. I. Leatham, E. Sykes, Col. W. H. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Lee, W. Thompson, H. S. Collier, It. P. Lindsay, W. S. Tite, Wm. Coningham, Wm. Locke, Jos. Tollemache, Hon.F. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Locke, John Tomline, G. Craufurd, E. H. J Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Turner, J. A. Crawford, lt. W. Lysley, W. Verney, Sir Harry Crook, Joseph M'Cann, J. Villiers, Rt. Hon. G. Crossley, Frank Mackie, J. Walter, John Dalglish, Robert Mackinnon, W. A. Warner, Ed war d Davey, R. McMahon, P. Watkins, J. L. V. Davie, Sir IL R. F. Maguire, J. F. Western, T. S. Davie, Col. F. Marjorib anks, D. C. Westhead, 8. - Deasy, Rickard Marsh, M. H. Whalley, G: H. Denman, G. Marshall, W. Whitbread, S. Dent, John Dent Martin, J. Willcox, B. M. Divett, Edward Martin, P. W. Williams, W. Dodson, John G. Massey, W. N. Winnington, Sir T. Douglas, Sir C. Mellor, John Wood, Rt fn. Sir C. Duff, M. E. Merry, James Woods, Henry Duff, Major. Mildmay, H. Worsley, Lord Duncombe, T. S. Miller, William WYld, James Dundas, Frederick Mitchell, T. A. Wynne, C. G. Egerton, E. C. Monsell, Rt. lln. W. Wyvill, M. Euston, Earl of Monson, W. J. Evans, T. W. Morris, D. TELLERS. Ewart, J. C. Napier, Sir C. Ewing, H. E. C. Noble, J. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Fenwick, Henry Norris, J. T. Dillwyn, Lewis L. NOES-226. Adderley, C. B. Hanbury, Captain Newark, Lord Annesley, H. Hardy, Gathorne Newdegate, C. N. Archdall, Capt.M.E,Hartopp, E. B. Newport, Visct. Baillie, H. J. Hassard, M. D. Nicol, William Baring, A. H. Hayes, Sir E. S. Noel, G. J. Barrow, W. H. Henley, J. North, Col. *Bathurst, A. A. Hennessy, J. P. Northeote, Sir S. H. Beach, W. W. B. Herbert, S. Pakenham, Col. Beecroft, G. S. Herbert, Col. P. E. Pakington, Sir J. S. Bentinck, G. W. P. Heygate, Sir F. Palk, L. Bentinck, G.C. Hill, Hon. R. Papillon, P. 0. Beresford, W. Hill, Lord E. Parker, Major W. Bernard, Thos. T. Holford, R. S. - Patten, J. W. Bond, J. W. Holmesdale, Lord Paull, H. Booth, Sir R. G. Hood, Sir A. Peel, F. Botiield, Beriah Hope, G. W. Pennant, Col. Bovill, Wm., Hopwood, J. T. Philips, J. H. Bramston, T. W. Horsfall, T. B. Powys, L. P. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hotham, Gen. Lord Puller, C. W. Brooks, R. Howes, Edward Quinn, Peter Bruce, C. L. C. Hubbard, J. G. Repton, G. W. J. Bruen, Henry Humberstone, P. S. Richardson, J. Burghley, Lord Hume, W. Ridley, Sir M. W. Cairns, Sir H., Hunt, G. W. Rogers, John J. Carnac, Sir J. R., Bt. Ingestre, Viscount ttolt, J. Cartwright, Col. H. Jervis, Captain Rowley, Hon. R. T. Cave, S. Johnstone, Hon. 11. Salt, Thomas Cavenelsh, Lord G. Johnstone, J. J. H. Selater-Booth, G Cayley, E. S. Jolliffe, Capt. H. Selwyn, C. J. Cecil, Lord R. Jones, D. Seymer, H. K. Churchill, Lord A. Kekewich, S. Shirley, E. P. Close, M. C. Kelly, Sir F. Sibthorp, Major Cobbold, John C. Kendall, N. Smith, Abel Cochrane, A. D. Kennard, C. Smith, S. G. Codrington, Sir W. King, J. K. Smyth, Col. Cole, lion. H. A. Knatchbull, W Smollett, P. Collins, T., jun. Knight, F. Somerset, Col. E. Cross, R A. Knighlley, R. Somes, Joseph Cubitt, Ald. Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W. Spooner, R. Curzon, Viscount Lefroy, A. Steuart, A. Dalkeith, Earl of Legh, W. Stewart, Sir M. It. Darner, L. S. W. D. Legh, G. C. Stuart, Major W. Dawson, R. P. Leighton, Sir B. Sturt, H. G. Deedes, Wm. Lennox, Lord 11.. G. Stracey, Sir H. Dickson, Col. Leslie, C. P. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Disraeli, Benjamin Lever, John 0. Thynne, Lord E. Du Cane, Chas. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Thynne, Lord 11. Duncombe, A. Lindsay, Colonel Tollemache, J. H. Duncombe, W. E. Long R. P. Torrens, R. Dunne, Col. Longheld, Robert Trefusis, Hon. C. li. East, Sir J. B. Lopes, e ir , H . Bt. Trollope , Sir John Edwards, Major H. L Upton, Genei al oSLo vain Egerton, Sir P. Lowther, Col. H. C. Valctort, Lord Egerton, W. Egerton, A. F., Elcho Lord Verner, Sir Wm. Lyall, Lowth G. Verner, Captain IVraainiicesit,tJaroth,nvirm. Lgon, Hon. F. Elmley, Viscount Lytton, Or E. B. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Estcourt, S. Macaulay, K. W alker, James R W, Farquhar,'Sir, M. Mainwaring, T. al, Walshpole SS. H. J. B. Ferrer, James Malins, R. , Fellown, Edward Manners, Lord J. ___l w V a a y, tlin A gt rt o h n u , r J E. . W. Forde, Lt.-Col. W. March, Earl o f Forester, Col. G. C. Miles, Sir W. Welby, W. E. Forster, Sir G. ' Miller, T. Whiteside, Rt Hn J. Galway, Viscount Mills, A. Whitmore, H. Gard, R. S. Mitiord, W. T. Williams, T. P. George, John Montagu, Lord R. Woodd, B. T. Gilpin, Colonel Montgomery, Sir G. Wyndham, Sir H. Gladstone, Capt. Moody, C. A. Wyndham, Hon. 11. Goddard, A. L. Mordaunt, Sir G. Wynn, Col. Gordon, C. W. Morgan, C. 0. S. Wynne, W. W. R. Gore, J. R. 0. Morgan, Major Yorke, Hon.E. Gore, W. R. 0. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Graham, Lord Wm. Mundy, William TELLERS. Haliburton, Justice Mure, David Hamilton, Lord C. Murray, William Jolliffe, Sir W. Hamilton, JR& H. Naas, Rt, Su, Lord Taylor, Colonel SAVING LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. (From the Manchester Examiner and Times.) A more unpretending, but, at the same time, a more interesting document than the report of the National Lifeboat Institution is rarely issued from the press. The novel reader may perhaps fail to find excitement in it ; the than of business may not see in it the details of commercial information which go to make up his " whole duty of man ;" but a few moments' consideration will show either of these gentlemen how readily they may procure in it either one or other requisite of their daily existence. The report of the Lifeboat Institution forms, in fact, a sort of neutral territory where business and romance may meet without endangering each other's safety. It is a border ground where com mercial life, under one of its most terribly necessi tous conditions, comes face to face with all that is romantic, heroic, and chivalrous, and where it separates itself for the time from the dry details of counter and counting-house life, as far as is a gallant vessel in distress from the warehouse keeper who stocked her cabins with beef and pickles, sugar and biscuit. The business part of the arrangement, indeed, scarcely appears in the report of the Life boat Institution, but it leaves its traces very strongly imprinted there. It only goes as far as " pleasant weather" carries the deeply and richly laden vessel. When the gale blows and the murky and black looking clouds are gathering round the ill-fated ship, when even amidst the thunder of the wind the angry dash of the breakers is heard on the lee shore, when the hapless crew look with despairing eyes on the sky, the land, and the water, then it is that business, which, as Young says of sleep, gi her ready homage pays where fortune smiles," deserts the luckless mariners, and leaves them to the for tune of some daring adventurer's aid. It is here that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution steps in with what may be called, without exaggeration, its redeeming hand, and nothing more beautifully iliustrates the beneficent nature of its services than the simple record of the transactions recorded in the report for 1859. It is a long list of noble services from January Ist to December 30th, and a few of them will be enough to show what strong claims the institution has on the pub lic gratitude. Here is April 15, Goodwin Sands — terrible name of ill omen to sailors—wind W.N.W., sloop Liberal, of Wisbeach, one man saved by the Walmer lifeboat. Sept. 17 and 18, Misner Haven, wind N. and W., strong gale, brig Lucinde, of Memel, 11 men saved by the Southwold lifeboat. Feb. 28, Jack's Hole Bank—a cognomen fearfully suggestive of danger—brig Louise, of Genoa, ship assisted by the crew of the Padstow lifeboat. March 8, Doom Bar Sands—another hideously sug gestive designation—brig Gonsalve, of Nantes, seven men saved by the Padstow lifeboat. Nov. 1, Holm Sands, wind S., heavy gale, steamer Shamrock, of Dublin, 14 men saved by the Lowestoft lifeboat. Nov. 2, Whitburn, blowing a hurricane, schooner Anton, of Denmark, 6 men saved by the Whitburn lifeboat. Nov. 26, Redcar, wind S.E., heavy gale, brig Fortuna, of Memel, 11 men saved by the Red car lifeboat. Dec. 30, Barmouth, wind from the S.W., blowing a gale, ship Britannia, of Bath, United States, 14 men saved by the Barmouth life boat. Dec. 21, Lytham, weather stormy, the bri gantine Hannah Jane, of London, 7 men saved by the Lytham lifeboat ; and so the record goes on through a long page, enumerating services of the most humane and sterling character, in words and figures as simple as an ordinary entry in a mer chant's ledger. We have said sufficient to show the inestimable public value of an association like that of the Na tional Lifeboat Institution ; but how much more might be said of the services it has rendered to what may be called the private and hidden circles of our life. Running the eye down the list of vessels to which the boats of the association have paid a visit, when the wind was blowing " great guns and small arms," we have of course the most liberal supply from our own islands. The Betsys, Johns, Georges, and Marys are unmistakeably attached to the north-east coast. The simple mari time nomenclature of Shields and Sunderland is almost confined to the family circle, and a favourite son, or a brother, or a wife, or some one " nearer and dearer," is generally the godfather or god mother of the first venture of the small ship owner. But every little port and every . large harbour in the island have representatives in the National Lifeboat Institution list, and from thence the area of services rendered extends to the natives of France, Spain, Genoa, Norway, Prussia, United States, Sweden, Denmark, the whole maritime world in fact, for misfortune and loss are just as catholic in their visitations as the services of the lifeboats on our coasts. Now, looking at the use of the association in this light, it is the distributor of an amount of happiness almost incalculable. The painful picture drawn by Campbell, in his " Plea sures of Hope," of the mariner's wife watching for the barque that " never shall return," is but a copy of an agonising reality in the life of those connected with sailors. How many families have the Life-boat Institution saved from such a terrible fate ? Here is the romance—not the dead fictitious thing we read of in love stories but the living, active, ro mance which makes life beautiful, and which really surrounds the Lifeboat Institution with a halo of renown. All the thrilling narratives that have been written for a century are sketchy and feeble before the reality of a lifeboat adventure. T en or a dozen, or it may be 20, 30, or 40 men are hang ing on to the shrouds of a shipwrecked vessel, as powerless to help themselves as is the vessel which gives them a momentary resting place. Death is literally hanging over them, with his fingers out stretched to pull them into his ravenous maw ; and the only human means to save them is the agency of a lifeboat. Each one of those poor fellows, who were one moment dead, and in another restored to life, was, to use the expressive phrase of the old Scotch wife, " somebody's bairn ; ' and how mans thankful hearts must their redemption from a watery grave create. This is no single example either ; it occurs day by day, in the winter season, round the coasts ; it is miserably frequent during the recurrence of the equinoctial gales; and the chances in every seaman's life are about equal whether he will be wrecked or not. This is the fate, the destiny of a sailor, and no mechanical in genuity will ever wholly obviate it. We may hope to relieve the death list considerably ; this is, indeed, the object of the National Life boat Institution but we can never calculate on this side of the prophetic change when "there shall be no more sea," on the abolition of shipwrecks, and the total abrogation of human misery by losses and disasters on the ocean. The m oral of our story is, of co urse , th a t th e Na ti▪ onal Life-boat Institution is one of the most worthl of our national associations. We have essayed to point o ut i the munific en t l a b our w hi c h t h e institu ti▪ onal s engaged in, and we may ask the public who agree with us in our vi ews , i n seamen ' s p h r ase, to ~ , lend a hand" in extending the bountif u l work 01 this society. There is a general indifference, or , e perhaps i t wou ld b e more correc t to say, a wan t 0' knowledge, in inland places of the necessities of such aninstitution as this one we now recommend. recr pie generally only know the dan gers o f a seamen life when some great calamity like that of the loss of the Royal Charter comes before them. They, d o not think of the hundreds of cases occurring every year, where one, or two, or three, or in°l seamen drop at a time into a watery grave, an d where the annual aggregate number of such losses, dwarf even the enormous destruction of the Charter. Last year, for instance, the losses by shi n P f wreck on our coast amounted to 1,646 lives • t: persons saved, there were 2,332, making together in the course of one year close upon 4,000 people vile were exposed to the miseries of shipwreck on t ut ; shores of the British isles. Since 1824 the Lifeb° ll o Institution has been instrumental in aiding to as ps 11,401 persons, and we see at a glance what a larg e share the working of the Institution has in our na tional tional comfort. At a moderate computation , t h e number of the lost will be about three-fourths f e those saved ; another very powerful reason why society should receive public assistance. o? , But to' last, and perhaps the most powerful claim wh the society has upon the public at this moment that its liabilities for life-boat establish ments amon 01 " to nearly £4,000. We cannot say, indeed, that th e work of the institution is one of pounds, shillings, and pence. It is too grand and with a pecuniary motiv e; it too noble to be mixed u s l: that it cannot be carried on without aid from t: beneficen tend thoughtful. There are scores ofp lae d e where a lifeboat might be advantageously pist e but this cannot be done without money. T"e e t ; ",1 is continual improvement, repair, and care nee d in the boats which the association have at pres e ? he but this cannot be done with ou t money e ither. 0 men who are engaged i n th e lif e b oa t ser vice are , 13 3 doubt, as brave and d evo t e d as men can be ; butt is not fitting th a t th ese men s h ou ld r i s k their expose themselves to danger, hardship, and 1 11 ° ° „ t , venience without fee or reward, All these are In% tars which the Institution has to provide for, the only means by which they can providersli them are the gene' osity and benevolence of Eng 1 men. An appeal to the country is not, indeede'crees quired ; it only needs that the merits and be h er sites of this Institution should be brought f; the r the public, and not a single wealthy man, whe t or he be a shipowner, manufacturer, agriculturirAw merchant, but would, we are assured, else contribute his mite in such a cause. orl ° WRECK AND Loss OF Six LIVES.—A telectieb. from Dartmouth announces that the Nyasia; Ca ° lin o or al nitzky, of and for Stettin from Liverpool, with a ' 13; 11 1 ° cargo, capsized and sunk off the Start on WednesdaY• ,(1 D 4 0— elegram adds that 4 ( sit men were drowned; two men eaved." RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto B9O .. 887 50 Lyons and Mwditerranean 937 50 .. 936 25 Geneva 413 .. 450 Southern Western 572 50 .. 573 75 Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 412 k Austrian Lombard .. Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 18e. ; money, 25f. 170.; three months, paper, 24f. 871 c. ; money, 24f 86c. RUSSIA. The following is the text of a despatch addressed by Prince Gortschakoff to M. de Kisseleff, in reply to the circular of M. Thouvenel of the 13th ult.:-- " St. Petersburg, 12th April. " The Duke de Montebello has communicated to me a despatch which M. Thouvenel addressed to him on the 13th March. It contains the views of the Cabinet of the Tuileries on the subject of the annexation to France of Savoy and of the county of Nice. The Emperor, my august master, has considered the subject with all the inte rest which its gravity commands. He regards this cession, freely consented to by the King of Sardinia, as an arrangement between independent sovereigns, and ono which, in his Majesty's opinion, does not sompromise the balance of power in Europe, provided it be combined, as far as regards the neutralized territory of Savoy, in such a man ner as not to interfere with any acquired right, attack any legitimate interest, and maintain in all their extent the principles of the perpetual neutrality of S wit zerland as proclaimed in:the Acts of Vienna and of Paris. His Myjesty hai convinced himself with satisfaction that the French Government participates in this point of view, as is shown by Art. 2 of the treaty signed with the Pielmontese Government and by th declarations made by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Emperor is pleased to hope, that the discussion of which the question of the territories bordering on the Helvetic Confederation wiil be the object will contribute to bring about an understanding of a nature satisfactory to all parties. The Imperial Cabinet will on its side devote its most serious solicitude, in favour of the maintenance of stipulations which guarantee the security of a State the neutrality of which is an object of European interest. By order of his Majesty, you are requested to read this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to- give him a copy of it. ‘` GORTSCIIAKOFF." HUNGARY. We have another confirmation of the duplicity of the Austrian Government. M. Szemere, formerly Minister in Hungary, thus writes respecting the appointment of Benedek . to the command in Hun gary : " It is true that this General is an Hungarian, but only by birth; he is not so either by mind, by heart, or by his antecedents. He was born in 1804, and since the age of 14 has been an Austrian soldier ; he has constantly lived either in Italy or in Gallicia, everywhere fighting against the people and their national aspirations. In the latter country he performed the most important part in 1846, wcicn the Austrian Government gave to the peasants a reward of 25f. for the head of each gentleman implicated in the insurrection. It was also he, the only officer of Hungarian origin who, in 1848, came to fight against Hungary, making himself the blind servant of the Haps burgs to such a point that he did not hesitate to aid in shedding the blood of his relatives, his brothers, and his nuntrymen. This is the man who is called on to go vern Hungary. I ask you whether this choice of the only Hungarian general who still shows visibly on his forehead the wound which he received in the war against kis coun try, is a pledge of conciliation, or a defiance and an insult? General Benedek was of all the Hungarians the last man that ought to have been chosen. Hungary besides has eminent men enough, whose names alone would have been a real programme. I will quote to you the Archduke Stephen, not for what he has done in favour of Hungary, but for what he has suffered on account of her during a ten years' exile ; among the Conservatives I would mention Count d'Apponyi and Count do Dessveffy ; among the Li berals, M. do Deak and Baron d'Ecetcovs, without men tioning riany others, who are not all revolutionaary, but whose names alone would have said all and done all. The groat political fault of the Austrian Government is that it knows what men are necessary, but does not employ them." SICILY. The following protest has been addressed by the lath iten pref. in tl price at 10 Sii been Bas active ness. New, prove' Cents. 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