The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

HOUSEHOLD WORDS.—Messrs. BRADBURY and EVANS beg to state that their connection with HOUSEHOLD WORDS will cease from and after the 28th inst., and that on Saturday, the 2d July they will commence • new Weekly Illustrated Periodical, to be called "ONCE A WEEK." All communications for the Editor to be addressed to No. Bouverie-street, London, E.C. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The SECOND OPERA CONCERT will take place on WEDNESDAY next, the 25th inst., when the following eminent artistes will appear: —Madame Grist, Madame Didiee, Madlle. Lotti, 3iadlle. Marai, Madlle. Calderon, and Madame Penco (her first ap pearance at the Crystal Palace), Signor Ronconi, Signor De Bassini, Signor Neri Baraldi, Signor Lucche si, S i g nor Tagliafico, gignor Polonini, M. Zelger, and Signor Gordoni ; with the full Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Admission by Two Guinea Season Tickets by One Guinea ditto, with payment of 2s. 6d. ; by Day Tickets, 7s. 6d., or if bought by the 24th inst., ss. ; ReservPd Seats, 2s. (Id. extra. 'rickets at 'the Crystal Palace, or at Exeter Hall. Doors open at Ten Concert to commence at Three. C RY STAL PALACE. - MADAME PENCO, the New PRIMA DONNA, will make her First Appear ance here at the Opera Concert on WEDNESDAY, the 25th stay. Admission to non-Ticketholders, Five Shillings, if the Tickets are bought by Tuesday evening ; or on the 25th, Seven Shillings and Sixpence. CRYSTAL PALACE.-HANDEL COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL—FIVE SHILLING TICKETS.—In accordance with their published intention " of affording the opportunity of attending, the Festival to those who do not desire reserved seats," the directors have now the pleasure to announce that TICKETS will be ISSUED at FIVE SHILLINGS EACH, for each of the THREE DAYS of the FESTIVAL, viz., the 20th, 22d, and 24th of June. The Fountains at the conclusion of the performances. These tickets will be in the North and South Naves, commencing on either side at the limit of the Orchestra, and extending from thence towards the ends of the Palace. Seats will be provided, with an access entirely separate from that to the reserved seats and stalls. Applications for these tickets will be received at the Crystal Palace, and at 2, Exeter Hall only but no applications can be attended to unless accompanied by a remittance of the full amount. Cheques and post-office orders to be made payable to George Grove, Esq.—the latter at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand. As only a limited number of these tickets is issued, early application is recommend ed. By order, ,GEORGE GROVE, Secretary. N.B.—Additional stalls have been reserved in the galleries and in the area. A portion of the latter are on an inclined platform on the site of the small Orchestra immediately fronting the Handel Orchestra; these and the stalls in front of the galleries are Five Guineas the set, or Two Guineas the single stall ; the remaining stalls One Guinea each, and Two : said-a-Half Guineas the set. Seats in the unnumbered blocks at Twenty-five Shillings the set, or Half--a-Guinea each, may also be had. Plans of the above may be inspected at the Crystal Palace. and at 2, Exeter Hall. Crystal Palace, May 18, 1859. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, v under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. 'IIHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The characters by Lcssrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far rell, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c. After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs. Campton, Braid. Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclereq. And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Commence at 7. NEWW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL THEATRE - ROYAL, A)ELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw. and Mrs. Billington. Followed by (seventh time), by Tom Taylor, Esq., THE HOUSE ? or, THE HOME ? Mr. Alfred Wigan, C, Selby, Billing - ton ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms. Miss Laid law. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Wool,gar, Keeley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Acting slanager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking:. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by J. M. Morton. Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ? Supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. A STLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. Unparalleled and Continued Success of INANHOE. Overflowing Houses Nightly. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular work, entitled IVANHOE; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievemerts in extraordinary magnificence. Ivanhoe, Mr. It. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. .Jas. Holloway; Richard of England, Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm. Cooke, jun. ; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss Dowton. After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, introducing- Mr. John Henry Cooke, the greatest rider in the world, and the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's family, being the only instance on record of such a domestic C3ncentration pt' unequalled male and female talent. To conclude with the Farce of KILL 011 CURE. - -- - The preparations for Whitsuntide arc on an extensive scale already. Stage Manager. Mr. E. Phillips Dress Circle, 4s. ;Boxes, Pit. 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, tid. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and ..C1 ls. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. lANTERBI TRY HALL AND FINE ARTS k..) GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, oOnsistint. , , 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 et 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 NISE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-Srx Orrtc - E, MA.Y 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon. yesterday. 61—lowest this morning and during the night. 57—this day at noon. BAROMETER--30 . 11, still rising. WIIVD, Northerly; light, with fine cool weather. MAY 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.09. WIND, N.W. ; light, with fine weather, but cloudy. THE F IRST BATTLE ! The die is cast ! The Austrians have attacked the French outposts, and met their fate. Although numbering 15,000 men—a good army in itself—far more than those who won the battle of Alexandria, under the brave ABERCROMBY, still they were beaten back on their dismayed comrades in the rear by the • daring deeds of the French advanced posts. This will give an impetus to the spirits of the gallant French soldiery, - which no heavy amount of Austrian stolidity can resist. It would appear that the Austrians had made, or believed they had made, themselves so secure, that they could not feel very comfortable unless they were as sured of the position of their rivals on the other side, and so they rushed in—only to return in shame and confusion. So be it. The brutal enslavers of Italian freedom have at length met their match, and more than their match, on the. old ground consecrated to glory and heroic i'Leeds. The French fought like their fore fathers—emulous of the grandeur of bygone days when the eagle of chivalry swept over the adjacent plains of Marengo, and humbled the pride of Austria in the dust. The battle seems to have been boldly contested, for each party felt that there would be more than special glory appertaining to . the first victory after such a long delay, and the memory of other days seems to 'h ave acted like a charm on both sides. That the French fought like soldiers is proved b y their loss-500 or 600 men being killed or w ' u llded, while the loss of their assailants numbers over 2,000. The official account of the Austrian Genes Id sounds more like a paradox than regal, for he sa:ys that their loss was something approatching that of the French! Now, how could an. army beaters, and in full retreat, reckon on the loss of those in hot pursuit ? We rather think the German has " reckoned without his host." We may now expect very important news almost daily tic) m the seat of war—for the battle once begun there will be no more shilly-shallying about the delicacy of abstaining from blows. The immediate consequences of this first blow will be to set Italy in , a blaze—each soldier or volunteer rushing forward to take a part in the work of freeing his country from a yoke at once odious as oppressive. The Germans have no more right to Italy than they have to England ; but it has been the curse entailed on that fair land of Literature and Arts from the foolish contentions of jealous nationalities or sections of the same people that in the very midst of the quarrel they have opened the door to a foreign innovator—foreign in everything—and un congenial to the last degree—as much opposed to Italian nationality as are the poles asunder. And yet this is the German Power which our Cousin Germans here in England would assist if they could. Hea ven protect us from such a villainous compact ! The recent speech, and the whole bearing of the Prince Regent of PRUSSIA, clearly indicate how "the wind blows" for the selfish " Father- land" of :Germany—that same Germany which will take all, but give nothing. Really we have had too much of Germany, and the precious Germans in our own time, not forgetting the Past, to be over anxious about any closer connexion witk such outlandish " Cousins." The chief effect of this first brush with the Austrians will be to decide the sympathies of the doubtful and to rouse the energy of the daring. We have little doubt that the French will now stretch along the right bank of the Po, right through Parma, masking her neutrality as they would a fortress under equivocal circumstances, and so meet a flotilla of French gunboats near the mouth of that noble but " wandering" river, cross at once to the Venetian side, and so take the Austrians in flank and rear—cut off Venice, and make all the Austrian "grand preparations" of very little account. For what can Austria do against a people goaded to desperation, and mad dened by the recollection of the past, and by the burn ing sense of present wrongs ? All we hope is that the French Emperor will not be betrayed into an over wild, however legitimate, ambition ; and prove, like his great prototype, that victory has only served to give to Italy the misery and not the benefit resulting from a struggle in which the world is so deeply interested. The Austrians must now look to themselves in good earnest, for if once their communications are endangered there will be such a panic as when the Great NAPOLEON on the field of battle, not far apart from Montebello, sounded the knell of her power—that field whereon— " Marengo gave her desolation's broom." A speech from KOSSUTH, a circular from KLAPKA —have, each in turn, but just now given the signal to the Hungarians. The magnificent oration delivered on Friday, in the city of London, by the celebrated ex-Governor of Hungary—an oration of which we gave our readers but a condensed epitome in our last impression—was addressed by KOSSUTH in an especial manner to the free people among whom that illustrious exile has been now for ten years past a sojourner—the whole argument of his most remarkable harangue was addressed, we say, earnestly and impressively addressed by him to the millions of free-born Englishmen. The circular recently issued by General KLAPKA, on the con trary, was designed expressly for his own country men. It has been scattered abundantly among the Hungarian troops in the army of Lombardy. " Hungarians !" exclaims the gallant defender of Comorn, "Brothers! soldiers! These lines are sent to you in the name of the Hungarian fatherland and of your former leaders, that you may know how to act at the commencement of the next war :" the ' writer adding significantly, " We inform you that not only the Piedmontese, but also the French, are about tc attack Austria, and drive her out of Italy." Simultaneously almost with the scattering of these mysterious little billets in the barracks of Milan— KOSSUTH is explaining, at length, to an enthusi astic audience of Londoners his views as to the charac ter of the great struggle which has just commenced upon the borders of Piedmont ; as to the promise of good there is in that contest for Italy ; as to the course which ought to be pursued by observant nations not actually involved in the struggle ; and, finally, as to the particular policy which he deems it most advisable to be adopted, at this great crisis, by the Hungarians. As usual this elaborate speech of the great Magyar statesman, though delivered in what is still for him a foreign language, and articulated in every syllable with what is yet for us a foreign accent—an accent, however, it must be confessed, imparting additional piquancy to the vibration of his resonant and impassioned eloquence—has proved from first to last to be a perfect masterpiece of English oratory ! Certainly when the period comes at lenth, as come it will, when Louis KOSSUTH shall take his departure from these shores to return homewards to his beloved and emancipated father land, the most graceful souvenir that could be placed in his hands in commemoration of his years of exile in these islands would be a volume contain ing within it the collected orations of this extra , ordinary genius!! Orations not translated, but thought and spoken in pure Saxon English by the mind and lips of a Hungarian—orations that for their stirring eloquence, for their graces of diction, for their poetry of sentiment, for their abounding affluence of apt and picturesque phraseology, might have reflected honour on the rhetorical powers of the most gifted orators among our own country men. The speeches of KOSSUTH, when thus col lected together, will prove indeed no unimportant addition to the treasures of our insular literature. In testimony that these are no carelessly exag gerated panegyrics—here is this last soul-stirring harangue from the all-eloquent lips of the illustrious ex-Governor of the Hungarians. The exordium of KOSSUTH's great oration on Fri day in the city of London was in manner almost lyri cal, with a refrain or burthen impressively recurrent, urging upon England at all hazards, and under all circumstances , as the war now commenced advanced and developed, to maintain u n d ev i a ti ng l y th e course she has already marked out for herself, namely, that defined by a policy of "honest neu trality and strict non-intervention !" Again and again these words were powerfully reiterated. Again and again they were repeated as the enforcement of a strenuous and almost impassioned recommen datiou—so firmly was the orator persuaded in his own great heart that in the resolute maintenance of this policy of neutrality and non-intervention on the part of England lay the best hopes of so many down-trodden nationalities ! At last, as if the fervent repetition were of no avail to lay bare the pleadings of his soul, KOSSUTH cried out in thrilling tones of adjuration—" As an exile, as a Hungarian, as a member of one of those oppressed nationalities, as a man identified in all his aspirations with the cause of its emancipation, I repeat, as an ardent prayer, what your lordship advanced as the well matured vote of an English patriot—that England should deliberately adhere to the policy of honest neutrality and of strict non-intervention." Yet his hopes, and yearnings, and aspirations as to the happiness which in all human likelihood will accrue to Italy, to Hungary, to the great Sclavonie races now held in bondage along the eastern Iron. tiers of Entope—KossuTs reminds us with pathetic sole n.mity—spring from no illusory antici pations bort i from youthful fancy or momentary excitement. ." Adversity, my lord," says he to the chief magistr ate of the English capital—" adversity is a great t ;acher, and the icy finger of time is a mighty c lisenchanter." And he adds with the touching sim) . ?licity, as of GOLDSMITH— 'Mid all my griefs— and G od has given my share— KossuTH, in the same gentle but persuasive spirit, adds in deprecation of any sneers at his anti cipations as those of an idle day dreamer—" I have much suffered in the last ten years of my tempest tossed life, but .in compensation I have learned something—l havt ) learnt not to clutch with eager impatience the flee, Ling forelock of illusory hopes. I have learnt with calm reflection to trace the law of concatenation be tween cause and effect which presides over the log is of history." Borne onward by the strong current'. of that clear and irresistible logic he beholds—to c Taploy more happily a phrase otherwise lamentably familiar of old to some of the dead and gone Irish demagogues as applied to the Imperial Government--" In Austria's difficulty lies Hungary's Opportunity.•" That is the basis of the hopes now kindled aneNv in the bosom of the patriot leader, once the glorious liberator of the Hungarians. It were impossible within reasonable limits to follow the orator through the whole of his blight ing, blasting, withering vituperations upon the Austrian dynasty and the Austrian Government. Hardly less striking are they in their impassioned eloquence than those hurled of yore at the Chief and the Councils of Macedon by the thundering voice of DE3IOSTHENES. Scornfully does he point with the finger of uttermost derision to that simple proof that there is not the merest shadow of the shade of even German nationality to im part a momentary semblance of right or dig nity to the Austrian Government. They actually find it impossible in the census of that empire (he re minds us) to raise the number of their German subjects higher than to about 7,000,000 out of a population of 37,000,000 ! "In fact, Austria," says he, "is the only power in Europe which has no national character ; it is of no country, of no race—it is just a dynasty and nothing more ;it is simply the House of Hapsburg—no, not even that ; everything in that accursed house is usurVation, down to their very name ; they are not Hapsburgs, they are Lorraine-Vaudemonts, rebellious crown officers of France, as NAPOLEON I. used to style them —not they, but the Lords DENBIGH of the house of Fielding are the only Hapsburgs on earth." Later on, he asks his English hearers whether the per petuation of the House of Austria can be regarded as commercially a matter to this country of any importance or consideration whatever.? And he immediately answers his own query thus conclu sively and contemptuously. " Why," he exclaims, " just consult the latest returns of the Board of Trade, and you see that your commerce with small but free Belgium is nearly six times as extensive as your commerce with the big Austrian empire. Uruguay nearly equals it, the Philippine Islands, poor Norway, and little Greece, rank each before Austria." Break up, he adds, however, " the hete rogeneous compound of that European nuisance" — Austria—and your commercial intercourse with Hungary alone must be ten times what it is now with the whole Austrian empire, peopled by 37,000,000 ! Again, he asks tauntingly, "Is it true, as some have told you, that Austria is your useful ally, both faithful and true ? Useful, indeed! I know that Austria was the insatiable pensioner of England ; that she was the bottomless sack into which England poured millions from the life-sweat of her industrious people. I know that in the late French wars you gave her the little snug sum of 17 millions of pounds; but what advantage you have got from her in return, that is not yet recorded in history." While as to her being our ally, faith ful and true,—" Why, gentlemen," exclaims Kos- SUTH, " remember the Crimean war. Cast your eyes at the gloomy churchyard field before Sebas topol. It is faithful Austria, that pale phantom of death, that sent your heroes to die in vain on that barren field, while she stood idly by without firing a shot, without raising a finger, in return for all your consideration for her." Admirably, in fine, does he sum up the whole case against Austria in one sentence, as tersely axiomatic as it is profoundly philosophic,—" Artificial States," he observes, with his glittering eye fixed scornfully upon Austria, " Artificial States, without either organic cohesion or harmonising cement, are an incitement to war, instead of constituting a check upon it." No—the truth at last should be told in regard to what KOSSUTH wittily designates " this cabalistic abra cadabra of balance of power, which, unlike that of the olden Syrians, creates the diseases which it is intended to cure." The Balance of Power ! It is "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare," so long as Austria remains in existence ! If we might sum up now into an epigrammatic truth what has hitherto been but a most disastrous fallacy and illusion, we would inscribe henceforth upon the Charter of Peace to Christendom — THE BALANCE OF POWER r. • . 4tt ,l2 : u 1. m, 4., s • - •I t' AA II *011 1111040t07, ‘, ; -, 41111111b \ - _ e THE SUN. MONDAY, MAY 23, 1859. 7 _, SUN, LONDON, MONDAY WE THE INDEPENDENCE OF NATIONALITIES. We have little doubt that Ministers, at least, are well pleased with the numerous demonstrations in favour of neutrality which they see on every side. Our present Cabinet is not a war Cabinet, and would regret much more than one of which Lord PALMERSTON, or Mr. ROEBUCK himself, could he he Foreign Secretary, was a member, the necessity of engaging again in war. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, also, is decidedly opposed to that war tax—the income tax--and honestly desires that he may not be called on to propose its renewal in 1860, much as the Manchester school desire to substitute a direct income tax to any amount for the self-adjusting income tax of a well-regulated Custom-house. We are free to confess, however, that the language held by the leaders of the Cabi net, until the dinner at the Mansion-house, did justify the apprehensions of the friends of neutrality, and the haters of Hapsburg oppressions ; but we are both bound and inclined to take Lord DERBY'S declarations that day as literal truth, and that we and others had misinterpreted their real sentiments. We strongly suspect, however, that the leaders of the two Houses were really endeavouring to per form the impossible task of serving two masters. From their position they felt disposed, on the one hand, to say the best they could for Austria ; they knew it would be a welcome offering in nearly the highest quarters—the servants of the QUEEN must speak courteously of those in whom the QUEEN'S Consort takes a deep interest. On the other hand, their own sentiments were the sentiments of the great mass of Englishmen, Conservative or Liberal; they abhor, as all of us do, Austrian rule in Italy, a nd, though they cannot officially say so, would be as glad as the rest of us to know that the issue of the present contest was the retreat for ever of Austria to the north of the Alps, and the retreat at the same time of the French and French influence from the Peninsula. If we interpret aright the real sentiment s of our Cabinet, the y would shrink from spendin g a single English sovereign or a drop of English blood to fight the battles o Austria or even of Germany. No Europa' country, or Government we should say, that ishave yet saved, has rewarded us with anything It insolvency in our debt, and insulting us for ,'as Naples has lately done, and as Spain does ti this hour, after having taken our money to exhguish the slave trade. We can hardly doubt, there're, that the two meetings on the same day, hd in the City of London, both presided over la: its Chief Magis trate; the former that:of, certain}, after all, the first municipal body in the kingdomthe second that of the general public of the Met)politan City, were both of them meetings welcoie to the Govern ment. They will need all le support which meetings like these can give hem to sustain the wishes of the nation in the fie of a Germanised Court. Relatives and connetions of English Royalty are, we believe, in Atstrian service, and Prussia seems to be, or affects 5 be, in a panic lest the French should again, havng beaten Austria, cross the Rhine. To resist witing a single line, or uttering a single expression, which might be construed into willingness on .ur part to fight the battle of either Austria or Gemany, is the really difficult task of the Ministry of the day. It is clear that nothing can aid them so much in per forming it as meetings like those of Friday. To ittem they can point the ambassadors of German powers, and those who may chsire to oblige them, and tell them, " You see we 'annot do it." We believe our Ministers would, iideed, do their duty to their country at the hazard of offending where they should be on pleasantest terms ; but it is well for the country to save them this necessity. The occasion, too, is one on which it tells well on foreign countries to see that the mii 5 3.1...L. though they have representatives, though they have a Government, though they have a Sovereign to whom they are devotedly loyal, are yet their own masters ; that their liberty of meeting is not a mere paper fiction, and that on the most important occasions they can assume the Dictatorship and in struct all, through whom they act, on the course they must take. The address of the Corporation to the QUEEN was carried by such an overwhelming majority as to be, practically, a unanimous vote ; both Mr. WHITE and Mr. REED, the mover and the seconder, spoke wits great good sense. They showed how little reason could arise for England to interfere, unless she should be attacked, here or in her pos sessions ; and, at the same time, how powerful she must become to defend herself, if she continued :in creasing her own strength while the Powers abroad were madly exhausting theirs. They showed, also, that the Royal proclamation was rather a reason for sending up an address than the con trary, as it would intimate that the country were prepared to support her MAJESTY in the policy which it indicated. The meeting at the London Tavern brought out an illustrious exile, who had a right, if any one has, to be listened to on Austrian proceedings. None of us can be so deeply versed as he in all the bearings of Austro-Italian and Austro-German affairs. He speaks, of course, with but one desire —the liberation and the welfare of nationalities ; he must have a not very distant thought tor his beloved native land, yet even he asks but one thing —" Let England keep out of the quarrel." He does not implore our aid for Italy, and then for Hun gary—nothing of the kind ; he only asks that we shall not observe a one-sided neutrality—a neu trality, of which the secret understanding shall be, that if Austria gets the worst of it we shall help her while we should not be equally ready to help the other side. His speech was indeed an eloquent one, and will well repay perusal. Justly did he observe, that either the Austrians must be driven out o Italy, or the Italian question would recur again and again; justly did he scout such pleas as her unity in blood with our race as absurd, since she was but an agglomeration of nationalities, of which the last census gave Germany 7,000,000 out of a population of thirty-seven millions ; and that, if these nationalities were free and self developing, they would be a better bulwark for Europe than in their present discontented union. Justly did he characterise her as our old pensioner rather than our old ally, and advise us to waste for her no more of our blood or treasure. England will cordially say " Aye" to the advice of one of the noblest exiles who ever graced her shores. ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBORNE. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21. The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and Princess Beatrice, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived at the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport, at half-past 12 o'clock this afternoon. Tier Majesty was received by the Commander-in-Chief of the port, Admiral William Bowles, C. 8., Rear-Admiral the Hon. Geo. Grey, superintendent of the dockyard; Rear-Admiral G. R. Mundy, appointed second in command of the Mediterranean fleet; Major-General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, commanding the south-western district, with their respective staffs ; Captain Geo. Fowler Hastings, C. 8., superintendent of the Clarence-yard and Haslar, and a gu6.rd of honour of militia artillery. Her Majesty embarked on board the Royal screw yacht Fairy, Commander the Prince Leiningen, under Royal salutes from the Victory, flagship, and. Excellent, the ships in harbour being gaily deco rated with parti-coloured bunting. On leaving the harbour the royal standard was saluted from the King's Bastion, and also by the Hannibal and Doris at Spithead, as the vessel approached in that direction. Her Majesty landed as usual at Cowes, and arrived at Osborne at about 20 minutes past two o'clock. ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA. Scarcely had the Fairy passed through Spithead when her Majesty's yacht, the Victoria and Albert, Captain the lion. Joseph Denman, hove in sight, having on board the Princess Frederick William of Prussia, whom she embarked at Antwerp, and has conveyed hither on a visit to the Queen. Owing to the hazy state of the weather, the royal yacht was abreast of the ships lying at Spithead before she was observed from the shore, the Vivid steam vessel being in attendance. Her Royal Highness brings no large retinue of servants with her, but is attended, we understand, only by the Count and Countess de Perponcher. Her infant child remains at Berlin. The Prince Frederick William will, we hear, arrive in the course of eight or nine days, being at present on his summer drill. SURREY THEATRE. mg :- Mr. Flexmore, the celebrated clown, having recovered from his long and painful illness, intends taking his benefit at this favourite theatre on Thursday next, the 24th. The entertainments selected will commence with Sheridan Knowles's admired play of " William Tell," in which Mr. Creswick will sustain the part of the Swiss hero. This will be followed by a petite ballet comique, supported by Mr. Flexmore, and Madame Auriol. At the termination of the ballet a concert will be given, in which the celebrated Christy's Minstrels and several acknowledged favourite vocalists will take part, and the whole to conclude with Jerrold's nautical drama, "Black-eyed Susan," in which Mr. Ryder, of the Princess's Theatre, will sustain the part of William, and Mrs. R. Ilonner that of Stisan. Such a bill of fare of itself could not fail to attract a crowded house, but when it is recollected that the great object of the evening is to welcome back to his profession an old London favourite, there .can not be a doubt that it will be an overflowing one. VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS MOVEMENT.—Ar rangements are being entered into for forming a volunteer rifle corps in Ipswich, Folkestone, Hastings, Nottingham, Norfolk, Eton, Hertford, Cardiff, Warwickshire, Devon port, and 14eicestef, LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. FIRST BATTLE IN PIEDMONT. (FRENCH ACCOUNT.) The 3loniteur of Sunday contains the follow- ALESSANDRIA, MAY 21. The Austrians have attacked with 15,000 men the advanced posts of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers. They were repulsed by General Forey's division, which behaved admirably, and carried the village of Montebello, already so famous, after a san guinary contest of four hours. The Piedmonteso cavalry, commanded by General de Sonnaz, dis played extraordinary energy. We have made 200 prisoners, of whom one is a colonel. We have from 500 to 600 killed and wounded. The Brigadier-General of Infantry, Beuret, and Commandant Duchet, have been killed. Colonels Guyot de Lespart, De Bellefonds, Conseil Dumes nil, and the Commandants Lacretelle and De Fe russac, are wounded. This affair reflects great honour on General Forey, who displayed great intelligence and bravery. The Austrians are in full retreat since yesterday evening. The loss of the enemy amounts to more than 2,000 men. The Emperor set out to-day for Voghera. He has visited the hospital, where the wounded Aus trians are received along with the French, and attended with the same care. • PARIS, MAY 21. The following despatch from the Emperor to the Empress has been posted on the Bourse : A LESSANDRIA, May 21.—A body of Austrians, about 15,000 strong, attacked the advanced posts or the corps under Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers, but were repulsed by General Forey's division, which behaved admirably, and cleared the village of Montebello of the enemy after an obstinate fight of four hours. The Piedmontese cavalry, commanded by Gen. Sonnaz, fought with extraordinary energy. Two hundred prisoners were taken, including one colonel. The loss on the French side amounts to 500 killed and wounded. The Austrians have been retreating since yes terday evening. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE. VIENNA, MAY 22. The official Austrian Correspondance of yesterday evening contains the following authentic communi cation respecting the battle at Montebello :—" On the 20th inst. General Stadion sent out a recon noitring party to.learn the strength and position of the enemy's right wing. The Austrians advanced towards Teglio and Montebello, where they met the enemy in superior force. After a very severe conflict General Stadion drew back his troops in perfect order to the left bank of the Po, after hav ing, however, forced the enemy to employ his whole strength. BERNE, AlAy 21. According to telegrams from Magadino, Gari baldi is reported to have been yesterday at Romag nano with 400 men, and to have entered Arona this evening, preparatory to acting against Laveno. TURIN, MAY 21 To-day the extreme left of our:army under Gene ral Cialdini, forced a passage over the Sesia, near Vercelli, in an admirable manner. The enemy was put to flight, leaving officers and privates as pri soners, together with arm, waggons, and horses, in our hands.—(Official Bulletin.) TURIN, MAY 22. General Cialdini wishing to take possesion of the end of the bridge of Vercelli, which adjoined the left bank of the river, in order by that means to protect the construction of another bridge over the Sesia, moved forward two columns, which, after having passed the river, joined at the same point. PARIS, MAY 23, The Moniteur of to-day contains the following message, dated Alessandria, May 22 :—The wea ther continues to improve. The Emperor is in good health. The Moniteur also says :—A note of the French Government has been sent on the 3d of May to the Foreign Governments, announcing that orders had been given to respect the territories and the com merce of neutral States, and to observe the prin ciples consecrated by the Paris Congrees. The column which crossed near Sesia, on the side next Albano, was attacked by the Austrians in great force, and sustained a fierce confict at a place called Villata. The enemy was, however, routed, and our troops established themselves in Borgo Vercelli. The other column crossed the Sesia, near Cappucini Vccchi, and after having surprised two companies of the enemy, remained at that place. Our loss is insignificant, but that of the Austrians is considerable. The Mgdenese, after having spiked their cannon, evacuated Aulla last night and retired to Froizzano.—(Official Bulletin.) VIENNA, MAY 22. Garibaldi arrived on the 21st at Arona with 4,000 men. The Swiss Federal Council has de spatched two companies of sharpshooters, one company of chasseurs, and a battalion of infantry to the Canton Tessin. The general staff of the seventh corps d'armee, from Geneva, will follow. Novara is still occupied by the Austrians. Gari baldi is to operate from Arona against Laveno. The Austrians have retired in perfect order to Pavia and Piacenza. TURIN, MAY 21. Yesterday 15,000 Austrians assailed Casteggio and occupied Montebella, The Sardinian cavalry and the corps d'arniee of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers advanced, followed by General Forey's division, and after a fight of six hours repulsed the Austrians. The allied forces then retook posses sion of Montebello. Two hundred Austrians and an Austrian colonel have been made prisoners. The enemy is in full retreat. Forey's division and the Sardinian cavalry, under General Sonnaz, behaved admirably. The loss of the allies was 500 killed and wounded. The loss of the enemy was very great. Yesterday the Emperor visited. the camp at Marengo.— (Official Bulletin). VIENNA, MAY 22. On the 20th inst. General Stadion pushed for ward a reconnaissance by a forced march towards Teglio and Montebello, but after a hot fight with a French force of superior strength, retreated behind the Po.—(Official Bulletin). TRIESTE, MAY 21. News from the head-quarters contradict the statement that demands for contributions have been imposed upon Vercelli, and allege that, on the contrary, not the smallest requisition has been made. BERNE, MAY 22. In consequence of the news received from the seat of war, the Federal Council, in an extraordi nary sitting, has decreed the sending of one batta lion and two companies of Car bineers from Geneva to the Canton Tessin, under the command of the Staff-Major of the 7th division. TRIESTE, MAY 21. According to a communication made by the French Commander to some Papal craft which had been prevented from entering the port of Venice, only the Venetian coast is blockaded by the French. BERNE, MAY 21. It is reported from Tessin that all the Austrian, detachments on the Lago Maggiore have withdrawn and that the Emperor of Austria and General Hess Lave arrived at Pavia. DEATH OF THE KING OF NAPLES. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) ROME, SUNDAY EVENING. The King of Naples died at half-past one o'clock this afternoon. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. " The Emperor of the French," says a corre spondent of the Salut Public of Lyons, " has just given King Victor Emmanuel a proof of his high esteem, by confiding to his command a corps of the French army, which will form the left wing, the Emperor himself commanding the right." BOURSE, May 21.—Considerable sensation was created by the telegraphic despatch announcing the defeat of the Austrians in an attack, but the intel ligence had no great influence on the market, which was, however, steady. Threes have been done at 61f. 10c. and 61f. 25c. Mobilier varied from 590 f. to 595 f.; Orleans, 1,170 f. to 1,172 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 772 f. 50e. to 775 f. ; Northern, 875 f. to 880 f. ; Southern, 590 f. to 592 f. 50c. The following were the closing quotations :- 41- per Cents. 90 I Credit Foncier 645 — lso. end month .. 89 50 Belgian 4? — 3 per Cents 6l '35 Piedmonteso (5) .. 78 Do. end month 6l 30 Roman Bl Bank Shares 2725 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 597 50 I Spanish Threes — Do. Account ..... 592 50 I Home Debt 36 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern . BBO .. 875 New ditto. 747 50 .. 750 Lyons and Mediterranean 775 .. 775 Geneva 440 .. 445 Southern Western 495 .. 495 Eastern Sardinian 340 .. 345 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71c. •, money, 25f. 21c.; three months, paper, 24f. 90e. ; money, 24f. 871 e. NAPLES. A letter from Naples, of the 15th, says :—" Since the beginning of the week the King's illness has presented more alarming symptoms, which the official journal has not attempted to conceal ; the bulletins are every day more and more unfavourable. In the palace, at Caserta, the greatest anxiety prevails, for his Majesty's decease is again thought to be near at hand. The symptoms which have recently appeared leave no hope of amendment, as the royal patient is evidently sinking fast." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 16th contain no political news. They publish the judicial report -and the accusation against M. Collantes, but it throws no new light on the matter. They state that French and Catalonian commercial travellers were making very large purchases of wine and spirits in different parts of the country, and that in consequence the prices of those articles have risen. AUSTRALIA. We extract the following Summary for England from the Melbourne Argus of March 16 : We have a clear month's history to record since the despatch of the last mail, but it is a month un usually deficient in incidents. Parliament succeeded in getting through its work on the 24th of last month, and on that day it was prorogued by Sir Henry Barkly, with a view to its dissolution. The new electoral law does not come into opera tion till about the Ist of May, about which time the writs will be issued for a general election under the Reform Act. By this measure the system of uni versal suffrage is brought into more complete opera tion ; the number of members in the Legislative Assembly is increased from 60 to 78, and their dis tribution is so arranged as to base the representa tion as nearly as possible on the question of population. The main subject on which the elections will turn is the land question. THE GOLD FIELDS. The events of the last few weeks prove that although the difficulties and cost of mining, in proportion to the average returns obtained, have been annually increasing, our gold fields in reality as yet show no symptoms of exhaustion. These difficulties and the waste of labour have arisen from the tendency of numbers to crowd together on spots where but a few should have been engaged , ,instead of systematically exploring and othe prospecting the diggersurroundingbein g country.also precarious, Th and ethereturns t work in n actual many o r instances very hard, and there b e i ng besides, even up to the present moment, a great want of facilities for association, and for obtaining the aid of capi talists, notwithstanding all our legislation on the subject, very many men who commenced their career as miners have become storekeepers or traders, so that every branch of business on the gold fields is completely overdone, sellers and the usual purvey ors to the wants and amusements of a people being on all the principal centres of attraction, as nume rous as the buyers and producers of the wealth to be spent. Absolute necessity hay at length forced the miners to bestir themselves in the way of seek ing fresh ground ; and we have now to record some discoveries equalling in extent and richness those made in the more prosperous days of gold digging. In addition to several discoveries of lesser note, three new leads or runs of gold have been opened up in different parts of the country within a very short space of time, and are now affording occupa tion to many thousands of miners and their fol lowers. Of these the most important, not only from the probable yield of the one spot of ground, but also from its affording an indication of the rich dis coveries sure to follow, is the deep lead found at an d generally called New Ballarat. But the Black Dog Creek, near the Indigo, in the Ovens s on this have yet reached the b c f l e i w str s i h et a , ft This was found b bottom ; all those that are down, however, show that the lead Indigo, fitted out at the is a ric h and partya wide one. y a pro spectingpublic expense, or rather by a party which con tinued the sinking of a shaft M i ler . it had been abandoned from want of funds. l second rits surfacedee p leadrichness, but in up in a dis . tric s t long now fa the fo which no deep leads were supposed found.sedto will still The and di strict is also very rich doubtless many more in quartz-reefs, and although the working of these may be said to have scarcely commenced yet in earnest, thousands of tons of stone are said to be already lying beside the shafts, but unavailable to the miners for want of machinery to crush it. There is only on e crus hi ng - m ill i n opera ti on as yet, and the quartz passed through it has yielded an average of 5 oz. to the ton ; so this district is likely to be come as famous for its quartz-reefs and deep sink ings as it was formerly for its extensive sluicing operations with surface soil. Two other very extensive " rushes," as they are called in mining phraseology, have cccurred—one to the Back Creek, near Amherst, in the Mary borough district, and the other to C o mmissioners'- hill, close to Ararat. Greater numbers of men have collected at these two places than have been attracted to any of the spots opened on the old gold fields for some years past. The deposits at both are rich and extensive. During the excite • ment of first taking possession of a promising field for mining operations there is sure to be much exaggeration, but there can be no doubt that both leads will afford occupation to a large number of persons, and that they are also very rich, at least in patches. The miners have of late been content to earn a fair living, but on these leads they are beginning to talk again of " homeward-bound" claims, meaning thereby claims the yield of which will enable them to pay a visit to the old country. However that may be, it is certain that the dis covery of new and extensive tracts of paying ground in so many different parts of the country will prevent the necessity for crowding together in spots of limited extent, and that the miners will for some time to come have room for choice, and will therefore do more work, and be better remunerated for what they do. This and other reasons lead to a confirmation of the belief that gold mining has been at its lowest ebb, and that for the future there will be a progressive improvement in the circum stances of the miners themselves, and of all con nected with that interest. Up to the present tine the escort returns, of this year have showed an in crease on the average yield of the same period of last ; and there is now something more than a probability of this increase being maintained, and of our export of gold soon swelling to its former amount. AGRICULTURE. At this season our farmers, after the hard work of harvesting their crops, devote themselves for a time to the lighter part of their bu,siness, an d hold exhibitions of stock and produce. The Melbourne Grain Show is to be held at the end of the present month, and is expected to be well attended, al though the samples of Victoria grain will scarcely be as fine as usual. So much rain has fallen at different periods durinc , the summer that much of it is discoloured. Many 6 agriculturists are now thinking of gradually converting a portion of their cultivated land into vineyards, and as an incentive to a little emulation in this direction, the Mayor of Melbourne has presented a silver cup, to be offered as a prize for the best 50 bunches of grapes exhi bited at the coming show, and the society is, for the first time, offering prizes for the best samples of Victoria-made wine. There is a general complaint among the millers this season that the new home-grown wheat is net so good as usual, from, the cause before mentioned, and they are, consequently, giving a preference to wheat from South Australia, and at a higher price. Grain and other produce are comparatively abun dant throughout the interior since harvest, and prices are therefore declining, and approaching somewhat more nearly to those ruling in the sea port towns. Indeed, potatoes are so plentiful illth° Ballarat district that they have been a compete drug in that market, unsaleable at much lower rates than they were fetching in Melbourne. The alpacas shipped from England in the Goddess arrived four weeks since, without much loss on the voyage, and are now in a small paddock adjoining the Botanic Gardens, where they may be seen eat ing the coarsest weeds with as much relish as white clover or the tender shoots of young grass. Thep seem very indifferent as to the nature of their Pas' ture, and if their constitution can adapt itself t° our climate, they will find an abundance of food in plants which none of the ether domesticated ant' mals will touch. RAILWAYS. A general meeting of the shareholders a the Hobson's Bay Railway Company has been held, to consider the propriety of paying to the St. Kild a and Brighton Company, at an earlier time than wa fi first intended, ff.y sum of £5,000, which it was re ; solved at a former meeting to hand over to tha " company on the completion of their line. A r es u e : lution was passed at the meeting to authorise t directors of the Hobson's Bay Company to pa)" ~1 11si , sum at such earlier times, and by such ins t i ments, and on such terms, as they might ae e in 7 expedient, taking security for its repayraect e i the event of the works not being compl e % or the contemplated traffic arrangements not belch carried out. It was stated by one of the direet ° ,, r : of the Brighton Company at the meeting, that a m a believed their line would be completed by the 2 ' of August next. The first completed portion of the Suburban C° 111 ; pany's line, as far as Richmond, has been now °P e a for traffic during some weeks, and on this , a s ~r the Government lines, the receipts are much l ar g er than were calculated upon. It is the expr essed intention of the directors to proceed with the vi'er,'; as fast as they can, and carry the line across t.P. Yarra and tnrough Prahran, until it joins th e 1111 to Brighton. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The number of treasure ships despatched has been g reat ' but the gold shipped ha not kept pace with the shiPs each vessel has taken a smaller proportion. There has,ll,° been much briskness among buyers, and the same pr' n; have ruled throughout the month. The great bulk of tw„ trade is confined to the gold - fields ; bu t the Melbon111" brokers quote transactions at the following rates, viS. Omeo, 68s. to 71s. 6 d. per ounce ; Pleasant Creek Old Goulburn, 745. to 755.; Castlemaine, Sandhurst, 11.11 „,„ Jim Crow, 755. to 765. ; Ararat, Maryborough, Duno4'.l? Fiery Creek, Avoca, and Amherst, 765. to _ Ovens and Yackandandah, 765. to 78s. ; B a llarat, 7 75 ,',", • -; to 78s Cd.; Goulburn River and Livingstone, 675. tO Boggy Creek, 755. 6d. to 765. per ou nce . The escorts this year, with few exce ptions, have been below the weekly average of the years 1857, 1 §, 5 ,.., 8 * f the now the quantities despatched from the majority sr gold-fields are fluctuating. The weekly average of the Ye,,, 1857 was 47,670 ounces ; of the first quarter of 1858, 41, , ounces ; of the second, 45,290 ounces ; of the third, 4 8 ),, e ounces ; and of the fourth, 43,917 ounces. Last week f ot total quantity sent down was only 33,680 ounces, aga l i t e 43,351 ounces for the corresponding week of last year. ?" total for the year is, Lowever, still in excess of the total. the same eriod of 1858. The money market has been almost without fluntuati,°ll., since our last monthly report. Capital has been abundanTJA offering on mortgage, and for investment in. the shareh e local joint-stock companies of standing and repute., -lir, banks' rates of discount are—For bills under 95 days co. rency, 8 per cent. ; from 95 to 125 days', 9 per cent. ; !„ a 125 days', 10 per cent. ; and on overdrawn accoun ts, 10 cent. sight for Exchange on England is at par f or 60 da y s ' si g -, large amounts, a nd at 1 per cent. premium for 30 n a /,. e i sight for bills under L5O. Freight on gold by sailing l sels is from 21d. to 3 d. pe r ounce, delivera ble in Lond ll i i nsura nce, 11 per cent. By the overland route the fr eig e to the Bank of England is 1 per cent. ; insurance 111"- cent. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. re T n l i i n e su ab lar ov a e n m d a o ils ri t e S •e n O a t c:l l l Sul T eca H o inh A e : r SOUTHAMPTON, midnightl , steamship r then 22. tan,lh Oporto aptain Neil lB t h aCook,nd Vigow h which eft .eft Lisbon on the The Sultan brought the largest number of PI sengers and c argo ever shipped for SouthanlPlo by a Peninsular boat, there being 75 passengers , a all, 54 first class (including his Royal Highness ti'te Duke of Saxe Coburg and Sir James Ferguson, lt Governor of Gibraltar), 17 se cond, and 4 de l besides £7,000 in specie, and 2,450 half-chests ° oranges, 798 boxes of potatoes, 280 baskets of ait tm 794 elephants' tusks, and 20 packages of sundries. No political news. The Tyne arrived at Lisbon on the 13th, and left the following day for the Brazils.. A Cabinet Council was held on F r id a y at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer', o f Downing-street. The Ministers present were the i‘ r iie r, Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chan . ,,c e etphr Peel, la r yA,Ia Lordrs o u t i hs s et of t no ' nl e Salisbury, yEmsteiorujt. t at h hk e ien E Eg a ta r or i nl : of and tkadi `Westminster adjourned afternoon,lr n E b eyd F t A i hn T eciP AL afeal asaIACCIDENT falling otgv,nroootfhtoee,pbo.No: rdk A i t bodies soan l r: l oaf r tf : stt S n ethh i r Ai ves l tee d l o Isa:r Lord scaffolding n S i o se T jaibik unfortunate d E :o 64lr a Eweno' The e reS K pital. The particulars of the unfortunate calarT-4., i r a irs twe'neldlekdn t o o w s n ho tl \ i r at th i a t t i t s h n e e f e a d l l l e in ss g t o o f repeat thsetmag:swaa:oc--iteuna•vo evidence. The whole tenor of the by the removal of some of the lower supports e . vid7:ce sea had not terminated when we went to press. ung be e/1 the top j u g CHELSEA. NEW BRIDGE.—A movement "" set on foot in Cl ap h am an d th e v i c i n it y f o r the PurP e 'i l to procuring th e cons t ruc ti on o f a sou th- w est aPP._ r°ll- e re4 Chelsea New Brid ge , the want of which is can es public incon ven i ence . It seems that for the PrP,: e i effecting the object in view it will be necessary to o Trod new railway in the locality to be on an embanktoeu'l n d 0 10 0 close to the present South-Western line as possible, !L e , w ill to got the Crystal Palace line raised. The road requir re, have to pass under the railways, and part of the i r a n tvgill quired for it is trust property ; an Act of Parhat t c; ag o' therefore be necessary for the purpose. As one 0f thought cies by which this work might be carried out wastion 130 to be the Battersea-park Commissioners, theiralglics rePli been made to that body on the subject, and la it Oa they state that they have neither power to execute it funds for the purpose. At the same time then be ve ry presses its opinion that the proposed road we'll en eralli desirable both as regards the interest of the publicy_ neig h. and that of the owners and occupiers of land in tn ie coo bouroood. The other agencies by means of which Ale struction of the road may be carried out will be-z 7 O f two tropolitan Board of Works, under the 144th seetw_ Metropolis Local Management Act ; a committee o_r , l oo p formed by or from the public for the pu rpose ; °r the landholders themselves. thei A v T e It A A , L yorGfIEN Herald,T AT w S writing g A ir -4 c om San r Juan re sP° eedilht Norte,e° F r e April 16, says,:—" The mail from Costa Rica reaao,?j,„idis this morning. The mail boat or canoe met with M T`coen. aster on the river Serapique, soon after leaving U erells l4 There were four passengers in it, an English 1 1 1 0 l i v ed named Joy, his wife and servant, and a German, !f oe ea at the Moen, called Juan Aleman. It seems the el l ot os' countered one of the many eddies in the river , whsicuddeall, what resembles your Eastern river, and, whirling ue i s all capsized, pitching out the passengers. Mr. Joy, r!,, es ist‘ excellent swimmer, caught his wife, and with tny e d ate:) of the boatman righted the bcat, and suce ec d ' guy plsc.ng Mrs Joy and the servant safely into it, an di d got into it himself. The boat being half full of water_ •st eli c,mld not be persuaded to sit down, and the boa,tracre tempted to swim and drag the boat ashore, but ha0,.. 6 ,11 c oat begun to move when the boat sank. Mrs. sag en d 10 1 and was not seen to rise again. The Gormand too was lost for ever. The servant girl had on A fter which it is said saved her from a watery gravf• or satisfying himself that his wife could not be forma, tur oca gallant German who sought to save her, Mr. Joy r e. _ ear s to San Jose with the servant. They had spent soya e. at Costa Rica, and had started to visit their rel Ll` England,"