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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the afanagement •f Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be revived Shakspeare's Tragedy of HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen Sattarine, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, IF THE CAP Firs. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, 34: J. B. Buckstone. For the Benefit of Mr. Buckstone. THIS E - rESL . ). perf or man ce will commence with INGE CONTE ZLMTION. Followed bye /I , OICILKE HOME HAPPT. To conclude vottailtiiknoVrE , Ex. ettintibee st 7. NEW THEATRE - .ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. THIS EVENING, DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. Mr. find Mrs. Henri Drayton. Followed by THE HOUSE'? or, THE HOME ? Mr. A. Wigan, C , Selby, Willington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Hiss H. Simms. Miss Laidkr.w. After which, THE BENGAL TIGER. To conclude with THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Mr. C. adby and Moreland ; Iffisses - Weeigar and X. TEtTly. Acting Mansgsr4iffr. Wm. Smith. Doors open st a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 —no charge for bookinngg. No fees to servants permitted. A registry kept of all artiol found. ROYAL STA.AND THEAT RE. see and - s. Miss Swsnborough THIS EVENING, QUIXerE, JUNIOR. Mr. J. Clarke. Alter which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUETTES. Misses Swanborough. Oliver, and Lavine. Followed b , f Tifg VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LY01613. COssatoce at 7 o'clock. VERDI'S OPERA OF MACBETH. The yl whole of the first Act of this Opera, now roduced for the first time in this country (the remaining three acts being in course of rehearsal), is sung nightly at the CAN TERBURY HALL CONCERTS. THE DELEPIERR FAMILY, meting of three Juvenile Violinists, , Jules, Juliette, sad Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, six, an d ZIGHT years. The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They ten perform TWICE EACH EVENING, in addi tion to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, JULY 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 78—highest since noon yesterday. 6.s—lowest this morning and during the night. 78—this day at noon. Bknolaremt-30.31. WIND, N.W. ; light, with very fine weather. A melancholy humour pervaded the whole of the discussion last evening upon the vote of another considerable sum—altogether this year just £58,525 —for works and expenses at the New Houses of Parliament. It is lamentable certainly to reflect how many of these expenses arise from repairs— repairs in a structure actually not yet completed. The ventilation of the building—of the House of Commons itself, of the very lobbies and passages — was allowed on all hands to admit of improvement. Two out of the four clock faces in the clock-tower still require to be set a-going ! The bell tolling the hours was pronounced to be so peculiarly lugubrious and even funereal in tone, that the best arrangement, altogether, that could be thought of in this regard was one that would stop its tolling altogether. The very material of which the legis lative palace at Westminster is chiefly composed was acknowledged to give indications of a tendency to decay—a tendency so manifestly threatening in its character, that two or three processes are now being tried with a view, if possible, to the effectual indurating of the stone comprising the Housesof Parliament. The lighting of the House of Commons was pronounced, at once, to be both expensive and ineffectual. The acoustic peculiarities of that house again were declared to be such that from some parts of it was almost pos sible to hear what was going on. The frescoes, here and there—although painted as it were but yester day—were said to be injured by the effects of damp ness. The stained glass windows were reprobated by one indignant representative as little else than an elaborate and costly method of obscuring the daylight, "in order," as he facetiously observed, "to imitate a period when the manufacture of glass was in its infancy ; and although our manufacturers now produced the most beautiful crystal, the House was full of little trumpery pieces of glass a few inches square, in serted in lead casing, and dignified by the name of windows." " What could have possessed the minds of any man, or any set of men," asked the hon. member in question, the member for the Tower Hamlets, "to insist that everything about the Houses of Parliament should accord with the igno rance of some hundreds of years ago, rather than with the advanced intelligence of to-day! And this was called the perfection of art ! Why, orna ments of the most trumpery kind stared you in the face at every turn. Look at the absurd paintings within the House, which led many members to attend very little to what wasbeing done, while some could hardly rise to speak without having their thoughts distracted by the lions and the dragons, and the rest of it." It is not every one, however, who finds himself, like Mr. AYRTON, irritated to the last de gree of irritation by the perpetual recurrence, throughout the ornate decorations of the edifice, of the Tudor rose on the baronial portcullis. Fortu nately the majority of the national representatives can regard these and other kindred adornments with undisturbed equanimity. Otherwise the Lords and Commons would have but a sorry time of it—and the records of HANSARD would be little else than a series of expletives. Not only, however, were abundant objections made like those we have here intimated, to the condition of the stone, the clock, the bell, the lighting (natural and artificial), the ventillation, and the decorations of these unfortunate Houses of Parliament, but others were actually directed against a matter we should imagine altogether beyond the reach of im . provement, namely, the very site which has been se lected for the new Palace at Westminster. Accord ing to thehou.baronet the member for Buckingham, the first site t o which attention had been directed before the commencement of the present edifice was that occupied by Carlton-terrace, to the north east of St. James's-p ar k, A superfluous remi- niscence enough in the Midsummer of 1859, when that mountain of decayin g stone las been piled up with such elaborate skill under t'he direction of Sir CRAZIES BARRY, between the river Thames and the old Abbey of Westminster. Now, that it is there, wt must surely make the best of it. It is a mere waste of time to talk about the superior ad vantages, of any other site, or for that matter either o J any other order of architecture. To the pres' ant river-site we are com CO itted now beyond redempt ion. To mediaeval got is we are no less irremedi A bly committed. The a rchitectural order is chop a, the site is chosen, the stone is chosen— are are only left the duty of malting the best of them, rutaining with that the undisputed and im prescrip 'Able right, luxury, or privilei; e of every Englisll.man—that of grumbling. And no wonder JOHN I kru, grumbles, and that pretty loudly, when he hau, to plunge his hand into his breeches pocket, and drag forth another good-sized handl? al ofvery nearly L6o,ooo—precisely,aswebave said,, 458,525—f0r a building he don't half like, a bui) dic ng the ptone of which is fast decaying before , . .0. ~... 1, -. ' ...,nkl. 0 , f• MA ~ .-., „4 • -.. ..."'' .... A. .I.' .... A '..;.:,_,..- 411 1 0 , 'VS , 1:,;t - ' -- ),..i" ~ , N.:, ,, - . 1( 4111.,, x,..tvo, • 4'. , Aldine, .- • ]''''-,„ / 1 °- .' - ~ ~...---- ,•• •,0.• ,-- THE SUN. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1859. the structure itself is yet actually finished, a build ing the very :atmosphdre penetrating which is anything but pleasant or salubrious. In reference to the last-mentioned grievance, however, as the member for the North Riding of Yorkshire re marked with an execrable Cockney pun—we must, following the advice of Mrs. GLASSE— " first catch our hare " It is neither a slovenly and expensive mode of doing this — t o pour, as - we are now doing, 100 tons of lime daily into the current of that pestiferous river of the Thames weltering up and down with the ebb and flow of the tide past the Legislative Palace at Westminster. Let us but once really purify the river, and depend upon it we shall settle down comfortably with something like contentment in our really noble and superb, though purely Gothic, Houses of Parliament. One of the " Napoleonic Ideas" of the uncle, the nephew has, beyond all denial, admirably illus- trated—that " it is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous." On the 7th ult. we were all looking at NAPOLEON the nephew almost as we once did at NAPOLEON the uncle on the same spot ; we were beginning to think he might be a great, a master-mind, after all—that liberating Italy, from the French Alps to the Adriatic, was no vain glorious boast, but soon to become an accomplished fact. NAPOLEON 111. stood at Villafranca, on the left side of the Mincio, the victor of half-a-dozen fights, the last one being the imposing battle of Solferino. He had vanquished every army in the field—he now stood before the famous Quadrangle summoning it to surrender. Two armies are yet fresh, the other flushed with victory, and a fleet on the other side of the Quadrangle seemed to place the keys of Italian independence and the power to fulfil his proclamation in his hands. Thus it was on the 7th ; on the Bth, just when expecting to hear of another decisive battle, which should shut up every Austrian in the fortresses, came the puzzling news of a five weeks' armi s tice ! What could it mean ? Could Austria be yet so humbled as to surrender the four fortresses, and Venice, without a battle or a siege ?—or, could Louis NAPOLEON show his face again in France if they were left longer in Austrian hands—if the Adriatic were not even gazed on by the French soldiers, who were to write " Italy Independent" on the sand of its shores. We had not long to wait : by Tuesday evening we Ns ere told that the vanquished victor had signed a peace ! A peace leaving Austria supreme in Italy, glorifying the POPE with a tinsel crown, consigning Sardinia to political insignificance, and giving her the Duchy of Milan as a sweetmeat to pacify the innocent creature !llt was hardly a day, at least, between the sublime and the ridiculous. On Monday, the victor Emperor of fifty met the vanquished Empe ror of half his age, and on Tuesday we heard that the boy had vanquished in the Cabinet the man who had thrashed him in the field ;—the youn Hapsburg turns homeward with the fame of clever diplomacy after disastrous fighting—the old NAPOLEON quits for Paris to be laughed at for empty beasts and for being outwitted by a boy ! We can hardly, indeed, realise to ourselves the absurd result of such awful sacrifices. The victor of Montebello, of Buffalora, of Magenta, of Solfe rino, quaking before Mantua, Pescheira, and Verona, and while begging mercy of Austria—and—calling it moderation ! His own country and his army will never forgive him that moderation—forgive him for being beaten by the quadrangle. Waterloo was no dishonour ; the French fought, and fought nobly, too, there. But, they undertook to conquer the quadrangle, they conquered only the open coun try, and left the quadrangle—real difficulty ! France vanquished at Solferino—she was herself vanquished at Verona. NAPOLEON I. did miracles for his means, at Waterloo ; NAPOLEON 111. left his miracles yet to be performed at Verona. ' But he has done cleverly for his interest ! He has made a humbled friend of Austria ; he has bought Sardinia, if, indeed, VICTOR EMMANUEL be base enough to be bought by a handsome present; he placed that constitutional King between the coercion of the despotic quadrangle on one side, and the despotic French Empire on the other ; he has killed off officers enough to enable him to make a good batch of promotions ; he has bribed the POPE with a gilt crown, and the Roman Catholic clergy by his nominal homage to their head. The little dukedoms, in future, also must all obey him and Austria ; and he has given the name of inde pendence to Italy, and kept the thing for himself and FRANCIS JOSEPH ; besides, he has stopped all nationality work in Hungary and elsewhere, and the Italians well know that they must obey his bailiffs, or share the fate of Perugia. Yes, we can think of a hundred clever things, but as mean as clever. We do not read of one noble proposal. It is not even stipulated that the garrisons and army of Venetia and the quadrangle shall be composed of Italians, officered by Italians, and the administration conducted by Italians. That might have given some hope, even under an Austrian Archduke. No, it is all the timid, cow- ardly concession of the despot of France to the despot of Austria, when he found her, as he thought,' more than a match for him. In truth, his former victories measure the disgrace of his present retreat. Paris blushes before Europe, and tears down the recreant proclamation. Such of our readers as wish to know what is the weight of opinion on the subject of marriage with a deceased wife's sister may have full satisfaction by referring to a monster advertisement which appears in our columns to-day. It commences with twenty-seven facts, and such of the facts as could be called in question are supported by an array of opinions which we cannot undertake to number. If any question could be settled by an appeal to the judgment of a long list of persons best qualified to judge, this marriage question is one of them. The promoters of Lord BURY'S Bill appear to consider the right interpretation of the Scripture on the subject the chief point. They argue, that on the Levitical degrees of consanguinity, those of the law of the land are expressly founded by the only statute, one of HENRY VIII., relating to the subject ; also, that the people of this country would not longer consent to have their liberty fettered by the Church merely, if they were satisfied that the Scriptures did not prohibit the marriages in ques tion. They are perhaps right. Yet it seems impossible that our English version of the Bible could have either generated or encouraged the error. We do not see how any plain Englishman could read the prohibition in the celebrated passage, Leviticus c. xviii, v. 18, in an age when polygamy was common and lawful, " thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, beside the other in her life time," and could understand it in more than the restricted sense, the restriction—" in her life-time," making it clear that after the death of the married sister the surviving parties were at liberty to act as they pleased. The advertisement we refer to is accordingly:evidence enough that this is the view taken by numerous laymen of the soundest judgment and of high ability. But what is equally or more important, those who are thoroughly acquainted with the Hebrew original, including the learned Hebrews themselves, guarantee us that our English version is correct. A list of names appear on record which may well satisfy tlie most scrupulous, that a language which even so few educated persons know, is in this case rendered with the most literal fidelity. If our testimony be of any worth, we may add that having inquired of several whom we know to be thorough Hebrew scholars, we have the same assurance from all of them. But we must also take higher ground than this. Were the interpretation only doubtful, which we altogether deny, we deny even yet more strongly the right of any ecclesiastics, or any civil legisla tors, to bind men, and to restrict their liberty by appealing to a doubtful passage of Scripture. We, indeed, should deny the right of any law-giver to found enactments for us Gentiles, on the Levitical laws given to the Jews. Let those legislators who would do so, including the advocates of prohibition amongst the Bishops, approve their own consis tency by first themselves submitting to circumci sion. But even could they prove their right to put the yoke of Leviticus on the necks of Christians, it were an outrage on all rational freedom to require the sacrifice of the general liberty to the doubtful interpretations of whimsical men. The truth is, the prohibition originated in the more superstitious ages of Christendom (see fact 6) —not from any regard to the passage in Leviticus, indeed Leviticus was at that time left to the Jews ; but from the ascetic and corrupt notions about mar riage which ended in the celibacy of the clergy and the institution of Monkery. Hence sprung the canons, half of which we now properly laugh at ; but this one slipped from Popery into our own canons; and then many of our clergy, the more Romanising class especially, sought a defence of an absurd canon in a versicle of the Jewish code. The canon was not suggested by the Scriptures, but the Scriptures perverted to justify an ascetic canon. The present state of the law, let ecclesiastics of the Exeter and Oxford school say what they please, is nothing but the foot of the clergy on the necks of the laity. We resent it as a denial to us of the right of private judgment on a point on which, of all others, each has a right to judge. We resent it as an intermeddling of ecclesiastics where the laymen are as competent as the former to legislate for themselves. We resent the compulsion of all Dis• senters,:especially, in this matter. Their ministers and churches do not interpret the Scriptures by Popish canon law ; and it is intolerable that the Dissenting half of the churches should be bound hand and foot by the Established half. Our readers, however, can look not only at our arguments, but at a long list of opinions, which they may reasonably think of more value than ours. There they will have the judgment of Jews and Christians; of Church of England, Roman Catholic, and Nonconformist divines ; of bishops and arch bishops, and doctors of divinity, and of cardinals, too; of English and American, and Continental divines ; of the moderns and the ancients ; of judges, of civil lawyers, and of statesmen—the opinion of the Royal Commissioners themselves appointed to inquire into the subject. Indeed, we should say that this advertisement is conclusive evidence that the law ought to be altered. On some subjects we are told that a demand is one founded on popular clamour merely ; here, such a list of the educated as few demands could produce are its apology. What weight can the shameless abuse of the Times, denominating that incest which such men are certain is not forbidden by GOD'S law —what weight can such low vituperation have against men like those whose names appear in this list ? We understand the narrow majority for bigotry in the House of Lords last session has frightened the EXETERS;and OXFORDS, and BERES FORD HOPES, and that they will do all they can with country clergymen and their churchwardens before next session, but, as we believe, entirely in vain. Church canons must bend to the Scriptures, and to the common sense of Englishmen. PRINTERS AND THE BIBLE MONOPOL E We understand that a movement has been com menced among the printers to prevent the abuse of the Royal prerogative for conferring again a mono poly of printing the Bible on any printer; and to de mand English printers may be as fully at liberty as Scotch printers to enter the market on equal terms. We hope the demonstration will be one which will leave our wavering Home Secretary no option. Let us not, however, be saddled with a costly and useless board, as in Scotland. Our printers need no Government supervision. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. COWES, JULY 14. ARRIVALS.—JuIy 10—Queen Mab, Sir Percy Shelley, Bart., from Poole. 11th—Minstrel, Wm. Morgan, Esq., from Portsmouth. 13th—Lotus, Earl Vane, from South ampton; and Zara, Commodore the Earl of Wilton, from Portland. SAILED.—Gipsy Queen, Sir Henry Bold Hoyton, Bart., for Plymouth. 13th—Cymba, Capt. R. H. Smith-Barry, for Ireland. 14th—Osprey, Col. R. W. Huey, for the above place ; Lotus, Earl Vane, for the Westward. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.—RoyaI yachts Victoria and Albert and Fairy ; Zara, Commodore the Earl of Wilton ; Lotus, Earl Vane ; Titania, Robert Stephen son, Esq., M.P. ; Anaconda, Lybbe Powys, Esq., M.P. ; Isis, W. H. Cosway, Esq. ; Cecile, Marquis of Conyng ham ; Laverock4Lord Colville; Caprice,:Lieut.-Col. Chas. Barry; Derwent, Chas. Lee, Esq.; Beatrice, J. E. W. Rolls, Esq. ; Haidee, Henry Thorold, Esq. ; Queen Mab, Sir Percy Shelley, Bart. ; Fidelio, Chas. R. Colvile, Esq., M.P. ; Fox, John Lit,chford, Esq. ; Dream, Geo. Bentinck, Esq., M.P. ; Arrow, Thomas Chamberlayne, Esq. At the general meeting at the R.Y.S. house on Saturday last—the Earl of Wilton in the chair—the Duke of Leeds, Henry Thorold, Esq., E. N. Harvey, Esq., C. Colvile, Esq., Colonel Smith, Lord Cholmondeley, P. Percival, Esq., C. Lee, Esq., Spencer de Horsey, Sir J. R. Carnac, Bart., A. Fountain, Esq., and a number of other members were present. The following gentlemen were elected mem bers :—Philip Bennet, Esq. (Waterkelpie, cutter, 50 tons) ; Thomas Brassey, Esq. (Albatross, schooner, 100 tons) ; John Litchfield, Esq. (Fox, cutter, 35 tens). The mem bers agreed to give two cups to be sailed for by yachts of any Royal Yacht Club—the course to be from Cowes Castle to the east of the Sturbridge buoy, to the north of the Calshot light-vessel, round the Bramble buoys, and to the westward of a vessel off Egypt to the starting vessel off Cowes, twice round. DROWNED WHILE BATHING.—Two of the sons of Capt. W. C. Browne, R.N., secretary to the Royal Yacht Squa dron, took a boat on Monday last, and having rowed past Egypt, anchored in about 10 feet water off the boundary rails of Dottens Farm, intending to have a swim. They had not been long in the water when the youngest, about 11 years of age, found the tido ran too strong for him, and was fast carrying him away from the boat, and he called to his brother to assist him, which he immediately did ; and though only 14 years of age, he got his youngest brother on his back, and for a quarter of an hour vainly strove to regain the boat. At last, feeling his strength fail him, he was obliged to leave his brother to his fate, and swim to the boat. His unfortunate brother sank, and though the utmost exertions have been used to recover the body, it has not yet been found. Turner Turner, Esq., has to-day (Thursday) had his fine yacht, the Constance, off Egypt, and had her guns repeatedly discharged, hoping by that means to float the body, but all to no purpose, the bereaved parents having been unsuccessful in finding the body of their child. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at tended by Col. the Hon. R. Bruce and Capt. Keppel, left Buckingham Palace at half-past 8 o'clock yesterday morn ing for Holyrood Palace. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—At the comitia majora held yesterday, Dr. John Langdon Haydon Down, of Earlswood, Reigate, was admitted a licentiate of the college under the recently-enacted temporary bye-laws. APOTHECARIES-HALL—The following are the names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, July 14 :—David Mann, New Wortley, Leeds • John Lee, Ashbourne. Derbyshire ; Ti m othy Henry kartin, Merthyr Tydvil ; Thomas More ton, Marton-hall, Cheshire ; Charles Hardy Trotter, Cole ford, Gloucestershire. The following gentlemen also on same day passed their first examination :--Joseph Thomas Ford Firth, Cherry-garden-street, Bermondsey ; Ambrose Brooke George, Liverpool Royal Infirmary ; Lionel Bur rell, Westley, Bury St. Edmund's ; John Woodman, Bed ford-circus, Exeter; William Park, Ulverstone, Lanca• shire ; Thomas Young Baker, Northamptonshire ; Isaac Morris, The Cliffe, Lewe s, S ussex ; George Orton, Bellevue, Coleorton ; Henry Thomas Marsh, Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire ; William Henry Dawson, WE ; Francis Mark Cann, Trinity - ter race, Borough ; F r Giinson, Walton, Leicestershire. THE SITN, LONDON, SATURDAY TENING 4 JULY LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : PARIS, JULY leo,. The 3ioniteur publishes several nominations in ;he army. The .Moniteur also contains the following tele:. gram: -- TURIN, JULY 15. The King and the Emperor Napoleon arrived here at 5.30 p.m. precisely, amid the ac clamations of the populace. Prince Carignan and Count Cavour went to meet them. Count Cavour was much cheered by the people. The Piedmontese troops and a considerable number of the National Guard were drawn up in line on both sides of the road. The Emperor alighted at the Royal Palace, and to-day a great banquet will be given at the Court to 80 persons. The grand dignitaries and functionaries of the State are invited. The town is illuminated. The King and the Emperor, amid the acclama tions of the crowd, presented themselves several times on the balcony of the Royal Palace. The Emperor will leave to-morrow morning at six o'clock for Susa. VIENNA, JULY 16. The Emperor passed last night at Laybach, and will arrive this evening at the Royal Castle of Luxenburg. The Austrian Lloyd's steamers will to-morrow begin running again to Venice, and also very soon to the East. VIENNA, SATURDAY, JULY 16. An Imperial manifesto, signed at the Imperial castle of Luxemburg, near Vienna, has been pub lished to-day. It frankly explains that the motive for the conclusion of peace was the holding back of the natural allies, whose mediation promised less favourable conditions than a direct understanding. The manifesto also states that reforms conformable to the spirit of the time shall be made in the public laws and administration. MILAN, JULY 14. The Emperor has entered the town amid the acclamations of the populace. The King of Sar dinia will accompany the Emperor as far as Susa. The Emperor Napoleon is returning to France. The 19th Regiment of the line has arrived here. LISBON, JULY 14. The Queen has had a rather severe attack of sore throat, but the state of her health is now satisfactory. AGITATION IN TURIN. TURIN, JULY 13. The capital,of Piedmont has worn an aspect of more than usual excitement this day. It is sel dom, indeed, that there is any public manifes tation of feeling here. Even the entry of the French not two months since, though attended with unusual demonstrations, was very far from expectation or what it would have been in any other capital in the world, with such a mission as that of its deliverance. But now not two months ago, and ere those shoes were old in which they followed with bouquets and vivas the triumphant entry of the liberators of the land, they now assemble again. Is it to acclaim the victors of Montebello, Magenta, Solferino—to proclaim the liberation of Italy from the Alps to the Adriatic ? I have purposely visited every leading cafe to ascertain the feeling. A sullen silence is main inined, or if broken, murmurs, "We are betrayed." " 'Tis another Sebastopol." The parvenu is fond of Emperors. On every countenance there is a gloom : those I have some acquaintance with express them selves in no measured terms. The Romans, the Venetians, above all, are depressed, and the libera tors of yesterday, is now but the arch-destroyer of their hopes.—Morning Post (Second Edition.) The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post (Second Edition) says : " I have seen despatches to-day, brought .by a special courier, reporting the condition of the Roman States and Piedmont. The Emperor Napoleon has suddenly become the object of vengeance and hatred. The Mazzinians are at work, and it is expected their immediate objects of assassination will be the priests. Orsini's portraits have suddenly appeared in Turin and other places. We are betrayed !' is the cry throughout Italy. I should say, from these des patches, that we may expect most awful news from various quarters of Italy. Our Government ought to send vessels of war to all the Italian ports to protect British subjects. " It is thought in Turin that the Emperor Napo leon was induced to make peace through Papal influence. He did so without consulting the King of Sardinia or Count Cavour. King Victor Em manuel has retired to his villa near Turin, and it is expected, as I told you yesterday, that he will abdi cate. The Pope has called upon the Emperor Napoleon to send more troops. There were to be demonstrations in Florence and Turin last night. Garibaldi, it was expected, would head a national army of Italy. We may witness French troops fighting to-morrow with their comrades of yester day ! It is reported that a portion of the French army will make the Duchy of Parma its head quarters. A conspiracy had been discovered before the battle of Solferino to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon, supposed to have been got up by the Jesuits to frighten his Majesty and disgust him with the Italians." The Paris correspondent of the Times (Second Edition), says : " It is reported that Florence and other parts of Tuscany have protested against the peace, and that the Pope has refused the " honorary Presidency" of the Italian Confederation. In a word, Italy, to liberate and organise which the war was under taken, promises to be soon in a worse state of con fusion than ever." THE MEETING OF THE EMPERORS AT VILLAFRANCA. A letter from Villafranca of the 11th contains some interesting particulars concerning the inter view between the two Emperors : " This place and date will mark in history, and future writers will speak of the interview of Villa franca as of that of Erfurth and that of Tilsitt. arrived here early this morning, but had I come the day before I could not have witnessed more than I did. Orders, dictated by a feeling of deli cacy, had been given that only privileged persons should approach the place of the interview. Every care had been taken not to wound the pride of the Emperor of Austria, to whom it would doubtless have been disagreeable to have been exposed too much to public view. The meeting of the two sove reigns was fixed for nine o'clock. At a quarter of an hour before, Napoleon 111. arrived at the spot, and he came before the time in order that he might go on for a short distance to meet the Emperor of Austria. Francis Joseph soon made his appearance, and seeing that his late adversary had courteously come to receive him, urged forward his horse. --When the-two -parties had .come near,- the escorts stopped short, and the Emperors ad vanced into the centre of the unoccupied space. The escort of the Emperor Napoleon was composed of Marshal Vaillant, General Martimprey, General Fleury, the officers of the Imperial household and of his staff, and of a squadron of the Cent Guardes and one of the Guides, all in their splendid full dress uniforms. His Majesty rode the fine bay horse which he has used since the commencement of the campaign. He wore the undress uniform of a general of division, with the kepi. The Emperor Austria wore an undress cap, and blue uniform frock coat, and was followed by his staff, a squadron of his body-guard, composed of nobles, and a squad ron of hulans. It is said that he was much struck with the martial bearing of the French cavalry, and that in presence of the Cent Gardes and the Guides, the Austrian body-guard and the hulans did not appear to advantage. On the two Sove reigns meeting in the mid-space they courteously saluted and shook hands. The Emperor of Austria appeared pleased with the cordial welcome and open manner of the Emperor Napoleon. The two Emperors remained for a moment alone in the middle of the road and exchanged a few words. They then reciprocally presented the officers of their staffs ; and the moment after the several officers were intermingled, and Marshal Vaillant was seen in conversation with Baron de Hess. Napoleon 111. and the Emperor Francis Joseph then advanced side by side towards Villafranca, the Cent Gardes giving the precedence to the body-guard of Austria, who led the way, but the Guides passing before the hulans. At Villa franca, the house of M. Carlo Morelli, situated in the principal street of the town, had been pre pared to receive the two Sovereigns. The Em peror of Austria had passed a night there before the battle of Solferino. It is a habitation comfort able, but simple, and not remarkable for any extra ordinary attraction. I had visited it early in the morning, and saw, in addition to the bedroom of the Austrian Emperor, the sitting room in which the conference was to take place some hours later. The furniture and curtains were green; and the walls painted in distemper. There were several seats of various kinds, but only two arm chairs. In the centre was an oblong table covered with a green cloth, and On it was placed, just as I entered, a vase of freshly gathered flowers which quite per fumed the room. It was there that for upwards of an hour and a half the two Emperors were seated discussing the highest interests, and without any one being present. From a feeling of delicacy, the King of Piedmont was not invited to the interview. It cannot but be allowed that the presence of a successor is always more annoy ing and intolerable than that of a rival or of a conqueror. Whilst the interview was going on, I was outside in the street, whence I could see the escorts, some remaining seated on their horses, while others had dismounted. But not the slightest sound was heard; every kind of conversation was suspended, and all seemed dominated voluntarily by a certain emotion produced by the importance of the incident which was passing. As to what took place inside,l cannot say anything ; all that I know is that when the two Sovereigns issued forth from the conference, they seemed both perfectly satisfied. The word to mount was then given, and in an instant all were in the saddle. The Emperor of Austria uttered a few words expressive of the admiration he felt for the French army, and did Marshal Vaillant and Generals Martimprey and Fleury the honour of shaking hands with them. The two Sovereigns then took leave of each other with the greatest cordiality, and the next moment each splendid cortege was on the way back to the place from which it had started. The Emperor of the French entered Valeggio a little after eleven." FRANCE. The Moniteur of Friday morning publishes the usual monthly debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to Thursday. The cor responding figures of the last month are added : DEBTOR. July. June. F. C. F. Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 Ditto, New Profita in addition to Capi- tat (Art. 8, Law of June 9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,510,527 Reserve of the Bank New Reserve Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 Notes in circulation- 733,983,675 0 669,280,625 Bank-notes to order 6,592,197 99 7,999, 944 Receipts payable at sight 11,295,263 0 10,766,836 Treasury account current creditor Sundry accounts current 255,835,690 92 300,958,709 Ditto with branch banks 27,351,955 0 37,141,327 Dividends payable 4,153,413 2.5 430,323 Discts. sundry interests 4,347,544 58 2,672,136 Commission on deposits 1,664,576 16 9,759,288 Re-discounted the last six months Surplus of paid-up bills 11,236 Sundries , Total ~1,436,773,982 89 1,457,324,6 23 CREDITOR. July. June. F. C. F. Cash in hand Cash in the branch banks. 350,143,278 0 403,987,143 Commercial bills overdue. 492,46 5 61 847,380 Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due Do. in the branch banks Advanced on deposit of bullion. Do. by the branch banks.. Do. on Frenchpublic secu rities Do. by the branch banks 14,539,400 0 14,785,900 Do. on railway securities 120,196,859 80 122,532,700 Do. by the branch banks 30,204,050 0 30,697,050 Do.on Credit Foncier Scrip 700,600 0 736,200 Do. on branch banks Scrip. 427,400 0 458,200 Do. to the State on agree ment of June 30, 1848 65,000,000 0 70,000,000 Govern. stock reserved 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 Do. disposable Hotel and furn. of Bank Landed property of branch banks 6,731,822 0 6,905,214 Expenses of management 190,042 16 1,979,286 Sundries 59,600 0 194,600 578,700 0 671,800 C. 8 0 54 Total 1,436,773,982 89 1,457,3 24 , 623 94 PARIS BOURSE, July 15.—Large sales for realisa tion of profits were effected at the opening of the market, but prices afterwards rallied, as it was an nounced by a telegram that the Emperor Napoleon had been received with enthusiasm by the popula tion of Milan. His Majesty will remain two days at Turin, and is not expected in Pfore the middle of next week. Threes, after having been done at 68f. 5c., rallied to 68f. 50c. Mobilier varied from 790 f. to 815 f. ; Austrians, 552 f. 50c. to 560 f. ; Lombardo -Venetian. 555 f. to 560 f.; Orleans, 1,330 f. to 1,337 f. ; Northern, 927 f. 50c. to 935 f. ; Lyons, 860 f. to 867 f.; Eastern, 640 f. to 647 f. 50c. ; Southern, 520 f. to 527 f. 50c. The mar ket was heavy at the close. The following were the last quotations per Cents. .. • . 95 75 Do. end month .. 95 35 3 per Cents 6B 60 Do. end month 6B 60 Bank Shares 2850 Credit Mobilier Do. Account 825 Credit Fonder 655 Belgian 4i — Piedmontese (5) B6 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt 4l RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans .. .................... 1340 Northern . .................... 927 50 :: T 2 _— 535 50 New ditto. .................... 820 .. 820 Lyons and Mediterranean ....... 867 50 . Geneva ....................... 5 35 .: 867 Southern .................... 512 50 .. 52,5 Western ...................... 560 .. 560 Eastern ...................... 650 _ .. 650 Sardinian ..................... 425 _ . . 427 50 Austrian ...........•••.' ..• • 560 — . .. 571 25 Exchange on L ondon, at sight, paper, 25f. 11c. ; money, 25f 71c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c .; money, 24f. 95c. , --------------__ DEPUTATION TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.--Yes terday a deputation of railway shareholders, headed by Lord Ebury and Mr. J. E. Vance, waited upon the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson. at the offices of the Board of Trade, Whit e hall, upon the subject of th e p res ent system of rail way legislation and the heavy local burdens imposed upon railway companies. The deputation having been intro duced by Lord Ebury, Mr. Vance addressed the President of the Board of Trade at some length upon the subjects of the tendency of Parliament to concede competing or otherwise unnecessary lines of railway, the ine quitable manner in which railways are assessed to local rates, the infringement upon the legal income of railways by the Post-offioe it carrying small parcels, and the partial and oppressive manner in which Lord Campbell's Act operates in cases of accident.—The Presi dent of the Board of Trade, having expressed his sense of the importance of the matters brought before him, promised his full consideration of the subject. He was not at that moment prepared to say whether the remedy . for the evils complained of could be obtained by direct legislative enact ment. The right hon. gentleman added that he should be happy to receive communications on the subject from the representatives of railway companies. —Mr. Horatio Love confirmed the statement made by Mr. Vance as to the in jary that was inflicted upon the old companies by schemes promoted for the speculative purpose o f se lli ng th e li nes at an exorbitant p without any regard to the public re if quiremerits,—The OplOtion then withdrew. -AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. The mail steamer Persia has arrived, bringing advices from New York to the 6th inst., 227 pas sengers, and 753,730 dollars. On the evening of the day she sailed passed the Asia and a screw steamer, supposed to be the City of Baltimore, bound in. The Vanderbilt and North American had arrived out on the 3d inst. Advices had been received at Washington from the American Minister at Mexico. The aspect of affairs had not materially changed since he last wrote. The high-handed acts committed by Miramon were driving his friends from him, and his rule was considered near at end. The British Minister's recent eourse at the city of Mexico was severely censured by British subjects. The Russian Minister has had several interviews with the Secretary of State, and it is understood he acquiesces in the views of the American Government, as to the rights of neutrals. Later dates from San Francisco state that busi ness there was inactive. Favourable news had been received from Pike's Peak gold regions. Havanna advices to the 30th report sugar dull. Exchange on London was 16 to 161. St. Domingo advices state that all was quiet throughout the Republic. At New York money was easy, and there was rather more business on the Stock Ex change. Exchange on London, 110,1 net for bills at short sight. The cotton market was quiet. There was a better demand for flour. Wheat was in limited request, and prices unsettled. Pork was heavy and lower. Beef was heavy. Beef hams were firmly held. Lard was dull. Freights unchanged. MEE7ING OF THE ROY AL AGRICUL TURAL SOCIETY. WARWICK, Friday Afternoon. The annual meeting of members of the society was held at 10 o'clock this forenoon, at the Shire hall—Lord Walsingham, the president elect, in the chair. The attendance was not large. The noble president read a letter from the Duke of Marl borough, retiring president, apologising for the absence of his grace in consequence of his parlia mentary duties. Mr. SIDNEY regretted that the annual meeting should be held at such an inconvenient day and hour, when those who should attend were either packing up or had gone. It was expected, when the dinner was done away with, that there would be substi tuted for it some gathering where the prizes would be delivered and the members and the council would have an opportunity of meeting and of con sidering any suggestions which might be made. This course, however, had not been followed, and there was no ground for surprise that dissatisfac tion should be expressed, and that a conviction should prevail that, with all their acknowledged success in one department, sufficient progress bad not been made in others connected with the inte rest which they represented. Whenever any indi vidual stood up in those meetings to offer any suggestion, however important, he was generally told by some gentleman in office that the introduc tion of the subject was contrary to their charter, that they had no funds at their disposal for the particular object which might be in ques tion, or some reasons equally unsatisfactory to the vast body of the members. They had heard that the secretary had been dismissed, that the finance committee had resigned, and that they had received a vote of thanks. They had been informed, moreover, that a deficiency of £2,000 in the funds of the society had been discovered, and that it had existed for a period of four years. This matter had been within the jurisdiction of the finance committee, and he could not learn that there had been any professional investigation of the ac counts during the four years, so that they were by no means certain that the deficiency was not greater than it was represented to be at the present time. It did not matter much whether the funds at their disposal were £l,OOO more or less, but the great thing was that when a deficiency of £2,000 was dis covered the money should not disappear without the members knowing anything about it. It was not to be wondered at that a society like that should expe rience a loss of £2,000, but he did think that when a member had any remarks to make upon the finan cial arrangements they should not be regarded as impertinent. He had not one word to say against their external management; it was highly success ful, but it was a reproach to their internal manage ment to say that with farmers infinitely more in telligent and enterprising than they were a number of years ago the number of their members was not greater. The society did not do enough to conciliate the practical men, and in its working the represen tative principle, on which all the institutions of this country was founded, was not carried out. The council wanted an infusion of new blood. It con tained 21 peers, 9a ..us of v eers, baronets, and. county members, 12 squires ; five lawyers, who had not attained to the dignity of squires, but hoped, no doubt, to do so some day ; four engi neers and implement makers, one honorary member, and 12 breeders of stock. The breeders were cer tainly well represented, but there was not a single practical farmer. Their Wednesday's meetings were much less useful than they ought :to be, for no notice of the business to be brought forward was given, and no reporters were admitted to com municate the results to the public. Sometimes a notice of important proceedings did not appear for twelve or fifteen months after they had taken place. If the meetings were rendered mere con ducive to the interests of the society and the public, the number of valuable papers would be largely . in creased. He thought the time had arrived when the society should endeavour to accomplish something like an agricultural survey of the kingdom. The council should draw up a ser_es of questions for the purpose of ascertaining what progress had been made in the several departments of implements, stock, and cultivation during the 20 years since the society was established, and that they should publish a summary of the information thus obtained at the end of 12 months. Lord BERNERS moved, and Sir W. W. 1r YNN seconded a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Corpo ration With the of Warwick for the services Which.they had f w t h h i a e n h k t s he t rendered to the society in connection meeting. The motion was ppsed unanimously, pse th d e a facilitiesvot e o 1 Lord LEIGH ant; railway comp IT P t , had e afforded for holding I. n meeting. The proposition was seconded by Mr. CHANDOS W RE N nosKYNS ? and gassed without one dissen tient. M r , HUMBERSTON proposed a •vote of' ' thanks to-the local con mittee s which was seconded by Mr. MILWARD, and ~se.irby acclamation, the compliment being acknc , fledged by Lord Leigh. Thanks were vot e d Lo his' Grace the Duke of Marlborough for his services as president, on the motion of Mr. Jon as Webb, seconded by Mr. Sidney, Mr. BAkNETT, one of the stewards for catt*H proposed a vote o f th an k s to th e judges, anfiy4 doing so promi se d , as an old mem b er o f th e cout"..4: - that the suggestions of Mr. Sidney should receive his candid and careful c onsideration. The motion was seconded by Mr. SMITH, and unanimously adopted. A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Brandreth Gibbs for his invaluable services, and thanks were also voted to the noble president. With reference to the suggestions of Mr. Sidney, Mr. CALDWELL Said that although he was dis posed to back them up,. he doubted whether prac tical farmers could be induced to attend the meet ings of the council. The exhibition closed this evening at six o'clock. The attendance, owing to the circumstance alluded to by Mr. Lowe in the foregoing proceedings, was below the average. THE LATE SUICIDE AT CHARLTON.—Last even ing the inquest on the body of Mr. William E. Durand Cumming, the circumstances of whose melancholy sui c id e were reported in The Sun on Monday last, was resumed at the Bugle- horn Tavern, Charlton. The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased destroyed himself while in an unsound state of mind. SUICIDE BY AN OFFICER'S WIDOW.—An inquest was held yesterday at the Elephant and Castle, Camden town,on the body of Mrs. Rice, the widow ofan o Meer r who fell at Inkerman. She resid e d i n t h e Albe t d C a mden-town, and had been for some t i me in a depresse d -roa , state because her pension did not allow her to bring up two young daughters in the manner they had been accustomed to. On Wednesday she left ho,me,.saying she should_ soon, be back, and on the following morning her body was found floating in the Regent's-canal. A letter was discovered in her chamber, addressed to her daughters. It was of a most pathetic nature. The following is a literal copy '—`‘ M y ever beloved children,—Your po or mother's heart is broken, for how can I do justice to your education and future wel fare with my pittance ? They, say God is good, and so He is ; but my mind sinks under the idea that you, my dear girls, should be lost. When you receive this I shall be no more. Forgive me, as I hoe the Alraightly will.—Your distracted m o th er , J . L. Ric a." The jury returned a ver dict of temporary insanity. SUICIDE OF A HAMBURG MERCHANT.—Yesterday another inquest was held at the same place, on the body of H e wasws Wednesday a of afraid i v a e r tyh that sober nhhsee, Mr. William Osborne, aged 74, a merchant, who destroyed himself. Augustus Alphonso Osborne, the son of the de ceased,Hterahnasdacl:tel y s i nc e coming from Germany, in said he resided, Addington-villas, Camden -town. habits. The deceased's trading transactions abroad were and avlel very extensive;and his means svi ry aeidr-e It: us p i l n e ss complained of his head, his bad b . unsettled. o sh w o i u n l g d to no hi t bceheaohlteh tboaimngeesta but still he appeared ver y wrote many letters, . j orng he wasiscovered suspended ' v la's On Thurs ay in f hi s bedt end,an d l' D " 1 neckerchief to a rail o tinct. The above evidence was corroborated by other mem bers of his family, and the jury returned a verdict of tem insanity. porah -THE !CB, (From the Times.) We are informed that the Emperor and Empress of the Freneh will pay an early visit to the Em peror of Austria at Vienna. Emperors of Austria must hereafter be added to the category which here tofore was considered to comprise only " a spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree." The more you beat Emperors of Austria " the better they be." There is something, however, to be said for the placability of Francis Joseph. In the days when " fastness " was fashion, it was not uncommon for a spirited young Mohawk, confident in his skill in the noble art of self-defence, to pick a quarrel with some sturdy stupid drayman. He fought him from mere gatete de cceur, and he thrashed him to a standstill by sheer science. When he thought he' had pun ished him sufficiently he tossed a guinea •to the de feated giant, and bade him drink his health. The sulky colossus felt that after all he ,was the better for his drubbing, so he swabbed hiir: face, and, as he went off to indulge his thirsty propensities, he mut tered " that after all the gentleman was a gentleman, and had behaved as such." There is certainly no rea son why Austria should bear rancour against France. France has kicked her up stairs. Napoleon 111. has a right to be received as a benefactor by Francis Joseph. If it be true that when Monarchs rave their people weep, the converse of the apophthegm should be seen at Vienna. The Austrian populace, who cheered their Emperor when he went forth to war, will now see him as tame as a horse which has been under the hand of Mr. Rarey. All that he can do will be insufficient to show his affection for his generous conqueror. The palace of the German Cresars will outshine itself, and the reviews upon the glacis will exhibit once more to Louis Napoleon the perfection of Austrian drill. It must be a plea sant and fully compensating thought to some re leased conscript among the crowd who carries a ball in his kneepan, or to some girl whose sweet heart lies ten feet deep in a pit at Magenta, or to some woman whose husband is dying at Sol ferino, that the two Emperors are so happy • that their little tiff is over, and that they have learnt to understand the identity of their interests, and, like two virtuous men, to exclaim—" Brother, brother, we were both in the wrong !" These un reasoning spectators may perchance look back and sigh over dashed hopes and crushed happiness, and the disabled conscript may grind his teeth under the pain of that sharp twinge, and may wish that his master had found out his mistake before Magenta had crippled him for life ; but these are rebellious and forbidden thoughts. There is no more in common between subjects and Emperors now that legitimacy is so strong in Europe than there is between the ivory pieces on the chessboard anu the immortal beings who play the game. Shall the pawns complain because they have been sacrificed in a game on which no stake depended ? How sweetly will the acquaintance commenced at Villafranca grow into friendship and strengthen into intimacy at Vienna ! The familiar intercourse of every day will discover new chords of sympathy. There can be no want of topics both for merriment and for serious congratulati.n. Even Francis Joseph, struggling through fierce indignation, may at last see the comical point of his friend Kossuth's present position. Perhaps he may propose to his ally, pour comble to the excellent joke, to hang the Hungarian before he has quite recovered from his surprise, or while he may even yet consider him self the ally of France. Cavour s position, also, will be food for exquisite mirth, boisterously in dulged by the Austrian, and still more keenly relished in quiet sardonic internal enjoyment by the Corsican. Victor Emmanuel, also, who has been treated with an indignity which even Austria must think revenge enough, and who so humbly thanks the magnanimity of the Emperor and trots off with his bone—he also will afford food for many a jest. He does not know so well as France and Austria know what the future is preparing. There will be also so much to settle as well as to laugh at. Who is to restore those Grand Dukes ? If Austria does it, it must as a member of the new Italian Confederation, and it may be a useful precedent to her, whereby she may in all after time claim free passage for her troops over all the land of Italy. By the retention of Borgoforte she has secured a safe passage of the Po, and immediate access to Modena, Parma, Tuscany, and the States of the Church. The most witty thing to do would be to make Sardinia restore these exiled Grand Dukes as the price of her new acquisitions. -- (5; France might reach them with her fleet through Leghorn. There are advantages in each of these courses, and the interest of the conversations at Vienna cannot flag while such topics remain to be discussed. Moreover, the Emperor of the French will have to expound to Francis Joseph all the advantages of his position as acting President of the new Italian Confederation. He will doubtless him that he now is to Italy what he is to Germany—the great dominant Power who does as he pleases. If Germany, with its obstinate and self-reliant race, and its 16 millions of popula tion in her mißor States, and if Prussia, with her 15 millions, can make no head against Austria in the German Confederation, how smooth will be her ascendancy in Italy ! If Bavaria, and Hanover, and Wurtemberg are so invariably attracted to her in her orbit, is she likely to have trouble with Lucca or San Marino ? Before the treaty of Villafranca Austria was only five-and-thirty millions, Lombardy included. Now she is fifty millions. Before Solferino, Austria was only an intruder in Italy ; now she is as one " to the manner born." Francis Joseph will learn to bless the happy time all Eu ro p e was day when his Imperial brother first determined t o conquer hi s f r i en dship. B e f ore t h at importunately requiring Austria to keep within her own boundaries, and to give up that political and military influence in the States south of the Po which had, as Sardinia and England asserted, been the chief cause of mis government, and misery, and discontent in Italy. Now she leads back her satraps in triumph to those Duchies, and has become their Protector by virtue of Villafranca. She will count their votes in the Confederation, and use them upon every necessary occasion, in conjunction with Naples and Rome, to reduce the influence of Sardinia t o a nullity. There is another advantage upon which the E m peror of Austria deserves to be congratulated. When the Americans were discussing the pro priety of annexing Texas, a shrewd old repre sentative of one of the back States opposed it, bdeause, he said, if this place became one of the Ug. 'ed States there would be no place to run to. " was in the old Roman Empire. So it w ill '' be in Italy. As soon as this Confedera a.is forreA there will be an end to the nuisance Itd "an atriotism. There will be no running N. or from Rome to Genoa. Th e Con cation will, of course, be upon the German model, for there is no other. Each and every State will engage to assist each and every other against national attack and internal disturbance. People have gone about saying " Leave the Italians to settle their disputes, and rely upon it that improve ments will take place." That was what might have been feared at Vienna. To banish this fear 3Nti. -Gleqn, the saviour of Russia, the benefactor of Sar Lia, and the protector of AustriF , has invented this 6 scheme of Confederation, which closes the prospect of all opposition and of all political im provement. All these must be pleasant subjects of conversation at Vienna; but the loudest laugh of all must be when the Emperors remember that there were dupes in the world who believed that all these great battles were fought for great princi ples, and that the French Emperor was attacking the Austrians in order to make Italy free. We have no right to be indignant at all this. The Emperor Napoleon has not deceived us, for we have never trusted him, or even affected to trust him. It is not against us that those jibes and pleasantries can be pointed which our correspondents at Paris and Vienna now speak of. We have never been of those who expect grapes from thorns or figs from thistles. We have always felt and said that a man of the Emperor's charac ter can have only one set of instincts and one course of policy. He can deceive only those who desire to be deceived. By this peace he has annihilated the Moderate Constitutional party in Italy, and he has given the lie to the clumsy calumny that his course of action was ever influenced by personal fear of the emissaries of the Red Republicans. In the interest of despotism he has done wisely in sup pressing this, to him, most dangerous Moderate party, and in placing the antagonism once more between crazy revolutionists and absolute rulers. Henceforward Italy is to have no choice except be tween order enforced by tyranny and disorder threatened by enthusiasts. The Emperor has done his work with strength and craft, but he could not have effected it so easily had he not had the most obstinate self-deceiving fools of our age to work withal. THE GREAT FLOAT AT BIRKENHEAD.—At the meeting of the Mersey Dock Board yesterday, Mr. Boult asked the Chairman of the Works Committee whether the attention of the committee had been directed to the possi bility of converting the large low-water basin at Birkenhead into a dock, with the view of saving the expense of sluices, &c., and whether any communication had been made with the railway companies upon that subject. He expressed some doubt upon the ultimate success of the project, but was stopped by the chairman from entering into that sub ject, on the ground of its being irregular. The Chairmen of the Works Committee replied, that they never had con templated, nor did he believe they ever would contemplate , any deviation from the plan of the Birkenhead works all prescribed by the existing Aet of Parliament; but if a change should at any time be deemed desirable, any pr.', ; positions would r ece i ve th e i r care f u l consideration. A t present, however, the committee had but one intention, and that was to carry out the authorised rplau in its in tegrity.