The Sun. — London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

H OUSEHO VANS beg LD WORDS to that their. —Messrs. BRADBURY and E state connection with IIOUSEHOLD WORDS will cease from and after the 28th inst., and that on Saturday, the 2d July they will commence a new Weekly Illustrated Periodical, to be called "ONCE A WEEK." All communications for the Editor to be addressed to No. 11, Bouverie-street, London, E.C. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the stanazement of Mr. Charles Kean THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's List orical play of KING HENRY V. King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean. 'THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far ren, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedg.wick, After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright, Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq. And 'TWAS I. Commence at 7. NEWW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with ICI ON PARLF, FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas. Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and Mrs. Billington. Followed by (fourth time), by Tom Taylor, Esq., TEE ROUSE ? or, THE HOME ? air. Alfred Wigan, C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss 11. Simms. Miss Laid law. After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. Mr. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, K ee ley, Arden, and Kate Kelly. Acting refanager—Mr. Wm. Smith. Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box Office open from 10 to 5 --no charge for bookinarticles found.g. No fees to servants permitted. A reg,istry kept of all ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING will b led red new Comedietta, b J. M. Morton, Esq., ent WHICH OF THE TYPO ? supported by the company. After which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. To conclude with VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark. Commence at 7o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Lessee and Manager Mr. William Cooke. 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 ; cr, The Lists of Ashby, intro ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats, Tilts, Victories, and Achievements 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 nd rider in the world ; A. Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke, jun., a Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. supported by the unequalled male and female artistes of the establishment. To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips Dress Circle, 48. ; Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Private Boxes, £4 4s, £2 2s, and £1 ls. To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven. EVERY EVENING during the week will appear THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY, consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette, and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and EIGHT years. _ . The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France and Belgium. They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, MAT 20. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 66—highest since Boon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 57—this day at noon. _ BAROMETER--29 . 78. WIND, North-easterly; moderate, with heavy rain, and occasional sunshine. Quarter to Three o'Clock—Rain falling in torrents for the last hour and a-half, with murky darkness. Three o'Clock—A hail storm. Wind, north-easterly. The Austrians are still acting on the defensive. They occupy a very strong position, from which it will be no easy matter to eject them, unless they should be driven therefrom by the poverty of the land and the want of provisions. Indeed they have already exhausted the provisions and forage in the district of which they have taken possession, and the unfortunate inhabitants are totally unable to respond to the further demands, which are, so far as practicable, enforced in the most rigorous and energetic manner. It is said that General GYULAI has announced that he will be unable to maintain his position for more than fifteen days, in conse quence of the failure of the commissariat. As we have stated, the position is one of extra ordinary strength. It extends along the right bank of the Ticino to its junction with the Po, and rests on Stradella. A telegram from Pavia states that the head-quarters of the Austrians had been removed to Garlasco, and that a speedy,collision was anticipated. It will not, however, be commenced by the Austrians, who manifestly think discretion the better part of valour, and like to retain a state of inaction, living at the enemy's expense, so long as it is possible to do so. The scene of strife will, however, soon be transferred to the other side of the Ticino, and Austria will have to maintain the conflict in its own dominions, or in the States which it so kindly (!) took under its protection. Large armies require large resources, and Austria will find it difficult to provide for its own troops ; while France and Sardinia will be likely to repay with heavy interest the debt contracted in Pied mont. The position of Prussia and other States of the attention. German Confederation requires close The proposal to form a federal corps d'armee of • observation on the Rhine has been referred to the commission for the management of military affairs by the Diet at Frankfort, while the Committee of the Chambers at Berlin have reported that Prussia ought to maintain a state of " armed mediation." This is very different from one of " armed neutrality." It implies that they are prepared to interfere at any moment when the exigencies of Austria may re quire assistance, and has consequently the effect of rendering the other great German Power stub born, and inducing it to refuse the concessions which it might otherwise be happy to offer. It is, therefore, more than probable that Prussia will, ere many months have elapsed, take part in the war, and thus gratify a long-cherished animosity against the French. If this should be the ca se , Russia will not remain quiescent; and it will be difficult, indeed, for England to preserve the neutrality which the Government have announced, and the people so heartily responded to. It is generally supposed that Prussia, since the appointment of the Prince Regent, is disposed to co-operate cordially with England. It is certain, however, that there are no British sympathies in favour of Austrian misgovernment in Italy. Our People will not, under any circumstances, support the German policy, which, although it may be approved i n a hi g h quar t er , fi n d s no f avour in their sight Nothing will, therefore, induce them to join with the Berlin Cabinet in rivetting the chains on the Lombardo-Venetians, and maintaining an unauthorised supremacy over quas i independent States. Any Minister that would lend himself to such a project would surely lose his place, and possibly have to endure still greater inconvenience. We do not for a moment sup pose that Lord DERBY, Lord MALIVIESBU R y , , or a n y of their colleagues would for a moment sanction such a proceeding, but it is right that the peopl e and those who may be regarded as the exponents of public opinion, the independent journalists of Great Britain, should speak out clearly and un-. equivocal ly on such a point. Prussia . set us an example during the Russian war, whit th should now be strictly folio wed. She regarded only her own interests, and, while we were ex] ?ending men and money, was obtaining large pro fits at the expense of the belligerents. She thought of nothing but the security of " Father land," I and we may, in like manner, permit " Father land" now to take care of itself. It is not because a matrimonial alliance has bee n contracted, and a handsome dowry granted to an English Princess, that we should en nle of gage in a squabble from whichev t e o rY ho p l ri d aloof. cip equity a nd sound policy warns us FRAN CIS JOSEPH has surrendered himself into the e hands of the Pope. He yielded to a pressure which had been resisted by all 1 its predecessors, and the present war, that m ay lea d to very fearful results, may in a great degree be ascribed to a desire to maintain the Papal : maladministration in the States of the Church. . Louis NAPOLEON himself is not free from blame 3 1 this respect. He cannot come into court t with can hands ; but still he has not so much to ansm - er for as his Imperial brother. Austria is the unrelenting enemy of civil and religious liberty, wherever she can exercise anyinfluence. But it is difficult to believe that Louis NAPOLEON would forget 1 al his antecedents, and become the liberator of foreign States, while he retained his own people in bond age. We have all been wrong, but shall be put right soon. The Papal government of its territories, thougi i even Irish Catholics have denounced it, is a model of moderation and gentleness, and is secu larised , as far as an ecclesiastical prince can do it. Naples even is governed by a Sovereign, nervous indeed , and timid of revolutions, but one who rules by lave and who is universally beloved. In the Duchy 2s, of course, it is the same. And as to Lom. hardy and Austria, all that is told us of the causes of hat red there, for the hatred is undeniable, is so much slander of the most good-natured soldiers and officer, 3in Europe. In a word, only the educated classes , are uneasy and disaffected ; to the peasantry the re: igns of the POPE, of FERDINAND, and of the amiable Hapsburg of the day are rich in blessing. Lord : MINTO was a wicked apostle of sedition, and RADE' TZKY and FILANGIERI are the missionaries of mercy in the north and south of Italy. So, and we do nc ,t exaggerate, says Sir HENRY WINSTON BARR ON, Bart., in a pamphlet of fifty-eight pages, whicl . he dates from Rome, in April of the present year; and which he entitles "Queen VICTORIA and Italy; " and which Messrs. Ridgway publish for him i n London, as publishes in the land of a free press ought to do. Na r are we left to Sir HENRY BARRON alone : specie l correspondents in both the Austrian and Frentlh camps report to us from time to time what they think of the doings on both sides—or what they may say they think, and yet be permitted to rem•iin at the seat of war. Perfectly sure may we be, that if all London correspondents be not counuel for the side which tolerates their pre sence• on that well-understood condition, they would receive a polite hint, and their passports in very quick time. Of course, we could not fairty wish that they should be allowed to com municate anything respecting military positions and. movements which could in an instant be telegraphed to Turin or Vienna, to the disadvan tage of the general permitting it ; but we may be also sure that a gentleman disposed to see everything through Austrian spectacles alone would be tolerated at Mortara, or one with simi- lar prepossessions in favour of the allies, at Ales sandria. " Own correspondents" will now, there fore, corroborate the views of Romanising English gentlemen writing from Rome itself, and the forbearance of Austrian officers and the good nature of Austrian soldiers will have their full share of commendation. Yet, with all due deference to Sir H. BARRON, we must think others see as clearly as he does, and must prefer the testimony, for instance, of Mr. GLADSTONE, a Conservative Statesman, as familiar with Italian as with his mother tongue, to the special pleading of himself or of the ad vocate for Naples and FERDINAND, whom he quotes. We cannot think Spielberg and SILVIO PELLICO a myth, nor POERIO and his almost deadly irons a legend. We have but just received on our shores a band of men whose testimony must outweigh that of all the English baronets who visit Rome, and of all the special pleaders whom FERDINAND can induce to plead his cause. We have before us the well-sustained defence of PoEmo,with the fact of his condemnation being obtained by threats; and the un deniable inference is that if, in one instance so con spicuous, and in the presence of such a reporter as Mr. GLADSTONE, justice could be so infamously perverted, and the punishment obtained by iniquity so satanically and brutally and vindictively enhanced,—bad indeed must be the lot of less noticed, but not less hated victims. And as to Austria, broad facts are, in like man ner, her condemnation. We mentioned some of the incidents of her raid upon the Piedmontese, com municated by a private correspondent the other day.- We have seen nothing to contradict them beyond vague assertions of the kindness of Austrian troopers. But the plain fact remains that Austria entered Piedmont for the dignified purpose of steal ing from civilians, provisions, forage, and ever, clothes. The Austrian Houndsditch, it should seem, would not trust the commissariat with ready-made clothing to keep the poor soldiers in shoes and out of rags ; and this " Great Austrian Power" g pe s d h m o l o v n s therefor e , it s greatness by compelling tese civilians to become its army clothiers. This is a fact ; but to what - would not the General stoop who could degrade himself to asking clothing for his troops ? Some Austrian prisoners who were taken were brought in, however, in so ragged a state that thePiedmontese exclaimed, in astonish ment at their condition, that they were hardly now surprised at the plunder of the clothiers and clothes-shops. The facts we gave also respecting the penal code-- utterly undeniable, because taken from the code it self—with exemplifications of the code in practice, taken from the Government Gazette, prove beyond all contradiction the legalized brutality of the Austrians in Italy. It were almost criminal for the inhabitants of any civilised or Christian country to sit down patiently under such a code. Secret trials, before hostile judges, and corporal punish ments inflicted on even respectable gentlewomen and innocent maidens—with no one can tell what atrocities on the poorer classes—ought to heat the blood of any people to the boiling point. The judgment of our Banksiders, and of our highest classes, must here be at one. If HAYNAU was rightly served, FRANCIS-JOSEPH ought, in similar style, to be whipped across the Alps. Amidst the conflicting accounts we must now expect to receive, probably each reader will be dis posed to judge according to his prepossessions. We must confess that ours are to believe that - what Croats and Uhlans, and stolid, ignorant Germans were in the days of WALLENSTEIN and the thirty years' war, and what we have heard they have been in Italy and the Danubian Principalities in more recent days, they will still prove themselves to be. We remember nothing generous, frank, and manly of Austrian soldiery, or indeed of but few Austrian generals. A deep and dark superstition has co operated with an unsympathising and slavish tem perament, to make them the humble.tools of despots and the brutal violators of the rights of others ; of the rights of freedom-loving men especially. We could wish, for the sake of humanity, to believe the apologists, but our fears lean to the representations of their accusers. No pamphleteers, however, and no " own correspondents," will efface from the minds of Englishmen the history of Hapsburg atrocities, and encouragement of others in atro cities, in Italy or in Hungary. No English Go vernment will be tolerated which interferes on either side ; but to interfere for Austria would bring on our Government the execration of all parties and of all classes. It was the most reasonable thing in the world that Mr. LOWE should be returned for Calne, the pet borough of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. It is the most monstrous thing imaginable that Mr. WORTLEY should dream of finding a seat in Stamford, the pet borough of the Marquis of EXETER. It was perfectly right and proper, it was only in the natural order of things, that Mr. OSBORNE should be returned for Dover, when Secretary to the Ad miralty under Lord PALMERSTON'S Government. It is altogether indefensible, and heinous as the gravest electioneering misdemeanour, that Admiral LEEKE should be returned for Dover when naval Lord of the Admiralty under the Earl of DERBY'S Administration. Such are the opinions bluntly expressed by the unreasoning thick and thin partisan advocates of what is becoming more and more every day a most irrational Opposition. Caine, we all know, derives its inspiration, as to the choice of a representative, from Bowood. If we look to the inexorable and sententious DOD in his pithy little volume, entitled " Electoral Facts," and turn there to what is said in regard to Caine, " a small decaying borough on the river Marian," in Wiltshire, we find there low down on the second column of page 42 this remarkable little fragment of information : " INFLUENCE.—The Marquis of LANSDOWNE is Lord of the Manor, and has possessed paramount power here since 1762." So that for ninety-seven years past, at Caine, the influence of Lord LANSDOWNE has been notoriously paramount. There, as M.P. for Caine, under that benignant influence, sat the famous lawyer DUN NING from the year of grace 1768 before being raised to the peerage by the name, style, and title of Baron ASHBURTON. There, as M.P. for Caine from 1774 till 1790, sat the celebrated Col. BARRE, the Right Hon. ISAAC BARRE, who shares with his former colleague, Lawyer DUNNING aforesaid, the glory of having been the veritable invisible author of " Junius." Colonel BARRE, M.P. for Caine, being as indubitably Jumus, ac cording to the late antiquary JOHN BRITTON—as, according to others, that inscrutable writer was discoverable variously in the persons of EDMUND BURKE, of LACHLAN MACLEAN, of Earl TEMPLE, of Sir PHILIP FRANCIS, and of THOMAS, lamen tably known in the history of the peerage as the wicked Lord LYTTLETON. Besides these, during the century which has now very nearly elapsed since the " small decaying borough of Caine" came under the patronage of Bowood—there sat for it from 1796 till 1816—a good round score of years— a delightful forensic wit, to wit, JOSEPH JEKYLL, of punning celebrity. There, for four years, by his courtesy title of Lord HENRY PETTY, sat the present Marquis of LANSDOWNE—as afterwards from 1832 (when he came of age) until 1836 (when he died so prematurely) sat Lord KERRY, the heir to the marquisate. And as, yet later, Lord LANSDOWNE'S second son, the Earl of SHELBURNE, was returned as M.P. for Caine at four successive general elections—namely, those of '37, '4l, '47, and '52. There also, during eighteen years, sat as M.P. for Caine the Right Hon. JAMES ABERCROMBIE, Speaker of the House of Commons, until raised to the House of Lords as Baron DUN FERMLINE. There, moreover, under the same-benig nant influence of the house of LANsDOWNE, sat, from 1830 until the close of 1832, a more eminent man than any yet particularised as M.P. for Caine —Mr., now Lord MACAULAY, Critic, Poet, Orator, Historian, Essayist. More recently, under the patronage of the Lord of the Manor of Caine, the heroic defender of Kars, General Sir.W. FEN WICK WILLIAMS, sat for Caine during the two or three last sessions, as its representative in the Commons House of Parliament. And now—who is it that Lord LANSDOWNE has chosen for Caine as its representative ? A DUNNING ? A BARRE ? A JEKYLL ? An ABERCROMBIE ? A MACAULAY ? Is it another Earl of KERRY —or is it an Eak of SHELBURNE ? No—but as an illustrious sequel to all these, it is the Right Hon. ROBERT LowE, the ignominously rejected ex-M.P. for the borough of Kidderminster. There seems latterly to be a fatality about Mr. LowE and his elections. You may, if you please, call it simply a coincidence, but even as a coincidence it is something in its way very remarkable. It is remarkable that while Mr. LOWE ',should have been so beloved by the electors bf Kidderminster that he very nearly had his bad broken down there at the previous general election—at this last general election he all but came in for the same treatment at the hands of the Caine constituency. Scarcely was tie late election at Caine colnpleted, as a matter of course, by the return of the Bowood nominee, when there was a riot, expressive, of course, of the extreme delight of the electors of Caine at the choice made for them of their new representative. The electors, eager to express their enthusiasm for their newly•chosen M.P. through the very forcible agency of a stray brickbat or two, sought everywhere for Mr. LOWE— in vain, however, for Mr. LOWE had already taken his departure. Deprived of the looked-for opportunity, the electors of Caine indulged themselves in their disappointment with an agreeable little riot upon the approved model suggested to them by the course previously pursued under a like provocation by the ardent constituency of Kidderminster. And now, after these ninety-seven years of uninterrupted Bowood influence down at Caine—after this last , flagrant electioneering incident down at that " small decaying borough of Calne"—where the return of Mr. LOWE, under the patronage of Lord LANSDOWNE, was celebrated by a riot on the part of the constituency —now, after all this—the Times has the extraordinarily cool effrontery to express the utmost degree of - virtuous indignation at the bare idea of anything so gross, so flagrant, so wholly unjustifiable and unprecedented as the mere pos sibility of Mr. WORTLEY being returned as M.P. for Stamford under the influence of BROWNLOW CECIL, Marquess and Earl of EXETER ! Now, what says DOD, in his " Electoral Facts," about the influence at Stamford ? Why, at the bottom of the first column of page 293, we find it notified that the influence there, at the borough of Stamford, is " chiefly possessed by the Marquis of EXETER." Observe—" chiefly possessed," not altogether ! While, we have already seen that the influence exercised by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE at Caine is said not to be chief, not to be considerable, but to be absolutely (in the late Mr. DoD's own phrase) t 0 ,,,, ''' -... ', 4 1 • " . i. -. ', ._,-.-.,. 0__.,,,,?, ;...4--- qi ~4.11:, ~ ..., , , ,„, ,,,o t, : . , x .„.&,-, .'- 0• '' l' '. •? , ‘"' - 1 4 'l. •,, -...."..,,.. ..."k,..',,0 ),,,.. Ro IT ~.,.., , ilvwc- - . _ THE SUN. FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1859. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY:::EVENING, MAY 2(, 1859 " paramount !" However, as we remarked at the outset of these observations, while "it was the most reasonable thing in the world that Mr. LOWE should be returned for Calne, the pet borourgh of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE"-011 the other hand, "it is the most monstrous thing imaginable that Mr. WORTLEY should dream of finding a seat at Stamford, the pet borough of the Marquis of EXETER." The line of argument pursued by the Times in this measure is so obviously decorous—so perfectly consistent throughout ! For our own part we cannot possibly recognise anywhere the claim upon Whig patronage, which we suppose nevertheless must exist somewhere or other in Mr. LowE's Parliamentary career. Does that claim lie in the fact Mr. LOWE has contrived to render him self personally about the most unpopular man in the whole aggregate of the 654 representatives ? Or has the claim discoverable to the sagacious organs of the Whigs in the fact of his having made himself so delightfully agreeable to his former supporters sown in Worcestershire, that as we have seen he very nearly had his head broken by the electors of Kidderminster ? It is surely as different as well can be in regard to the Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, who may with reason be pronounced to have a distinct claim enough upon the honourable consideration of the present Government. His gallant fight for their principles before the largest constituency in the United Kingdom—his volun tary sacrifice of his previous seat down at Bute shire, so that he might fight that gallant fight in the West Riding with complete independence—this certainly, if anything can, gives a distinct, a valid, and an honourable claim upon the consideration of the Ministry, a claim which we doubt not the Ministry will honourably bear in mind, when at Stamford or elsewhere they may find a fitting opportunity. ARRIVAL OF TILE ROYAL ALBERT. PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING. The screw steam ship Royal Albert, 131, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.B• from Gibraltar May 5, arrived in the Sound this morning. She spoke, on the sth of May, in the Straits, the Turkish line-of-battle ship Fethie, going into the Mediterranean ; and, on the 9th of May, to the westward of Cape St. Vincent, the Russian three-decker Sinope, from Gibraltar, for the Baltic. THE AUSTRIAN PARTY IN ENGLAND A writer in a contemporary says : The attitude of Prussia at the present crisis demands the serious attention of all that is free and independent in England. The committee of the Prussian chambers reports that Prussia ought to maintain a state of armed me diation and not of neutrality ; an armed mediation in support of Austria, which is nothing less than a prospective and eventual declaration of war against France ; it imports that Prussia shall arm and hold its army in reserve for Austria. Prussia secures Austria against the penalties of defeat, and thus encourages her to refuse all concession, and becomes the abettor of all her tyranny and usurpation in Italy. It is not, perhaps, generally known that since the retirement of the old King and the appointment of the regency, the Prussian Cabinet has been identified in its foreign policy with the Tories in England. It is commonly reported that the Prince of Prussia has often declared that he waited but a wink from England to fall upon France ; and we may venture to surmise that, if the wink has not been already given, it will not long be wanting if our present Ministry continue to swaythe destinies of England. The Austrian party both here and abroad, allied as it is politically and spiritually with the Church of Rome, is the irreconcileable enemy of all freedom, and will never be brought to acknowledge the indepen dence of Italy. It is a power of vast weight and infinite resources ; mighty in its unity of purpose ; mighty in its ancient connexions, established influ ' ence, and present dominion ; mighty in its crowd of fortresses and well-appointed armies ; but mightier still in its priestly artifice, secret action, and mys sterious influence. We have seen some manifesta tions of its secret power at the late elections ; it has arrayed a great portion of the press against the cause of freedom, that press which ought to be the Palladium of our liberties ; it has brought our very burgesses and independent electors, the chief pillars of the constitution, to vote against their own inte rest, and swell the ranks that would reinstate the Austrian ministry. Let the people look to it. If they have forgotten the events of our past history ; if they have forgotten that day of humiliation when the sovereign of England submitted to be flogged by the Pope's legate ; if they have forgotten the fires of Smithfield, and the parcelling out, in our own day, of this kingdom into bishoprics by th e Pope's cardinal, they may find in the establishment of an Austrian ministry a power that may refresh their memories and compel them to an acquaintance ship with like events. Secure from all the effects of popular indignation in the appliances of a power ful executive, and the new and unprecedented dis coveries of military science, such a ministry might calmly and fearlessly conspire the destruction of our liberties; even while maintaining an outward seeming of respect for the constitution, they might destroy its spirit, and render our great charter but a dead letter. Napoleonhas made a mistake, and against France he has perhaps committed a crime, in responding to the call of Italy. Surrounded as he is by open enemies and treacherous friends, he has imperilled not only his own crown, but the independence of France. Yet it was a brave action ; and the mouth piece of the Austrian party speaks falsely when it asserts that the movement and the occasion were the work of France, and that France is the aggres sor. There is a sanctity in truth, and it is an im piety to violate it. - The aggressor el y i s fi. A r ut Years t t r r i ea a af , tt a ey n r d syh h eea e r r mh a aagdsger thisef s o s r i o at n gh ge c r o e m s en slavementeced w sion continued, as Austria continued to stretch her mailed arms over the Italian States. The last State to be crushed was Sardinia, and Austria was fast closing her toils around her. Vast fortresses at Piacenza and Laveno commanded the main routes, while 200,000 soldiers hung upon the frontier. Sardinia was upon the point of strangulation when she appealed to France. Napoleon hurried to the rescue, but he was not armed ; and had not the providence of Almighty God opened the windows of heaven against the Austrian, and swamped the ground before him, not a woman in Piedmont, not a lady in Turin, but would have undergone the violence and barbarity of the Croatian soldiery. Yet, in the face of these facts, our Austrian mini sters and our Austrian press don't blush to assert that France is the aggressor, and the ambition of Napoleon has plunged Europe in war; and our people are blind enough to believe them. We are dunned with the history and designs of the first Napoleon, and menaced with a repetition of his suc cesses in the first empire, although it is notorious that the circumstances of Europe are so altered since the time of the first empire that such designs would be as absurd in the conception as impossible in the execution. Germany can produce three soldiers for every one of France, equal in discipline and phy sically superior; and Austria herself, single-handed, is too strong to suffer any serious reverse at the hands of France Let the people look to it. The independence of Italy which we are taught to despise, the well being of France which we are taught to hate, may yet be essential to our own liberties. The Austrian that holds Italy in chains has a twin brother in our own ministry, and all Germany waits upon his wink. The day may come—it may not be far distant—when we, who are now so confident in the enjoyment of our liberties, may have cause to sym pathise with the oppressed of Italy ; may - turn in despair from Austrian ministers at home to the strongholds of German despotism abroad, and find neither a France nor an Italy able to make its voice heard for the liberties of mankind. THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—It is expected that the Queen's Speech will be delivered on the 7th of June. The days between the 31st and 7th will probably be occupied in swearing in the members of both houses. The - marriage of IVldlle. P. Vilain XIV., daughter of Viscount Ch. Vilain XIV., ex-minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, with Baron Valet de Villeneuve, of Paris, was celebrated on Tuesday at Brussels, in, presence of a numerous and distinguished company. • FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MAlLS.—Notice was given yesterday by the Postmaster-General, that ship mails for New York will be made up in the General Post-office, to be conveyed out by the steamer City of Washington, on the 25th inst. ; for Malta, by the steamer Thessalia, on the 27th inst. ; fey Lisbon, Cadiz, Mogadore, Lanzarotei Grand Canary, and Teneriffe, by the steamer W arrior, June 1; for Iceland, by the steamer Arcturus, I ate - Victor Emmanuel, on May 22 ; for Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, and Beyrout, by the steamer Scamander, May 20 ; for Gib raltar, Genoa, and Leghorn, by the steamer Tib p r, May 24; and for Gibraltar and Cadiz, by the steamer l'enin.sular, May 20. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ITALY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office PARIS, MAY 20. The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol- lowing : The Council has instituted the Councillor of State, M. de la G-ueronniere, in the post of Director pro tempore of printing, of the library, of the press, and of the street sale of publications. The Moniteur publishes the following tele gram : ALESSANDRIA, May 19.—The Emperor inspected to•day the positions of the first and third Corps d'Armee at Tortona and Ponte-Curona. Yesterday the Austrians endeavoured to fortify and to block up the windows of a house on the left bank of the Po, and by entrenching themselves with it to dispute the passage of the river at Valenza. A few discharges, however, of French cannon, from a distance of 2,600 metres, sufficed to dislodge them from their sheltered position, which they have since abandoned. At 11 o'clock this morning the Austrians with drew from Vercelli, and have blown up the bridge over the Sesia. SPIGNO, MAY 17. Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian returned to this place shortly before the French squadron was in view at Ragusa. TRIESTE, MAY 19. The Austrian bark Genio, laden with coals, has arrived here from Liverpool. Twenty Austrian vessels have been captured by the French. TURIN, MAY 19. OFFICIAL BULLETIN (No. 39). (PUBLISHED TO-DAY AT 10.10 P.M.) Yesterday evening several detachments of the Austrians advanced to Capriasco, near San Ger mano, driving off cattle and firing at the peasants. Our troops desiring to fight, awaited the enemy at San Germano, but they withdrew to Vercelli, which they this morning evacuated, after blowing up two arches of the bridge over the Sesia. Our troops occupied Vercelli at 4.30 this after- noon. The Austrians, with their artillery, are still on the left bank of the river. Yesterday the enemy endeavoured to fortify a house on the left bank of the Po, opposite Valenza, in order to hinder the passage of the river by us ; but a few discharges of French cannon from a distance of 2,600 metres forced them to abandon their intention. MAYENCE, MAY 20. The Mayence Journal states that, according to reliable information, 25,000 Bavarians are next week to enter the Rhine Palatinate, to protect the frontiers. FRANKFORT QM., MAY 20. Baron Kiibeek is designated as the future Pre sident of the Federal Diet. PAVIA, MAY 19. The head-quarters of the Austrian army have been removed to Garlasco. Great movements of troops have taken place, and a collision is expected during to-day or to-morrow. BERNE, MAY 19. According to reports from Vienna, General Gyulai has sent word to his Government that his demands of contributions from the Sardinians for the support of his troops are unattended with further result ; that provisions are beginning to fail in Piedmont, and that he will not be able to hold his present position more than 15 days longer. VIENNA, MAY 19. The evening edition of the official Wiener Zeitung contains the following : The Norwegian brig Alma, coming to Venice, was stopped by a French frigate, overhauled, and received the declaration that all Austrian ports, with the exception of Trieste and Ancona, are in a state of blockade. The commander of the fortress of Venice has as yet received no notice of the fact. The French fleet before Venice have already taken six schooners and six other vossels. Fifteen French war ships have been seen near Cattaro, on the coast of Dalmatia. The Malta fleet is about sailing for Genoa. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, MAY 19. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, Prussia declared that, although she still adhered to her protest against the proposal of Hanover to form a federal corps d'arinee of observation on the Rhine, yet she did not object to its being discussed as a matter of form ; and the proposal was accordingly referred to the Commission for the Management of Military Affairs. MADRID, MAY 18. The Prince of Wales is about to travel through the provinces of Andalusia. FRANCE. • PARIS, THURSDAY. A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels says :—" The Italian Committee have up to the present time sent off 250 volunteers to the Pied montese army, at a total cost of 16,000 fr., including travelling expenses and 40fr. to each man, half paid on leaving Paris, and the remainder to be received on reaching Turin. The subscriptions amount to 28,000 fr. The Committee have received flattering letters from M. Conneau, on the part of the Emperor, from the Marquis de Villamarina, the Sardinian Ambassador, and Count de Cavour." While general attention is directed towards Italy and the south of France, it may not be without interest to know what is going on on the northern and eastern frontiers. A letter from Strasburg of the 16th says : " As to the French Government, apparently at least, it is making no preparations of a nature to ahrm our German neighbours ; it may be even said that a contrary attitude is affected. Not only have the garrisons in the east of France not been increased, but during the last three days some thousands of men have left this place. Artillery, horses, and bridge equipages have gone towards Lyons. The two regiments of artillery stationed here, which had already sent several batteries to the army, have despatched two others during the last two days. During this week the railway has carried away more than 500 horses and 1,200 artillerymen. These blanks are being rapidly filled up by the men who are every day returning from their furloughs, and by the horses which are coming in in bands from different parts of the country. There:are in this garrison a fine regiment of infantry, the 10th, with its full complement, and a battalion of foot chasseurs on a war footing. There are also here two depots of other battalions of foot chasseurs and that of the 47th of the line, the regi ments being at Colmar and at Sehelestadt. Generals de Courtigis and de Lcitange are expected here. The cavalry are at Verdun, Luneville, Colmar, Nancy, Commercy, &c., and consist of three divi sions. The foundry at this city is actively at work, and they send off the guns when cast to Vincennes to be rifled according to the last new plan. The works on the international bridge of Kehl aie carried on on the French side as though no war was declared." BOURSE, May 19.—Purchases to the extent of 297,000 f. Three per Cents, produced a momentary rally to 61f. 25c., but prices soon afterwards again receded to 61f. sc. and 61f. on a report that the Diet of Frankfort, at its sitting of this morning, had adopted hostile resolutions. Mobilier declined from 592 f. 50c, to 580 f. ; Austrian varied from 352 f. 50s. to 350 f. ; Lyons, 770 f. to 767 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,167 f. 50c. to 1,162 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 580 f. to 575 f. ; Northern, 872 f. 50c. to 867 f. 50c. The following were the closing quotations :- 41 per Cents. .... 89 Credit Foncier 645 Do. end month .. 89 Belgian 41 B9 3 per Cents 6l Piedmonteso (5) 78 50 Do. end month 6O 95 Roman BO Bank Shares 2755 Austrian — Credit Mobilier .. 587 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account 585 Home Debt 35 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 873 75 .. 870 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 772 50 .. 767 50 Geneva 438 75 .. 440 Southern "Western 487 50 .. 485 Eastern Sardinian 337 50 .. 337 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 71e. ; money, 25f. 21e.; three months, paper, 24f. 90e. ; money, 24f. 87Ae. SARDINIA. The Piedmontese Gazette announces that when no bulletins are published it is a sign there is no news. The 33d bulletin has been anticipated by telegraph ; the others are as follow : "No. 34. TURIN, May 16.—A detachment of our cavalry having met a few hussars made a cor poral prisoner and wounded some privates. The Austrians have retreated beyond Casteggio, setting the syndic of Broni at liberty. No news from Vercelli. *No. 35. TURIN, May 17.—The syndic of Bar bion ella and some vice-syndics of the neigh bouring communes have been arrested by the Austrians, for having refused to lend their aid in calling together the peasants for the purpose of raising earthworks, in order to prevent the bridge of La Stella from being carried away by the swollen waters of the Po. The enemy forced even women and children to labour at the field works. The Austrian troops on the right bank of the Po are partly stationed at the bridge of La Stella, and partly between Broni and Stradella." The Piedmontese Gazette publishes a decree by Prince Eugene of Savoy, extending the forced cur rency already enacted for the Bank of Turin, also to the notes of the Bank of Savoy, which by the same decree is also authorised to issue notes to the amount of one million of francs, on condition of lending three millions of francs to the Government. Prince Eugene of Savoy, Lieutenant of Pied mont, has issued a decree, dated the 14th, enacting that bills falling due in the administrative divisions of Novara and Vercelli, and in the provinces of Voghera and Bobbio, within the 11th and 20th of May inclusively, are to have ten days additional to run. This would almost lead to the supposition that in the opinion of the Sardinian Government Piedmont will have been delivered from its in vaders before the 20th, since a bill falling due on the 11th will be payable on the 20th. A Milan letter of the 10th says :—" The military commandant of this city has published a proclama tion which raises the indignation of the Milanese to the highest pitch, and shows that the Govern ment has some fears of an insurrection, which might be successful. In the proclamation it is declared that the soldiers of the garrison have re ceived orders to kill any Milanese on the spot who shall be guilty of any offence towards them. You know that General Benedek has laid a contribution of half a million of francs on Ver celli. The banker Levi immediately called upon the Austrian general, and told him that unless he was allowed to go to Milan to get the sum, Ver celli could never pay such an. amount. He was provided without delay with a passport, and yes terday he arrived here and obtained the requisite sum from the banker Mylius. Yesterday, Mgr. Caccia was elected by the Chapter to the post of Vicar-General of the vacant see of Milan ; Mgr. Caccia is anti-Austrian. and was elected by 32 votes against 28 given to his opponent, Mgr. Ballerini. Not a single letter nor a single journal has been received here ffom Piedmont since the war broke out. The corps of General Wimpffen, 40,000 strong, is on its way to the Ticino. Troops are still being poured into Lombardy by the railway. Piacenza has received a large quantity of shells and 100 siege guns. The outworks of Peschara have been mined." MALTA: VALETTA, May 14.—H.M.S. Victor Emmanuel, 91, arrived from Gibraltar on the 9th inst., and is still in port. H.M.S. Racoon, 22, arrived from England and Gibraltar on the 12th ; and the liners St. Jean d'Acre, 101, and Brunswick, 80, have joined Admiral Fanshawe's squadron, at present cruising off the island. The Conqueror, 491, is at Leghorn ; the Orion, 91, at Genoa ; and the Cen turion, 80, at Naples. The Marlborough, 131, and Princess Royal, 90, are off Malta. The liner Orion, from Genoa, and screw frigate Euryalus, 51, having Prince Alfred on board, arrived this morning; also the Argus, 6. The screw store ship Supply arrived from Eng land on the 10th with stores, &c., for Malta ; the Caradoc arrived from Marseilles on the 11th, having left the Earl of Elgin there en route to England. The Lapwing, despatch-boat, is employed running backwards and forwards from the harbour to the fleet. The Turkish line-of-battle ship Fethie, from Plymouth, came into port on the 12th. She was sent to England some months back to be fitted with a screw. The Mediterranean fleet, under the corn mend of Admiral Fanshawe, now consists of eight line-of-battle ships, two frigates, one corvette screw, and other two paddlewheel corvettes, and smaller vessels. Rear-Admiral Mundy, with the Hannibal, is daily expected to join the fleet. A letter from Naples, of the 9th, says :—Her H.M.S. Centurion, 80, is in this port, having left the Conqueror on the 3d at sea, bound for Leghorn. The arrival of the Centurion was hailed with joy by the English residents here. The American frigate Wabash, with a commodore's flag, and a Russian corvette, are also in port, but no French man-of-war. The Grand Duke of Calabria, it is expected, will, when the weather settles, pay a visit to the Centurion. The town is very quiet at present." Steam communication between Malta and Corfu by the Austrian Lloyd's steamer is now inter rupted, but the electric telegraph is constantly at work between our governor and Sir H. St or k s. We expect the Admiralty will run one o f h er Majesty's despatch-boats twice a month to Corfu. The Malta Observer of yesterday says :—" We deeply regret to record the death of Dr. Paolo Fabrizi—a gentleman well known both in Malta and Corfu for his many public and private virtues, pre-eminent amongst which were generosity and charity. This talented and distinguished member of the medical profession acquired the highest es teem and real affection of the principal inhabitants of Corfu and Malta, and of the British residents. His loss is lamented beyond measure. Nice in Piedmont is the resting-place of the mortal remains of so noble an Italian patriot." A Vienna letter states that the retirement of Count de Buol is likely to be followed by that of two others of his colleagues, Baron de Bach, Mi nister of the Interior, and Count de Thun, Minister of Public Instruction being, it states, on the eve of either resigning or receiving their dismissal. As to M. de Bruck, the Minister of Finance, his ser vices cannot be dispensed with under present circumstances. A Vienna letter declares that the subscriptions to the Austrian patriotic fund amount to 106,409 florins. The Correspondance Generale of St. Peters burg confirms a statement which appeared in some of the German journals that Prince Gortschakoff declared to Count Karoly that Russia would only remain neutral on condition of the Germanic Con federation taking no part in the war. The German Journal of Frankfort states that the Porte has obtained possession of documents which deeply compromise Prince Milosch, and prove that he, Prince Couza, and Prince Danilo, have come to an understanding for the purpose of provoking a general insurrection in the Sclave provinces of Turkey, with a view to taking them from the Turks, and joining part of them to Servia and the Principalities and the rest to Montenegro. The above journal does not state from what source it derives this grave accusation. A letter from Copenhagen, of the 14th, says : " The King presided yesterday at a sitting of the Privy Council at Christiansborg. Mehemet Ali, hereditary Prince of Egypt, son of the Viceroy, and son-in-law of the Sultan, has arrived here, and was received by his Majesty to-day. The King has attached to the prince's person during his stay at Copenhagen two of his own aides•de-camp, and has also placed at his disposal two court car riages." A letter from Frankfort of the 15th in the Independance Of Brussels states that the Eng lish Government has recently sent circulars to its envoys at several of the petty German Courts and at Frankfort, advising them against any act hostile to France. The circular was read to Count Platen of Hanover by the English envoy, who, being also accredited at Brunswick, afterwards proceeded to that city, to make it known to the Ducal Government. Colonel Hodges, the Charge d'Affaires at Hamburg, has also, the letter states, communicated the circular to the senate of that city. We have received the Madrid journals of the 15th, but they contain little of interest. In the Senate, on the previous day, M. Santiago Tejada presented a proposition for a vote of censure against the Government on the occasion of the dismissal in December last of two senators, members of the Supreme Tribunal, whose political views were not in accordance with those of the Ministry. The proposition was rejected without discussion. The Prince of Wales was said to be making preparations for a tour in the provinces of Andalusia. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The United States' mail steamer Ariel, Captain Jones, has arrived from New York, which she left on the 7th inst. Her advises are anticipated by the City of Washington. The Ariel has 32 passengers for this and 128 for Havre. She has no specie for England ; but 382,000 dols. for France. , . On the 11th of May, lat. 41 59 N., long. 5 7 35 W., she passed the ship Harvest Queen, from New York to Liverpool. SOUTH PACIFIC. The Panama Star of April 23 contains the sub joined items of news : " Political affairs in Chili are in about the same state as when the last steamer left. All the South is in the hands of the Government, and the North held by the revolutionists. " Don Siloa Chavez, commander in chief of the Government forces in Coquimbo, has been sent to Santiago, where he will be tried by court-marieLo n account of the affair of the 14th March. Gene' Vidaurri, with 3,500 men, has been sent to take the command in the North. " The general feeling is, that the revolutionist s will be easily overcome with the troops the Govern ment have now in Coquimbo. " Business very dull. Exchange 381 nominal. " On the night of the 4th a revolution broke out in Guayoquil, headed by General Maldonado. An attempt was made to take President Robles, who at the time was in the house of General Urbina, but the officer who had charge of the expedition was shot b 3 ., General France. " The firing was incessant duri ng th e n ight of the 4th, but on account of our l eav i ng a t d a ylight on the sth, we could not learn what would be the probable result. "It is said that the Peruvians have incited the revolutionists to overthrow President Robles and General Urbina, who are personally obnoxious to the Peruvian Government. " Two very smart shocks of earthquake occurred in Lima on the 10th ; some buildings were de stroyed, but no lives lost. "Her Majesty's ship Ganges, with Admiral Baynes, was in Valparaiso when the steamer of the Ist left, and the sloop Amethyst in the port of Coquimbo when she passed on the 2d. There ' are no English ships of war in Callao just now, and only one French and American. "We regret to learn that the screw steam er Prince of Wales was lost near San Carlos (Chiloe) after leaving that place for Porte Mont e. She left San Carlos at five a.m., and struck (it is reported) on all unknown and sunken rock, when going full speed ; no lives were lost—but only bare lives w ere saved. She went down in the course of twenty minutes from the time s h e hit the rock, right out of sight, stern fi rs t. Captain Johnson, with his chief officer, after he sent the crew on to Valparaiso, remained behind to sir' vey the place of the wreck. This beautiful vessel was pronounced the finest an d f as t est screw s teamer ever in the South P ac ifi c. "In consequ ence o f t h e revolutionary disturb ances, the ship men t o f spec i e and pro duce for England and el sew h ere i s t hi s t i me a long wag below the average, but there is a large r amount of passengers than usual, being some 77 in n umber, 50 of whom a re fi rs t c l ass ; th e mos t of them ar e for Europe. " The State of Bolivia is, under the judici ous government of President Linares, reported to 13.0 progressing more favourably, and the country is showing some indications of prosperity. The mines of Potosi are now yielding large quantities of t h e . precious metal. It is said that the silver bunion ransomed monthly by the Potosi Bank is not log than 30,000 marks. " From Paraguay, the reports already received of the settlement of the difficulties with the United States are fully confirmed." ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTEL GENCE. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, MAT 19 ' s , ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. The a ni f general meeting of the members of the R.Y.S. was hettha the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, on the inst.—Commodore the Right lion. the Earl of Redd,W the chair. Th ere were a l so present—The Duke of , Philip Percival, Esq., and about 40 other noblemen an gentlemen. The f o ll ow i ng no bl emen an d gentlemen we elected member s : —Si r C . T ay l or, B ar t. (Sultana, yawl'„hn, 150 re tons) ; Colo ne l W es t enra (P ear l , cu tt er, 45 tons) ; " Harvey, Esq. (Claymore, schooner, 130 tons) ; Craven, Esq. (Falcon, schooner, 150 tons) ; Earl o f ham (Stella, cutter, 68) ; R. B. Baxendale, Esq. (CO ° , s t :d l ' schooner, 78). H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen was e e3c b , an honorary member, and the following appointments mad for the Regatta of 1859 :—His Royal Highness the Fr in , c _ Consort's Cup to be sailed for on Tuesday, 2d Augu st ' annual dinner to take place on Wednesday, the 3 d' • Majesty's Cup to be sailed for on Thursday, the bth, anu ha display of fireworks will take place in the evening and t annual ball to come off on Friday, the sth. The following members visited the R.Y.S. Castle dur ing the week :—George Bentinck, Esq., MY., l arae .: l Manse, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel Charles Baring, Lord Orkllo and sons, John Berners, Esq., Charles Colvile, Esq., M' F. ' Captain Berners, R.N., Andrew Fountaine, Esq., Thomal Hughan, Esq., Admiral Montague, R.N., F. P. 1 1, eline Radcliffe, Esq., Lord Otho Fitzgerald,Philip Percival, John E. W. Rolle, Esq. DESTRUCTION OF THE STARINN, WEST COWES, 13 / FlRE.—Great alarm was created in the lower part of High o ; street, and the streets at the back of it, by the ou tbreak a fire in the Star Inn. Nearly all the surrounding build: ings were of wood, which, from being annually coated "'" tar, were of a very dangerous character. The fi re com menced about half-past 10 o'clock, in one of the bedrwr am ' and the flames soon displayed themselves high above 112 roof. Some time was lost in getting out the fire-ellgw"' more in finding the fire-plugs, and the water was not turne d on from the reservoir for ne ar ly h a lf-an-hour. When the engines were got to work, nothing could exceed their effi ciency, and the fire was confined to the premises in whichi they originated. P rov id en ti a lly there was very little win c il or a vast deal of property must have been consumed. AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—The Royal Charter Nvl sail from Liverpool on Saturday next (to-morrow) fore el bourne, with the Australian mail. The box at the o office will be open on that day for the receipt of letters, 8 0., till 2.30 p.m., and with a late fee till 3 p.m. All letters and newspapers must be directed 46 per Royal Charter du ph i This affords an opportunity to merchants for sending cate letters to these colonies.