The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

ROY AL ENGL ISH OPERA,' COVENT -GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, Belle's New tegendary Oga, BIANCA, THE BRAVO'S BRIDE : Miss Louisa e, Miss Thirlwall ; Messrs. A. Lawrence, .T. Wharton, 11. Corri, A. St. Albyn, G. Kelly, Wallworth, T. Pistin, Lyall, and W. Harrison. WAL the Grand Pantomime, BLUE BEARD ; or, Harle m and Freedom in her Island Home. Clowns, Messrs. H. leno, H. Payne. Hildyard, and Lilliputians. Harlequins, essrs. Milano and F. Payne. Pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes land Tanner. Columbines, Mdme. Bolen° and Clara Morgan. ;Sprites, the Zelinski Family. Mr. W. H. Payne, Mlle. amou reux, dm Conductor —Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven. TWEATRY,-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone. THIS EVENING the nertnrmsnepa will sonm.rne with rby desir , ) SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Hardca stle, Miss Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone. After which. a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD AND TIER CHILDREN. The Pantomindsts by the un ;rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright. Commence at 7. OYA T. PR TNCE S S'S THEATRE.- -1 .0 Lessee and Manat•er, Mr. A. Harris. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence .pith RUT IIL AS. Messrs. Fechter, Baeil Potter, Garden, Ray mond. Graham, Cathcart, and A. Harris. After which. s new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled ROBINSON CRITSOF. ; or, Harlequin Friday. and r he a of the Caribbe !glands : in wh'eh Monsieur Espinosand Bidlle. Marie Thunilatre, of the principal cantinental theatres, will apnear. Clovivn. Hr. A. F. Forrest THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM. So:a Lessee an d Directress, Madame CELESTE. IRISH TATS EVENING, a n ew Drama, entitled THE E3riGRANT. M essr s. CT-. Mint". J. Johnstone, T. Lyon. Forrester, and John pro*. ; Miss Kate Saville, Miss Stuart, and Mrs. .T. Rouse. After which, the Lyceum Rowe Comic Extravaganza , After or, The without a Thorn, showing TRYST VISIOV OF A RoSE. ITS FADING AT EVE AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR. To conclude with MORE BLLTNDERS THAN ONE. Larry Voolagan, Mr. John Drew. A pELIYHT, NFW THEATRE-ROYAL. s o le proprietor and Manager. Mr. Beni. Webster. T FITs EVENING, AN UGLY' CUCTOMER. Messrs. J. Toole , a Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E. Thorne. T After which,\HE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucleault, D. Fisher. Billingt.9n. Falconer, Stephenson. C. d. Smith, Romer. mig , A gn es Rpbeylson. Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To exuaclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled BLUE BEARD F WON A NEW POINT OF HUE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. i ledford. C. J. Smith; Miss Vroolgar, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and E: Thorne. Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge ity b°°klnZ'xes, Xi. Private boxes. £2 2s. ; Family Bo Orchestra Stalls, 55. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. 13rnith. A STT,EY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- ' Prourietor and Manager, Mr. WM. BATTY. Last week of Mr. J. Crockett and the Trained Lions. A Grand Juvenile Fete will take place on Friday, Feb. 1, commencing, at two o'clock with the Pantomime, concluding with the - Lions. This Evening, a new Spectacle, entitled TAE. LION CONQUEROR ; or, The Death Jungle, expressly for the introduction of the Wonders of the World,Groupe of Performing Lions." The Lion Conqueror, Mr. J. Crockett. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by talented Parisian and British Artistes. Concluding- with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERML HORSE ; or. Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous S cener y . by Mr. Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing in the comae scenes Patty's Prize Equestrian llarle(luinade, and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley, and Brandon Ledger. Doors open at half-rant 6, performance commence at 7. CANTERBURY -HALL CONCERTS!!! A Grand Selection from Verdi's Opera, IL CORSARO, consisting of the following Morceauxs Freludio Aria "Tutto rarer' Sorridere" Coro di Odallische " Oh qual perenne" Cavatina "Vola talor dal Carcere" Coro ed inno " Sol old° di festo" Scena ed Aria Terzetto Finale e Grand "Vol tacete io noa" Coro will be produced in a few days, in the Orig-nal Key and Italian lane-nag.e —the first time of performane,e in this country.—in addition to the usual attractions. Mr. F. JONGIIMANS, Musical Director. Also, in preparation, Selections from Verdi's New Operas, "I.ln Ballo in Mnschera," "Simon Bocianeras ;" and Flo tow's celebrated Opera of "Stradella." HIGH WATfR AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 46m.—Afternoon, 4b. sm, To-monßow.-Morning, 4h. 26m.—Afternoon, 4h. 46m. THE WEATHER.—Sum °PVC'S, JAN. 29, 1861, THERMOMETER, ZN THZ SHADE. 50—highest since soon yesterday. 33 —lowest this morning and during the night. 39—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.24 ; falling. Wirm--South-West—light ; a dense fog overspread the metropolis all the morning, and partially cleared up about half-past 12 o'clock. Two o'CLocx..—Fog cleared oft; sunshine. citig9 a 5 .1 1 ,1 , • "" • t, ; 171.. '• 11 tok •'•vt • TII E SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1861. Bigamy appears to have been a pastime alike of the BOURBONS and of the BONAPARTES. In proof of which very *edifying historic fact, there is that great trial which has recently been occu pying the attention of all Paris ! Never has there been a more shameful exposure—the whole investigation having gone clearly to demonstrate beyond the reach of contradiction the bastardy of their Imperial Highnesses the Prince NAPOLEON and his sister, the Princess MATHILDA DE DIMIDOFF ! And while the illegitimacy of those first cousins of the reigning Emperor of France has been proved thus clearly, as we have inti mated, to demonstration, the counsel for the de fendant—that is to say, M. ALLOU, the chosen advocate of the Prince NAPOLEON —has in the course of his elaborate address in support of the claims of his client, as opposed to those of the plaintiff, M. BONAPARTE, of Baltimore, in the dis- United States—M. ALLOU quite incidentally in the course of his reply to the opening speech of M. BERRYER, has proved quite as clearly to demon stration the bastardy of the representative of the ancient dynasty, the illegitimacy of the BOURBON Pretender, the Count de Chambord, HENRI CINQ, claiming to be Roi de France with its 36,000,000 Frenchmen ! It is exemplary all this. It is calculated so ob viously to raise in the public estimation both Royalty and Imperialism. Surely nothing, in sober seriousness, could well come more inoppor tunely for either. What is it OTHELLO says to JAG() in that great tragedy ?—" Be sure you prove" — anyone who lists may finish the quota tion. But here, it is on the one hand a Prince of the House of BONAPARTE, and on the other a Prince of the House of BOURBON, who each in turn being put upon the defensive, is driven to exclaim defiantly precisely the same t hin g — e ach of them not in re gard to his wife, but in regard to his mother. In each instance the fact is stated —it is upon record. There is the prior marriage of the Father of Prince NAPOLEON, the prior marriage of they oungest of the Great NAPOLEON'S brothers, the prior marriage of the late ex-King JEROME, to—Miss PATERSON. As a companion picture to which [illustrative of "ye manners and ye customs" alike of Royal and Im perial dynasties], there is the prior marriage of the Father of the Count DE CHAMBORD, the prior marriage of the father of the living claimant to the crown of France as King HENRY V., the prior marriage of the late Duke DE BERRI, to—Miss BROWN. The marriage of JEROME BONAPARTE when Ensign de Vaissaux, to the beautiful Miss PATER SON, of Baltimore, has for years and years past, in fact ever since it was infamously set aside by the arbitrary will of NAPOLEON 1., been matter of European notoriety. Not so has it been with reference to the marriage of the Duke de BERRI with his first wife, a certain charming Mi6sßßowN, of England. Yet that, too, when facts and dates come to be examined a little more closely, turns out to have been an event equally undeniable. The particulars in regard to the first mentioned of these two precipitate marriages we have already and but very recently given in detail in the columns of ne Sun—so that a recapitulation of the facts here might run the hazard of proving as tedious as a twice to/ id tale, at the same time that the repeti tion of „the story in this place would clearly be superfluous. Anyone who cares to re fresh his memory in respect to any portion of that 'melancholy narrative, may turn to the raaderly resume of it given in the opening address of M. BERRYER at the trial still undecided in the-Imperial Court of Law in Paris. A reminder , will thus be afforded in regard to every detail ila that immense mass of turpitude. It will be felt again, and, if possible, more poignantly than ever, now that the history of this transaction has been recounted by the burning eloquence of a great master of forensic oratory like M. BERRYER—it will be felt again how very base, how very deplorable, how very despisable the whole story is, when it comes to be stated in plain terms in the light of day. Reading the miserable tale again, one marvels at the meanness of JEROME in ' yielding up his young bride, and the infant but newly born to them in lawful wedlock, at his giving them up in obedi ence to the arbitrary will of his brother, that young Consul, who was then meditating assuming the purple and diadem of an Emperor ! It is impossible, moreover, not to stand aghast before the lawless course adventured upon even then by NAPOLEON, at that early period in his history ! His ruthless sacrifice of the sacred ties of marriage, of all the tenderest of domestic affections, in the instance of other members of his family, throwing already a strong premonitory light forward, a lurid glare only too clearly elucidating the basest incident in his own personal history, namely, the eventual repudiation of his own beloved and loving wife, the Empress JOSEPHINE! That JOSEPHINE whose name (MorruoLori tells us—and MONTHOLON'S hand was the one to close the eyes of the Captive of St. Helena) that JOSEPHINE whose name, tenderly uttered, was the last word upon the dying lips of the very man who had sacrificed her to his ambition ! It was the same pitiless will, the same overmastering ambition that sacrificed (years before the repudia tion of JOSEPHINE) the young bride of JEROME BONAPARTE—to JEROME'S eternal shame, be it said ! And that would, if such had been possible, have simultaneously sacrificed the lawfully wedded wife of another brother—LUCTEN—a brother (as the event then proved) made at once of gentler and of " sterner stuff" than the pitiful repudiator of Miss PATERSON had been. Turning, however, from the circumstances of this most miserable transaction—who can fail to recognise the glaring fact that, PROVED, the marriage of JEROME BONA PARTE with Miss PATERSON, of Baltimore, the offspring of JEROME by his Queen, nee the Princess CAROLINE of Wurtemburg (JERO3IE'S first wife being still alive), must, by necessity, be branded with the shame of illegitimacy ! Now for the companion picture—as painted by the skilled hand, not this time of M. BERRYER, but of the opposing counsel, M. ALLOU. Let us read what he says, this uncompromising M. ALLOU —what he says simply as a case in point—but prov ing as clearly the illegitimacy of the Count DE CHAMBORD, by reason of his father's marriage with a young Englishwoman prior to his union with the Count's mother, the Princess CARO LINE of Naples, the late Duchess DE BERRI. M. ALLOU then observes in regard to this equally nefarious transaction as follows :—" Three years after the marriage at Baltimore, the Duke DE BERRY, then a refugee in England, married an English lady, Miss BROWN, and had by her two daughters. When his exile ceased, the will of Louts XVIII. broke the marriage, although cele brated according to the English law in a Catholic chapel at London. Do you doubt my statement ? Take the Encyclopedie des Gens du Monde, which in speaking of the Duke says :—" He married at London a young English girl, but the head of the family, Louis XVIII., not having given his con sent to the marriage, annulled it, and Miss BROWN had not a motive of complaint." In the " Nouvelle Biographie" of DIDOT, and in the " Histoire de la Restauration" of LAMARTINE, the same facts are stated, and not in terms of dissent. On the con trary, the last-named historian adds :—" The KING in 1816 married the DUKE to the Princess CAROLINE, daughter of the Prince-Royal of NAPLES, in order to consolidate the house of Bourbon on the thrones which they occu pied in Italy, Spain, and France." How ever put, the facts remain still the same. In both instances—in the instance of the BOURBON and in the instance of the BONAPARTE—there was the earlier marriage lawfully solemnised and con summated, to be afterwards illegally set aside for subsequent nuptials, the fruits of which were necessarily illegitimate. A DOGBERRY even might have wit enough to pronounce the verdict. For in each instance it is clear Bigamy with its conse quences of flagrant Bastardy. Later accounts from America give us the first impressions made by Mr. SEWARD'S speech. It is more important than the PRESIDENT'S second mes sage itself, as indicating the probable policy of the incoming Administration. Mr. SEWARD, it is said, spoke on his own responsibility, and Mr. LINCOLN and the Republican party cannot be held answer able for the particular views expressed ; it is im possible, however, to believe, that immediately after his acceptance of the highest office under Mr. LINCOLN, he could have spoken otherwise than in general accordance with his views. The great efforts made to hear the speech, its length, its elaboration, the immediate adjournment of the Senate, the earnest canvass of its views by mem bers of all parties as they left the house, all shew that it was regarded at Washington as a speech of the highest national importance. So far as can yet be ascertained, the extreme Southerners shake their heads and say it will not do for them. The out and out Republicans do the same. The border States appear to be divided in their views. All this is quite natural, as it was both conciliatory and firm, and its few practical recommendations were some of them concessions, and some of them the contrary. The chief diffe rence, if we understand the two gentlemen rightly, between Mr. BUCHANAN and Mr. SEWARD, who On this point surely would not differ from Mr. LINCOLN, relates to the territories. Mr. BUCHANAN adopts the most important of of Mr. CIITTENDEN'S resolutions on this subject, and recommends it to Congress in his second Message. It is that, north of lat. 36 deg. 30 min.) slavery should be absolutely prohibited ; but that, south of that line, slavery should be permitted in the territories, with no power in the territorial legislatures nor in Congress to probibitit e . no W ug h h en to , however, any district became populous be formed into a State, it should then be optional for the new State to enter the Union with or with out slavery. Mr. SEWARD, on the contrary, main tains the right of Congress to legislate without restriction in the territories. He says nothing, ' therefore, of any boundary line between slave-land and free-soil territory, and he doubtless adheres to the Republican platform, of which the power of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories is the vital p o i n t. H en ce his willingness to co nce d e a Fugitive Slave Law, provided it be not a kidnap ping law ; and his readiness to insert in the e on _ stitution a distinct denial to Congress of the right of interference with slavery where it exists, all pass for nothing with the planting States. The border States, however, where the number of the slaves is relatively decreasing, are not so much con cerned to provide for extension of slave territory. A singular and clever proposition is made, if it should but take —to buy off the border States, Kentucky,Tenessee,Virginia, and Maryland, by pur chasing their negroes, and forming such of them as their masters did not care to employ as labourers, into settlements. If the free States and the border States had the wisdom to accept such an arrange ment it would be the cheapest and be't possible. The cost of emancipating the slaves would be a trifle indeed compared with that of a civil war, and the confederation of free States would then be almost, we should say quite, as powerful as the Union now is. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Secretary's Office, Waterloo-bridge station, London, Jan. 29. Sir,—l regret to state that an accident of a severe nature occurred to the 5•.10 p.m. direct Portsmouth train on this line yesterday afternoon, about a mile beyond Wimbledon station, which resulted in the tender and four of the carriages being thrown off the line. The immediate cause of the accident has not yet been ascertained. By this unfortunate accident I am sorry to say one passenger has lost his life—apparently from having attempted to get out of the carriage before the train came to a stand—and two others have sustained serious personal injury. I am glad to state, however, that the account this morning is that they are both progressing favourably. Some of the Southern States are showing symptoms of indecision. Louisiana, according to some accoints, will give the Secessionists a hard run, and the " co-operationists" rather hope to beat them. In Texas, where there is much German free labour, it is thought even probable that the vote will be for the Union. Maryland, whose Governor shows great firmness, waits the result with patience. The North shows at present more signs of firmness than of wavering. The banks of New York have met and agreed to aid the Federal Government with loans, a circumstance said to have discouraged the South more than anything else. Military assistance is also freely proffered by the New England States, and it is to be remembered that they have numerous regiments of militia which are almost, if not quite equal, to the regulars in efficiency. They excited the admiration of all foreigners present on the occasion of the PRINCE'S visit, in what seems likely to be the last year of the United States. The Governor of the important border State of Pennsylvania has also made a vigorous speech against secession, and Ohio has spoken through both its houses, by congratulating the PRESIDENT on his assumption of a firm tone towards the insubordinate. Altogether, although secession seems to be an accomplished fact, some say a permanent one, things look, by the last mail, rather worse for the seces sionists. Law, physical force, and money are all declaring against them. Judges, generals, and bankers in the North all stand by the Union ; great distress, and want even of provisions, prevails in many parts of the South ; and such desperate expe dients as seizing on Washington—which the veteran General SCOTT is taking measures to make a rather hazardous business for those who attempt it—and preventing the counting of the electoral votes on the legal day, the 13th of February, in the Senate, would hardly be plotted except by men who can scarcely hope to succeed except by some coup d'etat. Divided, however, as the opinions of Americans themselves are, it is useless for us here to speculate on what turn things may take next. To us the most desirable result of all would seem to be, one which should unite the Border States ss free States to the North, leaving the thoroughly slave States alone in their dark glory. The permanent way remained uninjured.— I am yours obediently, L. CROMBIE, Secretary. The Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey have arrived at their residence is Eaton-place, from Falloden, Northumberland. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Robertson and family have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Netherall Hall, near Tamworth. His Excellency the Count de Lavradio, who has been suffering from a severe cold, has gone to St. Leonard's to re-establish his health. His Excellency Genertl von Bonin, on a special mission from his Majesty the King of Prussia, accompanied by Colonel Blumenthal and Captain Bonin, has left Mau rigy's Hotel for Windsor Castle. THE PRINCE OF WALEi IN THE HUNTING-FIELD. —CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 28.--His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales joined : the field of the Cambridgeshire hunt to day, attended by his equerry, Captain prey. The meet was at Childerley, in the vicinity cl Madingley, and in consequence of a rumour having got abroad that the Prince was likely to be present, the field was a very numerous one. The Lord Lieutenant (the Earl of Hardwicke) and his son were present, and the university supplied a goodly quota of attendants. A find was made at Honey Hill. Reynard made straight for Madingley, but turned at the pleasure ground, and went back through Drayton to Knap well Grove, and thence to Boxworth. Here the hunted fox was left in some farm buildings, the hounds getting on the line of a fresh one, which, however, had been gone some time, and went by a circuitous course towards Chil derley, in the neighbourhood of which they were called off without a kill. In the fore part of the day, the pace was tremendous, considering the heaviness of the country; of both some idea may be formed from the fact that two horses were killed. Altogether it was a very fair day. His Royal Highness rode well up, and took his fences gallantly and well. THE QUEEN VICTORIA STEAM-MOAT. PLY MOUTH, Monday.—The Queen Victoria was successfully floated this evening, and has been beached at Cremyll, where she will be repaired. Russell's engines were em ployed. THE MAILS, &c.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 28.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, sailed hence to-day with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, and 21 passengers, among whom are Mrs. Brigham, Mr. Gregory, Miss Reeve, Mr. Bunnell, Mrs. Weston, Miss Dyson, Mrs. Hislop, &c. HER MAJESTY'S STAGHOUNDS.—After so long a check, in consequence of the resent frost, the Royal Stag hounds have at length again taken the field, the frost having sufficiently given way to enable them to make a beginning on Wednesday, near the Kennel, when they had a good half hour's work. On Thursday they also hunted in the Forest, and after a capital hour's run, took the deer at Lyne Grove, near Chertsey. On Friday they met at Stoke Common, when the deer " Jack Tar" was uncarted to a large field. After a fast run of three-quarters of an hour, he was taken at Chalfont St. Giles. The country was deep and trying to the horses. The Hungarian struggle is becoming increasingly interesting. The Hapsburg reaction will soon bring to the test the power of the Viennese Government, and the capability of resistance in Hungary. The Imperial manifesto, on which we remarked two or three days ago, was conceived towards its close in the most imperious and threatening terms. It forbad the Comitat or county assemblies to do many things to which by the old and well established municipal laws of the empire they were quite competent, and threatened them with severe displeasure and even with dissolu tion if they touched on taxation. As to the elections of exiled patriots, they were all declared null and void. THE HON. ARTHUR GORDON.—The requisition to Mr. Gordon to stand for the county was sent off two days ago, with upwards of 600 names attached, and a very large number has been forwarded since. We fully expected to receive, before going to press, notice of its presentation, with the favourable answer, which its perfect sufficiency for the purpose intended rendered certain. The only way in which we can account for the temporary delay is, that owing to accidental, and of course unforeseen circumstances, the interview between the deputation and Mr. Gordon could not take place at the time proposed, when the agent left Aberdeen, We have every assurance, towever, that all is going on right, and that the extraordinary, indeed thoroughly unprecedented, enthusiasm in this quarter will be duly responded to by the principal party in London. We confidently expect full adviccs in the course of the day, and we shall not lose a moment in cotamunicatin s - Choir purport to our readers through a second edition.—Aberdeen Herald. We soon learned that some of the Comitats had replied with becoming spirit to this reactionary manifesto. The memorial or address of one of the most important appears in another column to-day, and will be read with deep interest. It will take the reader back to the days of the earlier struggles of the Long Parliament with our STTJART—there is the same deference to the person of the Sovereign, yet the same firmness in asserting and defending clear legal rights. A tinge of the Oriental, for the Hungarians were originally an Asiatic people, gives a peculiar and not unpleasing colour to the docu ment. Though there is no bombast or fu3tian in it—it is too earnest for that—yet the style of it is markedly different from our parallel ones in Eng land, though quite a contrast to French papers of the same kind, painted for effect. ANOTHER HIGH TIDE YESTERDAY.—Notwith standing the precautions that had been taken on Saturday and Sunday, by the construction of dams, to prevent the tide from overflowing the usual boundary, the influx was so great, that at high water several wharves on the Surrey side of the Thames, and at Shadwell and Liniehouse, were inundated, and a considerable quantity of property damaged by the cellars and basements of waterside premises being laid under water. The approaches to the wharves at the Adelphi, Milford-lane, and IN ater-street, Strand, were overflowed, and, at the lower parts, rendered impassable for a time to pedestrians. The morning's tide washed over the top of the Custom-house quay, and it is expected that the tides of this day will rise much higher. RESUMPTION OF WORK BY THE NAVVIES, &c.— Yesterday, in consequence of the discontinuance of the frost, and its probable disappearance for some time, the con.. tractors of the numerous works in all parts of the metro polis resumed their works which were suspended owing to the intense severity of the frost. Throughout the whole distance of the underground railway, from Paddington to Farringdon-street, where the excavations are in progress, large numbers of navvies resumed their labour, and there was among them a universal expression of thanks for the support they had received from public benevolence while out of employment. Bricklayers and others employed in the erection of houses wore also again set to work', and the navigation of the Regent and other canals in the neighbourhood of the metropolis was also resumed. Should the present favourable state of the weather con tinue, it is expected that there will be an abundance of employment for the industrious classes. Another effect of the favourable change of the weather was observable at the police .courts, the workhouses, and the various soup-kit chens, at each:offwhich there was a very considerable dimi nution in the number of destitute applicants. The memorialists will not excuse themselves, because they cannot think the manifesto addressed to them, but they advert to its "menacing lan guage" as necessitating remonstrance. They assure his Majesty, " with all due respect," that all Hungarian authorities, however they may have expressed themselves, are moved only by love to their country, which, they add, " during the last 12 years has merely vegetated." They inform him that " the nation unanimously desires that the laws of 1848 may be restored " those laws which his predecessor agreed to for himself and heirs; they depict to him, in the plainest terms, the brutal acts of the Austrian officials, though many of them must have been with his sanction ; they remind him that their constitution is a thousand years old, and that they have had to do battle for it so long as to be naturally rendered distrustful. As to the question oc taxes, they remind him that they are illegally levied without the consent of the Diet, and that he had better rely on the generosity of the nation than on threats. NAPOLEON'S TOMB AT ST. HELENA.—The Union Company's Royal Mail steamship Cambrian, Capt. Strutt, which arrived at Southampton on Saturday, brought from St. Helena Capt. Masselin and two soldiers of the 3d Regi ment of French Engineers. They have been employed in repairing the tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena by direction of the French authorities, and with the permission of the English Government. The tomb has been completely restored to the condition in which it was at the period of the deposed Emperor's interment ; and Longwood, the house in which he died, has been put into a state of sub stantial repair. Longwood is unoccupied and unfurnished, and the premises had been allowed, prior to Capt. Masse• lin's visit to the island, to fall into decay ; but the walls tnd roof have now been restored, and will, in all proba bility, stand for many years. Captain Masselin and his engineers were despatched to St. Helena, via Southampton, two years ago, and they have been occupied with the work of restoration ever since. They left Southampton at mid night on Monday for Havre, in the South-Western Com , pany's steamer Havre, en route for Paris. THE RAILWAY CHANGELING.---By mail train there arrived one night at a certain station in the north of England a large hamper, booked as containing a live dog, and addressed to a clergyman in Lincolnshire. The hamper was taken into the parcels' office to await the departure of the train by which it was to go forward. The clerks, as soon as they had 10 minutes to spare, being curious, as it became them to be, concerning the breed and culture of dogs, unfastened the hamper, which was merely tied with a piece of thick string. No sooner was the lid fairly opened than the specimen, with a loud snarl, and a yell of is muck terror as anger, sprang clean out of the hamper, cleared the office in two bounds, and sped away down the platform at his swiftest. Chase was immediately given, joined in by all the guards and porters about, but the dog was irre trievably gone— swa ll owe d u p by darkness—far away i n two minutes among sidi ngs , and waggons, and dead engines, where pursuit was useless. What was to be done? The dog had certainly been received, and it would not do to send the hamper forward empty. Blank despair over whelmed the clerks till a whisper of suggestion came at length from one of th e m—" Why not send Nipper ?" Nipper was a rough and venerable animal, of all sorts of breed, who lived by prowling round the station, taking all the kicks he got in hope of victuals. He was a desperate old thief, and he looked as disreputable as he was. But the ease was an extreme one, and Nipper was accordingly hunted up from his snooze in the cloak-room, was feast( d sumptuously, and was decorated with a pink ribat d fastei4ed round his neck and tied in a bow under his chin to show that he was out for holidays. Thus prepared f travel he was carefully packed up in the hamper, which was forwarded to its address by the next train. No c;na - plaint, we believe, was ever made to the railway, an d vs hope that, for the sake of the friend who V. not send him, Nipper died in clover, after having won, as the clergyman's dog, respect throughout his parish—Dickens's "All the Yew, Round," One of the most stinging paragraphs of the address, however, though couched in the most respectful as well as frank language, is that which reminds him of the nature of the Pragmatic Sanction; the act by which alone FRANCIS JOSEPH has the shadow of a title to the Crown of Hungary, and to which the Emperor himself referred in his diploma—it is, they remind him, " a bilateral con tract"—that the KING is "as much bound to up hold the constitutional rights, privileges, and independence of the Hungarian nation, as the nation is bound to be faithful to the KING, and to recognise his hereditary rights." The Pragmatic Sanction distinctly requires that the taxes should be grantee by the Diet, We refer our readers to the address; it is a good picture of the spirit which now exists in Hungary; and we do hope that, next session, the name of Hungary will be heard again and again in the British Parliament. That noble and long ill-used people demands our sympathy and our moral aid as much quite as the Italians did. GARI BALDI himself would be the first to tell us so. Indeed, should the HAPS➢URGS venture to drive the Hungarians to insurrection, we shall soon hear of the Hero of Caprera either among them, or creat ing a diversion in their favour. The Duke of Hamilton came to town last even ing from Paris. His grace leaves town to-day for Euston Park, Saffolk. The Marquis of Abercorn leaves town to-day f or Brocket Hall, Herts. The marchioness remains in town. Lord Crewe comes to town to-day from Crewe 11411, Cheshire. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1861. • La 4 r i . 1- 1 4 T NEIV S. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURIN, JAN. 28. The number of elections in Upper Italy of which the result is already known or assured is 134. Of this number two belong to the party of Dr. Bertani, two to the Garibaldian party, fourteen to the Oppo sition or to the Centre, and the remainder more or less to the Ministerial party. Signor Cabella has been defeated at Genoa, Dr. Bertani in Milan, Guerazzi in Leghorn, and Mor dini in Lucca. The first electoral news received from Naples has been good. TURIN, JAN. 28, EVENING. The number of elections now definitely known are 200, of which 20 are of the Opposition party. Garibaldi and Poerio have been elected at Naples. VIENNA, JAN. 28. The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day gives a positive denial to the statement of the Ostdeutche Post that the .national representation is to be com posed in the non-Hungarian provinces by direct elections, and says—" The members of the Council of the Empire are to be elected from the Diets." ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 28. The negotiations between the Banks of St, Pe tersburg and the Bank of France in reference to the exchange of gold for silver have failed. Prince Orloff, President of the Ministry and the Council of the Empire, has tendered his resigna tion on account of ill health. He is temporarily replaced in his post of Presi dent of the Council of the Empire by M. de Bladoff. POSEN, JAN. 28. The Posner Zeitung says : " News received here from St. Petersburg state that the corps d'armee stationed in the provinces of Lithuania and Volhynia are to advance to the frontiers of the empire, and will be replaced by troops from the interior of Russia. " The soldiers on furlough have already been re called, and the formation of three corps d'armee on a war footing has been ordered, which are to be ready by the Ist of March next, one to march to the Pruth, the second to the frontiers of Poland, and the third to any other destination that may be required." PARIS, JAN. 29. The Moniteur contains a decree ordering the creation of a medal in commemoration of the expe dition to China, which will be bestowed on all those who have taken part in the expedition. COPENHAGEN, MONDAY EVENING. The Berlingske Sidende announces that men and horses belonging to the Dragoon regiments stationed at Itzehoe, as well as two batteries, have been called out. The inspection of the whole war materiel will be immediately proceeded with. NAPLES, JAN. 26 (via Marseilles). The district surrounding Chieti has been tran quillised. Fighting continues in other parts of the Appen nines. The city of Naples is more tranquil. The police have prohibited political demonstra tions. ROME, JAN. 25 (via Marseilles). The official Giornale di Roma mentions several villages near Ascoli which it states have been destroyed. BERNE, JAN. 26. The Federal Council has received official in formation that the siege of Gaeta is proceeding favourably for the Sardinians. The Italian fleet has suffered but little damage from the fire of the besieged. The insurrection in the Abruzzi has been suppressed. ROME, JAN. 26. The Pontifical Zouaves, favoured by the night attacked the Sardinian volunteers at Correse. Two Sardinians were killed and six wounded. Fifty were made prisoners and were conveyed to• day to Rome. The Piedmontese at Correse have been since re inforced. The Sardinians are also threatening the pro vince of Frosinone. The reactionary bands on the frontiers are in consequence greatly discouraged, and are being pursued, betrayed, and left entirely destitute of money and arms. DENMARK. We have received the following telegram from Copenhagen, dated the 28th inst. : • The Danish Diet sanctioned to-day the Govern ment contract, from the 18th of December, 1860, with Mr. Peto relative to the railway through Fin land, the east coast of Jutland, from Aalborg to the South Schleswig Railway, and from Aarhuss towards the west coast. According to the latest documents published, the naval forces of Denmark ar© composed of 40 sail of the line (20 sailing vessels and 20 steamers), and 70 smaller vessels. Their strength is as follows : SAILING VESSELS. Guns. 4 Sail of the line (2 of 81 guns and 2 of 72) 312 6 Frigates (1 of 60 and sof 44 30-pounders) 4 Corvettes of 28, 20, 14, and 11 guns .. 73 3 Brigs of 16 and 12 guns (18-pounders) 2 Schooners of 1 large swivel gun each 1 Cutter, with six small swivels Total 717 STEAM VESSELS. (Twelve afloat and Eight building.) 1 Screw of 70 30-pounders, building 7O 2 Screw frigates of 40 guns each 2 Screw frigates building (1 of 52 and lof 42) , 94 2 Screw corvettes (12 and 10 30-pounders) .22 1 Screw corvette, 16 guns, building l6 2 Screw gunboats, 2 guns each 4 Screw gunboats, building Paddle-wheel steamers, mounting together 24 guns (60, 30, 24, and 18-pounders) 1 Royal paddle-wheel yacht of 12 3-pounders, for the use of his Majesty Total 326 Flotilla of row boats, 85 in number, mounting to gether 140 guns of different calibre General total . 1183 In addition to the vessels ab)ve mentioned, the Danish navy has nine steam transports, four of which are building and will be completed this year. • The personnel of the navy comprises 1 vice admi ral, 3 rear-admirals, 31 captains, 23 captain .lieute nants, and 80 lieutenants. FRANCE. touitsE, Jan: 28.—There has been but a very limited amount of business doing, but aided by an improvement of y per cent. on Consols, the quota tions of Saturday have up to the present time been well maintained. For the Account, Threes are now at 67f 60c ; Mobilier, 666 f 25c ; Orleans, 1,393 f 75c; Northern, 960 f ; Mediterranean, 918 f 75e ; Ana. Irian, 472 f 50c; Lombard, 468 f 75c. The follow ing are the last quotations :- 4 per per Cents ... 97 20 , Credit Fancier 920 Do end month.... 97 15 i Belgian 41 — 3 per Cents 67 85 Piedmontese Fives 76 25 Do. end month— .. 67 90 Roman Bank Shares . . 2895 Austrian . „ Credit Mobilier 672 50 Spanish Threes.... 47a Do. Account 675 —; Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1397 50 .. 1400 Northern .. .. New ditto BB7 50 .. Lyons and Medite rranean 920 .. 920 Geneva 370 .. 375 Southern 513 .. 515 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lotrbard STATE OF AUSTRIA. A letter frcm Vienna, dated Jan. 25, says : The Imperial authorities expected that the Hun garians would be intimidated by the Rescript of the 16th inst., but they have already discovered their error, the standing committee of the General As sembly of the county of Gran having forwarded a memorial to the Emperor in which the grievances of Hungary are summed up, and their redress insisted on with extraordinary boldness and pertinacity. On the 21st inst. the above-mentioned committee— of which the Primate of Hungary, as Obergespdn of the county, is President—met, and unanimously resolved to forward to the Emperor the subjoined memorial or address,* to which the particular attention of all persons who take an interest in Hungarian matters is called : " Most Illustrious Emperor and Apostolic King ! Our Sovereign Lord !—The Rescript issued by your Majesty on the 16th inst. has startled us. The menacing language of our King obliges us to give expression to our feelings, but while doing so we will not lose sight of the respect which we owe to our Sovereign. We will not seek to excuse our selves to your Majesty, because we think that the Rescript is not addressed to us. We do not feel ourselves called on to express an opinion in respect to the resolutions taken by the other counties, but, with all due respect for your Majesty, we assert that all the Hungarian authorities, however they may give expression to their sentiments, are moved by a feeling of love for their country, which, during the last twelve years, has merely vegetated (scheinleben fuhren). " The Creator of all things said,' Let there be light,' and there was light. May your Majesty say to us, Nation, thy wishes are granted !' The na tion unanimously desires that the laws of 1848 may be restored. Your Majesty, grant a complete am nesty, so that our banished brethren may be able to return to their homes, for the bread which they eat in foreign countries is bitter to their taste. Speak openly, most gracious Majesty, so that there may be no doubt as to your intentions. Let all half measures be avoided, and the Prince and his people may be reconciled. " The illustrious patriots now near your Ma jesty's person have, doubtless, stated that the Hun garian nation has suffered greatly during the last 12 years ; but it is impossible that they can have given a complete account of our sufferings. We who always live in the country have most felt the effects of the late system. The foreign (princi pally Bohemian) employes laughed to scorn our dearest, our most sacred recollections. They ridi culed our nationality and language, and emptied our purses by means of taxes and exactions. What high prices have we not had to pay for justice P At midnight the tools of an arbitrary Power have en tered the houses of our best patriots, and in spite of the entreaties of their children have loaded them with chains, and removed them to some distant part of the empire, where they were placed under military despotism. 'I he wrongs done to the Hun garian nation cry aloud to Heaven (sind hinmel eehreiend). " The Hungarian Constitution is a thousand years old, and a thousand years have the Hunga rians had to do battle in its defence. Such a pro longed struggle and the continued violation of our laws have made us distrustful. " Your Majesty will not take offence that we speak openly. Illustrious Sir, we are as children who address a father. In the diploma of the 20th of October reference is made to the Pragmatic Sanction, which was a bilateral contract. By the Pragmatic Sanction, you are bound to uphold the constitutional rights, privileges, and independence of the Hungarian nation as the nation is bound to be faithful to the King, and to recognise his heredi tary rights. The diploma, however, violates several of the rights guaranteed to the nation, rights which King Charles 111. (the Emperor Charles 3 our. Majesty's ancestor, swore for himself and his suc cessor to uphold. Your Majesty insists upon the payment of the taxes, but they, in virtue of the Pragmatic Sanction, must be granted by the Diet. Illustrious King, there is a story relative to the levy of taxes by force of arms and without a grant from the Diet, and the point of it is that King Francis 1., your Majesty's illustrious grandfather, said to the nation, Doluit paterno cordi nostro'— it pained my paternal heart: j- , But your Majesty requires money for defraying the expenses of the State. Might you not appeal to the generosity of the nation, and say that you require its assistance, instead of ordering the taxes arbitrarily to be paid ? " Shall we speak of the confusion which prevails n respect to the administration of justice? Your Majesty . has said that we shall have Imperial ( landesfurstliche ) law courts until the Diet has settl , d the question relative to the future adminis tration of justice, but the nation has such a dislike to expensive legal proceedings that it would rather not have justice at all than seek it at the hands of Austrian judges. " The report that the Gendarmerie is to be con centrated in the capitals of the counties has alarmed the nation ; but it can hardly •be correct, as, your Majesty must be aware of the strong antipathy of the Hungarians to the•Gendarmerie and Financial Guard. "Let us now refer to history. Great was the Sovereign, and great the nation as long as the King lived in the midst of his people. The renown and glory of Hungary waned when the last monarch who resided in the country (Louis II.) was drowned in the Cselebach. " Not long since your Nlnjesty acknowledged the political maturity of the Hungarians—the inhabi tants of a country which is three times as large as any of the other lands belonging to the Crown. Will your Majesty condescend to reside in Hungary? Throw a veil over the past, and by governing the nation in a lawful (pesetzlich) manner, you may be to the nation what King Matthias formerly was. The great Corvin (Matthias Corvinus) has been 400 years in his grave, but he still lives in memory of a grateful nation." The county of Honth is also preparing an address for the Emperor. Its principal features are,-1. The county has never acted contrary to the laws of Hungary. 2. It will uphold the laws of 1848, unless they should be revised by the Diet. 3. There can be no lawful Government in Hungary without an independent Hungarian Ministry. 4. The county will readily obey an independent Minis try, but never resign its right to complete 3elf government. The Weiner Zeitung states that the alarming excitement produced in Arad by the Rescript of the 16th instant has subsided, but it neglects to say that two guns with ammunition-cars are standing at one end of the principal street in the city. Temesvar is being placed in a state of defence by means of earthworks and palisades. Artillery is also on its way to the fortress, which is said to be in the same state as it was at the end of the war in 1849. The Stadtholderate has ordered preparations to be made in several of the county towns for the reception of detachments of gendarmes, but in every case the local authorities have replied that the men must be quartered in the houses of the peasants, " like ary other soldiers." Yester day the Cardinal-Primate of Hungary endeavoured to calm the excitement of his fellow-countrymen, by stating that as soon as the question relative to their sequestrated property has been settled, the Hungarian refugees will be allowed to return to their homes, but the words of the venerable prelate produced very little impression, as few persons in Hungary have confidence in the promises made by the Government. In spite of the pro hibition of the Imperial authorities a "Sedria" (Hungarian Court of Justice) has been formed in Pesth, and on the 23d instant a p erson was tried by it for sonic trifling offence against the law. On the same day the Grand Com mittee, which has been formed for examininc , into the question relative to the revival of the Hunga rian law, held its first sitting at Pesth, and AI. Beak greatly astonished his colleagues by declarinr , the to be a "disgrace" criminal code of Hungary * It must be somewhat condensed in the translation, bat the more striking passages will be rendered literally. t His Imperial Majesty gave expression to his feelings after be had got the me.u, and money required. (schanclfiecke) to the country, inasmuch as it is en tirely in favour of the nobility, and admits of anomalous interpretations. The county of Stuhl weissenburg has protested against the alteration made by the Austrian Government in the electoral law of 1848, and it is doubtful whether any Diet can be formed in Hungary which will consent to meet at Buda under the guns of the fortress. At present there can be no question of serious dis turbance in. Hungary, but it hardly admits of a doubt that there will be a general rising in the spring if Austria should be engaged in a war with a foreign Power. Subscriptions are being raised in Hungary for the relief of the " Honveds," defenders of their country who were disabled during the war in 1848 and 1849. A person who is well informed of what passes at Court has given me the assurance that the Emperor is resolved, " come what may," not to consent to a revision of the Concordat. A hint has also been given to me that some of the highest persons in the realm speculate on being able to return to the old system at no distant period. The Minister of Finance has decided that a dividend of 28f1., instead of 321, shall be paid to the bank shareholders. The rescript for the raising of a loan of 30,000,000f1. has had no fewer than three official emendations. Almost every ordinance which is published in Austria needs explanation, the official style being so obscure that the public is at a loss to understand what is meant. Mr. Roebuck has to-day left this city for London. The rate of exchange on London is fls. 151 75. THE TUNNEL THROUGH MONT CEALS. A letter from Bardonneche, of Jan. 25, says : This work, the most gigantic among the railway achievements hitherto undertaken, has lost much of its economical and commercial interest, but it is still of the very greatest importance in a technical point of view, as it will solve the problem of the possibility of a direct railway communication across any other point of the Alpine chain. The main motive which induced the Sardinian Govern ment to give this line the preference over the St. Gothard's or Luckmanier, which might have brought Genoa into communication with the Swiss and German Rhine, the object most immediately conducive to the development of the Italian trade, was a desire to establish speedy intercourse between the capital of the Sardinian monarchy, and its transalpine possession of Savoy. The treaty of the 24th of March last, by making over those heredi tary domains of the reigning house to France, ren dered the Mont Cenis tunnel a work of only secon dary usefulness. As, however, the Italians now trust that by opening railway lines from Susa to Ancona, Brindisi, and Taranto they can open the shortest route for the Overland Mail through their country, it is evident that they would be labouring in vain till they have also facilitated by all physical means the intercourse between their country and the great capitals, Paris and London. The tunnel across Mont Cenis possesses therefore as much a European as an Italian importance. The tunnel to be opened through Mont Cenis from Bardonneche in the Upper Val Susa, or Val di Dora, above Oulx, and 11odane, on the Ave, in Savoy, on the old carriage road, is to be 12,600 me tres (about 74 English miles) in length. The Sar dinian Parliament voted a yearly outlay of 8,000,000 f. out of the budgets of 1857-8-9 ; the actual expenditure, however, does not exceed one half of the money assigned for the purpose. The fears entertained by those who showed dis inclination to favour the enterprise were grounded lon the fact that a hole dug in the earth beyond a depth of 2,000 metres becomes impracticable on account of the foul air and high temperature. The labourers engaged in the present tunnel would, if only ordinary means were employed, be suffocated long before they had achieved one third of their labours, as it was equally impossible to supply fresh air from vertical shafts or windows, as is done in. other tunnels, as the shafts would have to be made several thousand metres deep, and the same diffi culty of the mephitic air would have to be encoun tered. There are people who still think that the phenomenon observed in vertical holes would not liokizontal tunnel, as the whole work would in the present instance be accom plished on a level with the earth's surface; but the engineers at the head of this achievement flatter themselves they have found the means of doing away with the obstacle of the mephitic air alto gether. These gentlemen, Messrs. Grattoni and Sommoil ler, have invented boring machines which are set to work by air compressed by hydraulic power, whereby they not only have found the means of hastening the process of excavation, but also of supplying the labourers with an exhaustible cur rent of fresh wholesome air. The experiment with these machines only began at Bardonneche, on the eastern side of the tunnel, on the 14th of this present month. One of the boring machines, worked by suppressed air supplied by five hydraulic compressors, established outside the tunnel, has shown the result of 40 centimetres (about one foot and a third English), limited to the boring of the holes for the mines, in five minutes. From that time to the present day the excavation upon this new plan has been proceeding favour ably, both as to the effect of the hydraulic com pressors and of the boring machines. There has been a delay in the commencement of the work, for the engineers had intended to begin their operations towards the end of October last, and a day had even been appointed for Count Cavour and the Minister for Public Works to view the novel experiment at the outset. The delay was occasioned by the giving way of two of the compressed air pipes during a preliminary trial, and the breaking of a piece connected with one of the water pipes and the valve of one of the air compressors. The mishap of the air pipes arose from some flaw in the casting, and as, as yet, only a four atmo sphere pressure had been applied, it was instantly remedied; but the accident resulting from the breaking of the valve of the compressor was of a more serious nature, and depended on some defect in the system of the valves. The whole of the month of November and December was spent in providing a remedy for this defect. Up to the 14th of January, as I said, the work was carried on with the usual means of excavation. At the above period the tunnel on this side by these means had been opened to the length of 721 metres; of these 528 metres were completely finished, the remaining 193 metres were only partially bored through. At the west, or French end, at Modane the work is less advanced, as a deal of time was taken dp with the building of huts, workshops, &c., necessary for the application of the air compressors ; the excava tion on that side has only been effected by the ordinary means. At the close of December last the tunnel opened at Modane by these usual means wag 511 metres 50 centimetres, and there were besides 23 metres 50 centimetres not yet thoroughly finished. You are aware, I have no doubt, that, besides the difficulty of the mephitic air which the engineers trust they have s uccessfully obviated, fears are en tertained that the works of excavation may be in terfered with and even utterly prostrated by the breaking in of the water from the almost unfa thomable little lakes which are to be met with on the summit of this mountain, as on almost all the other Alpine passes and summits. But the engineers work on with good strong faith, prepared to meet evil whenever and from wheresoever it may arise. The usual yearly statistics of the passenger traffic between France and this country have just been published by the French Custom-house. It appears that the number of passengers arriving at or leaving the French ports, tak ing arrivals and departures together, Were as follows in the S year 1860: —Boulogne , 102 , 82 9 passenge rs; C a l a i s , 74,875; other total, 233,537 passengers. In the year 185 lais 6 9 p the ;n1,813:m151;b5,rs had 33; been, at B ou l ogne, 86,5 7 9 passengers; e Calais, other ports, 51,506 ; total, 205,456 passen gers. There is thus an increase at Boulogne of 16,250 pas • gers, or 181 per cent. ; at Calais, of 7,564 passengers, or 11 per cent. ; at the other ports, of 4,267 passengers, or 8 per cent. ; giving a total increase of 28,081 passengers, or 13 per cent. The total number of passengers between British and Belgian ports amounted to 27,722 in 1860. be 1 t 1