The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

THE FOUR POINTS.

The Austrian Gazette, aministerial but not official
paper, says :—" The last communications from Par',
and London lead us to believe that the opinions of thoE.
English papers which would willingly see the four gush
rantee points set aside are shared by British and Froct
diplomatists. At all events, we have been assured tha
the Western P)wers now intend to take full advantagt,
of their right to propose such conditions as tbeY
consider necessary. It is not our intention to say tul'ea'
as a consequence of this, the friendly relations betcr;,d
Austria and France have been disturbed, as it is haratyt
to be suppitsed that France will enter into a 135,
which Austria will be unable to tread with 07;
The foregoing has been written in order that the pFblio
may have a knowledge of the present political sitilatl°l).

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Dr. Newman has subscribed 100/. to the fund At P-io,
sent collecting to pay the costs of Cardinal Wiseman
the recent trial.
The Moniteur contains a decree fixing the riCO
entraw,
duty on allspice, whole or ground, of foreign orighVio,
ported into the ports of Algeria at 15f. per 10,9 ;2-0
grammes by French vessels, and 16f. 50c. by It)r---'
Rome The
has y valuable leb e
elibrary o
10l
efdthe t
hMearpqrueiesi 0
vessels. . at
of the Divine Comedy of Dante, executed in 14,8'13
Venice by Ottaviano Scoto of Monza. On the 03,°,,1a.
are passages taken from the " Inferno " and a Lu''of
torie" of Dante, in the undoubted handwriting
Galileo.
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CUIEF-ENGINEEMSHIP OF THE RUSSIAN I'l".l.been
paragraph has appeared in the London papers an effee
Curletrgsr7vai-ngs
extensively quoted by the provincial journals, to the
ed so
that " Mr. J.C. Thompson, an American, has reefoivw.sian
offer to assume the chief-engineership of the -1;;;Pors,
navy for 3 years, at a salary of 6,000 dolls. per bars, ibe
„
in consequence of the resignation of Mr. ChaEnset 18
Scotchman, who had held that position for the l' icon
years." From the Falkirk Herald of Thursday We o'er
that whatever may be the case with reference to th° been
made to Mr. Thompson, the statement that it has bars
made in consequence of the resignation of Mr- Ohara' our
is incorrect. "No gentleman of that name," ,
519tber ill
Falkirk contemporary, "has held such an office el loped.
the Baltic or Black Seas during the time reenti o,
We have the pleasure of knowing the gentlensanoftmbe
for the 19 years previous to the cornmencernentoonv,.
war, held the office now said to be offered to Mr. e one,
son, and although be is a Scotchman, and a truof the
his name is not Chambers. He left the service of ealo-
Czar, notwithstanding the large offers of increasedratber
lutnent and honours which were made to hia!,,o,,erv-
than fight against the interests of a country, the it`" worth
went of which, since his return, has not thong
while to secure the services of one so competentw, otber
the same time so conversant with the strength avvi:i,e of
particulars respecting she enemy's fleet—a k"ce t: the
which might have been of so much consequea
to vouch
nation at the present time." We are prepared ilcakirP
fel- the accuracy of the statements:made by the feel"
Herald, from which a much stronger expression
1.0%0.4
ing with respect to the true-hearted Scotsma e'
etlea'lia
The ge- for
t) would have been quite justifiable. wet
referred to, as having been the Czar's chief eng
vow r!.
ht
ond
at
19 years, is Mr. Johnston, a native of Falkith,_. apa tri-
sident in the neighbourhood of Bathgate. vi'''.3-oboton
otic spirit which does him infinite credit, Mr: at out'e
resigned his important and lucrative post a. d
sen to
—on the breaking out of the war with Russilia;;eturaea
to his native country. We have goo(' Johnston'
j
know—if, indeed, the length of time Mr. .
of the
presided over the engineering. departme,nttonrove
Russian naval service were not sufoe,eonimvan of r„rent
the fact—that Mr. Johnston is a r 2"
and which we mal ability as an engineer ; and it is
graceful to the Government,
his services shonl
regard as utterly inexplicable, that
his return from
not have been secured immediately on
her to am
to reward .
e_
Russia. If Britain were a • agecircumstanc:dis•
SaCrifiCe for
to treat with contempt the idea ~f making.sa by
:It r ,-,e. al t Mr. Johusto., dotibtleeF., rewardedcition than sof
hearted sons in this way, she would soon comp tn 1"
what he regards as a more solid satistavie. the
honour or trust the Government could bestow— A
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respect and esteem of his fellow-countrymen. ai