The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVI724IING, DECEMBER 28, 1855.

brave men and the loss of a vast amount of trea-
sure. We spare Odessa, that will cost us how
much more ? and, should we change our minds,
will in all probability be found so stripped as to
be hardly worth capturing. Even now, we are
told, "the guns that might have been ours are
being removed to strengthen the more inland posi-
tions." Well may Mr. BERKELEY exclaim—
" The life of every man reft by the guns which
may be, or have been, withdrawn from Odessa will
lie at the door of the present Administra-
tion." Riddle-me-roe, what sort of a
War is it ? You give it up ? So do we,
for "by the Mass we cannot tell." But this we
know : the Government is disgraced, the common
sense of the country is outraged, and the interests
of humanity are not served by it. Russia is spared
at the cost of English blood and treasure, and an
Englishman may be pardoned who cannot under-
stand that. What is Lord PALMERSTON about ?
If he has not outlived both pluck and patriotism,
why does he suffer the War to be conducted after
such a fashion as this ? Time was when his name
was a word of terror throughout Europe, and war
from his lips meant war. Now we could fancy him
prostrate with Court fever, dictated to by water-
gruel drivellers, and unable to call on the people
to his rescue. If this be the case, a dissolution of
Parliament, let him take our word for it, would
set him on his legs.

EXETER-BALL.

MADAME JENNY GOLDSCIIMIDT-LIND.

Last evening, Haydn's oratorio, "The Creation," was
repeated at the above hall, which was crowded to excess,
the principal soprano part being executed, as on the pre-
vious occasion, by Madame Jenny Lind. Her great
performance of this music has been too recently noticed
by us to require present criticism, and we may, there-
fore, confine ourselves to the statement, that the accom-
plished artiste sang with all her power and beauty, and
was again received, from first to last, with the greatest
enthusiasm. On Monday evening next, Madame Jenny
Lind will sing in " The Messiah."

JENNY LIND AND THE BRIGHTON
AND HOVE LTING-IN INSTITUTION.

We have much pleasure in recording a contribution
of 20 guineas to the funds of the Brighton and Hove
Lying-in Institution—ten guineas from Madame Jenny
Lind Goldschmidt, and ten guineas from Mr. Otto
Goldschmidt. These contributions, which were for-
warded to Lieut. Dixon, R.N., the treasurer, through
Mr. Beale, of the firm of Cramer, Beale, and Co., music
sellers, North-street, were accompanied by the following
letter from Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, in reply to a letter
enclosing a copy of the report of the institution, ad-
dressed by Lieut. Dixon to Madame Goldschmidt during
her visit to Brighton last week :
_

" Sir,—l beg to send you enclosed, in reply to your
letter to Mme. Goldschmidt of the 20th December,
accompanied by a report which I have perused with great
interest, ten guineas for Mine. Goldschmidt and ten
guineas for myself, as a small contribution to the funds
of your valuable institution.
" I atz, dear Sir, your obedient servant
44 OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT.
" Lieut. James Dixon, R.N., Treasurer for the
Brighton Lying•in Institution."
The above contributions, which come seasonably at the
present moment, and will help the committee to liquidate
a debt which they have incurred, and which presses
heavily upon them, on account of a building for the insti-
tution in West street, have been gratefully acknowledged
by Lieut. Dixon, to whom the institution is much in-
debted for the active and able manner in which he kindly
performs the duties of treasurer.—Brighton, Gazette.

of the Archbishop of Vienna was expressly state 1
by his Holiness to be in grateful acknowledgment
of the advantages conferred on the church by the
Austrian concordat.
Venerable brethren--you all well know, venerable
brethren, what consolation has been afforded to us
amongst the grievous cares of our pontificate by the con-
vention which we recently initiated with our very dear
son in Christ Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria and
apostolic King, since we certainly trusted that by the
help of God the greatest blessings would redound from
it to the Catholic Church and all the faithful people of
his vast empire. Being vehemently desirous of cele-
brating our joy by some remarkable event, and at the
same time of gratifying this most religious sovereign,
and lastly of openly and publicly declaring the distin-
guished and altogether singular benevolence with which
we most deservedly regard this same Emperor and King,
therefore, following the examples of our predecessors,
especially of Urban VIII., Alexander VII., and Bene-
dict XIV., before appointing rulers to the vacant
churcheq, we have determined to aggregate in your
most ample college an ecclesiastic, most acceptable to
ourself and to the very pious prince, and well deserving
of Catholicism and the Holy See, who has given his most
earnest endeavours to the formation of the convention.
This is our venerable brother, Joseph Othmar Itauscher,
Archbishop of Vienna, who, sprung from a noble line,
powerful in acuteness of intellect, illustrious by his learn-
ing in philosophical and divine subjects, and especially
his sacred eloquence and tried fidelity to this chair of
Peter, learnedly and skilfully displayed his knowledge
of the sacred canons and the ecclesiastical history of
Saltzbourg, to the great glory of his name and the
utility of his hearers, and wrote and printed a highly
esteemed work concerning this same ecclesiastical his-
tory.

Our readers will probably not have forgotten tho
case of Edward Murray. It will be sufficient to
recal him to mind as the Englishman arrested at
Ancona in 1849, charged with being associated
with known assassins,and of having been an accom-
plice in the murder of Count Severino, for which
he was condemned to the guillotine by the secret
tribunal of the Sagra Consulta, which sentence
would certainly have been carried into effect had it
not been averted by the energetic remonstrances
of our consul, Mr. Freeborn, acting according to
the instructions of the British government, not on
the principle of wishing to save the prisoner, if
guilty, merely because he was a British subject,
hit because the trial was, according to British
ideas of justice, secret, inquisitorial, and unfair.
The papal government was obstinate, and never
would communicate the evidential documents of
the trial even to Sir Henry Bulwer, who, during
his residence in Rome, endeavoured to procure
them from Cardinal Antonelli ; but the Pope
mitigated the capital sentence to that of the gal-
leys for life, and subsequently to that of imprison-
ment for life in the state prison of Palliano, where
Edward Murray was consequently sent after hav-
ing been confined at Ancona and Rome for nearly
five years. Since that period exertions have not
been wanting in his behalf, and the charity of
British visitors in Rome has been abundant to-
wards his mother, an lonian by birth. On Sunday
night, the 16th inst., Murray was released from
prison, and sent secretly to Civita, Vecchia, es-
corted by gendarmes, there to be embarked on
board the French steamer for Malta.

THE SARDINIAN CONTINGENT.
The Indepcndance says :—" A rumour has been
circulating that the Sardinian contingent now in
the Crimea, or at least a portion of it, is in the
spring to be joined with a French landing force
destined to operate in the Baltic. According to a
letter which we have received from Genoa, it is
not the Sardinian contingent at present in the
Crimea that is destined to this role, but a new
corps of ten thousand men which is in course of
formation."