The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN% LONDON, WEDNESDAY EvENJNG, OCTOBER 24, 1855

meat, having actually succeeded in diddling its
astute Premier. Well may he be in ecstacies. It
is not by every Government that the pledged word
of a BOMBA will be believed. Those stout and
peremptory ambassadors, the commanders of Ame-
rican frigates, would sneer at it. No ship of the
Union would be permitted to leave the Bay of Naples
with any doubt of an insult to an American attaché
being atoned for. The fact is, our Government
dealt magnanimously with a rascal, which was
sheer folly—specimens of that genus, regal or
otherwise, appreciating no lesson save that of
being kicked. Had we been rigprous in our
demands, and given unmistakeable proof of our
intention to enforce them, England would not be
the laughing-stock A now is. The Austrian frigate
would have been perfectly pacific whatever the
issue, and would before now have carried the
Archducal Commander back to his post, where his
insidious countenance would have done no harm.
As it is—what with Austria'and the King, arcades
ambo—tbe laugh is against us for the present. So
be it. We shall have a powerful fleet at liberty
before long. It must anchor before Naples, and

if it leaves that Pandemonium of royal tyranny
without the most unmistakeable satisfaction for
the double insult and perfidy of King Bonus, he
may laugh as he is doing, but the people of this
country won't.

Mr. COBDEN, we remember:, takes great interest
in the administration of justice by country magis-
trates in Turkey. He once took considerable
pains to illustrate to the House of Commons how
such judges abused their office, and rendered
the enlightened edicts of the SULTAN a dead letter.
He drew sad pictures of the partiality of Ma-
hometan magistrates when Christian witnesses
bore testimony against a Mahometan, or when
Christian plaintiffs sued a believer in the Prophet.
To be sure his object was to vilify the Turks,
and to show that they were not worth helping,
especially when contending with the immaculate
Russian. One thing he forgot, that the Greeks
are a nation, or rather race, of astute liars, and
that a Turk's word is equal to 'that of an English
gentleman. He was reminded that even in this
country it is but of late years that rural jus-
tices, in many matters, have been much superior to
what he stated of Turkish Justices of the Peace.
This he quite pooh-poohed in behalf of his Greeks
and Russians.

We may now ask Mr. COBDEN, however, to
show his zeal for impartial summary justice in his
own country. It may do some practical service
if he will move for a return of certain convictions,
with minutes of the evidence, which have taken
place lately. We have not, to be sure, Mahom-
medans as well as Christians in this country, but
there are two classes of the same creed, one called
the rich, to which clerical justices of the peace be-
long—the other the poor, to which labourers and
domestic servants belong. Setting aside all con-
victions of poachers and of others who may have
displeased the gamekeepers or tampered with the
wild game of the class we have called the rich,
three convictions have recently occurred of the
class termed poor, by the said rich justices, which
Mr. COBDEN would certainly do well to bring be-
fore the House, which can if it will find means to
bring these justicesto their senses. Mr. COBDEN will
understand at once that we refer to the Reverend
Magistrate who sent two perfectly innocent men
to the treadmill because they went to see the
Militia and would not beg his pardon. To another
Reverend Committer of Poachers, who fined a
man for cutting his own wheat on the first day
of the week. And now a third, the Rev. T. L.
BAYLIFF, Bishop Stortford, Herts, has sentenced
a husband to costs of complaint, or prison, for
defending by summons the honour of his Wife
against the attacks of a friend of the Reverend
Justice.

If Mr. COBDEN will undertake the House of
Commons' exposure of Justices' justice in our own
rural districts we can promise him ample work ;
the country Squires and Reverends will not let
him want employment. Let it be known that he
will see after every case of rural oppression, every
case in which a rich delinquent gets off lightly or
a poor man suffers unequally, or for nothing at
all, and he will be a patron with a goodly throng
of clients. One reform, for instance, he might
demand at once. A poor man, earning at most
501. a year, is fined 5/. or months' imprison-
meet ; let it be law that a rich man also be fined
one-tenth, of his income—or, better, one-fifth—
which even then would be many times a lighter
fine, or months' imprisonment. It will be
more worth while for the Honourable Member to
teach Christian Magistrates their duty than to
revile those whom the SULTAN cannot always
keep in order.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Oct 23.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sir R
Pakenham, Lady Frances Bruce, and the Baroness de
Speth.
The band of the 2d Life Guards played during dinner;
and her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in
the Castle.

The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the
Home Park this morning. Prince Albert went out
shooting. The Prince returned from Aldershott at half-
past four o'clock yesterday.
Her Majesty, with the Prince of Wales and Prince
Arthur, attended by the Duchess of Wellington, drove
out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon.
The Duchess of Atholl has succeeded the Duchess of
Wellington as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.
The Earl of Listowel and General Sir Edward
Bowater have succeeded Lord Byron and Crlomel the
Hon. N. Hood as the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
Mr. Andrews, her Majesty's Minister to the Court of
Denmark, had an audience of the Queen, and was pre-
sented by the Earl of Clarendon.
Major Owen, of the Royal Engineers, has been in-
vited, and is expected this afternoon.

Messrs. Wall, Davenport, and Cross, a deputation
from the "Hume Monument Committee," had an in-
terview with Sir Benjamin Hall yesterday, at the office
of Public Works in Whitehall-place.
Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for his seat,
Broadlands, Hants.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•
office, from the Governors of the North American pro•
vinces.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have left
Hatfield-house, Hertg, to visit the Earl and Countess of
Derby during the stay of the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary at Knowsley, near Present.
The Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield and
daughter have recently arrived at the Palace, Fulham,
from Switzerland and the German provinces on the
Rhine.

Tte Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
Herbert returned to Wilton-house, near Salisbury, on
Monday, from visiting the Alarquis of Lansdowne, at
Bowood-park. M.P., and Mrs.
Prince Carini, Neapolitan Ambassador at the British
Court, has arrived in Paris, with his family.
The King of Sardinia has just granted the title of
Baron to M. Villa, a banker of Cashle, for hie numerous
acts of public charity.
The privilege of managing
the theatre in Sebastopol
has just been conferred. The Italian company at Con-
stantinople will proceed there to give regular perform-
ances.

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on the 18th from Sclicenbrunn, and received in an aenudA.
enco Count Buol, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Baron Prokesch-Osten and Count Reehberg were also
received by his Majesty.
REPRESENTATION OF WELLS.—Captain Jolliffe, son of
Sir W. Hylton Jol!iffe, of Merstnain, hag been solicited
by the Conservatives of Wells to offer himself for the
vacancy caused by Mr. Tud way's death. He has ac-
cepted the invitation.

ous—that is, it ice and snow cover the ground—it will
be impossible for them to travel over the country in
sledges, and to receive provisions. Marshal Peiue.i r
continues to advance into the interior, slowly, it is true,
for it is necessary to construct roads for the passage of
the artillery and heavily-laden waggons. The plan of the
generals-in-chief is not knr,von. Thoy appear intent on
advancing as far as possible, but the execution of this
plan must depend on circumstances."

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rectors of the Bank. The Three per Cents. were
done at 64fr. 10c., but they rallied to 641 r. 20c.
Railway Shares were at first quoted with a fall of
sfr. and 7fr. 50c., but they are now quoted at
about the same prices as yesterday.
Half-past Three—Prices rallied towards the end
of the market. It was reported that the Bank of
France had received a large supply of bullion. The
Railway Shares remain without sensible change on
yesterday's prices. The following are the last
quotations :
THE BOURSE—OCT. 23.
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents. to 25 90f. —e.
3 per Cents 64 30 64 30
New Loan 65 25
Bank Shares 3200 Roman
Credit Mobilier llB7 Austrian
Belgian Fives 95 Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese B4 50 Home Debt —

RAILWAYS-1:0B CASH.
fr. c. c.
Orleans ... ... 1105 Western 77o'-
Northern
Lyons. ...... .... ... 1120 New Ditto 760
Mediterranean 1215 Grand Central 587 50
If ons Geneva 650 Teste
605
Cette 670 Austrian Corn. 727 50

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna, of the 19th, in the Con-
stitutionnel, says :
"The Emperor, who two days ago arrived from Ischl
at the palace of Schonbrunn, came to Vienna to-day.
After giving a long audience to Count Buol, his Majesty
desired Baron Prokesch-Osten to be introduced, with
whom he had a long conversation, in which the
Baron gave his Majesty an account of his visit to Paris.
What is remarkable in this matter is that the Baron
was the only person received, with the exception of
Count Buol—this fact being considered a proof of the
anxiety of the Emperor to hear an account of the
parti-
culars of the Baron's visit. The Prussian journals affect
to believe that the understanding between Austria and
the Western Powers, relative to the affairs of the East,
is far from being as complete as it was at the commence-
ment of the war, and they point to the circumstance
that the Emperor Francis-Joseph abstained from at once
sending his congratulations to the Emperor Napoleon
111. for the capture of Sebastopol, as be had done on the
occasion of the victory of the Alma. This matter bas
certainly been much talked of in diplomatic circles, but
I am unable to explain to you what really took place.
When on the 10th of Sept. the official news of the
fall of Sebastopol arrived in the Austrian capital,
the Emperor Francis-Joseph had been some days
absent, having gone on a shooting-excursion to the
mountains of Styria. No telegraphic line communi-
cated with that remote district, and it was, in con-
sequence, impossible for Count Buol to immediately
inform his Sovereign of the great success obtained by
the allied powers. Foreseeing that several 'days must
elapse before the news could reach the Emperor, Count
Buol, without waiting for his Imperial master's orders,
sent a verbal note, as it is called, to Baron de Bourque-
ney congratulating him on the signal success obtained,
and expressing his regret that souse days must pass over
before the Emperor of Austria could become acquainted
with the intelligence, and transmit to the Tuileries his
congratulations, not being able, in fact, from his ab-
sence, to send as instantaneously as he bad done after
the Alma. But afterwards when Marshal Pelissier's re-
port appeared in the Moniteur on Sept. 26, Baron Hub-
ner presented to Count Walewski a written note in which
were set forth the official congratulations of the Austrian
Cabinet. Baron Hubner furthermore received orders to
seize on the first occasion to amplify viva voce to the
Emperor Napoleon on the official note banded to Count
Walewski. Such is the true explanation of the delay
which occurred in the transmission of the Austrian offi-
cial felicitations. Turning to another subject, I have to
state that the Archduke Albert, son of the celebrated
captain of whom Napoleon I. always spoke in such high
terms, left this city for Italy the day before yesterday.
The great fatigue which the Archduke, who distinguished
himself at the battle of Novara, had to undergo during
the Italian and Hungarian revolutions, and the weight
of his present fenctions as Governor-General of Hungary
have so materially injured his health, that his medical
advisers have recommended him to visit Italy. The
Archduchess Maria, his sister, and the Archduke Renier,
her husband, accompany him. The Queen of Naples
having expressed a strong desire to see her brother,
the Archduke Albert, the meeting between them
will take place at the Court of Tuscany, the pre-
sent Grand Duchess of that country being herself a
Neapolitan Princess. This meeting will probably have
a, certain political bearirg, in this manner :—At the
commencement of the hostilities in the East, the Court of
the Two Sicilies was far from being opposed to the
policy of the Western Powers, and it is even said that
M. Adolphe Barrot, who then represented France at
the Court of Naples, baying had a long conversation
with the King on the affairs of the East, heard his Ma-
jesty speak so favourably of the views of France and
England, that the representative wrote an account of
the matter to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who in his turn had
a circular on the subject addressed to the French diplo-
matic agents in foreign countries, to show to what ex-
tent the King had declared in favour of Napoleon 111.
It was afterwards that the false representatives of the
Russian agents caused the King to entertain different
sentiments. The Archduke Albert will probably tend
to induce his Majesty to entertain juster views."

try. The mountains are already covered with
snow ; at Gefle the frost set in so far back as the
4th inst., and the thermometer here, even at mid-
day, is but very little above the freezing point.