The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Milan Gazette of the 20th inst. publishes the
following notification :
" The Royal Sardinian Government does not permit
Austrian steamers, employed in carrying passengers
ani merchandise on Lake Maggiore, to approach and
anchor along the Piedmontese coast. The proposi-
tions made to that effect by the Imperial Govern-
ment were rejected because it was alleged the Sardinian
Steamboat Company might be injured thereby. The
law of reciprocity obliges the Austrian Government to
suppress immediately the favour hitherto granted the
Sardinian steamers to anchor along the Lombard coast.
In future, the Sardinian steamers on Lake Maggiore shall
always keep at a distance from said coast of at least 200
yards, and shall not be permitted to communicate with
the Lombard territory by means of any species of boats
intended to convey ashore passengers or merchandize,
and vice versa from the land to the vessels. This enact-
ment is made known to the public, in compliance with the
ordinance of Marshal Radeizky, Civil and Military Go-
vernor of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, dated the
12th inst., and its provisions shall be immediately carried
into effect.

(Signed) " The Imperial and Royal Lieutenant,
" STRASOLDO.

" Milan, Jan. 19, 1832."

The Opinione of Turin, after publishing the notifi-
cation of M. StrasoHo, relative to the navigation on
Lake Maggiore, adds

"We have only two observations to make on that
document, namely:-Ist. 'that Radetzky waited, before
he adopted a decision, until the treaty of commerce with
Austria should have passed the Chamber of Deputies.
The adoption took place on the 10th inst. It was known
at Milan on the 11tb, and on the following day Radetzky,
to remove all doubt as to his intentions, enacted the
measure in question. 2d. That there is a great difference
between the Austrian and Sardinian steamers. The first
are provided with guns, and resemble more steamers
for war than for the conveyance of passengers, whilst the
others are not armed and cannot excite any apprehension
or suspicion. Thus the Sardinian Government, by pro-
hibiting the anchorage of Austrian steamers, is justified
by the international laws. The resolution of Marshal
Radetzky, on the contrary, is a mere provocation, not
likely, however, to intimidate us."
The Piedmontese Gazette contains the following on
the same subject :
" The Government of his Sardinian Majesty is not
aware that any difficulty has arisen with regard to the
anchorage of steamers employed in conveying passengers
and merchandise on Lake Maggiore. The notification
only refers to war steamers. Nevertheless, the Govern-
ment intends to adopt measures calculated to reconcile
common interests."

ADMIRAL OMMANNEY.

Why did not Admiral Ommanney issue orders
hat a steamer should be dispatched to the scene of the
Amazon's disaster the instant the intelligence reached
Plymouth ?
Here is the Admiral's explanation :—" Mr. Vincent
acknowledges to have landed at one o'clock, A.M., from
the Marsden, and probably left by the express train at
ten. During the nine hours neither himself, nor did
any other person, agent or otherwise, come near me to
furnish me with any information ; therefore I was in
total ignorance of what had occurred, except from what
I had heard from the general rumour." So during a
portion of the nine hours young Vincent and the other
persons who had been saved by the Marsden remained
in Plymouth, Admiral Ommanney was aware from
public aumour of what had occurred. Why did he notact? Because no one had made an application to him
for assistance. Admiral Ommanney is in some respects
like the Spanish King who suffered himself to be suffo-
cated in his chair of state rather than that any but the
proper officer should meddle with the fire. The
Royal patient, however, devoted himself, not others
at the shrine of etiquette—Admiral Ommanney con-
tented himself with a vicarious sacrifice. Daring these
nine hours, even if the susceptibilities of the great chief-
tain of the naval hierarchy at Plymouth had been in
some degree irritated, surely, where human life was in
question, something might have beendone. We won'ttalk about Mahomet and the mountain, but surely, if
Mr. Vincent did not come to Admiral Ommanney, Ad-
miral Ommanney might have sent for Mr. Vincent. He
might have rebuked or mastheaded the young gentleman,
and have done precisely what his own humour dictated
and his dignity required, if he bad
.extracted from him
the particulars of the disaster and dispatched a steamer
to the scene of action. Was it a time to play the Sir
Anthony Absolute when the boats of the ill starred
Amazon were, or might be, floating about helplessly
on the great waves of the Atlantic ? The trans-
action, forsooth, must be reported to the Admiral
in duo form before he could act.. To such keep-
ing are the western waters of this Island intrusted!
Were a French fleet to heave in sight, would
Admiral Ommanney consent to take formal notice of
the fact befure the officer in command had reported him-
self at the Admiralty-house as "safely landed from
Cherbourg with guns and military stores?" We cannot
admit the Admirers plea as any palliation of his neglect.
The Amazon was lost; ho knew it by general rumour;
he did not send aid because no formal application had
been made to him by the survivors.
Now what was Admiral Ommanney about all this
time? Why, he was grumbling and gossiping with
Captain Kennedy, of the Coast Guard, " who brought
some vague account." No attempt was made by the
peevish old seaman to arrive at the truth of the facts.
He waited and waited—he and his friend Captain Ken-
nedy—" until some person should have come who
would have afforded information, and have solicited
ussistance had it been required." Think only of
the certain benefit that would have resulted
from the application ! Admiral Ommanney would,
wider such circumstances, and upon such contin-
gencies, when the niceties of etiquette had been
satisfied, and the applicant had been trotted into his
tsfieawfulipd;esence, have hemmed three times, dilated his
cheeks as often, and formally commenced proceedings.
Young man?, he would have said—from this point we
aepy the Admiral's letter—" some questions naturally I
occur t 6 me as a sailor. Tell me as to the place where
theea t
place, the state of the wind and the
w e, how the wind blew after the people
were put accident i d
aetn tth
et took
into the boat and after the explosion of the
vessel?' And what then? What then? Shades of
Exmouth and Collingwood—What then? " The an-
swers to these questions may be the groundwork for
taking nto consideration the necessity of sending out a
vessel. Why not call a court-martial to sit upon the
question that
.day week? Why not advertise the reso-
lution "of taking the point into consideration" in three
consecutive eounty papers before proceeding to act upon
John Ommanney and his friend Cap-
tainit DidKe Sir
Kennedy
y
make up their minds to sleep upon
it for fear of action too precipitate? And all this
while the poor creatures who had made good their es-
cape from the Amazon were tossing about in the wild
waves in open boats without helm or rudder, drink or
food! But, then, Mr. Vincent hadn't called and left a
card on Sir John Ommanney—not even a "
when he was about to leave for town:
What right had Sir John Ommanney, upon any
vague report, to assume that the vessel had blown up be-
fore any boats—save the one picked up by the Marsden
—had got away from the ship? What were his own
grounds of decision? Vague report and the gossip of
his friend Captain Kennedy. Sir John Ommanney mast
be told that the cause of the general indignation against
him does not turn upon any trumpery question of con-
frontation between himself and Mr. Septimus, Octavius,
or Decimus Fox. The charge against him is that when
intelligence—vague intelligence, if you will—of so
terrible a disaster reached him, he did not cause proper
inquiries to be instituted upon the point, and that
he did not act upon the answers he might have
obtained to those inquiries in such a way as might
offer a prospect of saving human life. No one is so
unreasonable as to expect that Sir John Ommanney, at
his time of life, should be seen scouring about the
streets of Plymouth in search of a young midshipman,
but he might have set other legs than his own in motion.
From grey hairs we do not expect bodily activity, but
prudence and foresight. The result has proved that
other boats than the one in which young Vincent was
had escaped—indeed he himself, on his first arrival,
reported that another had been seen to got away. But
the report of the lad—as the event has shown—was not
to be trusted. Sir John Ommanney—the greater shame
to him—left it to our French neighbours to send out a
steamer to see if aught could be done to help the sur-
vivors. Our own tardy expedition has proved fruitless.
What would have been the case had it been dispatched
when Sir John Ommanney and his friend Captain Ken.
nedy first sat down to talk the matter over together?-

STAYS.
Full expansion of the chest is equally essential to
health as good air, for if, by our clothing or constrained
position, we impede the full expansion of the lungs,
healthy respiration is prevented, and the duo purifica-
tion of the blood impaired. Whatever compresses the
chest or the abdomen impedes respiration, and, there-
fore, pressure from dress, bands, or stays, must always
bor growth if
ifgirl to expand with
How
encasiesd in these horridofa inventions? No girl
g
should wear stays till she has long done growing, for the
chest continues to expand after growth has ceased; by
the use of stays the size of the cheat is limited, and the
ribs are actually forced to overlap, as I have seen in
several instances. I question if any woman would
really require stays before the age of 35 or 40—the best
figures of ancient and modern times have never worn
any stays. We have dismissed the swaddling-clothes of
our infants, and we shall succeed sooner or later in anni-
hilating
n their notion wear them if they knew how much better they would
stays for girls and young women. None would
be without. After having been accustomed to their
support, it is very difficult to discontinue their use, be-
ruse the. muscles of the spine having been superseded
wood
as lost their power of
main • •
taming the body in ' position, and without
an upright
uthtiet bbyodthye-cbaaserbsarhouaysepieces of iron, bone, or
8"4Y3 the deformities produced by these machines be-
come visible. I hope
will he considered antiquities of the mediaeval ages, and
be only preserved
balls of the eu ' t tous.—D
r theelic
relics
lime
to
adornw i will arrive
thearr i vmuseums
staysand
r. L. J. Beale.
R.

_.,OTAL ARTILLERY. AVOOLWIcH—, JAN. 2G.—Cap-
tain Dunlop's company was medically inspected at the Ord-
nance Hospital on Friday last, preparatory to their leaving
the garrison on Thursday, the 29th inst., for Sheerness, to
troeliheveaedC-qapuataritnerNs oedniaathrne same day
companies be CORVeYed to and from Sheerness by a
steamer.
cOMP
from the station. The
company, under orders to return