The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1862.',-,

,erritories by the soldiers of the Prince Bishop of the

Montenegrins, yet will not tolerate for one moment
in the event of the latter being compelled to beat a

retreat in their own mountain fastnesses—Russia,
and it is said France also, will not tolerate for one
instant the pursuit of those marauders by the vic-

torious forces of his Imperial Majesty the SULTAN.
The situation in effect at the present may be
stated thus, ABDUL AZIZ, the Sultan Caliph, im-

mediately after the almost simultaneously close

of the feast of Bairam and Easter, has
just now returned to Constantinople after
his State visits to Broussa and Ghemlik—
his MAJESTY, during the course of his tour, having
visited, among other places at Broussa, the tomb of
the Sultan OSMAN, the founder of his dynasty, in
honour of which, RUDOLPHE of his race, the new
order of the Osmanie has recently been established.
As matters chanced to fall out, at the very moment
of the SULTAN'S return to his capital came tidings
of two victories gained by the Turks over the Mon-
tenegrins. As a diplomatic damp, however, to the
enthusiasm that might have been thereby excited in
the official mind at Constantinople, came an intima-

tion to the Grand Vizier from Prince LABAKOFF, the
Russian Ambassador, to the effect that if the
Turkish troops (heartened on, of course, by the two
victories over—remember that !—their assailants)
should cross the Turkish frontiers in pursuit of the
discomfited Montenegrins, he, the Russian Ambas-
sador, was instructed immediately to demand his
passports on his return to St. Petersburg. And,
more than that, the Fiench Ambassador also was
stated by these advices from Constantinople (under
date the close of last month) to have intimated also
that he must follow the like course upon the like
provocation. Even now all this is really scarcely
credible. That the armed followers of the Vladika
are without hindrance to be allowed full ingress to,
and egress from, the dominions of the SULTAN, de-
solating them at their own free will and pleasure
whenever they pleas-a
—but that so soon as the tables
have been in any way turned, the Turkish forces
are to be prohibited thus peremptorily from every-
thing like retribution, seems almost beyond belief.
It is certainly a very one-sided policy that could
alone have dictated any such flagrant proceedings as
these. In the presence of an incident like this,
one cannot but recall to mind, upon the instant,
the fact that the country into which access is
allowed so freely by their Majesties of France and
Russia, is the land of the Turk, the domain of the
Mussulman, while upon the other hand the country
placed under this autocratic taboo by the CZAR and
the Emperor NAPOLEON, is the dominion of a soi
disant race of Christians. It is a specimen of a
diplomatic policy regulated by a consideration for
creeds, as shameless in its injustice, surely, as that
horror of all right-minded citizens in this free coun •
try of ours—'yclepped " class legislation ! " It is a
policy that, if seriously acted upon, would actually
not bear looking into. Neither, by the way, do we
think that the reigning SULTAN is quite the man
to tolerate it. Unless we are vastly mistaken in
his Imperial Majesty's character, ABDUL Aziz
would not place any insuperable obstacle in the
way of his Excellency, the Russian Ambassador, or
of his Excellency, the French Ambassador, obtain-
ing their respective passports, and thereupon taking
their departure, in opposite directions, from Con-
stantinople. For, come what might out of such a
contingency as recently appeared to be imminent
at the Golden Horn, it is not, of course, within
the compass of be,ief that the pursuit of the Mon-
tenegrins into their own mountain strongholds,
upon their recrossing the Turkish frontiers recently
invaded by them, could be treated as a cams belli,
either by France or by Russia. It could lead to
nothing more than a diplomatic tiff, and that of a
very fleeting duration. And, whether short or long,
the period of its duration could scarcely redound to
the credit or to the honour of either the French
EMPEROR or the Russian AUTOCRAT.

Austria herself seems desirous to give the King
of PRUSSIA a lesson in liberalism. According to
the first draught of the new Constitution, the
Ministers were responsible to the Crown only. Sub-
sequently, Ministers made a declaration to the

also. It was doubted, it appears, by many wtietheir
the original Imperial decree did not override any
deelaration which Ministers could make; but all
doubt is now removed. So fir as Imperial words
can go, the Emperor of AUSTRIA has conceded
what the King of PRUSSIA shows himself practically
averse to. The EMPEROR has sent a written mes-
sage to the Reichsrath, declaring that the Minis-
terial statement was made with his full consent
and approbation, and that hence he considers
it as abrogating all in the earlier document which
might bear an interpretation contrary to it. The
Ministers of Austria are to be henceforth respon-
sible to the Assembly which votes the Budget, and
the declaration is made in immediate connection
with the proposal of financial measures. Assuredly
the Government could not take a step more calcu-
lated to restore, gradually, the confidence which hes
almost entirely vanished in Austrian solvency.
Could it but pluck up courage to do justice to Hun-
gary and Italy, it might again secure a high posi-
tion amongst European States. We hear, however,
of nothing better than that Austria renounces
entirely all thoughts of intervention, and confines
itself in Italy to defensive measures.
The Prussian Government has been taking the
very opposite course. It has not, indeed, denied its
responsibility to the Chambers ; nor has the KING
taken a step yet which Queen VICTORIA could not
take. Equally certain is it that the KING has
taken one which she would not. The people's re-
presentatives, assuming the responsibility, to them,
of the servants of the Crown, demanded to have a
distinct statement of the manner in which the
money they voted would be employed. This the
KING resisted, and compelled his Ministers to resist.
When they, at last, felt their responsibility so
much as, in their turn, to insist on resignation, he
at last accepts it, and fills their places by thorough
reactionaries. He will fight to the last rather than
allow his servants to be obliged to tell the Chambers
how the money goes. He :has thus brought on
himself a most signal humiliation in the face
of all Europe. After leaving offered to his
subjects that he would make shift with less
money if they would but send him at the elections
Conservative members—after tampering openly
with all the Government officials and persons in
receipt of State pay everywhere—he finds a House
sent back to him of which two-thirds will probably
turn out to be not merely Liberals, but, as we say
here, "Advanced Liberals." The same deputies
are for the most part returned; where they are not,
it is because a Conservative or a Constitutionalist
has been exchanged for a Liberal or a Radical.

We are told that there is an excellent understand-
ing among all parties of Liberals. They will—in
a quiet, respectful, but firm manner—abide by the
demand of the former Parliament, and no alterna
live will now be left the KING but concession or a
coup d'etat. The stand taken by the Prussians
does them much credit. It seems to show
that they are learning well the elements
of constitutional right, and we may hope
that an obstinate and perverse monarch, will in this
case, as has so often happened before, become the
g Popular liber.
means of advancing and conformin

ties. The KING evidently knows not what to do.
The Government journal is at its wit's end as to the
light in which it shall put the case—the plain fact
is that the KING has made it a personal matter.
He has appealed to the country to decide between
him and the Chamber, and the country almost with
with a hurrah, has decided for the Chamber. It
will use its triumph, we may be sure, with mode-
ration, it will spare vanquished Royalty all it can
—but it has taught his MAJESTY, and will yet
teach him, that he is as dependent on the grace of
the people, as he declared himself to be on the grace
of GOD alone. Or, to avoid even the appearance of
profanity, he must understand that the Gratia
Populi is the only evidence of the Gratia Pei.

It is unsatisfactory to learn, from the Registrar-
General's last returns, that the mortality of Lon-
don during the last three weeks has been above
the average. Not much above it, it is true, but
still above it. Instead of this last week, for
example, giving, according to fle average of.the
corresponding weeks of the ten last years—" (cor-
rected)," as the Registrar-General's report inter-
jects in parent hepie, meaning corrected in regard
to the estimated increase of population—instead
of the last week giving the average total, in this
way, of I,2so—the number of deaths announced
is 64 beyond that average, being no less than
1,314. In connection, of course, with the fact of
this increased mortality, is the rise to a total of 101
of the deaths from typhus. There being a re•
markable increase, also, in the deaths from
phthisis of 22 beyond 'tlLe average—for whereas
the number of deaths from phthisis, according to
the corrected average, would have been 168 for
the week just past, they have, in point of fact,
numbered up a round total of 190. To two
lamentable particulars, recorded incidentally in
these last returns of the Registrar-General, we
ti wm,l4
,esnecially call the attention of the hon.
men** for Dungarvan_ Nameiy ,
on the 25th April, at 7, Little Albany-street, Re-
gent's-park, a needlewoman, aged 56 yea's ; want
of proper nourishment, whilst suffering extensive
disease in the chest and abdomen." And again—

"On the 7th April, at 27, Alpha-plain), Bethnal-
green, the son of a painter, aged three weeks; sudden
death ; starvation ; the mother unable to obtain
food for herself." So that Mr. MAGUIRE will per-
ceive, from these two very lamentable cases in
point, that it is not so very surprising a circum-
stance, unhappily, that an occasional unit among the
million should drop out of existence sometimes,
through want of the common necessaries of life.
Yet there is not one among our metropolitan
members, by the bye, Mr. MAGUIRE will also
have doubtless remarked, who recenly dreamt of
bringing forward in the House of Commons a
formal statement, to the effect that, in the East
End of London, there have been threatenit4s of
Famine.

His Royal Highness the Prince Oscar of Sweden
and Norway gave a grand banquet on Tuesday evening, at
the Clarendon Hotel, to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, and the Royal Commissioners for the opening
of the International Exhibition.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is progressing
favourably.
The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Lord
Reidhaven have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel for the
season.

The Earl and Countess of Winterton and family
have arrived at their residence in Portland-place for the

season.

The Earl and Countess Russell entertained his Ex-
cellency the Saxon Minister, the Duke of Albans, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Brecknock, Lord and Lady
Harry Vane, Lord and Lady Cremorne, the Right Hon. Sir
David Dundas, and Mr. Granville Ryder at dinner on
Tuesday evening, at the family residence in Chesham-place.
The Countess of Portarlington arrived in London,
from Paris, on Tuesday, by the South Eastern Railway
Company's route. .

Lord Ashburton, as President of the Geographi•
cal Society, has issued cards for an as:embly on the 14th
inst., at Bath House.

Mr. and Ltdy Virginia Sandars have arrived at
their residence in Eaton-square for the season.

Sir Henry Holland has been suffering from very
severe illness; but since Sunday last the eminent physician
has been in a fair v. ay to recovery.

Mr. Henry Chaplin has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel,

Pstoet's volunteer fleet, with which
the 14th of June next, will consist of 50 sail of yachts, all
of them armed more or less with guns, and some of them
Armstrongs.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.—The
annual meeting of this society was held yesterday in Exeter-
hall—the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. The report
stated that the receipts for the past year had exceeded those
of any preceding year, excluding the special funds. The
amount applicable to the general purposes of the society was
£90,923, being an increase of £6,668 over the preceding
year ; while the amount received for Bibles and Testaments
was £76,760, or £6,148 less than in the preceding year. The
total receipts from the ordinary sources of income were
£167,684, exclusive of £631 for the Chinese New Testan'ent
Fund, and £l2B for the special fund for India. Ihe issues
had been—from the depot at home, 999,957 copies; from
depots abroad, 595,291, heir g a total of 1,595,248 copies.
The total issues from the commencement of the society
amounted to 40,910,471 copies. The total expenditure
amounted to £144,751, being £20,711 less' than in the pre-
ceding year. The society was under engagements to the
extent of £56,931. The Chairman briefly expressed his
continued interest in the operations of the society, and an-
nounced a donation to its funds of £5O from Lord Palmer-
ston, who, he stated, had expressed himself as " most
happy to do anything he could for so admirable an institu-
tion." The announcement was received with great applause.
The report was unanimou-ly adopted, together with several
resolutions which were submitted to the meeting, expres-
sive of the urgency of the cause to which the society is de-
voted.

SUSPECTED WIFE MURDER AT COVENTRY.—A
middle-aged man, named Frederick King, a weaver, living
in Much Park-street, is in the custody of the police on4sus •
picion of having murdered his wife. It seems that the
prisoner, a fellow of drunken habits, has for a long time
past indulged in the practi6e of beating his wife. On Mon-
day morning, at an early hour, the prisoner called two
neighbours into his house to look at his wife, who he said
had been taken ill. They found her in a state of stupor,
in which she continued till a few minutes before 9 o'clock,
when she expired. There was no natural appearance to
account for death, and the woman was in a perfectly healthy
state on the previous day, when sbe went to the police to
complain of her husband's ill-treatment. The countenance
of deceased was discoloured in several places, as if from the
infliction of blows, and there was a mark in the neck, as if
strangulation had taken place. A suspicion of poison has
been raised on account of a packet of nux vomits being
given by the woman the day previously to the police, with
the statement that her husband had given it to her on Good
Friday, remarking at the same time that " he should like to
see her struggling with it." The medical gentleman who
examined the body after death is understood to confirm
these suspicions ; in fact, he gave the information to the
police which has led to the prisoner's apprehension on the
charge above mentioned. The coroner, Mr. Carter. opened
the inquest on the body on Monday, but no evidence was
taken. The inquiry was adjourned.—Birmingham Daily
Post.

THE STATIONS OF THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY
—Great progress has been made during the past week in
the construction of the different stations of the Metropoli-
tan Railway. Yesterday the station near Gower-street,
Euston-road, was so far advanced that the work of fitting
in the doors and window frames of the booking-office above
the footpath was commenced. The platforms are under
the roadway, and the whole station is comprised in a huge
arch of 45 feet span. Ingress and egress to the station
are obtained through the booking offices on the north and
south sides of the Euston-road, and thence by wide exit'and
entrance stairs to the platform below. The Portland-road
station is completed, the rails for the mixed gauge laid, and
the booking-office a' eve is nearly finished. The station at
the Edgware-road is in an equally advanced state above
and below the surface of the road. One of the principal
halting places on the line will be the station at King's-
cross, where a junction is effected with the Great Northern
Railway 20 feet below the surface of the ground. The
elliptical iron roof, which is let in with glass to light the
substructure, is now placid in position. The works for the
great station in Victoria-street are progressing rapidly,
there being now through communication into the Great
Northern Railway. The earth is removed as fast as exca-
vated. The foundation, retaining walls, bridges, &c., are
advancing, and the timbers of the offices arc already in
frame, and can be put together as soon as the site is ready
to receive

LATEST N E WS.

BRUSSELS, MAY 8.
The .3loniteur Beige of this morning publishes the
Following bulletin :
" The state of the King was more favourable

yesterday.
" During the night, however, the sufferings of
the Royal patient were renewed in their former

intensity."

PARIS, MAY 8.

The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes a
third article signed by M. Limayrac, advocating a
policy of conciliation and mediation in America.

NAPLES, MAY 7, EVENING.

The Court ball was a very magnificent affair.
The Viceroy of Egypt, the Diplomatic Body, the
officers of the English, French, and Italian squad-
rons, and every person of note in the city, were pre-
sent o❑ the occasion.

The King las left for Salerno, amid great enthu.

siasm.
The approaching visit of Prince amd Princess
Napoleon has been officially announced to M. Bene-
detti, the Frensh Ambassador.
Sir James Hudson, the English Ambassador,
arrived yesterday.
The Viceroy of Egypt has left for Leghorn.

MADRID, MAY 7.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day explanations
were requested of the Government with reference
to the English coupons.
M. Salaverria replied that no alteration would be
made in the plan hitherto pursued.

BERLIN, MAY 7, 1 P.M.

The telegrams received here up to this hour con-
cerning the elections in the provinces show that the
greater partof the persons elected, coneiating partly
of former representatives and partly of fresh candi-
dates, belong to the Progressist party.

The Catholic party, as well as the moderate Con-
stitutional party, under the leadership of M. Gra-
bow, have lost several votes. Thn Ultra-Conserva-
tive party has at least not gained any votes. Among
the present moderate Constitutional notabEities
Baron Vincke and M. Simson have not yet been
re-elected. M. von der Hey dt, Minister of Finance,
unsuccessfully contested the representation of the
town of Elberfeld, his old electoral district, the two
successful candidates being M. Alfred Auerswald
and M. Kuhne.

Up to the present no change has taken place in
regard to the present Ministers. Count Schwerin is
the only one of the former Ministry who has been
re-elected.

EVENING.

Information from well informed sources states
that the Prussian Diet will not meet until the 19th

inst.

All the telegrams from the provinces received up
to this afternoon confirm the results of the election
to the Lower House already stated. The election
of Herr von Vincke and the former Minister, Herr
von Patow, is announced.

VIENNA, MAY 7 (EVENING).

In the Lower House of the Reichsrath to-day
Count Rechberg declared that the Austrian Govern-
ment must relinquish the principle of intervention
in reference to foreign countries. He also said that
the policy of Austria with regard to Icaly was of a
defensive and not of an offensive character.

RAGUSA, MAY 7.

Dervisch Pasha has withdrawn his encampment
to Galzko.

The Montenegrins encamped at Duga are said to
be threatening Nikaich and Tenghiak, and to be
canonading Rjabliak (?) and Spuz.

MOSTAR, MAY 6, EVENING.

The Montenegrins and the insurgents captured
yesterday 500 transport horses, and pillaged 90
landowners, whom they illtreated and sent away
in a state nt exhaustion.


FRAN CE.

Under the head of "Latest Intelligence," La
Presse publishes the following :
" The arrival at Paris of General de Goyon is
announced.

" On Saturday next Prince Napoleon will leave
Paris for M,aseilles, where the steam corvette
Prince Jerome await him. The Prince will em-
bark with his suite on the Sunday. The object of
his journey to Naples is, it is asserted, connected
with remodelling the treaties between France and
the Government of the King of Italy.
" The King of Holland leaves Paris on the 14th
inst. for the Hague. The Queen will leave Paris
the samr day for Stuttgardt."
BOURSE, May 7.—There has not been much ani•
illation in the market to-day, and the limited amount
of business done has been at a slight decline on the
closing prices of yesterday. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 70f. 90c. Railway Share Market
quiet, but prices generally pretty well maintained.
The market closed as follows

11 per per Cents , 97 70
Do end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 80
New 3 per Cants
Do. end month —
Credit Mobilier 845
Do. end month 845 -
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3150
Credit ly oncier 1530
Belgian 4i —
Piedmontesc Fives 72
Italian Loan 7l 70
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt .. 491 -
TAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1317 50 .. 1320
Northern
New ditto - • . • ---
Lyons and Mediterranean 1116 25 .. 1115
Geneva 370 372 50
Southern B4l 25 .. 836 25
Western
Eastern ...
Sardinian - .. 390

Austrian
Lorr bard
POLAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

WARSAW, MAY 1.

Much stress has been laid by the Russian organs
in Germany and Belgium upon an act of amnesty
proclaimed on the anniversary of the birthday of
the Emperor Alexander 11., by which 89 political
prisoners have been pardoned, and 14 had their
sentences commuted to a shorter period of captivity
or to a transfer from one to another penal locality.
When it is remembered that out of many hundreds
of persons whom the Muscovite authorities have
most illegally imprisoned and sent into the depth
of Russia, only so small a number have been set at
liberty, the value of the Imperial clemency must
necessarily diminish in the eyes of every just and
impartial mind. To this let it be added, that the
document in question in no way alters the actual
system of lawless government and most despotic
conduct—that the whole Polish nation still re-
mains at the mercy of the military governors, whose
well known barbarity can at any moment decide
the fate of the most innocent inhabitant —in
chart, this so-called amnesty is another proof of the
numberless victims of the Russian tyranny in this
unhappy country.
Be that as it may, the Poles will, with joyful
hearts, hail the return from imprisonment or exile
their most cherished citizens and pria sts, such as
Canon Bialobrzeski, Stecki, Dziaszkowski, Tesko,
the Lutheran pastor Otto, the opulent merchant
Szlenker, and the bootmaker Hit•zpanski ; whose
departure for the land of their suffering, as much
of their return therefrom, will be one national
triumph. It is only to be regretted that among
those mentioned the Pelee will be deprived of Nigel-