The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

SOU7ILAMPTON ELECT lON.

SOUTHAMPTON, FBIDAY MORNING.
The polling has been carried on with much
vigour, and the streets are in great excitement.
There are 16 polling-places in different parts of the
town, and all are full of work.

The followizig is the azmouneed state of the poll
ROSE'S COMMITTEE.
9 o' CL

Rose
Mangles
10 o'CLocK.

Rose
Mangles 947
12 o'CLocK.

Rose
Mangles 1,336

MANGLES' COMMITTEE.

12 o'CLocx.

Mangles
Rose

ROYAL NATIONAL

LIFEBOAT INSTI-

TUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Thos. Chapman,
Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also
present Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., V.P. ; Admiral
Washington, F.R.S. ; Capt. A. P. Ryder, R.N., pri-
vate secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty;
Admiral Gordon, Alexander Boetefour, Esq., Admi-
ral Bullock, Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of lifeboats
to the institution ; and Richard Lewis, Esq., the
secretary.
An interesting communication was read from the
Hon. C. F. Adams, the American Minister at this
Court, stating, in reference to the valuable services
rendered by the Lytham and Southport lifeboats of
the institution, in rescuing a few -weeks ago the
crew of 18 men of the ship Annie E. Hooper, of Bal-
timore, United States, that he had been instructed
by the President of the United States of America
to present £lOO in his name to the National Life-
boat Institution, and £3l to the crews of the life-
boats in addition to the rewards, amounting to £l5
10s. previously granted to them by the society, The
committee expressed their high appreciation of the
munificence of President Lincoln in this case.
A reward of £4 was given to the crew of the in-
stitution's lifeboat stationed at Padstow, for their
laudable exertions in putting off and rescuing,
under perilous circumstances, the crew of
four men of the sloop Loftus, of Padstow,
which, during very thick weather, was wrecked
off that place on the 9th ult. The vessel could
hardly be seen by the life boat's crew. However,
they pushed on through the heavy fog. The life
boat reached the vessel and took off her crew of four
men, who were afterwards safely brought on shore.
Mr. Shea, the officer of coast-guard, was on board
the lifeboat on this as on many previous occasions,
and has assisted in her in saving 25 lives. With the
special permission of the late Prince Consort, the
Padstow lifeboat is called the Albert Edward, after
the Prince of Wales, who is also the Duke of Corn-
wall. By a singular and happy coincidence, of which
some of the Cornish men are particularly proud, tho
lifeboat was thus the means, under God, of saving
four poor creatures from an inevitable death on the
very day the Prince attained his majority—an aus-
picious omen, for deeds of mercy have " their vic-
tories no less renowned than war."
A reward of £6 was also voted to the crew of the
neighbouring lifoboat at Bude Haven, belonging
to the society, for saving the crew of three men of

the smack Mary Elizabeth, of Portleven, which, in
a heavy sea on this coast, was found disabled on the
14th ult. In three-quarters of an hour she reached
the wreck and took off the crew of two men and a
boy. This was about a mile from the shore, oppo-
site a reach of sand called Widemouth Bay.

A reward of £4los. was also voted to the crew of
the Kirkcudbright lifeboat, for putting off and sav-
ing the schooner Ellen, of Liverpool, which during
some heavy weather had struck on Kirkcudbright
bar on the 13th ult.
A reward of £ll was also voted to the crew of
the Teignmouth lifeboat of the institution for say-

ing, during the gale of the 18th ult., two out of
three men belonging to the smack John of that place,
winch all SUB livireepius
rollers over her,

It was stated that one of the institution's lifeboats
stationed at Dundee Harbour had assisted in bring-
ing safely to port the schooner James Dowell, of
Newcastle, which during a heavy squall became
waterlogged on the night of the Ist ult.

The silver medal of the society and i 3 were voted
to Thomas, master of the smack Paragon, of Har-
wich, and 118 to his crew of six men for their long
and intrepid exertions extending over three days,
in rescuing, during a gale of wind and thick wea-
ther, four out of six persons belonging to the
schooner Thrifty, of Goole, which on Oct. 19 last
foundered on the Longsand.

Various other rewards were also voted for saving
life from shipwrecks on different parts of the coast.

During the past month the institution had sent
two lifeboats to the coast—one to Tynemouth, in Nor-
thumberland; and the other to Fleetwood, in Lanca-
shire. The cost of both boats had been severally pre-
sented to the institution by a benevolent lady and
gentleman.
It was reported that a contribution of £5 had
been received from the late officers and crew of her
Majesty's ship Alecto through Capt. H. J. Raby,
R.N.

Payments amounting to nearly £1,200 having
made to various life-boat establishments, the pro-

ceedings terminated.

TIIE M1N15........-......_
TERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY.

(From the Times' rCorresponclentj

TURIN, DEC. 2.
Whenever any serious danger threatens this new
edifice of the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy,
safety is invariably found in the keystone on which
it rested from the beginning—the upright, tine, and
loyal instincts of King Victor Emmanuel. Two or
three times between 1849 and 1859 did the King on
the one hand curb the anarchical passions of those
who wished that all should be lost because all could
not be saved, and as many times, on the other hand,
did he resist the Promptings of advisers who aspired
to be more monarchical than the Monarch himself.
Those virtues which so greatly contributed to the
" making" of Italy will now equally prevent the
" marring" of it ; and, whatever blemishes either
temperament or neglected education may have in-
grained into the King's character, there is no doubt
Lis memory will go down to posterity as that of one
of the noblest crown-wearers, because from the
highest to the meanest of his subjects there is not
one known to have given, or to be ready to give,
greater proofs of self-denial and self-conquest.
The Rattazzi Cabinet was at its wit's end. De-
feat was inevitable—a clamorous, signal defeat.
The Prime Minister drew up a decree for the dis-
solution of the Chamber, and presented it for the
Royal signature. Rattazzi was a favourite. No acts
had been spared to set the King's mind against the
stiff-necked Ricasoli—none to wind his supple and
accommodating successor round Victor Emmanuel'a
heart. But what was naw asked of the King was
fraught with incalculable mischief. A general elec-
tion at this moment might put off, but by no means
prevent, Rattazzi's downfall. The new Chamber
which might have assembled under the auspices
of the present Cabinet would have borne no good-
will to its summoner; hut its main elements would
have been made up either of rampant, head-long
Garibaldism, or of narrow, jarring municipalism,
Neither King nor Minister would harp etrpngth to
control such an assembly by ordinary legal means.
Government would have been driven on from one
repressive measure to another ; from a provisional
budget to taxation by Royal decree; from a state
of siege to dictatorship. The people would have
broken out into anarchy ; tae King could have tried
no other remedy than the sabre.
It was on the brink of such an abyss that the wise
and honest King stopped. Re was Rattazzi's ami-
cus usqu ad aram ; in presence of a sacred duty,
Victor Emmanuel gave up his Minister. He would
hear of no dissolution, and the Cabinet had to com-
pound with Parliament as they best could. It was
a triumph of immense significance for constitutional
principles in this country, so new to the system.
While Rattazzi was foolishly keeping up a discus-
sion which could now profit no party, and talking
against time, the King called to his council men
whose judgment, and above all whose honour, he
could trust. The merit of setting the King's heart
against Rattazzi's proposal of a dissolution is due to
Cassinis, formerly the Minister of Grace and Jus-
tice under Cavour and Ricasoli, a man on whose
mature wisdom the King has the greatest reliance,
and to Cialdini, a comrade whose brilliant valour
in the field and whose upright and genial charac-
ter in the Court won the sympathies of his warlike
sovereign.

It was by Cassinia' advice that Cialdini was sen
to Florence to invite Torrearsa to take upon him ..
self the formation of a new Ministry. Torrersa
shrank from the arduous task, and Cassinis pointed
to Pasolini, the gentleman who filled the office of
Prefect of Milan under the Ricasoli administration,
and who withdrew upon the accession to power of
the Rattazzi Cabinet.

Of two dangers it behoves Cassinis to beware. He
must lay aside his fond conceit of any possible re-
conciliation between Rattazzi and the men who had
a hand in his late overthrow ; for, whoever else may
be called to be a member of the new Administration,
it is due to the feeling of morality and poetical jus-
tice of the people of all Italy that Rattazzi should
be excluded from it, at least for a time. Cassinis
should also set his heart against the suggestions of
those who fancy that what is now wanted is not a
" political," but merely an " administrative" Cabi-
net, and with that view advise a combination of
AL _ ,7* AAtAi....3 at, Alt&
Ambrois, Ponza di San Martino, &c.—men whose
tusk, in the opinion of these temporizing politicians,
ought to be simply to keep warm the Ministerial
seats, and carry on the business of the country till
such time as parties may gradually define them-
selves, and the real leaders of the common destinies
may be more clearly revealed.

No, no; Italy, no doubt, requires the work of
able administrators, but it must also be ruled by
deep, stirring, world-grasping political heads. That
there must be persons of that stamp in the country
is, with many, matter of faith. San Martino, Del
Ambrois, and most of the men whom the Senate
might supply, are men of unexceptionable character
and more than average ability. But they have long
been moving in the narrow old Piedmontese groove.
They have little understanding of the destinies of
the new kingdom, and even less faith in it. None
of them need be rejected as fellow-workers ; but
the real master-mind who is to sit at the helm of the
vessel of State in these stormy times is hardly to be
found among them.
It is a great mistake, I believe, to think there is
among the rising generation of Italian statesmen no
set of untried or only half-tried men capable of taking
the destinies of their countrymen into their hands,
and leading to better results than the timid, plod-
ding, used-up veterans who have served their time,
and are now fit for little better than being put upon
the shelf. There is hardly a man who might better
try to conduct the Home-office of the Italian King-
dom, either as Minister or Secretary-General than
Silvio Spaventa ; and, as it would now be a wise
thing to promote deserving Neapolitans and Sici-
lians, there is no reason why Pisanelli should not
have the portfolio of Grace and Tastice, Michele
Amari or Paolo Emilio Imbriani that of Public In-
struction, and Lacaite. the Under-Secretaryship of
Foreign Affairs. Among the Lombards, Restalli,
Tenca, Pasini, Mosca, and others, may be looked
upon as men of sterling practical talent. Of the
Tuscans, Cini would be a capital Secretary-General
for Finances, supposing that the portfolio of that
most important department should turn out to be
held by Minghetti. All of these, and many more
whom I could name, may be comparatively new
men in the estimation of Englishmen, but they are
at least no less known in this country than was
Cavour at the outset of his career in 1848.

The retiring ministers have just put forth their
batch of senators—Capriolo, the late Secretary-
General for Home Affairs ; Melegari, the Foreign
Under-Secretary ; Valerio, the Prefect of Como ;
Emanuele Marliani, the late Commercial Envoy to
England ; and Paolo Savi, a distinguished professor
of natural history at Pisa.

PUGILISM.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

Tom KING AND JEM MACE.—The stakes (£400) and the
belt for the late contest between these celebrated boxers
were presented to King yesterday evening at Mr. W.
Richardson's, the Blue Anchor, Church-street, Bethnal-
green, in the presence of an overflowing muster of the
patrons of the ring. Mace, from unavoidable circumstances,
was not present, there being an apology made for his ab-
sence by Mr. Montague, his agent. After the stakes and
belt had been presented to King in due form by Mr. Holt,
who officiated on the part of the stakeholder, it was stated
by the gentlemen who presented King with the stakes, that
King did not intend to again enter the ring, having pro-
mised his friends at the making of the match that, win or
lose, he would not again do so. King having given the
stakeholder a guarantee for £lOO will hold the belt until
Thursday next, when, as he has positively declined
to maintain his right against all challengers by not making
a match with Mace, he will return that trophy to the editor
of Bell's Life. Under these circumstances the belt will be
an open prize, under the same conditions as after the battle
between Heenan and Sayers on the 17th of April, 1860.
King, after he had been presented with the stakes, made a
collection for the loser,which amounted to £lB, Tom giving
£6 ; Mr. Bush, King's principal backer, £.5; Mr. Richard-
son also putting down a fiver for the loser.Aftrthbeybuthste-
ness had been concluded, a social evening was spent
friends of the present Champion of England.

THE WASHINGTON SENATE IN DANGER.—The
New York Sun says :—" A leak in a large tank, holding
18,000 gallons of water, located over the Senate Chamber in
Washington, was discovered in sufficient time to prevent
the chamber from Wag Seeded,"