The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING' JULY 8, 1862.

is of doubtful worth ; and, what we must hold with
the highest of our military engineering authori-
ties to be even worse then useless.

Lord NORMANDY again ! And what now, the
reader will ask Is it the virtues of the expelled
Dukes and Kings, or the sufferings of unhappy
Italy under the arbitrary, oppressive, and cruel
government of VICTOR EMMANUEL ? The latter
this time. The South is in a horrible state again,
or rather has never been in any other since
the pious, intelligent, and amiable son of King
BOMBA took up his quarters at Rome. Sixteen
thousand persons crowd the prisons, the Italian
Minister of Justice does not deny it. Hardly any
one votes at the elections; torture is practised in
the prisons to extort confessions; Mr. GLADSTONE
seems to meddle with Italian affairs, which must
be acknowledged to be very unbecoming when we
have a paid Foreign Secretary. Could not Lord
RUSSELL give him some information to soothe his
sorrows for unhappy, ruined Naples ?

Our Foreign Secretary, alas, had but little infor-
mation to give the noble marquis ; and unfortu-
nately what he had, and what Lord HARROWBY,
who has recently been to Italy, had also to give
was but small comfort to a lord, whose greatest
joy would have been to learn that Italy had gone
to the dogs, and that only FRANCIS 11. and his
favourite dukes could save it from ruin. On the
contrary, the Italians will ba eontented and pro-
sperous. They will prefer to forget their provin-
cial distinctions and to be Italians. If there are
cases of torture, of which no one here but Lord
NORMANBY knows, the presumption is that the old
gaolers have, without knowledge of the Govern-
ment, resumed Bourbon practices. Even Mr.
BISHOP is treated with all consideration, having
a room to himself, and only complaining of the
delay of his trial, a delay owing to the jury lists
not having been made out till the 7th. It was
about to commence. So good a witness as Lord
HArROWBY assures us that there is improvement
moral and material in every direction ; that the
idea of Italian unity has been realised in a way no
one expected. That as to brigands, only five out of
fifteen provinces were troubled, and the brigands
were the vilest men—men whom not an officer of
even the old Bourbon army would head. The
country was, in fact, protected almost entirely
by the National Guards, the strongest
evidence surely of its perfect content-
ment with its Government. We must wish
that Lord NORMANBY could take a journey to Italy.
It would save Lord RUSSELL many interpretations,
since Lord HARROW BY assured him that he would
"return ajdevoted friend of the existing Government
instead of singing now the last dying song of the
Bourbons."

One fact must have been truly painful to the
melancholy Marquis. Lord RUSSELL confirmed
the reports that Russia and Prussia have agreed to
recognise the new kingdom; we only- fear the Mar-
quis may have consolation in this sorrow,
which be to the friends of Italy a cause of
sadness. There is every reason to fear that
the two powers have demandad in return
Italy shall give up Venetia quietly. If that be so,
if any binding, or even moral, obligation be en-
tered into to sacrifice the last 2,000,060 of Italians
in this way, though perhaps a present relief, it
will prove a final difficulty. We cannot, however,
believe, that RATTAZZI and the KING dare to com-
promise their position in the eyes of Italians. It
is of more consequence to them to sustain the
national spirit than to gain the recognition of
twenty_Czars and Kings.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale entertained a select party at dinner last evening
at Orleans House. Later in the evening her royal highness
had a theatrical performance.

His Highness the Prince Maharajah Duleep
Singh has arrived at Claridge' sHotel from Mulgrave Castle.
The Earl of Wilton entertained at dinner last
evening, at the family mansion, Grosvenor-square, the
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, the Prince and Princess
Hermann of Saxe-Weimar, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
the Duke of Cambridge, the Count and Countess de Flahault
and Miss de Flahault, the Duchess of Manchester, Maria
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Derby,
the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, Viscount Sydney,
the Marquis of Hartington, Lord Duakellin, and Mr. Chas.
Leslie.

The Earl and Countess of Zetland leave town
to-day for Aske and Marsh Halls, Yorkshire.
The Earl and Countess Fortescue has arrived at
the Dowager Countess Forteseue's, in Grosvenor-square
after a lengthened residence abrod. Earl Fortescue's
health is quite restored.
ADELPHI THEATRE.—Last night the celebrated
drama, " The Dead Heart," by Mr. Watts Phillips, was
revived at this theatre, Mr Benjamin Webster sustaining-
his original part of Robert Laundry. Mr. 'Webster was
very warmly welcomed on nuking his appearance by a very
full house, and throughout the drama acted with more than
his usual excellence.
M. THALBERG'S MATINEES.--The fourth and
last took place yesterday, when the Eanover-square Rooms
were so crowded that even the orchestra overflowed with
visitors, who almost blocked up the staircase by which the
grand "virtuoso" made his entry and exit; while people
were actually seated on the window-ledges, sooner than be
sent away.
MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS.--The "100th Mon-
day Popular Concert" took place yesterday evening in the
presence of the largest audience ever assembled in St.
James's-hall. On no occasion—not even during the me-
morable " Jenny Lind Right", at her Majesty's Theatre, 15
years ago—do we remember such an eager invasion at the
doors of a public exhibition. It is calculated that little
short of 1,000 persons wore sent awa+, for whom it was im•
possible to find any sort of accommodttion.
INTERESTING TO SLEEPERS IN CHURCHES.—
The People's Gazette of Berlin has the following curious
paragraph :—Many Protestant clergymen in Germany
having complained that persons of loth sexes are in the
habit of sleeping during the sermon, a new plan has been
adopted to keep them awake. The beadles, furnished with
long wands, keep moving about the church and lightly
touch those whom they catch napping. This plan has
been already tried with success in the Duchy of Saxe-
Gotha."
It is rumoured that an action of damages has
been raised against a daily newspaper here by Theresa
Longworth—as she must now be ca led—for a libel con-
tained in a leading article commenting- on the case decided
last week by the jury, in which Jaraes Walker, Esq., of
Dairy, was defender.--North Briuth
RAILWAY BlLLs.—Yesterday a committee, con-
sisting of Lords Steward, Stradbroke, Portman, Overstone,
and Churston, inquired into the circumstances connected
with the fictitious petition presented to the house in con-
nection with the East Gloeestershire Railway. The per-
sons examined were—W. Isaacs, clerk to Mr. Boodle, so-
licitor, of Cheltenham ; J. Preston, town crier of Chelten-
ham ; It. S. Lingwood, solicitor, of Cheltenham ; and C.
W. Maisey, his clerk. After a minute categorical exami-
nation, the delinquents were admonished and dismissed. A
committee, consisting of Earl Grey, chairman, and Lords
Clarina, Harris, Hunsdon, and Carew, considered the bill
of the Vale of Neath Railway, which was passed ; and sub-
sequently that of the Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny
Railway, which they intimated they were prepared to pass
conditionally on the insertion of clauses for making the lino
double, and giving running powers to the West Midland
before the leasing powers take effect. The bills of the Car-
marthen and Cardigan Railway and Mid-Wales deviations,
being unopposed, were referred to Lord Redesdale's com-
mittee, in which the Kettering and Thrapstone, Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, and Fife and Kinross were
passed. General traffic evidence was adduced in favour of
the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, and Mr. Alderman
Copeland, M.P., and other manufacturers in tho Potter
and
ies,
were examined in favour of the Wellington, Drayton,
Newcastle. The settlement of the clauses of the North
British Amalgamation Bill occupied the day. Mr. Saun-
ders, secretary of the Great Western, was the principal
witness examined on the Ellesmere and Oswestry lines of
that company.
SNOW IN JULY.—A correspondent in Dingwall
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ROYAL INSTITUTION oF GREAT BRITAIN.—At
the general monthly meeting yesterday, Win. Pole, Esq.,
F.R.S., Treasarer and Vice-President, in the chair
William Radford, M.D., and William Ranger, Esq, C.E,,
were elected members of the Royal Institution.