The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-25 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J ULY 25, 1854.

R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC,
including the BERNESi'Z OBERLAND and the SIMPLON,
THIS EVENING, and Every Evening at Eight o'Clock, (except
Saturday) ; and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Three.
Stalls, 3s. (which can be taken at the box. Moe every day from i i
till 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, ls.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

PATRON-H.U.R. PRINCE ALBERT.
RE-OPENING of the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION.

UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT.

In consequence of the numerous inquiries after Mons. DUBOSCQ'S
OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS, Mr. PEPPER begs to announce that
the SPLENDID ILLUMINATED CASCADE, displaying a Variety of Colors,
will be shown every Evening (except Saturday) at a quarter past
Nine. Lectures by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on OPTICS, illustrated by
Mons. DtmoseQ's apparatus; and by Dr. BACHOFFENER on the
PLURALITY of WORLDS, illustrated by ASTRONOMICAL
DIAGRAMS.—DISSOLVING VIEWS of the SEAT of WAR in the
BALTIC and on the DANUBE ; and also a series after TURNER'S
Views on the RIVER LOIRE, in France. The PHOTOGRAPHIC
GALLERY for takine Portraits and teaching the art is open under
the direction of Mr. SCOTT.

Ministerial discovery of last night—We are waiting for
Austria !
What it is to wait for Austria the history of Europe
tells. To wait for Austria is to invite demands for subsidies
—only to meet treachery and betrayal in return. To wait
for Austria is to encourage the phalli of professing to be
in arms for freedom, and to betray it to the meß.nest
and most impotent of despotisms. To accept the
aid of the ruler of Vienna is to court company with the
tyrannical gaoler of Italy and Hungary an:',l the spolia-
tor of Poland. To secure this costly, di-,reputable, and
dangerous companionship, we let our iLeuntry slide down
from the high, and noble, and imD;•egnable position of a
champion armed for truth, 11:stIce, and principle, to
become a mere slash buckr doing the selfish work of
dynasties instead of the noble duty of peoples. Whilst
waiting for Austria—who waits for Prussia—who
waits for Russia—we let slip, too, the golden mo-
ments in which we might take the only sure step for
closing the war. The best way of obtaining peace
(said Lord Fitzwilliam most truly last night) was
by striking a serious blow against that power which had
brought on the war. To hear a Whig nobleman talk in
this fashion shows that the opinions we have reiterated
for months past are not confined to ultra-Liberals, or to
men not in the Legislature. But we can have no such
blow—we can have no such peace—because Lords Aber-
deen and John Russell lean to Austria. In the hands of
the Coalition it has come to this, that England and
France dare not alone carry out a war they have de-
clared against a despot whom Turkey has beaten single-
handed. Lord Aberdeen waits for the " concurrence
of the other Powers"—Lord John Russell for Viennese
assistance.

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Vulture, 6; paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Captain
F. H. H. Glasse, left her moorings at Sheerness yes-
terday shortly after noon. The following supernumera-
ries have taken passage in her, by Admiralty orders :
Henry Hutchings, master, to join the Gladiator ; A. L.
Galbraith, mate of the Arrogant ; John Hickens, acting
assistant-surgeon, to join the Sphynx ; Henry P.
Geary, midshipman, to the Dragon ; James L. Barry,
assistant-surgeon, to join the Termagant ; Thomas P.
Newall, second lieutenant of Marines, to join the Nile ;
one private R.M to join the Nile ; one A.B. to join
the Duke of Wellington ; one leading seamen to join the
Cruiser; one petty officer and one stoker to go in the
Archer ; 19 naval coast volunteers, 30 boys of the first
class, 20 boys of the second class, and 1 bombardier of
Royal Marine Artillery, for the Baltic fleet. Master H.
Buchanan, son of the British Minister at Copenhagen,
also takes a passage, as an honorary member of the gun-
room mess, to Copenhagen. Mr. E. B. Walker, clerk of
this frigate, received an Admiralty appointment, as &erk
in the Admiral's-office at Mount Wise, Devonport, on
Sunday morning last. The appointment arriving here
too late for him to close accounts, he proceeds out to
the Baltic, and an appointment of another clerk will be
at the disposal of Sir Charles Napier, on her arrival out.
Mr. James Shepherd, one of the younger brethren of
Hull Trinity-house, proceeds in the Vulture as Baltic
pilot. Mr. William Milbank, Trinity pilot, goes with
her as far as Orfordness.

Centaur, 6, paddle, is under the steam•basin shears,
getting out her old boilers, and will instantly receive
new ones.

The Beagle, screw steam gun-boat, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Bore, at Blackwall, will be taken down to
Woolwich to be fitted forthwith for sea.
The Fire Queen steam-yacht, Master-Commander
Paul, returned to Portsmouth from Calais yesterday,
and, after coaling, left for the Channel Islands, we be-
lieve, with the Governor.

The Melampus store-ship, Master Commander John
Jackson, has left Sheerness, in company with the Rha-
damanthus, for Portsmouth, taking there machinery
for the Colossus and Curacoa.

The Jason, screw steam-ship is at Dlackwail, fitting
for the conveyance of the Artillery force, horses in-
cluded, under orders for the East.

[PRICE SD.

THE LATE CAPTAIN BUTLER.

The following letters and extracts of despatches have
been forwarded by the Horse Guards. to Lieutenant-
General Butler, as the most appropriate condolence upon
the death of his lamented son.

" Horse Guards, July 17, 1854.
" Sir,—T have heard with the deepest regret of the
loss which you and the army have sustained by the death
of your distinguished son, Captain J. A. Butler, of
wounds and fatigue at the siege of Sihstria.
"During the whole of that memorable siege your son
displayed very rare qualities, combining with the skill
and intelligence of an accomplished officer the intrepidity
of the most daring soldier—at one moment gaining the
confidence of the garrison (over which he had only the
authority of a very young volunteer) by the example of
his personal valour ; at another, prolonging the defence
of the place by the prudence and firmness of his counsel ;
and on all occasions infusing into those around him that
spirit of heroic resistance which led to its triumphant
defence.

" I deeply deplore your affliction in losing such a son,
but your sorrow is felt by the country, the army, and
the Sovereign. .

"The Queen had recognised his merit by placing him
in the Guards and conferring upon him army rank,
trusting that he might pursue a career of which all were
so proud, at that time not being aware of the dangerous
state of his health.

" The blow is unexpected and most severe, but I trust
you will bear up against it by the fact that your son's
services have been most valuable to his country, in pro-
moting the success of a just war ; and I hope I shall
not give you pain by alluding to another son—Captain
H. T. Butler, of the 55th Regiment—selected for em-
ployment on the Quarterma,ter-General's staff when the
army first embarked for Turkey, solely on account of
the ability he had shown in his studies at the Royal
Military College.

"I trust that the well-earned fame of one son and the
rising merit of the other will, under Providence, be a
source of consolation to you at this moment of extreme
affiction.