The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-07 00:00:00

gained another triumph—that the Russo-Austrian
forces have been driven helter-skelter into Wallachia.

We find the following paragraph in our excellent
contemporary the Cork Examiner, of 'Wednesday :
" VALENTIA HARBOUR.—We are credibly informed
that Captain Wolfe, R.N., late of the surveying vessel
Tartarus, has been ordered to survey Valentia Harbour
and the adjacent coast. If this be with a view of esta-
blishing a Transatlantic packet station in that quarter,
which it looks very like—we are satisfied that it should
be somewhere in Ireland; but we know that the best nau•
tical judges both in America and in this country are
against this locality ; therefore we again call the atten-
tion of our fellow-citizens to this important question."

It may be all very well for the worthy citizens of
Cork to wish for a Transatlantic station to be esta-
blished at their spacious and commodious port; but
the question for the Government is not a local, but a
national one. It was but the other day that even
the modest people of Limerick wanted the doubtful
waters of the Shannon to be honoured with the pa-
tronage of the Government and the prospective com-
mercial monopoly of both sides of the Atlantic !
With such patriots public utility ought to yield to
private interest ; but with the Government we sus-
pect that the public advantage in its widest and most
beneficial range ought to be the leading principle
in coming to a decision on such an important sub-
ject. If Ireland is to be raised from her pre-
sent low condition, it must be done not by patronising
localities which are already independent of Govern•
went support. Cork andbat
notLini seriackthceanchisltadrnedn on
f
their own good legs,
the barren shores on the far west and south-west
of Ireland—a wilderness teeming with popu-
lation, but destitute of every comfort. Surely
this is the more deplorable when nature holds out
such cheering prospects for improving the condition
of the people by the exercise of energies now wasted
in fruitless condolence or indolent repining.
The support given by Government to the comple-
tion of railways through Ireland will tend greatly to
ameliorate the condition of that country, by facilitat-
ing a more ready access to the numerous noble bays
and natural harbours which abound along her coasts
And if -a-packet station be made either at Berehaven
in the long and broad bay of Bantry, as indicated by
the late enterprising Lieutenant DRUMMOND, or at
the capacious and well protected harbour of V alentia,
(or it might even be at no remote period at both), the
whole country in that quarter would emerge from a
present wilderness into a fruitful and prosperous
region. Wherever commerce resorts riches follow in
its train, and Government will do wisely by fixing on
either of the places named for a packet station, as
being nearer the ocean for departure, and most desir-
ablewell
as lo
as
ak harbours.aat ports for of refuge eahfiors
of mercantilewar. vessels as

RUSH'S TRIAL AND THE ELEC-

TRIO TELEGRAPH.

Our readers are well aware that The Sun made
great exertions to lay before the public a report of the
trial of this remarkable criminal up to half-past six
o'clock each day, which was published in our Seven
o'Clock Edition. By the aid of the Electric Telegraph
our reporter at Norwich was enabled to dispatch his
notes from the Castle at half-past six each day of the
trial, which were just as invariably published in the
late edition of The Sun half an hour after, the
distance from Norwich Castle to the The Sun office
being nearly 130 miles ! Such was the facility of
intercourse and the skill of the gentlemen selected by
the Electric Telegraph Company to attend at Norwich
during the trial—Mr. Raymond, the superintendent,
and Mr. Sech, the gentleman at Shoreditch—that our
reports, averaging from thirty to forty lines, were
sent up in from a quarter of an hour to twenty
minutes, or just as fast as our reporter, an extremely
rapid writer, could prepare each slip of his copy. The
verdict was at The Sunoffice in twenty minutes after
delivered from the mouth of the foreman of the jury,
notwithstanding the difficulty of getting out of the
court from the crowd, not only inside but around
its doors, and the difficulty and danger of threading
the mysterious windings and dense crowd of a fair,
which was at the time in full swing.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the French papers of yesterday.
M. PROUDUON has escaped from Paris, and is now
in Belgium. The Potpie, however, continues its war
of scandal against the PRESIDENT. That journal on
Wednesday accused the PRESIDENT of having kept
back the telegraphic dispatches announcing the defeat
of CIIARLES ALBERT, for the purpose of giving to
M. ACHILLS FOULD, to whom he communicated them,
an opportunity of making some speculations on the
Bourse, in the profits of which the PRESIDENT shared.
thisN No doubtealeinny the. Peuple will be again prosecuted for
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"The facts which led to the resignation of the Able
Gioberti are generally known. The question was the
military occupation of Tuscany for the purpose of re-es-
tablishing the Grand Duke Leopold on his throne. Being
authorised to do so by Charles Albert, the Abbe
Gioberti offered the armed aid of Piedmont to the Grand
Duke. This latter had already accepted this offer, when
the colleagues of the AbL6 formally opposed the realisa-
tion of the project conceived by the President of the
Council, and so led to the resignation of this latter.
We can state that the arrival of the Abbe Gioberti at
Paris is precisely connect,'d with the project of inter-
vention in Tuscany. The Pint lli Ministry appears con-
vinced that the manifesto published by the Radical Cabi-
net of Turin, when the armistice was denounced, was a
snare set for the King to arrive at the political dismem-
berment of the Sardinian monarchy, In declaring, in
the face of Europe, that the old treaties were no longer
in force in the eyes of King Charles Albert, and that
the treaties of 1815 had been imposed on Italy, the
Ratazzi Ministry aimed at leading to the revival of the
protest which the delegates of the Republic of Genoa
had repeatedly brought forward before the Congress of
Vienna, against the incorporation of their country with
Piedmont. What is passing at present at Genoa gives
some weight to these suspicions. The revolutionary
fever, after having agitated Tuscany and Romagna,
threatens to come to a head in the states of the King
of Sardinia. Genoa is on the point of detaching
itself from the rest of the monarchy, and to proclaim
the re-establishment of the Ligurian Republic. In this
state of things the new Ministry has deemed it opportune,
in order to better guarantee the integrity of the Sardi-
nian monarchy, to adopt the plan of intervention con-
ceived by the Abbe Gioberti. Meanwhile the Abbe
has been charged to smooth down, by the aid of French
influence, the difficulties which the plan might meet with
in its execution. These difficulties are of a delicate
nature. When the Court of Vienna learned the inten-
tions of Charles Albert under the Gioberti Ministry, it
asserted the rights of reversion and succession which
existing treaties assured it over Tuscany, declaring that
oiftsapertionpger interests
according
in that count it could not recognise
in King Charles
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happens to be at present does not admit of the possi-
bility of its intervening in Tuscany, in spite of Aus-
tria. On the other hand, it appears urgent to the pre-
sent Sardinian Governinent that the revolution should
be put down in Central Italy, in order that the ultra
party in Piedmont should not find a point of sup-
port there, and so succeed in completely overturning the
Sardinian States, already sufficiently tried by the
disasters of the war. In order, therefore, to conciliate
the rights and pretensions of Austria, with the impe-
rious interests of the Sardinian monarchy, the Abt
Gioberti has come to demand for his plan of interven-
tion the adhesion and moral co-operation of the French
Cabinet. As to what regards the present disposition of
Austria, relative to the new King of Sardinia, we know
from a good source that Marshal Radetzky, during his
interview of the 24th ult., at Novara, with the young
King, spontaneously declared that he had received from
Vienna the most positive instructions to avoid every-
thing that could humiliate the Royal dignity in Pied-
mont, and, on the contrary, to afford all his assistance
in consolidating monarchical ideas. It is said, besides,
that the old Marshal entertains quite a paternal affec-
tion for the young Queen, whom he has known from her
childhood at Milan. The desire of not speaking but
with full knowledge has caused us to pass over in silence a
fact which appears to have sot the imagination of certain
journals at work. The fact is, the arrival at Paris of M.
dc Hubner, secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Austria. M. de Hubner having been presented to the
President of the French Republic by M. Drouyn de
Lhuys, the day atter the French Government had
learned the defeat of the Piedmontes.e army, inductions
altogether gratuitous were drawn from this fortuitous
coincidence. If we are well informed, the extraordinary
mission with which M. do Hubner is charged by his So-
vereign to the French Cabinet extends to the great ques-
tions which at this moment iii the attention of the Ca-
binets of Europe. The Court of Vienna appears to have
wished, by the organ of M. de Hubner, to expose and de-
velope frankly the principles which have served as the
constant basis of the foreign policy of the Imperial
Government, since the formation of the Schwartzenberg-
Stadion Cabinet, fur the double object of showing that,
if Austria is decided to maintain intact the rights gua-
ranteed to her by public treaties, she does not intend to
attack any liberty legally acquired, and still less to pre-
vent the regular and pacific development of liberal ideas,
under the inspiration of which the Constitution granted
by the Emperor Francis Joseph was promulgated."
The Debuts publishes a letter from Florence, which
States that it is the general opinion there that M.
GUERUAZZI, who has been appointed Dictator, will
make use of the powers conferred upon him to recal
thp Grand Duke, and thereby preclude the neemity