The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

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would hope that, as no European p0wer'1.1.7.:7071:11t
terested than Austria in preserving the internal
tranquillity-of Italy, so will the 'great and well-
known influence of Austria in Naf6les be beneficially
exercised in encouraging those reforms and improve-
ments which will tend to remove the discontent,
from which alone would spring any dangers by
which that tranquillity is likely to be threatened.
Your Excellency will read this dispatch to
Prince Metternich, and will give his Highness a
copy of it.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) " PALMERSTON."

" Foreign-office, Sept. 11, 1847.
" My Lord,—The Cabinet ofFienna having recently
addressed a communication to the Cabinet of London,
for the purpose of ascertaining the sentiments and
opinions of the British Government upon the present
state of affairs in Italy, to which communication her
Majesty's Government made, through your Excel-
lency, a reply, her Majesty's Government are con-
vinced that the Government of Austria will receive
in the same friendly spirit in which it is conceived
the further communication which your Excellency
is by this dispatch instructed to make to his Highness
the Prince Metternich in regard to these affairs. But
indeed the ancient alliance and long-established con-
fidence which unite the Governments of Great Britain
and Austria would at all events render it the duty of
her Majesty's Government to explain frankly and
without reserve, to the Austrian Government, the
views and sentiments of the Government of Great
Britain upon events which are either happening or
likely to happen in Italy, and which, by their bearing
and importance, must necessarily be of great Euro-
pean interest.
" The Austrian Government has recently asked,
and has received the assent of the Government of
Great Britain to the principle, that the several states
into which Italy is divided are entitled to maintain
and defend their independence ; and that this inde-
mit to be respected, and to be held inviolate
rilli
yrtre other powers of Europe ; and her Majesty's
Government, in expressing their assent to this indis-
putable proposition, coupled with it another which they
conceive to be equally undeniable, that every indepen-
dent Sovereign has a right to make, within his own
dominions, such reforms and improvements as he may
judge conducive to the welfare of the people whom he
governs ; and that no other Government can be
entitled to forbid or to restrain such an exercise of
one of the proper attributes of independent sove-
reignty ; and her Majesty's Government are convinced
that the Cabinet of Vienna must be ready to acknow-
ledge so plain a political truth. 'Whatever reports,
therefore, may have reached her Majesty's Govern-
ment u to late transactions and recent diplomatic
communications in Italy, they are persuaded that the
Government of Austria cannot contemplate or have
authorised any proceedings at variance with the prin-
ciples above mentioned ; and that neither with regard
to the King of Sardinia, nor with regard to the Pope,
can the Austrian Government have any intention of
converting any measures of internal legislation or
administrative reform which those Sovereigns may
think fit to adopt in their respective dominions, into
an occasion for any aggression whatever upon their
territories or rights. Her Majesty's Government,
indeed, would deeply regret the occurrence of events
which it would be impossible for Great Britain to
view with indifference.

" The Ciowns of Great Britain and of Sardinia have
long been bound together by the ties of faithful and
intimate alliance ; and Great Britain can never forget
or repudiate claims founded upon such honourable
grounds.
" The integrity of the Roman State may be con-
sidered as an essential element of the political inde-
pendence of the Italian peninsula; and no invasion
of the territory of that State could take place without
leading to consequences of great gravity and import-
ance.
" Your Excellency will read this dispatch to Prinoe
Metternich, and will give him a copy of it.
" I am, &c.
(Signed) " PALMERSTON."

DEATH OF A LADi NaNOTP-ONII YEARS OF AIM
—On Saturday evening, Mr. W. Carter held an inquest
at the Swan Tavern, Stockwell, upon the body of lire.
Caroline Beton, who had attained the extraordinary age
of 91 years. Deceased resided with some of the younger
branches of the family, at No. 10, Stockwell-villas. Her
advanced period of life kept her confined to her room,
which was the second floor back. She was, as might he
supposed, exceedingly feeble, but enjoyed tolerably good
health. The last time she was seen alive was on Wed-
nesday afternoon,' when she partook of her dinner in
bed, and in half an hour after the servant had waited
upon her she was found lying on the stairs in the yard,
with her skull frightfully fractured,:her right arm bloke,
and quite dead. The window had been opened to venti-
late the apartment, and it is supposed that the unfortu-
nate old lady had got out of bed to shut it, and over-
balancing herself, she met the death described. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
ADD-EL-KADELowalltiplioll for the proposed
pyramid to commemorate the capture of Abd-el-
Kader
Regime quondam Punici Franco-Gallis occupatil,
Punic& fides ab iisdem sue more servata,
scea .11.1 in-se bus ueuerat,
amicis, exercitibus, regno, libertate,
privatus est i L. Philippe rego.—Examiner.
HIGFIWAT ROBEEILY ON SOITHWARIC-BRIDGS.—
Yesterday morning, between 12 and 1 o'clock, as NO,
Joseph Archer, of No. 29, Pleasant-place, St. George's,
was passing over Southwark-bridge, when near the
centre ho was met by two men, one of whom, without
uttering a word, knocked him down by a violent blow on
the head, inflicted, it is supposed, with a life preserver,
rendering him insensible ; whilst in this state the ruf-
fians rifled his person of two 51. Bank of England notes
and four sovereigns ; on recovering he made his way to
the toll-gate and gave the alarm, but the fellows had
escaped.
KING ARTHUR.—The leading public, we under-
blend, must be prepared to meet with some singular
coincidences in certain of the principal characters intro-
duced into this new poem by the author of " The New
Timon." Among them a Vandal King and his chief
minister, are said to bear an extraordinary resemblance
to a neighbouring monarch and his confidential counsel-
lor, whose political charlatanism has lately attracted the
attention of the whole civilised world. Vire should net
at all wonder if this were to be quoted as a new case
against " Perfide Albion ;" nor be very greatly surprises
should it so disturb the entente cordiale as to render the
long threatened invasion inevitable.
HEADACHE, BILE, APOPLEXY, AND COMPLAINTS
ARISING FROM IMPURITY OF BLOOD CURED BY HOL-
LOWAY'S PILLS.—The regenerating properties of this
wonder-working medicine are so powerful that all who
suffer from disordered stomachs, indigestion, bile, sick
headache, or dimness of sight, originating from the im-
purity of the blood, should have immediate recourse to
Holloway's Pills, which act so directly on the system
that a few doses will remove every unpleasant symptom,
thus preventing the danger of apoplexy and the over-
flow of blood to the head. They may be taken by
females of all ages with perfect safety, and their invigo-
rating qualities soon restore the most nervous and de-
bilitated constitutions to the enjoyment of good health.
Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WEST BROMWICIL—A
coroner's inquest was held on Friday at West Bromwich
to inquire into the cause of the fatal catastrophe which
occurred at this pit. Several witnesses who were in the
pit just previous to the explosion considered the ven-
tilation perfect, and perceived no smell of sulphur.
Until some of the men who were down at the time of
the accident are sufficiently recovered to give evidence
no decided opinion can be given on the subject. There
wore two safety-lamps in the pit at the time of the
explosion. Mr. Cooksoy, surveyor of colliery works,
was examined, and has given an account 01i the state of
the pit. It is due to the lessees of the pit to state that
the men in their employ, who were in tb e works on the
morning of the calamity, speak of theru in terms of the
highest respect, and make no charze against them of
negligence or indifference to their sa'tety. Amongst the
colliers the aocident seems to be treated as one of
almost constant occurrence, to which all miners are
more or less exposed, and which it is almost impossible
by any precaution under certain states of the atmosphere
to prevent. The inquiry was adjourned until ?riday
next.
LivistrirooL, Saturday.—We believe it may be
stated with unquestionable truth, that the British Go-
vernment has entirely failed in its desire to arrange the
postal difficulties which for some time have existed wish
the American Government. Terms of just and compT.ete
reciprocity were offered and refused by the United States
Cabinet.
Mr. Dodd, Solicitor-General, and member of the
Executive Council at Halifax, Nova Scotia, is appointed
a Judge of the Supreme Court of that col on y, ritm
Wilkins, deceased. Mr. Jennings is appointed Chief of
Police in the Island of St. Lucia. Mr. Gilly,rt ef'
pointed Consul of Great Britain at Alexis:, (ens. Mr.
Bedworth Williamson, son of Sir H. Will:Amnon, Bart.,
is appointed unpaid attaché to the British et ebassy at
St. Petersburg.—Observer.
SACRED HARMONIC SoCIETT.
alter a brig interval, occasioned we
n ctor,
points of difference --unildVeerstat'iderbvye stolimaet
and the committee, the concerts of th,iss, tom
i)n
between Mr. Surmen, the.ccto. dreucom.
mence on Thursday next, with Haydn e.rli to .
of Mart ,
tone; and hues sung, we
composer Miss
is engaged as soprano, is gutter to Mr.
Wallaa‘Vr ealilnafecoeer,mwt hehde:
very successfully in various plats of the
Continent, gaining laurels, especially in Cho severer
school of German vocalization. This will he her first
appearance before an English' audience, am ,1 a decided
hit is anticipated.—Musical Wort/.
GRAraS FROM GOODMAN'S FIBLDS.--4Che Gar-
deners' Chroniek states, en the authority of a corres-
pondent, that a dish of fine black Hamburgh grapes was
cut for dessert from a vinery in Great Prescot-street,
Goodmaii's-fields, on the 3d of the present month of
February. They were perfectly sound and well
coloured, and were equal in appearance tend infinitely
superior in quality, to a dish of very good h,leiek foreign
grapes placed alongside of them.
SACRILEGE.—Yesterday morning it was discovera
that the Roman Catholic Chapel, Duncan-street, Isling-
ton, had been burglariously entered, and the silver,
ceborums, chalices, patens, &c., used in the service of
the mass, the property of the Rev. H. Lee, ce cried off by
the burglars.