The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19. Igs 6.

and took to water like my lady's spaniel !
Who shall picture the horro.r that blanched the
cheeks and related the momentarily strung nerves
of Honourable Members when the fact in all its
astounding atrocity burst upon them ! The threat
of a dissolution, with its concomitant terrors, was
a bruttcrn, fulmen to it ! In the annals of
Italian vindictiveness was there ever recorded
a vengeance so remorseless, dire, and com-
plete ? A dissolution of Parliament quotha
—aye, truly, and of the partnership be-
tween the bodies and souls of its members, and
that without a moment's notice also. The per-
fidious PALMERSTON. How many Hon. Mem-
bers are now under medical supervision from the
effects of the discovery, and how few will be
found desperate enough to mount the side-
ladder of the Perseverance we will not
undertake to say ; let us hope that, before
the catastrophe can take place, Hon. Members
will have undergone the usual sea change,
and the country will not have its joy at getting rid
of them, damped by the reflection that a brief
moment for effective repentance was denied them.
For one thing we must stipulate—if the " Per-
severance" will turn bottom or side upward—it
must not be suffered to go to the bottom. The
country may have further need of it.
At the risk of being accused of hard-hearted-
ness, we must really be permitted to contemplate
the catastrophe. The Perseverance is over, and
a sigh of—relief runs throughout the fleet. A
moment of eager straining, and a wretched Cupid
peers, like a hard-pressed rat, through a port-hole.
It is my Lord PALMERSTON, looking anxiously for
Lours NAPOLEON OT Prince ALBERT to hoist him
up, execrating the while the traitorous captain
for tacking about before his Lordship had time to
get aboard another ship. And there is WOOD, who
won't drown, dodging a parson ! It cannot be—
i t positively is GLADSTONE—poor dream ins sophist,
spluttering reasons why WOOD should risk his own
life to save his—and that after he has left MIL-
NER GIBSON unconvinced. And there the unfor-
tunate LEWIS—how hard to buffet desperately for
bare life the salt wave borne down by the heavi-
est of budgets in sight of a Quarterly ! Poor
SPOONER, is that an Irish member he has got
iu his clutches ? Ah ! NAPIER and Sir JAMES—
the Admiral has him now, and is taking the
ch Ange out of him ! Poor FRED. PEEL, you would
sink anything ; but .why—why select Sir BENJA-
MIN ?—you are not a person of quality ! Melan-
choly illustration of a popular truth—drowning
men will cling to straws—Sir GEORGE has got
hold of Mr. HEADLAM, and, doubtless mistaking
the obnoxious bill of the Honourable
Member for another, gasps, in plaintive suc-
cession, " The tenth of April—fetch the police !"
But the spectacle is really affecting, and disdain-
ing to be caught by our P. D. in tears, we leave
off in command of our manhood,''and with suffi-
cient energy to bespeak some little relic of the
Perseverance for consolation in the future.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY
MORNING.

The United States mail steam-ship Fulton,
Capt. Wotton, has arrived off Cowes from New
Yoik, en route for Havre, with the French and
English mails, and dates to the sth iiist.

The Fulton's mails, passengers, &c., for Eng-
land will probably reach Southampton about mid-
day.

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 5.
The news of a treaty of peace having been signed
at Paris on the 30th March reached the allied ar-
mies in the Crimea early on the morning of the 2d
inst., and was quickly promulgated through the
various camps. The intelligence produced scarcely
any sensible emotion in the camps. Groups were
formed, as the intelligence was communicated from
one to another, and the subject was briefly dis-
cussed by the persons assembled. Some expressed
satisfaction, others the reverse, very often accord-
ing to personal interests and feelings, but a general
regret was expressed that so fine an army—as
good as, and in many respects better equipped
than, the army which marched towards Alma—
should be dispersed without an opportunity of sig-
ualising itself in another, and especially an open,
campaign. No one seemed to doubt that fresh glo-
ries would have been achieved, which would have
eclipsed the splendour of any of those already ac-
complished.
The news of the treaty of peace, and the conse-
quent probability of a speedy evacuation of the
Crimea, have led to increased attention to the ar-
rangements necessary for facilitating the removal
of the vast amount of stores in possession of the
army. All reports and returns on this subject are
o be transmitted to the principal storekeeper at
Balaklava, Captain Gordon, who is to have the
supreme management of the reception of the
stores from all the departments in the field. as
well as their shipment, the admiral, of course,
providing the requisite transport for their con-
veyance to England or other stations. All the
guns have now been removed from the Russian
forts and works, as well as those on the wharves
of the South Harbour, and sent down by the
railway to Balaklava. The English guns from
the siege train parks are following them fast,
and already these depots begin to exhibit a very
diminished appearance. Whether all the heaps of
shot,and shell which have been accumulated in va-
rious parts of the siege works are destined for re-
moval remains to be seen ; many of these piles of
Russian projectiles are in places not very accessible
to artillery waggcne. In regiments, the heavier
portions of the winter clothing and materials have
already been collected and stored, and the re-
mainder is retained in readiness to be given over at
brief notice. _

A very practical confirmation of the re-establish.
meut of peace, so far as the soldiers are concerned,
has been the stoppage of the 6d. per diem extra
pay, or field allowance, which they have been
drawing for some time past. It was ordered to be
given so long as the men were in presence of an
enemy, and there being no longer any enemy, it
now of course ceases. The cessation of this allow-
ance has been notified in the general orders—the
stoppage to commence from the date on which the
news was received in the Crimea of the treaty hav-
ing been signed, viz., the 2d inst.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

The Times Paris correspondent (Second Edition),
dated yesterday (Friday), 6 p.m., says :—" M.
Cavour left Paris last night, and has, I suppose,
before this reached London. Count BuoT leaves
to-cay for Vienna. These two Plenipotentiaries
carry very different feelings with them as they
separate. The former has cause to be proud of the
position his Government occupies before Europe ;
and he cannot be otherwise than satisfied wi', 'a the
manner in which he himself has performed the
arduous duties confided to him. He' may look back
on the past with pleasure, and to the future with
hope. Count Buol returns sullenly home, con-
scious that he has conciliated no one, and stung by
the thought that, in the council-room or out of it,
his Government was an object of dislike or sus-
picion to all. The defeat of Novara, and the
sort of persecution which the perfidious and the
timid are wont to practise against the bold fixd
honest, and Which Austria has not spared to Sar-
dinia, are avenged by her present isolation. She
is disliked and feared by Prussia, bated intensely
by Russia, all but defied by Piedmont, probably
despised by France, and most assuredly not loved
by England; be.t the enmity of Russia probably
causes her more pain than anything else. Hardly
an occasion passed that Count Orloff did not show
his resentment or insinuate contempt—not the
less keen because conveyed in polished terms—for
the Government of which Count Buol was the re-
presentative at the Congress. This occurred in
various ways. It is certain that when the Russian
Plenipotentiary asked one day of Count Cavour,
in a good-humouredly expostulating manner,
" What could have induced Sardinia to make war
on Russia ?" Count Cavour replied that Russia had
never recognised the constitutional Government
of Piedmont, and spoke and acted as if, in fact,
Piedmont had ceased to exist, and that she was
obliged to declare war if it were only to prove that
she was still alive and moving. "My dear Count,"
said the Russian, " if we did not recognise you it
was those Jesuits of Austrians (clenching his hand)
who prevented us."
At a grand banquet given one day by the Presi-
dent of the Senate to the Plenipotentiaries at the
Luxembourg, Court Orloff and Count Buol chanced
to be standing near each other looking at some beau-
tiful malachite vases, said to have been the gift of
the Emperor Alexander to the first Napoleon. The
Russian drew the attention of his Austrian colleague
to some of the pictures with which the room was
hung, and which represented the battle ofAusterlitz,
and others in which the Austrians more particularly
figured, but not to their glory during the wars of the
Empire. "Look here, Count," said Orloff, "these
ought to interest you more than me." Count Buol
looked, and smiled grimly ' • " Never mind—never
mind," Orloff continued, "I am sure these pictures
were riot left here expressly to awaken any unplea-
sant reminiscences iu your mind or to vex you.
Our hosts are too delicate to pain you. Their ser-
vants no doubt forgot to remove these pictures,
though they knew you were coming ; but don't
mind—don't mind." The consolation was the un-
kindest cut of all.

On another occasion Count Buol having put
forward some extravagant pretensions relative to
the Principalities, and while he was proceeding
with his argument, Count Orloff whispered, not,
however, sotto voce, but loud enough to be heard,
"Ma foi, pas mal, M. le Comte ; pas si mal. On
dirait que c'est les Autrichiens qui ont pris Sebas-
topol." These cutting sarcasms, together with the
downright oppesitiou of the other Plenipotentiaries,
must have made Count Buol's situation a very un-
pleasant one ; and it must be a relief to himself
personally that the Congress is at last at an end.
Whilst anecdotes are in the way, I must not omit
one which relates to Lord Clarendon. The Einpc-
ror, it appears, was very anxious to give his lord-
ship the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, an
honour which M. de Manteuffel has already -re-.
ceived. Lord Clarendon (so the story runs) ex-
plained to his Majesty that no British Minister or
British subject can accept a foreign decoration un-
less for military services; "and such being the
fact," he added, my case has not an inch of
ground to stand on, as my services in Paris have
been especially pacific."
Austria feels keenly her moral isolation, for
isolated she is ; and I should not be surprised if
some trifling concessions were made in her Italian
States, in the hope of conciliating the populations,
and exciting some little feeling in her favour. But,
it is admitted, on all hands, that she has cut a very
poor figure, indeed, at the Congress. When those
who were wont to reprobate Prussia now place
Austria below her, you may judge of the discredit
she has fallen into.
I omitted to mention yesterday that before sepa-
rating at the last meeting, the Plenipotentiaries
passed unanimously a vote of thanks to Count
Walewski for his conduct as President of the Con-
gress.
There is a prevalent idea that Ministers Pleni-
potentiary are about to be despatched from some, of
t',e German Courts to those of Italy ; and this
rqeasure is considered as having reference to the
political position of the Peninsula.
Count Cavour left Paris last evening for London.
His Excellency will not remain more than three or
tour days, and then return, via Paris, to London.
The Emperor yesterday gave an audience to
General Hilpert, who had been charged with the
mission of delivering to his Majesty a letter from
the Prince Regent of Baden, and the insignia of
the orders of Fidelity and of the Lion of Zoahrin-
gen. The general was presented to the Emperor
by the Baron de Schweizer, the Baden Minister.
The Emperor yesterday received replies to the ,
notification of the birth of the Prince Imperial j
from the King of Greece, the Grand Duke of Meek-

lenburg-Strelitz, and the Duchess Regent of Parma;
also a letter of congratulation on the same event
from Prince Gliika, hospodar of Moldavia.
BOURSE, April 18.—Prices left off as follows :

' Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4 per
,Cents c3 —f. —c.
3 For Cents 74 23 73 GO
New Loan 74 30

Bank Shares 3,7 0— Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,770 Austrian
Belgian Five,' ' -- Spanish Threes...., 4I i
Piedmontose (5) 93 Eiome Debt ...... —40 i