The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna, in the Boersenhalle of
Hamburg, says :—" Prince Kallimaki, the new
Turkish Ambassador at Vienna, has had several
conferences with Count Buol touching the question
of the Principalities. It is stated that the views of
the Porte regarding the union are identical with
thoge of Austria, and that it has not allowed
itself to be influenced in this respect by the policy
of England and France."
According to a Vienna letter of the 24th, in the
New Wurtzbarg Gazette, the negotiations for con-
voking a congress to consider the state of Italy are
still in their first stage, and it is not unlikely that
they will lead to no result. It is asserted that
Austria will not consent to a congress unless all the
Italian States consent to it, a theory which is not
adopted by the other powers. It appears, more-
over, that besides Sardinia, the Pope and the King
of Naples object to a congress. The latter espe-
cially has pronounced himself against it with great
energy, declaring that lie would vigorously oppose
any measure calculated to infringe his sovereign
rights.

The Vienna Gazette publishes the speech de-
livered by Cardinal Viale-Prela, the Papal Nuncio,
and President of the Assembly of Austrian Bishops,
at the last meeting of that body. The speech
affords no information as to the result of the deli-
berations of the episcopal body, but makes a eulo-
giatu on the Emperor Francis Joseph, ou the piety
which distinguishes him, and on the eagerness he
shows to fulfil the wishes expressed by the episco-
pacy.

THE QUEEN'S VIS[T TO SCOTLAND.

E DINBURGH, FRIDAY EVENING.

Her Majesty, availing herself of the beautiful weather,
this morning left Holyrood Palace at ten minutes after
11 o'clock, for a drive through this ancient city. Tho
Queen, who was accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal, and attended by the Marchioness
of Ely and the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Lady and Maid
of Honour in Waiting, drove through Prince's-street and
the Lothian-road, by Heriot's Hospital, down the Canon-
gate, and past the palace into the Queen's•park. Thence
the Royal party made a circuit of Arthur's Seat by the
new drive, known as the Queen's Ride. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, with Major-General the Hon.
C. Grey and Col. the Hon. C.B. Phipps, accompanied
her Majesty on horseback. The reception of her Ma-
jesty and illustrious party was at every point most cordial.
At 4 o'clock the royal carriages were ordered to the
palace, for the Queen and the Prince Consort
and younger branches of the Royal family to visit
some of the interesting localities in the neighbour-
hood of the city. A few minutes after four her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Princess Royal, and royal party, left the palace, and
drove through the park by the Dalkeith road to inspect
Craigmillar Castle, thence proceed by Liberton to Lass-
wade. There the royal cortege crossed the Esk to the re-
nowned Hawthornden. Her Majesty and party there
alighted, and walked through the romantic glen to Ross
lyn Chapel, one of the most beautiful architectural
remains in Scotland. There the Queen and illus•
trious circle were met by the royal carriages, by which
they returned to Holyrood Palace at half past seven
o'clock.
This time-honoured city is partially illuminated this
evening in complement to the Sovereign, and a joyous
eiccitement prevails amongst the loyal inhabitants.
Her Majesty and Royal Family will leave, according
to the arrangements made, at a quarter before nine to-
morrow (Saturday) morning for her " Highland home"
at Balmoral.

A letter from Odessa of the 10th, in the Bourse Ga-
zette, says :—" The Tartars of Simpheropol and the
neighbourhood refuse to work for landowners, or exact
such high wages that it is impossible to grant them.
The crops are consequently perishing in the fields for
want of reapers."
The Dresden Gazette says that the Archduke Charles
Louis of Austria will on the 6th of September make a
formal demand for the hand of the Princess Margaret of
Saxony, and that a grand fete will be afterwards given
at Court.

"There is no news of much moment from
Oude, but every letter or tale is suggestive of
peace and progress. Cholera had been prevalent
at Lucknow in the ranks of the 52d Light
Infantry, but there, as in the north-west, it was
disappearing as the rain fell more plentifully. The
only symptoms of anything like a warlike charac-
ter that. I observe in the coarse of a somewhat
lengthy correspondence is a surmise that the troops
may be called on in the cold weather to search
the strongholds of the native nobles for a num-
ber of pieces of cannon missing from the
Royal arsenal, and supposed to be in their posses-
sion. No fewer than 170 guns are thus wanting.
" Letters from Rangoon are mostly occupied
with details and suggestions respecting a murder
that has recently taken place there. The victim
was a young man who was living quietly in the
town with a writer in the Customs Department,
but is said to have been a Shahzadah, or Prince.
What Prince he was exactly does not seem clear,
but that he belonged to the reigning family at Ava
is undisputed. The latest story is that he was the
sole survivor of a family destroyed by the present
King's father on his usurpation, as being the right-
ful inheritors of the throne. The question is only
of importance as affecting the suggestion that his
murder was directed by the Court of Ava upon con-
siderations of. hate. At any Late the perpetrators
of the crime appear not to have been common
thieves. None of the little property in the house
was stolen, the ruffians departing with empty
hands as soon as they had slain the Prince and his
host. But of the hither side of the Bay of Bengal,
and in the heart of our own territory, a crime has
been committed before the recital of which the
murder of the barbarian chief pales in interest.
Another member of the Madrid Civil Service has
fallen by the knife of the assassin—whether, like
Mr. Conolly last year, out of revenge for activity
displayed as a public officer, or merely in a struggle
with an ordinary burglar, is not at present clear.
All that is certainly known is that Mr. Horsley,
first assistant to the collector to Bellary, in the
Madras Presidency, described as an energetic
and valuable officer, was stabbed to the heart on
the night of the sth. One of his servants speaks
to having been awoke by a call from his
master, and to seeing three men run from the
house. The fatal stroke was delivered in the
back ; possibly Mr. Horsley had seized one of the
men, and was then wounded by another. The
knife passed through the lungs, and dividing a
main artery in the immediate neighbourhood of
the heart, killed the unfortunate gentleman upon
the spot. Tho only article of property abstracted
was a box containing papers, but no money. In
the course of the investigation that was immedi-
ately set on foot various opinions concerning the
origin of the crime prevailed, and were supported
with the more plausibility that little or no tangible
evidence could be procured. The general impres-
sion, however, at last remained that Mr. Horsley
had fallen a victim to revenge in his public capa-
city. But beyond this all was conjecture, both as
to the actual perpetrators of the crime and to their
special incitement. There is mention, indeed, of a
torture case that Mr. Horsley had lately been in-
vestiet'6atin' and had decided adversely to the 6
ac-
cused, but everything else is vague generalisettion,
and at present there may be said to be no clue to
the murderer. I should mention that Mr. Pelley,
the collector, takes the other view of the case, and
thinks it ono of murder committed in hot blood by
a baffled robber. This gentleman is actively en-
' gaged as magistrate in sifting the matter, and the
Government of Madras, immediately on receiving
the report of the murder bytelegraph, sant him an
1 order through the same channel to offer a reward
of 5,000 rupees for the disco Very of the criminals.
To aggravate this painful occurrence, a younger
brother of Mr. Horsley, aged 19 (he himself was
only 26), was staying in the house at the time of
the murder, and is said to have received from the
terrible spectacle such a shock to his nervous sys-
tem as to have remained, up to the last accounts,
in a state bordering on insanity.
" With the exception of this one deplorable event
I have to relate no deed of violence marring the
profound tranquillity that reigns from Peshawur to
Cape Comorin. Here the monsoon is proceeding
favourably, and we now register just about the
average of 48 inches for the two months of June
and July. In the Deccan, too, the rain has of late
fallen most gratefully and in considerable quanti-
ties. Agricultural work has received a stimulus,
and sickness decreases in amount and virulence.
There had been, previous to this seasonable fall,
many cases of cholera at Poonah, and, in particu-
lar, the death of the wife of an officer high in rank
on the staff of the army was one of those sudden
disappearances of well-known people that are of
such painfully frequent occurrence, in India. Per-
haps it is bv reason of their very frequency that
the community so soon forget them.
"Lord Elphinstone remains here. Lord Can-
ning, we are sorry to hear from Calcutta, has been
unwell, and is ordered to sea for a cruise.
" Trade at this place is dull, as usual at this time
of the year, but accounts of the weather from the
interior aro encouraging. The money-market is
easy."