The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-11 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, April 11.—Wind this fiAy at noon, S.W.;
light breeze with occasional showers of rain.
Poursmo UM, April 10.—Wind W.—Arrived—H.M.Str.
Rattler, from the East
PLYMOUTH, April 1 i.—Wind W.—Areved—St. rotor,
from Rio Grande. Sailed—H.M.S.'s Exmouth and Con.
queror, for Spithead.
FALMOUTH, April 10.—Wind W., strong breezes.—Put
hack —Ocean, for Newfoundland. Off the port—Jessie,
from Honduras.

COWES, April 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Term, from
Rio Janeiro.

NEWPORT, April W.—Wind W.—Arrived—Juno, front
Copenh•igen, for St. Thomas ; Andromeda. London, for
fiondnras. Sailed—Lord Pantnure and Helen, for St.
Thomas; Ann Wl:ester, Quebec.

(PEII ELECTRIC, TRLEORAPIM
SOUTIIIIIPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Sabrina, from Cardin'; Richard Seeley, Swan•
sea ; Argyle (s.), Ca.rentan ; Atalanta (s.), Havre ; Caro•
!inda and La Pottle, Cherbourg ; Friends, z..q. Clear.
Sailed—Sylph (s.), for Dublin.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Mrning.

Wind S.W.

Arrived—El Dorado, [from Bombay ; Evangeline, Cal-
cutta; Loyal, Antigua; Unicorn and Horizon, New Or.
leans'; Tuscarora, Philadelphia; A. Z., Now York ; De-
von, Apalach, Icola, and Ironsides, New Orleans; E. Bul-
keley, Savannah.
Sailed—Rita, screw steamer, for Santander ; Banshee.
Picton, Nova Scotia ; Heurny, Sierra Leone ; Hazard.
Pillau ; Nicholson and Sally, Newfoundland ; Marie'Jost-
phine, Havre ; Rapid, Syria ; Telegraph, Caraguet ; Fords-
chritt, Elsinore ; Tigris, Calcutta ; Volant, Civita -Vec-
chia.

DUBLIN, Aprillo.

Wind S.S.E.
Arrived—Phillyi ea, from Cadiz; Paethltis, Barbadoes ;
Owen Vann, Alexandria.

QUEENSTOWN, April 9.
Arrived—. North Wales, from Liguria ; Aden, Hon-
duras.
Sailod—Laucasbire Lass, for Gibraltar.

(,y SUBMA/LINE ANL liRITISEI TIFLIGUATM.I
GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.40 san.
Wind W. ; tide 5 hours' :.bb, cloudy.
Arrived—Countess of Lorydale, steamer, from Ham.
burg ; Quelyshel Terceira ; Leon, Crravelines ' • Lotus,
Trinidad ; Australia, Callao ; Joven Augustine, Trinidad
and Cuba; Stormcloud, Calcutta.
Sailed Paris and London, for Paris ; Thomas Bogbie,
Charlotte Town ; Cedan, Copenhagen ; Euroclydon,
DEAL, Friday, 10.25 a.m.
Wind W.S.W., fresh.
Passed—Nymph, from Mauritius ; Hamilton,
Franklin, Rio Janeiro ; Tyro, westward ; Nuneham.
a large American ship supposed, westward ; (4ipsyC*Qltileacn,;
St. Michael's ; Derwent, Port Philip ; Wallace, Callao ;
Herald of the Morning, Mauritius; Waverley, Sierra
Leone—all for London.

DEATH LECMERE, BART.--We Wor-
cesteErsAlrli O
ire CFhrSmiiitclEe). regretH EI
to have to record the death
of Sir Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, the head of the
eminent firm of Berwick, Leclimere, and Co., b%nkera,
of this city, Tewesbury, and Uptuo,
which occurred on
WechaePday last, from a termination of gout to a vital
part. The deceased baronet was in good health up to a
few hours previous to the fatal seizure, and on the day
before his death was attending to business in Worcester
as usual.

SUICIDES.—Yesterday morning a respectable-looking
man was found with his throat cut, in the water-closet
of the Feathers public-house, Ranelagh-road,. Pimlico.
He had about ten minutes before called for some porter
at the bar, and having left, and remained absent some
time, a person was sent to look for him. He was taken
to the Westminster Hospital, but died soon after his
admission. Deceased appeared to be about 45 years of
age, but there was nothing to lead to his identification.
--A. woman named Mary Regan, aged 50, residing in
Prince's street, Drury-lane, also committed suicide yes-
terday by cutting her throat. She was of intemperate
habits, and had been drinking fur the last fortnight.
Upon examination it was found that she bad a knife in
each band, and cut her throat downwards and horizon-
tally, in the form of a cross. She died soon after her
removal to King's College Hospital.
GREAT EDUCATIONAL MEETING AT HALTrAx.—On
Wednesday evening a densely-crowded meeting assem-
bled in the Oddfellows' Hall, Halifax, convened by the
Mayor, on a requisition signed by upwards of 200 inha-
bitants, to " petition Parliament in favour of a general
measure of national education, which shall be subject to
local management, and supported by local taxation, and
which, at the same time, shall not impede voluntary
efforts in the like direction." Mr. Edward Akroyd, in
a vigorous and earnest speech, moved the adoption of
the petition, and was supported by Mr. Abbott and Mr.
J. Stores Smith. The Rev. W. Walters moved an
amendment, deprecating all Governmental interference,
which was supported by Alderman Crossley, &c. Tne
amendment, on a division, was lost by a small majority,
and the petition wag then adopted, amid loud cheers.
MADAME TuSSAUD'S EXIIIBITION.—The last addition
to the war group has been a portrait model of the pre-
sent King of Prussia. His Majesty is represented in
the uniform of a general, consisting of a dark blue
tunic, with red facings and silver lace epaulettes, &c.
This group is certainly one of the most interesting ob-
jects in the exhibition, representing, as it does, most of
the chief menardia awl other great personageejnteree*
in tin *aft Mate' of the day.

1 `)een made safe—that the expectant legatee of
HER MA,TESTY'S T E
yIS:7THRE
It is respectfully annottncrnotlai4ietmheerntsMA:
esEi:.lhT.lalvEe I
tb e "sick man's" assets had nothing to fear from
beelinßeflEe-cOtePdENboetahrilyni:'VMeraaya.nd Ballet, and the be exertions used
.fE;'reTeatt interest
tII( 3,1* interposition. And vet, in place of indig-
o make the arrangements worthy of the occasion.
The prospectus wilt shortly be issued. nal ttly repudiating the insult, they merely ex-
. bit cited the " valuable financial derawastration,"
tb at denuded the Exchequer of its balances, and
di sprived the nation, for some time at least, of the
me:,,,ns of waging a vigorous and energetic war.
Boar different would have been the state of
affAirs, if the 8,000,0001. squand'ared on the
GL ®ASTONS abortion, had remained in the Trea-
sury and been, made available in the earliest stages
of the complication, when the arrog,t,rice of MENS-
CHIBCIFE sufficiently displayed the intentions of
Russia., and before the crossing of the Pruth and
the invasion of Turkey offered a calm belli that
should at once have been accepted.
From the first to the last " mistake"—to
use the mildest terms—from the truckling to
Austria to the apathetic indifference as to the
state of Kars—the connivance at the sanguinary
massacre of Sinope to the unaccountable sparing
of Odessa—the neglect of providing the gun-
boats and mortar-vessels, the, absolute necessity
whereof was pointed out, not only by ourselves,
in common with other journalists, but also, as it
now appears, by the late Sir CH: VALES HOTHAM
and many distinguished naval officers, to the dis-
reputable truce, so hastily and recklossly patched
up, everything has been done for the interests
of Russia and Germany rather than of
Great Britain. If our so-called Statesmen were in
actual receipt of Muscovite gold, as so many of
the petty German States notoriou3ly are, they
could not have acted more efficiently in her be-
half. We believe that they have had a very diffi-
cult card to play—that there was a, paramount,
although unconstitutional, influence in operation
that controlled their deliberations, and forced
measures on their adoption which some of their
number would have resisted, if practicable. But
they should have relinquished the responsibility
when they found themselveS unable to pursue the
course which honour and duty alike demanded, and
not have lent the sanction of their names to what
they must have known was not for the benefit of

Iii&ATUE ROYAL, DRUKY-LA}E,

Lessee, Mr. R. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.
1 o vnlade with
TETE ENCHANTED GARDEN.

TIIKATRB ROYAL, 114.Y1fARRET.

lJnoter the Management of Mr. Bncketone,
THIS EVENING,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

Followed by
EL GA.MBUitvO; or, The Me'dean Goldseeker.
which PEREA NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear.

After which,
THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK.
To conclude with
ONLY A 11 kLF PENNY.

'.ItOTY. ?K114.7P.9.4'S TIPIATRE, 0/CfrOlcD-STEOcIEr.
Under the Management cd Kr. Comm Kitty,
wit? vENING,
• A WONDERFUL wpAuw. •
To be bllnwerl by
rAusr AND 31 RGUERITE,

To conclude with
A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR.

riiKATRi‘ 40fAL .I_O?l4PKi.

Prop-toter and Manager. Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, M Kaisme Cat

TFRS EVENING. FRIDAY, April 11, 1856, -
MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WEt.L.
A fter which,
The successful new Drama of
LIRE AND UNLIKE.
Messrs. B. Webster, Wright, P. Bedford. C. Selby, Garden;
Madame Celeste, 4fis4 Wyndham. •
To conclude with

JACK AND THE BEAN--
ilariequiti and Mother
Goose at 'lonic Again.
Jack'and Tiarlewn .....
Mother Goose and Columbine • • • • •:741" '4Y.adharn.

ROYAL Of..Y‘IPIU TEIEITRE.
Lessee and. Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
TRIS EVENING
STILL ,VTATERS RUN DEEP.
After which will be pralneed a New and denblY-moral, though
excessively old, Melodraitivtie Fairy Extraraganza, entitled
TELE DISCREET PRINCESS; or, the Three Glass Distaff's.
which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, 11. Cooper. Miss Marston,
and Miss Msskell will appear.

their country.
That influence still exists. We may have to
endure far more than anything that has yet oc-
curred. But, unfortunately, Parliament has not
as yet shaken off its apathy—is not awakened to
the formidable position in which Great Britain is
placed. Oh ! for one of the patriots of the olden
time, who suffered nothing to divert his attention
from the national welfare,! Oh ! for another
HAMPDEN Or a SYDNEY, who would never lose
sight of the rights and privileges of the People
and of their chosen representatives. Had we a
few such men in the House of Commons we could
no longer be sold or sacrificed to dynastic
considerations. A proper use would have been
made of the golden opportunity that has new for
ever pas=ed away. We should, at all events, have
profited by past experience, and guarded for the
future against evils which are every day becoming
more palpable, and which must, ero long, force
themselves on public attention. We may, before
many months have elapsed, again "drift " into a
war. Care should be taken that it be not so
grossly mismanaged as that with Russia, and that,
the spirit of "Germanism" should no longer be
in the ascendant.

1 From tke tenour of all the most reliable commu-
nications from Paris, it seems pretty certain that
Sardinia has succeeded in drawing the attention of
the Pelee Congress to the condition of Italy.
The details of conversations and proceedings may
be many of them apocryphal, but it is hardly pro-
bable that the main fact is so. It would appear
that the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries have spoken
almost without reserve respecting the portions of
Italy not under Austrian rule, and the hollow-
ness of the pretended amnesty for the Lombard
patriots of 1848, who have taken refuge in Pied-
, mont, is complained of in direct terms ; but the
censures directed against the universal misgovern-.
went of Italy fall most heavily upon Austria, since
Naples, the Roman States, Parma, Modena, and
Tuscany are what they are beeanse of the support
of the barbarous oppressor of Lombardy and
Venice. If our sentimental admirers of Popery
wish to see the object of their admiration in full
bloom they have but to turn their glance to Italy
itself, and if they have one drop of British blood
in their veins they will be cured of all hanker-
ings for the blessings of Catholicism.
In Italy they will see their PONTIFF and his
satellites in all the glory of Ecclesiocracy. One
corner only of the Peninsula—Piedmont—has
become a kind of Gibraltar for the rights of lay-
men in this entire territory of the corruptest
church despotism. Not mere completely have
all the petty princes of India been for the last
half century the mere puppets of the Eng-
lish Crown than are all the Governments of Italy
—the malignant Austrian one included—have been
the servile tools of the POPE and the Jesuits.
We need not disgust our readers with descriptions
of the superstition and immorality of the lower
orders, and the alject superstition and cruelties
of the King of NAPLES and the Duke of TUSCANY.
All that is matter of notoriety. What presses on the
statesmen of the day is that all the educated and
middle classes are in a state of mental revolt againfst
the direct government of the Church, and against
its indirect government, through the stupid despots
who execute its decrees, and who are rewarded
by it with personal licence and political aid in this
world, and salvation in the next too. Theltalians
. .
are not yet sunk to the level of Prussians. They
are not prepared to sacrifice their aspirations fox
liberty to the gains of a neutral commerce be-
tween an arch-despot and the vindicators of na-
tional rights. They still aspire to be free Italians,
and slaves neither to Austria nor to thePOP.S and
his minions. They do not as a people reject the
Catholic faith, but they reject the secular govern-
ment of ecclesiastics, of cardinals, priests, and monks.
At present the whole land groans under Church
rule. Austrian occupation and Papal domination
grind the people between them, and both work in
a Perfect Concordat to the same purpose.

True, Russia has been unable to hold all her own.
True, her fleets have skulked behind her fortifi
cations from the fleets of the Allies. True, one of
them had to be burnt or sunk to escape capture.
True, her armies have been beaten in every
foughten field. True, one-half of Sebastopol is in
possession of the Allies, together with the vast
store of ammunition and instruments of war it
contained. True some half million of her sol-
diers have been destroyed, and millions of her
treasure have been expended. But what of that ?
How otherwise did the conclusion of peace find
her ? With a fleet still in her possession, and the
means of building other fleets. With half of
Sebastopol intact, and all the necessary muni-
ments of defence. With hordes of serfs to recruit
her armies and her fleets. With Sweaborg but in
partial ruin. With Cronstadt and St. Peters.
burg unassailed. With Odessa, as a mercantile
port, uninjured. With Kars and thebravest portion
cf the army of Anatolia in her custody. With
the bravery of her armies admitted. With the
fact patent to the world, that she had resisted
with a success almost miraculous the onslaught of
two of the greatest, and two of the lesser Powers
of Europe ! Why, when peace is made, have
recourse to falsehood, when the miserable folly of
the Allies had let her off so unscathed by war,
that the truth, or a portion of it, would have
served her purpose ? The EMPEROR but too well
knew what would have been the issue of another
campaign—that defeat, dire and irretrievable,
had been sown for Russia, and victory signal
and irresistible for the Allies ; and that the har-
vest would have been thoroughly woo, had not
his friends in the Allied camp been all powerful,
and overridden the wishes and sacrificed the inte-
rests of the people. Had he no gratitude, that
he should insist in his Manifesto that Russia
comes out of the war, comparatively speaking,
victorious, by the might of her own right arm,
when all that was needed was to point to what
the Allies had palpably left unaccomplished,
and Russia has secured, to wit, in addition to the
restoration of what has been taken from her, an in-
terval—which she may prolong at her own dis-
cretion, wherein to pursue uninterruptedly her
intrigues, recruit her strength, cultivate and
husband her resources, and, by the laying down
of a network of railways, render them more than
ever available for her felonious purposes. What
miserable bosh then this lying prate, of labourers
hastening (if they did it was in chains) from the
plough to arm in defence of Russia--of repulses of
the foe that never took place—of successes due
only to the folly of the Allies, and of the (Russian)
object of the War being attained ! Not only to
be permitted to escape utter prostration, but also
to come off with the semblance of a successful de-
fence against such odds was surely triumph
enough.

THE WEATIIBf.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 11.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
ol—highest since noon ye3torday.
48 -towest this morning and during the night.
59 thin (lay at coon.
BAROMETER, 21'77—a rise of nearly half an inch since
yesterday.
WIND, S.W.—Light, with fine, mild, but cloudy, sun-
shiOy weather. Some rain in the morning and forenoon.

ikt -4) t),

It is in the name of oppressed Italy that Pied.,
racilt llow speaks. Austria would have kicked, but
found that 111. CAVOUR had unexpectedly the good-
will at.least of the EMPEROR. The latter had previ-
ously received %Sardinian memorandum, of which
Italian grievances Were the subject. The COUNT
pressed his point ; in answer to the objections of
Austria to the right of Sardinia to speak for Italy
he retorted that he did so by as good a right as
that which Austria assumed of speaking for y
Ger-
many. Austria defended foreign. Occupation by
the fact of the Allies occupying the - BANK NOTES.—A Treasury
Ott minute, dated the 18th
oman ter- ult orders the payment to the public of the net profits
titory ; the Count replied that the latter was for of the additional issue of bank notes. under the order in
the defence of Turkey against the designs of Council of the 7th of December, 1855. The additional
IsosuBeoTassi 475,00 M, and the net profit thereon amounts
Russia
t
Russia ; and added yet more boldly that so long as '
it lasted it was to enable the SULTAN to carry out 1 has rmeiesesiivoender aonf
Nzw ENTRANCE TO THE REGENT'S-PARlC.—Dr.hGocurhl.ey
reforms, while the Italian occupation, on the con. , Coin official 8 caonn
di mun
Publici e ti on from t
Works,
informing e
trary, was for the protection of the Government himel that the new entrance to the Regent's-park from
g:t rt
he eet ,113 Pt oorftlivainadyitown, will be opened to the
which refused to introduce any reforms. The re. I public on
suit appears to be that the Conference is discuss. , stirOvi.ll.?"dav, died, we deeply regret to say, the eldest
and .
Tait:
Doevatelholdcaorflistllele Very Rev.h ArchtdbanlidneCmamonptbhesll
being the fifth sister cut off by scarlet fever within five
ing, among other topics, the rights of Italy,
, age, eight years an . . ,
. Villiers) wilftlatptely,'tac°l
the evils of foreign occupation. weeks.
It would appear that even LOUIS NAPOLEON is , The consecration of the Bishop Elect of Carlisle (Dr.
on Sunday morning next, at her
tired of the Government which he restored In
Majesty's C t -RoYa , Whitehall, at eleven o'clock.
Rome. Of the three objects obtained by his ocakl pie. Arcilbjgbop of icc,rk wilt aly ,te
910, . - -

pation of the city—the suppression of Republican
liberty, the restoration of the Pops, a measure
popular with his own clergy, and the balancing
the Austrian occupation of Ancona—it is not
easy to say which had the greatest weight in his
mind. All three were political cards in his
favour, and our Court and aristocracy hating
republicanism at least as much as he, were not
indisposed to see republican order subverted even
at the cost of reinstating the Pope, the Cardinals,
and the Inquisition, in full power over the bodies
and souls of the unhappy Romans. The result
has been what France is, we believe, thoroughly
ashamed of. France is Catholic, but it is not
priest-governed--indeed there the priests, like
our bishops, are rather the employes of the
Government than the Government the tool of the
priests. The Government Exchequer has taken
security for their subordination there, and ac-
cordingly they diligently plant trees of liberty
one year, and shout " Viva l'Etnpereur" the nexf.
It is difficult to predict the result. The least
possible we may be sure in favour of liberty. It
is, not easy to say whether the Emperor of the
FRENCH will prefer raising Piedmont to be an
Italian counterpoise to Austria, or keeping a
constitutional monarchy in relative inferiority. He
does not like Austria omnipotent in Italy, nor we
conceive will he like a powerful and well-regulated
constitutional State for a neighbour on the south.
Between England, and Sardinia growing in im-
portance, it will become increasingly difficult to
silence all political ability in France but his own.
As to our Government and Aristocracy, we
can hardly suppose that either Whigs or Tories
do not look on the constitutional course
of Sardinia with pleasure. Its spirit has
conformed so closely to our own. Its Sove-
reigns and Ministers have so honourably and
steadily, and under several tests, proved their
capacity for harmonising the conflicting elements
of party into effective action that English States-
men of all parties must be cordial well-wishers to
an increase of the power and influence of the Sar-
dinian monarchy. Hoping the least, we can yet
expect but little ; two things only are certain,
that the sacrifices of this small State in the War
deserve that she should be supported against the
coward Austria ; but that Austria, Russia, and
the Coburgs, we fear also Louis NAroLEoN, can
scarcely be very friendly to the just claims of the
only free Italian State.

LATEST NEWS.

Of all sorts of lying, saving and excepting
malicious, we take wanton or supererogatory lying
to be the least excusable, inasmuch as it is not
merely immoral, but foolish also and suicidal.
Yet this is precisely the sort of fabrication which
characterises the Manifesto of the Emperor ALEX-
ANDER. The truth would have served his turn
infinitely better had he stuck to it ; but it seems
the old Greek leaven was too appropriate for the
wounded vanity. of the Russ to fail of applica-
tion, and the result is he has lowered himself
in European estimation, and diminished
whatever confidence his subjects reposed in
him. It were hard to believe that filial piety
has so far blinded his understanding as to.
cause him to have faith in the lying assur-
ances of the deceased Nlcnotes, that he bad no
selfish intention in invading the Principalities,
and from humane motives was repugnant to war,
and anxious to avoid all occasion for it ; but it
would be sheer folly to give him credit for a like
bAndness as to the results of the hostilities waged
by Russia with the Allies. these are too palpable
for misapprehension on his part, and too patent.
for concealment from his subjects—And we will
add, on the whole, of too gratifying a nature to
call for so much perversion, even from the most
unscrupulous.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The following was the situation of the Bank on
Thursday, April 10 :

CR. Fr. c.
Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks
Billedue yesterday to be paid to•day 564,036 18
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 77,664,136 10
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 36,017,800
Do. in the branch banks
Do. 'to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1843
Advanoes on Treasury bills 40,000,000
Rentes of the reserve fund
Rentes of disposable funds ..
Hotel and furniture of the Bank
Real property of branch banks
Expenses of administration 1,131,890 70
Premiums on the purchase of matierea 1,883,245 64
Sundries 988,247 2

1,016,023,099 35

THE SUi', LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING APRIL APRIL 11, 1856.

Albion has lost her prestige. Tile West has
shown to us what we were to expect from it. Let
us profit by the lesson we have received ; for, in
the end, Russia, by her armies, her population,
aid her geographical position, is the most vigorous
of all empires. Only her productive forces are not
sufficiently developed, and from that cause she is
poorer than other countries.' "