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London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1860.

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JULLIEN F U N D.
COMMITTEE ROOM-50, NEW Borin-STREET.
The Committee of the Jullien Fund, fearing that the sub-
scriptions have been materially checked by the unfortunate
death of Mons. Jullien, desire to explain that a widow and
others, members of his family, can be protected from want
only by the kind aid of those who appreciate the great ser-
vices rendered by the late lamented maestro to the cause of
the musical education of the English people.
The committee confidently appeal to that benevolence for
which their countrymen are so distinguished, for such
Prompt and liberal additions to the subscription list as shall
enable them to do some justice to the memory of M. Jullien,
and at the same time afford adequate relief to his bereaved
family.
COMMITTEE for the DISTRIBUTION of the JULLIEN

THE _NAVY.

The reports from a Malta correspondent, which

_reach to the 22d April, announce the arrival there
On the morning preceding, from Gibraltar, of the
squadron under Rear-Admiral Rodney Mundy,
consisting of the Hannibal (flag-ship), Renown,
James Watt, and Agamemnon, ships of the line,
and the steam corvette Scylla, which, added to the
squadron under the Commander-in-Chief already
there, brings up the present force in Malta harbour
to nine sail of the line, besides the smaller vessels,
the London having arrived from Cephalonia on the
117th, after escorting, with the Exmouth and Liffey,
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands
on a tour to the Southern Islands, the last two
mentioned ships baying returned to Corfu. The
Assurance, which was despatched to Messina on
the 15th, returned to Malta on the 20th of April ;
and the Boxer, which left on the 11th for Catania
and Syracuse, returned to Malta 4on the 21st, re-
porting all as quiet in those places, .as the presence
of a large and daily increasing garrison would natu-
rally command. Not so, however, in the country
outside Palermo, Wrapani, Marsala, and places ad-
jacent, with few or no garrisons, for which direction
the Amphion left Malta on the 17th, to take the
place of the Orion, which arrived at Malta from
Naples and Palermo, on the 16th, wad left for Gib-
raltar and Plymouth on the 19th, under canvas,
being unable safely to steam from defects in her
stuffing boxes, which render her being sent home
necessary. She conveyed 55 naval and 25 military
invalids,four soldiers' wives and eight children. The
Victor Emmanuel left on the 7th, but whether for
Corfu or Palermo is not known. The Neptune is
under orders to leave Malta at a moment's notice
for any point of Sicily, where the telegraph wires
may point out her presence to be wanted for the
protection of British interests, though from the fact
of the frequent stoppage, under orders of the Go-
vernment of the Two Sicilies, of the working of
the telegraph to Malta, intelligence of moment
is more likely to reach this island by the ordi-
nary steam packets from Marseilles, and there-
fore the actual presence of a British ship-of-war
in the principal ports of Sicily would be more
satisfactory to British subjects there established
than having to trust to summoning one from
Malta, where, after all, so many ships•of--war
can scarcely be needed. Her Majesty's survey-
ing vessel Firefly, Captain Mansell, for Beyrout on
surveying duties, was under orders for sea at Malta,
to be followed by the Medina, Capt. Spratt. The
Intrepid, whose commander, Marryat, has shown
some resolution in desiring the military com-
mandant to cease unnecessary firing from the citadel
at night time to the alarm of the citizens, continues
at Messina, and the Banshee at Constantinople,
whence she will probably convey for a cruise as far
as Trebizond Sir Henry Bulwer, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Ambassador at the Sublime Porte, and later
in the summer embark at the same port for Europe
Sir Henry Rawlinson, who has resigned the Am-
bassadorship at the Court of the Shah.
The following ships have commenced loading
from the Military Store department at Woolwich,
for foreign stations—namely, the Harbinger, Pro-
these, Weymouth, her Majesty's iron screw steam
troopship Megaara, the Effort, Clara, Samuel, Prin-
ceza, Syria, Hannibal, Amaranthe, Maria, and
Lauderdale.

Her Majesty's screw steam gun-vessel Landrail,
fitting for service at Woolwich, was yesterday
hauled into the inner basin to ship the experi-
mental boiler manufactured from the design of the
Earl of Dundonald, for trial; and the steam store
ship Rhadamanthus was taken into the same basin,
alongside the factory, to be fitted with the Hon.
John Wethered's superheating gear.
The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. W. Tumour, flag-
ship of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Keppell,K.C.B.,went
out of Portsmouth Harbour yesterday at noon under
canvas, and afterwards anchored at Spithead, where
she took in her powder, shell, &c. She will sail
from Spithead this morning for the Cape of Good
Hope, calling at Plymouth to take in A mail. It was
expected that his Excellency Sir George Grey, Go-
vernor of the Cape, with his family and suite, would
defer embarking on board the Forte until she arrived
in Plymouth Sound.
The Victoria and Albert Royal paddle yacht,
Capt. the Hon. Joseph Denman, has landed her
paddle shaft on the sheer jetty of the dockyard at
Portsmouth.

In the steam basin at Portsmouth, the Nelson,
91, screw, is expected to get up her steam this
morning to test her machinery. She has her tanks
in and stowed, and has commenced taking on board
her cables.

The Duncan, 101, screw ; the Victoria, 121,
screw ; and the Immortalite, 51, screw, have all
got their cables on board, but have not yet received

;heir tanks.

In the four line-of-battle-ships belonging to the
division of the Channel fleet at Spithead, there are
now vacancies for 89 petty officers.
The Russian screw steam-frigate Askold left Ply-
mouth Sound on Thursday with the customary
salutes for Portsmouth. Her officers will probably
visit the Great Eastern before sailing for Cronstadt.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Terrible,2l, Capt.
Glasse, C. 8., in Plymouth Sound, received her
powder on Thursday.

The naval apprentice brig Nautilus, Lieut. W.
B. Grant commanding, sailed out of Hamoaze on
Thursday, and took her customary quarters between
Millbay and. St. Nicholas Island, Plymouth.
The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Capt. Ed-
ward S. Sotheby, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound under
canvas on Thursday for Portland.
The screw steam sloop Surprise, [4, recently paid
off, was towed on Thursday from Devonport Dock-
yard to the west moorings in Hamoaze.
The screw steam frigate Melpomene, 51, Capt. C.
J. F. Evart, at Plymouth, is discharging her pow-
der, preparatory to going into dock.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:--Lieutenants W. E. S.
Brome, W. L. Martin, and A. S. Montagu, addi-

tional, to the Marlborough ; Lieut. C. D. Sanders
to the Excellent, Lieut. 0. T. Lang to the Cressy,
Lieut. J. Patton to the Bacchante, E. L. Green;
mate, to the Bacchante, C. E. Napier, J. G. Mas-
ters, A. Hutchinson, and Lambton L. L. Bevan,
naval cadets, to the Bacchante ; T. Ramsbotham,
midshipman, to the Bacchante ; H. C. Jones, pro-
moted to the rank. of first-class assist.-engineer, and
appointed to the 'Wellington as supernumerary;
P. J. Roberts, third class assist.-engineer, to the
Asia, as supernumerary ; and W. C. P. Grant, pay-
master additional, to the Hero,

THE ARMY.

Yesterday a Board of the Commissioners of Chel-
sea Hospital assembled at Chatham for the inspec-
tion of those wounded and disabled troops who have
recently arrived at that garrison from India, when
a number of men who were found to be unfit for
further service were ordered to be discharged.
The 15th brigadeof Royal Artillery will be formed
and placed under orders et Gosport on the Ist pros..
and will consist of 3 lieutenant-colonels, 1 surgeon,
12 captains, 16 lieutenants, 1 paymaster, 1 quarter-
master, 1 sergeant-major, 1 quartermaster-sergeant,
3 battery sergeants, 40 sergeants, 32 corporals, 32
bombardiers, 770 gunners, and 16 trumpeters.
Major Dickson, from Christchurch, joins the brigade.
Lieut.-Col. N. 0. S. Turner's 10th battery, 4th
field-brigade garrison artillery, are under orders to
leave Woolwich for Northampton.
The following promotions and appointmcns
were yesterday announced at Woolwich as having
taken place in the Royal Marines, consequent on
the increase of the corps, under her Majesty's order
in Council of Feb. 22, 1860:—First Lieut. and
Quartermaster H. F. Cooper, of the Chatham divi-
sion, to be captain, and to be appointed to that divi-
sion ;' First Lieut, and Adjt. J. H. Maskery, of the
Chatham division, to be captain, and appointed to
the Portsmouth division ; First Lieut. H. C. Mudge,
of the Plymouth division, to be captain, and ap-
pointed to the Woolwich division ; First Lieut. and
Quartermaster A. Wolrige, of the Woolwich divi-
sion, to be captain, and appointed to the Portsmouth
division,,vice Capt. E. M'Arthur, to be removed to
the additional artillery company ; Second Lieut. R.
G. Sharpe, of the Portsmouth division, to be first
lieutenant, and appointed to the Chatham division;
Second Lieut. T. M. Whale, of the Plymouth divi-
sion, to be first lieutenant, and appointed to the
Portsmouth division ; Second Lieut. E. 0. B. Gray,
of the Plymouth division, to be first lieutenant, and
appointed to the same division ; Second Lieut. A.
E. Otter, of the Portsmouth division, to be first
Lieut., and appointed to the Chatham division ;
Second Lieut; Frederick. Amelius Ogle, of the ar-
tillery division, to be First Lieut., and appointed
to that division ; Second Lieut. Francis Edmund
Begbie, of the artillery division, to be First Lieut.,
and appointed to the same ; Second Lieut. George
Harrie Thorn Colwell, of the Portsmouth division,
to be First Lieut., and appointed to that division ;
Second Lieut. James Samuel Derriman, of the ar-
tillery division, to be First Lieut., and appointed to
that division ; Second Lieut. Edward Ellice Hill,
of the artillery division, to be First Lieut., and
appointed to that division ; Second Lieut. Hugh
William Bamber, of the Portsmouth division, to be
First Lieut., and appointed to the Chatham divi-
sion ; Second Lieut. Herbert Everitt, of the ar4il-
lery division, to be First Lieut., and appointed, to
the same division ; Second Lieut. Evelyn Sturt, of
the Plymouth division, to be First Lieut., and ap-
pointed to the same division ; Lirst Lieut. William
Henry Clements, of the Woolwich division, to be
Lieut. and Quartermaster to that division, vice
Wolrige, promoted ; First Lieut. James Sterling
Mould of the Chatham division, to be Lieut. and
Quartermaster, and appointed to that division, vice
Cooper, promoted ; Second Lieut. James Pulteney
Murray, of the Portsmouth division, to be Adjt.,
and appointed to the Chatham division, vice Mas-
kery, promoted.

at Frankfort, however, he immensely increased his
knowledge of state affairs, and made the acquaint-
ance of distinguished political men from-all parts of
,Germany. Upon his return from the Maine he was
nominated Minister of Trade, and a member of the
committee for elaborating the Austriln constitution
of March, 1819, since abandoned. • The committee
had scarcely completed its work when Bruck was
selected to negotiate with Sardinia. It was the first
time that, in Austria, a merchant had been nomi-
nated ambassador-plenipotentiary, and the employ-
ment was one which the first diplomatists, ef the
empire would have accepted with pride. lie con-
cluded, with Count Revel and General Dabormida,
against the protests of Austrian soldiers and diplo-
matists of the old school, such a peace as Sardinia
could observe without degradation ; and he, at the
same time, improved the opportunity to adjust a
frontier question, and some fiscal difficulties con-
nected with the wine and salt trade, which a more
accomplished negotiator might have thought be-
neath his notice or unworthy of the occasion.
The two commercial treaties with Parma
and Modena the latter of which secured
the free navigation of the Po, and prepared
the way for a subsequent postal and customs
union with Austria—were about this time brought
into a very advanced state by the efforts of Bruck.
Upon his return from Italy he devoted himself to
the Ministry of Trade, a department new to the
state system of Austria, and which he had to orga-
nise from its elements. lie set resolutely to work,
deposed the incompetent, encouraged the deserving,
and gave scope for latent talent, until his ministry
became a model of order and an example of effi-
ciency. He established a statistical bureau, and
introduced a system of monthly returns; reformed
chambers of commerce; concluded postal treaties
with Bavaria, Prussia, and Saxony; reconstructed
the postal administration of Hungary`;' multiplied
post-offices throughout the monarchy; gave an ex-
tension of 1,000 miles to the electric telegraph ; and
crowned his work by abolishing the interior cus-
toms line, which had separated the kingdom of
Hungary from Austria, and by a revision of the
Imperial tariff. He would have gone further in the
work of reform, but every step he took was against
the passive resistance of a jealous bureaucracy and
the active opposition of a half-enlightened com-
mercial community attached to the prohibitive
system. Within the cabinet he had his opponents,
whom, even with the powerful aid of Prince
Schwarzenberg, his firm friend, he could not always
overcome. He laboured f6r the emancipation of
trade, and contended at the council' board that a
true system of finance must admit and favour the
rapid development of all the resources of the state.
These opinions, and a strong conviction of the neces-
sity of reducing the outgoings of the Imperial Ex-
chequer, brought him into collision with the Finance
Minister, and in May, 1851, he resigned, receiving
the dignity of a Baron of the Austrian Empire.
After his release from the cares of office, Bruck
visited London during the season of the Great Ex-
hibition, and spent the remainder of the year in
Trieste, where he was received-with the warmest
demonstrations of regard. In December, 1852, he
was recalled to Vienna and sent to Berlin, where
he negotiated with the Prussian plenipotentiary,
Von Pommeresche, a commercial treaty between
Austria and the Zoliverein. Bruck had returned
to Trieste and was occupied in his favourite pur-
suits, when, in 1853, he was appointed to the most
important post to which an Austrian diplomatist
could be called—he was nominated Internuncio at
Constantinople. His work was, first, to restore
those earlier friendly relations of Austria with the
Porte which had been so rudely displaced by Count
Leinigen on special mission from Vienna, and
afterwards to maintain the influence of Austria
against that of Russia, France, and England. It
will be admitted that this was no light task, seeing
that the three Powers were respectively making
armed demonstrations, while Austria professed no
more than a neutrality friendly to the Porte.
Whatever opinion may be formed of the policy of
the Austrian Cabinet, there can be no doubt that
it was faithfully represented at Constantinople by
Baron Bruck. From the departure of Prince
Menschikoff from Constantinople (18th May)
to the day of his recall, he was the appointed
protector of the Czar's subjects in Turkey, and at
the same time one of the chief foreign advisers
of the Porte. Ilis efforts were always directed
to the maintenance or the restoration of peace.
Thus he opposed the declaration of war by the Sul-
tan in 1853, advised the acceptance of the Vienna
note, and opposed, as far as he could, the original
passage of the British fleet through the Dardanelles.
The act with which his name is most permanently
identified is the Convention of Jane, 1854, by which
Austria gained a splendid military position on the
Danube as far as to the Pruth, without incurring
any further obligation than that of defending the
same. At the commencement of 1855, Bruck was
recalled to Vienna, to take charge of the Ministry
of Finance, vacant by the resignation of Herr von
Braumgarten."

(From the _Daily News.)
Austria seems bent upon reviving the choicest
traditions of the Cmsars. The winding-up of the
Italian war bids fair to hurry half of the eminent
men in that Empire to their last account. The
other day it was a General, then an obscure name
or two, and now it is no less a personage than the
Minister of Finance himself, who finds it less diffi-
cult to die than to face an audit. An army sacri-
ficed to jobbers is no new invention; " there was
once a contractor" is a capital resume of many an
unsuccessful campaign. But a favoured and con-
fidential minister opening his veins and hastening
his exit with a cup of poison is a picture in the man-
ner of that ancient master who burnt as with a hot
iron into the memory of men the names of a Sejanus
and his patron—of a Seneca and his pupil. But
when the Roman wrote, historical Europe was still
young; how much wiser and more humane the
centuries have made us the latest heirs of time !
Our despotisms are enlightened, our Caesars most
religious and apostolical ; and we never hear of a
monarch deliberately punishing with an ignomi-
nious death the desperate fidelity of a Minister, or
politely suggesting to a prosy old philosopher to
make himself scarce by the gentle application Of a
lancet in a warm bath. In Austria, for example—.
the keystone of the arch of European order, the
citadel of divine right—the stronghold of pure
monarchical principle—the quiet way in which an
able and energetic Minister of Finance is suddenly
announced to be " out of office," and the imposing
ceremony with which be takes leave of his re-
sponsibilities, are a vast improvement upon ;the
manners and customs of the Court of a Domitian.
Tacitus has nothing more remarkable to relate than
an occasional hint from the Emperor to some ob-
noxious or inconvenient subject to try a change of
air in the Elysian Fields. In our highly civilised
epoch it is not permitted to a Minister of State to
take himself off on such easy terms. Poor Baron
Bruck, with the merciless precision and complete-
ness of a mrn of business accustomed to liquidations
on the largest scale, cuts his throat from end to end,
and both his wrists into the bargain, and to make
the final settlement doubly sure and expeditious,
drinks some solution of all earthly difficulties. It
was reserved to Austria to surpass all her brilliant
reactions and revivals by this ghastly parody of
the administration of the Caesars.
Are we, then, to be told that the cause of pro-
gress is compromised in that unfortunate Empire
by the terrible fate of the only man who represented
modern ideas at the Court of Francis Joseph? Let
us be careful how we point the moral of a tale of
which we know neither the beginning nor the end.
From as much as the official journals of the Aus-
trian Government have ventured to reveal we might,
even without any affected reticence, hesitate to ad-
mit the conclusion that this illustrious and unhappy
man was a culprit rather than a victim.
Conjectures, in the absence of known facts, are
scattered broadcast on every page of history far
less credible ; theories more ingenious, no doubt,
but far less consistent with probability than one
which might describe the death of Baron Bruck
as the despair of a statesman tasked beyond his
strength, driven mad by the obstinacy and perver-
sity of the fools and bigots whom he served, and by
the forecast of insurmountable calamities. The
position of a Finance Minister in Austria is no post
of honour or of ease in these latter days, and the
successor to Baron Bruck will be a prodigy of indif-
ference or of strength if lie prove happier in his
outgoing:than the colleague of Stadion and Schwar-
zenberg.
It is no concern of ours to attempt to vindi-
cate the reputation of a man who has fled to a tri-
bunal from which there is no appeal. A bloody
shroud is the common destiny of the best and the
worst under such a Government as the Austrian.
Certain it is that Baron Bruck, who at the age
of sixty-two, in the maturity of his fame, in the
enjoyment of all the rewards of fortune, has taken
refuge from Imperial justice in the accusing silence
of the grave, is the man of all others to whom the
Austria of our day owes whatever of vitality it still
preserves. And be his errors or his crimes what they
may, not only Austria but all Germany is under an
obligation to that Prussian soldier of 1814.---that
merchant of Trieste who founded the Austrian

PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD•,

Lloyds—that representative at the • NatiOnal As-
sembly of 'frankfort-in '4B 'who contended for
German"unity—that Minister of Trade who con-
eluded a treaty of commerce between Austria and
the Zollverein—that diplomatist who sustained the
influence of Austria, in the East during the Rus-
sian war;--that ,Uiuister who revised the tariff,
reformed the
.postal service, resisted- bigotry and
privilege in
_every 'degree, restrained the bureau-
cracy, .and=by I4s fertility of. resource, and energy
of combination; alone for years preserved an empire
wasted by intestine conflicts from 'irrecoverable
ruin. If Biiron Brutk, absolutely • without tempta-
tion, was really the corner Atone of a,gigantic arch
of fraud, whom ought we blame—the man. or the
.system ? What impulse, what reward, what recog-
nition has honest public service in Austria? Pub-
lie service ! Why, there is no such thing as public
service in a State where an Emperor is all in all
—where good and bad men alike breathe a stifling
atmosphere, of secrecy and repression which re-
laxes the conscience, enslaves the intellect, corrupts
the heart. Even in a free country Bargn Bruck
might perhaps have languished in a counting-
house ; but as a statesman in a free country he
would have lived and died without a stain.