The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,
_FRIDAY EYENINCI, JUN' E 27, MC

vest, or some drawing of the rein too tightly at an
injudicious time, or any impolitic move, might in
4. moment cause a fearful and fatal outburst.
Numerous as the Bonapartists are, yet a little
overdoing the dynastic policy might subvert in an
hour the subverter of the Republic. A people
so restless and excitable as the French, allowed no
expression of opinion, and abounding in these
secret societies, resemble nothing so much as a
mine with the train ready for an explosion by
the smallest spark.
Is it owing to this similarity of position that
the Emperors of FRANCE and AIISTRIA show such
mutual inclination to co-operate ? And is it owing
to his relation to Lmis NAPOLEON, that Lord
PALMERSTON gave Sardinia the cold shoulder in
the British House of Commons, and plays the part
of Austria, the most detested by his country of all
the Powers of Europe ?

The Corporation of London have done them-
selves honour by their resolution of yesterday to
present the freedom of the City to Gen. WIL-
LIAMS. It is characteristic of this as of other
free countries that civic honours are not accepted
with mere complacency, but are prized as much if
not more than any other by our military and
naval heroes. Only the other day Admiral LYONS
hesitated not to inform the Corporation that
to merit the like presentation had been one of the
proudest, longest cherished, and most ardent
aspirations of his life, and we doubt not General
WILLIAMS will be found to have equally appre-
ciated the distinction. It is another characteristic
of free countries that nowhere are tributes of gra-
titude and admiration to military and naval men
more spontaneously rendered or so deservedly
bestowed. The reason is obvious. The relations
of these two classes of the community are, in the
main, as they should be. The armies and navies
of free countries are the champions and defenders
of the citizens, and not rods of oppression,
and the latter, conscious of their responsibility,
have no motive to be otherwise than just in their
awards. Hence they possess a value which the
recipients are the first to recognise. The happi-
ness of such a state of things can scarcely be ap-
preciated as it should be, save by the subjects of
military despotisms, who groan beneath the ex-
actions and brutalities of a faVoureci and most
injurious class of hirelings.

The corporation of London, we say, have done
themselves honour by their resolution. The hero of
Kars is not an every-daynora one-sided commander.
To luck he owes exceedingly little. What glory
he has achieved—and it is both great and im-
mortal—has been fairly earned. In peace he
prepared himself for war, and in war he never for-
got that he was the servant of his country, and as
such it was his duty to do the best he could for
her under all circumstances, unfavourable as well
as favourable. That his mettle was and is heroic
is perhaps his least merit, though a legitimate
source of pride and congratulation to his country-
men, and a title to superior respect. We will not
trespass on our space by referring minutely to the
incidents of his early life, or the circumstances
which will hand down his name to posterity
wreathed with undying laurels. To such as
would refresh their recollection we recommend
a perusal of the admirable speech of Mr. VAL-
LANCE, the proposer of the motion ; and, having
done so, we would have them decide whether the
proposition with which we set out is not amply
substantiated—whether in resolving to present the
freedom of the City to the individual of whom the
noble MOURAVIEFF declared "he had made him-
self a name in history, and posterity would stand
amazed at the endurance, the courage, and the
disciplinA whia, that Siogo (vathor, we .Lould ml4sr,
Gen. WILLIAMS') called forth in the remnant of an

army," the Corporation of London have not done
themselves honour. Vainly would Lord STRAT
FORD DE REDCLIFFE or the Earl of CLARENDON
look for such distinction in connection with the
war at their hands. They have shown they have
not forgotten how to appreciate distinguished
merit, and to appreciate it worthily.

The explanation given by Mr. WILSON, last
evening, of the arrangement for postal communi-
cation with Australia made by Government will
be read with considerable satisfaction both in this
country and the Australian colonies. All has
certainly not been done that could be desired ;
but it is quite evident Government has at last
taken up the matter in earnest, and has preferred
incurring a certain extra outlay to having the
communication in question any longer suspended.
The contract entered on will insure, in the first
instance, the departure of a duly-appointed vessel
from Southampton to Melbourne direct, round
the Cape, with passengers, in October,
and its readiness to take up the service
from Melbourne to Suez in January. In No-
vember another will follow, and a third and
fourth in December and January, after which
latter period the service is to be performed be-
tween Suez and Melbourne monthly, without in-
terruption, backwards and forwards each month
by vessels of 2,200 tons burthen, and of not less
than 500-horse power. The advocates of a more
frequent and complete communication must bide
their time, and there can be little doubt that
when the above service is fairly re-established, no
great difficulty will be experienced in ob-
taining an additional one by the Panama
route. The interests of all parties con-
nected with the Australian trade entitle them
to this additional service ; and the State,
we are inclined to believe, will before then see
sufficient reasons to establish it on its own ac-
count, independent of any willingness it may feel
to do justice to the industry and enterprise of so
spirited a class of its subjects.
A trade so important, and carried on at such a
distance, ought assuredly not to be dependent on
the facilities for postal communication afforded by
a solitary route, the safety of which might be en-
dangered by the events of a single fortnight.
Nor ought 50 days to be occupied in what may
be done in 40.

ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCESS ROYAL.— We are sorry
to hear that the Princess Royal has bustained some in-
jury from an accident which occurred to her Royal
Highness on Tuesday last. The Princess was engaged
about midday in her boudoir, and was in the act of
lighting a wax taper when a spark ignited the sleeve of
a gauze dress worn by her Royal Highness. The flame
spread rapidly, and in an instant the whole sleeve from
the wrist to the shoulder was in a blaze. Her Royal
Highness manifested remarkable presence of mind under
the trying circumstances, and succeeded in extinguishing
the flames before they had communicated with the body
of the dress. The Princess's arm was much burnt, and
her Royal Highness has since been confined to the
Palace, and was prevented by this circumstance from
accompanying the Queen to Grosvenor•bouse last evening.
Count Walewaki intends leaving Paris next week for
Homburg, with the intention of being absent about
three weeks or a month.

The peace of the Papal States is now maintained by
14,000 Austrian, 6,000 French, and 12,000 (?) Roman
troops.

The administration of the Bank of France have de-
clared a dividend of 137 f. for the first six months of 1856,
payable on the lst July.
The Trieste Zeitung learns that a privilege for esta-
blishing a bank at Constantinople has been granted to
Messrs. Ede and Co., in company with some Trieste
banking) firms.
FOAGED Eims.—Yesterday, at the Huddersfield
Guildhall, Henry Leadbeater, a woollen-merchant, car-
rying on business iu the town under the firm of Wm,:
Leadbeater and Son, on remand, was charged with ut-
tering two bills of exchange, well, knowing them to be
forged. After thelearing of evidence the case was re-
manded fora week.

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL
TRIESTE, JUNE 26.

The steamer America arrived here to-day at
7.30 a.m. She left Alexandria on the 20th of
June.

The India and China mails wore to leave Alex-
andria on the 21st, with advises from Calcutta to
the 17th of May; Bombay, to the 27th of May ;
Hong Kong, to the 10th of May ; Shanghai, to
the 2d of May ; and Manilla, to the 6th of May.
Pablia works in India are stopped.
The Sonthals are again unquiet. An insurrec-

tion is on foot near Vizagapatam.
The King of Oude had arrived at Calcutta.

Exchange at Bombay, 2 1.

Freights have risen.

The cotton market was active.
Exchange at Calcutta, 2 li.

Trade was quiet.
Sugar was held at high prices.
Saltpetre was in dinnand.

Freights-were very low at Calcutta.
A band of rebels was approaching Foochow, 80
miles distant from Shanghai.

Exchange at Canton, 4'lo ; at Shanghai, 6•Bi ;
at Manila, 4•74:.
Freights in China, 3/. 10s. to 4/.

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 23.

An Imperial ukase of the 16th announces the
revision of the customs tariff of 1850. The duty
on coffee imported by sea is reduced 70 copecks
per poud (about 4 centimes per 20 kilogrammes).

TURIN, JUNE 25.

According to the Italian Correspendence, the
Austrian General Crenneville was to quit Parma
on the 22d, and the Duchess-Regent being de-
cided on supporting her Minister, was to raise
the state of siege on the occasion of the anniver-
sary of the birth-day of the Duke Robert, her
son.

Somewhat disquieting news has been received
from Lombardy. The lower clergy, who are in
despair at the thought of being entirely in the
power of their bishops, are suspected of favouring
the plans of the National Italian party, and the
probability is that the suspicion is not without
foundation. Considerable political excitement
prevails in Tuscany, and we learn by the Lom-
bardo-Venetian papers that the Tuscans are about
to petition their Sovereign to resuscitate their
Constitution.

HUME MEMORIAL.

Great City Meeting—(This Day.)

This morning a public meeting of the citizens 01
London and others, the friends and admirers of the po-
litical conduct of the late Joseph Hurne, Esq., was held
at the Mansion-house, under the presidency of the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor. The meeting was numerously
attended, and amongst those present were—Earl For-
tescue, Mr. R. Currie, M.P., Sir J. Walmsley, M.P.,
Mr. A. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Sheriff elect Keats, Mr. W.
Ewart, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. Prout, Mr.
Whitehurst, Mr. Tite, M.P., Alderman Sir J. Duke,
Bart., M.P.. Mr. Dakin, Mr. Nicholay, Baron Anthony
RotWsehild, Mr. F. Bennocb, Mr. Wilcocks, M.P.,
Mr. Hadfield, M.P., Mr. J. Forster, M.P., Alderman
Lawrence, M.P., A. Taylor, Mr. W. J. Hull, and Mr.
J. S. Robertson.

The Lord MAYOR briefly addressed the meeting, re-
marking that the conduct of the late Mr. Hume was so
much appreciated, that it required but few words from
him to bring before them the object of the meet-
ra-r, mud to urge on them that they ought to offer some
tribute to the memory of that most excellent individual.
(Hear, hear.) A more honest, truthful, and painstaking
man than' Mr. Hume never existed. He: believed a
man who bad done so much for his country was well
worthy of such an everlasting memorial as would trans-
uait his name and services to generations yet unborn,
(Hear, hear.) His Lordship said the subscriptions were
limited to 10/., which would enable every one wh"
admired Mr. Hume's conduct to contribute towards
the proposed memorial. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. DAKIN moved the first resolution—" That the
disinterested services of Mr. Hume for above forty years
in the House of Commons, his successful efforts to
check the waste of public' money, his constant sup
port of all measures conducive to the spread of moral
and intellectual improvement, and bis unvarying
advocacy of constitutional liberty, claim a last-
ing record of the gratitude of his countrymen."
He said that Mr. Hume was always the unflinching
advocate of economy and of public liberty and order.
He was a great supporter of mechanics' institutions, and
everything else that would bring knowledge and infor-
mation within the grasp of the people of this country.
His name would live as long as the history of this
country would be read and admired at home or abroad.
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Sir J. DUKE, M.P., seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
Alderman LAWRENCE moved the next resolution—
" That a City subscription list be now opened in aid of
the national subscription, for the erection of some me-
morial in honour of Mr. Hume, and to be limited to
101. from individual subscribers." He eulogised the
conduct of Mr. Hume, and said he wished the reformers
of the present day would followstrictly his public conduct.
Mr. J. FOSTER, M.P., seconded the resolution, which
was also carried unanimously.
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR, in moving the appointment of a
committee, said it was not generally known that Mr.
Hume assisted in drawing up the people's charter.
Mr. W. J. HALL seconded the motion. He said it
wan Mr. Hume's opinion that the Reformers would du
no good until they enrolled themselves in one vast com-
prehensive association to carry one object at a time.
(Hear, hear.)

Mr. ANDERTON addressed the meeting on the reso'u-
tion, which was afterwards put and carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. ANDERTON, seconded by Mr. T.
WALL, secretary to the Working Men's Hume Memo-
rial, a vote of thanks was unanimously carried, thanking
Earl Fortescue for originating this movement for a me-
morial to Mr. J. Hume, his late friend and fellow•
labourer in the cause of reform.

Earl FORTESCUE thanked the meeting for the compli-
ment paid him, and briefly stated what had been done
by the committee appointed at the West end of London.
Their exertions had been most successful, and he was de
lighted to find that the memory of an old reformer still
lived in the hearts of the citizens of London, and he
trusted that the example set there that day would be
largely followed by other cities and public bodies
throughout the country. (Applause.) The noble lord
concluded by proposing the thanks of the meeting to the
Lord Mayor for calling the present meeting.
Alderman WIRE seconded the motion, and adverted
to the difficulties Mr. Hume bad to encounter in the
early part of his political career ; but he never tired,
notwithstanding, until he had written his name on the
history of financial reform of this country, and he (Hr.
Wire) believed he had struck a blow at that system
which wasted the public money for the purpose of cor-
rupting public men. (Hear, hear.)
The LORD MAYOR having acknowledged the compli-
ment, the meeting separated.