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their straightforward straightforward avowals._Your politic ne-
gative too often turns out a positive affirmative,
and we have not far to go for its solution—be it
Downing-street or the Tuileries, Of the two we
frankly give Lord JOHN RUSSELL the doubt—if
doubt there be. From the first announce-
ment of the "»zagnifique idea"—that freedom
would wave her flag hem the Alps to
.the
Adriatic—our hearts warmed at the glory to be—
while our doubts crowded round like a nightmare,
which pressed the more heavily as we struggled to
shake off the incubus. It has proved, alas ! too
true. Fear is more sagacious than hope, and re-
coils from her own apprehensions. The Austrian
snake is scotched, but not yet killed. The Gallic
eagle has poised its wing, but only for a bolder
flight. NAPOLEON trusts in his destiny the
i more surely that all goes right as yet, and will to
the end. Nothing is too good for him, however
bad the means to its achievement. Well, we must
even bide our time to see the end thereof—and pre-
sume or repent accordingly.
The debate turned again last night on our
foreign relations, and our conduct in re-
spect to Savoy, Nice, and all the rest of
it. That we have been juggled throughout
is even now admitted from what may be termed
head-quarters, for Lord JOHN RUSSELL spoke out
in a strain which evoked the cheers of both sides
of the House, simply by telling the truth. Now
we forewarned the Government months ago to be
on their guard, for there was " evil betiding "
in the affairs of Italy. The grand " idea "
was merely a mistake, but it had its meaning.
There was duplicity combined with ambition from
the outset. The hint given to Baron HUBNER
proceeded from a motive best known to the Impe-
rial mind at the time. That hint has been acted
on, and served only as the precursor to others.
People may now ask why has the Emperor
NAAOLEON constructed such a menacing fleet ?
Why, but to back up his pretensions—and they
are many, by reference to the immensity of his
armaments. If his demands be refused—however
arrogant they be—he makes a sign, and the nations
are startled at his frown. Prudence shrinks
from the assertion even of just rights and national
respect. The absorption of Savoy and Nice, and
the neutral provinces bordering on Switzerland,
are but the beginning of the move—the march to
the Rhine will follow in due course, and the nations
will stare. Aye, they must move too; but they
will be too late if they do not take time by the
forelock, for the French are ever ready for a rush,
in the hope of a successful surprise.
That our Government have been taken in is now
clear. They believed, in a too frank spirit, the
professions of NAPOLEON, while his Ministers
were beguiling 'i:them with their eyes open.
And now that they feel the sting of the
deception they speak out in the anguish
of their spirit. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said :
Sir, my opinion as I declared it in July and Janu-
ary I have no objection now to repeat—that such
an act as the annexation of Savoy is one that will
lead a nation so warlike as the French to call upon
its Government from time to time to commit other
acts of aggression, and therefore, I do feel
I that, however we may wish to live on the
most friendly terms with the French Govern-
ment—and certainly I do wish to live on the most
friendly terms with that Government—we ought
not to keep ourselves apart from the other nations
of Europe, but that, when future questions may
arise—as future questions may arise—we should be
ready to act with others and to declare, always in
the most moderate and friendly terms, but still
firmly, that the settlement of Europe, the peace of
Europe, is a matter dear to this country, and that
settlement and that peace cannot be assured if it
is liable to perpetual interruption, to con•
stant fears, to doubts and rumours with respect
to the annexation of this one country, or the
union and connection of that other—but iTt,L.I- 4he
Powers of Europe, if they wish to maininf^ that
peace, must respect each other's rights, m• . •
each other's limits, and, above all, resfttrt. :ad not
tort
disturb that commercial confidence whichta the re-
sult of peace, which tends to pease, and which
ultimately forms the happiness of Rations.
And to this complexion have we come at
last! What will be the fate of the Treaty ?
—will it be torn to rags, too, like all our
ill-founded hopes on and belief in the sayings of the
" great" man ? The nations of Europe, or as they
are termed, the great Powers, hang aloof from va-
rious motives best known to themselves ; each
is endeavouring to overreach the other ; but
in the end we suspect that a sense of
mutual danger will unite them in a common
cause. It is impossible that they can feel any
degree of safety while a firebrand is
ever on the alert ; and no precaution can be trusted
to until that torch of danger be utterly extinguished.
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CONTENTS.
1. Lovel, the Widower (with au illustration). Chapter IV.
A Black Sheep.
2. Colour Blindness.
3. Spring. By Thomas Hood.
4. Inside Canton.
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6 Williher,
Essays oH the the Man, the Work, and the Time. 111. A Long
Ladder, and Hard to Climb.
6. Studies in Animal Life—
Chapter IV.—An extinct animal recognised by its
tooth ; how same this to be possible ? —The task of
classification —Artificial and natural methods—Lin-
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scheme of classification—What is there underlying- all
true classifications ?—The chief groups—What is a
species?—Re-statement of e
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fixity or variability of species—The twohypotheses
—lllustration drawn from the Romance languages—
Caution to disputants.
7. Strangers Yet ! By R. Monekton Milnes.
Frawley Parsonage (with an Illustration).
Chapter X.—Lucy Robarts.
Xl.—Griselda Grantly.
~ Xll.—The Little Bill.
S. Ideal Houses.
10. Dante.
11. The Last Sketch—Emma (a fragment of a story by the
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12. Under Chloroform.
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ROYAL, ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT GARDEN.

Mr. GTE has the honour to announce that the Season will
Commence on Tuesday, April 10. The programme, with full
particulars of the arrangements, will be issued in a few days

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-
SEASON 1860.
The Lessee and Director, having completed arrangements
which enable him to make the announcement under peculiarly
favourable circumstances, has the gratification to acquaint
Om Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE WILL OPEN tor the
SEAS ON on TUESDAY, the 10th ot April.

ENGAGEMENTS.
Mdlle. PICCOLOMINI,
Her farewell nights, previous to her final retirement from the
Stage.
Mdlle. VANERT, r Mdc. LAURA BAXTER.
Mdlle. MARIA BRUNETTI,
From the Grand Ppera, Paris
y;r , her
and first appearance in this
• count
Madame A LBONI.
Mdlle. LOTTI DELLA SANTA,
(Her first appearance at her Majesty's Theatre).
Mdlle. DEL'ANESE, I Mdlle. NARDI.
Mdlle. MARIA CABAL,
(Prima DonMdlle.na of
BORGI the Opera
11-MAMO, Comie, Paris).
qu
(Her first appearance in this country); and
bldlle. TIT lENS.

Signor MONGINI, 1 Signor MERCURIAL!,
Signor BLLART, Signor SOLDI, and
Signor CORSI, Signor GIUGLINI.
Signor EVERA.RDI,
Of the Imperial Italian Operas of Vienna and St. Petersburg
(his first appearance ii this country).
Signor FELLAK I Signor ALDIGHIERI,
(his first appearance). I and
Signor SEBASTIANO RONCONI,
Of the Regio, Turin ; La Pergola, Florence, &C.
Signor GASSIER, I Signor CASTELLI, and
Signor VIALETTI.

ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE BALLET.
Mdlle. SALVIONI, Mdlle. LEQUINE,
Of the San Carlo, Naples (her Mdlle. BIOLETTI, and
first appearance). Mdlle. FERRARIS.
Mdlle. MOULACCHI aid M. MERANTE,
Mdlle. POCCIIINI. Of the Grand Opera, Paris (his
Mlle. CLAVELLE. first appearance).
Mdlle. MONCELET, and Signor CALOR!,
Mdlle. CLAUDINI CUCCH I, Of the Imperial Opera, Vienna
Ot the Imperial Opera, Vienna (his first appearance).
(her first appearance). M. DURAND.
MAITRE ET COMPOSITEUR DE BALLET—SigIIOP BORRI.

DIRECTORS OF THE MUSIC, COMPOSERS, AND CONDUCTORS—
Mr. BENEDICT and Signor A RDITI.
PRINCIPAL VIOLINS—Herr Molique and Mr. Henry Blagrove.
LEADER OF THE BALLET—Signor Boßelli (Musical
Director of the Theatre, Bologna).
The MILITARY BAND of the GRENADIER GUARDS, under
the direction of Mr. D. GODFREY,
Suggetirore, Signor Fontana. I Regisseur, S_pio-nor Grua.
STAGE MANAGER—Mr. R. ROXBY.
The CHORUS under the direction of Signor VASCHETTI.
The CORPS DE BALLET will include several additions
from the Continental Theatres, under the direction of M.
PETIT.

The Rox-office of the Th is oen daily for übs
from Tex to Five, under theeatre directiopn of Mr. NugSent. cribers

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.
COVENT-GA RDEN.
Under the management of Miss L. Pyrie and Mr.W. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Henry Leslie's Operetta Romance of
DICK TURPIN. Messrs. St. Albyn and G. Honey; Misses
Thirlwall and Cruise.
After which, will be repeated the grand Opera, en-
titled LURLINE, by W. Vincent Wallace. Messrs. W. Har-
rison, Santley, Corri, and G. Honey ; Misses Louisa Pyne,
Pilling, and F. Cruise,
Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnokstone.
THIS EVENING, will be performed THE OVERLAND
ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews, Buckstone, Compton, Chip-
pendale, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, USED UP. Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with THE BOARDING SCHOOL.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.—
sow Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.

Last Week of the present season.
THIS EVENING (3d time) the new Comedietta, entitled
"117, A RUNDEL -ST REET, STRAND." Principal charac-
ters by Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. J. Rouse, Miss Kate Saville,
Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, will be performed the new drama, entitled
THE ABBE VAUDREUIL ; or, The Court of Louis XV.
The Abbe Vaudreuil, Madame Celeste ; Louis XV., Mt. H.
Butler; Lieut. Henri Delcour, Mr. F. Villiers.
Followed by Callcott's Magnificeat Transformation Scene
from "KING TIIUUSIIBEARD."
To conclude with TIIE SERGEANT'S WIFE. Lisette,
Madame Celeste ; Margot, Mrs. Keeley.

Commenoe at 7.
Saturday March 31, (Last ni;l►t of the season), the admired
drama of MARIE DI7CANGE, with other Entertainments,
for the Benefit of Madame Celeste, who will spaak an Ad-
dress on the occasion.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
7- THIS EVENING, the play or,THE STRANGER. Mr.
Ryder.
After the play the Princess's " Rifle Volunteers " in full
CO iturne.
Followed by the Farce, CRUEL TO BE KIND. Mr. A.
Harris, Frank Matthews, and Miss Carlotta Leclercq.
And A PRINCE FOR AN 1101311.

ISTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
Last 5 Nights of Mr. and Mrs. Wigan's engagement.
THIS EVENING, to commence with (2d time) THE
STAR. OF THE STREET. Mr. J. L. Toole. Chas. Selby,
Billing-ton, C. J. Smith, Miss.Woolg-ar, Mrs. Chatterlev, and
Miss Laidlaw.
After which, STILL WATERS' RUN DEEP. Messrs.
Alfred Wigan. C. Selby, Billington, Eburne, C. J. Smith,
and Powell; Mrs. A. Wigan and Mrs, Billington.
Concluding with the BENGAL TIGER. Mr. J. L. Toole,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, and Mesdames Billing-ton and
Laidlaw.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor ter bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.

Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith.
On Easter Monday, the popular Adelphi drama of T_
DEAD HEART, in which Mr. B. Webster will make his first
appearance since his return from his successful provincial
tour, and a Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza.

Indian finance has now become a serious matter

to England. Not long ago there were reasonable
fears that we might be called on to Day a very heavy
bill for our great Eastern Empire, and that the
monument to the memory of MITE might be the
addition of a hundred millions to our national
debt. And though most of our leading men
said, with bated breath, that India must bear

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chilaea. Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
es/triages and toot passengers all hours of the night.

THIS EfENING the performances will oommenoe with
LIVING TOO FAST.
Followed by OUR WIFE ; or, The Rose of Amiens. Bias
Murray and Miss L. Thompson.
After which the successful burlesque of DIDO. Mesdames
Wyndham Clara St. Casse, Eliza Arden, and Mr Charles
Young.
—To oonclude wit!' MAGIC TOYS. Miss Lydia Thompson
snd Miss Clara St. Casse.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, t3d; Pit, Is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform
awe commences at 7.

her own burdens, they seemed to shrink from

the assertion that, in the last resort, England
must not be the reliance of those who held property
in the Indian debt. The most potent argument
against such a result was that the stock-holders had
obtained a rate of interest they could never have
asked had the security been English. The one
thing wanting, however, to full satisfaction—the
proof that commercially it were not better for us to
get rid of India at once,—was just what Mr. WIL-
SON has done, to repudiate unconditionally
an Imperial guarantee for the Indian debt
—to look the annual
dlow deficit
at onceeficitboladlyscheinmethoef
face, and, then, to lay
finance which should create entire confidence in the
Indian Exchequer.
Mr. WILSON has not disappointed expectation.
Indeed, he has exceeded ours. One fact, before
noticing particulars, is quite enough to show that
he has succeeded. , Not a keener, more jea-
lous set of money-lenders exists on the face
of the earth than those of our Indian Em-
pire. Till lately the Indian Government
could hardly obtain money from them on any
terms. The rate of interest commanded no atten-
tion, for the financial skill of the Government itself
was distrusted; but no sooner had Mr. WILSON
offered his loan, and on terms so low, too, for India,
than it was swallowed up in a couple of hours, and
before the day was out was commanding a hand-
some premium ! What would not Austria give for
a JAMES WILSON ! His loan must be regarded as
one of the greatest trium ohs of a modern finan-
cier. To us, on this side the water, it is the
best proof we can have that Mr. WILSON'S whole I
scheme will work. Some of his taxes will be, it is
said, not easy to collect, but Mr. WILSON'S motto
is, that it is the business of public servants to con-
, quer difficulties ; and, he has this evidence, that
they can be conquered—the men who thoroughly
know their countrymen from whom those taxes ale

CANTERBUR Y HALL CONCERTS.-
vv THIS EVENING.
LUCREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizet ti)
Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell.
Maffio Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jong,lim ans.
Comic, -Vocalists Mss
W —ers. Georgeon the( Irish•
and Mimic), .T. Critchtiel, and Ho
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Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
eantined. and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, MARCH 27, 1660.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.12.
IND, North-Westerly ; moderate, with cold dull weather,

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY.—Morning, 4h. 29m.—Afternoon, 4h. 45m,
To•Moakow.-Morning, sh. 3m.—Afternoon, :sh. 22m,

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THE SUN,
LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1860.

%V do not pretend to the gift of prophecy__
for for
that is denied to mortals—but we cherish an
inklin g of " the second sight" in matters obvious
to the commonest understanding in the probable
affairs of life, whether they concern the public
-Conduc t of Ministers, or the ways of their rulers.
Men ai '8 often to be judged as much from their
silence or evasiveness on certain questions as from

to be collected, by which their interest on the loan
is paid, eagerly take the loan.
In the true spirit of an Englishman Mr. WIL-
SON began with two right steps—first, he would
not palliate the evil but face it: He looked in the
face the fact, that the Indian revenue was in a state
of normal deficiency. This year it was deficient not
less than nine millions and a-quarter, and next year
the deficiency would as certainly be six millions and
a-half; while the total debt of India amounts to
nearly ninety-eight million pounds. Next, Mr.
WILSON determined that the reign of mystery and
mis-statement, and even of blundering errors,
always, however, errors on the side of making
things look better than they were, should come
to an end. Sheer blunders in reckoning and esti-
mates had made matters last year look too favour-
able by about three millions sterling. Mr. WILSON
began by pledging himself to an honest and full ex-
posure of all financial facts, and to basing the system
of future Indian Finance on an unmistified appeal
to the public opinion of India. The influence of
the two facts_. hat the worst was now known, and
in future that the truth should always be known
—was itself equivalent to a good per tentage in his

close of the war, and the signing of the peace of
Zurich, the Federal Council once more thought it
its duty to call the attention of the Iligh Powers to
the relations existing between Switzerland and the
neutralised provinces of Savoy." Adding "at that
period there was a prospect of the meeting of a
Congress which would be charged with settling the
affairs of Italy, taking for its basis the preliminaries
of Villafranca, in which the idea of an Italian Con-
federation was mooted." After observing, among
other things, succinctly that " The international
position of Switzerland would evidently be affected
by the formation of an Italian Confederation, by the
entry into this Confederation of Sardinia with the
portions of Savoy comprised in the Swiss neutral
territory." The Note goes on to say, "It is known
that the project of a Congress was not carried into
execution, and that since thebeginning of the present
year the idea was discussed of modifying the group-
ing of the States of Central Italy "—and then adds,
" The cession of Savoy to France was an idea closely
connected with that of a great Italian State formed
by the annexation of the Duchies to the kingdom
of Sardinia. That idea," then remarks the Swiss
Government, " acquired a positive importance from
the speech from the throne which hii3 Majesty
the Emperor of the FRENCH delivered on the Ist
of the present month, on opening the French
Chambers." The development of the whole scheme
is here traced quite clearly, accurately, and dis-
passionately. Evidence upon evidence is afforded
that the Powers of Europe had their attention upon
the alert from the very commencement in regard
to Savoy as a point intermediately situated between
the frontiers of France, of Sardinia, and of Swit-
zerland.

Tuscany.

favour.
We are indebted to the Overland Friend of India
for both an able resume of his speech and a supple-
ment of 24 columns giving it at length. The
Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer had, so far as
space in the Council Chamber permitted, %crowded
audience of wealthy natives of all classes, as well as
of Europeans ; an audience thoroughly capable of
appreciating his views, and correcting his facts if
they were wrong. He told them that the state of
India was such that she could easily meet her own
difficulties ; he repudiated an Imperial guarantee,
and pointed them to the increased wealth and the
low taxation of the country. India itself was a
land through which he had just made a long
journey, and he could testify, from per-
sonal observation, that her climate, soil, and
facilities for irrigation rendered her equal, or supe-
rior, to any country in the world. Her taxation was
light—setting aside the land tax, which was but
rent to the Government, which has always been
the landlord of India, and the opium tax paid
by China the vast Empire of India paid
but nine millions in taxes, about sixteen-
pence per head of the population, while
England pays more than two guineas per head.
At the same time her commerce had increased since
1834 from thirteen to sixty millions, and the
labouring classes had shared in the benefit, for
their wages had doubled, and even trebled. A
very encouraging fact is that the sales of estates
for default, which in 1835 had represented a
rental of nearly one hundred thousand pounds,
last year hardly amounted to fifteen hundred
pounds! In such a state of general prosperity
and progress, it were idle to fear that taxes could
not be easily borne which would meet the defi-

of Tuscany :

It is an absurdity, therefore, for our Foreign
Minister now to affect abruptly to have been surprised
into the recognition of the hitherto undreamt-of
designs of France upon the district of Nice and the
little kingdom of Savoy, the latter including the
provinces of Chablais and Faucigny, neutrally ap-
pertaining to Switzerland. England and the rest
of the Great Powers were in point of fact fore-
warned as to the possible contingency months
ago by the Swiss Government. Switzerland herself
was at length upon the Ist of March, as we have
seen (and as we all so well remember she had rea-
son to be) startled into the knowledge that she had
had full reason for making her previously reiterated
appeals to the chief Powers for their surveillance.
Further, upon the Ist inst., as the Note reminds us,
it was formally declared by the French EMPEROR
in his speech on opening the Chambers, and it was
so declared to his MAJESTY, " in terms by no means
equivocal, that, in consequence of the transforma-
tion of Northern Italy, the result of which is the
giving to a powerful State the possession of all the
passages of the Alps, it had been the duty of France
to claim (revendiquer), with a view to the security
of her frontiers, the French slopes of the moun-
tains." A contingency, as we have shown, foreseen
by the Swiss Government ! One, the possible evolv-
ing of which had been pointed out long ago to the
chief Powers of Europe by the Swiss Government !
Yet a contingency that our Administrators now
affect to regard as having until very recently been
altogether unimaginable
What now shall be said of a Ministry that
has thus allowed itself to be deceived with
its eyes open ? A former Coalition Govern-
ment allowed England to drift into a war with
Russia that cost 100,000 lives and £100,000,000 !
Our present Coalition Government has looked on
with a crass stupidity or a criminal indifference,
while Savoy has been drifting into the possession
of France! And its complicity in so doing has
been signalised by an ignoble commercial treaty
with the French EMPEROR, costing England far
more than £1,000,000 of remitted duties : costing us
—incongruously—upon the year, £10,000,000 in
the shape of Income Tax, and £30,000,000 in the
shape of warlike expenditure !

ciency.
The taxes he proposes are a revision of the cus-
toms, lowering duties which are unprofitably high,
and raising those which arc too low to an average
ad valorem duty of ten por cent. To the great
wrath of Manchester her products must pay in
India the same duty as those of other manufac-
turers—yes, even the sacred cotton of Man-
chester must pay its ten per cent ! Tobacco is
to be rather heavily taxed. A small license
on trades and professions, not below two
shillings, and not exceeding twenty, for any ;
and, we hope Mr. GLADSTONE will not forget it,
2nutatis mutandis next year, a graduated Income
Tax, of two and four per cent., with no ex-
emptions such as those which disgraced the
last proposal of the Indian Government, will be
levied on all incomes from £2O per annum and

upwards.
Such is an outline of Mr. WILSON'S proposals,
and we have little doubt that he will firmly carry
them out. He tells the Indians that;' though
he will listen to suggestions, the crisis is
;s too grave for discussion. Standing orders were
derefore suspended, and the bill passed at once.
He looks however to reductions of expenditure as
well as to increase of revenue. The native army is
to be reduced, and we are to be saved the
cost of watching it, and the hazard of another
military mutiny. :A small native army, a con-
stabulary, and a European army are to be
sufficient, and before long a considerable surplus
revenue may be expected to be laid out on remune-
rative public works. Of course some details
may not work as expected, and may need
correction, but on the whole Mr. WILSON'S
budget seems to be an admirable one. With

commerce increasing, wages rising, railways
already a great success, irrigation recommencing
in good earnest, the native soldiery returning to
well-paid labour, and the electric telegraph con-
necting London, Bombay, and Calcutta, we may
surely give up all talk of throwing away India as
an unprofitable speculation. England will yet
fulfil her mission in her Eastern empire.

There cannot be an instant's doubt, of course
but that in this discreditable affair of Savoy—Eng- ,
land has been deceived by the French EMPEROR.
But there cannot, at the same time, be any doubt
also, that the English Ministers have been deceived
with their eyes open ! If we needed proof positive
of this—proof that could be adduced in evidence
against Ministers—we should have to de no more
than examine in detail the important document re-
ferred to by us yesterday, -en passant, the temperate
bit resolute protest of the Swiss Confederation.
The evidence in fact there accumulated, with a
clearness quite damnatory of our Ministerial
policy, is so remarkable of its kind, that we accept
it almost as a duty to enter here upon the examina-
tion of this now historical document—allowing it to
speak for itself as much as possible, by quotation
upon quotation.
The document is simply entitled, as will have
been already remarked, " Note of the Swiss Go-
vernment." It is dated from Berne on the 19th of
this present March. It is signed by SCHIESS and
HEROSEE, Chancellors of the Confederation. At
the very outset, what are the words of this ex-
plicit diplomatic statement ? They are these :
"When," says the note, " at the beginning of last
yeti", the peace of Europe appeared to be seriously
menaced, and hostilities were on the point of
breaking out in Upper Italy, the Federal Council
of Switzerland
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vinces on which Switzerland has important rights,
founded on European treaties, and on the stipula-
tions of the 29th of March, 9th of June, and 20th
of November, 1815." And the Note adds imme-
diately afterwards, " in the answers with which
they honoured the note of the Federal Council of
Marsh 14, 1859, the high Powers fully estimated
the point of view in which S witzerland then piaeod
herself." So that certain contingencies involving
amongst other high interests, those of the ballot-,
able rights of Switzerland, were taken into account
by all the great Powers (England conspicuously
amongst them) from the very eJunencement!
Further, the note goes on to remark, " After the

inexact.

THEI:ISUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, bIARCII 27, 1860

FRANCE.

LATEST NEWB.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

TURIN, MARCH 27.
M. Nigra has been appointed Minister Resident
of Sardinia at Paris.

GENOA, MARCK 27.
A squadron with Sardinian troops has left for

PARIS, MARCH 27.

The Constitutionnel of this morning says :—" The
first French battalions returning from Italy have
entered Savoy."

MADRID, MARCH 26.

The preliminaries of peace were signed at two
o'clock p.m, yesterday, and an armistice was con-
cluded.

TURIN, MARCH 26.

The official Gazette publishes the following de-
crees relative to the administration of the province

"Prince Carignan is appointed lieutenant of the
King and commander of the naval and military
forces: His Royal Highness will exercise, in the
name of the King, the right of pardon, &c. &c.
" The administrative centre will remain provi-
sionally at Florence.
" Baron Ricasoli is appointed general Governor.
The Ministry ceases.

" The army.of Tusbany will be incorporated with
she Sardinian army."

PARIS, MARCH 26.

The news published by some Paris papers, that
orders had been transmitted to suspend the de-
parture of the French troops from Lombardy, is

The Pare says :—" The reported entry of the
Neapolitan troops into the States of the Church is
unfounded; and we have reason to know that the
King of Naples, notwithstanding the invitation ad-
dressed to his Majesty by his Holiness, has refused
to occupy Rome and other parts of the States of
the Church with Neapolitan troops."

The same paper contains the following :
" General Dufour has returned to Switzerland.
At Niee the elections of representatives to the Sar-
dinian Parliament have had no result, the number
of voters being insufficient. Gen. Garibaldi only
obtained 400 votes."

BERNE, MARCH 26.
Yesterday the Federal Council held a sitting of
long duration. _ _

According to news received, 600 French soldiers
will occapy Annecy on the 28th inst.
Orders have been given to assemble some troops
of the contingents of Berne, Vaud, Neufchatel,
Fribourg, and Valais.

PARIS, MONDAY,

Marshal M'Mahon will leave Paris in a day or
two for Lille, the head-quarters of the military de-
partment under his command. It is generally under-
stood that the Marshal Duke of Magenta will corn-
mand the camp of Chalons, which will this year be
composed of three divisions of infantry and one of
cavalry. It is said that the Imperial Guard will
likewise be encamped at Chalons at least as long
as the Emperor shall stay there.
Admiral Paris, who commanded the Brest fleet,
has been ordered to proceed immediately to Toulon
with the ships under his command.
Col. Saget has been appointed Commandant de is
Place (town major) of Chambery, and has left Paris
to take possession of his post. Col. Hausman has
been appointed Commandant de la Place at Nice,
and has likewise left Paris.

BOURSE, March 26.—The opening of the market
was heavy, but it afterwards rallied. Threes, after
having been done at 68f 10c, rallied to 68f 30c ;
Mobilier varied from 745 f to 750 f ; Austrian, 505 f
to 507 f 50c ; Lombard, 5381 75c to 541 f 25c ;
Orleans, 1,405 f to 1,410 f ; Lyons, 902 f 50c to 907 f
50c ; Northern, 940 f to 945 f. The following are
the last quotations :-
4i per Cents. .... 96 25; Credit Foncier 752 50
Do. end month Belgian 4} —
3 per Cents 6B 55 Piedmontess (5) .. 81
Do. end month 6B 50 Roman Bl
Bank Shams 2785 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 748 75 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 750 Home Debt 43 25