The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

tart' archduchy which the Germans have attempted
to assimilate are now more separated from her
in heart than they have been for half a century.
She has been labouring to amalgamate them all
into one Germanised Empire; the result of all jler
labour is that they are more Magyar, more Scla-
vonic, more Italian, more of Croats, Czecs, Tran-
sylvanians, and so forth, than they have been for
the last quarter of a century.

many as six-and-thirty officials at Rochforte, there
proved to have been guilty of serving out to the
seamen of the Royal Navy of France grain and
other provisions, 38 per cent. composed of adulte-
rations—consisting, if not of deleterious, of wholly
innutritious ingriedients ! Did not these despicable
disclosures elicit at last from M. DE LAMARTINE
towards the close of 1847—what we can almost
imagine to be now in 1860 prophetically applicable
to the Cabinet of Vienna those scornful words in
which the Poet-Statesman exclaimed—" Yes, a re-
volution is approaching, and it is the revolution of
contempt !"

LATEST

Austria's treatment of Hungary is what all
eyes are now fixed on. It is here the battle of her
salvation or ruin is to be fought. It is in her power
to be strong, with Hungary cordial—it is her
determination, probably, to break up altogether
rather than make a frank concession of the rights of
which by perjury, fraud, and violence she has robbed
that noble nation: The truth is, grant Hungary
her old and free institutions, and the haughty
young man who represents the Hapsburgs must
confess that the detestable policy of a detestable
family has failed ; or, what would be as provoking
—give Hungary her rights, and that vigorous
kingdom, with the states which properly form part
of it—Transylvania, Croatia, and Sclavonia, would,
by their flourishing condition and strength, soon
surpass in political and commercial importance the
smaller and less energetic German portion of the

We quote in another column an article from the
Manchester Examiner and Times, on the report of
the National Lifeboat Institution. We have lately
called attention to this interesting report, and have
frequently brought the claims of the institution
before the public. We are glad to see its value
and importance becoming more generally recog-
nised, and a grateful sense of the benefits it confers
more wickly diffused. As our contemporary justly
observes, there is a general indifference, or rather
ignorance, among the residents in inland places of
the great need that exists for such an association.
The perils of a sea-going life are only vividly
brought before them by some great catastrophe,

Empire.
We are accordingly by no means surprised to
learn that the Hungarians perceive in the letter to
General BENEDEK, and in his appointment to the
office of Governor of Hungary, merely an illusory
concession to fear. BENEDEK has, it seems, been
absent from his youth from Hungary, and is com-
pletely Austrianised, while the letter has no legal
force—may be carried out or not—will serve to ad-
vance upon if the Court must really yield, and
equally serve to be dropped, if the EMPEROR finds
himself strong enough to rule by terror ! Such a
rule deserves to fall. The aspiration of every
Englishman is—may Hungary rise on the ruins of
Austrian despotism, not Austrian despotism on the
ruins of Hungarian liberties.

like the loss of the Royal Charter, or, it may be,
one of the many unfortunate emigrant vessels which
occasionally strike public humanity, as it too often
occurs. But, as we gather from the report, or may
learn from personal inquiry, the loss of life in-
eurred by one of such terrible disasters is far out-
weighed by the vast aggregate of deaths incurred
by two and three during the year. In the course
of last year the losses by shipwreck on our coasts
amounted to 1,646. Surely if anything can be
done to diminish so great a loss of life and mitigate
the suffering inflicted by it, such,an attempt should
be aided and encouraged to the very utmost. The
members of the committee are untiring in their
exertions to keep the lifeboats in full efficiency
and readiness for service, and have many excellent
rules to secure this desirable end. Each lifeboat
must be taken afloat for exercise every quarter

The suicide of Baron BRUCK cannot but be re-
garded as a very sinister occurrence, and as one
darkly ominous for the Austrian Government. Fol-
lowing, as it has done, upon so many disasters, and
upon such miserable disclosures of peculation in
high places at Vienna, it not unnaturally recalls to
mind the numerous and dismal portents of evil
which preceded the downfall of King LOUIS
PHILIPPE and his entourage. The accomplished
author of the History of the Dix Ana has but very
recently been recalling to recollection the fantastic
prophets of disaster whose advent heralded
unconsciously to themselves the awful coming
of the great French Revolution. M. LOUIS
BLANC had free choice of his epoch of course, and
has chosen that immediately anterior to the sub-
version of the old Bourbon dynasty in the decapita-

fully manned and equipped, so that the crew may
be familiar with her properties and management.
Other precautions are taken in order that the boat
may bo kept in good working order, and be ready
for service on the shortest notice. The local corn-
mittee are bound to make quarterly inspection,
that every defect may be remedied, and the stores
may be repaired or replaced if in the least degree
doubtful. We heartily commend the benevolent
and able manner in which the association endea-
vour to carry out the objects of the institution;
and we trust that their claim on the assistance and
sympathy of the public will be recognised in a
manner that will speedily enable them to diminish
the liabilities they have incurred, and increase
their sphere of action and utility.

tion of King Louis XVI. and of his unhappy Queen,
MARIE ANTOINETTE. He need not have gone so
far back for his illustration, had he simply required
an illustration of the kind to which we are now
alluding. He has selected the particular period
specified, however, simply because it suited his
whim that that time and no other, earlier or later,
should be the theme of his eloquent disquisitions.
And it certainly must be allowed to possess beyond
all other eras in human history, ancient or modern,
supreme attractions. Otherwise if contented (tol
point the moral and adorn the tale ho would tell)
with a lesser degree of fatuity on" the part
of the rulers thus blindly rushing on to their own
destruction, thus frivolously dancing away their
last hours of pride and power over the flower-strewn
crater of the hidden volcano, thus marching in
solemn procession (as to a crowning ovation) over
the edge of the unseen Tarpeian—M. Louis
BLANC need not have gone further back than to a
period so absolutely contemporary, that he, though
but now in the 47th year of his age, 12 years since,
personally and conspicuously, participated in the
events which grew out of the catastrophe alluded
to! The catastrophe of the abrupt and ignomini-
ous downfall of the Orleans dynasty in the
revolution of 1848—an occurrence portented by
a series of dark and evil doings, not unlike
in some particulars those which have now been
brought to a hideous climax at Vienna by the sui-
cide of the distinguished Minister of Finance in
the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH'S ominously ill-fated
Government.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Mary Cecil arrived in Grosvenor-square yesterday
from Burghley House, near Stamford.

The Countess of Clonmel and family have arrived
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.
The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have arrived
in Grosvenor-square—the noble earl from Newmarket and
the countess from Milton-park.
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived
at No. 12, Hereford-street, for the season.
The Marquis and Marchioness Townsend, Vis-
count Raynham, M.P., Mr. St. Aubyn, M.P., and Lady
Elizabeth St. Aubyn, have arrived in Lower Grosvenor-
street.

Sir John Dick-Lauder, Bart., and Captain A.
Mitchell lanes have left Fenton's Hotel for Oxenford
Castle.

Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison have
left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Suffolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Petre have arrived at their house
in Berkeley-square, from Paris, for the season.
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Norton, have arrived in
Mansfield-street, from Elton Manor, Notts, for the season.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Disney and the Misses
Disney have arrived at the Brunswick, Jermyn-street,
from the Hyde, near Ingatestone.
Mr. and Mrs. James Fletcher have arrived at
Fenton's Hotel from-Wootton-hill, Lancashire.

DOVER, April 27.—His Excellency the Earl of
Elgin, with the countess and their youthful son, arrived at
the Lord Warden Hotel last evening. His lordship sailed
by mail packet last night for Calais. Her ladyship slept at
the hotel, and will return to London to-day.
Count Cavour has been presented with the
citizenship of Florence by the municipality of that city,

A Vienna letter says :—" It is considered certain
here that as soon as the reorganisation of Hungary is com-
pleted, the Archduke Maximilian will be placed at the head
of the adminigration of that kingdom. It is stated that
this office was proposed to him during his recent stay at
-Vienna, but that he declined to accept it at the moment."
The German Journal of Frankfort states that the
Austrian clergy, comprising 13 archbishops, 52 bishops, 700
convents of men and 276 of women, amounting in all to
28,000 persons, and possessing property to the amount of
500 millions of florins, only subscribed 300,000 florins to the
new loan.

What were some of the more conspicuous of these
lamentable auguries at Paris in the winter of
'47-'4B, justifying again in a literal sense the wis-
dom of the poet's dictum that—
" Coming events cast their shadows before ?"

Let the historian of Modem Europe answer in one
sentence. Sir ARCHIBALD writes in his " Con-
tinuation" (ch. xlvii. p. 682)—" The corruption
among the public functionaries at this period
had become such that it could scarcely be
credited if not attested by the incontrovertible
evidence of judicial proceedings and judg-
ments." And he immediately goes on to
remark yet further that " Every day revealed
fresh instances of it either in the public function•
aries or in some persons connected with them;
and so common that they reached not only the in-

PASSENGERS FROM BOMBAY.—The following is a
list of the passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamship Euxine, Captain Woodgates, which left
Malta at 9 a.m. on the 17th inst., with the heavy Bombay
mails, and was due at Southampton yesterday :—Frim
Bombay—Sir H. and Lady Somerset, two Misses Somerset,
and two servants ; Capt. and Mrs. Hutchinson, three chil-
dren and servant; Capt. Hewitt, two children and servant;
Mr. Yardley, Capt. Swanson, Dr. Baxter, Col. Vandeleur,
Lieut. 'Waterfall, Capt. Strutt, Capt. Cameron, Mr. Barnes,
Mr. Rooprain and servant, Mr. Inman, Mr. C. Davis (late
chief officer Norna), Mr. J. Chevalier (second officer Sin-
gapore), Mr. Clive (late chief engineer Cadiz). From
Alexandria—Lieut. Lewis, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Clark, Mrs.
Rowley, child, and servant. From Malta—Capt. Brock,
R.N., 13 non-commissioned officers Royal Artillery.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NATHANIEL CAMERON.—
This gallant officer, w hose death took place on the 20th inst.
at St. Leonards-on:Sea, was the third and last surviving son
of the late General Sir Alan Cameron, K.C.8., by his wife, a
daughter of Nathaniel Philips, of Sleibach Hall, in Wales.
Deceased served actively with his father's regiment, the
79th Cameron Highlanders (or " Reisemaid Alain an
Errachd," as it was popularly designated by the colonel's
countrymen), a battalion of which he commanded for some
years. His commission was dated 1805, which he continued
to hold until after the peace of 1815, when, like
others, he accepted half-pay on the reduction of the
army in 1816. Colonel Cameron was descended from
the old family of Camerons of Errachttin Lochaber,
Inverness-shire, a branch of the family of the chief of that
clan, Lochiel. They also gave numerous hostages for their
country's honour, many of whom fell fighting gallantly for
its cause ; and prominently among them was Philip Came
ion, brother of the subject of this paragraph, who was killed
in 1811 at Fuentes D' Onor while defending that village in
command of a brigade (71st, 79th, and 88th regiments).
The Duke of Wellington, with whom he was an especial
favourite, regretted his loss sincerely, and wrote a letter of
condolence to his father on the occasion, which is among the
" Gurwood Selections," and is remarkable for the dignified
feeling of grief in which it is couched. Colonel Cameron
was twice married, and by his first wife left a large family,
THE LATE FIRE IN REDCROSS-STREET.—An in-
quiry was instituted yesterday by Mr. Payne, coroner at
the Fountain Tavern, Redcross- street, regardinc, the origin
of this fire, which on Sunday last resulted in the' entire de-
struction of four tenements and the injury of two others,
forming the western termination of the above street, adjoin-
ing Barbican. The inquest was adjourned for a fortnight.
THE COAST-GUARD SERVICIL—The value of
wrecked property saved by this useful and gallant body of
men amounts, for the year 1859, to a sum of upwards of
£300,000 ; and the number of persons:rescued by them fi •m
a watery grave during the same period to no less than 1,250.
The total charge for the coast-guard force provided for in
the estimates for the past year was £724,958.—Civil Service
Gazette,

ferior persons, but some of the highest in office and
rank, and even some of the Cabinet Ministers were
not altogether free from suspicion !" Bold words of
imputation—bold words of accusation. But were
they not notoriously justified in their utterance?
Answer this—M. TESTE, Minister of Public
Works in the last Cabinet of King LOUIS PHILIPPE!
Are they not, moreover, strictly applicable now,
these sinister accusations, to another Government,
apparently yet more seriously threatened with
disaster—the Government of the Austrian KAISIR ?
Ans wer this—even in death—unhappy Minister of
Finance in (shall we say?) the last Cabinet of the Em-
peror FRANCIS JOSEPH—the unfortunate Baron VON
BRUCK, who, having received an autograph letter
from his sovereign on the 22d, in which his ?Lt-

JESTY wrote " I temporarily remove you from office

according to your request, &c."—was found bleeding
to death in bed on the morning of the 23d, with his
throat cut by his own hands! Coming to our
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and President of the Court of Cassation, upon the
evening of his trial before the Chamber of Peers,
"in order," as he said himself, " that he might be
defended only by his innocence !" It revives the
remembrance of how previously to this the Comp-
troller of Subsistences committed suicide rather
than face his accusers, and go through the frightful
ordeal of a judicial investigation. It reminds us of
all those other wretched circumstances preliminary
to the downfall of the last French Monarchy—the
exposure and condemation not only of M. TESTE,
but with him also of M. PELLAPRA, of M. PARMAN-
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The Madrid journals of the 23d contain no news.
The remains of Ortega had been interred in the cemetery of
Tortosa. Count de Montemolin and his brother continued
to be detained in close custody in that town.
General de Latnericiere arrived at Perugia on
the 19th. After a short stay at the hotel he had stepped
into his carriage again, in order to go and present his
respects to the Cardinal Delegate, when ono of the wheels,
of his carriage came suddenly off, by which the vehicle was
nearly upset. Fortunately the General was not hurt, and
the mischief was soon repaired.
SUICIDE OF A VOLUNTEER.—An inquest was
held on Thursday, at Huddersfield, on the body of Mr.
Joseph Brook, a sergeant in the second company of the
rifle volunteer corps, who died that morning from the effects
of a gunshot wound inflicted under most mysterious cir-
cumstanc:s The deceaiid was a young man generally
respected, and in good circumstances. His father is one of
the proprietors of the Apsley Silk Mills, and the deceased
was employed there as overlooker. On Tuesday week the
enginernan found the deceased lying in the engine room in
a helpless state, his shirt saturated with blood, and he was
suffering from a wound about three inches below the heart,
from which blood flowed freely. The vicinity of the wound
was blackened with gunpowder, causing the belief that by
whatever means the wound was inflicted, the weapon must
have been applied close to the body. A bullet had pene-
trated entirely through the body. The jury returned a ver-
dict to the effect that the deceased died from the effects of a
gunshot wound, inflicted by his own hand, but there was
no evidque as to the state of his wind at the time.

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

FRANCE.

NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.
The following telegrams were received at Mr.
Reuter's office :

QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY.

The Lightning has arrived off this port in 79
days from Melbourne, having sailed from thence on
the Bth February. She brings 15 first class, 170
second class and steerage passengers, and 13,479
ounces of gold.

MADRID, APRIL 27.

In the conference of Wednesday between Marshal
O'Donnell and Muley Abbas all difficulties to the
re-establishment of peace were removed. Morocco
is to pay the indemnity for the expenses of the war
during the course of the year. Being desirous of
regaining possession of Tetuan she has decided to
advance the time of payment:

TURIN, APRIL 27.
The Government has received the following des_

patch, dated—
" Roads of Palermo, Wednesday Evening
April 25.

" The insurrection at Palermo has been suppressed,
The state of siege is rigorously maintained, and
great numbers of Royal troops are quartered in the
city. Messina is tranquil. The armed bands in the
interior of the island are insignificant, and appear
to be dispersed in all directions. The coasts are
watched. Great agitation prevails throughout the
island, including the province of Trapani. It is only
in the province of Marsala that the royal authority
has not been re-established."

NAPLES, THURSDAY.

The insurgent bands are being pursued continu-
ally, and are retiring before the royal forces. They
had entrenched themselves in the small town of Car-

lini, which was surrounded by the royal troops, by
whom they have been completely destroyed. The
remnants have made their submission.
_Throughout
Sicily and in the kingdom of Naples the most per-
fect order and tranquillity prevail.

The head-quarters of the royal troops have been
removed to Aqiila. It is rumoured that they are
destined to co-operate with General Lamoriciere.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

There is every probability that the Conference
on the Swiss question will be held in Paris about
the end of May. All the Powers are agreed, but
France demands that it shall not take place till
after the discussion in the Turin Parliament on the
annexation of Savoy. The Turin Parliament will
doubtless be as independent as the Legislative Corps.
_ _

The Pays announces that the Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia will shortly arrive in Paris.

Lord Elgin, the English Commissioner to China,
arrived in Paris yesterday from London. He is to
leave to-day for Marseilles, and will embark with
Baron Gros for Hong Kong.
A dreadful storm of thunder, hail, and rain
burst over Marseilles on the 24th. All the lower
streets were instantaneously converted into tor-
rents, and the Canibiere assumed the appearance
of a formidable river. This deluge of rain has done
much damage in the country around, especially to
fruit trees in bloom.

BOURSE, April 27.—The market improved at the
opening, but the amount of business has been li-
mited. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 70c.,
declined to 70f. 55c., and again rallied to 70f. 65c. ;
Austria, 531 f. 25c. to 532 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 542 f.
50c. to 543 f. 75c.; Northern, 980 f. to 982 f. 50c.;
Lyons, 941 E 25c. to 943 f. 75c. ; Southern, 521 f.
25c. to 522 f. 50c. The following are the last quo-
tations :

4 i per Cents. .... 96 10 i Credit Foncier 795
Do. end month .. 96 20 I Belgian 4} 9Bl,
3 per Cent 5....... 70 40 Piedmonteso (5)
Do. end month.... 70 35 Roman B5
Bank Shares 2825 Austrian
Credit Msbilier .. 740 Spanish Threes
Do. Account