The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,Ii MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1860.

tionality so long dependent on the crown of Hungary
to rejoin her; and in connection with her to form the
old, legal, and separate constitutional kingdom. So
urgent has the pressure become that the year closes
with a Liberal Minister at Vienna, whose task
seems to be, to construct such an Austria as Hun-
gary will be willing to unite with in a Federal
Council. We shall see probably in 1861; we hope
the project is " too late." Germany and the East
of Europe have no hope of a liberty, like a separate
and constitutional kingdom of Hungary, whoever
wears the Crown. But what are we to see in the
spring ? Whatlis to be done in Quadrilateral ?
Can BENEDEK wait till he is attacked,
allowing all Italy to be drilled before his
eyes ? Dare he venture the attack, and
learn in a few days that GARIBALDI and his invinci.
ble volunteers have found their way to Pesth ? Will
proud Austria sell or cede ? What will the Man of
Plots do? What will Germany do ? What will
England do ? A sad account of wrongs to Hun-
gary, standing to her credit in the despot's ledger,
has she to make up. Venetia and its position is
the threatener of European peace. Cannot Lord
PALMERSTON, for once, cut the Coburgs and the
Courts, and tell Austria " it is not morally lawful
for thee to have her ?" He need not fear the ven-
geance of any Continental HERODIAS. England
would sustain him as one man.

One gratifying result of all the movemeits seems
to be a decay of the power of priestcraft. Of Rome
we need say nothing. The pertinacious struggle
for temporal power, meaning by it the most tho-
roughgoing autocracy on earth, has long destroyed
its influence. In Naples the devotion of the most
superstitious to the cause of despotism is doing the
same. GARIBALDI himself proclaims his love for
religion, his hatred of priestcraft. In Austria the
Concordat and its authors are sinking together. In
France the EMPEROR has taught the clergy that
they have a master; and his pamphleteers invite
him to a French Popedom. In Ireland the antics
of the Ultramontanists have made them a laughing-
stock. In England the High Church party are
vainly mustering their forces for a conflict with
Religious Equality. Religious as well as civil
liberty has taken an important step in 1860.

His Royal Highness the Prince de Joinville,
with several members of his family and friends, are now
making a sojourn a', Poole, having taken up their abode at
Shepherd's Antelope Hotel. The Prince is enjoying with
great zest the pleasures of wildfowl shooting, for which
Poole Harbour, the scene of many of Colonel Hawker's
sporting adventures, is so fatuous.
The Countess Cowley, Lady Feodorowna, and
Lady Sophia Wellesley have left the Easton Hotel for Lord
Ebury's Moor Park, Rickmansworth.
Lord and Lads Churchill have arrived at th.
St. George's Hotel.
The Bishop of Chester left town on Saturday for
Chester Palace.
Lady Arthur Hay arrived in town on Saturday
evening from ♦isitisg the Marquis and Marchioness of
Tweeddale, at Yeater House.
Sir Walter and Lady Caroline Stirling, on the
occasion of the manages of their two daughters on Satur-
day last, entertained a numerous assemblage at their resi-
dence in Portman •square. The party was limited to the
immediate relatives and connections of the three families,
and consisted of 120,
Lady Catherine Hutchinson and the Hon. Mrs.
Spiers have left the Euston Hotel for Paris,
THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.—Last night
Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, held, an inquest
in the board-room of St. George's Workhouse, on the body
of Charles Ambrose Smith, aged 24, who perished in the
Serpentine by breaking through the ice on Christmas-eve.
The jury, after consulting, returned a verdict of "Death
from Accidental Drowning." The Regent's-park.—Yes-
terday the thermometer was at the highest 33, and at the
lowest 28. The ice is now 31 Inches thick. The skaters
and sliders numbered 7,000. Several persons were im-
mersed and were got out. They were, Lewever, able to go
to their homes.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP CAMILLA.--It is stated
that her Majesty's brig Camilla, 16 guns (which has
been missing for some considerable time), was posted
on Lloyd's books yesterday as having been totally lost,
with all on board, in the China seas. The information
appears to have been obtained from a private printed cir-
cular published in China. The Camilla had been placed
on the China station about three years since. Her officers
and crew numbered about 200 in all.
DRILL SHEDS FOR VOLUNTEERS.—The want of
large covered spaces for the drilling of volunteers in the
evening is much felt. It ie difficult to find buildings suffi-
ciently spacious, and the cost of erecting them has been
beyond the means of most corps. Captain Fowke, R.E.,
has lately constructed a shed at South Kensington for the
use of the Middlesex Engineers, which seems to have solved
the problem of economy. The shed is 90ft. long, by 40ft.
wide, and about 25ft. high. It is made of wood, without
framing, covered with felt and oil canvas. The cost has
been only £B2, which has been paid by the Volunteer En-
gineers out of their own subscriptions.
ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.—Her Majesty the Queen
has been most graciously pleased to forward a donation of
£lOO to the fund of the Metropolitan Visiting and Relief
Association (of which the Bishop of London is President),
in St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. This contribution
was conveyed with her Majesty's commands that it should
be promptly applied to.p.lleviate the distress now existing
in the metropolis, which her Majesty was graciously
pleased to observe she felt the present severe weather must
so greatly tend to aggravate.
PLYMOUTH, Sunday.—The schooner Speedwell,
of Looe, in ballast, from St. German's for Cardiff, when
passing through the sound on Saturday afternoon, was
caught by a sudden squall from the south-east and cast on
tho rocks under Redding Point, Mount Edgcumbe. Her
crew, five in all, got into her boat, and, attempting to land,
were unfortunately drowned. The schooner remains where
she struck, apparently not much injured.
DOVER, Sunday, Dec. 30.—At two o'clock this
morning, the French sloop Jean Baptiste, with a valuable
general cargo, from Dunkirk to Cherbourg, came ashore
under the South Foreland Light, the wind, which was
blowing a gale, driving her bodily on to the rocks. The
captain was drowned, but the crew were saved; one of
them, however, much injured. The men are at the Sailor's
Home, where every assistance is rendered to them which
kindness can dictate under such distressing circumstances.
The vessel must became a total wreck.
THE REY. BRYAN KING.—The Rev. B. King
has addressed a second letter to the Bishop of London, de-
signed as " a public and solemn protest " against the con-
duct of the Bishop towards its author and his pariehionera.
The letter resumes the history of the St. George's riots
from the point where the other letter left off, and concludes
as follows :—" Even you, my Lord, can scarcely be sanguine
enough to imagine that I shall respect the acts of your late
illegal aggression upon my return to my charge."
WILD FOWL.—During the present week, a very
unusual number of birds, consisting of widgeon, teal, coots,
moorhens, snipes, &c., have flocked over the Thames and
the adjoining marshes as far up the river as the Victoria
Docks. Yesterday morning no less than seven snipes were
brought down by one shot at Lower Charlton marshes, and
the number of birds bagged during the week in the vicinity
of the river from the Lower Hope to Blackwell, is stated
to be quite unprecedented.:

AMERlCA.—Liverpool, Saturday night—The
Canadian, which touched at Queenstown yesterday, arrived
here to-day. Tier advices have been anticipated. The
steamship City of Washington, which touched at Queens-
town last night with fuller advices from New York, has not
yet arrived, owing no doubt to the heavy snow storm which
prevails.

ANOTHER BOILER EXPLOSION IN LEEDS.—On
Saturday morning the boiler connected with the warming
apparatus at the Beeston Hill (Independent) School, burst,
and did considerable damage, but fortunately no one was
injured. A woman had just gone out. A part of the
building was blown down.

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS.—The execution of
Johnson, for the double murder at Aldershott, will take
place at Winchester to-morrow; he continues to simulate
insanity. Twigg, for the murder of his wife at Bilston,
'will be hung at Stafford on Saturday next; he is extremely
penitent.

THE PROPOSED BANQUET TO MESSRS. GLAD-
STONE, GIBSON, AND COBDEN.—The committee recently
appointed at Bradford for the purpose of inviting the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board
of Trade, and Mr. Cobden, M.P., to a public banquet in
,St. George's Hall, in that town, have resolved to ask the
communities of Leeds, Huddersfield, and the woollen dis-
tricts, to join in giving the proposed invitation to those
gentlemen.

THE PRIVATE BUSINESS OF THE ENSUING SES-
sxoN.--On Saturday the official list of petitions for private
bills for the session, 1861, deposited on or before the 23rd
Dec,, 1860, was made up ; there is only a unit under 400
petitions. Many of them are for improvements is towns
and the metropolis, but the majority all is emotion
railways,