The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1860.

for civil liberty has commenced, and the offers,
which looked so liberal, were quickly scouted as a -
delusion and a sham ; the two points chiefly insisted
on being, that they gave Hungary no control
over her taxation or her army. In opposi-
tion to all the octroyed arrangements, the
Hungarians have persistently demanded the laws
of 1848. They are right. These laws have a
clear historical position ; a clear constitutional
sanction ; they are associated with no acts of resist-
ance ; they were regularly voted by the Diet,'
accepted by the King of HUNGARY, and joyfully
received by the people.
But the Hungarians are not only demanding
from the Emperor of AUSTRIA that, as King of
Hungary, he should restore these laws, they
are acting upon them in defiance of him.
He appoints functionaries of various kinds and
makes rules for their conduct ; but the functionaries
themselves assume the old Hungarian titles, and act
on the old system. Thus at Pesth Count STEPHEN
CAROLYT, named an " Administrator" of the
Comitat, meets it under the title of fo-ispan, con-
firmed on him legally in 1848, an office which he
never resigned, from which he has never been
dismissed, and to which therefore he still lays
claim ! He was enjoined not to allow more than 500
to assemble as a commission, but he receives
700! Again, on the 11th of this month, his de-
puty presiding, this commission voted the illegality
of the appointment by the Viennese Government
of Baron VAY to the Chancellorship—the principal
office in Hungary—because it had been abolished
in 1848 for a responsible Ministry, and only ac-
knowledgedhim as a temporary officer. They re-
quired an early assembly of the Diet. Convene the
Hungarians in what way it will, and appeal to
men of what class it likes, the Austrian Govern-
ment finds but one response—its acts are treated as
interim proceedings, and 1848 is the mortifying
cry. On the 18th ult. at the conference at Gran,
under the presidency of the venerable Archbishop,
the unanimous resolution was for the electoral law
of 1848, and the primate himself urged the early
assembling of the Diet.
It is not easy to see how Austria will be able
to meet the reasonable demands of Hungary.
It may snit her to regard that kingdom as a sub-
ordinate province of the Austrian Empire, but she
has not the shadow of a legal title to do so. Diplo-
matists may think Hungary but a fragment of Aus-
tria, but they cannot unmake the legal rights of 800
years and more. The Emperor of AUSTRIA can
be nothing else but King of a Constitutional Hun-
gary—that is the fundamental relation he sustains
to the country. The Russian invasion certainly
could not cancel the constitutional laws and rights
of Hungary ; a personal union, not an
amalgamation or absorption, is the only legal
relation between the Governments of Vienna
and Presburg ; and, if another system
be desirable, it must be brought about as our
union with Scotland—it must be the voluntary
act of both parties.
We hope next session some competent mem-
ber will catechise our Government as to
its views and its acts, if there have
been any, in regard to Hungary. We have
Lord PALMERSTON'S and Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S sad
ladies of 1848-9 to atone for. They used very
unwarrantable language in regard to Hungary, and
treated her in all respects on the opposite principles
to those which they now act on in regard to Italy.
Tbey tolerated, though professing to re-
gret it, the Russian invasion. Altogether
they sympathised practically with Austrian
despotism more than with Hungarian liberties.
Had England but used, for Hungary the
moral influence she has exerted for Italy, Hungary
would have been free for this last 12 years, and
would have been a splendid theatre for the opera-
tions of our commerce; for she had inaugurated
free trade under KOSSUTII, and her raw produce of
almost all kinds would have been welcomed here,
as the produce of our looms and forges would have
been there. England has done well for Italy. She
must do as well for Hungary.

NB. RULLAI.

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
PARIS, DEC. 21 (EvENTNG).

The Constitutionnel contains a second article,
signed by its chief editor (M. Grandguillot), on
the subject of Austria and Venetia. M. Grand.
guillot says :-- _

" France will never suffer the return to an offen-
sive policy by Austria in Lombardy."
M. Grandguillot explains that another Power,
from divers motives, is equally contrary to Austrian
domination in Italy.

NAPLES, DEC. 21.

It is rumoured that a correspondence has been
discovered between a member of the clergy and the
King at Gaeta.

DRESDEN, DEC. 21.
The official Dresden Journal of to-day contains
the following :
" Count Ladislaus Teleki, the Hungarian re•
fugee, who had arrived here with a false English
passport, has been arrested and delivered up to
Austria."

TRIESTE, DEC. 21.

The Triester Zeitung publishes letters from Mon-
tenegro denying the reports:that Godinge would be
ceded to France for the purposes of colonisation.

BERNE, DEC. 21.

The National Council, in its sitting of to-day,
took into consideration the decree concerning the
construction of military roads in the Alps sub-
mitted to it by the Federal Council.
The National Council resolved upon returning
this project to the Federal Council for a definitive
report (to be made in the course of the next session)
on the negotiations with the different cantons for
its realisation, and on the pecuniary sacrifices
which the construction of these roads might
involve.

The National Council then resolved to adjourn
its sittings until the Federal Council should again
consider its convocation necessary.

FRANCE.

PARIS, DEC. 21.

BOURSE, Dec. 21.—Up to the present time specu-
lators have been rather sellers, and the business
done has been at quotations below those of yester-
day. For the Account, Threes are now at 68f 40c ;
Mobilier, 765 f ; Orleans, 1,380 f ; Northern, 990 f ;
Mediterranean, 910 f ; Austrian, 507 f ; Lombard, 482 f
50c. The following were the last quotations
41 per per Cents ... 96 50 Credit Foncier 930
Do end month.... Belgian 4/ 9B 50
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 401 Roman
Bank Shares 2940 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 760 i Spanish Threes 5l
Do. Account 762 54 Home Debt

MANIFESTO OF TIIE TUNG OF ;VA PLER.

The following is the text of the Manifesto which,
as announced by telegraph, hus been addressed by
King Francis 11. to the people of the Two
Sicilies

" Gaeta, Dec. 8.
" People of the Two Sicilies,—From this place, in
which I defend more than my Crown—the indepen-
dence of the country—your Sovereign raises his
voice to console you in your sorrows, and to promise
you happier times. Equall3 betrayed, equally de.
spoiled, we will rise together from our misfortunes.
The work of iniquity has never lasted long, and
usurpations a-ie not eternal.

" I treated calumnies with contempt, and regarded
trcassn with disdain, so long as they were directed
against ma alone. I have fought, not for myself,
but for the honour of the name we bear. But when
I see my beloved subjects a prey to all the evils of
foreign domination—when I see them, a conquered
people, carry their blood and their property to other
countries, and behold them trampled under foot by
a foreign nation, my Neapolitan heart beats with
indignation in my breast, and I am consoled solely
by the loyalty of my brave army, and by the spec-
tacle of the noble protests which are made in all
parts of the kingdom against the triumphs of vio-
lence and fraud,

" I am a Neapolitan ; born among you, I have
never breathed any other air, never seen any other
country ; I kno w no other country than my native
land. All my affections are in the kingdom; your
customs are my customs ; your language is my lan-
guage; your ambition is my ambition. Heir of an
ancient dynasty, which for long years reigned over
these beautiful provinces, and re established their
independence, I do not come, after having
despoiled orphans of their patrimony and the
Church of its possessions, to seize by foreign force
the most delightful part of Italy. lam a prince
who is yours, and who has sacrificed everything to
his desire to preserve peace, concord, and prosperity
among his subjects.
" The entire world has seen that, in order not to
shed blood, I have preferred risking my Crown.
Traitors, paid by the foreign enemy, seated them-
selves in my Council by the side of faithful ser-
vants; but, in the sincerity of my heart, I could not
believe in treason. It was too painful to me to
punish ; I suffered at the idea of opening, after so
many misfortunes, an era of pet secutions ; and thus
the disloyalty of some and my clemency facilitated
the invasion which was accomplished by means of
adventurers, and by paralyzing the fidelity of my
people and the bravery of my soldiers.
"Although the object of continual conspiracies, I
have not shed a drop of blood, and my conduct has
been accused of weakness. If the most tender love
for my subjects, if the natural confidence of youth
in the uprightness of others, if an instinctive horror
of blood merit that name—yes, assuredly I have
been weak. At the moment at which the ruin of
my enemies was certain 1 held back the arm of my
Generals, in order not to consummate the destruc-
tion of Palermo. I preferred to abandon Naples,
my home, my dear capital, without being driven
away by 3 ou, in order not to expose it to the hor-
rors of a bombardment like those which subse-
quently took place at Capua and Ancona. I be-
lieved with good faith that the King of Piedmont,
who called himself my brother and my friend, who
protested to me that he disapproved the invasion of
Garibaldi, and who negotiated with my Govern-
ment a close alliance for the true interests of Italy,
would not have broken all treaties and violated all
laws, for the purpose of invading my States in full
peace, without any motives, and without any de-
claration of war. These are my faults ; but I prefer
my misfortunes to the triumphs of my adversaries.
" I gave an amnesty ; I opened the gates of the
country to all exiles; 1 accorded a constitution to
my people; and assuredly I have not violated the
promises I made. I was prepared to guarantee
to Sicily free institutions which, with a separate
Parliament, would have consecrated her adminis-
trative and economic independence, and removed
at once all motives of distrust and discontent. I
summoned to my councils the men who seemed to
me the most acceptable to public opinion under the
circumstances; and, so far as the incessant aggres-
sions of which I have been the victim permitted, I
laboured with ardour in'effecting reforms, and in
promoting the progress and prosperity of our com-
mon country.

" It is not intestine discords that have wrung
from me my kingdom.; but I am vanquished by
the unjustifiable invasion of a foreign enemy. The
Two Sicilies, with the exception of Gaeta and
Messina, the last asylums of their independence,
are in the hands of Piedmont. And what has the
revolution procured for the people of Naples and
Sicily ? Look at the situation which the country
presents. The finances, formerly so flourishing, are
completely ruined, the administratiord is in chaos,
individual security does not exist, the prisons are full
of persons arrested on suspicion ; instead of liberty,
the state of siege is established in the provinces:
and a foreign General publishes martial law, and
decrees that all those of my subjects who do not
bow before the.flag of Sardinia shall be immediately
shot. Assassination is recompensed regicide obtains
an apotheosis, respect of the holy worship of our
fathers is called fanaticism ; promoters of civil war,
traitors to the country, receive pensions which the
pacific citizen has to pay. Anarchy is everywhere.
Foreign adventurers have laid hands on everything
to satisfy the avidity or the passions of their com-
panions. Men who have never seen this part of
Italy. or who, from long absence, have forgotten its
wants, constitute our Government. Instead of the
free institutions which I gave you, and which I de-
. sired to de velope, you have had the most ruthless
dictatorship and martial law now replaces the Con-
stitution. Beneath the attacks of your dominators
disappears the ancient monarchy of Roger and
Charles 111. and the two Sicilies have been declared
provinces of a distant kingdom. Naples and
Palermo will henceforth be governed by prefects
coming from Turin.
"There is a remedy for these evils, and for the
still greater calamities which I foresee—namely,
concord, resolution, faith in the future. Unite
around the throne of your fathers—let forgetful-
ness cover for ever the errors of all ; let the past
never be a pretext for vengeance, but a salutary
lesson for the future. I have confidence in the jus-
tice of Providence, and whatever may be my fate I
will be faithful to my people and to the institutions
which I have accorded to them. Administrative
and economic independence of each of the Two Sici-
lies, with a Parliament for each, and a complete
amnesty for all political acts—such is my p.ro•
gramme. With any other bases than these the
country will be plunged into despotism and anarchy.
" Defender of the independence of the country,
I remain and fight here in order not to abandon a
trust which is so holy and dear to me. If authority
return to my hands, I shall employ it to protect all
rights, to respect all property, to guarantee the
persons and possessions of my subjects against op-
pression and pillage. If Providence in its profound
designs permits the last bulwark of the monarchy
to fall beneath the blows of a foreign enemy, I
will retire with a conscience without reproach,
with immovable faith, with unchangeable resolu-
tion; and while waiting for the veritable hour of
justice, 'I will offer most fervent prayers for the
prosperity of my country, and for the felicity of
those populations who form the largest and the
dearest portion of Loy family.
" May Almighty God, and the im n.aculate and
invincible
the protectress of our country,
support
o Virgin,
u rVi
commoni cause. " FRANCIS."

UNBAPTISED CHILDREN.—A correspondent writes
to us from Elham, says the South Eastern Gazette, re-
questing us to state that recently an inhabitant of, that
place lost a young child by death, who had not been bap-
tised. The consequence was that the clergyman, when
requested to do so, refused to read over it the burial ser •
vice, and would not even permit it to be buried in the
churchyard till after dark, as though the infant had com-
mitted felo de se, or the burial ground was the property of
the officiating minister for the time being, instead of be-
longing to the whole body of the parishioners, who have
had to pay for it 20 times over. In a neighboufing parish
a similar incident lately occurred, when the clergyman
there told the mother that all unbaptised children " become
hobgoblins after death," and are not psrmitted to, go to
IieRTOU,

71-1 E PRNIN';ULAR 31.41 L.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
S ultan, Capt. Cook, with the above mail, has arrived.
She brings 17 passengers, £1.510 in specie, and
3,300 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of
oranges.

S:le spoke the Tagus, bound for Lisbon, on the
9rh inst.

The Tyne' sailed from Lisbon for the Brazils on
he 14th inst.

Her INlAjesty's ship Mersey left Lisbon for the
West Indies on the 15th inst.

In Lisbon harbour were her Majesty's ship Cell•
,urion and. the Portuguese squEdron.

A great many vessels were anchored outside the
bar of Oporto.
At Lisbon, on the 17th inst., exchange on Lon-
don, three months, was quoted 5474 ; Paris, 528
Amsterdam, 421; Hamburg, 48; Genoa, 527 ;
Renter, 3 per cent. interest from January, 1861,
463, ; Coupons, 451; Deferred, 37; Bank of Por-
tugal shares, 262 milreis ; Commercial Bank of
Opoi to and Mercantile Bank, 260 miireis,