The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-21 00:00:00

NAPLES.

• The instructions which M. Manna and M. Win-
speare, the Neapolitan envoys at Turin, have re-
ceived from King Francis 11., are said to consist in
the three following points :-1, to set forth the
programme of the concessions which the King
pledges himself to make, while reserving his, at
least nominal, sovereignty over Sicily; 2, to sound
the disposition of the Sardinian Cabinet ; and, 3,
to lay down the bases of an alliance with Pied-
mont. On his side, the Marquis de La Greca, who
has just arrived in Paris, is said to be charged
with a similar mission to the French and English
Governments.

" The following," says a Naples letter of the 15th
in the Nord, "is the text of a despatch lately ad-
dressed by General Clary, the Commandant at
Messina, to the Ministers of War and Marine at
Naples :

" The Veloce, concealed behind the Lipari Islands, runs
out to capture any Neapolitan vessel she sees. Send im-
mediately, before she can be joined by any other private
vessel, the Fulminante, the Ercole, and the Fieramosca, as
well as the Parthenope and the Regina, which can be taken
in tow by the others, that she may be captured. I should
have sent out the Archimede but she is disabled. We are
all devoured by rage; the state of affairs becomes serious.
Our communications are interrupted. Answer, and give
instructions.

The following is the despatch sent ii reply :

" ' General Severino to General Clary.

" ' The steam frigates will leave to capture her. French
steamers will convey ammunition. Propose whatever you
think best.' "

The same letter adds :
" Yesterday evening all the Neapolitan 'vessels were to
start in order to recapture the Veloce, but when the cap.
tain of the Fulminante gave the order to weigh anchor,
the crew refused. The King, on being informed of this
fact, sent for the captains, in order to ascertain from them
the disposition of their crews. All of them, with the ex-
ception of four, declared that they would not leave, and
those four went on board. On reaching their vesels they
found their crews in open mutiny, and met with a forma
refusal to weigh anchor. General Claryis right ; the situa-1
tion of affairs becomes most serious."

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, JULY 19.

The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies was yes-
terday extremely animated. The address to the
King, which is to be presented to his Majesty at
3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, on the occasion of
the 29th anniversary of his accession, was read to
the Chamber; and th e final vote, abolishing the
octrois, or town does, was taken. I must limit my-
self to-day to sending you the subjoined translation
of the address, which was received with enthusiasm,
and repeatedly interrupted by the applause of the
audience.

At half-past two M. Orts, President of the Cham-
ber, ascended the tribune, and read as follows :
" Sire,—This day commences the 20th year of your
reign. Receive the congratulations of the Chamber of Re-
presentatives. Once more it comes to express to you the
national sympathies upon which, since a quarter of a cen-
tury, your throne gloriously rests.
" That long road happily traversed, our independence
rendered fruitful and daily blessed, our manly liberties ele-
vating the soul by the sentiment of right and animating
with an active vigour the whole social body, the gradual
development of a prosperity previously unknown—all this
generous toil accomplished with a mutual confidence, with
the same loyalty, the same persistance, the same devo •
lion to the general good—all this is what has for so many
years united Belgium and her King. To destroy the tie
it would be necessary to tear from our annals the life of a
whole generation. Where is there to be found in the in-
terior history of a people, 30 years whose memory is more
uneffaceable and on which liberty, peace, and civilisation
have more abundantly shed their benefits, or during which
a more legitimate success has rewarded nobler labours ?
" There are old nations which still are seeking the politi-
cal regimen that may satisfy the new necessities of society,
without weakening the basis on which social eider at all
periods reposes. This problem of our times Belgium re-
solved by herself, from the morrow of that day on which,
after centuries of subjection, it was granted to her freely to
mark out her own path. By her first effort she founded
institutions so happily suited to her character, so fully
sufficing for all necessities and all wishes, that already
it seems as though they were consecrated by
the lapse of centuries, so general is the respect
that environs them, so easy has their practice become, so
immoveable do their foundations appear. And thus it is
that when, some years since, the political tempest disturbed
men's minds and raised the popular whirlwind around us, it
was Belgium that gave to Europe the example of calm and
stability ; it was the young Belgian monarchy that rendered
to its seniors the services of checking the conflagration by
the spectacle of a free and happy people rallying around
their King. What Crown passed through those great trials
with more honour than the Crown of Belgium ? What
people thenceforward could believe Belgium less capable
than itself of ruling its own lot—less worthy to bear its
own name ?

" Sire, after having risen and taken root amidst the dif-
ficulties of the past, ought the natural edifice to dread the
storms of the future ? Who shall hereafter think of shak-
ing your popular throne on its well-tried foundations ?
Who shall conceive such a design, unless it be men light of
mind and without a mission, of depriving a people which,
without injuring any other, has known how to conquer so
honourable a place among the most worthy of its name and
of its very existence ?
" There are political crimes which enlightened nations
have not to fear. In the centre of the civilisation of Europe
as she now is, Governments do not trample under foot all
that the human conscience respects. In our days the blood
of nations is not squandered to shield a throne which mil-
lions of men unanimously surround with their veneration
and their gratitude. Attempts are not made to assassinate
a nationality full of life and strong in its good right, in
universal esteem, and in the solemn engagements of all
Europe. If one day, Sire, it were possible that all the
rights and duties which exist between Governments
as between nations could be disregarded ; if your crown,
our liberties, our holy independence and our native land,
were menaced, Belgium, at the summons of the King,
would know how to defend her national treasury as a free
and virtuous people defends all that it holds most sacred.
She has had long enough experience of foreign domina-
tion; long enough were her rights, her dignity, her riches,
her rank, sacrificed to other interests than her own. Her
head will never again bend beneath a yoke she detests and
has for ever broken. ' In the hour of peril her courage will
not remain isolated. The faith of treaties, the interest and
independence of Europe, are not vain words. A
cause to
which no honest men of any country can remain indiffo
rent, will never be in danger of perishing or of lacking de-
fenders.
" Continue, Sire, to preside with confidence over our des-
tinies. Faithful and devoted, Belgium will remain worthy
of herself and of her King.
For several minutes after the conclusion of the
address the most vehement applause resounded in
the Chamber, by which it was enthusiastically and
unanimously adopted.

THE RIOTS AT LURGAN.—DIIBLIN, Friday
biorning.—The magistrates at Lurgan have committed all
the prisoners identified for trial, refusing bail for those who
used arras at the rise,

AMERICA.

QUEENSTO WN, JULY 21..

The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch,
from Boston on the 11th, and Halifax on the 13th
of July, arrived here at 4.30 a.m. to-day.
She brings 160 passengers and 175,000 doll. in
specie.

She landed all mails, and proceeded at 5 a.m. for
Liverpool. All well.
The Arabian arrived at Boston on July 12. The
Etna, Fulton, and Palestine had also arrived out.

The steamer John Stephens left Aspinwall on
the 30th ult. with 1,400,000 doll. in gold for New
York.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 10, 1860.

New York Centrals, 84; Erie, 20±±; ditto first mortgage
bonds, 101; Illinois bonds, 90 ; do. Railroad 651. Money
easier. Foreign exchange firm on London 109} to 110.
Stocks active. Cotton limited, prices nominal. Flour
heavy and drooping. Corn has declined. Sugar and Coffee
in fair demand. Other articles restricted.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY 10.
Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 101. Exchange on
Loudon, 90 to 10 premium.

THE ENCROACHMENTS IN KENSING-
TON GARDENS.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Padding-
ton, Notting-hill, Bayswater, &c., was held last
evening at the Vestry Hall, Paddington-green,
to resist the encroachment on the quiet and
safety of Kensington-gardens, as contemplated
by the formation of an equestrian ride as an ex-
tension to that of Rotten-row. Mr. Churchwarden
Whitter was called to the chair. Tb e platform
was crowded with a very numerous avBemblage of
gentlemen of local influence, and the hall was com-
pletely thronged. _ _

The CIIAIRMAN briefly introduced the subject,
and then

Mr. DILLON, who commenced by saying it VMS
not a political question they had met to discuss.
That afternoon a meeting had been appointed to
wait upon Mr. Cowper, whose memory or manners
forsook him, for he never appeared, but he could
manage to meet four lords on the same subject the
previous night. The park was not the people's
property, but granted by the favour of the Queen.
(Cries of " No, no.") He hoped the Lords would
not make it a "Lord's" question, or the people
would be bound, in their own justification, to make
it their question. Much had been said about the
pedestrians having had their comfort attended to,
and that the equestrians were entitled to the same
consideration ; but what he asked was that they
should not have the same place and reduce the op-
portunity for exercise of their wives and families.
(Hear.) He thought there were many places a
little distance from London, such as Blackheath,
Barnet, or other places ; but as the reply was that
such places were too far off, he feared they only
sought this new ride for display. (Loud cheers.)
They (the people) cared as much for the health
and exercise of their families, and could not
spare the beautiful garden they had. He
respected the aristocracy, but he admonished
them to respect the feelings, safety, and
privileges of the people. He then moved,
" That without notice to, or consultation with, the
parties interested, a ride has been formed connect-
ing Rotten-row with the most retired and bes.uti-
ful part of Kensington Gardens, cutting the gardens
into two parts, and rendering access from one part
to the other inconvenient and unsafe. That these
gardens, by the gracious permission of the Sove-
reign, have been hitherto open to pedestrians only,
affording a great and safe means of enjoyment to
all classes, without reference to rank or- fortune."
Colonel DICKSON seconded, and had no doubt the
meeting then present would have the effect of set-
fling the question.
Mr. BENSON and Mr. NICHOLAY supported, amid
much cheering, and the resolution was carried, with
one dissentient.

Dr. THORNE advocated the extension instead of
the contraction of healthful grounds. The poor in-
valid who could not afford to leave London had no
other place but the gardens for his walk. He hoped
the aristocracy would leave the rights of the people
alone, and their privileges would be respected. He
moved, " That the ride now made appears intended
to afford further means of recreation to those classes
of society whose means of enjoyment are ahead,'
comparatively without limit, particularly as to
horse exercise which they can enjoy in the parks
and on all the roads and places in the neigh-
bourhood of the metropolis, and that it
is an in-
terference, as unwise as it is ungracious, with the
comfort and the safety of the people at large, maul
of whom have settled in the neighbourhood •in the
expectation ofbeing allowed for themselves and their
families, and for the young, the sick, and the mote
studious of all classes the quiet and safe enjoyment
of these gardens, and this meeting hereby e%-
presses its unqualified condemnation of the forms"
tion of sueh ride."
Mr. L. SEWELL seconded.

Mr. MARTELLI moved, and Mr. HAGGARD Se-

conded, the formation of a committee to take steP°
to petition the Queen, or adopt other means to
further the object, and the business terminated in
the usual way.

Yesterday evening a public meeting was held. at
the Vestry, Kensington, to protest against the for-
mation of the horse road in Kensington-gardens•
Mr. J. White, M.P. for Brighton, presiders, and
the room was crowded.

Letters were read from the following memLers
of Parliament :—Lord Fermoy, Mr. James, Baron
Rothschild, Sir M. Peto, Sir J. Shelley, Lori.
field, and Mr. Hanbury.
The CHAIRMAN, in a short speech, stated the
business which they were met to consider.
Mr. SERLE, after a speech strongly condemnatori
of the proposed alteration, which he denounced as
an abominable innovation on the rights of the
people, moved the following resolution : 'l7rhat the
parks and gardens open to the public in the metro-
polis, are not only indispensable to health and corn'
fort of its inhabitants, but constitute its ornaments ;
and that the integrity and rural beauty of these
delightful places of public resort, appreciated n. 4
they are by the poor as well as the rich, ought to
be preserved inviolate."
Captain SHUTTLEWORTH seconded the resold'
,
tion, which was supported by Mr. Nicholay, and
carried, with only five dissentients.
Mr. ARCHBUTT moved—" That the intersection
of Kensington-gardens by a broad dusty horse pool,
is repugnant to the feelings of all classes in this
parish and neighbourhood, and is specially object'
tionable as not only fraught with danger, but as de'
priving females, children, and invalids, who resort
in large numbers to the gardens for health and re'
creation, of the quiet, comfort, and security they
have hitherto enjoyed."
Mr. Churchwarden GREENWAY seconded tile
motion.

Mr. TURNER having in vain endeavoured to or
pose the resolution, it was passed unanimously.
Mr. FREEMAN moved—" That the obnoxicel
measures, by which a small class is to be favoured
at the expense of the great body of the inhabitants,
has been adopted withous notice, and without there-
fore affording to the public the opportunity of re'
monstrating against it, and that consequently there
is no security that either here or elsewhere other '
changes of an equally objectionable character may
not at any time be anticipated."
The resolution was seconded, and, like the others,
adopted with great enthusiasm.
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

Kensington Gardens met yesterday, at one o'clock'
A few gentlemen resident on the north side of
at the Office of Parks, Palaces, and Gardens'
Whitehall by appointment
* of the Hon. Air•
M.P., with Mr. F.
Cowper, W. Russell, M.P., for
the purpose of expressing to the First Commissioner
their opinion and that of many of their neighbours
of the recently opened ride for equestrians through
Kensington Gardens. After having waited for
nearly one hour and the hon. gentleman not hal'
mg arrived, nor any communication having bee°
received to account for his not keeping the appoint'
ment, the gentlemen separated. Among those pre'
sent were—F. -iAr.
v, • Russell, Esq., M.P„ H. Burslet?'
Whitmore, Esq It. L. Jones, Esq., A. Pigeon,
~
Esq., J. A. Nicholay, Esq., F. H. Haggard, Esq.''''
Esq., John Dillon, Esq., Dr. Thorns, J. S. Pearsel
Esq.,
Cohan, Esq. Mr. Edwin James having
been informed of the intention of a portion of 111,
constituency to wait on Mr. Cowper, also formed
one of the number present.

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EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.— SAD EFFECTS ()°
PRIGUT.—On Saturday last Mrs. Edwards, of Millbrookt
had taken her seat in a waterman's boat at Mutton Cove?
Devonport, to cross liamoaze to her residence, when a your g
lad, in endeavouring to step from the slip on the gulaWBl,
missed his footing and fell into the water. Mrs. Edwarcif
who was seven months advanced in pregnancy, was great /0
terrified at the accident. The boy was rescued with 6°1%
difficulty, but the shock she sustained was so great, thi:o
on the boat arriving at Millbrook it was found necesearY
carry her to her residence. The poor woman was talo_.
with the pangs of premature labour and gave birth to th?'7l
children. Two of the infants have since died. The
still survives but is very weakly, and the mother hag tit
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tained a severe shock of the nervous system, from Novo.
must be a long time before she will have completelY ruit
covered. Her gracious Majesty the Queen is in the I?t'il
of making a present to mothers of three children at a blr,ai
and this is an occasion well entitled to call forth the NJ
bounty.—.Plymotah Amnia.

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