The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

A letter from Vienna of the 15th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" The recall of all the men on fur-
lough has been ordered, but for the present it is
only the army of Italy that is to be provisionally
placed on a war footing. The regiments in Gallicia
will, however, be made up to their full complement."
—Another letter, in the Boersenhalle, says :—"The
Austrian cabinet has confirmed the mission en-
trusted to Baron de Hubner to the court of Naples,
and it is said that fresh instructions have been sent
him, which will enable that diplomatist to act with
energy. The word energy' must not, however,
give rise to any misunderstanding. It simply
signifies that the baron is instructed to address
himself to the King in person. The Vienna Ca-
binet anticipates good results from this personal
interview, as it is hoped that the Austrian diplo-
matist will exercise considerable influence over the
mind of the monarch."

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, AUG. 18.

The news of the skirmish that the Prussian cor-
v Ate Danzig has had with the Riff pirates, as con-
tained in your naval and military intelligence last
Saturday, is exciting deep emotion here. So heavy
a loss (20 men wounded and eight killed out of a
lauding party of 75), Prince Adalbert wounded in
the thigh, and his adjutant mortally wounded at
his side, and all this happening on the very same
i spot where three years before a Prussian vessel was
plundered by the same pirates ! The spot where
this most unexpected and impromptu affair ea:ne off
is described as a few miles to the east of the
town of Melilla, in the direction of the frontier of
Algiers, where the beach is rocky and steep, and the
country very hilly. From what I can learn of the
affair at present, there had. been no attempt made
to land by the boats of the Danzig, when they were
fired upon by the Riffs, They had put off from the
ship for the purpose of viewing the upot already so
ominous to the Prussian naval force. On meeting
with this reception, they were ordered back to the
ship, under cover of hor guns, and all the boats
manned and armed for the purpose of resenting this
insult. The whole crew of the Danzig consists of 80
marines, about 40 seamen, and from 20 to 30 boys.
Of this force 75 put off, and succeeded in effect-
ing a landing in the face of several hundred Riffs.
They drove the enemy, who were advantageously
posted on a declivity, up and over the hill, only to
find themselves surrounded by an overpowering
multitude, so that there was nothing left them but
to retreat to their boats, which they succeeded in
reaching, but with the excessive loss mentioned
above. The Prince is wounded in the fleshy part
of the thigh, about six inches above the knee, but it
I is expected that in a few weeks he will be able to
travel. His Adjutant, Isl ieseman, who subsequently
died on board from the wound he received on the
occasion, is extremely regretted by all who knew him
for his many attractive and endearing qualities, and
he had engaged himself to be married only a few
days before he received orders to join the Danzig
for her distant duty. She is a steam corvette
of 12 guns, built at Dantsic, and was destined
after landing Prince Adalbert at Constantinople, to
take up her station with other vessels of the great
Powers off the mouth of the Sulina. Prince Adal-
bert is a brother of the Prince Waldemar, of whom
it will be recollected in England that he visited our
camp while travelling in the East Indies during
the campaign against the Sikhs, and that it was
at one of the battles there, under Lord Hardinge,
that the Prince's physician was killed at his side ;
our Government has subsequently presented two
beautiful field pieces that were taken in that battle
to the King, in token of his cousin having been
present at it. They are now in the Zeug-Yaits or
arsenal in Berlin. After this repetition of a pirati-
cal outrage on a Prussian vessel, it seems more
than probable that the expedition against these
lawless subjects of the Emperor of Morocco, which
was postponed two years ago on account of the
Oriental conflict, will be fitted out afresh with
increased vigour.
The extent to which usurious transactions have
of late been carried on here, between spendthrift
nobles and hardfisted monoy-lenders since the
repeal of the usury laws, has induced the police 'at
last to try their hands at the cure of an evil that
the civil law leaves untouched. The recent flight
of various officers of the Guard, the dismissal of
Prince William of Mecklenburg from the army
and his detention in the fortress at Konigsberg,
had already sufficiently aroused the indignation of
all classes against spendthrifts. Now, however, a
recent instance'of one of these money harpies giving
only 1,200 thalers for a good bill that was brought
him for 2,500 thalers, and refusing to part with it
again at any moderate advance, has brought mat-
ters to a crisis as between them and the Exe-
cutive. The case became the harder for the
proprietors of the bill from the circumstance
that the go-between who negociated the sale, on
finding the 1,200 thalers rejected by them as
altogether below its value, and at the same
time not being able to prevail on the purchaser of
the bill to return it in consideration of a douceur,
applied the money to his own purposes. The
police have now placed a constable at the door
of the . usurer's house, who inquires of every
visitor his name and the nature of his business
with the offending party, all which are duly
noted down ; the messenger of the said' indivi-
dual is also constantly accompanied on his errands
by a constable, for the purpose of detecting all
the various dirty transactions he may have on
hand. Although in England any such interference
of police agents with private business (not being of
a criminal nature) would lead only to some hearty
invectives and injunctions to mind their own busi-
ness, it will probably be effectual here, seeing that
it is a misdemeanour of itself not to answer a police-
man respectfully to all his inquiries, while the pro-
cess itself will remind the readel. Lut tie old-fashioned
way with us of cautioning the public with " beware I
of bad haves.",

CORONATION OF THE ELIIPE.801? OF
RUSSIA.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Morning Post.)
ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. 13.
There can scarcely now be any more adjourn-
ments, as it was expected there would still be, of the
coronation-day. The 26th of August (old style 7th
of September) is formally adhered to in this morn-
ing's Fedontoste.
_ _

Already Earl Granville's extreme accessibility,
and the charm inherent in frank and simple man-
ners, have secured him those golden opinions
which the truly golden preparations that heralded
his arrival had predisposed the Russians to enter-
tain. The Hotel Demouth, where he is sojourning
for the short time before the corps diplomatique
set out to. Moscow, is situated on the first canal
that crosses the Nevsky Prospect, and crowds of
Isvostchiks, and other Russian idlers of the lower
class, succeeded each other all day long, Friday,
Saturday, and yesterday, on both sides of the
canal, and upon the police-bridge, or Politziiska
Most, to gaze at such of the new inmates as occa-
sionally appeared upon the massive balcony. One,
an English naval officer, attracted the greatest
attention, thanks to his thoroughly professional
look, and to the uniform which set it off. The
Isvostchiks were never tired pointing to him, and
then to their own, shoulders, to indicate the gleam
of his ponderous bullion epaulettes, exclaiming,
"Ah ! dobrah eta ! Ah ! carasho !" "Ah ! how
find he is ! how splendid !" But the St. Jean d'Acre
at Cronstadt is the grand centre of attraction ; and
every day the Vesta (or, as she is labelled in the
Russ characters, the Bee Ma), with other steamers
to Cronstadt, is packed as closely as the standing
room on its decks allows of with curious excur-
sionists, repairing to feast their eyes upon that
beautiful and terrible steam liner. In the whole
Russian navy there never was her match ; never,
probably, any two vessels together, of which, in a
good open sea, she would not have managed to give
a conclusive account. Most of the Russian sight-
seers I have mentioned are wonderfully innocent
about the application of thefmost recent naval im-
provements. What particularly struck them was
the manner in which the mighty ship, when lying
at her moorings, is wont, as they express it, to dis-
guise her steam power. Many would not believe
till after a very close inspection that she was a
steamer at all. Being a screw-propelled vessel, she
of course has no paddles ; but where are her chim-
neys—where are the funnels ? The St. Jean d'Acre,
as your readers know, can at pleasure winch down
her funnels, like opera-glasses, to within a foot of
her deck, and wind up her screw clean out of water.
She appeared to the Russians in her beauty and
strength, when all this was understood, a true war-
sorceress.

What lends peculiar splendour to Earl Granville's
Embassy is the number of distinguished persons who
accompany it, the arrival of any one of whom at St.
Petersburg, even unofficially, would have made at
all times a considerable sensation. Sir Robert and
Lady Peel are much commented upon, on account
of the late Sir Robert's fame, tariff, political expe-
riments !and personal fate. For some three weeks
before I came up through the Gulf of Finland that
sea had swarmed, I am told, with Russian vessels
of war and transports conveying the troops—por-
tions of the great army of Finland, from \Vyborg,
Sweaborg, Abo, Nystadt, and even further round
the northing of the Gulf of Bothnia, from Nasa,
Gamla, Karlaby, Uleborg, and Tornea. These
troops, with other detachments coming overland
from Archangel, and in the opposite direction—
brought by vessels from Riga, Pernau, Revel, and
other parts of Courland and Livonia, and march-
ing from the fort of Narva, overlooking the field
where Charles XII., 150 years ago, with 8,000
Swedes, defeated 80,000 Russians ; and from the
great summer camp of Krasno-Selo, still Roarer to
St. Petersburg (Narva, is only 70 miles away)—
were converged upon this place, and then de-
spatched as fast as they arrived to Moscow, there
to be ready to add to the imposing pageantry of the
forthcoming festival. At the same time, from Bes-
sarabia, Katerinaslav, Kiev, Vol hynia, the Ukraine,
and other regions in the south and west, with de-
tachments from the army of Poland, troops have
been continually directed towards Moscow for the
last two months. lam assured that there will not
be less than 350,000 in Moscow during the cere-
mony to swell the pomp of their young Monarch's
coronation. Of the various forces of Russia those
of the Finland army and of the St. Petersburg and
neighbouring Governmentshave probably furnished
the largest contingents for this combined centripetal
movement.

The programme in the V edomoste regards St.
Petersburg only, and directs that on the evening
of the 6th Sept. a solemn service be performed in
the Kazan Church, on the Nevsky, to beg the
blessing of Heaven on the reign which next morn-
. ing is to be religiously inaugurated at Moscow, in
. the presence of Russia, and of the whole civilised
world assisting there, in the persons of the various
Ambassadors and Envoys. Next morning the
clergy of St. Petersburs, are to assemble in readi-
ness at the Kazan for the telegraphic message which
will annouuce the exact moment when the proces-
sion shall have begun to move from the Petroffsky
Palace, outside the ancient walls of Moscow. At
that instant three guns will he fired ; and from all
the watch-towers of St. Petersburg (fire-alarm
towers) white flags (biaalie flagee) are to be dis-
played for the space of ten minutes, while the as-
sembled clergy intone in the Kazan hymns of sup-
plication and propitiation. Another pause of expec-
tancy and silence then ensues, to await the electric
message which will mark the moment of Alexander
ll.'s arrival in the Kremlin, which moment will again
be announced to St. Petersburg by a salute of three
guns. Upon this the white flags on the watch-
towers will vanish, and be replaced by red, and the
clergy and people in the Kazan Soder (cathedral)
will join, 500 miles away, in the same prayers, ac-
cording to the Greek liturgy, which will be offered
in the Kremlin Church, at Moscow. This will be
at half-paSt 11 a.m. ; and when the crown is placed
on the young Emperor's brow, a third message will
flash along the telegraph, and 101 guns will pro-
claim to the northern capital that the absolute
Sovereign of 70 millions of human beings has re-
ceived the solemn emblem of his high authority.
There is then to be sung in the Kazan the Te
Deem, which at the same moment will be chanted
in the older and more august metropolis. That
evening there is to be a festival with singing, music,
and fireworks in the summer garden, and in the
Champs de Mars behind it, where booths are per-
mitted to be pitched for the sale of refreshments.
This is for the masses. For the better classes there
is to be a ball in the great theatre (bolshaea teatra),
and a dinner in the Hall of the Nobles. To the
people the Alexander and Michael theatres and the
circus are to be thrown open for gratuitous perfor-
mances. St. Petersburg is to be illuminated, and the
three da,ys—the seventh, the eighth (despite anniver-
sary thoughts), and the eleventh of September, are
to be kept as holidays, not in the religious, but the
sportive sense. Why the 9th is pretermitted I know
not, but the 10th (which is in Russia the 29th of
August) happens to be their festival of Alexander
Nevsky, whom they honour as a saint and as one
of the chief patrons of Russia. The scaffoldings
for the illuminations are to be kept up till the re-
turn of their Majesties from Moscow. •
Such is the programme fey St.!Petersburg, which
capital is now every day literally emptying itself
upon the Great Southern line. It is arranged that
the Court shall preserve its present quietude and
retirement at Peterhoff till its departure. As to
society, with the exception of the Foreign Ambas-
sadors, who are almost on the wing, there is hardly
any left. In short, there will be nothing more in
the nature of incident to chonicle here except those
incessant arrivals which alone prevent St. Peters-
burg from looking at this moment a deserted and
forsaken city. Only an hour since the Stettin boat,
for example, arrived deep in the water with her
human freight. A pound sterling more than the
fare was demanded on board for something to lie
upon, besides the floors of the cabins and the planks
of the deck. Amidst this crowd, exactly eighty of
whom (and not eighty poor persons, but gentlemen
travelling for their pleasure, for whoever can afford
an excursion from the west of Europe for the pur-
pose of seeing the great coronation at Moscow must
have independent means)slept onithe deck. Amidst
this great crowd, I say, were three French generals
coming, like three-fourths of the rest, to see the
coronation. They are all three Crimean generals
—Lebceuf, of the Line ; Dupont, of the Engineers ;
and Froissart, of the Artillery. There were lots of
Russian princes on their return, and one, whose
name ends in "off," with a most beautiful wife, a
Greek, who, while hardy-looking men were still a
little sick from the roughness of the two last days
of the four which they had occupied in steaming
from Stettin, had no sooner got out of the larger
into the smaller boat at Cronstadt than she de-
scended into the cabin and attacked a beefsteak
with evident relish. Of whatthat beautiful person
is capable may bo judged. General Mouravieff
was on board, and could not accomplish the feat
in question. The portraits of Mouravieff which I
have seen in England do him gross injustice. There
was, one I especially remember, representing him
as a portly, heavy-faced, stupid-looking man of 60.
He appears about 48—is small, active, sprightly,
with such a good-natured and good-humoured ex-
pression of .countenance as to prevent your remark-
ing itt a first glance its unquestionable keenness
and intelligence. Some of the princes and heroes
who came with him were in uniform, and covered
with orders. He wore plain clothes, not even a
ribbon, and, instead of a military hat, a little black
cap—looking altogether like a sensible traveller
used to the It is not a fine thing to leo a ulan

who glitters with stars, crosses, and badges, sea.
sick I

Such are the miscellaneous arrivals every day—
our worthy countrymen figuring largely in each
new crowd that is cast upon these granite quays.
Most of them are pleasure-seekers. Among those
who come bent on business, the two most numerous
classes are the importers of wine (who reap an im-
mense harvest at the present moment), and those
heirs of the future in Russia, as they deem them-
selves, the civil engineers. Meanwhile, there are
swarms of agents from the great capitalists of Lon-
don, of Paris, and of the various chief towns of
Germany, who are making interest here against
each other to obtain concessions of the many new
lines of railway which are in contemplation. That
from Warsaw to Moscow is begun, but awaits
capital to be continued. That from Moscow to
Odessa, or to Kherson, awaits capital to be begun.
A whole network of embryo railways in the north
are waiting for capital to hatch them into good
dividends. There are altogether 4,000 versts of
line clearly shown, and maturely admitted, to be
needed in this country, which hold out really good
promise of more or less ample remuneration when
accomplished. They are all waiting for capital ;
and capital, at the same time, is not only waiting
for leave to undertake these gigantic works, but
vehemently suing for it, or at least for permission
to commence part of them. They wish the coro-
nation all over. And well they may ; for till then
no other business will meet with any very close
attention from Alexander the Second. He is ab-
sorbed—heart, mind, and soul—in the preparations.
St. Petersburg has been recently very much amused
and puzzled by the sudden visit of Sir Charles
Napier, and his equally sudden departure. The
gallant admiral was treated with much condescen-
sion by the Grand Duke Constantine, and was, I
believe, invited to a naval review, but he departed
suddenly on the receipt of letters from England.
Many characteristic anecdotes are told of him,
especially as to the way in which he parried some
good-humoured taants respecting his celebrated
boast about tha capture of Cronstadt—a boast
which, by the way, he never made. It is said that
when an illustrious personage asked him " Why
he didn't come in to Cronstadt ?" the retort cour-
teous of the old " Salt" was, " Why didn't you
come out ?" On another day he visited a Greek
convent, where he was introduced as " Mr.
Napier." One of the young lady pupils hearing
the name, timidly inquired whether he was any
relative of the terrible admiral who was to have
taken Cronstadt; and his answer was, "No relation
at all, miss, lam the man himself." I select these
two out of about a dozen that are flying about re-
specting the veteran of Acre, without vouching for
their accuracy, but at the same time being strongly
impressed with their vraisernb/ance. The official
journal as yet contains no positive news about the
coronation, but I believe the dates will be—Depar-
hire from St. Petersburg, Aug. 26 ; public entry,
29th; coronation, Sept. 7. It is remarkable that
even the official programme contains nothing about
the day.

THE FATE OF OICEBUAOCHIO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l forward you the enclosed, and trust
that you will insert it speedily in the columns of
your paper.—l am, &c.,

J. MOUTON WHITE.
28, Ashley-place, Victoria-street,
Westminster, Tuesday, 6 p.m.

My dear Friend,—l have just learned from
Colonel Sache (one of the sixty-three patriots who
sailed with me from Monte Video to Italy in 1848)
the sad fate of Ciceruacchio and his two sons. They
followed me in my retreat from Rome in 1849, and
on the 3d of August embarked at Cesenatico with
my wife and Ugo Bassi, in one of the thirteen fish-
ing boats, in which it was our intention to land at
Venice. But when I reached Ravenna with my
dying wife, I insisted on all my followers dispers-
ing, the Austrians have issued a proclamation that
whoever should guide or give us fire, food, or shelter
should be put to death.
Of the fate of many of those brave ones I am
still in ignorance. "(Igo •Bassi, after having had
the skin stripped from his fingers and the crown of
his head, was shot at Bologna. I flattered myself
that Ciceruacchio and his children had gained the
Appenines, and had been shelterel by the moun-
taineers. But Sacchi tells me that while com-
manding a steamer on the river Po, he landed at
one of the towns on the banks of this river, and
that there the peasants gave him the names of
seven individuals shot at Contarina by the Aus-
trians, under the orders of an officer belonging to
the Imperial family. Among them was a Roman,
Angelo Brunetti (" Ciceruacchio" was the name
given to him by the Romans), his two sons, one
aged 19, the other 13, a youth named Stefano Ra-
morino, Lorenzo Parodi, captain of the Italian Le•
gion in Monte Video, and two others, whose names
Ido not know. After the first volley was dis-
charged, Ciceruacchio's youngest son, and the boy
Ramoriuo struggled so long that their murderers
had peat difficulty to despatch them with kicks,
and with the butt-end of their guns. Hence the
peasants of the district venerate their memories as
saints.
Colonel Sacchi has made every effort to establigh,
beyond a doubt, these facts, which Austria and
the priests have been at so much pains to conceal.
Observe also that Ciceruacchio, his young son, and
Ramorino, although they accompanied me in the
retreat, never carried arms.
Entreat the English press, my dear friend, from
me, to use their influence in bringing Austria and
the priests to account for these atrocities. I have
written myself to the leading Italian papers, and
also to the United States.
Italy, Aug. 15, 1856.

GIIISEXPI GARIBALDI.

THE GERMAN LEGION.

Last week orders were issued to the command-
ing officer of the Royal Engineers, for the survey
of Bergholt-heath, for the encampment of two regi-
ments of the German Legion, and the survey was
made accordingly. We now understand that the
military authorities have abandoned Bergholt-
heath, and have been in treaty for the hire of the
Freehold Land Society's ground, near the railway
station, for the encampment of the Ist and 3d
Light Infantry Regiments expected to arrive at
Colchester to-day (Tuesday), from Browudown,
near Portsmouth. Nothing, we hear, has been de-
finitely fixed respecting the arrival of the Ist and
2d cavalry regiments at Aldershot. Orders have
been given for the discharge of the invalids and
men of the various regiments unfit for service,
which, in the opinion of some competent to judge,
does not look like disbandment at present. Indeed,
they assert that this event will probably be deferred
for several months, but of this nothing is yet known.
The soldiers have been supplied with new clothing,
and looked exceedingly smart on Sunday. The
playing of the regimental bands in the barrack-
square on Sunday afternoons has been resumed by
order of General Baron Von Stutterheim. The
bands of these regiments play, as is the custom in
continental services, in their barracks on Sunday
afternoon, and with no desire to desecrate the Sab-
bath. Civilians, who are excluded from the bar-
racks on the week days, except when furnished
with a 4( pass," are now admitted between the
hours of four and six o'clock on Sunday afternoon
to hear the bands, and on Sunday a large number
of respectable inhabitants were present. The visit
of the Duke of Cambridge is still a matter of in-
teresting anticipation to the townsfolk. The pre-
cise day on which his Royal Highness will arrive
is not definitely known. It is fully expected to
take place this week. It is, however, stated that
he will not review the legion till the whole of the
9,500 men are concentrated here, and the two in-
fantry and two cavalry regiments are yet to arrive.
We understand that Baron Von Stutterheim, com-
mander of the legion, left Colchester yesterday
(Monday) for London, probably to make arrange-
ments for the reception of his Royal Highness.—
Essex Herald.

DIARKET NEWS.—erhis Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

Scarcely any English wheat was on sale in to-day's
market There was a fair inquiry for all kinds, and, owing
to the chamgcable state of the weather, holders generally
refused to sell except on rather higher terms.
The imports of foreign wheat this week are 7,610 quar-
ters. That article was in moderate request at full prices.
The barley trade was very arm, at extreme quotations.
In malt only a limited business was transacted, at late
rates.
We were fairly supplied with oats, yet the demand was
steady. In prices no change took place.
Banns, peas, and flour were quite as dear as on Monday.
ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. I Barley. I Malt.
260 20 3,120
80

Oats.

Flour.

English ••
Irish •• i
.• .
ForelCh 3 1 7,610 1 4,190

970 —
1,120
19.3" brls.

BOROUGH HOP.

Voxy favourable accounts continuo to arrive from the
plantations, and the duty is called 280,0301. A now
p)cket has been sold at 7L per cwt,

WHITECII APEL.

The trails was tolerably firm, follorvs from :Is
2d to 4s 6d ; mutton ;is 6I to Is ou ; 1,1411),4s 4 LO 0$ ;
veal, 33 Btl to 43 6(1; pork, 33 6a to 4e sa per Sibs, by the
MAIM