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way to be equally felieitous in the dexterous utter-
ance of agreeable little commonplaces. Only—
occasionally—at rare intervals—his Royal High-
ness has shown in a singular maßner an extraordi-

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

GENOA, JUNE 23.

nary lack of discretion. It will be sufficient in
regard to the past, if we call to mind for one
moment the astounding intimation advanced
by his Royal Highness during the course
of the Crimean War when, as Master of the
Trinity House, the Prince observed to his
assembled brethren that—in contrast to the des-
potisms of continental Europe—here, in England,
at that crisis, " Constitutional Government was on
its trial !" The remark—singularly indiscreet
falling from the lips of the CONSORT of the QUEEN
—has not been forgotten ; it is not likely to be very
speedily lost to the popular remembrance. So
mush for the past evidence of his Royal Highness's
indiscretion. Now for one present token of the
same wonderful lack of good taste and sound judg-
ment. The observations we are going to particu-
larize as having escaped most unfortunately
from the mouth of the PRINCE CONSORT only
a few evenings back, when his Royal
_High-
ness was presiding as chairman at the ban-
quet already specified doing se, as we have
remarked, in his capacity as colonel of the
Grenadier Guards, then celebrating their 200th
anniversary—were not by any means as epigram-
matic as the one applied five or six years since to
what his Royal Highness appears to have regarded
I then as the perilous plight of our constitutional
form of Government. The PRINCE CONSORT, in
his recent speech, was expatiating (as ho well
might) upon the prowess of the gallant corps of
which his Royal Highness possesses the sinecure
dignity and emolument of the Colonelcy : and—
after enumerating many of their more renowned
achievements upon historic battlefields—the illus-
trious speaker added—[we cannot but think most
indiscreetly, most injudiciously, almost we had said
most ominously]—" But, gentlemen, the duty of
the British soldier is, unfortunately, not confined
to opposing the external enemies of his country.
It has been his fate sometimes to stand in arms
even against his own countrymen—a mournful
task, which, I trust, we shall never see again im-
posed upon him. In such circumstances the soldier
is upheld by the consideration that, while impli-
citly obeying the commands of his Sovereign to
whom he has sworn fidelity, he is purchasing for
his country by his blood that internal peace and
supremacy of the law which form the only basis of
the liberties as well as the prosperity of the nation.
This regiment, originally sprung from the Royalists
who clung to CHARLES 11. during his exile, have
always proved true to their Sovereign, whether
they contended on the field of Sedgemoor in de-
fence of JAMES 11. against the Duke of MONMOUTH,
or struggled heroically for five long years in the
cause of GEORGE 111. against the revolted Ameri-
can provinces." Now, we ask any sane man to
answer what is implied by these sinister allusions,
these significant panegyrics, these ill-omened re-
miniscences? The significance of every lamentable
word thus indiscreetly articulated is only too ap-
parent. We wish right loyally that those un-
called for words had never been uttered, or that, if
uttered at all, they had at least not been uttered by
the ROYAL CONSORT of our Beloved and Gracious
Sovereign.

According to advices from Naples, to the 19th
instant, the Government had despatched three co-
lumns from Naples, viz., one to Basilicata, another
towards Salerno, and a third to the Abruzzi. The
chateau of St. Elmo had been fortified. It was
asserted that it was the intention of the Govern-
ment to restore the two captured vessels.
The American Minister, however, desired repara-
tion for the insult offered to his national flag.

The King was ill, and was staying at Portici.
20,000 more soldiers cc oulcl leave for Sicily.

News from Messina, to the 16th inst., report a
disembarkation of Garibaldians at Melito.

GENOA, JUNE 22.

Advices from Palermo to the 19th inst. state that
the Neapolitan troops had entirely evacuated that
place. The Neapolitan frigates had quitted the
roads of Palermo.

VIENNA, JUNE 22.

The Austrian Gazette says :—" Signor Petrulla,
the Neapolitan Ambassador, has been summoned
to Naples, in order to carry out the reforms which
existing circumstances have rendered necessary. It
is said that he has declared himself ready to use all
his efforts for the realisation of this object, with-
out, however, accepting any particular post in the
ministry.

ZURICH, JUNE 22.

Switzerland in her note to the Powers, a sum•
mart' of which has already been published, also
points out that France has taken military occupa-
tion of the neutralised provinces.
Switzerland, therefore, declares that she persists
in her views on the question, and maintains her
protest before the Powers against the annexation
if those provinces to France. She also asks for an
immediate convocation of the Conference.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The last bulletin respecting Prince Jerome is as

follows :

" VILLEGENTS, 22D, 7 A.M.—The weakness is increasing.
The state of H.I.H. is exceedingly grave."

BOURSE, June 22.—The market was rather
buoyant at the opening, but large sales having
been made, prices again declined. Threes, after
having been done at 68f 85c, receded to 68f 70c ;
Mobilier varied from 678 f 75a to 675 f; Austrian,
527 f 50c to 526 f 25c ; Lyons, 880 f to 876 f 25c ;
Orleans, 1,342 f 50c to 1,337 f 50c.
The following are the last quotations :-
4 per per Cents ... 96 75 Credit Fonder
Do end month.... 97 ; Belgian 41 96 75
3 per Cents
Do. end month 6B 65 Roman
Bank Shares 2840 —! Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 673 50 Spanieh Threes —
Do. Account 671 25 Home Debt .. 4B

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY.

The Arabia, just arrived here from Boston and
Halifax, brings the following important news :
The North Star had arrived from Aspinwall,
with 1,400,000 dols. in treasure, and brought ad-
vices from Japan, via California, overland to the
23d April, and from China to the 10th April.
The Chinese had concluded to pay the English
and French Governments their expenses, and to
accede to their demands. The Chinese authorities
had issued a proclamation against the Coolie trade.
The Emperor of Japan was assassinated on the
sth March. While on his way to the Palace he
was attacked by 14 Japanese dressed as travellers.
Six of the Emperor's guard were killed and several
wounded. Thirty suspected parties had been be-
headed, and two Princes of high rank were per-
mitted to disembowel themselves. An insurrec-
tion was threatened.
She brings 163 passengers and 400,0C° dollars
in specie for England.
She landed all the mails except those for Liver-
pool, for which she proceeded at 7.40 p.m.

The Niagara, from Liverpool, arrived at Halifax
on the 13th June. The Arabia was detained off
that port six hours by fog.
The North Briton had arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, June 12.—Money unchanged.
Stocks dull. New York Central, 81-44, ; Illinois Cen-
tral, 62. Cotton dull and heavy, and prices lire
gular ; sales, 500 bales. Sales of flour, 11,000 bar-
rels; State and Western, sc. lower. Corn firmer.
Wheat heavy. Provisions unchanged. Sugar and
freights quiet.
NE'W ORLEANS, June 11.—Sales of cotton, 1,400
' bales ; prices irregular; middling, 11c. to 111 c.
Freights and exchange unaltered.
(LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.)
The steam-ship Vigo, from Liverpool, has arrived.
at New York. Stocks lower. Cotton very dull,
and quotations nominal. Buyers demand a reduction
of Ic. Breadstuffs heavy and lower. Provisions
firm.

NEW ORLEANS, June 12.—Sales of cotton in three
days, 3,500 bales. June 13—Sales to-day, 1,000
bales. Prices easier, but not quotably lower.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 23.

The Royal Mail steamer Arabia, which touched
at Queenstown yesterday evening, passed Holy-
head at 9 a.m. this morning, and is due here at
three o'clock p.m.

Lieut.-Colonel R. Stuart Baynes, formerly of the
Bth Regiment, has been appointed Deputy Assistant-Adju-
tant-General at the Horse Guards, in succession to Col.
Brook Taylor, now, commanding a brigade at Aldershot.
Major Pearson has undertaken the Militia duties formerly
discharged by Colonel Taylor.—Army and iVary Gazette.
ACCIDENT TO THE COUNTESS DE PERSIGNY.—

An accident, fortunately unattended by any serious conse-
quences, occurred yesterday afternoon to the Countess de
Persigny while driving in Hyde-park. It appears that the
countess was driving her pony equipage, when by some
means the horses became alarmed and started off at a rapid
speed, and the countess having lost all control over them,
they eventually came in contact with a carriage at the turn
facing Rotten-row, when the ponies were thrown, the pole
broken, and the carriage injured. The Countess de Per-
signy, evidently in much alarm, was assisted from the
vehicle, and at once conveyed to the French Embassy at
Albert-gate. Their Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, and the Princess Mary, who passed shortly after
the accident, at once proceeded to the Embassy, and were
informed that beyond the fright the Countess de Persigny
had sustained no inconvenience.

The Nord of Brussels says that the Queen of
England and Prince Albert will visit Belgium about the
middle of August, on their way to Berlin to attend the bap-
tism of the Royal child to whom the Princess Frederick
William, the Queen's daughter, is about to give birth. The
Queen and Prince are to b. e received at Ostend by the Prince
Regent of Prussia, who intends going to that place for sea
ha.hing. The Prince Regent is to be godfather of the
newly-born child, and the Queen of England godmother.
The Channel Fleet is ordered from Leith to Yar-
mouth, there to await. orders. It is rumoured in naval
circles that the Fleet 13 destined to take part in a great
naval demonstration at Spithead next month, previous t-,
the departure of the Prince of Wales for Canada, and after-
wards to accompany the Prince across the Atlantic.—Anuy
and Navy Gazette.
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firm in Sicily to purchase forthwith ten steamers for the
use of Garibaldi in his future warlike operations. The
steamers are each to have a speed of not less than ten knots
per hour, and accommodation for from 60.) to 1,000 infan-
try. As the vessels are instantly required, and must be
those already used in the passenger trade (probably
steamers now running between Hull and Cronstadt), a
rather high price will have to be paid for the accommoda-
tion. The future intentions of Garibaldi respecting the
other enslaved continental States may perhaps be guessed
at from this important announcement,—Steam
Chronfek,

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1860.

Miles Opened

more convenient season. Manufacturers and malt-
sters, deprived of their wonted pecuniary accom-
modation, become insolvent, and their journeymen
are thrown out of employment. Landlords post-

pone contemplated improvements, and builders,
brickmakers, carpenters, and the like are all driven
to reduce the number of their hands. Of the work- '
men thus compelled to inaction the better class
consume the savings which have cost them years
of self-denial to amass, and the worse sort
throw themselves at once on the parish rates. The
small tradesmen, losing half their customers, sink
into a condition only just above that of paupers,
and are scarcely able to pay the enhanced rates
which go to relieve their late supporters. It is
scarcely necessary to add that all the institutions
for the moral improvement or comfort of the poor
receive a severe shock. Benefit clubs break ;
clothing clubs lose their members ; school subscrip.
tions and school pence fall off; infirmaries languish
for want of funds; and mechanics' institutions are

deserted.
But a merely local misfortune operates within
narrow limits. The neighbouring gentry, even if
they suffer, rarely suffer more than attemporary in
convenience. The more benevolent lay their heads
together with the clergyman and contrive some-
thing to mitigate the worst cases of misfortune, and
in the last resort the Poor Law interposes a barrier
against absolute starvation. New capitalists soon
take the place of those who have been ruined;
active employment recommences ; and in two or
three years no manifest traces remains of much
misery except in the form of several new names
among the tradesmen and employers, and an un-
' usual number of young children in the burial
register for the winter succeeding the crash.
But how different would be the effect of a blow,
which annihilated for an indefinite period allindus-
tries except those engaged in the supply of the
mere necessaries of life. Some faint idea of the
consequences may, perhaps, be formed by conceiv-
ing every town in the country reduced to the con-
dition of one in which a _local bank has recently

stopped, and the metropolis itself retaining the
appearance all the week which it now presents on
Sundays. This illustration, however, involves the
assumption that the victorious enemy not only ab-
stains from all violence himself but contrives to
keep in their normal condition the 20,000 or 30,000
thieves and vagabonds who are now held as it were
in solution in the circulating tide of industry. How
would the working men fare after a fortnight of
such a state of things? What would then be the
rallying cry of the trades-unions when they were
reduced to multitudes of hungry men clamorous
for employment at any wage, with alas! no em-
ployment for them even on such terms ? No em-
ployment ; and what is more, no parish relief ! In
such a state of things as would arise, strong men
would die by hundreds, and women and children by
thousands throughout the length and breadth of
the land. Depend upon it, the security of the
country and the inviolability of the metropolis is
emphatically a people's question.
Happily, the dreadful contingency which has for
some time loomed before the eyes of many men who
are far from timid, is next to impossible, if English-
men are only true to themselves, and magnanimous
enough to prefer the honour of their country to the
interests of their party. A war with this country
must always be the last throw of a desperate
gamester. But a despotically governed kingdom is
a high pressureengine without a safetyvalve. Even
the ablest ruler can never be secure that the trea-
chery, the folly, or the fears of his agents—and, in
the last case, of himself in his weaker moments—
may not at any time produce an explosion ; and
should this occur, we may be pretty sure that some
desperate gamester will arise. It is, I believe, un-
doubted that in 1848 the proposal for a coup de main
on London was made to the revolutionary Govern-
ment of France, not by any obscure adventurer,
but by a general officer of great reputation for civil
as well as military qualities. True, our power of re-
sistance then was to our present means as th•
strength of a child to that of a giant ;:but if our de-
fensive resources have grown, so have the offensive
powers of our only possible assailant, while in the
meantime the contrast between his institutions
and our own has become far more striking, and the
proximity of the two countries proportionally more
pregnant with danger.
But still, let Englishmen of all classes be true to
themselves, and place confidence in each other, and
there is no danger of defeat and disgrace, and next
to none of war. The patriotic spirit of a portion
of the nation has been thoroughly aroused. All
that is now wanted is that no petty social or per-
sonal jealousies should be allowed to check the
spread of the movement, from the higher and mid-
dle classes, even to the sound part of the lower.
The honest artisan has a greater interest in the
security of England and the stability of that free-
dom of which she is the chief representative in
Europe, than even the millionaire. If possible, he
should have the opportunity of showing this, and
of contributing his part to swell the 120,000 volun-
teers of 1860, to double the number in 1861. If
this is done, whatever system of defence professional
skill may devise, there will be no lack of hands
when occasion demands to carry it out.

RAIL TV AY INTELLIGENCE:
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TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE 'WEEK.

1850.