The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-09 00:00:00

HE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1860,

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The Pr,
'ncipalpOint i.n the remainderof the speech is
the neemisitY
of rep' tenishing a bankrupt Exchequer,
with tbbe
paternal suggestion of making " the bur-
dens on t‘is
people as light as possible." Give me,
he says,
/iv -Lel will coat an enormous sum, " political
position and.
influence," only do not let the dear
people feel the
cost ! Tender-hearted pride! There
is one way to o
CNtain present relief and future relief
too ; sell Venetia
and save the cost of its garrison ;
content Hungary
B,,'d fill your treasury by its wil-
ling contributions fro.'n its revived prosperity.
But to content .11unI7ary—that is the difficulty !
Easy enough, were the -HAPSBURGS men of like feel-
ings with Hungarians, or indeed with our Sove-
reign, or with him of Belgium, and him of Sar-
dinia. But they are bitter, faithless, obstinate
despots, and their excision from the Royalty of
Europe is the only hope for Hungary and the Em-
pire. Count APPONYI, backed by his col-
league, did not conceal the truth in the
subsequent meeting and in the discussions of the
Council. He told the President, the Archduke
REIGNIER, and the rest of the Council, that their
joining the Council at all seemed to separate them
from others of their countrymen, " whose opinions
and wishes were the same as their own ; that they
had accepted a seat to evince confidence in the
magnanimity of his Majesty ; also to show that
the legitimate claims of Hungary in no way in-
terfere with the well-being and unity of the
empire ;" but he adds—and one must be a Hunga-
rian to feel the full import of the expression—
" Although a member of the Reichsrath, I am
faithful to my principles, and hold firmly to our
historical rights. Thus it is self-understood that I,
by having become a member of the Council for
life, have not renounced my right to assist in the
future legislation for Hungary."
These words, if we read them aright, are a
respectful but complete and hostile counterpart to
those of the Emperor. To " the same pri-
vileges and duties " for all the nationalities,
of the Emperor, the Count opposes "the legitimate
and historical rights of Hungary." Of these Hun-
gary has at present none. Hungarians to a man
think they should have them all. Every one of
them has been withheld, subverted, trampled on,
since 1849. The present Emperor of AUSTRIA is
not legitimate King of Hungary; for he has not,
according to express stipulations, been crowned
King after taking a solemn oath to defend all the
historical and legitimate rights of the country.
The administration by stupid and cruel Germans,
and the introduction of the brutal German soldiery,
are equally illegitimate. In fact the whole govern-
ment and administration of Hungary is now car-
ried on in the teeth of treaties, of oaths, of historical
rights. By legitimate and historical right the Hun-
garians were bound to rebel in 1848, and dethrone the
traitor Monarch who treacherously turned against
them the arms of his traitor tool, JELLACHICH of
Croatia. By legal treason only could he call in the aid
of the arch-villain NICHOLAS, and overpower his
brave subjects by the hordes of the Cossacks, and by
the treachery of GEORGEY to his country. And by
revolutionary violence alone, in defiance of all right,
law, and history, does the dark-minded representa-
tive of a family, which has for centuries cursed
some of the finest lands of Europe, now profess to be
the Ruler of Hungary.
Hungary has been for eight or nine hundred years
a free and constitutional country. It has been
pre-eminently a municipal country. Its numerous
counties had till 1848 their local government, besides
enjoying representation in the national Diet; and
thus a vigorous life pervaded every part, as well as
flowed from the centre. It was a country of men
locally, as well as naturally, free. A country in
which feudal serfdom was abolished in 1848, but
in which, during its existence, there was no con-
queror caste, the rank of nobility being open to, and
enjoyed by all the races alike. It was a country of
men pre-eminently qualified, because instructed by
the training of centuries, to manage its own affairs.
Yet this is the noble race of free men which Prince
SCHAVARTZENBERG and his successors have com-
pelled to grind in the mill of Vienna bureaucracy
and centralisation. By the " same privileges and
'duties for all the States," the young frightened and
beggared despot means, that Hungary must be
administered like the bureau-governed German pro-
vinces- But the Hungarians have a nobler aim.
They, too, demand for all the other nationalities of
Austria, who wish it, all they ask for themselves.
They desire to equalise all, by giving all free insti-
tutions; the EMPEROR, by subjecting all to his
Jesuits. and Bureaucracy. Could a Hapsburg but
feel the nobility of the Hungarian demand, and
aspire to be the centre of union to free nationalities
he might be the most powerful of his line. Being
what he is, we can only hope he will be crushed
under the ruins of his own despotism.

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR GARIBALDI.—The subscrip-
tion opened in accordance with the resolution passed at
the meeting held in St. Martin's Hall a short time ago
continues, we rejoice to say, rapidly to increase. The com-
mittee are daily in th,l, receipt of large sums from all parts
of the country, and also from all the great establishments
in the metropolis. The volunteer rifles have commenced
sending in their subscriptions ; and the principal artistes
at Her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian Opera,
viz., Grisi, Titiens, Alboni, Mario, Gardoni, Mongini,
Guiglini, Ronconi, &c., &e., have also forwarded handsome
sums in favour of the Liberator of Italy. We most ear-
nestly urge all those inclined to sympathise in the cause of
Italy to forward as quickly as possible their contributions
to the committee, at present sitting at 150, Leadenhall-
street, City, for transmission to the gallant general, and
thus tend to assist him in his endeavour to free his country
from the most atrocious tyranny that ever disgraced the
civilised world.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by
the King of the Belgians and the Princess Alice, honoured
the performance at the Olympic Theatre with their presence
last evening. In attendance were the Countess of Desart,
Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Camoys, Major-General Seymour,
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. D. de Ros, Col. Count de Moerkerke,
and Dr. Koepl.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has
rented Lauriston Castle, near Edinburgh, for the summer
months. Her Royal Highness and suite are expected to
take possession shortly.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary honoured the Earl and
Countess of Ellesmere by their company at dinner last
evening, at Bridgewater House, St. James's.
His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief will hold a levee at the Horse Guards on Wed-
nesday next, the 13th inst., at one o'clock.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll are at Cliefden,
the Duke of Sutherland's seat near Maidenhead, from
measles having exhibited itself in the family.
The Duchess of Sutherland has been called from
town to Lauriston House, near Edinburgh, by the illness of
Lord Ronald Leveson Gower. The duke remains at Cliefden,
near Maidenhead.

Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and Lady Frances
Fitzwilliam arrived in town last evening from visiting
Colonel the lion. Nelson and Lady Mary Hood, at Cutn-
berland Lodge, Windsor, where the noble earl and countess
have been staying during the race week at Ascot.
Lord and Lady Colchester entertained a select
party at dinner on Thursday evening, at their mansion in
Berkeley-squar e.
The mortal remains of the venerable and gallant
Earl of Strafford were removed at an early hour this moia-
ino for interment in the family vault of the Byng family, et
Potter's Bar Church, near Barnet.
The Hungarian General Klapka has been in
Paris for the last few days.
Mr. Hum ph rey B rown, of British Bank notoriety,
died on Wednesday last, at his residence in Little Smith-
street, Westminster. -
The hippopotamus which was born a few days
back in Paris has expired of convulsions, caused by diffi-
culty in teething.—Galignani.
It is reported that the circumstance mentioned
in the Times some weeks back of a definite arrangement
having been made for the introduction of a Russian loan
is confirmed, and the rate of exchange on St. Petersburg
consequently continues to advance. The details, of the
affair, however, are unknown. The impression still is
that the amount will be 50,000,000 roubles, or about
£8,000,000 sterling,—Times.

LATEST. NEWb.

CAPITULATION OF THE
NEAPOLITAN TROOPS.

We (Times) have received the following tele-
gram from an authentic source :
" TURIN, JUNE 9, 5.20 A.M.
" General Letizia, on his return from Naples,
capitulated on the 6th with Garibaldi.
" His troops are to embark with arms and

baggage.
" They are to encamp, until their embarkation,
on Monte Pellegrino.
" The fort of Castellamare has been placed in the
keeping of the English Admiral until the evacua-
tion has been effected."

The Constitutionnel publishes the following semi-
official announcement :

" The despatches which have reached us from
Sicily give the state of affairs thus :
" The armistice, which expired on the Bth inst.,
at noon, is prolonged.
" The great Powers appear. to have come to the
agreement, on the one hand, to demand that hosti-
lities shall not be renewed ; on the other hand, to
lay down in principle the non-intervention of
Europe between the King of Naples and Sicily.
" We may add, that the interests of our country-
men have rendered it necessary to send three addi-
tional French ships to the Sicilian waters."

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

TURIN, JUNE 9.

News from Sicily states that a capitulation was
signed on the 6th by Generals Letinzia and Gari-
baldi.

The Royal troops will embark with their arms
and baggage.
They will encamp, until their departure, on
Monte Pellegrino.

The fort of Castellamare has been confided to the
English Admiral until the evacuation has been
effected.

TURIN, JUNE 8.

Advices from Messina and Palermo to the 4th
state that Garibaldi had issued decrees for the
organisation of the Sicilians.

The Royal troops, to the member of 15,000, still
occupy their positions in Palermo. Many deser-
tions were taking place from their ranks. Orders
had been sent to all the garrisons of Sicily to con-
centrate at Messina, where entrenchments Will be
formed.

Catania had been bombarded and pillaged. A
strict blockade existed between Calabria and Sicily.

NAPLES, JUNE 6.

The King has agreed to the capitulation, accord-
ing to which part of the Neapolitan troops would
embark for Naples and part for Messina. It is not
known whether Garibaldi will accept this capitu-
lation.

GENOA, JUNE 8.

News from Sicily states that a capitulation has
been concluded between General Lanza and Gari-
baldi.
The conditions are not known.
PARIS, JUNE 9.
It is stated that other French vessels have been
despatched to Naples.

PARIS, JUNE 8.

The King of Naples has not only addressed the
Western Powers, but he has also invoked the
simultaneous intervention of the five great Powers,
in order to obtain from their collective action the
guarantee for the integrity of his states.
King Francis 11. has more particularly claimed
the mediation of the Emperor of the French for the
pacification of Sicily, and has promised to proclaim
immediately the constitution of 1852.
His Majesty has also requested the five great
Powers to employ their authority and their
influence to restrain Piedmont from favouring any
revolutionary movement on the mainland of the
kingdom of Naples.

As regards the collective action of the great
Powers, the English Cabinet was the first to reply
that it did not intend to interfere in any other way
in the conflict between the Neapolitan troops and
Garibaldi than to stop, if possible, the effusion of
blood, without siding with either party.
After this answer given by England the other
great powers likewise, in more or less positive
terms, declined any direct intervention.
Napoleon 111. was at Lyons, when M. Thouvenel
transmitted to his Majesty by telegraph the de-
mand for mediation made by the King of Naples.
His Majesty replied immediately that a mediation
was only possible between two powers, and unless
officially recognising the Sicilian revolution, no
power could place itself as mediator between the
same and the King of Naples.
Lord John Russell has, however, promised to
recommend to Piedmont not to foment any dis-
turbances in the Neapolitan possessions in the
Peninsula.

Except Austria, who does not maintain diplo-
matic relations with Piedmont, the other great
Powers will act hi a similar manner.

VIENNA, JUNE 9.

The Wiener Zeitung of to-day contains a decree
ordering that the Stadtholdership of Hungary shall
come into effect on the Ist of July next, at
which period the five existing departments of
the Central Government, which were entrusted
with the administration of Hungary, will be
abolished.

Another decree suspends the district authorities
of Moravia, and the provincial Government of
Trappau. Silesia is to be subordinate to the Stadt-
holdership of Moravia, but the provincial status of
Silesia, with a separate provincial representation,
will be maintained.

MADRID, JUNE 8.

Senor Merry, formerly Spanish envoy in the
Brazils, has been appointed Ambassador of Spain
in Morocco.

Senores Blancodel and Valle, of the Progresista
party, have proposed amendments to the address
in reference to the questions concerning the amnesty
and the law decreeing the banishment of the family
of Don Carlos.

the revolutionary committee. Finding from what
quarter the wind blows since Garibaldi's arrival,
and apprehensive that the gaolers of to-day may
be the prisoners of to-morrow, they are already set-
ting their houses in order, and show, on every oc-
casion, a change of disposition of which we
passengers reap the benefit.
I found Messina looking like a city of the dead.
Two-thirds of the population, I was told, had emi-
grated ; more than one-half of the shops were
shut ; every window, every door, of the best houses
closed ; a few wretched, squalid creatures, crawl-
ing about the streets—such is the appearance which
this great city presents. The few inhabitants who
have remained are either such as have been pre-
vented from leaving by the nature of their business,
or such as are absolutely destitute of the means to
go away. Yet, of this second class, many, though
reduced to the utmost misery, have repaired to the
neighbouring hills, and there taken shelter in the
cottages of the peasants, and even in the middle of
the fields. It is fortunate for them that, in this
beautiful climate, the weather is now so propi-
tious. The municipality of Messina has been
obliged to take measures to give these poor
creatures a crust of bread, and has nominated a
commission of citizens to superintend the distri-
bution of food, and to minister to their daily wants.
You may well suppose that every one has left that
could with the risk to which the city is exposed of
being bombarded on the first symptoms of a rising.
The forts so completely command the place that
I almost think their fire would reduce it to ashes in
a couple of hours. I entered a cafe and asked for
some lemonade ; but not a thing was to be had but a
glass of water, though it was one of the first cafes
of Messina. The master of the cafe told me that
it was useless to make any provision for the wants
of customers, for not a living soul ever crossed the
threshold. Shocked by the state in which I found
' the city I returned on board the steamer, where I
found at least 30 persons who had all come to pay
their respects to, or to consult or condole with, a
remarkable person among our fellow-passengers.
This was B—, a person of at least 75 years of
age, an inhabitant of Messina, and who had played
a conspicuous part in the Sicilian revolution of 1848.
On the first outbreak of that insurrection he had a
son shot dead by his side, but, instead of being dis-
couraged by the fact, he seized a tricolour flag, and,
rushing with it through the streets, thanked Goa
that his son had been the first sacrifice offered in
the service of his country. This fact so inflamed
the enthusiasm of the Messinese that it was believed
to have turned the scale in favour of the insurrec-
tion. B has been residing some years in Paris,
but has now hurried once more to Sicily, conduct-
ing with him another son, whom he intends to
place under the command of Garibaldi. He is
treated with the greatest respect by the other pas-
sengers, 17 in all (amongst whom are three officers
of the Sardinian army, who have given up their
commissions), likewise bound for the head-quarters
of the General. Amongst those who had come on
' board the vessel was the French consul, from
whom I learned some striking facts respecting the
state of feeling in the city and neighbourhood. He
informed me that, at a distance of not more than
10 or 12 miles from the city, was a body of 800
Garibaldians, who, desperate as the enterprise
might appear, would have made a dash at the city
had not the urgent prayers and entreaties of their
friends within the walls of Messina restrained them
from doing so. They then determined to act against
Melazzo.

The garrison at present within the forts of Mes-
sina numbers from 3,000 to 4,000 men ; but I am
assured that even the half would suffice to hold the
place. I had heard when in the town a report that
the wife of the English consul at Syracuse had been
killed. I inquired of the French consul respecting
the truth of this report ; he gave me, however, a
different version of the story. Just as we are pre-
paring to leaving an event has occurred casting a
sad gloom over the poor Messinese on board. 1N e
are informed that all the relations and friends of
B-, who had come to see him on board, had,
without a single exception, been arrested on their
retnrn to the shore. B-, who was himself pro-
tected by a passport, is here safe on board, but
all his relatives and friends, including an aged
female of 83, four other females between the ages
of 40 and 60, four girls of 17,18, anal 20, three boys
from the age of 3 to 5, one baby of 3 and another
of 5 months, have been carried off to prison.

MALTA, JUNE 1.

At Civita Vecchia and Naples we were not
allowed to land at all. At Messina we were, in-
deed, allowed to land, but compelled to re-embark.
From Malta I trust that it will be in my power to
get direct to Palermo. I was greatly tempted,
however, to change my original direction, and, in-
stead of making my way to Palermo, set out for
Catania, where a separate movement is on the point
of taking place. I am informed that a band of
some 70 patriots leaves this to-night, and though
a voyage in their company might be attended with
some inconveniences, and even risks, there is not
much chance of reaching Palermo except with such
an escort. The Neapolitan consul refuses to give a
visa for any part of Sicily—for any part, indeed,
of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies excepting
Naples ; and when your passport is vise for Naples
you are met their with a refusal of permission to
land at all! _ The expedition which starts to-night
is composed of Sicilians, Neapolitans, Venetians,
and a few Maltese, and is headed by a native of
Nice. It is believed at Malta that at least 4,000
armed men in Catania are only awaiting the
arrival of this expedition to rise against the Go-
vernment. To be more at liberty, I have engaged
here a little craft on my own account, in which I
hope to reach Sicily within 24 hours.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

It is now pretty certain that the great Powers
have declined to interfere between the King of
Naples and the Sicilians. In the despatch from the
French Government in reply to the application to
the Emperor Napoleon, the French Minister is re-
ported to have said that, between the cowardice of
a capitulation and the barbarity of a bombardment,
advice was impossible, and that there only remained
to express regret that the Neapolitan Government
did not follow the advice given to it for the last ten
years. Had it done so, Southern Italy would have
acted as a counterpoise to Northern Italy ; whereas
now the North threatens to swallow it up entire.

Letters received in Paris to-day announce that
the Sicilian insurgents have obtained possession of
Girgenti, the chief town of the province, situated 70
miles south-east of Palermo. When Garibaldi was
apprised of this fact he sent an extraordinary com-
missioner there to organise a Provisional Govern-
ment and to direct the insurgents, so as to combine
their operations with bis own.
The commissioners appointed to trace the boun-
daries between the newly annexed provinces of
Savoy and Nice and Piedmont are said to have sus-
pended their sittings, from which it is inferred that,
should Sicily be annexed to Piedmont, which is
more than probable, the Emperor Napoleon would
demand a further accession of territory--where is
not stated.

BOURSE, June B.—The market has been dull,
with prices looking down. Threes, after having
been done at 68f 30c, declined to 68f 15c, and are
now at 68f 20c. Mobilier varied from 658 f 75c to
660 f; Lyons, 868 f 75c to 870 f ; Orleans, 1,327 f 50c;
Northern, 977 f 50e; Austrian, 510 f to 512 f 50c ;
Lombard, 497 f 50e; Saragossa, 52f to 523 f 75c.
The following are the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 96 4.5 Credit Fonder 880
Do. end month .. 96 401 Belgian 41 97
3 per Cents 6B 20 Piedmontess (5) .. 84 25
Do. end month 6B 20 , Roman Bl
Bank Shares 2830 j Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 660 —lSpanish Threes
Do. Account ..... I Home Debt 46 75