The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-24 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1860.

---; higher judge. The very superstition of the Austrian
administrators condemns them for almost 6acre-
ligious barbarity. The living were not permitted
to seek " the ;repose" of the dead, because the
dead were patriots.
Our readers will peruse the account of the matter
with disgust. No doubt the " authorities" feared
a national demonstration. Everything of that kind
they desired to repress ; yet even under the infernal
police laws of Austria there was no law which
which could prevent good Catholics proceeding in
mourning to a church to celebrate a requiem for
the repose of the dead. The students, however,
went from church to church ohly to be driven from
the gates by bayonets. At the Cathedral and even
at the Cemetery it was no better. The young men
restrained all the feelings of youth; and it appears
conducted themselves with admirable propriety.
Yet it would seem, that not less than 15
of them were wounded, and many arrested,
for doing nothing at all illegal. Of course
the people sympathised wholly with the students,
and all parties in Hungary will feel equally exas-
perated against their Austrian tyrants.

But what must be the condition of the Austrian
Empire when two of its largest provinces are in
suppressed rebellion against it ? Venetia is ready
to rise with its whole population—so is Hungary—
but Venetia and Hungary are absolutely unarmed.
Still neither country is now a part of Austria. She
possesses only the ground occupied by her cannon,
her soldiers, and her police. She is a dismembered
Empire de facto. It is not merely restless indivi-
duals here and there which trouble her ; she is the
hated of entire populations. For all offensive pur-
poses she is powerless. CAVOUR may well feel
confident that Austria will not move out of Venetia
—at present she has quite enough to do to move
in it. And, by the time she may ever be able to
act, Piedmont will, we trust, have an army that
will make her think twice before she repeats on

the Mincio her folly at the Ticino.
.Europe mus

now set its heart on a kingdom of Hungary, which
would be infinitely better than an empire of

Austria.

Several curious items are observable in the re-
cently published accounts of the receipts and the
expenditure of the Commissioners of Public Works
and Buildings. A few of the more remarkable are
worthy of some more particular enumeration. They
relate, these accounts, to the revenue and to the
disbursement of the moneys appertaining to this
department within the compass of the financial
year ending on the 31st of March, 1859. So that
they are past by nearly one entire twelvemonth.
At the close of that financial year, it is satisfactory to
find that there remained a clear net balance in posses-
sion of the Board amounting to upwards of £529,300
—the expenditure having been merely £639,662
19e. Gd., whereas the receipts had amounted to as
much as £1,168,964 odd shillings. Upon a nearer
examination of the different items of expenditure,
it appears that—between the en dof March, 1858, and
the end of March, 1859—more than £47,000 were paid
for the maintenance and repair of the Royal Palaces ;
more than £lOO,OOO for the expenses of public
buildings; more than £90,000 for royal parks and
gardens; more than £87,000 for the new Houses
of Parliament ! It is a particularly pleasant re-
miniscexce in regard to the last-mentioned disburse-
ment to note that £2,255 6s. Bd. are down " for
payment on account" of the great bell and the four
quarter bells of the clock-tower ! However capable
the Bull in the nursery-song about Cock Robin may
have been to toll that bell " because he could pull"
—it is, as yet at least, very different with JOHN
BULL and his bell down yonder at Westminster.
The national Bull, unhappily, can only in re-
gard to Big Ben contrive now and then
to pull the knot out of his purse-strings
for "the payment on account" every now and then
of agreeable little items like this, of £2,255 6s. Bd.
Glancing further down these tables of expenditure
for 1858-1859, we find more than £lOO,OOO set
apart for the Stationery-office; a little over £19,000
for additional offices for the War Department ;
upwards of £29,000 for district registries and the
London Court of Probate ; something over £5,357
for British Embassy-houses abroad. There are,
besides these sums—for Chelsea-bridge more than
£B,OOO ; for the main drainage of the metropolis
, more than £7,700; for the site of the new
public offices in Powning-street (as yet but a
dreary wilderness of potsherds and brickbats)
upwards of £ll,OOO ; for the Pimlico Im-
provements more than £10,000; for the general
record repository more than £7,000 ; and besides
other items of less note, as much as £64,508 2s. Gd.
for the new bridge at Westminster. Nobody will
grudge the munificent sum of more than £32,600
for improvements and additions to the British
Museum. And rejoicing as we do at the unrivalled
splendour and beauty of that exquisite and majestic
Reading-room, which is the palatial home and
haunt of 80,000 readers, we marvel to find set apart
for it and the contiguous library no more than
£9,446 Os. 11d. Conspicuous among the " special
accounts"—there is one item that loyal economists
will not be disposed for one instant to
quarrel with, viz., £5,559 15s. Id. for fitting
up the Chapel Royal and the State apartments
at St. James's Palace on the occasion •f the mar-
riage of the PRINCESS ROYAL, England's eldest
daughter. Rather after date—we have £9OO put
down for the funeral (! ) and tomb of_the Duke of
WELLINGTON ; besides another sum of £7OO for
the Wellington Monument. Such are a few of the
more noticeable particulars gleaned from the last
published balance-sheet issued from the office of
our English /Edile.

Her Majesty the Queen will hold a Privy Coun-
cil on Monday next, the 26th inst., at three o'clock, at
Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and Prince-Consort, accompanied by
Princess Alice and Prince Alfred, honoured the performance
at the Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening.
In attendance were the Marchioness of Ely, Lord Crcmorne,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Col. the Hon. A. Ilardinge.
The Duke and Dachess of Manchester hare
arrived at their mansion, in Great Stanhope-street, from
Kimbolton Castle, where they have been receiving a suc-
cession of visitors for some time past.

The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have ar•
rived in town from Chillingham Castle, Northumberland.
The Earl of Devon has taken a house in Berke,
ley-street, late the residence of the Dowager Lady Wham.
cliffe.

The Earl of Winehilsea has left the St. George's
Hotel.

The Countess of Clarendon and the Ladies Vil-
liers have arrived in town from The Grove, Herts.
Earl Granville lett London yesterday for the
Continent.

Lord and Lady de Ros arc expected in town in a
few days from Ireland.

Lord and Lady Hunangfield have left the St.
ll:otecin
L field left town yesterday for Pet.
worth ftouse, Sussex.
i 3 expected in town in
a ladyship has taken a r,-si-
n
a fewl. city,vs Charles rllels,ar Wellesleyquay.
deuce in John-street, Berkeley-square.
Lady Louisa Cornwallis has arrived in Charles•
street, front Linton-place, Kent.
Lady Margaret Beaumont has left town for
Brighton.
Colonel Biddulph and Mr. and Mrs. Beauclerk
have arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
Mr. George Bradley and Mr. John Austin, a de-
putation from the principal inhabitants of the town of Castle-
ford, in the west riding of Yorkshire, had an interview with
Viscount Palmerston yesterday, to state reasons why in the
Bill for the Representation of the People the town of Castle-
ford should form part of the borough of Pontefract. The
deputation was introduced by Mr. Milnes, M.P., and Mr.
Childers, M.F,

LATEST NEWS.

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

BERLIN, MARCH 24.

A special despatch of M. Thouvenel, addressed to
the French Ambassador at the German Courts, en-
deavours, by the peaceful assurances it contains, to
calm the apprehensions caused by the annexation
of Savoy.

PARIS, MARCH 24.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article by M.
Grandguillot on the satisfactory attitude of Europe
towards France is reference to the question of
Savoy. Until now two Powers only have protested,
namely, Switzerland, at Paris, and England, at
Turin, which gives to the act almost a friendly
character. France will reply to this protest in the
same manner as Austria did when France protested
against the annexation of Cracow, viz., by simply
acknowledging the receipt of the protest. M.
Grandguillot farther. endeavours to prove that the
interests of France and Piedmont are alone con-
cerned in the question of Savoy and Nice.

NAPLES, MARCH 20.
(via MARSEILLES.)

The King left this morning for Gaeta. His
Majesty will be followed by the equipage of
the army. The army of the Abruzzi is being con-
centrated. It is asserted that a levy of all able-
bodied men, whose age does not exceed forty years,
has been decided on. A further reduction of the
customs tariff for 200 articles has been declared.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Orient&
Steam Navigation Company :

Montauban and staff landed here on the 16th, under
a salute, and left on the 17th for Hong Kong.

MANILLA, FEB. 9.
Large voluntary subscriptions have been made to
aid the war against Morocco.