The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 169.

THE ASSASSINATION AT• LEGHORN.

REPUBLICANISM IN ITALY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROME, MAY 28.

The particulars of the assassination of the Austrian
Consul at Leghorn have just reached us. The Count,
Field-Marshal von Crenneville, had just left Rome, where
he had been sent on a private mission to the Pope by the
Emperor of Austria, whose aide-de-camp he was. He
had been Governor of Leghorn in 1849, and was anxious
to see his old garrison, and also to pay a visit to his friend
the Austrian Consul, M. Inghirami. He was recognised
on his arrival by several men who had sworn vengeance
against him at the cafe kept by the brothers Carradini,
aid the police warned him to be careful. He, however,
remained two days with Signor Inghirami, walking about
the bastions and revisiting his old haents, and on the
fourth day took his passage on board the steamer to return
to Civita Vecchia. He was accompanied to the quay by
the Consul, and just as both gentlemen were stepping into
the boat to embark, they were attacked by two un-
known individuals, armed with: daggers, who stabbed
Count Crenneville in the face and the ConsUi to
the heart. The former turned rapidly round, and 'suc-
ceeded in putting his adversary to flight and wresting from
him a three-sided dagger with which he had been wounded,
and then turned to assist his friend. M. Inghirami was
bleeding profusely, and only survived his u ound Suffi-
ciently long to be carried home, where he died immediately
after. The Austrian Embassy at Florence has demanded
vigorous justice, and the persons suspected of the crime
are in custody.

Very little doubt exists in well-informed quarters that
the French occupation will shortly be withdrawn. The
unpopularity of Victor Emmanuel has reached its height
in Italy, and Mazzini's recent manifesto, suppressed
by the Government, has had a fabulous circu-
lation in clandestinely printed broadsheets. The
proclamation, "To my Enemies," is a terrible blow
for the Italian Government. It will be quoted in every
cafe in Italy, and will form an era in Italian politics as the
final declaration of war by the sect against the monarchy.
Mazzini seems to have decided on passing the summer at
Lucerne, where there is a very considerable revolutionary
nucleus.

Menotti Garibaldi bas left Naples, and was followed
to the steamer by a large crowd. As he left he
cried, " Viva Vittorio Emmanuele!" to which not a single
voice responded. He then cried "Viva Garibaldi!" and the
crowd, consisting of many thousands of persons, broke
into enthusiastic cheering. A relation of my own
was present, and was struck beyond words at the
utter coldness with which the King's name was received.
To demonstrate this was probably the object of Menotti's
ruse. Ire has gone to Catanzaro to meet Achille Fazzari,
who is associated with him in a so-called industrial enter-
prise in the Calabrias, but which is known to cover an
organisation of the southern provinces for the proclama-
tion of the Republic. The army is far from trustworthy.
The Piacenza Regiment (Light Dragoons) is said to ltle
entirely gained over to Republicanism, and those of
Salerno are little better disposed.

The ex-King of Naples and his Queen leave for
France to-morrow, the youngest prince and princess,
brother and sister of the King, remaining in charge of the
Count of Caserta. Their Majesties return in October, for
the Queen's confinement. The Count of Girgenti was
telegraphed for yesterday by Queen Isabella, and left for
Paris at once, leaving his wife, the Infanta, in Rome. It
is supposed there is some question of an attempt at a
regency, and of a fartnal abdication in favour of the Prince
of Asturias, which is the project favoured by the Emperor
Napoleon.
The next decree of the Index will probably condemn
Menabrea's pamphlet, "L'Etat and le Concile."
The Archbishops of Cologne and Posen Gnessen will
probably be raised to the purple shortly, and will receive
a fitting income to support the dignity from the King of
Prussia. The Prussian bishops will also, it is said, receive
their expenses for the Council from the State.
Cardinal Bonaparte will leave Borne for Paris after St.
Peter's, and will officiate at the fetes in Corsica.

Mr. Anthony Waterer, from his nursery at
Woking. This nursery exceeds 200 acres, and 60 of
them are occupied with American plants alone. The
cost of removing them to and from the Gardens must
be prodigious. The weather yesterday was particularly
fine, and the magnificent spectacle of brilliantly-coloured
flowers and scarcely less brilliantly-dressed people was
well worth a visit. Only why should modest women be
exposed to the annoyance of being brought constantly
face to face with women whose extravagant costume and
rouged cheeks showed their calling even though they were
accompanied by men who had all the appearance of gentle-
men ? Still speaking of flowers, I may mention that Mr.
Layaid has done wonders in Hyde Park. He has laid
out the whole of the lawn next to Knightsbridge in beau-
tiful slopes, which almost hide the hideous houses beyond,
and which just now are perfectly gorgeous in their display
of rliododendrons.

Last evening was luckily very fine, and there was an
enormous crowd of persons in the streets gazing on the
illuminations. All the chief Ministers of the Crown gave
State entertainments, ano so all the night through coronetted
carriages were rolling through the streets. For those
who had not the entrée to noble and right honourable
circles, there were concerts innumerable, as there have
been all the week. I. was at at Madame Puzzi's on Mon-
day, and it was particularly good. We had Monbelli
Volpini, Edith Wynne, Rose Hers&., Pyne-Bodda, and
Julia Elton for female vocalists, and Gassier and Gardoni
among the men. Last night " Elijah" was pei formed by
the National Choral Society at St. Martin's Hall.
Next week will be a week of concerts. Chief among
them is Nilsson's on Monday, and the second performance
of :Rossini's " Mes3e Solennelle "on Wednesday. The
National Choral Society mean to hold a great concert at
the South Kensington Horticultural Gardens on the 26th
on behalf of some charity, and there will be 5,000 persons
in the chorus. The Princess Louise is to open the new
Sailors' Orphan Girl's School and Home early in July,
and will plant a tree In honour of the event. Ladies who
have collected five guineas are to be permitted to present
the amount to her Royal Highness.
The White Horse Cellar, well-known to travellers
journeying between London and the West in the old
coaching days, is becoming almost as famous as it was
thirty years ago. Every day there start from it coaches
.and four for different parts of the country. The latest of
these is a Windsor coach, driven by Lord Carington at
from eleven to twelve miles an hour. This coach
has been started not by a private speculator, as the
Brighton and Tunbridge coaches have been, but by the
Four-in-Band Club, whose turn-out May be seen every
afternoon in Rotten Row.
Gay doings are not to be confined to the West-end.
The City means to have its festival. Blackfriars Bridge
is all but finished, and its three wide iron arches may now
be fully seen from the Embankment. The Holborn
Viaduct is also all but completed, and in all probability
both structures will be opened with civic state on the
same, and that an early, day. By the way, our City
authorities are at last copying the example long ago set by
Baron Haussmann in Paris, and are laying clown an
asphalte road in Threadneedle-street. Bat they had to get
foreign workmen to do the. job, and the work is being
carried out by a Swiss company.
Mr. Street's new design for the Law Courts has been
got out in about three weeks, and the ground plans are
now exhibited in the library of the House of Commons.
The elevation plans are not yet exhibited, but those who
have seen the rough drawings say that Mr. Street has
done wonders. Mr. Lowe laid upon him a very difficult
task, but he has out of the difficulty achieved a real victory.
Still on these matters I may mention that Mr. Thorny-
croft's colossal statue of the Queen is now ready. It
represents her Majesty in half-military costume, such as
she used to wear when visiting the camp at Chobbam with
the Prince Consort. It is fourteen feet high, and will be
placed in front of St. George's Hall, Liverpool.
• In pictorial art matters there is a little news going.
The deficiency in the three exhibitions of the National
Portrait Gallery is £1,200, and is provided for'
in this year's estimates. I fear we must not
look for a fourth. Sir Edwin Landseer is . re-
ported to have sold his large picture of "Eagles In-
vading. a Swannery" to the Marquis of Northampton
for 4,000 guineas, and Mr. Millais's rather crude "Vanessa"
has found a purchaser at £7OO. Miss Escombe's singular
picture representing a girl, arrayed in a Chinese robe,
painting her portrait from the reflection in the mirror,
so that the robe is repeated three times, was intended as a
ieu d'esprit, and no one was more surprised at its acceptance
by the Hanging Committee than the artist. Mr.
Sydney Hodges's portrait of the Archbishop of Canterbury
is now on view at Graves's, in Pall Mall. The artist,
is painting the Princess Mary .of Cambridge ; and is
also, I believe, to paint Prince Teck.
Mr. Whitworth ought to be well pleased at the result
of his noble gift. There are no fewer than
.3,C00 compe-
titors for the ten scholarships which he founded for the
promotion of technical education.
The receipts of the Atlantic Cable on the Ist and 2nd of
June, at the reduced charge of £2 per message, chew an
advance of more than 50 per cent. on the receipts of the
corresponding days of last year, the income of the two
'days being £1,534 this year, as compared with £929 on
the Ist and 2nd of June, 1868.

The literary market is still dull, but is " looking up" a
little. A second edition of Mr. Lecky's " History of
Morals" is announced already. This is a real triumph for
the author. He is but a little over 30 years of age, and has
produced two works which, more than any others of
late years, are profoundly influencing the thought
of his contemporaries. His first attempts at lite-
rature were made some three or four years ago,
and appeared in the shape of a volume of poems, and the
" History of Rationalism." The poems had actually no
sale, and came back to him as waste paper, but the History
took at once, and its success astonished him. Being a
man of private means, he is able to devote all his time to
reading and writing. He travels a good deal, and a large
portion of his latest work was written while he was
travelling, I believe, in Spain. Though a man of such
varied reading, he is remarkably retiring in society.
Several weeks ago I said that if some of our great pub-
lishers did not secure an account of that wonderful conflict
which has been going on in Paraguay for some years, the
inhabitants of the Row had better put up their shutters.
I may now mention that Longmans have arranged with
Mr. George Thompson, C.E., Lieutenant-Colonel of
Engineers in the Paraguayan army, to publish a
history of Paraguay, of the customs of the
People, and of the war. The same publishers have
just ready the concluding volumes of Froude's
History of England. Next to these the most interesting,
announcements are that John Murray has a pamphlet by
Dean Hook on "The Disestablished Church in the
American Republic ;" that Smith and Elder have in the
press a new work by Ruskin, entitled "The Queen of the
Air ; an Attempt to Interpret the Myths of Athena ;"
and that Macmillan has nearly ready a life of Arthur
Clough, and a volume of Essays written partly by men,
partly by women, on " Women's Culture and Women's
Work," edited by Josephine Butler. I may mention,
also, among forthcoming works, new novels by Mrs.
Oliphant and Mr. Mortimer Collins, entitled respectively
"The Minister's Wife" and the "Ivory Gate ;" " Austra-
lian Views of England," by Mr. Henry Parkes, late Colo-
nial Secretary of New South Wales ; the "Seven Curses
of London," by James Greenwood ; " The Christian
Singers of Germany," by Miss Wentworth'; "Palm
Leaves," by the same author ; and Keble's Letters, edited
by Dr. Moberly.

I have reserved to. the last my notes on political matters.,
First and foremost it is now admitted that the Lords
have made up their minds not to oppose the Irish Church
Bill. I confess I always disbelieved the possibility of
their taking any other. course, even though for a few
hours it was seriously intended. It is true that there is great
wrath among the Irish Protestants, who declare that they
have been cruelly .betrayed, and that the English Bishops
especially have treated them shamefully, by refusing tO
be present at Chesterfield House on Saturday. But wha
could they do? To have rejected the bill would bavd
been to bring about a most serious conflict between
the two Houses, between the Peers and the nation, and
between the English Church and the nation. And all these
dire events would have been totally without any compensat-
ing result, because the bill is sure to pass, if not this year,
then next year. Of course there are men like Archdeacon
Deuieonwho would say, "Let the heavens fall so that justice
be done." But, unfortunately, if the heavens did fall
" justice'" would riot be done. So the Peers very wisely
think that the skies might just as Nell remain where
they are. Thus all ideas of serious opposition and of caves
and of demands for the " whole policy " of the Government
are believed to be given up. The bill will be on for a
second reading on June 14, and after a long debate it will
be passed without a division, unless some hotheaded man
like Lord Reilesclale or the Marquis of Westmeath insists
upon dividing ; in that case the Conservative peers will
leave the Ilouse. _

The bill was brought up to the Peers in anything but
state. A gentleman from the Bill Office was observed making
his way through the Lords' lobby with a printed paper
tucked up under his arm. This was the embodied
revolution which has cast such dismay into
the Protestant camp. A few minutes before
five, one of the clerks at the table arrived at the
bar of the Upper House from the Commons, in
norder to
hand the bill to Sir J. S. Lefevre. The Clerk of the Par-
liaments took it to the table, where it awaited the com-
mencement of business. That was how this important
measure was sent from the Lower to the Upper house.

I will conclude by contraipting, as I am able to do
on the highest authority, the report that Earl Spencer is
about to resip. The high Viceroy neither has, nor hai
had, but integtion. •

MISCELLANEOUS NETT/S.