The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER '!'l9, 1860.

r within a very short time from this volun-
,eering an apparent restitution to Hungary of Hun-
gary's old liberal constitution. And we all know
the Government of Vienna sufficiently by this time
surely to be quite certain that when it enters spon-
taneously upon a course like that, the key to the
mystery is no other—in Sit ARSPERIAN phrase—than
Miching ilialecho! "It means mischief !" But that
the ghost of the great Roman poet might rise in
the horror of a repentance that the words were ever
scrawled—first of all, by his iron stylus on his
waxen tablets, to be afterwards copied fairly with
a reed on papyrus, to be perpetuated then through
later times upon monkish parchment until the age of
printing—we should be tempted to mutter under
our breath that dreadfully apposite Time° Danaos,
which we can only hint at thus apologetically,
trailing off the close of it in a modest et cetera.
Never certainly could that too familiar quotation
be more justifiably dragged again into use than in
its application to the recent proffering by Austria
of a seeming restoration of their constitutional
liberties to the often deceived and long-suffering
Hungarians. The day for a compromise between
Austria and Hungary has long since, however,
gone by, never, we may be sure of that, to re-
turn. It has gone by as utterly in that
instance, as we have very recently seen that
it has gone by between Austria and the Italians
—as time will assuredly sooner or later prove
that it has gone by, utterly and for ever gone
by, between the Poles and their Oppressors!

seen h,

Convinced of this, firmly and absolutely con•
vinced that the Polish Nationality WILL again be
re-established in Europe, and that the pride and
power of Austria is rapidly vanishing away—we
are all the more solicitous to direct attention to the
meeting held, according to annual custom, at Sussex
Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, on Saturday,
and to a telegram dated on Saturday from Vienna,
a telegram which we shall here immediately parti•
cularise. The anniversary meeting was, as will
be seen from the report of the proceedings
given in another column, a recurrence of the
one held year after year by the Polish
Historical Society in grateful commemoration
of the late ever-lamented LORD DUDLEY
COUTTS STUART. The generous oration pro-
nounced upon the occasion of this meeting on
Saturday by the Chairman, Major SZULCZEWSKI,
will be found in every syllable of it at this mo-
ment to be peculiarly entitled to consideration.
It being a luminous exposition, in fact, of the
actual situation of Poland between the past and
the future, between the Italian and the Hun-
garian movements. What shall we say, however,
in regard to the subjoined telegram, dated as we
we have already premised, Vienna, the 17th Nov. ?
and running thus in the notification of the Austrian
Gazette We have received information," says
that Viennese Voniteur," from a special source, that
England, which up to the present time has only
been represented at the Imperial Court of Austria
by an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary, will raise the rank of her embassy, and
will in future be represented by an Ambassador
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary." Is
this intended as a sop to Austrian vanity and con-
ceit? Is it designed as an anodyne for the pangs
caused at Vienna by Lord JOHN'S last diplomatic
manifesto ? In every point of view it appears to
us singularly inopportune. In no way does it seem
to be called for by the exigencies of the Austrian
Government or to be reflective of dignity upon our
own:

FEARFUL CATASTROPHE.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

A telegram has been received from Gibraltar,
communicating the total loss of a Brazilian vessel of
war, with fearful loss of life. It states that the
vessel was on her way from Marseilles for Lisbon,
and was wrecked at Cape Spartel, on the coast of
Barbary. It is also reported that the captain and
35 persons were drowned, and 115 saved in a de-
plorable condition. These were conveyed to Tan-
gier by the English steam frigate Agus (query,
Argus ?).

We believe the Brazilian corvette had a great
number of naval cadets on board for education and
instruction in pftictical navigation, and the loss will
throw gloom on Rio when the news goes out by the
French steamer on the 21st, and plunge many of
the most respectable families into grief and mourn•
ing.

THE COURT.—The invitation of the American
Minister on a visit to the Queen at Windsor so soon after
the arrival of the Prince of Wales, in company with the
heads of the Government, is a prompt and graceful acknow-
ledgment of the hospitality of the President, and the cordial
attention and the enthusiastic reception of the heir to the
British throne exhibited by all ranks and classes of the
people of the United States. The Queen has placed her
own first-class steam yacht, the Victoria and Albert, at
the disposal of the Empress of Austria, for her Imperial
Majesty's voyage to the islamd of Madeira.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke
of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George
Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P.
Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell.

St. Paul's Cathedral will be opened for the ordi-
nary services on Advent Sunday, December 2. The Dean
and Chapter are unwilling to discontinue any longer Divine
worship in the cathedral, though the improvements in the
choir are by no means finished. The Dean and Chapter
and Committee have been unable to carry out more com-
pletely this portion of the great projected improvements,
partly from want of time, partly from the want of funds.
It is proposed to open the new dome area and the new organ
with a musical festival on the holyday of the Conversion of
St. Paul, Friday, January' 25, under the direction of Mr.
Goss, organist of the cathedral. On the Sunday after
(January 27) the Sp9cial Evening Services will commence.
The Lord Bishop of London has conferred the
Chancellorship of St. Paul's Cathedral, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Henry Soamee, M.A., on the Right Rev.
George Trevor Spencer, D.D., some time Lord Bishop of
Madras.

CALLS TO THE BAIL—The undermentioned gentle..
men were on Saturday called to the degree of Barrister-
at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn—viz., Henry
Selie Page Winterbotham, Esq., London, LL.B. (certifi-
cate of honour, first-class) ; Daniel Alexander Freeman,
Esq. (certificate of honour, first class) ; Thomas Wilkin-
son John Dent, Esq., M.A., Cambridge; Alfred Henry
Say Stonhouse Vigor, Esq., 8.A., late of Cambridge;
Robert Allan Fitzgerald, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; the
Hon. John Byrne Leicester Warren, 8.A., Oxford ;
Edward James Athawes, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; Thomas
Bonville Were, Esq., George Charles, Esq., 8.A., late of
Oxford ; Francis Noel Mundy, Esq., George Dixon Atkin-
son, Esq., Henry Colville Marindin, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ;
Edward F. a'Beckett, Esq., Horatio Henry Shirley, Esq.,
8.A., Cambridge; Farrer Herschell, Esq., B.A. , London ;
John Giles Pilcher, Esq., Matthew Pilcher, Esq., Samuel
Thomas Staughton, Esq,, Henry Stewart Drewry, Esq.,
M.A., Cambridge, and George Parker Bidder, jun., Esq.,
8.A., Cambridge. The undermentioned gentlemen were
on Saturday called to the Bar by the non. Society of the
Inner Temple :—William Relies Fryer, Esq., B.A. ;
Frederick Samuel Child, Esq., Henry Thomas Braith-
waite, Esq., M.A. ; Richard Bettye, Esq., B.A. ; Archi-
bald Levin Smith, Esq., B.A. ; Robert Marsden Latham,
Esq., Harry Tichbourne Davenport, Esq., M.A. ; Joshua
Dean, Esq., Frederick Bridgman, Esq., Joseph Hartley,
Esq., Henry Francis Gillett, Esq , M.A., and John Henry
William Fenton, Esq., M.A. The undermentioned gen-
tlemen were on Saturday called to the degree of the Utter
Bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple :—Edward
Bullen, of 2, Brick-court, Temple, Esq; George Burnett
Barton, of Sydney, Esq. ; Christopher James Davison, In-
gledew, of Northallerton, Esq.; George Frederick Robinson
Jerv's, of Exeter College, Oxford, Esq. , Cornelius \Val-
ford, of 1, Elm-court, Temple, Esq. ; and Clement James
Wolseley, of Castletown, county of Carlow, Esq.
ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN. —On Saturday the
Lord Mayor issued his precept for the election of an alder-
man for the ward of Walbrook, in the room of Mr. Alder -
man Wire, deceased, appointing the ceremony to take place
on Thursday next, at 2 o'clock, at the Bay Tree Tavern,
St. Swithen's-lane. In the event of a poll being demanded
—which is highly probable, as there is an unusual number
of candidates for the vacant office—it will open on Friday
morning at 10 o'clock and close at 4 on the same day, in
conformity with the statute regulating civic elections in the
city of London. The Lord Mayor has also issued a precept
for the election of a common councilman for the ward of
Tower, in the stead of Xr. Thomas Barkley, who was re
cently declared to have disqualified himself for sitting as a
member of the Court of Common Council by his non-attend-
ance there for a period of six months. The day for holding
the election rods with the ward mit49rities.
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L. TEST NEW b•

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

ELECTION OF MR. LINCOLN.

NEW YORK, Nov. 7.
Mr. Lincoln has been elected President of the
United States, and Mr. Hamlin Vice-President.
The majority in New York for Mr. Lincoln was
10,000.
The Republicans have gained largely on former
majorities.

GAETA, Nov. 13.
Yesterday the Piedmontese bombarded the
suburbs of Gaeta.

The Neapolitan troops continue to fight reso-
lutely, but the defection of staff officers' is increas-
ing. Four generals—Salzano, Cslonna, Barbobriga,
and Polizzi, have resigned.
The King has dismissed and sent away General
Bertolini. Colonel Pianelli has surrendered a bat-
talion of chasseurs to the Piedmontese.

Further resistance by the Bourbon troops is
paralysed by the insubordination of their chiefs
and the confusion which prevails.

TURIN, Nov. 18.

The Nationalities announces that no Northern
Power has protested against the entry of Victor
Emmanuel into the city of Naples.

PARIS, Nov. 17.

The Pays says :

"Sardinia has claimed the cannon taken from
the Neapolitans who were disarmed on Papal ter-
ritory. General Goyon replied that at present it
was impossible to give a decision, but that the
artillery would be given up later to the proper
party.

" Judgment in the process against M. Guerault,
of the Opinion Nationale, has been deferred until
Friday next."

NAPLES, Nov. 18.

A military commission, composed of French and
Sardinian officers, and presided over by Generals
Goyon and Cialdini, will settle the question arising
from the entry of the Bourbon troops into Roman
territory.

BERLIN, Nov. 18.
Lord Bloomfield is appointed English Ambassa-
dor at the Court of Vienna.
Lord Loftus, English Minister at Vienna, re-
places Lord Bloomfield at Berlin.

VIENNA, Nov. 17.

The Austrian Gazette says :
"We have received information from a special
source that England, which up to the present time
has only been represented at the Imperial Court of
Austria by an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary, will raise the rank of her Em-
bassy, and will in future be represented by an Am-
bassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary.

TBE EMPRESS OF THE F.RENcIi.

The Empress of the French arrived in York on
Friday evening last by the 5 45 Great Northern
train from London. Her Majesty's visit was en-
tirely private, the only intimation of her intention
to stay at York being conveyed by telegram to Mr.
Holiday, of the Royal Station Hotel, who was re-
quested by Colonel Faye to prepare accommodation
for a party of fifteen. It appears that at the
King's-cross station the directors proffered the
Empress a special carriage, which she however
declined, and took her seat in a first-class carriage
as an ordinary passenger. She was attended by
the Comtesse de Montebello, Madame de Saulcy,
the Marquis de Lagrange, Colonel Faye, and ten
attendants.

The presence in the ancient city of York of so
illustrious a visitor was but little known until
the following morning, when her Majesty break-
fasted at the Royal Station Hotel, at half-past
ten o'clock. It was not known whether the
Empress would make a closer acquaintance with
the ancient city, so celebrated for its great anti-
quity, for its historical associations, and for its
varied objects of interest, but it was thought by
some that her Majesty would be anxious to
pay a visit to the most splendid Gothic cathedral
in England. A number of persons c'llected for
the purpose of seeing the Empress, who, about
half-past 11 o'clock, got into a cab, accompanied
by two female attendants and Col. Fave. Her
Majesty was, of course, not known to any of the
spectators, but she was soon recognised by the
portraits of her Majesty which have from to time
time been seen in the print-shop windows. She
was very plainly attired in a black dress, and a
plain black bonnet and shawl. The cab was driven
to the Cathedral, where the party alighted. They
were immediately conducted into the choir, where

the Empress had the fullest opportunity of inspect-
ing 1,
the grandeur of its proportions, its gorgeous
windows, and the records of departed greatness,
while listening to the organ, upon which the or-
ganist, Dr. Monk, played one of his best volun-
taries. This was followed by one of Handel's best
compositions, " He delivered the poor when they
cried." The greatest courtesy was shown to her
Majesty by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of
York (Dr. Duncombe) and the Rev. Canon Hey,
who accompanied her ; and, in order to prevent any
intrusion upon the Empress's privacy, the gates of
the choir and side aisles were kept locked. Her
Majesty spent nedily half an hour in the choir,
lady chapel," and in the aisles. During this time ,
her movements were watched with great interest
by a crowd collected in the transept. At length
the Empress emerged from the north aisle, and
proceeded into perhaps the most beautiful part of
the Cathedral•—the Chapter-house. A source of
gratification was provided for the Empress which
she could not have expected. During her visit to
the Chapter-house the crypt under the choir was
lighted up, and thither her Majesty was con-
ducted by the south aisle after she left the Chap-
ter-house. She afterwards proceeded into the
vestry, and after staying in the Minster altogether
about three-quarters of an hour, she left by the
office of the Chapter clerk. A considerable crowd
—amounting to several hundred persons—was
waiting outside, and when her Majesty again
stepped into the cab she was loudly cheered. She
repeatedly bowed her acknowledgments, and,
amid renewed cheering, was driven to the Museum
and grounds of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
After inspecting the Museum her Majesty was
accompanied over the Hospitium by the Rev. Canon
Hey and the Rev. J. Kenrick. The Empress had
arranged to leave York en route for Scotland by
the 2 20 p.m. express train along the North-
Eastern and North British Railways. The direc-
tors of the North-Eastern Railway Company who
were in attendance were the Lord Mayor (Mr. G.
:Leeman), and Mr. J. Pulleine, of Crakehall, near
Bodale. The city Sheriff and a number of railway
officials were also in attendance. Precisely at 20
minutes past two o'clock the Empress left the Royal
Station Hotel. She was accompanied along the
platform by the Lord Mayor of York, whom she
informed that she had been highly pleased with
her visit to the Cathedral and the Museum, and
intimated that, in all probability, she should again
visit York, and make a more prolonged stay there.
The Empress then entered the carriage, and, amid
repeated cheers, which were again acknowledged
by her Majesty, the train sped on its way to the
North.
Her Majesty, with several of the members of her
suite, occupied the central compartment of a first-
class carriage, and the train reached Edinburgh at
a quarter past eight o'clock. As no special ar-
rangements had been made for the reception of the
august lady, and as the platform was somewhat
dark, very few of those who gathered round the
carriage in waiting on the platform could distin-
guish her Majesty among the ladies of the suite,
all of whom were plainly dressed in deep mourning.
The crowd, however, gave her Majesty a very cor-
dial cheer, both as she alighted from the train, and as
her carriage left the platform. Her Majesty and suite
immediately proceeded to Douglas's Hotel, where
apartments had been engaged for their brief stay.
Apart from the popularity of her Majesty's charac-
ter, her ancestrial connexion with. Scotland is cer-
tain to secure for her a very kindly reception north
of the Tweed.