The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINO, APRIL 21, 1860.

ROYAL LY CEUM THEATRE.-
Under the mans2:cment of Mr. Wm. 8r0u,.,,rh:
TIIIS EVENING, a new comic drama entitled NEXT OF
KIN. Messrs. Emery, S. Calhacm, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames
E. Travers and K. Saxon.
Atter which, the burlesque of TIIE FORTY THIEVES.
Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, Miss E.Travers,
Miss K. Saxon, Mrs. Wallis ; Messrs. Emery, Tilbury, &a -
and a numerous Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with TIIE MIDDY ASHORE.
Thompson

Commence at 7.

Miss Lydia

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
Carriages and foot passengers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the nerforrnances will commence with
A BORDER MARRIAGE. Miss Wyndham, Mr. Robinson,
and Mr. C. Young.

After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM.
Followed by a new burlesque, LUC REZIA BORGIA AT
HOME AND ALL ABROAD. Mesdames Wyndham, E.
Scott, Cecilia Ranoe, Miss Clara Morgan, and the Corps de

To conclude with ' No. 49."

________ .•
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, lc The Box-offloe open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. Wm. BATTY.
Sole Manager, Mr. EDWIN HUGHES.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week.
To commence with the immensely successful Grand Military
Spectacle, entitled "THE HISTORY OF A FLAG." New and
splendid scenery, costumes, and appointments, introducing
the stud of beautiful horses, ponies, camels, &c. &c. To be
succeeded by the Scenes in the circle, supported by Madles.
Monet, Marie, and De Berg, and Messrs. 11. Williams, De-
Yereux, Fernando, and the Wonder of the World, Jonathan
Jack.

Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock, performance commense
at 7.

Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING,
LIICREZIA BORGIA,
(Donizetti).

CONCERTS:

Donna Lucrezia Miss Russell.
Maffio Orsini Mrs. Anderson.
Gennaro Mr. Henry Herbert.
Don Altonzo Signor Tivoli.
Conductor—Mr. Jonghmans.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Hackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATIIER.-Sum OFFION, APRIL 21, 1360,

THERNOMETED., IN TYR SHAWL
50—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAuomETER-29.78.
WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with fine sunshiny
weather, but very cold.
AFTERNOON.—SIight showers of passing rainy sleet.

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THE SUN.
LoNDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1880.

The country will be pleased to see that Lord
JOHN RUSSELL will not lower his flag to either
disguised or open enemies. Neither Mr. WHITE-
SIDE'S threat of a prolonged hostile criticism on the
motion for the second reading, nor Mr. MASSEY'S
notice of motion to refer the bill to a select com-
mittee, have had the least effect on Lord JOHN and
his colleagues. He explained last night very fairly
the reasons why the Government had not pressed
the second reading before Easter. Indeed, they
were obvious enough. Long debates which the Go-
vernment could not prevent on other subjects, which
they could not even have obstructed without subject-
ing themselves to suspicion, and the unwillingness of
the house, with the holidays before it, to attempt a
discussion, in which so many speakers would like
to have their share, compelled them to postpone the
full debate till after the holidays.
But the Noble Lord emphatically asserted that it
was in no way the apathy of the Government which
had led to the postponement of the adjourned de-
bate ; on the contrary, the Government intended
to renew the debate on Monday ; and after the
second reading, having allowed a short interval—
the ordinary interval between the second reading
and the committee—to elapse, to go into committee.
Ills Lordship stated that there was still ample time
for the bill to be fully discussed there in all its de-
i ails, and " he hoped there would be sufficient time
before the close of the session for its being fully
discussed in another place." There is a slight tinge
of apprehension in this last remark about that
" other place," at which, indeed, no one can be sur-
prised. It would seem that even Lord JOHN could
only hope for the best about the Lords. What they
would do no one can tell. They are responsible to
no ono. They denounce JOHN BRIGIIT for setting
class against class, and yet set themselves, s'imetimes,
against all classes, as represented in the House of
Commons, for 20 years together. It is impossible,
we suppose, therefore, for even the son of a Duke to
calculate what an assembly which does not answer
to the helm of reason, which is ordinarily at the
mercy of a steady breeze of prejudice, but occa-
sionally whirled about also by some shifting gales
of caprice—will do. Let us hope that Earl GREY'S
tactics notwithstanding, the caprice may be this
time, that their Lordships will condescend to let
the people's house of representatives say how the
people wish to be represented.
Mr. MASSEY'S proposal for a select committee his
lordship treated as it deserved. He regarded it, as
we did, as a motion designed to destroy the bill. It
was not so "straightforward," but it had the same
real object, as a motion to go into committee that
day six months would have. In that way the mo-
tion would be treated by the Government. This is
at least straightforward on the part of the
Government, and will raise its position in
the eyes of the public. It had doubtless a diffi-
cult task in bringing forward its bill. It
had driven the preceding Government by a factious
amendment on its Reform Bill to appeal to the
country ; a bill which ought to have been taken into
committee and amended. A House with, nominally,
much fewer Liberal members than before, was re-
turned under a Conservative Government, and the
present Government supplants the Government
ousted, in point of fact, on its Reform Bill. It

was impossible, under these circumstances, to pro-
pose any very comprehensive measure to the pre-
sent House. The alternative lay between propo-
sing a bill bold as the Budget, and having
to appeal •on it to the country, and offer-
ing one based on the actual state of parties ;
Ministers, "rightly or wrongly, preferred the latter
course—they offered a bill which is really but a
franchise extension bill ; and they offer extensions,
one of which had been proposed by Conservatives
themselves, while the other had been advocated by
a great part of them in its principle—the principle
of having a borough franchise lower than that for
counties. ''

They are entitled, therefore, now to say, we
mean to carry our measure. It differs from that of
last year only in two points, both of which Mr.
DISRAELI conceded before the vote of no confidence
was passed. He admitted that the country was
against him in regard to disfranchising the free-
holders, resident in boroughs, of their county votes ;
and he admitted also that a frank and bona fide
enfranchisement of the working classes was
inevitable. After all this, Lord JOHN ♦ery
properly refuses to hear of a select committee ;
such a committee would have the framing of the
measure, and it never was yet th^ practice to refer
the drafting of such great measures to select com-
mittees. He did not believe, he said, that there
was an instance in which the principal measure of
a session was referred to a select committee ; and
he did not think that any great portion of the
House would think that a bill of such importance,
affecting the rights of ♦oting of a great many per-
' sons and the constitution of the country, should
virtually originate in a select committee. It was a
matter for the whole House.

Can it really be that a Hapsburg has learned
wisdom ? We might expect a Spanish and even a
Neapolitan Bourbon to learn it next. A little time
will show the real significance and the effect of the
changes in the Government of Hungary announced
in yesterday's telegrams ; meantime it may be per-
mitted to " hope for the best." That hope would
not be founded in the least on the temper of either
the Emperor of AUSTRIA or of his Ministers,
but on the permanence of the causes
which have originated the favourable symptoms.
General BENEDEK, a Protestant, and popular in
Hungary, has been installed as her provisional
governor, apparently with powers to restore the
old constitution abolished after the patriotic but
unsuccessful rising of 1848.
Ever since the treaty of Vienna, by every device
of fraud and cunning, perfidy and perjury, the
Austrian Government has been steadfastly labour-
ing to Germanise all her affiliated States. These
States, left to themselves, not only did not dislike,
but for the most part loyally upheld the sove-
reignty of the House of HAPSBURG. They had
their animosities of race with each other, but ge-
nerally, perhaps always, if their national rights and
customs were not interfered with, fought and shed
their blood for their common Sovereign. It was,
however, the unlucky ambition of these rulers to
aspire to a fused and amalgamated empire. They
must not only reign, but reign over one people.
Government must be centralised and administered
from Vienna. It was not enough that the reigning
HAPSBURG should be Archduke of his hereditary
States and King of Hungary, but he must be
Emperor of one State, all parts of it governed in
precisely the same way. It must be fenced out
with the trimclipped hedges of German bureau-
cracy, from the Tyrol to Transylvania, from Gal-
licia to Croatia and Dalmatia.

It was the excessive pressure of this Germanising
centralisatior, and the perfidies and infractions of
treaties to which it led, that produced, in reality,
the Hungarian insurrection of 1848. This at-
tempt to regain their ancient rights resulted in
the EMPEROR'S infamous treachery in employing
the savage JELLACHICII against his own subjects,
while he denounced him to the same subjects, and this
again was followed by the Hungarians dethroning
their traitorous monarch and proclaiming a repub-
lic. The despot NICHOLAS, trembling for a brother
despot, placed Hungary again at the feet of her
tyrant; and ever since then the system of entire
subversion of Hungary's ancient constitution,begun
by the murders at Arad, has been relentlessly pur-
sued. All that soldiers, police spies, German offi-
cials, and concordats could do has been done.
Ancient landmarks were effaced, artificial arrange-
ments were made, the country was parcelled out
anew till it hardly knew itself, and the last at-
tempt, which we have heard so much of, was the
"patent," a proposed concession to Protestants, but
really, as the Hungarians regarded it, another at-
tempt to destroy old arrangements under the guise
of liberality.
It now appears that these attempts are likely to
be given up. Bankrupt and beaten, the Germans,
who compose the governing portion of the Austrian
empire, are in no position to resist longer the de-
mand of the non-German nations for the restora-
tion of their natural rights, laws, administration,
and customs. Hungary is either the strength or
the weakness of Austria. A brave and vigorous race,
the Hungarians could enable her to defy her potent
neighbour on the east and on the west. Enjoying
their liberties under a King of HUNGARY, who
might be Emperor of AUSTRIA too, neither Russia
nor France could attack successfully an empire of
which they formed a contented part. If Austria
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in addition, she would take a fair price for the
emancipation of Venetia, whose Italian population
she can never conciliate ; if she would then
commence a course of conciliation towards
all the races comprised in her dominions, she might
become a powerful state indeed. This, however,
supposes a wisdom rarely given to Monarchs, a
sacrifice of pride to season and generosity which
they can rarely make. Bystanders perceive how
easy it would be to render the Austrian States
a cordial confederation for their common de-
fence, under the crown of the EMPEROR;
but, unfortunately, Emperors think it their glory
that their subjects should be obliged to obey
whether they will or not. They deem it a degra-
dation to govern through liberty and love—an
honour to rule by coercion and fear. Well it the
necessities of Austria convert her to a better mind.

It is certainly curious to speculate upon the re-
sults that will probably flow from one part at least
of the varied series of modifications introduced by
Treaty and by Budget into our commercial relations
with France. The ss. 9d.. duty per gallon upon wine
dropping suddenly, promises the convivial, threat-
ens the teetotallers, in England with the delights or
the terrors (accordingly as they view this alteration),
of a vinous inundation. Beer drinking England
has at length the prospect of slakeing its thirst
henceforth upon the luxurious beverage hitherto
restricted in its consumption on this side of
the Channel to the Upper Ten Thousand.
The sluice-gates from the vats of Bordeaux are
lifted, moreover, upon the very morrow, as it were,
of the inauguration of the system of the public
wayside drinking fountains. The mantle of good
Father MATREW has partially descended upon the
shoulders of Mr. GonG
11, when the whole prospect

opened up to view successively by the Apostle and
the Prophet of Total Abstinence, is abruptly trans-
formed at a single movement of the pen of Mr. Cos-
DEN, at a single flourish of the oratorical hand of
our wonder-working Chancellor of the Exchequer.
How will this transformation affect the moral condi-

tion of our population ? What influence will it
exercise over the hop trade, over the hop growers,
over the maltsters, the brewers, the publicans ?
Hitherto the consumption'of wine by Englishmen
has been as nearly as possible 66 times less than
that by Frenchmen. Indeed, it has been calculated
by M. CHEVALIER that, upon an average, a French-
man drinks as nearly as possible 100 times as much
wine as an Englishman, the present average of
wine drinking in England giving about a bottle
and a half per annum to every member of the popu
lation ! An estimate based upon the fact that the
existing consumption of wine in England every
year is 6,748,975 gallons. Remembering, moreover,
that the population of this country has absolutely
doubled within the last seventy years, this average
of a bottle and a half per annum for every person
exhibits a positive falling off in the national con-
sumption of wine since 1791—prior to which
date the average awarded about two bottles and
a half per annum to every individual. But then it
should be remembered that 1791 was the date of a
hard drinking generation. "We have changed
all that.' The age then was Bacchanalian. Com-
paratively speaking the present one would be con-
sidered by our grandfathers as an age of milksops.
Yet if we drink nowadays according to
M. CHEVALIER'S estimate, a hundred times

less wine yearly than our French neigh-
bours—it should be remembered that we strive

to equalise matters in the balance of imbibition,
by swallowing about twice as much spirits and
swilling about six times as much beer as our French
neighbours. Impressed by the reflection that
" Were the people of the United Kingdom only
to drink a quantity of wine equal to the quantity
of spirits now consumed by them, the revenue at
ls. a gallon on wine would be equal to that ob-
tained by the 5s 9d duty"—a writer in the Edinburgh
Review cannot refrain from ejaculating exultingly,
" When we consider the immense supplies which
are at hand the momant we cease to exclude them
by prohibitory duties, not only from France but
Spain and Portugal—the extreme lowness of
price—the wholesome and acceptable nature of
wine when it is obtained pure and used in mo-
deration—and the gross absurdity and injustice
of shutting out from a whole nation one of the
best gifts of Providence to mankind by an ex-
cessive tax, we are led irresistibly to the con-
clusion that the reduction of the wine duties is a
measure of the utmost utility, and' that far from
causing any permanent sacrifice to the Exche-
quer, wine, at a low duty, will take its place
amongst the ten or twelve principal permanent
sources of the customs' revenue." All this is argued,
however, by the reviewer in spite of the previous ac-
knowledgment that in dropping the duty upon wine
we are dropping a restrictive, almost, he maintains, a
prohibitive tax, upon a luxury. His argument is
that—because the use of every other article of food
or luxury has increased, while that of this
particular luxury (wine) has, on the contrary,
alone fallen off—we ought to drop the duty upon
this same article of luxury—wine. The people of
England—he reasons—draw TEA in abundance
from China, SUGAR from the West Indies, tobaeeo
from America, food and fruit from every part
of the globe—whereas wine is kept under the vir-
tual interdict of a tax of 300 or 400 per cent. on the
bulk of the supply ! The argument, so expressed
by the Edinburgh, is certainly, to say the least of
it, advanced somewhat injudiciously. According
to this very mode of reasoning—we ought surely to
insist upon it that, before dropping the import duty
upon an admitted luxury like wine, we ought to
diminish, if not actually abolish, the prohibitive
import duties still heavily imposed upon whole-
some and uninebriating necessities of the popula-
tion like tea and sugar. It were even more generous
to lower the duty upon tobacco, a luxury already
the solace and delight of a very considerable part of
our population—and a luxury (whatever may be
the notions entertained by some as to its deleteri-
ous properties) incapable of being used to a demo-
ralising extent : as opium lures its victims on to the
verge of madness, or as fermented liquors lure their
victims on to the delirium of intoxication. When
" the cup that cheers but not inebriates" had been
placed untaxed within reach of our toiling popula-
tion—then, but not till then, would have been the
right time to reduce or even to remit the import
duties upon claret.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and the Ladies
Somerset have arrived at their residence in Hill-street,
from Alminton, for the season,

Frances Ann Marchioness of Londonderry has
returned to Holdernesso House, Park-lane, from Brighton.

His Excellency the Marquis Spaventa has ar-
rived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Italy.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and the
Ladies Villiers have arrived at their residence in Gros-
venor-crescent from the Grove, near Watford, for the sea-
son.

The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly.
new( come to town to-day.

The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough and
Miss Jane Digby have arrived at their residence in Great
Stanhope•street for the season.

Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre have arrived
at their new residence in Eaton-place from Staffordshire.

Viscount and Viscountess Stormont have arrived
in town. His lordship has taken a house in Upper
Grosvenor-street for the season.

His Excellency Lord Cowley arrived at Dover
yesterday from Paris. His excellency landed from the
John Penn, mail-packet, and after a brief repose came on
to London last evening.

Lord and Lady Avoland and the Hon. Misses
Heathcote have arrived at their mansion in Belgrave-square
from Normanton Park, for the season.
TILE METROPOLITAN RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.—The
commandants of the Metropolitan Rifle Corps met on the
17th inst. at Viscount Ranelagh's house, and unanimously
agreed to organize the different corps in Middlesex into
brigades and divisions. The first brigade day will be on
Saturday, the sth of May, in one of th parks. The Mid-
dlesex volunteers now amounts to 14,000 men, and it is
therefore calculated that by the month of July there will
be two divisions of 5,000 men each, fully organized,
equipped, and ready for any work.
THE LAST CRUISE OF THE ROYAL YACllT.—Ex-
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LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, SATURDAY.

The llionitear of this morning contains the fol-
lowing as the result of the voting in the district of
Nice:—

Total number of votes inscribed on the electoral
lists 29,142.
For annexation 24,448
Against

MADRID, SATURDAY.
MM. Rafael and Tristany have been captured.

GENEVA, APRIL 20.

M. Thouvenel has sent to Dr. Kern an explana-
tion of his despatch of the 13th March, wherein it
was pretended that Switzerland had proposed to
France a treaty for a partition of Savoy.

M. Thouvenel says he understood the Swiss note
to claim either the maintenance of the statu quo in
Savoy or the neutralised districts, but only in case
France should take the whole of Savoy.
M. Thouvenel concludes by regretting the pub-
lication of the denial as an indiscretion.

DRESDEN, APRIL 20.
The Vienna correspondence of the Dresden Jour-
nal contains the following :
The reply of Austria to the note of Switzerland
expresses a hope that France will entirely fulfil the
assurances by which she engaged herself not to
violate in the neutralised districts of Savoy any
rights formerly acquired by others. Austria fur-
ther trusts that France will settle all questions
which might come under consideration with Swit-
zerland and with the great Powers who have gua-
ranteed her neutrality.
The Archduchess Sophia arrived to-day at Dres-
den on a visit to the Royal Court.

GENEVA, APRIL 21.

The four presidents of the committees for the an-
nexation of Northern Savoy to Switzerland have
protested against the voting which is to take place
to-morrow in Savoy, Their protest concludes
thus :—" We submit to the law of the strongest.
We are not vanquished ; we are victims."
The Liberal party of Chambery publishes a de-
claration, recommending the electors to abstain
from voting. This declaration says :—" Between
the kingdom which rejects, and the Empire which
takes, possession of our country, the Liberal party
in Savoy is incorruptible; neither will it abdicate,
but will preserve intact, the principle of liberty of
action, and will abstain from voting."

GENEVA, APRIL 20.

Baron de Mensshengen remitted yesterday to the
Federal Council the reply of Austria to the Swiss
note of the 19th March. This reply, in its details,
is altogether reassuring to Switzerland.
News received from Swiss residents at Naples
announces that the revolt had spread over the
whole of Sicily.
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VIENNA, APRIL 21.

The delay for the redemption of the circulating
bank notes (conventiounnunze) of 1,2, 5, 10, 50,
100, and 1,000 florins has been prolonged till the
end of September.

VIENNA, APRIL. 20.

According to official advices received here from
Naples to the 16th inst., there is no faith in the
statement of the Triester Zeitittag that, on the 9th
instant, the Austrian Consul at Messina retired on
board an Austrian merchant vessel, fearing a bom-
bardment of the city on that day.

NAPLES, APRIL 17 (via Genoa).

The King has reviewed and banqueted the
troops. The embarkation of cannon and munitions
of war continues.

It is asserted that 13 tricoloured flags were float•
ing at Trapani, Mazzara, and Marsala.

Three moveable columns have left Palermo. Other
columns have been sent from Messina towards
Catania and Melazzo.

BERLIN, APRIL 20.

In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
the question of the constitution of Electoral Hesse
has been discussed. The Polish members of the
Chamber declared that they weold not take part in
the discussion. The Minister von Schleinitz said
—" The question of Hesse not only concerns the
legal state of affairs in a German country, but also
the fundamental laws of the whole Confederation.
The question of the constitution of Electoral Hesse
is a question of the constitution of Germany. In
that question Prussia relies on the circumstance
that the resolution of the Federal Diet of 1852 ad-
mitted the explanation that the constitution of
1831 had only been provisionally suspended, and
on that ground Prussia proposed to re-establish the
constitution of 1831. Prussia was obliged to sin-
cerely renounce a policy which went back to the
resolution of the Carlsbad Congress, and which had
not given any benefit to Germany. The resolution
of the Federal Diet of the 24th March exceeds the
constitutional competency of the Federal Diet.
For that reason Prussia not only gave a dissentient
vote, but also expressed a reservation. The Prus-
sian Government did not fail to understand the
consequences of her policy. The country may be
assured that the Prussian Government will adhere
to its point of view, and will pursue such a policy
as the honour and the power of Prussia demand.

MUNICH, APRIL 20.

The marriage contract of Princess Matilda,
Duchess of Bavai ia, and Count Trani, brother of
the King of Naples, has been ratified by his
Sicilian Majesty. The marriage will immediately
take place by proxy.

PARTS, APRIL 20, 3.30 P.M.

The Bourse has been dull. Rentes opened at
70.20, but subsequently relapsed, and closed at
70.05, or 15c. lower than yesterday.