The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-11 00:00:00

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presume without any very great indecorum to
memorialise the SOVEREIGN ! Then, again, as to
the nonsensical distinction drawn by the Chief
Commissioner upon the previous day, as to the
alteration presented by this Horse Ride of Pub-
licity or of Privacy for Kensington Gardens—
quoth Mr. COWPER yesterday—and we earnestly
entreat the public to listen to him—" When he
spoke of securing publicity as distinguished from
privacy, he did not mean the riders only, but the
walkers also, who obtained amusement from looking
at the riders." Now this extraordinary argument
in favour of the Horse Ride has been adduced very
often before without eliciting, so far as we have
observed, a single syllable in the way of commen-
tary. Yet its utter absurdity is manifest upon the
very face of it. One would really imagine, from
the stress laid upon this reason in particular, that
the Horse Ride in Kensington Gardens has been
marked out as an exercise ground for Mr. COOKE'S
or Mr. BATTY'S Company of Equestrians, where the
wondrous equine spectacle of MAZEPPA, or the Wild
horse of Tartary may be displayed by performers
from Astley's or the Alhambra—daring stars of the
circus clad in spangled raiment, dancing "on the
light fantastic toe," upon padded-saddles of wash-
leather to the sound of drum and trumpet, for the
especial delectation of her MAJESTY'S lieges, more
particularly the children and the nurserymaids.
One could never suppose that the riders
there now—riders that the walkers are to
derive such exceeding amusement from look-
ing at—are merely after all the • ordinary
throng of amateur equestrians, the customary
ladies and gentlemen one could enjoy the felicity
any day previously of beholding reins, and whip in
hand, trotting, cantering, galloping, carracoling
along the West-end streets, up and down Rotten
Row, or round the Ring in Hyde Park. Listen,
however, to what Mr. COWPER has to say further
in defence of his hobby--" The objections to the
scheme seemed all to come to this," he ob-
served, " that whereas formerly the place
was very quiet and unfrequented, it was
now crowded with horses and people, and that
which used to be a scene of quiet and seclusion, was
now one of noise and bustle and animation." Noise
and bustle, then—which we can have any day
when we want them in the streets—are the advan-
tages secured to Kensington Gardens by the Horse
Ride ! This is avowedly the nature and the extent
of Mr. COWPER'S improvement ! We altogether
deny, however, that Kensington Gardens, before
the Horse Ride was formed, was a place so " very
unfrequented." We distinctly assert that that is a
gross misstatement. A misstatement as gross, we
maintain, as that appended to it when Mr. COWPER
added pertly—" Now, he contended that it was most
unfair that any portion of the public should be shut
out from this place of recreation because there were
a few people who wished to go and muse there in
solitude." Now, all this is simply flippant and
ridiculous. The "few people" comprising the po-
pulation (when it pleased) of all London and West-
minster ! Not one out of the 3,000,000 of that
population—supposing them only to be decently
apparelled—but could (before the formation of the
horse ride) have enjoyed afoot in Kensington-gar-
dens the advantage of undisturbed recreation. It
is sheer nonsense, therefore, for Mr. COWPER to
talk thus about "a few people who wished to go
and muse there in solitude." The fact is, the vast
majority of the inhabitants of the west-end of the
metropolis have recognized from the very first that
this Horse Ride is nothing more nor less than an in-
tolerable nuisance, and all the pertness in the world
will fail to alter that opinion, and by altering it
to preserve—what is certainly doomed—CowPEß's
Folly.

NE W •

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

VIENNA, AUG. 10.

It is expected that the committee of 21 members
of the Reichsrath, having successively received
communications from all the Ministers, will termi-
nate its sittings to-morrow.
The members have agreed to draw up the pro-
ject relative to the political organisation of the Aus-
trian empire in the most simple manner possible,
in order to oblige the Government to give its
answer, affirmative or negative, in the most decided

manner.
All the members of the Council of the Empire
are invited to be present at the inauguration of the
railway from Salzburg to Munich, which is to take
place on Sunday next.
The official Weiner Zeitung of this morning pub-
lishes a report of the Minister of Finance on the
present financial condition of the empire, and the
means of covering the different deficits.
The Minister states that the deficit of 1861 is
estimated at 30 millions of florins.
The deficit of 1860, which was estimated at 871
millions has, by additional outlays, been increased
by '7 3.5 millions.
To cover this deficit there are at the disposal of
the Ministry 761 millions of florins in the Treasury,
and 301 millions resulting from the reduction of
the expenses and a surplus of receipts.
The following resolution was adopted at a private
sitting of the committee, by a majority of 18

Last night the Lords had their turn with the Euro-
pean Forces (India) Bill. More fortunate than some
important bills relating to domestic business, which
that pertinacious routinist, Lord REDESDALE,
stopped in their passage into law, by appealing to
his pet but unconstitutional standing order, this bill
was acknowledged to be " urgent." By the way,
the Lords who dread so much the "'Americanizing"
of our institutions, are teaching us to " continen-
talize" them—" voting the urgency" being, if we
remember rightly, borrowed from France,
Prussia, and other enlightened countries. We
dull-brained Englishmen having, till Lord REDES-
DALE began to tinker our legislative proceedure,
never dreamed of fixing a day after which
we would not attend to the business duly laid before
us. However, on the question whether the Eng-
lish army in India should be one army or two,
"the urgency was voted," although the mysterious
27th of July was past before it could be read by
their lordships a second time.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH was opposed to the Bill.
Of course, he ranks with the old Indians. Lord
DERBY, though he would not vote against the
second reading, was opposed to it also ; we suppose
because his son delivered a very able speech against
it. Happily, like his son, he abstains from the fac-
tious opposition of the old Indians. Lord CLYDE gave
his emphatic support to the bill, in a short speech,
which, short as it was, he did not enable us to hear
with any distinctness. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
as might be expected, was very decided for
the bill, and did his best to defend the Horse
Guards, which he said meant in reality, the
Crown. Many military men, however, we happen
to know, think that, if the Horse Guards
mean the Crown, they do so on the assumption
which regards in its most literal sense the Scripture
doctrine of the Oneness of man and wife. It is only
such a view of Crown influence at the Horse Guards,
which they think can account for the fact that at
the time of the outbreak of the India mutiny--(as
we are on an Indian subject)—such a mere
Court Pet of his Royal Highness was
found in the Chief Military Command in
India, as General ANSON. We recollect also the
Crimea, Balaklava, the starved horses, and drowned
and half-starved troops, the Chelsea commission,
and the honours and emoluments bestowed for in-
competency; and Dowb, and all the rest of it.
But enough—let, however, the Duke know that
with the English public, the patronage of the Horse
Guards is a sore place in the bill. Hitherto the Horse
Guards have ridden roughshod over popular indig-
nation and contempt, and even over its sorrows for
the thousands of brave soldiers sacrificed to mere
aristocratic ignorance and shiftlessness. Impunity
may last long. The wider field, now India is
included, may give it further play, but the
day of inquiry -ss ill come ; the public will
not submit for s ever to bestowing sine-
cure Colonelcies on royal personages who
already draw largely enough on the national
exchequer; or on Horse Guard nobodies, to the
overlooking of veteran merit ; or to conferring
equal military honours on Scribes and Equerries
of Buckingham Palace, and on Commanders of
whose fame the whole country is proud. A little
more like what we have already had, will cause
the Horse Guards, i.e. the Crown, i.e. the Court,
to be regarded not as the channel, but as the
kennel of promotion.

The Princess Leon Kotschoubey has arrived at
the Clarendon hotel from Paris.
The Princess Anatole Bariatinsky haS arrived at
the Clarendon Rotel from the Isle of Wight,

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not diminish, the same cannot be said of the gene-
rosity of the patriots ; as the National Society an-
nounces that it has suspended sending volunteers
because funds are wanting."
The Opinions of Turin, of the Bth, says :—" The
Neapolitan Government having proved unable to
prevent Garibaldi's expedition to the provinces on
the mainland, or to induce France and England to
oppose it with their fleets, has collected 40,000 men
in Calabria, and put Naples in a state of defence.
We hear of a communication made by General de
Lamoriciere to the Neapolitan Government of the
plan of a campaign for the defence of the province
on the continent. This news is probable. There is
even a question of an alliance between Naples and
Rome; in pursuance of which Lamoriciere's troops
would co-operate with those of Naples. Perhaps La-
moriciere thinks he may thus prevent an attack on
the side of the Abruzzes. If this report should be
true, the Sardinian Government would be com-
pelled to depart from its policy of reserve, which
has hitherto been so beneficial to Italy, and we are
convinced that it will not fail in its duty."
A letter from Turin of the 6th says :—" The
subject of general conversation yesterday was a
pretended ministerial crisis. Count Cavour, ac-
cording to the rumour current, would still retain
the Presidentship of the Council and the portfolio
of Foreign Affairs ; M. Mamiani, as well as Gene-
ral Fanti, would retire ; M. Farini would take the
portfolio of Public Instruction, leaving that of the
Interior to M. Ratazzi, or, in the event of his
refusing it, to Count Ponza de San Martino.
General Fanti, according to some accounts, was to
be succeeded in the War Department by M. Mena-
brea, while others spoke of the return of M. de La
Marmora. Up to the present time nothing of this
account has been confirmed."
General Turr had quite an ovation on the Corso
Vittore Emmanuele, on the Bth. He was followed
to his hotel by an immense concourse of people,
shouting " Viva l'ltalia !" " Viva Garibaldi !"
" Viva it Generale Turr !"
A letter from Naples of the sth, in the Debate,
says:—"Electoral committees are being actively
formed, and thus far their operations have been
perfectly constitutional. It is therefore probable
that the Parliament will be regularly opened, if
in the meantime an invasion of Garibaldi on the
Neapolitan continent should not create new em-
barrassments. The Unionist party declare that
Garibaldi will not allow the elections to take
place, and that he is only waiting for 12,000
muskets and 2,000 revolvers (which he has com-
manded in France and England) in order to pass
Calabria. It is not believed that the Government
has any certain information as to the means
of which Garibaldi disposes, or the point which
he will attack; but no doubt as to what his inten-
tions are can be entertained. In fact, in the con-
ferences which took place two days ago between
him and General Clary, he declared—as I learn
from the best source—that he could not accept any
truce; Italy must be united; he was determined to
invade the Kingdom of Naples, then to attack the
Marches, next to deliver Venice, and afterwards to
take Nice from France and restore it to Italy.' "
The .Abeille Du Nord examines the situation
of Rome in the Italian crisis. According to
the Russian journal, large reforms, the aban-
donment of the old routine, and the construc-
tion of a liberal edifice, will alone save the
temporal authority of the Pope. The Papal
Government may place its army on a war
footing, and under the command of an expe-
rienced officer, but such measures will never
preserve its States from invasion, or give
them internal tranquillity. "It is not," says
the Abeille du Nord, " either the army of 20,000
men placed under the orders of General Lamori-
ciere, or the French aristocratic volunteers, or St.
Peter's pence, collected through the preaching of
the clergy, that can save and strengthen the Pope's
throne. We say candidly, and without any mental
reservation, that it is only a liberal and a purely
national policy that can prevent the ruin of the
Pope's temporal power."
The Ost Deutsche Post has the following observa-
tions on the presence of Garibaldi on the Continent :
—" The landing of Garibaldi on the mainland of
the kingdom of the Two Sicilies commences a new
phase of the Italian revolution. The events in
Sicily were only an episode. In presence of the
deplorable situation and of the complete disor-
ganisation, the spectacle of which is offered to
the astonished world by the Bourbons of Italy,
there is not the slightest doubt but that the attempt
of Garibaldi on Naples will succeed. The army
and the fleet are demoralised and disorganised;
everything which existed has been swept away,
and nothing new has been created ; the King is
young and without experience, the puppet of con-
tradictory counsels, manifestly abandoned by the
European Powers, and designated as a victim by
France and England, whilst Sardinia politically
supports the Chief whom she does not avow—how
can the dynasty of Naples stand against all these
tempests ? Unless a miracle be performed, Sardinia
will, before six weeks are at an end, commence her
annexation to Naples. The Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies is not only a rich conquest, like the Duchies
of the Centre, but it is an arsenal full of arms, gold,
ships 'of war, dnd soldiers. So soon as it passes into
the hands of Sardinia, the latter is de facto a great
Power ; the strength of her army will be little
inferior to that of Prussia,' and her fleet will be
more numerous than that of the new great Power
—Spain, or that of the Scandinavian kingdoms.
Sardinia, uniting the armies and the fleets of the
two kingdoms, will be a power not to be disre-
garded. We need not mention the Power against
which she will first turn her arms."