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fearless independence is worth all the assistance of Government—we want English money and English
combined armies, and the professions of " ideal" enterprise alone .to carry out these designs, under
allies. the guidance, under the auspices, under the

Everybody recognizes the vital importance to
England of a direct line of electric communication
being established forthwith between her own shores
and those of her vast and remote Asiatic possessions.
A direct line, observe, is the desideratum ! To
carry the route unnecessarily through the dominions
of any other power—however friendly, however
old and firm and faithful an ally—were obviously
in this design a blunder of the very first magnitude.
The ally of yesterday may be the foe of to-morrow.
And if humanity, and even prudence, bid us generally
treat all our enemies as though they were one day
to be our friends—experience tells us plainly that
we should no less cautiously in all political
transactions and diplomatic negotiations hold
in view perpetually the possibility—not the proba-
bility, observe, but the mere obvious possibility—
that our friends may later on be our enemies. If
there is one thing, therefore, that is manifestly
more desirable than another in the laying down of
electric submarine cables between the capital of
our Empire and our distant provinces—whether in
Europe, Asia, Africa, America, or Australasia—it is
that we should carry the route, as uninterruptedly
as may well be, from point to point through our
own territories. These territories are happily so
very numerous, and they are so widely scattered,
that we believe it will prove eventually quite
practicable to unite the whole of our enormous
and -widely-distributed empire in a network
of submarine electric cables, having its central core
in the metropolis. It is only a question of time,
expense, and engineering. There are those three
obstacles alone to its instant development. But
each of these three we believe to be an obstacle
only in appearance. The rapidity with which the
submarine electric system has already grown to its
present dimensions, gives assurance that a compara-
tively moderate period is yet requisite for its
further advance to the point already indicated.
As to the seeming impediment of expenditure
—that we have already been enabled to recognize
as wholly illusory, even from our small past expe-
rience. Take, as a case in point, a portion of that
grand series of telegraphic lines that we are now
endeavouring to extend, section by section, until
we brought London into instantaneous communi-
cation with Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. Take
the single isolated section known as the Aden-Suez
cable. That, while actually in working order, we
know to have already, within a comparatively
brief interval, paid its expenses ; we know it to
have very nearly, if not entirely, relieved
her MAJESTY'S Government of the preconcerted
guarantee. Nay in every individual instance in
which a submarine cable has yet afforded us an
opportunity of testing its capabilities as a mercan-
tile speculation, we have found it to be an enter-
prise essentially, largely, and immediately remune-
rative. So that in regard to expense, as in regard
to time, the dreaded obstacle turns out upon exami-
nation to be purely imaginary. Then remains the
one simple question as to the capabilities of en-
gineering. As to which—the world knows per-
fectly well by this time that the problem has been
again and again solved, andthat it has been solved
definitively and triumphantly. Fugitive though
the success of the Atlantic cable was, that mere
fugitive success would of itself have been all-suffi-
cient. For remember only for an instant what was
then done, what was thereby actually accomplished!
At the clicking of the electric needle Europe and
America, then and there (upon the shores of Ireland
and upon the shores of Newfoundland), momentarily
talked with each other—their thoughts, their visible
and audible words (visible and audible in the click-
ing vibrations of the electric needle indicators ?)
thrilling to and fro under the depths of the mighty
Atlantic Ocean ! The subsequent interruption of
that actual converse has merely demonstrated the
existence of some flaw in the arrangements, of some
error in the calculations. The feasibility of the
enterprize has been—in spite of that subsequent
interruption—conclusively and absolutely proved to
demonstration. It is comprehensible, therefore, that
submarine cables of minor difficulty are regarded
by our eleetric engineers with a very natural and
very reasonable complacency, as cables that may be
not only readily but securely submerged—as enter-
prises that may be not only possibly but probably
accomplished for us to our most complete satisfac-
tion.

Reverting to that one particular line of electric
communication which we are all of us so peculiarly
desirous of seeing carried out between England
and her enormous empire in Hindostan, an
intelligent correspondent of the chief among our
morning contemporaries, a writer signing him-
self Alpha, has explained in a very clear and
succinct manner the stages of its development, the
intervals of its success, and the causes of its inter-
ruption. The Red Sea cable, for instance, he re-
minds us, worked during very nearly nine months
consecutively—namely, from the 29th of May,
1859, to the 10th of February, 1860—to admiration.
At the latter date, namely, on the 10th of last
February, the section between Aden and Souakin
was interrupted. That section was satisfactorily
repaired by the 7th of July—not, however, until
after 200 miles of cable had been cautiously un-
derrun, and when lifted thus bit by bit to view,
subjected inch by inch to a minute examination. The
outer iron wires were then found corroded
—insomuch that the gutta percha underneath was
laid bare at those points of corrosion. What was
worse still—the gutta percha itself was found at
intervals to be perforated by little circular pea-
holes, the result of latent bubbles exploded by the
force of the passing electricity—exposing the cop-
per wire at these apertures, and thereby subjecting
the copper wire at these points to the destructive
influence of decomposition. Wherever the cable
was discovered to have been thus flawed it was
repaired, and repaired so successfully, that by the
7th of July the line between Aden and Souakin
was again in operation. Five days, however, were
scarcely passed by after this when again, viz., on
the 12th of July, the electric action ceased—since
which period the section here particularized has
been altogether unemployed. The interruption

moreover, was in point of fact all the more
tantalizing from the circumstance that but three
days prior to the first interruption, namely, on the
7th of last February, the cable (in continuation
of the route to India) was successfully laid between
Aden and Kurrachee !

While we are in the midst of these con-
siderations, the hen; gentleman, late Under-
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under
Lord DERBY'S Government (Mr. SEYMOUR
FITZGERALD), elicits, by his inquiries from
her MAJESTY'S Government, the acceptable intima-
tion that her MAJESTY'S advisers will, at the
very least, "wait a wee" before acceding to the
modifications now audaciously proposed by the
Austrian Government—the monstrous and impu-
dent modifications proposed to be made in the con-
vention entered into between that Government and
our town, as to the submergence of electric cables
between Ragusa and Corfu, and between Corfu and
Alexandria. In the submergence of our electric
cables we want no conventions with any other

guarantee, it may be, of her Britannic MAJESTY'S
Government—but with the aid and co-operation of
no other than her Britannic MAJESTY'S Govern-

ment.

Lest time press ever so much, it was but right
that before Parliament was broken up, we should
hear a little more on the subject of foreign politics
from those who take an interest in them in the
House of Commons, and from the Ministry too.
We should, indeed, have been better pleased if all
the more important personages who have special
knowledge reopecting foreign affairs or interest in
them, had given us their last on the occasion which
was presented last night. Where, at least, was Sir
ROBERT PEEL when Switzerland was under dis-
cussion ? our Foreign Secretary, too, should at
least have given us his views, and not left all to
his chief.
The Conference which was to have been held re-
specting the annexation of Savoy was the text of
a discussion which naturally took a much wider
range. On that subject the tone of the House and
of the Ministry seem to be all that can be wished.
Nothwithstanding the baseness and badness of the
whole business, it was felt by all of us, from the
beginning, that it was a transaction which could
not be made a casus belli. The only question,
therefore, was how it should be treated diplomati-
cally, and to the present hour we are informed that
it is not a transaction recognised by the public
law of Europe. The cession of Savoy is held by
the great Powers of Europe, the one of course which
has made might prevail over right excepted, to be
an act which it was not competent to Sardinia
to perform, nor France as one of those powers to
accept. France has, indeed, got the territory, that
is all, and everything some might say ; not quite so,
however, and no one knows that better than the
French EMPEROR. Universal suffrage and Impe-
rial visits are but a miserable whitewash after all.
We have no doubt that if he knew any way to ob-
tain it there is no price in reason which the EM-
PEROR would not pay to get his title-deeds made
indisputable. He has writhed from that day to
this under the fact, of which he was advertised in
the plainest terms by England's Foreign Secretary,
that he might do the thing, doubtless without fear
of provoking a war, but that all his territorial gain
would not compensate him for the deep distrust of
France which would henceforth be universal in

Europe.
And now what has he found ? that from a most
imposing position in Europe he sees himself
isolated. At the time referred to, Germany was
disunited and disorganized ; England was on the
best terms, and Russia disposed to co-operate with
him. But he now finds Germany combined; and
the Baden attempt on her anion more than counter-
balanced by the agreement between Austria and
Prussia at Toplitz ; that Russia has retired within
herself; and that England has constructed a fleet,
enlisted her volunteers by the hundred thousand,
and commenced a system of fortification, with
a rapidity chiefly due to the want of con-
fidence she feels in the writer of the letter'
to "to my dear PERSIGNY." She has also
declared that she does not mean to separate
herself in her course of policy from that of the other
States of Europe ;—in other words, she will act
with Germany, with Belgium, and with Switzer-
land, if action should be necessary, to put a stop to
Bonaparte annexations. All this isolation of France
is entirely due to the first great act of fraud in the
annexation of Savoy, and to the violence thus done
to the law of Europe, and to the safety of Switzer-
land.

There can be little doubt that one great object of
the crafty French EMPEROR, was to threaten Ger-
many by rendering the Swiss neutrality a fic-
tion. He was as much concerned to show
that he had an easy road through the
small republic to Germany, as to gain
a small accession of territory. Chablais and
Faucigny, as the military outwork of the neutral
Republic, were vital to its safety. They have been
rudely and unceremoniously grasped by an irre-
sistible power, who, by that very act, said, " and
whenever I please, be it to march through you to
Germany, or for any other object, I will let Switz-
erland see that her neutrality is now but a farce."
We are pleased, therefore, to enter on the recess
with so distinct a statement of his views as Lord
PALMERSTON made last night. After recounting
the circumstances of the case, that originally Sar-
dinia had no right to concede nor France to accept ;
that this original flaw was made worse by the man-
ner in which it was done—by the avowals at one
time and denials at another—by the pro-
mises, and then non-fulfilment—he remarked that
all these circumstances must produce a most painful
impression in the mind of every man in regard to
all the parties who were concerned in the transac-

,ion, a remark received with gengettl cheering in

the British House of Commons. He went on to
show how the same impression had been produced
in the minds of all the other States of Europe—
" an impression showing that they considered that,
for the future, forethought and precaution must be
the duty of every power." This, then, has been
the result of the combination of fraud and violence,
of knavery and false promises, of defiance of right
by might, through which Savoy was annexed to
France—that she and her EMPEROR are
now the objects of a universal suspicion
and distrust, which will go far to prevent
his acting the magnificent part he intended. He
has, to be sure, the gloomy satisfaction of having.
compelled honest men to arm in self-defence, that
is to treat him as a rogue. _ Lord PALMERSTON
seemed, however, to have some hope that on a re-
view of the whole, France:would feel the necessity
of making some concessions which should be satis-
factory to Switzerland, whose conduct was ad-
mitted to be most praiseworthy, and so to insure
that great European object, the independence and
dtutrality of the noble little republic.

lOur Premier, also, in reply to Sir G. Bow-
YER—who, as usual, advocated the cause of the pre-
sent and the banished Italian despots, and denounced
the pirate GARIBALDI, compared with whom our
Indian TANTIA TOPEE was a patriot—gave us a
little of his mind about GARIBALDI. He thought
it quite plain that if, with a few thousand volun-
teers, he conquered seventy or eighty thousand of
the King's soldiers, it could only be with the con-
sent of the army and the country. Respecting
Syria, Mr. KINGLAKE mentioned two statements
which he thought Lord DUFFERIN would do well
to verify. One, that a large number of fire-
arms, bearing the stamp of a certain
European Government, had been distributed
among the Druses. Another, that a news- ,
paper professedly published in Beyrout, in
Arabic, and containing articles intended to irritate
the Christians against the Druses and against Eng-
land, was really published in the capital of that

Government. A city in which it would be hardly

safe or possible for private individuals to engage in

such a manufacture, without the consent of the
Government. We may remember that Mr. KING-

LAKE'S information on similar underhand affairs

has always proved to be correct. We fear that, in
the East, much will yet be discovered which will not

be allowed to see daylight even in blue books.

TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST '25, 1860.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Marie of Russia yesterday honoured the establishment of
Mr. Hancock, of Bruton-street, with a visit, and was gra-
ciously pleased to favour him with numerous commands.
Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie
of Russia honoured Mr. H. Emanuel's new establishment,
in Hanover-square and Brook-street, to-day with a
lengthened visit.
Their Imperial Highnesses the Dukes of Leuch-
tenberg, accompanied by Colonel Rehbinder, have left
Claridge's Hotel for Russia.
The Princess Doubovitsky has arrived at Fen-
ton's Hotel from Paris.
Count G. Henckel, of Donnersmarck, and the
Countess de Paiva have left Fenton's Hotel for Brighton.
Count Marinx has left Fenton's Hotel for the
Continent.

Lieutenant-General Buckley, M.P., and Lady
Catherine Buckley have arrived in South Audley-street,
from Delapre Abbey (the seat of General Bouverie), en
route to Coleshill House, to visit the Earl of Radnor, who
has not been to Homburg as erroneously stated.
Mr. Rampin, Mr. George Rampin, and Mr.
Etienne have arrived at Fenton's from Edinburgh.
Mr. and Mrs. Sargent have left Maurigy's Hotel
for New York.
The prorogation of Parliament will take place
on Tuesday next, the 28th inst. A Privy Council will be
held at Balmoral on Monday morning, at which the Queen's
Speech will be settled.
The Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of
the province of Canterbury was prorogued on Thursday
last, in the Jerusalem chamber, Westminster, by the
Vicar-General, Dr. Travers Twiss, under a commission
from his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Pri-
mate of All England and Metropolitan, to Tuesday, the
23d of October.
ENGLISH OPERA Al HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
—Mr. E. T. Smith is naking several engagements for
English opera at this houao. The band will be under the
baton of Mr. Halle. Miss Parepa, Miss Alessandria, Miss
Sherrington, Miss Jenny Bauer. as sopranos; Miss Laura
Baxter, Mrs. Lemaire, Miss Fanny Huddart, are the con-
traltos ; Mr. Swift, Mr. Georg€ Perrin, Mr. Parkinson,
and Mr. Sims Reeves are the tenors ; Mr. Santley and
Mr. Rosenthal, baritones; and Messrs. Herman, George
Honey, Bartleman, and Patey. With such a company, and
two new operas by Mr. Macfarren and Mr. Wallace, there
can be little doubt of success.—Era.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—For the forthcoming
season Mr, and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Lambert (from
Australia), Mrs. Frank Mathews, and Mrs. and Miss
Stirling aro engaged, and will form part of Mr. E. T.
Smith's company, to appear in a new drama from the pen
of Mr. Thomas Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean per-
form here early in February, to be followed by Mr. Gus-
tavus Brooke.—Era.
MR. J, W. ANSON'S BENEFIT.— Mr. J. W.
Anson, the very assiduous treasurer of the New Adelphi
Theatre, takes his benefit on Tuesday evening next, when
a popular drama and farce, embracing the entire strength of
the company, will constitute the entertainments. The
exertions made by Mr. Anson not only in this capacity but
in others connected with the interests of the theatrical pro-
fession, should find an adequate response on the occasion.
—Era.
ARGYLL ROOMS.—This well known establish-
ment, having been thoroughly re- decorated, will re-open
for the winter season on Monday next. The arrangements,
under the direction of Mons. Antony Lamotte, will be de-
signed, as heretofore, to secure perfect enjoyment to the
visitors, and the musical department will be carefully super-
vised, so that the same reputation may be acquired by the
present orchestra which has rendered the Argyll bands
peculiarly attractive to the public.
THE LATE MR. FLEXMORE, THE CLOWN.—Mr.
Harry Boleno has addressed the following letter to the
editor of the Era :—"Sir,—Poor Flexmoro is dead, and I
fear left little or nothing behind to defray his last expenses,
or help an aged mother. If you could, through the pages of
your journal, suggest to the profession to lend their aid for
one night, and I know Mr. E. T. Smith, with his usual
kindness of heart, would do all in his power to lot the
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, for so charitable an object, on
the most reasonable terms. All 1 can do to assist the above
object I shall be happy.—l am, yours obediently, HARRY
BOLRNO.-89, Long-Acre, Aug. 21."
DEATH OF THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.—We have
to record the death of the Earl of Lauderdale, which took
place at iiais seat, Thirlestane Castle, Berwickshire, on
Wednesday, in the 7tth year of his age. The deceased peer
was son of the eighth earl, by the daughter and co-heir of
Mr. Anthony Todd, secretary to the Post-office, and was
born in Wimpole-street in 1784. He succeeded to the earl-
dom on the death of his father in 1839, and was heritable
Standard-bearer of Scotland, and Marshal of the Royal
Household there; he was Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire,
and a Deputy-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire. The first
peer was Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and the second earl
was created Marquis of Mareh and Duke of Lauderdale--
honours which expired with him.
THE CLIVE FUND.—The example of the Com-
pany's soldiers in India is being followed in high quarters.
The Earl of Powis and Baroness Windsor, the representa-
tives of Robert Lord Clive, claim payment of the greater
part of the Clive Fund to there (subject to existing pen-
sions), on the ground that the Company have ceased to
employ a military force in India. The chief part of this
fund arose from the gift of £63,000 by a Nabob of Bengal
io Lord Clive, who placed the money under the charge of
the East India Company in trust to apply the annual inte-
rest for the benefit of disabled officers and soldiers (and
their widows) in the service of the Company, he "being
zealous for the prosperity of the Company, the security of
their territories and territorial revenues in India belonging
to them, and their trade and commerce, which greatly de-
pended on the bravery and conduct of their troops." The
deed stipulated that if it should ever so happen that the
Company should have no military force in their actual pay
or service in India the fund should be devoted to the naval
service, but if they should also cease to employ ships for
carrying on their trade, the principal was to be paid over
to Lord Clive, his executors, administrators, or assigns.
The Government, having taken the opinion of counsel upon
this demand, have declined to comply with it.
MAILS FOR SYRlA.—lnformation has been re-
ceived from the French Post-office that during the absence
of the expeditionary forces in Syria a weekly service will be
maintained between France and Syria by means of the
French mail packets from Marseilles. The following shows
the dates upon which the packets in question are for the
present to be despatched from Marseilles, and also the latest
dates upon which correspondence intended to go by them
should be despatched from London :—Malta, Beyrout, Tri-
poli in Syria, Latakia, Alexandretta, Mersina, Rhodes,
Smyrna, Dardanelles, and Constantinople, on Sunday,
August 26, and every alternate Sunday, at 9 a.m., and
Friday, August 24, and every alternate Friday; Malta,
Alexandria, Jaffa, and Beyrout on Sunday, September 2,
and every alternate Sunday, at 9 a.m., and Friday, August
31, and every alternate Friday. The time to be occupied
by the packets in the voyage between Marseilles and Boy-
rout direct will be eight days, and in the voyage between
Marseilles and Beyrout via Alexandria and Jaffa, 10 days.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—We have had a succes-
sion of strong breezes here during the past three days, vary-
ing from N.W. to W.S.W. All the fore part of yesterday it
blew fiercely from the last named quarter, but moderated
towards evening. To-day it has blown a hard gale from
S.W. to W.S.W., accompanied by incessant rain up to 6
p.m., when it nearly ceased. The force of the wind in-
creased in the squalls, and it now (6 p.m.) blows as hard as
ever, with every appearance of a tempestuous night. Baro-
meter, 29.80, falling A large quantity of the corn in this
neighbourhood has been beaten down by the violence
of the wind and rain, and there is every reason to fear that
similar disastrous reports will be received from along the
coast. Among the many vessels which have anchored in-
side the Me of Wight for shelter from the violence of the
weather are the following, all from London : —the American
Eagle, for New York; the Gosforth and the Louisa, for
Calcutta; the Summer Cloud and the Daphne (the latter
with troops), for Sydney, New South Wales; the Migno-
nette, for South America; and the Victoria, four-masted
steamer, for Cardiff. No account of any shipping disasters
in the Channel have as yet come to hand.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. MAUDSLAY'S
FACTORY.—Yesterday morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock,
an accident of a frightful character, and nearly attended
with fatal consequences, happened to Thomas Green, aged
35 years, who resided in Now- street, Union-street, Lambeth.
The unfortunate man was at work at Messrs. Maudelay's,
Westminster-bridge-road, attending a planing machine,
when his attention was called away, and the machinery
caught his sleeve, and dragged his arm into it. His cries
brought assistance, when the engine was stopped, and the
unfortunate man extricated. He was conveyed to Guy's
Hospital, where Mr. Charlton rendered every assistance;
but it is feared that amputation of the arm from the
shoulder must be performed. He remains in a precarious
state.

THE MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S-PARK, EDlN-
nuncit.—The circumstances and the perpetrators of this
crime seem to be every day becoming more and more en-
shrouded in mystery. All that is yet known upon the sub-
ject is that the poor girl was in company with soldiers of
the 13th Light Dragoons at various times on the night pre-
ceding her death, up to two o'clock on the Sunday morn-
ing, and that she was grossly and brutally abused, and
afterwards cruelly murdered by some person or persons
within two hours of that period. The chief difficulties in
the case may be said to arise, first, from the want hitherto
of witnesses able to speak to:any of the occurrences after two
o'clock, and secondly, from the extreme difficulty always
felt in individualising and recognising soldiers in uniform,
especially when the soldiers are entire strangers, and have
been looked at only casually and in an imperfect light.
From these causes, while all doubt as to the actual mur-
der, and the brutality by which it was preceded, has been
set at rest by the post-mortem examination, and where
there are abundance, almost superabundance, of witnesses
to the poor girl's identity, and the fact of her companion-
ship with the soldiers on Saturday night and Sunday
morning, all attempts to fix the identity of the particular
individuals under examination have hitherto been unsuc-
cessful. Probably, therefore, the proof, if obtained at
all, must be sought in other directions. The collateral or li
circumstantial evidence has also, we believe, been very.
scanty. A regimental button was said to be two days ago
picked up near the fatal spot, and was handed to the autho-
rities • but it turns out, in the first place, that the button,
though marked with the figures " 13," was not of the same
pattern as those worn by the 13th Light Dragoons ; and,
in the second place, instead of being picked up on the spot
by the woman who handed it to the authorities, it is now
said that she pot it from another woman, who got it from a
young man, who cannot be further traced. On FriOay,
however, a switch, similar to those frequently carried by
cavalry soldiers, war found at Clockmill-bridge, directly
opposite the place where the murder was committed, and
this switch is now in the hands of the Procurator-Fiscal.
It may also be mentioned that when the soldiers at Piers-
hill were paraded on Sunday afternoon for the purpose of
being inspected by the witnesses brought down for that
purpose from Edinburgh, the officers caused the clothes
they had worn when out on the previous evening to be
minutely examined, and that no stains or marks such as
might have been caused by a scuffle of any kind were found
upon them. On Tuesday a number of additional witnesses,
including several privates in the 13th Light Dragoons, were
examined, but, as has been previously stated, the examina-
tions are conducted in private.
COURTLY FISH,—The island of Khoajah Khizr,
in the Indus, is said to be so sacred that the fish of the
river, particularly the pullah, evince their respect for the
island by never turning their tails when retiring from its
shores,

LATEST

INT E W S.

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

PARIS, AUG. 25.

The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree order•-
ing the construction of a sect ion of railway between
Toulon and Nice, which would connect the two de-
partments of Var and Nice and be a work of public
utility.
The lif oniteur also announces the arrival and
enthusiastic reception of their Majesties at Lyons.

NAPLES, AUG. 21.
The Royal Intendant of Potenza is at the head
of the insurrection in the province of Basilicata.
Four thousand Calabrian insurgents reinforced
the Garibaldians during their attack on the town

of Reggio.
The chiefs of the National Guard of Naples have
tendered their resignation on account of the foreign
battalions not having been disbanded.

VIENNA, Aua. 24,

For several days the Ministers have been sitting
in Council almost without interruption, as before
the end of the month they will be summoned by
the Council of the Empire to pronounce a categori-
cal decision on the political reorganisation of the
monarchy.

Fears are entertained that the Government may
grant but insufficient measures of reform, in which
case the Hungarian delegates have firmly resolved
upon immediately quitting the Council of the
Empire.

Hungary has until now been perfectly tranquil
in expectation of the result of the deliberations of
the Council of the Empire ; but should the hopes
of the Liberal party be disappointed, a refusal of
the 'payment of the taxes may be expected in
Hungary. Many Hungarian refugees staying in
Wallachia are engaged in spreading revolutionary
propaganda.

In addition to other military measures of pre-
caution the GoVernment has already assembled
15 cavalry regiments under the command of
General Benedek.

BERLIN, AUG. 24

Notwithstanding that during the conference at
Toplitz an understanding was in principle brought
about on all pending questions, it is eertain that the
realisation of the alliance between Austria and
Prussia will entirely depend upon the political
reforms which are to be effected in Austria.

The Prince Regent expressly declared to the
Emperor that Austria, since 1850, had been com-
mitting a positive infraction the Federal Act,
which distinctly states that all the States of the
German Confederation shall receive a Constitution
on the representative system, and that until
Austria enters upon the path of constitutional
reforms there can be no hops of a real and dur-
able alliance.

TRIESTE, AUG. 24.

The new Prince of Montenegro has deprived the
Bishop of Montenegro of office, on account of his
having, at the burial of the late Prince Danilo, left
the funeral procession before the conclusion of the
ceremony. The bishop alleged a sudden indisposi-
tion as an excuse. Nikizza refused, however, to
accept this excuse, and ordered the prelate to quit
the country immediately.
The Russian Consul intervened in his behalf, as
the bishop is reported to be the chief of the Russian'
party. It is known that he proceeded last year to
St. Petersburg in order to be consecrated.

The great agitation prevailing in Montenegro is
especially caused by the struggle between the
French and Russian parties, who divide the