The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, IS6O.

Well, CAVOUR, RICASOLI, and FARINI take him at
his word. England, to please him, proposes a
second vote; the Italians, to please him, accept the
proposal; but then, at last, the danger of "falling
into the pit which he had dug" stares him in the
face. He leaps back. He meant the pit to catch
CATOUR, and to break his bones, not to break his
own Imperial neck. He now has the folly and
meanness to argue that universal suffrage will not do
for Tuscany ! The immortal plea—for history will
never forget or forgive it from such a man—is that
universal suffrage is all right for the internal
concerns of a people, but not for their external
relations—those external relations being the re-
lation of monarch and subjects, representatives
and represented, and union with, or separation
from, an adjoining portion of their own race ! Ire-
land and Scotland had, on this theory, far less right
to vote on their relations to England than have
the Tuscans to vote on their relation to Piedmont.

Surely the indignant voice of Europe will pro-
test against such Imperial shuffling as this. Even
Austria must despise it. He has placed, indeed, a
pleasant bait before her. He, the violator of all
European arrangements, whose very empire is a
violation of them, who desires to violate them now
in Savoy—he talks of Europe having engaged the
throne of Tuscany for the LORRAINE dynasty ! As
if it had not engaged also that of France for the
BOURBONS ! It is impossible to maintain the least
respect for such a diplomatist. While he adhered
to his universal suffrage theory, pure et simple,
although we should deny his right to enforce it on
the States of Italy, yet he was self-consistent. We
could respect consistency, as Englishmen are often
prone to do when repentance would be more re-
spectable. But such open trifling with his own
great principle, and for such manifestly self-willed
and selfish objects, can meet with notking but uni-
versal contempt.
Nor is this all—perhaps not the worst—univer-
sal suffrage would do, while it would be likely to
keep Tuscany open for a BONAPARTE ; it
would do, also, while it would give Savoy
to France but immediately it would not
do either of these things, its obvious rights
must be cut down in Tuscany—but it must
be given up in Savoy altogether ! VICTOR EMMA-
NUEL must cede Savoy to the Imperial Nabob by
his own direct Royal act ! The Municipalities
may be consulted, because purehaseable, but that
will be sufficient ! We refrain from characterising
such diplomacy by appropriate epithets. Every
reader can supply them.
Sincerely do we hope that this disgraceful pal-
tering with the rights of others, and with diplo-
matic decency, will meet its just reward, The
King of Sardinia intends to ask the universal
population of Savoy whom they wish to reign over
them ; and he declares that he will accept the
vote of all the States, be it what it may. He is
threatened with the subtraction of French sup-
port ; but really should that bring Austria into
the field again, we do believe Sardinia will obtain
the addition of support which shall more than
comnensate for the loss of that of France. Aus-
tria, however, has probably had enough of it for
the present. With Hungary and Venetia to
pacify if she can, and to garrison while she can-
not, she is pretty well bound over to keep the
peace. She has experienced the results of fighting
for territory where she is detested, and she may
wisely think that quietness is her only safety.
Naples, by the last accounts, also, has more than
enough on her hands. We may confidently hope,
then, that the only result of the French soldiers
being withdrawn from Italy will be, that Italy
will arouse herself to make her paternal army one
which Austrian mercenaries may think it better to
leave alone.

THE TilE eIT.RES.

COVENT-GARDEN.

After a season of unexampled success, Mr. W.
Harrison takes his benefit on Saturday evening
next, on which occasion Wallace's grand legendary
opera of " I.urline," and the grand pantomime of
" Puss in Boots" will be repeated. The interest
created in the musical world by Mr. Wallace's new
opera is immense, and, if it be possible, the an-
nouncement of the close of the English Opera
season at this theatre has increased it. The appli-
cations at the box-office already for places exceed
the limits of the theatre. Mr. Harrison has, in
order to gratify the wishes of the public, succeeded
in prolonging his tenure of the magnificent build-
ing for nine additional nights, which will imme-
diately follow the benefit night of Mr. Harrison,
and finally terminate on Wednesday, the 28th,
which has appropriately been fixed for the benefit
of Miss Louisa Pyne. An overflowing bumper is
the appropriate reward of Mr. Harrison's abundant
merit, and it is to be hoped that this well-deserved
tribute of public esteem 'will be accorded to him
on Saturday evening.

LATEST' NEWS.

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

LEGHORN, MARCH 13.
The following is the result of the voting in
Sienna, Pisa, and Leghorn :
For annexation to Piedmont 38,026 votes.
For a separate kingdom 333 „

Majority for annexation .. 37,693 „
The number of persons inscribed on the lists is
45,218.

PARIS, MARCH 12.
The Paris papers publish the following, dated
Antibes, March 12 :
The attempted Italian manifestation in Nice has
failed. Only 500 persons were present, nearly all
of whom were Italian employes and children.
The annexation to France is impatiently awaited.
The Patrie publishes the following message,
dated Bologna, March 12 :
An almost perfect unanimity of suffrages for an-
nexation to Piedmont is reckoned upon in the
Romagna.
A calculation of the Patrie demonstrates that the
Piedmontese army, when united to that of Central
Italy, will number 200,000 men.

BERLIN, MARCH 12.

The Kreuz Zeitung announces, as a report, that
Prince Alexander Ton Hesse, general in the Aus-
trian army, will shortly arrive here en route for
St. Petersburg.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :

MALTA, MARCH 10.
OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

(20TH FEB.)

The Panther (from Marseilles, lat) arrived here
at midnight on the 3d.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS.

The Delta (from Southampton, 27th) arrived at
midnight on the 9th, and sailed at 8 a.m. on the
10th for Alexandria.

The Veetis (from Marseilles, sth) arrived at
Malta at midnight on the 7th.
The Alhambra sailed for Corfu on the 4th, re-
turned to Malta on the 9th.
HOMEWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.

The Ceylon arrived from Alexandria at daylight
on the 9th, and sailed at noon (will probably arrive
at Southampton on the 11th).
The Columbian for Bombay, and Benares for
Australia, sailed from Suez on the 27th and 28th
February respectively.