The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

—it is almost ludicrously suggestive to read the
next sentence in this Speech from the Throne, de-
livered on Monday by the King of HOLLAND—
"Our land and sea forces continue to be placed in a
position more and more to fulfil the obligations
which are imposed on them." The KING adding
an assurance which it would be well, indeed,
if it could have been as truthfully addressed
to our own representatives in regard to the mere
method of our warlike expedition, viz.," The means
which, by your co-operation, have been allowed
for the defences of the country are employed with
circumspection." The sentence immediately fol-
lowing having a remarkable applicability to that
patriotic impulse in our own land, which, by a magic
as great as that of the mythical Dragon-teeth sown
by CADMUS of old, has caused to start from the soil
of England 150,000 Rifle Volunteers, his Dutch
MAJESTY observing, in the sentence thus directly
applicable, as we have just intimated, to ourselves,
" For a long time the necessity has been felt of
establishing new legal provisions regarding the
obligation of the inhabitants to bear arms for the
maintenance of the independence of the State."
The obligation amongst ourselves is happily al-

it be from " war." To us it seems simply ab-
surd to suspect GARIBALDI of such madness. When
he resisted the French at Rome before, he might
reasonably hope that the French Republic,
when it saw that it had been deceived,
and that their soldiers were resisted not welcomed
at Rome, would have recalled them. He did not
perceive that the President was thus buying the
support of the French clergy. But, now, he must
well know that French pride would never suffer
its soldiers to be driven out of the place they have
held so long.
We can hardly doubt what the real wish of
the EMPEROR and French statesmen is. It is
doubtless proclaimed in the exhortation to the
POPE not to flee, although his doing so would
liberate France from all political complications in
connection with Rome. lust as another French
object is proclaimed in another positive denial—
the denial that France looks for compensation, in
Sardinia and Elba, for permission to Piedmont to
annex Sicily. Nothing more likely, says
every reader to himself, as he reads
the denial, that its meaning is just
the same as that of similar denials
about Savoy and Nice: France must be heartily
sick of supporting the unpopular temporal power
of the POPE. We must say, too, in her favour that
she has not been wanting in counselling such re-
forms as would enable her to withdraw her soldiers
consistently with securing the POPE'S safety, but
that all such advice has been treated with con-
tempt. The POPE has been again and again
solemnly warned by the EMPEROR that the occu-
pation must cease in no long time ; that, indeed,
Europe would not tolerate it. If only a way could
be found, we can hardly doubt that the French
would now gladly withdraw from Rome, and leave
it to become the capital of the new Italian King-
dom.

lowed to remain a purely moral obligation. Com-
pliance with its dictate is left entirely optional : it
is none the less stringent or efficacious. On the con-
trary it has summoned together, as we have seen,
within a few months, an enthusiastic and disciplined
body of onehundred and.fifty thousand VOLUNTEER'
Passing on from this cursory glance at the warlike
department of the Hollanders, we find the Dutch
KING regarding with complacency the develop-
ment of sanitary improvements, the extension of
commerce, the expansion of the railway system, the
advance of the physical sciences, the beaux arts, and

of the belles lettres. The fibres of the web-work
of electric telegraphy are spreading far and wide
over his kingdom, he informs Europe ; a submarine
cable connects Holland with Friesland. Every-
where, in effect, the Royal Speech indicates the
irresistible progress made and making by the genius
of modern civilisation.

L: TE S T

On the present state of the difference between
CAVOUR and GARIBALDI, we say nothing at the
moment, because we cannot feel sure of the truth of
the statements respecting it. There is, as yet, con-
siderable doubt whether such a letter has been sent
by GARIBALDI to the KING insisting on his dis-
missal, as reports have asserted. Some of the best
informed persons in Italy, indeed, have assured us,
that the difference is all apparent,and that the gene-
ral and the diplomatist quite understand each other.
We quite agree with those who think that Italy
cannot yet dispense with either of these very dif-
ferent, but very able men. GARIBALDI is the
man to command English sympathies, but
we have also in this country a strong impression
that CAVOUR is the man to work difficult questions
through the Courts of Europe. Is there not, how-
ever, an understanding quite satisfactory and mu-
tual between the French EMPEROR and the King
of SARDINIA, and are not GARIBALDI and CAVOUR
both in the secret ? King of Sardinia is a title
involving no sacrifice in parting with it, but that
of one of the objectionable tricks of the Holy Alli-
ance. Elba has peculiar Napoleonic associations,
It would cost him who surrendered his historical
Duchy of Savoy no pang at all to part with Sardinia
and Elba, if he could assume the position of King of
Italy, with Rome for his capital. And if the two
Monarchs liked the arrangement, we now know
that the consent of Europe will not be asked,

MAGISTERIAL CHANGES.—Mr. Corrie, of the
Clerkenwell police-court, will succeed the late Mr. Jardine
at the Bow-street police-court. It is has been stated that
Mr. Selfe, of the Thames police-court, would succeed Mr.
Corrie, but such a change was never contemplated ; and it
was settled on Saturday last that Mr. Corrio would succeed
the late Mr. Jardine as one of the three magistrates at Bow-
street. Mr. Conde's successor has not been named. It
has been rumoured that Mr. Yardley, the senior magis-
trate at the Thames police-court, will succeed Mr. Corrie,
and that a new magistrate, not yet appointed, will succeed
Mr. Yardley. Such an arrangement has been pending,
but nothing definitive has been determined upon.
THE SECRETARY TO THE. TREASURY ON PUBLIC
AFFAIRS.—In an address forwarded from London to the
electors of the Northern Burghs, Mr. Laing, M.P.,!says:—
" The fact that throughout the vicissitudes of a long and
eventful session no serious wish has been shown by any
considerable party, either in the House of Commons or the
country, to displace the present Administration, affords the
beet proof that on the whole it represents adequately the
enlightened public opinion and prevailing sentiments of the
nation. That national feeling is for the present directed
mainly towards foreign affairs, and demands, above all
things, that due provision be made for the safety and
defence of the empire. The Russian and Italian wars, the
Indian mutiny, and other recent events, have rudely dis-
pelled the confidence which, ten years ago, was so generally
felt in the advent of a millenium of peace and prosperity,
and have impressed on the minds of a vast majority of
thinking men the conclusion that this is a period of proba-
tion and peril, in which the nation's best energies must be
braced up to the paramount duty of maintaining at all
hazards the greatness anclAignity of the eippire.
and
have
received a noble inheritance from our fathers, and our first
care must be to make such provision that, by the blessing
of Providence, we may hand it down not less great and
glorious to those who come after us. The volunteer move-
ment is at once the best representative of the national feel-
ing, and the most guarantee for its continuance and re-
sults. In this state of things the duty of the Government
is obvious—to guide and organise the movement of the
nation ; to improve the efficiency of the army and navy,
and fortify the dockyards ; but at the same time to avoid
extravagance ; to preserve a tone of moderation with foreign
powers ; to omit no fair opportunity of cementing friendly
alliances by commercial intercourse; and, in a word, while
prepared for war, to show that we wish for peace. Such is
the policy which the nation desires, and which the Govern-
ment has endeavoured—not, I hope, without success—to
carry into effect."
DEATH OF SIR GEORGE SIMPSON.--•We regret to
announce that letters have just been received by friends in
England, announcing the sudden death of Sir George
Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company's settle-
ments, which happened at his residence, La Chine, near
Montreal, on the 7th instant, a few days after he had so
hospitably entertained his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and his suite. Ths illness of which he died was of
only a day or two's duration, and at the time of his decease
he was in the 69th year of his age. Sir George, as we learn
from the " County Families," was the ( nly son of the late
Mr. George Simpson, of Lochbroom, Ross-shire, and was
well known some years since as the author of a " Narrative
of an Overland Journey Round the World." He had held

The inaugural " Address from the Throne," de-
livered by the King of HOLLAND, on the 17th
instant, upon opening the Legislative session of
the Hague in the presence of the Princes of his
Household, is certainly, all things considered, very
curiously suggestive. It is full of contrasts, of
antitheses, of contradictions. The effect of some
among these, being so broad, when viewed from
our own point of view, as to be almost ludicrous.
In regard to some of the particulars touched upon
by his Dutch MAJESTY, in truth, it is nearly im-
possible to believe that we are reading of any
serious ceremonial—the bearing of the facts speci-
fied pointing rather, it would seem, to an elaborated
travestie of courtly ponalis and parliamentary cere-
monials of larger import, of loftier elevation, and
altogether of a more ambitious character. As if
bent resolutely upon doing these things by the rule
of contraries, the members of the Dutch Etats
Generaux assemble together for the commencement
of their legislative session in that early autumnal
season which among other European races usually
witnesses the close of the parliamentary sittings
and the dispersion %f the popular representatives.
While the Lords and Commons of England are
stalking after the deer and bagging the grouse in
the Scotch highlands—while they are sipping the
chalybeate and rattling the bones at the German
watering places—while they are risking their necks,
it may be, in parties strung together upon a rope
like loose onions among the crags and glaciers
of the Alps or the Tyrol—the Dutch legislators are
assembling, in the second or third week in Septem-
ber, to listen with loyal attention to the Speech
from the Crown solemnly inaugurating the most
ill-timed legislative labours in Christendom.
Not one momentary qualm, however, appears
to have crossed the Royal imagination under these
untoward circumstances. His Imperial cousin of
Prance might be disporting himself in the midst
of holiday splendours now amongst the Savoyards
and Nizzards, now amongst the Corsicans and Alge-
rines. His Royal sister of England might be on
her way back from her annual repose and seclusion
at Balmoral—her Britannic MAJESTY might be on
the eve of a gay, unwonted, supplementary excur-
sion to Saxe Coburg, for the purpose of meeting her
Royal daughter and grandchildren. Other Euro-
pean Sovereigns might be enjoying the otium cunt
dignitatc, or the dolce far niente, earned by the
earlier toils of the advancing year, might be luxu-
riating in retirement and relaxation—saving only,
let us say, such a prince as BoMBINo, ex-King of
Naples, driven by his own subjects to make a sea-
voyage on the shortest notice and at the utmost
personal inconvenience—or, again, such another
prince as the Be Gulantuomo, otherwise the King
of ITALY, or, if the phrase be liked better, the
King of the Italians, that Soldier-Monarch
who is summoned every now and then
by a new principality of his gradually ex-
panding and expanding dominions to come and
ride sword-in-sheath through the flower strewn
cities of his fair young realm born of the old classic
peninsula !

the post of governor Over the Hudson's Bay Company's
settlements for upwards of 35 years. The deceased gover-
nor, who received the honour of knighthood in 1841, in
reward of his zeal in fitting out several Arctic expeditions,
married.in 1827 Miss Frances Ramsay Simpson (who died
in 1853), second daughter of the late Mr. Geddes Mackenzie
Simpson, of Great Tower-hill, London, and Stamford-hill,
Middlesex, by whom he leaves a son and two or three
daughters to lament his loss. Opinions may differ as to
the policy of the Hudson's Bay Company, and of the effect
of the large tracts of waste land that they hold for hunting
purposes upon the commercial and agricultural progress of
British North America ; but there is only one opinion as to
the ability, energy, and uprightness of the public servant
just taken from them, whose loss they will find it difficult
to replace.

DEATH Or GENERAL THACKERAY, C.B.—Ws

regret to announce the death of General Fred. Thackeray,
C. 8., colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers, in his
85th year, at the Cedars,Windlesham, Surrey, on Wednes-
day last. The gallant deceased was at the captureof Suri-
nam in 1799, St. Martin's, and St. Bartholomew's in 1801.
He directed the siege of Scylla Castle in 1806, and that of
Santa Maura in 1809. In 1812 he served with the army in
Spain, and was at the battle of Castalla and the siege of
Tarragona in 1813, and remained with the army until
1814. His commissions bore date as follows :—Second
lieutenant, Sept. 18, 1793; first lieutenant, June 18, 1796;
captain, April 18, 1801; brevet-major, May 9, 1810; lieu-
tenant-colonel, July 21, 1813 ; colonel, June 2, 1825;
colonel-commandant, April 29, 1836 ; major-general, Jan.
10, 1837; lieutenant-general, Nov. 9, 1846 ; and to that of
general, June 20, 1851. The gallant general had seen 67
years' service, was on full pay, and was a Companion of
the Order of the Bath.

morrow.

SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday Mr.
Wakley, the coroner for West Middlesex, received infor-
mation from Birchmore, one of the summoning officers of
the parish of St. Pancras, of the discovery of the body of
a newly-born male child, who is supposed to have been
murdered. It was found the day previous in George-yard,
Wardour-street, wrapped up in a piece of newspaper; and
the appearances were such as to lead to the comilu-
sion that the unfortunate infant had deen wilfully deprived
of life. The body was taken to the Strand Union Work -
house, Cleveland-street, Tottenham-court-road, where it
awaits a coroner's inquest.

The Rev. Jame; White, the well•known author
of some valuable historical works, has now in the press a
History of England, to be completed in one volume, uniform
with the same author's History of France. From Mr.
White's peculiar qualifications for such an undertaking, the
work in question can scarcely fail to supply a want that has
long been felt; we have reason to expect from his pen a
history that shall be at once compendious and sufficing,
clear and impartial, and, in fact, both in style and treat •
merit, leaving nothing to be desired.

Notwithstanding the contrast presented by his
own position among those and the rest of the varied
rulers of Christendom, the King of HOLLAND can
yet aver to his Legislature with perfect sincerity,
that he can only with feelings of profound grati-
tude inaugurate thus in the full flush of the autum-
nal holidays the customary labours of the Dutch
Parliament. Under the protection of Divine Pro-
vidence, his MAJESTY adds, with somewhat wise
ambiguity of phrase, " our dear country, that rank
which is assigned to it amongst other states "
without specifying what precisely that rank may
be even by an inuendo_,‘ Our relations," he con-
tinues,
"with all the powers are based upon reci-
procal friendship." An intimation fraught, of course,
I with pacific significance to the nations of Christen-
dom. Remembering our own war budget (in this
year of peace) dedicating the enormous total of
£30,000,000 sterling, within the twelvemonth, to
our military and maritime departments exclusively

THE WIFE MURDER TN LIVERPOOL.--Yesterday,
at Liverpool, the Borough Coroner held an inquest on the
body of Sarah Neasham, who was murdered by her hus-
band, Thomas Neasham, on Tuesday night. The facts of
the occurrence appeared in our columns yesterday. The
evidence given was similar to that adduced before the
stipendiary magistrate on Wednesday. The jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder against Neasham.
THE ROMAN " INSTITUTION" OF THE LOTTERY.
—At the best, the apology for the lottery only amounts to
this, that a little good is extracted out of a mass of evil,
eating into the very heart of society, particularly among
the classes laborious and poor, and stimulating the worst
propensities, to say nothing of that consequent passion for
games of chance, evinced in such sights as are often seen
in towns of these States, the thronged card table at low
cafes frequented by the low after dark at night and before
ligtit in the morning. If the glittering gin palace in Lon-
don streets be a reproach, not less so is the nightly ilium' •
nated lottery office in Rome, open later than all other esta-
blishments, and under no obligation of closing for any fes-
tival. Poor families in this city lay by their little earnings
weekly, to the privation of parents and children, for buying
numbers to play; and when one observes the degrading
superstition among results astonishment is increased at the
fact of the support by ecclesiastical government of a system
so odious. Divining, dream interpretations, charms, are
among the train of evils attendant, despite their being con-
demned dogmatically by the Church, "Il vero libro doi
Sogni" is a vile publication, sold at almost every stall in
Rome (without impediment from the rigorous censorship
that has not spared Gioberti or Rosmiui), a snare for igno-
rance, that professes to give its corresponding "lucky num-
ber" for every object that can be thought or dreamt of—
even the name "Papa" admitted, and its appropriate divi-
nation in three numbers; and petre, cardinals, cardinalato,
each with its number for gambling on—besides other terms
grossly indecent. More deplorable is it that such supersti-
tion should be supported by any minister of religion ; but
the belief widely prevails, and is to a degree encouraged
by those who should labour to uproot it, that certain of the
mendicant friars have gifts of divination for the lottery.
I was visited once by a friar, an entire stranger, who
mysteriously intimated that, if I were a lottery gambler
he could tell me something worth knowing—for which I
thanked him. Setting out one morning for a walk, in Easter
week, when a pleasantly festal appearance animates these
streets, I observed an immense placard collecting knots of
readers before the walls, and approached, expecting the
advertisement of come volume suitable to the sacred sea, on.
It was a " New Method of Winning at the Lottery," a
cheap edition, with seducing promises in charlatan style.
It is satisfactory to remember that the estimable Cardinal
Morichini, when financial minister under Pius IX., recorm
mended in a ministerial report the suppression of the lot-
tery, but his advice was in vain.—Hernan's Catholic Italy.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1860.

N E W

PARIS, FRIDAY.
The ltloniteur :contains the following telegram
dated Algiers, September 19 :
" The fetes given in honour of their Majesties
were splendid.
" The Empress, suffering from grief on account
of the alarming state of her sister's health, was not
present at the ball.
"Immediately after the banquet their Majesties
will embark, and will proceed at midnight for Mar-
-1 seilles, where they will arrive on Friday about
4 p.m.

TURIN, SEPT. 20.

After the official publication of General Cialdini's
victory the city was en fete, The illuminations
were geneial.
The journal Armonia of Florence has been seized
for having published an article insulting to the
Emperor of the French.

TURIN, THURSDAY.

The official Gazette gives a formal denial to the
reports of certain letters having been received and
answered by the King.
Yesterday the Chasseurs attacked the German
mercenaries at Montefiascone, and pursued them on
the road to Viterbo.
Baron Talleyrand left for Paris yesterday.

CASERTA (via LEGHORN), TUESDAY.
It is expected that Capua will capitulate to-

Garibaldi has appointed Signor Saffi pro-Dictator
of Sicily.
Baron Brenier will quit Naples on Thursday
next.

Mazzini, it is said, has arrived at Naples.
Garibaldi will leave to-morrow for Capua.
A republican demonstration, which was announced
for yesterday, has not taken place.
FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. 20.—The improvement in the
market yesterday has been followed by a further
to-day, with a fair amount of business
doing. Threes, for the account, which opened at
a6dBfvnas;e
c: arenow at 68f 25c; Mobilier, 690 f; Orleans,
1,385 f; Northern, 960 f; Mediteranean, 895 f;
Austrian, 472 f 50c ; and Lombard, 473 f 75c. The
following are the last quotations :-
41 per per Cents ... 95 50 Credit Fonder B9l 25
Do end month.... I Belgian 4f —
3 per Cents 68 251 Piedmontese Fives 7B 75
Do. end month.... 68 15 Roman
Bank Shares — Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 686 25 Spanish Threes 47 50
Do. Account 686 '''2slHome Debt .. 46f

amassed a sum of 80,000,000 ducats, that is to say,
344,000,000 f. ! How could such a sum be amassed
if not taken illegally from the people ? The lottery
is to be gradually suppressed, and altogether abo-
lished on the Ist January next. Perhaps this insti-
tution will be regretted, though it ruined the people
by creating each week in their minds the illusion
never realised of obtaining wealth without labour
—but, whether regretted or not, it is to be sup-
pressed. In the same decree that does away with
the lottery, the Dictator orders that savings' banks
shall be established, and also that the employes of
the lottery shall be transferred to that institution."
The letter also says :

" Francis 11. is still at Gaeta, and, as may be
imagined, seems very unhappy. He is to be seen
wandering about the streets neglected and aban-
doned. Defections from the troops are continuing;
the day before yesterday 150 cavalry soldiers at
Capua went over to Garibaldi. Gaeta is like a city
of the dead. The constitutional functionaries have
been dismissed and the National Guard dissolved ;
and the persons who composed the latter have come
toNaples to escape from the brutalities of the popu-
lation. In a little time this poor town will be
famished ; for whilst at Naples bread has fallen to
5 and salt to 6 sous the kilogramme, provisions are
there at fabulous prices."
Another letter from Naples, 15th, says :
" Among the measures taken by the Dictator,
the abolition of the Jesuits throughout the Nea-
politan States has produced the greatest impres-
sion, owing to the immense number of priests
and monks residing in the capital. The decree,
dated the 11th, declares 'that all the estates, both
personal and real, belonging to that order and its
branches and dependencies, are national property!
But it would appear that Garibaldi had been anti-
cipated by the reverend fathers, who, to be prepared
for such an act of rigour, took the precaution of
depositing in an establishment called the Santo
Spirito Bank (something of the same kind as the
Monte de Pieta, but quite distinct from it) all the
objects of value they possessed, and received cash
in exchange, to the amount of three-fourths of
their value. At the same time all their real estate
was duly transferred to a number of speculators
who thus became, for the sum of several millions,
the real or supposed owners of the property of the
Jesuits. The Dictator's decrees will, therefore,
prove of no effect, unless means can be found to
annul these arrangements."

The same letter has the following curious
narration :

" The 1,500 convicts at Castellamare, taking ad-
vantage of the absence of the military, requested
their liberty for one day. The officials, as you may
well suppose, received this singular application
with all sorts of restrictions ; but having no means
of resisting the somewhat threatening supplications
of the applicants, they hit upon the expedient of
requiring each of them to give his word of honour'
that he would return at night. Wonderful to relate,
the convicts faithfully kept their word and every
one returned, without having done injury to any-
body during their short interval of liberty. A gen-
tleman residing in the neighbourhood, having some
doubts as to the honourable intentions of these
worthies, ordered his gardener to keep the gates
closed and to be on his guard. It is altogether
unnecessary, Sir,' said the man ; the convicts at
Castellamare are murderers, but not thieves.' A
flattering distinction, certainly. The red shirts of
the Garibaldians are quite the rage at Naples, The
young, men, women, and children of the lower
orders have all taken to them ; but the Prefect of
Police has since issued a decree which forbids the
display, and renders to Cmsar that which is Caesar's.
The volunteers who have responded to the Dicta-
tor's call amounted to 12,000 the day before yester-
day. It is scarcely to be expected that the number
will assume any great proportions here. The
masses have no particular taste for a military life,
the grand desire of all being tranquillity. A bat-
talion of Piedmontese bersaglieri and two companies
of artillery hold the forts of the capital."
A single regiment of the garrison of Naples re-
mained faithful to the King. It passed through
the capital with drums beating, and with its arms
and officers, as if the capital was not in Garibaldi's
power. This fact is not the least singular of the
many strange things recently witnessed in that
city.

A letter from Berlin, in the Elbe Veld Gazette,
says :—" It is said here that in the event of the Pope
being obliged to leave the States of the Church, he
will, from among the many residences offered him,
choose that of Wurzburg, in Bavaria. The Prussian
Government has placed the Palace of Bruhl at his
disposition. In no case, it is asserted, will the Pope
consent to go to-France."

Another letter from the same place, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" The representations made at
Turin by the Powers against the occupation of the
Papal States were very urgent ; however, they do
not go so far as to assume the character of a protest,
at least so far as certain Powers are concerned."