The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-05 00:00:00

TEE ARMY.

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Piarracthead in the Clara, from
Calcutta,
will disembark to-day, and take
up quar-
ters .
A muzzle-loading gun, of large dimensions,
weighing about five tons, was yesterday received
in Woolwich Arsenal, from Sir W. Armstrong's
factory, at Elswick, and is ordered for experiments
at Shoeburyness, The weight and proportions of
the projectiles to be used with the gun have not
been decided on, but it is stated as probable that
an elongated shot and shell, to be manufactured in
the Royal Laboratory, weighing about 801 b., will
be employed in the experiments. According to an
obsolete principle revived, and the reverse of the
present rifling' system of Sir W. Armstrong, the
shot and shell are grooved, while the gun itself re-
tains three projecting lines in the bore throughout,
to correspond with the rifled. shot. Much specula-
tion is afloat as to its adaptability, and the experi-
ments are looked forward to with great interest.
The preparations which have been in progress for
several weeks past by the Sappers and Miners of
the Royal Engineers for the destruction of an im-
mense cliff at Caxton, a short distance from Chat-
ham, were completed yesterday, and the explosions
are expected to take place in the course of a few,

operation weighs, in the aggregate, 1,9001 b.; distri-
buted in- charges of from 4001 b. to 5001 b. each. The
Sappersneces-
sary
preparations
have bored twl‘loini
eif:ore:is
the cliff, and these have been carried down to a
considerable depth into the solid chalk. From the
base of the shafts longitudinal galleries have
been driven into the cliff in various directions to
immense shafts heaaanf tusni in-makingu
theltunusually
summittahreg large
blast
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receive the charges of gunpowder to be used in
the undertaking, and, as the several barrels of
gunpowder will all be exploded by means of elec-
tricity, the charges will, of course, be fired simulta-
neously. The whole of the operations will be under
the direction of Major Lovell, C. 13,, R.E., who has
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the commencement. In order to prevent accidents
considerable circuit at the base of the cliff will be
kept clear by sentries. The battery for transmitting
the
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guttal beE npg ei stationednrceheras.
Nearly
upwards of half a mile from the shafts, the spark
being
at present in this country have been invited to be
present on the occasion.
The Government has given directions for the
whole of the diving apparatus in use by the Royal
Engineers at Chatham tobe fitted with Mr. Heinke's
improved eye plates under the personal direction of
that gentleman, who yesterday paid a visit to the
Royal Engineer establishment for that purpose.
^-rtain H. H. Consitt,
or the Hon. Council of
India tor the of East India recruits to

Calcutta, will embaiii her complement of recr•
from the depot at Warley at Gravesend this day,"`
and is under orders to sail to-morrow. The Barham,
1,200 tons, Captain A. Consitt, which has also bei:a
chartered by the Hon. Council of India, will embark
275 of the East India recruits at Gravesend, for
Madras, on the 11th inst.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARRET.I
liemee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Buokatone, Comnton, Chippendale. Rogers, 3lrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss NVeekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, A GAME OF SPECULATIO N. Mr. Affable
Hawk, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Hawk, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
To concindo with THE CHRISTENING.
Caramenoe at 7.
____

ROYAL pRINCE SS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. A. Harrl.
THIS FrirENING, will be performed MACBETH. Mr.
Junes Anderson and Miss Elsworthy.
After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and
Miss Maria Etarris.

tainly vote, and the Republican party, though
what would be held very moderate here,
are honestly opposed to slavery, to its ex-
tension especially ; and to southern denomination,
there has been no limit to the threats of
Southerners as to what they would do, if a Re-
publican candidate were returned—secession, and
breaking up the precious union which enslaves the
north to the south, are common threats. We have
no doubt whatever that the southern bullies would,
if fairly beaten, as they could so easily be by the
Free States (the votes for the PRESIDENT, being
183 Free State votes to 120 Slave State -votes)—
that they would quiet themselves down after the
manner of all bullies, and only console themselves
by " whacking their niggers" a little more bloodily
for a time. But Manchester and Liverpool too,
like their New York agents, quake at the thun-
der of the HALTS and LEGREES. And, of
course, the " kept" organs of Manchester quake
with them.
But a short time ago we described the position of
the several candidates, in regard to the slavery
question, and we need not repeat ourselves. We
have the less need to do so, because a well
informed correspondept of the journal we
have referred to, who honestly remonstrates
with them, has stated the well known truth
with brevity and clearness. Of the demo-
cratic party, patronised by our penny contemporary,
he truly says :—" That party, for more than forty
years, has been pre-eminently the slavery propa-
gandist party—the zealous and subservient tool of
the remorseless and insatiate slave power—from
the time of the first piratical attempt to dismember
Mexico, on the hypocritical pretence of colonising
the Texas, down to the Ostend manifesto, the buc-
caneering invasion of Cuba, and the border ruf-
fianism of Kansas, under the administration of
those twin champions of slave-holding democracy,
PIERCE and BUCHANAN."
Of Mr. DOUGLASS, and Mr. LINCOLN the Repub-
lican candidates, he says —" As between Mr.
DOUGLAS and Mr. LINCOLN, I cannot hesitate to
choose the man whose party platform embraces all
which in your article you deem it desirable to
censure, and does not, like Mr. DOUGLASS ignore
the rights of the black man, whether bond or free.
That Mr.DouGLAss is mainly suported by te votes
of the Southern States, and that the the democracy of
the free states is likely to unite in his favour,
are convincing proofs of his pro-slavery tenden-
cies, and of the subserviency of his admini-
stration (should he be elected) to the designs
of the slaveholders. He en grafts upon
his favourite dogma of " Squatter sovereignty,"
the Dred-Scott decision, which expressly denies
citizenship to the coloured man. He proposes a
I,i federal enactment for punishing conspiracies
He main-
formed
for the securing of liberty in the States.
tains the hypothesis that the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, when it declared all men to have been
created free and equal, referred to the white race
alone, and not to the African—to the British
sub-
jects then upon the continent. To him, also, be-
longs the demerit of having been the author of the
repeal of the Missouri compromise, thereby throw-
ing open the whole of the vast territories of the
Union to slavery propagandists."
Of the Republican party he says :—" You are,
permit me to say, in error in representing the Re-
publican party as making war upon slavery where
it exists, and aiming to transcend the limits of con-
stitutional authority by aggression upon the rights
of the several states. On the contrary, that party
declares ' that the maintenance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration of Independence
and embodied in the Federal Constitution, is
essential to the preservation of our Republican
institutions, and that the Federal Constitution,
the rights of the States, and the union
of the States, must and shall be preserved.' "
And again—" It would undoubtedly be a great gain
to the cause of freedom if, by the triumph of the Re-
publican' party, the Government of the United
States were divorced from the active support of the
inhuman slave system. To pluck the executive
patronage out of the hands of the pliant instruments
of the whip and chain ; to turn the tide of the
national administration against the men-stealers of
America, and in favour of a partial application of
the principles of justice, would be an achievement
of a pure and glorious character, and one to which
I feel confident you would wish success."

Unless the Austrian Government brings the pre-
sent crisis in Hungary to a solution, grave com-
plications are expected. This is the news from Pesth
—the latest news from that city—under date the
4th instant, that is—yesterday ! The inevitable
reflection is—immediately after the perusal of that
simple but emphatic intimation of the telegram
flashed across Europe, and under the waters of
the Channel—ls Austria at this moment in a posi-
tion to adventure upon any such undertaking ?
And the instantaneous answer to that (as we may
call it) spontaneous inquiry—will be quite as in-
evitably we believe, in the vast majority of
instances, in the negative ! The Viennese
Government is scarcely in the position to
attempt seriously and promptly the solu-
tion of a problem that has hitherto
baffled the ingenuity of her most sagacious states-
men. It is true that the long estrangement of
Austria from Prussia, and, in effect, also from
almost every one of the numerous members of the
great Germanic Confederation, has very recently,
and we
may add, too, in the interests of Europe
generally,
most happily terminated. It is true
that the accord now established throughout the
whole of Vaterland is such, is so complete, that for
the first time since the close of the last national
outburst of enthusiasm in Rhineland, the symbol of
German unity, the tricolour of red-black-gold, can
now be displayed with perfect immunity by the more
enthusiastic of the patriot multitude. It is true,
moreover, that a significant evidence of sympathy
with the Austrian _KAISER has within the last
month been given to the world by the Russian CZAR,
through the affectionate terms in which his Majesty
the Emperor ALEXANDRIA 11. gave at a state ban-
quek the toast of his Imperial brother, the Emperor
FRANCIS JOSEPH! A testimony of goodwill not
once manifested until the occasion referred to
since the interposition of the forces of the
Autocrat in Hungary (in favour of the
re-establishment there of the Austrian rule),
since that interposition was responded to from
Vienna with the sinister portent, almost,
we might call it, the flagrant promise, or
even prophecy, of a heinous evidence of ingra-
titude destined to be manifested by the Austrians
towards the Russian Government. Hence, in
fact, while the Autocrat of All the Russias was
but two or three years afterwards assailed by the
armies and fleets of the Allied Powers of Western
Europe, Austria stood wholly aloof from the
conflict and raised not a hand to aid the Mus-
covite defenders of Sebastopol. Russia under her
new Sovereign has magnanimously forgotten all this
—and ALEXANDER 11. appears prepared to sustain,
if requisite, by his powerful alliance the jeopar-
dised sway of the KAISER. Neveftheless—with
Germany thus united, with Russia thus friendly,
with the Courts of Paris and Vienna in a great
• „ measure reconciled (thanks to the mutual conces-

sions made by Vie two Emperors at Villafranca)--
never perhaps has Austria, been in a worse position
for solving the problex of her anomalous rule in

LATE

r~

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

PARIS, SEPT. 4.
The Patric of this oreniug publishes the follow-

Hungary !
Has not her European prestige, snt7ll as it was,
been but just now seriously weakened, if not .113'5".
trously shattered ? The invincibility of that for-
mid.able army of 600,000 troops,reputed to be little
else thou an organized machine of Victory, has been
scattereki to the winds as a delusion. The most
beautiful of all the many noble provinces of the
EMPEROR, has been finally torn from Austria by
the conporing grasp of the reigning French
Sovereign. The comparatively:insignificant power
of Sardinia has. been augmented upon the morrow
of Solferino by the absorption of Lombardy within
the Piedmontese boundaries. Venetia, in its turn,
has been ever since then in imminent peril of
falling into the new Italian system by the sheer
force, so to speak, of the principle of mere political
gravitation. South of the range of the Carpathians,
in truth, the whole of the remaining fragments of
Austrien dominion are endangered. Her defeated
soldiers—from the close of their last calamitous
i campaign—have been virtually, are even new at
this moment, literally at bay within the shelter
of the fortresses of the Quadrilateral. KOSSUTH,
the Leader of the Hungarians, too, can scarcely
appear anywhere in the north of Italy but what
the sympathetic Italians welcome his advent
with significant acclamations. GARIBALDI, in
the south of Italy, all the while advanc-
ing from one triumph to another seizing
Sicily with a handful of followers—taking first
Palermo and then Messina—crossing the straits
into Calabria, and there kindling like wildfire the
latent ardour of the Neapolitan population ! Every-
thing in effect yielding indications that but a brief
interval can now elapse from the time when the
soil of Italy must prove too hot for the foot of the
Austrian; and when, consequently, it must be idle to
dream of her solving thus readily (as is now pro-
posed) the problem of her un-natural rule over the
Hungarians ! .

log telegram :---

"NAPLES, SEPT. 3.

" The annexionist committee assembled this
morning, and received communication of a letter
from Garibaldi, stating that, as the state of the
country requires a definitive solution, he will arrive
at Naples about the Bth inst., and.will, in the name
of Victor Emmanuel, assume the Dictatorship of
the Two Sicilies.
" The committee is making preparations for the
reception of the Dictator. The city will be illumi-
nated for three nights.
"Two Sardinian vessels with troops arrived here
on the morning of the 3d inst."

The Patrie also says :--
"Nothing definitive has yet been decided relative
:o the interview at Warsaw."

NAPLES, SEPT. 1.
The Ministry tendered and then withdrew its

resignation.
The attempt to form a new Cabinet, under the
presidency of Prince d'lschitella, failed.
The chiefs of the National Guards entered the
Royal Palace and demanded from the King the
dismissal of Generals d'lschitella and Catiofiano.
The confusion is increasing in the city. It is said
that, should anarchy ensue, a disembarkation of
Sardinian troops may be expected.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are enter-
taining a large party at Floors Castle, N.B.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived in
town last evening from Folkestone, where they have been
sojourning for the last six weeks, on their way to Kimbol-

ton Castle, Huntingdon.
The Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford
House, St. James's, last evening, from Paris, and will
shortly leave towsrto join the duke and family circle assem -
bled at Dunrobin Castle, R.N.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Mary Cecil have arrived at Homburg, from Burghley
House, Stamford, Northamptonshire. Her ladyship's
sister, Lady Clinton, and Lady Sarah Spencer, are also

staying at Homburg.
The Marquis and Marchioness Dreischor and
family have taken their departure from the Brunswick,

NAPLES (via Genoa), SEPT. 4.

The royal troops are concentrated near Naples.
Placards having been posted up bearing the words
" Long live Victor Emmanuel !" several soldiers
tore them down. The lazzaroni became irritated,
and a conflict with the soldiers ensued.

NAPLES, AUG, 29.

A bill circulated in the city invites the people to
petition the King to leave before the arrival of
Garibaldi. It is supposed that the Count of Syra-
cuse is at the botton of the movement. The object
of it is to spare the shedding of blood and the dis-
turbances which arc expected unless this step be
taken.

The King has bean counselled by Austria to re-
main till the last noment, and there is every ap-
pearance at present of his intention to remain.

TURIN, SEPT. 4.
Signor Farini vent yesterday to Florence, and
will return on Thursday next.
_ _

Jermyn-street, for Holland.
His Excellency the Count de Saligny (French
Ambassador to Mexico) and suite have arrived at the

Signor Fanti will leave to-morrow for the Emilian
provinces and Tustany.
The Count of gyracuso is about to proceed to
Florence to visit Prince Carignan. He will re-
main there ten days.

Brunswick, Jermyn-street.
The Earl of Warwick passed through town yes.
terday on his way to Warwick Castle, where the noble ear:
will entertain a select circle of friends during the race meet•
ing at Warwick.
Lord and Lady Foley have left Worksop Manor,
Notts, on a tour of visits in Scotland.
Lady Milford will leave town to-morrow to visit
the Earl of Wicklow at his lordship's seat in Ireland.
Lord John Manners, M.P., is making a tour of
visits in Scotland.
The Baron and Baroness De Langnau have lef
the Brunswick, on their return to Switzerland.
Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly hare left town on a
tour in Germany.
Garibaldi has decreed the adoption of the decimal
system for the coinage in Sicily. The new pieces bear the
head of his Sardinian Majesty with the legend " Victor
Emmanuel, King of Italy."
SIR JAMES OUTRAM.—Sir James Outram has
returned to England to recruit the health shattered by hard
work in the exhausting climate of India, and we are sure
that the feeling which inspired the valedictory addresses of
the one country will animate the warm welcome of the other.
In the old days of the East India Company there would
have been meetings of directors and meetings of proprietors
to do him honour, and to confer upon him more substantial
rewards, and a public banquet at which the flower of the
Indian service in England would have been invited to meet
him. These things have now become mere traditions. But
such a man as Sir James Outram will not be suffered to re-
turn to the country for which he has done so much without
a hearty, grateful recognition of his many and great services.
This autumnal season of the year, which witnesses the perio-
dical dispersion of the upper ten thousand, may be unpropi-
tious to an immediate demonstration, but Outram has fixed
himself too securely in the affections of the great profession
to which he belongs for this to be the cause of anything
I more than an incidental delay.—. Homeward Mail of yes-
terday.
Two GENTLEMEN DROWNED.—We learn with
deep regret that John Blair, Esq., procurator-fiscal, Irvine,
and another gentleman, whose name we have not learned,
have been drowned in the sea off Irvine. A party of five,
composed of Mr. Blair, a lad a relative of his, and other
three, went out in a boat, intending to sail as far as Troon.
After passing Irvine bar, the boat from some cause cap-
sized, and all were thrown into the sea. Mr. Blair, who was
a good swimmer, endeavoured to save himself and the youne,
lad, but before assistance came to them he had sunk. The
lad was saved, but Mr. Blair and another of the party, we
regret to say, were lost. Mr. Blair was in the prime of
life, unmarried, and greatly respected by a wide circle of
friends.—North British Mail.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London
is 2.5.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per
cent. dearer in Paris than in!Lortdon. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 42d per mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13.4 l per £1 sterling. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is therefore about 3-10ths per
cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 110 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint
par between the two countries, shows that the exchange
is slightly in favour of England ; and, after making allow-
ance for charges of transport and difference of interest,
the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.
TRIAL FOR MURDER IN FRANCE.—A -eery
young man only 18 years of age, named Jacques Debenath,
was a few days ago tried by the Court of Assizes of the
Haut-Rhin, for the murder of his brother Sebastien, seven
years his senior. The two lived with their parents at a
place called Huystein, but tho younger entertained great
animosity to the elder—why was not known—and often
threatened and struck him. For an assault on him he was
last year condemned to a month's imprisonment, and this
increased his hatred. "IV hen I come out of prison," said
he, " I will do something terrible ;" and he afterwards more
than once declared to certain persons,will see I
shall shoot my brother dead I ' In the eveßing of the
16th March they supped together and then went out.
Shortly after the report of a gun was heard, and Sebastien
was found lying on the ground at some distance with a
gunshot wound in the breast ; he died without speaking a
word. As no one but his brother bore him ill-will, and as
no one but he had been with him at the time, there was no
doubt that he was the murderer ; and besides the wadding
of the gun fired, which was picked up, had been made of
paper similar to some he possessed ; the slug which had
hit the deceased was also like some he had had, and lastly
a gun which he had borrowed from a neighbour had dis-
appeared. Being declared guilty, but with extenuating
circumstances, he was condemned to twenty years' hard
labour.
In reference to the lamented death of Decamp,
the painter, several of the journals relate an anecdote
which, although not by any means new, is so appropriate
to the moment that we give it :—" Decamp was very inti-
mate with the Duke of Orleans, eldest son of Louis Philippe,
who, like him, met with his death through a restive horse.
Long before the painter had acquired a European celebrity,
the Duke cultivated his friendship, and used to visit him
in his humble abode on the fifth or sixth storey with all
the familiarity of an old acquaintance. One day, when
his Royal Highness was going up to visit Decamp,
as he passed the porter's lodge, that functionary
inquired whom he was going to see. On finding
that he was going to Decamp's, the man asked him to
have the kindness to carry up a coat which a tailor had
just left for the painter. The visitor consented, and great
was the astonishraent of Decamp, when, on opening the
door, he saw the prince enter with the coat on his arm, and
heard him say, laughing heartily—' There, Decamp, is a
coat which your porter and tailor have sent you! The
painter began to apologise, but the prince stopped him.
'Do not mention it,' said he. ' You have a fine coat there ;
will you do me a pleasure ?" Two, if I can, your Royal
Highness.' ' Well, let it be two. So put on the coat and
come and dine with me.' ''
THE Moons.—CßlEFF.—The weather for several
days last week was very unpropitious for prosecuting sport
on the moors ; Wednesday and Thursday especially rain
fell in torrents, accompanied with high winds on the hills.
The sport, however, when the weather permits, continues
to be good in all directions, and the variable weather has
not in the least affected the grouse, for they appear strong
and healthy, and it requires good marksmen to be success-
ful. His Highness the Islaharajah Dhuleep Singh, Auch-
lyne House, and party, killed upwards of 60 brace of grouse
and 10 brace black cock on Monday last. Mr, Walker and
party, on the few days out, bagged on an average 40 brace
of grouse per day at Lochea,rnhead. On the hill at Glenart-
ney and Lochearnside, Earl Sefton and the Hon. H. Heath-
cote, M.P., killed for sever it days a large
number of grouse.
At Auchnafree, Monzie, Cannachan, and Glenquaich, the
number of grouse bagged, besides other game, has also
been large. The game-boxes and hampers which are sent
oft from the station when the weather is good continue to
ic," e
:Partridge shooting commenced on Saturday,
(1.2; lobs fine in" ;711g1"twhen the slaughter was
and the tlqi—
great and the birds in fine conk. (Molt

The Gazetta di Torino says :—" A despatch, re-
ceived from Naple; this morning, states that the
King of Naples had presided at a Council of
Ministers, at which resistance was resolved upon."

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 3

The sixth article of the first protocol, signed on
the 3d August last at Paris, expressly stipulates
that the six articles composing the protocol shall
be textually embodied in a convention. Neverthe-
less in the project of this convention, as elaborated
at Paris, some phases were introduced foreign to
the protocol of the 3d August, and of a nature to
excite the susceptibility of the Porte. Although the
Convention had, on the representations of Vekif
Effendi, been confined purely and simply to the
above-mentioned articles, there still remains an
allusion to the Hatti-Humayoun of 1856, which the
Divan will not admit. Vekif Effendi will, there-
fore, receive full powers to sign the convention, but
with formal instructions not to make use of them
should the said allusion not be removed from the
original text of the convention.

VIENNA, SEPT. 4

Count Nadasdy, Minister of Justice, who has
already twice tendered his resignation, insists upon
leaving the Cabinet at the close of the extraordi-
nary session of the Reichsrath. His retirement
will bring about, if not a complete change, at least
essential modifications, in the present Ministry.

During his stay here, Prince Metternich has not
ceased to urge the Government to enter frankly
upon liberal reforms, which he stated to be the
only efficacious means to establish the influence of
Austria abroad.

TRIESTE, SEPT. 4

The report which has been circulating, that
France was about to send two war vessels to
Cattaro, is without foundation.
Cattaro is a military port, where foreign war
vessels can only enter for refuge; under other cir-
cumstances they cannot, according to the interna-
tional laws, enter without being reported to the
Cabinet of Vienna. The latter has, up to the pre-
sent time, received no notification of the kind.

VERONA, SEPT. 4.

On account of the rapid progress of Garibaldi's
arms in the kingdom of Naples, four batteries, sent
from Vienna, have been added to the great artillery
depot at this place.
It is asserted that the 7th and Bth Austrian
corps d'arnzee have received orders to join, at the
first summons, the army of Venetia.

PESTH, SEPT. 4

It is certain that although tranquillity continues
to prevail in Hungary, it is less to be attributed
to the measures taken by the Government than to
the perfect unity with which the national move-
ment is organised throughout the country. The
instructions for this course of action have been
given by secret chiefs, and observed by the masses
with an admirable discipline. It is therefore be-
lieved that unless the Government brings the pre-
sent crisis to a solution, grave compilations will
result.

The Nord publishes the following, purporting
to be a note addressed by the Neapolitan Govern-
ment to the foreign Powers, protesting against the
promulgation of the Piedmontese Constitution in
Sicily, and against the oath of fidelity to King
Victor Emmanuel which Garibaldi administered to
the municipal authorities of the island :

" Naples, Aug. 21.

"General Garibaldi, after having invaded Sicily, not
satisfied with having usurped the royal banner of Sardinia,
and clothed all his acts with the name of Victor Emmanuel,
has, by a decree of the 3d inst., put in forco the Sardinian
constitution, and obliged all functionaries and municipali.
ties appointed by the revolution to take an oath of fidelity
to King Victor Emmanuel.

" The Government of his Majesty thinks it its duty to
bring those new acts of usurpation under the cognisance of
all the Powers—acts which tread under foot all the prero-
gatives of royalty, all principles of international law, and
make the destinies of a nation depend upon the arbitrary
caprice of a foreign Power,
" The Government of his Majesty wishing, at the price
of the greatest sacrifices, to avoid the effusion of blood, in
keeping with the promulgation of the Sovereign act of the
25th of June, and with the desire of putting its policy in

THE SUN, LONDON WEI:II'4IESDAV EVENING, SEPT. MBER 5, 1860.

c y harmony with that of Sardinia for the maintenance of
• l peace in Italy, hoped for a solution of the Sicilian question
in its long and persevering negotiations.
" This last hope having been deceived, the Government
of his Majesty, by the organ of the undersigned Minister
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, finds itself inevitably
called upon to denounce those attempts to your Govern-
ment—attempts which are committed under the pressure of
a foreign force in Sicily, and to protest formally against all
acts which tend to disown or weaken the legitimate rights of
the King, his august master, and declares that he does not
recognise, and will not recognise, any of their consequences,
being firmly resolved to maintain the ample liberal institu-
tions promised especially to Sicily, and not to infringe upon
the principle founded upon history and international law,
which unites the two kingdoms of Naples and Sicily under
the Royal house of Bourbon.

" DE MARTINO."