The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

CURT ON -NEW EDITION :
A. MEDICAL ESSAY ON NERVOUS AND GENERA-

TIVE DISEASES.
lust Published, the 150th thousand,
in a sealed envelope, price is., Sold by all Booksellers,
sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps,
PRE-
Perfect the CAUSE and CURE of
with numerousplaatensd.
TA_ MATURE DECLINE xvith Plain Directions for
Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By J. L. CuaTIS,
IS. A:bermarle-street, Piccadilly, London.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological
Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs.
CRAFTER IL—Causes of Supermatorrheea and Impotence;
Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect.
Cl IA PTER Review of the various Disqualifications
of Marriage; Whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the
Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection.
Cll APTER, I V.—The Author's plan of Treatment, Medical
and Moral, being the result of a successful practice extending
over a period of 25 years.
CHAPTERS V. and VI, on the modern Treatment of
Gonorrhea and Syphilis.
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legitimate pretensions of my provinces and peoples
with the real wants of the monarchy, and by con-
fidently confiding in the ripe intelligence and the
patriotic zeal of my peoples the fecund development
and the vigour of institutions given or revived by
me. I hope to see them flourish and produce their
beneficial effects under the protection of Almighty
God, in whose hands are the destinies of princes
and peoples, and who will not refuse His blessing
to the profound and conscientious sincerity of my
paternal solicitude. " FRANCIS JOSEPH.
'• Vienna, 20th Oct. 1860." .
Then follows an Imperial diploma for regulating

the internal political organisation of the empire :
" We, Francis Joseph I, by the grace of God,
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and
Bohemia, King of Lombardy and Venetia, of Gal-
Heim, &c., make known :
" After our ancestors, of glorious memory, had
applied themselves, in their prudent solicitude, to
create for our august house a precise form of here:-
ditary succession, the order of succession established
inviolably and for ever by H.M. the Emperor
Charles VI., on the 19th April, 1713, was defini-
tively regulated by the law of the State, of posses-
sion, and of family, known under the name of the
• Pragmatic Sanction,' and was adopted by the
legitimate States of our different kingdoms Lind,
provinces, and is actually in vigour.
" On the legal immovable basis of an order of
determined succession, and of the indivisibility
and inseparability of its integral parts, placed in
accord with the rights and liberties of our said
kingdoms and territories, and which has since then
been aggrandised and fortified by international
treaties, the Austrian monarchy has vanquished
and repressed, with the constant support of the
fidelity, devotedness, and bravery of its peoples,
the dangers and aggressions which menaced it.

" For the sake of our house and our subjects it is
our sovereign duty to maintain the power of the
Austrian monarchy, and to grant, in order to con-
solidate it, the guarantees of rights clearly and un-
equivocally defined, and acting in common accord.
It is only the institutions and rights which respond
equally to the traditional rights and to the existing
diversity of our kingdoms and provinces, and to
the exigencies of their individual and inseparable
union that can offer these guarantees in all their
plenitude.
" Considering that the elements of the common
organic institutions have ten developed and for-
tified by the equality of our subjects in the eye of
the law, by the free exercise of religion guaranteed
to every one, by admissibility to public functions
independently of rank and birth, and by the sub-
jection of all to payment of taxes, by the sup-
pression of forced labour, and of the customs
lines between the different countries of our
monarchy ; considering further, that by the con-
centration of the power of the State in all the
countries of the European continent, the common
direction of great affairs has become an indis-
pensable necessity for the security of our
monarchy and the prosperity of its provinces, in
order to remove the differences previously existing
between our kingdoms and provinces by means of a
properly regulated participation of our subjects in
the legislature and administration on the basis of the
Pragmatic Sanction, and it virture of our autho-
rity, we have thought proper to decide and ordain
what hereafter follows as the fundamental and
1 irrevocable law of the State for ourselves as well as
for our legitimate successors :

" I. The right of giving, changing, and suppres-
sing laws shall not be exercised by ourselves and
our successors, otherwise than with the consent of
the Diets legally assembled, and of the Council of
the Empire, to which the Diets shall send a number
of members to be fixed by us.

" 11. Henceforth shall be discussed in the Council
of the Empire, and decided with its concurrence,
all legislative questions affecting the rights, duties,
and interests which are common to all our king-
doms and countries, viz., the question of thecoinage,
money, and credit, that of customs and commerce;
then the question of the bases of the bank, that of
the post-office, telegraphs, and railways; the ques-
tion of recruiting the army for the future, as well as
the imposition of new taxes and increasing those
now existing, especially that on salt, and the con-
tracting of new loans, in conformity with our decree
of July 17, 1860; the conversion of the public debt,
and the sale, exchange, or mortgaging of the Crown
lands shall henceforth also be effected only with the
consent of the Council of the Empire. Lastly,
the fixing of the budget of the expenditure for the
coming year, the regulating of the accounts and of
the result of the annual expenditure can only be
effected with the co-operation of the Council.
"111. All other legislative questions, not com-
prised in the preceding article, shall be decided by
the Diets, and as to kingdom and provinces ap-
pertaining to the Crown of Hungary, in the sense
of their ancient ceistitations, and for our other
kingdoms and
provinces in the sense of their
peculiar institutions. But as, with the exception
of the provinces of the Hungarian Crown, certain
legislative questions, which are not of the exclusive
competence of the Council of the Empire, have
been treated during many years past for all our
other provinces in a general manner, we reserve to
ourselves to allow these questions also to be treated
by the Council of the Empire, after consulting the
councils of those provinces. A common action may
also take place, when the Diet interested shall ex-
press such desire, except in the case of objects
reserved for the Council of the Empire. •
" IV. This Imperial Patent shall be preserved in
the archives of our kingdoms and provinces, and
hereafter shall be introduced into the Code of the
country, in an authentic text, and in the different
languages of the Empire. Our successors, on their
accession to the throne, shall affix their Imperial
signature to this Patent, and address it to each of
our kingdoms, where it shall be inserted in the
Code of the laws of the country.
" We ourselves have affixed our signature, our
Imperial seal, and we have ordered that this Patent
shall be preserved in the archives of our House, of
the Court, and of the State."
" Given at our capital and residence at Vienna,
this 20th ,day of October, in the year one thousand

MILAN, Oct. 22.—The capital of Lombardy is
quiet, but not easy in mind. The Austrians are at
its gates, and no man in the world—not excepting
evex the young Emperor on whose beck they de-
pend—can safely say when they may march across
the borders. The movements of the Mantuan garri-
son are watched not without interest here. The wea-
ther is getting rather cold in North Italy for mere
pleasure manoeuvres, and people ask what may be
the use of the 8,000 men sent to reinforce that
garrison, raising its numbers to an effective force of
15,000, irrespective of the Culoz Regiment stationed
on the left bank of the Mincio at Villafranca and
Vallegio ; of the Don Miguel Regiment, who have
lately taken up a position on the northern bank of
the Po—a river already thronged with troops on
the left along a line stretching from Borgoforte to
Romanore, San Cataldo,,and Bocca di Ganda, and
on the right all---over those Mantuan districts of
Sermide, Gonzaga, and San Benedetto, placed in
the very heart of the lEmilia, and left in the hands
of the Austrians by a fatal oversight of Napoleon
111.—a fertile source of discord, a risk, and a snare,
endangering the peace of Europe no less than the
freedom of Italy. In the Cispadane districts there
are now from 5,000 to 6,000 men, who expect to be
reinforced by other corps, especially by several
Croatian battalions.
For their own part, the Italian Government are
also concentrating their forces on the frontier. The
entrenched camp at Piacenza is defended by the
13th Division, which has just returned from the
campaign in the Marches, and by six brigades,
among which is the Piedmontese Brigade, together
with two cavalry regiments, two Bersaglieri batta-
lions, and nine field batteries. The detached bat-
talions of the mobilised National Guards quartered
at Alessandria, Pavia, Bologna, &c., were yesterday
asked by an order of the day whether they would
suffer their term of service, which bound them for
40 days, to be prolonged for some time. The inti-
mation was received with a perfect storm of enthu-
siastic devotion everywhere ; even those battalions
which were not comprehended in that contemplated
prolongation eagerly clamoured that they should
not be sent home in this supreme emergency. The
cries of " Viva it Re ! Viva l'ltalia !" resounded in
the barracks, and were taken up by the aroused po-
pulation. No doubt the Austrians, if they advanced
upon any of those Italian strongholds, would meet
with a moral resistance upon which their generals,
relying merely on material strength, are not wonted
to calculate.

Nevertheless, the anxiety is great, although not
openly avowed, and the only hopes of the Lombards
and lEmilians rest on the delays occasioned at
Vienna by the desire to know the results of the
Warsaw Conference, and to see the effects of the
constitution, promulgated yesterday at noon by the
Austrian Government, on the population of the
Danubian Provinces. If the time lost by Austria
in coming to terms with her subjects and her neigh-
bours allows the Italians to accomplish their South-
ern enterprise, and reunite their regular forces on
the Po and Mincio, before the contest begins, it
would be a disgrace if united Italy were not able to
engage in such a struggle without looking either to
France or to any foreign Power for aid. Count
Cavour wisely intimated to the House of Deputies
that the country was not yet organised to such an
extent as to warrant an attack upon Austria ; but
he never said, and he surely never meant, that the
kingdom already united under Victor Emmanuel
was not strong enough to fight in self-defence ; and
that Bologna, Piacenza, and Alessandria could not,
by the combined efforts of soldiers and citizens, be
held against all .odds that not only Austria, but
Germany and Russia also, could conspire to bring
against them. A free people can never be made to
have too great confidence in the justice of their own
cause, and the means which duty and devotion place
in their hands to uphold it. It was by a most bene-
ficent stroke of Providence, the Italians begin now
to feel, that the tide of Frencti conquest stopped
last year at the Mincio, leaving by far the greater
part of the enterprise to be achieved by the people
themselves of the country, and holding over them
the constant threat of a return of that hateful state
of things from which the programme of Milan
seemed to have freed them for ever. It required no
less to hush up all the worst passions, and to keep
the best faculties of this people on the stretch. It
is well that the Milanese should be quiet ; it is as
well that they should not be too easy in mind.
In the meanwhile, we have tidings from the
South of the first victories of the Piedmontese
army ; of the triumph of Cialdini at Isernia (the
gallant and luckly general is sure always to turn
up at the right moment) ; of a Neapolitan general,
Scotti, with 50 officers, 800 men, a stand of colours,
and a section of a park of artillery fallen into his
kands. Before Capua, on the 19th, the eight
battalions of the King's Brigade took their station
in the front line of the Garibaldian forces. The
volunteers under General Turr were greatly worn
out by the hardships and privations to which they
had been exposed during their campaign on the
Volturno. Their numbers had dwindled not only
on account of the casualties of their frequent en-
counters with the enemy, but also in consequence
of fevers and other complaints, by which it is said
that no less than 30 men are daily sent to the hos-
pitals. The ambulance and commissariat under
Garibaldi are still in that deplorable state of dis-
order inseparable, as it would seem, from the nature
of a volunteer service. Some of the advanced posts
at San Tammaro and Aversa stood in the presence
of the enemy without receiving any sort of provi-
sions for more than 48 hours ; and, what is more,
their wounded could be neither tended nor removed
for an equally long space of time. The Garibaldian
army has no tents, and it is only partially and in-
differently supplied with blankets. The red flannel
shirt is found to be, however showy, rather an un-
eomfortable uniform, and it is with great joy that
these troops lately heard the announcement that
they would shortly be clad in the gray overcoat and
trousers of the Piedmontese ordonnance. If shoes
and linen were also forthcoming, no doubt that
would add to the health and efficiency of the gal-
lant men who have hitherto gone through greater
trials than mere flesh and blood are equal to.
If Cialdini's Piedmontese, as may be easily pre-
sumed, in a few days achieve Garibaldi's work at
Capua and Gaeta, aad if the news we already re-
ceive of the results of the plebiscite at Naples are
confirmed by subsequent bulletins, all Italy will
have leisure to gather herself up, and muster on the
Po and Mincio to see what mischief renovated and
constitutional Austria has yet in store for her. As
it is, King Victor Emmanuel and Francis Joseph
are running a neck-and-neck race; the world is yet
to see whether the former will be able to accomplish
the conquest of the south of Italy before the latter
attempts to dispute with him the possession of the
North.

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