The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-29 00:00:00

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

(From the London Gazette of last Evening.)
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 26, 1859.
The Queen* has been graciously pleased to confirm the
grant of the Decoration of the Victoria Cross to the under-
mentioned Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, Farrier, and
Private of her Majesty's Bth Hussars, which decoration has
been provisionally conferred upon them by Major-General
Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.8., Commanding the Central
India Field Force, in accordance with the rules laid down
in her Majesty's Warrant instituting the same, on account
of an Act of Brnvery performed by them in India, as re-
corded against their several names, viz.:--
Captain (now Brevet-Major) Clement Walli,earuldlpenneagvateey
Sergeant Joseph Ward, Farrier George Hollis,
John Pearson, Bth Hussars—Selectedfoolrthe Victoria
Cross by their companions in the gallant charge mad© by a
rilouotr:de
squadron of the Regiment at Gwalior,on the 17th of June,
ill Artillery,lBsBwhenan, sautpeorrlfeda
jebsyty,aodi,viushiloirti of
.thieSt otmhbeayy
Brigadier Smith's
the enemy, who were advancintleaglii.le.
neEzecnagam, p into two
position, charged through
batteries, capturing and bringing into their camp
under a heavy and
thgemsi'ort and Town.--(Field
two of the eneiny's
converging fire from
Hose, G.C.8., Commanding Central India` Field Force,
dated Camp, Gwalior, 28th June, 18(58.)

NEWS PA.P E
tA,
DEN, Jan. 8, ere is little of interest •'«-
unicate fro•
is quarter. Mr. H. Gisborne of
the Red Se 'elegraph Company, arrived liereNL S
about three weeks ago, and still awaits the return: -
of the Cyclops from the Red -Sea. The Cyclops left
Jeddah on the 2d ult.. proposing to visit Suakin,
Massouah, and -Ktimaran, on her way to Aden, and
Captain Pullen expected to 'be here towards the
middle of last month. It is supposed he has run
short of. coals, and, should he be obliged to sail
down, he may be a month making the passage dur-
ing this season of the year. - The Roebuck took 14
days lately to make Aden from Jeddah, and. the
small French•Egyptain steamer Yemen was nearly
three months accomplishing the same distance. it
is to be hoped that the supporters of M. Lesseps'
canal scheme have taken such items as these into
serious consideration. For four months in the year,
at least, it requires powerful steamers to make the
passage from Suez to Aden ; and for five months
—l.e , during the prevalence of the southwest mon-
soon—the Peninsular and Oriental steamers from
Calcutta and Bombay take nearly double the
ordinary time from those ports to Aden. The
Yemen has just left for Hodeida, where it is said a
British ship, in ballast from Suez, has lately been
wrecked. The news of this disaster came over-
land, and, as far as I can make out, the name of the
vessel is the Island Prince.
When Captain Pullen arrives he is to survey the
south-east coast of Arabia, and, in conjunction with
Mr. Gisborne, fix the telegraphic stations along
' that line. The points proposed are Maeuilah, the
Kooria Mooria Islands, and Ras el Had, from which
latter place the cable is to be taken direct to
Kurrachee. There will beno difficulty at Macullah,
since the Nakeeb there is most friendly towards the
British, and maintains-a regular Government. But
when once the guano is removed from the Kooria
Mooria islands, a station there would not be safe
for a day from the lawless Arabs of the
mainland, unless adequately profected, and the
same may be said of Ras el Had. Indeed, unless the
cable can be taken directfrom Macullah toßombav
or Kurrachee, any stations on this coast must be
under the constant protection of Government. Such
is my firm conviction, but we shall see what Capt.
Pullers reports after he has surveyed the line.
The Arabs in this neighbourhood are on their
-4 ;-I.?rionr at uresent—the result, no doubt, of
the little ehastiseinent -which they received at our
hands last year. The station is remarkably healthy,
not more than four in hospitarout of a force of 300
Europeans—viz., two companies of her Majesty's
57th, and one company of Royal Artillery. A
more orderly set of men could not be found any-
where. There is scarcely any drunkennesS among
them, they are on the best terms with the people of
the town, and go about their duties and pastimes
with a hearty good-will. The same may be said of
her Majesty's 29th Native Infantry, also stationed
here. In fact,' a most healthy tone,pervades the
entire garrison.
The Nubia is still here, disabled, waiting for a
new shaft from Calcutta. The ships of her Ma-
jesty's Indian navy in harbour are the Lady Can-
ning steam sloop and the schooner Constance.

FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.

(From the Pines.)

We have felt it our duty from time to time to protest to
the utmost of our power against the attitude which Franca
has, since the beginning of the year, seen fit to assume with
reference to Italy. We have pointed out how futile- were
the pretexts on which she thought fit to throw all Europe
into confusion, to arrest the course of industry, and to
threaten us, it may be only too truly, with the calamities of
a causeless and bloody war. We have shown that, at least
so far as France is concerned, there is no just cause of of-
fence against Austria. If Austria has occupied and forti-
fied the Roman Legations, France has occupied Rome
itself ; the difference between the two cases being, that the
Austrian occupation is understood to be with, and the
French without, the consent of the Pontifical Government.
We have further urged that if Lombardy be discontented
with the Austrian Government, no Government which
France, Sardinia, or any number of European Powers, could
establish would give content, and that the rights which
Austria possesses she exercises under a treaty from which
we have no power to dispense ourselves. We shall not,
therefore, be suspected of any ill-feeling to Austria if we
suggest that she on her side also has duties to perform, if
she would avert from Europe and from herself the dread-
ful visitation of a war the end of which no man can foresee.
Whatever be the abstract rights of Austria, the present
attitude of France is one that must give her serious and
well-grounded uneasiness. Austria has accumulated in
Italy a noble army, excellently equipped, and she has,
after her ordinary practice, strengthened her position,
naturally defended by a succession of rivers, and
resting on the mountain fortress of the Tyrol, by all the
resources of defensive art. Still, though prepared
to resist aggression, Austria cannot possibly desire
war. Her finances by no means in a condition to bear a
large drain, her Eastern provinces not yet fairly cemented
into the compact fabric which it has been the policy of the
present Emperor to construct, and her relations with Russia
always doubtful and dangerous ever since her accession to
the alliance of France and England, all counsel to modera-
tion and peace. It is not merely from th© open or the
secret acts of France that she has to dread hostilities..
France has placed herself in a position in which she is not
altogether mistress of her own conduct. She has gone so
far in supporting the cause of Piedmont against Austria
that she has placed it in the power of that small State to
drag her into hostilities whenever she pleases. Let a revolt
arise in one of the Duchies or Legations now occupied by
Austrian troops; should Piedmont seize upon the occasion
to intervene on the other side, she can by a single precipi-
tate escapade render it impossible for France, with any
respect for her honour or consistency, to avoid a declara-
tion of war against Austria. Austria has advanced her
forces to the left bank of the Ticino, the Sardinian army
confronts her on the right, every day is full of danger, and
the first shot that is fired may find a dreadful echo in a
hundred battle-fields as yet innocent of human blood. If
this be the present state of affairs, Austria is bound to do
all that is possible to avoid the risk of war, and if then
she be compelled to fight, she may conciliate to herself the
sympathy of Europe. It is one thing to be acting in strict
accordance with treaties and the rights they secure; it is
another thing to be acting so as to deserve and obtain the
g,.od will of the enlightened nations of Europe. A sense
of the arbitrary and dictatorial conduct of France has raised
up for Austria many friends, but she requires in the
threatened contest to rely on more positive grounds of
sympathy.
Now, there is one part of the conduct of Austria
which it is impossible to regard without serious disapproba-
tion. It is perfectly notorious that the Emperor of the
French feels a sincere anxiety for some improvement in
till) government of the Papal States—an anxiety which
during the last year has been much quickened by the appre-
hension of a second attempt similar to the desperate enter-
prise of Orsini. The Emperor of the French has been
caught in his own trap; he occupies Rome, but his occu-
pation gives him no power or control over the Government,
because the Pope is in uo degree moved by.the threat
of
abandonin., him to the mercies of his justly incensed
sub-
jects, well knowing that if the French should
enter
dwtiethr
it e
withdraw
from one side of his capital the Austrians wouldn
theh
another. Thus the Emperor of the Frennc,hi,
painful position of being responsible for
t., o•isovpelacedrnmeinnt
prevent. cannot say
injustice which he is unable _
cannot control, and appearing to suppor
Weby armed force
it is not unnatural that Austria should enjoy
that this is an unjust retribution for the original seizure of
Rome, and
the embarrassment arising from a step taken avowedly for
the purpose of countermining her influence. The entertain-
ment, however, is a dangerous one. France is in a position
in Rome which she can neither maintain with honour nor
with safety, unless assisted by the good offices
of Austria. fromtri. It is Austria alone which stands between the
Roman people and the improvement-of their government.
If she joined France in her remonstrances, they must be
immediately attended to, for the Pope well knows that,
unless supported by some external power his reign would
be of very short duration. Why should Austria seek to
perpetuate misgovernment in the Papal dominions P Why
should she throw her shield over a state of things notori-
ously full of the most intolerable corruption and oppression ?
What has she to gain by the misery and discontent which
prevail throughout every part of the States of the Church 1)
Non-Italian Powers who seek for their own selfish ps roses
to obtain a footing in the Peninsula may not unreasonably
strive to foment and perpetuate the cause of dis-
content ; but Austria, whose policy is simply to preserve
intact the existing order . of things, can have no
reason whatever which should induce her to tamper
with the smouldering elements of insurrection and revolu-

tion. We are now ;,:peaking, of an immediate withdrawal
from the Legations,—a step which, in the present state of
men's minds, would only too probably be accepted as the
signal for an immediate outbreak, but of such influence
exerted over the mind of the Pope and his Ministers as
would lead them at last to undertake the tardy duty of re-
formation.
Pretty nearly the same thing may be said of the affairs of
Naples. Though never particularly inclined to lenity,
Austria undoubtedly lowers her reputation both for mercy
and justice when she lends her support,to that cruel and
degrading tyranny. In the case of Rome Austria is, no
doubt, thinking of her Concordat, and of the expediency oft
securing by still further sacrifices that ecclesiastical suppoy
which she has paid so fearful a price to obtitaitle; but in
of tin
Naples she can have no such object. The s
causeK ingdeofm weaknesso f the l' Ni
ando Si c i lanxiety,ies
t irtaout of tho
of grievances, urged with firmness, would p
st claims and the
and would for ever close the door to Muni
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establishment of a French influence. T
power of the King of Naples further to outrage humanity,
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY.

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40 to 1 agst Underhand (offered)
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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
tiTHIS EVENING, THE HONEYMOON, Juliana, by
Mrs. W. C. Forbes.
After which, a new grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
UNDINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.