The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

THE ./fEMY.

Lieut.-Col. W. 0. Lennox, R.E., who was ordered
home from India to take: the adjutancy of the Royal
Engineers from Majce Nugent, has arrived at
headquarters, Chatham, but, owing to his promotion
to be Lieut.-Col., he is prevented taking the adju-
tancy, and has been replaced by Capt. Gordon. It is
expected that Capt. Gordon will be ordered to Ports-
mouth to assist ia"the. Royal Engineer duties there.
In our notice in. The Sun of the 7th inst. of
the subscription listS opened at Portsmouth by
the "military authorities" and the inhabitants of
the town, for the relief of the soldiers, their wives
and families, who came home by the unfortunate
ship Eastern Monarch, we ought to have said by
the " military and na'val "authorities," &c. An in-
quiry will be held as to the loss of the ship by order
of the Board of Trade, at the Guildhall, Portsmouth,
to-morrow, at
_lO a.m.

The Ross, Caithness, Sutherland, and Crotnatty
Rifles, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ross,
have been ordered to assemble for trainingat Ding-
wall on the 10th inst. They will probably be
quartered at Fort George during the training.

TILE NO-CONFIDENCE RESOLUTION.

(From the Stagdard.)

Just substitute " want of place" for " want o,
confidence," and you have the whole gist of the new
factious amendment. Mr. Disraeli deniolished it
completely on Tuesday night. There neve: was a
piece of opposition so bald and miserable, so lam
and impotent, as this, carefully-hatched resolution.
It has not even a pretext to go upon. The noble
mover, who really showed some pretensions to a
faculty for special pleading, could do nothing with
his case. It was cruel to make him the mouth-
piece of so much, contradiction and absurdity. The
Government, forsooth, had experienced so many
failures in the last Parliament, that it would be only
wise and constitutional to prevent their succeeding
in this. The dissolution was reckless ; and yet
Lord Derby had recourse to it in order to ascertain
the opinion of the country on his Administration.
Of course it was convenient to forget that the
daring and loose measure was provoked by the
celebrated Whig dodge and by that only. -Then
there was the inability to preserve peace between
France and Sardinia and Austria, while it was
admitted that the documents which alone could
decide this question were not before the house, and
generally stated, that not even the noble lord him-
self or the great continental peacemaker, the mem-
ber for Tiverton, could prevent the belligerents
from quarrelling if they had predetermined to
quarrel. Not even the combined genius of a Pal-
merston, a Russell, an Aberdeen, and a Clarendon,
backed by the House of Commons, could
save the country from war with Russia. If a vote
of want of confidence is to be the fate of the
Ministers of the Crown, who, unable to persuade
antagonistic states to settle their differences by
peaceful negotiation, stand aloof from the conflict
in dignified defence and preparation, what penalty
should be inflicted on that Cabinet of diplomatists
who allowed the country to glide imperceptibly
into a war which pi-educed no good result, but cost
England her prestige, her best blood, and one
hundred millions of money ? It was a woful slip
of judgment, that of founding a vote of want of
confidence on the foreign policy of the present
Ministers. As yet they have saved us from war,
and they have put the country in the best position
to assure its peace. But do these manufacturers of
parliamentary flimsy believe that Englishmen so
soon forget who brought about peace and harmony
with France, when that country, her Emperor, and
colonels, had succeeded in frightening Lord Pal-
merston into the infamous Conspiracy Bill ? Is
this proverbially grateful and generous nation quite
oblivious of the Minister who released Parke and
Watt from the Neapolitan dungeons, where the
Whigs had allowed them to languish for nearly six
months, and who effected this with an adequate
honourable ettig union a rVil g inc tree
and complicated controversy. Have they ceased
to think of the suppression of the great Indian
revolt ? of the adjustment of the petty diffe-
rences with America ? and of those much-
lauded treaties of peace and amity with China
and Japan, which at all events were made under
the auspices and direction of the present Govern-
ment ? Do they no longer bear in mind the mission
of Lord Cowley, and what kind of interference
rendered it, though virtually successful, ultimately
of no avail in staving off war? Have they no
recollection of the improved passport regulations
and the remodelling of our consular system P In
one word, have they ignored the policy of concilia-
tion with honour—the special stamp and character
of Earl Malmesbury's administration of our foreign
affairs ? Let the Whig-Radical faction be assured
that the country has not passed over one jot of all
this good service in the cause of order and peace,
but that it is registered in their memory as the
distinguishing feature of the Derby Government.
It was then most mal-apropos in the grumblers
to touch at all on the foreign administration of the
Conservative Cabinet. But the time has not yet
arrived for the full and clear vindication of our re-
cent negociations for peace. Before Parliament can
discuss them the documents must be on the table of
the house. When this necessary preliminary ground
betaken, if there be gratitude amongst Englishmen,
and a sense of dignity and justice in the House of
Commons—not, indeed, a factious vote of want of con-
fidence,but a special declaration of thanks and satis-
faction, will mark this comprehensive and accurate
knowledge and consideration of affairs, in themselves
most trying and complicated, but rendered almost
enigmatrCal by the strange conduct of the leading
continental powers concerned. No wonder the
Cabal should be in a hurry, and thrust in their
amendment before they could obtain an iota of
regular and formal information. Every Old Bailey
lawyer knows the value of keeping back the prin-
cipal witnesses till the trial is over. It cannot be
said that the Marquis of Hartington, however
young and inexperienced, is at all behindhand in
one of the chief requisites of a criminal advocate.
But what of all this ? Granted that the new
Parliament should not be made answerable for the
failures of the old one ; granted that the dissolution
was necessary ; granted, too, that we have not the
evidence essential to found a just opinion on recent
foreign negotiations, but that the country cordially
approves of the former acts of Lord Malmesbury:
suppose all this, and much more than this, inevi-
tably conceded, is there not that awkward Reform
Bill ? " There, indeed, is the rub." How can a
Conservative Government deal with it ? Is it not
Ruisell ? Of course, we are to forget all about
the
ecoonnssttiittnuttiioonnaall
idheoab_by oandf tohnaet
onsltya_tesroarnd
jwotht
"finality,"
tpr
bs
el es
sine die—these are all to be buried in that Lethe
aoesftopromn,e
pooh-poohed ment of reforin
bills impracticable
promises
where Whig lords renew themselves, every lustrum ,
and the root and stem of the Opposition, are to
attempts
spring from the only Reform Bill, s
roposed or last
the last
practicable, which has been p
30 years, and which would have added 500,000
voters to the election list, very many
hap. cable an
of these being
the Whig-despised working cclassees. But we have
r ve Govern-
ment do not arrogate to themselvesns the total mono-
poly of a Reform Bill . , they think that the Parlia-
ment of the United kingdom,
in that committee of
the whole house ought in
its full and true collective
wisdom to decidet his great constitutional o
question.
only told half the tale. The vati
Mr. Disraeli again repeats to a new
House of Com-
mons
this comprehensive and national view of re-
form. The Speech from the Throne suggests such
carried
a unanimous course. The measure which it would
be impossible, in the present crisis, and with Sc)
much to be provided for and against, to consider
maturely and for a permanent and stable purpose
within the current sultry months, is to be left to
the deliberations of next session. If the hot Re-
formers of 1859, who have moistened through a
thirty i
rg
yesesin propose a
into combustion, can in their
opose a sensible and sound plan to be
eagerness
in the present short session, there is no let
or
hindrance to their doing so. Government, we
believe, will interpose no objection. The obstruc-
tion will come from within. There can be no doubt
that when the Government joint is laid on the table
of the house, cut into it as they will, the Opposition
will find substantial slices for every class of the
community, not even forgetting the fastidious
appetite of a Cavendish.
As to Sir James Graham, he ought at once to
profess himself a monk, he bears whipping so well
and looks so sleek under the castigation. The cat
of the First Lord and War Secretary were strokes
of gossamer to the lashes of Disraeli. The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer was merciless. In the
extreme of cruelty he would place a young head on
old shoulders. But gloss and
furbish it as we will,
England revolts at calumny. The wholesale bribery

slander stinks in his nostrils, and Sir James Grahal:,
will never recover from the blow his character ha,
sustained, as a statesman and a gentleman, by his
malevolent and unfounded charges against the pre-
sent Government. Mr. Disraeli relieved the dulness
and inanity of the amendment by a stroke at the
meeting at Willis's. It was almost a mercy to give
point to so stolid and tame an affair. Almack's, in
future, will not be famous for old dowagers and
young beauties, for waltz, mazurka, and quadrille,
and the strict exclusiveness of the set, but as the
meeting-house and omnium gatherum of the new
political Quakers, who, guided by the spirit of John
Bright, entered into a conspiracy to shake the
confidence of the House of Commons and the coun-
try in the best working Administration of the nine-
teenth century.

THE ALLIED CAMP.

We (Times) have been favoured with the follow•
ing letter : . _ _

NOVARA, JUNE 3, 11 A.M.
Yesterday in the afternoon the French Division
Camou passed the Ticino without finding a trace of

the Austrians, and yesterday forenoon the Sardi •
nians entered Robbio, on the read to Mortara,
without firing a shot or seeing the Austrians. The
day before yesterday a reconnaissance was pushed
from Vinzaglio towards Confienza by a couple of
Piedmoutese battalions, and from the information
gathered there it was supposed that the Austrians
were holding Robbio in strength, On this, in order
to come up in line with the rest of the army, which
that day occupied Novara, it was determined to
drive the _Austrians out of Robbio. Two columns
departed in consequenciceite from Palestro, and
the other from Vinzaglio, to co-operate in the tak-
ing of Robbio, where the roads coming. from both
places unite. His Majesty the King was, as usual,
with his troops, which had scarcely advanced half
the distance to the place of their destination, when
they met the chiefs of the township of Robbio, who

came to bring the news that the Austrians had
evacuated the place the night before.
" The Austrian plan of operations, which puzzled
a great many heads from the beginning, becomes
thus, as you see, every day more an enigma. We
have as yet no news whether the columns which
was to-day to advance in the direction of Mortara
has reached that place, nor, if so, what it has found
there ; but it is scarcely conceivable that the Aus-
trians can have an intention of accepting battle
at Mortara, as they abandoned Robbio, which be-
longs to the position. Possibly they may have
confined themselves to the line of the Agogna river,
which runs about two miles in front of Mortara.
But even then, unless they have thrown up colossal
works, or have come to an unknown means of pre-
venting their being turned on their left from
Novara, it is difficult to see how they can hold this
position. The general impression, therefore, is that
Mortara will be found abandoned just the same as
Novara.

" There must have been something which they
heard the day before yesterday, and which induced
them to retreat on the whole line precipitately, for
it is to that date that one can trace a change of plan.
As they have thrown up earthworks on their whole
line of operations from the Sesia towards Pavia,
not only on the high road. but even on the large
communal roads, especially at the passages of the
numerous little channels oe irrigation with which the
country abounds, they cannot have had the intention
of abandoning the line without firing a shot. Their
resistance at Palestro and Vinzaglio, and their
attack of the former the next day, showed, on the
contrary, that they were ready to dispute the
ground foot by foot with the Allies, and now all at
once they seem vanishing into the earth before
them.

"The whole progress of the latter, with the excep-
tion of the two days at Palestro, has been a mere
promenade militaire, strewed with flowers, for where-
ever they pass, not only in towns, but likewise in
villages, •the women throw flowers from the win-
dows, and distribute them on the roadside. There

was not even an occasion for a skirmish, for every-
where the Austrians had an advance of some hours,
and, strange, in the history of warfare, the soldiers
had only one sorrow—namely, that they could not
come up with the Austrians. The warlike spirit
thorougly raised; all they wish for is a fight. It is
quite amusing to hear the complaints on this score.
" The real solution of the enigma will probably
be found to be that the Austrians have been stra-
tegically outwitted by their adversaries, and while
they concentrated their forces to dispute the pas-
sage of the Po, they found themselves all at once
attacked on another side, and they could not bring
up their forces in time to accept battle on the ground
which they had prepared in advance. At any rate,
it is known that large forces were concentrated up
to the last two days at Stradella, on the road to
Piacenza. They had all the advantages of a central
position, with the allies, who had to bring up their
forces and materiel, placed in a semicircle before

. _
them ; they had most of the important passages
both on the Sesia and on the Po in their hands ;

they had, therefore, strategically the superiority ;
yet less than a week, with only two little engage-
ments, was sufficient not only to re-establish the
equilibrium, but to change the res pective positions
altogether, 'Of course it is within the range of
possibility that a battle should change to-morrow
this state of things ; but one cannot help in the
meantime admiring the genius which conceived and
the energy which executed this grand plan, by
which the Austrians were forced to retreat beyond
the Ticino without a battle. Only when the details
of the movement are known will it be pos-
sible to appreciate it in all its grandeur. The way
in which the masses of troops were thrown from
one paint to another was really astonishing, and
one must always keep in mind that there are no
requisitions of any kind, that everything has to be
provided beforehand, and then, likewise, that this is
a country where one must keep to the great roads
in the movement of armies.
" I need not say what confidence this steady ad-
vance causes in the chiefs ; the soldiers feel that it
is a powerful hand and a clear head which direct
them, and the whole is done with that air of mys-
tery which is so imposing. No one except the Emperor
himself knows what will be done the next moment.
The order comes suddenly and unexpectedly; not
even those around him know anything beforehand,
and everything is done far more quickly than it ever
has been done with other armies, owing to telegraphs
and railways. The clumsy system of field tele-
graphs compared with the electric wire, with which
the country is covered as the Austrians quit it, is
like the vettura of this country to the famous mail
coaches which existed once in England. There is no
danger of difficulties of ground, fogs, and other in-
conveniences; the furthest corps can receive a
message in a minute, and execute the order imme-
diately.
" But it is the railway which has done wonders in
this war, and has not only equalled but surpassed
the expectations formed of its assistance ; and it
must be remembered that the system in Piedmont
is not so extensive as it is in other countries • many
of the branches have only a single line Of rails,any
which occasions delays and dangers. The great
central station in Alessandria, where the branch
lines converge from all points of the compass, is
scarcely equal in extent to a third or fourth rate
English station ; and yet with these imperfect
means the assistance which is rendered can scarcely
be calculated ; indeed, without it the whole warfare,
such as it was, would have been impossible.
" The whole seems almost magic. You arrive at a
town in the evening, and find it full of troops, every
one running about to find room for himself and his
cattle. You have to put up with a mattress in a
corner ; if you want to eat you have to serve your-
self ; you have to run for a spoon if you want it,
or for a glass or plate; and when you awake next
morning you find yourself the sole occupier of your
room, of your hotel, and the town has assumed the
listless, dead appearance of provincial towns all
over the world.
Novara has been for the last two days one of the
great centres, and its narrow streets and respectable
looking houses, usually so silent, are now animated
by a crowd which, mostly attired in uniforms, re-
lieves the monotony of the buildings. The place is
a great resort for the provincial nobility, who in
the district of Novara are unusually numerous, and
its sober, rather morose aspect is quite changed for
the better. A day, or perhaps a few hours, and it
will relapse again into its morgue.
"If it is dangerous to conjecture, it is allowed to
hope, so I hope to write to you next from the left
bank of the Ticino."

THE ENTRY INTO MILAN.
It was expected that the King of Sardinia,
accompanied by the Emperor, would make his
triumphal entry into Milan, but another account
says that the entry is postponed. The Austrians
amounted, it is affirmed, to 150,000, and the French
to about as many, at Magenta. The Emperor, it
appears, was in the midst of the Imperial Guard
during the stand they made for two hours against
the Austrians, who, it appears, were aware of the
fact. The French artillerymen behaved with great

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nasse was cut in two by a cannon shot ; lethed S
version is that his head was taken oft by a cannon
ball. However unpopular he may have been in his
life, it must be admitted that he dird as a brave
soldier. By the confession of all, the great
glory of the day is due to M'Malion.
It appears he had no orders to proceed to Ma-
genta; he was led thither by the instinet 'of genius.
•d the roar of battle, he rushed on,
:nu bayed the army. M'Mahon is spoken of
in all circles with the greatest admiration; he was,
(
as I have already reminded you, the only member
of the Senate who raised his voice against the
famous Public Safety Law of the 27th of February,
which General Espinasse afterwards executed so
severely. He covered himself with glory on the
bloody field of Magenta. His honours are well
earned ; may he long wear them ! General Reg-
nault de St. Jean d'Angeley who, as well as Can-
robert and General Vinoy, greatly distinguished
himself, has received a Field Marshal's baton.

THE TUSCAN ARMY.

A letter from Florence, dated June 4, says :
We have a new Minister at the head of the War
Department, Major Niccolini, who retires to Make
room for General Decavero, a Piedmontese officer.
No one can say whether the appointment of a new
Minister, however able, may bring a remedy to the
immense amount of mischief five weeks of misrule
have brought into the Tuscan army. On the 27th
of April the army and the people, with one mind,
declared for the national war, and shook off the
only hindrance which stood in their way towards
their only object. Since then the army has been
demoralised to an extent which renders it
doubtful whether it will ever be brought into the
field, and the people's attention has been diverted
from the great national aim, and engrossed with
petty and paltry local municipal interests. The
means of corruption in the army have been inordi-
nate and inconsiderate promotion of officers, and
inaction, indulgence, and slackening of all discipline
to the soldiers. Matters had come to such a pass,
that the drummers who were gling in the evening
to roll the rappel had theiaelves anal" theirinstru-

meats conveyed to the Place in.flacres or fly s. All
this is now almost entirely at an end. Since the
arrival of the French fewer Tuscan soldiers are to
be seen idling about the town; many of them have
been -sent to the Filigare and other advanced posts
on the hills, but no care is taken that they should
be properly drilled and kept constantly at work.
Such as they are, the Tuscan troops are said to
amount to 15,000 men.

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