The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-18 00:00:00

THE SCA, LONnoN, WEDNESL)AY EVENING, JULY 18, 1866,

seen nothing to equal the fanaticism which has been
exhibited respecting this Jamaica business, and we
shall not be sorry to see the perverse upholders of
prejudice exposed as they ought to be, for they are
sacrificing sense to the furtherance of their schemes,
and, making a mockery of the name of justice.

It will really be a relief to all parties when the
German war is over, for it has been on the side of
the Austrians and their allies one of the most ill-
managed and ill-conducted affairs ever witnessed.
Not in one instance, but throughout the events of
the struggle, we may fairly say that they have done
their best to lose, and have succeeded beyond all
expectation. Far too much was done before the
actual strife commenced, and far too little was
done after it began. No one in England can
comprehend why Austria should have risked
all her hopes and drained her very existence
when she could not in reality have felt at
all secure of victory. There is everything to ad-
mire in the dauntless courage and stedfast resist-
ance which some nations have exhibited when forced
to engage in war at a great disadvantage, but it
may truly be affirmed of the Austrian Government
that they provoked the contest, whose issue has
been so disastrous to them, and whose results are
likely to cost them so dear. It would have been
better to have given up the Duchies at
once to Prussia, instead of persisting in
refusals and reprisals, which, after all,
amounted to sham without substance.
As for the Federal army, it seems that it might as
well have remained inactive for any good that it has
done ; one defeat after another has allowed the
Prussians to enter Frankfort. The last accounts
from Berlin state that the negotiations for a three
days' truce between the Austrians and Prussians
have failed, and that the Prussians are advancing
upon Vienna. Indeed all their forces seem to be
about to be concentrated in that direction. The
Austrians have evacuated Moravia without making
any resistance, and the Prussians seem to be suc-
ceeding everywhere in an extraordinary manner.
It must have exercised a most depressing influ-
ence on the Federal forces to find so large a share
of territory occupied by the Prussians, and as for
the Austrians, whatever hopes they started with
seem to have disappeared at the rapid successes
their enemies met with at the outset of the struggle.
We hardly see what end Austria has in view in this
resumption of hostilities. Surely better terms could
have been made before Vienna was in the
possession of the enemy, and it would have been
more profitable if some of the energy so manifest
in the later manifestoes of the EMPEROR had been
visible at an earlier period of the war.

It is still doubtful what course France will pur-
sue in this strange affair, but conjecture will be
rife again now that Prince NAPOLEON has left Paris
for the head-quarters of King VICTOR EMMANUEL.
He is intrusted with a " special mission." What
its nature may be cannot be ascertained just
yet, but the fact goes far to prove that
the Emperor NAPOLEON is by no means
so indifferent a spectator of the contest
as some suppose. His interference may come too
late to save Austria from the effects of this ill-starred
campaign, but it will not be too late to check
Prussia in her course of spoliation, and her insane
desire to pursue territorial aggrandisement to the
negject of all better considerations and higher in-
terests. The end is not yet come to the German
civil war any mom than the Convention at Gastein
was the conclusion of the Dano-German hostilities.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORP.ESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.

The Moniteur, in its strategical analysis of the
position of affairs in Germany, says :—" The com-
munications, as well by telegraph as by rail, are
interrupted on several points of Bavaria. Thus the
news relative to the march of the Prussian armies
in the interior of Austria only reaches us after con-
siderable delay, which increases as the Prussians
are further removed from the scene of action. We
hear, however, that since Friday King William has
been at the head-quarters of the army at Brunn,
the chief town of Moravia. The corps coming
from Iglau occupied Zuaim, that is to say, that the
valleys converging from the Iglawa and the Thaya
are in the hands of the Prussians. To judge by
the rapidity with which they have always effected
their movements, they must have proceeded further,
perhaps after passing Brunn and Znaim they were
able to effect their junction in the region of Nichols-
bourg. This operation, which appears to form part
of the Prussian plan of campaign, is analogous to
the one which they effected in Bohemia.

,4 The invasion of Moravia proceeds upon a similar
plan, which seems to indicate that the two Armies
which traverse that province intend to effect a junc-
tion before reaching Vienna. The Austrians appear
to have formed at Florisdorf a camp, where the
army is placed, which is destined, if possible, to de-
fend the approaches of Vienna, by being in advance
of the enemy. The capital is not considered as a
strategic point, and the Government of the Emperor
Joseph wishes to save it from the horrors of a
struggle. Nevertheless, there is still a considerable
force at Olmutz. It is to be remarked in this cam-
paign, and the more so as they advance, that the
Prussians proceed with extraordinary audacity. If
they should be victorious to the end, their fortune
will prove that they were right, but, in the hypo-
thesis of a defeat, their position would be seriously
compromised. If they should think of a retreat, the
Austrian Army at Olmutz, taking them in flank,
would cause them extreme embarrassment. In Bo-
hemia the garrisons of Koniggratz, Josephstad t, and
Therescenstadt, which they have neglected, might
also intercept their retrograde march. The Prus-
sians follow the inspirations of the new military
school created by Napoleon the First, which consists
in massing with overwhelming rapidity large num-
bers of troops upon a given point. The telegraph
states that the engagement which has taken place
at Aschaffenbourg was a very serious one. It will
give the Prussians the power of marching without
obstacle upon Frankfort, and we may expect to hear
of their speedy occupation of that city. In Italy
Cialdini occupies the plains of Venetia."

The Ost Deutsche Post announces that a great
council of war was held on Sunday at Vienna.
Count de Mensdorff gave an account of the condi-
tion of the Army of the North, and Archduke Albert
and Field Marshal John described that of the South,
and explained what time it would take to come to
Vienna. Great secresy is observed as to what was
said and done at the Council, but it is said three
alternatives present themselves. A decisive battle
with the united armies of the North and South ;
an energetic defence of the line of the Danube—or
the acceptance of the conditions proposed by Prus-
sia. The Presse of Vienna says that the proposals
of France have not been accepted by any of the
belligerent Powers.

The cholera at Amiens is very nearly extinct.
The last bulletin gives the number of deaths iu the
day as 12, the lowest number since the outbreak of
the disease. The deaths from cholera have been
upwards of 80 a-day.
Another clever trick has been practised in Paris.
A well-dressed young man entered a shop in the
Avenue de Maine, and said he was a stranger in the
neighbourhood, and wanted to send a confidential
letter, which he did not like to entrust to a com-
missionaire. He said he would give 25f. to any
one who would take a letter to his father, who was
head cashier at the Comptoir d'Escompte.
He said he did not wish the messenger
to go into the office, but to wait cutside
till his father, whom he described minutely, came
out at 11 o'clock. The letter from the swindler im-
plored his father to send him a 200 f. bank-note or
he ohould be ruined, ae he bad lost that money at

play, and must replace it instantly in his cash-box
on account of his employer. The shopkeeper offered
to take the letter himself, and found no difficulty in
recognising the gentleman as he came out of the
office. When the latter read the letter he appeared
to be much enraged, said his son might go to the
devil, and that he would do nothing more for him.
After a few seconds, however, tears came into his
eyes, and he appeared to relent. " I won't drive
him to despair," said the gentleman : " take him
this 200 f.-note." On the retur❑ of the shopkeeper
the supposed son was much delighted, and said that
he had saved his life. lle added that he would
keep his promise to give 25f., but as he had no
change perhaps the shopkeeper would keep the note
and give him the difference. The shopkeeper did
so. The note turns out to be a forged one.
Two hundred Americans residing in Paris have
sent an invitation to the 7th Regiment of New
York Militia to come and pay a visit to the capital
during the Great Exhibition.

There is at present a considerable exportation of
cattle from Calais and Boulogne for England. In
one week 600 oxen from the south of France were
embarked, and in one day only 388 left France for
the same destination. These cattle have all been
bred by French farmers and graziers.

Chicot, one of the sailors acquitted by the Mari-
time Tribunal of Brest of the charge of murder and
piracy on board the Faderis Area, has just engaged
himself in the 2d Regiment of Marine Infantry. It
was through the information and disclosures of
Chicot that the circumstances of the terrible drama
on board that vessel became known.

The Siecle, speaking of the extraordinary weather
yesterday, says :—" The inhabitants of the Place
Vendome witnessed a phenomenon,which is certainly
not common. Between five and six in the evening
there was a very heavy shower of rain, which
lasted three or four minutes, while the sun was
shining brightly, and not a cloud was to be seen in
the sky. We saw the same phenomenon on the
Boulevard des Italiens—a meteorological fact, which
is be explained by a sudden condensation, under an
electric current, of the volume of water with which
the atmosphere was saturated."
The vineyards of Pomard have been almost de-
stroyed by a violent hailstorm. The crop is esti-
mated at a million of francs. The yin de Poniard is
generally considered as very delicious. In neigh-
bouring districts there will be a loss of one-half of
the first-class wine.

A young girl of 16, residing at Tours, has been
for 40 days in a deep lethargic sleep. She breathes
easily and regularly, and presents every appearance
of health, but she does not speak and does not
appear to hear what is said. Sh?, is nourished with
liquids, which are forced down her throat.
There has been a frightful murder and suicide
at the hamlet of Theys, in the department of
Isere. For two years an individual had been
on intimate terms with a married woman.
She suddenly broke off the acquaintance, which so
enraged the man that he watched for her in the
fields at the time she was going home to prepare
her husband's supper. He tied the poor woman's
hands, put something into her mouth to prevent her
from crying out, violated her, and then murdered
her with a knife, affer which he shot himself. An
old woman, a neighbour, witnessed the murder as
she was going home.

Baronet Brunet Denon, formerly aide-de-camp
:o King Murat, has just died in Paris.

The storm of yesterday, although it has refreshed
the air and vegetation, has not much cooled the
temperature. There has been slight thunder at
intervals during the afternoon, and the sky bad a
dark and stormy aspect all the morning. About
three o'clock there was another storm of thunder
and lightning, but the rain was not so heavy as that
of yesterday.
La Liberte has a vulgar and violent article
against England, by M. Emile de Girardin, founded
upon Mr. Disraeli's address to his constituents. It
says that France can attend to her own affairs,
whatever may be the opinion on the policy of
England.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

lIOUSE OF COMMONS-JuLy 17.
BALLOT.

Motion made, and question put, " That, having regard to
the failure of all direct legislation against corrupt prac-
ticeseleexperimentet
ie
nt
elections
Parliamentary
elections, it is expedient to make
of the system of taking the votes at such
anonymously, according to the laws now in
force in other parts of her Majesty's dominions." The
house divided—ayes,l4oE; noes, 197.
A s
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10.
Adair, H. E. Gower, F. L.
Oliphant L.'
Ayrton, A. S. Goschen, G. J. Onslow, G. .
Baines, E. Grenfell, H. R. O'Reilly, M. W.
Barclay. A. C. Greville, Col. F. Osborne R. B.
Barnes, T. Gridley, H. Owen, Sir H.
Bass, M. T. Grosvenor, Capt it Padmore, It.
Baxley, T. Hadfield. G. Peto, Sir M.
Biddulph, 31. Harris, J. D. Phillips, it. N.
Blake, J. Henderson, J. Platt, J.
Bonham-Carter, J. Henley, J. W. Potter, E.
Butler, C. S. B ibbert, J. T. Potter T. B.
Candlish, J. Hodgkinson, G. Price, R. G.
Cave, T. 11..hicn, I. Reardon, D. J.
Chambers, M. Holland, E. Rebow, J. G.
Cha r.bers, T. In ,ham, Robert Robartes, T. J. A.
Clay, J. Kearsley, Captain Russell, A.
Clive, G. Kennedy, T. Russell, Sir W.
Coleridge, J. Kiuglake, A. W. Samuelson, B.
Collier, Sir R. P. K inglake, Serj, ,j, Seely, C.
Corbally, M. E. Kinnaird, A. s'. Sheridan, IL B.
Cowen, J Lawrence, W. Smith, J. B.
'S J. Lawson, JW. .A. Stacpoole, Capt.
Crossley, rF. Leatham, Sullivan. E.
Davie, Sir IL R, F. Leeman, G. Sykes, Col.
Dillwyn, L. L. Lefevre, G. J. S. Taylor, P. A.
Dulf, M. E. Lewis, IL Tits, W.
Eykyn, R. Locke, J. Trevelyin, G.
Fawcett, H. Lusk, A. Villiers, C. P.
Fades, J. M
31.Laren, D. 'K aenna, J. N. w,,,iai,_,n _
, h. w,
Foley, H.' Whalley, G. li.
Maguire, J. F. Whitbread, S.
Martin,
Fordyce, W. P. W.
Forster, C. White, J.'
Forster, W. E. Merry, J. Woods, IL
Gavin, Major Monk, C. Wyld, J.
Gibson, T. M. Morris, W.
Gilpin, C. Morrison, W.
TELLERA
Goldsmid, Sir F. Neate. C.
Egerton, Sir, P. Miller, T. J.
Berkeley, 11. F.
Goldsmid, J. Ogilvy, Sir J. Vivian, 11, 11.
NOES-197,
Acland, T. D. Eckersley, N. 3liller, S. B.
P
Egerton, EC. Mord Aunt, Sir C.
Egerton, W.
Annesley, Col. 11. Morgan, O.
Archdall, Capt Fano, Col.
Andover,Ad d e r ley LCo.rßd.
Morgan, Major
Arkwright, ILI Feilden, J. Mowbray, J. R.
Aytoun. It. S. Fellowes, B. Naas, Lord
B.,ggallay, R. lergusson. Sir J. Newdeg,ate, C.
Ba,:ge, W. E.
Floycr J. Nicol, J. D.
Bailey, sir J. Forester, Gen. North, Col.
Bailing, 11. J. Galway, Viscount Northcote. Sir S. H.
Baring, Henrynry George, J. O'Neill, E.
Baring, H. B. Gladstone. W. H. Packe, C. W.
Baring, T. Goddard, A. L. Packe, Colonel
Baring, T. G. Goidney, G. Paget, R. H.
Barnett, H. Goodson, J. i'arker, Major W.
Barrow, W. H. Gore, J. R. 0. Patten Colonel W.
Barttelot, Col. Gorat, J. Peel, Sir R.
Bass, A. Graves, S. IL Peel, Gen.
Bathurst, A. A. Greenall, G. Percy, Earl
Beach, Sir M. Greene, E. Pim, J.
Beach, W. Grey, Sir G. Powell F. S.
Beecroft, G. S. Griffith, C. D. Read, C. S.
Berestard, D. Grove, T. Repton, G. W. J•
Bingham, Lord
It. Hamilton, Lord C. Ridley-, Sir 31. W.
B oot h, Sir Hamilton, Viset. Russell, Sir C.
Bourne, Col. Hardy, G. Samuda, J.
Bovill, W. Hartley, J.
Brett, W. B. HartuPP, B. B. Schreiber, H. W.
Bridges, Sir B. W. Herve),Lord A. Sclater-Booth. G.
Bromley, W. D. Hay, Sir J Scourileld, J. 11.
G. H.
Bruce, Lord C. Feathcote, Saunderson, E.
Selwyn, C. J.
Bruce, Lord E. A. Heathcote, Sir W. Severne, J. B.
Buckley, E. Henley, J. W. Simonds, W. B.
Buller, Sir E. M. Hesketh, Si: T. Smith, S. G.
Burghley, Lord 'lanyard, T Smollett, P. B.
Burrell, Sir P. 11egg, Lt-Col.
Cairns, Sir H. Hood, Sir A, Speirs, A.
Campbell, A. H. ILdhana, Lord Stanley, Lord
Capper, C. 11°V/es. E. Stanley, F.
Cartwright, Col. bumphery, W. Stucley, Sir: G. S.
Cave, S. nt, , sturt, 11. G.
Cavendish, Lord F. Jervoise, Sir J. Start, Lt,...C01. N.
Clinton, Lord A. P. Jones, D, Sykes, C.
Somerset, Col. E.
Clinton, Lord E. P. Kok, j.
Thorold. J. H.
Clive, Capt. G. W. Kendall, N. Tollemache, J.
Cobbold, J. C. 'Tottenham, Lt-Col.
Treeby, J. W.
Cole, Hon. H. Knight, F. Trollope, Sir J.
Colvile, C. It. Kni vs Turner, C.
Lord
Knox ghiley, Sir .•-•
Courtenay, Tyrone, Earl of'
~, Col
Cole, Hon. J. L.
.I.IZ J. IGi..
Cooper, E. H. il-saird, ,y, Walcott, Admiral
Crosland, Col. Langton W. G.
Cubitt, G. Leaaer, N. P. Walker, major U.
cubt, llon Lech' Major c Walpole, S. H.
Leroy, § , C. Dawson, Captain A. Walsh, A.
Dent, J. D. Lennox, Lord G. G. Walsh, Sir J.
Dick, F. Waldegrave-Lealie
Lennox, Lord H. G. E.
Dickson, Major Liddell, H. G. Williams, Col.
Dimsdale, R. Linds c 1 R,, Williams, F. 31.
ay, o .
Disraeli, B.
TLong, it. P Wise, IL C.
Du Cane, C. 'ones, Sir H. Wyvill, 31.
Duncombe, W. E. Lowther J. Yorke, J. IL
Dunne, Gen. 3l'Lagan, P.
Du l're, C. G. Mainwarlng, T.
Oyott, Colonel Marsh, M. H.
Eaton, H. W. Mill, J. S.

TELLEREI.
Taylor, Colonel
Noel, G. J.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. CoURTOWN, IRELAND,
July 16.—At midday (writes J. S. Scott, Esq.) a
large barque was reported to have gone on the Blackwater
Bank. The Alfred and Ernest lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat Institution stationed at Courtown, immediately
put off to render assistance. Up to 7.30 p.m., when
our despatch left, the lifeboat had not returned. A
telegram subsequently' received from Waterford states
that the vessel proved to be the Pawnoe, of New York
from Liverpool to Monte Video with coals, that sho struck
on tho Blackwater Bank, that she was abandoned by her
crew, but drifted off, and that she was taken by a tug in
charge of the coastguard to Waterford. The Courtown
Lifeboat was a gift to the National Lifeboat Institution of
the people of Manchester' the cost of that boat and of se-
veral others having been benevolently raised in that town
through the indefatigable exertions of Robert Whitworth,
Esq., and the Rev. B. Hewlett. The boat is named after ,
the §9n§ of the latter gentleman,

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE WAR IN GERMANY.

DARMSTADT, July 17.

The Prussians have arrested at Frankfort Sena-
tors Bernus and Speltz, and the editors of the Pos,
Zeitung and the Handels Zeitung.

AUSTRIA.
ORDER OF TIIE DAY ro ARMY OF THE

SO UTH.

VIENNA, July 14.
The Archduke Albert has issued the following
order of the day to the Army of the South :
" Soldiers of the Army of the South !—Our arms
have not been favoured in our first combats in the
North. The check, however, which they have ex-
perienced has not been able to shake the confidence
of our august Sovereign in our good right and our
strength, and the whole of Austria has likewise un-
shakably resolved upon the most determined conflict
until an honourable peace shall have been obtained
assuring the European position of Austria.
" By the Imperial resolution made known in the
manifesto of the 10th July a new task is assigned
to us, while the necessary forces remain behind to
guard the fortresses of the country, and protect, in
concert, with the faithful and brave population, the
strongholds of the Tyrol, of inner Austria, and the
coasts. I depart with the rest of the army for the
North, where the decisive blow will be struck.

" Comrades in Arms! I know that you quit with
pain the theatre of your last battle, but the hope of
fresh victories animates afresh your forces and your
courage. You are called upon to complete in the
North what you have so brilliantly commenced in
the South.

"Soldiers of the garrisons of the fortresses of
Venice, of the Tyrol, and of the coast ! I declare
you to be the inheritors of the victory of Custozza
and I leave you as the brave and faithful guardian
of the work which has been commenced. Whatever
may happen hold on with remarkable tenacity to
this glorious legacy and raise aloft the banner of
our dear Austria. Your task is as indispensable
in the South as ours in the North. All will have
part in the same honour, the same gratitude.
" Filled with calm confidence, I wish you in my
own name, and in the name of all those who are
leaving you, a cordial farewell ; but at the same
time I look forward to our meeting again.

"And you who go with me to the North, let us
show the world, in concert with our brothers in
arms already there, that the struggle of Austria is not
yet broken. Let us march to the decisive encounter
full of confidence in God and our strength, which
has already helped us to overcome victoriously the
greatest difficulties."