The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1859.

C. Frederick (now on special service n the West
Indies), and the Agamemnon; 91, Captain T. Hope.
Of frigates there are the Liffey, 51, Captain, G. W.
Preedy ; the Emerald, 51, Captain Arthur Cum..
ming ; the Mersey, 40, Captain Caldwell, C.B. ; the
Diadem, 32, Captain. Moorsomi C.B. (also on special
service) ; the Doris,'32, Captain E. geatheote ; the
Curagoa, 32, Captain T. Mason ; the Termagant, 25,
Captain R. Hall ; and the Cadmus, 21, Captain H.
S. Hillyar, C.B. Of smaller vessels, there are the
Brisk, 16, Captain •Algernon F. R. de Horsey ; the
Falcon, 16, Commander A. G. Fitzroy ; the Pioneer,
6, Commander C. H. May ; the Flying Fish, Com-
mander C. W. Hope ; the Intrepid, 6, Commander
G. Marryat ; and the Assurance, 4, Commander C.
Aynsley-all of the beforementioned ships beino.
.screws. Then there are, of paddles, the Firebrand,°
6, Commander James M. Bruce; Virago, 6, Com-
mander M, B. Dunn ; and Gorgon, 6, Commander
B. C. F. Pim. The majority of the ships composing
this important fleet have been commissioned during
the past few weeks, and are, for the most part, fully
manned. There is also a powerful reserve ready to
be commissioned, including the Duke of Wellington,
131, Royal Sovereign,- 1:31, Royal George, 102,
Edgar, 91, Colossus, 80, Goliath, 80, Meanee, 80,
Majestic, 80, Mars, 80, Melpomene, 51, Inipericuse,
51, Orlando, 50, Dauntless, 32; and also, for the
purpose of home defence, there are the screw block
ships Nile, 91, Captain A, Wilmot, C.B. ; Corn-
wallis, 60, Captain Randolph; Pembroke, 00, Capt.
Charlewood ; Blenheim, 60, Captain Scott, C.B. ;
Russell, 60, Captain Storey ; Hawke, 60,' Captain
Crispin ; Ajax, 60, Captain Boyd; Edinburgh, 60,
Captain D'Eyncourt ; Hastings, 60, Capt. Mends;
Hogue, 60, Captain Moore, C.B.'; and the Arrogant,
47, Captain L. 0, Heath, C.B. The number of
vessels in commission, therefore, on the home sta-
tion, exclusive of the Royal Albert, Cmsar, and
Diadem, are-ships of the ISt, 17 ; frigates, 8 ;
smaller vessels, 9. Line•of-batile ships ready for
commission, 10 ; frigates, 3.
The following appointments were ma-le yester-
day at the Admiralty :-

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Friday, 20th May.—A FAST TRAIN leaves Water-
loo-bridge Station for Salisbury, at 8 a.m., returning from
Salisbury at 7.5 p.m. each day. Fares there and back, 31s. first
class ; 21s, second class, The return tickets are available for
two days.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
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Ross, Hereford, Chepstow, Neath, Swansea,' Carmarthen,
Narberth-road, and Milford Haven.
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at Weymouth, to Dawliah, Teignmouth, and Torquay, and to
Narberth-road (for Tenb7) and Milford Haven. Full particu-
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THE

Alfred Kingsford Barber, Esq. Rear-Admiral Robert Gor-
Henry Barnett, Esq. don.
The Right Hon. E. Pleydell Charles Morris, Esq.
Bouverie, M.P. George Kettilby Rickards,
Edward Charrington, Esq. Esq.
Pascoe Charles Glyn, Esq. Augustus Keppel Stephen-
Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, son, Esq.
Bart.

Lieutenants—John Gunn_ Robins, to be harbourmaster
at Falmouth; *George Naylor, R.M., to be adjutant at the
'Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, vice Fraser, pro-
moted.

Mates—C. R. Buckle, R. G. Pasley, and E. G. Yermain,
to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, for special service.

SIR C. TVOOD ON POLITICAL PiiRTIES

interests in the Riding, because the wealth, the
intelligence, the importance of the Riding depended
equally upon both, and he was proud to see that
they had now two such representatives. (Cheers.)
He was proud of it, because those gentlemen would
express the united opinion of the Riding., and not
of one section alone. (Hear, hear.) He was as
glad to see one as he was to see the other—one was
his neighbour, the other had lately been his col-
league, and willingly and gladly did he trust both
or either of them with the advocacy of those prin-
ciples which he professed in common with that
assembly. (Cheers.) They must, however, remem-
ber that great as was their victory, so would be
the exertions of their enemies to retrieve their
defeat. (Hear, hear.) The Tories would, no
doubt, now attend to the register more than they
had done, and if the union of the Liberal party
was to be cemented by future success they must
be even still more active in watching the
registration. (Cheers.) Mr. Crossley said that in
a neighbouring county the Liberals had lost the re-
presentation because they had neglected the register,
and that here they had won because they had at-
tended to the register. (Hear, hear.) It must not
now be neglected, and if they only worked for the
future as they had worked in the past, not forget-
ting their experience, depend upon it the next
election, and the elections as far as he could look
forward to, would be like the present, and that the
constituency would not be disgraced by a divided
representation, but that they would have their two
members going to Parliament to give expression to
the opinions of the vast inajQrity et the electors and
inhabitants, to declare that freedom should be their
watchword, and progress and peace their greatest
tgh fore Tv. e s (t Cith
iedeirns
g, ), , , H(enge auve ew tehde inche"eTrihneo.,E) lectors of
Mr, fIARAisoN, of Wakefield, returned thanks on
behalf of the electors.

2'USCANY.

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. After the official' declaration of the poll for the the -
country committed to it in one of those solemn
West Riding, at Wakefield, on Thursday last, the moments in whichafter •
.vain supplication, the peo-
newly-elected members (Sir J. W. Ramsden and pie raise aloud their voice and command. The
Mr. F. Crossley) and a large party of their Liberal Provisional Government, the necessary result of the
supporters took luncheon together, after which events of the 27th of Aril,
(lobedient to the cry of
several speeches were delivere. In the course of a national I•h hp
war, wne a moved all hearts on that
the proceedings. " memorable day, was bound above all to procure
Sir CHARLES WOOD gave The Liberal Electors arms and closely •
connect itself with the magnani-
of the West Riding," and was loudly cheered. e mous King who had raised up the bulwark of the
congratulated them on their victory, and expressed -independence of Italy. If he were unable to ac-
his conviction•that the gentlemen they had chosen cept the dictatorshi eon the terms under which it would faithfully represent the united opinions of was offered, TuscanyP can neverthelessfeelconfident
.
the West Riding. (Cheers.) He congratulated in the thought
that her arms, united to the army of
them on having escaped the mongretstate of having Italy, will
follow as supreme chief the King who
one Yellow and one Blue, and thus neutralizing. the
unsheathes the sword for their common country,
voice of their representatives in Parliament. (Hear, while the
State under his protection, and directed
hear.) He congratulated them on having escaped by
a Commissioner named by him, will maintain its
being represented by one who, if he represented existence, that it reserve itself intact for
them as he did history on S ' irday, would repre- what • destinies may
its lot in
evei•may to the. future
sent them most unsatisfactorily. (Cheers.) Their organization
of Italy. Tuscans I pre-eminently
right hon. opponent taunted Sir John Rai:is-len arduous was the
charge
of the Provisional
with gathering his information from books m :to Government in a country
111 e our own, without in-
occurrences which took place when he was a child, stitutions and without any authority that could
but he (Sir Charles Wood) was prepared to say that command respect; where everything
tell with the
Sir John showed a more accurate knowleil ree of supreme power, whose only object was to suffice for
those events than the right honourable all; and it is owing to your unanimous and s ion-
gentleman himself. (Hear, hear.) Sir John taneous • if. has i
concurrence success crowned our
was right in going back to events which common efforts.
occurred before his birth, because he wished to " Thanks to the people, who in the greatest corn-
identify himself With the great principles of the ' motions kept themselves unstai • ned by a single act
Liberal pa rty--principles which had been of violence, and
who, ere their legitimate wishes
held by a Milton, a Morpeth, a Goderich, and now were obtained, returned to their dailf, habits of
by a Ramsdell and a Crossley—(cheers)—those glo-. labour. Thanks to i
our armed force, who the
nous principles which had animated the breasts of moment it found itself beneath the national banner
the Liberal party in the kingdom from the time of returned to its •and ranks,
the Revolution down-wards. (Cheers.) Sir John ment which it in •
moved
was right in identifying himself with the prin- separation
from the people, of whom it felt itself
ciples which they had held, advocated, and would the strongest arm.
carry to still further triumphs in the future. (Cheers.) .' 1 uscans the Provisional Government He must confess that lie was astonished at the his- 1"-- -i• -,, • :,- ...-F .e ,* • ••• .- tapes i
tory which they heard on the hustimrs 4at ' The fate of Italy is being decided on the banks of
L---• % 'lf •••••,••• " C.' +4 4 ^•-"-,, Ti.vt,,,,ii.e.., rliest the Ticino and the Po; there let your looks be
votes lie gave was the Arst alteration in the old turned, there let your vows and hopes be directed.
corn laws. The second vote he gave was for the He is a traitor to his country who in so marvellous
repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. (Cheers.) a concord of will and act should utter a word of
There was no important measure since that time in division or endeavour to stifle with the spirit of
which he had not borne a humble part. (Hear.) party this sacred enthusiasm. The 27th of April,
He spoke, therefore, not of what he had read, but on the breaking out of the national war, you openly
of what he had seen, in relation to those great declared for ' Italy and' Independence.' Do not
measures of civil and religious freedom which had falsify these solemn promises, made in the sight of
been accomplished by the efforts of the Liberal Italy and Europe, and this will be a satisfaction to
party. (Hear, hear.) There were also the eman- the Provisional Government that is now giving way
cipation of the slaves, and the removal of those to a more stable regime, that it has opened a path
shackles upon commerce which were struck off at in which you can advance with courageous virtue,
the last moment by a Tory who abjured his prin- —fulfilling• your duty as citizens, and acting up to
ciples, but which removal had been advocated by your dignity as freemen.
the Liberal party under much more unfavourable " CAV. ÜBALDINO PERUZZI.
circumstances, and who had borne the heat and "Avv. VINCENZO MALENCHINI.
labour of the day. (Hear.) There was no credit " MAGG. ALESSANDRO DANZINL"
due to a man who passed that at the last moment " Florence, May 11, 1859."
which he had opposed all his life, and that not Side by side with this is posted up the following
from a sense of duty, but in the one case from fear address of the Sardinian Minister :
of civil war in Ireland, and in the other from the " Tuscans, after the disasters which our country
dread of famine. (Cheers.) Well, they had now suffered in common in 1849, yourhopes turned to Vic-
returned two gentlemen who had been identified tor Emmanuel, who alone upheld the Italian banner.
from their youth upward with those great prin- When the Prince who reigned in Tuscany, sooner
ciples which they as Liberals maintained. (Cheers.) than adopt the wishes of his nation, had abandoned
They need fear no backslidings on their part ; they the State, the Provisional Government in your name
would advocate their principles, and maintain them invited the King Victor Emmanuel to assume, dur-
at all hazards; they would not wait until the tide ing the war, the dictatorship of this beautiful part
turned in their favour, but under adverse circum- of Italy. The King, seconding in substance your
stances, as well as properous ones, would maintain desires, preferred the adoption of a more modest
the principles which Liberals now held in com- form, and assumed, with the supreme command of
mon. (Cheers.) He congratulated them on the the army, the protectorate of Tuscany, with the in-
answer they had given to the appeal of the Govern- tention of maintaining intact all its rights, and with
ment. (Cheers.) When defeated on the Reform the sole object o f providing for the emergencies of
bill, Government appealed to the country to reverse war, defending public order, and carrying out all
the decision of the House of Commons. Their those public acts which are required by the urgent
answer, at least, could not be misunderstood. necessities of the State. He has thought fit; o
(Cheers.) The Government were anxious to escape commit to me the task of representing him among
from the issue which the decision of the House of you. This lofty task I assume with a mind that
Commons raised. They said they did not appeal to trembles at the difficulties of the charge, but secure
the country on that bill, but on the merits of the in the consciousness that lam fulfilling an obliga-
Government. (Hear, hear.) 'Well, let them weigh tion to our common country, and in the firm desire
the Government on such grounds. There were three of assisting that Tuscany, so dear to all Italians,
measures of importance which they brought before from the part she has taken in the history of our
the house, and what was the result ? There was, civilisation—dearer still to me from the goodwill
first, the India Biil, which was rejected with con- you have been pleased to show me. The meritorious
tempt an d ridicule—(hear, hear)—next they brought citizens who have discharged the duties of a Pro-
in a Church-rate Bill, which satisfied rrobody, and visional Government have rendered easy the accom-
it was thrown out—(hear. hear)—the third measure plishment of my task by those acts which have
was the Reform Bill, of which he would say nothing repaired the gravest consequences of the reaction
but this, that if it had been passed they would have which has taken place in your country. A stranger
been better without the Reform Bill of 1832. to the parties which have risen in Tuscany, I shall
(Cheers.) Did it ever happen to any Government refrain from meddling with q iestions of political
in this country, or in the world, that upon three order, which will find a more opportune place at
great questions their measures would be so ill-con- the moment when Tuscany shall possess those
sidered, so ill-calculated to meet with the approval liberties of which she has been unjustly deprived,
of the people, that every one of them failed ? and of which she has shown herself still more
(Cheers.) Before the dissolution they were told that worthy from the wonderful demeanour she has
the Government ought to be kept in power, because displayed in these last events. My administration,
there was only one man who could maintain the then, shall have one aim, that of facilitating the
peace of Europe, and that was Lord Mahnesbur
Y- conduct of the present war, and with this object
(Laughter.) Well, the voice of England in Parlia- the maintenance of order in the State, which at the
ment, which might have had some weight, was termination of the war shall be restored to ou as
silenced by the dissolution, and within 10 days war a sacred deposit by his Majesty . King 'Victor
was declared. (Cheers.) Did they approve the Emmanuel, whose loyal conduct is the object
appointments of the Government when they put of the admiration of Italy and the world.
into a high judicial situation a man who knew littlecontributed
Tuscans, ye have nobly . to_ prove
or nothing of law, having only held a clerkship in that Italy is worthy of that . independ-
an office, and the very mention of which appoint- ence for which the King of Sardinia is in
ment caused him to give it up? (Loud cheers.) Did arms, aided by his august ally the
French Empe-
they approve the manner in which a great depart- ror. Continue to give proofs of this discipline, of
ment over which he bad once the honour of presiding this moderation, of this obedience to the laws and
was made the arena of political jobbery? (Cheers.) to the magistrates, which must secure this supreme
These were probably not the grounds on which the blessing to Italy and to Tuscany, for ever freed
Government appealed to the country, but they were from foreign influence. I on my part assure you
at least the facts most patent to all men, and he that I have nothing so much at heart as to carry
congratulated the electors of the West Riding out the intentions
your
co-operating for the on the answer which they had given, by sending confidence in good of this noble
two men who would say," Forbearing have we been, portion of Italy.
long suffering have we been, a fair trial have we "C. BONCOMPAGNI, Commissioner Extraor-
given you, but your own acts are the strongest dinary for King Victor Emmanuel during
condemnation which could be passed upon any the War of Independence.
Government." (Loud cheers.) Let the Government " Florence, May 11."
take it which way they liked ; they had asked the The Mimes of the Ministry appointed by the
constituency of the West Riding what they thought Commissioner Extraordinary are as follows :—II
of the Reform Bill, and what they thought of the Barone Bettino Ricasoli Minister of the Interior ;
Government. (Hear.) There could be no doubt as Ii Marchese Cosimo Ridolfi, Minister of Public
to the answer. (Cheers.) They rejected the one and Instruction ; Enrico Poggi, Minister of Justice ;
condemned the other. (Loud cheers.) Before he sat Raffaello Busacca, Minister of Finance; Avv.
down he would allude to one other topic to which Vincenzo Malenchini Minister of War. The
reference had already been made—namely, the Marchese Cosimo Ridolfi is to act provisionally as
means of future victory. (Cheers.) They had now Minister of Foreign Affairs; as Minister of Eccle•
two members, as they ought always to have had. siastical Affairs, Enrico Poggi, also provisionally.
Why had they two? Because they were united. All public acts and decrees of the tribunals are to
(Cheers.) He had worked in these 'West Riding be published in the name of the Tuscan Govern-
elections for many years, and one thing upon which men r. The standard of the army and navy is to be
he prided himself more than another was that he the Italian tricolours arranged in vertical stripes.
had contributed something towards bringing about The Government, " considering it impossible
a reunion of their party. (Cheers.) Had his advice during the war of independence to call together a
been taken there never would have been any schism, council of national representatives, but convinced
and he trusted that past experience would teach of the urgent necessity of consulting on the in-
them that union was strength. (Hear, hear.) They terests of the country many of those who have
ought to have men connected with the two great proved themselves to be its legitimate interpreters,"