The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

THAMES.

STABBING.--Wm. Keefe, a boiler-maker, of 7, Painter's-
rents, Broad-street, Ratcliff, was brought up on remand
before Mr Yardley, charged with stabbing John Co&lan,
his landlord.

The affray which led to the prisoner being taken into 1
custody occurred on Tuesday, the 22d of May, in the course
of an Irish row in Painter's-rents. The prisoner, who was
drunk, noisy, and violent, was ordered to leave the house
he was in by his landlord. He refused to do so, a row
ensued, and several persons commenced fighting. Coghlan
attempted to turn Keefe out of the house, and in a struggle
which took place the prisoner seized a knife and plunged it
into the breast of his countryman, inflicting a deep and
dangerous wound, from the effects of which Coghlan is still
suffering. He has been under medical treatment in the
London Hospital ever since he received the wound.
A certificate from the house surgeon of the London Hos-
pital was put in, which stated that the wounded man was
not in a fit state to be removed.

Mr. Bowdler, the second clerk, read the evidence given on
the 23d of May, and it clearly made out the case against the
prisoner, and that the knife with which he inflicted the
wound was taken away by his own wife.
Mr. Yardley asked if any of the witnesses were in attend-
ance and on being answered in the negative, said he could
not detain the prisoner without evidence.
The Prisoner said he had been incarcerated for upwards
of three weeks.

Mr. Yardley said he should not detain the prisoner any
longer without evidence, and finally allowed him to go at
large, on his entering into his own recognizance to appear
again when Coghlan is able to appear against him.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship Monica, 1,346 tons, Captain James Jackson,
which sailed from Liverpool on the 30th December, arrived
at Melbourne, Victoria, on the 17th of March, with 46
married couples, 278 single women, 7 single women, 7 girls
between the ages of 1 and 12, 17 boys between the same
ages, 22 female and 7 male infants, making a total of 430
souls, equal to 3961 statute adults, under charge of Surgeon
Superintendent J. Matthew Burke. 'Three births, but
no deaths occurred during the voyage.

FATAL SCAFFOLD ACClDENT.—Yesterday morn-
ing, about nine o'clock, a fatal accident took place in Wil-
ton-place, Belgrave-square. One of the houses is under
repair, a scaffolding being raised to the roof. At the hour
above stated, Mr. Charles Bowan, foreman of the brick-
layers, was looking over their work upon a platform about
40 feet from the ground, when one of the planks tilted, and
he was precipitated head foremost into the area beneath.
On being taken up his head was discovered to be literally
beaten in.

TIIE HANDEL COMMEMORATION.—The prepa-
rationspieth,
to be complete. At the last rehearsal, the kettle-
drums
for this great musical gatheringl maytnhorweebesaid
weremanufactured
tested
woccasiony result, by Al
pro-
ducingr.
a full, round tone, which blended with admirable
effect with the chorus. The rehearsal of the instrumenta-
lists will be held at Exeter, Hall on Thursday morning, and
thextPrheesmslYestforsattihsfeactor
the whole of the provincial choir are to arrive in town on
Friday, preparatory to a great choral rehearsal at Exeter
Hall in the evening. Admission to these two rehearsals
will be strictly confined to the performers. The grand full
rehearsal of the entire body will take place at the Crystal
Palace on Saturday next, when the whole area of the
Palace will be open to the pziblic, the galleries only being
appropriated as reserved seats. On this occasion portions
of the oratorios for each day of the festival will be rehearsed,
and those who may be unable to attend the grand perform-
ances in the ensuing week will thus have an opportunity of
estimating the varied character of the selections, and the
general effect of this unparalleled` assemblage of musical
talent.

River Thames. !.St. Katha-
rine's Dock,
High Water. Low Water. East Basin.
Temperature 62.5 deg. 65.5 deg. 62.0 deg.
..
Organic O2O 1.84 0.52
Suspended
Inorganic
Organic 728 2.64 4.64
Dissolved
Inorganic 5796 1790 46.48
London Dock, West India East India
Main Basin. Export Dock. Export Dock.
Temperature
Organic l'3o O9B O/0
Suspended
Inorganic
Organic 212 496 1728
Dissolved 5B/2 . 147'44 27528
Inorganic

SUMMARY OF THE AUSTRIAN
DESPATCHES.

(From the Times.)

After the lapse of nearly six months the public
is about to learn the details of Lord Melmesbury's
foreign policy. A blue book has been published
of great interest, inasmuch as it discloses the trans-
actions on which the Government seeks to found
its justification. For the present, however, we
must confine ourselves to the despatches which
were written at the very beginning of the dispute.
To learn how the events of the first days of January
appeared to the Government and to politicians in
general is not without importance, since from the

impressions then produced the whole policy of her
Majesty's Ministers is plainly derivable. In the
first place, the correspondence to which we now
have access dissipates one illusion. It is now per-
fectly clear that the war which France isr, waging
against Austria is no sudden and unforeseen
struggle precipitated by imprudence or wounded
pride on either side. That Louis Napoleon looks
to the promotion of Italian prosperity and tb e
removal of Italian discontent as means for the
accomplishment of his object may be true enough ;
he has seen the faults of Austria, and may profit
by them ; but it cannot be doubted by any one who
reads these papers that the extension of French
influence by the expulsion of the Austrians from

Italy is a settled policy of the Second Empire, and
was resolved upon prior to and independent of any
recent demonstrations in Italy.
Yet at the close of last year it had become
evident that a disturbance was at hand. The King
of Sardinia in his addresses to his troops hinted
broadly at a coming quarrel with Austria. Tiie
Austrian Minister at Paris had been ostentatiovasly
omitted from the invitations to Compiegne. and it
was understood throughout Europe that 'the rela-
tions between the two great Catholic Provers were
most unsatisfactory. At the same timr: the state of
Lombardy became every day more mieasy. A re-
cent French pamphleteer has compared the Sar-
dinians who talked of interfering to redress the
grievances of the Austrian provincials to glaziers
who broke the windows of the Parisians by night
and then called next day to mend tnem. How far
the parallel holds we cannot tell. But whether,
discontent was stirred up by the agents of Victor
Emmanuel, or was the natural effect of the spec-
tacle of superior,freedom across the frontier, certain
it is that at the close of last year the state of Lom-
bardy was such as to demand the serious attention
even of the English Government. It appears that
before the Ist of January the Government of Lord
Derby had felt it necessary to remonstrate with
Sardinia on the warlike spirit which King and.
Ministers were fostering, and which could have
but one end—a rupture with Austria, Sir
James Hudson, after his return to Train, did
not fail to express these opinions of the
Britisn Cabinet in interviews with Count Cavour;
and, as he was probably desired to report
on the general state of Italy, he wrote a
despatch dated the 3d of January, which enters
into the question both of Lombard discontent and
Piedmontese provocation. The' temper of the
people east of the Ticino seems by this time to have
been roused to the last extreme by hatred of the.ir
masters and a hope of speedy deliverance. It may
be alleged that Sir James took his notions of the
state of feeling in Lombardy from the conversa-
tion of his Turin friends, but the account he gives
is most discouraging. " I regret to have to report
to your lordship that during the last three weeks
the posture of affairs in Lombardy has not im-
proved." The Minister then goes on to speak
of the insults offered to Austrian officers, and he
states a fact which hardly tallies with the accounts
received from other quarters—that the lower orders
were more bitter against the Austvians than the
gentry or the middle class. It had always been
thought that the educated and wealthy were the
chief malcontents towards Austrian domination,
and that the mein who would not attend the Arch-
duke Max's receptions, and the ladies who quitted
their opera-boxes on his entrance into the house,
were the leaders in the anti-Imperial crusade.
"But," says Sir James Hudson, "if a revolution
does take place at Milan, it will begin at the
bottom, and not at the top of th.e body politic."
The nobility, according to him, were almost
neutral, placed as they 'were between the Aus-
trian authorities and the mob, and enter-
taining an equal fear of each. The Legations
are described as ripe for revolt; Parma and Modena
were quiet, but only because Lombardy did not
move, and the Papal States generally were in a
condition which might well alarm his Holiness and.
the Sacred College.
The British Minister does not consider the
machinations of Sardinia to be principally respon-
sible for these things ; they are, in his opinion, the
natural result of the repression exercised in the
Austrian provinces and in the other Italian States
under the protectorate of Vienna.. " The mere
existence of a system of government; as free as that
of Sardinia is excitement enough tc) people in the
condition of the Lombards, Venelzians, and the
Pope's subjects." But, as it appeared to her Ma-
jesty's Ministers—and, indeed, to time world gene-
rally—that Victor Emmanuel was disposed to make
the discontent of his neighbours a pretext for ex-
tending his own possessions, Sir J. :Hudson, under
the directions of Lord Malmesbury, remonstrated
strongly with the Sardinian Government. "To
this both Count Cavour and the King replied that
ne cause of offence had been or won] d be given by
Sardinia to her neighbours. His .Majesty added
that the political horizon was threatening, but, as
far as he was concerned, the House o f Savoy would
pursue its old course of loyalty to its engage-
ments ; and, while he regretted certain matters
in a neighbouring State, he had no hesitation
in saying that neither intrigue roar revolution
would ever be countenanced by his country."
Count Cavour said that if people expected that
Sardinia was going to declare aver they were
likely to be disappointed. So much. for Royal and
Ministerial assurances. While th.e King was
declaring that he would countenance n either intrigue
nor revolution, the marriage of his. daughter had
been arranged, and the enrolment o! refugees from
every State of the Peninsula was about to begin.
The events which were in the mean time occurring
in France were even more important. There the
first days of January were passed great alarm.
It was computed that during the month the public
securities throughout Europe were diminished to
the amount of £60,000,000 sterling. The speech of
the Emperor on New Year's-day hstd produced so
bad an effect that the Moniteur was ordered to
publish a paragraph calculated to ren love the public
uneasiness. This was done, but in so awkward a
manner and in such ambiguous language as only
made matters worse. The British Government
were among those who shared in the general alarm.
Under these circumstances, Lord Malmesbury
addressed to Lord Cowley a despatch dated January
10. In this the Foreign Secretary boldly states his
conviction that it is the French Emperor's desire
to press Austria into a war for the sake of his
own reputation and aggrandisement. For such
an anticipation there were, unfortunately, good
reasons. Lord Clarendon had set Lord Malmesbury
on his guard by detailing to him particulars of the
conversations with which Napoleon 111. had favoured
him at Compiegne. "I am aware," writes the
Foreign Secretary, "from a conversation which Lord
Clarendon held lately at Compiegne with the Em-
peror, and which his lordship repeated to me, that
his Imperial Majesty has long looked at the internal
state of Italy with interest and anxiety. It may be
that in a war with Austria, and having Sardinia
for an ally, he may play the important part of the
regenerator of Italy. If so, the Treaties of 181 e
must be effaced, for such a rediStributioli of terri-
tory could not be effected without the consent of
the parties to those Treaties." The despatch is
throughout a strong protest against the Imperial
scheme ; but what we wish chiefly to point out is
the evidence of long deliberation on the part of
Napoleon, which is here made manifest, and which
may help to explain the extraordinary rapidity
with which the French army was transported to
the scene of action when that false step on the part
of Austria—the invasion of Piedmont—gave France
at last a good ground for joining her arms to those
of Sardinia, and entering on the course of victories
which has already carried the Emperor and his
ally to Milan.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Moadow hay, £2 10s to £4 lOs ; clover,
do., £4 5s to £5 8s; and straw, £1 4s to £1 8s per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at barely late rates.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 19s ; clover
do., £4 5s to £5 lOs ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 9s per load.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £.l 12s ; clove'
do., £4 5s to £5 lOs ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 7s per load.
A slow inquiry.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The public sales of this article were concluded
yesterday, without any material alteration in prices.
SUGAR.—The public market is now cicsed for the Whit-
sun holidays, and privately few sales have been effected;
prices, however, continue firm.
COFFEE.—Some arrivals of plantation Ceylon have been
announced, but there is very little business, at about pre-
vious rates.

RICE.---The market is very quiet, previous rates being
barely supported.
SALTPETRE.--There has been a very moderate inquiry.
A rather large quantity is announced for public competition
to-day, and prices are generally expected to rule a shade
higher.
TALLOW.—The market has shown more steadiness but
as several cargoes of St. Petersburg and South Aracricau
are daily expected, prices are easier. P.X,CI, on the spot
is quoted 555, and laat three months, 50s per ewt.

ASCOT BACES.-(TRIS DAV.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
TRIAL STAKES.

•
Sedbury 1
Ardour
Fadladeen.
Fourteen ran.
ASCOT DERBY STAKES.

Gamester
Brother to Sydney
Phantom
SECOND BIENNIAL STAKES.
Thormanby 1
Rupee
Lupellus • 3

Eleven ran.
GOLD VASE.

Schism
Leamington 2
Tournament
Five ran.
I'loo PLATE.

New Brighton
Little Gerrard
Ten ran.
ASCOT STAKES.

Rouble . , 1
Prince of Denmark ' 2
Compromise

Thirteen ran.

LATEST BETTING.
ASCOT STARES.
4to 1 agst Linda
7to 1 agst Compromise
Bto 1 agst Accurate
10 to 1 agst Prince of Denmark
Arrived—Marseillaise.

.LONDON GAZETTE,-( THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at St. James's, the 11th day of June, 1858,
present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council:
This day the Right Honourable Hugh, Viscount Gough,
was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 10.
This day had audience of her Majesty :
The Prince di Carini, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the King of the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies, to deliver a letter from his Sicilian Majesty, notify-
ing the death of King Ferdinand, and his own accession to
the Throne, and also to deliver his credentials ;
To which audience he was introduced by the Earl of
Malmesbury, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel Chas. Bagot,
her Majesty's Assistant:Master of the Ceremonies.

- FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 5.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edmund Gabriel,
Esq. (now Arbitrator on the part of her Majesty in the
Mixed British and Portuguese Commission established at
the city of Loanda, under the treaty concluded at Lisbon,
on the 3d of July, 1842, between Great Britain and Portu-
gal, for the suppression of the Slave Trade), to be Commis-
sioner on the part of her Majesty in the said Mixed Com-
mission ; and the Queen has likewise been pleased to
appoint Captain Sir Henry Vere Huntley, R.N. (her Ma-
jesty's Consul at Loanda), to be also Arbitrator, on the part
of her Majesty, in the said Mixed Commission, in the room
of the said Edmund Gabriel, Esq.,,appointed Commissioner.

FOREIGN-OFFIC4'3IAv 31.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Tasker
Smith, Esq., in the room of Robert Knox, Esq., deceased,
to be Secretary, or Registrar, to the Mixed British and
Portuguese Commission established at the Cape of Good
Hope, under the treaty concluded at Lisbon, on the 3d of
July, 1842 between Great Britain and Portugal, for the
suppression of the Slave Trade.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 10.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Honourable William Stuart, now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Rio de Janeiro, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Naples.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
George Brand, Esq., formerly British Vice-Consul at
Loanda, to be hec Majesty's Consul at Lagos.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Thomas Newton, Esq., now British Vice-Consul
at Mytilene, to be her Majesty's Consul at Rome.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 11. _ _

The Queen has bean pleased to appoint George, Earl of
Haddington, to be one of the Commissioners for the better
Government and Discipline of the Universities of Scotland,
and improving and regulating the Course of Study therein ;
and for the Union of the Two Universities and Colleges of
Aberdeen," in the room of Philip Henry, Earl Stanhope.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 13.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Forbes
Mackenzie, Esquire, to be Unpaid Commissioner and Chair-
man of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for
Scotland, in the room of William Hugh. Elliot, Esquire
(commonly called Viscount Melgund), resigned.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JUNE 13.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Decree
of the Papal Government, prohibiting the exportation of
the articles of food specified in the Roman Tariff, of the 16th
May, 1858.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 14:
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Capt. Valentine Baker
to be major, by purchase, vice Harrison, promoted, by
purchase, in the 11th Light Dragoons; Lieut. Henry
Atkins Bowyer to be Captain, by purchase, vice Baker;
Cornet Owen R. Slacke to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Howley, who retires.
11th Light Dragoons—Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel Broadley
Harrison, from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Lieut.-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires ; Lieut.
Albert Peel Garnett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir
E. C. Cockburn, Bart., who retires ; Cornet John George
Annesley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Garnett.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Stanley de Astel Calvert
_ _

Clarke to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major
Tremayne, promoted.
Rbyal Artillery—Lieut. Henry George Augustus Powell,
from half-pay 15th Foot, to be Paymaster.
Royal Engineers—Lieut. Henry Wm. H. Davies Duma-
resq to be Second Captain, vice Goodall, deceased ; Lieut.
Dalhousie Holmes Burnes has been permitted to resign
his Commission.

9th Foot—Captain Rolland V. S. Grimston, from the 93d
Foot, to be Captain, vice Bell, who exchanges.
19th Foot—Daniel James Mansergh, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Frith, promoted.
20th Foot—Ensign William Unwin to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Matdonagh, deceased.
22d Foot—Staff-Surgeon Thomas Carey to be Surgeon, vice
Fairbairn, appointed to the Staff.
23d Foot—Ensign A. Mitchell Molyneux to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice De Vic Tupper, promoted.
26th Foot—James Ross Gray Buchanan, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Story, promoted.
39th Foot—Hugh Stewart, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Corballis, promoted.
41st Foot—Lieutenant Edward L. Barnwell Lowry to be
Captain, vice A. G. Lowry, who retires ; Ensign Edward
Francis Brown Brooke to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice E. L. B. Lowry.
49th Foot—Henry Topp, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Donovan, promoted.
50th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Johnston, M.D.,
from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Assistant-Snr-
geon, vice Noott, who exchanges.
58th Foot—Captain George Henry Wynyard to be Major,
by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew
Hamilton Russell, who retires; Lieutenant Dawson
Townley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wynyard ;
Ensign Henry John "Wynward t obe Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Townley.
60th Foot—The Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Hudson, who retires.
69th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Cooper Hutchison to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Hankey, promoted; Ensign
Frederick Hotham Dyke to be Lieutenant, by purchase,

vice Hutchison.
75th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Wadeson, to be Adjutant,
vice Justice, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
79th Foot—Ensign Robert Stewart to be Adjutant, vice
Lieutenant Wimberley, who resigns the Adjutancy only;
Assistant-surgeon George Scott Davie, M.D., from the
Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Roberts, appointed
to the Staff.
86th Foot—Ensign Matthew Eadward Leadbitter to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Conran, who has retired ;
John William Boulcott, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Fowler, promoted.
87th Foot—Brevet-Major Charles Frederick Campbell to
be Major, by purchase, vice Lea, who retires.
93d Foot—Captain Whiteford John Bell, from the 9th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Grimston, who exchanges;
Edward Augustus Raikes, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Macnamara, promoted.
94th Foot—Ensign William Fermor Godfrey to be Lien-
tenant, by purchase, vice Gaskell, promoted.
95thby Foot—aßoltonelNerhallapeprie, Faulkner,proinoted? Gent.,to be Ensign,
96th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Edward Cookson to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice the Hon. Frederick B. Pakenham,
promoted to an unattached majority, by purchase ; En-
sign Marriott Aytoun to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Cookson.
Rifle Brigade—The Hon. Edward Courtenay Vaughan to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Evans, promoted ; Alex-
ander Stuart Harington, Gent., to be En'sign, by pur-
chase, vice Parr, promoted; George Anson
Eth
nHvillaryadreds:
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, viceh
promoted ; George Larcom, Gent., to be. Ensign, without
purchase, vice Chamberlin, promoted.
3d West India Regiment—William 11c.,n.7 Browning, Esq.
to be Paymaster, vice Wilson, whfae services have been
Regiment—Assistant -Surgeon Edward Gregg
Ceylon dispe
Rifle
s
ned=
Noott, from the 50th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Johnson, Who exchanges.
STAFF._Brevet-Colonel George Thomas Conolly Napier,
C. 8., half-pay unattached; to be Deputy Quartermaster-
. General to the Forces r,erving in Canada, vice Brevet-
Colonel Holdsworth, 'whose period of service has expired.
DEPOT BATTALIONs—Captain George Eredk. Macdonald,
16th Foot, to be Instructor of Musketry.
RECRUITING DlSTRlCT.—Paymaster James Marshall,_
from half-pay,
Depot,
Chatham.
vice Kennedy, appointed to the Invalid
Chatham, as Quartermaster, 6th Dragoons, to be lay-
vinaster, John Mac-
INV.ILLID DEPOT (Chatham).—Paymaster p
kenzie Kennedy, from a Recruiting District, to be aymas-
ter, vice Leech, deceased.
ROYAL HIBERNIAN ScnooL.—For Assistant-Surgeon
Francis Bowen, M.D., from the Coldstream Guards, to be
Assistant-Surgeon Francis Bowen, M.D., from the Cold-
Surgeon, &c., as stated in the Gazette of the 31st ult., read
UNATTACHED.—Captain the Hon. Fredk. Beauchamp
Cold-
stream Guards, to be Surgeon, with local rank, &c.
Pakeuhtm, from 96th Foot, to be Major, by purchase.
HOSPITAL STAPF.—Surgeon William Home Fairbairn,
M.D., from the 22d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Carey, ap-
pointed to the 22d Foot; Assistant-Surgeon Edmund
Humphrey Roberts, from the 79th Foot, to be Assistant-
Suigoon, vise Davie, appointed to the 79th Foot.
The undermentioned Acting Assistant-Surgeons have
ceased to do duty, there being no longer occasion for their
services :—Henry James Shirley ; Edwin Adolphus, M.D.;
Thomas Lambert Ilinton; Bryan Patrick McDonough,'