The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUL' 28, 1859.

fIANWELL COLLEGE SCHOOL, Middlesex.
11 Principal—The Rev. J. A. EMERTON, D.D.

T"LECTION SATURDAY and REGATTA
ALI at ETON.GREAT,, WESTERN RAILWAY.—On
SATURDAY, July 30th a SPECIAL EXPRESS TRAIN will
leave Windsor for Paddington at 10.15 p.m., after the Fire-
works.

--A-•CHANCERY.—In the matter of the, Joint-
stock Companies' Winding-up 'Acts, 1818 and 1849, and
of the Joint-Stock Companies' 'Winding-up Amendment
Act; 1857, and of the NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
Notice is Hereby. Given, that his Honour the. Vice-Chan-
cellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, the Judge to whose
Court this matter is attached, purposes on Thursday, the
fourth day of August .next, at twelve o'clock noon, at his
Chambers, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex,
to proceed to make a Call upon all the Contributories in the
above named Company, settled on the List Class C. up to this
date, and that his Honour purposes that such Call shall be
for. One pound fifteen,shillings per share.
All persons interested are entitled to attend at such time
and place, ,then and there to offer objections to such Call.
Dated this twenty-fifth day of July, 1859.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
JOHN and WILLIAM GAL SWORTHY, No, 12, Old
Jewry Chambers, in the City of London, solicitors
for GEORGE HARVEY JAY, No. 57, Coleman-
street, in the City of London, Official Manager of
the above-named Company.

•
_LANDED ESTATES COURT.
IN the matter of the Estate of Teresa Newcomen,
Widow, Owner ; ex parte Teresa Newcomen, Widow,
Petitioner.—This is to giye notice that the Landed Eestates
Court, Ireland, has ordered that a judicial declaration of the
title of the ahove-named retiilfmer, free from incumbrance,
be made to the Lands of ,Drununihg, situate in the barony of
Moydow, and COUNTY OF LONGFORD, the Estate of the
said Petitioner, and that the rental of the said lands,.setting
forth all tenancies, rights, and turbary, and other rights and
easements affecting tqe said' Lands, is lodged in the Office of
the Examiner of the Hon. Judge Hargreave, where the same
may be inspected by any party interested,' or a copy thereof
obtained. • • •

Now any person claiming to be interested in the above-
mentioned lands as owner, or claiming any charge or incum•
brance thereon, or claiming any tenancy, or any right of cut-
ting turf, right of common, right of way,• or other right or
easement, in, upon, or over the said lands, and not admitted
upon the said Rental, is required forthwith to enter an .ap-
pearance in this matter, and to file, in the proper Office of the
Court, a verified claim in writing, and to give notice thereof
to the Solicitor for the said Petitioner, in order that such
claim may be adjudicated on by the Court.
Dated this 11th day of July, 1859.
ROBERT MURDOCII, Solicitor, having carriage of the pro-
ceedings, 31, College-green.

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For MUTUAL ASSURANCE on LIVES, ANNUITIES, &c.
• Established December, 1835.
DIRECTORS:
SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq., chairman.
CHARLES LUSHINGTON,.Esq., Deputy Chairman.
.Tohn Biadbury, Esq. Robt. Ingham, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Castle, Esq. Charles Reed, Esq.
Richard Fall, Esq. ' Robert Sheppard, Esq.
John Feltham, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq.', DLP. Charles Whetham, Esq.
Charles Good, Esq.

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Cabinet and Upholstery Goods. N.B.—Unequalled Dining-
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Settees, also 100 Wardrobes to select from. Luxuriant
Down Quilts, from ss. 6d. each.-68, 69, and 58, Baker-street.
Illustrated Books post-free.

CAOUTCHOUC WHEELS—Uncommonly
easy; and run like a' top.—The equable, steady. and
uniform motion imparted to the carriage, the decreased ex-
ertion demanded from the horse, and their beautiful appear-
ance compared with the common cart wheel, applied, in igno-
rance of a superior principle, to gentlemen's carriages ; the
luxury of driving buffers, or, as it were, on soft velvety
cushions, as well as their indestructibility and durability,
render Caoutchouc Wheels, especially for carriages driven for
locomotive pleasure, indispensably necessary, and must be
supersecive of all others. At patentee's prices of respectable
carriage-builders. Mr. Davis, Patent Caoutchouc Wheel
Factor to her. Majesty, 5, Lyon's-inn, Strand.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GOODWOOD RACES.-WtMESDAY.

Although the attendance of general company was
yesterday comparatively ;meagre, the gathering to-
day was still more scanty. The flymen at Drayton
and Chichester were compelled to abandon their
exorbitant scale of charges for lack of passengers,
and acting on the poet's maxim of " None but the
brave deserve the fare," they actually fought for
any belated wight, whom they would bear off in
triumph and convey to the course on his own
terms. The proceedings in a social, but not in a
quadrupedal sense, were emphatically " slow," and
the character of the competitors was not of an
order to renter their performances important, or to
excite more, than a transient interest amongst
genuine racing men. .The Americans have proved
the truth of the saying of the man down South,
who averred that British horses' couldlick creation,
but that 'theirs could lick the British. Mr. Ten
Broeck brought froth Aineiica a stud of half-a-
dozen horses. Prioress, in her second year in Eng-
land, aftei running in such a manner as to make all
people believe that she .would not be able to win a
saddle and bridle .at 136rnet fair, carried off our
principal handicap, and nearly repeated her
achievement a second year in succession.
Now we have to record the victory of another
American importation, Starke, who until to-day
had never shown racing ability worthy of conside-
ration, but who comes and upsets the calculations
of our shrewdest turf tacticians, by winning a race
which the owners of English horses have for months
been planning and scheming to obtain. Mr. Ten
Broeck has beaten some of our best judges, literally
with their own weapons ; he has sold them his
horses and bought theirs, matched them, and come
through in triumph. He has ridden a race against
one of our most skilful amateur jockeys, and beaten
him; he has pitted his judgment against that of
Englishmen, whose racing experience dates from
their youth, and he has now beaten them. Mr. Ten
Broeck made no secret of the confidence which he
placed in his.horse, and scarcely a man in the ring
" missed laying," and that success, although attained
by an " outsider," did not give the bookmakers a
turn.

The racing .which preceded and followed the
Stakes presented_mo incident for comment.

The day was bright and sunny.
The Cowdray Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 60 added,
foetwo-yr-olds tl?A;1 upwards. The winner to be sold for
150 sovs, if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. 9 subs.
Mr. W. Day's Opera Dancer, 2 yrs, Est 41b J. Adams) 1
Mr. Jackson's Syringe, 2 yrs, 6st 71b (Challoner) 2
Mr. J. Dowling's Skittles, 2 yrs, 6st 41b (Bray) 3
The following also ran :—Fusee, Bridget colt, Knayton,
and Mazzaroni.

Betting-7 to 2 agst' Syringe, 4to 1 each agst Opera
Dancer and Bridget colt, 9 to 2 agst Fusee.

Won by a length and a half; bad third;•a head between
the third and fourth.

The winter was claimed by Mr. Jackson.
The Goodwood Derby of 25 sous each, 15 ft, for three •yr-
olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b. Winners extra.
One mile and a half. 24 subs.
Mr. W. Day's The Promised Land, 9st llb (inc. 51b ex.)
(. Da 1
Mr. IV. S. S. Crawfurd's Chapelier, Bst 101 b.. A
.. (Wells)y) 2
Betting--20 to 1 on The Promised Land (offered).
Both in the preliminary canter and the race Alfred Day
steered very clear of Chapelier. He waited upon him to
the distance, where he passed him and won by 30 lengths.
Sweepstakes of 300 sous each, h ft, for fillies, Bst 71b each.
Winners extra. Craven Course. 4 subs.
Lord Zetland's Qui Vivo Bst 71b (J. Osborne) 1
Mr. J. Merry's filly by
(Plumb) 2
Betting-3 to 1 (at first 5 to 1) on Qui Vive, who led
Stockwell—Terrona, Bst 71b
throughout and won by four lengths.
Goodwood Stakes of 25 5Q each, 15 ft, and 5 only if de-

dared, &c. Winners extra. The second to receive 100
sovs out the stakes. Two miles and a half. 98 subs., 53
of whom, declared.
Mr. R. Ten-Broeck's Starke, 4 yrs, 78t 71b .... (Plumb) 1
Mr. J. Shelley's Lifeboat, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Wells) 2
Mr. Rigby's Blue' Jacket, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (Fordham) 3
Mr. J. Thompson's Heiress, 3 yrs (inc. 31b ex.) sst 101 b
(Madden) 4
- -

The following also ran :—Melissa, Miss Cath, Compro-
mise, Gonviemi, Queenstown, Worcester, Ferndale, Ethio-
pian, Tocher; Gaspard, Queen Bess; Helia; and Woodburn.
Betting-7 to 2 agst Lifeboat, 6to 1 agst Queen Bess, 8
to 1 agst. Blue Jacket, 12 to 1 agst Compromise, 100 to 7
agst Gaspard, 100 to 6 agst Starke, 100 to 6 agst Melissa,
20 to 1 agst Ethiopian, 20 to 1 agst Worcester, 25 to 1 agst
Tocher, 25 to 1 agst Heiress, 30 to 1 agst Helia, 33 to 1
agst Qeenstown. '

The horses gOt away on the first attempt, Woodburn,
who was started 'to make running for Starke, going off
with the lead, followed by TocheT, Melissa, Queen Bess,
Heiress, and Compromise, nearly in the order named, and
pretty well :laid, Queenstown and Gouvieux whipping
in. They passed the Stand without any material alteration,
but on nearing the turn out of the straight, Woodburn in-
creased hi's lead, and in pursuit of him, at clear intervals,
were Tocher, Melissa, 4thiopian, and Heiress. About six
lengths behind them came Gaspard, with Blue Jacket, Fern-
dale, and Compromise at heels, Queenstown and Gou-
vieux being still last. After rounding the clump, Melissa
drew into the third place, and the lot were in pretty close
order soon after coming into sight, with the eiception of
Queenstown and Gouvieux, who were now hopelessly
beaten.

As they ascended the hill Melissa took up the running,
followed by Tocher, Starke, and Heiress, Lifeboat, who
had been lying off in the ruck, now joining the leading
horses. After making the last turn, and on coming down
the hill, Melissa's, leg gave way, and she dropped into the
rear, leaving Blue Jacket with the4ad,'Starke tecond, in
close attendance upon him, Lifeboat, Heiress, and Gaspard
next. At the distance, Starke took up the running, and
Lifeboat passed Blue Jacket at the enclosure, challenged
" the American," but failed to get up, and was, after a fine
race, beaten by half a length, Blue Jacket being six lengths
from the second ; HeireSs was fourth, beaten off, Compro-
mise was fifth, and Gaspard sixth, close up with Heiress.
Heading the next lot, all pulling up, were Miss Cath and
Gouvieux. The others did not pass the post. Melissa was
dismounted before reaching the stand, and far behind her
came Woodburn, trotting in.
Match, 100, h ft. Mile and a half.

Col. Vyse's Madrigal, 3 yrs, Bst 121 b (A. Day) 1
Mr. Joliffe's Africa, 3 yrs, Bst (Flatman) 2
Betting-6 to 4on Madrigal.

They walked for nearly a mile ; then they cantered to the
straight. On nearing the distance, Madrigal made as much
running as she could, and won by half a length.
Handicap Plate of 50 goys. Half a mile.

Mr. F. Robinson's Antonio, 3 yrs, Est 51b (Grimshaw) 1
Mr. H. Savile's Queen Charlotte, 3 yrs, 6st 7th (Custance) 2
Captain Christie's Spicebox, 2 yrs, sst 71b... (A. Sadler) 3
Mr. S. Williams's Penalty, 3 yrs, 7st 1 11b...(Fordhaua) 4
The following also ran :=Bastion, Polly Johnson, Bea-
trice, Enfie:d, Maradan, Pale Face, colt by Surplice, In-
fanta, Sunningdale, filly by Launcelot, Agra, Plumper,
Queen of the Vale, and Lady Bird.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Antonio, 4to 1 agst Spicebox, 10 to

1 agst any other offered.
Antonio came through, Spicebox, Queen Charlotte, and
Penalty being next all the way; the race was scarcely ever
hi doubt, Antonio winning by six lengths; bad third;
Penalty was fourth, and Plumper fifth, the lot pulling up
as they passed the post. On assembling at the post Lady
Bird and Concertina colt broke away and ran to the stand
before they were stopped ; the latter did not get back in
time to start.

auspices of the Kingston Rowing Club, and was on the
whole an excellent one.

GRAVESEND, MILTON,: AND ROSHERVILLE

ROATTA.
This Regatta, under distinguished Patronage, came off
yesterday,,,when two prizes were rowed for, viz., a new
skiff and other prizes, and a coat and badge, and other
prizes.

Watermen's Race. . . ..
First Heat. - '
John ,Taulson.
Robert Miller
,(Blue) 0
Thomas Marshall ' (fnipl'e) 0
Second -Heat., •
. .
John Tall „ (Green) 1
, .
Isaac. Cay . . ......... .... '. (Red) 0
Ralph Wilkinson (Yellow) 0
- - -•'Third•Heat. " '
Yellow
Fourth Heat.
Green- - ' 1 I.YelloW 2
Grand Heat.
Green - 1 I Yellow 2
. Won easily.
Apprentices' Race.
- • • First Heat.
Henry Mastin. (preen) 1
Edward Corby - ' '
Thoinas Dixon (Yellow) ,0
Second Beat.
William Webber . ' ' (Red) 1
Benjamin Stacbuck (Pink) 0,
George Pullon ..
Third Heat. ..'
Blue
Fourth Heat.
•
Green 1 1 Red 2
Grand Heat. .
Green • ' 1 1 Red.... ' 2
. . Won easily. ,

THE FORTHCOMING RACE FOR DOGGETT'S
COAT AND BADGE.
The following are the niunes'of the Six young watermen
who are to row on. MOndak, the Ist, at-August, for the
livery and badge given by Mr. Thomas Doggett, deceased,
a famous comedian, in commemoration of the happy acces-
sion of the family of her present Majesty to the throne of
Great Britain :
Samuel Angel Burgess ... Greenwich.
Samuel,Pahner.. .. Horselydown.
Charles Staar Farrow, jun'., Mfil-stairs.
James Lorwe .
James Isaac Trimble .. Bermondsey.
Benjamin Joseph Lily Hungerford.
The race will start at about four o'clock from the Old
Swan, London-bridge, finishing at the Old Swan, Chelsea,
and the interest attached to it is as usual very great. Lawe
is the favourite.

THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.'

(From the Times.)
When the master of many legions condescends to
argue he must receive respectful attention and a
considered reply. He proposes to convince instead
of to compel; he subjects him Self to the common
laws.of ratiocination, and he invites the . world, to
deal with him as it might with an adversary whei
has no weapon but the pen. Of course we should,
under all circumstances, yield him every courtesy
and an unprejudiced ear. But •,never . were we
English more anxious to believe and more inclined
to be even crediflous than we are upon the topic'
which has last been handled by the Imperlal pen.
Quiet enjoyment, domestic peace, freedom from
taxation, security in our business transactions with
each other and with the rest of the world, are all
involved in the conviction which the Moniteur of
Tuesday last would fix upon our minds. If we
could only believe that our faithful ally and his
loyal subjects are not restless' and inclined tb war,
•how much better it would be for us! If we could
reasonably think that national defences are things
that England cannot in any probable conjuncture
need, how much more happy we should be in our
shops and our counting-houses, and our snug•villaS
and our unfortified country, seats ! It is not willingly,
nor with any pleasurable emotion that We front
time to time recall the bold suggestion of a late
reverend wit, and shudder at the possibility of somd
mature matron in whom we may take an, interest
being led away captive by an amorous. Gaul. It
is not from having nothing else to. thing. of that
we are sometimes surprised by the uneasy thought
that we are sleeping with all our doors unlocked.
although a robbery was committed. in the satne
streets only a few nights ago. If we could only feel,
that it is beyond the .bounds of probability that
there can ever be aught but an interchange of kindly
offices between us and France we should haare none
of these disquietudes. We might browse together
and grow fat, we might lie down and chew the cud
together and ruminate into sleekness, Nothing
can be more to our interest and to our comfort `than
to be thoroughly convinced that we have nothing
to fear from France or from . her master. To the
French Emperor, therefore,' preaching in the Mom-
tear, if we cannot say " Vous prechez aux convertis,"
we can, at least affirm that he preaches to a congre-
gation most anxious to become his converts.
' But confidence—as Lord Chatham said in a
fatnous speech, 'and with a confusion of metaphor
not uncommon with that great orator—is a plant
of slow growth in an aged bosom. Old England
scarcely expects to be desired for her beaux yeux
alone. To absolute monarchs, who love not the
licence of her free tongue, her trinkets may be rea-
sonably supposed to be more attractive than her
beauty ; and great military authorities may be
imagined sometimes to sympathise. with the late
lamented Field Marshal Blucher, whoSe sole re-
mark upon the glOries of- the London streets was,
—" Mein Gott, what a town for to sack I" Wealth
always carries with it a certain `sense of distrust,
and wealth conjoined with a consciousness of weak-
ness is apt to breed a sense of constant danger. To
avoid this we must become either poor or strong,—
that is to say, strong enough to resist any reason-
ably probable danger. Our good ally, through his
official organ, invites us to believe that this danger
is absoltitely of our own invention. He says that
" the pretended exaggeration of his armaments is
made to serve as a justification for the considera-
ble augmentation of the Army and Navy Esti-
mates of Great Britain." The Emperor then
proceeds to show that during the present year
England is about to spend much more for her
Army and Navy than France is about
spend, and suggests the conclusion that inasi
much as he is making no increase upon hiS
annual expenditure for soldiers and sailors;
our increase cannot be justified by any con-1
tiderations of his proceedings. Alas ! that an
argument launched with so benevolent a design
should be so weak to do its office! If we lack the
faith to say " Credo quia impossible," we cannot, in
common sense, affect to be comforted by this faulty
reasoning. Any Oxford under-graduate could
point out and name the special fault of this halt
ing syllogism. The question is not a question of
estimates, nor even of cost. Constitutional Govern.:
ments must act by persuasion, and the instrument
to persuasion is money. What sum can we put
against the conscription ? How are we to estimate
in money the powers possessed by the French Em-
peror and forbidden to our Queen ? To judge of
the question thus proposed we must look, not at
the money spent, but the results obtained. The
French have an army of 400,000 men, ready for any
enterprise. We have an army of 110,000 ready for
no enterprise except to defend our own homesteads.
This is a not unimportant fact, but,we do not rest
upon it as any reason for suspicion. France is
surrounded by great military monarchies ; it is
natural for her to be strong in a land force, and the
mere circumstance of her maintaining herself at a
point of strength sufficient to repel either a single
or a combined attack from her military neighbours
should be no necessary cause of jealousy to us.
Loyal and unsuspecting in friendship—as England
is while England can be,—we are rather pleased
than chagrined to see France powerful. While we
act together as the guardians of order and the
friends of civilisation, her power is our power, and
her prosperity, is our strength. • But what mean
these sounds of naval preparation ? Why are these
• ships so rapidly launched, and so hurriedly fitted
with rifled cannon ? Why are the dockyards of
France so busy, and the arsenals working with such
sustained energy ? The exigencies which compel
France to keep up a land force disproportionate to
that of England compel England to keep up a naval
force disproportionate to that of France. 'England
maintains her existence upon conditions which to
France are unknown. This little island is but the
heart of our great empire. Our power must pulsate
in every quarter of the world, or the empire must
die. It is by our ships that our volition passes to
the members of our body politic, and it is to us a
chronic necessity that great fleets should be always
occupied at a distance from our shores. As com-
pared with France, our Navy can only be estimated
by our Channel Fleet. What does France want
with a fleet greater than that which England has
at home ? We have been told, and sometimes in
official documents, that the honour of France re-
quires a great naval armament, not to control
Austria, not to hold her own upon the waters with
Russia, not to curb the turbulence of Spain, not to
reach distant America—but to contest with Eng-
land the sovereignty of the seas. What does this
phrase mean ? It is not the language of confidence
and friendship ; it is not even the
language of
truth. England . neither has nor claims the
sovereignty of the seas. She is obliged to maket
felt, in distant parts by means' of her ships, h. at
power which France manifests in less distant
I parts by means of her arm "4 But she claims

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),I only for' herself what she willingly accordsto 'all
the world--equality and security. What country
suspects England,, who has opened .her ports and
her commerce to all nations, of any desire to force
the shiph' of other countries him the' • seas; or to
interfere'fir any yvay except for 'the protection of
the COME4O.I rights-of civilisation?
,This sovereignty
of the seaSisninch more a nightmare than any dis-
quieting.lththights• of invasion of this island. All
our acts in' China, all.outlegislation at home, deny
more forcibly than any phrases could deny any
such pretensions on Our part, or any wish to acquire
ground for such pretensions. Again, then, we ask,
what mean these sounds of ham Mering, 'these for-
tified harbours,. these aggravated naval armaments? Itins'Busk, Who has labbiqously compiled the
statistics of " the Navies of the World;" inhis re-
,cent.book under this title, tells us that he_ speaks
of the French Navy fro.n actual inspection,, and'
enmmerates its'fiirce at 449 vessels, whereof 265 are;
steamships .of war, ,Carrying-. 000 guns.. ,surely
we may ask without an imper,tinent cjujosity.wliat
need'there is that this mighfy armament should be
afthis Moment 'thought so insufficient that ever-'
getic measures are' required to reinforce it If we
except England and America, it could destroy all
the fleets' of the world combined. Concentrated
for any: purpose 'of offence-•to. F,ngland, she' .has
nothing:to op`pose to 'it at short inotieel buther
Channel Fleet- 'that French fleet,.so vastly supe-
rior to Ours, is a great menace. The tmperor may
interiefor 'it nothing but - the 'most peaceful or
the most distant labours; ;while. he:assures ,us
that this is so we are bound to believe, as far as
we can,' that the fact is as'affirms it. It is
nothing to say that if all the ships of 'the English
navy were collected in thephannel:We could match
this great fleet ; would be as apposite to say that
if Gibraltar-Wel-o'lU' PortAinontli
no further fortifications at that place. 'The fleets of
England never can be; all at home, and- any fcaleula-.
don of any equality, of naval force between Eng-.
land and France must necessarily .excludnall. that
part of the English NaVy which 'mist now,. and :at
all times, be present in our , distant possessions.
These are the facts. Not only has France at full
command," and within 25 miles of our shores,
400,000 men, with 'the African Zouaves -and Turces
within hail, but she is also straining .every nerve to
create a fleet which, if bidught to bear upon our
home 'waters • at an • unexpected - moment, would
enable her to throw a large portion of this great
land force upon our shores. We humbly submit to
our powerful neighbour that these are circum-
stances which are calculated to inspire some dis-
quietude even in the most trusting minds. We can=
not think that the -statement in the Moniteur, to
the effect that the preparations 'of Fran have not
been the occasion of our increased armaments and
our increased taxation, is borne -out by. the .facts
which we have now submitted. Of course it is
with much heSitation that we venture to controvert
an article proceeding from such highunthority.. It •
is hard not to be allowed even to doubt, but we
have correctly' stated 'Our position, 'aria we have
only to believe absolutely,' and to- -take one Inba-
,sures.for.additional precaution with ali reasonable
promptitude. .

In another column we print a letter from Lord
John. Russell's Secretary, stating that we ivefe; in
correct in, our report of that portion of his lordship's
speech wherein he was understood to have stated
that he considered the condition of the• Treaty. of
Villafranca to • be'" just:" • , Under the ',pressure of
this'denial have, of course, nothing to .di-Spute,
and nothing to reiterate. Whatever may have
been the words ivhich Lord 'John Russell used upon
this occasion, we. are content to know- that, upon
reflection, the Foreign Minister of England has not
advisedly committed himself 'to any favourable
opinion of the Treaty which has handed over Italy.
to Austria, and has committed the lives.and for-
tunes Of the •Tus,caus and MOdenese to the tender
mercie; Of the Sovereign S whoin they expelled 'from
their capitals. .Welvilt riot' speculate.whether the
words we have attributed to Lord John were
actually spOlzen, although spoken. inadvekently,
and 'not intended to .bear-the meaning. which when
.produced in print they undoubtedly conveyed. We
are finite satisfied to bear the blame, in considera-
tion of being assured that our Foreign Secretary
has not committed the.folly of ident i Cy in g' En gland
with that treat Times.