The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1859

RUSSELL had given them to us ; though we are ' I
not so sure whether he would not, after all, have
higgled a little about the former. And the plain
fact we take, therefore, to be, that we are less
likely to carry auy Reform Bill worth having than
we should have been under Lord DERBY.
But what 'now will the present Ministry have
the heart to 'offer ? Are they a Cabinet to throw
themselves on the country by a measure which,
like Mr. BRIGHT'S, would have raised the enthu-
siasm of all classes ? Are they prepared even to
confer the Ballot at all, which alone would carry
any bill out of doors of which it formed a part ?
If so, why is Mr. BRIGHT left out ? But we are
pointed to Mr. COBDEN, holding the same views ;
and to Mr. MILNER GIBSON. Mr. GIBsoN is a
very quiet radical, though he has of late years
always professed the radical cause. Mr. COBDEN
was, very conveniently, away ; and, almost as con-
veniently, he is known, partly from purely personal
reasons, with which we all sympathise, and partly
from temperament, desirous to remain out of office.
Most likely he will not accept the proffered ap-
pointment—honour we can hardly call it—when he
would rather honour such an office than the office
him. In that case, doubtless some old stager like
Mr. WILSON will be put in ; not, we presume, the
alter ego in the opinions of Mr. COBDEN, the member
for Birmingham, to whom the reversion should
fall. We take the exclusion of the most efficient
orator on the Liberal side to mean, that nothing
approaching his standard is to be thought of.
The press of all parties marvels at the treatment of
Mr. BRIGHT. His strongest opponents honour-
ably acknowledge his unquestioned ability and his
claims on his party, while the purely party papers
only twaddle about his self-denying patriotism in
not demanding a seat in a Cabinet filled out with
several respectable mediocrities. This we think
contemptible. Let the truth be spoken. A bill
worthy of Mr. BRIGHT'S sanction, as Tribune of
the People, is not in contemplation. The Sunder-
land electors will find that we have a Cabinet
practically as Conservative as that for which Mr.
LINDSAY, as a Radical Reformer, voted, because of
two sets of Conservatives, he thought it would
do most for us.

However, time will soon show. If the new
coalition—a coalition of unquestioned ability—
disappoint our fears, none will be more rejoiced to
acknowledge it than we shall. We do wish to be
true prophets, though we choose to be faithful
ones. Let the present Government bring forward
a bill which the country will force the Lords to
accept, and we will do full justice to the boldness
of a RUSSELL-PALMERSTON Cabinet.

We may surely congratulate ourselves at last
upon having discovered the veritable author of the
little handbook of " Hints on Etiquette." It can
be no other certainly than Mr. TRAILL, the police
magistrate of Greenwich, whose hand has penned
that oracular treatise upon social amenities. Two
such authorities upon etiquette cannot by possibi-

lity, we should imagine, be contemporaneous. Our
age could not reasonably expect to be so highly
favoured. Therefore, and in obedience to one of
the most obvious laws of probability, we may take
it for granted as a thing incontrovertibly proven
that Mr. TRAILL, and Mr. TRAILL alone, the Green-
wich police magistrate, is, must be, the author of
" Hints on Etiquette." We have been led to
this remarkable and deeply-interesting discovery
by a case brought before the worthy magistrate upon
Wednesday last, the fifteenth of this present month
of June—a charge of assault being then and there
preferred by a City clerk, named JOSHUA FENTON,
against one Mr. RICHARD WHITE, gentleman (?),
of Orchardleigh Villa, in the Borough of Rother-
hithe. It appears from the reporter's account of
this peculiar little police-case that the complainant,
a few days back, at about a quarter to six o'clock
in the evening, was on the outside of an omnibus
riding from Gracechurch-street to Rotherhithe.
Together with others then on that omnibus, our
City clerk was smoking. It matters nothing at all
whether he was smoking the choicest tobacco-leaf
rolled into a cigar a guinea a whiff, or the merest cab-
bage-leaf dried in the sun and soaked in tobacco juice,
and then popularly called by the name, style, and
title of a Penny Pickwick. He was smoking, as
we have remarked ; others were also outside that
omnibus, when upon reaching London-bridge, de-
fendant, without addressing himself apparently to
any one in particular, observed, " Don't you know
smoking is not allowed upon omnibuses"—
thereupon at the same moment snatching the
cigar out of complainant's mouth, and throw-
ing it into the roadway. Contenting himself
with remarking—not a very surprising or a very
unjustifiable remark, surely, under the circum-
stances " Your conduct is impertinent, " Mr.
JOSHUA FENTON, the City Clerk, attempted quite
naturally we conceive, and as he had a perfect
right to do, to light another cigar. Whereupon
quoth the defendant, " If you light it, I'll throw
you and your cigar off the omnibus." The com-
plainant, adds the reporter, lighted a cigar, and
thereupon the defendant knocked his hat of, and
scratched his face. Positive evidence is hereby
afforded of no less than three distinct
assaults made by the defendant upon the
complainant—first the cigar snatched out of his
mouth and thrown into the roadway—secondly, his
hat knocked off after it—thirdly, his face scratched
into the bargain. Now, upon all these gross and
flagrant proceedings upon the part of the aforesaid
gentleman of Rotherhithe, observe the oracular
comments indulged in by Mr. TRAILL, the Green-
wich police magistrate. According to the reporter
Mr. TRAILL said—" No doubt the defendant has
been guilty of an assault, and acted in
a most dictatorial manner towards per-
sons as respectable as himself [a very left-handed
compliment by the way to the assaulted and in-
sulted city clerk], which [the manner, we presume,
and not the persons] was calculated to produce the
very opposite effect to that desired. There is no
law," added Mr. TRAILL, benignantly enlightening

the presumed ignorance of his hearers upon this
point, " against smoking on an omnibus, although
[he immediately took occasion to remark, with
much emphasis] it might be well that such

an act of Parliament should be passed."
Imagine an act of Parliament, Vict. 22-23,
such a chapter, such a section, to " put down,"
smoking outside an omnibus ! The idea is not un-
worthy of Sir PETER LAURIE. But to return to
Mr. ,TRAILL—the reporter [suddenly advancing
from the third to the first person startled
probably by the oracular nature of the weighty

judgment he was reporting] adds as follows :
(Mr. TRAILL) had as strong objections as any one
to tobacco-smoke [hence of course his decision], but

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defendant's conduct was very improper, and
had the complainant not insisted on lightii4
his cigar a second time, I should inflict
a fine." Now, listen to the authoritative voice
of the veritable original author of " Hintseon Eti-
quette"—indulging us for the nonce with a sort of a
hint supplementary—" I wish it to be distinctly
understood [to all those to whom these presents,
&c., greeting] I wish it to be distinctly understood
that no person has a right to indulge in a habit
after being informed that it is offensive to his
neighbour." Not a whisper, here by Mr. TRAILL,

We

of the city clerk having been informed that
his cigar was objectionable to the very gen-
tlemanly person sitting next him, by having
that cigar bodily snatched out of his mouth and
flung into the roadway ! And so defendant was
not fined by Mr. TRAlLL—because Mr. TRAILL
himself has an inextinguishable abhorrence of
tobacco smoke—the assailant being merely con-
strained to pay the costs of complainant and his
witnesses, £1 15s. 6d., entering at the same time
also into his own recognizances in £2O not to repeat
the like assault for the next six months. " A
DANIEL, yea, a very DANIEL"—and, what is better
still, one quite a la mode—" come to judgment !"

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

VERONA, JUNE 21 (via Vienna).
His Imperial Majesty yesterday transferred his
head-quarters to Villafranca.

PARIS, JUNE 22.
The illoniteur of this morning contains the fol•

lowing telegram :
BRESCIA, dune 20.—1 t is announced that the
Austrians, who in great force had occupied strong
positions at Lonate, Castiglione, and Montechiaro,
where they had fortified themselves with care by
embattlementing the walls, cutting the bridges, and
constructing numerous batteries, have abandoned
all those positions.

The Emperor has left Brescia today in order to

advance.

TURIN, JUNE 21
The following advices have been received from
Brescia to the 19th inst

General Garibaldi marched yesterday morning
from Salo towards Desenzanto, but meeting with
the enemy in considerable force, withdrew.
An Austrian steamer on the Lago di Garda fired
on his men, but our artillery silenced it.

BERNE, JUNE 21.

The news that a French corps d'armec has
arrved in the Valteline is untrue. The news re-
ferred to a Lombard corps, led by some of General
Garibaldi's officers, which was stationed in the
Valteline. Garibaldi has at present pushed his
outposts as far as Balladore, in the direction of
Bordio, which is occupied by 400 Austrians.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 21.
Kossuth has embarked here this morning for
Genoa.

Letters from Rome to the 18th inst. announce
;hat 2,000 Papal troops have been sent to Perugia
;o restore order.

A collision has taken place at Cernia between a
detachment of Papal troops and the inhabitants.

TURIN, JUNE 21.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

According to ad vices from Brescia to the 18th
inst. the Sardinian army preserves its positions
before Brescia at Rezzato and Castenedolo. The
French army occupies Brescia / and its environs in
line with the Sardinians.

On the 17th inst. the Austrians re-occupied Mon.
teehiaro with a considerable force.

Fano, Urbino, Fossombrone, Sesi, and Ancona
have pronounced for the national cause.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Posi
(Second Edition) says—

" I understand the Governments of Turin and
that of France have agreed in recommending the
Tuscans not to demand the absorption of Tuscany
in the Kingdom of Piedmont. I also learn that
the Emperor Napoleon and King Victor Emmanuel
desiro the Italians of all the States of the pen-
insula to employ their energies in assisting the
military action of the allies, leaving all ques-
tions of government and annexation to be
discussed and decided upon after the expul-
sion of the Austrians from Italy. The Emperor
seems to wish the Italians would remember his own
words on a late solemn occasion :—" Italiens, ne
soyez aujourd'hui .que soldats, domain vous serez
citoyens libres d'un grand pays.
" The Papal Nuncio at Paris has received assur-
ances again that the allies will not offend in any
way the neutrality of the Roman States, or encour-
age revolt in the Pontiff's dominions.

" There is no truth in the assertion of the Bel-
gian papers that M. Kossuth had received a
French passport to travel through France into Italy.
The illustrious Hungarian patriot has not received
any favours directly or indirectly from the Go-
vernment or authorities of Napoleon 111. The
French Government, I may add, does not encourage
any revolutionary movement in Hungary.
"I hear a despatch has reached the Empress at
St Cloud, stating that an important engagement
had taken place this morning between the Allies
and an Axstrian force near Montechiaro. The
Austrians had been driven back, and the main body
of the French army had advanced considerably.
No important news from the seat of war had
reached official quarters to-day up to three o'clock.
All then known was that the Sardinian army
maintained its positions before Brescia, at Rezzeto,
and Castenedolo. The French were at Brescia and
the neighbourhood with the Sardinians. The Aus-
trians on the 17th re-occupied Montechiaro with a
large body of cavalry.
" We are still expecting to hear of a great battle,
which may last, it is calculated, three days."

The following appears in the Moniteur :

" In the precipitation with which the head-quarters of
the Austrian army were removed from Abbiate-Grasso,
after the battle of Magenta, several important papers were
forgotten. Among them is a report or journal dated 3d
June, at midnight, and signed `H. dar Redern,' major of
the staff, and containing precise details concerning the com-
bats of Palestro. It is curious to compare the recital of M.
de Redern with that given by the Austrian journals.
After having spoken of the force and situation of the Aus-
trian army, which had 21 brigades between the Ticino and
the Sesio, the report continues as follows :

" In the afternoon of the 30th May, a Piedmontese
division warmly attacked the Austrian advanced posts be-
tween Vercelli and Palestro. The battalion of Greandiers of
the Regiment of Leopold (brigade Weigl, of the 7th corps)
held Palestro for some time, but retired before superior
forces. A column of two companies, sent in sup-
port with two pieces of artillery, was repulsed,
and lost its guns. Another battalion was brought up but
it could not support the fire. The division Lilia, of the 7th
corps, composed of the brigades Weigl and Dorndorf, then
took up a position at Robbie. On receiving this news, the
head .quarters were removed in the night of the 30th to
Mortara. The division Jellachich of the 2d corps (brigades
Szabo and Rudelka) was marched from Cergnano towards
Robbio to support the division Lilia, while the division
Ilerdy, of the same corps, went in the night to Mortara,
where it arrived at five o'clock in the morning of the 31st.
On the 31st General Zobel was ordered to retake Palestro
with the two brigades of his corps (the 7th) and those of
the 2d corps. The brigade Dorndorf was directed to attack
it in front ; the brigade Weigl to proceed en the right of the
Austrian line and attack the left of the enemy ; the brigade
Szabo, leaving Rosasco, was to turn the enemy by its own
right ; and the brigade Rudelka to form the reserve. The
combat commenced about nine o'clock. In spite of the
bravery of the column Weigl, it could not debouch because
the road, being narrow, would only allow two pieces of
artillery to be brought into play, while the enemy had
opened a successful fire with two howitzers. The general
received a musket ball through his arm, but notwithstand-
ing the wound, he remained for four hours after on the
field of battle. The brigade Dorndorf advanced es far as

the village in spite of the heavy fire of the enemy, but was
repulsed with the loss of 750 men. The brigade Szabo had
commenced its march under the protection of a battery of
12-pounders, when it was suddenly attacked on the flank
and rear by three battalions of Zouaves near Rivoltella.
The 7th battalion of Chasseurs, which led the way, lost 500
men. The battalions of infantry quickly retired, but the
battery, which got into a cross road, was all lost with the
exception of one gun. After the retreat of the brigade Dorn-
dorf, the general brought up that of Kudelka, which, as
above mentioned, was kept in reserve. Kudelka reached
the village, but was in his turn repulsed by superior forces.

The combat had now lasted four hours, and the losses were
very great particularly in officers, when the first news
reached the head-quarters at one o'clock in the afternoon.'

Nothing can be more clear than this statement :
On the 30th, Palestro was taken by the Piedmon-
tese, who repulsed a battalion of the Regiment
Leopold (7th corps); then two companies with two

nieces of artillery which they took, and next a third

battalion sent against them. On the 31st, the

divisions Jellachich and Lila attacked Palestro,

and their brigades were successively repulsed, and
the 3d Regiment of Zouaves took five pieces of
artillery from the brigade Szabo. The Austrians

,ffected their retreat at one o'clock in the after-

noon, after having suffered a loss of 1,250 men. Let
us now see how the Austrian journals report the
affair. The Austrian Gazette says :

" The Piedmontese attacked Palestro, but were repulsed.'
The Augsburg Gazette says ;—‘ To drive out the Pied-
montese who had possession of Palestro on the 30th by
surprise, during a violent storm, General Baronzobel re-
solved to attack the village on the 31st on two sides at the
same time. The brigade of General Weigl, who was
slightly wounded in the affair, had been recalled from Rob-
bio and made itself master of the groups of houses on the
south-west of the village. It would certainly have made
further progress, if the brigade Szabo, sent for from Rosas-
co, had not met at Rivoltella a French brigade which
opposed a vigorous resistance. The impetuosity of the
Zouaves could not, however, stand against the energetic
resolution of the Austrian Chasseurs of the 7th battalion,
who overcame every obstacle. On this occasion, as in
every other, the Austrians had to contend against superior
numbers. Their loss, without counting General Weigl,
who was slightly wounded, was 8 9810ers and 500 men
wounded and 300 men killed.

On comparing the above reports, it will be seen

Ist, that the Austrian Gazette affirms quite the
contrary to what really took place; and 2dly, that
the Augsburg Gazette diminishes by one-half the
Austrian forces beaten at Palestro, and reduces their
loss from 1,250 to 808."
The following is the extract of a letter from an
English gentleman at Venice :

"We are in a comfortable state here, truly ; a French
fleet outside—proclamations inside stating that at the
smallest symptom of insurrection the city will be sub-
jected to fire and sword—and that anybody ringing church
bells, waving a flag or making a signal of any kind, will be
immediately shot, without the formality of a trial. The
excitement I find to be a most excellent thing for a slug-
gish liver—it beats calomel hollow. . . . The Vigilant, a
fine vessel of four guns, is here opposite the Piazzetta and
my residence. They have dances on board at times, and
it is strange to hear and see English hornpipes danced by
the light of the ship lanterns, with the old glorious Palace
of St. Mark in the distance. All the hotels are empty, and
there is no table d'hote."

The Parma Gazette publishes the following
account of the taking of Brescello by four gen-

darmes :

" Captain Lafouge, aide-de-camp of General d'Aute-
marre, with four Parmesan gendarmes on horseback,
and a lieutenant of that corps, went in the morning
of the 14th from Parma to reconnoitre Brescello, which was
known to be occupied by 100 men of the Este troops. From
the tower of Lentigione, Capt. Lafouge was not able to dis-
tinguish any movement of troops, and he accordingly ad-
vanced to the fortifications. There two of the gendarmes
begged to be allowed to explore Brescello alone, and
although the captain wished to dissuade them, they gal-
loped with their swords drawn towards the palissades.
They were soon followed by the two other gendarmes and
the two officers. The four gendarmes not meeting with
any resistance at the first barrier, though it was guarded by
15 soldiers, went on to the principal square, and there a de-
tachment of the guard, learning that a French officer ac-
companied the gendarmes, hastened to surrender. The
inhabitants then taking the national cockade from beneath
their clothes cried out ' Long live the gendarmes I Long
liVe the French I' The gendarmes subsequently returned
to Parma, where the French consul, informed by the cap-
tain of what had taken place, congratulated the commander
of the gendarmerie on the conduct of his four men.
A Dresden letter says :
" The principal German bankers are hard beset at the
present moment by the different Governments, anxious to
obtain loans to meet the expenses of their armaments, Ba-
varia, Hanover, Wurtemburg, Electoral Hesse, Grand-
Ducal Hesse, and many third class States, are making the
most seductive offers. There seems, however, little dispo-
sition to take advantage of them, and since Prussia has de-
cided on mobilising a great part of her army, Saxon capi-
talists, instead of making advances, are endeavouring to
realise their securities. The consequence is, that the new
Prussian loan, which has been at a premium of 4 per cent.,
is now at a discount of 2 or 3 per cent., and for long dates
sellers might be found even at a lower figure. In Hanover,
the financial embarrassments have reached such a point,
that the Minister of Finance proposed, a few days since, to
employ the capital of the sinking-fund of the public debt
for the expenses of the State. But the Council of the Trea-
sury, the members of which are independent of the Minis-
try from being named by the Chambers, refused their con-
sent to such a measure, on the ground that the engage-
ments of the State towards its creditors, must be respected,
even in time of war."
A very curious article is published in the Gazette
de France, which affirms that in 1830, when the
Restoration fell, Charles X. was taking measures
for the complete revision of the treaties of 1815.
and that overtures on the subject had been made
by the French Government to Russia, through its
Ambassador, M. de Mortemart :
"In the month of September, 1829," it says, "a memo-
randum was read in a Council of Ministers, presided over
by the King and approved of by him, containing the whole
plan to be carried out either by means of a Congress or by
a separate understanding with Russia and Prussia, and by
the sword of the French soldiers. We shall simply give
here the substance of the paper, which was based on the
enfranchiseMent of the Greco-Slavonian soil, and on the
thrusting back of the Turks on their Asiatic provinces.
Russia was to receive, in Europe, Moldavia and Wallachia.
Austria was add to her possessions Bosnia, Turkish
Crotia, the Herzgovin a, and Servia. Servia and Bosnia
better defended by nature and art than Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, were to serve as a counterpoise for what Russia
gained on the Danube. Prussia was to be extended and
strengthened towards Austria by the annexation of the
kibgdom of Saxony ; she was thus to become a maritime
power, by the acquisition of Holland, and anti-English.
But she was to yield up to France Sarrebruch and Sarre-
louis ; to Bavaria, a portion of her Rhenish provinces,
which enabled the latter state, by means of exchanges, to
join two detached fragments of her territory, and to cede
Landau to France ; lastly, 1,400,000 Catholic subjects of
Prussia would recover their Rhenish nationality, with a
capital at Aix-la-Chapelle and a sovereign of their own
religion, the King of Saxony. By this combination
Prussia would no longer touch the French frontiers ;
a state incapable of injuring France was placed be-
tween her and Prussia ; the bonds of religious
unity would connect France with the intermediate
State, and France also acquired three fortified places
which increased her security on the northern frontier.
The King of Holland, it is true, lost his possessions, but he
was to place upon his head the crown of the Constantines,
and was to reign at Constantinople over an empire of ten
millions of souls. France was to enter into possession of
the Belgian provinces to the Rhine and the Meuse. This
plan, as a whole, conciliated all the interests of the Conti-
nent, and was susceptible of every modification of a nature
to satisfy them."
As to England, which evidently would object,
she was to be coerced, the intention being to carry
out the plan " without suffering any opposition or
control from Great Britain." The Gazette declares
that the Emperor Nicholas fully approved of the
scheme, and that measures would certainly have
been taken for its immediate execution, had not the
revolution of July upset the whole design. What
the intention of our contemporary can be in making
this strange piece of secret history known to the
world at this particular moment, it is not easy
to divine, unless indeed the key to the mystery be
found in the concluding phrase of the article :
" We are not going to examine here the prospect
held out to us by the present war ; but it is to be
hoped that the success of our arms will 'have the
result of leading to an advantageous modification
of the European system."
The Milan Gazette publishes a letter from Venice,
in which it is related that on the 6th the autho-
rities of that city ordered a grand illumination for
the victory of Magenta. The Venetians, it is added,
were thrown into consternation at this news, but
were soon consoled on seeing at a distance the
French fleet illuminating also!
At Vienna, on the 18th, officp
via returns were pub-
lished, fixing the losses of the Austrian army at
Magenta to be----killed, 63 Officers and 1,302 sol-
diers ; wounded, 218 OlCere and 4,130 soldiers ;
missing, 4,000 men.
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