The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

GREENWICH REGATTA.

The eighty-second annual regatta at Greenwich, managed
as usual by Henry Thomas, for a new skiff and other prizes,
came off yesterday in five heats, with the following re-
sults :

First Heat, East-end Men

Samuel Carter (Yellow) 1
James Elliot (Red) 0
John Paine (Dark Blue) 0
Second Heat, West-end Men.

William Keys (Pink) 1
Thomas Weeks (Green) 0
William Forrest (Light Blue) 0
Third Heat, by the Losers.

Green
Red
Light Blue
Dark Blue.

Fourth Heat, by the Winners.

Pink...
Green .
Yellow
Red ...

Grand Heat,

Pink
Green
Pink achieved an easy victory.

ROTHERHITHE APPRENTICES' REGATTA.
This regatta was rowed yesterday, for a coat and badge
and other prizes.

First Heat.

Charles Crawford (Green) 1
Robert White (Pink) 0

Nathaniel Glandford (Yellow) 0
Second Heat.
Charles Craddock (Red) 1

Robert Smith (Light Blue) 0

William Sims (Dark Blue) 0
Third Heat.

Pink
Yellow
Light Blue
Dark Blue
Fourth Heat

Green
Red
Pink
ellow

Grand Heat.

Green
Red_..

GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE.

A balloon voyage has recently been made in
America, which has eclipsed that famous one made
some years ago by our veteran aeronaut Green, who
succeeded in making a journey flom this country
to Nassau. The distance travelled by Messrs. Wise,
La Montaine, Gazer, and Hyde, was not less than
1,200 miles, the time occupied being 19 hours. The
balloon, with its aeronauts, left St. Louis, on the
Mississippi, on one Friday evening, at 20 minutes
past seven, and arrived at the termination of its
career at 20 minutes past two on Saturday, having
passed over in its course the entire length of Lake
Erie, and crossing between Buffalo and the Niagara
Falls. After leaving Buffalo the aeronauts encoun-
tered a terrible hurricane, which swept the balloon
with great rapidity towards Lake Ontario. At this
moment the aeril ship lost its ascending power, and
sank quickly towards the water ; provisions, water,
ballast, and, finally, the propelling machine, were
pitched overboard, in order to make the machine
ascend. The oars and seats of the boat attached:to
the balloon were given to the waves, and the
aeronauts clambered to the car, the balloon being
not more than thirty feet above the water, while
dashing on at the rate of two miles per minute.
The balloon reached the shore after a fearful run
of fifty miles, when it rushed into a thick forest,
dashing the occupants of the car to and fro against
the trunks of the trees, until it was at last brought
up by a tall sycamore, when the silk was torn into
ribbons and the gas escaped. The greatest alti-
tude attained during the voyage was something
over two miles, and the balloon was charged at
starting with 75,000 cubic feet of gas. The voyage
was intended for an experiment preparatory to
crossing the Atlantic. Fortunately, none of the
aeronauts sustained any great injury, and they are
all confident that aerial navigation for great dis-
tances will yet be found to be perfectly practicable.

Intelligence was received that the Argo screw
steamer, onshore in Trepassy Bay, cannot be got off, and
will it is feared. become a total wreck.

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"BERLIN, June 24.
" To Count Bernstorff, at London, and the Baron
Bismarck-Schonhausen, at St. Petersburg.
" The rapidity with Which military events in
Italy have for some time past succeeded each other ;
the overthrow of the governments of Tuscany,
Parma, and Modena ; the insurrections that have
taken place in other parts of the Peninsula;
the uncertainty prevailing in men's minds as to the
probable duration and extent of a contest in which
two powerful empires are engaged; all these causes
have determined the government to mobilise a part
of the Prussian army for prudential reasons, and
at the same time for the sake of its own dignity.
" The excitement that has seized hold of Ger-
many, the constantly increasing approach of the
belligerent parties towards the German frontiers,
and the chances of a war, which we have endea-
voured by our counsels most heziedix and loyally
to prevent, would have been in theoselre sufficient
grounds for justifying our armaments, which, more-
over, merely correspond to those made by our
neighbours.
" On the other hand you comprehend that we
ought at this moment to be in a position to watch
the march of events, the final result of which may
endanger the equilibrium of Europe by weakening
an empirs with which we are connected through
the Germanic Confederation, and by injuring the
bases of international law, which we have contri-
buted to found, and which the great family of the
states of Europe has an interest in maintaining.
" The attitude we have thought it our duty to
take prejudges in no respect the Italian question,
or the numerous interests at stake in that question.
But the Prince Regent, conscious of his right and
of the duties that impose on him the care of his
own dignity as well as of the interests of his own
country and Germany, could not renounce the ex-
ercise of the influence he rightfully lays claim to,
or by a passive attitude approve beforehand the
changes, which the territorial circumscriptions have
undergone or may undergo in one of the countries,
which is bound to the great family of European
nations by such numerous ties.
" Nevertheless, it would be wrong to suppose
any intention on the part of the Prussian Govern•
ment of wishing by precipitate or arbitrary inter-
ference to attempt to aggravate a situation already
full of dangers of itself, and without making a
previous appeal to the other
,powers, to bring for-
ward such or such a solution of a question, that
trenches on too many interests not to be, as regards
the general welfare, the object of a common solici-
tude to all the great powers. Quite on the con-
trary. Prussia by her attitude, influence, and
advice can hare no other object save that which she
endeavoured a short time back to attain, in concert
with England and Russia; she can have but one
desire, that of bringing back into the path of nego-
tiation, with a view to a solution equitable for all,
and containing in itself the guarantees of dura-
bility, a. question from which deplorable errors
have removed the common basis which Europe can
and ought to approve, inasmuch as it involves
principles upon which its political and social order
depends.

I" Our armaments, I repeat, have no other mean-
ing; they announce no new policy on our part, any
more than they do the wish to add fresh complica-
tions to those we had hoped to prevent, and the
development of which we have been incessantly
observing with anxiety and regret. We desire
peace, and making that our starting-point, we
confidently address ourselves to the cabinets of
London and St. Petersburg, that we may find, in
agreement with them, the means of stopping the
effusion of blood, and of restoring as soon as pos-
sible to Europe that repose and security which her
moral and material interests demand.
"It is notorious that we have deplored and
energetically disapproved the fatal resolution with
which, at the very moment when the other powers
were endeavouring to find the bases of an equitable
solution, the cabinet of Vienna brought about a
rupture we had hoped to prevent by our common
action. But notwithstanding this error, we are no
less of opinion that Europe, and Germany
in parti-
cular, cannot see with indifference the weakening
of a power that by her geographical position and
peculiar configuration has always appeared to us to
be an essential element and a natural guarantee of
the general equilibrium.
" Although we still maintain this principle, we
are, nevertheless, very far from ignoring the
difficulties that beset the simple restoration of a
state of things which has led not only to war,
but to a series of insurrections gradually spread-
ing through the north and central part of
Italy, and we belive that real and extensive re-
forms will be a surer and juster mode of maintain-
ing order and tranquillity in those provinces, than
those violent measures and that display of military
force which are quite as onerous to Austria as out
of proportion to the resources of her Italian pro-
vinces. Similarly we are of opinion, that the
treaties in virtue of which Austria exercised over
several neighbouring states a sort of protectorate
may be replaced by a combination less repugnant
to the views of the people, and that order and
legality, without which all prosperity and wise
progress are impossible, may have securer guaran-
tees than those of which we have just witnessed
the final impotence.

" From what has preceded you will understand
that we, on our part, cannot think of aiding in the
impossible return to a past state of things that has
produced such sad results, and that, on the con-
trary, we shall eagerly receive any proposition
tending to reconcile the rights of the Austrian
house with a work of re-organisation based on libe-
ral and conciliatory principles, and which should
appear to us of a nature to satisfy the legitimate
wishes of the Italian peoples.
" We also believe that we are justified in record-
ing the categorical declarations of the Emperor
Napoleon, and his resolution not to make conquests
or territorial acquisitions for France. This inten-
tion, which was clearly and precisely announced
beforehand, and which later declarations have only
served further to confirm, appears to us a precious
pledge for our hope of a pacific solution ; it seems
to us that it is one of the hypotheses on the basis
of which there will speedily be a possibility by a
common understanding of laying down propositions
which we should wish to address to the belligerent
powers conjointly with the courts of London and
Russia.

Were we to render our ideas on this point more
explicit we should to a certain extent prejudge a
question we so cordially desire to see brought back
within the pale c f negotiation and European agree-
ment. We are obliged to limit ourselves to the
sketching out of these ideas and sho vvingyou their in-
timate connexion, and to the proclaiming of our sin-
cere wish to .put an end to the evils of a war which,
by approaching the territory of the Germanic Con-
federation, may at any moment impose on us more
direct and pressing obligations, and to addressing
ourselves with perfect confidence and unbiassed
frankness to the great powers who, hitherto keep-
ing aloof from this unhappy contest, are obliged,
like ourselves, to interpose in time so as to prevent
a general conflagration.

" We indulge in the hope that you will easily in-
duce the cabinet of London (St. Petersburg) to set
forth to us, with the same frankness that we have
thought it our duty to use, its views respecting a
solution of the actual complications, and the means