The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon
at Buckingham Palace.
Earl Delawarr had an audience and delivered to her Ma-
jesty his gold key and his wand of office, as Lord Chamber-
lain of the Household.

Viscount Sydney had an audience, kissed hands on his
appointment, and received from the Queen his gold key and
wand of office as Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's
Household.

Viscount Newport had an audience of her Majesty and
resigned his gold key and wand of office as Vice-Chamber •
lain of the Household.

Viscount Castlerosse had an audience, kissed hands on
his appointment, and receired from the Queen his gold key
and wand of office as Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's
Household.

Col. the Right Hon. Cecil Forester had an audience of
the Queen and resigned his wand of office as Comptroller
of the Household.

Lord Proby had an audience, kissed hands on his ap-
pointment, and received from the Queen his wand of office
as Comptroller of her Majesty's Household.
The Right Rev. Dr. Campbell had an audience of the
Queen, and did homage upon being appointed Bishop of
Bangor. Sir George C. Lewis, Secretary of State for the
Home Department, and the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Rus-
sell,--Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting, assisted at the
ceremony.

Loid Harris had an audience of the Queen upon his re-
turn from India, and was presented to her Majesty by Sir
Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India.

Sir George C. Lewis and Sir Charles Wood had an au.
dience of her Majesty.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Last evening " Don Giovanni" was repeated before a
vast audience, which filled every corner of Drury-lane
Theatre. So great, indeed, was the assemblage that it was
found necessary to accommodate several persons with seats
behind the scenes. The specially interesting feature in tho
entertainment, and of course one of its very great attrac-
tions, was the first appearance this season of Madlle. Picco
lomini as Zerlina ; and never, perhaps, did this gifted
artiste act the part with greater spirit or effect. She was
enthusiastically applauded throughout, and rapturously
encored in " La ci darem" and " Vedrai carino."

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has
left Claridge's Hotel for Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby.
The Prince Hohenlohe Schillingfust will arrive
at the Brunswick Hotel, in Jermyn-street, to-day, where
apartments have been engaged for his reception.
The Lady Howard de Walden has arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from Brussels.

Lady Mary Wood has issued invitations for two
balls, to take place respectively on the Bth and 15th pros.
Lord and Lady, Gifford have arrived 'at Stevens's
Hotel, Bond:street.
The Hon. Mrs. Coventry's ball is fixed to take
place on Wednesday, the 13th July.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden Manor, Bucks.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Peel have arrived at Fenton's
Hotel, from Lancashire. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hunt and Miss
Hadden have left the same establishment for Souttampton.
The Right Hon. Maziere Brady has been ap-
pointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, by which that gentle-
man-s pen6ion of £-1,000 per annum as el-Chancellor will
be saved to the public.
The 'Chancellor of the Exche4uer has appointed
Mr. C. L. Ryan, of the Treasury, to be hut private
segretig,

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

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

PARIS, JUNE 24.

The Moniteur contains a note explaining the
nature of the Dictatorship offered by the whole of
Italy to the King of Sardinia. One concludes
wrongly that Piedmont without consulting the
wishes of the different peoples or the great powers
reckon on uniting the whole of Italy in one single
State. Such conjectures have no foundation. The
different peoples, whether delivered or abandoned,
desire to make common cause against Austria.
With, this intention they have placed themselves
under the protection of the King, but the Dictator-
ship is purely a temporary power, which, whilst
uniting the common forces in the same hands, in
no way presages combination for the future.

TURIN, TUNE 23.

The main body of the Austrian army is on the
left bank of the Mincio. The Piedmontese have
advanced towards Pcschiera, and, after a vigorous
encounter, repulsed the outposts of the enemy, who
lost several killed. The entire French force has
passed the Chiese at Montechiaro, pushed a recon-
naissance as far as Goito, and surprised the main
Austrian guard ( Grande Garde Autrichienne), which
lost nine prisoners and some killed.

WEIMAR, JUNE 23.

The Grand Duchess Dowager, mother of the
Princess of Prussia, and aunt of the Emperor
Alexander, died this evening at eight o'clock.

VERONA, JUNE 23 (VIA VIENNA).

The head-quarters of the Emperor of Austria
have been removed to Vallegio. The feeling of the
troops is excellent. At Antivari English as well
as French war steamers are expected.

VIENNA, JUNE 23.

The Austrian Government formally declares that
the cruelties attributed to General d'Urban, in the
message of Count Cavour, are entirely devoid of
foundation.
Details will be published shortly.
Prince Esterhazy's visit to London is unaccom-
panied by any official mission whatever.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 23.

Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 14th. Said Pasha has been summoned to
send his contingent toßoumelia, but replied that the
indecisive policy of the Porte compromises Egypt,
and that he will therefore send no succours, but
will put his army on a war footing.
Dervisch having again taken Klobuck from the
Montenegrins, the Porte has ordered him to con-
tinue hostilities. It is asserted that the regular
troops have already begun devastation.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

Prussia has demanded permission to march 31,000
troops through Hanover to the Rhine between the
Ist and the sth of July.
The Nord of the 21st contains the following :
" At a military conference held yesterday morn-
ing it was resolved that the Guards should re•
main at Beriin and at Potsdam. The four regiments
of the Landwehr of the Guards, and two regiments
of cavalry, will be cantoned in the province of
Brandenburg. The 4th, 7th, and Bth corps of the
army will take up positions between the lower and
central Rhine; the 3d and sth upon the Upper
Rhine and the. Maine ; the sth corps (Posen) will
proceed to its destination by the route of Silesia,
Saxony, and Bavaria. The departure of troops
will take place about the Ist of July."

The Independance of Brussels publishes the fol
lowing :

" If the information we have received is correct—and we
have had many opportunities of ascertaining the accuracy
of intelligence transmitted from the same quarter—the fol-
lowing are the bases of the Prussian propositions presented
at Vienna, and which will soon be forwarded to Paris if they
have not been so already :—' A congress shall regulate the
Italian question on the broadest moral bases conceded by
Austria, with revision of the treaties concluded by that
Power with the other States of the Italian peninsula. The
territorial delimitations established by the treaties of 1815
shall be regarded as the unchangeable groundwork of the
arrangement. The annexations made to Sardinia with the
consent of France shall not be sanctioned.' If these pro-
positions are made at Vienna and Paris, we feel certain
that Austria will accept them, probably has done so
already, and that France will reject them. 'With the
exception of previous disarming, which is now out of the
question, these are the very propositions put forward by
Lord Cowley, which were not altogether unreasonable be-
fore the war began, but now, after the battles of Monte-
bello, Palestro, Magenta, Male,gnane, the conquest of Lom-
bardy, the revolutions of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena,
the agitation in the Legations, and the alarms felt at
Venice, will most certainly be rejected by France. The
Cabinet of the Tuileries will have abundant reason to justify
such a decision. The first is that the Prussian proposi-
tions came too late, as they ought to have been imposed on
Austria before her armies invaded the Piedmontese terri-
tory ; now that the Cabinet of Vienna is compelled to
stand on the defensive, the bases of the negotiation must
be modified in favour of the national exigencies of Italy."
A Piedmontese squadron, composed of six steam
frigates, left Genoa on the 18th, under the com-
mand of Baron Tolosano. Two large gunboats are
being finished in that port ; two more are building
at Leghorn.
The King of Sardinia has decided that the army
of Lombardy shall be composed of 10 regiments of
infantry and two regiments of cavalry.
Prince Eugene of Savoy has issued a decree,
dated the 15th, regulating the provisional govern-
ment of the Parmese provinces. A governor is ap-
pointed to act in the King's name ; all the authori-
ties are placed und& his control. The Ministerial
departments are suppressed, and special directors
appointed to each; the functionaries previously at-
tached to these departments remain in office under
the directors. The present governorships and pre-
fectures are done away with, and intendants-
general and intendants substituted. All the police
offices are suppressed, the officials belonging to
them remaining at the diiposal of the Governor.
Delegates of public security are instituted. In
every other respect the old organisation is provi-
sionally maintained.
A letter from Florence of the 19th, in the Siecle,
says :—" A squadron of Pontifical Dragcons crossed
the frontier with arms and baggage, and have to-
day entered this city. Men and horses are magni-
ficent, and the general appearance of the squadron
reflects the highest credit on the Cardinal Minister
of War at Rome. Quarters are being prepared for
the remainder of the regiment. The Tuscan
division quitted Florence this morning to rejoin the
sth corps of the French army at Pistola."

The Sardinian Government has sent the Cheva-
lier Olandini, Major of Carbineers, to Florence to
reorganise the Tuscan gendarmerie.
The Independance of Brussels publishes a letter
from Milan, which says :—" The Austrians carried off
everything moveable belonging to the railway; the
only locomotive and carriages that remained were
under repair. These are now used for passengers and
ballast waggons are employed for carrying bread and.
provisions to the army. I left Milan in a bread train.
The Milanese had not the presence of mind, which
any Parisian gamin would have had, to take up a
few rails or break down a bridge to prevent the re-
moval of all the rolling stock of the railway."

The Lombardia of Milan announces that the mer-
chants of that city have opened a subscription for
the purpose of giving two florins to
_each of the
wounded soldiers of the allied armies on their leav=
ing the hospitals, and that on the 19th the
_sub

scription had already attained the sum of 9,000
florißs (22,000 fr.)
The Archbishop of Vercelli has issued a pas-
toral, recommending his flock to thank Pro-
vidence for having delivered. the most flourish-
ing towns of the States, such as Novara, Tortona,
Bobbio, Voghera, and especially Vercelli, from
the presence of the Austrians, and for having
crowned the arms of the allies with victory. In
furtherance of that object, he enjoins all his clergy
to sing the Ambrosian hymn in their respective
parishes, and to comprise in their prayers "the
well-deserving heroes who, with such abnega-
tion and patriotism have obtained the immortal
glory of so happy an event at the cost of the
precious holocaust of their lives."

Cardinal Milesi has issued the following protest
from Ferrara :

"The Bologna Gazette of the 12th, No. 132, in relating
the deplorable events which took place there on that day
against the legitimate government of the Holy Father,
omits substantial facts which it is my duty to state. The
Cardinal Legato was not induced to leave, being sud-
denly deprived of a sufficient garrison, by the mere
taking down of the Pontifical arms, nor the
being indirectly requested to take his departure,
as may be proved by a document he preserves ; but on• the
contrary he insisted upon learning from the originators of
the new order of things what was the nature of the move-
ment. And it was only in consequence of this demand that
a commission of three Bolognese presented itself to tell him
(even before the Municipal Council was convoked to de-
liberate) that the people wanted the dictatorship of King
Victor Emmanuel, and wished to join in the war. Such
pretensions are evidently and diametrically incompatible
with the rights of sovereignty of any independent prince,
and much more with those of the Supreme Pontiff ; and in
the present case they are also contrary to the neutrality of
the Sovereign Pontiff in the present war, a neutrality de-
clared and accepted. Hence the Cardinal Legate solemnly
protested. against such violence in firm and serious terms,
and with the most ample declarations for securing the
sacred rights of the Holy See, as the respectable per-
sons invited to be present may attest. These facts,
from the serious consequences resulting from them, should
not have been passed under silence. •
"The Legate G. Card. MILESI."
"Ferrara, June 13, 1859.

The Parma Gazette gives an account of the re-
joicings which took place in that city on the 17th,
on the occasion of the installation of the Sardinian
Government there. The whole town was bril-
liantly illuminated ; bands of music played on the
public square before the palace of the new
governor, and on the latter making his ap-
pearance on the balcony, he was received
with loud cheers for Italy, the Emperor of
the French, the King, the union, &c. On the
following day the members of the clergy,
the Council of State, the Chamber of Accounts, the
Tribunals, the University, Academy of Fine Arts,
&c., went to pay their respects to the governor.
The Movimento of Genoa has been prosecuted and
suspended for a week, for having published false
intelligence in the shape of an account of a pre-
tended insurrection of Austro-Italian troops at
Mantua, ending in the massacre of the Austrians
and the capture of the citadel.

Marshal Count Giulay, ex-commander-in-chief of
the Austrian army of Italy, has retired to his estates.
In passing through Vienna to take leave of his po-
litical and military friends, he subscribed 25,000
florins to the fund for the expenses of the war.