The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

(THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1859.

THE SUN.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1859.

Our Parisian news seem to be rather at fault.
Everything is at a sort of stand-still. The EMPEROR
is at Biarritz, and nobody knows what to be at.
The late trifling with the liberty of the press has
unfolded much more than the EMPEROR bargained
for. It has unmistakably stereotyped his despotism,
if that were necessary.
LOUIS NAPOLEON is, after all, but a man, and by

that standard must be judged. He has attained to
eminence by means which Nt ould ruin a private
, individual. He holds his position—how long ?
—time will answer. But, taking a little privilege
with our never-varying contempoihry, we are of
opinion that the days of the over crafty are num-
bered.

It were idle to enter into the continuous rumours
of the continental fabricators of news, so as to
found any deductions from them. The real state
of European politics seems to be a " wondering
suspense." What will come next ! Aye, that's
the question ? But who can answer it—that's the
ticket!!

' " Brotherly hatred" is said to be the keenest, as
it assuredly is the sorest of human frailties. Our
cousins on the other side of the Atlantic, or, as they
pride themselves to be, our more than co-equals,
have lately assumed a jorwarcrposition in the ag•
gressive line. They arc not content to let " well
alone," but will have everything just as they like.
They presume overmuch on the moderation
of their neighbours, and take all for granted,
merely because their more sober friends pause be-
fore they act. Young men are apt to think the
world is at their bidding, because the world did not
take the wink as it was expected, so our American
friends seem to think they can do just as they like
because the British Lion seems to be at his ease.
The world—that is, the new world—seems hardly
large enough for American enterprise, and they

would. fain monopolise the universe—such is the
moderation of freedom! But how ? The Ame-
ricans consider themselves as the freebooters
of freedom, and trample everything in their
way under the guise of " free trade for all,"
but for us in particular! How long such a
game may be presumed to last, time only can
tell. But we
suspect that the recent attempt—
paltry though it be—in grasping at the island of
San Juan, may cost the United States more than
they have "bargained for."

An institution was established in this country
but a few years since with the avowed purpose of
dedicating the whole of its wealth and of its ener-
gies to the preservation of human lives, that must
otherwise—but for this beneficial institution—have
been doomed to all but inevitable destruction.
Comparatively speaking, but a very 'brief interval
has since then elapsed. Yet, already_ this chari-
table association has been the means of saving
10,902 persons from a sudden and dreadful death!
It_ has spent, moreover, within the same brief
period. no less than £28,061 in the construction
and support of its widely-scattered establishments !
It has, this, ;distributed gold and silver
medals, together with pecuniary rewards, to the
amount of exactly £11,651 in the aggregate among
those who have co-operated in carrying out its

humane and generous intentions. Having said
thus much, it is almost unnecessary to add, that
allusion is here made to no other than the National
Life-boat Institution. Honour to that benignant
society ! Prosperity attend it ! May. its friends
multiply, and its energies increase—until the perils
of shipwreck along the rock-bound coasts of the
British islands be reduced to an almost infinitesimal
consideration in the prosecution of the mercantile
enterprise of the most maritime among all the
world's great trading populations.
A cursory glance at " The Wreck Register and
Chart for 1858," reprinted in our columns as re-
cently as the evening before last from those of the
little Journal of the Life-boat Institution a
glance the most cursory at this encouraging though
still lamentable Chart and Register will be suffi-
cient to assure any one that about the aptest motto
that could well be chosen for this particular associ-
ation would be that familiar line of SITAKSPERE'S—
" MUCH has Seen done, but MORE remains to do P'

It is something, surely, to begin with, to know
that already there are nearly 150 life-boats—to bo
precise, exactly 149 life-boats—along our coasts :
eighty-two of which are under the management of
the Institution, and sixty-seven under that of local
authorities. But then, in the midst of our exulta-
tion at this fact—it is felt, after all, to be but a very
slight and inadequate provision for the perils to
be encountered any day or night out of the 3G5
in each succeeding twelvemonth, bearing in mind
the length and the involutions of our dangerous
and chequered coast-line: Again, it is wonder-
fully satisfactory and inspiriting to find, upon a
survey of the doings of the Association and its
collaborateurs, during one single year, the year,
for example, last passed, it is exhilarating to
find that during 1858 alone—as many as
1,555 lives were rescued by life-boats, by other
boats, by ships, and by the rocket and mortar ap-
paratus ! Yet—during that same year of our LORD,
1858, there were no less than 1,895 lives actually
imperilled by shipwreck along the coasts of the
United Kingdom, se that no fewer than 340 persons
were lost in that single twelvemonth, in spite of all
these humane efforts for their preservation.
During the last seven years, in fact—including
among them the year just specified—the average
number of lives lost by shipwreck immediately off
our own coasts, amounts, according to ascertained
and reliable statistics, to an aggregate very little
short of eight hundred ! According to the
"Wreck Register" the average is placed at
745, by what appears to us a very moderate com-
putation. A tabular statement, given a little later
on in the report, places the total of wrecks during
those seven years at 7,441, and the total of human
lives lost through the same casualties at 5,020.
Upwards of seven thousand vessels wrecked, up-
wards of five thousand lives lost during seven
years upon our own seas and along our own coasts !
According to which we have an average of more
than 1,000 wrecks a-year—and of nearly 800 lives
lost, as before intimated !

Besides the 149 life-boats, there are, it may be
observed, 216 mortar and rocket stations provided
at the several localities along the coast with all
the necessary apparatus. And the importance and
value of these provisions for the salvation, if pos-
sible, of the extraordinary number of lives annually
imperilled by shipwreck may be the most readily
estimated by a casual glance at the man-
ner in which the 1,555 individuals before particu-
larised were snatched from destruction. It will
be seen, then, that out of that aggregate of 1,555
—there were 26 who were saved by personal exer-
tions of a meritorious character—two hundred and
six were saved by " Life-boats"—two hundred and
ten were saved from shore by ropes, " rockets and
mortar apparatus"-394 were saved by ships and
steam-vessels--and 719 by small craft, ships' boats,
coastguard boats, and luggers. In regard to the
apparent disproportion between the results of the
services performed by life-boats, for example, and
those accomplished by ordinary boats and
luggers, it should be especially borne in mind
that the life-boats reserve themselves for the
most boisterous weather, when no other boat
could well " live " in the rolling surge five
minutes, leaving the ordinary boats, in fact, for all
the efforts required under ordinary circumstances.
Hence the 719 saved by luggers, &c., bear no pro-
portion whatever in the perils encountered and
vanquished to those represented by the 206 saved
by means of those glorious little floating harbingers
of mercy, the life-boats. It was stated in the
report quoted by us the other evening that a the
life-boats of the National Life-boat Institution were
manned last year by about 3,000 persons on occa-
sions of service and exercise." And it was imme-
diately thereupon added —" They were often afloat
during the heaviest gales and in the darkest nights;
and it is satisfactory to be able to report that not a
single life was lost from them on those occasions.
This happy circumstance," continues the report,
"is principally, no doubt, attributable to the safety
of the boats themselves ; but this immunity from
fatal results has been owing in some instances to
the excellent cork life-belts, one of which each man
forming the boat's crew is required, by the rules of
the society, to put on before he is allowed to step
into her." Why should not similar precautions be
incumbent upon other seagoers than life-boatmen ?
Why should not shipowners be compelled to supply
each person afloat in their employ with a cork life-
belt as an essential part of the seafarer's kit—and
the one especial part of that kit to be supplied by
the employer? Why should not the seaworthiness
of every vessel be ascertained and proved before its
being allowed to quit port—the completeness, fit-
ness, strength, and general, efficiency of anchoring
gear, sails, and rigging being also at the same time
fully proven and clearly ascertained ? Similar
queries might apply not unreasonably to three other
all-important and sufficiently obvious particulars—
the ship's-1. Life-boats. 2. Life-buoys. 3. Life-
belts. If reasonable precautions like these were
but taken systematically— say under the surveil-
lance of the Board of Trade—less would be left to
be accomplished by "one of the noblest and most
patriotic and humane associations in the land, the
truly admirable and beneficent National Life-boat
Institution.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT ABERDEEY.

ABERDEEN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The presentation of the freedom of the city of Aberdeen
to Lord John Russell took place this afternoon, at 5 p.m.,
in the Music-hall, before an audience of about 3,000 per-
sons„by whom his lordship was most enthusiastically ap-
plauded.

His LORDSHIP, having alluded to the great general prin-
ciples on which Parliamentary Reform should be founded,
proceeded to review the past history of Italy, from the time
of the first Napoleon down to the present state of affairs in
Italy. He took occasion to declare that England would
never under his auspices enter into a Congress unless the
rights of the peoples of Italy to govern themselves without
the interference of foreign coercion were recognised. At the
same time he declared his firm belief that neither Austria,
however she might dislike the continuance of the present
state of matters, nor France would use any compulsion.
Lord John concluded an eloquent speech by declaring that
England held a beacon on high which might yet save the
rest of the world.

ROYAL ENGLISII OPERA.—Her Majesty has com-
manded that the royal box be reserved for her use during
the approaching operatic season at Covent Garden, under
the Pyne and Harrison management.
Baron de Carayon la Tour has left the Oatlands
Hotel, Walton, for Paris.

Ills Excellency Felipe Eugenie Cortes has left the
Brunswick, Jermyn-strcet, for Paris.

The Earl of Wilton and Lady Katherine Egerton
are'still yachting in the noble earl's yacht. His lordship,
by the last letters, was at Kingstown.

General Comte Yermaloff (in the service of his
Majesty the Emper, r of Russia) has arrived at the Bruns-
wick, Jermyn-street, from Moscow.

His Highness the Prince Lieven, accompanied by
his family, has left the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, for
Paris.

The Duke of Somerset, accompanied by several
membtire of the board, left the Admiralty yesterday morn-
ing for Plymouth, to resume the official tour of inspection.

The Dtilc -6t. Albans, accompanied by Mr.
Mansell, arrived at Prince's-gate yesterday morning from
Germany, where the duchess remains for some weeks
longer,

The marriage of Miss Brewster, only daughter
and heiress of Sir David Brewster, Bart., with Mr. Skene
Cumming GordOn, of Parkhill, N. 8., is arranged to take
place early in November.
REPAIR OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL.—The Dean
and Chapter of Lincoln have resolved to devote £2,000 to
the repairs of their cathedral during the ensuing year. The
north-east side of the sacred edifice is to receive attention.
Last year £1,300 was expended on the cathedral.
THE CHINA COOLIE TRADE.—A meeting of the
foreign community of Amoy was held on July 8, when a
set of resolutions were unanimously passed, condemning the
Coolie slave trade, and a committee appointed to wait upon
the English Consul, and press upon him the importance of
carrying out, in concert with the native authorities, such
measures as are within their power to put an immediate
stop to the Coolie trade as now carried on.—China
Telegraph.
THE WRECK OF THE SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS
AND THE THOMAS ERASSEY.—A despatch from Singapore,
dated the 18th ult , states that the Sovereigh of the Seas
was wrecked on the Pyramid Shoal, in the Malacca Straits.
Some of her cargo was being saved and taken to Malacca,
but a considerable quantity remained on board, and vessels
had gone to her assistance. The Thomas Brassey was
abandoned on the 16th of July, near Bird Island, Algoa
Bay, after having encountered a succession of very heavy
gales. Before she went downy her cargo, consisting of
cotton and seed, ignited. The crew, with the exception of
one man, saved, Both the ill-fated vessels were owned in
Liverpool.

WRECK OF THE EXPRESS. SOUTHAMPTON,
Wednesday.—lntelligence has this evening been received
from the Channel Islands announcing that the South
Western Company's steamer Express, which went ashore
on the rocks off Jersey last week, has broken up, and various
portions of the ship are floating about among the rocks. It
is quite probable that no ship belonging to this company
will undertake the passage between the rocks in future. It
is due to the public that such an order should issue from
the company. A Board of Trade inquiry into the matter
will shortly take place.
AMERICAN MAIL DESPATCH FROM LIVERPOOL.—
Yesterday (Wednesday) the Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia Company's screw steamer City of Washington
sailed from the Mersey for New York, with the United
States and North American mails and 245 passengers. Yes-
terday also the screw steamier Indian sailed from Liverpool
for Quebec and Montreal with the Canadian mails and 90
passengers. On Saturday next the British and North
Ame' ican Royal Mail steamer Africa, Capt. Neil Shannon,
will be despatched from the Mersey for New York. The
box at the Liverpool Post-office will be open on that day
till 11.15 a.m., and on the landing-stage till 12 noon. The
additional fee at the landing-stage, besides the usual post-
age, is 6d., which must be prepaid in stamps. Telegraphic
despatches may be forwarded within a few minutes of the
steamer's departure, through the office of the New York
Press, 10, Exchange-street East, Liverpool.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE DUBLIN AND MEATH
RAILWAY.—On Friday evening Mr. Hugh Martin, coroner
for the Navan district, held an inquest on view of the body
of James Keogan, aged 21 years, who was employed on the
Dublin and Meath Railway, now in progress of construc-
tion. It appeared in evidence that on Thursday last, while
in charge of a horse and two waggons engaged in casting
out earth, by some unaccountable accident h lost his footing
and fell to the ground on the tramway, when unfortunately
both waggons heavily loaded passed over him, whereby
both his thigh bones were dreadfully fractured. He was
conveyed as soon as possible to the county hospital in
Navan, where he lingered in great agony far a few hours,
when he expired. The jury after a short deliberation gave
in a verdict of " Accidental death."

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STEPNEY.—Yes-
terday morning Dr. Challice, the deputy coroner for East
Middlesex, attended at the New Globe Tavern, Mile-end-
road, on the occasion of the a Ijourned inquest on the body
of Philip Gorath, a male child three weeks old, whose body
was exhumed by older of the Home Secretary. Dr. Challice
stated that in consequence of the illness of the coroner who
had commenced the inquiry, the inquest must be further
adjourned for a week. The foreman and several of the jury
protested against this nonchalant way of being dealt with,
and expressed their desire that the inquiry should be at once
proceeded with, presuming that the deputy coroner was com-
petent to conduct it. Mr. Best, barrister, said he appeared
on the part of the Rev. J. Bonwell, incumbent of St. Philip's
Church, Stepney, whose name had been most improperly
given in the public press in connection with this case. Mr.
Bonwell's name had never been mentioned in that court on the
former inquiry, butit had been inserted in some of the news-
papers as though the charge against him had formed part of
the evidence. A juryman said the name had been most im -
properly introduced. The jury knew nothing of Mr. Bouwell
beyond what had appeared about him in the newspapers.
Mr. Best said that such comments were a disgrace to the
public press. Mr. Bouwell was in no way before the court.
The coroner said ho knew nothing of Mr. Bonwell in con-
nexion with the case. Mr. Best said it was most unjust
that such a charge should hang over Mr. Bonwell another
week, and he pressed for immediate inquiry. Several of the
jury concurred in the request, but the coroner said he could
not go on, and eventually adjourned the inquiry until Wed-
nesday next.
POSTAGE OF STAMPED PERIODICAL PUBLICA-
TIONS.—The following notice has been issued from the
General Post-office :—According to the regulations affecting
the transmission of stamped publications through the post,
as laid down in the British Postal Guide, there must be
nothing printed on the cover of a newspaper but the name
and address of the person to whom it is sent, the printed
title of the publication. and the printed name and address of
the publisher or vendor who sends it. It appears, however,
to be the practice of many-news agents in London to have
ahem words than those specified above printed on the covers
of the newspapers sent by them through the post, such as
"sent by," "from," &c., and there is reason to believe that
such newspapers have hitherto been allowed to pass un-
challenged. It has, therefore, been decided, under the cir •
cumstances, to abstain from charging newspapers of this
kind with postage until the Ist of January next, and to
allow publishers of newspapers and news agents in London
to use up, during the interval, any stock of covers which
they may have on hand with the objectionable words
printed upon them. It must, however, be distinctly under-
stood that the newspaper regulations will be strictly en-
forced from the commencement of the next year.—
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary, General PostLoffice, Septem-
ber, 1859.
FESTIVITIES AT WILTON HOUSE.—The Right
Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert are at pre-
sent honoured by the company of her Imperial Highness
Marie Nicolaewna of Russia and her illustrious daughter,
at the princely seat of the Pembroke family, near Salisbury.
Her Imperial Highness the Princess, attended by a large
retinue, arrived on Tues lay afternoon from Torquay. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Col.
Clifton, arrived early in the evening, on a visit to the Right
Hon. and Mrs. Herbert, from Portsmouth. The Earl and
Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers, the
Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Earl and Countess
of Ripon, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Viscount
and Viscountess Sydney, and Viscount and Viscountess
Somerton assembled at Wilton in the course of the day,
having been invited to meet the illustrious visitors. The
Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert received their Impe-
rial and Royal• guests at the entrance-hall, which is re-
markable for its suits of armour and arms, inclusive of
trophies and memorials of the Battle of St. Quintin, 1557,
at which William, Earl of Pembroke, "Black Will," of
historic fame, commanded the English forces. In the
evening the host and hostess gave a banquet, for which
covers wore laid for 30. Yesteiday her Imperial for
the Grand Duchess Marie and daughter, the Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridg., accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert, and most of the visitors, drove over to Broadlands,
near Romsey, to luncheon with Viscount and Viscountess
-Palmerston. There was to be a grand dinner last evening
at Wilton Hou, e.
THE PEIHO AFFAIR. A Yorkshire soldier,
engaged in the late affair on the Peiho, writes home to his
friends in Wortley as follows : Peiho River. July 3, 1859.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,—l write these few lines, hoping
they wal find you well, as they leave me at present, thank
God for that. You will have heard if our late engagement ;
if not, you will presently. Our attack on these forts was
awful. I don't think they could picture it so bad as it was.
I cannot tell you much about it, for I have not got paper—
have had to borrow this scrap. Our battalion was about
40C strong on the morning of the 25th June, and on the
25th we had about 175 killed and w6hnded. I think out
of about 1,300 who were engaged in' gunboats and landed,
500 were killed and wounded : it was the frightfulest affair
ever witnessed. There are nino men here who went
through the Crimean war—were at Inkermann, an 4 also at
the storming of the Redat—but for horrors neither the one
nor the other can be compared with it. But, thank God,
I have escaped clear this time. I hope, please God I live, I
will repay them for this. We shall make them suffer when
we attack them again. We are waiting for more troops,
which are expected here in two months. The river is only
a mass of sludge; the water is all out for near ten miles of
the forts, so we cannot get to the forts with our shipping.
I was on board the Nimrod when the signal was made to
laud; when wo did land, as it is called, we were nearly all
stuck fast in the mud. The shots coming from the fort
knocked both men and boats to pieces ; it is a mystery to
me we were not every man killed. We had about half a
mile to go to the forts, above the knees in a sludge ; Borne
stuck fast, some over the middle ; the ammunition all
spoiled; seine with arms and legs blown off. I was going
on very well until I got half way up, then I stuck fast
above the knees in mud, as if I was grown there ; presently
one marine passed on my left about a yard—at all events,
a stride—when a large shot came and knocked him in two
upon me, which felled me, but the ball missed me. I was
some time before I could get up and recover, and roll/the
part of his body off me—the blood running out of him upon
me until I was covered. But I shall not tell you more
at this "time.—l am, yours, &C,, JOHN CEREL, Private
Marine."
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about 2 dis. and the short exchange en London is 25.1.21
per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng-
lish Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce fofi standard
gold, it appears that gold is at about the same price in
Paris as m London. • By advices from Hamburg the
price of gold is 4221 per mark, and the short exchange on
London is 13.41 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the
English Mint price is therefore about 3 10ths per cent.
dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is about 110 it per cent., which, when compared with the
Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex-
change is in favour 9f England ; and, after making
allowance for charges of transport and difference of inte-
rest, the present rate leaves a small profit on the importit.
Lion of gold from the United States.

LATEST NEWS.

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

ZURICH, SEPT. 28.

Prince Napoleon has arrived here.

Separate conferences between the French and
Sardinian, and afterwards between the French and
Austrian Plenipotentiaries have taken place..
No news in connexion with the Conferences has
transpired.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Petrie of this evening states that Prince
Napoleon is expected at Paris to-morrow, and the
Emperor on Monday next.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 28.
Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 21st.

The journals from Constantinople announce that
numerous arrests had taken place in consequence of
the discovery of a political conspiracy, but few de-
tails of the affair are published, as the journals
state they have been forbidden to make,comments
on the matter until the judicial examinations have
been concluded.

Private letters state that the conspiracy was to
have broken out on Saturday, but on the previous
Thursday it was denounced by Sergeant Ariza.
Vigorous measures have been taken by the Govern-
ment. Two frigates have been moored before the
Seraglio, and the squadron had arrived the day the
mail left. Among the principal leaders of the con-
spiracy were two generals of division, Djaffir, of
the Artillery, and Hossein, Governor of the Dar-
danelles, several colonels and Ulemas. Djaffir was
drowned in the Bosphorus. No Christians were
compromised in the plot. The plan of the conspiracy
was clevely organised. The Europeans and the
foreign Ambassadors were to be protected by the
generals of the rebels.

The concession of the Bank has been made to
Messrs. Gladstone and Rodocanachi.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The Emperor is not expected to reach Paris be-
fore the early days of October.
The Patrie still holds to the idea of a Congress
as a neccssity. All depends on Austria.
M. Mon, the Spanish Ambassador, has left Paris
for Biarritz.

M. Fonld, Minister of State, has resumed the
duties of his department, which had been confided
during his absence from Paris to M. Delangle.
The following fresh details are given by a Paris
journal re petting the projected expedition to China.
Three generals are, it is said, proposed for the com-
mand of the expedition—General de Martimprey,
Commander-in-Chief of the forcesin Algeria, Gene-
ral Trochu, and General Wimpfen. The number of
troops appears to be fixed at 12,000, chosen from
the best men of every corps, and to be formed into
marching regiments. It is evident that for so dis-
tant an expedition all the men of aregiment are not
equally capable of supporting the sea voyage and
the influence of the climate. A depot is to be formed
in one of the stations nearest to Hang Kong or
Shanghai to replace the deficiencies in the effec-
tive force. In consequence of the preparations to
be made the departure cannot take place until the
first fortnight in November. It is, moreover, the
most favourable season in consequence of the mon-
soon. The French Government, as I mentioned
some days since, when displaying its flag in the
heart of the Celestial Empire, wishes to give a high
idea of its military power, and to show that at pre-
sent it can strike hard and far when its honour is
concerned.

BOURSE, Sept. 28.—The market has been heavy,
but prices have not materially varied. Threes
have been done at 691. 35c. to 69f. 30c.; Mobilier,
8201. to 815 f. ; Orleans, 1,395 f. to 1,397 f. 50c.;
Lyons, 900 f. to 905 f. ; Eastern, 670 f. to 672 f. 50c. ;
Austrian, 552 f. 50c. to 5531. 75c.; Lombard, 553 f.
74. to 555 f. The following were the last quota-
tions :
It per Cents. .... 95 --- Credit Fonder 685
Do. end month .. 95 25 I Belgian. 4f
3 per Cents 69 201Piedmonteso (5) .. 86
Do. end month 69 20 Roman B6
Bank Shares — Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 815 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 813 75 home Debt 4l

Florence (by which we suppose is meant the Piazza
del Granduca). Statues of Charles Albert and
Victor Emmanuel are to be erected at Leghorn ;
others of various celebrated men are to be executed
for Lucca, Sienna, and Pisa, their respective birth.
places. Paintings are also to be executed :-1. Of
the Tuscan Assembly voting the downfall of the
House of Lorraine; 2. Of Victor Emmanuel re-
ceiving the deputation offering him the throne of
Tuscany; 3. Of the battles of Curtatone, Palestro,
Magenta, and San Martino ; 4. Of the costumes or
uniforms which figured in the late war; and, 5.
Six portraits, viz., of Gioberti, Balbo, Troya, Berchet,
Silvio Pellico, and Giusti.