The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

even of Germany. No Europa' country, or
Government we should say, that ishave yet saved,
has rewarded us with anything It insolvency in
our debt, and insulting us for ,'as Naples has
lately done, and as Spain does ti this hour, after
having taken our money to exhguish the slave
trade.

We can hardly doubt, there're, that the two
meetings on the same day, hd in the City of
London, both presided over la: its Chief Magis-
trate; the former that:of, certain}, after all, the first
municipal body in the kingdomthe second that of
the general public of the Met)politan City, were
both of them meetings welcoie to the Govern-
ment. They will need all le support which
meetings like these can give hem to sustain the
wishes of the nation in the fie of a Germanised
Court. Relatives and connetions of English
Royalty are, we believe, in Atstrian service, and
Prussia seems to be, or affects 5 be, in a panic lest
the French should again, havng beaten Austria,
cross the Rhine. To resist witing a single line,
or uttering a single expression, which might be
construed into willingness on .ur part to fight the
battle of either Austria or Gemany, is the really
difficult task of the Ministry of the day. It is
clear that nothing can aid them so much in per-
forming it as meetings like those of Friday. To
ittem they can point the ambassadors of German
powers, and those who may chsire to oblige them,
and tell them, " You see we 'annot do it." We
believe our Ministers would, iideed, do their duty
to their country at the hazard of offending where
they should be on pleasantest terms ; but it is well
for the country to save them this necessity. The
occasion, too, is one on which it tells well on
foreign countries to see that the mii53.1...L.
though they have representatives, though they
have a Government, though they have a Sovereign
to whom they are devotedly loyal, are yet their
own masters ; that their liberty of meeting is not a
mere paper fiction, and that on the most important
occasions they can assume the Dictatorship and in-
struct all, through whom they act, on the course
they must take.
The address of the Corporation to the QUEEN
was carried by such an overwhelming majority as
to be, practically, a unanimous vote ; both Mr.
WHITE and Mr. REED, the mover and the seconder,
spoke wits great good sense. They showed how

little reason could arise for England to interfere,
unless she should be attacked, here or in her pos-
sessions ; and, at the same time, how powerful she
must become to defend herself, if she continued :in-
creasing her own strength while the Powers abroad
were madly exhausting theirs. They showed,
also, that the Royal proclamation was rather a
reason for sending up an address than the con-
trary, as it would intimate that the country were
prepared to support her MAJESTY in the policy
which it indicated.
The meeting at the London Tavern brought out
an illustrious exile, who had a right, if any one
has, to be listened to on Austrian proceedings.
None of us can be so deeply versed as he in all the
bearings of Austro-Italian and Austro-German
affairs. He speaks, of course, with but one desire
—the liberation and the welfare of nationalities ;
he must have a not very distant thought tor his

beloved native land, yet even he asks but one thing

—" Let England keep out of the quarrel." He does
not implore our aid for Italy, and then for Hun-
gary—nothing of the kind ; he only asks that we
shall not observe a one-sided neutrality—a neu-
trality, of which the secret understanding shall be,
that if Austria gets the worst of it we shall help her
while we should not be equally ready to help the
other side. His speech was indeed an eloquent one,
and will well repay perusal. Justly did he observe,

that either the Austrians must be driven out o

Italy, or the Italian question would recur again
and again; justly did he scout such pleas as her
unity in blood with our race as absurd, since
she was but an agglomeration of nationalities, of
which the last census gave Germany 7,000,000
out of a population of thirty-seven millions ; and
that, if these nationalities were free and self-
developing, they would be a better bulwark for
Europe than in their present discontented union.
Justly did he characterise her as our old pensioner
rather than our old ally, and advise us to waste for
her no more of our blood or treasure. England
will cordially say " Aye" to the advice of one of
the noblest exiles who ever graced her shores.

ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBORNE.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21.
The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied
by the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and
Princess Beatrice, and attended by the ladies and
gentlemen of the Court, arrived at the Royal
Clarence-yard, Gosport, at half-past 12 o'clock this
afternoon. Tier Majesty was received by the
Commander-in-Chief of the port, Admiral William
Bowles, C. 8., Rear-Admiral the Hon. Geo. Grey,
superintendent of the dockyard; Rear-Admiral G.
R. Mundy, appointed second in command of the
Mediterranean fleet; Major-General Sir James
Yorke Scarlett, commanding the south-western
district, with their respective staffs ; Captain Geo.
Fowler Hastings, C. 8., superintendent of the
Clarence-yard and Haslar, and a gu6.rd of honour
of militia artillery.
Her Majesty embarked on board the Royal screw
yacht Fairy, Commander the Prince Leiningen,
under Royal salutes from the Victory, flagship, and.
Excellent, the ships in harbour being gaily deco-
rated with parti-coloured bunting. On leaving the
harbour the royal standard was saluted from the
King's Bastion, and also by the Hannibal and
Doris at Spithead, as the vessel approached in that
direction. Her Majesty landed as usual at Cowes,
and arrived at Osborne at about 20 minutes past
two o'clock.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM

OF PRUSSIA.
Scarcely had the Fairy passed through Spithead
when her Majesty's yacht, the Victoria and Albert,
Captain the lion. Joseph Denman, hove in sight,
having on board the Princess Frederick William
of Prussia, whom she embarked at Antwerp, and
has conveyed hither on a visit to the Queen.
Owing to the hazy state of the weather, the royal
yacht was abreast of the ships lying at Spithead
before she was observed from the shore, the Vivid
steam vessel being in attendance. Her Royal
Highness brings no large retinue of servants with
her, but is attended, we understand, only by the
Count and Countess de Perponcher. Her infant
child remains at Berlin. The Prince Frederick
William will, we hear, arrive in the course of eight
or nine days, being at present on his summer drill.