The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-13 00:00:00

THE DUCHY OF PARMA.

The Vienna Gazette publishes the following pro-
test of the Duchess Regent of Parma, dated from
St. Gall, in Switzerland :
We, Louisa Maria of Bourbon, Regent of the
States of Parma for Duke Robert I.—Being re-
moved from the country which we governed with
real love in the name of our orphan son, we have
been painfully affected by hearing of the serious
political changes, which have taken place, contraryF
to the directions left by us on our departure, and
to the rights and interests of the Duke of Parma.
In consequence we are compelled, in spite of our-
selves, to raise complaints against a part of onr sub-
jects and against a neighonring Government, which
intends to establish itself in our place, and which,
without any legitimate motive, would regard us as
an enemy. In truth, we never could have ex-
pected such events. When on the 3d of May
our subjects came of their own accord and replaced
themselves under our authority, we saw in that
fact a sign of the good feelings of the country to-
wards us ; as to abroad, we constantly received on
the part of all the Powers, including the bellige-
rent ones, marks of a cordial understanding, which
perfectly responded to the policy which we had
constantly followed.

Nevertheless, the events which have taken place
in the States of our House, first at Pontremoli, then
in the capital, and lastly at Piacenza, are violations
of the rights of our son, the Duke of Parma,
Robert 1., and we cannot refrain from protesting
in a public and solemn manner, as we do by this
document, against the acts of rebellion committed
by the municipalities of Parma, Piacenza, and Pon-
tremoli, in speaking in the name of the people, in
arrogating to themselves the right of releasing
them from the obedience they owe to the duke as
his subjects, and in proclaiming the incorporation
of the country with the kingdom of Piedmont.
We, moreover, protest against the proceedings of
the Piedmontese Governrivent, first in the province
of Pontremoli, and afterwards in other parts of the
country, seeing that that. Government has, on the
one hand, ~.c cited and supported the revolution,
and on the trllzer has, contrary to all right, and to
the stipulatiorls. of airopean treaties in general,
and of special treaties with Piedmont in particular,
accepted the delivery made to it of the Duchy of
Parma, and that without any provocation or-legiti-
-1 mate cause of war.

At the same time \we reject any argument which
may be invoked as a motive or pretext de lege or de
facto to render us jointly responsible with Austria
for the acts of that power towards Piedmont when
the former stsrted from the fortress of Piacenza.

We also protest against, all those who, in the
course of political vicissitudes, have made or may
make any attack whatever against the rights of our
son—rights which we declare by the present doen-
ment to maintain intact and in all their integrity.
We further protest and declare that we consider
as null and void all the acts which have already
been done, or which may be done, in the States of
Parma againstthe-rigli-ts-,of ear
We protest .likerpte/iagliinst the, eAnssvp.letices of
these acts, reserving to ourselves at any time what-
ever, and by all legal means, to re3p4blish the
before-mentioned rights.
We make this solemn protest in the presence of
God and man. We protest not only in the interest
of our son, but also in that of his subjects,,and we
desire that our protest be made knowtr--to the
powers on whom the public law of Europe reposes.
Nkre appeal to those powers with the fullest confi-
dence that in their enlightened justice, in the in-
terest of the inviolability of the rights of sove-
reigns and of states, and in their magnanimity
they will take to heart and eifeetuttlly support the
cause of the young orphan sovereign of rarma.
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Given at Saint Gall. in Switzerland, the 20th
torts:A.

June,

6—* L-61).ECTs7.)

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a horrible case of murder,
Moat similar in circumstances and almost
equal in atro-
city On
nt
oS tuhned
one Sunday
at morningm Colliery, Princes End, was
made known, at a small
place called Lower Go rnai ,
which is a small townat
of cottages belonging to
Lord Ward, in the parish of Sedgley. The scene of
the awful event '
is not more than four miles from
the Moat Colliery,
the place of the late outrage.
For some time a man of the name of William
a Hyson, brewer, and occasionally a gardener, and
formerly who was a publican, and kept the Old
House at Home in Dudley, and has been in the
police force of this county, has kept loving company
with a smart-looking and attractive young woman,
of 18 years of age, named Mary Smith, daughter
of Wm. Smith, a shoemaker, of Gornal Wood, who
is very respectable, though humbly to do. [Tyson
is double Miss Smith's age. He represented himself
as a single man and without incumbrance, and she
received him as 'a, suitor for her " heart and
hand." Through domestic differences with her sister
she did not, though in opposition to her father's
wish, reside at home, but lived with a woman named
Mary Ann Hickman, as a lodger, during, which
time Hyson is said to have been received in
favour, and that he by his manifestationrs pur-
posedtwo marrying her, having offered h
anew e
silk
guineas a short time ago to buy
her
r a
dress. She was receiving seven shillings
week as a letter-bac, carrier for Messrs. Crosswell,
to having resect-
ironmasters, Tipton,'' in addition
On Saturday ashes on-
able dressmaking business.
son had ill-used her the
fessed to her sister that Hy
previous night. She kissed her sister and sister's
child repeatedly, telling then( she should " never
see them more."
On Sunday morning, about 4 el eiock, she was dis-
covered:doatinginAskey-bridgepooliOnbeingtaken
out she presented the appeara• ace of having been
used roughly, as both of her am is we,:ebruised. She
was neatly attired. She was four id by two policemen.
Two persons of the names of Jan ies Marsh and:Jonah
Hickin have declared to Policeman Taylor that
they saw Hyson with the deem ised from a quarter
past 10 to 12 at night, on the Hi:racy-I vad, near the
National School, Lower Gomel.