The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-29 00:00:00

well, and left the people of Modena, Parma, Tus-
cany, the States of the Church, and the two
Sicilies to their own rulers, and the rulers to the
peoples. She is, in her present situation, paying
the penalty of contemptuous violation of treaties
for her own purposes, and of the darkest reign of
cruelty which any professedly Christian Sovereign
ever inflicted on an educated and noble people. If
we cannot wish either for the reign of France in
Italy, or for the Viceroyalty there of the King of
SARDINIA beneath France, we could not but exult
in the expulsion of German brutality from the
southern side of the Alps. That the Italians wish
it, at all hazards, is proved by their universal
enthusiasm for the King of SARDINIA.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
return to St. James's Palace to-day, from visiting the Duke
and Duchess of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France
and the Duchees de Malakhoff entertained at dinner, last
evening, at Albert-gate House, his Excellency, the Spanish
Minister, the Duchess of Wellington, the Marchioness of
Ely, the Secretaries and the Attaches of the Embassy, &c.

The Earl of Derby has taken Lady Dover's villa,
at Roehampton, for three months.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and the
Ladies Villiers arrived at their mansion in Grosvenor-
crescent, yesterday morning, from visiting the Countess
Waldegrave, at Strawberry Hill, and have since left town
for Kenilworth, Warwickshire.

The Earl of Aberdeen is staying in town during
the holidays. The noble earl is in the enjoyment of better
health at the present time than for the last 12 months.
The Earl and Countess of March have returned
to their residence in Lowndes-square, from visiting Lady
Charlotte Greville, at Uxbridge.

Frances Countess Waldegraire and Mr. Harcourt
are entertaining a select circle at their villa residence, at
Strawberry-hill.

Lord and Lady Portman are expected in town
ie latter end of next week, from Bryanston Hall, Dorset-

shire.

Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke have
arrived at their residence, in Grosvenor-street, for the sea-
son, from Compton Verney, Warwickshire.
Baron and Baroness Hochschild have left Onslow-
square, for Sweden, for a short period.

Baron Malaret arrived at Albert-gate House, on
Wednesday, from Paris.

Colonel the Right Hon. William and Lady Louisa
Tighe have arrived at Wallace's Hotel, Hyde-nark-corner,
from Woodstock, Ireland, for the season.

It affords us much pleasure to state that Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton, who is now sojourning at Malvern,
is already much improved in health.
ENGLISH TRANSPORTS FOR THE FRENCH Go-
VERNMENT.—It was stated on 'Change at Liverpool yester-
day (Thursday) that two large screw steamers, belonging to
one of the most extensive steam-packet companies of the
port, had been chartered by the French Government as
transports for the conveyance of troops.
A Milan letter says :—Everything assumes the
aspect of war. Travellers are exposed to the greatest an •
noyances, and are compelled to present themselves to the
police every 24 hours. The hotels are empty, the theatres
closed with the exception of two, to which scarcely anyone
goes. The cafes and the public promenades are deserted,
and every face betrays the greatest anxiety.
THE MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND.—Rear-Admi-
ral of the Blue George Rodney Mundy, who has been
ordered to hoist his flac, in her Majesty's ship Hannibal,
91 guns, and to be second in command in the Mediterranean,
obtained his commission as lieutenant on the 4th of Febru-
ary, 1826, became commander in 1828, and Captain in 1837.
Ho was captain of the Iris, and commanded the gunboats
of the squadron at the capture of the forts in the river
Borneo and city of Borneo, and commanded a land expedi-
tion against the Sultan, and was in several actions with
the pirates. He made a treaty with the Sultan, and took
possession of Labuan, in the Queen's name, in 1846. He
was for some time captain of the Waterloo, 120 ; then of
the London, 90, but after fitting and manning the latter
ship was obliged to relinquish his post in consequence of
severe illness. He was appointed to the command of the
Nile, in which he served during the Russian war, and after-
wards on the American station.
THE CLOCK AT WESTMINSTER PALACE.—From a
return ordered by the llouse of Commons it appears that the
probable cost of the clock at the New. Palace, Westminster,
dials, illuminating bells, and expenses, connected with the
clock and bells, will be £20,307 17s. 7d. There is also an esti-
mate to the extent 0f£1,750 for a further amount to be required
In a report from Mr. E. B. Denison, dated April 11, that
gentleman says the clock is ready to be fixed as soon as the
place is cleared of bricklayers, which ho understands will
be in a few days. If so the clock will be going and show-
ing the time on all the dials before the meeting of the new
Parliament. Mr. Denison cannot say when the clock will
be able to strike the hours and quarters, but it ought not
to be long after the going part is at work.
LETTERS FOR SARDINIA, LOMBARDY, AND
VENICE.—The postal communications between Turin and
Milan being interrupted, all letters, &c., addressed to Lom-
bardy or to Venice will, for the present, be forwarded in
the mails for Prussia, via Belgium. The postage of letters,

&c., so forwarded is as follows :—For a letter not exceeding
half an ounce in 'weight, 10d. ; for a letter above half an
ounce and not exceeding one ounce, Is. Bd. ; for a letter
above and not exceeding two ounces, 35.. 4d. ; and so on,
adding Is. Bd. for each additional ounce or fraction of an
ounce. The prepayment of this postage is voluntary.
For newspapers ld. each, which must be paid in advance.
Printed papers other than newspapers are chargeable with
postage as letters. " Letters, &c., for. Sardinia will be for-
warded only by the route of France.—By command of the
Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. Gene-
ral April 29th, 1859.
THE WARD OF BRlDGE.—Yesterday, at twelve
o'clocf, a wardmote was held by Sir Chapman Marshall,
Knt., at the vestry .room of St. Magnus Church. London-
bridge, for the election of a common-councilman in the room
of Mr. John Hill, deceased. There were two candidates for
the vacancy—namely, Mr. E. Hunt and Mr. C. Good. The
show of hands having been declared in favour of the latter
gentleman, Mr. Hunt retired, whereupon Mr. Good was
declared to be duly elected. Mr. Hill had filled the office
upwards of 28 years, having been appointed to the Court of
Common Council as one of the representatives of the Ward
of Bridge in 1831. An unanimously-passed vote of condo-
lence with the family upon their bereavement terminated
the proceedings.
At the last examination for entrance into the
Calcutta University, a ludicrous incident occurred. The
(culmination was held on the lower floor of the Town Hall,
where between four and five hundred of the Calcutta can-
dinates were arranged at desks. On the upper floor the
municipal commissioners were holding their court • for ap-
peals against the assessment. A Bengali, who had come to
appeal to the latter, was, by mistake, included among the
entrance students, and set down at a desk with all necessary
appliances, and a copy of the questions. While his soul
was filled with anxiety regarding the tax, ho was startled
with the qtestion " What is Satiric PoetrY, ?" In vain did
he attempt to answer it, and those that succeeded. At last
in despair, he duly entered after every question the state-
ment " I cannot answer it," and in intolerable English
wound up his paper by a statement of his right to a reduc-
tion of, the assessment. The astonished examiner was ap-
pealed to by the poor man in person to remit a part of the
amount, and then the mistake was discovered.
DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—TWO MEN
KILLED.—On Monday an accident occurred on the Monk-
lands Railway, between Airdrie and Coatbridge, whereby
two men (Henry Rolland, fireman, and William Dinning,
breaksman) were instantaneously deprived of life, and the
engine-keeper, John Aitken, was very seriously injured.
The following are the particulars, so far as we have been
able to gather them :—lt appears that a train leaves the
station in Hallcraig-street daily at half-past 1 o'clock with
empty trucks, and, after proceeding up the incline to Raw-
yards, returns to the station with the goods coming
from the eastward. To-day the train had left as usual,
and after leaving the empty waggons at Rawyards, the
engineman was proceeding down the incline with eleven
loaded trucks, when, from some cause, the engine had
got too much way, and when they came to Common-
head station—the flat portion at which is the foot of one in-
cline and the top of another—the engineman was unable to
bring his engine to a stand, and the train went over the top
of the second incline, down which it proceeded with fear •
ful _ After passing the foot of the incline.several
hundred yards, the engine went off the rails at a crossing,
and engine and tender and several of 'the trucks were smashed
to pieces.. The body of the breaksmanwas found lying under
the tender in a dreadfully mangled state, and that of the fire •
man a short distance out from the engine. He seems to have
been thrown to the ground with great violence-when the
engine went off the road, and instantly killed. The engine-
man, who was found lying, beside the fireman, was very
severely injured. • All the parties have been for a consider-
able time in the company's employllient.—Glasgoic Daily
Mail.
All warlike orders at present attract attention,
and it is therefore noticed that as many as 27 gun-
boats of very light draught, together with some
vessels of larger size, are at present building on the
Thames for the Spanish Government. In the pre-
sent relations of Spain surmises naturally arise that
she might possibly in such matters be acting merely
as an agent for others.—Tines.
The wilful blindness of the Derby Cabinet to the
dangers which were threatening their country
while they were reposing in the faith of " eonfiden
tial" relations with the Emperor Napoleon receives
new illustrations each day. It has transpired that
about two or three months back one of the principal
chart-sellers in London received an order simulta-
neously from the French and Russian Governments,
to the extent of £5OO each, for a number of copies
of each of the charts and surveys of the English
coasts and fortified places, as well as those of our
stations in the Mediterranean, &c. Struck by the
magnitude of the order,- he considered' himself
bound to mention it to the Admiralty, but no ob-
jection was made to its being executed. About
three weeks back a similar order, to the amount of
£3OO, came from the Spanish Government.; and
to-day fresh orders of £5OO each have arrived from
France and Russia. in this case the charts of the
ports and coasts of our Indian possessions are in-
cluded. The Admiralty, of course, are not to be
blamed for sanctioning the sale, becauseif a refusal
were given the required copies could easily
be obtained by indirect means ; but the cir-
cumstance of such facts having been reported to
the Government without exciting, when taken in
conjunction with the various other signs around
them, the, slightest suspicion such as might qualify
their Parliamentary cry of peace, and their asser
tion that Lord Malmesbury was indispensable to
its maintenancP, must be classed among the marvels
of political lii4ory,—Tinte•ct