The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

THE' SUN,I LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1859.

TII E SUN.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1859.

What are we to believe ? In quick succession,
we are told by telegram from Turin that the States
of Central Italy have elected Prince CARIGNAN to
the Regency of their territories ; next telegram,
from Turin again, that Louis NAPOLEON, had sent
a letter, whose urgency left no course but one to the
Monarch with whom he had fought till the victory
of Solferino ; then again by letter from Paris,
that the King of SARDINIA had not, as was alleged,
at the urgent request of the Emperor, forbidden his
cousin to accept the Regency ; once more, confirm-
ing this last representation, came telegrams from
Turin, which Lord PALMERSTON'S organ assures us,
state that the King of SARDINIA has not forbidden
Prince CARIGNAN to accept the Regency, but his
Majesty has expressed his wish " to postpone for
the present any decision on the subject ;" and,
lastly, to-day we are informed that Prince CARIG-
NAN had to hand over the Regency to the Cheva-
lier BITONCOMPAGNI.

The last versions of the affair are as likely as any,
and, we may add, as bad as any. It shows the
Emperor determined to be Dictator of Italy to the
last ; it shows the King of SARDINIA humiliated to
the last. Notoriously, the King can have but one
wish. Whether he regard his deep interest in
Italian liberty or his personal and political position
as the head of a kingdom which is not merely the
football of the vastly greater Powers north of the
Alps, he can but desire to be the ruler of a United
Kingdom of Northern and Central Italy. It is so
obviously the interest of all the parties concerned
that they are perfectly unanimous—a unanimity
truly surprising *hen the Italian discords of a thou-
sand years are recollected. At the same time, no
party not immediately concerned has the shadow
of a reasonable objection. Italy, if united from the
Tyrol to Sicily, would never be an aggressive king-
dom. It could never menace France, or even the
guilty, trembling, bankrupt Austria. It would
have enough to do to consolidate its power and to
provide anything like the army and navy which
could render it even tolerably formidable to in-
vaders. If he of the Turneries had but a grain of
modesty or fairness, he must perceive that what
form of Government Italy shall adopt is no business
of his. Nothing but vanity, wilfulness, or selfish-
ness mortified because his lovely MARCELLUS was
but shown to the Italians—nor would they suffer
anything further can explain his ungenerous
use of his military strength to awe into compliance
the Monarch with whom he professed to fight for
the independence of Italy.
It seems indeed wonderful what sense he can
attach to the word "independence." Is he a god?
Philosophers tell us—some of them—that the
highest form of human freedom of will is when our
will is merged in that of the Deity. Does the
deity of French peasantry and pretorians imagine
that his will is so infinitely wiser and better than
that of Italians, that they will then only be truly
happy, when their views perfectly accord with those
of his Imperial Majesty NAPOLEON III? Does he
believe that he is so sure of what is really best for
them that they are but children bound to obey his
behests—that if he says " a cdnfeLleration with a
brace of dukes, and an Italian limb of an Austrian
empire is Venetia"—this is certain to be a millen-
nium for Italy, because he has said it. We

have been willing to give him the benefit of the
doubt, whether, being so notoriously a man of his
word, he were not desirous to keep up appearances
of fidelity to his engagements made at Villafranca.
But surely there is a time for all things; and if
that had been his object, it was time to renounce it
when four independent States and the independent
Sovercifn to whom they appealed to lead them,

were all of one mind as to the best course for the
entire five to take. The interference of Louis
NAPOLEON, therefore, now must be regarded as in-
tolerable arrogance. He interferes with those who
can do him no harm; with those whom he mocks
with talking of their independence, while he over-
powers it ; with those to whom he has no right to
prescribe, but the right of the strongest. He has
not one single argument for his dynastic Italian
confederation of despots—it is only the sic volo,
sic jubeo.
The Moniteur tells us that the election of Prince
CARIGNAN to the Regency is to be regretted under
the circumstances of the approaching Congress, in-
asmuch:las it tends to prejudge questions which
must there be settled !! ! And this after the EM-
PEROR'S letter to the King of SARDINIA, demand-
ing a confederation, with the POPE, of all people in
the world, at its head, and no one knows what be-
sides ! Why, who have a right to prejudge if the
independent nations concerned have not ? Is the
military parvenu of France to " prejudge," and may
not the old aristocracy and electors of Central
Italy " prejudge" for themselves ? As to the pre-
tences put forth in the telegram from the Constitu-
tionnel to-day, we have one answer—GARIBALDI is
in Italy, and the Neapolitans would prefer facing
Satan himself to facing him. We must cer-
tainly begin soon to blame our own Government if
it does not take a frank and manly course, and en-
courage the King of SARDINIA to do the same. Eng-
land ought at once to act on her convictions. Sho
ought to acknowledge openly the provisional Govern-
ments, and their right to do as they will with
themselves, by accrediting representatives to them.
We withdrew our representatives from Naples for
the maladministration of its Government. We
might with propriety show our sense of the differ-
ence, by sending Charges d'Affaires at least to the
five States—yes, the Romagna included, in testimony
of our acknowledgment of their independence, and
of their conduct being worthy of it.
Free Europe expects the King of SARDINIA to do
his duty, and boldly to accept the vote of the
Duchies. Free England expects Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL, and his Chief, to do their duty, and to acknow-
ledge the four provisional Governments. But let
the Italians know that all Freemen, all the world
over, expect them to do their duty—expect them
to arm, to drill, to raise the funds to any required
amount, and at any sacrifice, to part with anything
and everything to be but FREE. They have a
GARIBALDI. They have a successor to the WIL-
LIA.3I TELLS, the CROMWELLS, the WASHINGTONS,
of former days. Let them but listen to the apostle
of Freedom whom Heaven has sent them, and the
game will be theirs. Desposts will gnash their tenth
in their Cabinets North of the Alps, the POPE
will be thankful to find the Headship of Catholics
left him, and Italy will be—for the Italians.

How soon could we hope to have the printed
catalogue of books at the British Museum com-
pleted ? The letter A already numbers up a score
or two of ponderous folio volumes—and that letter
A is the only letter the readers have ever yet as a
body had a glimpse of. The difficulties, in truth,
seemed long since to be so insuperable and so de-
plorable of their way, that it was wisely resolved
to substitute the present admirable catalogue in
manuscript—for the magnificent but seemingly
hopeless daydream of that grand printed folio list
of the national treasures of Literature. Neverthe-
less, remembering the original design of that great
printed catalogue, remembering those superb folios
under the letter A, remembering the years that
have slowly crept in and slowly crept out again in
laborious procession since the huge printed cata-
logue was first projected, might we not ask again
--When could we reasonably expect to see it
brought to a completion ? From alpha to omega—
from Ato Ampizand ! When ? Before Dr. Cum-
miNG's predictions are fulfilled ? Worlds upon
words of conjecture at the mere query open up an
illimitable vista of perspective to the baffled and
bewildered imagination. In the picture thus sug-
gestively placed before the " mind's eye," the true
artistic vanishing point can certainly be defined as
nothing less than—Eternity. Generations of
PANIZZIS might have inscribed their names in lumi-
nous characters upon the official list of Librarians,
while the remote descendants of Mr. PANIZZI'S pre-
sent subordinates were yet possibly toiling over the
commencement of the portentous volumes of the
letter D. Unless, certainly, that is to say of course,
that Ternpus, which the eopy-book tells us edax
rerun?, had long before that gnawed the larger
buildings of London into moss grown fragments
preparatory to the sketching of that picturesque
ruin of St. Paul's by Baron MACAULAY'S Now
Zealander.

The contemplation of that distant epoch, and of
that most remote posterity is almost forced upon us
by the omen recently vouchsafed to us by the Poor
Law Board—by the sagacious scrutiny of which
omen (as by the old augur's scanning of the entrails
and flights of birds) we may foresee the probabilities
of the time in which, and of the circumstances
under which we may hope to obtain substantially
the Grand New Reform Bill from bier MAJESTY'S
Government.

This omen, as we have termed it, is really and
truly all over again the letter A of the British
Museum printed folio catalogue ! It is the same
story over again, fraught with the same terrible
suggestiveness ! It reveals the astounding fact
that now, in the November of 1859, her
MAJESTY'S Ministers have at last actually
in the matter of Reform made just a beginning.
It is apparent in the form of a formal official circu-
lar emanating from the Poor-law Board, and ad-
dressed by its Secretary in the name and on behalf
of that Board to the clerks of the guard'ans in all
the northern boroughs. In the event of its having
been overlooked, it is really as well to reproduce
this wonderful missive for the edification of the
public generally. It runs thus :

" Parliamentary Borough of—. am directed
by the Poor Law Board to request that you will have the
goodness to procure for the use of her Majesty's Government
a return of the male persons resident within the above-named
borough, or within seven miles thereof, who were assessed to
the last poor-rate in any parish within the borough, at the
gross estimated rental and rateable values of £.5 and under
£6, of £6 and under £7, of £7 and under £B, and £8 and
over. The object of the board is to ascertain with the
greatest possible accuracy, the number of male persons resi-
dent within the Parliamentary borough, or within seven
miles thereof, who are assessed to the poor-rate as occupiers
of tenements within the borough, the gross estimated rental
and rateable value of which aro severally at or above £5,
(A printed forms with instructions, is attached.) In add;
tion to the above returns you are requested to obtain,f,.
information of the board, the following returns :—The nun
ber of tenements within the Parliamentary borough which,
under the Small Tenements Act or any local Act, are rated
to the owners instead of the occupiers ; and, when the
sasessment is under a local Act, the sum at which the owner
becomes rateable instead of the occupier. Secondfy the
total amount of parochial rates and assessed taxes which a
tenement of the gross estimated rental of £5, £6, £7 and
respectively, would be liable to pay in each parish within
the borough, taking the last year as an average.—ll.
FLEMING, Secretary."

It will be observed in the foregoing that particular
mention is made parenthetically of certain instruc-
tions accompanying it. Ncithershould these be over-
looked. They run as follows :—" It is to be observed
the number of men only is required. All women
entered in the rate-book are therefore to be excluded.
It is to be observed that it is only the number of
persons resident within the Parliamentary borough,
or rather within seven miles thereof, that is re-

quired. Any person, therefore, who may be as-
sessed in the rate-book in respect of a tenement
occupied by him within the borough, but who does
not reside within the above-mentioned limit,
ought to be excluded from this return. It is only
the number of persons assessed at or above £6 that
is required. All persons, therefore, who are as-
sessed iu respect of tenements the gross es-
timated rental and rateable value of which are
below £5, ought to be wholly excluded from the
raturn. When several persons aro jointly assessed
in respect of a single tenement, they should be en-
tered as separate occupiers of tenements, calculated
at a proportionate part of the whole value of the
single tenement. Thus, if A, B, and C, are rated
jointly for a tenement the gross estimated rental
of which is £2l, and the rateable value of which is
£lB, each of these ought to be entered as occupiers
of a tenement at a gross annual rental of £7 and
rateablevalue of £6. If either of them be a woman,
or resides more than seven miles from the Parlia-
mentary borough, such occupier ought to be
wholly excluded." From this it will be perceived
how near, how very near indeed we are to the
actual realisation of Reform in Parliament ! Mi-
nisters have at length, in the November of 1859,
begun in the northern boroughs to send out circu-
lers in quest of information ! After this, of course,
we may regard the thing as done, virtually done—
just as those volumes under the letter A show that
we are already in possession of the long promised
and long looked for British Museum Printed
Catalogue!

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 14.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Frederic Wil-
liam of Prussia (Princess Royal), drove out this morning
in an open carriage and four, attended by Lord A. Paget.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, with Prince
Frederic William of Prussia and Prince Leiningen, went
out shooting.
The Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa
rode in the riding-house. Prince Arthur also rode in the
riding-house.
The following visitors left the castle in the forenoon :
Lord John Russell, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, the
Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, and Colonel F.
Seymour, C.B.

THE MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS.

The second season of these admirably-managed concerts
commenced last evening at St. James's Hall, and—not-
withstanding the dense fog, which covered with its dark
mantle the entire of the metropolis during the day and night
—attracted a crowded and fashionable audience. The pro-
gramme for the evening consisted of a selection from the
instrumental works of Beetho% en, and vocal music, from
various sources, and, although the selection was rather
short, it is but right to say that it did not yield in musical
interest and variety to any of its predecessors at these con-
certs. To give effect to the instrumental portion of the
programme those able artists, Messrs. Wieniawski, Charles
Halle, Piatti, and Sainton were engaged, while the vocali-
sation was assigned to Madame Lommens Sherrington and
llerr Reichardt.

The concert commenced with Beethoven's quartet in
B fiat, for two violins, viola, and violoncello, Op. 18, No. 6,
which was exquisitely executed by M. Sainton, Herr Ries,
M. Schreurs, and Signor Piatti. This piece was to have
been followed by a duet between Madame Lemmens Sher-
rington and Herr Reichardt, but owing to the effects of the
fog the lady was unable to arrive in time to take her part
in the concert in the order prescribed ; whereupon Herr
Reichardt sang a pleasing German air, after which Mr.
Charles Halle performed on the pianoforte Beethoven's
Grand Sonata in A major (Op. 2), dedicated to Haydn.
The performance of this piece was all that could be de-
sired, and Mr. Halle was rewarded for the grace and finish
which he displayed on the occasion by the enthusiastic
applause of the audience. Madame Sherrington having
now arrived, she sang with Herr Reichardt Rossini's
charming duet, " Mira la bianca luna." She also sang
Mozart's aria, " Non temer, amato beno," in both of which
she displayed those vocal qualifications that render her one
of the most attractive concert singers of the day.
The second part of the concert opened with Beethoven's
quartet in E minor (Op. 59), for two violins, viola, and
violoncello, in which that incomparable violinist, M. Wie-
niawski, took part, and largely contributed to the effective-
ness with which this splendid composition was rendered.
The audience were delighted, and manifested their satis-
faction in an unmistakeable manner. Madame Sherrington
sang Macfarren's " Ah, why do we love" sweetly; and Herr
Reichardt was equally successful in his rendering of Schu-
bert's serenade, " Through the night my songs adjure thee."

The concert terminated with Beethoven's Sonata in G
major (Op. 30), for piano and violin, which was performed
in a masterly manner, by Mr. Ilalle and M. Wieniawski.
'rho concert throughout gave great satisfaction, very much
of which resulted from the ability displayed by Mr.
Benedict as the director.

His Highness the Prince Leopold of Hohenzol-
lem-Sigmaringen and suite have arrived at Maurigy's
Hotel from Germany.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Mi-
nister at this Court, and the Countess Platen, returned las
night from Sweden to their residence in Grosvenor-place.
His Excellency Don Juan de Francisco Martin,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from
the Republic of Guatemala, has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Smyth Vereker have left
town for Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, on a visit to
General Hall.

Mr. Henry B. Baring, M.P., and Mrs. Baring
have left Farranee's llotel, Belgravia, for Torquay, for the
winter.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—The Montreal Pilot
says :—" We have it on authority that bis Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Colonial Secretary
and other distinguished personages, will visit Canada is
the end of May or the beginning of June next. The formal
opening of the Victoria-bridge will then take place. The
corporation having appointed a committee to meet the
Grand Trunk directors and co-operate with them on the
celebration, we understand that Mr. Blackwell, at an inter-
view with the chairman (Councillor Bristow), expressed the
great felicity he would have in doing all in the power of the
company to make the celebration worthy of the occasion,
and of the illustrious visitors from England expected to be
present at it. The bridge will be opened for traffic next
month, but no public or general demonstration will be
made."

• DENSE FOG IN THE METROPOLIS.—SERIOUS
ACClDENTS.—Throughout the whole of yesterday the me-
tropolis was visited with a dense fog. Business in the
banking houses, merchants' offices and warehouses was
obliged to be carried on by gaslight. The steamboats on
the river ceased to run, and the traffic with omnibuses,
carts, and other vehicles was most seriously impeded.
Several serious accidents occurred by persons being rim
over, who were taken to the hospital.
THE FOG AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Notwith-
standing the denseness of the fog in town yesterday morn-
ing, and the extreme coldness of the weathey, at Sydenham
it was as bright and warm as summer, and the Palace never
looked more beautiful even in June. The fog seemed to
reach about as far as New-cross, but beyond_ that all was
sunshine.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Saturday evening,
about half-past five o'clock, some person entered the dwel-
ling-house of Mr. Charles Butcher, No. 113, Bayham-
street, Camden-town, and stole from the parlour table a
large writing desk, which contained a gold pencil case, cer-
tificates of shares in several public companies, a note of
hand for £lOO, a small pocket lodger, and several letters and
miscellaneous papers. The thief is supposed to have en-
tered the house by means of a skeleton key.
THE VICARAGE OF ST. PANCRAS.—The Rev.
Thomas Dale having announced his intention of resigning
the vicarage of St. Pancras at the close of the present year,
a-memorial, signed by several hundreds of the parishioners,
is to be presented to him to-day, earnestly requesting him
to re-consider his determination, and, if possible, to con-
tinue at his post, in order that ha may be able to carry out
the scheme of parochial church extension which he in-
augurated, and which he has so successfully developed.
MR. BLACK, M.P., AND THE WORKING CLASSES
OF EDINBURGII.—On Friday night a public meeting of
working men was held in Queen-street Hall, Edinburgh,
for the purpose of considering resolutions and hearing ad-
dresses in reply to the recent lecture of Mr. Black, M.P.,
on " Wages, Strikes, and Trades' Unions," reported in our
columns. The hall was crowded, and among those on the
platform were the Lord Provost, Bailie Thomas Russell,
Mr. Thomas Knox, Mr. Newton, engineer, from London,
and 26 delegates from 13 trades in the town, consisting of
the president and secretary from each trade society. On
the motion of Bailie Thomas Russell, the Lord Provost was
called to the chair. Mr. Iverach, a tailor, moved the first
resolution, to tht effect that the meeting was of opinion
that the theory of supply and demand, as applied
to the producers of labour by Mr. Black, was unsound
in principle, and opposed to the true interests of the
working classes. The speaker addressed the meeting
at some length, with a view to show that trades unions
are necessary as a protection to the labourer in the dis-
posal of his labour, and in the preservation of his rights as
a workman, The resolution was seconded and carried, an
amendment having fallen to the ground for want of a se-
conder. The next resolution, to the effect that the -state-
!flouts of Mr. Black regarding trades unions are generally
inaccurate, and that they reflect very injuriously upon the
Amalgamated Engineers' frade Society, was moved by
Mr. Gunn, and seconded by Mr. W. Newton, from Lon-
don, who entered into a defence of the Amalgamated So-
ciety of Engineers, which he said had been grossly mis-e-
-sented and maligned by Mr. Black. Mr. 'Ramsay pro-
posed an amendment to the resolution, to the effect that
the meeting repudiate the union got up by the Amalga-
mated Engineers, on account of its modern date, as com-
pared with trades unions. He made a few remarks in its
support amidst a good deal of interruption. Mr. Barton
seconded the amendment, which, with the resolution, was
put to the mezlting, when the latter was carried by accla-
mation. Mr. Lorimer proposed the third resolution, to the
effect that the meeting, after having considered Mr. Black's
lecture, have no confidence in his views of social and poll=
tical economy, which was unanimously adopted.

LATEST NEWS.

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

PARIS, Nov. 15.

The Constitutionnel of to-day, in answer to an
article, signed by its chief editor Grandguillot, on
the Regency of the Prince de Carignan, says
•
" The acceptation of the Regency by the Prince
de Carignan would have caused an open interven-
tion in the affairs of Central Italy, and then Sar-
dinia could not have prevented, on the other hand,
the entry of the Neapolitan troops into the Roman
territory."

TURIN, Nov. 14.
The Piedmontese Gazette of to-day publishes the

following:—
Prince de Carignan gave an audience yesterday
evening, at 9 o'clock, to the Chevalier Minghotti
and the Chevalier Peruzzi, who had come here to
request the Prince to accept the regency conferred
upon him by the National Assemblies of Parma,
Modena, the Romagna, and Tuscany.
The Prince in his reply said :
"I am deeply moved by your offer, and tender
my thanlKs to the assemblies and the people of
Central Italy, who have given me so great a proof
of thetr confidence. I believe that, in making this
offer, you are influenced less by my personal merits
than by your devotedness towards the King, and
by your feelings, which are not only liberal and
national, but also those of order and respect for
monarchical institutions.

" 'Weighty representations, reasons of political
propriety, and the approaching Congress, deter me,
much to my regret, from responding to your ap-
peal, or accepting the charge offered to me. This
forbearance on my part, and the sacrifice I am thus
making, will prove more useful to the interests of
our common country than if I had acted otherwise;
nevertheless, I thought to do an act of service in
designating the Chevalier Buoncompagni as the per-
son who ought to be entrusted with the regency of
Central Italy.
"Return my thanks to the people you represent.
tell them that their perseverance and their general
conduct deserve the sympathies of Europe; tell
them to reckon always on the King, who will sup-
port their wishes, and who will never abe.ndon;those
who entrust their destinies to his loyalty."
The Prinse de Carignan then summoned the Che-
valier Buoncompagni to undertake the regency, who
intimated his readiness to accept the honour and
responsibility of that office. Signor Buoncompagni
is about to leave immediately for Central Italy to
enter upon his functions.

TRIESTE, Nov. 14.

The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Bombay, coming
from Constantinople, ran ashore on the 9th instant,
near the island of Unie, in the Bay of Juarnerio, in
Austrian Illyria. The passengers, specie, and let-
ters have been saved. Several steamers have left
this port to render what assistance may be re-
quired.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

A battery of the 7th Regiment of Artillery, and a
company of pontooners, in garrison at Toulon, have
received orders to be ready to embark at Toulon on
the 25th of this month. The 3d Regiment of Engi-
neers, at Arras, has received orders to send a com-
pany to the same port by the same date. The offi-
cers of the Commissariat have been appointed, and
are to be placed under the orders of M. Bloch. M.
Dubus, Military Intendant of the Imperial Guard,
is to control the administrative service of the expe-
dition. Colonel Roulede is to command the Engi-
neers, and the commander-in-chief is to be the
General of Division de Montauban, with Colonel
Schmitz for chief of the Staff. The vessels carry-
ing out troops will touch at Goree, the Cape of
Good Hope, and Singapore, and orders have been
sent to the French Consuls at those places to have
in. readiness such supplies as are likely to be re-
quired. The expedition will reach Chins as already
stated, at the time of the year most favourable for
military operations.
Baron Brenier, the French Minister at Naples,
has again received instructions to press for reforms.
Kis Excellency does not hitherto seem to have made
ranch impression either on the King or his Ministers.
The departure of the French expedition against
China appears to be fixed for December 15. The
vessels carrying out troops will touch at Goree, the
C ape of Good Hope, and Singapore, and orders have
b een sent to the French Consuls at those places to
h ave in readiness such supplies as are likely to be
required. The expedition will reach China, as
already stated, at the time of the year most favour-
&Die for military operations.

The Debuts has the following account, derivod,
it intimates, from a good source, of the Prussian
ei:reular on the interview at Breslau between the
Eniperor of Russia and the Prince-Regent of
Prussia :

'" The Emperor and the Prince, not having seen each
either for a long time, desired tohave a meeting, in order to
c cane to a personal understanding on the numerous political
a objects which interest the two Courts of Berlin and St.
retersburg. Their wish to meet was, besides, increased by
lb.eir family connection, by the friendly relations which for
tutors than 50 years have existed, almost without interrup-
ti on, between their two countries, and by the community of
their interests, which may be one day menaced by the situa-
ti cm, which is already very grave, of European affairs.
The two princes had no difficulty in coming to an under-
sle aiding both on the general character of pending questions
a n d on those foreseen, and on the solutions which those
q nestiona are destined to receive. They have, in fact, come
to' an agreement on the subject of the ' identical' policy
ich the two Cabinets are to adopt for the fnture on all
o.x asions. M. de Schleinitz says also, in his circular, that
tl,mt Berlin Cabinet feels very groat satisfaction at the per-
k at and cordial understanding which has been re-established
tween the two princes ; and the motive he gives is that
fr n the said understanding hopes may be entertained that
w to it is abnormal and profoundly to be regretted in the pre-
sea t situation of Europe may be removed, and that cense-
qu ntly the situation may be made regular; also that at the
sa ate timo the causes which disturb the confidence of the
pc p ulations in the duration of peacs may cease, and the re-
tu n 1 of incidents calculated seriously to compromise peace
m:1) j be prevented."

UHE BOURSE, Nov. 14.—The market continues
lu ia vy, owing to the uncertainties about the Re-
gon cy of Prince Carignan. Threes have been done
at 69f. 90c. and 69f. 85c. ; Mobilier 782 f. 50c. to
77"7f. 50c. ; Austrian, 548 f. 75c. to 547 f. 50c. ;
Lombard, 547 f. 50c. ; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,362 f.
50e. ; Northern, 950 f. to 947 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 890 f.
to. 887 f. 50c. The following were the last quota-
ti o ns

4+; per Cents..... 95 50 Credit Foncier 692 50
D o. end month .. Belgian 41 99 50
3 per Cents. 69 80 Piedmonteso (5)
D 43. end month.... 69 85 Roman B6 50
13 aak Shares 2850 Austrian
C ridit Mobilier .. 780 Spanish Threes
D a. Account 776 25 Home Debt 43

whose task it will be to examine into all parts of the
budget, and so to settle matters that the object in
view may be attained. In its operations the Com-
mission will take the projected reforms in the civil
and military branches of the Administration as its
basis, and all the central departments, including
my Army and Marine Supreme ' Commandos,'
will be directed to give the Commission such infor-
mation and assistance as may be necessary to enable
it to accomplish its important task.
" The Commission has to finish its work by the
end of March, 1860, at latest, it being my intention
to have its project supervised by my Council of the
Empire, to which, in accordance with the sense of
Paragraphs 13 and 16 of my Patent of the 13th
April, 1851,. temporary members, taken from the
different provinces and the different ranks of society
(Stande), will be added.

" The Commission will meet in the Finance De-
partment, and you have to keep me properly in-
formed of its progress.

" FRANCIS JOSEPH.
" Vienna, Nov. 11, 1859."

• Paragraph 13 of the Patent of April 13th "The
Reichsrath (Council of the Empire) is to be composed of
the President of the Councilors of the Empire, and of
temporary members (Theilnehmer)." Paragraph 16—" For
thoroughly examining into and discussing separate
draughts of laws or questions, men of all classes and from
all parts of the monarchy, who by experience, knowledge,
and social position, are capable of taking a correct general
view of the state of things, or are distinguished for know-
ledge in particular lines of business (Father), can be sum-
moned to attend as temporary members of the Council of
the Empire."