The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-03 00:00:00

quoted can have been employed without an under-
standingwith the Power which has now the keys
of Rome. That Power, in one of its last utterances,
severed boldly, in language, as RICASOLI has done,
the temporal from the spiritual power of the
POPE. RICASOLI adds that the severance, in fact,
will be the instrument of a much-needed regenera-
tion. Italians, many of them, sincerely believe
this. They believe in the Bishop of ROME, in the
successor of ST. PETER, but, with too good reason,
they detest the Papacy. They are, in truth, honestly
of the same religion as that which their mothers
taught. But education, while it leaves them Roman
Catholics, will not allow them to be Papists. Their
real desire is for a religious Bishop, not for an oppres-
sive, petty, yet pompous potentate, in whom to see
any resemblance to the first Bishop, taxes too much
their fancy and their faith.

But what will be the bearing of the bold speech
on the Hungarian crisis ? But yesterday we heard
of the Emperor of AUSTRIA commencing his fierce
contest with the country of whose Crown he is, as
yet, only the usurper ; and whose Diet's address
he dares to send back for amendment. Hungary
and Italy are pairs in this contest with the com-
mon oppressor. By both he is cordially and justly
hated; in both his dominion is co-extensive with
the range of his cannon. In Venetia these cannon
have a treaty right, though none whatever morally
—but in Hungary every German foot-soldier, dra-
goon, and artilleryman, is a violation of the funda-
mental laws to which the Hapsburg dynasty is
solemnly sworn. In Venetia, by technical right,
Austria perpetrates a permanent outrage which
" time and opportunity" will avenge. But, in Hun-
gary, it is all shameless, brazen-faced villany ;
FRANCIS JOSEPH is there politically and morally
on a level with the worst political criminals. He
has stolen a Crown, and asks the brave and noble-
minded Hungarians to do homage to the avowed
thief ! Their homage ought to be the present of a
halter.

Upon the very morrow of the sudden demise of
the late Lord High Chancellor of England, we
stated confidently in the columns of The Sun what
would be the legal changes consequent upon that
lamentable event. Subsequently a variety of
rumours were afloat in other quarters to the effect
that the vacant posts were to be filled up quite dif-
ferently. In several instances, indeed, merely con-
jectural statements rose into all the confidence of for-
mal, and even as one might call them, semi-official
announcements. Mr. Justice HILL was to retire
from the Bench on the plea of severe
indisposition: Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON was
to have his slighted feelings, as an ambitious lawyer,
assuaged by his being advanced, or, in other words,
honourably shelved through the convenient medium
of his promotion (?) to a Puisne Judgeship. Mr.
ROUNDELL PALMER was to have comfortably found
for him a seat in the House of Commons as an in-
stant stepping-stone to the Attorney-Generalship.
Mr. COLLIER was to be inducted into the second
best place among the law officers of the Crown, the
Solicitor-Generalship, left vacant by the advance-
ment to the Bench of Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON.
Well, fully a week passed by and the semi-official
organ of the Whigs announced tardily what we
had already announced eight days earlier in these
columns of The Sun. The result proving, in spite
of all the intervening rumours to the contrary,
that the legal changes consequent upon Lord
CAMPBELL'S Death were exactly what we alone
among all the journals had at the first moment
intimated confidently they would be. Sir
RICHARD BETHELL, now Lord WESTBURY, has
in due course won his peerage, and with
his peerage the Chancellorship. Sir WILLIAM
ATHERTON has in due course been advanced from
the Solicitor-Generalship—not to the Bench, where
we are glad to know that Mr. Justice HILL yet has
health sufficient to hold his own, but—to the Attor-
ney-Generalship. There still remains only the vacant
post lately occupied by Sir WILLIAM ATHERTON,
as Solicitor-General, to be filled up. That we,
ourselves, as far back as on last Monday se'nnight,
intimated would be the only dubious or proble-
matical part of all these legal changes and
arrrangements. A better choice under present
circumstances could hardly be made than
that of Mr. COLLIER, as the new Solicitor-
General. "First catch your hare," was the judi-
cious axiom of Mrs. GLASSE, or rather of Dr. HILL,
who wrote the famous Cookery Boek under that
nom-de-plume. The familiar recommendation
happens, by the way, to be not altogether unworthy
at this moment of application to Mr. Roux-
DELL PALMER : whose abilities as a Lawyer
and an Advocate undoubtedly qualify him for any
promotion that might be decided upon in his re-
gard by Lord PALMERSTON —if only Mr. ROUN-
DELL PALMER were to this end previously enrolled
again among the ranks of the national representa-
tives! First obtain your seat in the House of Com-
mons—and then look for the dropping into your
silk gown of the " ripe pear" of the Solicitor-
Generalship—nay, even, if the hour be but propiti-
ous for those ripe grapes that only look sour, the
dignities, and emoluments, and privileges apper-
taining to the Attorney-Generalship!

THE STEAM PLOUGH IN lIUNGARY.

A German gentleman, of whom we have no
knowledge whatever, and who apologises for being
obliged to write in his own language, writes to our
office from Presburg, in Hungary, to inform us that
Fowler's Steam Plough was tried in the neighbour-
hood of Presburg, with great success, or at least
applause. The trial lasted two days, and was wit-
nessed by thousands of people of all classes,—the
highest agricultural authorities especially. A
banquet followed, in which "England's Industry"
was cordially toasted, and Herr Schulhof, who has
the credit of having introduced the machine into
Hungary, received due commendation. The writer
mentions that Herr Schulhof will be in London in a
few days, and seems very desirous that his country-
man should receive all the attention due to the
person who can, he thinks, be of such service to
English agricultural machine makers. He need
not fear that Mr. Fowler will fail in such duties.

The memorial on the subject of the China Mail
service, which lies for signature at the London and China
Telegraph-office, is to be presented to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Friday by a deputation consisting of Sir S.
Donaldson and Messrs. Dent, Gibb, Gledstanes, Buchanan,
M.P., Lewis, M.P., and others, who are to be introduced
by Mr. Gregson, M.P. Chairman of the East India and
China Association.

DISCOVERY OF
collar have been displayed AR
forA NthCe"" CROWN AND
COLLAR.—The.—The remains of an ancient
we or two in the
shop window of Messrs. William and Johne
la
shop Irish crown and
z,nit seven
nes, Bal-
linasloe. They are of pure gold, weighing
ii
ounces, and were found in a bcoougnntersarmean, lonzahodisposed c noisevon the
a
of
brink of the Shannon, by a
them for a sum of money. From their shape and construc-
tion they must date from an early period, at least as ea^r'v a
the introduction of Christianity into Ireland, and they
s
are, therefore, objects of rare interest to the antiquarian.
The Messrs. Hynes, we understand, will present them to
some thoroughly national institution.— Western Star.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS AT STEPNEY.
Yesterday a number of men were engaged in taking down
houses at Stepney-green, adjoining the site where the elec-
tion of members for the borough of Finsbury takes place,
and which were sold by auction a few days ago by Messrs.
Pullen, Horne, and Co., by order of the Master and
Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge, whose property it is.
Among the hontes disposed of was what is called the "Old
Farm-house Works," and which, it is stated, was formerly
a country residence of King Henry VII. The whole of
the buildings are to be removed, for the purpose of forming
new streets,- lea.ding fr, in the Green westward, which it is
expected will bring a large amount of income to the col-
lege, it being intended to erect houses suitable to the in-
dustrious and the working classes.