The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 18b9

Austria gnashed her teeth at political up-
in vain. All Italy and all the world saw
rightnes,l
that Austria was gratuitously brutal; no sentiment
has become more general and deeper from year to
year than that Austria was the curse of Italy.

LATEST

N E W 8.

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

And there she now lies—trembling before this
smaller and hated Power. Her armies, left to
themselves, could have crushed Sardinia by mere
weight of numbers; but an equal—a superior, as it
proved—threw his armies into the Sardinian scale,
and Austria kicked the beam, and kicks it yet. May
she never come down again ! Her bitter spite would
not know Sardinia at Villafranca and at Zurich ;
but now she has to go into a Congress in which
the despised Sardinia will have more weight than
her representatives and those of her ejected lieute-
nants together.
But it is Hungary which really paralyses her
more than all. Had she not made peace at Villa-
franca, an Hungarian army, enlisted and drilled in
Italy, would soon have been on the borders of their
fatherland, and the whole of the largest and most
powerful, and most oppressed of the Austrian
nationalities would have been in a blaze, which,
this time, Russia would assuredly not have helped
her to extinguish. FRANCIS JOSEPH, at Verona,
feared the Hungarians num than the Frenchmen.
He saw that he must propitiate the kingdom of which
to this day he is not legally King. The kingdom
whose constitution ho abolished by force of arms,
not by law; and which he has vainly endeavoured
to amalgamate by the STADION process of centralisa-
tion. Hungary refuses to be centralised from
Vienna. Hungary says, and says justly, We are a
greater, older, more energetic kingdom than the
petty German archduchy of the HAPSBURGS. They
might have been our constitutional kings had they
pleased ; since they have refused that—since their
whole treatment' of us is nothing but a Iliolation of
all treaties, and of national independence, and of
order, we have nothing for it but to resist.
' hence the present situation of things in Hun-
gary. Blinded by the confidence of Jesuits and
centralising statesmen, in their own cunning, the
now famous patent was issued to conciliate the
Protestants. To efface the national character of
the Protestant Church the old synodal divisions
were changed, and sly clauses introduced which
night have made a Jesuit at Vienna master of the
Protestant Church in Hungary. The trap was
soon detected—the bait of apparent liberty ridi-
culed. The Constitution as it stood in 1848 was
demanded—the people and clergy, notwithstanding
all the efforts of Government, met in their old
districts, and threats and violence were all in vain.
The Hungarian Roman Catholics—men who knew
of no Catholicism adverse to liberty—boldly took
the part of the Protestants and demanded their old
rights for their neighbours ; and now we read that
Austria is in such fear that she not only shrinks
from the wholesale arrests and persecutions she had
threatened, but has been obliged to liberate those
whom she had actually arrested. The Hungarians,
counselled doubtless by KOSSUTH, have determined,
as they are now situated, to try passive resistance
to the uttermost. They cannot do better. Their
cause will advocate itself before Europe if they
resolutely hold it up to the world as quietly and
persistently as Central Italy has done. What if,
in gratitude for Austria's favours in the Crimean
war, ALEXANDER should become the NAPOLEON of
Hungary !

PARIS, DEC. 27.

Lord and Lady Cowley have received at their
country seat at Chantilly the elite of the English
residents in Paris.

His Lordship will return to Paris on Thursday.

To-day the Princess Metternich paid her official
visit to the Princess Clothilda and the Princess
Mathilde.

VIENNA, DEC. 28.

According to a telegram received by Count
Rechberg from Prince Metternich, Count Walewski
has declared to the diplomatic corps in Paris that,
as long as he remains at the head of the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, the pamphlet " Le Pape et le
Congres " should not be considered as the pro-
gramme of the French Ministry.

PARIS, DEC. 28.

The Emperor will proceed to-morrow to Fon-
tainebleau, where his Majesty will stay two days.
There will be a grand hunting party, and Prince
Metternich is among the persons invited.

Mr. Charles Godfrey, jun., son of Mr. Godfrey,
of the Coldstream Guards, has been appointed band-
master of the Scots Fusilier Guards.
Marshal the Duke of Malakoff has been visiting
the Duke and Duchess of Wellington and tho Marchioness
of Ely during the past week. The Marshal returns to Paris
to-day.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and family
are passing the winter at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton.
Sir G. C. Lewis returned to London yesterday,
from a visit to the Earl of Clarendon, at hiw seat, the Grove,
Watford.

The Right Hon. Edward Bouverie, M.P., has
arrived in town from the Earl of Radnor's, in Wiltshire.

Mrs. Lane Fox has left the St. George's Hotel
fur Buckhurst-park, Sussex, on a visit to tho Earl and
Countess Dclawarr.

TILE INDIAN MAlL.—Another of the inconve-
niences irrationally inflicted from the total want of general
understanding whenever a public holiday is agreed upon
was furnished yesterday in connection with the outgoing
India mail via Marseilles. Although the mail was post-
poned till this evening, notice of tho fact was not given
until it was too late for the employes in the principal Indian
establishments to change their arrangements and avail
themselves of the opportunity of leaving London.
The settlement in the debentures of the East
Indian Railway Company's Five per Cert. Loan of
£1,600,000 is fixed for Monday, and they are to be officially
quoted.
LAUNCH OF THE DOVER MAIL PACKET THE
JOHN PENN.—Yesterday afternoon a new steam packet for
the Dover mail service, designed by Mr. Ash, was launched
from the yard of the Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding
Company, Orchard-yard, Blackwall. ller dimensions are
—Length, 170 feet ; breadth, 29 feet ; depth, 11 feet ; ton-
nage, 340. She was named on the slip by Mrs. Penn, wife
of the celebrated engineer ; and as she floated into the water
she was acknowledged by till present to be a roost beautiful
model of naval architecture. She has been named the John
Penn in honour of the firm who supply the engines—nomi-
nally to be of 120 horses, but constructed to work up to a
very high effective power. From her appearance and the
well-known high character of builders and engineers, it is
anticipated that, as a seagoing steam-packet, she will be
superior in every respect to anything that has yet appeared
on the Dover station.

TIIE RIGHT OF MASTERS OF VESSELS.—A special
report has been printed of a trial at Liverpool on the 9th
inst. involving a question as to the right of masters of vessels
to retain commissions, gratuities, or passage money. Mr.
Benson, captain of the ship Pomona, had retained on his
return from Calcutta certain sums which had been handed
to him by persons at that port whom he had employed to
execute work upon the vessel, and which he had received as
commissions or gratuities. He was also charged with
having appropriated to his own use two sums respectively
of £l5 and £45, received from passengers. A verdict of
acquittal as regards embezzlement was rendered in each case,
but it is important to observe that the bench and the jury
concurred in expressing distinct condemnation of the course
that had been pursued, and a hope that the disclosures made
would operate as a warning. " Whether they used the
term gratuities or presents, or discounts," observed the
Deputy Recorder, "nothing could be more monstrous than
that a captain, who had under his charge his employer's
interest, should take money from the tradesnma with whom
he made bargains, and over whose conduct he was the only
person who really exercised any control." At the close of
the case the Court advised Captain Benson to account to his
owners for the money which was defaulting, intimating
that, although he had been acquitted on the criminal action,
it was still open to them to take such civil proceedings as
they might think fit.
HORRIBLE MURDER NEAR NOTTINGIIAII.—A
shocking murder was perpetrated on Monday evening, the
26th inst., at New Lenten, a village about one mile from
Nottingham. The facts of the case are these:—About 11
o'clock on the evening in question two men, named Herbert
and Alfred Slick (brothers), were proceeding across the
park which leads front Nottingham to Lenten, when they
overtook two other persons, named Geo. Clark and Wm.
Weston. who were going in the sante direction. Shortly after
Herbert Slack commenced annoying Weston, and then as-
saulted him. The affair between them, however, was made
upon Slack promisinglto give him a half-sovereign. About
10 minutes afterwards the whole party arrived at Lenten.
The two brothers then whispered to each other, and the
younger Slack went to his brother's house, a short distance
off, and in a few minutes returned with a dagger stick.
Clark, not liking to see his comrade unfairly used, inter-
fered in his behalf, when the older Sleek immediately seized
the dagger, saying, " I'll do for you I" and stabbed Clark
in the neck. The weapon severed the windpipe and ea tered
the body five or six inches. The unfortunate man ex-
claimed " I'm done 1" fell to the ground, and almost in-
eantaneously expired. Information was given to the police
and the two Slacks wore taken into custody. The mur-
dered man was said to be very harmless and inoffensive, and
was very seldom known to quarrel with any one. He was
a tanner in the employ of Messrs. Bailey and Shaw, and
was universally esteemed for the propriety of his conduct.
He has left a wife and four children to lament his untimely
end. The alder prisen:r states that he did not tell his bro-
ther to fetch the dagger, hut a half sovereign to recompense
Weston, and that ;while the scuffle was coin on between
himself and Weston, Ctark ran on to the dagger and killed
hiniselT. A coroner's inquiry was instituted on Tuesday
afternoon, before Mr. Coroner Swann.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY AN ABSCONDING CLERK.
—On Monday a young man, named John Ferguson,
attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself on board
the ship Empire of Petwe, at Liverpool. It appears that
ho was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. W . Holmes Brothers,
of Manchester, and had absconded on Friday last with £370
belonging to his employers. He was traced to the above-
namedwthaes vesselgoing as
a second-class
Monday,
whenpathsseungfoeurnd.
vessel, which was hound for Australia, whither ho
yolencgr smv visited
t ei
in
Tthweo
bed ; on being told to
get
up and dress himself he raised
himself slightly in the bed, and , without even disturbing
the bed-clothes, raised a loaded pistol and shot
himself
through the left side, the ball penetrating the lowerrib.lie
was promptly removed to the Southern Hospital, where the
ball was extracted, but faint hopes are entertained of his
, recovery.

also perished, and the total loss cannot be estimated
at less than two millions of piastres."

A Wiesbaden letter says :—" In spite of all the
reports that have been spread about, I am able to
assert positively that the Government of Nassau
has not concluded a concordat with Rome, and has
no intention of doing so. Besides, by our public
law, such a convention could only be made with the
reserve of the states giving their approval."

The &bad Dnew-nck, states that the pacha of
the fortress of Belgrade has ceased his relations
with the Servian Oovernment. The pacha had
demanded the extradition of a Turkish subject,
which was refused by the Government of Ser-
via, and that circumstance caused the relations
between them to be broken off. The Servian
Minister of Foreign Affairs has addressed a me-
morial on the subject to all the foreign consuls
resident at Belgrade.

" A new era," says the Independance of Brussels,
"is about to dawn upon the Sews in Austria. If
the information transmitted to us by our correspon-
dent at Vienna is correct, the Austrian Cabinet
after much discussion, has decided at a late sitting,
under the presidence of the Emperor, that the sews
shall henceforth be authorised to purchase real
estates in any part of the empire except Gallicia.
To entitled to this new immunity, a man must be
able to read and write."