The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDONI TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1861.

Whatever their avowals now through the lips
of their gracious SOYERElGN—whatever their
reticence there, whether designed or undesigned,
' in regard to the programme of their legislative
undertakings—Ministers know full what it is pre-
cisely that the community looks for this year at thei
hands, what it is that will be required from them
during 1861—whether they promise to do these
things, or whether abstaining from' any promise
whatever upon this or upon that head, they reserve
themselves unpledged for the resolute labour of
their performance. Conspicuous among these great
national requirements, foremost among them both
in point of time and of importance, they know, one
and all of them perfectly well, must be the com-
prehensive revision, or to use an expressive
phrase, imported from the opposite shores of
the Channel, the rehabilitation of our whole finan-
cial system. The country will no longer consent to
continue, with so much long-suffering and apparent
complacency, this miserable hand to mouth system
of merely patched up Budgets—Budgets just tiding
over a deficit by means in every way discreditable
to the responsible financier of the QUEEN, the
nation and the Government. The country will no
longer quietly consent to jeopardize its prosperity
in order that a crochetty experimentalist may essay,
year after year, with profligate audacity and at
every hazard, to realise his own eccentric and
extravagant hallucinations. The country will not
have the war tax continued, mush less doubled,
until war shall have at length justified, and, indeed,
necessitated its imposition—it will not yield up
year after year, any longer with tranquility, that
detested Income-tax which applied thus infamously
in a time of peace, is likely to become the
very germ of disloyalty and insurrection. The
country will insist upon having some rational
economy in its expenditure. -At the same time
it will require no less inexorably the mainte-
nance in full efficiency, particularly during the con-
tinuance of the present critical irritation in Europe
the maintenance, at their full efficiency of both the
the great departments of our War Administration.
Abroad the dignity of the Crown and the honour
of the nation will have to be maintained. At home
the well-being of the community will have to be
cared for somewhat more sedulously and practically
than they have been cared for of late years, by
measures:effecting the improvement of the laws, by
measures beneficially affecting the sanitary and
social condition of the masses, by measures inaugn-
rative of a new and sound financial :organisation,
and last, but not least, by measures tending to the
better constitutional development of our still
restricted and complex system of popular repro-
sentation.

LATEST NEWS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

PARIS, Fn. 5.

The Moniteur announces that a sitting of the
Corps Legislatif will take place to-day, in which
Government will make a communication.

TURIN, FEB. 5.
Ruggiero Settimo has been appointed Presi-
dent of the Senate.

The remaining elections have everywhere taken
place peacefully.
Brofferio and Crispi have been elected mem-
bers of Parliament.

PARIS, FEB. 5.

The death of Marshal Bosquet is announced.

NAPLES, FEB. 4.
The fire of the besieged at Gaeta is very brisk,
and is replied to by the Sardinians.
A vessel left Gaeta last night, eluding the
vigilance of the Sardinian squadron.
Prince Carignan has visited the camp.

VIENNA, FEB. 4.

Numbers of the Hungarian soldiers on furlough,
who had been ordered to return, have already ar-
rived at their quartere.
The semi-official .Donau Zeitung gives a denial to
the news published by some German journals, that
a treat' relatit g to the Danubian Principalities had
been concluded between Russia and Austria.

Tie law regulating the religions affairs of the
Protestants in the German and Sclavonian pro-
vinces has been adopted by the Council of Minis-
ters, and will be published shortly, after it has re-
ceived the Imperial sanction. It grants complete
autonomy to the Protestant Church. As regards
marriages between Catholics and Protestants, the
existing regulations are for the present to remain
in force.

PESTH, FEB. 4.

The Judex Curire has exhorted the municipalities
to await the result of the judicial conference, which
is to meet shortly, before commencing the exercise
of judicial functions.

ROME, FEB. 3.

The Pope has ordered his soldiers to return to
Rome, notwithstanding the orders of Mgr. de
Merode to the contrary.
15,000 Sardinian soldiers passed through
Umbria on their march to the Kingdom of
Naples.

The reactionary movement in the Abruzzi was
organised by Count Trapani and 111 gr. de Merode.
The Sardinians have evacuated the Papal ter-
ritory in compliance with orders from the Emperor
Napoleon,

The Spanish vessels which were despatched to
Gaeta have been repulsed by Admiral Persano,

TROOPS AND WAR STORES FOR NEW ZEALAND.—
The African, one of Shaw, Savill, and Co.'s liners, sailed
from Gravesend on Thursday for Auckland direct. She has
taken a large quantity of powder and other military stores,
as also five officers and 60 men of the Commissariat and
Hospital Corps, with their wives and families. Two officers
have sailed in the ship to join the 57th Regiment, now
serving in New Zealand. The African is a high-classed
vessel, and the military officers from Chatham, who super-
intended the embarkation, expressed themselves highly
satisfied with the arrangements made for the comfort of the
troops.

the words which have; been articulated this after-
noon by the silvery voice of VICTORIA, it is not by
words which are, after all, only words, nor by pro-
mises, -which events have, so repeatedly, proved to
have been made only that they might be broken,
and then cast back again for awhile into the
oblivion of the long vacation—it is not any longer
or in any way, by the Speech from the Throne
that " Her MAJESTY'S Ministers will be measured.
That is no longer looked to as the preliminary
test of their efficiency, or as a means of recognising
any reliable auguries of their success: or failure as
an Administration. Ministerial promises are of
no account whatever. Ministerial acts will hence-
forth alone be looked to, both within and without
the walls of Parliament. But those acts will
assuredly be looked to now both by the nation at
large and by the Legislature in both Houses with
all the more jealous scrutiny, because unindicated
previously by any reliable foreshadowing through
the Speech from the Throne, of the policy, of the
designs, of the distinct and deliberate intentions of
her MAJESTY'S Government.