The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-17 00:00:00

TEM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVrNITG, MAY' 17, 1861.

Confederation of the Rhine, the Holy Alliance
substituted its own patronage of petty despotism,
and the Diet was its agent. " The Congress of
Vienna," our writer says, "substituted the Germanic
Confederation for the Confederation of the Rhine.
The protector of this new confederation was
the Holy Alliance, a club of princes. The latter
endeavoured to preserve the pleasant privileges they
had enjoyed under the old system; and the Kings
of Bavaria and Wurtemberg only joined the new
association on condition that they should preserve
their entire sovereignty. For 39 years the Diet of
Frankfort performed its task of reaction. The
aspirations of Germany towards unity and liberty,
those wishes for which it had spent its blood and
treasure, were rigidly stifled. The Diet helped the
governments against the legislatures and the press ;
against professors, students, and the working classes,
and earned thereby a cordial and genuine hatred."
The shock of 1848, and the breaking-up of the
Holy Alliance, have caused the Diet to lose ground,
and the means of strengthening it in the interests
of despotism obviously diminish from year to year.
The demands of the people for a union of States, not
a union of Princes, become louder, while Austria and
Prussia fail to co-operate in any such way as can at-
tain the latter object. They do not care to resist
foreign domination under the leadership of Prus-
sia, since they would be certain to add, practically,
their crowns to the many others which the Prus-
sian monarch has already appropriated. They
look, therefore, with hope to the Austrian Empire
becoming, for the better part of it, a kingdom of
Hungary; and through the patronage of France,
to whom Bavaria and Hesse will surrender their
possessions on the left banks of the Rhine,
they will add to their domains, in compensation,
those of all the princes yet smaller than them-
selves. Thus will they complete their new Hep-
tarchy of absolute monarchs, with NAPOLEON 111.
as their suzerain lord.

We cannot go further into the details of this
curious conspiracy, if conspiracy there be. It is
probably the gossip of German coffee-houses, and
perhaps of higher circles. There may be truth in
it. The Liberals of Germany have, doubtless, rea-
son enough to dread the designs of their princes;
their princes must be very uneasy between the
demands of their people, and the spectacle they are
now witnessing in Italy. The example of VICTOR
EMMANUEL must seem, to them, very suggestive to
the KING of Prussia; they also know that NAPO-
LEON 111., on the part of France desires Federation,
not strong kingdoms for neighbours; and who, they
may well say, so likely therefore to stand by
us ? It would certainly be a singular turn
of the political wheel which should bring the
petty despots who hurried up to Baden-Baden,
fearing lest Prussia should purchase them at the
hands of France, now to sell themselves and per-
haps Prussia too, to her, to secure the privilege
of a French Protectorate and of Federal German
Despotism. NAPOLEON is however wary. He
has been warned once. He has seen the unlooked
for result of his Italian intervention, and he may
well hesitate before by an imprudent move he
hazards the undersigned creation of a united Ger-
many,

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam.
bridge and the Princess Mary honoured General and Lady
Alice Peel by their company at dinner on Wednesday
evening, in Park-place, St. James's. The duchess and
princess were attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and
Colonel Purves. A select party had the honour to join the
circle, and a small and distinguished company assembled
after dinner.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough enter-
tained a large party at dinner last evening, at the family
residence in St. James's-square. The duchess afterwards
received a select party.
The Duke and Doch... of Roxburghe, accom-
panied by the Marquis of Bowmont and Lady Charlotte
Lanes her, have arrived at the Clarendon for the season.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen are shortly
expected to arrive from Egypt. The noble earl's health has
greatly improved.
FIRE AT GREENWICH.—This morning an ex-
tensive conflagration broke out on the premises of the
Thames Soap Mills, causing the destruction of a vast
amount of property. Several hours elapsed before the
flames were extinguished.
LONGEVITY.—Died, at Tomnakeist, near Balla-
ter, on Wednesday, Ist inst., Charles Sandison, in the 103 d
year of his age. His grandfather, his father, and himself,
were all born at Tomnakeist, and their united ages
amounted to 272 years. His cousin, Alexander Sandison,
born at the same farm, died on 7th September, 1843, aged
101.—Aberdeen Journal.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.--The Government
emigration vessel Hotspur, of 1,670 tons, Capt. B. Stacey,
belonging to Mr. George Seymour, of London, which sailed
from Plymouth on Dec. 3, arrived at Sydney, New South
Wales, on Feb. 24, with 31 married couples, 175 single
men, 134 single women, 36 boys age from 1 to 12 years, 22
girls between the same ages, 1 male and 3 female infants,
making a total of 433 souls, equal to 400 statute adults,
under charge of Surgeon-Superintendent D. B. North.
One birth and 10 deaths (2 adult females and 8 children)
occurred during the voyage.
THE SULINA BANK.—NOTICE TO MARINERS.--
The following notice announcing the removal of the above
bank, and reporting an improvement in the depth of water
on the bar, has been received from the Board of Trade :
" The bank off the Sulina mouth of the Danube mentioned
in the caution published April last having been removed,
the said caution is hereby cancelled. As the Sulina banks
are of a shifting character, mariners are advised not to ap-
proach within a mile of the entry without having a bar
pilot on board, and their attention is called to articles 23
and 24 of the Pilotage Regulations, published by the
European Commission of the Danube, which oblige the
pilot to meet vessels at a mile and half from the entry.
Notice is hereby further given that the works executed by
the above-mentioned commissioners at the mouth of the
Sulina have deepened and straightened the entry and
that a depth of from 12 to 16 feet may be expected during
the present year, according to the season. The depth is
daily published on the lighthouse, in figures legible on
board of vessels in the roadsteads."

FREEHOLD LAND IN SURREY AND MIDDLESEX.

—The Putney Manor estate was offered for allotment at the
office of the Conservative Land Society yesterday. This
building property adjoins the mansion and estate of Roe-
hampton-park, East Surrey, formerly the seat of the Earl
of Bessborough. The land now on sale, with frontages to
Roehamjton and Ponsonby-road, Is dividel into 30 lots;
one of which, designed for an inn, was selected with a very
early right of choice. On the same occasion the sale of 111
building plots at Kentish .town was commenced. The land
is situated on a slope gradually rising from the north-
western suburb towards Highgate, commanding extensive
views. A costly system of drainage has been made under
the superintendence of the Board of Works.

THE CASE OF THE RET. MR. BON WELL.--The
appeal of the Rev. Mr. Bonwell against the decision and
sentence of the Court of Arches had been set down for
hearing before the Lords of the Privy Council. Owing
however, to the heavy legal expenses incurred by the rev.
gentleman during the protracted proceedings arising out of,
the zalleged liaison with Miss Yorath, and the charge of
immorality consequent thereupon, he is stated to be so im-
poverished, that though he has, to save expense of counsel
and attorney, conducted his case in person, he finds that
he cannot comply with the rule of the court, which requires
him to incur the enormous expense of a transcript of the
notes of the hearing and judgment, and drawing up the
case, and then printing and furnishing sixty copies to the
Registry Office, forty of which are sent to the Privy Coun-
cil. In default of these copies being delivered the case can-
not be heard, and when called on will be struck cut, and
entitle the bishop to ask it being dismissed, which will fol-
low as of course.

THE ILKESTON MURDER—COMMITTAL OF THE
PRISONER.—The inquiry before the magistrates was con-
cluded on Tuesday, when several important witnesses were
examined, and as most of them were comparatively strangers
to the prisoner, before the re-examination he was paraded
with half-a-dozen others in the yard ; and he was in-
stantly identified by all the witnesses successively, except
one, who was sbort -sighted. When asked if he had any
questions to put to one of the witnesses, the prisoner jumped
up, and in a a rapid manner said, " I want to put one ques-
tion to all the gentlemen present. lam not responsible for
the words I have said; I have been in an unsound state of
tisoinneoeflDstraowf ingaysO I went to Nottingham with the
me money, and going off with it to
ilinl,i‘.llend
Fra 1
ce
ut ' You can please yourselves whether you believe,
me I wanted to list for a soldier." The prisoner was
n,
comn tilted to take his trial at the next assizes for the wilful
murde T of his father, and was shortly after removed, say-
ing, " _ I have God ill wy Lent, sad I shall face it through)
sink or tiwim,"

I.4rt A.,
NEWS.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 17.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Bavaria, from New York on the 4th, has arrived

off Cowes.

She brings 364 passengers for England and

France.

On the morning of the 7th she hove to for nine
hours to repair her feeder pipe. She was also
detained three hours outside the Needles by fog.
She experienced throughout the voyage wet weather
and dense fogs.
On the 12th she spoke the British barque Devon,
bound west ; and on the 15th inst. the American
Ann E. Thompson, bound east.
Her news has been anticipated.

PARIS, MAY 17.

The French Academy of Science has decided,
by 18 votes, to propose to the Government that
the biennial prize, founded by the Emperor, should
be conferred on M. Thiers for his Ristory of the
Empire.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
MALTA, MAY 15.

The Masailia and Delta, with the above mail, left
this evening for Marseilles and Southampton re-

spectively.
The latter may be expected to arrive about the
24th inst.

FLORENCE, MAY 16.

The Nazione of to-day publishes letters from
Rome, asserting that the French gendarmes had
seized two boxes containing coins which had been
struck in Rome with the effigy of Francis 11. They
were directed to the Neapolitan provinces.
The same journal asserts that General Goyon
lodged a complaint with Francis 11., who denied
any participation in the affair.
The enlistment of soldiers for the Bourbon ser-
vice, and the vexatious interference 'of the police,
continue at Rome.

NAPLES, MAY 16.

At the banquet given by the National Guard to
the army yesterday, 'Signor Toppulli proposed the
health of the King of Italy, and of the army, which
was drunk with general enthusiasm.
The Chevalier di Nigra and Signor Durando
replied to the toast.

Much regret is expressed at the approaching de-
parture of the Chevalier di Nigra.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE•MAINE, MAY 16.

In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet the repre-
sentative of Gotha urged the Diet to come to a
decision on the proposal of Hesse Darmstadt to
suppress the National Association (National Verein .)
In the same sitting the representative of Austria
made a vague declaration with reference to the pro-
posal of Prussia, respecting the command-in-chief of
the Federal army.

PESTH, MAY 16.

The propositions of M. Deak with reference to
the Address were discussed to-day in the Lower
House of the Diet.

M. Tisda said that an understanding with Austria
was impossible, and that he did not wish the adop-
tion of any Address until the rights of the country
had been restored. He requested the house to pass
a resolution giving a greater extension to the pro-
position of M. Deak.

Some deputies spoke in favour of, and others
against the adoption of the Address.

LISBON, MAY 16.

It is said that the Council of State has proposed
to the King to create fifteen new ministerial peers
in order to overcome the opposition peers.

MM. Cabral and Avila are among the persons
recommended for peerages.

FRANCE.

The withdrawal of the bill which was before the
Legislative Body relative to the exportation of rags
for making paper may be thus explained :—On the
20th June, 1860, the Government presented a bill
having for object to replace the complete prohibi-
tion of the export of rags by a duty of 12f. per 100
kilos. The committee proposed to the Council of
State an amendment raising the duty to 30f. On
the day before the close of the session the Council
of State sent back a counter amendment which
added 6f. to the original duty proposed, making it
18f. This bill was included among those of which
the committee had to complete the examination.
But the treaty of commerce concluded on the Ist
inst. between Belgium and France having substi-
tuted for the prohibition a reciprocal duty of 12f.
per 100 kilos., with the exeeption of woollen rags,
which remain exempt, the bill presented on the
20th June, 1860, became without object. It has,
therefore been withdrawn by Imperial decree, as
already stated.

The discussion in the Senate, and more particu-
larly the speeeh of M. Billault, are remarked on in
the following terms by the Constitutionnel :—" The

:wo sittings which the noble Assembly has devoted
o this great question will rank amongst the most
memorable of representative Government. The
Marquis de La Rochejaquelein produced a great
impression by a very earnest and eloquent speech.
The noble speaker rendered complete justice to the
policy of the Emperor's Government; but he in-
sisted that this policy, SO national and so Chris-
tian-like, would be unmistakably affirmed,
and would receive additional force from
a solemn vote referring the petitions to
the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The effect of
this speech was completed by a powerful attaek on
Turkey by M. de Sculcy, and at the end of the sit-
ting the Senate appeared impatient to declare its
sentiments by an energetic manifestation in favour
of the Christians of the East. As to M. Billault's
speech, we require lime for a calm perusal of the
Minister's admirable language before we can ade-
quately express our admiration of it. For the pre:
sent we can only antounee the impression made and
the result obtained After so clear and noble a
statement of French policy, the Senate was unani-
mous in its applause Its patriotism has given the
illustrious orator the noblest triumph he could de-
sire ; as, after hearing him, all dissensions ceased."
The Siecle, on the same subject, expresses itself
in these terms :—" I results from the speech of the
hon. minister that, I France evacuates Syria, it is
because she is there as the mandatory of Europe,
and that Europe reluires the sacrifice from her.
When so freed from her mandate, she will recover
all her individual lilerty, and then, being no longer
bound by rigorous stpulations, she can intervene at
her own day and hoe, and in the manner she thinks
proper, and will be perhaps in a more favourable
position for settlinr the diffic.ullies of the great
question still remai ing in suspense. We do not,
however, completel' abandon Syria. Our fleet will
cruise off Beyrout zong with the English fleet."
The L'ebats pays a just tribute to the zeal and
humanity which hale characterised the discussion.
One thing, it obseres, is now clear to the public,
that the evacuation)f the French troops is irrevo-
cably fixed for his 5 ; and the debate will have
this great result—t, verve as a warning to the Porte
of the immense resosibility it assumes in under-
taking to defend by% own forces the Christians in
Syria. At the same ime our contemporary directs

attention to the fm that the last accounts from

Constantinople are oa gloomy character, and gi'e

but an unsatisfactory impression of the po
the Turkish Government to fulfil its promises
BOURSE, May 16.-1 he market has been rather
inanimate, but prices have generally been pretty
well maintained, at about yesterday's rates. For
the Account, Threes are now at 69f 50c. Railways
quiet, but firm.
The following were the last quotations :
zit per per Cents ... 96 451 Credit E oncier 990
Do. end mcnth.... 96 35 Belgian 4z..
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 551 Roman
Bank Shares 2900 ! Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 710 Spanish Threes 5O
Do. Account 712 501 Rome Debt -

-er of

-- that both bishops—Hilarion and Aksensentio3

will be removed to their places of exile after
Easter, and that they have in the meantime given
bail to the Synod that they shall be forthcoming
when called on for that purpose. We have the
best reason to believe that the latter of these state-
ments is without foundation, as is the yet more
malicious fabrication that the bishop's defenders arc
receiving a daily bribe of five piastres for their ser-
vices. The cause which needs the help of such
fictions must indeed be in extr•emis."