The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-02 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

A letter from Berlin says :—" All the rumours
relative to a projected marriage of Prince Napoleon
with a German princess, in so far at least as re-
gards his recent journey, are devoid of all foun-
dation."

Another letter from Berlin says :—" Prince Fre-
derick William has commenced a tour in Upper
Silesia, in order to obtain exact information of the
state of that province, in which he has established
his provisional residence. It is an ancient custom
for Prussian princes destined to the throne to
study one province with particular attention. The
Prince has frequently attended in Breslau the deli-
berations of the Council of Regency."

The Deutschland of Vienna, of the 28th ult.,
says :—" According to the last accounts received
from M. Liehmann, the Austrian member of the
commission in the Danubian principalities, that
body has felt bound to suspend its labours until
after the elections for the divans, in consequence of
the confusion which reigns there. This step has
been approved of here, as time will be obtained to
renew negotiations betweea the various cabinets,
now somewhat divided, on the important question
of the future reorganisation of the principalities."

A letter from Cattaro, published by the Wurtz-
burg Gazette, says :—" The state of matters in
Montenegro has not improved of late, and nothing
shows that the prince has the intention of conform-
ing to the recommendations of France and Austria.
It is not true that the latter has spoken in favour
of the Prince at Constantinople, or that M. de
Lakenbacher has been instructed to interfere there
in tne affairs of Montenegro."

The Madrid journals of the 28th ultimo have
arrived.' The Congress on the preceding day was
occupied in discussing the address in reply to the
speech from the throne, but the debate turned
principally on financial matters, and presented
nothing of interest. In the course of the sitting
the bill for the execution of extensive works at the
Puerta del Sol was adopted.

There is nothing new from Brussels since our re•
port of yesterday. It is hoped that the excitement
has subsided in the presence of the adjournment of
the -Chambers, and of the obnoxious law.

A letter from Naples in the Union. states that
great excitement existed in that capital in conse-
quence of the robbery of the most celebrated
diamonds of Sicily, those of the Duchess de Savig-
bano daughter of General Filangieri. The robbery
are said to love left nothing but the cases. Their
value is about 225,000 fr.

The City of Genoa has just escaped a grave
danger. The 900 prisoners of the bagne had
planned an attempt to escape, but fortunately the
plot was discovered in time. The city was plunged
into the greatest consternation by the bare announce-
ment that the prisoners intended making the at-
tempt, as in 1849 an evasion was effected, and
dreadful excesses were committed.

The expenses of the agricultural exhibition at
Vienna are stated to have amounted to 100,000
florins, and the receipts 64,000 florins. The minis-
try contributed 25,000 florins, and the city of
Vienna 5,000.

The Volksbode of Munich, of the 22d ult., states
that the ordonuance which interdicted the Bava-
rian bishops from permitting foreign ecclesiastics,
and particularly Jesuits, to preach, has been re-
voked.

It appears that Reuter, the cashier who embezzled
the 350,000 florins from the Bank of Vienna, has
made a full confeosiou of his guilt. Re lost the

greater part of that sum in the 14,Very, to win in
which he believed.he had an infallibi, calculation.
He also .lost.money in gambling in tl).e public funds.

The. Grand:Council of the Canton of Neuchatel is
convoked .for Thursday next for the purpose of de-
creeing an amnesty.

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Accounts from St. Pettrsburg state that the so'-
diers of the Russian guard who have been placed at
the disposal of the Russian Railway Company for
the execution of the earthworks, will be paid the
same rates as in France for similar labour.

ANGLO-INDIAN VIEW OF THE PEACE

WITH PERSIA.

It is reported-that a portion of our troops will be
immediately withdrawn from Persia, but we trust
the rumour is without foundation. Not a single
soldier should leave the shores of the Gulf until.
every condition of the treaty just signed at Paris
has been ratified. Naturally base, and guided by
the counsels of the unscrupulous agents of the
Czar, the Court of Teheran would have no scruple
in violating the laws of nations, and seizing upon
any opportunity which accident or good faith
on our part might offer. The present Shah, we
understand, is capricious and intractable to a de-
gree, and it is not only possible, but extremely
,probable, that he will refuse to ratify the treaty
which has just been signed in Paris. It is well
known that Russia was under the impression that
Feruk Khan might have secured much better
terms, and the agents of the Embassy, both in
Paris and London endeavoured as much as lay
in their power to influence the envoy. Should the
Shah, therefore, receive a hint from St. Petersburg
to temporise and not ratify the treaty, be will not
hesitate for a moment about carrying on the war.;
or, at all events, retain possession of Herat for
a. time, until he can show to the rude nations of
Central Asia that the British have been appa-
rently driven from his shores ; and that the
real object of the. war--the " key of India"—is
still hanging at his girdle. It would therefore be
little short pf insanity to withdraw troops from
Persia at the present crisis. Although an armis-
tice has' been concluded, the war is not over.
Already we have humbled Persia too much, but
we have lost instead of gained by the proceeding.
We have converted her into au implacable foe,
which scarcely any concessions will ever conciliate.
Bushire and Karrack are to be restored to the ene-
my, and at the very moment when our troops,
flushed with victory, were ready to march upon the
Shah's richest cities, the sword is ordered to be
sheathed, and the defeated and disorganised
armies of the enemy allowed time to strengthen
and recru.;t themselves, so that they may be ena-
bled to carry on another campaign on the opening
of the season. Whatever we gain by the sword we
lose in diplomacy. The treaty just concluded is
quite ona level with the negotiati:m which brought
the Crimean war to. a conclusion at the very mo-
ment whenoisr victoriousarmies could have marched
into the very heart of the Russian empire without
let or hindrance. Ina very few years more Bushire
will be as necessary to us as Aden, and if we give it
up now another war will be the inevitable result.
When we commenced hostilities with Persia our
war-plan was altogether erroneous. Instead of
sending an
.expedition up the Gulf to wrest Herat
from the ga=p of the Shah, we ought to have sent
an arasythrough Affghauistan to the city we sought
.to recover. We could then have marched upon

Teheran by the very same route which the Persian
army had traversed to arrive at Herat. A small
army of 25,000 men would have sufficed for the
conquest of the whole of Persia, and with our
cannons thundering against the walls of his capital
the Shah would have been considerably more com-
plaisant than he will be with Sir James Outram
and his army bivouacked at Mohammerah or
Bushire.—Bonthay Telegraph and Courier.

MR. RUSSELL'S LECTURES ON THE WAR
AT WILLIS'S ROOMS.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Russell completed the
repetition of his course of Three Lectures upon
the late Russian War—giving his hearers, through
a " Personal Narrative," his own Individual Ex-
periences. Among the very numerous and fashion-
able audience assembled yesterday at Willis's
Rooms, King-street, St. James's, to hear the third
and last of these attractive lectures, we observed
the gallant and veteran Sir De Lacy Evans, of
whose heroic apparition (from a sick bed) upon the
bloody field of Inkermann the lecturer spoke in
befitting terms of admiration. The description of
that terrible conflict on the ever-memorable sth of
November was the finest part, was about the
only really fine part, in all Mr.. Russell's pro-
tracted but rather incoherent narrative yester-
day! The climax of that eloquent description
being the reference made by him, in thrilling
cords, to the sudden rush of the French
colours (in the very, crisis of the struggle) to the
-relief of their British companions in arms. When,
be said, "with a wild flourish of trumpets" the
Zouaves came pouring upon the scene, "the light
of battle on their faces !" It was, in truth, the
more we think of it, a contest worthy of some
noble commemoration—a battle in which some
7,000 English soldiers kept at bay for hours, an
ultimately, with the aid of their heroic allies, drove
back into Sebastopol some 40,000 Russians

frightful disproportion ! A disproportion, remem-
bering which, leaves us no wonder for the number
of killed and wounded on our side—including 7
generals, nearly 150 officers, and about 2,500 men !
The remaining portions of Mr. Russell's concluding
Lecture were, as we have intimated, unsatisfac-
tory.

The Western Times mentions a rumour that Lord
Barrington has resigned the chairmanship of the Great
Western. Railway Company, and it has been offered to
the Hon. F. Ponsonby, brother to Lord Bessborough.
The Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Sir Wm.
Heathcote, M.P. for the University of Oxford, arrived
in Oxford on Saturday. Mr. Gladstone, Rho is accom-
panied by his la ly and family, is the guest of the Rev.
R. Gresswell, 8.A., St. Giles's. Sir William Heathcote,
together with Lady Heathcote and daughter, are enter.
tained by the Provost of Oriel College (the Rev. Dr,
Hawkins). Both gentlemen are expected to take park
in the proceedings at the Shtldonian Theatre on Tuesday
next, when a new society, entitled "the Oxford Spiritual
Aid Society," will be inaugurated by the Lord Bishop
of the diocese.

MR. GEORGE HUDSON, M.P.—A requisition, sigral
by upwards of 100 tradesmen and others at Whitby,
Yorkshire, was last week forwarded to Mr. George
Hudson, M.P., inviting him to a dinner at the Royal
Hotel, at that town, " in consideration of the great ser-
vices he had rendered to the town and trade of Whitby."
Mr. Hudson replied, expressing his regret that he felt
compelled to deny himself the great pleasure of accept.
ing the invitation which had been so kindly sent to him,
and then proceeded—" It is to me a source of the deep-
est gratification to find my exertions to improve and ad-
vance the interests of the town of Whitby are appreci-
ated and remembered. The last two months have been
marked by events that have afforded me unmixed plea-
sure. The kindness with which the people of Sunder.
land returned me to Parliament at the last election
has made an impression on my mind which no time can
efface. While it is still in my memory lam called upon
to acknowledge your warm and generous tribute to the
efforts I have been enabled to make to improve your
beautiful town. They are proofs, too, that gratitude
is not always reserved for favours to come, but that
the peopl9 of Whitby and Sunderland at all events
are not found unmindful of past exertions—they are
found faithful among the faithless. I can add no more
than to say from the bottom of my heart I thank
you for this fresh act of kindness and affection, of
which at any period of my life I should have felt
proud, but at this moment I receive it with no or-
dinary sensations of pride and gratitude, which no
words can adequately express. I wish you individually
every happiness, and the town of Whitby that prospe-
rity which is due not more to the advantages which
it possesses than to the energy, the enterprise, and the
characterbf its people."
AN IMPROMPTU LIFE PBESERVER.—In the midst of
these horrifying moments, a man was observed to jump
from the .wreck into the sea. It was concluded by the
watchers on the shore that he had voluntarily destroyed
himself to avoid dying by inches of cold and hunger.
After all, who could blame him ? It was a question of
only an hour or so, for hope there appeared none. But
the crowd was agreeably disappointed, for the man held
hie head up in the midst of the hissing surges boldly, and,
'although he disappeared every moment, yet, by the aid
of good glasses, his head was seen to bob up again, a
conspicuous black object in the surrounding foam. Ex-
pectation stood on tiptoe. Would he reach the shore ?
was asked by a hundred voices in an instant, and every-
body was anxious to do something to assist a man who
so nobly:tried to assist himself. The minutes that fol-
lowed were intensely exciting, every movement of the
swimmee was eagerly noticed, and it was with difficulty
that several generous spirits were prevented from dash-
ing, at all risks, into the sea to his assistance. Slowly,
but surely, the strong fellow approached the shore—his
head well up yet—he is just within the outer tier of the
breakers—poor fellow, he will stand no chance now—
see, he is caught by a monstrous wave—he rides upon
its crest and is urged rapidly towards the beach—the
horrid wave curls and breaks.—he is rolled head over
heels—he is gone--no ;he rights himself, and he is
taken out to sea again by a retiring wave—back he
conies again_head over heels he goes once more ; but
this time fortune pitied misfortune, for he was flung by
a wave within reach of a coast-guard, who, at the riek
of his life,rushed into the sea and saved him. The
secret of is buoyancy soon appeared. Under each arm
he had lashed, as seamen only know how, an empty
winebottle, well corked, and he had stuffed several others
under an elastic Guernsey shirt, and buttoned his trou-
sers over all, and with these frail floats he came through
a heavy belt of breaken in safety.— United Service Maya-
zin for June.
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