The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

TILE PRESS IN AUSTRIA.

The Independance publishes the following obser-
vations on the new bill on the press in Austria :
"We have never had, as our readers know, any
great confidence in the liberalism of M. de Schmer-
ling ; but in spite of all our distrust never could we
have expected to see issue from his hands a mea-
sure similar to that which he has prepared on the
press. It is not the example of countries in which
liberty is established that he has followed; it is not
in England, or in Belgium, or in Prussia that he
has gone to seek for the model of the legislation he
proposes for the Austrian press; it is Spain which
has supplied the plan. He has not even confined
himself to torrowing the greater part of the vigor-
ous stipulations in use, but has exaggerated the
severity of them, and adopted enactments which ex-
perience has caused to be abandoned in France. His
bill is, in fact, a clever combination of preventive
measures and penalties, in which the cases of com-
plicity are multiplied with extraordinary art. It
is on the one hand based on the right which it re-
serves to the Government of withdrawing their
licenses from printers, and on the other on the sus-
pensions and suppressions which the journals incur
by the simple fact of one or two condemnations.
Lastly, by the elasticity of its definitions, and the
extension it gives to certain categories of offences, it
realises in a large measure the execrable theory of
moral complicity. The Austrian Liberal party,
which expected everything from M. de Schmerling,
must be bitterly disappointed ; and still more so
will be the journalists—they are, it is true, very
few—who have given almost unreserved support to
that Minister on the strength of his liberal fro-

MR. E. T. SMITH AND THE PAVILION PROPERTY.
—A Brighton contemporary says :—" Mr. E. T. smith,
having failed in his negotiation for the northern buidings
of the Brighton Pavilion, has, we perceive, purchasd Cre-
morne Gardens. Some will be inclined to regard it almost
a pity that ho could not have had the Pavilion holdings.
He was pi epared to give a'2330 a-ycar, and to lay ou; £l,OOO
on them, so as to convert them into a grand concert hall
and floral promenade. The rent was not large ; tut addi-
tional attractions would have been offered to visibrs, who
are (a fact which our local authorities too often forget) our
staple commodity, ' the means whereby we live,' aid ought
to be consulted in every way."—Era.

The O'Conor Don, M.P., has (we learn horn the
Roscommon Messenger) purchased, by private contract, the
estates of Mr. O'Beirne in that county and in Sligo for the
sum of £24,000. This additional purchase ranks The
O'Conor Don among the largest landowners in the county.
THE SOUTHERN PRIVATEER SAVANNAH.—In the
United States' Circuit Court, on the 23d ult., the officers
and crew of the Confederate privateer Savannah, recently
captured by a Federal cruiser, were remanded on the charge
of piracy until October next.

THE CAMBRIDGE MURDER.—PiIson and Carter,
the men charged with being concerned in the murder of
Harvey Rumbelowe, were discharged yesterday, on the
ground that the legal evidence was not sufficient to insure
a conviction from a jury.

Seven hundred men, of whom twenty-four are
divers, are now daily at work at Alderney. About 500 feet
of the west breakwater will be brought above highvater
this summer. The outer end of this breakwater will be
nearly a mile from the shore. It has been deciiid to erect
another breakwater, 1,000 feet in length, to shelter the
anchorage from easterly winds.
STEAM SHIPBUILDING ON THE CLIDE.--The
shipbuilding firms continue for the most part well employed
Messrs. Napier have nearly completed the China, de fine
screw which they have in hand for the Cunard company ;
and Messrs. Caird, of Greenock, have in a still more for-.
ward state a screw of 3,000 tons burden, which they have
been building for the Bremen and New York line. The
same firm is also engaged on a screw of 2,000 tom for a
Cadiz company; this vessel will be fitted with engines of
500-horse power. Messrs. Scott, of Cartsdyke, are building
three passenger steamers, of 500 or 600 tons each, for the
Mediterranean. Messrs. Hutcheson have turned out I deck-
saloon passenger steamer, built expressly for the Caledonian
Canal traffic. Messrs. Laurence Hill and Co., of Port
Glasgow, have launched a screw 185 ft. long, 25ft. broad,
and 15ft. deep; she is now being fitted with engines of
120-horse power. Mr. J. G. Laurie, of Whiteinch, has
launched a screw of 520 tons (named the Andalusia) for the
Spanish trade: At the London Works, Renfrew, and at
other establishments, other steemers are also in an advanced
state of construction.

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PARIS, AUG. 10.

The Illonzteur of to-day announces that the
Emperor has bestowed the military medal on the
King of Sweden and Prince Oscar.

PESTH, AUG. 9, Evening.

Deputations from the magistrates and the elec-
tors have to-day congratulated M. Deak on his late
conduct. M. Deak refused a serenade which they
offered him.

The reply of the Diet to the Imperial rescript
will be despatched on Monday to Vienna.
A dissolution of the Diet is expected.
The Moderate party and the party of action are
now united.

BERNE, AUG. 9.

The Italian Government has informed the Federal
Council that the decision in reference to the expul-
sion from Naples of the Swiss soldiers formerly
belonging to the Swiss regiments, in the service of
Francis IL, has been cancelled.

The note of the Italian Government regrets, how-
ever, that the Swiss Government had caused the
publication of the despatches of M. Tourte, Swiss
Minister at Turin, on this subject.

PESTH, AUG. 9.
The Upper House of the Hungarian Diet will not
hold a sitting until Monday next.
Many deputies, expecting a dissolution of the
Diet, are already preparing for departure.

PARIS, AUG. 9.

The Patrie of this evening says :—" Reports are
current that the Prince of Montenegro had de-
manded that the Porte should recognise his inde-
pendence and the right of inheritance in his
family. He also demanded the concession of a port
on the Adriatic sea, and a fresh settlement of the
frontiers.

According to the same reports, the Porte had re-
fused to accede to these demands, and had declared
that it would recommence hostilities.

The review in the Champ de Mars to-day was a
brilliant affair. The weather was fine and the heat
very great.