The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-20 00:00:00

THE _ARMY.

The head-quarters of the 2d battalion Ist Royals,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hol-
combe, disembarked yesterday from the transport
Macduff alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, and
left by special train at 6 p.m. for Manchester.
The men, as the regiment paraded in the dock-
yard, had a fine soldierly appearance. Their
bronzed f64tures, and the medals glistening • on
their breasts—the majority having two each,
and many of them three—told the history of
the gallant Royals in appropriate language.' The
regiment on its march to the station was headed by
the band of the 2d battalion 11th Regiment, and
aocompanied by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8.,
Col. Somerset, C. 8., and Col. Thackwell.
A notification was yesterday received at Chatham
garrison from the Horse Guards, that his Royal
Highr ess the General Commanding-in-Chief, in
concurrence with the Secretary of State for War,
has decided that the children of the permanent staff
of the Militia are to be permitted to attend the
army schools on the same footing as the children of
soldiers of the regular army.
Col. Maclean yesterday took the command of the
3d brigade at Woolwich,:viee Co]. Pester, who will
remain in command at Plymouth to accompany the
remainder of the brigade to Woolwich on the re-
turn of the Megmra from Gibraltar.
DEATH OF GENERAL CIIARLES AMIE A'COURT
REPINGTON, C.B.—The colonelcy of the 41st Regi-
ment of Foot has become vacant by the death of
General A'Court Repington, father of Lady Her-
bert of Lea, who died at five a.m. yesterdaY morn-
ing, at Armington Hall, near Tamworth, after a
Protracted illness. General Repington was the
youngest son of Sir Wm. Pierce Ashe A'Court, Bart,
by his second marriage with Letitia, daughter of
Mr. Henry Wyndham, of the College, Salisbury.
He was born 20th June, 1785, and married 10th
May, 1815, Mary, only daughter of Mr. Abraham
Gibbs. The gallant general entered the army in
1801, and for the first 15 years -saw considerable
active service, having been detached on a separate
command in 1806 to the Adriatic to attack the
Islands of Tremitis, and in the same year assisted
at the siege of Scylla. In 1807 he served in Egypt,
and was present at the capture of Alexandria, and
and in the action near Rosetta. At the siege and
capture of Santa Maura he was in charge of the
Quartermaster-General's Department ; he was also
at the siege of Capri the same year. When aide-
de-camp to the adjutant-general when the enemy
landed in Sicily, in 1809, he commanded the
advanced guard, to which nearly 1,000 prisoners
surrendered, and he personally capfared the
enemy's standard. The deceased general served
afterwards on the staff in Sicily, Spain, and
Italy, and was present at Tarragona, action of
Villafranca, and retreat from thence ; subsequently
at the occupation of Leghorn, capture of Genoa,
siege of Savona, and lastly, at the siege of
Naples in 1815. For some years he was major in
the Ist Greek Light Infantry, until he retired on
half-pay. The late general was for some time one
of the Poor-law Commissioners. In 1818 he was
made a Knight of 69 Hanoverian Order of the
Guelphs in recognition of his military services, and
in igat was made a Companion of the Order of the
Bath. He was also a Knight of St. Ferdinand and
Merit of Sicily, and a Knight of St. Maurice and
Lazare of Sardinia. In Feb., 1848, he was appointed
colonel of the 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot,
which, by his death, becomes at the disposal or
the Commander-in Chief. His commissions bears
date as follow:—Ensign, Dee. 17, 1801; lieutenant,
Sept. 2, 1802; captain, July 25, 1804 ; major, Feb.
26, 1811; lieutenant-colonel, May 19, 1813.; colonel,
July 22,1830 ; major-general, Nov. 23, 1841 ; lieu-
ten ant-general,
Nov. 11, 1851 ; and general, Feb.
20, 1860.

A MUNIFICENT AND HUMANE OFFmt.—A bene-
volent
gentleman has intimated his intention to bequeath
to the National Lifeboat Institution £3,000 on condition.
that the society will, on the receipt of this legacy,
first-class lifeboat, thoroughly equipped, on some epxlpaoceseda
point of the English coast, and also another on the Scotch
coast, and will undertake thereafter to keep them perms •
liently in a state of efficiency. He also stipulates that in
the event of his increasing his bequest to £l,OOO, another
it a
a most
permanently important
this numerous
and anxiouslif
lifeboat, on the same conditions, shall be placed on the Irish
coast. As the National Lifeboat Institution has now 112
lifeboats under its charge,
consideration to keep up
saving fleet. It can only be satisfactorily accomplished hy.
the continued support of the public to the Lifeboat Institu-
tion, and by legacies, and similar bequests to the above, o
benevolent persons,

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Duckett:die.
THIS EVENING, the Perimmaw" will &mum with
A DUKE IN DIFFICULTMS. Mrs. Stirling, Miss F.
Haydon, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss Fanny Stirling, Mr. Backstone,
Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, (to. •
After which, will be revived, with entirely new seenery
by
and effects, and all the original mnsio the late Sir Henry
Bishop, the melodrama of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
And A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
Commence at 7.

T HEATEE -ROYAL LYCEUM.
Bois Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
Last Night of the Season. For Madame Celeste's Benefit.
THIS EVENING, LOVERS' QUARRELS.
Followed by the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
To conclude with THE IRISH EMIGRANT. Patrick
O'Brien, Mr. John Drew.

ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
rum EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Messrs. Ryder,
Hermann Vezin, Shore, Meadows, &c. ; Misses Heath and
C. Leclercq,
To conclude with THE RENT DAY.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, the new drama, MAGLIORE, THE
PRESTIDIGITATOR. Messrs. R Webster, J. L. Toole,
D. Fisher, drc.; Miss K. Kelly, Miss EL Simms, &C.
To be followed by a new apropos Sketch, THE CENSUS.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, Eburne, Romer, C. J. Smith ; Miss
sate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne, and Mrs. Chatterley.
After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul
Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Julia
Daly.

Doors open at half past C--Commence at 7.

CANTERBURWYe-HA
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ad.CONCERTS!!
stminster-ro
Proprietor........C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise3 the most popular works of
this great Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
mmTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's Three celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 9h. 14m.—Afternoon, 9h. 58m.
To-moßnow.-Morning, 10h. 39m.—Afternoen, 11h. 14m.

TRH WEATHER.—Surr Orricz, APRIL 20, 1561.
THERMAMETER, IN THE SHADE.
' 50—highest mince noon yesterday.
36 —lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon. _ _

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1881.

The House of Lords has again spoken on Italian
affairs, and this time with an unanimity and pre-
cision which leave little to be desired. On the
main point, taking things as they now stand, all
are agreed—that Rome ought to be the capital of
Italy. On the point next in importance—that
sound policy calls on Austria to surrender Venetia
—there seems also to be no difference of opinion.
On one point only their lordships appear to be
as wrong as they well can be ; in their hostility
to Hungary regaining its full legal rights—the
rights which the present Emperor (rather his
German advisers, for he was but a boy at the time)
trampled under foot by Russian arms, and sub-
verted by lawless and sanguinary revolution.
It is truly astonishi 3. that English Conserva-
tives can defend for a moment the violent abolition
of the independent constitution and Government
of the large kingdom of Hungary by nothing
better than Imperial Chartism. Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH might perhaps justify on Conserva-
tive principles his objection to Italians aiding
Hungary to regain her liberties; his Lordship
would doubtless, in 1688, have objected to as-
sistance furnished by the Prince of ORANGE to
The Liberal party in England. But the cheers
which greeted his cars, on making such observa-
tions, from their usual unimpassioned Lordships,
were really in favour of the Emperor of AUSTRIA
against a legal King of Hungary ; for the cheers
of the Lords were renewed when he declared that
"Austria, in In r integrity and her strength,
is absolutely necessary to the safety of every State
in Europe !" and again, that it would be impos-
sible to preserve the balance of power if her inte-
grity were aPsailta By the integrity of Austria,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH meant the integrity created
by NICHOLAS, by HAYNAU, by the murder of Count
LOUIS BATTIIYANI, and of the patriots who, were
hung at Arad. The integrity of fraud, violence,
and wrong. In no way can Austria be one empire,
in the sense which our Lords had the folly to cheer,
but by the voluntary assent of Hungary to an union
of Government and Administration, similar to the
assent obtained from Ireland and Scotland to con-
stitute Great Britain one empire. Or, would noble
Lords really be prepared to say that, to preserve
the balance of power in Earope, it would have been
justifiable to amalgamate England, Scotland, and
Ireland by foreign arms and bloodshed ?
On the question of Italy, however, they were
more enlightened. Lord DERBY, indeed, like Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, cast a longing, lingering look on
his project of a Northern and Southern Italian
Kingdom, with a little wedge of the Popedom
between to keop all tight ; but even he felt com-
pelled to accept the actual situation of things, and
to ask what is best to be done, seeing that with
the exceptions of Roma and Venetia, Italy is one.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH in his very eloquent speech
put the fact in the clearest light. " When I see a
man, with no advantage but his sword and that
which he derived from his own character and an
extraordinary power of leading men to victory,
landing with 1,000 men on the extreme coast of
Sicily and marching froni victory to victory, any
one of which would have made the reputation of an
ordinary General, till he was at last carried almost
alone on the shoulders of the people of Naples into
the King's palace, while the city of Naples was still
occupied by the Royal troops—when I see, further,
the shortcomings, the mistakes, and the errors
of that man, so fall of natural greatness, no-
bility, and generosity; when I see the inva-
sion of Umbria and the Marches, the sieges of
Gaeta and Messina, and the completion of the
Italian kingdom ; when I see elements so discordant
and things so contradictory all brought to bear on
the accomplishment of one great purpose, I cannot
attribute the result to mere chance, or to the ordi•
nary operations of the work of man. I see in it
the hand of Providence, and I accept it."
This is straightforward and honourable in such a
thorough Tory as Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and from
this position his argument is necessarily the same
as that of the Italian Parliament. Italy, great as
i t has become ~
, still wants a capital,"—and with
out a capital the keystone of the arch is still
wanting." A his
lordship admirably expressed it,
cc There is no other city in Italy
worthy of that
honour and which would effect the objects
to be derived from its occupation, as a capital.
Borne is as necessary to Italy as London is to
ncl and
Eng .Paris to France. Neither Florence
nor any other city can ever possess that prestige
vcr the minds of
or that power 0 raen which for
the
2,000 years Rome has possessed as the are of the
most illustrious deeds.
In any other city Parlia-
ment sitting would be considered by other pubs
• n Parliament and not
of Italy as almost a foreign