The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

General Williams has taken leave of Woolwich
garrison, and will sail this (Friday) evening from
Liverpool in the steam packet America, to assume
the duties of his new post. The General is accom-
panied by Major Williams and Captain Woolsey,
from the old college at Sandhurst, as his aides-de-
camp. The following appeared in garrison orders
at Woolwich on Wednesday evening, issued by
Major-General Bloomfield :

" Major-General NI illiams cannot take leave of the gar-
rison without offering to the commanding officers of corps,
as well as to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and
men under their respective commands, his thanks for the
manner in which they have supported him in the main-
tenance of that discipline for which the garrison has always
been distinguished. The Major-General will carry with
him to his distant command the warmest wishes for the
welfare of those whom he has had the good fotune to com-
mand for so long a period."
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Lieut. Hamilton, Ensign Boyle, and 101 non-
commissioned officers and men of the 4th battalion
Rifle Brigade arrived in Portsmouth from Win-
chester yesterday, and were immediately conveyed
in the Partridge gunboat, under the immediate
superintendence of Col. Somerset, C. 8., M.P., to
Spithead, where they were transhipped to her Ma-
jesty's ship Hannibal, to join the service companies
of the battalion in Malta.
It is understood that two additional companies of
Royal Engineers will shortly be despatched from
headquarters Chatham, for the purpose of erecting
and repairing defences on various parts of the
coast.

WOUNDING A PARENT.—The Court of Assizes of
the Charente three days ago tried a young man named
Gorin, of St. Brive, for cutting and wounding his parents.
It was proved that for a long series of years he had been
in the habit of brutally ill-treating his mother, who unfor-
tunately was given to think, and acting ill towardsohis '
father also when he tried to protect his wife against the
young man's brutality. But they bore with him until 18.56,
when, his savage conduct having exceeded all bounds, they
complained to the police. They were, however,
afterwards reluctant to appear against him, and no
prosecution was instituted. Emboldened by this circum-
stance, the young man became worse than before, repeat-
edly striking his mother in the face, sometimes even with a
bottle, and throwing chairs at her ; whilst he kicked and
struck his father—on one occasion thrusting a lighted can-
dle into his face. At length on the 4th September the
neighbours of the Gorilla heard cries of " 31
helpurderthe aul
and on rushing into their house they found that
after beating in the most savage manti
mother, was standing. with a gun
aimedat'ury declared the
to fire. They at once secured him.. The. j
manner both his tasfatihfearmboanuut
the court sentenced him to fii,:eyer
five years' interdiction of civil rights.
prisoner guilty, but with extenuatings,crinpuzsotnanniceensi
and and
ADULTERY AND .1
mußDEn,—'Fhe Court of Assizes
pdiedherthcreeousidna,yosnine
tryingof the Sea
winocityntotinenur,
Gillet, both Belgians, for poisoninguTstonh eneanr do, occupied
the woman's husband.
f was taken suddenly ill, and in spite of all
tory at. Elben
him died •
that could be done forin the course of
In July last the husband, who was employed in a manufac-
t
ory few days.
en ai hasue named
The
medical man who attended him entertained the sus-
picion that he had taken poison, and in his pocket was found
a paper, on which was written that he had committed suicide.
But, though signed with his name, the -writing of this paper
was declared by his neighbours not to be his, but to be that
of Gillet. Now, as this man had for a long time maintained
toiumtet,hhaadt thsehowrctryabne,foarfeterretluirnvi%
teont:hireerlKuwsbialithdhi,
an adulterous connection with the woman, he was naturally
suspected. An investigation having, been made, it turned
the slightest attempt at concealment; 't and that sh
nevertheless continued her connect' o n with him, without
even maintained him in great part at her husbanbm:'
tessohhmaad
ex-
pense. It was also ascertained th at the husband being
aware of this had more than once fi )-ught the man, and had
threatened to complain of him to his employer, so as to
get him dismissed, and even to try to have him as a foreigner
expelled from France. Thus Gil let must have enter-
tamed sufficient animosity to the mt to to desire his death,
and the woman, who entertained a -ir antic passion for Gil-
let, must naturally have felt the san is desire. It was further
ascertained that they had jointly • bought a quantity of
arsenic, and that it was immedia lel:, after partaking of
breakfast prepared by the woman t. t the man had fallen
ill. The defence set up by the pr.'s •oners was that the de-
ceased had committed suicide ; but n pot only did all the pre-
cedingy circumstances disprove this, but the man h.imsued
had no idea that he was in danger of d eath, and wan. std
had jury
great astonishment when told that he
de-
clared both the prisoners but yr) oman to hard
cir-
cumstances and the Court condemned t. 119
labour for life, and the man to 20 years of . 'e same 1) Du
meat. I'L'ag-t3xtenuating cir-

HOUSEHOLD WORDS.—Messrs. BRADBURY
and EVANS beg to state that their connection with
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inst., and that on Saturday, the 2d July they will commence
a new Weekly Illustrated Periodical, to be called
"ONCE A WEEK."

All communications for the Editor to be addressed to No.
11, Bouverie-street, London, E.C.

ROYAL 7'RINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean
THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspeare's list orical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Wean ; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
11 Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING- will be performed the new and original
Comedy, entitled THE WORLD AND THE STAGE. The
characters by Messrs. Compton, Buckstone, Howe, W. Far-
ten, Rogers; Miss Amy Sedgwick, &c.
After which, a new Classical Extravaganza, entitled
ELECTRA IN A NEW ELECTR'IC LIGHT. Messrs
Compton, Braid, Clark, Mrs. Wilkins, Misses Fanny Wright,
Eliza Weekes, and Louisa Leclercq.
And 'TWAS I.

Commence at 7.

NEWW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.

Reappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Chas.
Selby, Rillington ; Misses Keeley, Arden, and Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Billington.
Followed by (fourth time), by Tom Taylor, Esq., THE
ROUSE ? or, THE HOME ? dlr. Alfred Wigan. C , y,
BIlling;ton ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H. Simms. Miss Laid-
law.Selb
After which, THE DEVIL ON TWO TICKS.K Mr. J.
L. Toole, P. Bedford, Misses Woolgar, den, and
Kate Kelly.

Acting sfanager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 --no charge for booking'. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
supported by the company.
Atter which, THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
To conclude with VA—NDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark.
Commence at 7o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Lessee and Manager ..Mr. William Cooke.
Continued Success of INANlTOE.—Overflowing Houses
Nightly.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
a new grand spectacle, founded on Sir Walter Scott's popular
work, entitled IVANHOE ; or, The Lists of Ashby, intro-
ducing among the vast resources of this great Hippodramatic
Temple,Tournaments, Processions, Banners, Combats. Tilts,
Victories, and Achievemer ts in extraordinary magnificence.
Ivanhoe, Mr. R. Phillips ; Isaac of York, Mr. Jas. Holloway;
Richard of England. Mr. Herbert ; Robin Hood, Mr. Wm.
Cooke, jun.; Rebecca, Miss Bathurst; Lady Rowena, Miss
Dowton.
After which, the matchless and unrivalled SCENES IN
THE CIRCLE, introducing Mr. John Henry Cooke, the
greatest rider in the world ; Mr. A. 'Cooke, Mr. W. Cooke,
jun.. and Miss Emily Cooke, supported by the unequalled
male and female artistes of the establishment.
To conclude with the Farce of RAISING THE WIND.
Stage Manager. Mr. R. Phillips
Dress Circle, 4s. ; Boxes. 35.; Pit, 2s, ; Gallery, Is.; Upper
Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, £4 48, £2 2s, and £1 is.
To commence at 7 ; Carriages at 11.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during. the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios ever
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.

They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 20.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
53—lowest this morning and during the night.
57—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29'78.
WIND, North-easterly; moderate, with heavy rain, and
occasional sunshine.
Quarter to Three o'Clock—Rain falling in torrents for
the last hour and a-half, with murky darkness.
Three o'Clock—A hail storm. Wind, north-easterly.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1859.

The Austrians are still acting on -the defensive.
They occupy a very strong position, from which it
will be no easy matter to eject them, unless they-
should be driven therefrom by the poverty of the
land "and the want of provisions. Indeed they
have already exhausted the provisions and forage
in the district of which they have taken possession,
and the unfortunate inhabitants are totally unable
to respond to the further demands, which are, so far
as practicable, enforced in the most rigorous and
energetic manner. It is said that General GYULAI
has announced that he will be unable to maintain
his position for more than fifteen days, in conse-
quence of the failure of the commissariat.
As we have stated, the position is one of extra-
ordinary strength. It extends along the right
bank of the Ticino to its junction with the Po, and
rests on Stradella. A telegram from Pavia states
that the head-quarters of the Austrians had been
removed to Garlasco, and that a speedy collision
was anticipated. It will not, however, be commenced
by the Austrians, who manifestly think discretion
the better part of valour, and like to retain a state
of inaction, living at the enemy's expense, so long
as it is possible to do so. The scene of strife will,
however, soon be transferred to the other side of
the Ticino, and Austria will have to maintain the
conflict in its own dominions, or in the States
which it so kindly (!) took under its protection.
Large armies require large resources, and Austria
will find it difficult to provide for its own troops ;
while Prance and Sardinia will be likely to repay
with heavy interest the debt contracted in Pied-
mont.

The position of Prussia and other States of the
German Confederation requires close attention.
The proposal to form a federal corps d'armee of
observation on the Rhine has been referred to the
commission for the management of military affairs
by the Diet at Frankfort, while the Committee
of the Chambers at Berlin have reported that
Prussia ought to maintain a state of " armed
mediation." This is very different from
One of " armed neutrality." It implies that
they are • prepared to interfere at any
moment when the exigencies of Austria may re-
quire assistance, and has consequently the effect of
rendering the other great German Power stub-
born, and inducing it to refuse the concessions
which it might otherwise be happy to offer. It is,
therefore, more than probable that Prussia will,
ere many months have elapsed, take part in the
war, and thus gratify a long-cherished animosity
against the French. If this should be the case,
Russia will not remain quiescent; and it will be
difficult, indeed, for England to preserve the
neutrality which the Government have announced,
and the people so heartily responded to.
It is generally supposed that Prussia, since the
appointment of the Prince Regent, is disposed to
co-operate cordially with England. It is certain,
however, that there are no British sympathies in
favour of Austrian misgovernment in Italy. Our
people will not, under any circumstances, support
the German policy, which, although it may be
approved hi a high quarter, finds no favour
in their sight. Nothing will, therefore,
induce them to join with the Berlin Cabinet
in rivetting the chains on the Lombardo-Venetians,
and maintvdning an unauthorised supremacy over
quasi independent States. Any Minister that
would lend 'ainriself to such a project would. surely
lose his place, and possibly have to endure still
greater ince mvenience. We do not for a moment sup-
pose that 'Lord DERBY, Lord MALMESBURY, or any
of their colleagues would for a moment sanction
such a Droceeding, but it is right that the people
and th ose who may be regarded as the exponents
of Pu blic opinion, the independent journalists of

Great Britain, should speak out clearly and un-
equivocally on such a point.
Prussia set us an example during the Russian
war, which should now be strictly followed. She
regarded only her own interests, and, while we
were expending men and money, was obtaining
large profits at the expense of the belligerents. She
thought of nothing but the security of " Father-
land," and we may, in like manner, permit
" Fatherland" now to take care of itself.
It is not because a matrimonial alliance
has been contracted, and a handsome dowry
granted to an English Princess, that we should en-
gage in a squabble from which every principle of
equity and sound policy warns us to hold aloof.
FRANCIS JOSEPH has surrendered himself
into the hands of the Pope. He yielded
to a pressure which had been resisted
by all his predecessors, and the present war, that
may lead to very fearful results, may in a great
degree be ascribed to a desire to maintain the
Papal maladministration in the States of the
Church. LOUIS NAPOLEON himself is not free from
blame in this respect. He cannot come into court
with clean hands ; but still he has not so much
to answer for as his Imperial brother. Austria is
the unrelenting enemy of civil and religious liberty,
wherever she can exercise anyinfluence. But it is
difficult to believe that Louis NAPOLEON would
forget all his antecedents, and become the liberator
of foreign States, while he retained his own people
in bondage.

We have all been wrong, but shall be put right
soon. The Papal government of its territories,
though even Irish Catholics have denounced it, is a
model of moderation and gentleness, and is secu-
larised, as far as an ecclesiastical prince can do it.
Naples even is governed by a Sovereign, nervous
indeed, and timid of revolutions, but one who rules
by law, and who is universally beloved. In the
Duchies, of course, it is the same. And as to Lom-
bardy and Austria, all that is told us of the causes
of hatred there, for the hatred is undeniable, is so
much slander of the most good-natured soldiers and
officers in Europe. In a word, only the educated
classes are uneasy and disaffected; to the peasantry
the reigns of the POPE, Of FERDINAND, and of the
amiable Hapsburg of the day are rich in blessing.
Lord MINTo was a wicked apostle of sedition, and
RADETZKY and FILANGIERI are the missionaries of
mercy in the north and south of Italy. So, and we
do not exaggerate, says Sir HENRY WINSTON
BARRON, Bart., in a pamphlet of fifty-eight pages,
which be dates from Rome, in April of the present
year; and which he entitles "Queen VICTORIA and
Italy," and which Messrs. Ridgway publish for
him in London, as publishers in the land of a free
press ought to. do.
Nor are we left to Sir HENRY BARRON alone :
special correspondents in bOth the Austrian and
French camps report to us from time to time what
they think of the doings on both sides—or what
they may say they think, and yet be permitted to
remain at the seat of war. Perfectly sure may we
be, that if all London correspondents be not
counsel for the side which tolerates their pre-
sence on that well-understood condition, they
would receive a polite hint, and their passports

in very quick time, Of course, we could not
fairly wish that they should be allowed to com-
municate anything respecting military positions

and movements which could in an instant be

telegraphed to Turin or Vienna, to the disadvan-
tage of the general permitting it ; but we may
be also sure that a gentleman disposed to see
everything through Austrian spectacles alone
-would be tolerated at Mortara, or one with simi-
lar prepossessions in favour of the allies, at Ales-
sandria. " Own correspondents" will now, there-
fore, corroborate the views of Romanising English

gentlemen writing from Rome itself, and the
forbearance of Austrian officers and the good
nature of Austrian soldiers will have their full
share of commendation.

Yet,' with all due deference to Sir H. BARRON,
we must think others see as clearly as he does,
and must prefer the testimony, for instance, of
Mr. GLADSTONE, a Conservative Statesman, as
familiar with Italian as with his mother tongue,
to the special pleading of himself or of the ad-
vocate for Naples and FERDINAND, whom he
quotes. We cannot think Spielberg and SILVIO
PELLICO a myth, nor POERIO and his almost
deadly irons a legend. We have but just
received on our shores a band of men whose
testimony must outweigh that of all the
English baronets who visit Rome, and of
all the special pleaders whom FERDINAND can
induce to plead his cause. We have before us the

well-sustained defence of PoEßlo,with the fact of his

condemnation being obtained by threats; and the un-
deniable inference is that if, in one instance so con-
spicuous, and in the presence of such a reporter as
Mr. GLADSTONE, justice could be so infamously
perverted, and the punishment obtained by iniquity-
so satanically and brutally and vindictively
enhanced,—bad indeed must be the lot of less
noticed, but not less hated victims.
And as to Austria, broad facts are, in like man-
ner, her condemnation. We mentioned some of the
incidents of her raid upon the Piedmontese, com-
municated by a private correspondent the other
day. We have seen nothing to contradict them
beyond vague assertions of thekindness of Austrian
troopers. But the plain fact remains that Austria
entered Piedmont for the dignified purpose of steal-
ing from civilians, provisions, forage, and even
clothes. The Austrian Houndsditch, it should seem,
would not trust the commissariat with ready-made
clothing to keep the poor soldiers in shoes and out
of rags ; and this " Great Austrian Power" shows,

therefore, its greatness by compelling Piedmon-
tese civilians to become its army clothiers. This
is a fact ; but to what would not the General
stoop who could degrade himself to asking clothing
for his troops ? Some Austrian prisoners who
were taken were brought in, however, in so ragged
a state that thePiedmontese exclaimed, in astonish-
ment at their condition, that they were hardly now
surprised at the plunder of the clothiers and
clothes-shops.

The facts we gave also respecting the penal code—
utterly undeniable, because taken from the code it-
self—with exemplifications of the code in practice,
taken from the Government Gazette, prove beyond
all contradiction the legalized brutality of the
Austrians in Italy. It were almost criminal for
the inhabitants of any civilised or Christian country
to sit down patiently under such a code. Secret
trials, before hostile judges, and corporal punish-
ments inflicted on even respectable gentlewomen
and innocent maidens—with no one can tell what
atrocities on the poorer classes—ought to heat the
blood of any people to the boffin.. point. The
judgment of our Banksiders, and of our highest
classes, must here be at one. If HAYNAL" was
rightly served, FRANCIS-JOSEPII ought, in similar
style, to be whipped across the Alps.
Amidst the conflicting accounts we must now
expect to receive, probably each reader will be dis-
posed to judge according to his prepossessions. We
must confess that ours are to believe that what
Croats and Uhlans, and stolid, ignorant Germans
were in the days of WALLENSTEIN and the thirty
years' war, and what we have heard they have been
in Italy and the Danubian Principalities in more
recent days, they will still prove themselves to be.

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