The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1859.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
INSTITUTION.—The Committee of this Institution
earnestly APPEAL t. the public for PECUNIARY. ASSIST-
ANCE to aid them to meet the present heavy demands on
the limited funds of the Society.
THOMAS BARING, Chairman.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
14, John-street, Adelphi, W.C.
Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Harks
and Co.

THAMES EMBANKMENT AND
RAI LWAYS.
(For making Embankments, Road and Railways on the
Middlesex side of the River Thames, between the cities
of London and Westminster ; with powers to the Metro-
politan Board of Works and certain railway companies to
contribute to the undertakings, and to alter and amend
the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway Act, 1838, and
the Acts of certain other railway companies, and for
other purposes.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT APPLI-
CATION IS INTENDED to be made to PARLIA-
MENT, in the ensuing session, for an Act to incorporate a
Company for making and maintaining the following works
or some of them (that is to say) :
First. An embankment along the Middlesex side of the
river Thames, which said embankment will commence at
or near certain stairs called Queenhithe Stairs, in the parish
of Saint Michael, Queenhithe, in the city of London, and
from thence run in a westerly direction along and in front
of the north bank of the said river, and terminate on the
river bank at or near Westminster-bridge, in the parish of
Saint Margaret, Westminster.
Second. A railway to be constructed chiefly upon or within
the said embankment, commencing at or near the aforesaid
stairs, and terminating at a point upon or within the said
embankment opposito and adjoining the east cud of Man-
chester-buildings, in the said parish of Saint Margaret,
Westminster. _ _ _

Third. A public carriage road and footways, chiefly on
the said embankment, commencing at or near Chatham-
place, and the north-west side of Blackfriars-bridge, in the
parish or precincts of Bridewcll, in the said city of London,
and terminating at or near Whitehall-place aforesaid.
Foarth. A railway, commencing by a junction with the
aforesaid intended railway at its last-named terminus, and
terminating at a point in the parish of Saint George,
Hanover-square, by a junction with the authorised line of
the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway, near to the
junction of the Yaw.liall-bridge-road with Shaftesbury-
terrace.

Fifth. A pond or reservoir, with ingress and ogress for
the tidal waters adjoining the said river Thames, in the
parish of All Saints, Fulham, at a point about eleven chains
south from the entrance to the Kensington canal, with
sluices, culverts, spoil-banks, and other works in connec-
tion therewith, which said embankment, railways, roads,
pond or reservoir, and other works or some of thorn, will
pass, or be from, in, through, or into the following parishes
or extra-parochial places, or some of them (that is to say) :
Saint Michael, Queenhithe ; Saint Mary, Somerset; Saint
Peter, Paul's Wharf; Saint Benet, Paul's Wharf; Saint
Andrew by the Wardrobe ; Saint Anne, Blackfriars ; Bride •
well ; Saint Bride, Whitefriars ; Inner Temple, Middle
Temple ; Saint Clements ; Saint Mary le Strand ; Savoy ;
Saint Clement Danes ; Saint Martin-in-the-Fields ; Saint
Margaret, Westminster; Saint John- the-Evangelist, West-
minster; Saint Georfe, Hanover-square; and All Saints,
Fulham; all in the cities and liberties of London and West-
minster, and county of Middlesex, or some of them. And
power will also be taken compulsorily or by agreement to
alter the present position, structure, or levels of the seve-
ral piers or landing-places, and the approaches thereto, in
or near the line and direction, and between the termini of
the said embankments, railways, roads, and works, or some
of them, or to take down and remove the same, and to erect
others in their stead, with new accesses and approaches
thereto.
Also to lay down in the bed and on the banks of the said
river such dams, piles, piers, jetties, platforms, and other
works ; and to dredge, deepen, and cleanse the bed and
banks of the said river, and remove therefrom gravel, mud,
silt, and other materials, such as may be necessary or con-
vonient.for the said undertakings.
And powers will also be taken to stop up, alter, or divert,
temporarily or permanently, such public roads, piers,
stairs, causeways, what ves, footpaths, cuts, channels,
sewers, pipes, drains, or conduits, as may be necessary for
the eonstruction of the before-mentioned works.

And by the said intended Act the following powers, or
some of them, will be conferred on the said Company :
To purchase compulsorily or by agreement, lands, houses,
and hereditaments for the said embankments, railways,
roads, stations, and works, and to vary or extinguish any
rights or privileges connected with the same, or any
other rights or privileges which may in any way interfere
with the construction and use of the before-mentioned
works. To levy tolls, rates, and duties for the use of tho
said works, and to grant exemptions from the same. To
raise capital and to borrow money for the purposes of the
said undertaking. To authorise lateral deviations in the
construction of the said embankments, railways, roads, or
other works respectively, to the extent or within such limits
as may be laid down on the plans hereinafter mentioned.
To enable, if necessary, the following railway companies or
some of them, to subscribe to the said undertaking, and to
enter into contracts with the said intended Company for
the maintenance, use, and working of the intended rail-
ways and works or some of them, namely, the London and
North-Western, the Great Western, the London and South-
Western, the London, Brighton, and South Coast, and
the East Kent, and, so far as may be necessary for such
purpose, to amend and enlarge the several local and personal
Acts relating to the said Companies respectively, or such
of thorn as may be necessary. To enable the Metropo-
litan Board of Works to contribute to the capital of the
said Company, out of monies to be raised on the security of
the rates levied by thorn or otherwise, or to guarantee pay-
ment of interest on the capital of the said Company, or on
some portion thereof, and, so far as may be necessary, to
alter and amend the " Metropolitan Local Management
Act, 1855," and the " Metropolitan Local Management Act
Amendment, 1858." To alter, amend, and enlarge the said
" Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway Act, 1858," so far
as may bo necessary for enabling the said intended Com-
pany and the said Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway
Company to convey goods and merchandise over the lines
of the s rid last •mentioned Company. And with the said
Act will be incorporated " The Companies Clauses Consoli •
dation Act, 1845," " The Railways Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1845," and " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
1815," or such parts thereof as may be necessary. And
notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans, and
sections, describing the linos and levels of the said embank-
ment, railways, roads, pond or reservoir, and other works,
together with books of reference to such plans, and a pub-
lished map showing the general line and direction of the
said railways and works, and a copy of this notice as pub-
lished in the " London Gazette," will, on or before the 30th
day of November instant, be deposited with the Clerk of
the Peace for the county of Middlesex, at his office, at the
Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in the said county, and at the
office of the Clerk of the Peace for the city of London, at
the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, and at the office of
the Clerk of the Peace for the city and liberty of Westmin-
ster, at the Sessions House in Westminster and Clerkenwell
aforesaid ; and on or before the said 30th day of November,
a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of
reference as relates to each of the said parishes from,
through, or into which the said works are to be made and
maintained, or in which any lands or houses intended to be
taken are situate, and a copy of the said
," Gazette" notice,
will be deposited, at their respective places of abode, with
the clerks of such of the said parishes as are within the city
of London; and at their respective offices with the Clerks
of the Vestries of the said parishes of Saint Martin' s-in-the-
FiOds, and of Saint George, Hanover-square, and with the
respective Clerks of the district Boards of each of the re-
mainder of the said parishes ; and, in the case of any extra-
parochial place, with the Parish Clerk of sonic parish im-
mediately adjoining thereto, at his place of abode
And on or before the 23d day of December next copies
of the Act to be applied for as aforesaid will be deposited in
the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.
Dated the 16th day of November, 1859.

TIER D EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock.

DENMARK.

According to the latest intelligence from Co-
penhagen, the Ministerial crisis was considered
o be in a manner suspended by the absence of the
King ; and the general opinion was that it would
be terminated after the close of the session of
the Supremo Council by replacing the Minis-
ters of War and of the Interior, who alone
have resigned. But, according to the Dagbladet,

the Ministerial journal, the crisis is likely to ex-
tend still further, and there is little hope
of seeing it brought to so speedy a con-
clusion as was expected. The Daybladet
appears to think that there will be a profound
modification of the Ministry, and it alludes to
the journey of Bishop Mourad, Minister of Public
Worship, to Jajersprins, where the King is, as
connected with the crisis.

RAILWAY BIELEB.

The gentlemen of the Metropolitan Termini of
Railways and the Railway Clearing-house have
formed themselves into a rifle corps, under the de-
nomination of " The Railway Rifles," and upwards
of 100 have enrolled themselves members.
Several drills have already taken place in the
open and eligible ground at the Metropolitan Cattle-
market, kindly lent by the Markets Improvement
Committee. The average attendance has been ex-
cellent, and already much smartness is exhibited by
the volunteers in executing the various movements.
Captain Thomas Edward Bigge, F.G.S., of 19,
Bryanstone7sqUare, a gentleman intimately con-
nected with the railway interest, has been unani-
mously elected the commanding officer of the corps;
Capt. Beresford L'Estrange, second captain ; Mr.
Win. Houghton, first ; and Mr. Frederick Barrow,
second lieutenant; and Messrs. Charles Edward
Thais, and Thomas Henry Tims, the two ensigns.
Mr. W. R. Hoard has been appointed secretary.
The uniform originally decided upon was a dark
and appropriate gray, trimmed with scarlet, and
with black facings; but, as a general meeting is to
be held this day, it will be proposed by the com-
mittee to abandon the scarlet, and adopt the black
facings only, as neater, more serviceable, and less
conspicuous as a mark to an enemy. All other pre-
liminaries are in train for early settlement.
The committee have proceeded quietly but inde-
fatigably in the formation of the corps, and they
feel their exertions have not been unsuccessful.
The list of honorary members comprises several
very influential names, among them Mr. Denison,
the chairman; Mr. Oakley, the secretary, and other
principal officers of the Great Northern Railway
Company; Captain Bigge (whose name appears for
£2l) ; Mr. Stewart, secretary, London and North-
Western Railway ; Mr. Morison, secretary, clear-. 4
ing"-house ; Mr. Brassey, the great contractor ; and
many others. The honorary subscription is £1 is.
annually, or .£5 ss. in one payment.
k Full information will be cheerfully afforded by
Mr. Hoare, the secretary, by whom subscriptions
(addressed to him at the King's.cross station) will
be thankfully acknowledged.

ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

(From tho Times.)

We adverted a few days ago, though not, we
think, more pointedly than the case requires, to the
singular position which the Government and people
of France occupy with regard to this country. With
our powerful neighbour we are not only at peace,
but, nominally at least, on terms of cordial friend-
ship and close alliance, while every instrument that
can work on public opinion is being employed to
raise a violent spirit of animosity against us. The
clergy denounce us, the press libels us, with an in-
considerate fury which breaks down under the
weight of its own exaggerations and its own ignor-
ance. The nation at large has accustomed itself, to
look upon a war with its present ally as a by no
means remote event, and the tunny is taught to
look forward to the day when the pillage of a
country rich beyond any former precedent shall re-
ward its valour and glut its avarice. Whence,
we ask, has arisen this sudden fury ? What
provocation have we given to account for the
strange phenomenon that a nation but lately
devoted to the happy arts of peace should sud-
denly turn its ploughshare into a sword, and
give the loudest and plainest intimations of its
desire to plunge that sword into our breast ?
Let us once more review the relations between
the two countries, and see if we can discover
any provocation in our conduct, anything which,
if we were to act otherwise than we do, might
scatter the tempest with which we are threatened,
and the gradual approach of which we cannot re-
gard with indifference.
Let us take the most prominent question first.
The policy of England with regard to Italy has, at
any rate of late years, been clear and explicit to
all the world. England has wished that the people
of Italy, like the people of all other countries in
Europe, should be allowed to exercise their natural
right of selecting their own Government for them-
selves. We believed that this result was to be
obtained more readily by the peaceful progress of
Piedmont and by the influence which she was
ready to exert in favour of the Italians whenever
any European Power could be induced to join her,
than by making Italy the battle-field of two great
military Empires lying to the north of the Alps.
True to these principles, as soon as England saw
that the French Government was seriously enter-
taining the project of marching into Lombardy,
England employed every means of friendly inter-
cession in order fo induce France to renounce her
undertaking. In this England failed, but she bore
her repulse without ill humour, and, though she
could not enter into a war which she disapproved,
she cordially wished success to these objects which
the Emperor Napoleon announced, and neither
felt nor manifested any desire that he should incur
the least inconvenience from rejecting her advice.
The Emperor carried out his plan with an ability
and success which astonished all Europe, and yet
in the midst of his victories he stopped short,
as if he were afraid of too complete a
triumph, and concluded the armistice of
Villafranca, confirmed subsequently by the
peace of Zurich. Probably, when the Emperor
of the French sat down calmly to consider the
difficulties which, from the moment that he en-
gaged in war, contrary to the advice of this coun-
try, were thickening round him—when he saw
that he had engaged in a struggle in which success
was dangerous and defeat was ruinous, that he had
called the Italians to arms in the name of liberty,
then, hound himself to restore the Sovereigns whom
they had ex pelled, and then declined to act upon
the engagement—it is probable, we say, that the
Emperor himself might be led to think the advice
ho received from England was neither unwise nor
unfriendly, and that we had given the best proof of
our amicable disposition by warning our ally against
a very ill-advised course. If the Emperor of the
French, instead of appealing to arms, had joined
with England in a strong remonstrance to Austria,
a step in which England would gladly have co-
operated, we cannot doubt that it would have been
easy for them to have negotiated the purchase of
Lombardy, which is pretty nearly the effect of the
Treaty of Zurich. Austria had already agreed to
withdraw her troops from the Duchies, in which
case the Grand Dukes would have been expelled
with the same hearty and quite unanimity which
has since compelled them to retire, and thus every-
thing substantial which the Peace of Zurich has
accomplished would have been gained without the
expenditure of either blood or treasure. France
would, indeed, have lost the opportunity of gaining
two great victories, of which her military reputa-
tion stands in very little need; but she would have
economised the blood of her sons and the tears of
her daughters. France would not take our advice,
but we have no reason to be ashamed of it, and she
has no ground to be angry that we gave it. The
Emperor now wishes to submit these matters to an
European Congress. That Congress we have not yet
been invited to join, and, therefore, whether we
join it or not, we cannot in this matter have given
her any ground of offence. Of course, we have
urged all along the right of the Italians to settle
their own affairs, but to this opinion we have
hitherto given no practical effect. Faming from
the affairs of Italy, another ground which is
taken against us is our opposition to the absurd
project of the Suez Canal. In our opinion it is a
had speculation, very likely not to be made at all,
and, if made, assuredly only at a ruinous cost.
We also think that the Sultan has a right to
be consulted before M. do Lesseps or any ono
else takes possession of one of the provinces of his
empire. If the canal can be made, ten English
ships will use it for one French one, but we arc not
guilty, we trust, of any disc mrtesy because we de-
cline to invest our money in what appears to us to
be a bad speculation—au opinion in which we are
confirmed by the highest engineering authority,
including the opinion of the late Mr. R. Stephen-
son. As regards the quarrel between Spain and
Morocco, we have certainly not come precisely to
the same conclusion as France, probably because we
see the question from different points of view—
France from Algeria, England from Gibraltar, and
also possibly because we were not aware last year
till the publication of the map of Europe in 1860
that Morocco was destined to form part of the do-
minions of Spain. I)ut there has been no kind of
difference between the two Governments, and the
correspondence on the subject has been in every
respect most friendly.
Lastly, there is our late joint misadventure in
China, in a hich our policy has been absolutely un-
distinguishable, and the cause of the two nations
for all practical purposes fused into one. Yet the
French troops destined to co-operate with us in this
remote expedition were probably speculating on an
invasion of England up to the very moment they
were told to act with hee in the invasion of China
Thus, without any serious question at issue between
the two Governments, with the most sincere wish
on our part to maintain the most friendly relations,
do we find ourselves involved in acourse of expen-