The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, L(,NDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1861.

we had equal reason to be proud of the spirit of
patriotism and of valour displayed in the Volun-
teer movement. It had given tranquillity to
the minds of the people, and let the
world see that Englishmen would not sub-
mit to the slightest approach to an in-
sult. The toast he had to propose was—` rhe
Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers !" This
toast, thus earnestly proposed, being also
thus appropriately enforced with more than ordi-
nary earnestness upon that very day in 1861
(the year in which the peace of Europe is undeni-
ably felt and seems to be so very precarious) upon
that very day in this year of anxiety (Easter Mon-
day) set apart for the Volunteer Demonstration,
And the enforcement of the toast came, moreover,
by no means ludicrously from one of those Lord
Mayors of London, of whom looking back to them,
as things were in the past, when viewed in the
light thrown upon that past by English litera-
ture, Mr. DICKENS could speak thus last night, with
a genial smile of pleasantry upon his lips, and
yet with a hearty and earnest good-feel-
ing, too, in every word he uttered :—" The
literature of English history, losing its Lord Mayors,
would lose some of its most notable instances of the
public spirit, the munificence, the personal bravery
and prowess of the good old citizens on that side
Temple Bar. The literature of English romance
losing its Lord Mayors of London would lose at one
blow its wealthiest London merchant, its most
beautiful merchant's daughter, its crossest cook, its
best known foreign adventurer, its most profitable
investment on record, and its most wonderful cat.
Similarly, English biography losing its Lord Mayors
would lose some of its most notable examples of
rewarded perseverance and integrity, and some of
its highest illustrations of the nobility of self-made
men." Yes: a nation of shopkeepers we shall be
probably down to the end of the chapter—down
to the end of the last chapter of our National
History—but at any rate we shall ever be pre-
pared to defend our own as resolutely now when
the world's weapons are the ARMSTRONG guns,
when its men of war are steel-clad Warriors, when
its messenger is the lightning—just as earnestly
and resolutely now under these new and wholly
different circumstances, as when our mis•
siles were pebbles cast by the sling, or cloth-
yard shafts thrown by the tough yew bows
of our Archers. With our gallant Army, whose
fame comes down to us from the plains of Poictiers
and of Waterloo—with our matchless Navy, whose
glory yet remains untarnished and unapproached
—with our National Guard, now numbering up in
goodly array from 100,000 to 200,000 Rifle Volunteers
—in a time not of Panic, but of Peace—England may
now add to the other familiar mottoes upon her
war standards scraper paratus, leaving " the rest''
now in Higher Hands : and none the less with
humble trust at her brave heart, from the
knowledge of the deep wisdom latent in that pro-
verbial truth—that GOD helps them who help
themselves.

On Thursday, the 7th of March, JOHN ARTHUR
ROEBUCK, Esq., one of the honourable members for
Sheffield, took the House of Commons quite by sur-
prise. It was on the second night of the debate on
Italian affairs, originated by Mr. HENNESSY, and
our readers will therefore well remember the gene.
ral character of the speech. Mr. ROEBUCK has
done many strange things in his time—his politi-
cal eccentricities and fits of waywardness are natu-
rally looked for once or twice in a session, but still
there has been generally something in them in
keeping with the general character of "The Uncon•
trollable." What astonished the House on the 7th,
and all England the next day, was, that the Radi-
cal, despot-hating member for Sheffield should come
out not only as the defender, but almost as the
lover of Austria.
It may be remembered how he seemed to open
pretty well; like other Englishmen he was for a
united Italy, but he had scarcely uttered the words

when he added " from the bottom of the Peninsula

to the Mineio ."' Hardly had the suspense created
by this short clause subsided, when he went on to
show that a united and independent Italy, France
being in the position she is, was impossible ; so by
way, we suppose, of making her less dependent on
France, he went on to show that Italy must not
possess that famous military position—the Qua-
drilateral—whieh had been always the greatest
difficulty of French invading armies, from the days
of the first campaigns there of NAPOLEON I. to those
of NAPOLEON 111. He solemnly warned our
Government "of the danger of the course th.ey
were pursuing in endeavouring to exclude
Austria from her dominions in Venetia !"
He affirmed that it was " our duty to Frevent the
expulsion of Austria from Venetia at present !"

And then, not content with thus standing up as
stoutly in our senate as General BENEDEK would do
in the field, for Austrian rule over those who, he
acknowledged, hated it, he went on to praise the
Austrian Government itself. Austria had " re-
pented and been converted." " The constitution
she had granted to her people was as liberal as our
own !" "On paper it was as liberal ;" "it was her
interest to keep to it, and she would keep to it."
" The house of Austria of the present time is not
the Austria of the past." "All our interests are
coincident with hers." She was our reliance
against the alternative of " all Europe becoming
Cossack." The Austrians are disposed to love us;
" their children are brought up to esteem and love
our literature. Every family which can afford it
has an English teacher, and their love and admiration
of our literature has created the desire for freedom
and self-government which has arisen throughout
the empire." Such was the tone of this astounding
speech, on which the member for Brighton, almost
to the equal surprise of many, remarked, that such
a speech from him was expected among the know-
ing-ones of " the City"—" It had been proclaimed
in the City that the hon. member for Sheffield would
return to this country the eulogist of Austria j •
because he was received in gilded saloons by Arch-
dukes and Archduchesses ;—and—it was rumoured
that the hon. member had come back from Vienna
with a very lucrative contract in his pocket."
We have briefly recalled the facts, as they might
otherwise be imperfectly recollected, on which the
hon. member for Sheffield and his constituency have
now joined issue. Sheffield, surprised as much
as the rest of England, and aggrieved more
than any other place in England as • being
in some sense responsible for her member's conduct
—asks Mr. ROEBUCK to pay them a visit, and to
dell them, and through them the country, what this
all meant. Certainly, such a speech before the
last election would have insured his losing it, and
it was fair they should know why they were so
grievously misrepresented. Yesterday Mr. ROE-
BUCK complied with their request, and interest
enough was certainly felt in the question. Unfor-
tunately the Temperance Hall, adapted to hold
rather more than a thousand, had been chosen for
the meeting, yet three or four thousand persons
contrived to squeeze themselves into the place, and
thousands so crowded around the door that Mr.
ROEBUCK had to stand in the rain for a consider-
able time amid the taunts and jeers of the mob.

When an entry had been effected, the grand
uPtoar began. It was utterly impossible for Mr,

ROEBUCK to make himself heard. The number of
persons outside occasioned some noise at the
doors, but it was soon evident that some
bullies, who came for the purpose of alto-
gether obstructing the meeting, were the chief
source of the disturbance; their noisy efforts
being not a little aided by the close pressure and
discomfort of the vast crowd squeezed into the room.
The Mayor, the ex-Mayor, Mr. HADFIELD, and
others, all tried in vain to gain Mr. ROEBUCK a
hearing ; and after two short attempts he was com-
pelled to give up, and to promise to address them
again on Thursday. Mr. HADFIELD even promised
them to use the meeting, after Mr. ROEBUCK had
finished, as a means of supporting Mr. BAINES' bill
for adding 20,000 more electors to Sheffield, but
no persuasion or argument could obtain silence.
Whether that necessary boon to a speaker will be
accorded on Thursday remains to be seen.

The few intervals in which Mr. ROEBUCK was
able to make himself heard by the reporters were
occupied in asserting his independent position and
denouncing. " base insinuations." He was able to
advance so far as to deny that he had sold his con-
stituents when he gave his vote for keeping in the
DERBY Ministry—he had never received a farthing
from the Galway Company through which he had
been said to be bribed to give that vote. But
before he could come to his defence against the
charge of selling them the second time for an Aus-
trian contract, the noise became too great to admit
of his proceeding. On this subject therefore the one
which occasioned his being summoned to Sheffield,we
must wait till Thursday for the defence of the
accused man. We observe that he describes the
" second occasion as one when he made a speech the
other day in which he recommended Lord PAL-
MERSTON to be thoroughly a friend of non-inter-
vention, but at the same time to give the moral
influence of England to thirty millions of people
who are now striving for political power—namely,
the Austrian nation."

We hope Mr. ROEBUCK is here incorrectly re-
ported ; for, if not, he is about to plead to a false or
or irrelevant issue. His constituents are as
desirous as he is that our Foreign Secretary
should do his utmost for the thirty millions
of Austria in their demands for their rights.
All England is notoriously eager to use the whole
moral weight of this country on behalf of the ancient,
loyal, but long subverted constitutional Govern-
ment of Hungary, and to do its best for the other
nationalities also ; but what Mr. ROEBUCK'S friends
in Sheffield want to know is, not even so much why
he is in love with Austria herself, and believes in
her very liberal paper constitutions, as why he can
persuade himself to force on the poor Venetians the
rule which he acknowledges they hate. He appealed
in his speech to the House to the hatred Ireland
once cherished for England; but the case is surely
wholly different. Not to mention that we have
really repented and done nobly for Ire-
land, nor that the treachery of her own
sons gave us the country, Ireland is not the
strongest military position of a whole nation
distinct from England in race and language, and
which has just emancipated itself from a clique of
native despots. We are confident that were we
the hated rulers of a small part of such a truly
foreign kingdom, the general feeling in this
country would be " let them join their brethren"—
we should scorn to limit a real nation by any
Mincio. The case of the lonian Islands is in point.
So far as we know, the general language of English-
men, well as we confessedly treat them, is, if they
do not like our Government let them go." We
wait to see what defence Mr. ROEBUCK will offer
for his 4ustrian SHYLOCK—who malignantly cuts
the pound of flesh from Italy even to his own ruin.

The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and the
Ladies Somerset have arrived at their residence in Hill-
street from Badminton.
The Duchess of Richmond has arrived at the
Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, from London.
Their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess of
Saxe-Weimar, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Lord
Robert Montagu, M.P., and a selectpartyhave been among
the guests of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, at
Kimbolton Castle, during the past week.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Flahault entertained a select circle at din-
ner last evening at Coventry House.
The Duke and Duchess of Athole have left the
St. George's Hotel for Dunkeld, N.B.
The Marquis of Lansdowne will leave town to-
morrow for Bowood, where the Earl and Countess of Shel-
burne are passing the recess.
DEATH OF LADY CHARLOTTE BURY.—We regret
to announce the death of Lady Charlotte Bury,
.who ex-
pired on Sunday evening last, at an advanced age. Her
ladyship was the youngest daughter of Field-Marshal
John fifth Duke of Argyll, by Elizabeth Gunning, widow
of the Duke of Hamilton, and consequently Lady Charlotte
was aunt to the present Duke of Argyll and the Earl of
Derby. In her youth Lady Charlotte was remarkable for
personal beauty, and throughout life for the charm of her
manners. Lady Charlotte Bury was twice married—first
to Colonel J. Campbell, of Shawfield, and secondly to the
Rey. Edward Bury. By her first marriage she had a nu-
merous family, two of whom only survive—Lady A. Lennox
and Mrs. W. Russell. By her second marriage she had
two daughters, one of whom, Mrs. Lyon, only is living.
REAR-ADMIRAL KEPPEL.—In our impression of

Saturday last it was stated that a rurtour prevailed to the

effect that Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., had
made up his mind to return to England. We are now en-
abled to state that the Admiralty havo complied with Sir
Henry's wish, and have superseded him. We believe his
successor will be Rear-Admiral of the Blue Richard Laird
Warren, who will proceed without delay to take command
of her Majesty's ships on the south-east coast of America
The Emerald, 51, at Devonport, will convey the new Ad-
miral, and then return with Sir Henry, the Forte continu-
ing to be the flagship on the Brazilian station.—Army and
_Navy Gazette.

There has been for the last few days a rumour
in naval circles that Ministers have resolved, in conse-
quence of the recommendations made in the Report of the
Royal Dockyard Commissioners, to proceed to the imme-
diate reconstruction of the Board of Admiralty; and among
the anticipations expressed is one thst it is intended to model
the future administrative body of the Navy upon the
system which is now in existence with reference to the
management of the Army.—Army and Navy Gazette.

SHORT Tl➢iE FOR CARTERS.—On Saturday even-
ing a general meeting of the carters of Manchester and Sal-
ford took place to make arrangement for a fair trial of the
short time system. Between 300 and 400 carters attended.
There had been a previous meeting of delegates, represent.
ing about 700, who are now formed into a society. On the
recommendation of this meeting of delegates it was now re-
solved that, ox and after the 15th inst., the carters should
cease working at 6 p.m. every day except Saturdays, when
work should end at 1 p.m. The meeting was also pledged
to support any carter thrown out of employment by adopt-
ing these rules. 1 t was stated that about 600 of the prin-
cipal merchants, warehousemen, and shippers of Manches-
ter had concurred in the movement. A deputation was
appointed to wait upon the masters.
HAIJGHTON-LE SKERNE RECTORY.—The Rev. E.
Cheese, the new Rector of Haughton-le-Skerne, " read him-
self in" on Sunday, in presence of a crowded congregation.
He tuok the entire duty, both morning and evening, the
ordinary services being varied by the reading of the Thirty-
nine Articles, and a declaration on his part of his unfeigned
"assent and consent" thereto, and to the Book of Common
Prayer. In an address to his parishioners, which took the
place of a sermon, he dwelt upon the solemnity and respon.-
sibility of his office, and begged them to regard him as ore
who had determined, by God's grace, to devote the best
years of his life as a minister of the Gospel in Haughton-
le-Skerne. He also besought them to pray daily for their
rector, that he might be enabled to open his mouth boldly
to make known the mysteries of the Gospel.
HOW TO KILL A CROCODILE.—The river Indus,
in the East Indies, wag infested by a large old crocodile,
who carried off twee or three natives, one of them being a
woman. lts skin was so thick that no ball penetrated it,
so some young artillery officers formed the following plan
fer destroying it. They killed a sheep, and in it 3 body
placed a bag filled with gunpowder and some other combus-
tible matter, to which a long wire was attached, with
detonating powder at the end. Presently the crocodile
saw the prey and seized it, and carried it to a hole which
he was known to frequent. Time was allowed him to
swallow the sheep, when the wire was pulled, the water
then became violently agitated, a loud report was hea;d,
and up came the crocodile dead, and his stomach blown

IRON CASED SHIPS.

M. de Rohan has addressed the following letter to a con-

temporary :

While agreeing with Captain Connolly in most of his
remarks in your paper of to-day, there are one or two points
on which I differ from him.

It seems to me that it is, so far as yet ascertained, impos-
sible to combine wood with iron in constructing ships of
war, by casing them with iron either externally or internally,
or by intermediate bulk heads of iron between the outer
and inner planking; first of all, from the fact of wooden
seams requiring to be caulked frequently, and the con-
sequent difficulty and expense of removing the casing
to get at the wood, to say nothing of the damage caused by
backing out rivets, and the necessity for increasing the
diameter of the new fastening, so as to fill well the old
rivet-hole, which has naturally become enlarged. Again,
whether the casing lie directly on the wood or at some
Lance off from it, the chemical action produced by contact
of iron: with salt water must inevitably injure both the
planking and the caulking. If fastened on to the wood, the
iron plates will corrode the ends of the fastenings of the
planking ; and if there be a space between the side and
the casing, this space will be little better than a recep-
tacle for moist and very detrimental gases that will soon
produce rot, to say nothing of the necessity which there
will be of tearing the ship almost to pieces to recaulk her
seams or effect repairs to her hull. There is also another
objection, and an equally serious one, to be found, in the
absolute necessity which exists for exposing wood work, as
much as possible, under proper preservatives, to tke action of
light and air. Even so thin and light a covering as paint must
yield the palm to good oil or varnish as a preserver and nou-
risher of wood, for the oil used in forming paint soon washes
or evaporates away, leaving merely the earthy or mineral
part of its composition to do more harm than good by
communicating moisture to the wood, and admitting of the
action of neither light nor heat to facilitate its evaporation.
We all know that it is far better to scrape wood-work of
ships bright, before repainting, and to the old custom of
varnishing do the Dutch owe the reputation for neatness
and durability which their vessels enjoy. Again, any
serious accident happening to an iron or iron-cased
ship abroad involves almost either total abandon-
ment or a voyage home, probably from the An-
tipodes, to have repairs done, from the simple fact
that the facilities out of England for boiler and
engine work in general, al sea-ports, are very, very scanty.
To illustrate, I know at this moment of five or six iron
vessels belonging to the Italian navy, which have been for
some months, and are yet, almost wholly useless for the
want of repairs that could be done in a week or iten days
here in England.
For these and many other reasons that I could cite I
submit that the question lies radically between the use
of all iron or all wood, and that the joint employment
of the two is inexpedient and impracticable from
reasons of economy and durability ; if actions
on water always happened under cicumstances where pre-
cision of aim was reduced to a theory and a certainty, well
and good ; but when we know that hardly one shot in a
hundred tells with any effect, it must be evident that after
all we must rely on our old custom of carrying by boarding.
The inventions and improvements of Captain Norton in
shells and destructive missiles are beyond doubt of a won-
derful nature, and evidence great genius and great
practical knowledge; but I hardly believe them suscepti-
ble of being brought into general or very advantageous use
on board ship for many reasons—one, among others, thitt
their very great destructive properties will necessarily in-
volve an increased amount of danger to vessels that carry
them over the ordinary missiles ; the handling, stowage,
and care of live shell requires very great circumspection,
but not one-tenth of what would have to be bestowed on
liquid fire-shells ; and I quite agree with Captain Connolly
that "it will be a long time, if ever, before the present
broadside gun and spherical projectile are entirely super-
seded."

From the latter part of that gentleman's letter I differ in
tot°, wherein he advocates the dispensing with spar deck
batteries, making the deck bulwarks " sufficiently thick
only to resist a rifle ball." My reasons I stated in the
letter of March 25, which you published.

In reference to the liability to catching fire in action,
I have long wondered why some kind of pipe was not
laid around the ship's frame, say under or beside the spar-
deck covering board, through which water might be
thrown in case of emergency down through the timbers
and frame, delaying the seat of the fire; stopcocks
might be placed at intervals of every ten or twelve
feet, by closing which the whole body of water in the
pipe could be thrown down between the timbers at that
particular spot, or by leaving them all open the water could
be carried completely round the ship ; connecting pipes
might also lead up behind the masts to a certain height.
In conclusion, while agreeing cordially with Capt. Con-
nolly, " that we have not more to apprehend from the effects
of shot' than did our forefathers of old," I think we should
add, that even if we do have more fear of " shell," we must
try and not have it, but must trust more to the pluck and
cool intrepidity of our men, as they did, than to aught else ;
therefore we should have, as I before said, low-sided,
broad-beamed, fine-bottomed, single-decked frigates, of 16
to 40 guns, well manned, steaming an average of 12 or 14
knots, and we need fear no " casings," or no "liquid fire."
With such, let a cool head, a quick eye, and a firm hand,
deliver his broadside or two, and then, with a fall head of
steam, sound the old charge of " boarders away 1" and the
result would not long be doubtful.

The officers of the navy are all right, as are also the men,
both striving, as they ever do abroad, to maintain the
honour of Old England ; but unless you give the right
tools to werk with, and lot them work in the right way,
you will soon discourage both officers and men, and the old
wooden walls will soon be literally " to let."

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF CANDIDATES FOR
HOLY ORDERS.—The universities had for ages sent forth
men who had adorned the pulpit, the senate, the bar, and
almost every branch of human knowledge, and one might
well pause before presuming to suggest even a doubt that
systems which had produced such great and varied excel-
lence could be deficient in one of the chief means for quali-
fying the student for any department of public life. AU
this was readily admitted—the great value of classical and
mathematical studies as disciplining the mind quite undis-
puted—and the universities defended against the popular
cry of their not being equal to the requirements of the age.
But still the warmest supporter of the existing order of
things must, if candid, be compelled to grant that there
existed some serious defect in any system of education
which, while sending out a few brilliant stars, left the great
mass of its men but very indifferent workers in those pur-
suits which were to be the business of their lives. Were it
the special duty of our universities to produce classical and
mathematical professors and teachers, possessing not merely
a critical but a hypercritical knowledge of their subjects,
the present system would seem admirably calculated to
fulfil the end in view. When, however, it was remembered

that nearly all the colleges bore some such designation as
the "ancient and religious foundation of ," it was
clear that they were intended by their founders as training
schools for the clergy ; and when the universities recognised
the fact that the education given was not simply prepara-
tory, but to a certain extent professional, by their institu-
tion of divinity professorships, and by requiring the attend-
ance of theological students not only at lectures but at
examinations, it could not but l e felt as somewhat extraor-
dinary and inconsistent that no provision had been made for
due training in that language in which the future clergy-
man was to address his flock for systematic instruction in
the composition and delivery of sermons, and for distinct and
unaffected reading of the Church service.—D' Orsey' s Lec-
ture at the Royal Institution.

THE REVENUE.--The revenue accounts have
created satisfaction, the apprehended deficiency being
limited to about £900,000, and various further heavy arri-
vals of gold lead to the impression that the Bank rate of
discount must speedily undergo a further reduction. It
appears from the revenue table that the Government have
sold £1,000,000 Exchequer-bills to the Bank to meet the
principal part of the demand occasioned by £1,100,000 of
the March descriptions having just been sent in for repay-
ment. It would also seem that of the £2,000,000 which
the Chancellor of the Exchequer was empowered to raise
by Exchequer-bonds the bank have taken £594,000, so that
reckoning the £1,000,000 taken some months back by the
savings banks, only £406,000 remains to be put out. The
£200,000 raised in annuities on account of fortifications is
believed to have been furnished by the savings banks.

WRECK OF A LARGE PRUSSIAN EMIGRANT Suit
ON THE ISLAND OF SANDAY, ORKNEY.—LITERPOOL, MOD,
day.—The Orkney Islands have been shrouded in thick fog,
with much rain, for a number of days. On the morning of
Wednesday last, the 27th of March, the first intelligence of
a large ship being on shore on Sanday spread through the
island, and word of the catastrophe was instantly forwarded
to Kirkwall. The following is all that had reached the
Orcadian office on Saturday :—" The ship Johannes, Capt.
D. von Pritzen, from Bremen for Baltimore, with 137 Ger-
man emigrants and a general cargo, stranded at Airaby,
between Newark and Tressness, Sanday. She came on
shore about 9 p.m., on Tuesday, the 26th inst., in a thick
fog, and is likely to become a total wreck. Emigrants and
crew landed safe, and hopes of the safety of the cargo are
also entertained."

FATAL JUMP FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.—On
Saturday evening a man named John Down took a ticket
at the railway station at Plymouth for Tavistock, but by
mistake got into a truck of an Exeter train. On finding
out his error at the junction of the Tavistock and South
Devon lines, about three miles from Plymouth, he jumped
out of the truck while the train was in motion, and received
such injuries that he died on Sunday evening.
General Henry, Director General des Haras, has
decided that all the draught horses henceforth purchased
for the imperial stables must have been bred in France.
This decision has been adopted in order to encourage the
breed of horses throughout the provinces.
A correspondent informs us (Army and Navy
Gazette) that Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8.,
is now visiting Magenta, Solferino, and the other cele-
brated battle-fields of the late campaign in Italy, with a
view of reproducing the principal movements in the re-
views of the forthcoming season at the great camp of in
strati= at Aldigshot,

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TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

VIENNA, APRIL 2.

The Ministerial crisis is over. The present
Ministry remain provisionally in office.
On Sunday evening last riotous assemblages
took place in Agram.
The windows of the police-office were smashed
by the people, and the Imperial Eagle was torn
down from the Government buildings.

ROME, MARCH 30.

Last night 40 waggons of the Sardinian army
were observed near Rome, coming from Gaeta.
Gen. Goyon ordered their immediate departure
for Ferni, under an escort of gendarmes.
The Municipality of Rome sent yesterday to
General Lamoriciere a magnificent gold medal
which had been struck in his honour.

POSEN, MONDAY EVENING.

Riots took place yesterday at Kalisch.

A multitude of about 3,000 persons made a noisy
and insulting demonstration (Katzenmusik) before
the house of the Captain of the district. The
windows of the house were smashed, and the
Captain fled to the Cadet School, amid the shouts
and yells of the people.
His deputy was likewise insulted.

Similar demonstrations afterwards took place
before the houses of the President of the Tribunals
and the Inspector of Schools.
Order was re-established by the military.

TURIN, APRIL 1.

The official Gazette announces that a conspiracy
has been discovered in Modena and the Romagna,
in which some disbanded Volunteers from the army
IA Southern Italy are implicated.
The object of the conspiracy was to engage in a
conflict with the Austrians.

The Government of the King has taken precau-

tionary measures.

BERNE, APRIL 1.

It is asserted here that a fresh order has been
addressed by Garibaldi to his officers residing in
Switzerland, requesting them to be ready to as-
semble at his summons within a fortnight hence.

VIENNA, APRIL 1.
The news of a landing of Garibaldians at Spezia

is a mere invention.

The insurgents in the Herzegovina have been
repulsed by the Turish troops.
The report that the greater number of the
Ministers have tendered their resignation is still in
circulation, but it is not stated whether it has
been accepted.

PASTH, APRIL 1.
Count Apponyi, Judex Curie of Hungary, will
return to Vienna to-morrow.
The opening of the Diet will most probably take
place on Saturday next.

MADRID, MARCH 31

Three Kabyle chiefs, of the province of Riff,
in Morocco, have revolted and refused to pay
the taxes.

Advices received here state that risings have
taken place in several parts of Portugal under
the pretext of the taxes being unequally distri-
buted.

SPECIE FOR THE WEST INDIES.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship La Plata,
sailing to-day, takes out English gold coin, £3,800 :
English silver coin, £5,800; English jewellery, &c.,
£365 ; French gold coin, £2,786 ; French jewellery,
&c., £6,768.