The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-16 00:00:00

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to the houses Bisoli and Marchi, the new theatre r MB. ROEBUCK'S AUSTRIAN SPEECH.
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has just been converted into a grain store. Four
regiments of cavalry are expected; they will be' Foreign travel is said to enlarge the experience
.nd widen the sympathies, and we have an exem-
,stationed in the province of Treviso."
~plification of this in Mr. Roebuck, who has returned
The Corriere Cremonese has the following : ?trom his German tour brimful of sympathies for
"' Advices from Mantua announce that the Aus 'lAustria. We shall not join in the bitter invec-
trians are considerably increasing the number of hives which have been hurled at our representative
;from so many quarters for. his speech of last. Thurs.-
their troops on the frontier. The officers speak
14ay ; but, in common with the mass of his eonsti-
)penly of a proximate war against Piedmont. If
cents, we cannot help expressing our unfeigned
the axiom be true that desperate men often do great . :egret that from such a man such a speech
things, we must be on our guard, for Austria is should have proceeded. Our regret is increased
going through a terrible crisis." ny a consideration of the circumstances which
which have led to these new opinions and
these very deeided utterances. Some time ago
it was announced that Mr. Roebuck was negotiat-
brig a steam :packet contract at Vienna. He was in
company with Mr. Lever, the chairman of the
Galway Steam Packet Company, whose offer to
convey the mails to North America was accepted by
Lord Derby's Government under not very creditable
circumstances. As everybody knows, Mr. Roebuck
was a director of the same company, and defended
r contract which other people thought savoured
rather of a political job and was at the best an
extravagant and unnecessary expenditure of public
money. On this occasion there was an unmis-
takeable feeling in Sheffield, as elsewhere, that
Ar. Roebuck's public usefulness was likely
to be impaired by a connexion with speculative
undertakings pushed forward, as was shown, with-
)ut much regard for the instruments and the
means which were used. It was felt that his
Parliamentary advocacy of the Galway contract
could not but be tinged by personal considerations
And private interests ; and there was a shrewd
suspicion that had he never known Mr. Lever, and.
never been been feted in Galway, and never sat at
the Galway Board, there would have been in the
House of Commons no more unsparing opponent of
the Galway contract than John Arthur Roebuck.
We are afraid that in now standing up for Austrian
rule in Venetia he lays himself open to the
same charges, or, at all events, to the same suspi-
cions. He went to Vienna to ask a favour. Whether
he has returned " with a lucrative contract in his
pocket" we don't know, but some commercial con-
cession has been obtained from the Austrian Go-
vernment through his representalions. On their
.ide the Austrian Government have gained. a con-
vert. Of course, they were glad enough to get
hold of so promising a subject. They would
have been thankful even of an ordinary mem-
ber of Parliament; but they must have jumped
at the chance of influencing a blunt outspoken
patriot, who till now has always been on the
people's side. How has this influence been ex-
erted ? We need not go far for an answer to
the question. Any coarser agency would have
signally failed. But we know bow easily a man
often yields his opinions to one from whom he
expects or has received a favour. The advocate
opens his brief, reads his case, and convinces
himself that his client has been ill-used. Smith,
who is under obligations to Jones, hears with
favour the grievance of a friend in need,
and in his behalf is prepared to back up even
a doubtful quarrel. Brown, who gives good
dinners and unexceptionable port, pours his sor-
rows into the ears of Robinson over their dessert,
and in turn receives comfort, counsel, and sup-
port. Who does not listen with a bias to the
statements and complaints of a hospitable host, a
firm friend, of the client whose fee clinks in his hand,
of the man who has been or may become a good ens-
- tomer ? It is human nature. We have no right
to censure Mr. Roebuck for being simply like
other people. But, as his constituentr.,
we have a
clear right to complain that he 'slated himself
voluntarily in a position where t e became suscep-
tible of an illegitimate bias in favour of a bad cause.
For a member of Parliament to travel in search of
information is laudable, but that 11E4 not the pri-
mary object of our representative. He was in
search of pecuniary gain on behalf of a private com-
pany, and it is understood That his mission has
proved successful. Incidentally he acquired from
partial sources information upon which certain
new and startling opinions are founded—opinions
which were sure to receive a colour from his sup-
pliant attitude at Vienna, and which are diametri-
cally opposed to the convictions of his constituents.
if Mr. Roebuck has been just to himself in all this,
,has he been just to Sheffield ? We think not. rile
motives which guide a public man in his adve;cael
of public measures should be not only are, but
above suspicion. Is that the case here ? It is not,
cannot be.--,Sheffield Telegraph.

POLAND.

POSEN, SATURDAY.
The Imperial rescript has produced a most dis-
icouraging impression at Warsaw.

The delegation of citizens has resolved upon
placing their resignation in the hands of the people,
and to request from the Governor the constitution
of a new delegation by means of a general election.
The delegation has likewise resolved to present tc
the Governor a memorandum enumerating thei
different wants of the country.

According to the Preussische Zeitung, the officer
who was brought before a court-martial for having
given the order to fire on the people, has been ac
quitted on the ground that he had simply per
formed his duty.

We have received the St. Petersburgh papers of
the Bth and 9th March. They do not contain the
slightest allusion to the recent events at Warsaw•

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
The following is the account for the month end-
ing Thursday, March 14:—,

ASSETS. F. C.
Cash and ingots .. .. .. .. 91,145,663 13
Cash at the branch-banks .. .. .. 304,834,614
:Bills due to be paid to-day.. .. 494,393 14
(Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
63,326,739 f, 39c. are from the branch-

banks .. .. 210,030,518 73'
Bills in the branch-banks 234,557,856
Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 32,024,063 9:5
Do. in the branch-banks .. 7,012,500
Do. on French securities 18,389,500
Do. in the branch-banks 9,248,000
Do. on railway shares and bonds .. 35,025,900
Do. in the branch-banks .. 20,302,800
Do. on Cr4dit Foncier Bonds 484,000
Do. in the branch-banks • • • • 186,700
Do. to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 60,000,000
Rentes of the reserve-fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes, disposable funds .. .. 53,708,828 13
Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .. 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. .. 4,000,000
Real property of branch-banks 6,110,609
Expenses of administration 814,669 93
Sundries .. 6,935,116 351

1,208,286,384 481

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the illustrated 1.. ondon .News.)
The will and codicil of General the Hon. Sir
Henry Murray, K.C.8., who died at his residence,
Wimbledon Lodgo, Surrey, at the advanced age of
--;seventy-seven., were proved in the Loudon Court
a of Probate on the 6th of this month. The executors
appointed are the Right Hon. Earl Cathcart, the
Hon. Lady Murray, the relict, and James Banks
Stan hope, Esq., M.P., of Revesby Abbey, Lincoln-
.. shire. This gallant general, who passed a long life
in the military service, was another of those Water-
t"- 100 heroes whose numbers are now rapidly decreas-
ing. His will, which is exceedingly brief, bears
t date the 18th of April, 1854, and the codicil the
16th of November, 1858. The dispositions are
.',simply confined to his wife and sons and daughters.
iHe leaves all his property of every kind and
,‘ description to his relict and daughter Gertrude,
' with directions for the maintenance of his family.
''aik legacy of £l,OOO is bequeathed to his eldest son.
:/,There are no other legacies or bequests whatsoever.
- We must not omit to mention that Sir Henry was
made a C.B. for his services at Waterloo, and re-
ceived in May, 1860, the distinction of K.C.8..
:and held the colonelcy of the 14th King's Light
Dragoons.
-' The will of Sir Richard Paul Jodrell, Bart of
.1 4 Portland-place, London, and Sall Park, Norfolk, was
proved in the principal registry on the 7th inst.
'['he personalty was sworn under £250,000, and
probate granted to the executors, the Rev, Sir
t Edward Repps Jodrell, Bart., M.A., the son, and
Richard Jennings, Esq., and Major Edward Jodrell,
the nephews of the testator, who are also nomi-
, na.ted trustees—to each of these two latter gentle-
f, men there is left a legacy of £l,OOO. The eldest
surviving son, the present baronet, inherits the
‘estates, which are situate in the counties of Nor-
"folk, Oxford, Derby, and Middlesex, to which
the testator has added the estate of Sculpthorpe,
since purchased by him, and has also bequeathed
to his son the furniture, &c., hi his several man-
sions, and has appointed him residuary legatee
for life, and on his decease it is to revert to
his male issue taking the title; but on failure
tit is ultimately to devolve to his nephew, Captain
Edward Jodrell. Sir Richard's only daughter is
`r provided for to the extent of £16,000, who, being
„ a married lady, £lO,OOO will, upon her decease, be
?divided amongst her children. There are legacies
of £lOO to a godson, a goddaughter, and to his
i medical attendant; and the following charitable
bequests :—To eight of the parishes on his estates
;the sum of £lOO to each is bequeathed, the in-
perest to be paid at Christmas to the deserving
;. poor under certain peculiar conditions; a like sum
of £lOO to St. Marylebone Almshouses, St. John's-
wood ; and £lOO to the Royal Literary Fund.
; The will bears date the 17th of May last, and Sir
Richard died on the 14th of January this year,
having attained to the great age of 81.. Sir Richard
.:( was in the habit of keeping a kind of journal of
family occurrences since 1844. 'which he designates
in his will as " Reminiscep.ces and Miscellanies,"
• and so minute has he bee:a in particularising them
that they actua:ly oee'py matter to the extent of
26 folio and qe_arto volumes, with an index. This
collection he has specially bequeathed to his son the
present baronet.
The will of William Leveson-Govver, Esq., of
fitey Park, near Godstone, Surrey, and
of Brook-
street, Grosvenor-square, was proved in the Lon-
don Court of Probate, on the 7th inst., by his relict,
nrs. Emily Eliza Josephine Leveson-Gower, and
Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower, Esq.,
the son, the joint executors. The personalty was
sworn under £90,000. The trustees nominated are
ICommander G orge Hope, R.N., and George ,
Mor-
rison, Esq., Reigate. The will, which is of consi-
derable length, reaching to 164 folios, bears date
the 27th May, 1859. The testator died on the 15th
`of December, 1860, aged 55. To his relict he leaves
on annuity of £3,000, arising from the estates,
together with the enjoyment of his residences, fur-
niture, carriages, &c., and an immediate legacy of
£5OO. On his eldest son and heir is settled the
whole of his estates in Surrey and Kent, with the
,manors, lordships, advowsons, &c., and to his issue
ma ile; but on failure to other sons or to females, in
wb icn latter event the ancestral name of Gresham,
with the armorial bearings, is to be applied for
from the Crown to be assumed by such
frepresentative of the family estates. To his younger
!children there is left £lO,OOO to each under settle-
;lT-pent. The testator's mother, Katharine Maria, was
the daughter of Sir John Gresham, Bart. ; and Mr.
ILeveson-Gower, the deceased, was the great-
*randson of the first Earl Gower, and is a branch
of the noble family of the Duke of Sutherland.