The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-07 00:00:00

EVENING, _MAY 7, 1861,

will, no doubt, achieve rather nothing than little.
The Government must for some time be conducted
on discretionary principles. This is the third year
since Parliament was called upon to vote a budget.
Instead of a financial statement, Bastogi presents a
bill for a loan of 500,000,0001., to be contracted on
terms likely to bring upon the country liabilities to
the amount of 700,000,000 f. Yet the bill must pass,
and the money must be found on the Government's
own terms—•the only possible terms. The alterna-
tive is, of course, a Cabinet question, a vote of want
of confidence, and the necessity of finding a man
able to supersede Count Cavour at the helm of the
State under present emergencies. The result is
that Count Cavour must have carte blanche—the
wisest resolution the Parliament or the country can
by any effort come to.

This may not seem laudable or cheering in
theory. Of all the GovArnments, the very worst in
normal times would be the one which secured full
powers to the ruler under the speciousness of Par-
liamentary forms ; the one in which a Minister
should exercise absolute sway, and yet contrive to
throw the whole or part of his responsibility on
passive and complacent Chambers. Yet such are
the conditions of Italy that, with the best inten-
tions, neither a patriotic statesman nor a jealous
and stubborn assembly could contrive anything
more plausible. A free press and the tribune of
the Chambers are sufficient to call the ruler to a
daily moral account, and to warn him that he is
only acting on sufferance for a limited time and at
his own peril. Any day he may be taken legally
and positively to task. A vote of confidence may
any day be refused ; the Minister cannot go be-
yond the length of his tether. It is true Parlia-
ment, as yet, " reigns and governs not," but it can
enter any moment upon the real exercise of its
functions. Count Cavour is by no means the man
to abuse the transcendant power with which he is
invested; but, ware he even to forget himself, the
country has ample means to take him up short,
and to remind him that he is only omnipotent
because, and as long as, the Italians have faith
in his good intentions no less than in his une-
qualled abilities.

N.N.W. Since then the weather has been fine, but
the cold was felt severely by all on board as the
ship entered the Channel and fell in with the north-
east winds. The following ships were spoken by
the Indomitable during the latter part of her pas-
sage :—On the 28th of March, in lat. 2 56 N., long.
22 43 Mr., the English ship Advance, from Tuta-
corin for Cork, 83 days ont ; March 30, in lat. 5 24
N., long. 22 57 W., the French ship Canova ; on
the 6th of April, in lat. 17 59 N., long. 33 24 W.,
the ship Southern Cross, from Foochow for London,
93 days out. Three deaths among the troops have
occurred on the passage home, but in all three cases
from disease contracted previous to embarkation.
The health of the troops otherwise than the cases
mentioned has been excellent throughout the
voyage. The Indomitable has been doing service
as a Government transport in China since Septem-
ber, 1859.

His Netherland Majesty's steamer Berkel, 8 guns,
from Helvoet, bound to Jays, arrived in Falmouth

on Saturday morning to fill up coal, and was to sail
for her destination on Sunday.
Her Majesty's sjiip Bulldog is still engaged en-
deavouring to righten the derelict vessel towed into
Falmouth by that vessel and her Majesty's ship
Lightning, which latter steamer arrived again at
Falmouth at 7 o'clock on Saturday evening from
Plymouth.
The 2d battalion, 19th Regiment, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Col. Robert Warden, left Ports-
mouth yesterday morning, at 7 a.m., by special train
for Dublin.

In order to provide additional space for the large
stores of arms which are now being collected at
Chatham, the large armoury at the Ordnance-wharf
has been entirely reconstructed, and some additional
rooms have been fitted up with appropriate racks
for the reception of the stores of rifles for both land
and sea service. By the improved arrangements
effected sufficient space is now furnished for storing
50,000 stand of rifles, about 35,000 of which are
already deposited in the armoury, and stores of
rifles are constantly arriving from the Tower and
the Government factories at Enfield and elsewhere.
All the rifles deposited in the armoury are of the
recent improved manufacture, including a quantity
of the rifle known as " pattern 53" for sea service,
which are to be supplied to each of the ships of
war fitted out at Chatham.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty ;—Lieut. A. St. Clair and
Lieut. Seymour Osborne, to the Marlborough ; W.
N. Brake, surgeon, to the Challenger; J. M'E. Wal-
lace, surgeon, to the Driver; Archibald L. Archer,
surgeon, to the Rinaldo.; W. Graham, acting
assist.-surgeon, to the Driver; R. Nelson, acting
assistant-surgeon, to the Rinaldo; Raymond H.
Carroll, assistant-surgeon, to the Formidable; R.
Purves, assistant-surgeon, to the Victory, for Has-
lar Hospital ; T. P. Potts, promoted to the rank of
second-class assistant-engineer in the Fisgard, as
supernumerary; T. Udall, promoted to the rank of
second-class assistant engineer in the Wye; E. Car-
ling, third-class assistant-engineer, to the Hanni-
bal ; and W. T. Galdie, acting third-class assistant-
engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernumerary.