The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

THO SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY E gNING, AUGUST 30. 1861.

EA TRE.B.O'Y AL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, par. J. B. Buokstote,
! THIS EVENING the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE.
Miss Fanny Wright, the Lecleroqs, Mr. Webster, &c.
new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
After which, a
MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews,
Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs.
Wilkins, &c.
Followed by COOL AS A CUCUMBER.
Mathews

To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES.
• Commence a' 7.

Mr. Charles

EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
a 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
*THIS EVENING, THE HOP PICKERS. Supported by
Messrs. D. Fisher, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billington, Miss
Woo gar, Miss Kate Kelly, Am.

After which, ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. Mr. Benj
Webster and Miss H. Simms.

Followed by THE MIDNIGHT SPECTRE. Messrs. J.
L. Toole and Paul Bedford.
To eoneude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole
and Miss K. Kelly.

Doors open at half past s—Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.

THIS EVENING, and during the week, the new and suc-
cessful comedy, WOMAN ; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray„
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with, each evening, a new and original farce
entitled THE FETCHES; or, The Onconvanienee of Single
Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer ; Mary 0' Brady,
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

C A NTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO
IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh-
mans. Mr. Wocd and his talented little Son. The extraor-
dinary comic duet, " The Nerves," by Harvey and French,
Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina
Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every
Evening.

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Like none of alt these royal armies, or any other
royal army that we can call to mind, has been this
miserable army of the Kingdom of Naples, 180,000
strong. What is called for want of a more explicit
name, " Brigandage," is the fitting sequel
to the cowardice displayed by it when
confronted with, nay even, when merely threatened
by the possible approach of, GARIBALDI and his
dauntless handful of followers. It is from their
lively sense of the horror and meanness of all this,
that CIALDINI, sword in hand, is now dealing ruth-
lessly with the remnants of the scattered bands of
that miserable army, and that RICA SOLI, pen in
hand, is writing of them in his recent circular less
in indignation than in absolute scorn.

There are a few remarks that were uttered the
day before yesterday by Lord PALMERSTON that
are not unworthy of being taken to heart by all
Englishmen. They have reference at once to our
foreign relations and to the state of our defences.
They are particularly worthy of note at a time
when we are beginning to marvel more seriously
than ever over the fact that we are annually ex-
pending upwards of .£70,000,000 ; and when we
remember that of those seventy millions sterling
about £30,000,000, or very nearly half the full
amount, we are expending upon our military and
maritime departments. The peace at any price people
are as blatant as ever, whenever they can find au
opportunity of making themselves ridiculous by the
noisy enunciation of their preposterous views. They
are for ever babbling about the need there is for a wise
economy—shewing their own wisdom immediately,
in regard to the sams, by beginning forthwith
exactly at the wrong end. They are constantly
sneering at the Volunteer movement—though at
the very same time that movement has been ano-
ther illustration of the reasonableness of designat-
ing loyalty, or, in other words, patriotism " the
cheap defence of nations"—seeing that it is essen-
tially, as its title intimates, a Volunteered and self-
supporting Movement. Seeing, too, that it has
already, in this way, furnished the country with a
National Guard of armed and disciplined Riflemen
170,000 strong.
Speaking of that very band of auxiliary

defenders now added to the Royal Navy
and Royal Army of England, the Prime
Minister remarked on Wednesday to his audi-
ence at Dover—" I trust that the organisation
will be so engrafted in the minds of Englishmen,
and so familiar to them in its exercise, that no cir-
cumstance will ever induce the people to give it up,
and that no consideration of economy, or of any

other description will induce the Government or

Parliament to refuse those means which are neces-
sary for its efficiency." This was said by Lord
PALMERSTON upon the occasion of his installation
in a fantastic and obsolete office, an office
accumulating upon the head of its possessor,
in addition to his chief distinguishing
name, the incongruous titles of Constable,
and Admiral, and .Chancellor. It was not so
much, however, in his character as any one of these
that the noble Viscount uttered the remarks above
given, and the other kindred remarks that imme-
diately afterwards followed them on Wednesday.
It was rather in his pre-eminent position as First
Lord of the Treasury, as Chief of her Britannic
StAJESTY'S Government, that Lord PALMERSTON
addressed himself to those matters of really national
and vital consideration. As Premier it was that
he said at Dover on the 28th inst.: "We cannot
expect to c )pe with those great states that have
hundreds and thousands of men." Adding these
sufficiently significant ve0rd,....,“ We accept with
frankness, we accept with confidence the right
hand of friendship which may be tendered to us,
and we do not distrust that tender because we see
the left hand grasping the hilt of the sword ; but
while that left hand does grasp the hilt of the sword
it would be folly of us to threw away the shield
of defence." All this may be regarded by the peace-
at-any-price people as nothing better than a pretty
metaphor—as it is in itself—But it is ripe wisdom
—it is good, sound, sterling common sense into the
bargain. So long as that left hand keeps fumbling
suspiciously at the hilt—so long surely it were the
merest moon-madness to fling away the shield as
no longer of use. But what if—in addition to this
occasional fumbling at the hilt—what if that sword
which is so delicately alluded to, is everlastingly
being dragged out of its scabbard to be furbished
up, and to have a yet keener edge than ever put to
it ? The case surely is stronger and stronger than
ever—against our flinging away the shield, out of
a romantic reliance upon any hand-and-glove
friendship.
The cheery confidence with which Lord PAL-
MERSTON looks upon the position of things between
Inngland and her foreign allies is really and truly
omething pleasant to contemplate. " Gentlemen,"
e said to his Dover audience on Wednesday, "there
retwo securities for peace—the one is in perfect
aignificance ; the other is in a state of perfect
1 power for defence. The security which arises from

SRED M ELL ON'S PROMENADE honour it by making it the emblem of assassins-
CONCERTS. tion and rapine," The course pursued by that
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN,
Band of nearly 100 Performers. army from beginning to end is no doubt ail of a
Mdlle. PAREPA Every Evening,
piece, -or is in other words to the very last de-
Promenade, at Eight. Promenade. One Shilling.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. gree despicable:
Among all the royal armies of which there has
ever been any record this Neapolitan army is surely
the veriest scoff and opprobrium. Why, compare it
with any other royal army that can be thought of,
on the spur of the moment, as having ever been placed
in similar straights ! Remember the gallant cava-
liers of our own King CHARLES I. with their
" love-lock" ringlets, and their perfumed lace
and their shining mail, and all their war-
like splendour ! Even the old, grim, puritan
Ironsides could tell that they fought and fell,
like dauntless knights and gentlemen (as they were)
upon the field of battle—even though they were
everywhere conquered. Look even at the S wins mer-
cenaries in the First French Revolution, the de-
fenders of the life and person of King Louis XVI.
Why, aliens though they were, they were true to
their trust, and fell to the last man—those that
were not shot or stabbed in the rooms and galleries
of the Tuileries being only got rid of by being hurled
out of window and impaled upon the spikes of the
courtyard below. Look again at the loyal
army of King CHARLES X. of France. Who does
not remember how CHARLES X., feeble Monarch
though he was while on the throne, descended
from it, as became the last crowned repre-
sentative of that ancient race of heroes : being
accompanied to the frontier of what had once been
his dominions by hiq faithful body-guard—the old
Monarchy going down there and then, as the
phrase was, with colours flying ! Nay, even when
the Orleans Prince who succeeded—the Bourgeois
King who even, during his -sixteen years' reign,
was symbolised as leaning less upon a sword of
State than on an old " Gampy" gingham umbrella—
even when Louis PHILIPPE had shaved his
whiskers off and run away in his new character, as
Mr. SMITH, en route for England—look even
then at the Royal army that remained
behind in France ! Having no King left
left to fight for (he had run away
from them) the army fraternised with the people,
became, ipso facto, the national army, the defenders
of the popular form of Government.

insignificance England will of course never enjoy"
—whereat, as a matter of course, the people listen
ing—laughed. And Lord PALMERSTON then went
on to say—" The security which arises from a
state of perfect defence, unconnected with any
notions of aggression, not employed hastily against
one, but continued solely and mainly with a deter-
mination to defend and maintain what we have—
that security I trust the country will long continue
to hold, and so far from that being a reason why
the most friendly relations should not be main-
tained with every foreign power in the world, in
my opinion, on the contrary, it is the only true,
stable, and secure foundation on which those
friendly relations and peace can for any ;_length of
time be maintained." Often as this old argu-
ment has been employed before now in the
same good cause—it has been here used so
admirably well and with so much autho-
rity by Lord PALMERSTON, that we commend
it almost as though it were something new to our
(so-called) economical friends, or as we should
rather put it, not so much economical as penny wise
and pound foolish day-dreamers, the Advocates of
Peace at any Price. Instead of allowing JOHN
BULL to listen to the sound of approaching danger
so as to afford him the opportunity of guarding
himself rationally against it—these wiseacres would
treat that old mariner, we suppose, somewhat as
another " Ancient Mariner," to wit ULYSSES, was
treated according to the Odyssey—thinking they
have done everything of course when they have
stuffed his ears with cotton ! A capital device, not
a doubt of it, in the one instance. But really not
in the least applicable in the other. Perhaps the
fact really is, however, after all, that it is no other
than the Peace at any Price People themselves who
hare their own ears stuffed so tightly with Cotton
—that they can't hear in the least those ominous
threatenings of war that are all the while more or
less audible to everybody else.

The more, even with English eyes, we look at
the message of the Emperor of AUSTRIA to his
tool, the Reichsrath, the more we must see its
intolerable arrogance and falsehood. "Every line
a lie," we have already found to be true of its
former half ; and nothing better can be said of the
latter part. One of the most hateful features of it
is, the old attempt to stir up the feelings of the
pettytnationalities which belong to the Kingdom
of Hungary against her. The paternal and
wheedling style is adopted in regard to them, in
the hope that they may be led to keep aloof from
Hungary, and accept separate municipal govern-
ment, and send their deputies to the Reichsrath.
The history of their position since 1848 should
not be forgotten. The Vienna Government, in that
year, while professing to treat them as rebels, and
even to war against them, because they attacked
Hungary, was proved by the evidence of its own
treacherous despatches to have stirred them up, by
all kinds of magnificent promises of freedom and
independence, and by bribing their leaders, to assail
the Hungarians. Vanquished by the latter, but
all soon after being brought by dint of Russian
arms under the hoof of Austria, these partes
annexe, as they are termed, of the Hungarian crown
quickly found that their liberties had vanished with
the independence of Hungary. Naturally, however,
two evil consequences followed; first, the Hungarian
laws of 1848 could not be made so favourable to these
petty nationalities, as they would have been, in
consequence of the rebellion amongst them which
Austria had stirred up. Next, after 1849, and
when all were placed by Russia under Austria,
there was much bitter feeling remaining between
the Hungarians and these provinces. One side
felt that it had been deeply wronged, the other
knew that it had done the wrong, and also saw
that it had gained nothing by it ; indeed, the
partes annexes lost the liberties they had before
enjoyed. Ten years, however, of Austrian oppres-
sion and perfidy had healed these wounds by the
time Austria received her great lesson at Solferino.
Croats, Sclavonians, Dalmatians, and all, indeed,
were willing to forget and forgive, and to reunite,
as one kingdom of Hungary, in order to regain
their liberties from Austria.

It is to meet this formidable union that Austria
is now using all her efforts to cajole and wheedle
again all these petty provinces into acting sepa-
rately from Hungary. To some extent she has
already succeeded, and hopes to succeed yet more.
The teaching of Austria consists in this :—That
these countries have never been independent nations
in regard to her, as Hungary was, and legally is,
but that, even under Austrian rule, they have al-
ways formed a part of the kingdom of Hun-
gary, and belonged to the Hapsburgs for
that reason. It is obvious that these pro-
vinces must be demented, if they can be
again induced to separate themselves from Hun-
gary, and to amalgamate with Austria through
sending deputies to the Reichsrath. The latter
is a mere creation of the EMPEROR'S whim. The
Hungarian Diet is an old and free assembly, in
which they through their deputies have long en-
joyed a full and free representation. Austrian
intrigues have succeeded, at present, in prevent-
ing Croatia from sending deputies to the Hun-
garian Diet—but it has also refused to send them
to the Austrian Reichsrath. Hence the honied

words of the EMPEROR to these nationalities.

The question for them now is—shall we enjoy
more freedom by maintaining our old relation to
the independent and free kingdom of Hungary,
or by yielding to Austrian persuasions ? There
can be no doubt of the answer from past experi-
ence; and it is quite certain that the future will
give the same. The Hungarians, whom the EM-
PEROR convened separately from the nationalities,
wisely refused to pass laws till the Diet was
made complete by the deputies of the latter being
summoned also. But it wisely also did more—it
appointed a committee which drew up a report of
the plans by which the Hungarians desired to
effect perfect equality between Hungary, Tran-
sylvania, Croatia, &c., in regard to language
especially—the great difficulty—and in regard to
thorough civil and religious equality, which was
perfectly easy. This report must, one
would think, tell on the nationalities ;
it is drawn up by Hungarians, and is known to
be no mere bribe, but to express their long formed,
and eheriahed sentiments. It is the undoubted
desire of the Magyar portion of the kingdom that
every language, race, and religion within the ter-
ritories of Hungary should enjoy the most unquali-
fied equality of rights and privileges ; and the re-
port is evidently drawn up by persons who have

sincerely at heart the cause of liberty and equality.
This could be said of no Austrian document—cer-
tainly not of this lying and audacious message.

Austria desires equality—the equality of equal

slavery. The Magyars proffer from their hearts,
to all, the equality of liberty. The most impudent

Lie in this part of the Message is that which asserts
hat the Hungarians by their enactment caused the

war between themselves and the partes annexce

eleven years since. The sole and single cause of the
war was the infamous treachery of Austria, her

money, and her promises. The latter chiefly, be-

cause they cost nothing.

The Message concludes with re-affirming the Im-
perial diplomas, and the EMPEROR'S determination

o make these utterly illegal, inconsistent, and re
volutionary documents the unalterable basis of the
future constitution of Hungary, as well as of the
rest of the Empire. The Diet is lectured for having
at first, certainly quite legally, refused to FRANCIS
JOSEPH the title of King, and afterwards for having
refused to take an illegal course at the bidding of
the EMPEROR. It remains, therefore, now to be
seen whether the will of the EMPEROR or that of
the nation is to prevail—that of one man or that
of many—of one man against law, of eleven mil-
lions on the side of law. He hopes to find Hungary
penitent in six months, and touched to the heart
with his " unexampled indulgence." We hope he
will find her more resolved than ever, and yet more
indignant at his unexampled effrontery. Would
that a political earthquake might Wore that time
shake him off his throne, and send him to enjoy the
sea air at Brighton.

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TURIN, Auo. 30.

PARIS, AUG. 30.

Under the head of " Latest Intelligence " La
Paine has the following :

" Rear-Admiral Bonnard sails on the sth of Sep-
tember for Saigon. Detachments of troops destined
to garrison our new colony in Cochin China have
already left. The employes for working the electric
telegraph, the Government press, for the post-office,
finances, &c., are nearly all appointed, and will
sail shortly for their destination."

PESTH, AUG. 29.

The Stadtholder, in an ordinance published to-
day, declares that the Comitat of Pesth, by its pro-
test against the dissolution of the Diet, has attacked
the rights of the King, and orders the immediate
discontinuance of the sittings of the Assembly of
the Comitat.

The conscripts have been ordered to assemble on
the 9th of September. Any person preventing the
soldiers from obeying the order will be tried by
court-martial, and severely punished.

THORN, AUG. 29.

The Warsaw journals of yesterday publish an
Imperial Rescript, addressed to General Lambert,
the tone of which is conciliatory. The Emperor
gives orders to General Lambert for the pacifica-
tion of the kingdom, with the co-operation of in-
telligent citizens, and promises that Poland shall in
future enjoy greater 'independence. His Majesty
also declares that he will entirely forget the events
of the past.

N 121 W S.

The King will receive M. Benedetti, the new
French Minister Plenipotentiary, on Saturday
next.

The ffoniteur of to-day contains an Imperial
decree, according to which foreign wheat and corn,
no matter of what kind or whence exported, may
be temporarily imported free of duty, for grinding
under the conditions of the law of July 5, 1836.

This decree also determined the conditions of re-
exportation.