The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE -2,

T'PSONI RACES.----The New Route from
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(Wednesday), and Oaks Day (Ifriday). A Special Express
Train will leave Waterloo-bridge Station at 1.•45 p.m. pre-
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a.m. till 1.0 p.m.
On WEDNESDAY (the Derby), and Friday (the Oaks), Cheap
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Train from Waterloo at 1•30 0

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p •rf'orated, and that the piece of stone was broken
off at the bottom of the perforation.
The National School in Mill-road, Everton, re•
ceived some damage, the skylight being driven in
by the force of the lightning, but no one sustained
injury.

In Cheshire also the storm was severely felt,
although as yet we have only heard of one instance
in which damage has been sustained. • The electric
fluid communicated with a gas-pipe in a cellar in the
residence of Mr. Wm. Clark, Devonshire-road,
Claughton, and the place was instantly in a blaze.
Considerable alarm was felt, but fortunately the fire
was extinguished by a few bucketfuls of water, ere
much damage had been clone, and before the fire
brigade, who were promptly in attendance, had
arrived.

TEE WAR IN ITALY.

The Messager de Paris lately recounted, in a let-
ter alleged to be received from Vercelli, some filthy
details, which it attributed to the Austrian generals.
The liessayer is a supporter of the Government,
and thought it would best show its zeal by repeat-
' ing, whether true or false, those disgusting stories.
No one reprobates such a mode of vilifying an enemy
more strongly than the Minister of the Interior, the
Duke of Padua. In expressing this reprobation he
has not had recourse to the odious system of aver-
tissement, but has preferred the remedy afforded by
the law, of replying, without avertissement, to the
indecencies of the Messager. A communication to
the following effect has been made, or is to be made,
to that journal : _
" The Jfessager de Paris published ii its number of the
29th a letter, dated Vercelli, in which the Austrian army,
its General-in- Chief, and even the Emperor Francis Joseph,
are grossly outraged. These outrages,; which happily are
an exception in the French press, clrqeleto be all the more,
reprobated that they are addressed to a Tower with which
we are at war.
"At a moment when the Emperor Napoleon commands
the army of Italy, in front of the enemy, his Government
consider it to be their imperative duty to maintain the
nobleness of its policy, by repudiating a publication which
is contrary to the dignity of the French character.
" The press may always deplore and stigmatise acts
which are contrary to international right and the laws of
humanity. If Austria forgets what all civilised nations owe
to the honour of war, she exposes herself to just censure and
to severe judgment. But the more legitimate it is to con-
demn, the less booming it is to insult.
" The French press did itself honour by the unanimity
with which it gave expression to the patriotic sentiments of
the whole country. It likewise does itself honour by re-
conciling the independence of its opinions on the conduct of
Austria with the respect for decency towards those who are
the adversaries of France on the field of battle."
It is said that the Moniteur will soon announce
the appointment of four Generals of Division and 12
Generals of Brigade, among whom ,ire the names
of Colonels de Lesparre and Cambriel, who distin-
guished themselves at the battle of Montebello.
The Pays says—
" We understand that the French Government is engaged
in preparing immense supplies for all the wants of the army,
so that it will not have to require anything from the Lom-
bard people when it 'shall have crossed the Po and the
Ticino. This precaution, which contrasts so strongly with
the system of requisitions and exactions adopted by the
Austrian army, has been one of the causes which have up
to the present time retarded the commencement of offen-
sive operations."
The world will be pleased to see this promise
fully carried out, and to find that a liberating army
does not rest its claim to that title on the system
of exactions and requisitions, or on any of the acts
attributed to the Austrians. The Italians will
rejoice more than any ono that their liberators do
not intend they shall pass through so terrible an
ordeal as the condition of their independence. They
will rejoice all the more, because they may not
have forgotten what they suffered from their friends
on their former "Liberation," or "'Tis 60 years
since," and which unfortunately bears a partial
resemblance to the proceedings which have roused
the indignation of the Piedmontese and French
press.

In May, 1796, General Bonaparte, who had
entered on his mission of liberating the Italiard
Governments and people from the yoke of Au, Aria,
after concluding an armistice with the duke of
Parma, requested from the Parmesans.
" A tribute of 2,000,000 in specie, wk:ich his military
chest stood much in need of, 1,600 hoNes for his artillery
and baggage, a great quantity of wheat and barley, the
faculty of traversing the Duchy, and the establishment of
hospitals for his sick, at the expense of the Prince. The
General did not limit himself to that ; he loved and relished
the arts as an Italian • he knew all they add to the splen-
dour of art empire. ard_ the maral effect they produce on
the imagination of men ; be therefore exacted 20 pictures,
to be selected by French commissioners, to be transported
to Paris. Tire envoys of the Duke, too happy to disarm
at this price the Wrath of the General, agreed to all, and
hastened to execute the conditions of thearmistice. Yet
they offered a million to ransom the picture of St. Jerome ;
the million was refused."—Thiers' Rev., v. 8, p. 175.
The Parmesans were not the only people who
were liberated in the same fashion. Lombardy
was the great object the liberator had in view, and
the Lombards impatiently expected his arrival
among them.• The victory of Lodi was followed by
his triumphant entry into Milan, when the popu-
lation received him with great enthusiasm. This
enthusiasm calmed down a little in a few days, for
the liberating General was obliged to levy on the
liberated Milanese a contribution of 20,000,000 f. M.
Thiers says—
" This measure seemed to him vexatious, because it re-
tarded the march of the public spirit ; but still it was not
too badly received. Moreover, it was indispensable. Owing
to the magazines found in Piedmont (which had been also
just liberated), to the grain furnished by the Duke of Parma,
the army had a great abundance of provisions. The soldiers
grew fat, ate good bread, good meat, and drank excellent
wine," &c.

The Modenese were not yet sufficiently liberated,
but, encouraged doubtless by these examples, were
anxious to be so—
" The Duke asked to treat. Bonaparte could not grant
peace, but only an armistice, which was equivalent to peace,
and which made him master of every existence in Italy.
He exacted 10,000,000, supplies of every kind, horses, and
pictures. With these resources obtained in the country he
established on the banks of the Po vast magazines, hospi-
tals furnished with necessaries for 15,000 sick, and he filled
all the military chests of the army. Deeming himself rich
enough, he despatched to Genoa some millions for the Di-
rectory. As he knew, moreover, that the army of the Rhine
was in want of funds, and that want arrested its entry
on the campaign, he sent, through Switzerland, a million to
-- Morcan, &c."Thiers, v. 8.

This system did not seem to please the Lombards,
unable apparently to appreciate their liberation.
M. Thiers remarks—.
"They rose in insurrection, excited by the nobles, the
monks, the domestics of the fugitive families, and by a mul-
titude of creatures of the Austrian Government, and they
prepared a revolt against the French army."
On learning the stupidity and ingratitude of the
men for whom he had done so much, Bonaparte has-
tened from Lodi, where he was at the time, to in-
duce them to return to their duty :--
"The insurgents had pushed an advanced guard to the
town of Binasco. Lannes dispersed it. Bonaparte, think-
ing that it was necessary to act with promptitude and
vigour in order to arrest the evil in its birth, set fire to the
town with a view to terrify Pavia with the sight of its
flames."

Pavia was, in fott, terrifies :
" The French penetrated into the city, and had a combat
to sustain in the streets. Yet they (the insurgents) did not
long resist. The peasants fled, and abandoned the wretched
Pavia, to the wrath of the conqueror. The soldiers de-
etnded with loud cries to be allowed to pillage. Bonaparte,
by way of making a severe example, granted the three
hours' pillage. They were scarcely a thousand men, and
they could not cause great disasters in a city so considerable
as Pavia. They made a dash at the goldsmith's shops, and
seized a great quantity of jewels. The most reprehensible
act was the pillage of the Mont-de-Piettl."

This " leot,"however, seems to M. Thiers to be
palliated by the fact that the objects found in the
pawnbroking establishments only " belonged to the
higher classes in the country."
In order further to bring these benighted peo-
ple to a sense of their-situation—

" Bonaparte despatched through the country 300 horse,
who sabred a great number of the revolted. This prompt
repression produced submission everywhere, and had its
effect on those who in Italy were opposed to liberty and to
France."
The historian parenthetically adds—
" It is sad to be forced to employ such means ; but Bona-
parte must have done so, under pain of sacrificing his army
and the destinies of Italy. The party of the monks trembled
(no wonder) ; the misfortunes that befel Pavia, carried from
mouth to mouth were exaggerated, and the French army
recovered its formidable renown."—Thiers, vol. 8, pp.
193-4.
M. Thiers, from whose great work on the French
Revolution these few extracts are made, has had
the honour of being made the subject of special
compliment 2n so solemn an occasion as the speech
from the Tfiron e, last year, when the Emperor
spoke of him as the " truly national historian of
Prance." At a leer period (1798) the population
of the Cis-Alpine Republic sh.owed themselves still
more ungrateful for the liberties and other benefits
they had obtained from their benefactors ; and,
according to Botta ( Storia d' Italia, da11749 a/ 1814).
Lucien Bonaparte, brother of the General, then in
Milan, strangely enough, gave expression to senti-
ments of strong reprobation against the French
Directory.

The new screw steam frigate Emerald, Captain
A. Cumming, and the new screw -steam corvette Cadmus,
Capt. Hillyar, now at Sheerness, ready to join the Channel
squadron, will proceed to the Great Nore, and there remain
to salute the Princess Royal of Prussia' on her passage
down the Thames. Her Royal Highness will embark from
Gravesend this day.

IRELAN.b.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
MORE GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.
Lord Eglinton appears determined, at any cost,
to provide for his Whig recruits. His last exertion
in this way is the appointment of Mr. Macdonogh,
Q;C., as counsel to the excise department, vice Mr.
Smyly. The post is not worth much ; but it is not
a little remarkable that it should be given to Mr.
Macdonogh, as that gentleman always voted against
the Conservatives until the last election, when he
ostentatiously gave his support to Sir E. Grogan
and Mr. Vance. His desertion of the Liberal cause
on that occasion was so flagrant, indeed, that Mr.
Brady publicly referred to it. The Government, it
is said, have a number of other appointments in
view, and are making arrangements to create
vacancies in coveted places. One of these is the
Crown solicitorship for Dublin, now held by Mr.
Kemmis, in whose family it has been for nearly a
century. Two persons are named for this post.
One of them is a prominent member of the White-
side " family party."
DREADFUL CASE OF HOMICIDE.
The following painful particulars have been sup-
plied to Saunders' News Letter by a correspondent
at Ballinasloe, under date yesterday evening :
" The public here have just been startled by the
intelligence of a dreadful homicide, perpetrated
this day near the village of Ballinamore, in this
county. The gentleman who met with an untimely
fate was Mr. Richard Burke, who up to the present
had been acting as land agent to the Hon. Martin
Ffrench. Mr. Burke had been residing in the house
of St. Brandon's, on the property of his employer,
and it_ had:been arranged that' he should give it np
for the use of young Mr. Ffrench, but recently
married. Mr. Ffrench arrived at Ballinamore
Park, the seat of his father, this morning so early
as four o'clock, and immediately proceeded to St.
Brandon's, to awake Mr. Burke, who accom-
panied him back. They were together during
the day, and both having disappeared, some appre-
hension was excited. About four o'clock this evening
the friends of Mr. Burke began to make inquiries.
and in a short tir his dead body was found pierced'
by two pistol bullets in the plantation at Ballina-
more. Mr. Ffrench is missing, and the authorities
are on the alert, endeavouring to obtain information.
As the matter is both a painful and a delicate one,
I hesitate to mention many of the particulars which
have reached me. Mr. Burke was an amiable young
man, and was very generally esteemed. Mr. Ffrench,
was at times known to labour under fits approach-
ing to insanity.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.--ANOTHER
"Eleven o'clock.--A messenger from Ahascragh
announces that-Mr. Ffrench has been found dead
in the woods of Clonbrock. One of the constabulary
has been despatched by Mr. Montgomery, R.M., to
learn particulars, but I cannot await his return for
this parcel."

THE 30TH REGIMENT.
The ceremony of depositing the old colours of
this gallant corps in the great hall of the Royal
Hospital, Dublin, took place at half-past two o'clock
yesterday, in presence of their Excellencies the
Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Eglinton, hod
many other distinguished personages: It at
first intended that the ceremony, in accordance with
bygone usage, should not be of a puhKc character,
but the Commander of the Forces Llaviry, signified
his desire that this intention shr,-ald not be adhered
to, arrangements were mad ; to invest it with a
greater degree of eclat than
- has hitherto character-
ised such events. A
party of the 30th, under the
command of Lieu
and, preceded Connell, bore the old Colours,
ing the Iv the band of the regiment, perform,:
"tritish Grenadiers," marched into the
inner so:Jare soon after two o'clock, and were drawn
UP 'some distance from the Great Hall. Imme;
stately in front of the latter, a party of the
pensioners, under command of Captain Gibbons,
was also drawn up, for the purpose of receiving the
colours. Their Excellencies arrived at half-past
two, attended by the Honourable Colonel
Lindsay, private secretary ; Captain Warburton,
A.D.C. ; and accompanied by Lord Viscount
Gough, Gen. Lord Seaton, Gen. Gascoigne, the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c. Capt. Chadwick,
the adjutant of the establishment, was also present,
having previously superintended the preliminary
arrangements. Capt. Lockwood, of the invalids,
who carried the old colours at Badajoz, and who
subsequently received a severe wound at 'Waterloo,
in consequence of which he was obliged to submit
to the operation of trepanning, was reluctantly
obliged to absent himself, owing to severe illness.
After the reception of their Excellencies, two
ensigns of the 30th, bearing the colours, on a signal
from the officer in command, advanced from the
ranks in slow step towards the body of pensioners,
to whom they surrendered their charge, the band .
performing the National Anthem. The colours
were received by two old sergeants of the 30th !
(now inmates of the hospital), who carried them •,
within the hall, there to be deposited side by side
with the many other similar mementos of well-
fought fields, which adorn that fine building. This
terminated the ceremony, after which their Excel-
lencies and the company invited were entertained
at a &Jenner in the hall.

C.RUELTY TO SAILORS IN AME.RICAN

SHIPS.

The commanders and mates of our merchant ships
are gaining, or we may with greater justice say
have gained, a most damaging reputation for
cruelty to the seamen under their charge, and if
this reputation should be confirmed, as we have
too much reason to fear it will be, from the frequent
reports that are made of the maltreatment of the
crews on board our ships, the difficulty of manning
our merchant navy, which must be the consequence,
will seriously affect our commercial prosperity.
The records of our Marine Court exhibit a fearful
history of cruelty and savage persecution on the
part of our shipmasters and their mates towards
their crews ; and these cases of cruelty and
barbarous treatment are the rule, and not the
exception, on board our ships. Last year, when
the captain of an English ship was hung in
Liverpool for the inhuman murder of one
of the sailors under his charge, the masters of the
American ships in that port displayed their colours
at half-mast on the day of the execution, in token
of their disapproval of the punishment of the
murderer and their sympathy with him. Within
a few days reports have been received here of shock-
ing outrages committed on board of our ships in
various parts of the world. The commander of one
of the ships of the Paraguay squadron has been
court-martialed for having by his cruelty driven
one of his sailors to jump overboard to escape the
wanton persecutions by which the poor wretch was
harassed. In Liverpool the captain of an American
ship was arrested for causing the death of a sailor;
and in San Francisco last month the captain of the
American bark Sarah Park was arrested for having
treated his crew in a manner that transcends
belief. One of the wretched 'creatures under the
charge of this modern Blackbeard had been made a
lunatic by the cruelties inflicted upon him ; and two
of his sailors had been brought to the office of the
United States' Marshal in the last stages of starva-
tion, their bodies horribly lacerated, and their whole
condition pitiable in the extreme. The alleged
cause for the horrible barbarities practised upon
these poor wretches was the crime of pilfering a
piece of biscuit from the ships' stores when they
were placed upon short allowance. Besides the
cruelties practised upon these miserable creatures,
the master of the barque was accused of the murder
of one of his crew, who was thrown overboard.
This last was an extreme case, no doubt, but there
have been too many which bore a resemblance to it,
and it stands the great mass of our shipmasters in
hand to do something to free themselves from
the reproach which their repeated acts of barbarity
bring upon them as a class. Our countrymen are
not naturally of a cruel and vindictive nature, and,
if they were, their proverbial shrewdness ought to
be sufficient to preserve them from the unprofitable
blunder of maltreating the very men upon whose
lives their own safety and welfare depend. Our
shipmasters are renowned for their generosity,
frankness, and hearty good nature on shore; and
we are continually receiving reports of their gal-
lantry and noble conduct at sea ; passengers delight
in making them presents of silver trumpets in
testimony of their gratitude for courtesies received,
and every now and then her Britannic Majesty
sends a gold chronometer to one of our shipmasters
as a reward for his humanity in rescuing some of
her subjects from the perils of shipwreck on the
ocean. As a class, we believe that our shipmasters
are a very worthy, humane, and gallant set of men,
and it is puzzling to know that there can be any
such inhuman monsters, whose cruel natures and
savage dispositions are only developed when they,
get off soundings, and who are so utterly wanting
in common prudence as to starve, beat, maim, and
wantonly persecute the men without whose assist-
ance they could not navigate their ships.—.2Vew York
Times.