The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

of interference with slavery where it exists, all
pass for nothing with the planting States. The
border States, however, where the number of the
slaves is relatively decreasing, are not so much con-
cerned to provide for extension of slave territory.
A singular and clever proposition is made, if it
should but take —to buy off the border States,
Kentucky,Tenessee,Virginia, and Maryland, by pur-
chasing their negroes, and forming such of them as
their masters did not care to employ as labourers,
into settlements. If the free States and the border
States had the wisdom to accept such an arrange-
ment it would be the cheapest and be't possible.
The cost of emancipating the slaves would be a
trifle indeed compared with that of a civil war, and
the confederation of free States would then be
almost, we should say quite, as powerful as the
Union now is.

ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Secretary's Office, Waterloo-bridge station,
London, Jan. 29.

Sir,—l regret to state that an accident of a severe
nature occurred to the 5•.10 p.m. direct Portsmouth
train on this line yesterday afternoon, about a mile
beyond Wimbledon station, which resulted in the
tender and four of the carriages being thrown off
the line.

The immediate cause of the accident has not yet
been ascertained.

By this unfortunate accident I am sorry to say
one passenger has lost his life—apparently from
having attempted to get out of the carriage before
the train came to a stand—and two others have
sustained serious personal injury.

I am glad to state, however, that the account
this morning is that they are both progressing
favourably.

Some of the Southern States are showing
symptoms of indecision. Louisiana, according to
some accoints, will give the Secessionists a hard
run, and the " co-operationists" rather hope to
beat them. In Texas, where there is much
German free labour, it is thought even probable
that the vote will be for the Union. Maryland,
whose Governor shows great firmness, waits the
result with patience. The North shows at present
more signs of firmness than of wavering. The
banks of New York have met and agreed to aid the
Federal Government with loans, a circumstance
said to have discouraged the South more
than anything else. Military assistance is also
freely proffered by the New England
States, and it is to be remembered that
they have numerous regiments of militia which
are almost, if not quite equal, to the regulars
in efficiency. They excited the admiration of all
foreigners present on the occasion of the PRINCE'S
visit, in what seems likely to be the last year of
the United States. The Governor of the important
border State of Pennsylvania has also made a
vigorous speech against secession, and Ohio has
spoken through both its houses, by congratulating
the PRESIDENT on his assumption of a firm tone
towards the insubordinate.
Altogether, although secession seems to be an
accomplished fact, some say a permanent one, things
look, by the last mail, rather worse for the seces-
sionists. Law, physical force, and money are all
declaring against them. Judges, generals, and
bankers in the North all stand by the Union ; great
distress, and want even of provisions, prevails in
many parts of the South ; and such desperate expe-
dients as seizing on Washington—which the veteran
General SCOTT is taking measures to make a
rather hazardous business for those who attempt
it—and preventing the counting of the electoral
votes on the legal day, the 13th of February, in
the Senate, would hardly be plotted except by
men who can scarcely hope to succeed except by
some coup d'etat. Divided, however, as the opinions
of Americans themselves are, it is useless for us here
to speculate on what turn things may take next.
To us the most desirable result of all would seem
to be, one which should unite the Border States ss
free States to the North, leaving the thoroughly
slave States alone in their dark glory.

The permanent way remained uninjured.—
I am yours obediently,
L. CROMBIE, Secretary.

The Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey have
arrived at their residence is Eaton-place, from Falloden,
Northumberland.

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Robertson and family have
arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Netherall Hall, near
Tamworth.

His Excellency the Count de Lavradio, who has
been suffering from a severe cold, has gone to St. Leonard's
to re-establish his health.

His Excellency Genertl von Bonin, on a special
mission from his Majesty the King of Prussia, accompanied
by Colonel Blumenthal and Captain Bonin, has left Mau-
rigy's Hotel for Windsor Castle.
THE PRINCE OF WALEi IN THE HUNTING-FIELD.
—CAMBRIDGE, Jan. 28.--His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales joined:the field of the Cambridgeshire hunt to-
day, attended by his equerry, Captain prey. The meet
was at Childerley, in the vicinity cl Madingley, and in
consequence of a rumour having got abroad that the Prince
was likely to be present, the field was a very numerous
one. The Lord Lieutenant (the Earl of Hardwicke) and
his son were present, and the university supplied a goodly
quota of attendants. A find was made at Honey Hill.
Reynard made straight for Madingley, but turned at the
pleasure ground, and went back through Drayton to Knap-
well Grove, and thence to Boxworth. Here the hunted
fox was left in some farm buildings, the hounds getting on
the line of a fresh one, which, however, had been gone
some time, and went by a circuitous course towards Chil-
derley, in the neighbourhood of which they were called off
without a kill. In the fore part of the day, the pace was
tremendous, considering the heaviness of the country; of
both some idea may be formed from the fact that two horses
were killed. Altogether it was a very fair day. His
Royal Highness rode well up, and took his fences gallantly
and well.

THE QUEEN VICTORIA STEAM-MOAT. PLY-
MOUTH, Monday.—The Queen Victoria was successfully
floated this evening, and has been beached at Cremyll,
where she will be repaired. Russell's engines were em-
ployed.

THE MAILS, &c.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 28.—The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Tagus,
Captain W. B. Hall, sailed hence to-day with the mails for
Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon, and 21 passengers, among whom
are Mrs. Brigham, Mr. Gregory, Miss Reeve, Mr. Bunnell,
Mrs. Weston, Miss Dyson, Mrs. Hislop, &c.

HER MAJESTY'S STAGHOUNDS.—After so long a
check, in consequence of the resent frost, the Royal Stag-
hounds have at length again taken the field, the frost having
sufficiently given way to enable them to make a beginning
on Wednesday, near the Kennel, when they had a good half-
hour's work. On Thursday they also hunted in the Forest,
and after a capital hour's run, took the deer at Lyne Grove,
near Chertsey. On Friday they met at Stoke Common,
when the deer " Jack Tar" was uncarted to a large field.
After a fast run of three-quarters of an hour, he was taken
at Chalfont St. Giles. The country was deep and trying
to the horses.

The Hungarian struggle is becoming increasingly
interesting. The Hapsburg reaction will soon
bring to the test the power of the Viennese
Government, and the capability of resistance in
Hungary. The Imperial manifesto, on which we
remarked two or three days ago, was conceived
towards its close in the most imperious
and threatening terms. It forbad the Comitat
or county assemblies to do many things to which
by the old and well established municipal laws of
the empire they were quite competent, and threatened
them with severe displeasure and even with dissolu-
tion if they touched on taxation. As to the elections
of exiled patriots, they were all declared null and
void.

THE HON. ARTHUR GORDON.—The requisition
to Mr. Gordon to stand for the county was sent off two days
ago, with upwards of 600 names attached, and a very large
number has been forwarded since. We fully expected to
receive, before going to press, notice of its presentation, with
the favourable answer, which its perfect sufficiency for the
purpose intended rendered certain. The only way in
which we can account for the temporary delay is, that
owing to accidental, and of course unforeseen circumstances,
the interview between the deputation and Mr. Gordon
could not take place at the time proposed, when the agent
left Aberdeen, We have every assurance, towever, that
all is going on right, and that the extraordinary, indeed
thoroughly unprecedented, enthusiasm in this quarter will
be duly responded to by the principal party in London.
We confidently expect full adviccs in the course of the day,
and we shall not lose a moment in cotamunicatins- Choir
purport to our readers through a second edition.—Aberdeen
Herald.

We soon learned that some of the Comitats had
replied with becoming spirit to this reactionary
manifesto. The memorial or address of one of the
most important appears in another column to-day,
and will be read with deep interest. It will take
the reader back to the days of the earlier struggles
of the Long Parliament with our STTJART—there is
the same deference to the person of the Sovereign,
yet the same firmness in asserting and defending
clear legal rights. A tinge of the Oriental, for the
Hungarians were originally an Asiatic people, gives
a peculiar and not unpleasing colour to the docu-
ment. Though there is no bombast or fu3tian in
it—it is too earnest for that—yet the style of it is
markedly different from our parallel ones in Eng-
land, though quite a contrast to French papers of
the same kind, painted for effect.

ANOTHER HIGH TIDE YESTERDAY.—Notwith-
standing the precautions that had been taken on Saturday
and Sunday, by the construction of dams, to prevent the
tide from overflowing the usual boundary, the influx was
so great, that at high water several wharves on the Surrey
side of the Thames, and at Shadwell and Liniehouse, were
inundated, and a considerable quantity of property damaged
by the cellars and basements of waterside premises being
laid under water. The approaches to the wharves at the
Adelphi, Milford-lane, and IN ater-street, Strand, were
overflowed, and, at the lower parts, rendered impassable for
a time to pedestrians. The morning's tide washed over the
top of the Custom-house quay, and it is expected that the
tides of this day will rise much higher.

RESUMPTION OF WORK BY THE NAVVIES, &c.—
Yesterday, in consequence of the discontinuance of the
frost, and its probable disappearance for some time, the con..
tractors of the numerous works in all parts of the metro-
polis resumed their works which were suspended owing to
the intense severity of the frost. Throughout the whole
distance of the underground railway, from Paddington to
Farringdon-street, where the excavations are in progress,
large numbers of navvies resumed their labour, and there
was among them a universal expression of thanks for the
support they had received from public benevolence while
out of employment. Bricklayers and others employed
in the erection of houses wore also again set to work',
and the navigation of the Regent and other canals in
the neighbourhood of the metropolis was also resumed.
Should the present favourable state of the weather con-
tinue, it is expected that there will be an abundance of
employment for the industrious classes. Another effect of
the favourable change of the weather was observable at the
police .courts, the workhouses, and the various soup-kit-
chens, at each:offwhich there was a very considerable dimi-
nution in the number of destitute applicants.

The memorialists will not excuse themselves,
because they cannot think the manifesto addressed
to them, but they advert to its "menacing lan-
guage" as necessitating remonstrance. They assure
his Majesty, " with all due respect," that all
Hungarian authorities, however they may have
expressed themselves, are moved only by love to
their country, which, they add, " during the last
12 years has merely vegetated." They inform him
that " the nation unanimously desires that
the laws of 1848 may be restored " those laws
which his predecessor agreed to for himself and
heirs; they depict to him, in the plainest terms, the
brutal acts of the Austrian officials, though many
of them must have been with his sanction ; they
remind him that their constitution is a thousand
years old, and that they have had to do battle for
it so long as to be naturally rendered distrustful.
As to the question oc taxes, they remind him that
they are illegally levied without the consent of the
Diet, and that he had better rely on the generosity
of the nation than on threats.

NAPOLEON'S TOMB AT ST. HELENA.—The Union
Company's Royal Mail steamship Cambrian, Capt. Strutt,
which arrived at Southampton on Saturday, brought from
St. Helena Capt. Masselin and two soldiers of the 3d Regi-
ment of French Engineers. They have been employed in
repairing the tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena by direction
of the French authorities, and with the permission of the
English Government. The tomb has been completely
restored to the condition in which it was at the period of
the deposed Emperor's interment ; and Longwood, the
house in which he died, has been put into a state of sub-
stantial repair. Longwood is unoccupied and unfurnished,
and the premises had been allowed, prior to Capt. Masse•
lin's visit to the island, to fall into decay ; but the walls
tnd roof have now been restored, and will, in all proba-
bility, stand for many years. Captain Masselin and his
engineers were despatched to St. Helena, via Southampton,
two years ago, and they have been occupied with the work
of restoration ever since. They left Southampton at mid-
night on Monday for Havre, in the South-Western Com,
pany's steamer Havre, en route for Paris.
THE RAILWAY CHANGELING.---By mail train
there arrived one night at a certain station in the north of
England a large hamper, booked as containing a live dog,
and addressed to a clergyman in Lincolnshire. The hamper
was taken into the parcels' office to await the departure of
the train by which it was to go forward. The clerks, as
soon as they had 10 minutes to spare, being curious, as it
became them to be, concerning the breed and culture of
dogs, unfastened the hamper, which was merely tied with a
piece of thick string. No sooner was the lid fairly opened
than the specimen, with a loud snarl, and a yell of is muck
terror as anger, sprang clean out of the hamper, cleared the
office in two bounds, and sped away down the platform at
his swiftest. Chase was immediately given, joined in by
all the guards and porters about, but the dog was irre-
trievably gone—swallowed up by darkness—far away in
two minutes among sidings,
and waggons, and dead engines,
where pursuit was useless. What was to be done? The
dog had certainly been received, and it would not do to
send the hamper forward empty. Blank despair over-
whelmed the clerks till a whisper of suggestion came at
length from one of them—" Why not send Nipper ?"
Nipper was a rough and venerable animal, of all sorts of
breed, who lived by prowling round the station, taking all
the kicks he got in hope of victuals. He was a desperate
old thief, and he looked as disreputable as he was. But
the ease was an extreme one, and Nipper was accordingly
hunted up from his snooze in the cloak-room, was feast( d
sumptuously, and was decorated with a pink ribat d
fastei4ed round his neck and tied in a bow under his chin
to show that he was out for holidays. Thus prepared f
travel he was carefully packed up in the hamper, which
was forwarded to its address by the next train. No c;na -
plaint, we believe, was ever made to the railway, and vs
hope that, for the sake of the friend who V. not send him,
Nipper died in clover, after having won, as the clergyman's
dog, respect throughout his parish—Dickens's "All the
Yew, Round,"

One of the most stinging paragraphs of the
address, however, though couched in the most
respectful as well as frank language, is that which
reminds him of the nature of the Pragmatic
Sanction; the act by which alone FRANCIS JOSEPH
has the shadow of a title to the Crown of Hungary,
and to which the Emperor himself referred in his
diploma—it is, they remind him, "a bilateral con-
tract"—that the KING is "as much bound to up-
hold the constitutional rights, privileges, and
independence of the Hungarian nation, as the nation
is bound to be faithful to the KING, and to recognise
his hereditary rights." The Pragmatic Sanction
distinctly requires that the taxes should be grantee
by the Diet, We refer our readers to the address;
it is a good picture of the spirit which now exists
in Hungary; and we do hope that, next session,
the name of Hungary will be heard again and
again in the British Parliament. That noble and
long ill-used people demands our sympathy and our
moral aid as much quite as the Italians did. GARI-
BALDI himself would be the first to tell us so.
Indeed, should the HAPS➢URGS venture to drive
the Hungarians to insurrection, we shall soon hear
of the Hero of Caprera either among them, or creat-
ing a diversion in their favour.

The Duke of Hamilton came to town last even-
ing from Paris. His grace leaves town to-day for Euston
Park, Saffolk.
The Marquis of Abercorn leaves town to-day for
Brocket Hall, Herts. The marchioness remains in town.
Lord Crewe comes to town to-day from Crewe
11411, Cheshire.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1861.

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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
TURIN, JAN. 28.

The number of elections in Upper Italy of which
the result is already known or assured is 134. Of
this number two belong to the party of Dr. Bertani,
two to the Garibaldian party, fourteen to the Oppo-
sition or to the Centre, and the remainder more or
less to the Ministerial party.
Signor Cabella has been defeated at Genoa, Dr.
Bertani in Milan, Guerazzi in Leghorn, and Mor-
dini in Lucca.

The first electoral news received from Naples has
been good.

TURIN, JAN. 28, EVENING.
The number of elections now definitely known
are 200, of which 20 are of the Opposition party.
Garibaldi and Poerio have been elected at
Naples.

VIENNA, JAN. 28.

The Oesterreichische Zeitung of to-day gives a
positive denial to the statement of the Ostdeutche
Post that the .national representation is to be com-
posed in the non-Hungarian provinces by direct
elections, and says—" The members of the Council
of the Empire are to be elected from the Diets."

ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 28.

The negotiations between the Banks of St, Pe-
tersburg and the Bank of France in reference to
the exchange of gold for silver have failed.
Prince Orloff, President of the Ministry and the
Council of the Empire, has tendered his resigna-
tion on account of ill health.

He is temporarily replaced in his post of Presi-
dent of the Council of the Empire by M. de Bladoff.

POSEN, JAN. 28.

The Posner Zeitung says : " News received
here from St. Petersburg state that the corps
d'armee stationed in the provinces of Lithuania
and Volhynia are to advance to the frontiers of the
empire, and will be replaced by troops from the
interior of Russia.

" The soldiers on furlough have already been re-
called, and the formation of three corps d'armee
on a war footing has been ordered, which are to be
ready by the Ist of March next, one to march to
the Pruth, the second to the frontiers of Poland,
and the third to any other destination that may be
required."

PARIS, JAN. 29.

The Moniteur contains a decree ordering the
creation of a medal in commemoration of the expe-
dition to China, which will be bestowed on all those
who have taken part in the expedition.

COPENHAGEN, MONDAY EVENING.

The Berlingske Sidende announces that men and
horses belonging to the Dragoon regiments stationed
at Itzehoe, as well as two batteries, have been
called out.

The inspection of the whole war materiel will be
immediately proceeded with.

NAPLES, JAN. 26 (via Marseilles).
The district surrounding Chieti has been tran-
quillised.
Fighting continues in other parts of the Appen-
nines.
The city of Naples is more tranquil.
The police have prohibited political demonstra-
tions.

ROME, JAN. 25 (via Marseilles).

The official Giornale di Roma mentions several
villages near Ascoli which it states have been
destroyed.

BERNE, JAN. 26.

The Federal Council has received official in-
formation that the siege of Gaeta is proceeding
favourably for the Sardinians. The Italian fleet
has suffered but little damage from the fire of
the besieged. The insurrection in the Abruzzi
has been suppressed.

ROME, JAN. 26.

The Pontifical Zouaves, favoured by the night
attacked the Sardinian volunteers at Correse.
Two Sardinians were killed and six wounded.
Fifty were made prisoners and were conveyed to•
day to Rome.

The Piedmontese at Correse have been since re
inforced.

The Sardinians are also threatening the pro-
vince of Frosinone. The reactionary bands on the
frontiers are in consequence greatly discouraged,
and are being pursued, betrayed, and left entirely
destitute of money and arms.