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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1861.

,Hon. Gentleman, in point of fact, is so conscious 01
,the prodigal, and even profligate manner in which
°
Ithe House of Commons has, before now, yielded
!supplies notoriously to this end, that he took
[the trouble, while asking leave to,
!introduce his Bill in respect to Har-

,-,:neememess=paumm...
for differential dues should cease, and that in the
meantime the sum to be paid should be the sum
they had received on an average during the last
five years. He thought that in this provision
the Government acted most liberally, and he hoped
that Parliament would help the Government
in relieving the general taxpayers of the conn-
,. try from a charge which in justice they ought no
longer to pay." And with th ose words virtually
terminated the statement with which the President
of the Board of Trade asked leave to bring in his
benevolent and patriotic measure for the relief of
:the shipping interest from a variety of unjust and
obnoxious charges, and the relief also of the public
.t-
generally from improper taxes hitherto levied
without necessity and without anything at all like,
compensative advantages ! The right hon. gentle-
, man's bill effecting this twofold good, moreover,
without, while so doing, subjecting Vested Interests
to any needless interference.

land were with her in sympathy—with her in
(wishing to see her nationality restored, and also to
Lee her free and happy, and independent of Austrian •
!tyranny." His speech will, we hope, in spite of
!censorship, find its way even into Hungarian papers,
Iwhere it may be justly believed that Mr. DUN-
COMBE represents his country better than does her
I7oreign Minister.
Mr. DUN COMBE called the noble lord, however,
to account for one expression in a despatch which
he could not deny—the despatch first got out
through a continental paper in a translation, con-
sequently there was no avoiding its insertion in
• the Blue-book—we refer to that of the 31st of
August last, in which Lord JOHN, in evident terror
lest GARIBALDI and the Italians should pay a visit
to Dalmatia, and so give Hungary an opportunity
of rising—talked of English interests in the
Adriatic which must be watched with care-
ful attention. We all of us, at first won-
dered what those interests could be—we bit
`our nails, and performed the usual operations of
',puzzled persons—till at last we answered that he)
'must mean Corfu. Yes, he said last night Corfu
cis what I did mean, and a very important interest
it is, too. His lordship was careful to explain that
it was not the great " currant interest " of the
Sept-insular Republic," but that of our having a
.1, garrison there and a harbour. These, it seems,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL sent a fleet of 800 guns to
take care of, when GARIBALDI seemed likely to
' invade Dalmatia!

eours yesterday, to specify the exact amours
which he had found upon inquiry had during the
last few years, or as recently as from 1851 to 1860
inclusively, been given to the same end by the State
—namely, the good round sum of £3,144,190.
England alone, he reminded the house, had a dis-
tinct amount of £38,000 advanced for the facilita-
tion of harbour enterprize. "It was proposed," he
said, " by this bill to assist the improvement and
construction of harbours by loans on easy terms,
the repayment of the sums so advanced to take place
at a longer time than the loans granted under the
„ Public Loan Companies Acts." Adding, however,
immediately as a not unwelcome pendant, that " It
was not proposed by this measure that the State....
We tender our best thanks to Mr. DUNCOMBE!
s should make any profit, but that the money should , for commencing the interrogatories respecting,
be advanced at such a rate as would pay the State,' Austria and Hungary, or rather of the action of
F. 1
and allow different places the means of bringing 'your Foreign Office in regard to them, which we
their resources into effect." In those two brief but !have repeatedly urged upon the House of Commons.
suggestive intimations, Mr. MILNER GIBSON It is of course far from easy to convict a Foreign
epitomised the main object of the measure, which. Secretary of Austrianism or of any thing else, if he
he has now, from the House of Commons, leave for r, desires to shelter his action from public observation.
introducing. fe. With resident servants abroad at every court, it is
Leave having been thus cordially allowed for
rso perfectly easy for him to let them know the
introdueing this bill about Harbours, we cannot'' wishes of their master without writing anything;,
have any reasonable doubt about the bill being ; which could find its way into a blue book, that he
rapidly enough, when introduced, ripened into an s' may be in reality working hard underground for
enactment. Any more doubt, in fact, than can bet objects which he does not publicly avow. Of
entertained as to the mortality along our coasts,
,-course the superior and firmer minded of
particularly along our eastern coasts, showing upon`, our representatives at Foreign Courts have/
the operation of the measure a visible diminu-: always the means of maintaining their own;
tion—that appalling mortality annually known to t policy when they know it is in accordance;
' result from sudden gales and periodical ship-' with the wishes of the people of this country, foil
: wrecks. Who that has given this subject the they can always require that communications oni
most passing and superficial consideration is which they act should be in the form in which'
,_ not familiar with that melancholy symbol;.. they can be at any time demanded for the inspection
of calamity —of that dread calamity befalling" of the Legislature. But all our foreign representa-
;year after year those who go down to the great 1 dyes have not a mind of- their own, and we may
~•deep in ships—known far and wide in these islands I reckon ourselves fortunate that we have one at the,
as the wreck chart ? The fluctuation of the little A. Court of Turin, who is not the minister of
, Austria,l
,typical figures upon that mournful wreck chart, :, but the servant of England, sympathising most
~..'. asterisks, dots, crosses, and so forth, indicative oft heartily, like the country he represents, with the'
the vessels that have been dashed ashore, that have I people to whom he represents us. Our Ministers
struck upon sand banks, that have foundered, that '4' at Vienna have almost always been of quite the
have lost all their cargoes and sometimes, alas !, opposite cast. They have, contrary quite to the
not by any means unfrequently, that have had their.; sentiments of Englishmen at home, sympathised
' entire crews perish there without one survivor being with the Court of Vienna, which England detests,
left to tell the tale of disaster—the fluctuation 'against the Hungarians, whom we all desire to see
1 of those terrible black marks upon the Wreck:s in possession of their historical rights.
Chart, year after year, has afforded the nation for a , It is quite possible that Mr. DUNCOMBE may
long while the most painful information—informa- i have been misinformed on some trivial points ; but
tion conclusively demonstrative of the necessity we cannot doubt, notwithstanding the jaunty
't.• existing for precisely such a measure of relief i reply of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, that in all his ques-
°, to the shipping interest in these islands as the Bill .- tions he had substantial reasons for putting them,
now about to be introduced to Parliament by the , although he might have reasons quite as good for
'.l combined humanity and patriotism of the right hon.: not disclosing the sources of his information.
..- gentleman the President of the Board of Trade. It Why, he asked, were nearly two months' despatches
-'.. is observable in a particular manner, however, that to Sir JAMES HUDSON omitted in the, last" Further
Mr. MILNER GIBSON does not propose this Bill for correspondence relating to the affairs of Italy ?"
the facilitation of improvements, as, in every way ' Lord JOHN'S answer is, that "most of them"
- a substitute for the construction of Harbours of related to trivial matters, such as how the Irish
Refuge. His simple impression being that the • Legion was to be got back, what had become of . -., ..
granting of the proposed loans will be produc- Major O'REILLY, and other similar things, at " A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take
place,d
.d betweenE Lieutena
erquerry nt-Colonel Hal. F. Ponsonby, arena-
.
' tive, so far, at any rate, of very considerable which hon. members could laugh, and we laugh
advantages. Together with this systematized too. Lord JoHN had looked over the despatches Conasort, and the Hon. Mary Bulteel,s y Lidesoaf tHheonPour. ceto
. concession of loans—Mr. GIBSON proposed, through that morning, so we must, of course, take his word thethCleuEeearnl, dGareugyh. ter of Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, and niece
. r
the agency of his measure, to effect " the aboli- for what they are, and with the important exception -
of
tion of what were called ' passing tolls,' and that indicated by the phrase " most of them," we are The w
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eassemblyHotel,P Countess
tFrances
on
oin de Sagan has arrived at the Bruns-
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Cowper
re
all tolls paid by ships that did enter harbours to believe that they had nothing to do with the
k h
t ill lelw shortly leave Pans-
egrave has issued cards
,hould cease to be levied from the end of the loves ofAustria and our Foreign-office. But, though
for
year 1861"—tolls, the abolition of which has long .we do not wish to appear captious, we should just The
been recognised as so very desirable. At like to see for ourselves what the few important hanger for the Continent.
even
ie pn re Saien
moderately that
favourable, should
; the same time the Government propose but unpublished despatches are about. It is, per- g
accountsi TherefriosmaAgnireorwician
-. to preserve the rights of the Harbour Commis- haps, however, of little consequence, since the tenbge ei
England rate of discount will be lowered to 7 per
,''' sioners. Ample provision, we are told, will be derness towards Austria was probably shown in : want. eel! next Thursday.
: provided through the Bill about to be laid before ways which cannot be made public. ' CAPT. BRABAZON.—A correspondent states that
Parliament, ample provision to support the har- • Mr. DUNCOMBE asserted, what we believe to be , our Government, struck by some inconsistencies in the
dates and circumstances put forward by the Chinese autho-1
f hours without any charge whatever being insti ; perfectly true, that our boasted non-intervention ..
cities, have offered the Chinese Government a large sum of,
' tuted, except on vessels actually using the Harbours. :- policy was all reserved for Italy ; but that the in- money (£20,000) for the production of Captain Brabazon'
Supposing any deficiency to arise, say at' stant Hungarian Rights and Austrian Despotism alive—Daily News.
• Dover or at Ramsgate, it is to be provided, became the question intervention was thrown to the ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Miss Herbert, whosel,
.oe excellent cteblleent romantic acting hdatsamcoan
for out of the public treasury. Yet, at the winds, and we intervened against the great andcalled "The
sTohmatlerliallye f tsotthTe succes,s,
same time, it should be observed also in reference noble kingdom of Hungary in favour of its perfi which has been in cause of representation for manyrewPeeezir;
ewro de.d popularity will ensure'
to those two identical harbours just specified, that, dieus and revolutionary oppressor. It was so in past at this theatre, announces her benefit for Thursday
us
au
so far as Dover is concerned, it is not proposed in 1848-9, for the speeches and documents are on re-
tile
eat a, t wth
nhend noee de of uab•;huemi well-earned
ence.
1 Mr. GIBSON'S bill to make any change at all in the cord which prove that 1 it is so, we have the best
CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS.—This popular troupe,
-. management of the trust—while, on the other reasons for believing, now ; and will be so, unless having completed a highly successful provincial tour, will
• hand, in regard to Ramsgate, it is intended to no one knows how, our Foreign-office can be commence another London season on Monday next at her
=' remove to the Trinity Board the trust hitherto and compelled to represent the English nation in Majesty's Concert Loom, the elegant salle attached to her
‘ Majesty's Theatre, and now christened " The Bijou."
still confided there to the Harbour Commis • respect to Hungary. Mr. DUNCOMBE, after several Besides presenting a choice selection from their extensive,'
"sinners. The discretionary powers heretofore e illustrations of the pro-Austrian and anti-Hungarian • repertoire, a new burlesque, by Mr. William Brough, will
• night. The
allowed to certain charitable corporations.i policy of the noble lord, asked, " Could England
be added to the attractions of the opening
leenhgathwiolfl
itindmneeethaeybehlaevfethahstldtbtehireirretgrurnountodtbine
ftaheebimoneatrbolel
,4
such as the Trinity Houses at Hull, at „be justified in acting in this manner, and then . p
e' Leith, at Perth, et Dundee, and at Newcastle _ talking of non-intervention ? Hungary was a region of the West-end will be accompanied by a renewal'
fd
wUNae.—attAratotedthbey
ammomostenexttrao!
upon-Tyne, for the levying of local dues on ships great country, with 15 millions of inhabitants, and
.4 of their past successes. —Era.
for certain benevolent purposes is henceforth to be 20,000 square miles, larger than the whole of the
disallowed under the authority of Mr. GißsoN's United Kingdom. She was originally, and was goroduringliatEroy psArtael:tee3mleSneTnrßtaOmtteNanGdetietnoGthe House of Commons by Mr.
on
• Baring last night. That gentleman has chosen, we suppose
i Bill, when perfected into an enactment. A judi- now, entitled to be an independent nation in
'l, cious modification of the existing system, ' Europe. She was deprived of her rights by Aus- information derived from the Woolwich department, to,
impugn our statement of the Ist inst. Our reply is simple.'
4,
which at one stroke of that Minister's Pen tria, and was now on the point of regaining them." we challenge that gentleman to produce General Crofters'
"as it were will relieve the shipping interest' The question will have but one answer throughout ' and Major Hey's confidential report already refused to the
whoeuse. e
have stated If the Government
willb ve foundenture to be moretopublish than
theseeveuerys.
'. annually to the amount of £lB,OOO sterling. The the whole of the country; but Mr. DUNCOMBE •rd w
, dues here alluded to, however, it is but justice to - went farther and attacked the policy, the favourite tained.—/ffschanics' Magazine.
remember, will not be permitted to " cease and , traditional one of our aged diplomatists, which ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.—As the church has
determine" until the death of all existing pensioners. regards Austria as a " counterpoise to France." declined to pass any authoritative opinion on them, they
will now be weighed at the bar of public opinion according
To complete all, the bill provides for the abolition ' Too old they must be to learn from facts, to their merits or demerits. This is the more to be regretted'
...l And calli fsome
o in
em queetsetpioanooevaie7 dboe tri
takenne in turn. We
of all differential duties hitherto levied at our out- since nothing is more obvious than that Aus- as it is too much the fashion of the present day to discuss
e
towards
the
putting,"Essays
e eaydowna
an d
'ports. Hereafter, for example, no foreign ships tria has always been beaten by France, when.
anshould be
a
'upon entering an English port will be taxed higher. ever the latter choose to find a cause of the unlimited private judgment, of which b
by one bronze farthing than an English vessel. war against her. Mr. DUNCOMBE observed that .
sißoageeviraeiaemlwesvn'i'tesawraare,
neaff.ttebrtetaille,as , b:oautllaedfraEcvtati fractional result. i
eraiesua
chi; 0
oTI, hoenntebee-
teaching meaning
nogf
Surely, this is but fair play—it is but just—it is the interference of England in this underhand
of our formularies, and inconsistentrean witho e
naturalthe
magnanimous. And it well befits an eminent manner, and then saying that Austria ought to be
Free-trader, such as the right hon. gentleman the supported as a counterpoise to France, was a policy the Church of England," as anything to be found in the
President of the Board of Trade, to be the one which could not have been expected from her " Essays."— Union.
pany appeared before a-committee of the House of Commons
now The United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Com-
p to sweep away duties like these duties;' in Majesty's Government. To talk of a counterpoise
many respects so very irritatingly differential.. to France could not but create a feeling of distrust . yesterday for additional powers under an Act of Parliament,
It is an amiable little quid pro quo, proffered between England and that country. This is true, and were heard by counsel. The committee determined
among other powers to France—and coming just but by no means the whole truth. It is not merely
that the preamble was not provel, as the Act of the corn-
. pany of 1851 had not been completed within the prescribed
opportunely upon the morrow of the abolition irritating to France to see us thus openly plotting . period. They added, however, that " they would have been
in France of the
bj
passport system, so far as regards •ro fetter her by the fear of Austria, but it is giving very glad if they could have recommended the proceeding
British suects. Ever
eweietdhe tdh,e, bill, as they were anxious it should have pro-
y word that fell from to France the prestige before all Europe of uphold
Mr. GIBSON'S lips last evening, in regard to the ing the better cause ;—tho cause of old rights The commercial advices from New York yester-
. proposition comprised within the scope of his = and liberties against modern despotic revolutions day contained little of importance. The rate of exchange
Bill for the abolition of thesewas very firm at 105/ to 106. Every ho
and the
hope of a political
same. differential In Italy we have gained universal geeod-will,
. compromise seemed now to have been given up,
duties, was worthy of falling from the lips of because though declining to intervene mill- Treat wish was that a peaceable adjustment might be
o n T seemed
h
so eminent a place among our tarily, we threw the whole weight of our in
The
opinion
character so
effected with the seceding States. The new tariff
free-trade statesmen. "The object of these , fluence into the cause of the people and their
leading
ing occupyingfre e
complicated as to defy analysis.
is published in all the journals, but it is of a
dues," he said, " was to keep foreign ships away, rights, In Hungary, and we suppose it will be : be that, with the exception of iron goods, which are taxed
and not to put money into the pockets of the local the same in Poland, we are just reversing our to an unprecedented point in order to gratify the menu-
' racturers in Pennsylvania the scale of duties will be about
authorities. The abolition of these double dues gave , policy—and we are wickedly ready to sell the na- equal to those of the protective tariff of
a great advantage to these ports. It never wasproved tienality, the rights and the liberties of 15,000,000 ~ however, was untrammelled by the complicationsat
that those bodies who had abandoned them double , .)f people to the vilest dynasty which yet survives =introduced, and which in some cases will be worse tnheawn
dues had suffered from so doing. On the contrary. in Europe. s: the duties themselves. The sale of the Adriatic, formerly
.', belonging to the Collins Mail line, to the Galway Cora-
they had gained from an increase in the number of Mr. DUNCOMBE gave but expression to the uni
ships frequenting the ports. But it was thought':; versal sentiment here, when he declared "We
.c,- wanted no such counterpoise as Austria, whose,.•-•
! pany had at length been concluded for £87,500, her original
cost having been £240,000.
ThisT THE
STRANDEDI STEAMSHIdP QUEEN VICTORIA.
necessary to compensate these parties for these
3 days were numbered, and Hungary would be `; from her berth
was successfullyonereroyi flßoeaateeb,or.lymounntebsdaLevtebnalinf
'double dues. He believed they were compensated i
when they had never suffered any loss. At Hull, esoon taking her original position as a:
47, past six o'clock. Ono Government tug and three merchant
as a substitute for the fine levied on foreign ships, free and independent nation on the continent ; ~tugs assisted on the occasion. She had been previously,
made almost tight, so that her donkey engine kept her
the Government had pp,id to the Trinity Reuse ,ief Europe. Let not Hungary be driven into any'" Alter she was floated' off, free
the tugs brought her round to the'
from £12,000 to £13,000 ET, year, amounting to ! premature action. He hai been informed '+c Plymouth Great Western Decks, where she now lies in:
safety in the floating dock, and would be placed in the'
not less than X 21,000 since +ll9 reciprocitylf within the last few days that Austrian agents' ..
~graving-dock yesterday. During her transit from the
treaties have some into operation. He askedrere hard at work at that moment trying to incite ';'beach to the dock, the wind was blowing very fresh fromi
what justice there was in continuing to'
upon the taxpayers of the country to call the 1;111
•4 • 0
pay this4give up one iota oe
amount for nothing ? In justice there was no foun- ;any -
dation for this
ment, therefore
said that at the end of eeearians to rebellion. Let not Hungary
Ear righter nor be driven into
~,
_, , 'wait and
~.
, premature insurrection. lAr, her „
annual payment, and the Govern. .!leave the Government of England to do what they_
eyk.
' proposed to discontinue it. They liked—to conspire with Austria against her. - -
five years this compensation :Hungary would recollect that the people of Eng- Hues
, the northward, which, combined with its being so close tol
high water before she came off, gave Captain Russell,l
who superintended her removal, ample work to do. She
has been "hogged" by her accident, so that much.atten-1
tion r..i1l be required in
.placing her on
-1/45..erAYIngldocx : the blocks in the
but in this case, the resources of the Great
) ^ - favourably exhibited by the f '
Western Docks will be —.
they will afford for repairing ails fine vessel.aci-
*4' ctr.t% •9

We do not know whether the English public
generally attaches the same importance to!
the " Protectorate of the Sept-insular Repub-1
lie" as Lord JOHN RUSSELL does, but
we rather think that the greater part of us,
when the Greeks wished to join their fellow Greeks
on the continent, wished them in return farewell
willingly enough ; as to the currants, our cakes
would never want them while Greeks had them to
sell, and we had money to pay ; and as to the har-
bour—with Malta, not very far off, and Gibraltar
too, we might shift very well in the Mediterranean
even if we declined longer to stand in the way of
Greek unity, and of all the islanders enjoying the
blessings of King OTIEO'S Government. Of onel
thing we are quite certain—the whole kingdom
would vote as one man that we should give up
twenty Corfus rather than allow an English fleet
to sid Austria in keeping down Hungary, or in
retaining her gripe on any of her oppressed na-
tionalities.

L ri. .Ed" T E W

CAPTURE OF MATAUKOCIKO.I
Messrs. Alexander F. Ridgway and Sons have
received the following telegram from New Zea-
!land :

Mataukociko was stormed and taken by the 65th
Regiment and Naval Brigade, after a fierce engage-
Iment. Our loss is 3 killed, and 19 wounded.
'Natives, 130 killed-5 chiefs-70 wounded.