The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

'ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY;:I:EVENING, MAY 20, 1859.

We remem,er got hing generous, frank, and manly
of Austrian soldi e ry, or indeed of but few Austrian
generals. A do 1p and dark superstition has co-
operated with an sunsympathising and slavish tem-
perament, to make• them the humble tools of despots
and the brutal violn tors of the rights of others ; of
the rights of freedom-loving men especially. We
could wish, for the sake of humanity, to believe the
apologists, but our fears lean to the representations
of their accusers. No pamphleteers, however, and
no " own correspondents," will efface from the
minds of Englishmen the history of Hapsburg
atrocities, and encouragement of others in atro-
cities, in Italy or in Hungary. No English Go-
vernment will be tolerated which interferes on
either side ; bui to interfere for Austria would
bring on our Gol7ernment the execration of all
parties and of all classes.

It was the most reasonable thing in the world
that Mr. LOWE should be returned for Calne, the
pet borough of the Mar quis of LANSDOWNE.

It is the most monstrous thing imaginable that
Mr. WORTLEY should dream of finding a seat in
Stamford, the pet borough of the Marquis of

" paramount !" However, as we remarked at the '
outset of these observations, while "it was the
most reasonable thing in the world that Mr. LowE
should be returned for Calne, the pet borourgh of
the Marquis of LANSDOWNE"—on the other hand,
"it is the most monstrous thing imaginable that
Mr. WORTLEY should dream of finding a seat at
Stamford, the pet borough of the Marquis of
EXETER." The line of argument pursued by the
Times in this measure is so obviously decorous—so
perfectly consistent throughout ! For our own
part we cannot possibly recognise anywhere the
claim upon Whig patronage, which we suppose
nevertheless must exist somewhere or other in Mr,
LowE's Parliamentary career. Does that claim lie
in the fact Mr. LOWE has contrived to render him-
self personally about the most unpopular man in the
whole aggregate of the GM representatives ? Or has
the claim discoverable to the sagacious organs of
the Whigs in the fact of his having made himself so
delightfully agreeable to his former supporters
down in Worcestershire, that as we have seen he
very nearly had his head broken by the electors of
Kidderminster ? It is surely as different as well can
be in regard to the Right Hon. JAMES STUART
WORTLEY, who may with reason be pronounced to
have a distinct claim enough upon the honourable
consideration of the present Government. His
gallant fight for their principles before the largest
constituency in the United Kingdom—his volun-
tary sacrifice of his previous seat down at Bute-
shire, so that he might fight that gallant fight in
the West Riding with complete independence—this
certainly, if anything can, gives a distinct, a valid,
and an honourable claim upon the consideration of
the Ministry, a claim which we doubt not the
Ministry will honourably bear in mind, when at
Stamford or elsewhere they may find a fitting
opportunity.

ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL ALBERT.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING.

The screw steam ship Royal Albert, 131, flag of
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.8.,
from Gibraltar May 5, arrived in the Sound this

morning.

She spoke, on the sth of May, in the Straits,
the Turkish line-of-battle ship Fethie, going into
the Mediterranean ; and, on the 9th of May, to
the westward of Cape St. Vincent, the Russian
three-decker Sinope, from Gibraltar, for the Baltic.

THE AUSTRIAN PARTY IN ENGLAND.

A writer in a contemporary says :
The attitude of Prussia at the present crisis
demands the serious attention of all that is free
and independent in England.
The committee of the Prussian chambers reports
that Prussia ought to maintain a state of armed me-
diation and not of neutrality ; an armed mediation
in support of Austria, which is nothing less than a
prospective and eventual declaration of war against
France ; it imports that Prussia shall arm and hold
its army in reserve for Austria. Prussia secures
Austria against the penalties of defeat, and thus
encourages her to refuse all concession, and becomes
the abettor of all her tyranny and usurpation in
Italy.
It is not, perhaps, generally known that since the
retirement of the old King and the appointment of
the regency, the Prussian Cabinet has been identified
in its foreign policy with the Tories in England. It
is commonly reported that the Prince of Prussia has
often declared that he waited but a wink from
England to fall upon France ; and we may venture
to surmise that, if the wink has not been already
given, it will not long be wanting if our present
Ministry continue to sway the destinies of England.
The Austrian party both here and abroad, allied as
it is politically and spiritually with the Church of
Rome, is the irreconcileable enemy of all freedom, and
will never be brought to acknowledge the indepen-
dence of Italy. It is a power of vast weight and
infinite resources ; mighty in its unity of purpose ;
mighty in its ancient connexions, established influ-
ence, and present dominion ; mighty in its crowd
of fortresses and well-appointed armies ; but mightier
still in its priestly artifice, secret action, and mys-
sterious influence. We have seen some manifesta-
tions of its secret power at the late elections ; it has
arrayed a great portion of the press against the
cause of freedom, that press which ought to be the
Palladium of our liberties ; it has brought our very
burgesses and independent electors, the chief pillars
of the constitution, to vote against their own inte-
rest, and swell the ranks that would reinstate the
Austrian ministry. Let the people look to it. If
they have forgotten the events of our past history ;
if they have forgotten that day of humiliation when
the sovereign of England submitted to be flogged
by the Pope's legate ; if they have forgotten the
fires of Smithfield, and the parcelling out, in our
own day, of this kingdom into bishoprics by th e
Pope's cardinal, they may find in the establishment
of an Austrian ministry a power that may refresh
their memories and compel them to an acquaintance-
ship with like events. Secure from all the effects
of popular indignation in the appliances of a power-
ful executive, and the new and unprecedented dis-
coveries of military science, such a ministry might
calmly and feat essly conspire the destruction of
our liberties ; even while maintaining an outward
seeming of respect for the constitution, they might
destroy its spirit, and render our great charter but
a dead letter.

Napoleon has made a mistake, and against France
he has perhaps committed a crime, in responding
to the call of Itaiy. Surrounded as he is by open
enemies and treacherous friends, he has imperilled
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menced with the first treaty she made for the en-
slavement of Italy. Year after year has this aggres-
sion continued, as Austria continued to stretch her
mailed arms over the Italian States. The last State
to be crushed was Sardinia, and Austria was fast
closing her toils around her. Vast fortresses at
Piacenza and Laveno commanded the main routes,
while 200,000 soldiers hung upon the frontier.
Sardinia was upon the point of strangulation when
she appealed to France.
Napoleon hurried to the rescue, but he was not
armed ; and had not the providence of Almighty
God opened the windows of heaven against the
Austrian, and swamped the ground before him, not
a woman in Piedmont, not a lady in Turin, but
would have undergone the violence and barbarity
of the Croatian soldiery.
Yet, in the face of these facts, our Austrian mini-
sters and our Austrian press don't blush to assert
that France is the aggressor, and the ambition of
Napoleon has plunged Europe in war; and our
people are blind enough to believe them. We are
dunned with the history and designs of the first
Napoleon, and menaced with a repetition of his suc-
cesses in the first empire, although it is notorious
that the circumstances of Europe are so altered since
the time of the first empire that such designs would
be as absurd in the conception as impossible in the
execution. Germany can produce three soldiers for
every one of France, equal in discipline and phy-
sically superior; and Austria herself, single-handed,
is too strong to suffer any serious reverse at the
hands of France.

Let the people look to it. The independence of
Italy which we are taught to despise, the well-
being of France which we are taught to hate, may
yet be essential to our own liberties. The Austrian
that holds Italy in chains has a twin brother in our
own ministry, and all Germany waits upon his
wink. The day may come—it may not be far
distant—when we, who are now so confident in the
enjoyment of our liberties, may have cause to sym-
pathise with the oppressed of Italy ; may turn in
despair from Austrian ministers at home to the
strongholds of German despotism abroad, and find
neither a France nor an Italy able to make its
voice heard for the liberties of mankind.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.—It is expected that the
Queen's Speech will be delivered on the ith of June. The
days between the 31st and ith will probably be occupied in
swearing in the ineniber.:: of both houses.

The marriage of Mdlle. P. Vilain XIV., daughter
of Viscount Ch. Vilain XIV., ex-minister of Foreign
Affairs of Belgium, with Baron Vallet de Villeneuve, of
Paris, was celebrated on Tuesday at Brussels, in presence
of a numerous and distinguished company.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MAlLS.—Notice was
n yesterday by the Postmaster-General, that ship mails
for New York will be made up in the General Post-office,
to be conveyed out by the steamer City of 'Washington, on
the 25th inst. ; for Malta, by the steamer Thessalia, en
the 27th inst. ; f r Lisbon, Cadiz, Mogadore, Lanzarota,
Grand Canary, and Teneriffe, by the steamer Warrior, on
June 1; for Iceland, by the steamer Arcturus, late Victor
Emmanuel, on May 22; for Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria,
and I3eyrout, by the steamer Scamander, May 20; for Gib-
raltar, Genoa, and Leghorn, by the steamer Tiber, May 24;
and for Gibraltar tali Cadiz, by the steamer Peninsular,
May 20.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, MAY 20.
The Moniteur• of this morning contains the fol

lowing :
The Council has instituted the Councillor of
State, M. de la Gueronniere, in the post obi Director
pro tempore of printing, of the library, of the press,
and of the street sale of publications.
The Moniteur publishes the following tele-
gram :--

ALESSANDRIA, May 19. —The Emperor inspected
to-day the positions of the first and third Cops
d',4rinee at Tortona and Ponte-Curona.

Yesterday the Austrians endeavoured to fortify
and to block up the windows of a house on the left
bank of the Po, and by entrenching themselves
with it to dispute the passage of the river at
Valenza. A few discharges, however, of French
cannon, from a distance of 2,600 metres, sufficed to
dislodge them from their sheltered position, which
they have since abandoned.
At 11 o'clock this morning the Austrians with-
drew from Vercelli, and have blown up the bridge
over the Sesia.

SPIGNO, MAY 17.

Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian returned to
this place shortly before the French squadron was
in view at Ragusa.

TRIESTE, MAY 19.
The Austrian bark Genio, laden with coals, has
arrived here from Liverpool.
Twenty Austrian vessels have been captured by
the French.

TURIN, MAY 19.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN (No. 39).
(PUBLISHED TO-DAY AT 10.10 P.M.)

Yesterday evening several detachments of the
Austrians advanced to Capriasco, near San Ger-
mano, driving off cattle and firing at the peasants.
Our troops desiring to fight, awaited the enemy
at San Germano, but they withdrew to Vercelli,
which they this morning evacuated, after blowing
up two arches of the bridge over the Sesia.
Our troops occupied Vercelli at 4.30 this after-
noon.

The Austrians, with their artillery, are still on
the left bank of the river. Yesterday the enemy
endeavoured to fortify a house on the left bank of
the Po, opposite Valenza, in order to hinder the
passage of the river by us ; but a few discharges
of French cannon from a distance of 2,600 metres
forced them to abandon their intention.

MAYENCE, MAY 20.

The Mayence Journal states that, according to
reliable information, 25,000 Bavarians are next
week to enter the Rhine Palatinate, to protect the

frontiers.

FRANKFORT 0.M., MAY 20.
Baron Kiibeek is designated as the future Pre.
sident of the Federal Diet.

PAVIA, MAY 19.

The head-quarters of the Austrian army have
been removed to Garlascp. Great movements of
troops have taken place, and a collision is expected
during to-day or to-morrow.

BERNE, MAY 19.

According to reports from Vienna, General
Gyulai, has sent word to his Government that
his demands of contributions from the Sardinians
for the support of his troops are unattended with
further result ; that provisions are beginning to
fail in Piedmont, and that he will not be able to
hold his present position more than 15 days
longer.

VIENNA, MAY 19.
The evening edition of the official Wiener Zeituny
contains the following :
The Norwegian brig Alma, coming to Venice,
was stopped by a French frigate, overhauled, and
received the declaration that all Austrian ports,
with the exception of Trieste and Ancona, are in a
state of blockade.

The commander of the fortress of Venice has as
yet received no notice of the fact.

The French fleet before Venice have already
taken six schooners and six other vessels. Fifteen
French war ships have been seen near Cattaro, on
the coast of Dalmatia.

The Malta fleet is about sailing for Genoa.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, MAY 19.

In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, Prussia
declared that, although she still adhered to her
protest against the proposal of Hanover to form a
federal corps d'artizee of observation on the Rhine,
yet she did not object to its being discussed as a
matter of form ; and the proposal was accordingly
referred to the Commission for the Management of
Military Affairs.

MADRID, MAY 18.
The Prince of Wales is about to travel throng
he provinces of Andalusia.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels
says :—" The Italian Committee have up to the
present time sent off 250 volunteers to the Pied-
montese army, at a total cost of 16,000 fr., including
travelling expenses and 40fr. to each man, half
paid on leaving Paris, and the remainder to be
received on reaching Turin. The subscriptions
amount to 28,000 fr. The Committee have received
flattering letters from M. Conneau, on the part of
the Emperor, from the Marquis de Villamarina,
the Sardinian Ambassador, and Count de Cavour."
'While general attention is directed towards
Italy and the south of France, it may not be
without interest to know what is going on
on the northern and eastern frontiers. A
letter froth Strasburg of the 16th says :
" As to the French Government, apparently at
least, it is making no preparations of a nature to
al irm our German neighbours ; it may be even
said that a contrary attitude is affected. Not
.only
have the garrisons in the cast of France not been
increased, but during the last three days some
thousands of men have left, this place. Artillery,
horses, and bridge equipages have gone towards
Lyons. The two regiments of artillery stationed
here, which had already sent several batteries to
the army, have despatched two others during the
last two days. During this week the railway has
carried away more than 500 horses and 1,200
artillerymen. These blanks are being rapidly
filled up by the men who are every day returning
from their furloughs, and by the horses which are
coming in in bands from different 'parts of the
country. There are in this garrison a fine regiment
of infantry, the 10th, with its full complement, and
a battalion of foot chasseurs on a war footing. There
are also here two depots of other battalions of foot
chasseurs and that of the 47th of the line, the regi-
ments being at Colmar and at Sehelestadt. Generals
de Courtigis and de Lostange are expected here.
The cavalry are at Verdun, Luneville, Colmar,
Nancy, Coininercy, &C., and consist of three divi•

sions. The foundry at this city is actively at work,
and they send off the guns when cast to Vincennes
to be rifled according to the last new plan, The
works on the international bridge of Kehl are
carried on on the French side as though no war
was declared."

BOURSE, May 19.—Purehases to the extent of
297,000 f. Three per Cents. produced a momentary
rally to 61f. 25c., but prices soon afterwards again
receded to Glf. sc. and 61f. on a report that the
Diet of Frankfort, at its sitting of this morning,
had adopted hostile resolutions. Mobilier declined
from 592 f. 50c. to 580 f. ; Austrian varied from
352 f. 50c. to 350 f. ; Lyons, 770 f. to 767 f. 50c. ;
Orleans, 1,167 f. 50c. to 1,162 f. 50c. ; Eastern,
580 f. to 575 f. ; Northern, 872 f. 50c. to 867 f. 50c.
The following were the closing quotations :-
41 per Cents. .... 89 I Credit Foncier 645
Do. end month .. 89 I Belgian 43
3 per Cents. 6l Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month.... 60 95 Roman BO
Bank Shares 2755 Austrian
Credit Mobilier 587 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 585 Home Debt 35 50