The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1859,

at Rome, and of Verona in front, and the
want of any generous conception of Italian inde-
pendence or any other—these were the reasons
which disposed him at Villafranca to sell Italy
to Austria under the name of a confederation. .
Worst of all is the threat held out to the Duchies
respecting poor Venetia. If the Duchies will but
submit to dishonour again Venetia shall live—live
after a fashion, say Austria and FRANCIS JOSEPH.
So the story goes that Judge JEFFERIES once said
to a beautiful daughter pleading for her innocent
father's life,—" Surrender your honour to me and
your father shall live." The surrender was made
by weeping filial love, and next morning the brute
pointed to the father hanging before the window.
A like fate awaited the Duchies had they lis-
tened to the voice of the seducers at Villafranca.
They would have gained nothing but their own
humiliation. Venetia would have been as en-
slaved as ever, and they with her. This is the
answer of the Duchies to the Moniteur when it
cants about " men bent on small partial successes
rather than on the welfare of their common country."
It is most for the welfare of their common country

that any part of which can do so, should, when it
can, unite itself to a free constitutional State. To
us the whole article in the Moniteur reads like the
defence of a disappointed boaster and trickster.
Monarchs would do well not to turn advocates in
their own cause.

The Duchess of Montrose and Lady Agnes
Graham have arrived in Belgrave-square from a conti-
nental tour. The Duke of Montrose reached town last night

from Buchanan Castle, N.B.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have arrived at
Brighton from Upton Hall, Warwickshire.
Lord and Lady Edward Thynne have arrived at
Maiden Bradley, Somersetshire, on a visit to Lord Henry
and Lady Ulrica Thynne.
His Royal Highness the Count de Flandre
arrived yesterday at Grillion's Clarendon Hotel, en route
for Balmoral.

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Her Highness the Princess Helene Kotschoubey,
with her son and daughters, has left Grillion's Clarendon
Hotel for Paris. . .

The Duke of Hamilton has been staying al

LATEST NEWS.

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The following telegrams have been received at

Mr. Reuter's office :

The National Assembly, in its sitting of to-day,
voted unanimously and by ballot the annexation
of the province of Parma to the Kingdom of Sar-
dinia, under the sceptre of the glorious dynasty of

Savoy.
A solemn silence reigned in the Hall of the As-
sembly during the voting, but at the proclamation
of the result of the ballot enthusiastic cheers and
lout rivals to Victor Emmanuel burst forth from
all parts.

Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran, since his grace's return from
the Continent. The duchess, with the youthful Marquis
of Douglas and family, is at Baden-Baden, and is not ex-
pected to leave for this country till the spring of next year.
The Marquis of Abrrcorn arrived at Brochett
Hall, Herts, on Thursday, from Baron's Court, the family
seat, in the county Tyrone.
Viscount Gage, Lord Delamere, and a select party
are staying with Mr. William and the Hon. Mrs. Tomline,
at their residence in the north of Scotland.
Amongst the distinguished visitors who arrived
at the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, on Friday night, were Lord
and Lady Lovat, Lord and Lady Saltoun, Lord and Lady
Taunton, Lady Clifton, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Lord Hast-
ings, and Lady Edith Hastings. The Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn and party have left the Royal Hotel for the
South.

The Assembly has chosen five deputies to convey
die wishes of the population to the King of

Sardinia.

All proposals made in yesterday's sitting have
been adopted unanimously, and the following mo-
tions have been taken into consideration :-
1. The confirmation of Signor Farini as Dictator.
2. The promulgation of the statutes of Sardinia.
3. The formation of a fund for the assistance of
the Venetian volunteers.

VIENNA, TUESDAY.

The -Wiener Zietung of to-day, in its nonofficial
portion, publishes an article expressing satisfaction
with the article of the llioniteur, which contains
advice for the4nhabitants of Central Italy.
It further states, in considering the state of
affairs in Italy from this point of view, the Moni-
teur increases the hopes for peace, and banishes the
fears which had been entertained till now.

PARIS, SEPT. 12.
The Pays of this evening states that Cout Reise
has arrived in Paris.

The same journal asserts that Count \Valewski
will leave on the 17th inst. for Biarritz, and also
that an interview between the Emperor Napoleon.
and King Leopold will take place on the 14th inst.

BERNE, SEPT. 12.

The Grand Duke of Baden is expected to arrive
here at 4 o'clock to-day from Meinau. Apartments
have been engaged for his reception at the Hotel

Messrs. Gonin and Co., shipbuildrrs, at Nantes,
have received orders from the Government to build nine

iron despatch boats of small tonnage, intended for local
service in the colonies. The steam-engines for these boats
are to be constructed at the ironworks of Indret.

The Zaria, a Russian pleasure yacht belonging
to Count Strogonoff, with the owner and Prince Torbitshay
on board, arrived at Havre two days back.
The Prince Regent of Prussia has left Ostend
for Baden-Baden.

Letters from Trebisond state that the town of
Chirvan, in the government of Tiflis, had been buried
beneath a mountain thrown on it by a recent shock of
earthquake.
The Salsette has arrived at Melbourne with the
outward May mail.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR WILLIAM
EYRE, K.C.B.—We have to record the death of Major-
General Sir William Eyre, K.C.8., late in command of the
forces in Canada, who died on Thursday last, at Bilton
hall, Warwickshire, at the age of 53. The gallant General
had been in bad health for months past, and was in conse-
quence of illness compelled to resign his command in North
America, in which he was succeeded last June by Major
General Sir William Fenwick Williams, of Kars. The
deceased entered the army in 1823, and after serving in the
73d Regiment in Canaria, of which regiment he was Major,
he proceeded with that gallant corps to the Cape of Good
Hope, and while there greatly distinguished himself in both.
the Caffre wars as Lieutenant-Colonel. In acknowledg-
ment of his eminent services in the last and previous war,
he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath, pro-
moted to be Colonel in the army, and appointed an Aide-de-
Camp to the Queen. On the military force being sent out
to the East the deceased was appointed to a brigade of the
Third Division of the army, which he ultimately com-
manded, with the local and temporary rank of Lieutenant-
General. He was present at the battle of the Alma, the
battle of Inkermann ; commanded the troops in the trenches
during the battle of Inkermann, and remained in the Cri-
mea until after the fall of Sebastopol, for which he received
a medal and clasps. In 1855 he was created a Knight
Commander of the Order of the Bath, was made a Com-
mander ot the Legion of Honour, a Knight of the Imperial
Order of the Medjidie of the 2d class, and was among the
general officers of the army who received the Sardinian
War medal. After his return home in June, 1856, he was
selected by the Commander-in-Chief to command the troops
in Canada. His commissions bore date as follows :—En-
sign, 17th April, 1823 ; Lieutenant, sth Nov., 1825 ; Cap-
tali:, 20th May, 1827 ; Major, 19th July, 1839; Lieu:enant-
Colonel, 12th November, 1844 ; Colonel, 28th May, 1853 ;
and Major-General, Dec. 12, 1854. The late General was
one of the field officers in the receipt of rewards for distin-
guished or meritorious services. Sir William was second
son of the late Vice-Adrairal George Eyre, K.C.8., by the
third daughter of Sir George Cooke, Bart., of Wheatley. He
married in 1841 Miss Bridgeman Simpson, third daughter
of the late Hon. John Bridgeman Simpson.
RESCUE OF A SHIP'S CREW.—WICK, Sept. B.
The crew of the Huntress schooner, which had shipped
cargo of herrings in this harbour, were rescued by the new
life-boat on Tuesday last. The vessel was out in the bay
on Monday, when it began to blow strongly from the north.
east. She was warned to proceed to sea ; her crew did not
consider it necessary to do so, but chose to ride out all
night. On Tuesday morning, the gale continuing, they
hoisted a signal of distress, when the life-boat stationed at
the Salmon Rock was immediately prepared and put to sea,
fully manned, there being 15 of the crew, with Captain
Tudor, R.N. at the helm. The crew of the schooner, to
the number of seven, with the master, were taken off, and
the boat safely returned to shore. In doing so some heavy
seas struck the life-boat in rapid succession, placing her for
a short time in great peril. She, however, behaved ad-
mirably, the self-acting valves relieving her of the heavy
seas that broke into her ; and she ultimately succeeded in
entering the harbour amidst the cheering of hundreds of
spectators who had congregated on the quays. The weather
having moderated, and the crew having been again put on
board, the vessel proceeded on her voyage. This valuable
life-boat is on the plan of those adopted by the Royal Na-
tional Life-boat Institution, and was provided, thoroughly
equipped, for 'Wick, by the ritish Fishery Society.
THE CORPORATION AND ITS GIFTS OF GRACE.—
During the space of 118 years—that is, from 1740 t 0.1858
—the corporation has awarded honorary grants of the free-
dom of the City of London to 110 personages of eminence
in the military and naval services, in statesmanship, law,
and commerce, and others distinguished as patriots and
benefactors of their species. The list lately published com-
menced with Vice-Admiral Vernon, who distinguished him-
self by the taking of Porto Bello, and ended with Sir John
Lawrence, the renowned Commissioner of the Punjaub,
leaving Lord Clyde, Sir J. Outran', and the Earl of Elgin out
of the category. Of the total number of 110, there were 14
persons of royal blood ; 23 generals (inclusive of brigadier-
majors, and lieutenant-generals) ; 6 captains ; 27 admirals
(inclusive of rear and vice-admirals) ; 16 statesmen and
politicians ; 6 lawyers ; and 14 benefactors of their race by
scientific discovery, or the advancement of great reforms ;
2 reverends, and 3 foreigners. The list illustrates every
important era in our civilisation, during the period it em-
braces, including the American and French wars, the
Queen's trial, slave emancipation, Parliamentary reform,
the Indian rebellion, and various extensions of the fields of
commerce and civilisation. However truly historical the
grants to naval and military heroes may be, those to
the 'class we have designated as benefactors, possess,
perhaps, the greatest individual interest. Thus,
in the category of fourteen names, we have David
Hartley, for inventions to secure buildings from fire ;
Mr. Adams, MO, for vending at his own risk, potatoes at
reduced prices ; Dr. Jenner ; Captain Ross ; Thomas Clark-
son, for public services in connexion with the abolition of
African slavery; Rajah Brooke, Mr. A. H. Layard, Dr.
Livingstone, and Sir H. John Lawrence. The number of
grants represents more names than have been really added
to the lists of freemen, for in many cases, awards have
been made by Common Council at the moment when a
distinguished veteran has already received his death-
wound, and there are no fewer than seven cases in
which the personage intended to be honoured died pre-
vious to the day on which the freedom was to be
bestowed. A few have declined the gift, as. for instance,
Sir Fletcher Noah, Knt., Speaker in 1777, H.RH.
the Prince Regent, 1811, and Andrew Stevenson, Esq.,
American Minister, 1838. Among the deaths previous to
presentation occur the names of Lord Collingwood, Sir
It. 11. Sale, Major. General Sir W. Nott, and Sir Jamsetjee
Jeejeebhoy, to whom the freedom was voted in 1855, as a
testimony of respect for his renowned character as a bene-
factor of his country and mankind. The freedom is usually
presented in a ;gold box of the value o`. 100, 150, or 200
guineas ; but there are in the list of 100 presentati,ns
eleven exceptions, in which "heart of oak" has been sub-
stituted. Admiral Koppel, 11.R.11. the Prince Regent, the
Duke of Kent, Marquis Camden, Henry Brougham, M.P.,
Stephen Lushington, M.P., Thomas Atwood, Captain Rous.
and Sir Charles Napier are among the number thus singled
out for a presentation emblematic of national as well as
civic honour.—City
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.—A few days ago
one of the boilers belonging to the pumping engine at Le-
vavant mine exploded. Mr. Edwards, the engineer, wes
about to leave the boilerhouse when the explosion took
place. He was so frightfully burnt that he died on the
following day, leaving a wife and six children to mourn his
loss.—Cornish paper.
PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.--A. "LONG SHOT."—At
Balerno, on the Ist of September, Mr. Scott, of Malleny's,
gamekeeper, accompanied by his nephew, went out to shoot,
and with the first shot, using only one barrel, killed 13 out
of a covey of 14 partridges. This surprising result was
sufficient to render a second shot unnecessary for that day
at least.--Edinburgh Courant

RAILWAYS.

particular, would protest very energetically against
a state of things which would tend to give Frdnee
direct influence in Italy; and we doubt that Russia,
on her part, would be favourable to the installation
of a Napolconian dynasty at Florence—the procla-
mation of the Murats at Naples would in that case
PARMA, SEPT. 12. become too easy."

There is a manifest inconsistency between the
sort of anti-papal pressure which is being applied in

Rome, and a desertion of the cause of the Italian

people. The accounts of what has passed between
the Pope and M. Grammont are, we know, con-
firmed by the Roman correspondent of the Univers ;

yet we have this afternoon the following in the
Gazette de France :—" We regard as a pure calumny
this version of the story circulated by several
Roman correspondents, which admits that, false to
its promise, the French Government is exerting
pressure upon the Pope, in order to make him give
up Romagna to the revolution and Piedmont."

One inevitable consequence of the discussion
'orced upon the public attention by the present

course of events will be much enlightenment as to that
strange confusion of the monarch with the bishop,
the policeman with the priest, which form the base
of that cumbrous edifice called the Papal system.
All wise men who, either from the force of habit or
from conviction, subscribe to Roman Catholic dog-

mas and practise Roman Catholic forms, will re-
joice, as the foolish and bigotted will grieve, at the
dispersion of the darkness under cover of which so
much error has been perpetuated.
The French are accused of irreligion and scepti-
cism. The fact is they are too inquiring to be cre-
dulous, too logical to be bigotted, and too morally
independent for priestly domination. The Catholic
system, for many reasons, suits the national tempera-
ment ; so the mass of the nation is outwardly Catho-
lic ; bat it will never be possible to keep such a peo-
ple within the trammels or leading strings which
it is the policy of Romq to impose upon her chil-
dren ; and each attempt to do so, whether by cle-
rical intervention or by the ordinary organ of
ultramontanism, does but provoke such further
examination and inquiry as cannot fail to throw
more and more discredit on the cause of the Papal
system as at present comprehended.
M. Adolphe Gueroult thus shows, in the Opinion
Nationale, how of late years the claims of Rome to
infallibility have been pushed to an unprecedented
extent by that ultra-retrogade party of which Louis
Veuillot is the Corypheus :

In France infallibility has never been attributed
by reasonable Catholics but to the head of the
Church pronouncing supremely in matters of faith
in conformity with tradition and in harmony with
the council. The Church, according to this notion,

which is that of Bossuet, formed amonarchy, but
r sort of representative monarchy, tempered by the
intervention of councils. In proportion as faith has
become weakened, the Ultramontanes have thought
it good policy to try and regain in theory what
they had lost in practice. They have, therefore,
represented the Church as an absolute monarchy,
the Pope as pronouncing alone and uncontrolled,
and in seeking to fortify him they have isolated
him. But as the spirit of sect and party never
abandons an idea without having pushed it to ab-
surdity, it is now not sufficient to represent the Pope
as a spiritual sovereign personally infallible in all
matters of faith. By degrees the infallibility of the
Pontiff has been communicated to the sovereign,
from the sovereign to the ministers, from the mi-
nisters to their subaltern agents ; and to such an
extent has this been carried, that in the eyes of a
host of good souls in the Papal States, the humblest
sacristan is supposed marvellously to reflect some of
their infallibility. The same prestige naturally
extending from persons to their actions, all blame
becomes an act of impiety, all criticism a sacrilege ;
abuses becomes sacred, the most monstrous customs
become articles of faith. While in the rest of the
world everything changes, is modified, and re-
newed, the greater part of the institutions of
Rome represent nothing but a sort of crystallisa-
tion of the middle ages—something more foreign
to our habits than China itself.
The latest Imperial article in the Moniteur was
sent direct from the private cabinet of the Empe-
ror, and was in the handwriting of M. Mocquard,
private secretary to the Emperor, who had been
summoned to St. Sauveur ad hoc.
An article appears in the ,ciecle under the head-
ing of " The English Alliance," which, but for its
appearance in a journal habitually just and friendly
in its tone towards us, and for its being signed
by a writer of some pretension to candour
and intelligence, would be altogether unworthy
of notice on this side of the water. Indeed, we
only note it as a melancholy evidence of the
miserable jealousy of England still rankling in the
breasts of a certain class of Frenchmen. The writer
of this article, M. Louis Jourdan (one of those St.
Simonian socialists who make the best converts to
the Empire) professes hiT leaning to the English
alliance, but insists that France can remain on good
terms with England only on condition of England
abating and abandoning the predominance which
she has displayed ever since 1815, and to which she
has no longer any claim. In short, M. Louis
Jourdan paraphrases with a little more pomposity
the letter of " H.," in the Independance Beige,
which was lately disavowed by the Constitutionnel.
He concludes by threatening England with oce
of those affronts which every nation in
Europe (except England) has suffered in its turn,
in case she will not humble herself before the moral
predominance which the abolition of free institu-
tions has bestowed upon France. We know not
whether M. Jourdan addresses his warnings to our
Commission of national defences, but we can assure
him that he is perfectly welcome to the sort of pre-
dominance which the Empire confers upon its
subjects in the opinion of Europe. We can only
regret that a journal calling itself liberal can at this
day descend to the wretched task of raking up the
animosities of the past, and pandering to prejudices
which ought to be extinct. After all M. Louis
Jourdan is only echoing, not very successfully, the
Union, the Universe, and the Gazette de France ;
and does he imagine that England is to be terrified
by big words?
BOURSE, Sept. 12.—The market has been de-
pressed owing to a fall of ,1- on the Consols, caused
by unfavourable accounts from China. Threes,
after having been done at 68f. 55c., declined to
68f. 30c., but are now at 66f. 50c. Mobilier varied
from 805 f. to 787 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 540 f. to 532 f.
50c. ; Lombard, 552 f. 50c. to 550 f. ; Orleans,
1,365 f to 1,360 f. The following were the las*
quotations :-
14 per Cents. .. • . 94 25'
Do. end montk
3 per Cent 5....... 68 3.5
Do. end month.... 68 35
Bank Shares...... 2780
Credit Mobilier .• 780
Do. Account ..... 780

Cr6dit Fonder 670
Belgian 4f —
Piedmonteso (5) 85
Roman B6 75
Austrian
Spanish Threes
IHome Debt 44A

Cash. Account.
Oe.eans
!slot-them . .................... 917 50 .. 917 50
N'ew ditto. .................... SOS 805
Lyons and Mediterranean 865 .. 867 50
50
G, a nev
500 --501 25
Southern
Western ...................... 575
Eastern ......................655 .. 652 50
Sardinian
kustrian

Lombard ........... . —
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 e. ; money,
25f 10e.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 e.; money, 24f. 95c.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS

CORFU, SEPT. 6,

The peace of Villafranea is not without its influ-
ence on the course of events throughout all lands
where the Greek tongue is spoken. The sudden
abandonment of the grand programme announced
in the French Emperor's address to the people of
Italy, promising the establishment of a free Italy
from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, has fallen
dismally on the car of the sanguhe national Greek
party who already heralded in Louis Napoleon the
champion of all nationalities, and flattered thep-
selves that after having freed the Italians from their
Au,trian dcminators he would, in pursuit of the
noble rause so generously espoused, also hasten to
second Hellenic aspirations by Gallic legions.
The first news of the war in Italy caused, as may
be re•nembered, a very great sensation throughout
Greece, and at Athens demonstrations were made
in favour of France, and such an excitement created
as to cause a modification in the Cabinet. At each
successive victory gained by the French and Sardi-
nians the people gave way to manifestations of the
most frantic joy, their sympathies being strongly
enlisted on the side of the Allies, on whose banners
they saw inscribed the magic words, " oppressed
nationalities," and the Government had the greatest