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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1859.

EPSOM RACES.—The New Route from
Waterloo-bridge Station to Epsom direct. Derby Day
(Wednesday), and Oaks Day (Friday). A Special Express
Train will leave Waterloo-bridge Station at 145 p.m. pre-
cisely each day, arriving at Epsom in time for the race.

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Trains will run up to 11'0 a.m. ; and Fast Trains from 111.5
a.m. till 1•0 p.m.
On WEDNESDAY (the Derby), and Friday (the Oaks), Cheap
Trata will run up to 915 a.m., and Fast Trains from 9.30
a.m. till 1.0 p.m. Also, on these days, a Special Express
Train from Waterloo at 1.30
FARE o.—Cheap Trains (single tickets), 2s. 6d., 25., and ls. 6d.
Fast Trains (single tickets, to or from Epsom), 4s. ; return
tickets, 7s. 6d,

No particular Class of Carriage can be guaranteed.
Cheap Tickets, Epsom to London, will be issued at Epsom
Station after half-past seven each evening of the races. The
oldinary trains between London and Epsom and Leather-
head will be entirely suspended during the hours above ad-
vertised.
The reLurn tickets may be obtained on and after Satuitiay,
28th May, as under:—Messrs. Tattersall's, Hyde-park-corner;
Universal Office, Regent-circus ; Griffin's, Green Man and
Still, Oxford-street ; Golden Cross, Charing-cross ;. Bolt-in-
Tun, Fleet-street; Swan with Two Necks, Gresham-street;
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High-street, Borough ; and at Waterloo and Vauxhall Bridge
Stations.

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p3rforated, 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
inj
ICheshire 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 done, and before the fire
brigade, who were promptly in attendance, had
arrived.

THE 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 Messager 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 avertissenient, to the
indecencies of the Messager. A communication to
the following effect has been made, or is to be made,
to that journal : 4
4. "
Message! de Poris published in its`climber efth;
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, deserve to be all the more
reprobated that they are addressed to a Power 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 jndgment. But the more legitimate it is to con-
demn, the less becoming 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 are 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 often-
.

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 one 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 Italian
Governments and people from the yoke of Austria,
after concluding an armistice with the Duke of
Parma, requested from the Parmesans.
" A tribute of 2,000,000 in specie, which his military
chest stood much in need of, 1,600 horses for his artillery
and -baggage, a great quantity of wheat and barley, the
faculty of traversing the Duchy, and the establishment of
hospitals for bis sick, at the expense of the Prince. The
General did not limit hifnaelf to that ; he loved and relished
the arts as au Italian ; he knew all they add to the splen-
dour of an empire, and the moral effect they produce on
the imagination of men ' • he therefore exacted 20 pictures,
to be selected by French commissioners, to be transported
to Paris. The 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 the armistice. 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 Pe 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 this want arrested its entry
on the campaign, ho sent, through Switzerland, a million to
Moreau, &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 cf 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 fact, terrific-2 :
" 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-
manded 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-Piete."

This " loot," 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,ll
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 on so solemn an occasion as the speech
from the Throne, last year, when the Emperor
spoke of him as the "truly national historian of
France." At a leer period (1798) the ,population
of the Cis-Alpine Republic showed themselves still

more ungrateful for the liberties and other benefits
they had obtained from their benefactors ' • and,
according to Botta ( Storia cr Italia,dal,l749 al1814).
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,

IRELdND.

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 appointeient 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.
ICemmis, 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
Wrench. 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 up
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 time 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 HOMICIDE.
" 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 1 cannot await his return for
this parcel."