The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

THE S U ' LONDON, SATUR DAY EVENING AuG:usr 8, t h 7„

good will had been cemented by the blood of the
gallant soldiers who had perished side by side in
the Crimea—that we should no longer hear of
"Perfidious Albion," or of the unrelenting hatred
to English institutions and the English people.
We regret to say that our faith is greatly shaken
by recent events. As long as we submit to be
patronised and led by the nose—as long as we
weakly consent to play second fiddle, and to accept
with bated breath and deep humility the orders
of the EMPEROR, so long shall we be graciously
suffered to go on, but should differences arise, we
must be prepared to " eat humble pie," or
submit to the consequences. We fear that
matters cannot proceed much longer in the same
manner, and that sooner or later we shall have
to struggle, not for our superiority, for that we
do not seek, but for that full and perfect equality
which no true-hearted Englishman will surrenderf
should it cost the shedding of the last drop of his
blood, and the expenditure of his last shilling.
There is a Congress now sitting at Osborne
House in which important decisions may be
arrived at. It would be absurd to suppose that
the visit of LOUIS NAPOLEON was one of mere
ceremony, or that attempts are not being made to
induce England to yield on points in which her
Ministers have hitherto stood firm. The main
point at present is, probably, that relating to the
union of the Danubian Principalities, which France,
in conjunction with its new friends, Russia
and Prussia, seems resolved to accomplish at any
cost, per fas ant nefas. This is the first step
towards the dismemberment of the Ottoman
Empire—the creation of an opponent devoted to
Russia, and prepared to do all its dirty work at
the very threshold. It was to preserve these
provinces to Turkey—to avert that Muscovite in-
fluence, that we entered into the war, and our
sacrifices would, indeed, be made in vain, if we
should now tamely yield to the pen what the
sword could not subdue. The people of Moldavia
have, so far as the lite elections can be received
in evidence, testified an invincible repugnance
to the Union. But their wishes are to be set at
nought, and everything carried with a high hand.
It was not sufficient that the SULTAN changed his
Government to please the overbearing representa-
tives of France and her coadjutors—that the
new Cabinet offered to institute a strict in-
quiry into all matters connected with
the Elections. No, because there was not
immediate submission, because these elections
were not instantly annulled, the flags were hauled
down, and the peace and tranquillity of Europe
I seriously endangered. The annoyance and inso-
lence of such conduct sufficiently proves that the
parties are influenced by no considerations of
equity or justice—that their chief anxiety is to
injure the Porte and humiliate Great Britain and
Austria. Will Lours NAPOLEON induce the
Osborne Conference to connive at such a course ?
We hope not ;we believe not. We have still
confidence in Lord PALMERSTON and Lord CLAR-
ENDON ; and until we are convinced to the con-
trary, on the most unquestionable evidence, can-
not believe that they will strike their colours in a
watter where the honour and interests of England
are so deeply concerned.
There are other matters that may also be touched
on. The coercion of the Press—the dismissal of
political refugees. These will, doubtless, form
topics of conversation, and we confess that it is
not without considerable anxiety that we await
the results of the pending Conferences, which
time alone can fully and completely develope.

A few days will now bring fresh intelligence
from India. We shall know whether Delhi has
really fallen—wliether the sanguinary miscreants
who have murdered and insulted our countrymen
and countrywomen hive expiated their inhuman
atrocities, or whether the mutiny has spread fur-
ther and assumed even more formidable dimen-
sions. We shall then know whether the people
have joined the military ruffians, and whether
we have again to reconquer India, or merely to
disband and punish a number of insurgent sepeys,
and those by whom their discontent has been
excited or fomented, and who can be convicted on
unequivocal evidence of complicity in the vile
conspiracy.

Hitherto the people, with few and rare excep-
tions, have remained true to their allegiance, and
we- hope and believe that they will still be found
faithful. Much will depend on the manner
in which the mutineers are dealt with, and
the stringency of the examples that may be
made. As yet, it has been • merely the military
element that has occasioned the disturbance, and
those others Rho have joined have been merely
the miscreants who would not permit any oppor-
tunity for plunder or murder to pass away with-
out taking full advantage of the chances. The
question then naturally arises, what can have oc-
casioned or led to Viis deplorable feeling on
the part of men who have " partaken of our salt"
—who have been petted to the utmost extent,
have had all their prejudices respected, and their
interests carefully attended to ? The man who
can lift the veil and dispel the mists in
which the matter is involved will render valua-
ble service to the nation. And there are
many who are prepared to give the benefit of their
Indian experiences. Amongst these the Hon.
Member for Weymotith a,suines a prominent
position. He has already published a very able
and well-timed pamphlet* on the causes of, and
remedies for, the mutiny. Mr. CAMPBELL
seems to have studied the Indian character with
assiduity and effect, and to have possessed him-
self of a large fund of available information, pe-
culiarly valuable at the present crisis. And we
earnestly hope that the Government may
avail itself of the well-considered sugges-.
tions which he tenders for their acceptance.
Mr. CAMPBELL has, in an appendix, given a
remarkably clear and graphic historical sketch of
the Bengal army. He has pointed out the various
mutinies that have broken our, and even of the
discontents that have existed among the Sepoy
troops. From the data thus supplied he
has arrived at the conclusions which he has sub-
mitted to the Premier. Every one of these con-
clusions—eleven in number—seem to be fully
warranted by the premises, and to lead naturally
tawards the proposed remedies by which, having
suppressed the revolt, we may obtain security for
the future.

One of th 9 chief causes of the insubordination
has been the deficiency of European officer; and
the consequent influence attained by the native
Commissioned officers—" Men who have invari-
ably risen from the ranks, grown old and
imbecile, and either become the tools of tli
\
soldiers, with whom they formerly associated
on equal tunas, or the listless spectators of al,
that passes around them." Their conduct seems
t) have been
of the dilapidatOodnedisaeraipolinngesot ' f
:II the
of
upgriamuanryfanctaruys.e,s,
The Sepoy has also found that every manifestation of
' discontent has led to extra pay and allowances.

7sesvisacnoduTttspilic--eerdisteosn.i,
* "The Indian Mutiny : Its Ca
Weymouth. A. Lotter to the Right Hon. Lori •
K.G. and G.C.8., First Lord of the Treasury
By R. J. R. Campbell, Esq., M. P. for
don : Charles Evans, Unita Servke Gazette office, 6, Weil
lington-street South, Strand.

His religious prejudices could always be assuaged
by a few rupees, hiS
_wounded conscience healed
by the application, of a silver plaister. Any
pretext that afbrded a favourable oppor-
tunity for extortion was anxiously sought
after, and wolked to the utmost. The more
yielding were his employers, the more
avaracious he became, until at last he severed
, every tie, and rushed into open rebellion.

We commend Mr. CAMPBELL'S brochure to the
attention of our readers. It will be found well
worthy of attzsntive perusal. and may, when the
first impediments have been overcome, provide a
clue towards an extraction from the labyrinth in
which we are at present involved.

The clergy are making a vigorous effort for

liberty of conscience—a rather new thing this in
English history. All of a sudden they have found
out that for time out of mind they have sinned
by law ; several times in each session the law has
required them to marry divorced persons, should
these persons present themselves for marriage.
They could not help themselves, and they gave
no indication that they wished to help themselves.
The thing they could help doing, taking the fees,
they did as readily as in other cases. They mar-
ried, if they did not give in marriage, all the
violaters of the great principle of the indissolu-
bility of marriage who might demand to be united
by them in the bonds of holy matrimony. Never,
that we ever heard of, did any clergyman, while
appealing to others to declare any "just cause or
impediment" with which they were acquainted,
himself proclaim that divorce was a just cause or
impediment in the case before him, He made the
matrimony as holy as priest could make it, and.
declared the parties joined together by God, and
not to be put asunder by man.
All at once, however, they have gained new

ight. It is proposed to simplify the process of

law, not to alter its powers. It is proposed, also,
to make it more easily accessible to all who live
under it, and to abolish entirely the parts of the
process most offensive to decency and most inju-
rious to public morals. A considerable number,
some thousands, of the clergy, have on this occa
sion discovered that marriage is absolutely indis-
soluble, and that therefore it is sinful for a
clergyman to re-marry persons whom a court of
law has separated. Why this change? They
used, in the years of their innocence, to re-marry
the separated mau and woman, "and were not
ashamed." " Who told them that they were

naked r The answer is not far to seek. Rome

was tha serpent. She told them that matrimony
was a sacrament, whatever that word of ecclesias-
tical conjuration meant ; and as Papal magic has
been at an advancing premium of late years at

Oxford, the clergy have tried to believe that the
words they read at the altar create some myste-

rious tie, or lay the united parties under some
spell, which no State enchanter, nor even an ec-
clesiastical one, can ever break. The married
parties may violate any matrimonial pledge, one
or both of them—the physical, the religious, the
sentimental relations of matrimony may all be
annihilated—the whole thing, body, soul, and
spirit, may be gone, hopelessly gone ; but no one
may pronounce it gone. It remains by a. kind of
matrimonial transubstantiation. To the senses
no holy matrimony, but rather an unholy contrast,
is there ; but He of Oxford, and his dapper, or
demure Puseyites, tell us that the mystic thing is
certainly there, for the priest once put it there.
We may not, indeed, perceive it—nay, we per-

ceive the reverse—but faith must tell us that a
miracle exists ; that an unholy adulterer or adul-
teress, or a pair equally guilty, are living in a
mystic and holy bonds So, too, thinks that emi-
men t financier, Peelite, theologian, casuist, sophist,
and we know not what besides, Mr. GLADSTONE.

These gentlemen, aczordingly, now demand
liberty of conscience for their newly discovered

creed. They want liberty not to marry those
whom the law of the land allows to marry. All
fair and right if they were not the servants of the
State ; but under what pretext they first " eat
the salt" of the State, and then mutiny when
called on to fulfil the duties it requires, we can-
not conceive. These Clerical Sepoys, like the
Brahmin Sepoys of India, have in truth been also
petted till they do not know what they want.
Like the latter they have been long secretly dis-
affected to the Supremacy of the Civil Power, and
now the Bill before Parliament is like the greased
cartridges to their ill-suppressed discontent.
The pretext, however, is not so good fir the
Clerical as for the Brahmin mutineers ; since the
firmer are merely required to keep up their old
drill, while thelttter had, presumably at least, to
incur a new pollution. To us the case seems very
clear. No servant of the State should have any
option as to fulfilling the duties which the State
at.aches to his office. The principle is so vicious
hat no honest servant could wish it. A clergy-
man is not permitted to refuse the Holy Sacrament
of the Eucharist to any man not legally debarred
from it, however bad his life may be ; nor to de-
cline to read the Burial Service over the grave of
the worst parishioner he may have had ; why
should he be allowed an option to marry or not
persons who may legally intermarry ?
We sea Mr. GILPIN, 'the Friend," in his cre-
ditable zeal for liberty of conscience, will support
an amendment giving liberty to Puseyite State
clergymen to refuse doing the work of the State.
But is he consistent or wise ? The practice of his
sect is to dispense entirely with State pay, indeed,
almost to dispense with a clergy. It would, there-
fore, be the height of oppression to require a
Quaker minister, in that capacity, to do anything
for the State. The Puseyites can follow the
Friends in declining State emoluments, if they
please. They can have; like the Catholics, a
hierarchy and priesthood independent of the
State, and may then properly refuse a
religious service in connection with marriage if
they like. The alternative is simple—State emo-
liments and State Services, or voluntary support
and voluntary service. To us it appears inexcus-
ably ignoble and sordid to want liberty without
being willing to pay its price. Dissenters, Catho-
lics, and Free Churchmen set them an example at
which they ought to blush.
Adverting to Dissenters, we would remind these
matrimonial mutineers that there are suck things
as Church-rates. That Dissenters have always
complained of them as unjust, and that that they
have often alleged, too, that it went against their
consciences to pay Clem. Any fair-minded man
,viii own that there is something in the latter
plea. A man who seriously makes a conscience
of his particular creed, who thinks it at least
worth while to pay considerably, in order to
maintain worship in accordance with it—such a
man may be excused, surely, in feeling it rather
galling to his conscience to pay a shilling towards
the creed and worship he repudiates, and, perhaps,
deems superstitious. He may be an enthusiast, a
fanatic, or what you will, but that does not excuse
ourgrieving his conscience. He can hardly be more
superstitious than these matrimonial mystics or
matrimonial transubstantionists. Yet what was
the answer of every one of these mutineers against
State law. when Dissenters have talked of conaci-
entious objections to paying Church-rates ? One
and all they
have always exelaimed not only

that the law must take its course, but that they
could not understand a conscientious objection to
obeying the law of the land ! We hope that
Dissenters will not forget the Paseyite plea of
conscience againat law. They may well thank
the Bishop of OXFORD and his followers for
teaching them that word. For ourselves we must
think the Dissenters have the best of it. We can
more easily conceive of conscientious objections to
a payment for propagating what we hold to be
error ; than to marrying persons whom the laws
of society allow to marry; and to whom marriage
is at least a preservative from temptation. Lord
PALMERSTON and the Commons ought not, in any
case, to give in to the clerical mutineers.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, Commander in-Chief, attended by
Colonel Tyr whitt, embarked from the ducks this after-
noon, at half-past five o'clock, on board the Royal yacht
Elfin, Captain Crispin, for Osborne, on a visit to her
Majesty, and to meet the E•nperor and Empress of the
Frola. Viscou❑t Palmerston embarked at the same
time, and returns on Monday ❑ext, in company with
his Royal Highness.

Vi-count Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon,
for Osborne, on a visit to the Queen.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE —The marriage of Lady
Susan Harriet Innes Ker, eldest daughter of the Duke
of Roxburghe, and Mr. James Grant Suttie, eldest son
of Sir George Grant Suttie, of Preston Grange, was so-
lemnised on Wednesday last, at St. Andrew's Epi-copal
Chapel, Kelso, N.B. The Rev. Wm. Kell, B.D ,
Rector of Corsenside, assisted by the Rev. F. M. Rob-
herds, M.A., the incumbent, performed the religious
ceremony, in the presence of a numerous circle of the
relatives of both families.

REPRESBNTATION OF BIRMINGHAM.—BIRMINGHAM,
Friday Night.—Mr. Bright has declared in favour of a
suppression of the Indian.revolt, and his success by his
friends is deemed certain.

MISS LECLERCQ'S BENEFlT.—Thisfavourite actress of
the Princess's Theatre takes her benefit on Tuesday
next, and will doubtless receive on the occasion the
cordial support of her admirers and friends.
_

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors of this
company have determined to recommend to the pro-
priet as the declaration of a dividend for the half-year
ending the 30;h June, 1857, at the rate of 1 per cent.
per annum, carrying forward a balance for the current
half-year of about 10,006/
AUSTRALIAN MAILS —There is no word yet of the
screw steamer great Britain, belonging to Gibbs,
Bright, and Co., from Melbourne, with the mails and a
large amount of gold. She was to leave Melbourne on
the 20th of May. and she is now in her 80th day, but is
expected in the Ilersey every tide.
AMERICA.— tiOUTHAMPTON, FRIDsY.—The Europe ao
ant American Company's steern ship Queen of tre
South, Captain Seal, arrived off Cowes this morninz,
from New York, with 200 paersengers and a full cargo of
sugar, &e. The aivices are anticipated. She left Cowes
for the Victoria Docks, London, to discharge her cargo.
From thence she will proceed to Bremen.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND STEAMERS.—The steam ship
Khersonese which was to have left Liverpool to-day
for Newfoundland, has been chartered by Government
for the conveyance of troops to India. The mails in-
tended for the Khersonese are consequently detained.
We understand that the owners of the vessel intend
placing the steam ship Crimean on the Newfoundland
line in place of the Khersonese, and it is expected that
she will take her departure some time-next week.
NOTTINGHAM WEEKLY TRADE REPORT, August 6.
Very few buyers have visited the lace warehouses during
the past week. The present time is what is termed
" between sea,onv;" and the quietness characteristic of
the period continues to prevail. A leaden dullness reigns
throughout the hosiery manufacture, au-passing, per-
haps, anything of the kind for a long time past. Not-
% ithstanding there is " nothinz to du," the prices of raw
material maintain th.ir lofty range.
LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.—In the South-
wark County Court yesterday, in an action to recover
possession of a house in Nelson-place, Old Kent-road,
his Honour said, if a tenant entered in the middle of a
quarter, and paid rent for a fractional period, from the
end of which quarter he paid half pearly, his tenancy
commenced from the quartet-day to which he bad paid
up, and:not from the quay ter-day prior to the time when
he entered:

DESTROYING CHURCH-DOOR REGISTRIES.—Yesterday
morning, in conseqaence of the partial deAtruction of the
lists entitling persons to he placed on the registry, notices
have been issued to the police for the attendance of
constables next Sunday and following ones to prevent a
repe ition of such disgraceful conduct. In one instance
alone, that of S. John's, Waterloo-road, Lambeth,
nearly one-eighth of the list has been cut away. A
reward is offered fir the detection of the guilty party.
THE PERTHSHIRE MOORS.—The Perthshire Constitu-
tional says :—The accounts relative to the grouse
upon the l'eithshire hills are somewhat conffcting.
According to several of our correspondents, from disease
and over shooting last year, good sport by the 12th is
not to be expected. Others report, however, that upon
the rooors in the western district. of the county, the birds
are nurner,a, iltrong on the wing, and no de kd ones are
seen. They state that upon the whole the sh3oting will
be at least equal to the season of 1856.

THE CONVICT BACON.—The Lincolnshire Chronicle is
requested to state that nothing official has as yet tran-
spired as to the carrying out of the sentence passed on
Bacon at the late assizes, nor is it likely that any order
respecting him will be made until the meeting of the
judges, when, as is usual when sentence of death is re-
corded against any prisoner, his case will be duly con-
sidered by their lordsteps. We are informed that Bacon
is at present engaged in writing to the Secretary of
State respecting the result of his trial.
PURCHASE OF CSIMEAN MEDALS.—At Woolwich
Police-court, yesterday, James Freeman,a
pntboy at
the Cuach and Home Tavern, Woc lwicb, was fined 51
and Cl. 7e. 6d., the latter penalty being treble the value
Leavy
ethe penalty
of six silver Crimean medals, which the prisoner bad
purchased from privates of the Royal Marines. Mr.
Traill, the sitting maietrate, observed that he was
for a'l such offences.
In de-
termined
d f
prisoner was committed
for three months.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Saturday last a sergeant
of the llth Hussars oemmitted suicide by cutting first
aul tto
inflict
pa yin g a ills le a
his throat, and of erwards the arteries of his arms, in
his room, at the barracks at Hounslow. It appears
that he had lost some money, about 80/ , through the
defalcation of a person whom he had trusted in the
Crimea, and that toe loss preyed upon his mind. He
had been upwards 20 years in the service, and was much
respected in the regiinent. An inquest was held on the
body by the coroner for the county, when a verdict of
" Temporary insanity" was returned.
FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquest was
held on view of the body of Daniel Clarke, aged 56, a
drayman. The deceased was proceeding up the Cole-
,'onian-road, HollowAY, and was sitting on the near shaft
of the dray, when an obstruction by several vehicles took
place in the road, by a coal waggon, which was unload-
leg on the near side of the road. The dray in pa-:sing
came so close to it, that his leg and thigh was crushed.
The unfortunate man was conveyed to the University
College Hospital, where he expired shortly afterwards.
Verdict, Accidental Des.h. The deceased has left a
widow and family, and the firm have humanely subscribed
a sum for their benefit.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—The ordinary
meeting of the M.-tropolitan Board of Works was held
yesterday in the Council Chamber, Gui,dhall—Mr. J.
Th graites in the chair. The board sat with closed doors
till half-past three o'clock in investigating certain parti
culars in the return of fees made to this board by one of
the district surveyors of the metropolis, but which was

, .
of no interest wlatever. Several notices of motion
twoe
instruct
given,st
ruc t h
arr. liong
which was one by Colonel Kennedy,
azaigette, the engineer, to furnish the
board with an alternative plan, estimate, and report
upon that portion of the general report to which he
refers under the head of the '! Thames Embankment "
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,inlgBst6he
reTphoertsreosft
theof au-
the
2c2oinsMidaey,
perintending architect and engineer, but they were all of
a routine character, and unworthy of a report, and the
board adjenined soon after five o'clock.
THE MORAL SENSE.—TroIy, the moral sense as to
the nature of property, and the rights, may be, as it
has been found, wanting in the higher, or the middle, as
in the "lower classes." One man will rob a hen-roost,
another will adulterate his goods, and train up his
children in the virtue of getting only rich, by any means ;
a third makes away with securities entrusted to him, or
swindles under the cloak of a company ; a fourth steals
openly the property of your brain. Where is the dis-
tinction,—except that made by the obliquity of vision
which serves each of the appropriators when he chooses ?
There can be no real nicety of difference between that
which is punishable as felony, and the appropriation of
intellectual property,—none in the can=cience, except
where that by custom has been blunted. If it must be
left to the conscieece of an individual to settle in many
cases, where appropriation cannot rightly be made.—
the moral obligation to right is surely as strong on him
as if all society were witnesses. The "vice and crime
amongst the poor" are punished with a relentless hard.
—llle Builder.
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNIIENT Ig VANCOUVER'S
ISLAND. —Oa the eve of a new Reform Bill some de-
spatches r-ceived by the C loan office on the subject of
the eseeeeeem„t of a Representative Assembly in
Vancouver's Island will be feed with interest. Mr.
Labouchere in February, 1856, ordered that such an
assembly should be convoked without loss of time, and
in dun() following the Council of the Island, presided over
by the Geverner, unanimously agreed that the owner•
ship of 200/. of freehold property or immovable estate
should constitute the qualification of a member of the
Assembly) that absentee proprietors should be permitted
to vote by peon) and that the qualification of voters
should be the ownership of 20 acres of freehold land, or
upwards. The settlements were to be divided into
four electoral districts. The House of Assembly was
opened on the 12th of August last, and the affair passed
off very quietly. A Mr. Helmaker was el cted
" Speaker, ' and several " election petitions" were forth-
with presented, one or two of them, as in England, being
evidently of a very "frivolous and vexatThe ioue" characAs,ter,
merely got up for party purposepurposes.House of
sembly consists of seven members only, andof these three
were petitioned against, leaving the Speaker and three
members at liberty to act. Ono of the members pet .
tioned against was unseated by a eemeeittee for want of
a legal qualification. A report is given the business
(principally financial) hitherto transacted by the As-
embly.

LATEST NEW%s
•

TRIAL OF THE FRENCH CON-
SPIRATORS.

The trial of the three Italian conspirators, Tibaldi,
Bartolotti, and Grili, was resumed yesterday morn-
ing at IO o'clock, before the Court of As size of Paris.
The court was more crowded yesterday than the
day before. Tibaldi was more pale and restless,
and addressed several questions to the gendarme at
his side. Grilli, who entered next, appeared much
dejected. Bartolotti appeared to be perfectly at
his ease, and gazed earnestly at the strangers in the
galleries. The President having taken his seat, the
Attorney-General rose t 3 speak to evidence ; his
speech was in a great measure a recapitulation of the
bill of indictment. "Thank God," said the Attorney-
General in conclusion, " the part those conspira-
tors had to fill is concluded. Our duty is accom-
plished. It is for you, gentlemen of the jury,
to perform yours with the independence and firm-
ness which belong to honourable and free men.'
M. Desmarets then pleaded for Tibaldi, and en-
deavoured to convince the jury that there was no
evidence to convict his client but the unsupported
declaration of his fellow-prisoners. M. Floquet,
second counsel for Tibaldi, submitted to the Court
that it should be proposed to the jury that, even
supposing the facts charged in the indictment
against Tibaldi to be proved, as his fellow-con-
spirators did not consent to execute the crime, he
must be acquitted. M. Lacan spoke in defence
of Grilli. He demanded the acquittal of his
client on the ground that he had never intended
to assassinate the Emperor. He had never even
seen his Majesty, nor had he gone out armed.
M. Lecanu followed for Bartolotti, and pursued
the same line of argument. The Att ,rney-General
shortly replied, and the President having read his
notes, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with
extenuating circumstances in favour of Bartolotti
and Grilli.

The Procureur-General demanded the application
of Article 89 of the Penal Code to the three accused,
modified by Article 460 as regarded the two
latter.

The alurt, after deliberating in the Council-

chamber, sentenced Tiballi to transportation for
life, and Bartolotti and Grilli to fifteen years im-
prisonment.

A. private letter from Vienna of the 4th mentions
that the visit of the Emperor Napoleon to Osborne
seems to pro Ince a certain degree of dissatisfaction
at the Imperial Court. It is regarded as an indica-
tion that not only has the Anglo-French alliance
undergone no sensible diminution, whatever differ-
ences may have arisen on points which are now
settled, but that it is intimate as ever, and, if any-
thing, will be drawn still closer. It is anticipated'
that concessions on other questions which still
divide the two Cabinets will be mutually made,
and that the English Government, in proof of its
desire to remain ou the same friendly terms with
her powerful ally, may not refuse to withdraw her
opposition to the union of the Danubian Principali-
ties, and which, all things considered, is one of se-
condary interest to her. The Absolute Sovereigns of
Europe, we are told, regard with distrust and jea-
lousy this alliance ; it is useless for Austria to try to
cultivate the good graces of England, and the party
that always showed its hostility to the policy of the
Western Powers now suggests the necessity of a re-
conciliation with Russia, who after all, is Austria's
natural ally. The question of the Principalities is
considered as-a, good opportunity for that purpose.
Russia is believed to desire the union under the
sovereignty of a native Prince, for the simple reason
that a native Prince would be easily attached to her
interests, and that before long the provinces would
be really governed as they have been so long, under
Russian influence. In the event of a union, which
Austria has always considered hurtful to herself,
she would try to neutralise the danger by the
nomination of a German Prince, which might
be accepted as a pis aller by Russia. Both
Powers, however, are hostile to ..the no-
mination of a French Prince of the Imperial
family, and France, in pushing forth the union,
they think is actuated by no other motive. The
nomination would fall on Prince Napoleon, who is
known for his more than favourable disposition
towards England, and for. his dislike to everything
Russian, as proved in the most unmistakeable man-
ner during the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine
to France, and his little partiality to German
Princes or German politics.

It would appear that the Archduke, during
his sojourn in England, endeavoured to ascertain
whether a visit from his Imperial brother, the Em-
peror of Austria, would be viewed with pleasure
by the English Court or the English people. That
visit would be considered to show to Europe the
good understanding that existed between Austria
and England, and would be the precursor of a still
closer friendship. It would seem that the Arch-
duke's advances were not received' so warmly as he
anticipated in the quarter to which they were
addressed.

The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second
edition) in referring to the telegraphic despatch
from Vienna, announcing that the French ambas-
sador" at, Constantinople had pulled down his flag
in consequence of his demands not being granted
says :—"I am assured that the French
by the Porte,
Government gives a positive contradiction to this
statement, and has, moreover, desired that the Paris
papers should not repeat it on the ground of its
inaccuracy."

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 6.

The Porte having refused to annul the late elec-
tions in Moldavia, the Ministers of France, Russia,
Prussia, and Sardinia live broken off their diplo-
matic relations with that power.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

After the departure of the Emperor and Empress
from Havre, the mayor published the following
address to the population :---
" Dear fellow-townsmen—Their Majesties were
highly satisfied with the reception which you have
given them ; the Emperor told us so, awl gave us
the assurance that he is actively occupied with the
great questions which interest the future prosperity
of our port. In le wing us., his Majesty announced
his intention of again passing through Havre in a
few days. I thank all the population for their
zealous co-operation in this fete, and particularly
the various corps whoze presence so much contri-
buted to give a special character to the fete ; also,
the members of the Horticultural Society, who
improvised the charming decoration of the town-
hall which, howeyer, their Majesties were pre-
vented by fatigue from visiting. I also thank the
central commissary, the commissaries of police, and
their agents, through whose arrangements the most
perfect ',order prevailed, in spite of an immense
crowd."
During the absence of the Emperor, Prince
Jerome will preside at the siAings of the council
of ministers.
A private telegraphic despatch from London
states that a " conference " is to be held this even-
ing at Osborne, at which Lord Palmerston, Lord
,Garendon, M. do Persigny, and M. Walewski
will assist.

Tile King of Wurtemburg, the Bayonne journals
announce, has arrived at Biarritz. . _ _

BOURSE, Aug. TD—The following were the las
quotations

Cub. fr. c. End of Month.
44 per Cents
3 per Cents 66 90 67 15
Bank Shares 2,800 Credit Foncier ......
Credit Mobilior 957 50 Roman

Do. Account 957 50 Austrian
Belgian 4t
Fiedmontese (5) B9 -- Horne Debt

RAILWAYS—FOR CASS.
tr. C. Ir C.
72 i
Orleans 1,445 Western ............... —
Northern t—
Lyons and Med 9261— New Ditto 4—
New Ditto 905 Grand Central
Geneva
Midi

thrown open the, Danube to the worla, not only
for the benefit of Austrian comme,ce, but also for
the commerce of the world. The Danube, which
is the chief artery of Central Europe, was not only
thrown open by the treaty f Paris, but it was, in
our opinion, in• ended by nature to I e a free river.
The German newspapers will not admit this ;
they can understand a certain amount of freedom
but not a universal or European freedom. They
would only throw open the river to the countries
it washes. We would fain regard this as an opi-
nion of isolated pol ticians ; but when we reflect
on the nature of Germ In journals, we must not
allow the said opinion to pass without a prote,t.
in the presence of the very clear wording of the
treaty of Paris, which says, 'the flags of all nati us
will he placed on an equal footing,' it. is difficult to
understand how the German journals can suppose
that the nations of Europe gave themselves the
trouble to throw open the mouths of the Danube
under any other understanding than that they were
all to profit by it. There is something cynical and
odious inlhe pretensions of the German journals.
At a moment when nations are co-mingling, by
means of steam and rail, the efforts of old poli-
tical ideas are directe 1 to oppose the progress cf
civilisation and the general tendency of na-
tions. Moreover, Germany would gain more
from the free navigation of the Danube than f, om
the monopoly of Austria. It is not at the time
when bridges over the Rhine are about to uni.e
the railroads of France and Germany, that the
latter country should adopt an exclusive policy.
Austria is alone interested in the closing of the
Danube. She has excited all the present diffi-
culties in the hope of maintaining her monopoly.
But her plans for the enslavement of the great com-
mercial artery of Western Europe, will be exposed
and overthrown, in the same manner that her in-
trigues in the Principalities have been baffled."