The Sun. — 1861-02-02 (London, England)

CAVOUR. The Italians most certainly cannot be charged with visionary enthusiasm, nor even with yielding to their natural impulses in regard to Venetia. The conduct of the EMPEROR, of CAVOUR, and of Austria, all seem to show in different ways, that they calculate on peace for this year. Austrian reaction in Hungary could hardly be explained without it. Yet just in this last fact lie■ the possible danger. If Hungary persists in fighting the legal battle with the perfidious and revolutionary HAPSBURG Government, peace may continue; but should Hungary be provoked to insurrection, then GARIBALDI, and other patriots too, would soon be at their posts; the Hungarian and Croatian regiments in Venetia would render the whole force there untrustworthy; Italy would rush in, despite CATOUR and Louis NAPOLEON ; and we might have a vast political and military conflagration. Would that Austria might perish is it! is the prayer of every Englishman.  The Road murder case may seem now to be effectually shielded against all further legal inquiries, and the discovery of the murderer to be left to one of, those unlooked-for revelations which have generated the common proverb that " murder will out." The chief coroner of England, and the judges with him, have unanimously refused the writ for making a better inquiry than the one which few will have the hardihood not to pronounce one of the worst ever made in England. We need not impute corrupt motives to the Coroner, but it cannot be denied that in a matter calling so imperatively for the utmost efforts of inquest he, as it were, in "twice ten minutes, huddled up the case, and with a well-bred whisper, closed the scene. There was," to say the least, perfunctoriness, and rejecting of tendered evidence, -which the Lord Chief Justice himself admitted should have been received. if it was not an error to refrain from summoning suspected persons, it was certainly an error to refrain from hearing the evidence of any of the suspected who volunteered :themselves for examination. But the cardinal error was closing the inquest. In a case so full of a strange combination of certainty and mystery, when almost every one felt certain that the murderer was one of the inmates of the house, and when yet the utmost uncertainty exited as to which it could be, what could be a more obvious course than to retain the inquest open for almost any reasonable length of time; and thus to have a court ready legally authorised to assemble from time to time to consider and examine into any fresh facts or incidents which might occur. This is, we believe, the grievance which is felt by the whole country. Individuals may have their private opinions as to the motives of the Coroner, but his closing the inquest in such an atrocious and mysteriously certain case, is felt by all to have been equivalent to a denial, or at least to a miscarriage of justice. It id now seen that the common law can do,  ARYGLLL Rooms.—Mr. R. Bignall's Second Subscription Ball takes place at the Argylle-rooms on Monday evening, and will no doubt be fully attended The band under the direction of Mons. A. Lamotte will be considerably increased on this occasion.  Astley's Royal Amphitheatre is announced for sale by auction at the end of the present month. Yesterday the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council granted Mr. Hoe, an American, a prolongation f. five years of his patent for improved printing machines. The fifth Royal Dramatic Performance took place at Windsor Castle last evening. The }laymarket company had .the honour of performing Tom Taylor's comedy, in three acts, "The Contested Election." Charles Matthews sustained his original part of Dodgson. The navigation on the Saone in the neighbourhood of Lyons, which had been interrupted by the frost and the high waters, is now resumed. The cause of the resignation of M. Jacini, Pied. montese Minister of Public Works, is said to be his not having been returned at the late electious,