The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-30 00:00:00

Bard the Ministerial plan for facilitating the Sale of i
;ocumbered Estates in Ireland. It is not necessary
to admit the project to be possessed of all the quali-
ties_ attributed to it by romantic expectation ;—a man
may be allowed to doubt the certainty of its being the
,besolute and grand panacea for which Ireland has
s' De. o waiting for uncounted centuries ; 2nd
11 there will be no denying that there is in it much
13_ f the boldness which tempts success, and that it
Points to further movements which must be resultant
in the end.
The plan amounts to setting up an effectual Court
tl,fS_llancery ;—one which shall work and do work, and
likin the life of man, instead of leaving the results,
e changes in the elements of the heavenly bodies,
to
comparison by posterity. Disputed or incumbered
estates, on the application of any of the disputants,
are under the discretion of the new Court to be sold,
and the proceeds divided according to such scale of
Equity as shall be provided or determined, all such de-
t4Bmos to be thenceforth a good title. Upon which
the question arises, why something of the same
ktnd cannot he done in other cases. There is
a , general impression that in this country,
nobody,
to land. speaking generally, likes to show his titles
Everybody suspects weakness, in what
nobody has taken effectual measures to make clear
and strong. Why then should there not be a general
_agreement to start from a new point? Assign a
Moderate term for the announcement of claims
against the actual holders; with provision of
course for lodging and registering now-existing re-
versionary and contingent claims as well as others, but
with penalties, or rights of action for them, against ma-
licious claimants. And to such property as at the end
°f. that period is not disputed, give a title which shall
be good thenceforth ; with provision for the registra-
tion and consequent ready proof of future transfers.
The objection to registration has hitherto been, that
it would rake up dangerous claims. But it is better
to take the chance of what may be raked up in a limited
term, with the prospect of security where none shall
arise, than to live from father to son in insecurity.
Where claims within the proposed term are made, the
Court must try its powers ; but in a large proportion of
etases, it isfpresumable claims would not appear. It might
°e possible to write a novel, where the heir or heiress
to large estates should be spirited away and carried
into the dominions of Prester John, to the prevention of
Putting in their claims within the limited time. But
to chances of this nature may be applied the doctrine,
that de minimis non curat lex. The substantial mass
must not be sacrificed, through fear of romantic
exceptions.
There is in this to attract an interest to the further
progress of the plan.
On Friday the Poor-laws (Ireland) (Rate in Aid)
Bill WAS considered in Committee and reported. An
amendment proposing to take the rate from the land-
lord,i was supported only by a miserable minority of
ut against 101. It is astonishing how hard men fight
for the first dip into the dish ; though when the
tables happen to be turned, they are fluent in protest-
ing that all that is taken from the operative or the
tenant is virtually taken from the landowner. The
Ilouse met on Saturday to receive the report.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, April 30, 1849.

T" LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.)
Capital, 2,000,00 C/., in 80,000 Shares, of 25/. each.
Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share
Prospectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo-
la
rY Offices of the Company, 12a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap-
ilcation to

G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole ,
MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL
THE LOTTERY OF MARRIAGE.

Also, just published,
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I-10SPITAL for CONSUMPTION.
ANNIVERSARY DINNER, May 2.
BEKJAmIN" DISRAELI, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
The Committee of Management earnestly request that all parties
intending to be present at the Dinner will communicate with tee
Secretary by (Monday), THIS DAY, the 30th inst., at the latest.
OSBORN P. CRO,S, Secretary.

Viennese Cabinet. Unless some extraordinary
change take place in the fortunes of FRANCIS JOSEPH,
the roar of the Magyar artillery would soon give the
lie to the denial of their advance as conquerors.
An epitome of the achievemnts of Hungarian pa-
triotism during this memorable and glorious campaign
will show how far we have been all along justified in
auguring NN ell of the war of independence. After
the advance upon the Danube of the German soldiers
under WINDISCHGRATZ, and of the Croatian irregu-
lars under JELLACIIICH, it will be remembered that
the Provisional Government, in obedience to the
recommendation of the illustrious KOSSUTH, with-
, drew beyond the marshy barrier of the Theiss into
the almost inaccessible city of Debreczin. There the
plan of the campaign was deliberately organized ;
there the national councils deliberated; there the
executive administration, under the inspiration of the
great statesman who was to Hungary what LAMAR-
TINE has been to France and Maims' to
Italy, presided over the destinies of a nascent,
or rather of a reviving nationality—assailed
at the same moment, by the colossal forces of the
Austrian EMPEROR and by the auxiliary troops of
the Russian AUTOCRAT. The spectacle was
sublime and the peril enormous. Every generous
heart beat with hope for the heroic democracy
which was standing at bay before a coalition
of Absolute Governments. The gaze of every Liberal
in Europe was turned with emotion towards the seat
of war, with the view of discerning the nature of
its successive movements. To misrepresent those
movements as much as possible, without running the
risk of immediate detection ,has been the aim of the Court
of Olmutz from the moment the first shots were fired
by the belligerents. So long as concealment of the
truth was practicable it was screened under the mark
of garbled dispatches and distorted bulletins. At
last the triumphs of the Hungarians have been so
brilliant and overwhelming as to preclude the states-
men of Vienna from any further misrepresentations.
And but for the constant warnings which we, among
a very few of the other democratic journals, en-
deavoured from the outset to disseminate, the public
would now have heard with unmingled astonishment
from the official organs of Imperial Austria, that
throughout the whole of the campaign the Hungarians
have proved victorious over their assailants—beating
down the Russians in Transylvania, driving the Ger-
mans across the frontiers of Moldo-'Vallachia, and
• ultimately compelling the grand army of the Impe-
rialists to retreat with precipitation and dismay, from
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city to city, in the direction of the Austrian carital.
From the very first, however, we have exposed the
fabulous accounts furnished to Western Europe by
the Viennese papers, and paraded with a very short-
lived exultation in the reactionary press of England.
Our readers will consequently experience no surprise,
on finding that our statements as to the uninterrupted
success of the Hungarians have at length received
confirmation from the official organs of the Austrian
Government. Neither will it be any matter of asto-
nishment to hear one of the most bitter and relentless
opponents of the fellow-patriots of KOSSUTH confess-
ing, at the eleventh hour, that the Polish
Generals opposed to the Russo-Austrian coalition
have shown in their tactics very remarkable ability,
and acknowledging! in so many words, that through-
out the contest the Hungarians have displayed " far
greater military strength and national resources than
the rest of Europe had given them credit for."
Glancing back over the whole of this extraordinary
struggle, the following are the most important of
the various advantages obtained by the captains of
Louts KOSSUTH over the invaders of Hungary
BEM first of all, by a series of daring manceuvres,
conquered the whole of Transylvania.
He seized Klausenburg, notwithstanding the com-
bined ranks of the Austrians and their Russian

auxiliaries.
He occupied liermanstadt, the principal place in
that principality.
He finally drove his antagonists before him across
the boundaries of the province, and has subsequently
followed them himself into Wallachia.
DEMBINSKI has subsequently conducted the centre
of the patriots from the neighbourhood of Debreczin
across the Theirs upon the principal position of the
Imperialists.
He proved victorious in the fight which took place
at Gyongos.
He has met with similar success at Erlau.
He has driven the right wing of the Austrians with
considerable slaughter across the Danube.
He caused the larger portion of the army of the
Imperialists to fall back hastily upon Rakos.
He triumphed over the two brigades stationed at
Waitz

He has forced the Germans to evacuate the double
capital of Buda-PeAb.
He obliged the enemy to make a general move-
ment of retreat by a masterly manoeuvre, in which he
threatened to turn the left flank of the Imperial army
under WOULGEMUTII.
lie raised the siege of Comorn by dispatching
thither GEORGEY at the head of a division of the
Magyars.
He has beaten the Germans back, step by step,
beyond the waters of the Wang.
He has gained a great battle under the walls of
Gran.

He is now pushing forward with such rapidity as
to threaten the dictation of terms within sight of the
Viennese metropolis.
Such have been the glorious achievements which
have consecrated the rights of the Hungarians with
the fame of victory. The Magyars have revealed
throughout a capacity to withstand the domination of
a foreign despot. They have, under the command
of their Polish Generals, worsted the redoubtable
JELLACIIICH, the veteran WINDISCHGRATZ, and even
that vaunted proficient in the science of war, General
WELDEN. _

Our next Parliament, said Louis KOSSUTII, shall
meet in the Hungarian cap!tal--the representatives
shall assemble not at Debreczin but at Pesth !
How nobly is that heroic promise draw-
ing towards the hour of its fulfilment !
Now that the whole of the Hungarian terri-
tory, from the frontiers of Wallachia to the frontiers
of Moravia, from the Carpathian Mountains to the
channel of the Drave, ham been conquered from the
legions of Austria by the dauntless patriotism of the
Magyars, now that the illustrious conquerors are
pressing forward in the footsteps of the retreating
Imperialists, and are driving them at the sword's
point upon Presburg, we may look forward with the
ardour of confidence to the happy termination of a
war so bravely commenced and so heroically con-
ducted.

On Wednesday next the seventh anniversary
dinner in aid of the Hospital for Consumption, at
DB ri os ma
ApEt oLni:
M.P.le presided
fn over
for
the
county
of BENJAMIN
Bucking-
hamshire. We understand moreover that the in-
terest of the occasion will be enhanced by the attend-
ance of Monsieur GulzoT and other distinguished in-
d earnestlyi in-
dividuals. a l
direct
s .
le
the attention Wednesday, anticipation
tiei
atienof
of he
f publicw
to the
approach would
e
approach of this generous and attractive anniversary
—the attraction and the generosity of which will be
worthily expressed by the Chairman selected
for 1849, one so gifted in intellect, and in
heart so peculiarly alive to the sufferings and the be-
nevolence of humanity.
Knowing the munificence which has already been
evinced by the public in forwarding the wishes of the
committee of this very noble and beautiful institution,
it appears almost needless to remark upon its claims
upon the metropolis for assistance. As, however, the
funds accumulated have been far from equal to the
necessities of enlargement, we are authorised in our
endeavour to bring the circumstance of the charity
prominently under the general consideration.
The idea out of which the whole of this most
interesting establishment has originated is one
infficientiv mournful to secure for it the sympathies
of the multitude. It was this, that while every
other physical calamity had its hospital, the dread
disease of pulmonary consumption, that disease which
is but too truly declared to be " the most frequent
and destructive malady in existence," was without
any structure in which its more impoverished victims
could look for shelter—the unfortunate patients being
refused admission into any other institution, on the
plea of " the lingering nature and almost certain
fatality of their disease." To alleviate an affliction
pressing so sorely upon the labouring classes, the
Hospital for Consumption was erected in Brompton
out of sums raised by voluntary contribution. Cons