The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-23 00:00:00

Wlittion

AUSTRIA.

The Breslau, Gazette confirms the account of the
defeat of the united armies of Austria and Russia on
the 14th and 15th. The battle took place on the left
bank of the Danube, in the plain between Wesselburg
and Raab, and lasted sixty-four hours. The Hun-
garians were commanded by Generals Arthur
Georgey and Guyon, and the Imperialists by Haynau
and Rudiger. '23,000 Austrians and Russians, and
8,000 Hungarians, were killed. Field-Marshal
Schlick and several other officers of high rank were
taken by the Magyars. The rout was complete. The
Austro-Russian army fled from the field in complete
disorder, followed to the frontiers by clouds of Hus-
sars and Ci.kos, who cut up the fugitives wherever
they overtook them.

F a AN CE.
The Cercle Constitutionnel, lately presided over by
M. Dufaure, has, on the cccasion of its reorganizing
itself and appointing new officers, published a manifesto
Explanatory of the principles by which it is actuated.
The following are the principal passages :
" The first sentiment (says the document) under the
Empire of which the members of this reunion have as-
sembled is the firm determination to maintain the Con•
stitution. Most of them neither created nor wished for
the Republic, but all have frankly accepted it, and, with-
out any arriere pensee, desire to preserve it. They do
not confine themselves to merely according to it their
acquiescence, they mean to afford it their firm co-
operation. In their eyes it is not sufficient not to be
hostile to it, but it is important to aid and serve it. A
Government is badly supported when it is only tole-
rated, and people are very ready to abandon it when
they declare it impossible, and keep for another their de-
sires and their hopes. The hopes and desires of the
members of the Cercle are for the Republic and for its
firm establishment. They do not deceive themselves with
regard to the imperfections which the Constitution may
pre sent; but such as it it appears to them, if honestly
executed, to offer all the essential conditions of
good Government; and being opposed to impatient
wishes for an immediate revision, they do not admit
that the Constitution can be modified except according
to the forms and at the time the Constitution has itself
prescribed. Any irregular change would re-open
to all parties the path of revolution. But, whilst
they sincerely and firmly wish for the maintenance
of the Constitution, the members of the Cercle do
not admit that, under pretext that it is violated by the
great powers of the State, the country can be thrown, as
it has just been, into the perils and horrors of civil war.
They strongly condemn such wild and criminal enter-
prises; all applaud the triumph of order; they will not
refuse to the Government anything that may be neces-
sary for it to defend society; they will only stop at the
point at which resistance would become reaction; and
then, in restraining the Government, they would believe
that they still aided it."
. Referring to Socialism, the manifesto expresses
• itself as follows :
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" It is not such or such a form of government that this
Utopian theory attacks, but society itself—all society.
But at the same time that they are convinced of this
truth, the members of the Cercle Constitutionnel have
another conviction ; they believe that the first condition
of success for the cause of order is that the combat shall
be always openly sustained in the name of and for the
Republic. Society and order,' it is alleged, must
first be saved, the Republic and the Constitution can
next be looked to.' But that is a bad way of stating
the question ! The first condition of order is the
maintenance of the Constitution—the first condi-
tion of force is the power of the Republic. Force
derived from the Republic and the Constitution
can alone save society. Many adversaries of the So-
cialist doctrines sincerely believe that the only means of
putting them down is to crush it by force. The mem-
bers of the Cetcle Consatutionnel are fully of opinion
that no violence should remain unrepressed, and that
and that no bad propagandism should exist without one
in opposition to it; but they, at the same time, think that
there exists another and better plan of triumphing
over it, and that is to labour seriously and con-
stantly for the cure of social evils. Socialism is a Utopian
scheme ; but social miseries are not chimerical. The
greatest crime, perhaps, of Socialism is to set forth impos-
sible remedies for serious evils, and by its impuissance to
cause evils, which it is the duty of society to relieve
if not to cure, to be considered incurable. The best sen-
tence to pass on it is to oppose sound and useful reali-
tic to its wild Utopian ideas, and to prove that for
all the cruel sufferings which it only knows how to
envenom there exist not only true and profound
sympathies, but sure alleviations or efficacious remedies."
The document concludes as follows, with a decla-
ration of its intention to support the pt esent Govern-
ment
Profoundly convinced that in such times as ours the
weakness of the Government is a great evil, and its force
a necessity, the members of the Cercle Constitutionnel
have not constituted an opposition meeting. They
have, from the first, declared positively, and they
again declare their firm determination to afford to
the President of the Republic and his Ministry frank
and independent support. Sincere co operation on
their part is assured to the Government, and
precisely because they would not hesitate to warn it
frankly of its errors by their counsels, and if necessary
even by their votes, they will confer on it greater
strength by their conscientious adhesion."

LEAMINGTON SPA, JUNE 21.—The anniversary
of her Majesty's accession was celebrated here, by public
festivities, which attracted nearly 40,000 spectators, among
whom were some of the most distinguished fasbionables in
the Midland Counties, the chief object of curiosity being
the ascent of Lieutenant Gale's monster balloon, "The Royal
Cremorne," which took place from the Jephson Gardens.
The town is ful of company.