The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

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AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

All the accounts of the flight from Raab are con-
firmed by the papers and letters received from Vienna,
dated up to the 6th inst.
General Haynau entered Szegedin on the 2d of
August.
The Kolner Zeiturg states that the head-quarters
of the Austrian General Schlick are at Szolnok. The
Ban of Croatia has again commenced his operations
in the Lower Danube.
The murder is out at last ! That very respectable
and veracious person—that anonymous slanderer—
signing himself "An Hungarian," has the audacity
to make the following infamous charges :—" M. Kos-
suth is accused of embezzling the property of some
orphans ; and of Mr. Madarass it is even asserted
that, at one period of his life, he pocketed certain
silver spoons, the property of one of his (the said
Mr. Madarass's) friends. Our correspondent adds,
that he is induced by motives of discretion to suppress
the rest of the alleged misdeeds of the Hungarian
chiefs, because these charges are quite unfitted for the
columns of the Times."

FRANCE.
The .Ilioniteur announces that the President of the
Republic had authorised an English gentleman, Mr.
Jacob Brett, to establish, on the coast of France, be-
tween Calais and Boulogne, a sub-marine electric
telegraph, which is to cross the Channel, and com-
municate with the English coast at Dover. The
treaty concluded with Mr. Brett guarantees certain
advantages to the French Government. and leaves all
the expense to the contractor, to whom it secures a
privilege of ten years should the experiment succeed.
The works are to be terminated on the Ist of Sept.,
1850, at the latest.
The 2vloniteur likewise promulgates the decree of
the National Assembly, convoking, within two
months, the High Court of Justice at Versailles, to
try the authors and accomplices of the conspiracy and
attempt of the 13th June last.
The President of the Republic was being received
everywhere throughout his journey with great
enthusiasm.

FESTIVAL AT HADDON HALL.
T' is fine old remnant of the feudal ages was on
Friday last, the 10th instant, the scene of the most
joyous festivities. Permission had been granted by
his Grace the Duke of Rutland to the committee of

the Bakewell and High Peak Literary Institute, to
hold their annual festival at his ancestral hall, and a
most numerous and highly respectable company as-
sembled. Such was the attractive nature of the en-
tertainment, that more than a thousand applications for
tickets had been refused. Amongst those present were
Lord John Manners, the HOB. G. H. Cavendish,
M. 1., and Lady Louisa Cavendish, W. Evans, Esq.,
M.P., the Bishop of Madras, Captain Underwood, Dr
Condel, Captain Barker, R. Nerfeld, Esq., and Mrs.
Nerfeld, Rev. H.R. Cornish, &c.
An entertainment was provided for the guests at
six o'clock, in the banqueting-hall, after which the
company were addressed by the members and patrons
of the institute.
R NERFELD, Esq., the chairman, having made a
few introductory observations, called upon
Lord JOHN MANNERS, who was received with
enthusiastic cheering. The Noble Lord said—The
committee of the High Peak Institute, encouraged by
the success of the fete held there last year, had
thought it proper to allow them the opportunity of
assembling there under the same circumstances on
this occasion. He was sure he need not tell them

that when application was made to his father for the
use of that hall, that permission was granted not only
with readiness, but with the utmost delight and satis-
faction. He was charged to assure them that but for
his advancing years, and a hard day's work, which he
thought it his duty yesterday to undergo, in support
of an important public institution, he would have
been there in person to give them a welcome to his
old hall, and to express to them the pleasure he de-
rived from assemblages of this character.—(Cheers.)
He must, however, ask them to accept from him
(Lord John Mariners), as his father's substitute, the
most cordial welcome. Those amongst them who
were present at their last year's festival could hardly
have forgotten the very remarkable speech then de-
livered by Mr. Ellison—a speech read and admired
throughout the whole country. In that speech Mr.
Ellison drew a contrast between the distressed condi-
tion of many great countries in Europe and the com-
parative peace which pervaded our own shores.—
(Cheers.) It was still permitted them to draw a si-
milar contrast. Many of the continental states were
now agitated with domestic convulsions, or fears of
foreign invaders, while here in their own tight little
island they had their hardy Queen coasting the pic-
turesque shores of the most unfortunate portion of her
dominions, and receiving an enthusiastic welcome from
an excitable, though, he firmly believed, loyal popula-
tion.—(Cheers.) Ireland was emphatically the coun-
try of ruin. Turn which way they would in that un-
fortunate land they could see nothing but ruin—cabin
and abbey, castle and grange, cottage and farmhouse
—wherever they directed their eyes, they beheld ruin.
He did not think that any ore travelling in Ireland
could draw a happy and hopeful augury from her ar-
chitectural remains. But here, while they wandered
through corridor and court, they might trace without
difficulty the hi4toryof that part of the country. They
read in those old walls the representatives of their still
older predecessors, raised from the same old limestone
work, when Sir R. Vernon obtained from the Regent
permission to build the house, provided it had no
battlements upon it—the same Sir Richard Vernon
obtained from the Pope, in consequence of the occa-
sional floods which from time to time ravaged the
vale, permission to have a chaplain resident in his
house, and Divine service had been performed in the
chapel down to their assembling there on that beauti-
ful August evening in 1849—he said they might trace
from those days to the present the fortunes and occu-
pations of the inhabitants of that part of the country.
Not only in the higher classes of society, but in the
ranks of the yeomanry and peasantry could be traced,
through the present registers of Bakewell and Youl-
greave, the members of one family following each
other's occupation down the long stream of years
from generation to generation—tilling the same
beautiful valleys, or as miners winning from their
wealth-producing banks the valuable minerals with
which these mountain districts were stored ; and at
this day there were to be found men pursuing the
same occupations as that followed by their fathers at
the period when the parish chronicles were commenced.
—(Cheers.) In the course of such an investigation
they would find that no very great change had oc-
curred in the social, civil, and religious policy of the
people, nor, perhaps, that what changes had taken
place were for the better. If the spirit of the laws had
become more humane, let them hope that they had
not therefore become emasculated—if religion were
less superstitious, let them also hope that it was not
more dull and more cold—if the ties which bound
men to men and class to class had become more re-
laxed, let them hope that they had not grown more
selfish—if learning and knowledge had increased, let
them hope that they had not brought evils in their
train.—(Cheers.) Let them hope all this, and let
them endeavour to prove that they were justified in
the expression of that hope. He was aware that all
instruction was not education—that all knowledge
was not wisdom; and it was because he had perused
a catalogue of the library, and was satisfied that the
management of the institute was sound and judicious,
that he rejoiced in its success, and commended it cor-
dially to the support of all present. Although he
had drawn a distinction between instruction and edu-
cation, and although he thought all branches of know-
ledge were not synonymous with the acquisition of
wis aom, far be it from him to throw the slightest
impediment in the way of those who quitted the
Highways of learning to saunter in the by-paths of
literature. On the contrary, he abominated most
heartily the system that would teach only the exact
sciences, and he detested most cordially that system
which would substitute Mrs. Somerville for Mrs.
Hubbard.—(Cheers and laughter.)
"It likes me not that mortal bands have sounded
Each inlet of the Hyperborean main,
And traced, and mapped, and tracked the sinuous bends
Of Niger's weird unfathomable stream.'
In these materialistic days let them, on the con-
trary, train up a spirit of fancy, of poetry, and of
enthusiasm ; and then they might depend upon it
that in no
law u useful art, in no common-place manu-
otboaf man
fitne
re, not even in the most unromantic trade,
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who took an occasional flight into the
]regions
branch 15, be without his reward in that parti-
cularY which he earned his daily bread.
How was it that in
industry we depended more great branch of English
mvoarse.or less upon foreigners
for patterns ? How
Government was
obliged to establish schools olttdteht It was owing
to the want of that spirit whoifchssuStelLbozsessentially
them
those
promoted by the reading
to which he had just alluded. Let
imagine, then, that lie wished to throw any eimm not
ment in the way of an occasional flight into the
realms of fancy, because it was in them, rather than
in the stricter kingdom of science, that beauty of
pattern and excellence of design were to be found.
For the direct benefits which institutions of this kind
afforded, they ought to rejoice in the success of the
Bakewell Institute; but they had also reason to con-
gratulate themselves on its indirect influences. He
must have a cold heart and a calm head, who, on all
occasions like that, could not cast aside all thoughts
of its direct benefits, and congratulate himself on the
indirect benefits such institutions conferred. Within
these very halls, in olden times, the knight, the
guest, the pilgrim, the forester, the huntsman, were
wont to carouse perhaps with ruder and doubtless
with heartier cheer. In the fair gallery up stairs,