The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

" Curzon•streot, July 23, 1849.
" Sir,—lt is with sincere regret that I find myself pre-
vented from attending the meeting over which you are
to preside this day in the city of London, as I cannot
absent myself from a Select Committee of which I am
chairman without infringing the Standing Orders of the
House.

"Allow me, however, to express through you my deep
sympathy with the cause, and warm admiration of the
conduct of that brave nation whose wrongs will be de-
nounced and whose rights will be proclaimed by the
meeting.

"Asa general principle, I object to the people of one
country interfering in the internal affairs of another;
but in the case of Hungary, the violation of her consti•
tution has been so flagrant—the conduct of the Austrian
Government so dishonest—and the measures of the Diet
so completely in accordance with undoubted right
and legitimate policy—that, even if this was a
question of purely internal commotion, I could
not do otherwise than admire those who took a public
opportunity of expressing their opinions on the subject.
But the war now raging in Hungary, laying desolate one
of the fairest portions of Europe, and interrupting all
commerce and industry, is a• great European question,
which touches the material interests of this country al-
most as much as a war would do in whioh we ourselves
were engaged. It becomes, therefore, a matter of national
policy,as well as of duty to humanity, to let the desolators
know that their conduct is watched, and to declare that
we in no way connive at their crimes. Austria, weak-
ened by her own rotten system of absolutism, and beaten
by the troops who were in her day of victory the flower
of her own armies, has sold herself to Russia, and re-
duced her sovereign to the disgraceful position of satrap
to the Czar.

" The Hungarian struggle is for us a struggle against
Russian ambition—a struggle to keep open the waters
of the Danube—a struggle to prevent the spoliation of
Turkey, and, above all, a struggle in which right, free-
dom, toleration, and justice on one side are contending
against tyranny, absolutism, cruelty, and injustice on
the other.

" I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" BEAUMONT."
In addition to this, we shall be gratified to give
insertion, in our columns to-morrow to an excellent
letter upon the Hungarian question, addressed by one
of our correspondents to her MAJESTY'S Foreign
Secretary.

BADEN.
SURRENDER OF RADSTADT.

The French Government received yesterday a
telegraphic dispatch, dated Baden-Baden, announcing
the surrender of the fortress of Rastadt on that day.
The Prince of PRUSSIA had entered Rastadt at
the head of two regiments.

TERRIFIC STORM.—(T HIS DAY.)
A terrific storm passed over the Metropolis this
afternoon. As early as half-past one thunder was
heard growling in the distance, and there was a
smart shower of rain ; and before two o'clock a
thunder-storm had burst in all its sublime grandeur.
The lightning was most vivid and forked, and was
immediately followed by loud peals of thunder ; the
wind at the same time rose, and for some minutes
blew a hurricane, while the hail and rain descended
in torrents. Some of the hailstones were exceedingly
large. The storm still continues.

IRELAND.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT.
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The following
official notification appears in a supplement to the
Dublin Gazette, published this evening :
" THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUBLIN.

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"Lord Chamberlain's-office, Dublin
Castle, July 25.
"Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will
hold a full-dress levee and drawing-room at
the Castle in the course of the week, beginning with
the Ist of August, and the earliest possible intimation
will be given of the exact days.
" The names of the ladies and gentlemen, with
those by whom they are to be presented, must be sent
to the Lord Chamberlain on or before Friday, the 3d
of August, and no lady or gentleman can be presented
except by some one who has been himself or herself
personally presented to her Majesty."

CABINET CourreiL.—(Tnis DAY.)—The Cabinet
Ministers assembled in Council this afternoon at the
Foreign-office. There were present Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Car-
lisle, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, and the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere. The Marquis of Lansdowne
arrived in town this morning from a visit to the
Right Hon. Sydney Herbert at Wilton House to
attend the Council. The Lord Chancellor was
absent from the meeting through indisposition.
The Ministers remained in deliberation two hours.

READING ELECTION.-Sir John Hare went down
to Reading last evening, and announced his intention
of starting as a candidate for this borough on the
Liberal interest. His reception was most satisfac-
tory, and this morning the following placard was put
forth, announcing the retirement of Mr. C. Russell,
the Conservative candidate :

" THE REQUISITION TO C. RUSSELL, ESQ.—The
electors who so promptly and numerously signed the
requisition are respectfully informed that Mr. Russell
has announced his intention to decline any Parliamentary
engagement.—Thursday, July 26, 1849."

THE CONVICT SHIPS AT WOOLIVICH.—The Ad-
miralty, in order to meet the views of the coroner's jury,
and the wishes of Sir George Grey, have ordered the
Woolwich authorities to report to their Lordships as to
where is the best place in the river at which to moor the
Uniti and Wye, convict ships. In future they are to be
moored in line instead of abreast of each other.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, OXTORD, JULY 25.-
MAGDALEN COLLEGE.—The election of Demies of Mag-
dalen College terminated this afternoon in favour of
Messrs. Frederick White, commoner of Balliol College ;
Reginald Bird, commoner of Trinity College; and Ed-
ward Hill, chorister of Magdalen College. The Rev.
John Rigaud and Mr. John Walker Knight, Demies,
will to-morrow succeed to the two vacant fellowships,
the former on the Winchester foundation, and the latter
on the Northamptonshire foundation.

Everything progresses admirably in regard to the
movement of the Hungarians.

Intelligence has arrived this morning giving an
authentic narrative of the complete destruction of the
Croats under the Ban JELLACHICH—" the highly
imaginative JELLACHICH," as MT. BERNAL OSBORNE
facetiously termed him—by the heroic BEM, the
Commander•in• Chief of the Magyar forces.
The subscription in behalf of the hussars at Folk-
stone, which we had the satisfaction of originating,
progresses steadily under our own and under the
auspices of the Provisional Committee.

The sympathy of the English Government for
the people of Hungary, now struggling unaided
against the two most terrible despotisms
on the face of the globe, cannot any
longer be matter of doubt after the speech de-
livered by Lord PALMERSTON in the House of
Commons on Saturday a speech worthy, in
the principles it enunciates, of the great
name of that distinguished statesman—a speech,
which even in regard to its rhetorical excellence was
worthy of one who had been a contemporary of Mr.
CANNING.

The sympathy of the English people in the same
cause was significantly expressed on Monday by the
magnificent demonstration in the London Tavern—
a demonstration attended by so many eminent
Members of the popular branch of the Legislature.
It will be remembered that upon that occasion several
other representatives of both Houses of the Imperial
Parliament were prevented from attendingf and
amongst these a Noble Lord who had stood forward
during the last session in the House of Peers,
almost isolated, as the champion of the liberal
cause throughout Christendom. Need we say that we
here allude in a particular manner to Lord BEAU-
MONT ? Prevented from joining personally in the
manifestations in favour of the great KOSSUTH and
his countrymen, the Noble. Lord, it will not have
been forgotten by those who were present
amongst the assemblage, addressed a letter to
the Chairman expressive of those n3agnani-

mous sentiments with which he has shown his
whole soul to be imbued. We have great pleasure
in affording our readers the satisfaction of perusing
this communication, of which the following is a
transcript:—