The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN,

now devastating, and almost decimating, the vast armies
which have dared to attempt the subjugation of four-
teen millions of one of the bravest races of Christen-
dom. The first impetus of the second campaign has
been given in favour of Hungary. A panic has
risen in one or two provinces. The Cabinet of
Vienna is for the time being paralysed, the Cama-
rillo at Olmutz is filled with terror, and the Autocrat
of all the Russias observes with astonishment
the severe reception given to those preliminary
forces to whose warlike achievements he had looked
forward as to the encouragement of the whole expe-
dition. " Vengeance is mine saith the Lord," and
that tremendous announcement is being again verified
by the inclemencies of the season, inclemencies which
bring the very elements themselves into the
assistance of the Hungarians. Before long the
time of the year will have returned in
which war is rendered impossible to foreigners
among the morasses and mountain fastnesses of the
fatherland of the heroic Magyars. When that period
shall have arrived, when the campaign of 1849 shall
have been brought to a termination, the Government
Of KOSSUTH will be enabled to consolidate all that
has been hitherto accomplished, and to prepare
with increased vigour for the renewal of hos-
tilities. By that time the glad tidings of
England's sympathy for the cause of the
heroic Magyars will have reached the cabinet of
KoSSUTH and the head-quarters of BEM, and will
have strung anew the nerves of a people already
strong in the sublime attitude of a race defending
its nationality. So powerful is the position of the
Hungarian Commander-in-Chief, even at the present
moment, in Southern Hungary, that it is feared
he may advance towards northern Italy, raise
the siege of Venice, carry a diversion of arms towards
RADETZKY, and by so doing enable the Hungarians,
under the flag of the conqueror of Novara, to break
from their present surveillance, and, while weakening
the power of Austria south of the Carpathians,
strengthen the force of Hungary south ooff
the Danube. Such being the situation
BEMeven iu July, it is anything but
improbable that he may dispatch a sufficient portion
of his army to take possession of Fiume, thereby
giving Hungary a port in the Mediterranean. In-
deed, Fiume is so naturally belonging to the Magyars,
and its capture by BEM appears to us a matter
of such exceeding likelihood, that we purpose,
when the subscription for the hussars at Folk-
stone shall have reached an amount sufficient
to cover the necessary expenses to send them to join
the Hungarian forces through Fiume. Should that
seaport by some adverse circumstances not fall into
the bands of the Hungarians, the only safe direction
by which the hussars from England could reach
their native land would be Turkey. At present,
however, we look with confidence to the capture of

Fiume.
All things considered, we cannot but regard the
position of affairs and the course of events
both in this country and in Hungary as highly en-
couraging to the sympathy which is experienced
throughout all classes of Englishmen. On Monday
evening, therefore, we hope to see another of those
glorious demonstrations which were inaugurated last
Monday at the London Tavern—demonstrations
which will nerve the arms and sharpen the swords
of the Magyars now fighting for constitutional
liberty. We are the more sanguine as to the meet-
ing at Marylebone emulating the magnitude and
enthusiasm of the meeting in the city of London,
from the circumstance of our understanding that on
Monday Lord BEAUMONT and no less than twenty
Members of Parliament will be in attendance.

The splendid hospitality of the city of London was

never more auspiciously bestowed than on Wednesday
evening. Sir JAMES DUKE had previously distin-
guished his mayoralty by a series of magnificent
entertainments which had been seldom equalled, never
surpassed, by any former chief magistrate. Ministers
and their supporters, the members and friends of the
former Government, the Protectionist party, the
House of Lords, the House of Commons, the Royal
S ociety, distinguished writers on every subject, the
scientific and liter= y talent of the country, have all
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civic ""---'"7. and showing how intimately
the Corporation of the British metropolis was con-
nected with the great interests of the country. No
person who could put forward a reasonable claim to

such an honour was forgotten. But there was a class
who had never previously been entertained as a body,
although, of course, many had individually visited the
Mansion House. The charm has, however, been
dissolved, and the closing banquet of the gorgeous
series of entertainments given by the LORD MAYOR,
and, we are happy to add, the unanimously-elected
Member for the city of London, was announced to be
in honour of the representatives of Ireland.
A more auspicious occasion could not have been
selected. Our Most Gracious SOVEREIGN was about
to make her first visit to her Irish dominions, to go
among the warm-hearted and loyal inhabitants of the
sister kingdom, to judge for herself of the condition
and capabilities of that magnificent but much ne-
glected land. Nearly thirty years had elapsed since
the Irish soil was trodden by the footsteps of its
monarch. Grievous afflictions, almost unprece-
dented sufferings have been endured during the
interval, and yet the Irish heart still throbs
with affectionate loyalty and devotion to its SO-
VEREIGN, and gathers favourable auguries from
the anxiously desired and long anticipated visit, a
visit which will more firmly cement the bonds by
which the British Islands are, and we trust for ever
will be, united.
The Corporation of London, too, have announced
their intention of investing capital in Ireland, of ac-
quiring additional estates in that country. They are
influenced by no base or sordid motives in arriving
at this determination. It is not because Ireland
affords a profitable field for the employment of capital,
or because large returns may be reasonably antici-
pated for the amount employed in the
speculation. It is not to make a new plantation,
or to banish the former occupants, or religion
from the soil. They are about to make a great ex-
periment for the benefit of the sister kingdom ; their
object is to promote her welfare and prosperity, to
provide remunerative employment for those who are
both able and willing to work, to develop the natural
capabilities of the country, and to show how much
may be effected by the judicious application of capital
within reasonable and prudent limits. The example
will, we doubt not, be extensively followed. When
steady, sensible men of business, persons who
exhibit a steady caution in every undertaking
that affords the best guarantees for future success, are
found entering on such an enterprise, others
will speedily follow in the track ; the first great
want of the nation will be supplied ; British capital
will flow in to keep the Irish industry in full employ-
ment. The results will be highly beneficial to all
parties concerned. Ireland will cease to be a re-
proach and stigma upon the empire—a constant drain
on the national resoures—a claimant upon the public
and private charities of her more fortunate sister ;
she will become the right arm of England, a source
of strength and power. The inhabitants of both
countries will become a happy and united people—
the differences of country, of race, and of religion
will be forgotten—all will labour for the general
good, and cordially co-operate for the glory and
welfare of their country, and the connexion, sustained
by mutual goodwill and a common interest, will be
and as an evidence
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of the feelings of the Corporation towards Ireland,
that the LORD MAYOR invited the chosen representatives
of that country to assemble in the Mansion House,
and witness the cordiality with which the great toast
of the evening, " Prosperity to Ireland," would be
received by the citizens of London. Their efforts
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and affliction. And it was received in the like spirit;
there is not one of that numerous assemblage who
will not duly appreciate the conduct of the LORD
MAYOR and Corporation of the city of London. Am-
bassadors will go to every county and town, to every
constituency in Ireland, qualified to explain the na-
ture and objects of the views and wishes of the civic
body. Any erroneous impressions that may have
been conceived will thus be dispelled, and a true un-
derstanding will be arrived at on every side—an un-

derstanding that is essential to the favourable
termination of the undertaking. The entertain-
ment to the Irish Members, if productive
of such happy results, will not be the least remark.
able in the annals of civic hospitality. And the pre-
cedent established by Sir JAMES DUKE, will, we
trust, long be followed by his successors in office, and
lead to the feelings of mutual kindliness and esteem
between the English and the Irish people. The com-
pliment paid to the LORD MAYOR elect of the city of
Dublin was well-merited, and we have no doubt that
the:Corporation of the city of London will find in him
a zealous and powerful coadjutor in carrying out their
benevolent intentions towards Ireland.

In another column will be found a brief but
striking report of the proceedings which took
place on Thursday, on the occasion of the annual
meeting of the proprietors of the Catholic Law
and General Life Assurance Company, at the
company's offices, 8, New Coventry-street, Lei-
cester-square. It will there be observed that
the results of the present management have
been altogether of the most highly satis-
factory character. Four points in regard to
the flourishing state of the Association were parti-
cularized by the secretary, Mr. NORRIS, in
his report to the shareholders; and, certainly, con-
sidering that not one single policy has lapsed by
death during the year last past—that thrice the
business has been done during the last as
compared with the preceding quarter that
through the services of Mr. ARCHER as actuary
the company will henceforth be enabled to assure
diseased as well as healthy lives, and that arrange-
ments have been entered into for extending the
business of the association to the continent—we are
by no means surprised to find it recorded by the re-
porter that on the separation of the meeting the
shareholders appeared highly delighted. One other
circumstance should be borne in recollection in refe-
rence to the Catholic Law and General Life Assu-
rance Company, namely, that while business through-
out the country has suffered during the past twelve
months an unusual depression, there has been no
falling off in the number of assurances over the whole
year. The proprietors are, for all these reasons, fully
justified in their self-gratulations.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The Patrie has the followingannouneement:—

" We have received a letter from Turin which leads
us to believe that Piedmont is not yet reduced to the
necessity of submitting to the ultimatum of Austria. In-
formation, in which we have full ccnfidence, apprises us
that on the 22d of this month the Cabinet of Turin pre-
sented a counter-project to the Austrian negotiator,
proposing some modifications to the ultimatum. The
manner in which M. Bruck received that counter-project
leads us to believe that the Cabinet of Vienna will not
show itself more exacting. Matters remain in that
state."

The same journal states that the Minister of Fi-
nance has declared that he will not require a loan for
the present, as he has sufficient means to provide for
the year 1850.
M. LAMARTINE, who was elected by the De-
partment of the Soane et Loire, and also by the De-
partment of the Loiret, has chosen to sit for the latter.
The College of Soane et Loire is convoked for the
19th of August to fill up the vacancy thus occasioned,
and the eleetoral College of the Cote d'Or is con•
yoked for the same day, to elect a representative
in the room of M. JAMES DEMONTRAY, deceased.
The first six articles of the law on the press were
passed by the Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
The editor of the Republicaine de la Dordogne has
been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine
of I,ooof. for publishing a protest against the Roman
expedition. Perhaps the public officer who ordered
this prosecution may be able to state wherein the
distinction consists between the " honest and moderate
Republic," as thus administered, and a despotic
tyranny ; the difference if any, we conceive, to be in
favour of the latter, inasmuch as it does not add
hypocrisy to its other crimes. " Cossackism" seems
progressing.
The Siecle has the following in reply to the taunts
of M. TRIERS, that the Government of the Republi-
cans of the vielle, which lasted from 24th February
to the 10th December, 1848, had done nothing for
France.

"That Government," says the Siecle, " during
nine months of struggle, of suffering, of difficulties
midst of the tempest of a revolution, of the fioriors Of
civil war, did more for the credit, for the people, for
the grandeur, and for the future well-being of France
than did your two Monarchies during a space of 33
years in the midst of a profound peace. It gave us
universal suffrage—that was u political improvement.
It decreed the abolition of the penalty of death for
political offences—that was a pledge of peace
and conciliation. It decreed the abolition of
slavery—these were moral improvements. It amelio-
rated the condition of schoolmasters—this was for
the advancement of intellectual improvement. It
constituted the Bank of France, by uniting to this
great body the scattered members of the provincial
banks ; it created the discount banks—these were for
the improvement of public credit. It created the
agricultural colonies of Algeria—this was for the
benefit of the people. It created the councils of
prudhommes ; it encouraged the associations of work-
men—this was for the benefit of the labourers. It
introduced postal reform ; it reduced the impost on
salt ; it endeavoured to raise an income. tax, which is
the true method of imposing proportional taxation,
it carried a law for recruiting the army. These are
what it did for the nation."

The bank account shows continued influx of specie.
The commercial features of the week do not appear
favourable, but the credit to the Treasury has increased
upwards of 9} millions. It is confirmed that there
will be no loan at present.