The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-27 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JUNE 22.—The Wiener Zeitung of this
day states that the Emperor has conferred upon the
Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskewicz von Crindon,
Field-Marshal and Commander-in-Chief of the
Army, the Grand Cross of
Stephen's, and has sent him
the RussianOrde Imperial
of
frithe insignia of the order set in brilliants. It
also appears from the Weiner Zeitung that the
brigade Pott and feissing were attacked by a superior
pal
St. Ar
force in the Island of Schutt, and were driven back to
Pered and A- Szelly ; the Russian division Panintin has
gone this day to reinforce them, and to-morrow the
Imperial army will begin to act on the offensive.
Several other movements took place on the same day,
and co-operated with the brigades of the reserve
corps on the Wasg. Two field-pieces were taken
from the enemy, and thirty men were made prisoners.
A corporal of the Uhlanin regiment, and another
corporal of the light horse, immediately received
gold medals from the Master General of the Ord-
nance, for having taken the field-pieces. The loss on
the side of the Imperialists is not stated.

INSPECTION OF THE 11TH LIGHT DRAGOONS
(HUSSARS) BY PRINCE ALBERT.—This day being ap-
pointed by Prince Albert for the review of the 11th
Hussars, on Wimnledon•common, soon after nine o'clock
the regiment, consisting of about 350 mounted men,
arrived from Hounslow and Kensir gton Barracks, and
took up the position marked out by the Brigade-Major
and Staff: Shortly after ten o'clock the Earl of Car-
digar, Colonel of the Regiment, arrived, and took the
command about a quarter before eleven. Ills Royal
Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie
and Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable C. B. Phipps,
arrived in an open carriage and four, anti
was received with the customary honours. His
Royal Highness wore the uniform of a Field-Marshal.
The regiment having formed into open order, the Prince
and Major-General Brotherton, Inspector-Genera: of
Cavalry, attended by their suite. 'Raised through the
ranks, and minutely inspected both men and horses, after
which, having marched past at a trot, several evolutions
were performed with surprising rapidity and precision.
The regiment having been again formed into line, a
royal salute was given, and the men marched back to
their quarters.

MOVEMENTS OF THE COI:MT.—It is `now pretty
well understood in circles likely to be correctly
informed, that her Majesty will proceed to Ireland
about the 4th of August next, going from Bristol
to
Cork, and thence by Killarney to Dublin, where it is
expected her Majesty intends holding a Levee and a
Drawing-room, and subsequently will visit Prince
Albert's shooting quarters in Scotland. There can be
no doubt of the enthusiastic reception our beloved Queen
will meet with in the "Sister Isle," and we feel confident
of the graatest benefits resulting from the arrangement.
—Evening Paper.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE CHATHAM REVIEW.—In
fo otfhettbmanseqnuieotr
corm quence of the serious onediness.tioofns
which were intended to be carried on there on the 30th
oil.nnifisptaheiltureAstEoAsaDiroteNue.nllgaavorourisidstaob.nlyoTfphCoeshtapintobvnaietmda, the siege operations,
Egyptianu ALIC ID thisENT evening,
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SOUTH-WESTERNf r s een o'clock
precisely, at which hour dinner will be announced
RAILIVAL—Last night, abPut ten o'clock, an accident oc-
curred on the South- Western line. It appe,red that one of
the porters, while engaged by the si le of the line between
Richmond and London, slipped off into the road, and,
unfortunately, an upward train was proceeding towards
London, when, before any person was aware of the poor
man's situation, a portion of the train had passed over
him. He was taken on a stretcher to Guy's Hospital,
ohnanlo office
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but his death is hourly expected.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial
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the
c x hGovernor.eguer Gibrahar.
Mr. Tidd Pratt had en interview yesterday with the
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Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
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office, from the Governors of the North American pro-

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—In Drury-lane, not quite a stone's throw
from the Royal Italian Opera, is a spacious and gloomy
pile, which still retains the traditionary name of. a
'• Theatre Royal." In the last generation it was
used for the legitimate drama ; and to keep up the:
prescription it was opened, wo believe, once for that
purpose last year, and once again, for the benefit of
an ex-lessee, on Monday night. Such a place must
inspire souse melancholy reflections on the fate of
British talent and the worth of aristocratical patriotism.
Insensible, however, to that omen, or nothing (hunted
by it, a troupe of dukes, and lords, and squires yes-
terday thronged the neglected stage, and obliged
the public with a gratuitous entertainment.
The subject was a " Midsummer Day's Dresm,"
or " Protection Revived." As the story was founded
on the Shaksperian model, it will not surprise the
reader to hear that Britannia was represented in love
with an animal much beneath her legitimate regards. The
order of nature was inverted throughout. For a story so
preposterous the adjuncts should have teen equally fan-
ciful, the personages goblins, and fairy land the scene.
Usduckily the performance was spoilt by the utter
unfitness of the characters and circumstances. In an
unprotected theatre, ruined by the competitii n of
foreigners and the foreign predilc c:ions of our No-
eility, under a canopy of all but unprotected calico,
and on an equally unprotected drugget, clad in fo-
reign linen and foreign wool, assembled the mem-
bers of the National Association for the Protection
of British industry and capital, and, to the best of
their ability, proceeded to lay the foundations of that
patriotic design. Britannia, of course, was in the pit—
the Duke of Richmond in the chair. As the only objc ct
was to amuse, it would be vain to look for facts, or any re-
sereblapee to facts, or indeed any serious design in the ex-
hibition. There was nothing in the proceedings that bore
any resemblance to this waking world. Though the se b-
jset was the present distress *ot the country and the most
likely remedies, we did not hear from first to last the re-
motest allusion to those miserable realities with which
we are actually surrounded. There was not a syllable
about the failure of the potato crop, which has now for
three years deprived several millions of their usual food.
There was not a whisper of the railway mania, and the fact
that scores of thousands in trade arid out of trade have been
ruined by indulging in that folly. There was not a hint
at the universal war which is destroying or impoverish-
ing our customers abroad and blockading their ports.
There was no allusion to the fact that within four years
we have had to pay forty millions for foreign corn.
which we should have had to pay, will, or Hill,
under any legislation whatever, even if Lord
Stanley had been leader in the Lords, Lord George
Bentinck in the Commons, and both Houses had
been under their thumbs. In fact, though some elaborate
historical reviews were attempted, the real history of this
empire, as known by every man, woman, and child in it,
and as entering into the experience of every British adult,
was as utterly ignored arid put out of the question as if
the purpose of the meeting had been to send Bibles to
China, razors to Timbuctoo, or milkmaids to Rio Janeiro.
The assembly met with closed eyes as well as closed
doors. They stopped their ears to realities as reso-
lutely as if they were passing the shore of the Sirens.
A stranger unacquainted with our history—if there ex..
ists any savage so remote or so stupid as not to know our
unparalleled calamities—would certainly learn nothing
from yesterday's speeches, except that we had enjoyed an
unbroken tenour of prosperity, and should still be en-
joying it but for free trade. If in our remarks on such
a farce it is worth while to ask any question or
draw any conclusions, we will just ask why the terrible.
events which darken the present page of history, and
which a thousand years hence will be inscribed in a few
simple words on the years 1846 and 1848, have been so
industriously and so ridiculously suppressed. Why—
if not because they negatived the factious conclusions
the movement was intended to palm on its dupes? A
theory cannot be good for anything when it requires all
the facts of the case to be kept out of sight. Hai pily
these serious omissions are rendered of very slight
moment by a similar absence of practical conclusions. It
a man fancies himself a lion, it matters very little so
long as he eats nobody; or, to come nearer the present
case, a lunatic may think himself the victim of
conspiracy, yet be quite harmless if he ciatents
himself with burning the effigies of his supposed
enemies on paper. What is to be done to restore
protection? Long did we wait for a reply. A list of
vice-presidents was read as long as Homer's catalogue of
heroes and ships, and their names were freely offered
in pledge for the reality of the undertaking. But what
was the mode of operation? Ilow was anything to be
done? What was the first step? Nut subscriptions,
for they were judiciously postponed till there shall
be something to show for them. At last we seemed
to hear something to the purpose. We could not be mis-
taken. A twoteld plan was suggested. The tenant
farmers were recommended to stop payment en masse,
and petition the Queen to dissolve Parliament.
A general election and a general repudiaticn to-
gether would set up the country. As the project
was received with tremendous applause, and a
Thousand burly figures stood up to cheer the prin-
ciple of repudiation, we presume it was understood.
For ourselves, we must confess to being rather in the
deik. Is it seriously proposed by an association founded
and governed by landlords, that the farmers shall bilk all
their creditors in order to give weight to their demand
for a dissolution ? Or are they to escape payment
of just claims by means of a general election ? What
is the plan ? Good reader, do not perplex yourself ;
there is no plan at all. These gentlemen are all
sound sleep. They know nothing, and mean nothing.
They have not heard of the famine or the war' and their
I.teiiiiona are equally oresimy and unreal. stop .
merit and petition the Queen! You dream your house is
attacked by cannon, and try to catch the balls in your
hands. Happily it is only the postman's knock. We
will not wi-h these gentlemen wiser, so long as their
methods are harmless. We have no fear fur their pro
deuce and patriotism. His Grace the Pres:dent is much
too good u subject to allow any dangerous excesses, and
we feel perfectly sale so long as the cause remains in
his hands.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Gua> dian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, THESDAY.—The facility with which
speculators in cotton can raise money for payment, on
the security of their purchaq s, has again led to conside-
rable operations by that class, and their course has been
freely followed by consumers, the result being a rise
of 1. per lb. in Americans generally. This movement
has had an effect in our market to-day—among spinners
a rather stirring effect. An advance of i. to id. per lb
has been generally and firmly demanded; and merchants
have found themselves obliged to accede to O. upon the
limited transanctions of the day, in low numbers of water
twist. Higher prices have also been obtained for 40's
and 60's doubled; and the manufacturers of such gocos
as are at present in request, have shown a willingness
to purchase at some further rise, but the India and China
merchants, finding no encouragement to operate in the
accounts just received, have stood aloof from the market.
And the Germans, with their warehouses literally
crammed, at lower prices, have folded their hands and
done nothing. However, encouraged by the comparative
lightness of stocks in their own hands, the spinners
have stood resolutely upon their advanced quotations, de-
termined that the miserable difference betwixt the price
of cotton and that of yarn shall not be made still less
without a hard struggle. In goods, the India houses are
giving orders for madapollame, for low jacconets, and for
40-inch shirting s, especially in 64 and 66 reeds, at some
addition to the previous rates. And fur other markets
than tho,e of the East, there is also a fair inquiry. We
arc likewise glad to find that a rather increased business
is doing for home consumption. The aggregate trans-
actions of the day, however, both in goods and yarns
have been restricted within narrow limits by the rise in
prices.

- ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have bad a fair attend-
ance of buyers in the market to-day, but the business
transacted_ has been much the same as the preceding
Monday. The demand for kerseys has not been quite
so gocd, but there is no change in prices. In the wool
market there prevails the same inactivity, with no desire
to purchase by the manufacturers, except for immedi-
ate use.

HIIDDERFIELD, TIIESDAY.—The market, to-day, may
be considered satisfactory, and business in the ware-
houses during the week has been brisk for the season.
Great inconvenience is experienced by our wool mer-
chants, in not being able to receive their German wools
by the way of kW, and they are necessitate d to pay a
much higher rtate of carriage, in consequence of the
blockade of the Elbe.

HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The improved inquiry for
worsted goods, which we noticed in our last, has been
sustained to-day ; and there is a better feeling amongst
the manufacturers. Prices are still low; but the stocks
on hand are, in general, far from large, and much that is
done, is to order. There is a good trade in pans of
middle qualities; but not much cluing in the lower counts,
and still less in high numbers, The wool market is
more active; and prices are low, but steady.

SURVEY OF THE SEVERN:A " crow's nest," very
similar in structure to that recently seen on the top of
St. Paul's, has just been completed on the tower of
Gloucester Cathedral, for the purpose of taking obser-
vations for the survey of the river Severn, in accordance
with a recommendation by the Admiralty surveyor on a
recent preliminary inquiry upon a proposed Bill for the
furtherimprovement of the navigation of the Severn.
The scaffolding is raised to a considerable height above
the tower of the cathedral, and is surmounted by a small
house or cot, which is reached by means of a long ladder.
fhe survey, which is being made under the direction of
the Admiralty, will comprise the whole of the estuary of
the Severn, and all above it within the influence of the
tide, extending to above Tewkesbury. At this point it
was recently proposed to erect a weir, but the Admi-
ralty reported against it.
A REAL RELISHER OF A JOKE.—A man lately re-
ceived twenty lashes well laid on, at the whipping post
at Delaware. The culprit instead of bellowing when
the constable applied the lash laughed immoderattly,
which made the angry officer lay on still harder. On
giving him the twentieth blow the angry officer could
stand it no longer. " Well, here mister," said the
offended officer, " I've done my duty, and I can lick ye
no more, but I'd just like to know what it is that's so
funny?" " Funny!" roared the other. " Funny I why
it's the best joke I ever heard oil" " Funny! Well what
is the joke?" " Joke!" roared the other, ' why, it's
excellent. You've got the wrong Smith 1 I ain't the man
that was to be whipped! li's the other one! Now you'll
have to go it all over again! Really it's too good! You
must lick the other man! Ha! ha!

CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.—Yesterday a
Court was held, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair, at
which it was determined that certain localities, having
been seriously attacked by cholera, they should be im-
mediately examined by the inspector for the district, and
the works necessary to render them healthy at once
undertaken.

LITERATURE.
EXCITEMENT : a
_Tale of our Own Times.

2 Yds.
One circumstance greatly propitiates our favour
towards this fiction by an anonymous authoress—and,
that circumstance is modestly mentioned in the pre•
face, to the effect that " the writer's share of the
profits is to be appropriated to the funds of a -charit-
able institution, An Establishment fur Gentlewomen
during Temporary Illness.' " That this benevolent
purpose may prove eminently successful, we ackaow-
ledge ourselves to be really solicitous ; yet a feeling
of this character never interferes in any manner with
our estimate of a work merely as a literary com-
position. Interested as we should ever be in an
effort so peculiarly laudable, we should nevertheless
have abstained altogether from directing attention to
the performance, had we found it-, on perusal, to be
unworthy of some commendation.. For, supposing
the two volumes to have proved in a striking degree
devoid of merit, we should have fiaind our heart go
against emblazoning its faults or its woi thlt ssnees in
the broad glare of criticism. Rather than raise such
an obstacle to the diffusion of the book, and cone
sequently to the enhancement of the funds of a
charitable association like that of the establishment
for the aid of distressed gentlewomen during sick-
ness, we should have allowed the story to have
passed unnoticed, and to have worked its way through
the ordinary channel of advertisements. As it is,
however, we have read the two volumes with no
small amount of entertainment; and for that reason
regard "Excitement'' as no unfitting subject fer re-
view. The narrative throughout is of a strictly
domestic kind, notwithstanding the endeavour of the
writer to associate the attractions of her fiction with
those connected with the stirring political events of
the last three or four years—ranging from the Anti-
Corn-law agitation of 1845 to the revolutionary
movements of 1848. Whatever allusions have been
interwoven with the plot in reference to public
occurrences, to Parliamentary changes, and to Euro-
pean explosions, are so entirely of an incidental
description as in no manner to impede the progress of
the incidents, or to allay the curiosity excited in the
mind of the reader as to the fortunes of the imaginary
personages created by the fancy of the novelist. The
tree-trade orations of Mr. Cobden and the democratic
harangues of M. de Lamartine alike fail to diminish
the charm of inquisitiveness enveloping the fate of
Constance Devereux, the heroine, and of Edward
Tremaine, the hero of " .Excitement." From
first to last the interest in the destiny
of the two principal characters of the
tale is cleverly and ingeniously sustained ; and that
we take it is a sufficient guarantee that the volumes
are readable. Nor is the end accomplo heti of securing
the attention from the-outset to the conclusion by any
exaggerated efforts at the romantic. Occasionally, it
is true, the authoress merges into mere sentimentality,
but that is only at rare intervals; and on the whole
her production may be viewed as a natural and agree-
able fiction, drawn partly from her imagination,
which is inventive, and partly, we might say princi
pally, from her " observation," which appears to be
shrewd and vigilant. Love is the staple of the story—
of course it is! We should like to know, indeed,
what any fiction would be worth which was found to
be deficient in its reference to the tender passion.
No, no ; Love, and Love alone, is the essential theme
of the writers of the Novel and the Romance. Heroism
may be all very well ; and Patriotism may be still
better; and Morality may be fascinating, as, thanks
be to God, it undoubtedly is, and as it will, with His
good blessing, always continue to be so long as the
human heart remains alive to the charms of the True
and the Beautiful. But Love! Lova is the essence
of Fiction—its vitality; the air it breathes, or
rather exhales. It is to fiction what na-
ture is to reality, what the blood is to the
body, what the sap is to the plant. And upon this
understanding the novelist will continue to chaunt to
the end of time with that merry blade, Sir Pandarus
(for whom see Troilus and Cressida, passim)—
" Love. love, nothing but love, still more!
For, 0 Love's bow
Shoots buck and doe:
The shalt confounds,
Not that it wounds,
But tickles still the sore.
These lovers cry—Oh! oh! They
Yet that which seems the woand to kill
Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he!
So dying love lives still."
So sang to the best of our recollection the Pandarus
of Shakspere, when striving to entertain Helen and
her paramour. And so, too, have carolled all our
English novelists, from Richardson downwards—
from Clarissa Harlowe to Fanny Trevanion. Where
the writer of " Excitement ' appears to us to
have displayed the least power of invention is in a
very subordinate point, namely, in the names of her
fictitious character. She finds no better name for the
rascal of the work than John Shepheid! and
the names of both the hero and heroine,
Tremaine and Devereux are familiar to every
reader of the works contributing to those
emp,,riums of intellectual amusement the cir-
culating libraries. Common place, however, as
the mere titles are, the personages are so far from
being common place, that they each possess a dis-
tinct individuality. The father of Constance, indeed,
Sir Stephen Devereux, is quite sui generis. But
brute as h© is, coarse as he is, swearing us be does, not
unfrequently before bis daughter, and giving way to
all sorts of ferocious tantarurns and diabolical pa-
roxysms of fury—he is neither the squire of " Tom
Jones," nor the squire of "Barnaby ltudge." He is
one of a class yet distinct withal nevertheless. As to
the plot of the story we shall follow our usual custom
by allowing that to develop itself to the reader, with-
out any of those anticipations which tend so mate-
rially to mar the effect of a production like the one
under consideration. Several of the scenes we may,
however, particularise as peculiarly dramatic. In-
stance—the rejection o Tremaine; the incidents in
the gambling-houses in London and on the continent;
the pic-nic ; the incendiarism ; the apopletic sei-
zure ; and especially the account of the different
occurrences leading at last to the denouement. Is that
denouement fortunate or miserable ? Neither upon that
question shall we be explicit. Supposing the reader
to be incorrigibly curious, so curious indeed, that for
the life of him he cannot resist " skipping" pages and
chapters, so as to arrive more speedily at the result,
he can satiate his inquisitiveness as to the nature of
the close of "Excitement," by turning at once to the
end of the second volume, and by so doing, dispense
with our eclaircissement. Before closing our notice of
this veryagreeable " story of our own times," we may
mention that without pretending to anything like a
prudish morality, its aim is good, and its influence
must prove eminently beneficial. It is no homily,
and yet it is as humanizing as a homily.
It is no sermon, and yet is its text visible through-
out—that of mutual forbearance. As a graceful con-
tribution to the floating literature of the age, " Ex-
citement" is far from being incommendable. May its
addition to the funds of the chartable association be
as copious as its own spirit is kindly, natural, and
generous !