The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-19 00:00:00

APRIL 19.

Titir.RMOMETER, Lowest, 30, Highest, 45; Noon, 33.
BAROMETER, 29.28; a fall of 67 points since yesterday.
The mercury is again rising.
WIND E.S.E to N.E.—Rain and snow alternately, with
thick weather; heavy gusts of wind, and very cold.

illlili WATER AT LONDON liktl.D.K.
Taw DAY --,lorning, 2 min. after 11 I Evening. 36 minn. . after 11
TO-Mosiovt—Morning, 0 min. after 0 I Evening, 3 rai after 13

Great anxiety prevailed in Ireland to learn the result
of the meeting which took place yesterday between
the First Lord of the Treasury and the Irish Mem-
bers. The most unbounded expectations were enter-
tained as to the causes of the rather unusual invita-
tion. The nature of the questions to be submitted to
the new " Cabinet Council" were eagerly canvassed.
It was generally supposed that Lord Joust was about
to state the intentions of the Government with respect
to remedial measures for the permanent amelioration
of Ireland ; that a great and comprehensive plan
would be enunciated, which would cast the "PEEL
project" into the shade, and unite all classes of
Irishmen, without distinction of creed or party, in
support of the existing Ministry. The result will
show how vain were these expectations. No indi-
cations were held out with respect to the Irish policy.
The representatives of the Irish people were convened
for the purpose of answering a, plain and simple
quest'on, of stating whether they were really serious
in desiring an extension of the income-tax to Ireland
rather than the adoption of the rate in aid. His Lord-
ship also intimated that if the income-tax should be
selected, other taxes which were now paid in Great
Britain, but which were not levied in Ireland at pre-
sent, would also be extended to that country.
The question is now fairly before the Irish Members.
There is a clear and distinct alternative, and a posi-
tive decision must be arrived at this very day. The
avowed partiality for an income-tax has been favour-
ably received in high quarters. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer can see no possible objection to a pro-
posal so very reasonable ; there is an enlightened
liberality about the suggestion that appears to the
Right. Hon. Baronet as being worthy of the highest
consideration. There is a total absence of " that
ignorant impatience of taxation," against which he
expatiated so forcibly. He easily perceives how much
the bargain is in favour of the national Exchequer, and
he is willing to seal the contract at the moment. On
the one side, property now liable to poor rate will be
required to contribute GI in the pound, or a valua-
tion admitted to be 30 per cent. beneath the actual
value, and that charge is to be levied for two years
only ; on the other hand, every description of income
would be obliged to contribute no less than 7d. in the
pound. This would apply not merely to lands, tene-
ments, and hereditaments of every de-
scription ; it would reach not only the dividends
of the fundholder, and official salaries and
emoluments, but it would attach on the
earnings of the merchant and tradesman, the physician
and the barrister. The inquisitorial: system so
justly complained of in this country would be estab-
lished, with all its abuses and annoyances, and curses
both " loud and deep" would attend the progress of
the collectors. In place of being limited in
-its dura-
tion the income-tax would remain a permanent
burden on the country. The rate in aid, it is hoped,
may be got rid of after the period for which it may
now be granted. The amelioration in the condition
of the country that is so anxiously anticipated may
possibly dispense with the necessity for a renewal of
the impost. But ii the income-tax collector once
gets admission it will be vain to look for any remis-
sion or drawback. The Finance Minister of the day,
with a cool smile, will inform the grumblers that his
excellent predecessor, Sir CHARLES WOOD, found the
tax, imposed with the unanimous assent of the Irish
people, expressed through their chosen representatives,
exceedingly beneficial, and that he cannot possibly
think of relinquishing an impost so pruduotive. In
► vii they may remind him that the object; f9r which

been constructed with seven thousand pieces ( ,f it was imposed are no longer in existence. He will
Memel timber imported directly from the Balti c. reply that the tax produces so much, and that, con-
Supposing the works to be prosecuted with the ra• pi- sideiring the state of the Exchequer, he'cannot consent
dity of action which has marked their commencement ;, it to its abolition.
is calculated that the whole will be completed with' ,n a It is not, however, merely in point of amount or
period of about two years' duration, or rather that the duration that the rate in aid would prove less onerous
Great Grimsby Docks will be opened somew here than the income -tax. Every farthing of the rate
about the summer of 1851. To achieve so inu(l in aid must be applied to the relief of Irish
within so brief an interval will be numbered amorrgst distress. The sums collected will not form
those glorious victories of engineering science for part of the general fund for all national purposes. It
which England has already acquired a very briYliant will be a special fund for a special object. Whatever
celebrity—the works in question embracing— may be required beyond the amount will be provided
I. An entrance basin, the area of which is sixteen from the national Exchequer, but no portion thereof,
acres, and which will be accessible to the largest can be appropriated to any other purpose. The pro-
vessels at all times. ceeda of the income-tax will, however, as a matter of
11. Piers suitable for all vessels not requiring to course, be paid into the national Exchequer for the
enter the docks. general exigencies of the country. There will
111. The great dock, 300 feet in length, and 65 in be no security that any portion whatsoever
width. will be applied for the relief of distress
IV. The small dock, 200 feet in length and 45 in in Ireland after the present grants are dis-
width. posed of. In every point of view then, in
V. The dock, with an area of 29 acres, accessible amount, duration, and application of the fund, we
for all vessels for 20 hours out of the 24. cannot conceive what difficulty there can be for the
VI. The west wharf, 200 feet in length, with rail- Irish Members to form a choice, and that that choice
ways, &c., upon it, and comprising an area of 12 should be the " rate in aid" rather.than an income-tax.
acres. Some of the Members who have already committed
VII. The east wharf, 2,000 feet in length, and 970 themselves by asking for the income-tax, may feel a
in width, to be appropriated to warehouses. difficulty in swallowing their leek, or rather eating
VIII. A goods station, with railways laid to every their own words. The Noble Lord has, however,
part, and embracing an area of 42 acres. kindly afforded these parties a locus penitextic.
Such is the colossal enterprise inaugurated on the He has declared that other taxes must be
18th of April, 1849, by his Royal Highness the extended to Ireland. This will surely be
PRINCE CONSORT. The importance of such contri- sufficient to turn the scale, and to determine the most
vances as those of the wet docks, of the railroads decided opponent of the " rate in aid" to accept it with
running down to the vessels at anchor, and of the gratitude rather than the more onerous imposts—that
branch lines conducting to the margin of the water, must be substituted therefor. The Irish representa-
may be best appreciated by bearing in mind that the tives have doubtless ere this arrived at a rational
charges of carting from the shore to the storehouses of conclusion, such as might be expected from reasonable
the wholesale dealer are more exorbitant than the beings possessed of ordinary powers of comparison.
charges of trans-marine conveyance; it being stated
emphatically in another part of this evening's im-
pression, that—
" The eost of carting a puncheon of rum from St.
Katherine's Dock, in London, exceeds the whole freight
thence to Rotterdam, and that it is cheaper to send a hogs-
head of sugar from the London Docks by sea round to
Gainsborough, and thence to Sheffield, than to cart it to the
Camden-town station of the London and North-Western
Railway."
With the determination of preventing the necessity
of this extravagant expenditure for the carriage of
goods, it will be observed with general satisfaction,
that the Great Grimsby Dock Company have resolved
upon intersecting the whole area of their establishment
with rails, running in cross branches, with slidings
conducting to the different platforms, and with other
arrangements, which will ensure immediately commu-
nication with the wet docks, and the various lines
leading in all directions towards the op-
posite extremities of the island. Among the
internal advantages arising from the con-
struction of this novel and important seaport are
the reciprocal benefits exchanged between the manu-
facturing and agricultural counties ; the intended
establishment of a central terminus, consisting of
what we may designate a congeries of railways, se-
curing to the artisans in the former, at a much
cheaper rate than hitherto, the surplus provisions
produced in the latter, and obtaining for the farm
labourers in the latter a more abundant supply of
coals at a cheaper rate from the coal districts gene-
rally, and especially from the collieries in the neigh-
bourhood of Sheffield.
it is scarcely so much, however, from a consider a.
tion of this common interchange of superfluities
internally, that we are disposed to regard with so
much gratification the prosecution of an enterprise so
singular and stupendous as the docks, the basins, the
eicavations, and the reclamations from the sea now
being effected at the mouth of the estuary of
the Humber. It _is from the knowledge that the
future seaport of Great Grimsby will afford advan-
tages to commerce and navigation—from conferring
which Kingston has been altogether precluded
by the accident of her locality—that we rejoice at
the undertaking yesterday inaugurated with such
appropriate ceremony. Our satisfaction arises from
the conviction tha from the summer of 1851 will
date the moment of the greatest extension of
our mercantile and maritime enterprise, that
under the shelter of Great Grimsby our
fleets of war and our trading vessels may ride
securely while the hurricane is roaring down the
eastern coasts of England, that through the instru-
mentality of the new seaport our commercial inter-
course with the north of Europe will be materially
enhanced, both in regard to frequency and celerity of
communication, and that the Humber will by that
means be turned to the national interest by rendering
it the channel through which to convey, to and fro,
the timber of the Baltic, with the miscellaneous pro-
duce of the northern states of the Continent, and the
various articles of manufacture contrived by our in-
dustrious artizans for exportation. For these reasons
we are peculiarly rejoiced at the opportunity afforded
us of recording the festive proceedings enacted yes-
terday on the banks of one of the greatest of our
British estuaries.

Another victory has just been achieved over the Im-
perialists by the brave and patriotic Hungarians.
Every heart not deadened by an evil subserviency to
Absolutism will exult in that announcement. It will
sound to all lovers of liberty like the noise
of a resurrection. The very confusion into
which the chieftains of Austria are thrown by recent
occurrences, is a sufficient proof that those occurrences
are of a rather disastrous character. Such is the
panic among the German assailants, that we find
WELDER posting with the velocity of a courier to-
wards the seat of war from Vienna—JELLAcuicu
certainly somewhere, but apparently nowhere—
WINDISCEIGRATZ " putting up" more like a bagman
than a victorious Prince Marshal, not at the sign of
the Boar's Head, in East Cheap, but at the Swan,
at Pe.th—DAsuAnica taken prisoner in a
skirmish—and another hero, with the excruciating
name of Wawa, frightening the inhabitants of the
Hungarian capital out of their wits by a " raw-head-
and-bloody-bones" kind of proclamation, warning
them to keep in doors to avoid the shells and
rockets of a bombardment. Meanwhile, to add
to the dismay of the braggart assailants of
Hungary, comes the news of the great victory
achieved by the Magyars on the 10th instant at
Waitsen, over the forces of WINDISCUGRATZ, aided
by the corps of GOTZ and JABLONOWSKI. Even
the Viennese journals are compelled to corro-
borate the glorious details of the battle—a
battle so decisive in itself as to leave the Austrians
no alternative but their ultimate withdrawal to Raab.
Although RAMBERG was still striving to obstruct
the march of the triumphant Hungarians towards
Comorn, there seems to be little chance
of his endeavour proving successful : and so
imminent appeared to be the peril of that General
that the siege of Comorn was at once abandoned,
and the besiegers hasten by the shortest route to his
assistance. Everything gives token of the speedy
fall of Ofen and of Pesth into the hands of the
Hungarians. The campaign has hitherto given
every evidence of the final triumph of the
patriots, under the illustrious BEM and the immortal
KosSUTET, notwithstanding that the enormous strength
of Austria has been aided by the soldiers of the
AUTOCRAT. Pray GOD Hungary may not meet with
the vengeance which descended upon Poland for her
glory, and tore ber limb from limb on the rack of
dismemberment!

THE WEATHER.
SUN OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK.

Since twelve o'clock this forenoon the weather has
become very tempestuous. We have had a regular
snow-storm, with a heavy gale from the north-east,
with every probability of continuing all day. The
thermometer is down to 28. Barometer 29. 39.—having
risen 11 points since noon.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The National Assembly on Tuesday voted the
grant for the expedition to Rome by a majority of
227, the numbers being for the grant 388, against it
161. The members of the extreme left abstained
from voting. General OLIDINOT left Paris on the
evening of Monday, to take the command of the ex •
pedition. Everything was in readiness at Toulon on
the 13th, for the embarkation of the troops. No em-
barkation, however, took place on that day. The
steam frigates Infernal and Panama have been added
to the expeditionary fleet. This is the boldest
overt act for the restoration of Absolutism and Priest-
craft in France that the reactionary party has yet ven-
tured on ; it surpasses in boldness and in imprudence
the contemplated intervention by M. GIIIIOT in favour
of the Sonderbund. That the cautious ODILON
BARROT should have permitted himself to be thus
committed by the fiery bigotry of M. DE Rumex is
matter of surprise. The partisans of the Jesuits
cannot conceal their exultation at the apostacy of M.
ODILON BARROT, and the adoption by him of a
principle which, if carried out, would justify the
march of the Cossacks to Paris for the restoration of
HENRY V. The Gagette de France says—" That which
is about to he executed under the auspices of M. BARROT
justifies_ the ititervention of 1823, and the act of An -
dujar which caused the rights of humanity to prevail
in Spain. We thank M. BAfiROT for. baying at
length adopted the policy, entirely French, of
N.
DE VALLELE."
The National observes, and observes justly—

" Thanks to the Government of M. Bonaparte, the
French Republic draws its sword fur the first time, and
it is against Italian liberty that it directs it. It is our
own principle that we are about to combat at Rome.
We refused intervention in favour of the pimple, and we
gave it without being asked to the sovereigns. We say
distinctly, that if the scheme conceived by the Ministry,
and confessed in the bureaux by Messrs. Faucher,
Drouyn de Lhuys, and Fallout be realised; if, in truth,
our troops be sent to the Roman States to crush the revo-
lution, and restore the Pope to his temporal throne,
France will be for ever dishonoured. We demand that
in order to be logical to the end, the Croats of lisdetsky
aid the Cossacks of Nicholas shall be called into
France."
_

The same journal in another article says—
" The Pope restored to the Pontifical throne by
foreign bayonets, will be, no one can doubt it, the elder
branch of the Bourbons enthroned in the Tuileries by
Wellington and Blucher, with this difference, that it
will not take fifteen years to produce a 29th July in
Rome."
The Assemblee Nationale attaches a political ob-
ject to the visit of the Duc D'AUMALE to the Duchess
of ORLEANS. It says—
" The Due d'Aurnale has set out on a visit to the
Duchess of Orleans at Eisenberg. To this journey is
attached the solution of important questions affecting
the interests of parties which now divide France. '
The object is to induce the Duchess of ORLEANS
to consent to the terms agreed on between Louis
PHILIPPS and the Princess of PARMA for a recon-
ciliation between the two branches, and a restoration
of Monarchy in France by intrigue if possible, and if
not by the force of Cossack lances and Austrian
bayonets.
The Three per Cents. were done at 24 for cash; the
Five per Cents. at 11 for paper; the Debt without in-
terest at 4; and the Coupons at 6f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Arlin, 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, B%—Central of Francs (Orleans
and Vierzon), 14% East Indian, 4—Northern of France,
11—Paris and Orleans, 31 ex d.—Paris and Rouen, 22%
—Paris and Strasbourg, 4J Rouen and Havre, 11%—
Tours and Nantes, 33i, ex in.

SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 13th have arrived.
The Finance Minister was on that day to propose
the new tariff to the Cortes..
MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 13.—Three per Cents., 24k
Account; after Bolan, 24k cash, 24 5-16 paper. Five per
Cents., 10i, with coupon; after Boise, 10} cash. Pas-
sives, 4; after Bolsa, 31- cash. Coupons, 6 account.
Bank of St. Ferdinand, 88 account; Treasury Bills, 70 c.
Exchange on London, 49.95.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAT.--Traffic for
the week ended April 14, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 938/.
93. 10a.; parcels, 371. 19g. I Id.; goods and cattle. 279/.
ss. 5d.; steamboats, 1211. 6g. Od. Total, 1,377/. Is. 2d ,
exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Cheater Cpapany,
and paymont fvr couYqauco 9f mails. _ .

GERMANY
AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

VICTORY OF THE HUNGARIANS.—THE
AUSTRIANS EXPELLED FROM PESTH.
Letters from Vienna of the 13th state that on the
12th the Magyar army, under the command of BEM
and MESSAROS, completely defeated the Austrians,
commanded by WINDISCHGRATZ and JELLACHICII,
at Waitzen. The town of Waitzen was taken by
storm by the Hungarians. General BEM, leaving a
portion of his troops under the command of MES-
sARos' advanced with the remainder on Pesth,
which city he entered on the 12th. The Magyars
are once more in possession of their capital.
By this victory the Magyars have opened the road
to Comorn, and the besiegers have by this time pro •
bably either decamped or surrendered to GEOR6T,
who was advancing to the relief of the fortress. The
Imperial General DAMIANICII has been taken by the
Magyars.
All the Ministers were summoned to Olmutz on
the 13th by telegraph. It is said that, alarmed by
the course events are taking in Hungary, the Aus-
trian Cabinet is desirous of offering to the Magyars
to secure to them the Constitution, of March, 1848,
in its entirety, a courseis x
ewhpiecchteids,orysiogsned. by Count
STADION, who will, it
The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 13th says :
" It was officially announced last night that Russian
reinforcements are to march over the Transylvanian
frontiers, from distinct quarters, in bodies of 30,000 men
each. If Austria had not this support this war would
ere now have terminated. The battle of Comorn will
decide the fate of Hungary,"
Count DE MEDEN, the Russian Ambassador, left
Vienna for Olmutz on the 30th, to take part in the de-
liberations of the Cabinet.

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