The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-06 00:00:00

THE SUN,

countrymen by frequent repetitions of the auspicious
occurrence ; that her gracious visit may bear healing
on its wings, and prove the harbinger of bright and
better days for a land now passing through a fearful
ordeal. "We know," it proceeds to say, "that your
MAJESTY deeply sympathises in the sufferings and pri-
vations which your people have undergone, and are
still going through ; and we are convinced that
nothing would afford a higher gratification
to your royal breast than to mitigate and
relieve those sufferings, and to raise the
moral and social condition of your MAJESTY'S much
and long-enduring, but patient and faithful Irish
subjects. We trust that your Royal advent here will
lay the foundation of a better order of things than has
hitherto existed, be the means of fully developing
the great and varied natural resources of our beauti
ful and fertile country, and that its prosperity, and
the subsequent comfort, happiness, and contentment
of its people will be the glorious and blessed results of
your auspicious visit."
To this touching prayer who will not sincerely
cry Amen ! The annals of the present reign
teem witb many glorious records, but the laurels
won by the gallant victories of the East are a fading
and perishable crown compared to the genuine and
undying lustre which will spring from the regenera-
tion of the right arm of the empire. Without pre-
tending to the possession of any extraordinary pro-
phetic power," we may safely predict that the year
1849 will prove the commencement of a new era for
the sister isle ; when peace and industry, and con-
sequent plenteousness, will flourish in the place of
squalor, stagnation, and decay. It will be ever
remembered, with a glow of laudable exultation,
by the good citizens of the chief city of
Munster, that it was their peals of jubilant
loyalty which were the first to hail the sun-burst of
that bright and cheering day, and although " dear
dirty Du.)in," to adopt the irreverent phrase of the
facetious correspondent of a morning Contemporary
a phrase penned with a far greater regard to
alliteration than to truth—may, display a pagean-
try of more comprehensive splendour, Queen Vic-
TortrA and her Royal Consort will never permit
the first impression of " the emerald gem of the
We stern World" to fade from tl-eir remembrance, nor
, forget the honest and hearty loyalty of the good and
true lieges of Cork.

Various communications have reached us, not
merely from persons resident in the metropolis, but
likewise from different parts of the United Kingdom
—inquiring as to the possibility of Englishmen, or
Irishmen, or Scotchmen (for members of each of the
three races have expressed to ourselves the same soli-
citude) leaving this country fully armed and equipped
to act as volunteers to the heroic and glorious Ilun-

garians. We must be allowed here to answer these
correspondents collectively—reminding them that, by
virtue of the Foreign Enlistment Act, such overt pro-
ceeding are illegal. The recent trial of several in-
dividuals who had fitted out a' steam-vessel, laden
with men, arms, and ammunition, for the pur-
pose of affording assistance to the Sicilians,
was a case in point. To speak briefly,
the application of the reasoning of the enactment
is as follows. England is not at war either with
Austria or with Russia—deeply as those atrocious
despotisms are abhorred by our fellow-countrymen,
they are at present in a position of amity in regard to
our Government—and consequently it is considered
unjust as well as irrational for the Cabinet of St.
James's to behold without interference the subjects of
Queen VICTORIA enlisting soldiers and accumulating
weapons of attack against any state with which her
MAJESTY'S representatives still maintain amicable
relations. Hence the Foreign Enlistment Act was
introduced into, and passed uninterruptedly through,
both Houses of Parliament. Nor, upon considera-
tions of abstract propriety, can the justice of
the law be gainsayed. As a matter of moral
and logical utility the arrangement is in
every respect as judicious as that embodied
in the Alien Bill, a measure by which any refugee
may be deported from these islands in the event of
its being proved that he abuses the privileges gra-
tuitously conferred upon him as one seeking shelter
under the protecting shadow of our institutions, for
the purposes of plotting against an ally of the British
Government, or of disseminating pernicious doctrines
through the medium of the evil system of Propa-
gandism. Supposing, therefore, any citizen within
these realms is really solicitous to lend the assistance
of his life to the sacred cause of liberty
among tha Hungarians, his only chance will be clan-
destine. To imagine that we, co-operating with the
Committee of Members of Parliament, can employ any
portion of the funds subscribed for the Hungarian
refugees to the end that adventurous Englishmen, or
Scotchmen, or Irishmen, may be enabled to reach the
seat of war by crossing the Adriatic, or by traversing
Roumelia, is singularly to misapprehend the object
of the Testimonial. It should be remembered that
the amount of the subscription, supposing there to be
a surplus beyond the anticipated expenditure, will
under all circumstances be directed in the first instance
to the aid of the Hungarians of every miscellaneous grade
of society, whether living in London, or scattered
throughout the kingdom. These would naturally be the
first parties whose transmission to the battle-fields of
Hungary would be the object of our solicitude.
And, even supposing all those refugees of the blood of
the Magyars to have been conveyed from the land of
their exile to the land of their nativity, our next
desire would be to witness the departure in
the same direction of the brave but unfortunate fel-
low-countrymen of BEAL and liamnussiir.
Here it is that we may be permitted to allude at
length, and directly, to the band of Magyar soldiers
in whose behalf we first originated the Testimonial,
the troop of hussars lately resident at Folkstone. We
say lately resident at Folkstone, seeing that these
brave children of misfortune, and we trust we may
designate them prophetically heirs to glory and pro-
spective sharers in patriotic success, are now steaming
up the Mediterranean on their way to Constanti-
nople, and thence to the bead-quarters of
the army of liberation. It must not be imagined,
however, that, from the fact of this announcement,
there is no further necessity for contributing more
subscriptions to swell the fund of the Hungarian Tes-
timonial. On the contrary, it should be felt through-
out England that there is now more than ever a
necessity for the increase of this evidence of British
sympathy for the Hungarians. First and, foremost
there is an ample reason for all parties to arrive at
this conclusion, in the simple fact that the Committee
of Noblemen and M.P.'s have, on their collective re-
sponsibility, guaranteed the payment of all expenses
incurred in the transmission of these sixty-eight or
nine hussars to the Bosphorus, and onward to the north
of the Turkish frontiers. Seeing a favourable oppor-
tunity for sending the gallant refugees to their father-
land, the Committee pledged themselves that the
necessary amount for liquidating the expenses should
be forthcoming ; and, consequently, for this reason,
if for no other, the exertions made on the part of
those sympathising with the Magyars should be re-
doubled instead of being in any degree relaxed.
Beyond the consideration mentioned, however, there
are numerous others of a wider scope which should
act as additional incitements to the generous popu-
lation of England. The subscription opened is not
so much intended for the assistance exclusively
single body of refugees as it is di-
roefcteay
dn to the general advance of the great
cause with which those refugees and other
.refugees
are in a particular manner iden-
stitfii/e/di.n this country
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Testimonial is a ,testimonial to express
British sympathy for the Hungarians. Let, then,
the Testimonial be worthy of the sympathy ; let it
be worthy of a free and flourishing nation like Eng-
land, holding out the hand of fellowship to a free but
suffering nation like the Hungarians. Already have
our aspirations been nobly responded to by the rapid
increase of the subscriptions already collected, by the
immense assemblages in the city of London and in
Marylebone, and by the provincial meetings now being
convoked at Cardiff, at Birmingham, and at other
large towns in various parts of the United Kingdom.
If any supplementary inducement be required to
forward the objects implied in the Testimonial, surely
sufficient may be discovered in the contemplation of
the different spirit of the belligerents, and by the con-
sideration of the extraordinary successes already ob-
tained by the Hungarians.
As to the disposition displayed by the Magyars
and by the united Imperialists—that may be easily
recognised in the different tone of the proclamations
issued by their respective leaders. The hilarious and

exultant feeling breathed through the laconic
despatches of BEM and of GEORGEY are
not less expressive in this respect of the
manly and equable policy which has become incarnate
in the person of the great and immortal KOSSUTH,
than the fierce, infuriated, fiendish proclamations of
LIAYNAu are indicative of the remorseless and dia-

bolical cruelty by which the supremacy of his impe-
rial master is to be forced upon the population. Are
we exaggerating the brutality of the cause of this boy-
Emperor by using language in regard to his crea-
tures which would be more applicable to demons
than to human beings ? Good GoD ! after the hor-
rors that have been perpetrated in the name of this
puppet- despot shall we not stigmatize the ruffians
who forward his projects in the garb of
Field-Marshals, and Princes, and other high and
puissant dignitaries—shall we not stigmatise these in-
human enemies of liberty and civilization as monsters
unworthy of any feeling less than that of execration ?
Let those who hesitate in responding to this inquiry
pause for one moment while they read a single
instance, out of a multitude of similar ones, indica-
tive of the atrocities done in the name of this mighty
and chivalrous Emperor ! Let them read this one
hideous incident, recounted on the unimpeachable
authority of BERTUOLD AUEBBACII—Iet them read it,
and read it if they can without a shudder ! The oc-
currence took place, remember, even before the revolu-
tion of the Viennese—and the scene of this occur-
rence was nothing less than the capital of Austria. It
is as follows : .

“At this moment there was an uproar in the court of
the Aula as in a storm. The dead body of a student
was just brought in, which had been found on the Bel-
vedere, after the departure of the troops. The corpse
was frightfully mutilated, the tongue was cut out, the
eyes put out, the mouth split up to the ears, the nose cut
off, the belly rippt d up. All the horrors that the frenzy
of a monster in human shape could. devise had been
perpetrated. And now there arose in the Aula shouts
and howlings and heartrending cries for vengeance, such
as I had never before heard. The worsen wept and
wailed aloud ; and the men—not students, not prole
tarians—raised their arms and. swore vengeance on the
House of Hapsburg and Ferdinand the kind.' I saw
one burly old man,. the tears running down his
cheeks, crying out till he was hoarse, Vengeance
on Hapsburg L Thus the good Emperor has us
murdered, because a single man has been killed!'
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black flag, that the members of the Diet should see how
the troops of the Emperor dealt with his people. Schu-
selka came down, and pacified the crowd with a few
words; but when Prince Lubomirski set eyes upon the
vorre, the sight drove him stark mad upon the spot—
`0 Jellachich! 0 Jellachichl' he is said to have ex-
claimed, before the madness came upon him.”—A Nar-
rative of Events in Vienna front Latour to Windischgratz.
By Berthold Auerbach. Translated into Euglisti by
John Edward Taylor.
Yet this is the cause—reddened with murder,
blackened with conffigration, polluted with infamy,
made awful by the accumulation of its stupendous
guilt—this, forsooth, is the cause that my Lord ABER-
DEEN and the rest of that squad of enlightened aristo-
crats would sustain and glorify by their very reput-
able sympathies ! We resign the question with
implicit confidence to the consideration of our coun-
trymen—the great and vital question of England's
friendship v.ith despotism or with liberty, with Austria
or with Hungary, with heroes or with monsters.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Minister of Finance, M. PASSY, presented on
Friday the Budget for 1850. From this important
document it appears that on the Ist of January, 1850,
the total amount of the deficiency in the revenue will
be at least 550,000,000 f., and, as not more than
350,000,000 f. of that amount can conveniently be left
ie the shape of flowing debt, he proposes that a loan
should be negotiated to the amount of 200,000,000 f.
to meet the difference. The expenditure for the year
1850 he calculates, including the sinking fund, at
1,591,332,077 f., and as he calculates the receipts,
including the duty on potable liquors, at only
1,270,953,849 f., the deficiency will not be less than
320,378,228 f. Such %state of matters, he declares,
could not be allowed to continue without great danger,
' and he thought the moment was come when an at•
tempt ought to be made to arrange the expenditure
of the country according to its resources. lie there-
fore intimated his intention of making the following
propositions. In the first place, he proposed to de-
mand the authority of the Assembly to contract a
loan of 200,000,000 f., applicable to the extinction of
an equal sum of the existing deficit. Then, and in
order to meet the enormous difference between the
receipts and expenses, he proposed having recourse to
the following means :-1. The creation of new im-
posts and taxes to the amount of the sum of which
the Treasury stands in need. 2. A new arrange-
ment of the sinking fund, so as to make it appli-
cable solely to Rentes actually annulled ;
and 3. The constitution of obligations for
special services applicable solely to the
expenditure on extraordinary public works. The
Minister did not state what new taxes he meant to

lay on. The obligations for the expenditure on pub-
lic works, he said, would be of 500 f. each, and would
be issued evert year according as they might be re-
quired. They are to be reimbursed by lot, and by
means of a sinking fund of two per cent., which will
be set aside for each series ; and the interest on them
is to be regulated at a rate which must not in any
case exceed the medium rate of the Rentes during the
previous month. The new arrangement with respect
to the sinking fund he calculated would be a saving
to the country of seven millions of francs per annum.
The Minister did not conceal that, in his opinion, the
financial state of France was a very grave one, and
the impression made by his statement on the Assem-
bly was exceedingly unfavourable.
After the financial statement had been disposed of,
the order of the day was read for the discussion on a
Bill presented by the Minister of Finances to au-
thorise the collection of the direct revenue for the

year 1850. The object of the Bill was to prevent
the necessity for the Government having recourse
to " provisional twelfths," and the committee reported
in favour of the measure. On the second clause
being read, a discussion arose which had very
nearly produced a seism in the ranks of the Con-
servative party.
M. GILLON moved an amendment on that clause,
to the effect that the window-tax, instead of
being collected, as at present, should be added to
the land-tax on the property built upon. He con-
tended in favour of this amendment, on the ground
that the window-tax, as at present levied, pressed
very unequally on those paying it.
M. PASSY admitted that the system on which the
window-taxwas levied required revision, but he did
not think the present time an opportune one for that

purpose.
M.GILLoN then moved another amendment to the el
fect that before thelsth of January,lBsl, the Govern
ment should be obliged to present a Bill to modify
the system of levying the window and door-tax. M.
PASSY, in a spirit of conciliation, immediately accepted
the amendment, which he said he was ready to sup-
port. Upon this M. BENOIT, in the name of the com-
mittee, opposed the amendment, and blamed M.
PASSY for taking an engagement on the part of the
Government at such a distance of time, especially
when he admitted that the tax in question was levied
in an objectionable manner. This gave rise to an
altercation, in the course of which M. PASSE accused
M. BENOIT of raising an opposition to the resolution
merely for the purpose of creating a prejudice against
him (M. PAssr), and in the hope of securing the port-
folio of Minister of Finances for himself. Ultimately
the amendment was agreed to par assis et leve.
The speech of the PRESIDENT of the Republic at
Tours has completely allayed all fears that were en-
tertained of a coup d'etat. This speech may be con-
sidered as the personal act of the PRINCE, and when-
ever he acts for himself he does well. Let us hope
that the effect produced by this speech may induce
the PRESIDENT to exhibit henceforth more self-reli-
ance, and to pay less attention to the insidious advice
of M. DE FALLOUX and his coadjutors.
The Presse has the following in the speech of the
PRESIDENT at Tours, and on the article in the Moni-
teur on the subject of his tour
" This honest speech of the President, which we take
pleasure in praising, is followed in the Moniteur by an
article not less important. This precise speech, and this
formal article, which all France will read, have the im-
portance of a veritable political event. We
do not hesitate to declare, for our part, that
they inspire us with the most absolute confi-
dence and the most complete security. This confidence
may have been changed, and this security troubled, by
the fear that the President of the Republic would yield
to the influence of suggestions and counsels which are
not confined to the secresy of intimacy. These counsels
would have been blood, and these suggestions fatal; we
know them too well not to fear them. In firmly resist-
ing them, in spontaneously renewing, on the 2d August,
1849, at the end of a banquet, in the form of a teat!, the
ye'rctohnetraeted at the tribune
sanction of an oath,
et
hntheeg
himself. We do not doubt that the
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impression which
we feel will be the unanimous one. An imprudent
coup
d'etat could only have rehabilitated the discredited in-
surrection; the same discourse which brands the coup
d'etat on the shoulder, strikes insurrection to the heart.
It is no longer to be feared. N either coup d'itat nor m•