The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-28 00:00:00

GERMAN Y

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Intelligence has been received from Vienna to the
22d. The news from Servia was of such a serions
character that WELDEN bad prohibited the journals
from publishing it, or from making any:allusion to it.
The suspended journal, the Presse, is about to re-
appear at Brunn, which is, out of the rayon of
Vienna, but WELDEN, in the Wiener Zeitung of the
20th, publishes a proclamation, reminding the inha-
bitants of Vienna in general and the subscribers to
the Presse in particular, that Vienna is still in a state
siege, and that all subscribers in Vienna to the ob-
noxious journal will subject themselves to trial by
court-martial. The unpardonable offence of the
Presse was its praise of Lord PALMERSTON.
The Government of Austria is now completely in
the hands of the Jesuit Camarilla. All the telegra-
phic wires terminate in a central room in the Palace,
so that all intelligence is received in the first place by
the Camarilla, and " cooked" before being forwarded
to the Ministers, who are thus reduced to the position
of mere cyphers.
The Hungarian Bishop LONOVICS has been libe-
rated from his prison at Pesth. NYAILY is still in
confinement. The March constitution was to be pro-
claimed on the morning of the 26th in the Town-hall.
The high district commissioner at Presburg, Count
CZIRAICY, has resigned his place.
Twenty-one sentences by the Arad court-martial
were published on the sth. Five are sentences of
death, commuted by General lIAYNAU to sixteen
yeA.s' imprisonment in a fortress.
In Hungary the passive resistance of the Msgyars
still goes on undiminishe d. No means is neglected
to show their silent scorn. The ladies wear bracelets
which are entirely compact of the little silver six-
kreuzer pieces of KOSSUTH with a ducat of the same
coinage set in the middle.

WIRTEAIIiERG.
The Chambers were dissolved on the 22d Decem
ber. The SCRLAYEE Ministry has resigned.

PRUSSIA.
WALDECK has received addresses congratulating
him on his acquittal from no less than 86 towns.

BRUNSWICK.
The Brunswick Chambers have adjourned to the
14th January.

ITA L Y.

A letter from Rome, of the 20th inst., announces
that the period of the POPE'S return to his capital is
still uncertain. His HouNEss had adjourned his
decision until the Bth of January.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
(SECOND BATCH.)
YOUNG TROUBLESOME ; or, Master Jachy's
llolidays. Designed and Etched by John Leech.
Glorious John Leech—the " bottle imp" of Punch—
has just issued his Christmas volume, magnificently
embellished. But that we remember the adventures
of the immortal " Briggs," we should certainly pro-
claim " Young Troublesome " to be the artist's mas-
terpiece. Let all who enjoy a good laugh, or love
fun and drollery, obtain this illustrated narrative of
" Muster Jacky 's Halidays"—it will prove as provo-
cative of merriment as the berries of the mistletoe,
when put to their right use, and will shed a gleam of
fascetiousness around, as odd and fantastic as that
cast by a bowl of snap-dragon. The characters
of the story, told here with such a felicitous
pencil, and painted in such brilliant colours, are
no mere automata, but living and breathing
existences—people that we all know intimately, not
-us mere bowing acquaintances on the Mall, but as
friends and familiars. Here you have Master Jacky,
" supposed to have arrived per railway (grown out of
all knowledge)," Rugg'es, the domestic, grinning his
welcome on the door-step. Here you have Young
Hopeful teaching Jane and Cary to fence, the two
wee little morsels of girls drawn as only John Leech
can draw little children. Here you have Jacky
" celebrating his arrival (to the disturbance of Mr.
Phoenix) with various athletic exercises"—the
father's irritation and the little scapegraces' romp
appearing in admirable contrast. Here you have
Young Troublesome " on a wet day bored to death"—
witness him balancing the chimney ornament on
the end of the poker at the tip of his nose ; see him,
surrounded by a voluminous library, protesting "he
has read all the books in the house ;" observe him
lounging in disgust and ennui on the sofa, or worry-
ing his elder sisters so entirely beyond endurance
that cne is ceremoniously conveying her needlework,
scissors and all, to another part of the room in high
dudgeon. Here you have him "in pursuance of a
bright thought playing at cricket in the drawing-
room"—the cricket ball, to the dismay of the little
ones, and the horror of Ruggles, smashing a co-tly
vase of alabaster, the little bay in the foreground
being an inimitable conception. Here you have
the arrival and progress of the "Theatre Royal
Drury-lane in miniature, up to the grand evening
rehearsal of the Miller and his Men, and the terrific
explosion in the Housekeeper's Room "—the old lady
in the door way being a superb sketch of senile
amazement. Mr. Pncenix delivering a lecture to
Young Troublesome, with his mother gazing down
upon him with a half-serious, half-amused expression
of countenance, form a capital picture; but not half
so capital as that in which is pourtrayed the arrival of
that dear, little, old, crabbed, frost-bitten Mr. Worm•
wood Scrubbs, delightfully unconscious of the paper
pigtail appended to the collar of his spencer by that
mischievous varlet, Master Jacky. Here you have
"old Bradshaw" come to stop a week—no mere
fancy portrait, but a veritable daguerreotype from the
crown of his head to the soles of his clarence shoes.
Here Mr. Phoenix, indignantly sniffing on the door mat
of his bedchamber, in exquisite dishabille, hopes
" that Bradshaw isn't teaching him to smoke,"
whereas, in the next group, you have a representa-
tion of " old Bradshaw" under the influence of
tobacco in a state of ashy, dreamy, dizzy, sickly
stupefaction. Here you have Mr. Maudlin Grooves,
M A., plump and sentimental, wishing young Jacky
at Jericho in his hopeless anxiety for a tete-a-tete with
the object of his affections. Here you have a grand
tableau of Jacky bolstering "old Bradshaw" over the
head of Mr. Wormwood Scrubbs, who has evidently
tugged down the bellpull in his indignation at the
hubbub. Here you have Young Troublesome
endeavouring to entertain himself, while his
honoured parents give a dinner party and he is
waiting for dessert, bonnetting Ruggles with a silver
dish• cover, and subsequently embellishing the legs
of that domestic with a burnt stick—Ruggles soon
afterwards adjourning to the kitchen, and there re-
lating to his fellow• servants what that " ere boy has
bin and done." Here you have him privileged to
leave the dining-room with the ladies, dancing the
schottische with a beautiful girl, whom he subse
quently kisses under the mistletoe, shamefully "taking
an undue advantage of his delightful position." At
" the end," which we are rej ,iced to see is only " for
the present," you have him " presiding over a j uvenile
party at the clo_e of the holidays, and hoping to meet
the present company again in good health and spirits,
this time twelvemonth"—an aspiration which elicits
amazing cheers from Mr. Wormwood Scrubbs.
Saving and excepting, of course, the hero, Young
Troublesome, this Mr. Wormwood Scrubbs and that
capital " old Bradshaw," are the happiest creations in
the volume—a volume drawn to the very life by the
master hand of John Leech, the Democritus of the
pencil.

MANNERS AND CVSTOMS OF YE
ENGLYSHE, Drawn from ye qvichby Rychard
Doyle. To which be added some extraets from
Mr PIPS HYS DIARY, contrybvted by Per
cival Leigh.
A reprint of one of the most felicitous and most
humorous serials ever published in the pages of the
London Charivari cannot fail to be r:ght welcome to
the lovers of fun in these merry days of Christmas.
Hence the present volume, extracted from the
seventeenth volume of Punch, will 13a hailed with
general satisfaction. The success of Mr. Percival
Leigh's parody oa the "Diary of Samuel Pepys"
has already elicited the commendation of the Quarterly
Review, and the fantastic genius of the son of H. 8., the
inimitable Richard Doyle, is universally apprt c.ated
' throughout the country. Perhaps the drollest thing
to our thinking that has yet emanated from his ec-
centric brain, a sketch worthy of the hand that has
pourtrayed "Ye Manners and Cvstoms of ye Eng-
lyshe," is the little tail piece to the volume of Punch
just completed, representing the letters
END Or VOL. 17
as furnished with the legs of horses, and gallopping
in full career under the direction of Mr. Peach him-
self, who handles the ribbons with the science of a
first-rate whip. We are sanguine that the present
volume, besides affording delight to the present age,
will he turntd to with curiosity by remote genera-
tions, as affording glimpses into tha manners ani
customs of our contemporaries.