The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-22 00:00:00

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Ma'm'selle is seen descending,
With graces from. her throne,
And tripping down three csrriage-steps,
Before she takes her own I
Ma'm'selle is next seam dancing
With pas so fairy light,
That robber's eyes are glancing.
As tho' they bless'd the sight!
Ma'm'selle has danced the Cracow dance—
Cachuca—Tyrolienne!
As they were never danced before,
Or if—we don't icnow when!
The Robber Chief must let her go,
With admiration hearty;—
To CAROLINE ROSATI!
And this is owing MI, you know,

HER 'MAJESTY'S TREXTRE.--Besides the novelty
Alboni's playing Norina to, Lablache's Don Pasquale on
Thursday next, there will. be produced a very striking
and picturesque ballet div.trtisement, entitled Ole Fete
liongroise on les Patineurs.. Nothing choregraphic can
surpass th 3 novelty of this skating scene, originally com-
posed by M. Taglioni at Berlin, performed in every part
of Germany, and introdue in Paris to relieve the
heavy sombreness of the ot era lately produced at the
Academic do Musique. Thi 3 novelty will be followed by
another, no less attractive— the grand scene and third
act of the celebrated opern. 11 Guiramento, sung by Pa
rods and Moriani, to whia will be added the sprightly
ballet of La Prima Ball .nin.z, a scene of sunny lands,
contrasting admirably wit h hyperborean coup d'ceil with
that of the first divertisst mesa.

The true estimation of living is not to be taken
from age, but action ; so me die old at forty, other in-
fants at fourscore.—,Eliza:Cook's Journal.

SPIEtIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE .II,IINING PAPEIIS OF THIS DAY.
TINIE3.—The financial statement tee are promised
this evening, though it will lack the interest which has
successively attaeloal to a war budget, a new tariff, or a
repeal of the curt:-laws, will not be without sonic ex-
treerdiertry features. It will relate to a country asso-
ciated with a continent wrapt now for a twelvemonth in
war, almost from nee end to the other. From Sr. Peters-
burll to Madrid there is not one city of Europe which
has not poured its armies into the melee, and a hich is
not suffering some share in the destructive results.
Trade, commerce, agriculture, manufacture, navigation,
and every form of industry Las been disturbed by that
fell power which kills, devours, and spoils the life and
substance of man. The civilized world is now practi-
cally alive to the truth, which humanity and reason have
long taught the good and the wise, that nations are knit
together for good or for ill, and that no member of that
brotherhood can suffer without involving all the rest.
England has adopted that truth, and made it the basis of
her commercial legislation. No sane Englishman, there-
fore, can expect anything else than that our commerce
with our neighbours, and consequently the customs
arising out of that commerce should have somewhat de-
clined. Many of our neighbours have been too busy,
too poor, or too frightened to use the products of our
industry. They have not been able to pay their debts,
or have feared to contract new ones. In some instances
our ships have been absolutely excluded by war from
their customary ports. Nor is this all. To war must
be added free trade. We have surrendered a consider-
able though fluctuating revenue from the importation of
grain, and a more uniform revenue from sugar. Ireland
also continues to be a drain on the Imperial resources.
All things considered, we might thank our buoyant for-
tunes if the Chancellor of the Exchequer should an-
nounce to us no very great deficiency in our national in-
come. Even in that case we should be favourably distin-
guished from all the nations of Europe. But, instead of
a statement only a little less favourable than laet year's,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will, we believe,
be able to announce a positive and decided improve-
ment. Spite of revolutions, ware, and block-
ades spite of the continuance of famine
and spite of free trade—the revenue now presents an
actual surplus over the expenditure; and but for the
extraordinary expenses which the last financial year had
to discharge for its predecessor, we believe that Sir
Charles Wood would now be able to hand over the
greater part of a million to the Commissioners of the
National Debt. England is once more paying its way
like an honest and Christian realm. We owe this agree-
able result in the first instance to the resolute economy
introduced into our expenditure. The improved editions
of the budget last year, the labours of the financial Com-
mittees, and " the pressure from without," begin at last
to tell, and we aro actually recovering from insolvency.
When the figures of our condition will be presented to
the world in a few hours, it is sufficient to say that Sir
Charles Wood enters the new financial year with a
reipectable surplus in hand, and with every prospect of
making it a good round sum before the year is ended.
What more could be expected than this ? A
modern Chancellor of the Exchequer is not a Prospero,
who can raise storms and lay them. Famines and
wars are neither created nor extinguished by budgets.
If the capitalist of France or of Germany do not venture,
under the terrors of anarchy or of war, to import new
machinery from this country, and if the merchants of
those countries are afraid just now to fill their ware-
houses with articles of British manufacture, it is not
within the power of a Yorkshire baronet, whatever his
virtues and attainments, to warrant Europe against either
cholera or war, or any other natural or social calamity.
Prosperity is a comparative affair. We can only say
we are vastly more prosperous than our eondnental
neighbours, or any other old established country. At
the present moment the capital of other countries is
flowing into England, end those philosopla rs who
were lately peed wing the drain of our motley are now
at their wits' end to account for the fact that there
is a flew, not an ebb of the metallic stream. We
are more likely to suffer a congestion than an ex-
haustion of gold. Foreigners are investing in our
funds from a sense of their greater security, and steadi-
ness. In so doing they contribute to the capital of this
country, and increase that public confidence which is
necessary to the full use of our powers. We have no
objection to see all Europe crowding to our Stock Ex•
change, and by that channel to oar railroads, our manu-
factories, and our ports. There are other signs of re-
turning prosperity. The great towns in the north are
regularly if not busily employed. From the returns of
the Board of Trade it appears that the consumption of
necessaries and comforts of life imported from foreign
countries is steadily increasing, indicating of course an
equal export of our manufactures taken in exchange.
We are not inundated with foreign manufactures,
though even that would have its compensations in the
continual circuit of commerce; bat there is every pros-
pect of a healthy trade both at home and abroad; and
though the calamities of Europe should still render her
a less profitable neighbour, we have now a new world, as
Canning said, to rester° tbo balance of the old.
CHRONICLE.—The gradual advance of the Musco-
vite legions towards the scene of operations in Hungary
is masked from the view of Western Europe by that veil
of Cimmerian obscurity which always attends the move-
ments of Russia, and which now enwraps, with impe-
netrable folds, the whole frontier of the Austrian Empire.
If the accounts which we receive ot the plan ot the cam-
paign are correct, it is clear that much time must be
consumed in bringing to the field the various corps in-
dispensable for carrying the war into the inhospitable
plains of Central Hungary. For a campaign on the
Pusztas the blaze of the summer sun is almost as unfa-
vourable as the weeping skies and icy blasts of winter.
Little reliance can be placed on the reports which reach
us of the numbers and present position of the belligerent
parties. In numerical streegth the combined forces will
probably be inferior to the Magyar levies, but superior
to them is effective strength. The Austrian army is a
mere wreck, commanded by an officer of no military re-
putation; and the whole direction of the war must, of
course, rest with the Russian General in-Chief, Prince
Paskiowitsch. The approaching struggle will r.ot
be so unequal as to abate the interest which
the spectator feels in witnessing a fair fight ;
whilst the vast interests involved, and the
enormous masses of troops brought into the field on both
sides, invest it with an importance which throws into the
shade all the military contests of which Europe has been
the theatre since the days of Napoleon. The brilliant
successes of the Hungarians have raised them up a host
of' friends, and inspired the tongue of many an advocate
who was mute during their hour of adversity. For our-
selves, we pay willing homage to the gallantry and un-
conquerable resolution which have triumphantly with-
stood the vast military force concentrated last winter
upon the Hungarian capital. We admire the genius and
perseverance which organized in those remote and
boundless plains, the true home of the Magyar race, the
numerous and well-appointed army which now presents
a defiant and not unequal front to the legions of the
Czar. We acknowledge the strength and fervour of
that national spirit which animates the Magyar race
throughout the length and breadth of the land. Presi
dent Kossuth, we are well aware, is not so blink as he
has been painted, although his most familiar friends
would be puzzled to recognize the features of the llan-
garian O'Connell, as his admirers used to call him, in
the glowing portraiture of a wise and high-smiled pats lot
by which he has of late been represented. But our
views of him and of his cause have not been changed by
the unforseen results of the contest which he had the
largest share in originating. We never blinked the real
question at issue between Magyar and Imperialist,
and we need not retract or quality one syllable of what
we wrote before un unexpected turn of Fortune's wheel
brought it out into a broader and clearer daylight. We
are told, as if it were a great discovery, that the Hun-
garians are only fighting for their " ancient constitu
tional rights an 4 liberties." So they are, in the literal
SEDS:!—or so at least they were, before their leaders
throw off their allegiance to their youthful Sovereign.
But do our readers understand what these constitutional
rights import? They import nothing less than the total
separation and absolute independence of the realm of
Hungary—a separation ruinous to the Empire v‘hich,
for many centuries, has borne so conspicuous and so
useful a part in the affairs of Europe—an independence
such as the Hungarian nation has never practically en-
joyed since St. Stephen's crown first rested on the brow
of a scion of the Rouse of Hapsburg. Ever since the
date of the fatal battle of litolia:z, the Kingdom of Hun-
gary has been virtually subjf ct to the Crown and Go-
vernment of the Empire. The turn which events have
taken since the Itdegyar army for the second time
crossed the Theiss has inevitably tended to frieze
the sympathies of every Englishman towards the Im-
perialist cause, and we are told that our hopes and
fears for the result of the war ought to undergo a
corresponding change. It is impossible for us, of
course, to surrey the drama with the same feelings,
now that Russia has become the prominent actor in it.
Without distrusting the uprightness or good faith of the
RepPror Nicholas, we must lament most deeply an in-
tervention which, whilst it lasts, must reduce the Aus-
trian empire to the level of a Illssian province; although
we are conscious that, after the treatment which the
former has received from the western Powers, it is not
fee. us to reproach her for throwing herself into the arms
of her northern ally. Nevertheless, we do not hesitate
to say that we deem it far more beneficial for
Europe
that Austria should be saved from destruction by the
victories of the Cast-, than that she should perish by his
defeat. In the triumph of the Magyars and the
foundation of their projected democracy on the banks
of the Danube, certain as it would be to precipitate the
decadence of Austria, and almost certain to kindle the
flame of insurrection in the ne'.ghbouring Polish pro-
vinces, we see the seeds of future wars and convuldons
which may indeed change the face of eastern Europe,
but which are not likely to change it for the better.
Should these anticipations be disappointed, tone will re-
jeice more than we. Should Hungary make good her
claim to an admission into the commonwealth of nations,
we shall be ready, in due time, to bid her a friendly and
cordial welcome. Should she secure a chapter to herself
in the future history of Europe, we sincerely hope that
it may be neither a short nor a meletreholy one.
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BRITISII AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.--The
annual examination of the Boys' Model School, in the
Borough-road, was held yesterday (fnurstlay) before a
large assembly of subscribers and friends to the institu-
tion. The chair was successively filled by the Lord
Bishop of ganef:ester, Sir John Boileau, and Professor
Pillans, of Edinburgh, each of whom questioned tt e
children in various branches of learning. The attain-
ments of the scholars in geography, history,, mental
arithmetic, and some branches of natural philosophy,
were exceedingly creditable and appeared to give the
highest satisfactlon. A large number of beautiful spe-
cimens in drawing were exhibited, and various pit ces of
music were w(11 sung. The children were thoroughly
tested as to their acquaintsnuce with the sacred Scrip-
tures, and excellent speeclus were delivered by the
respective chairmen.

DINNER OF THE NAVY CLUB.
The members of this di-tinguislnd club gvve a grand
eiitert:tinment last err nirg to the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, Sir Francis Thorahill Baring, st the Thatched
liow:e Tavern. Tills bang the first occasion of the
Right Hum Baronet's meeting the gallant effic,rs of that
br.irch of the service over which he is politically placed,
a high degree of interest was exci ed in the profession,
and IthouT. 70 ufficers assembled to do hmour to their
guel:t. Included in the invitation to the First Lord were.
the civilian members o' the board, the Hon. \V. Cue_
per, M.l'., and Mr. Jo!,n Parker, the recently. appointed
t->cretr-iry to the Admiralty. Rear-Admiral Dundsa,
C. 13 , the senior naval Lord of the Admiralty, was
present as a member of the club.
Admiral Sir John A. Ommaney, K.C.8., as the chair-
man of the day, presided, and was supported by Admi-
rals Sir E. Codrington, G.C.8., Sir C. Ogle, Bart., Sir
G. almond, Brat., K.C.8., the Marquis of Tbomond,
G C.H., Sir C. Adam, K.C.8., the Hon. D.P. Bouverie,
Hon. F. Aylmer, C. 8., Hon. 1). H. Mackay, C. 8., Sir
F. Mason, K C. 8.; Sir Francis Seymour, C. 8.,
G.C.H., A. L3-saght, Earl of Cadogan,
Admiral Bowles, C. 8., J. M. Gordon, the Earl. of
Waldegrave, C. 8., Sir Henry Hart, K.C.H., tho
lion. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., *Sir C. Napier,
K C. 8., C. Sotheby, Sir A. W. Clifford, Bart.. C. 8.,
G. P. Falcon, Sir W. 0. Pell,- Ceptairc-Str -E. Lydria,—
Bart., G 0.8., K.C.H., Sir R. Grant, Sir Thos. Hastings,
Lord G. Paulo, Lord Edward Russell, Lord J. F. G.
Ha!lyburton, G.C.H., Sir Baldwin Walker, Lord Mid-
dleton, &c. Captain John Forbes occupied the vice-
chair.

After the usual loyal twits hod been done justice to,
and " The health of the Duke of Wellington and the
British Army" had been drank,
The gallant, distinguished, and venerable CHAIRMAN
proposed "The health of his Right Hon. Friend the
First Lord of the Admiralty," saying he felt at a loss
suitably to give expression to his feelings. In selecting
the Right Hon. Baronet to preside over the naval ser-
vice, her Majesty had placed the superintendence in the
hoods of one who would look to the maintenance of the
honour of the naval profession, and the preservation of .
its efficiency in case of need.—(Cheers.)
Sir FRANCIS T. BARING, on rising to respond to the
toast, was most cordially and enthusiastically greeted by
the company. In the course of his speech he said he bad
been too lung in public life to care much about mere
popularity; but in the course which he should pursue
he hoped that, whether his acts might be approved or
not, he should at least have the credit of being actu-
ated by the most conscientious feelings.—(Hear, hear.)
He had, as was well known, declined to take office, and
he had only accepted that which he now occupied, be-
cause he lauci‘d that in this particular department he
might be of some service to the public; and, if on retir-
ing from office, the members of this company could say
he had done his duty, he should be amply repaid for any
labours he had undergone, or any sacrifices he had made.
—(Cheers.) He could not conclude without briefly al-
luding to the distinguished Nobleman who had been his
predecessor at the Boa; d of Admiralty.—(Hear, hear.)
With such an example before him he entertained same
hope that in his hands the interests of the service and the
character of the British navy would not suffer any dete.•
rioration.—(Cheers.)
TheCHAIRMAN next proposed "The health of Admiral
James Whiiley Deans Dundts, and the Junior Lords of
the Admiralty."
Admiral DUNDAS responded in that good-humoured
style which is truly characteristic of the Gallant Ad-

aural.
Sir FRANCIS BARING then claimed the privilege of
proposing the 'writ toast, that of "The Flealih of the
Chairman."
The toast inEt wish a cordial reception from the com-
pany.
Numerous professional toasts followed, and the fes-
tivities were continued until a late hour.