The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-28 00:00:00

AN ODE TO HUNGARY,
BY MURDO YOUNG.
Oh, Hungary! brave Huogary.!
May God protect thy cause,
For thou art sworn to liberty,
As nom—it ever was.

Let tyrants threaten what they can,
Tney tremble at this hour,—
For God hath touched the mind of man
With knowledge of his power.

And as your fathers bled of old,
Devoted to the last,
Our children dear must not behold
That you disgrace the past.

Then on, ye men of Hungary,
On for the cause of truth 1
Strike down the hordes of tyranny—
Old age as well as youth.

Your towns and eastlos may be sacked,
And thousands strew the field,
But though your hearts be sorely racked,
Your souls will never yield.

We follow to the wilderness
The banner Freedom waves,
That God our wives and daughters bless—
Our suns be never slaves.

O shame to France ! Great praise to Rome!—
One free, would one en3lave?
Think, think but of your own dear home—
The brave coerce the brave !

If there be infamy on earth,
Hypocrisy abhorred,
It is when Freedom shames her birth
By ruling with the sword !

Why not snatch up the godlike pen,
And use persuasion true ?
What's good for one—let other men
Enjoy, and be like you.
That is the doctrine God above
Propounds unto the free;
Then why rebel against his love,
And deal in slavery?

Are we not all with sense imbued
And feelingness of heart?
Then why pervert to bad the good,
And act the traitor's part?

We only claim what we accord,
Just rights and equal laws;
And though we perish undeplorcd,
We'll vindicate our cause.

With nervous arm and dear heart-strings,
We'll struggle for mankind,
Nor homage ever pay to things
Who rule with savage mind.

On, brave Magyars! with a will,
And charge with loud acclaim;
Let Hungary be worthy still
Of the old Roman name.

And ere we combat Russia's horde,
Still burning to be free,
We'll bend our knee unto the Lord
To grant us victory.
Now let us kneel ere day departs—
() Lord, our God, arise!
While tears of rapture swell our hearts—
And rush into our eyes.

Then draw the sword and couch the lance,
With banners proud unfurled,
Ye can but die, and die but once,
Examples to the world !

Let man be free—the despot curse
Beneath your feet be trod—
Opinion sway the universe,
And mind rejoice in God!

ROYAL VISIT TO GROSVENOR

HOUSE.

Last evening her Majesty and the Prince Consort ho-
noured the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
with their company to a grand banquet and concert at
Grosvenor House.

In the courtyard was stationed the full band of the
Royal Horse Guards, and the only other attraction that
could possibly afford the public any gratification was
the illumination of the exterior of the mansion. The
gardens in the rear of the residence were tastefully illu-
minated at dusk by thousands of variegated lamps.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Earl Spencer,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, arrived shortly before
eight, by which hour the whole of the guests to the
banquet had assembled. Shortly after eight the Queen
and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Queen of the
Belgians, and attended by the personnel attached to the
court in waiting, arrived. The Marquis and Marchioness
of Westminster came forward to welcome their august
visitors as they alighted from the carriage. The Queen,
resting on the arm of the Noble Marquis, followed by
the Queen of the Belgians, Prince Albert, and retinue,
proceeded at once to the saloon.
Immediately afterwards dinner was announced as
being ready, when the :royal party was ushered to the
grand dining-room. Her Majesty sat on the right side
of the noble hoit, the Queen of the Belgians and Prince
Albert sitting vis-a vis, the Marchioness bring on the
left of the Prince Consort. In addition to these august
personages, the following constituted the dinner circle:
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl Spen-
cer, Viscount Hardinge, the Hon. B. and Lady Elizabeth
Lawley, the Hon. W. H. and Lady Caroline Leigh, the
Earl Grosvenor, Lord R. Grosvenor, and the following
persons in attendance on the Queen and Prince and the
Queen of the Belgians: Lord IVaterpark, Colonel Bou-
verie, Lord George Lennux, the Hon. Col. Phipps, and
the Countess of Van der Straten, and Major de Moer-
kerke. Covers were laid for twenty-four persons. The
military band performed during the entertainment. Her
Majesty's health was the only toast drunk.
At half-past nine o'clock the visitors invited to the
concert began to congregate, the court-yard being by
that time fully illuminated by variegated lamps arranged
along the architectural outline of the surrounding build-
ings, and also in circles round the columns of the por-
tico. There were the several members of the Royal
Family invited, but the Duckess of Kent, owing to a
slight cold, was absent, Lord James Murray, Lord Au-
gustus Bruce and Baroness de Speth, arriving in the
Duchess's carriage, and bearing an excuse to the Mar-
quis and Marchioness for her absence. His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge come with the Duchess of
Gloucester, from Mr. Harcourt,
M.P., and the Coun-
tess (Frances) Waldegrave's, where they had been
dining, Lady Caroline Murray being in attendance on
the Royal Duchess,
their Royal Highnesses the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arrived soon after
ten o'clock. _ .

The Queen and the company at dinner entered the
gallery from the saloon about ten o'clock. The illus.
trious visitors were conducted to ottomans appointed
for their exclusive accommodation at the end of the
gallery, in which
magnificent room the concert was to
take place place.
The Queen and Royal party having taken their seats,
and the majority of the company having assembled, the
concert commenced, Mr. Costa presiding at the piano-
forte. The vocal artistes engaged were Madame Persiani,
Madlle. Merle, and Signora Mario, Tamburini, and La-
blache; and the selection was made from the favourite
operas of Mozart, Marcella, Doniz'tti, Rossini, Metes-
dante, Haydn, and Cimarosa. During the interval be-
tween the second and first part of the concert the com-
pany adjourned to the dining-room, where the most
choice delicacies of the confectionary art were supplied.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and the Queen of the Belgians remained until half-past
12 o'clock. The Marquis and Marchioness escorted the
illustrious party to the royal carriage when her- Majesty
took leave.

BEETHOVEN Rooms.—Mr. Springer, a pianist, gave
a Matinee Musicale at these rooms on Monday. Seve-
ral songs and duets were given with their usual success
by the Misses Bassano, Messent, Fyne, and L. Pyne;
Signor Maras, M. Herberte, M. Bodda, and Herr
Pischek. Solos on the violin and violoncello were given
with excellent effect by Herren Diechman and Haus-
mann, who also with the beneficiare executed a trio by
Mayseder. Mr. Springer performed Beethoven's sonata
in D in a manner which evinced a thorough acquaintance
with and feeling for the severe style of pianoforte music,
and also executed some pieces of his own composition,
viz., " Una Valso Sentimentale," " Le Depart," " La
Danse des Sylphides," &c., which displayed much me-
lody, and poetical feeling, combined with considerable
musical science. The concert was fully and fashionably
attended, and went off with the greatest iclat.
HANOVER-SQUARE Rooms.—Herr Dreyschock gave
a matinee musicale, yesterday morning at these rooms,
which was numerously and brilliantly attended. Herr
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hanced by the thoroughly artistic manner in which he
accompanied himself on the pianoforte. The other sin-
gers were Matllle. Buhring and Madlle. Jetty de Treffz,
the latter of whom bad to repeat an air, "La Veneziane,"
composed for her by Panofka. The concert was under
the conduct of M. Benedict.

Fringe Albert and the Prince of Wales intend
visiting Winchester on the 12th of next month. The
Prince Consort is anxious that his visit shall be attended
with as little ceremony as possible. His object is to see
the cathedral, college, and the numerous and interesting
antiquities vk Rh which the capital of the ancient Saxon
kingdom abounds. The Prince will take the opportu-
nity of his visit to Winchester to present new colours to
the 23d Regiment. _

Her Majesty and the Court will, we believe, go
to Osbor❑e on the 2d of July, and rennin there until the
• 3d of August, when they start for Dublin for a four
days' visit. Thence they go to Cork and Belfast, and
thence to Scotland.—Tunes.