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

IRISEI RAILWAYS.

whenßLA CliA
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intended L L ask asked t
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uce Chancellorhis
measure of the
Mo!Ex-
chequerl o
assiAance to Irish railroads, and whether it will
hero the shape of a Bill t •
generally, promote railways in Ireland
l
The OlisAsZt advance of money to one line only.
posed that the LOH
of the EXCHEQUER pro
Morrow, in order to votetultr into Committee to-
would be lent to the Athlone The money
begged to move that the Bill i_!tyliailway. He
ux,c, Qummitteo to-
morrow tix this pu"pose.
Sir H. W ILLO Uti HI3Y inquired what security,.
be given?—(Hear, hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he
would allude to the matter to-tuurrow, when he should
enter into a general statement.
POUR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL.
The House went into Committee on this Bill.
Mr. MONSELL wished to know how the existing
arrears of rates were to be provided fur. Would those
arrears be included in the calculation fur estimating the
maximum to be levied ur.der these rate,?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
the arrears were excessively over-estimated.
Mr. MONALL had taken his figures from the poor-
law returns.
Sir DENHAM NORREYS suggested that power
should be given to the guardians to burrow money on the
arrears. .

Colonel DUNNE said the noise in the Committee was
so greet that he was afraid he could nut make himself
heard— (A laugh)—but he would propose that the ar-
rears and rates should b- collected by degrees.
Sir D. NORREYS and Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL and
several other Members made brief observations upon
the principle of levying a maximum rate, which the latter
Hon. Member contended could never be properly en-
forced, and expressed his belief that whatever the sum
fixed it would be sure to be evaded.
Sir G. GREY contended that as there was a limitation
of five shillin.s. that could never be exceeded.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said that it was precisely in
those di.dricts in which the limitation was most necessary
that it was most likely to be evaded.
Mr. GROGAN quite concurred with the observe-
tic% respeetiug the oiler ireposeibility of levying rate

under any maximnm valuation, for if they levied a rate of
three shillings, and wrre to trust to past experience as
to the amount to be assessed, such a rate was likely to
become ten or or eleven shillings,

Sir G. GREY explained that such a dontinrl;eney was
provided for by two other other clauses in the Bill.
A desultory discussion then followed, in which Mr.
Blacken, the Attorney-General, and other Hon. Mem-
bers took part.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said on the 25th of Sep-
tember next there would be a debt of half-a-
million on thirty-two poor law unions in Ireland.
The rate, therefore, in those unions would be,
not ss. in the pound, but 254 —([Tear, hear)—and
even a rate of 255. in the pound Ns ould not raise that
sum. He would ask how the Government proposed on
the 25th of September to meet the debt of halt a million
in trose thirty-two unions?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
there would be the rates which would be collected
during the next two months, and the deficiency might
be made up by an advance from the Treasury.
Some further discussion of a desultory kind on the
matter in hand was kept up for some time, in which Sir
I). Norreys, Mr. E B. Roche, Sir John Walsh, Sir H.
Jolliffe, and Colonel Dunne, took part.

(LEFT SITTING.)

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING.
Six o'CLocx.

JULY STAKES.
4 to 1 apt Impression
4 to 1 agst Tordesillas
4 to 1 agst any other
LIVERPOOL CUP.
9 to 2 agst Esse,:arius
7 to 1 agst Thringarth
9 to 1 agst Koleshea
GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Plaudit
10 to 1 agst Fernhill
11 to 1 agst Clermont
15 to 1 agst Tophana
15 to 1 agst St. Antonio
18 to 1 agst Collingwood
20 to 1 agst Syrup

DERBY.
30 to 1 agst William the Conqueror
30 to 1 agst John o' Groat

AUSTRIA.
THE WAR IN HUNGARY.

VIENNA, JUNE 23.—The Wiener Zeitxng of this
day contains the official report of Lieutenant Field-
Marshal Wohlgemuth to the Commander-in Chief of
the Army in Hungary, from which it, appears that
the Magyars have been successively dislodged from
their positions at Perea, Also-Szelly, Kiratz, and
Rewberg, by the united forces of the Russian and
Austrian troops:—
" The enemy had taken up a position at Perea,
but fell back, and were pursued into the village by
the main body of the Russians and the brigade of
Potts.

" Also Szelly was occupied early in the morning
by the enemy, but was evacuated by them without
coming to an engagement.
" A combat took place between Szelly and Kiratz-
Reus ; the enemy was driven back, and Kiratz and
Hew taken, and then occupid by the Brigade
fheising, while the Russian column were ordered
against the enemy's flanks towards Perea.
" The Brigade Perea.advanted and took up the
left flank towards Hatwany ; it appears that no en-
gagement took place there, but I have not yet re-
ceived the report.
" The two columns on the right and left flank
were most effectual in their operations."
On the Field, near Perea, June 21, 1849.
Two o'Clock r

A telegraphic dispatch announces the defeat of
the insurgents, under Georgey, who is now in full
retreat across the Waag, with 30,000 men and 80
cannon.

KING BOMBA AND HIS TELE-
SCOPES.

The following extract of a private letter from
Rome may, perhaps, be found amusing :
•" During the last exploits of the Neapolitan army
against the Republic of Rome, General Garibaldi
pressed the soldiers of the King so close that in their
wonderfully rapid march back to their own how
tiers a part of the military baggage of his
Majesty fell into the hands of his indefatigable pur-
suers. Amcngat other warlike articles were found
eight beautiful telescopes which the King highly valued,
as two of them belonged to no less a personage than the
Emperor Napoleon, by whom they had been given to
Murat. Yeu are aware that superstition is the ground
work of the Neapolitan character, and Ferdinand de Bour-
bon is a Neapolitan to the very core. His Majesty, in a
series of bloodless mar oeuvres at the Campo Marso, found
to his infinite satisfaction that the Neapolitan telescopes
(as he used to call them), had wonderfully served in
giving him that military coup d'ceil which is so essential
a quality in a commander in-chief of an army, and par-
ticulerly when that army consisted of Neapolitans. It
is said that when his Majesty left Gaeta and received the
accolade of the Holy Father, before placing himself at the
head of his soldiers to join the French Republicans in the
crusade against the Republican Eternal City, he implored
his H.,tin..a to 141...ae. ay. wvir....l. limplaramms.e.,
particularly the two which had belonged to Napoleon.
The King and his army reached Velletri (40 miles from
Romp) sans coup ferir. But, alas! one line morning,
ah:le his Majesty was in the act of reconnoitring the
country with the marvellous telescopes, cli uds of dust
were seen rising from the Consular-road and ap-
proaching Velletri, just like the serpentine line of
smoke left behind her by a steamship in the
high sea. The King, by a natural instinct, at once
ordered a retrograde movement in the direction of
hie own kingdom. The telescopes had atresdy warned
him of the prudence of such a step. The Neapolitans
began to sing their domestic melodies, but not before
the Roman forces, so fortunately discovered by the
telescopes, were at their heels. A sauve gui peut ensued,
and muskets, s.vords, and havresacs were thrown away
to accee:rate the march, and i; was during that terrible
contusion that the telescopes, being now deprived of
their virtue by the too near approach of the enemy,
were lost. It is positively asserted that the King of
Naples, deeply affected by what may be termed his
li,e preservers,' has offered the Triumvirate the sum of
24,000 ducats for their ransom; but the Romans have
answered that they wilt not part with them at any price,
as they are quite certain it is only by their instrumen-
tality they will for the future be allowed the honour of
seeing his Majesty."