The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24 1849.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

TUESDAY'S RACES.
F'nty Pounds; for two yrs old, a feather; titres, 7st 51;
tone, Bst OIL; live, 9.A 3'i ; !ix and aged, 9st ;lb. Thu
%).intler, witt t: is .pg:.getnnts, to be sold for 300 gs.
if demand..d, &/... Last three miles of B.C.
Lord H. Lennox's Little Jaelr, 2 yrs (T. Smith) 1
Lord Exeter's Nutmeg, 2 yrs (Barker) 2
Mr. Greg(,ry's Darnro.k, 2 yrQ (Rickards) 3
Mr. C. Peck's Baron Hill, 2 yrs (Wells) 0
Lord Hammer and Tongs, 2 yrs (A. Davis) 0
Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, 4 yrs ... ..(Flatman) 0
Batting-5 to 4 sgst Little Jack. Damask and Nut-
meg went off in advance of their horses, and trade the
running to the gap, where it was talun up by Hornpipe;
the latter, however, broke down at the lushes, and
Damask rtsumed her lead, which she held to the turn of
the lands; from this point Little Jack and Nutmeg had
tlis race to themselves, the former winning cleverly by
two h ngths. He was claimed. Run in 5 min. 56 sec.
Sweepsnites of 10 toys. cacti; for three yrs old, 7st 7.b;
four, B,t 311_ ; five and upwards, Bst 81b. The winner
to he sold for 200 sous. if demanded, &c. Criterion

Course.
Lord Enfield's Bryce Stmilsfoot, 3 yrs.... .(Flstman) 1
Lord Exeter's Bishop of Remford's Cob, aged
Mr. Henry's Thringartb, 3 yrs (Simpson) 3
Sir J. Hawley's Sponge, 4 yrs (Templeman) 4
Lord W. Powlett's Rtar-guard, 3 yrs ...(DLekeray) 5
Betting-6 to 4 ngst Thringarth, 5 to 2 agst Bryce
Snailsfoot, and 3to 1 agst The Cob. Won by a length;
half a length between the second and third, and Sponge
close up. Run in 1 min. 18 sec.
Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, and only
5 if declared, &c ; winners extra; the second to re-

ccive 50 sous. out of the stakes, and the winner to

pay 30 sous. to the judge. Cambridgeshire Course.
(One hundred and sixty-two Subs., fifty-niue of
whom pay 5 ft.
Mr. Meiklam's Raby, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Arnold) 1
Captain Ilervey's Rhesus, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Treen, jun.) 2
Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry, 4 yrs, 7st 10ib (Wells) 3
Mr. Roles Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 41b . .(Flatman) 0
Mr. Green's Shyloelc' 4 yrs, Bst (Wintringham) 0
Major Martyr's The .Moor, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (S. Mann) 0
Lltd Ferrars nit Prior of St. Margaret's 6 yrs, 7st 101 b 0
Mr. Batson's Beauelerc, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Sly) 0
Mr. Lawson's Keleshea, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (M. Arnold) 0
Mr. Herbert's Radulphus, 6 yrs, 7st 41b (Pettit)
Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 3 y rs, ist 21b (Pearl) 0
Mr. Payne's Glauca, 3 yrs, 7st Ilb (Dcekeray) 0
Mr. Nieboll's Woolwich, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Hiett) 0
Mr. PedlEy's Cockermouth, 4 yrs, 6:t 101 b (carried
6st 121 b (Walt/field, jun.) 0
_ _

Mr. Verity's Whitstone, 4 yrs, Est 101b...(T Burns) 0
Mr. Wigram's Keraun, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (Dean) 0
Sir C. llonck's Vanguard, 3 yrs, 63t 101 b (Charlton) 0
Mr. Osbaldeston'sJoc o' Sot, 5 yrs,6st 101 b (Basham) 0
Lord Clifden's Rathmines, 5 yrs, Est 71b...(G. Oates) 0
Col. Anscn's Backbiter, 4 yrs, fist 71b (G. Harrison) 0
Col. Peel's Vasa, 3 yrs, Est 41b (G. Brown) 0
Sir J. Ilawley's Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, 6st 31b(E. Sharp) 0
Lord Exeter's Glenalvon, 3 yrs, Est (J. Mann) 0
Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs, 6st (including
61b extra) (H. Hammond) 0
Mr. Payne's Crucible, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Rickards) 0
Colonel Peel's Quinine, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (B. Treen) 0
Mr. Sutton's Crocodile (h b), aged, sst 101 b (E. Ford) 0
Mr. Drinkald's Over-fork-over, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (car-
ried sit 121 b) (Rodney) 0
Mr. Wigram's f by Harkaway, out of Coranna's dam,
3 yrs, sst 71b (R. Sherwood) 0
Mr. Roberts's Rienzi, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Osborne) 0
Betting-4 to 1 agst Ribaldry, 4to 1 agst Rathmines,
6 to 1 agst Raby, 8 to 1 agst Woolwich, 12 to 1 agst
Rhesus, 16 to 1 agst Collingwood, 16 to 1 agst Van-
guard, 20 to 1 agst Glauca, 20 to 1 agst Over-fork-over,
25 to 1 agst Bacchanalian, 35 to 1 agst Rienzi, 25 to 1
agst Joc-o'Sot, and 30 to 1 agst any other. Won by a
length; about a length and a half between the second
and third; Glauca close up. Run in exactly two
minutes. The Rider of Ribaldry objected against Raby
on the ground of a cross.
Sweepstakes of 300 soya. each, h ft, one to the post. A.F.
Duke of Bedford's Sobraon, Sat 71b
Lord Chesterfield's Fertile, 8A 71b
Betting-5 to 2on Sobraon. Sobraon made ne&rly
all the running, and won by a neck. Run in 2 min.
27 sec.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sow. each, 10 ft; for three
yrs old. T.Y.C.
Mr. Frankum's Dolly Varden, 3 yrs, 7st 12'b (Pettit) 1
Mr. Payne's Farthingale, 3 yrs, Bst 71h (Flatman) 2
Mr. Newton's Memento, 3 yrs, Bst 31b
Mr. Whitworth's Lady Jersey, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b 0
Lord Clifden's Tiresome, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Pearl) 0
Lord Glasgow's fby Lanercost—Canada, 3 yrs ist 410 0
Colonel Anson's Irish Jig, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Charlton) 0
Mr. King's fby Muley Moloch--Pendulum, 3 yrs, 7st 0
Sir J. llawley's Slang, 2 yrs, Gst... (E. Sharp) 0
Mr. Osborne's Snowdrift, 2 yrs, sst 101b...(Osborne) 0
Betting-4 to 1 each agst Farthingale, Dolly Varden,
and Slang, 5 to 1 egst Memento, and 5 to 1 agst Pendu-
lum filly. Dolly Varden made all the running, and won
cleverly by a length; nothing was near the first two.
Run in 1 min. 13 sec.

Sweepstakes of 10 says. each; for three yrs old, 7st
1018; four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Bst 81b. The
winner to be sold for 80 soy& if demanded, &c. Last

half of Ab. M.
Mr. Burgess's The Hind of the Forest, 4 yrs (J.Sharp) 1
Mr. Lister's Rochester, 3 yrs (S. Mann) 2
Sir S. Spry's Bastilion, 3 yrs (Tasker) 3
Mr. A. Bartley's Laundry Maid, 5 yrs (Sly) 0
Mr. Frankum's The New Era, 3 yrs (Pettit) 0
Duke of Richmond's Highland Fling, 3 yrs (Flatman) 0
Sir J. Gerard's Jest, 4 yrs (Marlow) 0
Lord Stradbroke's Pylos, 3 yrs (Pearl) 0
Mr. Lawson's Pizarro, 6yrs (M. Noble) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Jest, and 5 to I agst any other.
Won by a length; all well up except The New Era and
Pizarro. Run in 51 secs.
Selling Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft;
for three yrs old and upwards. The winner to be sold
for 200 sovs. if demanded, &c. P.M.
Mr. Pedley's Chatterer, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ....... ..(Maton) I
Lord Clifden's Tiresome, 3 yrs, 7st (Pearl) 2
Mr. Stephenson's Ziska, 5 yrs, 83t 71b ...... (F Butler) 0
Mr. NV aller's Pottirgur, 5 yrs, ist 121 b...( Wakefield ) 0
Lord Exeter's Grace, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ......... (Flatman) 0
Lord H. Lennox's First chance, 3 yrs, 7st (Kitchener) 0
Lord Chesterfield's Chicot, 3 yrs, Est 71b (G. Oates) 0
Mr. Fox's Plebeia, 3 yrs, Est ..............(G. Mann) 0
Betting-7 to 2 agst Chicot, 4to 1 agst Chatterer, and
4to 1 agst Plebeia. Won by half a length, Plebeia and
Ziska well up. Run in Imm 46 sec,
Post Niatch; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; 300, h ft. R.M.
Mr. Greville's Clarissa received
Handicap Plate of 1001. for three years old and up-

wards. D.I.
Mr. Death's Antagonist, 5 yrs, Bst 51b Abdale) 1
Mr. Stephenson's Doctrine, 5 yrs, Bst .••• ...•(Pearl) 2
Captain Feast's Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs, Bst (Wakefield) 3
Lord Clitden's St. Antonio, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Robinson) 0
Mr. Sulton's Sobersides (h b) aged, Bst (Nightingale) 0
Captain Lowther's Tarn Wadlin, 7st 410 (llockeray) 0
Col. Anson's Knight Errant, Est 71b ...(G. llarrison) 0
Mr. Ramsbottow's f by Velocipede, out of Miss
Wilfred, 3 yrs, 6st 51b • Sherwoo:l) 0
Mr. Comhe's The Count, 3 yrs, 6st 41b ..... (E. Sharp) 0
Mr. Bowes's The Flapper, 3 yrs, 6st ......(Charlton) 0
Betting-2 to 1 agst The Flapper, 4to 1 agst Doctrine,
5 to 1 agst St. Antonio, 5 to 1 agst Antagonist, and 5 to
1 agst Tarn Wadlin. Won by a length; the same between
second and third; St. Antonio a bad fourth. Run in 3
min. 54 sec.
Match; 200, h ft, D.M.—Lord Glasgow's Canada filly,
7st 121 b, received forfeit from Lord Stanley's Escalade,
Bst 71b.

NEWMARKET—TUESDAY NIGHT.
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Tl.e objection made against Raby by the rider
of
Ribaldry, on the ground of a cross, came before the
Stewards after the races this evening, when, after an
examination of the riders of the horses forward at the
finish of the race, it was clearly established that no cross
had taken place ; the Judge's fiat, therefore, was
affirmed.

ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY.

Handicap for two yrs old. First half of Alp. M.—
Thu Wren, Bst 7ib—Albreda, Bst-1 by Don John,
out of Sister to Ainderby, 7st 101 b— b c by Dromedary,
out of thm by Mulatto, 7st 71b.
Selling Handicap. T.Y.C. Winner to bo sold for 100/.
—K,h.shea, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—c by Cother.tone, out of
Mandane, 3 yrs, 7st 71b—Pottinger, 5 yrs, 835 21b—The
Probe, 3 yrs, 7st 41b—St. Denis. 3 yrs, 6lt 81b—St. Os-
wald, 5 yrs, 7st 111 b—h: f by M. Moloch, out of Pendu-
lum, 3 yrs, sst 10113.
Handicap Plate. A.F.—Defaulter, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—
Iron Rail, 5 ps, B,t 71b—Flatcatcher, 4 yrs, Bst 793
L,)adstone, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—Dulcet, aged, Bst—Tophana,
4 yri, 7st 121b—St. Antonio, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Heltcr
Sli‘.;ter, 4 yrs, 7st 10ib—Clarissa, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b
Creole, aged, ist 71b—Comet, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Champion,
3 yrs, 7st—Glenlyon, 3 yrs, Get 111b—Colocynthis, 4
yrs, 6$ 101b—Sauter-la-Coupe,. 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Mouu-
seer, 3 yrs, Est 11b—Sir Gilbert, 3 yrs, sst 121 b
Cayenne, 3 yrs, sst 71b—The Swift, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Car-
thagonian, 3 yrs, sst 71b.
Sweepstakes ; winner to be sold for 401.; T.Y.C.—
Montpensier, 5 yrs—Paquita, 3 yrs—Cigarette, 3 yn—
lone, 3 yrs.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for two yrs old and up-
wards; last half of Ab. M.; winner to be sold for
2501.—Ploughboy, 3 yrs—Rose Pompon, 2 yrs—Rem-
nant, 2 yrs—Humphrey, ,2 )rs—Sisyphus, 2 yrs.
Subscription Plate; 1.Y.C.; winner to be sold for
3501.:—Abd-el Bader, 3 yrs—Thornhill, 3 yrs—Strong-
bow, 3 yrs—eh f by Slave, out of Exotic, 2 yrs—Siq-
phus, 2 yrs—Falcon, 2yr:3—Nimrod, by Venison,2 yrs
—The Wren, 2 yrs—Subterfuge, by Sir Hercules, out
of Thug's dam, 2 yrs.
Sweepstakes for three yrs old and upwards; T.Y.C.;
winner to be sold for 1501.—Bishop of Rumford's Cob,
aged—The Fiddler, 4 yrs—Shropshire Witch, 4 yre—
Telegraph, 4 yrs—Bryce bnailsfout, 3 yrs—Thringarth,
3 yrs—Thorntlill, 3 yrs—Chatterer, 3 yrs.
Sweepstakes for two yrs old; First Half of Ab. M.;
the winner to be sold for 70/.-011 f by Gladiator, cut
of Malibran—General Seidlitz —Palinela—ch f by Gla-
diator, out of Mbar— Mandarin—Ensma—Pausey—
Shamrock —Eunuch—c by Ratcatcher out of Espo-
ranza.

FUNERAL or TILE LATE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF.—
The remains of the late Dr.i Coplestone were to be in-
terred yesterday afternoon, n the cathedral of his diocese.
His Lordship having also been Dean of St. Paul's, the
great bell of this latter cathedral, according to custom
msimilar cases, tolled minute time, from one o'clock
ill! three.
TAXING CARE or NUMBER ONE. -- A negro
having purchased a hat was observed to take it from his
head on the fall of a shower of rain, and to manifest
considerable anxiety to preserve it from the wet. On
being remonstrated with for his supposed stupidity in
thus leaving his laud exposed, he observed, "Hat belong
1 to me--head belong to PAM."

GREAT FIRE

NEAR LONDON-

BRIE GE.

A con fLgration, far more tesrful in its const qiiences
than that which re ceolly cccurred in Loaded. wall,
bunt forth lest evening, about six u'eleelt, in the im-
mediate vicinity of the _Monument, einios•:, on the very
spot at which the great fire of London commenced,
and for several hours raged with tremendous violence,
consuming a vast amount of property.
The promises on which it originated comprised a
large clump of warehouses in the occupation of Baiss,
Brothers, and Co., the wholesale chemists of and
126, Lower Thames-street, situate in King's Head-
court, a narrow court leading out of Fists-street hill,
about the centre, into Pudding-lane. The buildings
extended in depth some sixty or seventy feet, and
communicated with the premises of the firm in Lower
Thames-street, which were also very capacious, and
immediately faced St. Magnus Church. The
back warehouses were of considerable height,
and the floors were stored with chemicals
of every description. Respecting the actual
cause of the outbreak no information whatever
could be gleaned, excepting that, when the flames
sere first observed, they were raging on the
ground floor of that portion of the warehouse nearest
King's Head-court. Every effort was made by those
connected with the premises to stay the progress of
the fire at that early stage, but without avail; for,
owing to the inflammable nature of the property, the
destructive element spread with the rapidity of light-
ning, bursting forth into King's Head- court, and
creating the greatest consternation in that part of the
City. Every expedition was used in communicating
the outbreak to the fire brigade establishments, and
quickly the powerful engines from thp City stations
a ere brought to the scene, aided by those belonging
to the Custom-house, and eight or nine others attached
to the neighbouring wharfs and parishes. Although
the interval was short, the work of destruction had
proceeded with terrible violence. The flames had
extended from floor to floor in the building facing the
yard, and the whole structure presented one vivid
owfhitlshte levoeoryphomle moment
andent
loudd oor s in a
mass of fire, the oils and various inflammable liquids
streaming
state, otue
explo-
sions were heard from the bursting
of turpentine and spirits, terrifying the inhabitants
to such an extent that many abandoned their houses,
and the panic seized others, who rushed through the
streets in the same excited state, a rumour prevailing
that large quantities of gunpowder and saltpetre were
in the cellars. As soon as the firemen could procure
a supply of water, they concentrated their exertions
in preserving a large warehouse belonging to Mr.
Adams, an orange and fruit merchant, on the other
side of King's Head-court. The flames from the
burning building opposite had already penetrated a
store in connexion with this warehouse, and it was
feared the latter wculd share a similar fate. The
narrowness of the court, and the constant explosions,
rendered it almost impossible for the firemen to pre-
vent the flames reaching Mr. Adams's property, for to
add to the difficulty the rear of the houses on both
sides of the entrance to the court from Fish•street-
hill had ignited, and the heat was most intense. The
men, however, notwithstanding their painful position,
kept to their post, and being assisted by others who
mounted the roofs of the houses in Fish street-hill,
and directed vast columns of water on to the points
threatened, they succeeded in preventing the confla-
gration extending in that direction.
Unfortunately the progress of the fire in the
opposite quarter, towards Lower Thames-street and
the lower portion of Fish street-hill, became most
fearful. The whole of the rear of the houses from
King's Arms-court to the corner of Lower Thames-
street, which abutted on the blazing warehouse, had
caught, and were lighting up fiercely, while in
Thames street the conflagration was spreading still
more awfully. The flames had made their way into
the front warehouse and premises, four stories in
height, of Messrs. Baiss and Co., facing St. Magnus
Church, and in a very brief period the entire building
was alight from the basement to the roof, sending
high into the air terrific volumes of flame. It was
then about half-past seven o'clock, and the alarming ex-
tent to which the calamity was spreading increased the
excitement considerably. All the fire-engines con-
nected with the brigades stationed in London, with
two or three exceptions, were collected in the imme-
diate vicinity of the conflagration, and were brought
to bear on every accessible point:The two large float-
ing engines stationed in the river were brought along-
side of Fresh-warf, and the hose were judiciously con-
veyed into Fish-street-hill and Lower Thames-street,
thus commanding two sides of the fire, but,notwit'nstand-
ing the immense flood of water cast upon the burning
buildings, no visible effect was apparent. It is im-
possible to convey any idea of the scene that presented
itself at this period. The flames, as the various ex-
plosions occurred, rose to an enormous elevation, and
all the architectural details of the Monument and St.
Magnus Church were perceptible at a great ditance ;
indeed, the former at times resembled a brazen column.
The great reflection attracted vast numbers of persons
from every part of the metropolis. London-bridge
and all its approaches were densely crowded, and
masses congregated along the wharfs and other loca-
lities from whence the fire could be seen. Indeed,
the crowd became so immense that the commanding
officer of the troops in the Tower intimated his readi-
ness to assist the police authorities if required. The
City police,- it should be observed, had a most arduous
duty to carry out; but when this message arrived
they had succeeded in blocking up the streets, and had '
accomplished what was necessary for the operations
of the firemen, and the security of life and property.
As the body of fire was suppressed in King's
Head court, the firemen who had been engaged at
that point rendered additional assistance to the force
employed in Lower Thames-street, where the de-
structive element had obtained great ascendancy. It
was apparent that a large stuck of chemicals was
stored in the upper part of the front premises of
Messrs. Baiss and Co., as the flames roared from the
windows with a noise only to be compared to those
issuing from a burning turpentine distillery. So
great was the body of flame that alarm was enter-
tained for the safety of St. Magnirs Church, and
some of the engines had to be brought to bear upon
the roof of that sacred edifice to prevent its igniting.
At length the flames had eone through the whole of
the front warehouse of the'p firm, and probably it was
only owing to the great body of water thrown by the
two fleeting engines that the whole of the locality did
not share a similar fate. The " float " having an
endless supply, the firemen were in a position to have
a strong command over the devouring element. It
was nine o'clock ere the danger could be said to be at
an end. There still remained a great mass of fire in
both warehouses, which probably would continue to
rage throughout the night. All the engines were
kept in readiness to act in the event of a fresh out-
break.
The amount of damage may to some extent be sur-
mised by the subjoined hasty report, obtained by the
brigade at a late hour in the evening, detailing the
property destroyed and damaged :
King's Head- court—The warehouses of Messrs.
Baiss, Brothers, and Co., totally destroyed.
Two adjoining tenements, roofs partly burned off,
one occupied by Mr. Vialow, plumber and glazier.
Two warehouses on the opposite side considerably
damaged by fire, the roof of one almost demolished.
Fish-street Snowdon, butcher, back part
severely damaged by fire.
Mr. Route, salesman, back portion and roof burned.
The Margate and London Steam-packet Office, Mr.
Knott, agent, back part and roof partly destroyed.
Mr. Francis, Sun Coffee-house, rear severely
damaged.
Mr. Hammerton, hairdresser, severely damaged.
Mr. Cullum, tobacconist, damaged.
Lower Thames-street—Front premises of Messrs
Baiss, Brothers, and Co., 125 and 126, totally de-
stroyed.
Eight other homes more or less damaged, three of
which are situated in Pudding-lane.
The bulk of the property was reported to be insured
in several offices, but owing to the confusion that
prevailed no accurate list could be obtained.

JAMAICA. - PROROGATION OF

TEL ASSEMBLY.

We have intelligence from Jamaica to the 2d inst.,
brought to Liverpool by the steam-ship America,
which arrived on Sunday night from Boston. This
intelligence is ten days later than that brought •
by the West India snail steamer Severn. On the
24th ultimo the Import Bill was read a third time
and passed in the Assembly. On the 28th his
Excellency prorogued the session, on the ground
that the Bill for the continuance of the import
duties had come before the Legislature in a form in
which the Council had determined not to pass it.
An address from the Ceulicil to the Governor had
been presented, regretting that so much precious time
had been consumed in a struggle for retrenchment,
and stating that all necessary and usual measures to
provide these remedies would receive from the Council
an immediate concurrence. The Governor replied
briefly, that this address confirmed the hope he had
formed of an early settlement of the difficulties and
differences of the Colonial Legislature.
The consequence of this prorogation of the Assem-
bly had been that, while the new Import Bill had not
passed the Legislature. the old law for levying these
duties expired on the Ist of October, and in the ab-
sence of any tariff, all goods, wares, and merchandise,
were entitled to enter free of duty.

MURDER BY A LUNATIC AT MELTON HOUSE.—
On Thursday last a terrible tragedy was enact©d at
Melton Lunatic Asylum. Thomas Sone', one of the
patients, suddenly rushed upon William Kidby, another
patient, and, after kncelcing him down, jumped upon his
head so violently, and so frequently, that the bones of
the poor fellow's skull were literally smashed. On
Saturday last an inquest was held at Melton, before sir.
Wood, when a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was re-
turned, and the prisoner was accordingly committed on
the charge.

VINDICTIVE EXECUTIONS IN

HUNGARY.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
When the gallant Hungarians yielded to necessity,
awl abandoned the defence of their native soil against
its invaders, the finest possible opportunity was af-
forded the young Emperor of Austria to remove, or
at least:greatly diminish, the hostile feeling of the
whole nation whom he professed an anxiety to amal-
gamate with the rest of his subjects. Hungary lay
at his feet ; her noblest sons had surrendered uncon-
ditionally; and by the universal disarmament of their
followers, it was impossible that a fresh revolution
could be suddenly undertaken. Under such circum-
stances, while the public opinion of Europe would
have honoured all measures the tendency of which
was peaceably to cement that union for the accom-
plishment of which such costly efforts had been made
by the Imperial Government, it could not but regard
as infinitely the most efficacious a magnanimous
exercise of mercy towards the men whom patriotism,
(mistaken though it might have been) and no
lower motive, had led to an armed resistance
of the novel project. It could not, indeed, be i
expected that no punishment would be inflicted upon
these parties, but all the circumstances of the case
demanded the suspension of that punishment until a
legal trial had issued in the conviction of the accused,
and also the proportioning of its degree to the claims
of sound policy and real necessity. In a young
Sovereign especially, who had so lately ascended the
throne, one might have looked for proofs of a desire
to combine humanity with firmness in dealing with
those who were defenceless. Unhappily for his con-
quered subjects, and unhappily fur his own character,
the advisers of Francis Joseph induced him, when the
war was ended, to place in the hands of General
Haynau unlimited power over the lives and fortunes
of those whom but for foreign help that commander
could never have subdued in the field. This abandon-
ment of its own responsibility and functions by
the Austrian Government, in favour of a
man whose name had become execrable for cruelty
the world over, was either a grievous error or a delibe-
rate crime. In either case, but especially in the latter,
(which we believe to have been the fact) that Govern-
ment laid itself open to the charge of countenancing
any future indulgence of Haynau's natural propensity
for blood; and by putting it within his power to
perpetrate the atrocious acts of which he has since
been guilty, his employers have made themselves
partakers of an infamy which will be indelible. The
news of the week from Hungary is most painful to
read, even at this distance. In that unhappy country,
and throughout the Austrian empire, the events that
have transpired have caused men's blood to boil and
their ears to tingle. Military commissions appointed
by llaynau, and of course consisting of his creatures,
have sat in judgment at Arad and in Pesth on upwards
of a dozen of the Hungarian leaders who had fallen
into their hands ; and these men, distinguished only
for patriotic valour, have been sentenced to an igno-
minious death by the very officers with whom they
were lately at war, and whose inflamed passions
rendered them the least fit of all parties for the
discharge of judicial functions. The consequence
could only have been one, viz. : this hasty
verdict of guilty, followed by a sentence of death
upon the accused. The doom pronounced has been
executed, and in many instances with the bitter addi-
tion of degradation to punishment, by being changed
from shooting with powder and ball (the ordinary
capital penalty inflicted on military men) intohanging,
which is never adopted but with the vilest criminals.
Partizans of the Austrian Government—of whom,
happily, there are scarcely any in this free country—
may attempt a feeble apology for it by referring to
the powers given to Haynau, and laying the blame of
undue severity on that officer. We have shown that
such a defence is inadmissible; but were it even
conceded that apprehension of future revolt might
palliate this wholsale extermination of the patriot
chiefs, one event has taken place, which the very
organs of the Austrian Government condemn, and the
civil:zed world execrates. This is the murder of Count
Louis Batthyany at Pesth, by order of Haynau's
court-martial there. The circumstances of this case
are as follows :—Count Louis Batthyany, a member of
one of the noblest Hungarian families, was named by
the Archduke Palatine Prime Minister of his native
country early in 1848, and for several months
endeavoured by his influence with the Austrian Court
and with his fellow-countrymen, to reconcile the
differences which had sprung up between them,
though a jealous regard for the rights of Hungary as
a separate kingdom prevented his assenting to any
conditions inconsistent with those rights. He was,
in fact, his country's champion, and yet with the
strongest desire that her liberties should be secured
constitutionally rather than by warlike measures.
Under his auspices the celebrated Kossuth rose into
notice. At length the Count's hopes were dashed to
the ground by the unlawful dissolution of the Hunga-
rian Diets, and when the breach with the Court appeared
irreparable, in consequence of its evident resolution to
carry its point at all risks, Batthyany, along with
other magnates and multitudes besides, took up arms.
Windischgratz was dispatched to quell the revolution
—with what want of success is well known. Before
the disgraceful defeats of that General, however, Louis
Batthyany, on behalf of the patriots, demanded a
parley on the 4th of December last. The interview
took place, ' and was ineffectual - but when leaving
Pesth, Batthyany
was seized and thrown into prison.
He was subsequently carried to Austria or Moravia,
and kept in close confinement ; and not until the fol-
lowing October was there any public step taken
against him. At the beginning of this month he was
conveyed back to the Hungarian capital, and there
condemned by court-martial to be publicly hanged on
the 6th instant. This date was doubtless fixed by
Haynau in consequence of its being the anniversary of
the revolution at Vienna, and under the idea of striking
terror in the Austrian capital as well as throughout
Hungary. The courage of the unhappy noble-
man was not sufficient to brave the gallows, and
he therefore attempted suicide. The wounds were,
however, not fatal, but they were such as to pre-
clude the possibility of his being hung ; and
consequently he was shot in the presence of a
dense and deeply-sympathising crowd, proclaiming
with his latest breath his love for Hungary. As we
have said, this atrocious murder produced, when first
heard of at Vienna, a perfectly appalling effect: its
influence in Hungary will not be spent for many
years to come, and that influence will be the very
reverse of what the authors of the deed anticipated.
The executions at Pesth are still proceeding, but
every drop of blood which is now shed will be the
seed of a yet inure bitter and resolute hatred among
the Hungarians of the Power which sanctions its
effusion. The atrocities of Haynau inspire us with
joy that Kossuth and his companions are not within
his clutches—an event which could not now occur
without bringing double dishonour on the Power
which should give them up. It is apparently true
that Bern's hatred of Russia has led him to the un-
justifiable step of professing Mahommedanism, in
which he has been joined by a few of his associates;
but the great body of the exiles at Widdin have
heartily responded to the impassioned appeal of
Kossuth to remain faithful to the Christian religion.
Most happy should we be to know that these high-
minded patriots had escaped wholly from their pre-
sent position and found refuge in our own country.
There is yet no reply afforded by political events
Ito the questions respecting their ultimate destination,
and the mutual relations of the Powers which take
opposing interest in their fate.
(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
The cold-blooded murders which, at Pesth and
Arad, are being perpretrated by the agents of the
ruffian crew whom, under the abstract appellative
of " Austria," the Times has, for the last twelve
months, been hounding on in their infamous, but alas!
too successful efforts to crush, by the help of Russian
bayonets, the liberties of Hungary, will serve to open
the eyes of such as may have been blinded through
the studied misrepresentations of our contemporary
and his coadjutors, to the real merits of the Hun-
garian struggle, which he who runs may now read
in the character of the tyrant Camarilla, as developed
in its deeds. It is as vain for absolutist journals to
attempt to make subordinate officers the convenient
scapegoats who are to bear all the responsibilities for
atrocities that lie at the door of the Austrian Cabinet,
as it is to charge on the Neapolitan police—which
they hesitate not to do—the wholesale political arrests
that are daily taking place at Naples, by order of the
King and his Government. There is no disguising the
fact that the despot power which calls itself" Austria"
has forfeited all moral claim to the title. The
blood of Count Louis Batthyany cries to heaven for
vengeance on the house of Hapsburg, and the prayer
breathed by the expiring patriot, " Eljen a haza 1"
long live my country ! —can only find its responseA
the downfall eef a dynasty, whose last bloody acts
to overflow the cup of its oppression and injustice.
Nearly a score of Hungaarniadn„nAobulestrarieanshave already
perished. by rope or rifle; tiger-thirst
for blood is still unappeased. The butcher Haynau
ankihis sanguinary satellites are sharp practioners.
They dispatch business by dispatching their prisoners,
and-execute judgment .by executing generals. The
members of the Austrian Camarillo have studied to
little purpose the maxims of Machiavelli, else might
they have learned of him that it never yet was a
wise thing to make men desperate, for one who hath
no hope of good bath no fear of evil." Hungary, as
she sees her best and bravest made food for the gibbet,
will have small faith in the constitutional promises
of the conquerors who turn their hour of victory to
the uses of horror. All historical analogy warrants
the inference that the hideous and hateful course
pursued by Francis Joseph and his advisers is of all
others the one most calculated to make the Hungarian
nation borrow courage of despair,; and demonstrate,
by a renewed and universal call to arms, that they
prefer the perils of the field to the iniquities and
miseries of martial law. For, in truth, this " execu-
tion," as it is called, of Count Louis Batthyany (to
say nothing of the other crimes for which "ilustrie