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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24 1849.

police officer who took the prisoner into custody, to I
whom he said, he was at Dillwich the pi-cc:Airy,- r;ight,
and that he knew what the effirrer Cuine about, :,nri
when told of the outrage, exclainud, " Say no mere
about it," having been given, and the raz.l. provti.o
-
have belonged to the prisoner, and that a pig of hcal oeen
in his poss..ssion shortly before the occurr.nce,
The prisoner merely slid, in his defence, that he did
not tell the girl to go to the registrar's in order to make
the necessary preparations for their wedding, as slt, had
said. She wanted him to come and see her at her lodg-
ings, on the 25th of July, but be did no: go until the
2Sth. Ile went three or four times after, and when he
found the state she was in he had nothing more to do
with her; she could not have been pregnant by hire,
as he did not become acquainted with her until July.
She repeatedly sent him threatening letters, which were
the cause of quarrels whenever they met. Ho did not
cause her to write the letters referred to.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL carefully summed up the cri-
dence and explained the law to the jury—who found the
prisoner Guiity.
Sentence deferred.

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.

Shakespere's Allt0; y and Cleopatra wcs produced
here on Monday in a etyle of gorgeous splendour and
megruheence, which, considering it as a spectacle
alen.:e far su:passe= anytiiieg that has ever been done
at this theatre, even in those days when its sole de-
pendance was on spectacle. The spectacle has, how-
ever, been rendered entirely subordinate to the illus-
tration of the poet, and Mr. Phelps has exhibited a
fine classical taste, and a most tnieute and scholarlike
knowledge of Roman costume and manners in the
way in which he has put Antony and Cleopatra
on the stage. He has moreover given us, with reli-
gious care, the text of Shakspere, eschewing the
alterations of Dryden and of Charles Kemble, so that
for the first time probably since the days of Charles
I. the English playgoer has now an opportunity of
seeing Antony and Cleopatra as Shakspere wrote it,
and as it v‘ as originally acted. The play was strongly
cast. Mr. Phelps himself was the Antony, and he
fully entered into the character of that most chival-
rous of the Romans, who seems to have been born into
the world 1,300 years before his time. We use the
word chivalrous advisedly, for Mara Antony
was the only Roman who ever appears to have loved
as love was understood in the middle ages. Other
Romans made of women their slaves, or the mere
ministers of their pleasure ; Antony loved Cleopatra
with all the self denying love of the most perfect
mirror of knighthood ; for her he sacrificed himself
and the empire of the world to boot. This love
explains all his seeming inconsistencies ; his
culpable supineness, the tame surrender of his
rights at one moment, and his frantic energy
and obstinate resistance at another. He loved,
loved as we understand love; hence those
by whom he was surrounded, and who understood
not love, understood not him, and hence the very
contradictory judgments passed by various historians
on his character. Mr. Phelps developed this chival-
rous view of the character of Antony admirably—
the high-aiming, magnanimous, valiant, energetic, but
most lovesick triumvir, was represented to the life.
There was a voluptuous yielding in the scenes with
Cleopatra, which contrasted admirably with the fiery
energy which he exhibits in the camp. The death
scene was beautifully acted, and Mr. Graham, who
acted Eros, the freedman, who stabs himself to set
Antony the example, deserves high commendation
for the unobtrusive yet most effective manner: in
which he acted up to Phelps in this scene. Miss
Glynn, was the Cleopatra, and, although scarcelysuffi-
ciently tender, was yet an admirable representative
of the Egyptian Queen in her more energetic moods.
Decidedly the most perfect performance of the even-
ing (we were about to say, at present on the stage,
hut we recollect Caliban) was the (Enobarbus of Mr.
George Bennett. He is the only good declaimer at
present on the stage, and his delivery of the descrip-
tion of Cleopatra's voyage on the Cydnus was one of
the richest and most glowing pieces of declamation
ever listened to. His acting, too, was fine
throughout, it was the acting of a most
accomplished artiste and of a scholar, of one whose
classical studies enabled him thoroughly to compre-
hend the Roman character, while his artistical know-
ledge enabled him perfectly to embody that compre-
hension. We have not for many a long day seen
anything that has gratified us nearly so much as the
(Enobarbus of Mr. George Bennett. The other
characters were all excellently supported, and the
mounting of the play was perfect. The house was
crowded to the ceiling, and the applause at the con-
clusion was enthusiastic.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)
MAteh, 150, h ft, T.Y.C.—Rhesus received from Ferule.
Sxcep.,takcs of 50 sov. each. P.M.
The Nigger ... ... walked over.
lklatch, 300, D.M.—Glatra beat St. Rosalia.

Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. Last half of AU. M.
Rose Pompon
Sisyphus

... ... ... e• • 1

... ... 2

Handicap for two yrs old.

Dromedary ...
Aindoby filly ...

... ... 1

Selling Handicap of 15 sous. each. T.Y.C.
The Probe ...
Pendulum filly ...

... 2

... ... 1

••• ••• ••• •• • 2

HEALTH of LONDON during the WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week ending last Saturday the number of
deaths registered in London is 1,028, and shows a
further decrease on the returns of previous weeks.
The weekly average of five previous autumns, cor-
rected for increase of population, is 1,162; the de.
crease on the average, as shown by the present return,
amounts therefore to 134 deaths. This reduction of
the mortality is greatest in the districts on the south
side of the river ; for the deaths of the week in this
division were 276,.whereas the average is 324. The
mortality from cholera now rapidly approaches the
average, the deaths having fallen from 110 in the
previous week to 41 in the last. In the west districts
they have declined from 15 to 4 ; in the north, from
7 to 1 ; in the central, from 10 to 6 ; in the
east, from 32 to 17 ; and in the south from 46
to 13. There were five deaths in each of the
districts of Shoreditch and Bethnal-green ; in all
others the number of fatal cases of the epidemic
was still less. In the whole metropolis the daily
number did not, in any instrnce, exceed 9 ; on Wed-
nesday and Saturday it was only 5. The deaths from
diarrhoea and dysentery were more numerous, and
amounted in the week to 63 ; in the previous week
they were 105. Of the 14,538 persons who have
died of cholera in London in 55 weeks, 6,657, or
nearly one-half, died after less than one day's illness
(exclusive of the duration of premonitory diarrhoea) ;
and of the remainder 2,466 sank under the disease be-
fore it had reached the second day.
At present small-pox and measles are much less
fatal than usual; scarlatina was fatal in 41 cases, the
average being 64 ; typhus in 63 cases, the average
being 56.
The reading of the barometer reached 30.04 in. on
Thursday at 9 o'clock A.M. ; the mean of the week was
29.89. The mean daily temperature increased from
43 deg. on Sunday to 59 deg. 7 min. on Thursday,
and continued at nearly this value during the rest of
the week. The highest temperature was 69 deg.
7 min. on Friday. On the first three days of the
week the mean temperature was below the average of
corresponding days in seven years; in the last three
days it was about 12 deg. above the average. The
mean of the week was 52 deg. 4 min.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA

ENGLAND AND WALES.

The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of ilealth
October 23, 1849 :-

SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Diarrh.

Bedford and Turvey ...
Bradford and Nethertown ...
Bridgewater
Burton-on-Trent ...
Carmarthen . .
(Llanguniden) ...
Dartford (Swanscombe) ...
Dudley (Sedgley slid Rowley
Regis) ••• ••• •••
Eeelekhall (Bierlow)
Elham (Hy the) ..•
Farnham
Huddersfield (Almondbury and
Aleltharn) 0 2
Hunslet (liolbeek,Kirkstall, and
W hitkirh)
I,ved3 ... •• • •• • •• •
Newark ••• ••• • •
Newcastle-on-Tyne ...
Oxford ..• •••
Pembroke (St. Florence)
Portsea (Sonthsia)
Preston (Alston &strict)
St. Faith (Sprow::.ton)
Salford (Regeut-read)
South Shields ...
Stockton (Hartlepool) ..•
Sunderland (Bir,hopwearmouin)
Tsdcaster ( Aberfurd) •••
Wal,all (Borough district) ...
Wells (Glastonbury) ...
Wigan and Pemberton •••
Wycombe (Princes Risborough)

5 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
0 1

4 1
0 1
0 1
2 0

3 0
1 0
1 0
1 0
O 1 I
O 1
O 1
1 0
1 0
4 0
1 0
O 2
1 0
4 1
1 0
• 0
1 0

... --

••• ""..

• •44 ''''."''.

... --

••• '''''

••• "'"'

44

Total ...

SCOTLAND.
Houston, Renfrew :414e
Hawick ••• •.
Ferry den, Craig, and Montrose
Panbride, Carnoustie

••• .-.."

1 0
3 0
5 0
3 0

..• "''''

44 15
12 0

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

_
TUESDAY'S LACES.
fifty Pounds; for two yrs o!d, a feather; three, ist 51h;
four, B,it 01n; five, 9,t, 311-; six and aged, 94 71b. The
winner, with his engagements, to be sold for 300 g.
if demanded, &e. Last three miles of B.C.
Lord 11. Lennox's Little Jack, 2 yrs (T. Smith) 1
Lord Exeter's Nutmeg, 2 yrs
Mr. Gregory's Damask, 2 yrs (Rickards) 3
Mr. C. Peck's Baron Hill, 2 yrs (Wells) 0
Lord Clitden's Hammer and Tongs, 2 yrs (A. Pavia) 0
Duke of Richmond's Hornpipe, 4 yrs ... ..(Flatman) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Little Jack. Damask and Nut-
meg went off in advance of their horses, and made the
running to the gap, where it was taken up by Hornpipe;
the latter, however, broke down at the bushes, and
Damask resumed her lead, which she held to the turn of
the lands; from this point Little Jack and Nutmeg had
th' raco to tin-Jose:v(B, the former winning cleverly by
two lengths. lie v. as claimed. Run in 5 min. 56 sec.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7st 7ib;
four, 84 3lb; five and upwards, Bst 81b. The winner
to be sold for 200 sow. if demanded, &c. Criterion
Course.

Lord Eniielo's Bryce Snailsfoct, 3 yrs.... .(Flatman) 1
Lord Exeter's bishop of licmford's Cob, aged
Mr. Henry's Thringarth, 3 yrs (Simpson) 3
Sir J. Hawley's Sponge, 4 yrs (Templeman) 4
Lord W. Powlett's Rear-guard, 3 yrs ...(DLckeray) 5
Betting-6 to 4 agst Thringatth, 5 to 2 agst Bryce
Suailsfoot, 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. IS sec. _ _ _

Cambridgeshire Stakes of 25 sow.. each, 10 ft, and only
5 if declared, &c ; winners extra; the second to re-
ceive 50 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to
pay 30 sovs. to the judge. Cambridgeshire Course.
(One hundred and sixty-two Subs., fifty-nine ot
whom pay 5 ft.
Mr. Meiklam's Ruby, 3 yrs, sst 10Ib (Arnold) 1
Captain Hervey's Rhesus, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Treen, jun.) 2
Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ( W ells) 3
Mr. Bolt's Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 41b . .(Fistman) 0
Mr. Green's Shylock, 4 yrs, Bst (Wintringham) 0
Major Martyn's The Nloor, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (S. Mann) 0
Lord Ferrara na Prior of St. Margaret's 6 yrs, 7st 101 b 0
Mr. Batson's Beauclerc, 4 yrs, 7st 81b (Sly) 0
Mr. Lawson's Kelcshea, 5 yrs, 7st 71b (M. Arnold) 0
Mr. Herbert's Radulphus, 6 yrs, 7st 41b (Pettit) 0
Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 3 3 rs, 7st 21b (Pearl) 0
Mr. Payne's Glauca, 3 yrs, 7st llb ......(Dockeray) 0
Mr. Nicholl's Woolwich, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (Hiett) 0
Mr. Pedley's Cockermouth, 4 yrs, 6,t 101 b (carried
6st 121 b (Wakefield, jun.) 0

Mr. Verity's Whitstone, 4 yrs, fist Burns) 0
Mr. Wigram's Keraun, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (Dean) 0
Sir C. Mouck's Vanguard, 3 yrs, 63t bOlb (Charlton) o
Mr. Osbaldeston's Joe o' Sot, 5 yrs,6st 101 b (Basham) 0
Lord Clif&n's Rathraines, 5 yrs, Est 71b...(G. Oates) 0
Col. Anson's Backbiter, 4 yrs, 6st 71b (G. Hartison)
Col. Peel's Vasa, 3 yrs, fist 4lb (G. Brown) 0
Sir J. Hawley's Bacchonalian,4 yrt, fist 31b(E. Sharp) 0
Lord Exeter's Glenalvon, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Mann) 0
Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway, 3 yrs, Est (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 10lb (E. Ford) 0
Mr. Drinkald's Over-fork-over, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (car-
ried sst 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, 25 to 1 agst Rienzi, 25 to 1
agst Joc-o'Sot, and 30 to 1 agst any other. Won by a
itngth; about a length and a half between the second
and third; Glauca close up. Run in exactly twc
minutes. The Rider of Ribaldry objected against Raby
on the ground of a cross.
Sweepstakes of 300 sous. each, h ft, one to the post. A.F.
Duke of Bedford's Scbraon, ist 71b
Lord Chesterfield's Ferule, fist 71b
Betting-5 to 2on Sobraon. Sobraon made nearly
all the running, and won by a neck. Run in 2 \min.
27 sec.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovg. 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, Bat 31b
Mr. Whitworth's Lady Jersey, 3 yrs, 7st 10lb 0
Lord Clifden's Tiresome, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Pearl) 0
Lord Glasgow's fby Lauercost—Canada, 3 yrs 7st 4lb 0
Colonel Auson's Irish Jig, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Charlton) 0
Mr. King's fby Muley Moloch—Pendulum, 3 yrs, ist 0
Sir J. Ilawley's Slang, 2 yrs, 65t... (E. Sharp) 0
Mr. Osborne 's Snowdrift, 2 yrs, sat 101b...(Osborne) 0
Betting-4 to 1 each agst Farthingale, Dolly Varden.
and Slang, 5 to 1 agst Memento, and 5 to 1 egst 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.

Sweepstake3 of 10 sovs. each; for three yrs old, 7st
10lb; four, Bst 41b;
five and upwards, Bst 81b. The
winner to be sold for 80 SON'S. 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 Bastilicn 3 yrs (Tasker) 3
Mr. A. Bartley's Laundry Maid, 5 yrs (Sly) 0
Mr. Fr ankton's The New Era, 3 yrs (Pettit) t tit) 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, 6 yrs (M. Noble) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Jest, and sto 1 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. D.M.
Mr. Pedley's Chatterer, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (Maton) 1
Lord Clifden's Tiresome, 3 yrs, 7st (Pearl) 2
Mr. Stephenson's Ziska, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 0
Mr. Waller's Pottinger, 5 yrs, 7st 121b...(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, 6st (G. Mann) 0
Betting-7 to 2 agst Chicot, 4to 1 agst Chatterer, and
4to 1 egst Plebeia. Won by half a length, Plebeia and
Ziska well up. Run in 1 min 46 sec.
Post Match; 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.

wares. D.I.

Mr. Death's Antagonist, 5 yrs, Bst 51b '(W. Abdale) 1
Mr. Stephenson's Doctrine, 5 yrs, Bst ........(Pearl) 2
Captain Peas t's Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs, Bst ( Wakefield) 3
Lord Clifden's St. Antonio, 4 yrs, Bst slb (Robinson) 0
Mr. Stilton's Sobersides (h b) aged, Bst (Nightingale) 0
Captain Lowther's Tarn Wadlin, 7st 41b (Deekeray) 0
Col. Anson's Knight Errant, Est 71b ...(G. Harrison) 0
Mr. Ramsbottom's f by Velocipede, out of Miss
Wilfred, 3 yrs, Est 51b :,,,,,...(R0b. Sherwood) 0
Mr. Combs'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
win. 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.
TUE CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
The objection made against Baby by the rider of
Ribaldry, on the ground of a cross, came before the
Stcw*rds 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.

GREAT FIRE NEAR LONDON-

BRIDGE.

A corfLgration, far more fearful in its consequences
than that which recently occurred in London-wall,
burst forth last evening, about six o'clock, in the im-
mediate vicinity of the Monument, almost 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 premises on which it originated comprised a
large clump of warehouses in the occupation of Baiss,
Brothers, and Co., the wholesale chemists of 125 and
126, Lower Thatnes-street, situate in King's Head-
court, a narrow court leading out of Fish-street.hill,
about the cattle, 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. Alagnus Church. The
back warehouses were of considerable height,
and the floors were stored with chemicals

every description. Respecting the actual
cause of the outbreak no information whatever
could be gleaned, excepting that, when the flames
were 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
conflicted 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 iked in communicating
the outbreak to the fire brigade establAhments, and
quickly the powerful engines from the City stations
were 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
mass of fire, the oils and various inflammable liquids
streaming out of the loopholes and doors in a
darning state, whilst every moment loud explo-
sions were heard from the bursting of carboys
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

eared the latter would 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

VINDICTIVE EXECUTIONS IN

HUNGARY.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
When the gallant Hungarians yielded to necessity,
and abandoned the defence of their native soil against
its invaders, the finest possible opportunity was af-
t forded the young Emperor of Austria to remove, or
I 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 tbeir
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 Imeerial 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
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 Haynau, 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 es holsale extermination of the patriot
chiefs, one event has taken place, which the very
organs of the Austrian Government condemn, and the
civilized 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-country men, 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, aloug 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 fith 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
1 every drop of blood which is now shed will be the
'seed of a yet more 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
to 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 ltussian
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 polite—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, " E Jeri a haza
long live my country ! —can only find its response
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the downfall of a dynasty, whose last actsblaonoddy
fill
to overflow the cup of its oppression
Nearly a score of Hungarian noblemen
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perished by rope or rifle; and stria
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for blood is still unappeased. The butcher Haynau
and: ,
his sanguinary satellites are sharp practioners.
They dispatc business by dispatching their prisoners,
and execute judgment by
executing generals. The
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members of the Austrian Camarilla 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 "Austria"