The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

A Breslau paper of the lath has the following from
Presburg :—" The troops have left their barracks and.
fraternized with the people. Some of the officers who
endeavoured to restrain their men were hissed and
scouted. On the 7th a letter was brought from Jel-
lachich to General Kucehr, commander of the brigade
at Presburg, and the messengers were arrested by the
Burgher Guard and taken to the Hotel de Ville. Ge-
neral Kucehr was sought to read the letter, but he
could not be found. The letter was then opened, and
proved to have been written by General Zeisberg, in
the name of Jellachich, in nearly the following terms,
from head-quarters, at Altenburg, in Hungary :--
' You have taken possession of the bridge of Presburg,
and in what manner ? Send me such troops as you
can spare. Have you received my letter of yesterday?
Let me know the disposition of the people of Pres-
burg, and the state of things there.' As soon as this
letter was read, the people set about to search for Gen.
Kucehr, that they Might hang him. But the troops
immediately abandoned their posts and retired from
the city, and the General was nowhere to be
found. A portion of the soldiers came back and joined
the National Guard, after having shot their Colonel
and Captain, who endeavoured to constrain them.
The other troops, it is stated, are watched by the
Cecopieri infantry and the Joseph regiment of
Dragoons. There are in Presburg 6,000 peasants
armed with scythes."

THE NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette.)
ADMIRALTY.—The Earl of Auckland is still
absent from the Admiralty on a visit to his Lord-
ship's brother, the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The
Hon. Captain Berkeley, M.P., C. 8., has arrived at
the Admiralty. Lord John Hay and the Hon. W.
Cowper are still in the country.
SCREW DIET-OF-WAR. The Admiralty have
directed Captain Austen, C. 8., the superintendent of
steam-vessels afloat, to take the two screw steam-
schooners, Sharpshooter and Rifleman, under his
command, and to proceed with them for a cruise in
the Channel for three days, to tests their respective
merits under steam and canvass. They are sister
vessels; but the former is of iron, with 202-horse
power, and the latter is of wood, and has had her 202-
horse power engines taken out, and is now supplied
with engines taken out of the Teazer, of 100-horse
power. The engines of both are by Miller and
Ravenhill. It is expected that the difference in speed
will be trifling, whilst the advantage in the saving of
room, weight, and stowage, will be a most important
acquisition.
TILE lONIAN PACKETS.—It will be remembered
that we expressed our doubts, a few weeks since, that
the lonian Government would accept the iron steam-
packets, Antelope and Oberon, built purposely by the
Admiralty for their Mail Service between the lonian
Islands and Malta, on account of their inferiority in
point of speed and stowage. It has turned out ex-
actly as we anticipated ; the Jordan Government have
thrown them back on the hands of the Admiralty,
who have ordered Sir William Parker to employ
them again in any service for which they are
adapted, under his command. These vessels cost
originally, when fitted for service, about 37,0001.
each.

A STOP TO REDUCTIONS.—We t 1 USt that we are
at length arrived at the lowest point of reduction of
our ships and seamen—starvation of the latter we
should rather say. During the past week, some 700
officers and men have been pail off, but orders have been
issued for the complement of the Powerful, 84, at Spit-
head ; and the Sprightly and Dwarf steamers, on the
coast of Ireland and now manned from the Excellent,
are to return their crews to Portsmouth, and are to enter
separate complements. We believe, too, the Racer,
12, is ordered home from Lisbon, when her crew will
go to their ship the Caledonia. She will be regularly
fitted out, and the Caledonia will also be fully
manned, and increased from 490 to 750 ; her defects
are to be made good, and she is to receive on board
all her sea stores, and to complete provisions for four
months. The crew of the Rifleman has gone back
to the Powerful, and that vessel is entering a com-
plement of 80 men. Medina has been commissioned,
and to have a complement of 60 men. The Teazer
has also been commissioned, and is to have 50 men.
SHIPS FOR COMMISSION.—Some little activity is at
length beginning to be manifested again at our ports,
in bringing forward ships for commissioning :—The
Amazon, 19, corvette, at Devonport ; Daphne, 20, at
Sheerness; Sappho, 16, and Orestes, 16, at Ports-
mouth, have been ordered to be masted, rigged, and
prepared in every respect for the reception of officers
and crews.

THE STEAM REBERVE.—There has been another
movement with respect to the steamers at the ports
during the past week. At Portsmouth, the Sphynx,
Rattler, Hecate, and Growler, sloops, are to be kept
ready rigged and stored as they now are, for imme-
diate service, their topmasts only being struck. The
Retribution and Centaur, frigates, and the Salaman-
der and Pheanix are to have their masts taken out,
with the exception of their lower masts and bowsprits,
and all the other steamers refitting and repairing,
these are to be completed and placed in the second
division, such as the Cormorant, Devastation, and
Urgent. The Birkenhead is to have her defects made
good, and to be kept perfectly ready for the convey-
ance of troops. The Encounter, screw sloop, is to be
brought forward for immediate commission. At
Sheerness, the Yirago sloop, is to have her topmasts
struck, and her lower rigging is to be kept stowed
away on board ; but the Conflict frigate, is to be dis-
masted and unrigged, everything being stowed care-
fully away and kept ready. These are judicious as
well as economical arrangements of the Admiralty
for the winter.

THE GUARD SHIP AT ASCENSION.—Reports have
prevailed that the Tortoise, store and guard ship, at
Ascension, Captain Hutton, has been ordered home.
It would not appear that such is the fact, if it be
true, as stated, that orders have been sent to Ascen-
sion for those seamen who have served in the Tor-
toise four years to be sent home to be paid off, unless
they should feel inclined to re•enter the service at
Ascension for another term of years. This order
is to bar the claim to double pay for all those served
above four years.
THE SUPERIIITENDENTSHIP OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
—We copy the following from a morning contempo-
rary :—We may preface it by remarking that our
own information, from a source on which we believe
we may rely, goes to confirm the report that Captain
Lushington, now commanding the Vengeance, 84,
will have the offer of this lucrative but very respon-
sible post; and most likely Sir Henry Leeke will
succeed Captain Lushington in command of his pre-
sent ship. The nomination is in the Board of Di-
rectors, but the veto lies with the First Lord of the
Admiralty. Both in the estimation of the directors
and the First Lord, we believe Captain Lushing ton
stands very high. He is a son-in-law of the gallant
Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard :
" Among a dozen other officers, Captain Sir Henry
Black wood, Sir Henry Lushington, Captain Min-
gaye, and, in fact, almost every Captain who has
served in India for the last twenty years, has been
named as likely to succeed to the superintendentship
of the Indian Navy; end now we find the name of
Sir Henry Leeke brought into the list of expectants
for this post. So far as the latter is concerned, we do
not think that Gallant Officer would sacrifice his
chance of completing his time for his flag rank by the
acceptance of even such a lucrative command as that
of the Indian Navy. It is more likely that he will
receive frem his own Admiralty the full satisfaction
of his undoubted cleims on them, by succeeding to
the command of Devonport Ordinary, on the pro-
motion of Captain Meade."
We regret to state that Vice-Admiral of the White,
Robert Jackson, is seriously indisposed. The Gallant
and venerable officer was a Lieutenant in 1790, and,
we believe, is above eighty years of age.

The Eapl-of -14srro-Wby had- an-interview Cth Sir
George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office,