The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The Augsburg Gazette says :--"A telegraphic
despatch announces that the Emper of Russia has
conferred on Prince Paul Esterhazy, who repre-
sented Austria in the coronation, the Order of
Saint Andrew in diamonds, which is the highest
distinction that can be obtained in Russia."
A letter from Vienna of the 11th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" It is positively stated that the
Servian government has taken steps to support its
demand for an increase of its military forces. It
Lae drawn up a memorial on the subject in which
it points out that such an augmentation would be
not only for the interest of the principality, but
also for that of the Porte, whose frontiers would
be thus better protected from a sudden irruption."

HA.NOVER.
The following decree, just published in the
Hanover Gazette, announces the resolution of the
Ring to dispose of the public revenues, and aug-
ment his own civil list, in a manner which the
Second Chamber—prorogued on the 4th inst.—
has recently refused to sanction :
We, George V.,&c.
When, by the 4th article of our edict on the Ist of
August last year, and proceeding on the federal resolu-
tion of April 19, 1855, we reserved to ourselves the
right of giving fresh validity to the 6th chapter of the
constitution of August 6, 1840, in its totality, and when
nevertheless we confined ourselves provisionally to re-
establish only the 154th, 155th, and 156th articles of
that law, we indulged the tope of seeing established
between us and the general assembly of the States, an
understanding respecting the new financial measures
which it was proposed to base on the principle of cen-
tralising the public receiving offices.
In this expectation we caused to be submitted, for the
deliberation and constitutional consent of the States, on
the 11th of April last, the prject of a finance bill, which
would avoid the incompatibility between that of 1848
and the laws of the Confederation.
But our wishes have not been accomplished. Whilst
the first chamber of the General Diet has shown itself
ready to come to an agreement, the majority of the
second chamber has adhered in the essential questions to
the principles of 1848. This attitude has rendered all
arrangement impossible.
Being neither able nor willing to put off any longer
the execution of the federal resolution of April 10, 1855,
concerning the finances, which requires that the consti-
tution should be brought without delay into harmony
with tee fundamental laws of the confederation, we have
by our edict of this day annulled the chapter in the con-
stitution relative to the finances, and have restored the
one contained in the constitution of 1840.
Nevertheless, in the absence of an equable distribu-
tion of the expenses between the royal treasury and the
treasury of the state, which exist separately, we have
ordained merely the partial execution of the chapter of
finances, and have organised a provisional form of regu-
lations.

In virtue of the constitution of 1840, we return as
lor.l paramount into the enjoyment of the feudal revenues
designated in the 86th article of the constitution of 1848,
which said revenues form no part of either the royal or
the state treasury. Nevertheless, not wishing to change
the budget fixed for the current fiscal period, we have
renounced the revenues of the fiefs in favour of the
general treasury until the Ist of July, 1858.
We have maintained, by the sth Article of this decree,
the principle in accordance with which the members of
the Court of Accounts, recently nominated by the States,
will have to be confirmed by us in their functions. The
regulation laid down in the constitution of 1848, by virtue
of which the councillors of this court, delegated by the
States could enter into the administration with a delibe-
rative vice, is too far opposed to the monarchic prin-
ciple and to the essence of the executive power of the
Crown for us to be able to tolerate its existence any
longer.

In consequence of the suppression of the 81st Article
in the Constitution of 1848, we have from this time for-
wards male fresh arrangements respecting the civil list.
The civil list, as fixed by our late father, the King
Ernest Augustus, is no longer in harmony with actual
circumstances that imperiously require its augmentation,
and as the Diet itself recognised in its last session.
Animated by our duty as a member of the confedera-
tion and by our royal prerogative, we shall shortly
carry into effect the separation of the treasures, and
shall submit to the chambers as soon as possible a
project lot dividing the expenses among the different
receiving offices. Should the chambers, contrary to
our expectation, refuse all arrangement upon the basis
proposed, we shall reserve to ourselves the right of
taking such steps as shall be requisite for the complete
execution of the federal resolution passed on the 19th of
April, 1855. •

•
We declare, however, that we are still ready to enter-
tain any desire expressed by the Diet for the re union of
the treauries, could we Lut believe that our propositions
would be better appreciated by it than was the case last
session ; and we give by this declaration to our faithful
ut.,j,cts the proof of our sincere desire to regulate by
some arrangement the question of the finances in a man-
ner conformable with the interests of the crown and
those of the country.
The decree enacts that the civil list shall be endowed
with a revenue of 600,000 dole, derived from the produce
of Cie domains, and also with the interest derived from a
capital of 600,0001. sterling invested in the English funds.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Sept. 14. The Gazette publishes a
royal decree appointing General Urbistenda to bo
Captain-General of Andalusia ; General Leimerick
will remain at Puerto Rico. The most perfect
accord exists between. the members of the Govern.
ment on the subject of the constitutional question.
The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains a circular
from the Minister of War to the captains-general
of provinces, announcing that, in consequence of
the re-establishment of tranquillity, the Govern-
ment desires that the Watt) of siege in which all
Spain has been placed shall, without being done
away with all at once, be so modified "as to permit
all the branches of the administration of the State
to re-enter gradually in their normal conditions."
Tho Gazette publishes a letter from the Minister
of Finance to the president of the junta on the
public debt, .stating that the Queen has granted.
to the Duke 'do Berwick and Alba, in compliance
with his demand, on account of the recent di:.
turbed state of the country, a longer period
than that fixed by the royal decree of the 10th
December last for producing proofs of the sums
duo to him for supplies made to the French
c theoui mig
troops by his family during the War of Inde-
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regulatingdence.
Wean Spain and her West India colonies.

The departures from the port of London for the Aus•
tralian colonies during the past week have comprised
eight vessels—three to Port Phillip, one to Sydney, one
to New Zealand, one to Portland Bay, one to Launces:,
ton, and one to Moreton Bay, with an aggregate capa•
city of 5,591 tons. The rates of freight continue to ex-
hibit heaviness.

CHARLES MACKAY.

Among the cheap popular reprints of the day
there is not one, we do verily believe, calculated to
be more widely or more heartily welcomed by the
masses than this cheap popular reprint of Charles
Mackay's charming and inspiriting Lyrics. It
musical publisher of great enterprise has already
placed within reach of the community " One Hun-
dred Songs, by Henry Russell"—Music and Words
—for One Shilling ! 'Nay—coupled with this be-
nefaction in the shape of an aggregate reissue of so
many masterpieces by a distinguished living favou-
rite—has republished, upon a similar scale, the
chefs d'oeuvres of the most national and classic of
our great national and classic ballad-mongers
—" One Hundred Songs, by Charles Dibdin "--
Music and Words—for One Shilling ! Mr. Rout;
ledge has taken a leaf out of the book of
Mr. Davidson. Here, coming from the press in an
elegant form, volume by volume, each volume
" one shilling," are the poems, sonv, ballads,
lyrics of Charles Mackay ! Productions, Minos
every one, stamped long ago with the authorita-
tive and enduring timbre of popularity. First
and foremost—" Songs for Music" (84 of them in
pp. 116), gracefully inscribed 4, To Sir Edward
L. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P., with every seu''
timent of personal esteem and literary admira-
tion." Secondly, " The Salamandrine, or Love
and Immortality" (3d edition), the daintiest cele-
bration of elf-land since Pope's memorable Rape
of the Lock—not forgetting, when we so speak'
of it, the faisry idyl of Hood, or the glorification
of the pixies by Coleridge ! Thirdly—" Ballads
and Lyrical Pieces" (2d edition), 37 distinct pro-
ductions in pp. 118—some of these same ballads
and lyrics already (while their author is even now
but in the flower of his manhood) world-famous !
Yes, that largo phrase has about it no exaggeration
whatever, when urged in regard to some of the
many popular songs of Mackay—songs familiar not
only to us stay-at-homes, but equally to the Ame-
rican backwoodsman and to the Australian gold-
digger 1 " Tubal Cain"—do we not all know
its lusty and sonorous accents, accents sweet
as the treble of a flageolet, and thrilling as
the diapason of an organ ? " The Good Time
Coming"—is it not carolled as often as the home-
liest " refrain" of all—about not going home till
morning ? "A Plain Man's Philosophy"—has it
not (that simple heart-born ditty) something far
more bewitching about it than all the love-sick bal'
lads ever warbled about Chloe and Strephon ?
I've a guinea I can spend
I've a wife, and I've a friend,
And a troop of little children at my knee, John Brown;
rye a cottage of my own
With the ivy over grown,
And a garden with a view of the sea, John Brown ;
I can sit at my door
By my shady sycamore,
Large of heart, though of very small estate, John Brown;
So come and drain a glass
In my arbour as you pass,
And I'll tell you what I love and what I hate, John
Brown."
Another volume, uniform with those already" par'
ticularised, is announced (as even now in the press)
by the publishers—a volume intended to comprise
" The Legends of the Isles." And with these four
shilling volumes must be enumerated three others
—in every way companion publications. A Shil-
ling Reprint of " Town Lyrics "—a shilling reprint
of " Voices from the Crowd"—and a shilling re-
print of " Voices from the Mountain." Poetic
largess scattered with a lavish hand to the mw'
titude !