The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-27 00:00:00

GERMAN Y.

A letter from Hamburgh, of the 233, in the bide-
. pendance of Belgium, says :—"A grave event has taken
'in Holstein.
armee
place amongst the Austrian corps
d
.Many of the regiments composing it consist in groat
part of Hungarians, and amongst them are many
young men of noble families, who are compelled by
ther Austrian Government to serve as simple soldiers.
In spite of the disasters drawn down on unfortunate
Hungary by the revolution, these soldiers cannot
repress the hatred whichanimates them, or their
desire for a new revolution. The presence in England
of the ax-Dictator Kossuth, and his violent diatribes
against the Austrian Government and dynasty,
have greatly contributed of late to excite the sen-
timents of hatred of the Hungari.n soldiers, and
an armed revolt, of which the consequences
would have been incalculable in the north, has been
on tlio point of breaking out amongst them ; but it
has been prevented by the active surveillance of the
superior ofilcers of the Austrian battalions. Au agent
of Kossuth and of the revolutionary propaganda of
London, the Hungarian Count Potocki, who com-
manded a regiment it Comore during the revolution,
was arrested the day before yesterday by the military
authorities of Rensburg ; he had arrived from London
by way of Paris under a false name. In .his posses-
sion were found proclamations exciting the soldiers
to revolt, and printed copies of the last public
speeches in Engl4nd by the ex- Dictator. It was
generally stated in the town that many officers (the
number is said to be nineteen), and a great number
of nnn-conamissioned officers and soldiers have also
been arrested at Rensburg„ for having been ac-
complices in the projected revolt. There arrests
have been priocipally effected in the Schwa; z,llberg
regiment, which is almost entirely compesvd of I.lun-
gariins, and which is at present in garrison iu the
fortress of Iten,burg. It has been ascertained toat
the agen.; of Kossuth, aided by another Hungarian,
Ruschalc, and who hes also been arrested, had sun-
ceeded in org.mizing the revolt. In a srategie point
of views the spot was well chosen. In possessing
the:lns-Ives of the fortress, the conspirators cAculated
that they would receive the support of a number
of the dismissed officers and soldiers of the army of
Holstein. A new insurrecim in the two Duchies
would have opened a vast field to the revolutionary
exploits meditated by the European propaganda at
London. Dating I.e last three days the electric te-
legraph lres been eclusively occupied in transmitting
to Vienna the dispatches of the Austrian Commander-
in-Chief; even those cf Stock Exchange could
not be sent. On receipt of these deplorable news at
Vienna, General de Ramberg, an aide-de-camp of
the Emperor, was immediately sent off to examine
the affair, and he has already arrived at Altona."

Scorrisa CENTRAL. RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the Week
ending Nov. 23, iB5l
Passengers (7,'4 i 8), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... ... £792 19 7
Goods, cattle, &e. ... 851 11 2

Total . 1,64 L lo 9
Corresponding week in last year... 1,426 18 11
Perth, Nov. 26, 1551.

T.HE EARL OF CARLISLE ON ME-
!.-: aAN 1 CS' IN S 11 TUTION S.
The foundation-stone of a Dew mechanics' institu-
bution was laid on Tuesday at Burnley, in Lanca-
shire, by Mr. C. Towneley, of Tovvneley Park, amid
much r4-jaicing by the inhabitants, who made the day
a general holiday, and assembled in large numbers to
witness the proceedings.
There was a large and influential gathering at
Towneley Perk, including the Earl of Carlisle, as
Chancellor of the duchy ; the Earl of Sefton, as Lord-
Lieutenant of the county ; Sir J. P. Kay Shuttle-
worth ; the Honourable Colonel Scarlett ; Mr. Patten,
M.P. ; Mr. Heywood, M I'. ; Mr. li-yworth, M.P. ;
and a number of influential gentlemen in the neigh-
bourhood. In the evening a tea party was held in
the school-room of Salem Chapel, opposite to the site
of the new building. The tea-drinkers subsequently
assembled in the chapel, where they were joined by
Mr. Towneley and his noble guests. In the course of
the evening, -Alr.Towneley, as chairman, called on the
Chancellor of the Duchy to address the meeting.
The Earl of CARLISLE then rose and spoke nearly
as follows :—Mr. Chairman, Ladies,!and G entleman—
I mast really begin by thanking you, which Ido
from my heart, for the very generous reception which
you have given to one who is as yet a stranger to
the town of Burnley. But you, sir, have just car-
ried me back to Yorkshire ; and it is certainly true
that across the hills which rise above your town
I have bad many opportuuies of addressing
audiences upon many similar occasions, in
some of thoze valleys which, like your own,
are distinguished alike by the beauties of theif
natural scenery and by the busy hum of human in-
dustry—(Hear, hear)—and I feel that in coming be-
fore a Lancashire atraience we are no longer living in
the times so eloquently referred to by a late speaker,
when the names of York and Lancaster signalised
different factions and different parties—(Hear, hear)
—hut now, on the coatrary, in our happier era, either
your red rose has paled, or our white rose has blushed
into one ' common colour—(Cheers)—and instead of
contending for rival causes, or for opposing dynasties,
we may now only try to demonstrate which has the
greatest number, which has the best supported, which
has the best conducted mechanics' institutions.—
(Hear, hear.) I have had many occasions hereto-
fore, and very recent ones too, for remarking upon
the :singular elasticity of these mechanics' institutions
--I mean their adaptation to the varied aspects of
our society. Scarcely a month ago I attended a
similar meeting lu the city or Lincoln, an old and
picturesque-guilt town, the capital of the most agri-
culttual di',.tr:ct in England, the towers of whose ma-
jestic cathedral look down from their lofty perch upon
et wide expanse of reclaimed fens and level corn-fields.
Well, among that rural population, under the shade
of that old cathedral, a thriving mechanics' in-
stitution has been established ; and now I
find myself in Burnley, one of that cluster of
communities and busy manufacturing towns, which
stud this district of England like the broad bramen
knobs on some old belt. It may be true that their
names are not surrounded with the halo of classical
or rwelantic association. The names of Bolton, and
Blackburn, and Bury, and Bacup, and Bernley—
(Loud applause followed the mention of each name)
•—welcome as their pronunciation seems to be to some
cif your ears, yet they have not the imposing and pic-
turesque sound either of Thebes, of Corinth, or Argos,
of ancient Greece, or of Padua, of Mantua, of 'Verona,
of mediaeval Italy ; but they have at least this point
of comparative advantage, they are not marshalling
their inhabitants into trained bands to batter down
each others' walls, to assault each others' citizens ; but
their contention—if contention there is—ranges them
as rivals in the pursuits of a peaceful industry ; and
if tb ey are ever at strife with each other, it is upon
the great field of honourable enterprise, where all the
laurels which are won serve both to rewardowt,heinin;
selves and to enrich, the whole community. s
place and district like this I consider a mechanics' in-
stitutionppropriate appendage, and
to be a most a
therefore it was with great pleasure that I found myself
enabled to take part in the auspicious proceedings of
this morning. And when I say it is an appropriate
appendage I feel that I understate the truth—it is I
most desirable, almost an indispensable one,
bare referred to the nature of the pursuits because
which are
followed here as being peaceful, and useful, and ho -
nourable ; but at the same time we must not forget
that primarily- and in themselves they are conversant
with only what is material, with the way, to use a
homely phrase, of malaing money—(Hear)—and that
they may have a tendency, if unchecked and un- •
.balanced by anything in an opposite direction, to in-
jure and enchain, and beat down some of the mere
delicate tastes and sonio of the loftier aspirations of
the human mind.—(H ear, hear.) Far be it from me,
in Lancashire, or any ehere else, to speak slightingly
of cotton—(Laughter)—but you must feel that
cotton and calico, though they make admirable stock-
ings and other equally
indispensable articles of cloth-
ing, yet they do not in themselves furnish up the
whole, men —(fleer, and cheera) Now, I have ob-
served that a Aeiosa, ?cc, )mplished and able person—l
may
call kiln a fLhow -lecturer of my own—
ire a lect arc which he has recently de-
Lyen Play fair,
. opinion with respect to the 1
livered, gives it as his
modes ofeducation put': ued in this country, that in
ae,,teelieiit collog es enough attention has not
.J7....,Egsientifics instruction and regular in-
/74404 iietilitiw,—(Hcar.) He complains that too
t,
,OTl'deil kn.' i`4ol3eve been bestowed on classical
t L:
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A. 7 .i iiiiiiiieN ' 1 c 1,4414 and bygone
(
IrmiTi4filir' ••1 poete, and that
‘7't ;,. , esibtotiot been enough exercised on the i

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