The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1860

beyond the reach of contradiction, in spite of howl
much jubilation on the part of the Madrid news-
papers, in spite of how many felicitations trans-
, witted to her warriors in Anthem fro the Spanish
Sovereign ! Who shall enumerate ? Who
cares to enumerate them ? We have been reading of
them forweeks and weeks past in journals, English,
French, and Spanish. -We have heard of all but
the solemn chaunting of the Tc Deum of thanks.
giving in the Spanish churches and cathedrals
Ceuta still, however, the place from whence are dated
these tidings of hypothetical victory ! Tetuan still
barely visible to the pseudo-victors beyond the
lines of the Moorish encampment—far away upon
the extreme verge of the distant horizon !
Estimating the relative value of the claims upon
our sympathy appertaining; to the belligerents in
this unfortunate conflict—we must in justice and
in truth allow those of the Moors considerably
and conspicuously to preponderate. If we want
proof positive of the accuracy of which assertion we
have only to turn our regard retrospectively to our
position in times past as the lords and guardians of
the Rock of Gibraltar, and as such the conserva-
tors of the world's watery highway between the
ocean and the Mediterranean. Who have always re-
mained, in war and in peace, through good report
and through evil report, our staunch friends, ready
at all times when occasion required to victual our
garrison there upon that iron and rocky fastness
of Gibraltar ? Who but the Moors ? While, on
the other hand—Who have ever regarded our posi-
tion there at Gibraltar with persistent, and per-
verse, and pertinacious jealousy ? Who but our
dear friends and allies the Spaniards ? Out of a
mere reciprocation of good offices, therefore, we
have valid reasons clearly before us rather to
sympathise in this unprovoked contest with the
Moors rather than the Spaniards.
Although the war can hardly fail to remain,
down to the end of the chapter, essentially a " little
war"—that peculiar object of mingled scorn and
horror in the estimation of the late Duke of WEL-
LINGTON—the dimensions of this conflict in North
Africa between the soldiers of Spain and Morocco
are gradually, by very slow degrees, expanding.
After ennumerating some of the peculiarities of the
situation of things around the Camp de la
Condesa upon the coasts of Morocco, the corre-
spondent of our chief morning contemporary (curi-
ously avowing a sort of identification of interests
with the cause he is striving to " write up," with
such an affectation all the while of being entirely
dispassionate) observes—" In short, we have started
upon our adventure-20,000 men in a country of
8,000,000 of enemies, and with a hostile army of
we know not what strength in our front, flank,
or rear. It will require the utmost prudence
to get us safely through to Tetuan without
very heavy losses, but that prudence will,
we have no reason to doubt, be displayed
to the extent required. That our progress must be
slow is quite clear. We have to cut roads for our
artillery as we proceed, and it will be strange (and
the Moors will show themselves worth much less
than their reputation) if we have not also to expend
one or two days in cutting our way through an
obstinate enemy. Everybody is surprised at our
having got so far with so little fighting.
But the worst is probably to come. Our next
march will be a troublesome one. The army
will have to defile along a narrow cause-
way between the lagoons and the sea, and
deboucher from it near a mountain, which affords
the enemy an excellent position." A delightful
sketch, certainly of the situation! One demon-
strating so clearly the reasonableness of all these
jubilations at Madrid, of all this petty derision of
the Moors by the Spaniards, of all these precipitate
felicitations forwarded to O'DONNELL and his
compatriots by the Spanish Sovereign. After all
which, we cannot but recognise at a glance, that
even now the Spaniards are only at the very

beginning !
Meanwhile what do our friends at Madrid think of
the subjoined intelligence but just now received from
Mogador. To wit—" Sixty thousand men—the pick
of the Moorish army, are encamped on the hills
beyond Mogador, and ready for action. A courier
had just arrived from Morocco stating that the
Moors had taken in all 600 prisoners, for which
the EMPEROR had paid four dollars per head for
having brought them alive to the capital."
Facts these which speak trumpet-tongued for
the " humanity " of the Moorish barbarians—and
for the " importance" of that Moorish army sixty
thousand strong. The news somehow coming to
us via Madrid, has a very Irish echo, indeed, from
the coasts of Morocco !

KossuTll tells us that an expression of English
interest in Hungary will now be of service to his
country. There is no Englishman who does not
feel it. There is none who will not, in the way
appropriate to him, be ready to show it. All classes
of men here remember the Hungarian history of
1848 and that of the following year with indignation
as well as horror. They remember that our Govern-
ment then did not do its duty. In words even,
they leaned too much to the oppressor, whom their
country detested; and when the remorseless
NICHOLAS determined to send his legions to over-
whelm Hungary and to subjugate it to the defeated
Austrians, our Government stood silently by.
The principle of non-intervention which now it
loudly proclaims for Italy, it said not a word of
then for Hungary. Had the English Government
but spoken then as became it—had it insisted on
NICHOLAS leaving the Hungarians and the HAPS-
BURGS to settle their own concerns, it would have
saved nearly all the evils that have followed. The
CZAR could not have ventured to attack Turkey and
plunge us into the Crimean war. And Italy, with
Hungary free, would have gained her freedom in a
very different manner. Our merchants, too, would
have shared the advantages so dear to them, and so
beneficial to their country, of free trade with Hun-
gary; for KOSSUTH had inaugurated it, and nothing
but the Russian reinstatement of HAPSBURG ty-
ranny deprived us of an advantageous trade with an
agricultural country.

The letter of the great Hungarian patriot—the
lawful governor indeed of Hungary, whom the
Russians expelled to make room for the young
tyrant who now rules there by force, not of treaty
or of law, or even of conquest, but by force of Rus-
sian arms—KossuTH's letter confirms all that the
friends of national freedom had hoped for on behalf
of the Hungarians. Many of our readers probably
read the letter on Saturday, when we extracted it
from the Glasgow Daily Bulletin. It was ad-
dressed to a number of gentlemen who had written to
KOSSUTH from the commercial capital of Scotland to
know whether Englishmen could aid his country
now by a public expression of their views. His
answer is a decided affirmative, and his reasons, which
are illustrated in detail, are satisfactory enough. The
reasons are, indeed, of a painful kind. They con-
sist of a series of facts, developing such misgovern-
ment and provocation as has irritated Hungary,
and all the countries connected with it, into a com-
bined hostility to the present dynasty and system
of administration, which nothing but substantial
liberty in some form or other will appease.
The taxation in Hungary, as in Venetia, is per-
fectly intolerable. It is in many instances absorb-

ing the whole net revenue of estates, and corn- '
pelling the proprietors to offe r the estates them-
selves to the Government, on condition of being
exempt from the taxes impose d on them. What
would our territorial aristocracy think of one
direct tax alone on the net income of their
estates, amounting to twelve shillings in the pound ?
Were Mr. BRIGHT to mention anything like that
at any meeting of manufacturers, he would be
branded as a revolutionary confiscator of property
through all the counties and in every country seat
in England. Yet this is the regular income tax
levied on Hungarian landlords by the Austrian
Government.

Tho whole country is indeed in a kind of passive
commotion. All classes are aggrieved, seriously
aggrieved. There is no Austrian party now but
that of Government officials. Nobles who were
Austrian and Conservative have now become
amongst the most earnest " patriots." Indeed the
taxation, or confiscation, is such that their ♦ery
existence seems to depend on passive resistance.
The Protestants are indignant at a patent which,
merely to exhibit arbitrary power, subverts the
ancient synodal arrangement of the districts, and
which places their religious administration at the
mercy of the Government. The Catholics, to
whom it was supposed the Concordat would be a
sufficient bribe, are above being bribed. They
were Hungarians, they say, before they were
Catholics ; they insist on the old liberties of the
Protestants as Hungarian rights.
The liberties and independence of Hungary are
the complement of those of Italy. One will be the
guarantee of the other. The former were subverted,
wholly illegally, in 1848-49. The Emperor ol
AU6TRIA is not to this moment the legal King ol
Hungary. He has merely sought to amalgamate
into a centralised bureaucratic administration the
Government of Hungary, and that of all the other
provinces he has obtained by violence or fraud ;
but he has not a shadow of moral or legal right to
his present despotic position. All the defrauded or
oppressed territories of the Empire are feeling this
now, and are making common cause against the
Hapsburgs to regain their long-lost rights. Mean-
time the Exchequer of Austria is worse than bank-
rupt—it is an Exchequer which has committed
forgery to get a little ready money ; and the army,
which it cannot pay its wages, is made up of men
from the offended provinces. That Hapsburgism
can maintain itself longer seems inconceivable.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, in consequence of a
domestic affliction, will not give a Parliamentary
dinner at the opening of the session.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Ma-
dame van de Weyer give a ball at New Lodge, Windsor
Forest, on Friday next, attwhich a distinguished circle are
invited to assemble.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
_ . . .

Minister has left town for some days on a tour of visits in

the country.
His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle left Trent-
ham, where the noble earl has been staying with the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland, yesterday morning for Dublin
C astle.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
will return to Carlton douse-terrace on Thursday from
Portumna Castle, county Galway.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady
Emma Stanley will return to town on Friday from Knows-
ley Park, Lancashire.
The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven
have left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Veru-

lam at Gorhambury Park, Herts.
The Earl and Countess Grey will return to their
residence on Carlton House-terrace to-morrow from a tour

of visits.
The Countess of Sefton and Lady Celicia Moly,
noux have left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess
Verulam at Gorhambury Park, Herts.

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The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor came
to town yesterday from Calverley Park, Ckeshire, and to-
day go to Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at
Cambridge. House yesterday afternoon from Broadlands,

Hants.
The Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs.
Cardwell ]lave arrived at the Oatlands Park Hotel, from
Windsor. _ _

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ORDER OF THE THISTLE.—We understand tha.

the Order of the Thistle, vacant by the demise of the Earl
of Camperdown, has been conferred by her Majesty upoi

;he 11,1,;1 of Fife.—Seotsman.

Mr. G. Cavendish Bentinck, M.P., met with a
severe accident whilst hunting with the Belvoir hounds on
Friday last. The hon. member sustained a severe fracture
of the collar-bone, and was conveyed to Syston Park, the
seat of Sir John Thorold, Bart., where we are glad to learn
he is going on satisfactorily.
A telegram from China has been received with
unprecedented rapidity, the date from Hong Kong being
the 15th of December. It brings, however, no news of
much importance. The exchange was rather less favour-
able at Shanghai, and rather better for this country at Hong
Hong, the respective quotations being 6s. Md. and 4s. 101 d•
The deliveries of silk to date were 36,000 bales, and of tea
43,000,0001 b. The quotations fer silk were firm, and the
arrivals small. The settlements had amounted to 2,500
bales. The import markets were healthy, and stocks of
most descriptions of goods had experienced a reduction.
ROYAL VlSlT.—Yesterday (Monday) afternoon
her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince Con-
sort and Prince of Wales visited the Windsor Royal Dis-
pensary and Infirmary. The Queen was attended by the
Lord and Lady in Waiting, and the Prince Consort by Col.
Francis Henry Seymour. The visit being of private cha-
racter, the only officials present were the hon. secretary
(the Rev. J. A. Miller), the house surgeon (Mr. Gooch),
and the matron (Miss Walton), by whom the Royal party
were received and conducted through the wards and other
apartments connected with this valuable institution. Her
Majesty and the Prince made full inquiries as to the num-
ber of patients, their treatment, &c., and on leaving ex-
pressed themselves much satisfied with the whole arrange-
ments of the establishment. The Royal party afterwards
drove to the msdel cottages, erected by the Windsor Royal
Society for the improvement of the labourers' dwellings, of
which his Royal Highness is president. The Queen and
the Prince alighted from their pony carriage and inspected
several of the cottagers' dwellings ; these are about 50 in
number, the whole of them being occupied ; the Royal visi-
tors were much gratified on witnessing the comfort of the
occupants, and neatness of their apartments. Mr. Towers,
the secretary, was in attendance, of whom the Prince made
numerous inquiries relating to the working of the society.
UNIFORM FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.—In consequence
of numerous applications having been made to the Secretary
of Seeite for War on the subject of an authorised pattern Ind •
form for artilleryand rifle volunteer corps, a committee was
appointed to select a set of patterns for the guidance of vol-
unteers, and have recommended a pattern suit to be adopted
for colour and shape, the quality of the material being de-
termined by the circumstances of each particular corps.
The pattern suits are respectively faced with red and black,
and with grey, but the committee do not recommend that
these colours should be universally adopted for facings,
many counties having colours of their own. The pattern
suits recommended by the committee are deposited at the
War-office, where they can be seen, and coloured drawings
may be had upon application, on and after the 24th of
January. Although this dress is recommended by the com-
mittee to be generally adopted, it is not intended to be com-
pulsory, the selection of the uniform being left to the mem-
bers of each corps, subject to the approval of the lord lieu-
tenant of the county.
UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA.—At the half-yearly
meeting of this company, held yesterday, the dividend de-
clared was at the rate of 16 per cent. per annum, payable
in London free of income tax on the 31st inst., and in the
colonies, with the addition of income tax, as soon as the
inspector shall arrange, on the receipt of the necessary ad-
vices. The report and accounts presented wore of course
adopted, but it was intimated by the chairman that the
position of affairs in the Australian colonies had not re-
cently been of a satisfactory character. Although caution
has been exercised losses have been experienced which
have rendered it imperative to increase the reserves to cover
doubtful dependencies, which has been dene to the full
extent of the estimated amount. Competition in business
seems to have produced this discouraging influence, but it
is yet thought that after this reaction shall have passed
trade will assume in the various localities a more healthy
condition. The amount available for division is £81,606,
and the rate proposed will absorb about £BO,OOO. The in-
vested reserve fund is maintained at £200,000, £130,000
being placed in the New Three per Cents., and £70,000 in
New Zealand Imperial Four per Cent. Debentures. In
the course of the discussion the species of trading activity
which has existed in the colonies was alluded to, but, not-
thstanding the dark shadows thus temporal-fly created,
sanguine anticipations are said to be entertained for the
future, full confidence being placed iu the strength and
solidity of the bank. The principle of allowing interest on
deposits was also referred to, but while it was allowed that
the losses of tho half•year have been considerable, other
banks, it is affirmed, have been still greater sufferers. The
total cost of management, it was elicited, reaches £60,000 ;
and, in anewer to a question, the aggregate amount set
aside, to meet bad and doubtful debts, is said to be suffi-
cient to meet every contingency.
TILE RAINFALL OF 1859.—Mr. A. Stephens, in a
letter to a contemporary, gives the following account of the
rainfall of the past year :—There fell in January, 1.38 in ;
February, 2.22 in ;_ March, 1.76 in ; April, 2.25 in ; May,
0.79 in ; June, 0.65 in ; July, 1.79 in ; August, 3.64 in ;
Septeniber, 2'29 in; October, 3.39 in; November, 3.25 in;
December, 2.63 in. Total amount of rain fallen, 25.98 in.
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LATEST. NE\V b•

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

THE BOMBAY MAILS.
The Bombay, with the above mails, arrived at
Suez on the 10th inst.

The Valetta left Malta for Alexandria on the
9th, and the Ceylon on the 14th inst.
The Indus, with the Calcutta and China passen-
gers, kc., left Malta for Southampton on the 9th
inst.