The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

A letter from Pesth, dated Jan. 10, says:—The
great Protestant assembly will be held at Debraczin
on the 14th inst. The Government is taking ener-
getic steps, overt and secret, to deprive this great
demonstration of its importance, but all in vain.
It will be a great social, political, and religious
manifestation ; the Protestant party will again re-
sume their title to the epithet which marks their
creed—they will rise up and " protest" against the
wickedness of their oppressors. It is expected that
many stalwart defenders of the faith in foreign
countries will be represented on this occasion. The
meeting will be presided over by the Baron Nico-
las Vaz, and will be attended by a numerous and
influential glthering of Protestants. It is evident
that apprehensions are entertained that the Go-
vernment will attempt something serious, as seve-
ral of the leading members of the Pr otestant faith
have made their wills prior to setting forth to
attend the meeting.

The Baron Zsedinyi has appealed against the
sentence by which he has been condemned to four
months' imprisonment. He, as well as his fellow-
prisoners in the affair at Kaesmark, have received
most flattering ovations since their incarceration.
Thousands of persons—amongst them some of the

most distinguished Magyars—have called to pay
their respects to the Baron, with whom they had
no personal acquaintance. Strong disapprobation
has also been expressed against. the Government
for the unnecessary severity manifested by the Pre-
sident of the Tribunal, who demanded that Baron
Zsedinyi should be stripped of all his hereditary

titles and honours. The Court declined to accede
to this vindictive aggravation of the penalty.
We must weary you with a repetition of our
grievances, for unfortunately every communica-
tion which you receive from this quarter must
necessarily be bat a recapitulation of persecutions
and oppressions. The increasing encumbrances of
the Government had given rise to a suspicion that
the Crown domains of Hungary would be sold.
The suspicion of some such intent became openly
manifested—it reached the ears of the Government—
and was officially repudiated by the Government
journal. This calumnious rumour, we were told,
had been got up by the revolutionary party to
exasperate their deluded followers against the
paternal Government. But, after all, it appears
that the atrocious calumny was not so ill-founded.
The castle and domain of Vajna Hunyad has just
been sold, one of the finest appanages of the
Hungarian Crown ; and, when the mutilation of
the edifice has once commenced, every passer-by
will carry on the work of demolition until the
Crown will be despoiled of its possessions.
The Government has the art of keeping the weak
in sukjection, but making way for the strong, and
we are now becoming sufficiently strong to make
ourselves seen and heard in the world. The police
had received orders to oppose furtively the cele-
bration of the hundredth anniversary of Kaszynzy.
But it became known that no heed would be taken
of this interdiction—that the fete would be cele-
brated quand meme, and no notice would be taken
of the interdiction whereupon the Government
believed discretion to be so much the better part of
valour that they resolved to shut their eyes to avoid
an altercation which might have terminated unfa-
vourably for them.
The following letter from Pesth, dated Jan. 11,
has been lithographed and circulated in Paris :

" In small things, as well as great, the Viennese Cabinet
exasperates the Hungarians. Following close on the
projected sale of the Castle of the Hunyadis, an act of
spoliation which has deeply wounded their national sen-
timents, comes the suppression of their Bulletin of Laws,
which was printed in their own language ; and in place of
this publication, ono printed at Vienaa, in German, is
to be established. Thus the Hungarians have the morti-
fication of seeing their national language proscribed
by the Government, and there are few things, I fancy,
more offensive than that to a high-spirited people. More-
over, they ara subjected to the very serious inconvenience
of being obliged to spell out, in a language they do not
understand, the ordinances and soi-disant ' laws' which
the Viennese tyrants may think fit to impose on them.
"The Government, alarmed, and not, it must be con-
fessed, without reason, at the menacing attitude of the popu-
lation, is in all parts of the country, and particularly
at Pesth, Grosswardein, and Debroczin, causing persons
to be arrested, houses to be searched, and measures of pre-
caution against an outbreak to be adopted. The Govern-
ment is also acting with much rigour to the Press; but
tho newspapers dare not record, nor even refer to, the
numerous acts of tyranny and atrocity which are perpe-
trated every day. To such an extent, in fact, is the per-
secution of journals carried, that the conductors of the
leading native organ, the Pesthi Napolo, contemplate
suspending it until better times shall come. The Hun-
gariarns who go to Vienna on business—and no Hun-
garian now goes there for anything else—are not only
required to proceed to the police-office, and show their
passports the moment they enter the city, but they are
placed under the surveillance of police spies during all
their stay. They are, moreover, particularly ordered, un-
der pain of immediate expulsion or arrest, not to com-

xnunicate with officers of the Austrian army. The reason
for this strange order is not stated ; but I strongly suspect
that it is no other than that officers are so notoriously

discontented with the service, and with the state of things
in general, that the Government feels that by communicat-
ing with Hungarians they would be easily won over to the
Hungarian cause, or perhaps eagerly offer to serve it.
'‘ At the recent demonstration in honour of the poet
Kacinczy, at Szephalon, his native place, the Rev. Mr.
Lakinczy created profound sensation by a speech ho deli-
vered, and that speech is now producing a sort of electric
commotion throughout the land. 'lt is now 28 years ago,'
said he in the course of it, ' that I and 15 others carried
the remains of our patriot poet to the tomb. But in spite
of his patriotism and his genius, he was not appreciated
as ho ought to have been by his countrymen. Now,
however, tho whole land is ringing with his
praises, and everywhere the people are holding meetings to
do honour to his memory. In this I see demonstrated the
great fact that public merit is sure, sooner or later, to be
acknowledged and recompensed. My friends and my
countrymen ! let us deduce from this fact the lesson that a
national cause is like the patriot's worth—sure, however
oppressed, to shine forth in glory sooner or later, Yes, my
friends, the cause of Hungary will triumph I lam an old
very old man; 70 winters having passed over my brow ;
but even I may live to see, from the present appearance of
things, that triumph I And, if the Almighty should grant
me that inestimable blessing, with what! joy would I
slightly paraphrase the words of Simeon, and cry, ' Lord,
now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine
eyes have seen the salvation of my country ~

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY.

The Canadian mail steamer North Briton, Captain
Borland, has arrived here with dates from Portland
to the 7th, and from New York by telegraph to the
Gth inst.

News from San Francisco to the 16th December
announce that Fremont has obtained all the mines
that had been adjudged to him without violence.
BROWNVILLE, JAN. 2.

Cortinas captured Rio Grande on the 24th ult.
The Brownville troops recaptured it subsequently.
Eight Americans were killed. Cortinas fled.
Mr. Horne, tobacco merchant, has failed for 15,000
dollars.

At New York, on the 6th instant, money and
exchange presented no new feature. Freights for
cottox to Liverpool 9-16 d.
On theist the Havannah sugar market was dull,
but prices unchanged. Stock, 10,000 boxes.
Exchange on London, 15; prom.

GALWAY, MONDAY.

The Prince Albert, from New York on the sth,
and the St. John's on the 10th, arrived in this port
to-day at 12 o'clock, making the passage from the
latter port in about 13G hours and 18 minutes. She
brings 150 passengers, of whom 40 are from New-
foundland.

Owing to the severity of the weather, and the
want of proper harbour accommodation, the mails
were not. landed in time for despatch by the mid-
day mail train.
The Asia, for Liverpool, was detained on the 4th
by a snowstorm. She was to slil on the sth, at
nine o'clock a.m. She brings no specie. Among
her passengers is the " Benicia Boy," who comes
over to contend with Tom Sayers—the champion of
the English ring. The odds in favour of the Ame-
rican champion are 5 to 4.
By telegraph via Newfoundland we learn that the
Atlantic, from California, had arrived at New York
with 1,800,000 specie. The San Francisco news con-
firms the report that the Japanese Embassy will
leave for the United States on the 22d of February ;
and also that the English Consul at Jeddo had ad-
vised British subjects to go armed in consequence
of the threatenings of the Japanese.
The Arago and Glasgow sailed from New York
on the 7th inst., the former taking 50,000 specie.
The Bohemian, Arabia, Kangaroo, and Vigo had
arrived out, the latter short of coal.
Governor Letcher, of Virginia,- recommends a
Convention of all the States to settle the slavery
question.
At New York, on the 9th, the markets were
generally steady and unchanged.
NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 7.

Cotton sales for the week, 62,000; middling,
101 e. to 11c. Receipts for the week, 69,000; in-
crease of all ports, 357,000. Sales to-day, 8,500;
closed firm.
A Sympathy with the Popo Meeting was held at
St. John's on the Gth inst.
A 24th ballot for Speaker was taken on the 4th.
Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, Republican, had 101 votes,
104 being the necessary number of votes.

The Mexican Treaty was sent by the President
to the Senate on the 4th inst. It is supposed that
it will be accepted, but that the 4,000,000 will not
be voted.

The Washington correspondent of the New rark,
Herald, of the sth, says :

Despatches have been received at the War

Department from the officer in command at San
Juan. Matters there were tranquil, and no further
difficulties apprehended. General Harney, it
appears, had declined to accept General Scott's
offer to return to the Atlantic States, and take com-
mand of the Department of the West. He does
not like the manner in which he was treated by
the President in sending General Scott to super-
sede him in the settlement of the San Juan affair.
His return to the Atlantic States may be shortly
expected.'!

The report of the Inspector of State Prisons shows
an increase of 3GO in the number of convicts daring
the past year as compared with 1858.
The mails from New Orleans of the 27th ult. and
llavannah of the 30th had arrived. Business at
Havannah was almost suspended on account of the
holydays.

The stock of sugars on hand 'were 20,000 boxes,
against the same amount in 1858. No. 12 were
held at 9to 91 rials per arrobe. No margin for
speculation. A few contracts for Muscovado sugars
were made at 71 to 8 rials at our ports, and 1,000
hhds. clayed molasses at 4 (rials per keg of 51 gal-
lons, deliverable at Matanzas.

Freights continue dull, and no better prospect
ahead.

Exchange was less active: On London, 60 days'
sight, 15 to 15.1 ; New York ditto, 3 to 4; Northern
cities ditto, 3 to 31; New Orleans, eight days' sight,
5 to 6.

On the 30th ult. off tho Moro, communicated
with the United States steamer Crusader, Lieut.
Maffit, bound on a cruise. All well.

The report of the commissioners on the Crimean
War was ordered to be printed.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times reports :

" By her treaty with Honduras Great Britain abandons
the position assumed in her rejection of the Dallas-Claren-
don treaty. The Bay Islands are unconditionally sur-
rendered to Honduras. The treaty yet remains to be rati-
fied in London. No doubt exists now of the success of the
Mosquito treaty. Great Britain will then have washed her
hands of Central America.

" I have reason to believe that measures are on foot to
bring to a speedy settlement the disputed title to San Juan
Island. Both Governments are sanguine of an early and
amicable adjustment."

The accounts from the city of Mexico are to the
19th ult. It is stated that Cobas has been beaten at
Tehuantepec, and is retreating. The Liberals are
said to have gained a battle at Quarreto. Marquee
is really in prison (in communicado), and the rup-
ture is complete between him and Miramon. The
latter has marched from Guadalajara towards
Colima. The Liberals under Valez, 4,000 strong,
are at the barunca of Ateuquique. Another account
states that an action has taken place between the
Liberals and Miramon, to the advantage of the
former.

Reports from Vera Cruz are to the 22d ult.
General Degallado, with Col. Benito Ferias, ar-
rived from Tampico on the 20th inst. Senor Puerto
Arroyo is expected here shortly, and it is supposed
he will enter the Juarcx Cabinet as Minister
of War. General Uraga is left in command of
the Liberal forces in the north, but no extended
plan of operations on the part of the Liberals is as
yet fixed upon, and cannot be until the fate of their
treaty in the United States is known. They have
recently received a large quantity of arms in Mo-
ralia, and extensive preparations for action are
being made at that point.
The Mexican correspondent of the New York
Times says :-
1 " The forced lean is being collected from the foreigners,
they having been debarred from all protection by the stupid
opinion of Attorney-General Black, that these forced loans
—if called contributions'—are not in violation of treaties
and international law. The clergy have refused to pay
their quota ; and as they are the Government, no force can
make them. The folly of the thing was in including them
in the decree.

" General NV 01l continues his oppressive acts upon the
foreign merchants of Zacatecas. These occurrences have
been made the subject of prompt action on the part of Mr.
Mathew, who has succeeded in obtaining the promise of the
clergy here to order the suspension of further oppressions
upon Englishmen, but he has failed in obtaining any re-
dress for Americans, owing to the increasing hostility to
the United States, principally stimulated by Gabriac, the
French Minister."

The overland mail from California has arrived.

The territorial Enterprise of the 10th says, that
the California Mining Company of Virginia, after
six weeks of drifting, struck the main silver lead
55 feet below the surface. The ore discovered
promises to rival in richness that from the original
Comstock lead. Mining claims, in consequence of
this discovery, had advanced 300 per cent.
Two Rus,ian corvettes had arrived at San
Francisco with the:supposed intention of surveying
the harbour and then returning to Cronstadt via
New York:

The shipment of golddust from Victoria during
September, October, and November amounted to
450,000 dols.

The Prince Albert brings from St. John's the
Captain and nine seamen of the Jessie, bound for
Jersey, wrecked off Cape England on the 2d, and
five seamen of the wreck Jenny Lind.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.

The Royal Mail Company's intercolonial steam
ship Medway, appointed to leave St: Thomas on
the 27th December for England to undergo repairs,
was detained until the 2d January.

It was expected that she would leave with the
Atrato to accompany that vessel during her home-
ward voyage.

MUSICAL, DRAMATIO, 4- EQUESTRIAN

SICK FUND ASSOCIATION.

A special general meeting of the members of
the above association was held yesterday in the
saloon of Drury-lane Theatre, for the purpose of
taking into consideration two important proposi-
tions in reference to the new Dramatic College.
A considerable admixture of lady_ professionals
evinced the interest taken by them in matters af-
fecting their benevolent institutions. Benjamin
Webster, Esq., the president of the association, oc-
cupied the chair, supported by Mr. Anson, the
secretary, Mr. Jerwood, the honorary solicitor, and
Mr. Phillips.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said
he wanted the meeting to confirm a special resolu-
tion passed by the committee on the 29th of Decem-
ber, for granting the sum of £250 to build one
house of the Royal Dramatic College. (Cheers.) If
the vote were passed, they would soon have eight
houses, but the Dramatic College Fund would have
only two houses to build, the others coming from
the Drury-lane Fund, the General Theatrical Fund,
and other sources.

The resolution, on being seconded by Mr. BASIL
POTTER, of the Surrey Theatre, was carried unani-
mously.
Mr. ANSON, the secretary, moved the second re-
solution, to the effect that the sum of £250 be set
aside to form the basis of a superanuation fund for
those who, although members of that association in
the musical and equestrian departments, were not
eligible for admission into the Dramatic College.
The mover explained the nature of the proposed
fund, and said he had been in personal communica-
tion with Mr. Tidd Pratt, and that gentleman's
managing actuary, Mr. Tonks. They had approved
of the scheme, and drew out tables of payments on
a sure foundation, whereby, through a series of
monthly payments, small in amount, sums varying
from ss. to 20s. per week could be secured after the
age of 60 years. Mr. Anson road the tables to the
meeting, and the motion was carried unanimously.
A committee was then nominated to organise the
new fund under the direction of Mr. Tidd Pratt and
Mr. Finlaison, the Government actuary.
Mr. PHILLIPS, after passing a well-merited
culogium on Mr. E. T. Smith for his support to all
their charities, begged to propose a vote of thanks
to that gentleman for his usual kindness in lending
them the saloon of the theatre in which to hold
their meetings.
Mr. SLOMAN seconded the motion, and it was
carried with acclamation.
The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to
the chairman, to which
Mr. WEBSTER replied by saying that his pride
was to raise the theatrical profession to the highest
possible social status. When the Dramatic College
was completed and its inmates were at their ease,
he should feel there was nothing left fm him to do
except ,retire. They had elected three ladies, and
were about to elect three gentlemen. Until the
houses were built they would be allowed a small
sum as rent elsewhere, with coals, candles, apart-
ments, and £25 a year. He thought they had now
something comfortable to look forward to in old
age. (Cheers.)
The proceedings then terminated with warm ex-
pressions of approbation to Mr. Webster, the presi-
dent.