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to think of attacking Venetia, and he will proba-

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Aft r which, the revived comedy of THE IRISH AM-
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nown, will make his first appearance on the Envlish stage, In
an adaptation of Victor Huc,ro's celebrated Pray of RUY
Esq. ; characters also by
BLAS, by Edmund Falconer,
liie,srs. Walter Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond,
Morland, Collett, Paulo. Daly, A. Harris • Miss Rose
Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. To be preceded by
SUSAN SNLiT tl. After the Farce, the admired Flay of
TILE FIRST NIGHT.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.
Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
In consequence of the extraordinary success attending the
production at this Theatre of Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of
" TUE LOVE CHASE," the brilliant reception accorded to Miss
Gougenheim in the character of Constance, and the enthusi-
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Widow Green, the Management feels called upon to announce
its repetition during the ensuing week.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commenee with
Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. The
Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcott.
Principal characters by Mr. T. Lyon, Mr. Henry Neville, Mr.
George Vinincr, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell,
Mrs. Keeley, Miss Kate Saville, and Miss Gougenheim.
On Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. the per-
formances will commence with a Comic Drama, by Charles
Selby, Esq , entitled THE HUSBAND OF MY HEART,
principal characters by Mr. Gcorge Vining, Mr. H. Neville,
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To conclude with MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Mr. David
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Triumphant success and increasing popularity of the Grand
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The Austrian Constitution is at last published,
and what to make of it is the question. On the
face of it, the concessions are such, that had they
been made spontaneously, and ,could the slightest
reliance be placed on the Monarch who made
them, they would be hailed all over Europe as an
unheard-of tribute to liberal principles. Unfortu-
nately, every thing that can give confidence is
wanting. The time, and the man, are equally
adverse to the supposition of sincerity. FRANCIS
JOSEPH has shown no more principle than any of
Ilia ancestors, or rather as total an absence of any
ruciple but that of retaining absolute sovereignty
raingled fraud and violence, as all the HAPS-
BURG,.
have always evinced. When strong they
would crush civil and religious liberty, when
weak they would lay snares for it. Nor
do we remember any important docu-
ment to
which they have put their
hands, which theyhave not either openly
trampled underfoot, or into which they have not
contrived to insert some provision which they
could turn to their purpose.
The first question any one
over these seemingly e asks when glancing
great concessions is—are
they intended to quiet Hungary, and to render
trustworthy the 100,000 soldiers she contributes
to the army, in the event of another Italian
struggle ? The vast concentration of forces on the
Po and the Mincio, and the sending of General
BENEDEK, their best general, to take the command
in Venetia, look almost as much like attack, as
mere defence. We have, however, the strongest
assurances, even renewed up to this day, that
Austria will not attack unless attacked. We have
also every assurance that she will not be attacked, not
only from the language of Count CAVOUR, but
from the language of Italian circumstances. We
are glad, indeed, to see that the King of SARDINIA
is moving on to Naples to take on himself the so-
vereignty offered him by the people and by the
Dictator, and that his generals are thoroughly
beating the Neapolitans and taking them prisoners.
tut VICTOR EMMANUEL Will have enough on his
"As for a limo in settling the political affairs of
Italy, and in
strengthening her army, before he
meddles "with Venetia. Not before next spring
could things be Inainciently settled in Italy for him

bly then try more peaceful means.
The other great fear pressing on Austria is that
of bankruptcy, utter and hopeless. She cannot get 1
loans without institutions which command the con-
fidence of the money-lenders. She cannot raise
taxes without institutions which command the con-
fidence of her subjects. Hence a Government
which contents the people is the sine qua non of
the sinews of war. Whether she would attack, or
be safe in case of attack, she must make sure of
two things, one that she can maintain an army—
the other that Hungary will not be in insurrection
in her rear—indeed, that the Hungarian sol-
diers themselves will not refuse to fight in her
cause. Austrian beggary, Austrian fears
of VICTOR EMMANUEL, of GARIBALDI, of
Hungary, and Hungary's soldiers, all combine to
force great concessions from a man from whom
they are not worth even so much as those of our
CHARLES I. This is the great difficulty ; and we
must leave it to the Hungarians to say how they
will meet it.

In a short time we shall hear of Hungarian com-
ments on the HAPSBURG Charter. We may be

wrong; but, plausible as it looks, we fear there are
points of danger in it which even a foreigner may
detect. It makes no mention of the historical
rights of Hungary—the point on which the people
have so wisely insisted. The Pragmatic Sanction
adverted to is merely, if we understand it
aright, the sanction of 1722, under CHARLES
VI., who had no male offspring, of the here-
ditary succession in the female line, in virtue
of which the present EMPEROR has any
claim to be King of Hungary at all. What the
'Hungarians, we believe, demand, is the recogni-
tion of all the arrangements sworn to by the late
Emperor with the Diet of Hungary, and which
Prince SCWARTZENBERG and the present Emperor
have overthrown by sheer violence. Next, we see
no guarantee whatever for the security of what is
conceded. It is a charter which the Emperor can
revoke, and certainly would recal to-morrow
if he were strong enough to do it. There
is one provision in former compacts of the
Hungarians with the HAPSBURGS of more ',im-
portance than all mentioned in the summary
before us—the King of Hungary cannot, legally.
introduce foreign, not even German, soldiers into
the kingdom. That provision at least is essential
to the safety of any liberties gained by Hungary.
She must have her own army, officered by natives,
and not permitted to be marched out of the king-
dom without her own consent, or she can never be
safe. _ _

Were not HAPSBURGS HAPSBURGS, all would
say that much indeed had been granted, and that
Hungary is especially favourably dealt with. Legisla-
tive power is henceforth to be exercised only in con-
nection with the provincial councils; the Reichs-
rath is to be enlarged to 100 members, and its mem-
bers to have, apparently, entire control over finan-
cial matters. Centralization is to cease in regard
to the Ministers of Justice, Religion, and the In-
terior ; Hungary is to regain her Chancellor, and
he is to be a member of the Ministry ; but
Transylvania is in this respect and in others, though
desirous to unite with Hungary, to be separated
from her; and it seems to be the intention to keep
the other minor parts of Hungary separate from her
if possible. We are told that the Hungarian constitu-
tional institutions are to be re-established; the Hun-
garian language restored in official and judicial busi-
ness, the University of Pesth re-opened, the D let to be
convened " with the least possible delay"—and then
the Charter is to be inaugurated, and the EMPEROR
to be crowned King of Hungary ! But the Diet
ought to have been first convened, and to have dis-
cussed the Charter; and the oath sworn by the KING
should have been designated as the same as that
taken by the last. Three reactionist Ministers, the
the notorious Count THUN among them, quit the
Ministry, and Baron NICHOLAS VAY, one of the
foremost men among the Protestants in opposing
the late patent, is appointed Hungarian Chan-
cellor ; all things indeed would seem to be in the right
direction, were it not for the hand which holds the
rudder. The people must take it into their own
before they can be safe.

The present is certainly a very remarkable
year for Lord BROUGHAM. It will probably not
close before the publication of his lordship's long
preparing and long-expected treatise upon the
British Constitution. And meanwhile it has been
witnessing in various parts of the United Kingdom
a succession of notable demonstrations expressive
of the popular respect, affection, and gratitude
towards that noble, and learned, and venerable ex-
Chancellor.

Lord BROUGHAM'S last appearance before a great
public assemblage took place only the other day
at Liverpool, upon the occasion of the presentation
to that borough, by Mr W. BROWN, of a Public
Library and Museum, for the benefit of the inhabi-
tants, and especially of the working classes. A
fortnight previously the noble and learned lord
had addressed himself to an equally vast and
imposing concourse of the industrial population in
in the city of Glasgow. Before that he had de-
livered a remarkable harangue, inuagurative of
thb latest of the annual proceedings at the Social
Science Congress, over which his lordship pre-
sided as at once the " guid ephilosopher and friend"
of that important association. A little earlier he
had afforded—even those who best appreciate his
comprehensive genius and his herculean grasp of
knowledge—reason for new astonishment in his re-
gard, by the delivery from the academic chair at
the University of Edinburgh, as its Chancel-
lor, of one of the most noble orations that
had ever fallen from even those eloquent lips.
This, moreover, within the vivid recollection
of the superb speech not so very long previ-
ously delivered by " the old man eloquent" at
the inauguration of the monument erected to the
memory of Sir ISAAC NEWTON at that King of
Men's birthplace, Grantham. Scarcely has the
noble and learned ex-Chancellor afforded us fresh
evidence of the undimmed vitality of his intellec-
tual powers in one locality than he appears anew
at some other, ready to confirm that ever-welcome
impression, and to convince the millions of his fellow
countrymen that, what Lord BROUGHAM was in
his physical prime, he is still to the last (even now
at the approach of the period of decrepitude) as an
octogenarian.
The reception accorded to the noble and vener-
able lord wherever he has appeared during the past
few months, must certainly have tended to convince
trim, beyond as moment's doubt, that we are all
proud of him. Lord BROUGHAM must know by
this time, we should imagine, that in Great Britain
he himself at any rate is appreciated. And he
is appreciated, too, where a man of his character
would best wish to be appreciated—he is appre-
ciated where Sir ROBERT PEEL aspired the most
earnestly to be borne in grateful and affectionate re-
membrance—in the homes and at the hearths of the
great body of the labouring classes of this country.
lie has done a giant's work for the good of the
great English people, and he has done it well. As
a Law Reformer, as the greatest of all living law
Reformers, he has swept away a hundred thousand
abuses and grievances. As the antagonist of,

Slavery he broke the last link:in the fetters
binding the African race to the triumphal chariot
wheels of Britannia. As the champion of the grand
and beneficent cause of the Education of the
masses be has done more than any other man
that could be named, to diffuse knowledge at the
cheapest rate and with the utmost facility among
the bulk of the toiling population. It was in fur-
therance of this last-mentioned cause—a cause
ever dear in a peculiar degree to the heart of
Lord BROUGHAM—that the noble lord appeared
and spoke on Saturday evening last at the soiree
and distribution of prizes in connexion with the
Mechanic's Institution, in the Philosophical Hall at
Huddersfield. It was Lord BROUGHAM who distri-
buted the prizes. It was Lord BROUGHAM who deli-
vered the opening address, and who presided in fact
over the whole proceedings. And remembering the
character of the assemblage and the nature of the in-
cident which had brought it together, we read as a
mere matter of course, in the account given of it, that
the reception accorded to the illustrious ex-Chan-
cellor was one marked by no ordinary enthusiasm
and earnestness.

Huddersfield, recollect, is the home and the haunt
of Lord BROUGHAM'S old constituency ! Many,
many years have passed away since he stood there as
the representative of what is now for the most part a
bygone generation. No wonder we read then, at
the very outset of the report of Saturday's
proceedings that " his lordship was received with
quite an ovation of applause," or that when imme-
diately upon his appearance the whole of the
audience then and there joined in singing " .Auld
Lang Syne," " the venerable nobleman was
affected to tears." When Lord BROUGHAM upon the
commencement of the proceeding directly afterwards
rose to address the assembly, again he was the objeet
of this heartfelt ovation, being received with a re-
newed outburst of acclamation. " I do assure you,"
said Lord BROUGHAM, "my old constituents, that
I am very deeply affected by the kind reception I
have met with at your hands"—the reporter
adding in parenthesis " (his lordship was here
visibly overcome)." Incidents of this kind do
honour alike to the illustrious ex-Chancellor him-
self and to the multitude also of those grateful
fellow-countrymen of his, for whom he has laboured
during a long life so nobly and, thank GOD, so suc-
cessfully.

" The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and In-
diana have resulted in favour of the Republicans."
Such is the gratifying announcement from America.
The Democrats had hoped to carry Pennsylvania,
which, next to New York, has the largest vote for
the Presidency, and which turned the scale in
1856 in favour of BIICEtANAN and the extension of
slavery. It may now be hoped that that State is
secure to the better cause. The elections now re-
ferred to are those for State not Federal offices ;
but they generally indicate, as nearly as possible to
certainty, which way the voting for the President
will go. Both the great parties exert them-
selves to the uttermost in the State, as well as in
the Federal elections, and as the Republicans have
triumphed now they will in all probability triumph
in November also. It must be remembered that
the struggle is not between abolition of slavery and
its retention ; but for the prevention of its ex-
tension into the territories of the Union
which are not yet formed into States. The
southern men are eager to make slavery co-exten-
sive with the settlement of the territories ; the
Republicans to prevent it. Republicans do not,
any more than Democrats, think of interfering with
slavery in states which desire to retain it, but
they insist that all North America shall not, by
any possibility, be blighted by slavery. They would
limit and discourage slavery, and encourage free
settlement ; the Democrats would extend slavery to
all places over which the stripes and stars waved.
Mr. LINCOLN'S chances are certainly increasingly
good. Some fears are entertained respecting New
York, where the merchants have large pecuniary
connections with the South, and where Irish
Catholics are numerous, and, like their brethren
who saved their lives at Spoleto, very fond of doing
anything to enslave others, if left at liberty to talk
treason themselves, provided in what they do they
incur no hazard. There is, however, every reason
to hope that New York is right in the present
struggle.

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 22, 1880.