The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-02 00:00:00

THE MAILS.

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SUDDEN DEATH.--On Tuesday evening Mr. John
Brewster, an eminent solicitor of Nottingham, who has
held the office of Deputy-Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for a
great many years, met his death under very shocking cir •
curnstances. Early in the evening Mr. Brewster had wit-
nessed the performances of Biondi"' at the Barrack-yard,
Nottingham, and, after returning home, partook of supper
as usual. lie remained in conversation with his family
until about 11 o'clock, when his sons bade him " Good
night" and retired to rest. Almost immediately afterwards
they were aroused by the shrieks of their sister. Upon
going to the spot they found their father lying at the bot-
tom of the steps leading into the garden, his head being
fearfully bruised. A surgeon was sent for, but the unfor-
tunate gentleman never rallied, and expired half an hour
afterwards. A coroner's inquest' was held yesterday (Wed-
nesday), and from the medical testimoney adduced it was
supposed that the deceased was seized with an effusion of
blood to the head, which caused him to fall down the steps,
and a verdict to that effect was returned. Mr. Brewster
was 64 years of age,

AUSTRIA AAD HUNGARY.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)
PESTH, JULY 28.

Up to last evening it was fully expected that the
Chamber of Deputies would hold a private sitting
to-morrow, but this morning we learn that such
ill not be the case. It is presumable, therefore,
that the joint committee has not yq finished its
work, but the delay is not likely to be a long one,
and the general belief is that in the course of the •
week now commencing, not only a private sitting,
but also public ones, will take place, and that we
shall be made acquainted with the nature of the
next step in the long proceedings between Pesth
and Vienna. M. Deak has been very busy draw-
ing up the new Address, of the adoption of which
little doubt seems to be entertained, and it is also
thought that the union of parties and smoothing
down of points of difference, which have been among
the most notable consequences of the last Imperial
Rescript, are likely to be prominently displayed in the
next debates of the Deputies. Concerning the Address
itself nothing positive is known, but report says that
it will reply point by point to the Rescript, and will
be of a very cogent and decided character. All the
information that reaches me is to the effect that the
Hungarians are more than ever determined to pur-
sue a policy of resistance, that not a resignation
will be sent in, and that deputies, obergespane, and
county authorities will all remain in their places
until ejected from them by force. An important
piece of intelligence, in the correctness of which I
have rather strong reasons to confide, is that, as a re-
sult of recent communications between the different
parties concerned, a perfect understanding has been
come to between the Czech and Polish deputies to
the Reichsrath and the Liberal portion of the Croa-
tian Diet on the one hand, and the Hungarians on
the other, and that future harmony of action has
been arranged. If this be a fact its importance
needs not to be enlarged upon..
In a recent letter I referred to a warning respect-
ing Hungarian affairs said to have been received in
Vienna from Prince Richard Metternich, the Aus-
trian Minister in Paris. I should, perhaps, have
explained that this warning was contained in letters
addressed by him to influential members of the
Aulic Council. In strong terms, it is said, he urged
an amicable and speedy arrangement of the pend-
ing question with Hungary, as a measure which he
considered dictated by urgent necessity. Thus far
the statement rested on the authority of papers
favourable to the Hungarian cause, which did not
fail to point out that Metternich, in his central posi-
tion at Paris, and with the opportunities he there
enjoyed, was likely to be better informed than the
Vienna Cabinet of the designs and intrigues of
Austria's foes. Information of a private nature
tends to confirm the newspaper statement that Prince
Metternich has written to friends in the sense above
stated. lam assured that, in a recent audience of
the Emperor, one of those friends spoke to his Ma-
jesty of the opinion his Ambassador had expressed,
and that the information appeared to make an im-
pression upon Francis Joseph, who is reported to
be much harassed and made very anxious by the
difficulties of the Hungarian question.

Less than two miles up stream from the magnifi-
cent suspension-bridge that connects Pesth and
Buda, and before the straggling buildings of the
latter place have ceased upon your left hand, you
come to a long green island, so thickly fringed with
trees that at this season nearly all that can be dis-
cerned of it is an irregular mass of foliage. This is
the Margaretheninsel (Margaret's Island), so called
from the patron saint of a monastery which stood
upon it centuries ago, and fragments of the ruins of
which still remain. It was once a pheasant preserve
of the renowned Hungarian King Matthias Cor-
vinus, the most distinguished warrior and lawgiver
of his time, whose exploits in defence of his country
against the continual attacks of Turks and Aus-
trians, Poles and Bohemians, and other neighbour-
ing foes, to this day furnish topics for the pencil
of Hungarian artists and the songs of Hungarian
bards. Having come into the hands of the muni-
cipality of Pesth, by this city it was presented to
the Archduke Palatine of Hungary. But, like
many other pleasant spots of earth, it seems be-
loved of churchmen, and to have a tendency to get
into their hands. The brothers of the Order of
Mercy, who have a convent in Pesth, rents it of
its present owner, the Archduke Stephen, and
maintain a small floating colony upon it. There is a
commodious house there, where bishops and other
church dignitaries sometimes take up their summer
residence, and where even laymen may find accom-
modation for a due consideration ; and from another
house, although it be not strictly an inn, creature
comforts, both solid and liquid, may without diffi-
culty be obtained at no exorbitant charge, the wine
being the produce of a trim vineyard which occu-
pies the centre of the island, and readily yields in a
fair average year its 1,800 dozen of light but very
agreeable liquor. In the interior of the island are
found forest trees and thickets and green award,
flower-beds, orchards, and kitchen-gardens. There
is an agreeable mixture of wilderness and cultiva-
tion—sylvan ruggedness but partially overcome by
spade and pruning hook. The pheasants which sup-
plied King Matthias with sport in theshort intervals
of his frequent campaigns against Turkish pashas
and Transylvanian Voivodes have disappeared, but,
in their place, peacocks strut across the lawns and
stand sentry, with discordant challenge, at the en-
trance of woodland paths. There is no lack of
animal life in the island, or of that ample provision
for the larder which has often irreverently been con-
sidered peculiarly to characterise conventual estab-
lishments ; compact bodies of ducks and geese and
fluttering squadrons of fowls range in the vicinity of
the farmhouse, and calves, very much fatted, go in
troops at eventide to their watering-place in the
Danube. The police of the island, detective and pro-
tective, is confided to a number of powerful dogs, who
roam about at night and deter marauders. There is
but one vehicle on the territory of St. Margaret's ;
it is of simple form and fashion and capable of con-
taining four human beings—the consent having
been previously obtained of a steady-looking insular
donkey, the parent of a playful young ass which
kicks up its heels in a fashion that would have
delighted the poet who sang of that interesting
animal. In the evening the big Danubian
fish leap and splash about the banks, and the
gnats and midges arise in myriads and bloodily
assault the visitor. Were St. Margaret's isle in
the Thames instead of in the Danube, as near to
London as it is to Pesth, and with its present capa-
bilities, some enterprising genius would assuredly
get hold of it and convert it into an establishment
which would utterly destroy Cremorne. As it is,
people do go from Pesth to stroll and sup upon it,
but the journey is a double one, by steamer and
row-boat, and it is hut little frequented in compa-
rison with its merits. This island, according to
to day"s Pester Lloyd, " was recently thoroughly
searched by the police, in quest of a personage
whose name has in recent times been often men-
tioned, but who assuredly must be very far from
the lovely Danube island." The Pesth journal gives
this as something more than mere ramour, and,
indeed, it has been most confidently asserted
that the search was made by a whole company of
Austrian soldiers, and that the person sought was
General Turr. The natives of the island, however,
perhaps with truth and perhaps from prudential
motives, will not admit that any such military visit
has been paid to them, and it is ridiculous to sup-
pose that the Austrian Government would seek
Turr in the vicinity of Pesth, when assuredly they
must know by their agents the exact place of his
whereabouts abroad. For searches and arrests of
a political nature the Austrians now employ the
troops. Their own police here is chiefly for secret
purposes of spying—that is to say, the town police
is Hungarian, and so the military must be em-
ployed, however arbitrary and unconstitutional such
a course may be, in matters relating to political
offenders. Thus, at noon on Friday, a party, con-
sisting of six soldiers and no less than four officers
repaired to the hotel of the Golden Eagle in the
Innere Stadt quarter of Pesth, and, while the
soidiers remained in a street opposite and two of
the officers below, the two others, a captain and a
lieutenant-colonel, entered the house and went
straight to a room where three gentlemen were
sitting, whose names they demanded. One of these;
who gave the name of Nagy, was declared by the

officers to be a certain Paul Thury, and him they
arrested. He asked to be taken before the civil
authorities, there being no state of siege at present,
acid protested against his arrest. In the brief delay
that took place several hundred persons had as-
sembled in front of the hotel, and when the officers
went down with their prisoners they found the door
had 13,,,en shut to exclude the crowd. This seemed
somewhat to disturb them, and they snouted to
their soldiers to join them. No opposition, however,
was offered to them, although a person who was
present informs me that there was a good deal of
excitement, and that very strong terms of reproach
and contempt were addressed to the Austrians by
some young Hungarian noblemen who witnessed
the affair. The prisoner was told that if he could
prove himself not to be Paul Thury he would be
released. Meanwhile he was taken to the military
prison in the Neue Gebaude, where the artillery are
quartered—the place where Bathyany and others
were confined and shot. Thury's offence is not known.
He served in the Honveds in the waragainstAustria,
was distinguished for his bravery, severely wounded,
and afterwards long a refugee in England. From
traits that have been told me of him, he appears to
be rather an imprudent person, and it is possible he
may have given cause for investigation of his conduct.
But the manner of his arrest by the military force
is evidently arbitrary and illegal, and it can hardly
be very gratifying to the Austrian officers to he thus
made to do the duty of policemen.