The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-09 00:00:00

HEA Tit-t• ROYAL, A y mARKET. being that left as before to settle its own domestic
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstonc. institutions, was carried. In the debate on 'it
THIS EVENING, the performances will nommsknae with
anew Ball&" BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Miss Fanny some sensible remarks were made by Mr. BROWN-
Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &c.
ING, to the effect that the South boasted of the
After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND
MY LADY • or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, blacks being armed,. in 'defence of the Confe-
Mr. Andrew's, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, -Mrs, ---
Wilkins, &c. derates that the proper retaliation of the
Followed by OF AGE TO-MORROW. Miss M. Oliver.
To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. North would be to treat them also as citizens, to
Commence at 7. -- •
appeal to their loyalty by proclaiming emancipa-
tion as the reward of service. There is reason in
this, and not mere cleverness only. If the South
itself treats the blacks as citizens the North may
fairly appeal to them to be loyal. Or if the South
uses them in military service at all, the North has
every right to do the same, and to neutralise, if
possible, such a means of strength for the South.
Amongst the direet taxes one on slavee was agreed
to. This would seem to be recognising them as
property, but the Congress may certainly point to
the example of England which can be pleaded for
regarding men servants as a test of their
master's ability to pay taxes, and charges them in
the same taxing-papers with carriages, horses, and
dogs.

RO YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A
HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and bliss
3f. Harris.
Followed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Messrs.
Pechter, A. Harris, Meadows, Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclerq,
and Mrs. Westsn.
To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris,
and Miss Maria Harris.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Reproduction of the great drama of " The Dead Heart."
THIS EVENING, the g•reat Adelphi drama, THE DEAD
HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, Fisher, Billing-
ton, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Wooigar and Miss Kate

To conclude with (22d time) THE PRETTY HORSE-
BREAKER. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford; Miss K.
Kelly, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Thorne, Miss Laidlaw, and
Mrs. Chatterley,
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

Verdi's New Opera, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA,
arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Mr. Levy on
the cornet-a-piston. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son,
the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary
comic duet, "The Nerves," by Messrs. Harvey and French,
the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence
and Mr. Marshall in several New Songs written expressly
for him, including the "Excursion to Brighton."
Admission, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ts.

We may soon expect some important news
from Austria. The German advisers of the weak
young EMPEROR have, or will soon have, the
reply of the Hungarian Diet to the impudent
and lying Rescript which they had advised their
master to send to Hungary. HAPssuRG as he
is, it would appear that the EMPEROR, person-
ally, is not so hard-hearted and ambitious as these
paltry German Ministers. He has, ive are told,
some not unnatural desires that the generous
people, who are willing to overlook some infor-
malities and to address him as monarch, should
feel towards him as loyal subjects to a deserving
king. ScHMERLING and the Camarilla who ad-
vise him, know that they can obtain no personal
regard from the Hungarians. They aro despised
by the haughty and liberty-loving aristocracy of
Hungary, as a mere batch of mushroom officials,
slaves themselves, and desirous to enslave others.
But "King" is yet a magic word with Hungarians.
The sentiment of loyalty is wonderfully strong
among the people, or it could not have survived
such treatment as they have received from the per- •
fidious and cruel line of Hapsburg Kings. And the
King of HUNGARY is aware in some degree of this.
The fact can hardly be concealed from him, that he
has only to speak the word, and he might at once re-
gain the whole strength of Hungary, and be a
mightier monarch than he ever was, although a
monarch of the free.

RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, who will
shortly appear at his old quarters, after an absence of five
years.

RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed
by Mr. William Sanderson, of Lambeth, under the direction
of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now completed. This
popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former
grandeur, and, with the FINE ARTS GALLERY and
SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT
PUBLIC BUILDING in the WORLD. Considerable im-
provements have been made in the VENTILATION and
LIGHTING.
H E 0 X F OR D,

6, OXFORD-STREET.
The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and
brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of
the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro-
gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra-
viat)," "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of
principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone.
Old English Ballad, by Miss Green,.scotch Duets by the
Misses Stuart, and other vocal and Instrumental music of the
highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic
portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M.
P.
Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall.
sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one Hall,
Private Boxes,
10s. 6d. shilling.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIM DAY.—Morning, 311. 40m.—Afternoon,
To-moußovr.-Morning, 4h. 20m.—Afternoon, 4h. 42m.

THE VrEW.THEIL—SuN °mem, AuGi 9, 1861.
TH-nnatowErnn, IN THE SHADE.
74—highest since noon yesterday.
63—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.40.
WxND—Westerly—light ; fine, but sultry, weather.

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What a pity it seems that all his dominions can
furnish him no CAVOUR. To every looker on the
facts of the case admit of no dispute. Hungary asks
nothing but simple legality. The SCHMERLING
camarilla reply by notoriously illegal assertions
and requisitions. Now it ought to be, and might
be, the easiest of tasks for Statesmen to govern a
people, who are heartily and from long custom
devotedly attached to law. Granting as they do
that some of the laws of 1848 require revision,
they are assuredly right in insisting that the re-
vision shall be made constitutionally and legally,
not by illegal edicts prepared by a German bureau,
and signed by an Emperor of AUSTRIA, who is not
yet fully and legally King of HUNGARY. True their
constitutional rights separate Hungary to a con-.
siderable extent from the rest of the Empire; but so
are some of the other provinces separated—for only
German Austria can be a member of the German
Bund. But what these mischievous theorising Ger-
mans, in their zeal to enslave to themselves a poli-
tically nobler race, fail to perceive is, that Hungary
can be a source of strength to the Austrian EM-
PEROR only by treating her loyally. She has ever
been too ready to pour forth blood and money for
the honour and safety of her worthless Kings;
and if any King of HUNGARY now were but
heartily to accept the position he would find no
kind of difficuly in obtaining Hungarian aid for any
purpose which ought to secure it.

THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1861.

The supposition which forced itself so strongly
on our minds—that General SCOTT had been forced
to fight against his own judgment—seems to be the
exact truth. Unless the distinct assertions of a
member of Congress, as to the words of an actual
conversation, are to be wholly disbelieved, there can
indeed be no doubt on the subject. It was asserted
in debate that General SCOTT had thus yielded,
when Mr. RICHARDSON stated in express terms
that he, with two of his colleagues, whom he named,
were present with the President, the Secretary of
War, and General SCOTT. That the General said
in conversation, "I am the biggest coward on earth"
—Mr. RICHARDSON roso from his seat—" Stay,"
said the General, " I will prove it. I have fought
Me battle against my judgment, and I think the
President ought to remove me to-day for doing it."
In the coarse of further conversation, he ad-
hered to the same statement. He appealed
GOD that he had done all in his
power to make the army efficient ; but
thought he deserved removal, " because he did
not stand up when he could, but did not." The
old General did not, on the other hand, release the
President from the implied charge of having
forced him to fight ; for it appears the President
said to him—" Your conversation implies, Gene-
ral SCOTT, that I forced you to battle. " When,
instead of replying that he did not, the General
only observed, " I have never served under a
President who has been kinder to me than you
have been." We think it can hardly now be
doubted what was the fact ; but again, the
President himself would appear to have yielded
to the clamour of the Northern public in thus
tampering with the judgment of his responsible
commander ; and Mr. RICHARDSON, who told
Congress of the conversation, told them also, that
he had known the President from his boyhood,
knew him to be an honest man if let alone, but
feared he had not " firmness to stand up against
the politicians around him."
Happily the later accounts all point to a com-
paratively small loss of life. The Confederates
now say that their loss in killed and wounded did
not exceed sixty ; that their force little exceeded
3,500, while that of their opponents was between
5,000 and 10,000, and this is an official account
sent to New Orleans. On the other hand, Presi-
dent DAVIS, writing on the evening of the battle
to the Congress at Richmond, states his own force
at 15,000, that of the enemy at 35,000. The Fede-
ralists have reduced their numbers in like propor-
tion ; the total loss of their army in killed is now
set down at 150. The " missing" have core_
in in very
great numbers.
The country afforded e
abundant
temporary shelter for fugitives, and great numbers
appear to have thought preserving their lives the
best patriotism ; they could be used, and taken
care of again too, in the service of their country.
Yankees are as wise as they are brave. Their best
estimates of the number brought into action, or
into the field, is about the same as that of President
DAVIS.

On one point alone the Hungarians would
probably be firm. They would not aid in the
occupation of Venetia. Their constitution, and
their solemn agreements with their Hapsburg
Kings, guarantee to them that their soil shall
not be violated, as it now is, by hated foreign
troops; they also guarantee that Hungarian sol-
diers shall not be employed in foreign service
without the consent of Hungary. This law ails)
is now in abeyance—Hungary must, and will,
be firm till it secures respect for these
essential guarantees of freedom ; but, when
it has secured them, nothing is more
certain than that this people, ever too confiding,
would be but too ready to lend their whole sup-
port to maintaining the greatness of a King worthy
of the name. The grand mistake of old routine
diplomatists, like Lords PALMERSTON and RUSSELL,
is that of confounding a strong Austria with a
legally amalgamated Austria. As a fact, Austria
is incapable of amalgamation. High.minded, free
Hungarian nobles and people can never amalgamate
with the political serfs and theorising Bureaucrats
of the Archduchy. But, as independent subjects of
the same Crown, they would be faithful to it, and
Austria might be again a Power through her sub-
jects loving their Government and thinking it
worth defending. On the contrary, the victory of
Vienna over Pesth will be the weakness of
Austria.

It is positively refreshing to read Mr. BERNAL
OSBORNE'S speech to his Liskeard Constituency.
A speech it is, no doubt, about everything in general
and nothing in particular. But it is one neverthe-
less which will be perused at once and by all with
no less profit than amusement. As to the entertaining
character of any remarks there may fall at any time
from the lips of the hon. member, that everyone
takes to be sure just as a matter of course. It would
be difficult we cannot but think for the member for
Liskeard to be dull even if he ambitioned to be so. It
may be recollected that when he was in office as
Secretary to the Admiralty he evidenced his own con-
-1
sciousness of something like this by what we may
call an instinctive recognition of the alternative
before him as a subordinate in an Administration.
Either—he recognized it at once himself—either he
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a matter of necessity he observed—
almost as
Silence! Whether or not he may have had the dis.
erect advice of Prince TALLEYRAND echoed to him,
as a timely whisper from Lord PALMERSTON'S
first Cabinet, on his (Mr. OSBORNE'S) first taking
his seat in the Chief Secretary's Office at the Board
of Admiralty—"pas de zele"—the hon. member
certainly dropped into Silence, as one may say—at
discretion. Only upon the removal from his lips
of the padlock of official responsibility—came at
last—at last—delightfully for himself, we should
think, that "wild shriek of liberty" with which,
as Mr. D/SRAELT remarked at the time, Mr.
OSBORNE celebrated his emancipation from
office. It was for all the world like the
gleeful shouting heard from the village urchins
when released from the Dominie's thraldom towards
the cool of the evening. And Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE
then appeared to be only about the most noisy and
hilarious of the long hushed and cramped up subor-
dinates who escaped witla him to " the village green"
and " the cool of 'tile evening" on the side of the

We have some account also of the reasons for
for what seemed the almost treacherous conduct
of General PATTERSON. General JOHNSTONE'S
corps, whom he had defeated not far from Harper's
Ferry, was present at the battle, while PATTERSON
himself, instead of following him up and holding
him in check, had fallen back on that place. He
says that JOHNSTONE had received such large re•
inforcements as considerably to outnumber him,
while nineteen regiments of his three months' men
had, with four exceptions, all determined to leave.
So far, therefore, from being able to prevent JOHN-
STONE from co-operating with BEAUREGARD,
he had to look to his own safety. The " three
months' men" appear to have returned home by
wholesale. It is said that their want of firmness
au a great part of the mischief at Bnli's Run.
It 13 not impossible that the generals might
Nyialt to use them while they had them,
but
that they thought it rather hard,
Laving heti. Flo
easy a time of it for three months, to
be treated like
0 many URIAUS at the very end of
their time.

The cinestion.--,,,h
at to do With slaves—creates
some difficulty in Congress.
It is easy to see that
the members are still afraid of it. A compromise
resolution that the war vas to terminate with the
restoration of the Federal Government, each State