The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The King of Prussia has authorised the accept-
ance of voluntary contributions for the formation
of a Prussian navy.

THE DRAWBACK ON PAPER.—The Chancellor of
the Exchequer has given directions, and made the necessary
arrangements with the Commissioners of the Board of In-
land Revenue, for the allowance of the grant or drawback
on the stock of paper in hand to st ttioners, pasteboard-
makers, paper-stainers, and other dealers holding above one
ton, on the Ist of October next, the day on which the paper
duty expires.

DEATH FROM THE KICK OF A HORSE.—A dis-
tressing occurrence took place last evening in Burwood-
mews, Paddington, under the subjoined circumstance.
About 5 o'clock p.m. George Dearlove, cab-driver, aged 36,
residing at 3, Manning-street, Marylebone, (hove his cab
into the above mews to change his horse, and while in the
act of unfastening the kicking strap, which it appears from
the vicious propensity of the animal was needed and used,
the horse kicked him so violently in the stomach as to cause
almost instantaneous death. The poor fellow was removed
to St. Mary's Hospital, but medical attendance being of no
avail, the remains were deposited in the dead-house to await
a coroner's inquest.

MR T. S. DUNGOMBE AND HUNGARY.

TO THE UNITED COUNTIES OF PESTLE, SILIS, AND SOLT.

Gentlemen,—Mr. de Neppel has done me the
honour to place the address from Pesth in my hands.
Your flattering appreciation of my humble ser-
vices in aid of the noble cause in which Hungary is
engaged is, I fear, far beyond any value those ser-
vices possess, but such as they are, permit me to
assure you they arc at all times at your command.
I rejoice to learn, that while you are resolved not
to allow yourselves to he betrayed into any prema-
ture resistance to the tyranny and intrigues by
which Austria perfidiously seeks to deprive you of
those rights (the unconditional respect for which is
sole title to your allegiance), you have determined
not to abandon one particle of that constitution to
which by law you are entitled.
Nevertheless, the position of your country is most
critical, and when considered together with the pre-
sent state of Rome, of Venetia, and of Warsaw, is a
disgrace to civilised Europe. How this lamentable
state of things is to be remedied, whether by an
appeal to arms, or by a Congress honestly convened,
and honourably intentioned, a few more months
must determine; and notwithstanding German in-
fluences and intrigues are everywhere at work, and
our Minister at the head of our foreign department
is, I fear, not unfavourably disposed towards their
success, yet with the people of England and of
France in continued and faithful alliance, with a
rising Italy by their side, I see no reason for
nationalities to despond, or the sacred cause of con-
stitutional liberty to despair.

In the meantime I think it would be well if the
family of Hapsburg would reflect upon the fate of
the Bourbons at Naples; otherwise, like that de-
tested dynasty, its day may come, and, like the
Bourbons, only be remembered by the wrongs they
perpetrated, and the tyranny they happily failed to
establish.—l am, &c.,
THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE.
August 9.