The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

of the hall, ready to cut down the first_ man in
Perth, for his employer had taken care that no
means of resistance should be left to the Hungarians.
What the result will be of such treachery, des-
potism, and violence, no one can foresee. The Hun-
garians will probably have the firmness to bear all,
to put their adversaries completely in the wrong, to
let them go on, offering all possible passive resist-
ance, and leaving M. SCHMERLING to find out that
one man, with a German nostrum, is not a match for
eleven millions of a united people, even without
arms in their hands. At the same time a bloody
insurrection is by no means impossible. The
Austrian soldiers are the most odious in
Europe to the countries which they are
told to grind into submission, and their
officers frequently about the most cruel, unofficer-
like savages on earth, without a spark of the
nobler sentiments; officer and soldiers together
would like to provoke an insurrection, that they
might satiate themselves with the blood of freemen.

But the Austrian policy fails throughout. Venetia
is, of course, not to be gained. Transylvania she
has not yet been able to square to her objects; but
Croatia, with the territories belonging to it, seems
likely to be as firm as Hungary. Croatia, like
Hungary, freely chose the HAPSBURG dynasty—
freely made it herbditary, and freely joined in the
Pragmatic Sanction in 1712, when CHARLES HI.
obtained on behalf of his daughter, MARIA THERESA,
from the Diet at Agram, the contract
by which the Diet gave up election of their
monarchs and admitted the female line on their part;
the monarch, on his part, engaging by a solemn
act and deed to govern in a word legally, and there-
fore to respect all their liberties and franchises of
every kind. The Diet at Agram has now adopted
an address as like the Hungarian one of M. DEAR
as possible, and thus resolved to take the same
course. What the Vienna Government will do with
more than half the Empire thus in legal
and declared opposition, it is not easy to see. They
may occupy and garrison the countries, but to occupy-
is not to govern, and when the hoar of attack comes
again, the whole empire will be shaken, perhaps
broken up entirely. This we could not regret.
Hungary would be a nucleus, round which the
free-minded Austrian States in the East would
gather, and one free kingdom of Hungary would
be ample compensation for the ruin of twenty
Austrias.

It is satisfactory to perceive at last some evidence
of disinolination on the part of the Irish to be left any
longer entirely out of the influence of the Volunteer
movement. While that patriotic rising and arm-
ing of the people in England and Scotland, we
have seen, advanced upon this side of St. George's
Channel so rapidly and steadily that, within a
couple of years, the defences of the country have
been enhanced by the addition to the army and navy
of 170,000 Riflemen—in Ireland nothing whatever
has been done to further the good cause by swelling
the ranks of those Riflemen. Remembering this
somewhat painful fact, and remembering at the
same time theloyal enthusiasm very recently mani-
fested by the Irish multitude upon the occasion of
her MAJESTY'S visit to that advanced and improv-
ing portion of her dominions, it is but reasonable
to find the Celtic race, at length—however tardily
—in genuine earnest awakening from its
prolonged apathy in this matter. There
are beginning to be visible and audible
amongst the people of Ireland a profound reluc-
tance, a reluctance very comprehensible under the
circumstances, to be left altogether behind in
this onward movement on the part of their Eng-
lish and Scotch compatriots. The fact that it has
been thus hitherto reflects, it cannot but be felt,
very invidiously upon the Irish multitude at large.
It is a slur upon the loyalty and patriotism
of Ireland, that up to this moment no
rifle corps have been organised there at all--
whereas, in Great Britain, the difficulty is to find
any locality whatever in which a rifle corps, large
or small, has not been organised. Here, amongst
ourselves, it is not extravagant to say that the rifle
has become the national weapon as completely as
the long yew-bow and the cloth-yard shaft were
wont to be centuries ago in the hands of
our remote progenitors in the days, let us say, of
ROBIN HOOD and his merry foresters in Lincoln
green. Again the butt has come to be raised here
in every township, in almost every village, hamlet,
and hundred in the United Kingdoms of England
and Scotland, for the practice of the hands and
eyes of " goods shots," not, it is true, of our bold
archers, but, better still, of our skilled riflemen !
And while so much zeal has in this way been mani-
fested by her MAJESTY'S lieges from Land's End to
John o'Groat's—tl e utmost apparent indifference
has been displayed by her MAJESTY'S other lieges
from Malin Head to Cape Clear ! As if the cause
of England and of Scotland were nat also
in every particular the cause of Ireland !
The time has happily come at length,
however, let us hope, when a distinction so invidi-
ous must be obliterated, and when the Irish must
take their place among the English and Scottish
Riflemen.

The spirit-stirring address recently delivered by
the Earl of ELLENBOROUGII down in his own
county of Gloucestershire, would seem (though in
no way addressed to themselves) to have, in a great
measure, tended to route the people of Ireland to
a sense of their own culpable apathy, in not hav-
ing long ago insisted upon being allowed to parti-
cipate in the Volunteer Movement. Reported through
the columns of the public journals, that earnest
oration addressed by the eloquent lips. of Lord
ELLENBOROUGII to the Riflemen of Gloucestershire
—upon the occasion of the banquet given at the
county town to the Lord Lieutenant of the shire,
the Earl of DUCIE, "in recognition of his efforts
in the promotion of the National Rifle.

Corps movement"—that impressive speech addressed
to the Volunteers of Gloucestershire by the Earl of
ELLENBOROUGII, echoed as it has since been

through the Whispering Gallery of the Press
across St. George's Channel, has awakened some
of the ardent spirits, at least in Ireland, to "a

sense of their situation." Nor can this be wondered
at under the circumstances. Words like those re-
cently uttered by Lord ELLENBOROUGH must Come

rather poignantly home to every really loyal and
patriotic Irishman—knowing well, as the latter

does, while he is listening to them, or reading them,
that Ireland, as yet, has had nothing whatever to

do, directly or indirectly, with the Volunteer move-
ment. Conscious of his own country's isolation—of
her painful isolation thus in the midst of the
general rising and training of the population
elsewhere throughout these islands of the
British Archipaslago the Irish loyalist and
patriot must perforce note rather shamefacedly
burning words like these dropped from the lips of
the Earl of ELLENBOROUGU :—" I rejoice in the
existence of this force, and I rejoice also in the re-
viral of that ancient spirit which prevailed in distant
times throughout this country." It must be some-

what distressing for the county gent!emen of Ire-

land, again, for example, to feel that they have no

right or capaci:,y to apply to themselves those other

words of Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S, in which, ad-

dressing himself to the Squirearchy of England

especially, he said :—" The country gentlemen are

now at the head of the movement, as they were
and as they should be, and the men in the ranks
know these gentlemen not only as their officers,
but also as individuals. Gentlemen, the Volunteer
force is a band of brothers which must succeed
under any difficulty to which it may be ex-
posed. I do hope that the gentlemen, and
every one of those who have assumed the
military dress, and have taken on themselves the
responsibility of commanding men in the field, will
adhere to their first determination, and endeavour
to make themselves capable of performing all the
duties of their position, and so retain the confidence
of all who serve under them. I feel that lam
speaking in the language of the constitution of this
country, and I assure you I speak the language dic-
tated by the feeling of every gentleman engaged in
this movement, when I say that, in all times and in
all circumstances, hut more especially in the circum-
stances which portend danger, the proper position
of every gentleman is in the front of the battle.
You understand, therefore, what your mission is as
Volunteers. It is so to perfect yourself in discipline
as to be able to throw an impenetrable veil of fire
before the movements of the regular troops
by whom you are supported, to enable them,
by acting with the decisive bayonet, the
favourite weapon of your country, on the ranks
of the enemy, to obtain the victory." With all
of which the country gentlemen of Ireland—as yet
at least—have nothing whatever to do. To them,
even now at this eleventh hour of the Volunteer
movement, cannot in any way be applied those feli-
citations offered by the noble earl to his sympa-
thetic hearers in Gloucestershire—" Gentlemen, I
congratulate you on your adoption of the military
profession;" Lord ELLENBOROUGII adding, in lan-
guage of somewhat extravagant hyperbole, " It is
the first of all professions. The first profession, I
have always considered, is that of the soldier, and
the first of all rewards is military honour." What-
ever value, however, may be placed upon military
honour in the abstract, there cannot at least be any
doubt whatever as to the glory inevitably accruing
from the faithful discharge of the first duties of
civism. Those duties, that glory, now appealing
trumpet-tongued to the people of Ireland—impera-
tively call for the speedy enrolment there in real
earnest of corps after corps of Celtic riflemen.

The Revenue Returns which we publish to-day
conform so closely to the particulars which we gave
yesterday, and the explanations offered of the fall-
ing off on the quarter and on the year are so iden-
tical with our own that it is needless to repeat our
former observations. The most gratifying fact in
them is the increase on the Customs ; though that
increase is not large, yet under the actual circum-
stances, and after such considerable reductions of
duties, it is very gratifying to find that the Re-
venue has not lost what the country has gained.
It is, of course, a last testimony to the merits of
that free trade which our enlightened republican
brethren across the Atlantic are so slow to learn.
Increase from the Post-office is also always a grati-
fying fact. It is a testimony to the increasing
intercourse between. the separated members of
families as well as to the commercial activity of the
country.

The Earl and Countess Spencer are expected
to arrive at Spencer House, St. James's, to-morrow, from
Althorpe Hall, Northamptonshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Clifden leave Lord
Taunton's seat, Stoke Park, near Windsor, at the end of
the week, for Gowran Castle, the noble Viscount's seat in
the county Kilkenny.
Mr. Edwards, Governor of Labuan, had an inter-
view with the Duke of Newcastle yesterclqy, at the Colonial-
office.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office from the governors of the West India
Islands, the North American provinces, British Columbia,
and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands,
Viscount Falmouth arrived in town yesterday
from Mereworth Castle, Kent, on his way to Newmarket,
Sir Richard Levinge, M.P., and Mr. Levinge
have arrived at the Lord Warden Hotel, Dover, from the
Continent.

Viscount Palmerston, M.P., has consented to dis-
tribute the certificates to the successful candidates in the
late Oxford local examination, at a public meeting which
is to be held at the Carlton Arms, Southampton, on Friday,
Oct. 11. The chair will be taken at three o'clock on that
day by the mayor of Southampton.
CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO IN FRANCE.—The
consumption of snuff and tobacco has increased so consi-
derably of late years in France that the Government has
found it necessary to increase the number of its manufac-
tories. It is proposed to create an additional Imperial
establishment at Dijon. The choice of that town is ex-
plained by its proximity to the newly-annexed province of
Savoy, where tobacco is cultivated on a largo scale. There
are at present 10 Imperial tobacco manufactories, directed
by graduates of the Polytechnic School. They employ
not less than 8,000 operatives during the entire year. The
two largest manufactories are those of Paris and Lille; the
others are established at Bordeaux, Havre, Marseilles,
Morlaix, Strasburg, Lyons, Tonneins, and Toulouse.
MR. WoODIN AT BRIGHTON.—A crowded room,
a room overflowing, money turned from the doors before
the commencement of the entertainment—this was the sort
of reception afforded to the great favourite, Mr. W. S.
Woodin, at the Pavilion, on his re-appearance after an
absence of two years, and en the occasion of his opening
his new entertainment, " The Cabinet of Curiosities," the
success of which in London has been unprecedented in the
annals of public entertainments. Mr. Woodin is a well-
known caterer for the amusement of the public, and during
the time he has been before the public he has met with a
vast and almost unparalleled success—a success, however,
due to his own exertions and the efficiency of his catering.
His " Carpet Bag," " Olio of Oddities," and other enter-
tainments—great successes during their time—have passed
away, and now we have presented to us an entirely new
entertainment, likely to-rival—and deservedly so—either of
its predecessors. To all lovers of a hearty laugh, to all
admirers of really wonderful talent, we say pay Woodin a
visit while he is at the Pavilion. This will be bat for a
brief season; at present he is there every evening, except
Saturday, at eight, and on Saturday afternoon at three.—

Brighton Gazette,
ABOLITION OF ANOTHER ANCIENT INSTITUTION.
—On Saturday expired the Annoyance Juries of Westmin-
ster, which were instituted as far back as the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, but whioh were abolished by an Act of last ses-
sion. The Dean and Court of Burgesses are now to appoint
inspectors to act in the place of householder, who were
wont to parade the streets and inspect the weights and
measures of the shopkeepers. The Act provides that
" every person who shall abuse or insult any such inspector
when in the execution of his office, or shall in any way ob-

struct the execution of the said office, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding 405."

THE LADY OF KUPOORTHULLA.—Among the
Sikh nobles who. at the outset of the mutiny, staked their
heads on the British side, was the Raj ah of Kupoorthulla.
He was not a very great man, but he had influence, and no
Englishman could have risked his status, purse, and person
with more hearty and unquestioning loyalty. He helped to
guard the Northern Delhi road, then the key of our posi-
tion, and when order had been restored, the Governor-
General, casting aside the old policy of meagre rewards,
raised him by a single gift of land to the wealth of a great
English noble. The rajah married an East Indian girl,
'became, under her influence, a Christian, and established a
mission on his own estates. Sweeping away at a stroke the
prejudices of a thousand years, he introduced his wife into
society, and allowed her to appear in public, and the ME-

cials, for once heartily cordial to a native, threw aside pre-
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Indices as rooted as his own, and recommended that the

rajah should receive, officially, precedence in Oude. The
Governor-General consented. and at the apex of the new
social system of Oude stands a native Christian noble, and

the only woman in India for who the guards turn out in

;he British provinces is the Christian " Lady of Kupoor-

hull a."—Spectator.

THE MURDER AT WESTMINSTER.—Proceedings
are being taken, by petition to the Secretary of State, to

procure a remission of the sentence of death recorded against
the convict William Maloney, for the murder of his wife in

Leg-court, Westminster, and the grounds assigned by Mr.
Bury Hutchinson, his solicitor, for respiting the accused

are becau.e the indirect evidence produced on the part of tho
Crown rather tended to corroborate the declaration made by
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Maloney, that the deceased stabbed herself, than that he, as

put forward by the prosecution, inflicted the wound, as ap-
peared by the evidence of Dr. Payne, the only medical wit-
ness on the part of the Crown. Secondly, because the direct
evidence depended upon the credit to be given to the witness
Saunders, whose testimony before the coroner, the magis-
trate, and the Central Criminal Court, is disproved by re -
liable evidence in many most material points; and thirdly,
because the jury stated at his trial that Maloney had no in-
tention to murder his wife.