The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

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which he proceeded to the mess-room of the Royal
Engineers, where he partook of luncheon. Before
proceeding to the lines, on which the troops were
assembled, waiting his arrival, his Royal Highness
visited the fleldworks of the Royal Engineers, and
at the same time paid a visit to the convict esta-
blishment at St. Mary's, where the Duke and the
other distinguished officers were received by Capt.
Powell and the staff of that establishment. Scarcely '
any traces of the injuries inflicted in the interior of
the prison by the convicts during the late mutiny
'are now to be perceived, and the whole of the pri-
soners, upwards of 1,000 in number, now maintain
the utmost decorum and order. A body of troops
are always on duty within the prison, both by day
and night. On leaving the convict prison the Duke
of Cambridge inspected that part of the shore of the
river which will shortly be enclosed, in order to
carry out the contemplated extension of Chatham
Dockyard ; after which he proceeded to the lines,
where the entire force of the garrison was drawn up
to receive him. The troops on the ground included
the companies of the amalgamated corps of Royal
and Indian Engineers, now at head-quarters ; three
battalions of the troops of the Line, consisting of
the depots of the Ist battalion of the 4th King's
Own, Ist battalion of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, Ist
battalion of the 19th, Ist battalion of the 23d Royal
Welsh Fusiliers, Ist battalion of the 24th, 31st,
35th, 43d (Light Infantry), 51st (Light Infantry),
52d (Light Infantry), 73d, 75th, 81st, 83d, 91st, and
94th Regiments, and the division of Royal Marines
Light Infantiy, the whole numbering nearly 200
officers and about 5,000 bayonets. On the arrival
of his Royal Highness he was received by the troops
with a general salute, the band playing the Na,
tional Anthem. The wind at this time was blow-
ing a perfect hurricane, and continued to do so dat-
ing the whole time the troops Were under review,
the extensive open plateau which forms Chatham
lines experiencing the full force of the gale, which
at times was terrific. The howling of the wind
almost" prevented the orders given to the troops
reaching the men, and this sadly interfered with
the military operations intended to be carried out.
After his. Royal Highness had:inspected the front
and rear of the battalions the columns opened
out and marched past in quick time, the high
wind making marching in slow time out of the
question. The troops then performed the
same movement in quarter-distance column,
after which they were formed into gene-
ral line on the centre battalion, and skirmishers
thrown out to repel a supposed attacking party in
the direction of New Brompton. The main body
then advanced, on which the skirmishers retired,
when the whole line poured in several volleys.
The body then made an echelon movement, and
executed a variety of other manoeuvres, all of which
were performed with steadiness and precision. At
the close of the review, which was not extended in
consequence of the high wind blowing, his Royal
Highness assembled the principal officers, but, as
the hurricane would not allow a word he uttered to
be heard, he contented himself by expressing to
Major-General Eyre his entire satisfaction at the
efficient state in which he found the garrison and
the troops under his command. His Royal High-
ness then ordered the troops to be marched off the
ground, and afterwards proceeded to inspect the
Mounted Royal Engineer Train, which was drawn
up at the end of the lines, under the command of
Capt. Duff, R.E. The waggons, containing the
Blanshard pontoons, cheeses, and gear, each drawn
by six horses, as well as the ambulance waggons,
`were also on the ground, all of which his Royal
Highness inspected. After visiting the officers'
,mess-room at Chatham Barracks, and transacting
!some business with Major-General Eyre, his Royal
;Highness quitted the garrison under a second
;salute from the Cornwallis Battery, and proceeded
Ito London.
In consequence of the large number of soldiers
who have recently- committed crimes with the
avowed object of being released from the service, a.
general order from his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief has been received at Wool-
wich, to the effect that military prisoners who may
be convicted and sentenced to imprisonment or
penal servitude will not be discharged from their
regiment, but at the expiration of their punish-
ment will be required to serve the remainder of the.
Ferro for which they enlisted.

RUNGAPY.

Jotter froin Pesth, dated Feb. 26, says :
Our political sly is otereaSt. The state of siege
at Fiume, which forebodes no good to peaceful con-
stitntional development in Hungary, brings us, on
the other side, into a most undesirable collision
with Croatia. Fiume, the seaport ou the Adriatic,
has an Italian population, which however clings to
Hungary, and has a decided antipathy against
Croatia. Before the invasion of Sellarthich the town
and district had always a separate Hungarian go•
vernor, but in 1848 the Ban of Croatia occupied
Fiume and annexed it to Croatia. After the
diploma of the 20th of October, the inhabitants,
freed from Austrian bureaucratic oppression, re-
membered their ancient allegiance to Hungary, and
claimed the re-annexation thereto, by an address to
the crown and a deputation to Vienna. Their
wishes were not attended to. On the contrary, a
new county was formed in order to swamp the
Italian population and Hungarian sympathies by
adding a strong Croatian population, formerly con-
stituting the separate district of Buccari, to the
district of Fiume. Serious disturbances were the
natural result of such a policy, which together with
the fear of a Garibaldian invasion induced the Ban
of Croatia, General Sokchevich, to proclaim martial
law. The county of Pesth remonstrated against
this violation of the law in an address to the Chan-
cellor of Hungary, and requested likewise that
Fiume should be re-united to Hungary, taken out
of the jurisdiction of the Ban of Croatia, and put
under the governorship of some distinguished Hun-
garian.'f. The Croatian county of Agram took this
address for the emanation of a hostile spirit of Hun-
gary against Croatia, declaring that Fiume, by her
geographical position, cannot but belong to Croatia.
The county resolved, therefore, to protest against
the state of siege by an address to the Ban, but
to cut off her amicable relations with the county
of Pesth. Thus we were again threatened with
rival claim which might easily embitter the feel-
ings and trouble the peace and alliance but lately
concluded between Hungary and Croatia. The
county of Agram seems to have felt how in-
opportune was the resolution against Pesth,
and tried to neutralise the bad effect by sending an
address to the Emperor in favour of a complete
amnesty for all the political prisoners and exiles.
This step is certainly significant enough, since there
are no Croatian exiles abroad, all the refugees being
Hungarians, and belonging to that party with whom
Croatia was at war 12 years ago. We cannot but
acknowledge the delicate feeling of the Croatians
which led them to such a noble resolution, and we
hope the Hungarians will reciprocate it by laying
less stress upon the question whether Fiume shall
belong to the crown of Hungary through. Croatia
or in a direct way. In fact, the Hungarians ought
to face the question of the different races in Hun-
gary boldly, and if they think that the irrepressible
Conflict with Austria draws near, they should try
to ally themselves with the Croatians, Serbs, and
Roumans, by the most extensive concessions, even
by yielding to their prejudices some points which
by historical right belong to Hungary. If, on the
other hand, the leaders of our movement believe
!that a reconciliation with Austria is possible, and
that the Hungarian ministers at Vienna possess
sufficient influence over the mind of the Emperor
Ito have all the laws of 1848 re-established, then
(they might insist upon all their old rights and
claims towards Croatia, the Serbs, and Roumans.
And let us not forget that, if the more recent laws
from the 17th century down to our days call Sla-
vonia and Croatia " partes adnexa.," the expression
of " regna socia," implying federation and state
rights, is not unknown to our more ancient laws.
Let us under the circumstances forget now for ever
the annexed parts, and let us examine all the claims
of Croatia as a federal kingdom, let us extend
these claims even to the Slavonians who scarcely
pretend to them, but let us be true friends with
the Croatians before the wiles of Vienna involve
us both in a new war. The tidings from Vienna
arc indeed ominous; we hear that the Chevalier
Schmerling prepares a new draft of a theoretical
constitution for the whole empire, as bungling and
centralising as Baron Bach's notorious stillborn
organisation, which was to surround the throne
of the Emperor with democratic institutions.
It is said that a central Diet is to supersede the
functions of the Hungarian Diet—that all the
questions of the taxes and duties, of income and
expenditure, of the post, telegraph, railways, means
of communication, commercial intercourse with
foreign countries, the public debt, and everything
concerning the army, arc reserved to the imperial
Parliament at Vienna, by which the Hungarian
Diet at Pesth or Buda would become a mockery
and delusion. Should this news prove true, then
the way of reconciliation is at once blocked up, We
cannot believe that any Hungarian Minister would
ever countersign such a draft, or that the Diet could
be induced to send a delegation to the central Par-
liament. Francis Joseph may once more rule
Hungary by the sword—he has done it for full 11
years—or he may govern the country constitu-
tionally by a responsible Ministry independent of
German Ministers, but Hungary cannot be ruled
by a Vienna Parliament. Any attempt to enforce
on the Hungarian municipalities the laws passed
at Vienna by Germans, Bohemians, and Galicians,
must lead to a revolution.

SPORTING' .12VT.ELLIGENCE.

NOTTINGHAM SPRING RACES—WEDNESDAY.
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1 -A most disagreeable case in the county of Abauj
in creases our apprehensions about the future. A
certain Zahar, an ex-soldier, tried there to excite the
peasants against the proprietors by telling them
the fable that the gentry desire to restore the old
feudal laws about serfage and villeinage, and that
all the old soldiers have got the order from Vienna
on a certain day to kill the great proprietors. Mr.
Ferdinandy, the district judge, at once gave the
order to arrest Zahar, but the ex-soldier fled to the
Imperial judge at Kashan, who not only refused to
surrender him, but signed a warrant for the arrest
of the district judge on the plea of treasonable deal-
ings against the Emperor. The county at once sent
a deputation to Baron Vay, the chancellor,who is still
at his country residence in the neighbourhood of
Kashan, to bring the case to his notice. Still more
important is the arrest of Col. Asboth, of the late
Hungarian army, who was seized and carried to
Bohemia without any legal proceedings whatever
by the military authorities, though the martial law
has not been published at Lugos, where the arrest
took place, and where military interference has not
even a formal excuse. Such are the signs Of the
time, still the municipalities do not despair, and are
now deeply engaged in the general elections. As
far as we can see there will be few contested seats,
and every member will pledge himself for the uncon-
ditional restoration of the laws of 1848. Since
Hungary seeks no conflict with Austria, the exiles
have little chance of being elected. The three
speeches from the throne at Paris, London, and
Turin have by their peaceful turn emboldened
Austria in her reactionary schemes ; we can there-
fore scarcely expect that the Emperor should con•
tin ue to yield to the legal claims of Hungary. Thus
there is but little hope that the Diet, convened for
the 2d of April, will do more than protest against
the illegalities of the Austrian rule before the face of
Europe, and be dissolved. If Francis Joseph really-
believes that he can be crowned with St. Stephen's
crown without the restoration of the law,he is sorely
mistaken. He may continue to be Emperor of
bankrupt Austria, but be cannot become King of
Hungary.

THE RAILWAY HOST.—In the middle of last year
the railways in operation in the United Kingdom had
127,450 persons in their employment, and the railways in
course of construction employed 53,923 more, making in all
181,373. On the railroads in operation there were 3,601
stations. There were 1,051 miles of railroad in course of
construction, and upon them were employed 7,381 artificers
and 42,126 " labowars ;" but the word " navvy" does not
seem to be admissible in these returns made to the Board
of Trade,