The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-15 00:00:00

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN
HUNGARY.

A letter from Pesth of the 10th, in the Constitu-
tionnet, says :—" A striking manifestation on the
part of the principal inhabitants of the cities of
Buda and Pesth took place yesterday evening, in•
tended as a reply to the announcement of the late
amnesty granted by the Emperor. At about eight
o'clock upwards of four thousand citizens, com-
pletely beyond the reach of official influence, and
perfectly independent from their social position,
went in a body, with torches, to the Imperial
Palace of Buda to offer their homage to their
Majesties. The cortege, marching eight abreast,
all dressed in black dress coats, and white
cravats, was preceded by a body of 120
chorus singers, and laccolnpanied at inter-
vals by military bands, A considerable crowd
were assembled, and joined their acclamations to
those of the proce,sion. Tho greatest order pre
vailed without any intervention on the part of the
police. In a few minutes after the arrival of the
head of the body on the open place in front of the
palace, the Emperor and Empress made their ap-
pearance on the balcony. On seeing them, the
chorus singers, accompanied by the three military
bands, struck up the imperial hymn, the torches were
waved, and the air resounded with the Ellyen,' or
Hungarian vivat. The leading characteristic of this
demonstration was the loyal and sincere sentiment
which inspired the idea. Persons well established,
occupying a good social position, and possess-
ing a certain fortune, were alone admitted to
take part. The cortege thus assembled consisted of
39 municipal councilors, 149 unpaid officials of
communes, 19 physicians, and upwards of 3,000
persons belonging to different liberal professions,
manufacturers, tradesmen, &c. The fortune p0.,-
sess.ed by this body amounted together to more
than 100 of francs. As a further proof of
the great change which has taken place in public
opinion, it may be weutioned that in the morning
of the same day the Archduke Albeit, Governor-
General of Hungary, received a deputation of the
principal advocates of Pesth, who solicited the fa-
vour of being admitted to pay their respects
to the Empciror. In order to comprehend the

impottance of this fact, it must be mentioned the. 1
the lawyers of Pesth have hitherto been a,c'tia.ted
by a systematic feeling of oppoiidon, which in the
Diet was carried to the gre ,t,st pos,ible length.
Their change of manner tow,itd.s the sovereign is
the-efore very significant. The governmental idea
of Francis Joseph is apparent in the text of the
decree of amnesty. Faithful to the system of
policy which he has adopted since his accession to
the throne, he will not deviate fi °in the line of
unity which. he con,iders as tieces,ary to the moral
grandeur and the material prosperity of the
empire."

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, 10 P. M.

The United States' mail sielmship Fulton, Capt.
Wot`on, has arrived off Cowes, with advices from
New York to the 2d inst., being two days later.
She brings 160 passengers (of whom .40 are fur
Southampton), $lll,OOO in specie, and 1,983 bags
of wheat. May 13, at 6 p.m., spoke the Bremen
bark Chyledra, and a Hamburg brig displaying a
white signal, with No. 125 in the centre.
The Fulton proceeded on to Havre after disem-
barking mails and passengers for Southampton.
The Royal Mail steamer Africa, from Liverpool,
arrived at New York on the afternoon of the Ist
inst.

The majority of the Select Committee of the
Senate of Pennsylvania on the resolutions in the
Dred Scott case had made a lengthy and able
report, accompanied by resolutions declaring that
the opinion of the Supreme Court euounced prin-
ciples in palpable opposition to the judicial and
legislative history of the Union, and in violation of
the plain provisions- of the constitution of the
United States ; that the opinion, except on the
,question of jurisdiction, being delivered in a case
over which *the Court admitted it had no jurisdic-
tion, may be justly regarded as obiter dicta and in-
operative as law ; tint the five Judges who concur-
red in the same opinion made a wanton attack on
the sovereignty of the Free Stat,-s and an impotent
attempt to nullify the established laws of the coun-
try, and by extrajudicial action, caused unneces-
sary excitement in the public mind in regard to the
subject of slavery, and had thereby forfeited the
confidence and respect due to their exalted station.
At Kansas a Pro-Slavery Convention to nomi-
nate a candidate for delegate to Congress is to be
hell on July 2. The Free State men resolutely
,refused to place their names upon the census
leaving to their opponents the work of preparing
the State C, nvitution.
The It ew York Herald of the 2d says :
" We underhtand that Charles Carpenter, the princi-
pal defendant in the case of the alleged frauds on the
Northern Railroad of France, and who, in the course
of the application for bis extradition, Suddenly pleaded
guilty, leaves New York this day in the steamer Ful-
ton, accompanied by Mr. Louis de Angelis, one of
the United States Marshal's depnties. What disposi-
tion the French authorities will make of bim after
nis submission remains t,, be seen."
Mr. Reed, the newly-appointed Minister to
China, lett Philadelphia on the Ist for Washington,
for final instructions preparatory to bis departure
in the steam-frigate Minnesota for the scene of his
future labours.
The New York stock market on the Ist was very
much unsettled. At the first board the tendency
was downward for some of the leading speculative
railroad stocks. A smaller amount of business Oen
usual was transacted. Illinois Central Bonds de-

dined per cent. ; Michigan Southern, ; Haar-
lem, ; Galena and Chicago, ; Nicaragua Tran-
sit advanced per cent. ; Chicago and Rock
Island, 1; Milwaukle and Mis=issippi, f. The
market was not at all active. In the absence of the
regular street buyers the market would. be dull
enough. At the second board prices generally
were a little better. Erie advanced A per cent.,
Chicago and Rock Island t ; there was no change
in Michigan, Southern, Cleveland, and Toledo.
There was a sale of Cleveland and Toledo at 66i
per cent., sellers, 60 days, which was 2i per cent.
under the cash price. Tura was an active move-
ment in Nicaragua Transit stock. The market
looked as though it would soon settle down into a
very inactive state, and that in the absence of ope-
rations for a rise prices would gradually fall off,
and chronic dullness prevail.
The sales of cotton at New York on the Ist em-

braced about 1,500 bales, chiefly before receipt of
the Africa's news, without change in prices. As
far as the effect of the news was developed it exer-
cised no influence on the market.
Flour was less active, with moderate transactions
at unchanged prices. Wheat was firm for good to
prime qualities, which were scarce. Sales of choice
southern white were reported at $1 82c., and some
small lots of common red Western at $1 40ic. to
$1 45c.
Corn was firmer, with sales of Western mixed at
86c., and southern yellow at 79c. Pork was firmer.
Sugars were firm and active ; the sales embraced
about 1,000 to 1,100 hhds., 1,800 boxes, 16,000
bags of Manilla, 6,000 bags of Siam, and 800 hhds.
of Molado.
Coffee was quiet but firm.
Freights continued dull, and engagements mode-
rate.

PHILADELPHIA, MAY 1.

Stocks steady. Pennsylvania Fives, 85 ; Read-
ing Railway, 40 ; Morris Cana!, 15k ; Long
Island Railroad, 12i ; Pennsylvania Railroad, 49.
CHARLESTON, MAY 1.
Cotton firm. Sales to-day, 1,900 bales. Prices
in favour of sellers.

OSWEGO, MAY 1.

The flour and grain receipts at this port since
the opening of the navigation to May 1 are 30,300
barrels of flour, 197,200 bushels of wheat, 10,600
bushels of rye, and 5,000 bushels of kirley.
LOUISVILLE, MAY 1.
The stock of pork is 15,000 barrels. At the same
time last year it was 51,000.

LES BOUFFES PABISIENS.

PARIS, Max 12.

As the company of Les Bouffes are about to visit
London, thanks to the enterprise of Mr. Mitchell,
it may not be uniuteresting to record the produc-
tion of another of those miniature musical compo-
sitions which are born in the Passage Choiseul so
frequently that a very large harmonious family
already enliven Paris with their merry, light, and
agreeable melodies. This threatre was originally
intended to encourage unknown singers and cora-
po.ers ; and so successful has the establishment
proved, that whilst bringing forward unrecognised
talent, it has continued to attract a public which,
loving music, are pleased to see light dramas plen-
tifully interspersed with songs, duet 4, and trios—
generally, however, wedded to the burlesque. The
new trifle in question is called "L'Opera aux
Fenetres," the words by M. ',don Halevy, and the
music by M. Gastinel. The story is suggested
by a fantaisie of Kotzebue's. The stage discovers
a young lady at a cottage window, Louise
(Madame Delmont), who soon lets us know
that she is expecting " a party " by a pleasing
song. Of course 21,91 amoureux is the expected
one in question. He arrives a litt9e aft r time,
which, however, is rather a mtn-izal necessity than
any want of ankety on his part. The author, I
suppose, wanted the lady to have the first song.
The lover makes his appearance, and, after a dui t,
proposes that the young lady should run away with
him, as the most easy way of getting over difficul-
ties likely to be raised by her guardian. But Miss
Louise has been too well brought up to commit
such a folly, and she tells the somewhat too hasty
lover as much ,in that chiave di soprano which
French composers very often turn into a " key of
screams," to suit the thin shrill voices of French
ladies. The dialogue of the lovers is overheard by
a lodger, who makes his appearance at another
window. The lover interrogates the young wan
who has thus suddenly intruded, and, in plain
English, says, " Who are you ? what are you ?"
"Je ne sais trop ce que je sais," replies the young
man ".Imais je devine ce que je puis etre."
" Qum done 1"
"Le protecteur de vos affections. '
,It ends in the lodger discovering himself as M.
Frantz, a composer of music, and, wore still, a
poet. Trios follow as natural as flowers appear in
summer. The guardian of the young lady, of
course a man of certain age, eventually appears at.
a third window—ergo a quartet. Then, after a cer-
tain amount of pleasing music has been heard,
friend Frantz gets the old guaadian out of the
house, and the lovers have time to say all sorts cf
pretty thhigs to each other, which have been said
before, and which we maycalculate will continue to
be expressed with slight obligato variations tor many
a day to come. Eventually M. Frantz brings the
old guardian back, having contrived to duck him
first in a pond. The old gentleman is in bad luck
'hat evening, for the lover diving his absence, as
well as making love to the lady, contrives to get
hold of some papers which prove the guardian
guilty of misapplying the fort une of his fair charge.
Threatened with exposure, the old man consents to
the marriage, and the curtain falls to the satisfac-
tion of all, including the audience. This latter
musical drama occupies about an hour, and, like
most of the creations of the Bouffes, is a very at-
ractive trifle.

THUNDERSTORM. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—A heavy
thunderstorm took place this afternoon. About three
o'clock the atmosphere became quite overcast, and
About half an hour afterwards a loud thunderclap was
heard, accompanied by lightning and heavy rain. The
storm lasted over two hours, but we have not heard of
any damage done to life or property.