The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-10 00:00:00

Friederichsteot to the enemy without a blow must have 1 sorters; but we ask, and so will all other men ask,
been ignorant of the military advantages of the whether the, ztipulations of the convention could not
marsh districts, and must have believed that it have been carried into effect without bunting down,
is actually what it appeals to be on the ma,p,—all burning out, and destroying these unhappy fugitives,
flat and even surface. What the reconquest of the mershes f or deserters, like wild beast ? Of the facts there can
vedi cost us we have ;low provea in two at
be no doubt ; and these facts, it will •be admitted,
to store,: a single ton, with no other result titan the loss
surpass in
:.heart- rleeding barbarity all that we have
of many lives ou both sides, nod re,lueieg at least huh
ever read or in moeern days.
:town itself to a heap of ashes and ruins. The theta--
semis of cannon we have fired at the works have most of
them sunk harmless in the soft clay dykes, withcut m.k-
jog
breaches in them; while the slippery surface of the
steep banks and walls made the ascent of the storming
parties, under the heavy fire of the enemy, excessively
difficult and on some points impossible; and scarcely was
one wall gained before another wide ditch filled with
water was discovered behind it, over which it was not
easy to throw a L-ridoe when the enemy's carillon were
e*pecially pointed, so as to destroy every work of the
kind. Whoever duty weighs these difficultiee will not
he surprised that the operations of our lett svuig before
Friederielistadt have not been attended with more bril-
liant results, and that the repeated attempts to storm
such a place in the face of a garrison of four battalions
have not suceeded.
" Yet in spite of all those obstacles our soldiers did at
one point penetrate into the town, but could not advance
far. From the witidewe of the houses they were re-
ceived by a heavy fire of musketry ; burning beams and
rafters were hurled down upon them; in the market-
place a grim blockhouse, threats nine* destruction it
they proceeded, stood before them; barricades in the
streets stopped their way ; they were compelled to
rE tire frim a piece that promised to be for all a den
o- death, especially as even some of the inner works
had t e-n undermined by the enemy and were blown
op Waring the confltet. It was an obstinate and
bloody struggle, and the enemy as well As ourowu troops
fought with unusual determination. The 6rh battalion,
which formed the principal storming party, hae suffered
the most; all the commissioned officers were killed or
wounded in the attack. When ordered to advance the
battalion placed its band in the middle of the column arid
moved forward to the music of the national air, Schles-
wig-Holstein, Meer-umschlungen. -The storm of the
burning town by night was an awful spectacle. The
place has suffered immense damage; the Catholic and
the Reformed churches are both burned down.
" The enemy is drawing reinforcements from Husam,
as well as fresh supplies of ammunition."

THE HAT.

Among the minor matters to which the attention
of reformers needs directing are, dress and costume.
Science and art have invaded the palace, the cottage,
the workshop, the prison ; concerning themselves
with the flesh we eat, the air we breathe, the water
ec a drink, the houses we dwell in, the streets along
which we walk ; it is high time they should deign to
look at the clothes we wear. Possibly more than
one article of our costume, ugly and expensive as it
is, from hat to boot, will meet with condemnation
in the great gathering of the coming year. Look,
for example, at the European hat. Grim, stiff,
unsightly, uncomfortable ; it has not a redeeming
feature. Yet from year to year we go on wearing
and even capricious fashion refuses to meddle with
this mode. We owe the hat to France, whose pro-
verbial good taste in dress is certainly here, as, in-
deed, in male dress generally, at fault. The native
English hat, whether worn soberly as in the Com-
monwealth time, or with the dancing plume of the
Restoration, was characteristic and useful. We never
turn over the prints of those times without envying
our fathers the ease of their soft and shady coverings.
Oars are neither. While they brand the temples with
red and painful line:, they expose the face to both wind
and rain. Our neighbours across the Channel, a e
see, propose to send over to the Great Exhibition a
variety of new ideas in the way of male head-dress—
perhaps this may lead to a revolution in English hats.
The turban is at least picturesque—the Greek cap is
gorgeous—the old German slouch hat is comfortable
—the helmet affords protection—every covering that
we remember has some good quality in its form ex-
cept the section of funnels now worn in Europe,
under the influence of Paris. The English hatters
had better be wise in time, and set their wits at work
to invent something that will meet the existing dis-
satisfaction with the produce of their art. We see
that anti:diat societies are springing up in England.
' The monarchy of the stiff hat is visibly drawing
towards its close.—Athenceurn.

ITALY.

The Risorgimento of Turin of the sth announces
that the Piedmontese Government has concluded the
new loan of 6,000,000 of Five- per Cent. Rentes with
the house of Rothschild, at 85 percent.
We learn from the Concordia of Turin of the sth,
that the sums hitherto collected for Brescia amount
to 350,00 a, and are continually increasing. Sub-
scriptions have of late been opened for the same
purpose at Florence, Pisa, and other Tuscan towns.
The Sferza of Brescia, of the Ise, announces a new
disaster that has befallen that province, and especially
those parts of it which had escaped the ravages of the
late inundation. The vines of Rovato, Cazzago, Coc-
caglio, and other places, which have no other means
of support but the product cf their vineyards, have
been completely devastated by a violent hailstorm.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

SLX O'CLOCK.