The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1855.

Although our attention may, for the most part,
be engrossed by this European struggle with
Russia.--let us not forget Poland, let us not forget
Hungary. Comparatively speaking, it matters
nothing that Hungary and Poland are little better
than the Shibboleths of Diplomacy. Neither is
it anything seriously to the point, as to the hope
of ultimate liberty to the Poles and' Hungarians,
that the two most conspicuous among our living
English statesmen have very recently scouted the
notion of the revival of those oppressed but not
extinguished nationalities. True, that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL only the other day intimated it as his
opinion that the restoration of Poland was nothing
more than an idle day-dream—a brilliant impossi-
bility—the merest fata morgana conjured up by a
distorted credulity on a distempered imagination.
True, that Lord PALMERSTON avowed his earnest
desire that he should never witness the day when
the Austrian EMPEROR should be deprived of his
kingly authority over the Hungarians. We count
these declarations made by noble lords from be-
fore the Treasury Bench in the House of Commons
as, comparatively speaking, of no intrinsic value
whatsoever. They are the mere servile babblings
of the advocates and mouthpieces of an obsolete
system of diplomatic hocuspocus and political
legerdemain. We count them, we repeat, as
nothing. Hungary and Poland—we knew as much
long since—have to look elsewhere for their future
than to the present Prime Minister of England
and his sagacious colleague, the Colonial Secretary.
We cannot forget so very easily how it came tc
pass some years since, when their positions were
reversed, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL was Premier,
and Viscount PALMERSTON Secretary of State—
they connived at the suppression by foreign army
of the patriotic Junta of Oporto, at the re-estab-
lishment by foreign aid of the misrule of MARIA
DA GLORIA. and her German consort, at the over-
throw from without of the internal triumpl,
achieved by Saldanah, at the renewal by constitu-
tional England of the unconstitutional mal-admi
nistration of the Portuguese Government. NV,
should as soon expect to see the Noble Loid the
Member for the City of London, and the Noble
Lord the Member for the borough of Tiverton,
expiating their conduct towards Portugal by the
repudiation of their policy, in reference to that
country in 1847, as we should seriously look to
them for the encouragement (even by a passing
word) of the noble and patriotic, and, let us add,
the sacred and glorious, aspirations still cherished
by the Poles and Hungarians. No, the Poles
and Hungarians must turn elsewhere than to the
Cabinets of Europe for any such encouragement.
They must look for that to others, rather than to
to the effete oracles of a grey-grown diplomacy.
They must look to GOD. They must look, under
GOD, to themselves. They must look to the jus-
tice of their cause, to the strength of their arms ;
above all, to the fitness of the first opportunity !
For Hungary we have but small solicitude—
remembering that she at least possseses a hero
worthy of her glorious cause, a chief among men,
the very incarnation of her unconquerable love of
independence. So long as Kossunr lives there is
visible hope for Hungary. And when that hope
again begins to be realised for Hungary--7thai
time there will be no mistake about her complete
and permanent emancipation. Has not KossuTii
himself declared as much in words, and with a

manner sufficiently impressive ? Did he not pro-
claim to the world in one of his many memorable
t ransatlantic speeches--in his notable answer t )
the Address of the Baltimore Delegation—"l have
had all in my own hands once, and if I get the
same position again, I WILL ACT'" Did he not
preface that declaration by acknowledging
that
formerly he was nob master of the practice and
strategy of war,
and was thereby consequently
compelled "thus far" to give the cause
of his
hands ?—into hands such as
country into other
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those of the infamor, who delivered over
for a bribe the liberties of twelve millions into
the grasp of the Russian PASKIEWITCH. Adding
.—the avowal has some importance surely, as fall-
ing from the lips of the once irresponsible Dicta-
tor of the Magyars " Since I have been in exilo
I have endeavoured to improve my intellect from
the movements of the past, and to prepare myself
for the future, and I 'rely en my people, whose;
osufidence in me is zest shaken by my misfortunes,