The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

thirstiness. Can the deliberate murder of ROBERT
BLUM ever be forgotten ? When the dastardly
Court had fled from Vienna in terror, he was one
of those who saved the capital from anarchy, and
aided in the perilous task of government. Con-
scious-of perfect innocence, he remained in Vienna
when. the Court was brought back by the bayonets
of its soldiery. He was seized, underwent the
mockery of a trial before men who had fore-
doomed his death—and when his friends inquired
for him, they found only the mutilated corpse of
one of the bast and noblest beings ever intended
by PROVIDENCE for the teaching an enlightenment
of his fellows. •

How did Austria act in her Polish pro-
vinces ? She incited the peasants her craft
,had kept in brutal ignorance to devastate the
country and murder the nobles and proprie-
tors. What did she do in Hungary ? First,
hordes of savage Croats were directed against the
patriots, and then Russia was entreated to send
her aid for their extermination. What were her
deeds in Italy ? Such as the whole eivilised4
world heard of with horror. Who can forget that
despatch of HATNAII, in which he boasted of
having driven the inhabitants of Brescia, men,
women, and children, into one quarter ,of the
town, which was then set on fire, while his mur-
derous soldiery kept guard around the flaming
circle, and hailed with shouts the fall d the blaz-
ing churches in which these victims of unpatalleled
barbarity were crushed or burnt to death, while
their prayers and shrieks rose round the, altars
of their worship. We should despair
of the vigilance of PROVIDENCE, if we
believed that such crimes would pass un-
punished, or if we imagined that the monstrous
Government which directed thorn would long I,
permitted to encumber the earth.

Great efforts have been made to mislead our
people as to the character of the War. It shall
not be our fault if they are not made to thoroughly
comprehend it. Austria, to whom our statesmen
paid such sickening and slavish submission—
Austria is the original cause of the predominance
of Russia, and has really, though not directly,
encouraged that Power to attempt the conquest
of Turkey. The overgrown, ill• assorted frame of
the Austrian Empire has been kept together under
an impression that it would oppose an effectual
barrier to Russian aggression. The hollowness
of this idea was demonstrated when the Court
of Vienna solicited the assistance of Russian
armies to trample down freedom in Hun-
gary. From that time the pretensions of Russia
rose. She saw that she could afford to despise
Austria ; that this boasted empire must irresist-
ably be her jackal, and it is the jackal's part that
Austria has played since the war with Russia
began. She has growled before, sometimes to
deceive the Allies with pretences of negotiation—
sometimes to dash at the prey which the lion was
unable to hold—sometimes to cover his advance
or retreat, and allow him time to gather health
and strength for a spring at his hunters. How
were the Russian forces collected for the attack at
Inkerman, but by the connivance of Austria
occupying the Principalities, that the Russian
forces, safe from attack in that direction, might
be marched to the Crimea ? Where do the enor-
mous Russian reinforcements come from now, but
from the corps on the Austrian frontier, where
they have been concentrated to favour the delu-
sion that Austria was inclined to assume an inde-
pendent position ?
Our policy, at the present time, is equally
shameful and dangerous. Our Government is
pursuing that middle course—that gentle avoid-
ance of extremes which, in times of crisis, degrades
a great country, and immeasurably increases all
its difficulties. We are raising a German legion
and an Italian legion, and we talk of raising a
Polish legion. As yet, we have succeeded to the
extent of gaining three or four thousand
men. The Governments of the countries
from which these recruits are drawn watch
our proceedings with the strongest interest. They
throw every impediment in our way. In a quiet
manner, the quiet manner of a sneak and pol-
troon, we are doing all we can to excite their
animosity ; and yet knowing this—knowing that
it is merely a question of time, when some cause
of quarrel will explode between those Govern-
ments and ourselves, we permit them to make a
source of profit of the War, to gather up all its
spoils, while we receive all the losses, and make
all the sacrifices. Austria is waiting her oppor-
tunity. As surely as we write the words, will
she take part against us when she perceives in
our state any sign of exhaustion. Let our
people get wearied of the war, or let our
arms sustain any serious reverse, and Aus-
tria will be upon us. Stealthily perfidious as
she has ever been, she is even now sharpening
her fangs and talons for the fray.
What do these movements of her troops on the
Italian frontier mean ? They are not without an
object. She knows she is not safe in that direc-
tion. The heroic struggles of the Milanese and
the Venetians are remembered by her, and keep
alive her unslaked thirst of vengeance. Perhaps
she expects a rising. Perhaps she is at this mo-
ment getting up a fictitious plot by her agents to
afford her just that amount of pretence she re-
quires for once more letting loose her brutal sol-
diery, and for making such dire havoc in the
Italian provinces as to render impossible a pa-
triotic effort for years to come.

We appeal to the people. We have no hope
but in them. Heretofore their perceptions have
been quick—their instincts keen and right. If
they will not move now—if they behold with in-
difference our Government exciting the hate of
the German Powers, while positively nourishing
their strength—then, all-depressing as the convic-
tion is, all-disastrous as we know the consequences
must be, we must submit to make the first great
step in the War to national decline. Affairs are
rapidly verging to that state when we must have,
not only Poland, and Hungary, and Italy, but also
Germany with us or against us. While all the
resources of those countries are at the disposal
of Governments which detest us, it is merely a
a question of time when they will be employed
to our injury. Give liberty to those noble coun-
tries and they are at once our Allies. Pull down
the same
that intolerable nuisance, the Austrian empire,
strong only to persecustemtaKnsdolitE
oppress
now as in the days of rE

" Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward,
Thou little vaiiant, great in
And Europe will rise invigorated, because free,
and the War will be brought to a speedy and
most glorious close.
Time presses—the necessity for action is urgent.
Let not the people think that they can trust to
their Government. We have no Government as
regards the great principles involved in this war,
and the large views with which it should be re-
garded. The Government looks on it as a kind
of international duel, which must be conducted
with all due forms, and be concluded when punc-
tilios of honour have been arranged. Will the
People consent to this view ? They are, owing to
the
Peculiarstate of parties, and the discredit
in to
which the Ministry has fallen, at this advent
all-powerful.
They can choose which part they
x ple,e. OA, is brave and generous, the other