The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN,"'ILONDOIif, WEDNESDAY 1E WE XING, OCTOBER 29, 1861

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upon the acceptance of the Russian, the Austrian,
and `the Prussian Governments in regard to the
Kingdom of Greece. Let the attitude still pursued
by Imperial France in regard to Italy, be the one
exception " proving the rule," thelone flagrant ano-
maly, the one glaring inconsistency. Otherwise—
in reference to the treatment of Greece by the
Five Great Powers of Europe—now is the most
signal opportunity that has yet been afforded to
those dominant Powers for a conspicuous and collec-
tive demonstration by them of the feasibility of
carrying out upon a grand scale, and in a very
signal manner this humane and beneficent principle
of non-intervention.

Austria and her statesmen seem to have some
considerable power of fascination for English
statesmen. Not only a PALMERSTON and a RUS-
SELL, men of the old " balance of power" school,
but even a ROEBUCK was carried off under their
arm, and TEAR'EM himself, according to a very
faithful pictorial reporter, looked up to his captor
with inimitable blandness. The good people too,
themselves, of Southampton, seemed quite ready
to do honour to an Austrian magnate, employing
Mr. ROEBUCK and Mr. J. 0. LEVER, as their
speakers'-laureate, and now Lord PALMERSTON
himself takes his share in bestowing not English
honours, but honours in England, on the oppressor
of Hungary and Venetia.
We are not quite sure that it is not becoming
almost radical and vulgar to stand by the cause of
legality and constitutionalism in Hungary, and of
moral and national rights in Venetia. It is no
doubt very rude to mention them, when an Aus-
trian gentleman is present, and the courtly
burghers of Southampton at least knew better
than to ask Baron THIERRY to an enter-
tainment, and then even to hint at the delinquen-
cies of his Government. We rather think, however,
that the people of England generally will wonder
what makes the Southampton Englishmen so much
more attentive to Austrian magnates than they are
disposed to be. Time does not, with most of us,
cure the wrong done to the noble kingdom of Hun-
gary ; on the contrary, it rather reminds us of its
yearly increasing greatness. We cannot forget
that up to this moment FRANCIS JOSEPH is nothing
better than a usurper and a tyrant in Hungary,
ruling by the same right by which Irish mobs so
recently sought to rule over free Englishmen.
FRANCIS JOSEPH is not King of Hungary, any
more than, if so much as, Lours KOSSUTH—what
he is, he is by the force of the wicked intervention
of Russian bayonets in the first instance, and he re-
mains in power by the perfectly illegal presence of
a large German army in Hungary. The work he
is doing there is to set race against race; to split'
if he can, the country into hostile sections, that he
and his Germans may have the satisfaction of
"dividing and governing," There can be no doubt
that, judged by the English standard, Baron
THIERRY'S master as richly deserves the fate
of the STUARTS at the hands of Hungary, as
that equally incurable dynasty did at the hands of
England. As little can it be doubted that most
Englishmen think so.
The recollection of all this is almost forced upon

us by the topic of Lord PALMERSTON'S speech. I

consisted of the praises of Free Trade, and the
genial orator was yet obliged to confess that Aus-
tria was hostile to free trade, and that even RECH-
BERG, whom he not only believed, but knew, to be
an enlightened man, could not get the better of

Austrian prejudices. We could not bat think of a
far more enlightened man, who easily convinced all
Hungary of the advantages of free trade—Lonna
X.08813T11. Had not Lnra. PALMERSTON -winked
at Russian invasion of Hungarian liberty, that
noble country would now have been carrying on

a vast trade with this country, through the Danube
and Fiume. We should have been acquiring all
the advantages of Free-trade with the most im-
portant half of the Austrian Empire, and the King-
dom of Hungary would have made a dozen years
progress in railroads, wine cultivation, and, indeed,
in all kinds of agriculture. Twelve years of
free trade, and the stimulus it would have given
to every industry iu Hungary have been cut out of
the life of the nation by the restoration of the
brutal HAPSBURGS and of German domination.
And all for what ? That the worst Royal
family in Europe might become absolute by
the overthrow of a constitution of a thousand
years, and that clumsy German manufacturers
might force on Hungary bad and dear manufac-
tures, in the place of good and cheap ones from
England, monopolising also at prices far below its
worth, the whsle of Hungarian agricultural ex-
ports; all this is undeniable fact; and while it is so,
we could not easily bring ourselves to court and
flatter Austria and her Ministers. It should be
remembered that the same German protection is
with equal ruthlessness inflicted on poor Venetia.
However, the Premier's Free-trade lecture to the
German Baron, for the benefit of the Baron's dull
countrymen, could do no harm. It may do some
little good. As Lord PALMERSTON'S speech on
the occasion of honour done to an Austrian Minis-
ter, it will get translated into long German.
sentences. And possibly some of those who
-uffer through protection may make effective use
of it. Lord PALMERSTON generally contrives to
say, what every one knows, in a very pleasant
and somewhat fresh manner. He mingled, on
this occasion, praises of the natural capabilities of
Austria, excuses for her dulness, confession of the
long reign of similar prejudices in England, an
economical axiom or two on commerce being ne-
cessarily mutually profitable, and stories on the
superseding of "shocking bad hats" in Portugal,
and the improvement of our silk manufacture by
competition with that of France—and all in a
style which will make his speech a pleasant little
lesson to sucking free traders in Austria. He took
care to wind up with the proof that, however na-
tions might be bound together by commercial ties,
they must not dispense with mighty armies and
navies. Free trade, vast armaments, and high ex-
penditure, is the sum of the Premier's speech.

The Washington has brought us little military
news, though her information extends to the 21st,
four days
later than that brought by the Europa.
The Confederate papers claim the battle at Perrys-
ville as a victory for their side, and assert that they
took 9,000 prisoners; must
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further information. They whole
b,.ttles, however, in the important border State of
Kentucky is very confused. As it is chiefly from
Northern sources the reasonable suspicion is that we
have statements strongly coloured by the channel
through which they reach us. M'CLELLAN has
ascertained that the enemy is massed in
gteat force on his left at Martinsburg ; he cannot,
therefore, continue his advance without exposing
his communications, and leaving them to
rush again through Maryland into Pennsylvania.
" Returning into winter quarters" is spoken of, but
that is an old fashioned way of making war.
Passion is not now allowed to cool in this way.
There is also a report of a slave insurrection in Cul-
pepper, County Virginia ; but it is so near toWesh-
ington, that partly the country must have been vet.)
much depopulated by the war, and partly the slave;
could have easily run North, without exposing
themselves to danger. If the report be true