The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY EvE XING, OCTOBER 13, 1862.

of the realisation by the Teutonic people of the
long-pondered day-dream of German Unification.
There France looks—and even England will be
disposed to say not quite unreasonably—for the ac-
quisition of the Rhenish Provinces. The game is
afoot, however, not alone in Italy and in Germany—.
where Prussia occupies the advanced position assumed
so very successfully in Italy by Piedmont—but far to
the north and far to the south, among the Iberians
and among the Scandinavians. Unification there,
also, in each of those directions, is the "rallying" cry,
the one potent watchword. And before the shaken
Balance of Power in Europe can be again and
securely adjusted—we may rest assured that it is
in each instance a watchword that will be answered
decisively enough, and in accordance with the spirit
of the age that is witnessing the revival and rehabi-
tation of the Great Italian and the Great Germanic
Nationalities. The Northern ambition is, as is
well known, the blending together, in one powerful
Scandinavian Empire, of Sweden and Norway and
Denmark, under one name and under one Govern-
ment. The Southern ambition is the blending
into a single Power of the twin Kingdoms of
Spain and Portugal, the substitution of the two
sovereignties there (that of the Bourbon and that
of the Braganza) of one sovereignty alone, placing
the sceptre thenceforth in the hand of a constitu-
tional monarch whose rule should extend over
the whole Iberian peninsula. Towards the
realisation of all these day-dreams, events are at
this moment steadily and surely tending. The
cause of Unification prospers visibly in Italy,
and appreciably in Germany : but it prospers
morally also both among the Iberians and among
the Scandinavians. In each of these latter in-
stances the cause referred to will doubtless
be materially aided in its prosperous deve-
lopment, by two rather significant and im-
portant marriage alliances. The alliance already
accomplished between the dynasties of Italy and
Portugal ! And that other alliance, arranged to
take place not later than next year, between the
reigning houses of England and of Denmark !
While the interests of the Solidarity of Nations may
be recognised-as prospering, thus, effectually, who
will not hope and pray, what lover of humanity,
what champion of liberty will not trust devoutly
and earnestly from his heart, that Poland may at
length discover the dawn of her ancient indepen-
dence, in the awakening energies of a Sclavonic
Nationality, of a Sclavonic Unification ?

Like the " Fathers " at Birkenhead, after the
mischief is done, out comes Cardinal WISEMAN and
cries to the POPE'S bludgeon men, " There, there,
my lambs of the Vicar of CHRIST'S flock, be quiet
now; show how gentle, meek, and forgiving you
are." After three Sundays of shillelagh work are
over, after English workmen have been prevented
from freely and peacefully honouring a foreign
hero, for honouring whom we must all honour them
—after the holy bludgeons have gone their business,
and we are all forbidden to open our mouths be-
cause it grieves the POPE'S Irish roughs—then, and
not till then, the Arch Pharisee sends to all the
papers a proclamation to show how good he and his
are. Had the same thing been done prior to the
first Sunday's papal bludgeon work in order to pre-
vent it—or, if we must suppose that such work was
not anticipated, had the WISEMAN proclamation
appeared the next Sunday—we should have gladly
acknowledged its pacific and Christian character.
The time of its appearance converts it into a
mockery. The Cardinal and his " roughs" have got
all they want ; they have induced the authorities—
how wisely we will net again discuss—to surrender
the liberty of the working men of London to their
violence, and now they hold forth at length on the
virtues of meekness, gentleness, and forgiveness."

Admirable are some of the lessons which the
Cardinal now reads to his beloved flock, for they
are founded on the example of our LORD himself.
His examp'.e, however, occupies but a small space
compared with that of the "Dear Pontiff" himself,
" the Vicar of CHRIST on earth," and therefore so
much nearer them. Whose—the Vicar's—cause is
" the cause of justice, of truth, of virtue, of religion,
of GOD himself." Hence, and if the premises are
are sound, the conclusion must be so—" bludgeons,
and blows, and tumult are not the means by which
such a cause is to be enforced, or even defended."
It would " afflict our sovereign Pontiff's tender
heart to hear of his cherished Irish children sup-
porting his sacred cause by such violence." Italians
will be apt to think that the Pontiff, whose heart
exulted in the bloody butcheries at Perugia, and
who protects brigands to murder, burn, and destroy
in the South, and whose meekness boils over in
anathemas, against all Catholics who think the
" Vicar" ought to imitate his professed chief in
regard to temporal kingdoms, is not exactly a
model on earth of his Heavenly Master's unworld-
liness and meekness.

Italians also will differ from the Cardinal respect-
ing the " cause "of the Pontiff. They think it the
cause of " injustice, of falsehood, of vice, of Satan
himself," and very naturally, the latter being the
personage who offered CHRIST all the Kingdoms
of this world, kingdoms which, from that time
till he stood before PILATE, he persisted in reject-
ing. Indeed Cardinal WISEMAN ought to know
that the Italians, who must know much more than
he does about the matter, consider the POPE to be
sueh a temporal tyrant, and his cause—that of tem-
poral rule we mean—to be so utterly bad, that
nothing but French bayonets compel them to en-
dure it. The English nation, in fact, does but take
the part of Italian Catholics against Irish Catholics
—of the Catholics who feel the Papal scourge,
against those who only look on and laugh at it—of
emancipation for the Romans, against those who,
as Cardinal WISEMAN himself owns, have gained
political emancipation for themselves, but now re-
fuse it to their fellow Catholics at Rome. Happily
the skies were poliee sufficient yesterday, otherwise
there appears io have been some who took the Car-
dinal's proclamation in the same sense as we have
known a set of rogues to do when pointed to another
rogue, with the emphatic exclamation—" Now,
don't pump on him."

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through the House at the end of a session, does not
quite commend itself to the minds of their tenant
farmers. They have heard of it in several ways
and places already, but the crack game county,
Norfolk, and in the very centre of a district of game
preservers, has just given
lesson. It was at the North Waisham Agricul-
tural Association where this unheard of outbreak of
tenant-farmer independence took
place. CHARLES
BUXTON, Esq., M.P., had frankly said :—" Admiral
WODEIIOUSE had said that there ought at this
meeting to be some discussion on agricultural sub-
jects. He thought so too, and that they ought also
to discuss freely any question in which as farmers
they were interested. Why should not they, for
instance, take up the question of leases, and even
the question of the preservation of game. He
was sure that as a small landlord and as a game
preserver, nothing would give him greater pleasure
than to hear any tenant of his get up and speak his
feelings and opinions plainly, for he thought there
was generally too much reticence upon such matters,
and that it would be better for all parties if those