The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-18 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1853.

It will bc‘, observed that remarkable festivities
are now taking place at Vienna. Occurrences of
syrnewhat that character we ourselves not long
ago ventured to prognosticate. It was intimated
by us, at least, that there would be witnessed in
-the capital of Austria, during May, a gathering
together of the European Sovereigns. The assem-
blage has already commenced. His Majesty the
KING of the BELGIANS, accompanied by the Duke
of BRABANT, has during the last few days been
enjoying the hospitalities of the EMPEROR : and
several other of the crowned heads of the Conti-
nent are shortly expected to be entertained by the
KAISER with unusual splendour at Sclionbrunn.
sumptuous as have been many of the Imperial
'entertainments recently given by FRANCIS Jo &Ern
others still more magnificent are said to be in
preparation. Doubtless, under all these pompous
ceremonials there is an important political mean-
ing, the nature of which it were, of course, difficult
to conjecture with any degree of preciseness. The
time has happily gone by, however, when the
meeting of the Monarchs of Christendom could be
observed only with the most anxious solicitude.
As a body they have passed through such terrible
experiences since 1848, that they cannot be sup-
posed capable of very speedily tempting by their
acts another outbreak of Revolution. Nothing
can be gained by them from a disturbance of the
existing tranquillity. Everything, on the contrary,
would on the commencement of war become at once
most critically jeopardised. That they recognise
the certainty of this, we conceive, must be suffi-
ciently evident from the manner in which they
have all of them come at length to carry on their
diplomatic negotiations. Scarcely one of them
but has within the last few years given token of
a surprising readiness to concede, rather than push
matters to an extremity. They have acted
thus indiscriminately from the haughty and
hitherto inflexible AUTOCRAT of all the Russias
down to the ruler of the pettiest of the German
Principalities. Whatever the question submitted to
the deliberations of their plenipotentiaries, its most
rugged difficulties have been gradually smoothed
away, and the most entangled correspondence has
been brought in the end to an amicable and satis-
factory arrangement. If in nothing else, the
peoples of Europe have in this, at any rate, done
good by the last terrible lesson given by them to
their respective Sovereigns. They have drivan
them at last to the recognition of the folly, if not
of th• cruelty, of those contentions about every
conceivable matter under the sun—contentions in
which invariably the multitude, and not the
crowned heads, were the principal sufferers.
Henceforth we may with reason continue more
sanguine as to the maintenance of peace—under
the siaeltering
interest of the Sovereigns, under
the watchful scrutiny of their subjects, and, of
course, beyond all, under the beneficent care of
)IVINE PROVIDENCE.

Under existing circumstances, therefore, it can
remarked without much anxiety,without the
.1 n -.ietv which must formerly have been in-
c il able--that the Count and Countess of
CHAMBORD are shortly expected, according
to
one of the Viennese journals, to arrive •
111 the
Austrian capital in the midst of this gathering
together of the European Sovereigns. Latterly
we have become accustomed to witness, without
any ill consequences whatsoever,ices the
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