The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

Time enough in what

Eaillie NICHoL JAILVIE would call

" ma con-

science !" During the last four or five years the
state of siege has been maintained in those pro-
vinces of the Austrian empire without lenity or

intermission. To such an extent has this system
of political repression been carried by the impe-

rial councils of Schoenbrunn, that all this while
the countries owning obedience to the Em-
peror FRANCIS JOSEPH have been ruled, not

by an olive rod or a golden sceptre, but
by the iron sword of a powerful, inexorable,
and implacable military despotism. Venetians,
Hungarians, and Lombards have alike groaned
under the weight of that formidable authority—
the authority of an alien and infuriated conqueror.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the success of
the German Legions—achieved in one direction
by treason among their enemies, and in another
by the simple force of good generalship—should
have been followed up by massacre, hanging,
shooting, imprisonment, and confiscation. The
Austrians were too nearly beaten to forgive when
the tide once turned in their favour. Besides
which, they were the less disposed to be magnani-

mous, remembering that that change of fortune
was owing not so much to their own valour as to
the brute force of Russian assistance—the despic-
able poltrooning of the Lombards—the infamous
defection of the traitor Gino Ev—the desertion of
the heroic King CHARLES ALBERT and his brave
Piedmontese--the insulation of the veteran PEPE
and his patriotic little band of followers. It was
another illustration, in fact, of that wise aphorism
of NAPOLEON, that whenever the victorious army
at the close of a battle betrays a more than usually
ferocious lust of vengeance, you may be certain
that its leader, at one time of the day, was very
nearly being defeated ignominiously. Austria
could not forget the triumphant rush of the
Magyars from the rallying point of Debreczin up to
the very walls of Vienna. Her rulers could not lose
the remembrance of the fall of BUDA, or of the
rising of Peterwardein. They bore too vividly
and painfully in recollection the driving back of
their soldiers to the northern frontiers of Lom-
bardy—they could not reflect without fury on the
chivalrous defence of the sea-girt Venice—they
could not endure to think for an instant calmly
upon the successive disgrace of aged warriors like
WELDER and WSNDISCHORATZ. So that when once
the change of fortune commenced, they revealed
a thirst for revenge the like of which for cruelty
has happily seldom or never before now been wit-
nessed. The treason of GoRGEY was the signal for
this bitter vengeance in Hungary. The discom-
fiture of the daring baud at bay in the palace of
the Foscari was the point of time from which may
be dated a similar outbreak of brutality against
the hapless Venetians. The unexpected triumph
of the valiant old RA DETZKY, the downfall of the
heroic CHARLES ALBERT, that triumph and that
downfall which occurred amidst the roaring slaugh-
ter
of
oft iroheNovara, gave the word for a like dis-
playpi
troddena implacable
and p
h re
degradednzy
againstp e
people
i)l
eo f
the
Lom-
bardy. e
more down.-
bardy. During from
directed
the four to fire years, this lust
of
vengeancehas
ennese Cabinet in its relations with those three
policy of the Vl-
of the EMPEROR of Austria's enormous portions
ill-
gotten dominions. At length
however, the close of
this horrible system is announced
as in actual prepa-
ration.
Intelligence
from the
the 20th instant, informs us, as
the state of siege is about to be
• raised as sp - dil
as possible—a startling announcement under
circumstances ; one calculated to rouse thean
y
atten-
tion of the surrounding nations to a more than
usually close attention to passing occurrence's
It revives our sympathy for one at least
of the races . promised this tardy cessation
of troubles, social, political, and military. That
one the valiant race of the Magyars. To
KOSSUTH in exile the news must come
me h id)
without doubt as so
(
Supsing, that owever
is to na
sayequate that
consolation. p
any reliance can
be placed upon tae accu-
tion—whichl however, we
racy of the informa
are rather disposed to question. We doubt,
in a word, whether Austria is in a position to
loosen the chains she has allowed toremain
rivetted
during so protracted an interval—added to which
no doubt in the event of their removal, whether
that act of the Viennese Cabinet might not origi-
nate at least another Hungarian revolution.

" PETERBOROUGH - influence —wholly in the
hands of the Earl FITZWILLIAM." Such is
pithy statement of Mr. DOD ; and the report of
the
the committee obtained by Mr. BRIGHT, though
of the gentlest kind, being little more than a re- 1
cord of facts, goes far to verify the truth of Mr.
Don's " electoral fact." Of few Noblemen are
the public less disposed to believe anything harsh
and tyrannical than of Earl FrrzwinmAm—any-
thing mean or degrading would be justly held to
be impossible ; and the evidence shows very
plainly that his Lordship was careful to avoid the
of evil. It is, however, undeniably
evident that
theinfluence of Milton Hall was that
of fear and nope,
appearanceas well as the unquestionably
legitimate one of respect and attachment. Earl
instance, was taken
FITZWILLIAM opinion, for