The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

proved mode of Austrian warfare in the nineteenth
century, and Austria (as we were informed no later
back than Friday last) is " a Power with which Eng-
land, if not in alliance, is on friendly terms !" GOD
forbid that we should in any way regard with satis-
faction such an act of wanton cruelty, such a base and
cowardly outrage as that perpetrated against the noble
lady whose hospitality had afforded temporary succour
to the heroic fugitives BEM and Guvoar.
Nevertheless, the event, however lamentable, has
been excellently well-timed. It has come as " a great
fact " to give a startling answer to the eloquence of a
contemporary who, on Friday last, denounced with
most rhetorical indignation the illiberal opponents of
an Austrian loan. Let the people of England look
dispassionately upon this picture and on that : let
them listen to an English newspaper strongly urging
upon Englishmen the propriety of furnishing supplies
of money to impoverished Austria, and, behold ! the
next day it is made manifest for what purpose those
sums of money are required. It is asked of
us, Englishmen ! to put a lash into the
hands of HATNAII ! We are called upon—we who
boast of our civilization and our Christianity—we
whose hearts have bled for the sorrows of the Hunga-
rian patriots—we are called upon (now that the
s vords of her soldiers are no longer to be feared) to
share in the final glories of an Austrian campaign,
the chastising of the wives and widows of the insur
gents. Such is the sober fact. Austria wants
money, and why, we are indignantly asked, should
not English money be forthcoming. " This (we are
told) is one of the most ordinary commercial trans-
, actions possible. It is as a commercial, a pacific
transaction. It is one in which merchants, bankers,
and brokers are eminently concerned. It is a mere
matter of trade." It is the business of a capitalist to
lend his money, no matter for 1$ hat purpose that
money may be required. In the same way it is the
business of a druggist to sell his wares, and of a cutler
to dispose of his weapons ; but if those weapons or
• those wares be purchased for the avowed purpose of
committing murder, we apprehend that the said cut-
, ler and the said druggist will be amenable to the laws
albeit they considered the sale " a mere matter of
trade." Equally certain it is that any capitalist whose
gold shall find its way into the coffers of Austria will
from henceforth be identified, in the eyes of Europe,
with the cruelties of WINDISCHGRATZ and the
cowardice of lIAYNAU.

Ho will be a mercenary speculator indeed who will
venture to advance his money at such a rate of interest.
If, however, anything were wanting to demonstrate the
odious nature of such a transaction it would be amply

afforded by the brutal flogging of Madame M.ADERS -
uivticw... 'There are some persons in this country
whose political opinions are favourable to despotism,
who regard the Hungarians as rebels, and conse-
quently the Austrian campaign as perfectly legitimate.
However much we may differ from these, we are
confident that not one of them, not one individual
Englishman, Scotchman, or Irishman, approves, or
even tolerates the brutalities of General HAvNAu.
Not one subject of Queen VICTORIA would have stood
by and witnessed a woman, whose only crime was the

having succoured the brave unfortunate, basely
flogged by the hands of soldiers, and then dragged
barefoot. Not one British heart would have throbbed
callously—not one British hand, even if its owner
stood alone against a host, but would have been
lifted in that woman's defence. This is a supposi-
tion which no one, we are confident, will dispute.
Shall we, then, believe that Englishmen, though they
have been termed a nation of shopkeepers, are so lost
to all sentiments of national dignity and individual
humanity as to regard a partnership with HAYNAU
as " a mere matter of trade ?" We do not believe it.
The greatest aristocrat of us all, he who would shed
his blood in defence of the right divine of kings—he
who would bend a bow to extirpate the rebel subjects
of Austria, would not give his gold to find lashes for
the backs of women. Therefore it is we regard the
sufferings of Madame MADERSBRUCK as singularly
opportune. Mr. CO➢DEN might have spoken for
ever, but even his practised eloquence would be
powerless, in comparison with the natural indignation
which these sufferings have excited in every honest
heart. The Times may exhaust all the resources of
its rhetoric in favour of an Austrian alliance, and the

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suchdemonstrations of the work for which English
money is required ?

Two years and a half since, when distress and
want of confidence prevailed throughout the entire
country, and when the ruinous consequences of the
iniquitous Bank Charter Act of 1844 became too
plainly perceptible, intelligence was received which
produced the greatest joy among the currency quacks
and bullionists. It was announced that the Au-
tocrat of RUSSIA had determined to extend relief to
the commercial interests of the British Empire, similar
to that which he had previously afforded to our French
neighbours ; that he had directed that a portion of
the specie, which had accumulated in the Imperial
Treasury, under an inconvertible monetary code,
amounting to thirty millions of silver roubles,
equivalent to 4,600,0001. sterling, should be in
vested in public securities, in addition to the
sum previously applied in the purchase of French
rentes, and it was understood that the greater portion,
if not the entire thereof, would be expended in the
British Stock Exchange in Three per Cent. Consols.
An lo peran was forthwith raised by all those who
considered the " convertibility" of the bank-note, and
what they were pleased to term " the integrity of the
standard," as more important than the preservation and
extension of constitutional freedom throughout the
civilized world, or than the honour of the British
flag and the safety of the British nation. The praises
of the mighty CZAR, the virtues of the magnanimous
NICHOLAS, were chanted on every side! How grie•
vously were they mistaken who ascribed any selfish
or unworthy motives to that most excellent
Monarch, who ventured to suspect that he meditated
any aggression on our Indian Empire, or on the ter-
ritories of our ancient and trusty ally, the
Sublime Porte. Such slanderers should thence-
forth and for ever hold their peace.
Stronger evidence could not have been
afforded of the pacific intentions end friendly feelings
of that calumniated Sovereign than he had evinced by
coming forward so liberally for the relief of our neces-
sities, and the support of our national credit. It was true
that he had some little agreeable peculiarities—that
he kept his own subjects in a state of slavery and
degradation, and that he was supposed to be the
unflinching opponent of the progress of liberal
opinions and constitutional freedom ; but surely he
was the best judge of the system of government
suited to the innumerable races by which
his boundless territories were inhabited—the
miserable serfs of Muscovy, the Cossacks,
Calmucks, Tartars, et hoc genus mune, could
not be judged by the same rules which were applicable
to English yeomen. The amiable despot, in fact, only
panted for the opportunity of bestowing perfect
freedom on his loving subjects; his heart's ardent
aspiration was that the recipients should be worthy of
the blessings with which he was ready to endow
them. And, as to his being opposed to free institu-
tions and liberal opinions out of his own dominions,
that was proved to be false by the di.sinterestall and
timely assistance rendered to France and England, the
most strenuous and influential supporters of these
views, and the sturdy and unflinching opponents of
absolutist doctrines. He could surely have no sinister

designs in sending Fowl MILLIONS Six HUNDRED
THOUSAND POUNDS sterling to our shores, at a mo-
ment when our resources were almost exhausted. lie
could only be actuated by a friendly solicitude for the
welfare and prosperity of his trusty sand well-beloved

ally, and he might also desire to sustain so good a
customer to give facilities for the purchase of corn at
Odessa, rather than at New York, and by supplying
us with the means of buying largely in the market, to
keep up the prices of bread-stuffs, and to obtain higher
prices than could otherwise be realised.
Such were the views and opinions entertained with
respect to the celebrated ukase of the 31st March,
1847. Few, indeed, were those who did not partici-
pate in the joy occasioned by the act of his Imperial
MAJESTY. 'We, however, regarded the matter in a very
different light. We could not share the general
exultation. We felt that new weapons were placed
in the hands of the despot to enable him to crush the

liberties of Europe. We showed that he was there));
empowered, under our present ruinous and ,iniquitous