The Sun.
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THE SUN,"

posts upon the willing population, the falsehoods
were readily contradicted by the very different dis-
patches forwarded by the insurrectionary chieftains
across the southern plains of France. How often, for
example, has CABRERA been killed and resuscitated !
According to the organs of ISABELLA, he has had more
legs shot off by cannon-balls, or crimped with sabre-
wounds, than would constitute the pedestrian appa-
ratus of a respectable centipede. His heart has been
riddled like a sieve; his skull has been cracked like
a cocoa-nut ;he has lost his right arm ;he has had
his left hand mutilated by the explosion of a bomb ;
he has received a slug in his spinal marrow; he has
fractured half-a-dozen ribs on one side and six on the
other—and yet the next mail tells us that the indo-
mitable Captain is all but dancing a fandango at some
provincial ball, or at the very least that he has de-
scended again from the mountains at the head of
a formidable band of Montemolinists. Talk of
a cat ! Nine lives are as nothing to those squandered
upon the ZUMALACARREGUI of 1849. CABRERA
passes unscathed through more perils and hairbreadth
calamities than fell to the lot of MUNCHAUSEN. With
poor Kossurn the difficulty of correcting the false
assertions of his enemies are threefold, are fourfold,
are almost numberless. He is killed—he is wounded
—he is a fugitive, deserted by all his old followers—
he is a captive—he has had his head chopped off—he
has had his heart perforated—he is lying among the
cinders of Pesth—he is skulking among the coffee-
shops of Berlin—but he survives everything like a
phoenix. The wish is " father to the thought" of his
destruction ; but, since the reign of HENRY VI., when
the Duchess of GLOUCESTER roasted the wax effigy
of her SOVEREIGN and pricked it with pins, a wish has
hardly ever been found an efficacious means of assas-
sination. KOSSUTII lives, like CABRERA, in spite of
his perpetual demise ; and whatever the Viennese
newspapers may say to the contrary, Hungarian
nationality is not yet trodden out under the mailed
heel of WINDISCHGRATZ

A document called a manifesto, published in the
name of the Hungarian Government by Count
LADISLAS TELEKI, has recently been printed in Paris,
and a very lucid and excellent translation has sub-
sequently appeared in English from the pen of Mr.
H. F. W. BROWNE, B.A.*
Speaking of the fundamental character of the ques-
tion at issue between Hungary and Austria, the trans-
lator in his " Prefatory Remarks" draws this
_.very
striking distinction :
" It has been as mischievous as ignorantly attempted
to institute a comparison between the connexion of
Hungary and Austria. and that of Ireland and Great
Britain ; and thus to prove that the present movement
in Hungary is similar in character to the late absurd in-
surrection which took place in parts of Ireland. The
Act of Union, which incorporates this latter country
with Great Britain, and the compacts which, although
establishing the succession to the throne of Hungary in
the house of Hapsburgh, expressly stipulate her freedom
as a nation and the independence of her Government,
require but a very superficial observation to show the
total absence of any similitude. A just comparison
might, however, be drawn between the legal relation of
Hungary to Austria, and that of Hanover to England,
while these two latter kingdoms were governed by one
and the same sovereign, and although from their prox-
imity and consequent community of interests, the alli-
ance between Hungary and Austria might be politically
closer, the connexion in a legal sense was precisely
similar. In both instances the connexion was one of
association, not of subjection."
In order to demonstrate still more forcibly the line
of demarcation which is distinctly traceable between
Hungary as a kingdom and Austria as a dominant
empire, Mr. 13nowNE makes particular reference to
the declaration uttered by LEOPOLD 11., in 1790,
sixty years after the time of the Pragmatic Sanction,
to the effect " that Hungary is a free and independent
nation in her entire system of legislation and
administration, and not subject to any other
state or any other people ; but that she should always
have her own separate existence and constitution, and
should consequently be governed by Kings, crowned
according to her national laws and customs." No-
thing can assuredly afford a better plea for the main-
tenance of that feeling of independent dignity which
excites the Hungarians to protest emphatically, by
voice and by sword, against the notion that they are
de jure the subjects of the Austrian Government.
As soon as the recent accounts of the successes of the
Hungarian patriots shall have been confirmed, we
shall return to the consideration of this important and
remarkable pamphlet.

Although the amendment respecting the proposed
grant of 50,0001. for the relief of Irish distress, which
the Noble Lord the Member for Marylebone brought
forward on Friday evening, was negatived by a large
majority, the principle is sound, and will, we doubt
not, speedily obtain many influential advocates, both
in and out of Parliament. The English people would
gladly make a great exertion, if satisfied that it was
for the last time, and that the condition of their
Irish brethren was to be permanently ameliorated
thereby ; but they are wearied of those continued
demands upon their resources—those perpetual
appeals to their generosity. Their efforts should
however, be directed rather to remove the causes of
pauperism than to perpetuate the mischievous system,
by doling out, with a bad grace, a bare sufficiency to
enable the impoverished unions to meet their engage-
ments. If we beheld a drowning wretch, we should
not consider it sufficient to enable him merely to keep
his head above water. Something would be done to
extricate him from his perilous condition, and some-
thing must be done, and that speedily, to ameliorate
the condition of the people of Ireland, to enable them
to live by their own exertions.
It is ridiculous to suppose that the advance of
50,0001., which has just been sanctioned, will be
sufficient even for the limited purpose for which it
has been granted. It may, perhaps, sustain the
wretched paupers of the distressed unions for a few
short weeks, but new demands must then be made,
and what response is to be returned ? Are we again
to dole out our charity in driblets, or peremptorily to
reject the application ? The same state of facts will still
exist, is our conduct to be varied in any and what par-
ticular? Must we not at length combine justice to
England with liberality to Ireland ?
GOD forbid that we should permit the wretched
sufferers to perish for want of any assistance
which it was in our power to afford. We would, if
necessary, advance a much larger sum than that
which has just been granted; but we would do so
as a loan, not as a gift. We would render every
temporary assistance that might be required for the
relief of Irish distress, but we would require repay-
ment to the uttermost farthing from Irish property
and Irish resources. Mr. POULETT SCROPE and Lord
DUDLEY STUART contemplated the same object in
the motions which they respectively submitted for the
consideration of the House of Commons on Friday
evening. Each desired that the sums to be advanced
from the Imperial treasury should be returned thereto;
that the Irish nation should learn habits of self-reliancel;
that it should not be regarded as a sturdy mendicant, a
mere beggar, whose wants were to be at all :times
supplied at the expense of his more fortunate neigh-
bour, but as one able and willing to support himself,
and to repay with thanks and gratitude the sums that
might be advanced in the hour of emergency, when
his labours were rewarded with deserved success.
The Hon. Member for Stroud would, however, en-
deavour to obtain payment from a source that had
been proved to be inadequate. He would make the
advances charges upon estates previously liable, but
from which it could not by any possibility be
levied. As we have formerly stated, " all
the powers of the law have been already called
into operation ; every effort has been made to
collect the rates already imposed, but in vain." What
reasonable expectation can be entertained that greater
success will now be obtained, that the English nation
will be more fortunate in obtaining payment than the
Irish poor-law guardians. The difficulty would be
increased, the paupers would still be a burden upon
the lands. Their maintenance would exhaust the en-
tire proceeds thereof, and nothing would remain for
the satisfaction of the debt ; that would still remain a
useless, nay, more than useless, incumbrance. A sale of
the lands rendered liable would not improve the matter,
What capitalist would invest his money in the pur-
chase ? How could he hope to avoid the fate that had
overtaken the former proprietor ? How could he hope
to sustain the burden under which his immediate
predecessor had been crushed ? The lands might be
submitted to public competition, but no purchaser

* " The Case of Hungary Stated. Manifesto published
in the name of the Hungarian Government, by Count
Ladislas Teleki, Member of the Hungarian Diet. Trans-
lated from the French, with Prefatory Remarks and
Notes, by IL F. W. Browne, 8.A." Bvo. pp. 66. London:
Effingham Wilson, 1849.