The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-28 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATUIto if, JULY 28, 1849.

After the gratifying intelligence recorded yester-
day as to the progress of the war in Hungary, we
cannot but feel assured that the meeting which is
announced to take place on Monday, at the Riding
Academy in Marylebone, will be equally enthusiastic
with the first demonstration in the city of London.
Through the advertisement it will already have been
observed that the chair will be taken by the Noble
Lord the President of the Polish Association. Let
it be borne in recollection by those who attend on
Monday at the rendezvous in Albany-street, that
nothing of any importance is wanting to stimulate
the enthusiastic sympathy of the English multitude in
the cause of the Hungarians. The Government has de-
elared itself opposed to the Russian intervention—that
expression of official regard for the interests of the
Magyars having been articulated in the memorable
speech delivered exactly a week since in the House of
Commons by the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON. Not
only has the Foreign Secretary at last set at defiance
the refrigerating influence of his colleagues, and pro-
nounced the feelings of his manly heart and the con-
victions of his statesmanlike intellect, without any
ambiguity or reservation—but a gradual approxima.
tion to the advocacy of the Hungarian cause is per-
ceptible in those among our contemporaries who
until very recently have been the most violent in their
opposition to KOSSUTH and his countrymen. Simul-
taneously with this rapid and visible spread of sym-
pathy throughout the people of the United Kingdom,
arrives the intelligence of the successive victories
gained by BEM and his lieutenants. Added to the
prestige of the last glorious campaign against
Austria, is the prestige of the triumphs which have
halo'd the Magyar banner from the commencement of
the new campaign against the combined forces of
Austria and Russia. While, moreover, the patriot
soldiers of Hungary are encouraged by their
reiterated successes, their imperial antagonists are
proportionately dispirited by their interminable re-
verses. We have seen how their ablest generals one
after another have been worsted by the Polish and
Maygar officers—especially by BEM, by GEORGET,
and by DEMBINSKI. We have seen WINDISCH•
GRATE degraded from the command of the German
soldiers, with his marshal's baton virtually broken
over his head. We have seen WELDER disgraced
almost in the midst of his braggadocios. We have
seen HA YNAU superseded by Hesse, though
not before his cruelties had rendered him in-
famous and his weakness contemptible. We have seen
the redoubtable and "highly imagin - ELLACHICH
thrice, with his Croatian irregulars, put entirely
hors dc combat, beaten in pitched battle, and driven
before the Magyars as a fugitive. While Southern
Hungary has been partially cleared from the domi-
nation of the invading barbarians by BEM, the other
division of the army of liberation has directed the
force of the great race of freemen towards the north,
to the effectual discomfiture of all the machinations
of the allied despots. The ring with which
the "insurreetiou" was to have been encircled and
grasped to its extinction has been broken
asunder in two different directions by the
glorious brand of Hungarian nationality.
JELLACHICH has been crushed in one quarter
PASKEWITCH has been all but routed in another.
I,Yith a striking impartiality, the counsels of Kos.
STITH have directed the vengeance of his people, now
against the Austrians, now against the Russians, now
against the united legions of the coalition. Every-
where, withott, emcei,ton, the arms of the Magyars
have _hitherto been triumphant. On the Franz
Canal, on the Theis, on the Danube, the " rebels"
have carried off the palm of victory. And the
nation which was to have been overrun from one
extremity to the other by the hordes of Russia and
the warriors of Germany, has become already the
grave of hundreds of those vain-glorious mercenaries.
Added to the delirium of the marsh fever, and the
ravages of the cholera—the heroic assault of the
Hungarians and the privations arising from an in-
sufficiency of provisions have already devastated, are