The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURI(ALS.
TIMES.—The polio, pursued. towards Austria by
several of the great Powfrs of Europe has undoubt,dly
aggravated the triple difficulties which assail the empire
in Hungary, Italy, and the Germanic Conft-deration.
But these embarrassments are the natural cons,,quences
of the torpid and improvident Government which was
overthrown by the' revolution; and they have been in-
created by the abortive eft'orts made since that event to
extricate the empire from its most critical position. A.
series of disasters, which seem not yet exhausted, have
baffled the most hopeful combinations, rendered sterile
the most energetic efforts, and destroyed or removed the
men who might have grappled with the dangers of the
State. Latour and Lumberg• were murdered in the tu-
multuous insurrections at -Vienna and Pesth; Win-
dischgratz proved not to have military abilities
or practical experience equa to the patriotism
and firmness which he had displayed eh.ewbere.
Stadion, who bad long hsen rcgarded by the
Liberal party in Austria as the most eminent of
the civil servants of the Crown, sank into ill-health
from the intense anxiety attending the execution of his
great projects, and from despondency at the ..ascendancy
whi:ia views oppcsed to his own had obtainOd in the
Cabinet of Oiniu!z. Weld.n, Rho enjoyed the Nighest
military renutation in the army, wa inadt quately sup-
ported at Vienna whilst he held the command in Hiul•
gary, and has now tethed trom that position under cir%•
cumstarices equally unfortunate. With the-exception of
old Marshal itadetzky and the gatiunt army of Italy,
we have seen trcops, generals, statesmen, and resources,
melt away, until the destinies of the empire are xclu-
sivtly abandoned to men who have already given more

proos of presumption and incapacity than of wise=
and power. Prince Schwarz-nberg has shown spirit and
boldness in dealing with the hostile claims made against
his Sovereign ; but his pride has not deterred
him from placing the empire in a most dangerous
and humid•sting position towards Russia, whilst
he bas ben induced to center the most im-
portant office of the State, at this moment—that of
War Minister—upon Count Gyulay, who displayed
signal incapacity us Governor of Trieste, and has no re•
commendation but that of a near connexion with the
Prime Minister. Had the Austrian Government offered
and promulgated terms to the people of Hungary based
on the recognition of the real constitutional rights of that
kingdom, which have been established fur ages, there is
strong reason to believe that a lasting peace might have
been concluded. But the Hungarians are both able and
resolved to defend those ancient rights, and no moment
could have been Norse chosen than the past year to dis-
pute them, when, both in Italy and Geaniany, the sup-
port of -Hungary is of vital importance to the House of
Austria. If the Cabinet of Ohnutz seriously entertained
the design of availing itself of this crisis to execute the
schemes of the Emperor Joseph If , and to convert the
kingdom of Hungary into an hereditary province, the
difficulties it has already encountered ought to
furnish a sufficient lesson ; and a legal acknow-
1‘ dgment of the positive obligations of the
Hungarian Constitution is no extravagant price to pay
fur the services and the loyalty of twelve millions of
subjects. There is reason to believe that a concession of
this nature would even now disarm the more democratic
party in the kingdom. The policy of violence towards
Hungary has proved in all respects a dangerous policy;
but the necessity it has involved of applying for Russian
assistance stamps it with a more fatal character. It can
never have been supposed that the Emperor Nicholas was
to be summoned to the fiald in the character of a mere
auxiliary. The immense magnitude of the forces he has
put in motion, and the 'position claimed by the Russian
Generals in the scheme of the campaign, clearly indi-
cate that from the moment at which the Russian opera-
tions commence they will absorb the whole interest of
the war. The reports which have already been circulated
of the advance of Russian divisions into Hungary are
exceedingly incorrect; properly speaking the campaign
has not yet opened, and great doubt prevails as to the
intentions of the Russian Emperor. The de-
lay which has already occurred will materially
increase the difficulties of the -campaign in the
hottesi; and most inconvenient mouths of the
year; and since the struggle will aFsume the character
of a foreign war with a detested enemy, we are by no
means convinced that the result will be us speedy as has
been anticipated at Warsaw, or as satisfactory as has
been anticipated at Vienna. Bieenwhile, although the
debility of Austria has thus reduced her to open the
inner frame-work of the Empire to foreign armies, her
own military operations in ether parts of Europe have
been inordinately extended. The Imperial threes in
Italy have occupied Florence, taken Bologna, and laid
siege to Ancona, in their anxiety to share with the
French Republic in the suppresaiou of Italian insurree•
tions; and Marshal Radneey reeens in Milan in semi-
independence of the ordinary Ministers of the Crown. in
Gernsany the policy of Austria is less active, but not less
resolute. She has her troops in the Vorarlberg and in the
garrison of Mayence; she supports Bavaria ii. her repug-
nance to join the Prussian Sonderbund; and she awaits
the course of events without apparently the emullest inten-
tion of waving the rights else has so lung enjoyed iu the
Germanic body. To sustain the military and political
influence of a state over so vast an extent of territory—
not confined even by the frontiers of Austria, but reach-
ing from Wallachia to the Rhine, and descending be-
yond the Appenines to the south—would appear to de-
mand either boundless resources, or a very close alliance
with the other countries engaged in these transactions.
But it is notorious that the tinuticial resources of Austria
are reduced to a low ebb, and that her resources in. men
ate seriously curtailed by the Hungatian war, which
not only stops the reinforcements ordinarily derived
from that warlike people, but demands other troops to
oppose the Magyar combatants. In Italy the arrange-
ment with France is one which en accident on the
theatre of war, or a change of rule in Paris, might at
any time convert into direct hostility, and the conclu-
sion of a definitive peace with Sardinia is as remote as
ever. In Germany the policy of Austria evidently
requires the firm adherence cf the Court of
Munich, to which that of Wurtemberg may perhaps be
added. But tall these circumstances tend to render the
Cabinet of Vienna more dependent on Russia, and to
give Russia a decisive influence, through the Court of
Vienna, upon the principal questions now agitated in
Europe. That is a result deeply to be deplored, not only
for the welfare and dignity of Austria, but tor the tran-
quillity and progress of the continent. We have done
Justice to the firmness with which the Emperor Nicholas
has maintained his position during this general tempest,
even in the most uesettled portions of his own domi-
nions, and we have applauded the moderation ho has
more than once expressed towards other states more
agitated than his own empire; but, as the Russian
armies, with their immense stores and materials of war,
have gathered on the eastern frontier of Europe, it is
impossible not to remark a more enthusiastic and less
guarded tone in the language attributed to the
Autocrat. His acts, however, have not yet corre-
sponded to this language. The postponement of the
operations in provinces so contiguous to his own terri-
tories has been thought to imply hesitation; and cer-
tainly the disposition of the Austrian Generals and troops
towards their northern allies is not encouraging. The
campaign is unpopular in both armies, and it were well
if circumstances were even now to arise which might
prevent it The events of the last few days in Paris,
and the consolidation of the present Government upon
the failure of the last and most dating enterprise of the
Red Republic, are highly favourable to the maintenance
of peace, and it is extremely to be desired that Austria,
which has so much cause to desire the removal of the
burdens of war, should adopt the policy best calculated
to terminate these contentions. On the other hand, the
various insurgents of Italy, Germany, and Hungary have
less reason than ever to count on the active support of
the revolutionary faction is France which has just been
so signally defeated.

CRICKET.
OLD lIARROVIANS v. PRESENT lIARRO-

VIANS.
We can call to mind but few causes of pleasure which
so strongly act upon the feelings as that created by a
visit to the place at which a man has spent the earlier
days of his scholastic existence. IL nee it is that in this
and the matches between the Old and Present
Etonians," or between the Old Oxford and Cambridge
men and present Oxonians acid Curitiba, there is always
a marked exhibition of gratification, of zeal, and interest,
which may in vain be looked for iu ordinary matches.
One of these matches was played last week at Harrow,
and it afforded the spectators no small amount of delight
at witnessing the revelment in joy which our " Old
Harrovian" friends ran on the occssiou. Some of the
" more modern" of the old 'uns it will be found took vast
liberties with the "present" bowling, but, then, on the
other hand, the latter were not at ail backward in re-•
turning the compliment. On the one side there were
scores of 110 (Blayds), 12 (Eaten.), W. Nicholson 10,
Currer 13, while; on the other there were an 85 (YeVe
non), a 62 (Longe),l and a 10 (Capeli). The final were,
it having been arranged for a iallo tiay match, was—
OLD HADROVIANS.
E. Blayds, Esq.—b Vernon •• ••• •••
C. Eaton, Esq.—c Torrens, b Hankey •••
C. Harenc, Esq.—c and b Vernon •••
H. Hoare, Esq.—c Putnam, b -Mackenzie.
W. Nicholson, Esq.—b Vernon
N. Millbanke, Esq.—b Hankey
R. En ughton, Esq. b Hankey •.•
Hon. R. eirimston—b Torrens
C. S. Currer, Esq.-1 b w b Putnam •„
F. Corrance, Esq.—run out
N. Jones, Esq.—not out
Byes, 3; wide (llankey 2, Putnam 4, Mackenzie. 4,
Vernon 2, Torrens 3, Longe 1), 16; no balls (Han-
key 2, Mackenzie 1), 3 .

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