The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

way behind the staunchest lover of the good old times,
even Lord JOHN MANNERS himself, in our admiration
for the royal virtues of VICTORIA so signally displayed
on the occasion of her auspicious Irish visit. There
was a question very prematurely agitated some time
back as to who should educate the Prince of WALES.
His Royal Highness is now, by his mother's side,
receiving the best of all education for an English
King. He is making a personal acquaintance with
the multitude, unsurrounded by the serried ranks of
armed guards. At his early age he is learning that
popular approbation is the most precious object of
royal ambition. Such is the princely education which
befits the nineteenth century, when "the tower of
strength," of Monarch and multitude, no longer
exists in the "King's name," but in the mutual accord
of King and people.

England is doing her duty nobly in support of the
cause of Hungary. London, Westminster, Mary-
lebone, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cardiff, Sheffield,
and numerous other places have already come for-
ward to express their sympathy with, and their
desire to aid, the brave Magyars now fighting the
battle of the freedom of mankind ; and other tow ns
are preparing to follow their excellent example. Not-
tingham meets on Monday, with the Mayor in the
chair, and Mr. FEARGUS O'CoNNott, the Member for
the town, has promised to attend, and almost every large
town in England is preparing to do the same. A t the
earlier metropolitan meetings many of the speakers
treated the matter somewhat too gingerly—they
seemed afraid to speak out; since, however, the ques-
tion of war was fairly put to the Marylebone
meeting, there bas been none of this timidity
observable at the metropolitan meetings ; and
in the provinces they have always spoken
out, as witness the admirable speech
of Dr.
VAUGHAN at the Manchester meeting, which is fully
reported in another column, and which we recom-
mend to the attentive study of all those who take an
interest not in the Hungarian cause only, but in the
cruse of civil and religious liberty all over the world.
More particularly do we approve of the manner in
which Dr. VAUGHAN denounces the traitorous conduct
of the French reactionary Government in relation to
the Roman Republic ; that conduct we have reason
to believe, held in abhorrence by the great majority
of the French people, who are as averse as ever
they were to sacerdotal domination, and who feel as
keenly as does Dr. VAUGHAN, "the blot which
stains the shield of France." We trust that
at all these meetings the hands of the friends
of freedom in France will be strengthened
by the expression of similar sentiments. It will
tend more to cement the entente cordiale between the
two people than could any act of any Government.
But notwithstanding the armies of NICHOLAS and
FRANCIS JOSEPH —notwithstanding the intrigues of
DE FALLOUX and Plus IX.—we do not despair of
the cause of European liberty, and we cordially join
in the hope and the belief expressed by Dr. VAUGHAN
in the soul-stirring peroration of his most eloquent
address :

"I don't bate—and I am glad to see that you do not
bate—a jot of heart and hope, notwithstanding the
cloud that may be rolling about us. I believe that
Hungary cannot become a dependent of Russia. I
believe that Italy can never be ruled as it has been
ruled cf late, and that we have only to be faith-
ful to our vocation as the professed friends of
freemen, to take our place as we ought, on its behalf,
checking its vice with a fidelity that we have
a right to exercise, but strengthening its virtues with all
the might we can; in fact, we have only to attend to the
mission that appertains to us, as men of a country that
is known in connexion with the names of Elizabeth and
Cromwell—(Cheers)—with the names of Alfred and
Hampden, of Russell and of Sydney; we have only to
catch the mantle which these departed ones have left to
us, and still our country will discharge her trust and her
great leadership as the champion fur right against
might—the champion of good against evil, and of the
oppressed against the oppressor."