The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

Our Correspondent who uritei abuut Don Giovanni and
Don Juan, is reminded that the two operas are
identical.

To our Correspondent at Devizes.—There is a Railway
Beard, which sits at the Board of Trade, Whitehall,
whire communications are to be addressed. A Bill
has been introd .ced by Lord Monteagle for appoint-
ing railway auditors. Any country book4eller will
pr, cure f r you the ntary papers referred to.

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visionaries are to be surpassed. The paradise pre-
figured in Holy Writ is to he popula' ed by the gene-
rations of the nineteenth century. Spears are to be
chat.ged into reaping-hooks, and swords into pl. ugh
shares. So at lea-t say the secretaries, and the chair-
men, and the orators of the Peace Association.
Now we must acknowledge at once that we should
he rather embarrassed to accou°t for an agitation of

this character taking place at a period so glaringly
and preposterously inappropriate, but that hkory has
already shown again and again that nations are liable
at intervals to such ebullitions of excitement, and that
in proportion to the impracticability of their aspira-
tions, so are the promoters of those aspirations san-
guine as to their fulfilment. Many apposite quota-
tions might be made upon this particulai from Sir

Thomas BROWNE'S " Vulgar Errors," and from Dr.
MACKAY'S " Extraordinary Popular Delusions."
What! we are on the eve of a universal amity among
all nations and races, if we are to believe the
assuaging and mellifluous harangues of the members
of the Peace Society. And at the very time they
are telling us this, the public attention is stunned by
the noise of war from all parts of the Continent.
Denmark is struggling desperately against the
robber-forces of Germany. Regiments are marching
And counter-marching between Saxony, and Bavaria,
and Prussia, between Stutgardt, and ➢lunich, and
Berlin. The Hungarians are battling with the whole

strength of their patriotism against the lesions of two
colossal empires. Russia is pushing forward her
401diers from one direction, and Austria from another.
fhe Magyars are consolidating their new liberties
under KOSSUT ', and the Poles are preparing to rise
in arms in obedience to the encouraging voice of
DEMBINSKI. In the Roman peninsula the tumult of
conflict is, if possible, still more audib:e. In northern
Italy the roar of the Austrian artillery is heard at
Venice. In central Italy the Germans are battering
down the walls of Ancona, and the French are fight-
ing hand to hand between the barricades of the
Eternal City. In southern Italy the stench of the
Neapolitan gunpowder has hardly yet cleared away
from the ruined cities of the Sicilians. At the very
moment when we are told to prepare for a general
brotherhood among races—international war is raging
ill over Europe! Nor is this the only contradiction
glaring through the flimsy sentimentalisnis of the
apostles of the Pacific Doctrine, or, a 3 we should
rather call it, of the Pacific Impossibility. Not only
does ancient, modern, nay, contemporary history,
the history of the time now flying over our heads, of
which this evening's impression of our journal is one
of the pages—not only does the history of the Past
end of the Present show, in characters of blood and
flame, that we are always liable to War in conse-
quence of the infirmities incident to our nature, but
all Annalists, both dead and living, proclaim
the fact that the perpetual preservation
of Peace within the boundaries of any do-
minion is wholly and obviously impracticable.
Why, look at France, look at America, look at Ire-
land, look at Engler-id. For want of any better
reason for contention in the United States the more
pugnacious citizens of New York actually seized the
other day upon the rival claims of a couple of actors
for popularity as a cases Belli 1 and fire-arms
were required to restore the rioters to order, and to
preserve the lives and properties of the unoffending
majority of the population. In Ireland, again, the
brawling of a party of political incendiaries only last
year rendered it necessary to have recourse to strong
measures of repression ; and that man must be wholly
devoid of rational judgment who can deny for one
in,tant that the prevention of further agrarian asses•
sinations has been the result of the presence of troops
and of the vigorous policy of the Viceroy, Lord
CLARENDON. In our own country the necessity for

preparation against internal anarchy and external
violence has been conspicuously illustrated by the
quietude preserved by ourselves, while almost all the
rest of the European powers are contending one
against another, and the tranquillity with which our
Government has been conducted, while our neigh •
bours have been agonized by the spasms of
revolution. But in France, especially, the
impossibility of ever organizing an effectual
system of arbitration has been demonstrated
in a voice of thunder. Supposing it had taken arbi-
tration as its 2Egis from war with the rest of the
world. What arbitration could it have effected by
any chance between the depraved Monarchy and the
outraged People in FebruAry ? IVhat arbitration

could have sprung up in June between the moderate
Republicans devoted to order and the ultra-democrats
intoxicated with their lust aft-r rapine and anarchy ?
Look at the heroic Archbishop of Paris, DENIS

FERE ! Why, arrayel in his sacerdotal robes, and

bearing the olive branch in his hand, he was shot
down at the foot of the barricades. Talk of arbitra-
tion between men mai with hatred against one
another! Talk of concilia!iyn to people infuriated to
a pitch of delirium by their contentions ! With all
respect for the common sense of the members of the
Peace Association, we cannot but see, and know, and

feel, that so long as human nature is human nature,
such ideas are nothing more nor less than sheer

Nonsense.

Last evening there was a meeting of the Peace
Vr.ter Hall. This emi:.g,
which has evoked thzti society will be advocated io

the House of Commons by a di-tinguished Mem-
her of the Lower !louse of Pm-!lament, we mean
the lienourable Gentleman the representative of
the West Riding of Yorkshire. We regret
to see the time of the community at large, and espe-
cially the time of the Imperial Legisla'ure. w:isted
upon notions so perfectly idle and visionary. That
Mr. Emitu BURRITT, honourably known to fame as
the Learned Blacksmith, is a very amiable, as well as
a very clever man, we doubt not for one moment.
But' we certainly must be allowed to question the
clearness of that man's judgment who thinks it at all
likely that BOTTOM'S figure of speech can be realized
in nature, and that Lions can be coaxed into "roar-
ing like any i.ucking dove !" That Mr. BRIGHT
and Mr. STURGE should participate in the labours
of the Peace Association can scarcely be matter of
surprise, considering that as members already of a
religiously amicable association, the Society of
Friends, the question is not to them so much one
of Reason as one of Creed and of Cloth. But that
Mr. COBDEN should have allowed himself to be
infected by this very futile yearning—comparable
only to the child squalling for the moon as for agood-
s'zed sugar-plum—is to us matter of astonishment.
An astonishment, by the way, not at all diminished on
finding that he is actually going this evening to dance
the tarentella of Arbitration upon the flour of the
Senate at Westminster !