The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1849.

We congratulate the Right Honourable the LORD
MAYOR upon the signal triumph achieved by him this
forenoon in the Guildhall of the city of London.
The event—very nearly if not entirely unpre-
cedented—will combine with others to render the
year of his :Mayoralty memorable in the annals of the
capital of England. Sir JAMES DUKE has now the
distinguished honour of having been within twelve
months elected by the citizens of the British metro-
polis the first magistrate in the first municipality in
the United Kin&dom, and now the representative of
that great city in the Imperial Parliament at West-
minster. We cordially felicitate the LORD MAYOR
upon this testimony of the regard of his fellow-
citizens ; and we felicitate as earnestly the electors of
the city of London upon their having chosen so
worthy a successor for their late respected and la-
mented Member, the honest and liberal JAMES
PATTISON.

Disgrace after disgrace is falling upon the Aus-
trian, and glory upon glory surrounding the Hun-
garian, Generalissimo. From the commencement of the
war of liberation BEM has been the Commander-in-
Chief of the Magyar forces, and the result of his
illustrious rank and of his immense authority has
been undeviatingly the same throughout. Victory
has everywhere followed his movements. His heroic
name has been inscribed upon a silver plate in the
venerable crown of St. Stephen as the most brilliant
of all its inestimable decorations. Meanwhile the re-
verse has been the lot of his antagonists, or (turn
the language which way you will, it is equally accu-
rate) the lot of his antagonists has been that of re-
verses. Three soldiers, designated by the boastful
title of Feldzeugmeister—captains of vaunted repu-
tations, whose presumed prowess and supposititious
capacities were regarded as successive guarantees
for securing ultimate triumph to the arms of the
Imperialists—have been one by one publicly degraded
from their position as incompetent, covered with the
infamy of their cruelties and overwhelmned with the
odium of their ignominious defeats. WINDISCHGRATZ
after giving his name to the everlasting abhorrence
of Christendom, was disgraced in the face of Europe
by the Imperial and Royal Master in whose behest he
had rendered himself an object of eternal execration.
WELDEN experienced a similarly contumelious treat-
ment, only that in his instance the contempt accom-
panying his dismissal was enhanced beyond that
awarded to his predecessor, in proportion to the
louder boasts of his intellectual and martial superiority.
Befe,re his arrival at head-quarters, it was proclaimed
that tile greatest tactician of Germany was about to
redeem all the losses resulting from the incapacity of
WilmiscHauterz, and to carry confusion and de-
struction among the legions of the insurgent multi-
tude. And yet WELDEN only completed that long
catalogue of military imbecilities whichhh debased the.
pride of the Hapsburg dynasty, stunned its
atrocious Government into an
which
of idntahction at a
time of stupendous crisis, and
midst
of
efveteran
troops who reap?d glory even in the defeat,
under the banners of the Archduke citAn„s
be driven back in dismay, to be panic-stricken
en en masse, to b? cut tJ pieces, and, in one or two in•
stances, to he entirely routel, from the day when
the grand army of the Hungar:ans opened its cam-
paign of victorie. in tie vicinity of Debreezin to the
period when it had expelled the remnant of the Im-
perialists beyond the frontiers, and under the walls
of Presburg. HAYNAU, elected to the post of peril
at the moment of the utmost discomfiture, has only
acquired for himself the hatred of his fel-
low-creatures by his unparralleled inhumanity,
and their unutterable derision by his failure
even since the acquisition of assistance from
the AUTOCRAT. So complete has been the de-