The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-06 00:00:00

exultant feeling breathed through the laconic
despatches of BEM ADA of G rARGFY fl P I
not less expressive in this rtspect u. the
manly and equable policy which has become incarnate
in the person of the great and immortal KOSSUTH,
than the fierce, infuriated, fiendish proclamations of
HAYNAU are indicative of the remorseless and dia-
bolical cruelty by which the supremacy of his impe-
rial master is to be forced upon the population. Are
we exaggerating the brutality of the cause of this boy-
Emperor by using language in regard to his crea-
tures which would be more applicable to demons
than to human beings ? Good GOD ! after the hor-
rors that have been perpetrated in the name of this
puppet-despot shall we not stigmatize the ruffians
who forward his projects in the garb of
Field-Marshals, and Princes, and other high and
puissant dignitaries—shall we not stigmatise these in-
human enemies of liberty and civilization as monsters
unworthy of any feeling less than that of execration ?
Let those who hesitate in responding to this inquiry
pause for one moment while they read a single
instance, out of a multitude of similar ones, indica-
tive of the atrocities done in the name of this mighty
and chivalrous Emperor 1 Let them read this one
hideous incident, recounted on the unimpeachable
authority of BEATHOLD AUERBACH—Iet them read it,
and read it if they can without a shudder ! The oc-
currence took place, remember, even before the revolu-
tion of the Viennese—and the scene of this occur-
rence was nothing less than the capital of Austria. It
is as follows :

"At this moment there was an uproar in the court of
the Aula as in a storm. The dead body of a student
was just brought in, which had been found on the Bel-
vedere, after the departure of the troops. The corpse
was frightfully mutilated, the tongue was cut out, the
eyes put out, the mouth split up to the ears, the nose cut
off, the belly ripped up. All the horrors that the frenzy
of a monster in human shape could devise had been
perpetrated. And now there arose in the Aula shouts
and howlings and heartrending cries for vengeance, such
as I had never before heard. The weEaeu wept and
wailed aloud ; and the men—not students, not prole
tarians—raised their arms and swore vengeance on the
House of Hapsburg and Ferdinand the kind.' I saw
one burly old man, the tears running down his
cheeks, crying out till he was hoarse, Vengeance
on Hapsburg ! Thus the good Emperor has us
murdered, because a single man has been killed!'
In the scene before me I beheld the flames
of revolt break forth in the breasts of the most easy-
tempered people on the face of the earth, and saw to
what lengths their spirit can be driven by infamous
perfidy. To the Diet! to the Diet!' cried several
voices, and instantly To the Diet!' resounded on every
side. Thither the dead body was borne, preceded by a
black flag, that the members of the Diet should see how
the troops of the Emperor dealt with his people. Schu-
selka came down, and pacified the crowd with a few
words; but when Prince Lubomirski set eyes upon the
corpse. the sight drove him stark mad upon the spot—
' 0 Jellachich! 0 Jellachich!' he is said to have ex-
claimed, before the madness came upon him."—A Nar-
rative of Events in Vienna from Latour to Windisekgratz.
By Berthold Auerbach. Translated into English by
John Edward Taylor.
Yet this is the cause—reddened with murder,
blackened with conflagration, polluted with infamy,
made awful by the accumulation of its stupendous
guilt—this, forsooth, is the cause that my Lord ABER-
DEEN and the rest of that squad of enlightened aristo-
crats would sustain and glorify by their very reput-
able sympathies ! We resign the question with
implicit confidence to the consideration of our coun-
trymen—the great and vital question of England's
friendship with despotism or with liberty, with Austria
or with Hungary, with heroes or with monsters.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday
and yesterday.
The Minister of Finance, M. PASSY, presented on
Friday the Budget for 1850. From his important
document it appears that on the Ist of January, 1850,
the total amount of the deficiency in the revenue will
be at least 550,000,000 f., and, as not more than
350,000,000 f. of that amount can conveniently be left
in the shape of floating debt, he proposes that a loan
should be negotiated to the amount of 200,000,000 f.
to meet the difference. The expenditure for the year
1850 he calculates, including the sinking fund, at
1,591,332,077 f., and as he calculates the receipts,
including the duty on potable liquors, at only
1,270,953,849 f., the deficiency will not be less than
320,378,228 f. Such kistate of matters, he declares,
could not be allowed to continue without great danger,
and he thought the moment was come when an at-
tempt ought to be made to arrange the expenditure
of the country according to its resources. He there-
fore intimated his intention of making the following
propositions. In the first place, he proposed to de-
mand the authority of the Assembly to contract a
loan of 200,000,000 f., applicable to the extinction of
an equal sum of the existing deficit. Then, and in
order to meet the enormous difference between the
receipts and expenses, he proposed having recourse to
the following means :-1. The creation of new im-
posts and taxes to the amount of the sum of which
the Treasury stands in need. 2. A new arrange-
ment of the sinking fund, so as to make it appli-
cable solely to Rentes actually annulled ;
and 3. The constitution of obligations for
special services applicable solely to the
expenditure on extraordinary public works. The
Minister did not state what new taxes he meant to
lay on. The obligations for the expenditure on pub-
lic works, he said, would be of 500 f. each, and would
be issued every year according as they might be re-
quired. They are to be reimbursed by lot, and by
means of a sinking fund of two per cent., which will
be set aside for each series ; and the interest on them
is to be regulated at a rate which must not in any
case exceed the medium rate of the Rentes during the
previous month. The new arrangement with respect
to the sinking fund he calculated would be a saving
to the country of seven millions of francs per annum.
The Minister did not conceal that, in his opinion, the
financial state of France was a very grave one, and
the impression made by his statement on the Assem-
bly was exceedingly unfavourable.
After the financial statement bad been disposed of,
the order of the day was read for the discussion on a
Bill presented by the Minister of Finances to
t t
au-
thorise the collection of the direct revenue for the
havingw as
to
recourse prevent
to "provisional twelfths," and the committee reported
year
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necessityso The
for obbjeec Government
of he Bill
in favour of the measure. On the second clause
being read, a discussion arose which had very
nearly produced a sciam in the ranks of the Con-
servative party.
M. GILLON moved an amendment on that clause,
to the effect that the window-tax' instead of
being collected, as at present, should be added to
the land-tax on the property built upon. He con-
tended in favour of this amendment, on the ground
that the window-tax, as at present levied, pressed
very unequally on those paying it.
M. PAssY admitted that the system on which the
window-tax was levied required revision, but he did
not think the present time an opportune one for that
purpose.
.M.GmoN then moved another amendment to the ef-
fect that before thelsth of January,lBsl, the Govern-
ment should be obliged to present a Bill to modify
the system of levying the window and door-tax.
PAssY, in a spirit of conciliation, immediately accepted
the amendment, which he said he was ready to sup-
port. Upon this M. BENOIT, in the name of the com-
mittee, opposed the amendment, and blamed M.
PASSY for taking an engagement on the part of the
Government at such a distance of time, especially
when he admitted that the tax in question was levied
in an objectionable manner. This gave rise to an
altercation, in the course of which M. PASSY accused
M. BENOIT of raising an opposition to the resolution
merely for the purpose of creating a prejudice against
him (M. PAssY), and in the hope of securing the port-
folio of Minister of Finances for himself. Ultimately
the amendment was agreed to par assis et leve.
The speech of the PRESIDENT of the Republic at
Tours has completely allayed all fears that were en-
tertained of a coup d'etat. This speech may be con-
sidered as the personal act of the PRINCE, and when-
ever he acts for himself he does well. Let us hope
that the effect produced by this speech may induce
the PRESIDENT to exhibit henceforth more self-reli-
ance, and to pay less attention to the insidious advice
of M. DE FALLOUX and his coadjutors.
The Presse has the following in the speech of the
PRESIDENT at Tours, and on the article in the Jlloni-
teur on the subject of his tour
This honest speech of the President, which we take
pleasure in praising, is followed in the Moniteur by an
article not less important. This precise speech, and this
formal article, which all France will read, have the im-
portance of a veritable political event. We
do not hesitate to declare, for our part, that
they inspire us with the most absolute confi-
dence and the most complete security. This confidence
may have been changed, and this security troubled, by
the fear that the President of the Republic would yield
to the influence of suggestions and counsels which are
not confined to, the secresy of intimacy. These counsels
would have been blood, and these suggestions fatal; we
know them too well not to fear them. In firmly resist-
ing them, in spontaneously renewing, on the 2d August,
1849, at the end of a banquet, in the form of a toast, the
engagement
the 20th December, 1848, under the sanction of an oath,
the President of the Republic strengthens and raises
himself. We do not doubt that the impression which
we feel will be the unanimous one. An imprudent coup
d'etat could only have rehabilitated the discredited in-
surrection; the same discourse which brands the coup
d'aat on the shoulder, strikes insurrection to the heart.
It is no longer to be feared. Neither coup ddlat nor in-