The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

munistic Socialist ; an enemy of property ; a ter•

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rorist in policy; an ambitions adventurer under
the colour of a disinterested patriot ; a
tyrant in the masquerade of a demagogue.
These things are mere assertions, mind'. Now let us
rebut them—not by mere assertions—but by FACTS.
Those facts we will not proffer on our own unassisted
authority ; we will give them on the authority of. a
continental contemporary, on the authority ot a dis-
tinguished journal, the Augsburg Gazette. Thst
journal, by no means fascinated by the principles of
ultra-democracy, after insisting that the Hungarian
Revolution, so fax from being the ebullition of the
avarice and other evil passions of a spuliative mob,
is the outbreak of the national feeling of all classes
of the community, the noble as well as the pea-
sant, prucetds as follows in testimony of the
truth of its statement :—" The whole Ministry of
KossuTu, all his administrative commissioners, all
the Hungarian generals, even most of the staff
officers, are noble. GEORGET belongs to an old
noble family, and one which is proud of its nobility,
in the county of Zips. KLAPILA (burn at Temps
var) was a guardsman in the Royal Hungarian
Noble Guard. Damiasicic is a noble Scryian ;
IioTrroLANTI (who comments on the Waad), the
scion of an ancient family in the county of N ()grad ;
Count OTT) ZICHT commands at Raab; PLRCZEL
belongs to a noble house, numerous and possessing
large property in the county of Tolna; Count PAUL
ESTERHAZY is at C )morn, with the rank of colonel;
ERNDT KIS, Hereditary Lord of Elletner, is one of
the richest nonleo..en in the Banat. He was colonel
in the Hanover Hussars, and commands a corps of
insurgents in Hungry. At any rate, the
gentlemen of the Reuttingen meeting hope in
vain when they believe that the nobility or
Hungary sheds i's blood for the cause of democracy.
The list above given might be easily extended
Count CASIMIR BATHYANY, one of the richest Meg
nates of Hungary, is Minister for Forc iii Affairs ;
Count LADISLAS TELEXI is envoy of KossuTu's Go-
vernment at Paris; Count MICHAEL EsTERHAZY
and Baron SIGISNIUND PEREISZE are the strongest
supporters of Kos,uin in the House of
Peers. The aristocraic names in the army
are Legion—Count BETHLEN, Coant VEESEY, &c."
And yet there are men who have the foolish-
ness, not to say the mendacity, to declare
that KOSSUTH is ultra democratic in principle, a
Terrorist, a Communist, and a red hot Revolutionist.
So far is the Liberator of Hungary from being a
subverter of order, and law, and property, that
he might, with more show of justice, be
taxed with having a predilection for aris
tocratic influences. With the Hungarian Pre-
sident KOSSUTH, however, the only passport to
power and office is earnestness and sincerity of
patriotism. Nobles may be true patriots, as well as
members of the commonalty. Such is the disinter-
estedness of the illustrious man at the head of the
Hungarian Government. Such is our answer to the
slanderers of Kossuru. Such is our assurance to
Lord Jour; RUSSELL that the present movement in
lungary is no insurrection but ts Revolution.

The important subject of intramural interment was,
last night, brought incidentally undcr the notice of
the House of Commons by a question from .Mr,
MACKINNON. This question and its answer, biiel
though they are, are pos,essed of a sad signiticatic►

At the present moment, when the temrible ravages of
the cholera help to swell the already crowded lists
of the dying and the dead, at the present moment,
when another scourge is added to the many ills inci-

dental to humanity, and more .especially to the in-
habitants of our crowded streets and ill ventilated
dwellings, the subject of the public health is become
inure than t ver worthy of.. attention ; its claims
are inderd of paramount importance. The justice
of those claims i~ generally admitted, hut, nevert hetes&
the necessary attention is nut awarded to them. A
spirit i f prwrastination, we might almost say of
wilful negligence, is, unfortunately for all parties,
too much in vogue with governors and governments
generally. They seem unacquainted with the truth-
tul maxim, " short accounts tnsle long friends."

['heir reiterated reply to all troublesome claimants,
the justice of whose demands they cannot deny, is
" call again. 7 If some neees-ary reform be unavoid-
able, at least, say they, it shall be delayed as long as

possible. If some popular boon must be conceded,
the grace of the concession is obliterated by
the reluctance with which it is vouchsafed.

It would be remarkable, if it were nor, unhappily, a
common occurrence—this delay, this unwise and
impolitic delay in carrying out reforms, and adopting
measures concerning the vital interests of the com-
munity. The advocates of a good cause can always
find comfort in the assurance that ultimately it must
prosper. Nevertheless, this is but sorry cons:dation
when all others are denied. Qeousjue tandem, &c.
they ask again and again, with almost the bitterness
of despair. So it was with all the p-pular measures
within our recollection, and so it will be, doubt-
less, till the end of the chapter. How many great
measures are now generally required and generally
approved, yet as far from realization as if they had
never been conceived. In some cases, it is true,

political opinions vary as to the manner and often as
to the matter of proposed innovations ; and those
differences of opinion are, on the whole, save when
exercised from purely factious considerations, of a
beneficial tendency. While we entirely disapprove
of the antagonism of factions, we are forced to ac-
knowledge that the struggle of parties exerts the
same vivifying effect on the political wolf(' as the
ebbing and flow leg of the tides of the ocean.
Ilowevtr beautiful in tht. ry, we altnol fear that in
practice (but when and % k. e could the experiment
unanimity would subside into inanity.
‘bleretarideidiii?,
therefore, that " her MAJESTY'S Opposi-
tion constitutes, in fact, an important branch of the
L-gishiture. They are the spur to Ministerial in-
action, and the drag on the wheel in the rarer in-
stance of Ministerial inape'uosity. In some cases,
therefore, a ddference of pinion necessitates a cer-
tain d« lay, and it is far from being our wish to
diminish in any degree the due consideration of all
important matters. But what excuse can there be
for delay —a deathful delay— in cases which
admit but of oi.e opinion? We might enume-
rate many such : e. g., nearly three years have
passed since the terrible death of BAY-

DON excited universal horror and commiseration.
A great deal was than spoken about the miseries of
trnar of genius, and the national duty of making some
provision for them Nas :-trenu usly set forth. Much
was said; public feeling was unanimous. Three
years have elapsed, and what has t pen done! Again
we exclaim wi h CICERO, Quozyzie tandem—
until how tong shall the public patieuce be abused ?
Iz so oase, however, 40 the dilatorhiep of the legit!