The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1849.

Among the most interesting incidents (if we may
so term them) which marked the entrance of the
Royal Consort into the City of London this day, was
the appearance of the following address to the citi-
zens of the metropolis—an address which was pla-
carded very widely on the walls of the capital :
" OPENING OF THE COAL EXOHANGE.

" CITIZENS OF LONDON.
" Our august and amiable Prince Albert will honour
the City of London with his presence to-morrow.
The Prince will be accompanied by some of the
Royal Children.
s"che object of the royal visit will be to inaugurate a
building erected for the purpose of buying and selling
coils.
" the citizens of London know the perils and
dangers to which the working colliers who obtain the
coats they use are continually subjected.
" DJ the citizens of London know that, since the year
1800, more than 20;000 human beings have been killed
by explosion in coal mines ?
" Do they know that within the same period of time
more than 100,000 working colliers have died, before
they have arrived at the age of thirty-five years from
breathing the deadly glses of badly ventilated mines?
"Do they know that more than 600 people were
killed by colliery explosions in 1847? Do they know
that more than 600 people were killed by colliery ex-
ptisi,,ns in 1848? More than 700 people have been
killed by celdery explosions in 1849!
" And yet the Government and the House of Com-
mons have refused to pass any law to prevent this whole-
sale destruction of human life.

" CITIZENS OF LONDON.

" The Moved Consort of our Queen, who visits you
upon this occasion, would, no doubt, from that genero-
sity and nobleness of heart which be possesses, if he had
the power, stop this atrocious system which daily brings
misery and desolation upon hundreds of widows and
srphans.
" But our Royal Family have no such power. It is
her Majesty's Ministers, backed by a majority of the
House of Commons, who can alone amend the present
laws. And the working colliers ask you, upon this day
of rejoicing, that you will urge upon the distinguished
assembly gathered around your Coal Exchange, the
justice and the necessity of passing a law to compel an
ffisient inspection of the coal mines."
Earnestly and profoundly do we trust that the
benevolent project unfolded in the foregoing appeal
may be met with a becoming response; and that the
royal entrance of that illustrious personage who is
justly termed the august and amiable Prince ALBERT
into the chief city of our Sovereign Lady the QUEEN,
will be commemorative of a beneficent change in the
condition of one of the most industrious and cruelly
neglected portions of the community.

Europe will not very easily lose a recollection o
the weakness, the incapacity, the cruelty, and the
porfitly displayed by the Austrian Government. Its
weakness was so conspicuous that in the midst of an
imperial panic the councils holden at Ohnutz were
compelled to call in the instant assistance of the
AUTOCRAT. Its incapacity was evinced in glaring
colours by the successive degradation of WEI.DEN
and WINDISCIIGRATZ. Its cruelty was regarded as
so unutterably diabolical that HAYNAU, still reeking
with the blood shed in his career of vengeance and
massacre, was for a moment supposed to have
been obliged to retreat before the yells of indig-
nation resounding from all parts of Christendom.
Its perfidy, recognisable, more or less during the
last sixty years, has been brought to light in the
most flagrant manner by the recent policy of FRANCIS
JO3ZII and his predecessor FERDINAND. Dis-
honoured, degraded, detested, dyed in in-
effaceable infamy, and shaken by the shocks
of revolution to its very foundations, the
Austrian Empire still exists exists by
the organized Terrorism of a Red EMPEROR, whose
emblems of authority are the rope, the axe, and the
guillotine; whose representatives are the hangman,
the gaoler, and the incendiary ; and the achievements
of whose reign are the systematised crimes of arson,
pillage, and assassination.
Yet there are mortals so credulous as to believe in
the permanence -of this abhorred and heterogeneous
despotism ! as if the history of nations has afforded
any precedent of the perpetration of a scheme of such
atrocious character I So far does the wisdom of
the historian teach otherwise, that we view the main-
tenance of an empire so incarnadined with butchery
as an absolute impossibility. It is not enough to
say that its maintenance would be miraculous. His-
tory assures us that it is and ever will be impossible.
The despot and the despotism have but one
doom—destruction. The doom of the despot
is that of falling beneath the hand of some avenging
murderer—smothered in his bed, or strangled on the
floor of his apartment, or stabbed in the back, or
pierced by the furtive bullet. So invariably has this .
been the destiny of the Czars of Russia, that
whenever the EMPEROR is assassinated he is bitterly,
wittily, and pointedly declared to have died " a
natural death." And the saying is true, for the
Natural Death of a Tyrant is assassination. The
same with the despotism as with the despot. when
calamities have demonstrated at once the weakness,
the perfidy, the cruelty, and the incapacity of ad
,
farewell to the prestige
sputic Government—then
which might otherivise have induced millions to
obey while they cursed, to fear while they hated, to
kiss the rod they yearn to grasp as an
instrument of
veog,ar.ce against their oppressors. Yea! and such
will ha the fate of the Austrian Government. The
(lay of its dissolution is fixed in the inscrutable
designs of OSINIPGTENCE.
From the innermost depths of our heart we shall
rejoice when that occasion of solemn retribution
shall have arrived. For the appalling atrocities
Which are now perpetrated in the name of imperial
Austria upon the vanquished people of Hungary are
sufficient to cause a shudder to thrill through the bosom
even of the most obdurate and pitiless spectator. It was-'
rumoured only a day or so back that the arch crimes