The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1849.

Poland is having a bitter revenge in the embar-
rassments accumulating round her despoilers.
Russia, at the very moment when her ambition
seemed to be trembling on the verge of its realisation
in regard to the territorial absorption of Moldo-
Wallachia, finds the smouldering patriotism of
Lithuania kindling again into a flame, the tranquillity
of Cracow endangered, and the indomitable Cossacks
themselves worsted among the mountains of Tran-
sylvania. Turkey threatens to sound the alarm to
the serfs slumbering on the shores of the Black Sea.
H g ary th re atenstoting the tocsin of emancipation
for the races who are groaning under the despotism
of the Cwt. on the western frontiers of his domi-
nions. In one direction the evil arises from a flagrant
attempt at spoliation—namely, in regard to the
Danubian Principalities ; in the other it originates
from ...the cruel assistance afforded to the Viennese
Government in endeavouring to smother the rising
freedom of the Hungarians.
Prussia, in like manner, when apparently on the
eve of rising to the apogee of her strength and glory,
finds herself compelled sullenly and reluctantly to
retrograde in her aspirations. At the very instant
when the Imperial Crown of Germany ;seems to be
descending upon the head of her SOVEREIGN, she
beholds that SOVEREIGN, under the restraints of his
position, forced to reject the diadem so long coveted,
And at last obsequiously laid at his feet by the depu-
tation from Frankfort. Even with the complicity of
the twenty-seven subordinate powers of the Confede-
ration which have recently bound themselves together
in a kind of Sonderbund, FREDERICK WILHELM IV.
finds himself, like Caws and Cnomweer., compelled to
refuse the Imperial purple placed at his disposal. His-
torians tell us that when Corav ea, at the gates of Par-
liament, entered his carriage, after refusing the royal
title and insignia, submitted to his acceptance by the
Commons, he fainted away with chagrin, in spite of
all his constitutional courage. We can imagine that
even the bluff descendant of the great FREDERICK
must have experienced some such overpowering emo-
tions of disappointment, when he repelled the call of
the Central Diet in such hesitating and ambiguous
language.

Austria is, nevertheless, amongst all the despoilers
of Poland, the most encompassed at the present time
with retributive dangers and calamities. Scarcely has
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A she had time to exult over the successes
warriors,RADETZICY, when
of the greatest of all her
she has to mourn over the disasters which have
almost simultaneously befallen one of her
most
vaunted but incompetent soldiers --the infamous
desolator of Vienna
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INDISCHGRATZ.
The lle
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torious campaign against the Piedmontese has been
quickly followed by the calamitous campaign against
the Hungarians. The march of the German con-
querors across the frontiers of Lombardy has occurred
nearly in the same breath with the flight of the
German conquered across the boundaries of Wal-
lachia. And, together with the rather alarming tri-
umphs of the Magyars, the Viennese Cabinet has had
to deal with - the portentous events which, on the
banks of the Maine, have threatened to separate
Austrigs-!. from the rest of the Teutonic family.
Grievotfirhowever, as are the perils in the direction
of Frankfort, they are as nothing in imminence, and
scarcely anything in importance, when contrasted
OIEWSPAIREVIe occurrences of the present campaign against
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