The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1848.

Three extraordinary facts are visible in Europe in
reference to the resurrection or consolidation of three
important nationalities. France has so far established
a republic within her boundaries that her capital
witnessed on Thursday one of those grand jubilees
which illustrate her history with the pageantries of
the Parisians. Armed citizens to the number of
300,000 or 400,000 defiled before the Provisional
Government, with trumpets blowing, drums rolling,
and colours flying. It was a spectacle of national
exultation, such as might vie with the inauguration
of the imperial dynasty on the heights of Boulogne,
or with the constitutional poinps of the memorable
Champ de Mai. Italy presents the second remark-
able appearance in this hemisphere. Disquietude
in her southern extremities, confidence in her
central principalities, and war along her northern
frontiers—such is the aspect of that penin-
sula. Auxiliaries are arriving daily by the dif-
ferent roads which concentrate about the principal

cities of Lombardy. The most energetic of her lay
sovereigns has himself assumed the leadership of the
armies of Italy. Victory has already shed its glory
upon the Italian tri-colour on the banks of the
Mincio, and more recently at Maracaria. Meanwhile,
under the cover of the defenders of the projected
confederation, negotiations have been set on foot for
the purpose of constituting a national Diet under the
presidency of the Sovereign PONTIFF. There is con-

sequently every probability of a spoedy settlement o_
the affairs of this glorious, but hitherto disjointed
the
country, and the more so fromcircumstance of
the energies of its principal antagonist(Austria)
ing required elsewhere for the prevention be-
oGne of an im-
minent and decisive dismemberment.
another direction is agitated by the throes whichrmanyin
preemanci-
pated, not its emancipation, for it is already
pated, but its combination into one compact anadi:
gi-
gantic power. Towards these three divisions of the
continent the public attention is severally and collec-
tively attracted. Those three great and revolutionized
divisions of Europe form in their position a splendid
illustration of the charac'er and tendencies of the
age; they are to the cause of popular advancement
what the three degrees of comparison are to an ad-
jective. France has riven her bonds for ever,and andin-
is
even now exulting in the sense of her eternal
destructible liberty. Italy has emerged from the
tomb of her recent and prolonged prostration, and
already has a foretaste of the joys and securities of
independence, although the scheme of her con-
federative Diet has as yet only been projected.
Germany,
with a different and more procrastinated
destiny,
is only now struggling to release itself from
the restrictions of many obsolete and feudal authorities.
Hence the fate Germany is more dubious than
the future of eitherf France or Italy. It is necessa-
rily more dubious
f
interests, and from the jealousies the
greater disseverance of its
Governments. jaalousies fomented among its
numerous and petty Before so many
and such incongruous materials can be woven into
one concrete nationality, anxieties, suspicious, strifes,
sorrows, and disastrous evideinCieesso, f ambition are in-
evitable.
Every additional fragment intelligence cor-
roborates our opinion as
is reserved for the Germthaens before they
can hope to consolidate e ordeal which
struggles, the
wisdom, and the commercial and political inte-
rests of Fatherland. A Zollverein is
certainly not
in this respect like the pamphlet of the
sentative of M.icon—" A Vision of the Future."ex-r9Pre-
This is demonstrated by the di.tracted state of
the
Germanic confederation. In the Polish frontiers,
for example, we tind the division of MteaosLawsK
moving towards the woods of Crotoschin, as ifini
preparation for a campaign at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Wax-lights are burnt in homage around the corpses
of the dead insurgents. Off Stettin the armed vessels
of the D Imes are capturing the merchantmen of Schles-