The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1848.

Austrita is crumbling into anarchy from tha
anarchy will spring her regeneration. It is a lament
able doom, however, that no despotism so old and so
heterogeneous as that of the House of Hapsburg
car. he transtbrmed into a free and constitutional
Govornment without the nation passing through a
tremendous crisis of ruin, blood, crime, rapine, and
attocity. That doom has descended upon Austria—
it has evecahadowed the capital—it has fallen with a
bligliting ins= nsity upon the palace. 'she spectacle
which is now visible in Vienna is as ghastly as that
whieli, in Psi is in 1792, affrighted the whole family
of Europeans. Nor is the political resemblance
merely superficial. The diverse and heterogeneous
classes ha France evinced as little tendency to
celiesion, even svhen heated in the crucible
of the liberal philosophers of the eighteenth century,
as the diverse and heterogeneous races in the Aus-
trian empire defy all endeavours to fuse them into
one compact and uniform nationality. Whatever
concessions have been made by the EMETrOr FER-
DINAND have been made as grudgingly as those
which only lengthened the agonies of King Louis
XVl.—tso employ the expressive phrase of one of our
mast distinguished juriscensults, they have been con-
cessions " written in the statute-book with the
trembling hand of Fear, 'or traced in characters of
bbed." In like manner the Diet assembled in
Vienna to inaugurate the new epoch has occu-
pied as precarious a position in regard both
to the people and to the SOVEREIGN as the
laat States-General or the first Constituent Assembly.
Da we look for further marks of similarity? The
baead-riots of ninety-hrs.)) We have had them re-
peated by the unemployed Viennese artizans. The
mounting of the i-colour at the instigation of DES..
mounras ? We have hid the same incident renewed
though without the interposition of a second young
enthusiast and a German Vie= Cordeliers. The
sacking and burning of the Bastile ? We have had it
imitated in ite seizure and destruction of the
Arsenal. The murder of its unfortunate Go-
vernor ? We have witnessed a murder as hide-
ous and diabolical in the recent assassination
of the wretched Count Isamu:mu. The devilish
cruelties tflicted on the Princess DR LAMBALLE ?
We have seen cruelties as appalling and infamous
perpetrated on the person of the miserable Count
LaTcra. The flight to Varrennes ? It has been fol-
lowed as unsuccessfully by the flight to Innspruck ;
only that the EMPEROR, after negotiating with the
Viennese, and returning to the Imperial Castle of
Schonbrunn, has again fled from the principal city of
his empire, condteted by an escort of five thousand
soldiers on the road to Lir.z. The particulars of the
last awrul catastrophe which has befallen the dynasty
of Hapsburg-Lorraine are characteristic not only
of the gardPxysm of a revolution, but of the fate which
inevitiEty awaits a despotism. The recent occur-
remses in Hungary have only hastened a day which
must ultimately have arrived. The secret corres-
pondence between the Court and the Ban of Croatia
has, on its revelation, excited a frenzy as terrible as
that which followed the discovered complicity of the
armed refugees and the ill-advised MARIE ANTOI•
NETTE. The appointment of the intriguipg JELLA-