The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

FRID.LY

View of Rome —Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instrumental,
.conducted by Mons. JULLIEN, whose splendid Band of Sole Per-
formers incln,les Messrs. Baker, Barrett, Bauman, George and Viotti
Collins,- Clan, Collinet, Kcenig, lazarv, Richardson, Sonnenberg,
Lc.—Two Solos each Evening. —Several favourite Songs by Miss
Sara Flower and Miss Huddart during the Evening.—Also to be seen,
during the day, the beautiful Menagerie—Shakspere's House—the
Magic Bridge—and other novelties will be exhibited, the whole
concluding with a most magnificent and not to be rivalled display
-of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing the Girandola
during the Holy Week at Rome.
Gates open at Ten A.M., Feeding Time Fivo—Jullien's Concert at
Six—Fireworks at Nine.
Admission, as usual, One Shilling.

THE WEATHER.—SON OFFICE, AUGUST 15.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest. 56 ; Noon, 6
BAROMETER, 29.98.—W1ND N.N.W.; cloudy.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 15 min. after 2 I Evening •• 35 min. after 2

Germany has begun the work of her regeneration
badly she has accompanied the revival of her
nationality with two acts of atrocious, and lawless
spoliatimne Both these acts, moreover, are immediate
emanations from ttteetinprincipled an&self-aggran-
dizingpeTicy of the rruplan Governinen.t. They have
both originated in the cupidity of conquest, which has
been. insepaeahle from-the Cabinet of Berlin from
the time of the Great FREDERICK downwards. Shall
we name these two attempts at territorial absorption ?
Are they not notorious to the whole of Christendom ?
The integrity of the panish dominicA is assailed
without the smallest .prosepation, in one`idirection ;
the hortour .and the,: glcity. of the last shadow of
However much we may be disposed to pursue the
even tenour of our way, careless as to the future,
Poland 'isinsulted in another. Assuredly the ven-
g
and indifferent as to the past, the continual recur-
eance of the more generous-hearted nations in
rence of some particular anniversary renders such a Europe will descend upon the head of the robber-
proceeding absolutely impossible. The present day, King, upon the councils of the accomplice-
the .15th of August, is one of these. It is a day statesman, upon the deliberations of the
which brings before us the buried memories of the shameless Parliament, which have severally
past—a day which invests with a peculiar signifi- conceived, abetted, and enforced these infamous deeds
cance many of the events of the passing hour--a day of appropriation. If England remains passiVe while
which, by the associations that it evokes, teaches us Schleswig is being amalgamated with Holstein, and
what to look for and what to hope for in the future• while the independent duchy of Posen is being splin-
No idle souvenirs are connected with this day—the
tered into mere provinces of the Germanic Confede-
memories which it conjures up constitute in them- ration, the remembrance of her indifference to the
selves an epoch, and a momentous epoch, in the his- sacred rights of Denmark and Poland will press for
tory of the world. The 15th of August irresistibly ever upon her memory like a crime, and upon her
recalls to us a 15th of August seventy-nine years conscience like a remorse. We cannot think, how-
ever, that England will act in a manner so derogatory
ago, when a new-born infant, breathing for the
first time the breath of life, lay cradled to her greatness ;we cannot think that she will dege-
on a tapestried carpet, representing the heroes
nerate from the arbiter of the destinies of the sur-
of the Iliad—heroes whose fame he was him- rounding races, into the accomplice of the atrocities
self destined to emulate and to eclipse. With the committed by a daring monarch and an insensate
history of that child is inseparably associated the Assembly. When the Spanish rulers evinced an incli-
history of the world, or at least of the European nation to transform a temporary dictatorship into a
world, during the period of his existence, and hence permanent despotism, the representative of her Bri-
the day which reminds us of the one recalls us to tannic Meeesreprotested against their unnatural effort
the other. As he grew to manhood the world in. at domination—and all those who read history aught
which he lived was agitate,) as with a moral tornado, rejoiced that the Administration of England encrea-
Thu chains which had bound the nations of the earth voured even by these extraordinary means to preserve
for long' centuries were rudely snapped asunder; constitutional liberty to the Spaniards, to these
crowns were torn from brows which had seemed only Spaniards whose polititical emancipation was purchased
made to wear them, and thrones laid low, whose by British blood, and British gold, and British braver
foundations had appeared to he of eternal strength. A and whose freedom was guaranteed by the stipulation's'
whirlwind passed over the European Continent, ter- of British diplomatists. 'When the neutrality of the
rible and devastating as the Simoom. Every Papal States was violated by the soldiers of Austria
social landmark was uprooted—in the place of when the garrison of the citadel of Ferrara pressed
despotism and servitude all was anarchy and southwards beyond the frontiers of Lombardy, England
chaos. Yet, awful and lamentable as were many protested against the unjustifiable interference with
of the consequences of that mighty movement, the the arrangements of treaties and the rights of sove-
spirit which inspired it was sublime, and its primitive reigns. When the political factions of Portugal flew
object a most glorious one. Fettered as they were to arms among the fastnesses of Lusitania, England
by the remnants of feudality, a consciousness of their stretched the buckler of her mediation between the
just rights had imperceptibly infused itself into the combatants, and prevented an unnecessary effusion of
minds of the people ; dreams of liberty haunted their blcod through the interposition of her plenipotenti-
imaginations—dreams rendered doubly beautiful by aries. When, in fine, the diabolical tyranny of
their contrast to the wrongs and the slavery and the Naples—that tyranny which is incarnadined by the
contumely Of their waking hours—and their hearts blood of free citizens slain by assassins among their
yearned to realise those visions. The people arose, household laces, and butchered by mercenaries under
strong as a lion aroused from sleep, resistless as a tor- the sacred shelter of their rooftrees—when, we say,
rent bursting its boundaries, and remorseless as men the diabolical tyranny of Naples evinces a de-
maddened by a sense of wrong. This mighty move- termination to murder the new-born, or rather
ment, holy in its impulse anti awful in its effects, the newly-revived nationality of Sicily, and
heaved the surface of society and agitated the to secure to itself the continued possession of that
heart of Christendom when he who was island at the expense of the lives and properties of its
born on the fifteenth of August reached population, the heart of England leaps in its bosom
the years of manhood. He recognised the with indignation, and the Government of England
revolution, and the revolution recognised him. He already betrays its determination to prevent this ebul-
recognised in the spirit by which it was animated the lition of regal animosity. If, therefore, the Cabinet
counterpart of that enthusiasm which stirred the of the United Kingdom conceives itself to be justified
depths of his own soul, while it recognised in him, as in its interposition in favour of right against might,
it were, the voice which should give utterance to its in the instances of Spain, of Portugal, of the Papal
thoughts. It accepted him as its leader. He ap-
States, and of Sicily, when the acts of aggression are
: peased its intestine discords, he concentrated its
of comparative insignificance—is it just, is it honour.
• divided energies, and in the might of unity rendered able, is it seemly on the part of that same
•it invincible. The revolution triumphed, and tri- Cabinet to wink at the spoliations committed upon
imphed gloriously. Hereditary rulers and feudal Denmark and upon Poland, without assuming a posi-
li
ords, disposieised of their inheritances—inheritances tiers worthy of its dignity, or without expressing its
which they regarded as inalienable—looked on with abhorrence in the only language compatible with the
horror and indignation. Their sufferings, and perhaps
n fear of participating in th • eu- fate, awoke the sym- reputation of the Angle-Saxons ?
It cannot be forgotten that almost immediately after
pathy of all possessed of similar rights. Des-pots and the upholders of the concessions made to the inhabitants of Posen, in
t. espotism coalesced__
they united to emulate theconsequence of their sympathy with the revolutionists
attempt of CANUTE
papularbnciroa.chments. of Berlin—the promises of FREDERIC Menefee were
and arrest the advance of
ra intention. broken—the inalienable rights of the duchy were set
But they could not proclaim aloud their
Such a declaration would have effectually at defiance—the treaties of 1815, as well as the
their prospects and rung their death-knell. No,i annihilated Royal proclamation of Xay 15 of the same
could not declare their antagonism to the spradleyf year, were flagrantly cast to the four quarters of heaven
—an p Prussian remnant of
d a new artition of the popular liberty. They could not whisper a hope of Poland seemed to consummate the woes of that noble
bringing back the times that were. They cautious' but ill-doomed land. On the 24th of March a Cabinet
dissembled all this—they only proclaimed themselves
the order appeared in the official journal of Berlin, pro-
oncethe antagonists of one individual—of him who
miring the national re-organization of the whole
the offspring and the leader of the revolution,
tbreafndllDuchy of Posen. On the 14th and 26th of
They declared war to the death against him,
trar
bermY
and for reasons the most plausible and apparently
bowing April Cabinet orders of a directly con-
ecataracftetrb were issued, announcing the disrnem-
considerable rtditianchyinandtbe the absorption
of oftbea
righteous. Patriotism, love of liberty, loyalty,
self-defence, the most powerful sympathies were
enlisted in their behalf. They crushed him. Germanic Co :of
From almost unlimited power he was reduced , 27th of Jul nederation. Since then, on the
y, this monstrous and audacious deed of

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