The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-23 00:00:00

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Edgar, Mr.
Alien ; Ashton, Mr. Weiss ; Lucy Ashton, :Mlle. I)i Roussi.
After which, a new Faroe, entitled TIIE MODEL COUPLE, in
Mtssts. 02iberry, G. Cooke, Mrs. Selby, and Miss E. Stanley will
perform.
To conclude with the Burletta of MIDAS. Apo 10, Miss Poole.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless autheftti,
ca(ed by the, name and address of the writer.
rif,,vted communications cannot be returned.

WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, NOVMEBER 23.
TH,;a3SOMETER, Lowest, 41; Highest, 53, Noon, 51

BARONE'rEII, 29 26.

WIND W.S.W. ; sun shine and cloudy, with occasional rain.

111(111 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
1./urning .. 12 min. after 12 !Evening .. 32 aim after 12

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1848.

Latterly we have observed the infusion of retro-
gressive principles into the columns of our Tory Con
temporaries. To a very enormous extent the jour-
nalism of London has been innoculated with the virus
of Absolutism. We have regretted this. -We have
regretted it profoundly—not only because the cha-
racter of the press of England has been thereby mos'
lementabl/ compromised, but because the perverse
vguments of our brother journalists have induced
them to descend to the grossest distortions of truth,
and to the most odious misrepresentations of the
Democratic movement on the continent. Having
once undertaken to prove that the conduct of the re-
trograde Sovereigns has been marked by the most
ex(mplary consistency throughout, and that the pro-
ceedings of the revolutionary party have, on
the contrary, been the result of the moat
diabolical aberrations of the national intel-
lect
—it is in no respect surprising that
nContemporaries should be compelled to bol-
os
terr up their assertions by every logical or illogical
contrivance, no matter how transparent its insin-
cerity, or how flagrant its extravagance. Not con-
tented with publishing their own adverse opinions,
they are at last driven to
thest necessity of printing in
corroboration a mass of
merit rather contempt thanate.ments so garbled as to
ndignation. We write
this more in sorrow than in
ge
any English newspaper shouldanendrevou —in Borrow that
an unfortunate and conquered nationalitya r to reduce
the medium of narratives emanating from men
through
m
on their own showing are too base and coldebnl who,
in their calumnies to deserve one moment's coZdedd
e.
ration. The communication to which we are
here about to make particular reference is one
characterised by so much turpitude and
heartlessness as to be only comparable to the
notorious red-paper treaty, which elevated MEER
JAFFIER to the Viceroy al Throne of Moorshedabad,
while it plunged the astute intellect of OXICHUND
into the horrors of idiotcy and premature decrepitude.
The paper to which we have here made reference
purports to be a narrative of recent occurrences in
the Austrian capital, from the pen of a gentleman
travelling through Southern Germany, and who
hixnself participated first in the defence and subse-
sequently in the bombardment of the city of Vienna.
The writer is described as a member of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, and his description of several events
of the siege, a description originally inserted in the
columns of the Times, has been lauded as "admirably
graphic" by our Contemporary. Ilow highly this gra-
phic portraiture may tend to elevate in public estima.
tiers
the character of the Oxford University,
in as far as the author of this narrative may be re
girded as a specimen of collegiate morality, we leave
our reader to decide, after he has perused a few sig-
nificant excerpts from the letter of the Tirnes' Corres-
pondent.
After informing us rather superfluously of a ma-
laria fever which nearly caused his death amidst the
classic scenes of Thermopylae, the troubadour of
Despotism recounts in a few words his arrival in the
Austrian metropolis, immediately before the great

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