The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

is -vain. The people who have lon g and severely
suffered under Austrian cppr,lsai( in and misrule
are not to be so •easily caught.. They will not
•issume an appearance of devo' ion in the vague
expectation of the future am elioration of their
miserable lot. " The iron has. entered into their
souls." They have had bitter experience of
Austrian tyranny and Austriat duplicity, and
they cannot yield implicit cre6lence to the an-
nouncements that have been made. They are
manifestly not disposed to put their _ faith in
i Princes—of the House of HAISBIJAG.
The natural result has followed. Not a single
unofficial cheer has greeted the Royal visitant—
not a single unofficial lamp has been exhibited
in honour of his arrival ; crowds of military and
of persons receiving pay from Government have
.attended his levee. The wives and daughters of
officials have attended the ball, but few, if any
others, and those manifestly from prudential con-
siderations, in which love and hope have no
,share. The theatre, but for the uniforms that
a.-ppeared, would, even on the command night,
have exhibited a beggarly account of empty
benches. Even the Masquerade has lost its ex-
traordinary attractions, and what, under differ-
ent circumstances, would have been a most
spirited and joyous affair, was flat and vapid. •
The heart was wanting ! The People would not
be made happy on compulsion.
it in true that there were no outward symp-
toms:c.f disapprobation. There was none of the
"goosing" which in this country would have
attended an unpopular personage, however ex-
alted his station. " The curses were not loud ;"
they lalay, however, have been " deep," for even
the mist skilful Mouchards cannot discover that
which. is hidden in the secret recesses of the soul
—parj icularly when the parties concerned have
so manly practical reasons for avoiding publicity.
The Police dungeons still exist, and any person
" groos ning" in public would speedily have abun-
dant reasons for repeating the operation in pri-
vate. All that they dare display is an ominous
apathy, a chilling indifference to the proffered
benefits. They fear the EAPEROIC although profess-
ng to bring with him most acceptable boons.
_ _

What else could FRANCIS JOSEPH reasonably
have anticipated ? Although truth does not always
find admission to Imperial ears, he must have
known that the inhabitants of the Lombardo-
Venetian provinces were necessarily discontented
—that the very name of Lombardy was, as Mr.
ROEBUCK declared, a talismanic word, sufficient to
excite the apprehensions of his Government.
Why then did he not confer the propos©d advan-
tages in the first instance ? Why did he wait for
the time of his visit to alleviate the burdens under
i which his subjects groaned ? Under the
most favourable circumstances, the Vene-
tians could scarcely have forgotten the
dignity of their once glorious republic. The
change to military despotism was one that could
not easily be obliterated from their minds. But
still they would have more readily acknowledged
advantages already received than what were merely
promised. It is hinted that the MIFEROR already
finds that important business requires his return
to Vienna. We believe that the nature
of the business cau easily be guessed at. He has
been bitterly disappointed. He has discovered
the insanity, or at least the fallacy, of courtiers'
speeches, and he will depart from Vienna a sadder,
and, let us hope, a wiser man. Let him profit by
the lesson, which, although bitter, may yet prove
salutary, and learn the unquestionable fact that
a monarch may far better depend. on the affection
than on the terror of his subjects.

A sort of a Brummagem figure-head, carved
(in ebony) in grotesque imitation of The Emperor
NAPOLEON, wn affixed, not very long ago, to the
" state vessel" of Saint Domingo. Everybody
iecollects it, surely ? In fact there is hardly any
need at all to "recollect" merely—for there The
Thing is to this day—ermined, crowned, sceptred,
and all the rest of it (and black in the face 0, in
the person of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor
SOULOUCICE ! Massa SAMEO, Sa !—in ermine and
purple—his wool half hidden by a jewelled dia-
dem—his grimy fist holding the rod of empire—
his splaw feet (" shipped amidships," like the rest
of his race, as JACK would say) thrust into regal
slippers of embroidered satin altogether a
genuine, Black Brummagem Imitation of his

imperial and royal Majesty, NAPOLEON the Great,
Emperor of France, King of Italy, Mediator of
Switzerland, and Protector of the Rhenish Con-
federation.

The Part appears to be just now really a
favourite rote in the New World—one in which
the merest tyros in what may be called, for want
of a better phrase, political histrionics, are for
`• starring" it, in all quarters of the western hemi-
sphere.

Scarcely has honest " BONES," yonder, in Haiti
"strutted and fretted" a little more than an hour
upon the stags of Public Events, in a " make up"
of the Emperor NAPOLEON—a " make up" actu-
ally funnier in its way, all things considered, than
ovcm the memorable one of the late Mr. GOMEIL-
SAL of ASTLEY'S Amphitheatre when there
suddenly starts up before the astonished eyes of
the world, a sort of a Yankee Brummagem
Imitation of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, not as Em-
peror, but as First Consul ! The Thing this time
comes under our notice, not in any of the West
India islands, but upon the mainland of the great
North American Continent. It occurs, in fact, in
that portion of Central America which tapers
down from the southernmost point of Mexico,
from Yucatan and Guatemala, towards the isthmus
connecting together the two giant continents.
It is no longer a Negro Imitation we have to look
at, but a veritable Yankee Imitation—no flat-
nosed, frizzly-woolled, big-lipped Black-a-moor—
but a genuine lean-muzzled, nasal-talking,
-go-a-head, whittling, gouging, bowie-kuived,
revolvered Yankee Fillibuster !
Remember,
the
" Part" this time is not tha of the
Great Corsican, as the Emperor NAPOLEON, but
as the First Consul BONAPARTE. There he is—
no Emperor SOULOUQUE now, lording it over Nig-
ger Dukes and Snowball Princes, but a right-
down,• ~ ,
unmistakeable WALKER—(not ALKER --(not H., but W.)
—.General WILLIAM WALKER, President of the
Republic of Nicaragua !
A somewhat amusing insight has been obtained
moment, in
very recently into the actual state of things at
of.N thisicararg ia, it ab,
the present
to the power and policyremarkable
e
rather
Adventurer. An insight into the condition and
character of his Government gained through his
untoward squabbles with certai •
n of his diplo-
matic representatives. Already several curious
disclosures have been made in this way by Gene-
ral GOIOOURIA--WALKER'S snubbed,
and dis-
missed, and disavowed Minister to the Court of
St. James's ! Divers others of a like kind may
reasonably be looked for soon, from the hands of
Citizen APPLETON Oaßsatrrn—w.A.LKE_a,s
hardly
less painfully snubbed, dismissed, and disavowed
Ambassador to the Democratic Government of the
United States at Washington. Disavowed him-
self, the former of these two mushroom-diploma-
tists, Senor GOICOUP.IA to wit, in his turn not
only disavows, but pointedly and emphatically
denounces to Europe, and through Europe to the