The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-15 00:00:00

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interlocutors in the play in question thus speak of
the Austria of the period referred to :

" 0 Austria! Thou dost shame
That bloodyspoil: Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward,
Thou tittle valiant, great in villany !
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou fortune's champion, that does never fight
But when her humourous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety ! Thou are perjured, too,
And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool thou art—
A ramping fool; to brag, and stamp, and swear,
Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave,
Haat thou not spoke like thunder on my side ?
Been sworn my soldier? Bidding me depend
Upon the stars, thy fortune, and thy strength ?
And dost thou now fall over to my foes ?
Thou wear a lion's hide ! Doff it for shame,

And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs."
Any man describing the Austria of 1856 could
not do it more truthfully than it was done more
than two centuries ago, by the greatest of earthly
poets, when he thus held up to the scorn and in-
dignation of the world the Austria of the four-
teenth century.
And yet it has been—we say again, we speak
advisedly,---seriously proposed that a " close alli-
ance" should be formed between that country and
ours. The Governments of the two countries
might possibly have some sort of alliance together
for a brief period, but the nations never. Austrian
and English principles are at irreconcileablo vari-
ance. They are as opposed as light is to darkness.
There never can be any concord between them. It
were well that this fact should be dinned into Ger-
man ears about our own Court, as well as at the
Court of Vienna. We need not say that the unna-
tural notion is of German, not of English, origin.
The great danger to be apprehended is, lest Lord
Palmerston should, in any measure, yield to the
Coburg pressure to which, in this case, as in so
many others, he is subjected. And yet we can
hardly think he will. Burnt children, we are told,
dread the fire. Lord Palmerston, of all men in
the world, ought to be on his guard against the
wiles and perfidies of Austria, on the principle
that—

"He best can paint them who has felt them most."
The Noble Lord's experience of Austria ought
not to be lost upon him. He knows that for years,
when in the Foreign Office, he was regarded with
an implacable hatred by the Court of Vienna, and
that all the schemes which Austrianingenuity could
suggest were resorted to, with the view of eject-
ing him from office, and destroying him for ever as
a publio man. He knows, moreover—and the
world also knows—that, aided and abetted by Ger-
manism at the Court of St. James, he eventually
became the victim of Austrian intrigues. Nor can
the Noble Lord be ignorant of the fact that what
' he is now, ho is in virtue of the power of public
opinion—of that popularity which he has with the
people—in defiance equally of Hapsburg and Co-
burg hostility. The very idea, therefore, of an
Austrian alliance under the auspices of Lord Pal-
merston seems so utter an impossibility, even in
idea, that did not our information come to us from
source) which leave no doubt whatever as to the
fact of the notion being entertained we could not
for a moment give the slightest credence to it.
It is not in England alone that the idea of an
alliance between this country and Austria would
evoke emotions of the most intense concern. It
would inspire alarm and indignation throughout
the whole of the Continent. It would be regarded
as sounding, at least for a season, the death-knell
of hope in the bosoms of oppressed nationalities.
It would be treason on the part of this country to
Sardinia. It would be to the sovereign and people
of Piedmont an act of treachery of the grossest
kind,—one to which there would be few parallels
in tho page of history. With the sacrifice of Sar-
dinia to the " perjured House of Hapsburg " there
would be the consigning over to the tender mercies
of Francis Joseph, Ferdinand of Naples, and the
Pontifical tyrant at Rome, all the patriots of Italy,
and with them the Italian cause, so dear to the
heart of every friend of freedom throughout the
world.

But we repeat, the thing cannot be. No matter
what Governments may do, or mean to do,—their
will is not law. There is a power immeasurably
above them. There is the power of the people.
The latter power is omnipotent. The King of
Sardinia and his subjects may rely with confidence
on the people of Eugland. They will not desert
the cause of Piedmont and of Italy. They will be
true to their implied, if not expressed, engagements
to Victor Emmanuel and his Government. And
any Minister, be he who he may, wbo will lend
himself to any scheme whose tendency is to betray
the cause of Sardinia,—which is synonymous with
the cause of Italy,—will be unceremoniously
hurled from his high eminence by the breath of
public indignation.

HILUTIE 01? LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(Front the Report of the Registrar• General.)

The return for the week that ended on Saturday exhi-
bits a low rate of mortality. The deaths, which in the
previous six weeks have been on an average 1085, de-
clined last week to 939. In the corresponding weeks of
ten years 1846 55 the average number was 1103, and if
this is raised by a tenth part for increase populatirn it
becomes 1203, compared with which the present return
shows a reduction cf 164.

Ot the total number 484 were deaths of males, 455
those of females. Deaths from the zymotic or epidemic
class of diseases, which in the previous week were 256,
were last week only 234. Of these 14 wore from small-
pox, 25 from measles, 28 from hooping-cough, 42 from
typhus, 46 from scarlatina., The deaths from diarrhoea
have now fallen to 46. No fatal case of cholera is re-
corded. There were 11 of erysipelas, 4of syphilis,
and 2of purpura. Seven of the deaths from typhus
occurred in Pancras ; 5 in Shoreditch. The medical at-
tendant of a woman who died at 63, Drummond-street,
Somers-town, of malignant typhip, reports certain
nuisances in the rear of the house, and states that the
whole of this neighbourhood is more or less affected with
low fever ; the drainage (he adde) is everywhere de-
fective. A girl died of tetanus apparently idiopathic ;
and a child of erysipelas and abscesses consequent (it is
said) on purulent infection of the blood after vaccination.
Two persons died of carbuncle.
Four persons died at the age of 90 years or upwards ;
two women who were 90 years old, a Greenwich pen-
sioner who was 91 ; and a gardener's labourer who died
in the Wyndham-road, Camberwell, at the age of 94
years.

- Last week the births of 782 boys and 757 girls, in all
1,539 children, were registered in Lond.m. In the 10
corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the average
number was 1,361.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
heig.it of the barometer in the week was 29.885 in. On
Thursday and Friday the mean daily reading was above
30 in., acd on the latter day the highest reading in the
week occurred, which was 30.12 in. The mean tempera-
ture was 51.3 (1.-g., which is 2.5 deg. above the average
of the same we in 33 years as determined by Mr. Glai-
sher. The mean temperature was above the average ore
every day. The highest temperature occurred on Fri-
day, and was 61.8 deg. ; the lowest 43, en Saturday.
The mean dew-point temperature was 52.4 deg. ; and
the difference between this and the mean air temperature
was 1.9 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the
Thames was 56.8 deg. The wind, which was in the
south-west and east in the beginning of the week, was
in the north-east towards the end. Rain fell to the
amount of 0.80 in., the greater part of which fell on
Wednesday and Saturday.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTEBEL
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATLEDAY, OCT. 11
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the 'Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration.. ..... l5l
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. .. 3
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 3
Premature Birth and Debility 2B
Atrophy
Old Age
udden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 26
Causes not specified
r----
DEATHS 7113031 ALL CAUSES 939
1 Population Deaths in corre- Dear l' s

Enumerated. aponding week iii-iiie.
Itisl. 185 Weel, .
West Districts ...... 376 0f,427
North Districts,,,,.. 490,396
Central Districts;, 393,256
East Districts .. ... .... 485,522
South Districts ..... 616,635

Totals
Ma1e5...................•• 484
484
F:ma,les .................................... 455
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Ma1e5................................
...... 782
Fema1e5................................... 757
Total -.

........:....1,539

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