The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-12 00:00:00

the commercial treaty being ratified by an Eng-
lish Parliament, much against the feelings of
a majority of the people, NAroLEoN may
rest assured that a storm is brewing where incon-
tentment is not, and which will require more than
his cunning can master or his power control.

Austria is determined to sap Hungarian patrio-
tism if she can not vanquish it fairly. We have
seen how she has tried force against Protestantism,
but hitherto in vain. There is something in the
sentiments of Hungarians singularly like our own,
though the races from which we have descended
must have been diverse enough from those of the
Huns, Magyars, and Selaves, who were the fore-
fathers of the modern Hungarians and the peoples
connected with them. Perhaps their free consti-
tution, which the bigoted tyrants of Vienna have
been so long in crushing, may have somewhat to
do with it. Certain it is that they couple as closely
as we do civil and religious liberty. They are not,
like Irish Catholics, and too many English Catholics
also, sensitive merely about attacks on their own
creed. They would not falsify their principles and
degrade their creed by pestering all the Govern-
ments of Europe to keep the Romans in slavery to
the POPE, to preserve to his Holiness a temporal
dominion which, rightly viewed, is the disgrace of
the Church. On the contrary, the Catholics of Hun-
gary love their liberty and their religion equally,
and, what is better, are as ardent for the religious
rights of Protestants as for their own. They
rightly see that their own political liberties are at
stake when the religious liberties of Protestants are
attacked ; and though the Ministry of Public Wor-
ship at- Vienna is in the hands of Romanists, even
of Jesuits, they join in demanding that Protestants
shall not be enslaved to it.

Backed thus by their Romanist brethren, the
Lutheran Protestants, 800,000 in number, and the
Calvinists, wlso amount to about 2,000,000, have
hitherto boldly resisted the Patent of the Ist of Sept.
`tie can but admire their spirit. It is confessed
that the patent would bring with it many allevia-
tions of their present exceptional position—duo as
this is to the arbitrary measures adopted at Vienna
in 1848. But the great majority will not bow to
the idol which Count THUN has set up. They
demand the "autonomy," to use M. THOUVENEL'S
Greek, which they enjoyed ever since they were
Protestants, till 1848. The Count has tried arrests
and imprisonments in vain. M. ZSEDENYI defies
him from his dungeon ; and it is plain that even
leading men, men of station and property, are pre-
pared to suffer persecution and martyrdom rather
than bow to the Hapsburg Jesuits. The districts,
also, notwithstanding his imprisonment, continue to
meet and defy the Austrians.
The Count is now, we are informed, resolved to
try if he cannot purchase those whom he could not
coerce. He has set apart about £9,000 for this
purpose. And though the Lutherans are so much
fewer than the Calvinists, yet as the former yielded
more than the latter, he has apportioned the money
equally between the two. The Hungarian Protes-
tants support their worship by voluntary contribu-
tions ; and the clergy are generally poor in this
world. He hopes, therefore, that a few florins,
with the hope of Court favour, will cause a great
many of them to waver. It is expected that the
Calvinists will almost universally stand firm, and
that even the Lutherans will, by a considerable ma-
jority, be proof against seduction; still it will not
be astonishing should some of the districts yield to
the tempting seduction. To what will not Hapsburg
meanness descend ? In this dilemma, however—
whether to accept Court favour and ready money,
or to assert their corporate rights, their self-
government, and their freedom from a Jesuit.minis-
try of public worship—the eyes of all Hungarians
will be upon the clergy. Meanness must be ever un-
popular, and we should anticipate that the clergy
who remain faithful to their Church and nation
will not be eventually losers.
According to some accounts Austria has other
work on her hands. She is arming extensively,
bankrupt as she is. She does not know what to
make of the position of things in Italy. With the
Central States there, likely, apparently, to disobey
the orders of M. TuouVENEL and to vote " annexa-
tion"—with France giving orders to her troops to
be ready to march—with Count CAYOUR collecting
an army disproportionately large for the means he
has at command—what Austria may have to do is
not clear to her. Will Louis NAPOLEON, affronted,
withdraw his troops frOin Italy? Will the Italians
then be able to resist an attack on Milan ? Dare
Austria make it? 'these are the questions which
must now perplex the puzzled Hapsburgs.

Mr. JAMES WvLD, ever on the alert to render
maps a most useful aid to our memory, has already
forwarded to us a Reform Bill Map. It is -very
cleverly contrived. By the help of colours and
simple diagrams, he has presented to the eye the
changes made by the old Reform Act, and those
proposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, not only on the
Ist of this month, but in 1852 also. And all this

without confusion. The eye glances at once to Mr.
WILD'S own borough, Bodmin, the diagram and
colouring about which announce at once that it re-
turns two members, but that, if Lord JOHN Itus-
SELL'S schedule becomes law, it will henceforth
return but one. We have nothing to say against
the hon. gentleman with the aristocratic handle to
his name who at present shares with Mr. WYLD
the honour of representing Bodmin, especially
seeing that, only so recently as the beginning of last
month, he joined his colleague in supporting Mr.
DUNCOMBE'S motion respecting conferring the
Ballot on Wakefield and Gloucester; but if one
Mile be sacrificed, or look elsewhere for a consti-
tuency, we hope the Hon. E. F. L. GOWER will
leave a man of the people to represent the good
burgesses of Bodmin.

In the same way we look to other boroughs and
perceive
counties, and divisions of counties, sod
their future fate—some to be blessed -with a third
member, most, by far, to remain as they are.
The
map enables us to reckon up at once how many
members are returned in each county, boroughs
included, or excluded, and how many are
proposed for each. It is almost an antique..
rian curiosity in one respect. Appropriately
enough, the Old Sarums, Castle Risings, and
Gattons Ludgershall itself, which served
Lord JOHN for an illustration on the Ist—appear
like the Ghosts in Hades—all the slain of 1839
are seen surrounded by the attenuated emblems
which show that they have lost their political life
for ever. The present generation, looking at this
map, will hardly believe that places of whose names
they never heard once returned a pair of potent
sena.tcrs to the council of the nation. There arc?. many
more which ought to be consigned to the political
Hades now—but their time is not yet. We thank
Mr. WYLD sincerely for this Reform Bill Ready
Reckoner.

Colonel Lord George Paget, C. 8., will have the
command of the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, vacated
by Major-General Lawrenson.—Army and Navy Gazettoi
Lieut.-General Sir Henry Somerset, K.C.13.,
will resign his command at Bombay, and return home on
the 27th of this month. He will be succeeded in the chief
command of the Presidency- I,y, Lient.G,neral Sir Hugh. G.C.13., Who will retain it until the return of Lord
Clyde from India.---4, my and .Ara vy Gazette.
Mr. Maelise, the A theneetint says, has determined
to paint his great cartoon in Westminster Palace, in the
Gvrgtun fresco—that is, i the water-W.040