The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

KING OF ITALY !

England hos recognized him as such—France has
recognized him as such—Europe has looked on
without interfering or attempting to interfere in
the marvellous exploit of this stupendous political
transformation.

Having these historical facts visibly before us, it
.s impossible not to feel persuaded that sooner or
Later in Poland and in Hungary the example of

Italy will prove, by a sort of inevitable necessity,
contagious. Whenever a revolutionary movement
has convulsed France by a rising of the Parisians—
the shock has affected more or less powerfully the
surrounding nationalities. It was so in the First,
the great French Revolution. Particularly in the
earlier epoch of that Revolution, between 1789 and
1793, down to the establishment of that effete

Directory which was to prepare the way for the

Great NAPOLEON'S Consular, and afterwards Im-
perial Government. It was thus, moreover, in 1830
upon the anniversary of the Revolution of July.
It was thus, finally, in 1848 upon the outbreak of
the Revolution of February. Directly the throne
of France was overthrown—firstly, that of Louis
XVI., secondly, that of CHARLES X., thirdly, that
of Louis PHILIPPE, the King (absurd misnomer, as
it turned out to be!) of the Barricades—other
thrones in the surrounding capitals of Europe
trembled to their foundation,or actually toppled over,
other monarchs fell victims north, south, and east
(not west !) to the contagion of revolt spreading
from the direction of Paris among the insurgent

populations. But—the example of Italy is calcu-
lated to act, it may be more tardily, but also far
more effectively upon Poland and upon Hungary,
than even the example of Paris has acted upon the
different nations of Christendom. For the exploit
just carried out by the Italians, first of all, with the
aid of the Emperor of the FRENCH, and afterwards
in spite of the Emperor of the French, is in
n
itself, in its very nature and bearing,
and whole character, precisely the very achieve-
r ment that comes home most directly, both to the
Poles and the Hungarians. -p
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is the example recently set by Italy and the
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been
the This, as all Europe knows,
the passionate hope, the prayerful aspiration of
unhappy Poland ever since the accursed day that
witnessed the final act of her dismemberment. As
to Hungary the work of unification is already there,
is already accomplished—her entcrprize resolves
itself simply into the vindication, for once and for
all, of her political independence. But with Poland
and the Poles the example presented to view, by
the recent annals of Italy and the Italians, must
infallibly prove eventually irresistible. Let Italy
but consolidate, more and more firmly, her inde-
pendence and her unification—and the unification
and the independence of Poland will follow as a
necessary consequence. The deplorable events that
have lately occurred in the ancient Capital of the
Polish kingdom have only rendered more imminent
the political resurrection of this long-buried
nationality. Arising out of these melancholy occur-
rences there has now, very recently, appeared at
Warsaw a long document, amounting to nothing