The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

THEi SUN, LONDON; FRIDAY VENING, AUGUST 30, 1861.

insignificance England will of course never enjoy"
—whereat, as a matter of course, the people listen
ing—laughed. And Lord PALMERSTON then went
on to say—" The security which arises from a
state :of perfect defence, unconnected with any
notions of aggression, not employed hastily against
one, but continued solely and mainly with a deter-
mination to defend and maintain what we have—
that security I trust the country will long continue
to hold, and so far from that being a reason why
the most friendly relations should not be main-
tained with every foreign power in the world, in
my opinion, on the contrary, it is the only true,
stable, and secure foundation on which those
friendly relations and peace can for any Ilength of
time be maintained." Often as this old argu-
ment has been employed before now in the
same good cause—it has been here used so
admirably well and with so much autho-
rity by Lord PALMERSTON, that we commend
it almost as though it were something new to our
(so-called) economical friends, or as we should
rather put it, not so much economical as penny wise
and pound foolish day-dreamers, the Advocates of
Peace at any Price. Instead of allowing JOHN
BULL to listen to the sound of approaching danger
so as to afford him the opportunity of guarding
himself rationally against it—these wiseacres would
treat that old mariner, we suppose, somewhat as
another "Ancient Mariner," to wit ULYSSES, was
treated according to the Odyssey—thinking they
have done everything cf course when they have
stuffed his ears with cotton ! A capital device, not
a doubt of it, in the one instance. But really not
in the least applicable in the other. Perhaps the
fact really is, however, after all, that it is no other
than the Peace at any Price People themselves who
have their own ears stuffed so tightly with Cotton
—that they can't hear in the least those ominous
threatenings of war that are all the while more or
less audible to everybody else.

no more, even with English eyes, we look at
the message of the Emperor of AUSTRIA to his
tool, the Reichsrath, the more we must see its
intolerable arrogance and falsehood. "Every line
a lie," we have already found to be true of its
former half ; and nothing better can be said of the
latter part. One of the most hateful features of it
is, the old attempt to stir up the feelings of the
petty nationalities which belong to the Kingdom
of Hungary against her. The paternal and
wheedling style is adopted in regard to them, in
the hope that they may be led to keep aloof from
Hungary, and accept separate municipal govern-
ment, and send their deputies to the Reichsrath.
The history of their position since 1848 should
not be forgotten. The Vienna Government, in that
year, while professing to treat them as rebels, and
even to war against them, because they attacked
Hungary, was proved by the evidence of its own
treacherous despatches to have stirred them up, by
all kinds of magnificent promises of freedom and
independence, and by bribing their leaders, to assail
the Hungarians. Vanquished by the latter, but
all soon after being brought by dint of Russian
arms under the hoof of Austria, these partes
annexe, as they are termed, of the Hungarian crown
quickly found that their liberties had vanished with
the independence of Hungary. Naturally, however,
two evil consequences followed; first, the Hungarian
laws of 1848 could not be made so favourable to these
petty nationalities, as they would have been, in
consequence of the rebellion amongst them which
Austria had stirred up. Next, after 1849, and
when all were placed by Russia under Austria,
there was much bitter feeling remaining between
the Hungarians and these provinces. One side
felt that it had been deeply wronged, the other
knew that it had done the wrong, and also saw
that it had gained nothing by it ; indeed, the
partes annexe lost the liberties they had before
enjoyed. Ten years, however, of Austrian oppres-
sion and perfidy had healed these wounds by the
time Austria received her great lesson at Solferino.
Croats, Sclavonians, Dalmatians, and all, indeed,
were willing to forget and forgive, and to reunite,
as one kingdom of Hungary, in order to regain
their liberties from Austria.

It is to meet this formidable union that Austria
is now using all her efforts to cajole and wheedle
again all these petty provinces into acting sepa-
rately from Hungary. To some extent she has
already succeeded, and hopcs to succeed yet more.
The teaching of Austria consists in this :—That
these countries have never been independent nations
in regard to her, as Hungary was, and legally is,
but that, even under Austrian rule, they have al-
ways formed a part of the kingdom of Hun-
gary, and belonged to the Hapsburgs for
that reason. It is obvious that these pro-
vinces must be demented, if they can be
again induced to separate themselves from Hun-
gary, and to amalgamate with Austria through
sending deputies to the Reichsrath. The latter
is a mere creation of the EMPEROR'S whim. The
Hungarian Diet is an old and free assembly, in
which they through their deputies have long en-
joyed a full and free representation. Austrian
intrigues have succeeded, at present, in prevent-
ing Croatia from sending deputies to the Hun-
garian Diet—but it has also refused to send them
to the Austrian Reichsrath. Hence the honied

o make these utterly illegal, inconsistent, and re •
volutionary documents tie unalterable basis of the
future constitution of Hungary, as well as of the
rest of the Empire. The Diet is lectured for having
at first, certainly quite legally, refused to FRANCIS
JOSEPH the title of King, and afterwards for having
refused to take an illegal course at the bidding of
the EMPEROR, It remains, therefore, now to be
seen whether the will of the EMPEROR or that of
the nation is to prevail—that of one man or that
of many—of one man against law, of eleven mil-
lions on the side of law. Ile hopes to find Hungary
penitent in six months, and touched to the heart
with his " unexampled indulgence." We hope he
will find her more resolved than ever, and yet more
indignant at his unexampled effrontery. Would
that a political earthquake might before that time
shake him off his throne, and send him to enjoy the
sea sir at Brighton.

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TURIN, AUG. 30.

The King will receive M. Benedetti, the new
French Minister Plenipotentiary, on Saturday
next.

PARIS, Aro. 30.

The ,Coniteur of to-day contains an Imperial
decree, according to which foreign wheat and corn,
no matter of what kind or whence exported, may
be temporarily imported free of duty, for grinding
under the conditions of the law of July 5, 1836.

This decree also determined the conditions of re-

exportation.

Under the head of " Latest intelligence " La
Patrie has the following :

" Rear-Admiral Bonnard sails on the sth of Sep-
tember for Saigon. Detachments of troops destined
to garrison our new colony in Cochin China have
already left. The employes for working the electric
telegraph, the Government press, for the post-office,
finances, &c., are nearly all appointed, and will
sail shortly for their destination."

PESTI', AUG. 29

The Stadtholder, in an ordinance published to-
day, declares that the Comitat of Pesth, by its pro-
test against the dissolution of the Diet, has attacked
the rights of the King, and orders the immediate
discontinuance of the sittings of the Assembly of
the Comitat.

The conscripts have been ordered to assemble on
the 9th of September. Any person preventing the
soldiers from obeying the order will be tried by
court-martial, and severely punished.

THORN, AUG. 29,

The Warsaw journals of yesterday publish an
Imperial Rescript, addressed to General Lambert,
the tone of which is conciliatory. The Emperor
gives orders to General Lambert for the pacifica-
tion of the kingdom, with the co-operation of in-
telligent citizens, and promises that Poland shall in
future enjoy greater independence. His Majesty
also declares that he will entirely forget the events
of the past.