The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

" Imagine," says the writer, "the madness of enthu-
siasm, the whole heart of a people poured out before
those who had delivered it from long thraldom."
" Not an eye remained tearless, and proud must
have been the moment for both. All the other out-
ward decorations disappeared before the greeting
P of the people ; the flowers so long prepared for the
, occasion were almost forgotten in the emotion of
the moment, and fell often long before those for
whom they were intended had passed." The scene
touched even the EMPEROR himself. Such uncom-
manded, unbought, enthusiastic and grateful joy
was what he had never seen before. I saw emo-
tion pierce through that mysterious and impene-
trable countenance of the EMPEROR," says one
witness ;" he would have been than a man
had it been otherwise." A like burst of enthusiasm
awaited the Piedmontese, among whom were many
Lombard volunteers—the just terror of Austria.
Such a day was worth a monarch's living for—a
noble reward for all the labours and anxieties of
the campaign hitherto, some compensation also
to the living who mourn the martyrs for their
country's liberty, and to many a brave soldier for
his wounds. Worst of all was the lot of many a
wounded Austrian soldier—rather, we mean, a sol-
dier in the Austrian army, who fought by compul-
sion for a cause he hated. But what a tale does
the universal exultation tell ! Where was an
Austrian army ever thus received ? It showed that
a whole population had been bowed down beneath
an intolerable yoke ; that the accounts, not only of
murdering patriots but of women-flogging, of mili-
tary insult, of excessive taxation, of brutal yet
haughty treatment, which had made every heart
indignant in secret, were all but too true. Op-
pression had come home to all. People do not
rejoice thus at the entrance of foreign monarchs
and troops for nothing. The Piedmontese
and French were recognised as liberators--as
liberators from Austria. The future they must
leave; they could not indeed think of it yet. For
the first time in their lives since a few moments
in 1848 they felt themselves men, free men. May
they never be slaves again ! If they would not,
they must at least listen to the certainly disin-
terested advice of the EMPEROR ; they must arm
while they may ; they must qualify themselves to
defend their Italian fatherland against the transal-

pine foreigner.
The more conspicuous joy at Milan is but the re-
petition of the feeling pervading a hundred smaller
places, and indeed the whole country. The same
enthusiasm and illuminations followed the track of
the noble GARIBALDI; civilians everywhere wel-
comed eves the private soldiers ; the difficulty was
rather to refuse the lodging proffered by private
citizens for even private soldiers than to billet them.
From the Valteline to Piacenza, from the foot of the
Alps to the Po, there has been literally one re-echo-
ing shout of joy. May it soon resound to the Ad-
riatic, and the once fair Queen of that Sea, ruined
more and more yearly by Austria in favour of
Trieste, again resume her beauty, and regain her
commercial glory beneath the blessing of Italian
rule !
The same sad tale—of the haired generated by
Austrian oppression—has been attested by another
fact, a fact testified by an Austrian field officer, and
a fact, happily, which was the chief cause of the
utter defeat at Magenta. He told his captors
that " the great difficulty they had to contend with
during the whole campaign was the want of intel-
ligence concerning the movements of the Allies ;
neither money nor threats could induce the country
people to divulge anything they had nothing
to go upon, and were obliged to feel
their way about like blind men they
only knew where the danger threatened when
they saw the Allies enter Novara, and appear on
the Ticino." It is really delightful to think of
these oppressors now seeking
the use of eyes they had so filled with tears or made
to flash with angry indignation. They paid the
penalty in having to face a flank attack of 100,000
of the Allies, before they even knew that they had
changed their front. Italian silence, generated by
Austrian cruelties, contributed more than than a
well served park of artillery to the rout at Magenta,
and spoke, as audibly as the joy-shout of Milan, the
hatred of the common enemy.
And what mean all the revolutionary movements
in the Duchies and the Legations—at Leghorn,
Florence, Parma, Ancona, Bologna, Ferrara ? The
uneasiness, too, of the good Pontiff's subjects to
shout " down with the Austrians," but politely
turned into praises of the French—it all points to
the notorious, but often denied fact, that the cold
shade of Austrian influence, as well as her direct
Administration, were detested throughout all Italy.
It was an influence to prompt, as well as to enable
mediatized rulers to grind and harass their subjects.
To choke, at least, every aspiration among them for

Freedom.
Another gratifying fact is the willing sur
render of Hungarian regiments to the Allies ; re-
giments laid down their arms, not unwillingly, when
they could safely do so. The policy of the generals
had been to place the Hungarians in front of those
savage Croats whom the traitor JELLACHICH had
led against them in 1848. But the exigencies of
the conflict seem to have left them sometimes by
themselves, and they then knew what to do. Hun-
garians did not want to perpetuate the slavery of
Italians to the butchers of Hungarian patriots at
Arad. "We should not have been taken unless
with our own will," they said—" we gave up,
because we hate the Austrians as much as the
French do themselves. Do not therefore believe
that we should have been otherwise taken.. We
were engaged in the war of 1848 " So may all
the nationalities whom Austria has long trodden
to the ground fail her in the hour of trial ! Soon
may she be left to her dear Vaterland and its seven
millions of inhabitants ; and, should the whole of
dear Fatherland take up arms if one of its little
Royalties is assailed—why then—heaven defend
the right ! Let Prussia, however, let Bavaria, let
kingdoms and duchies
Saxony- and all the little
look well to what they are doing. If they choose
to make war on France that Austria may retain in
her gripe the smallest of the states
happenorßhinefromwhen on the
legions
return from
Italy—they must abide the consequences. Russia
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will not help them. The English people will give
their young Princess Royal a home again, but they
will not spend their blood and mone for the selfish
y
Prussians. German arms, unaided, can never with-
stand the battalions of France ; and Germany will
We
justly reap the defeats which she has
invited •
French
shall be as neutral if Germany provokes a
attack, as we are while Austrian oppression, not
Austria, is attacked and driven out of
Italy.
Englishmen have almost as little sympathy with
the Hohenzollerns as with the Hapsburgs. Both
are welcome, if they want them, to lodgings at
Brighton—that is all.

EA little while longer apparently and f
worlds will once more be brought into instantaneous
communication with each other. Another company
has undertaken, with every reasonable prospect of
sueceso, to lay down an electric cable along the bed
of the Atlantic, from the Land's-end in Cornwall to
Blanc Soblon, an island in the Straits of Belle Isle,

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