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THE SUN.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1859,

Austria was only reprieved at Villafranca. That
truce—though it may be termed now a treaty—was
nothing better for the House of Hapsburg than a
reprieve. Its doom is inevitable. Its destruction
is long since virtually un fait accompli. The de-
struction of the whole of that immense empire can
at the best only a little while longer be postponed.
It contains within itself the seeds of it own disso-
lution. Constructed oat of a series of gigantic rob-

bones, and out of a system of spoliation, she will

"die the death" inevitably among the great Powers
of the earth by a dire dismemberment. Her Italian
provinces are already for the most part torn from her
at the close of a succession of signal defeats upon the
" foughten fields" of Montebello, Magenta, Malig-
nano, and Solferino. The beautiful and fertile

plains of Lombardy she has seen added to the pro-
vinces of her Sardinian neighbour. Venetia waits
but the signal from Central Italy to follow the

course already taken by the Parmese, the Tuscans,
and the Modenese. The strong fortresses may yet
fall before the flash of the sword of GARIBALDI as
the walls of Jericho before the trumpets of the
Israelites. KosstTll's hour of vengeance will yet
strike—that hour 'the tolling of which will
be the tocsin of the fall of Austrian, before the
10,000,000 of Hungarians. And Croatia—the
sound of revolt has already begun to mutter from
that quarter of the motley empire held in thrall
under the sceptre of the House of Hapsburg. An
octavo volume has recently been published in Paris

under the title of La Croatie et la Confederation

Italienne—a book that is little less than a national
. manifesto—the portent for the Croats of the begin-
ning of the end of the great work of their realised
independence. Towards the close of this significant
publication, the writers of it, who are understood to
be among the most eminent men of Croatia, aver :
" The Croatian constitution, sworn to by the ances-
tors of FRANCIS JOSEPH, is but an Utopian dream.
The services eternally rendered to the House of
Austria by the Croatians are of the same character,
as are also the franchises, immunities, and liberties,
in a word, tradition itself." Furthermore, they
speak of the Austrian empire plainly and point-
blank as a power "justifying its poseessions by theft
and its particular existence by assassination. It is
impossible to designate by any other terms an act

so culpable as that of the systematic destruction of

the nationalities." The truth is, Austria is at this
juncture of her history—at this sinister eve of the

close of her history—under the ban of those long
downtrodden nationalities now bent coute get?' co?tte
upon avenging themselves ! It has been hitherto
the
boast of the Austrian Emperors that blessings
have been called down upon their anointed heads by
their motley subjects chauntinr, the gloriesua 'There is
dominion in five or six different' lan, ere is
another tale to tell of them naw—that or six
different languages curses—curses in some direc-
tions not loud but deep, curses in others both loud
and deep—are called down upon the whole malign
scheme of this cruel and pitiless Government. There
is a threefold malediction perpetually breathed
against the Viennese despotism—from Venetia, from
Hungary, from Croatia. It is impossible a house
" so" divided against itself can stand. It is the
monstrous effigy often heard of, and read of, and
shuddered over before now—with the head of gold,
and the arms of brass, and the body of iron, and the
feet of clay. Great will be the fall thereof when
the cup of wrath is at last brimmed up for the
peoples holding it now and fur years and years past

in the uttermost abhorrence. How ends this ana-
thema maranatha uttered in the name of the Croa-