The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-23 00:00:00

one Government with the archduchies Will they
not rather have rendered such amalgamation less
and less possible ? All history shows that the
Hungarians may be easily won, but cannot be
co-erced. They may be broken and despondent
for a time; they may take a few years to staunch
their wounds and to regain their strength,
this has been repeated a hundred times in their
annals ; but the national spirit never has died, we
believe never will die. Against the persistent
cruelty, persecution, illegalities, and tyranny of the
HAPSBURGS, Hungary has opposed her determina-
tion to be Hungary and not Austria. She would
be loyal to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, she would
spend her money, she would shed her blood for
him as her King, but she would not merge in his
Archduchy. The Reichs-rath is nothing to her

—she is a .Reich by herself, and will have her
own Rath, leaving the Archduchies, and the
other provinces to do as they please.
We do not expect any disturbance at present,
anything at least like armed rebellion. It may
take place, but we imagine that the Hungarians
are better advised. A civil war would be useless
now, because they are unarmed, and Hungarian
regiments are carefully removed to a distance. On
the other hand the vexations of Austrian tax-col-
lecting are not greater than the sufferings war must
entail. The deputies will be dispersed all over the
country to advise it to passive resistance. M,
PEAK'S address has been circulated by the hundred
thousand, is everywhere eagerly read, and will
fire the soul of the whole people. There will be
emulation not in attacking, but in embarrassing
the Government ; and then next year, or the next,
or some year, another Solferino may give Hungary
all she asks, and perhaps much more than would
now content her.

The Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PEEL has made
his debut at Dublin as Irish Secretary. And cer-

,ainly nothing could have been more marked and

more gratifying in every way than his reception.

The cordial cheers which greeted the right hon.
baronet on Wednesday afforded the most conclu-

sive evidence of the popularity of his appoint•

ment. And it tells a tale of the change of days
in Ireland when we note that Sir ROBERT was

greeted not entirely for his own sake, bat in

some measure for his illustrious father's also. No
bitter remembrance now of " Orange Peel" on the
other side of St. George's Channel, any more than
of " Scorpion STANLEY" or of old " Buccaneering
WELLINGTON." The asperities of party war-

fare, as we took occasion to intimate in other
words yesterday, have long since given place
to the amenities of more civilised discussion. Our
leading Politicians can be vigorously rhetorical with-
out necessarily reverting to Billingsgate. They can
indulge in irony upon occasion nowadays without
exaggerating it, as their predecessors were wont
to no, into vulgar vituperation. We have come
to politer times than those when the dandies set
the fashion (among other things) by tooling their
drags down to a prize fight, and when a royal
creature like him who was successively Prince
of WALES, PRINCE REGENT, and King GEORGE
THE FOURTH, was looked upon (save the mark !)
as a Gentleman, nay, as the Model Gentleman,
the Paragon of all Gentlemen!! The venerable
ex-Chancellor BROUGHAM—he who, as HARRY
BROUGHAM, barrister-at-law, robed in his stuff
gown, M.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
and so forth, stood forth against that " Royal
Slanderer" as the advocate in the cause of
of the unfortunate CAROLINE—Lord BROUGHAM,
we say, has had the happiness of surviving to be-
hold the change of days, the change of manners, the
change almost, we might add, of the national cha-
racter (at any rate the amelioration of it) to which
we are now alluding. He has just seen the fruit of
this change, of this transformation and advance-
ment, at once brought very vividly before him, in
the eighty-third year of his age upon the occasion
of his first visit to the capital of the sister country.
There en Wednesday—only the day before yester-
day—at the last meeting—the closing meeting of
the Social Science Association at Dublin, Lord
BROUGHAM heard his own illustrious name asso-
ciated with that of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, the
great Sir ROBERT PEEL—and he heard these
two names, when thus coupled together, greeted
with acclamation by a Dublin auditory. It is true
that the orator from whose lips the eulogiums fell
was Professor PILLANS. But the hearers, who gave
the encomiums welcome, were in the mass unmis-
takably Irishmen. And it was when the learned
Professor himself, also an octogenarian, and there-
fore one privileged to speak with authority, it was
when Professor PILLANS said of Sir ROBERT, " to
him we are indebted for a great deal of the
im-
provement in Ireland," that the applause of his
Irish hearers was loudest and heartiest.
A resolution was immediately afterwards pro-
posed by the Lord Justice of Appeal, seconded by
Mr. LENTAIGNE, and formally put to the
meeting by the new Irish Secretary, the
present Sir ROBERT PEEL, the third Baronet.
This resolution being simply—" That the marked
thanks of this meeting be given to Lord BROUGHAM
for his services as President of the Social Science
Association." It was when Sir ROBERT PEEL
rose to put this resolution to the meeting, to be
carried, as it was as a matter of course, by acclama-
tion, that he himself was received with suc h
prolonged applause by a Dublin assembly, thus
giving him welcome upon his first appearance
in his character as Irish Secretary. So cordial, in
truth, was this welcome that, after commenting, in
befitting terms, upon the claims of Lord BROUGHAM
to popular gratitude and admiration, Sir ROBERT
PEEL acknowledged, towards the close of his re-
marks, "I cannot refrain, ladies and gentlemen, from
saying one word as to the kind manner in which
you received me when I rose. It may be misplaced
to make an allusion of this nature on such an occa-
sion as the present, but I cannot refrain from thank-
ing the hon. gentleman who spoke in the early part
of the discussion for the remarks he made with re-
ference to the public services of my father. No doubt,
in this country my father's services have, happily
for me, left behind them a very grateful recollec-
tion, and one of the most earnest desires I shall
have will be to endeavour to render myself, so far
as my humble abilities will render me capable of
doing, in some way worthy of thegreat fame that he
has left behind him. And, though at a long distance
removed from him, yet I will still endeavour to the
best of my power to devote my abilities in the same
course which he so eminently and carefully pur-
sued." Often as Sir ROBERT PEEL has spoken
well and to the purpose before now, he has never
yet spoken so admirably well to the purpose as in
those words addressed by him to that Dublin
meeting on Wednesday. They reflect honour
upon him in every way. They do credit to his
modesty :n presence of his great father's over-
shadowing reputation. But they evidence also, at
the same time, a noble ambition on his own part—
one, the cherishing of which befits the heir to
that, illustrious name and the heir also to that historic
reputation—so far at least as there can be said to
be anything heritable in a reputation. Certain are
we that there is not an Irishman—there is not an
Englishman amongst us all but will exult if, in the
lapse of time, Sir ROBERT PEEL the third, folloW-