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

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principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant
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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1881.

Austria has done what was expected—she has
asked time. Her political debt to Hungary she
cannot deny, or she would most certainly have
done it. Utterly bankrupt in argument as in purse,
she therefore says, six months hence perhaps we
may discuss the matter again. It is, however,
curious to notice the statements of the Rescript No.
11. with which the HAPSBURG and his Germans
dissolve the Hungarian Diet :-1. The Diet has not
obeyed the requests addressed to it. 2. No benefi-
cial action can be expected from the Diet. 3. It
has misunderstood its mission. 4. It has declared
that unless its demands are assented to further
negotiation is impossible. 5. These demands are
inadmissible. Therefore, 6. We find it necessary
dissolve the present Diet.
Such is the style in which two or three men in
Vienna lecture several hundred men at Pesth—the

style which a few amateur constitution-mongers
assume towards the representatives of the oldest
constitution in Europe ! The Hungarians could
easily fill up these brief rotes. They. had'-
—ecelally one to send
obeyed illegalto nt Vienna iteichsrath, and thus
re prese-`
..urge the kingdom of their forefathers in a
German Archduchy. They could be guilty of no
act "beneficial" to the supreme authority of a
despot, and subsersive of their country's right to
require his obedience to their constitution.
They have not " misunderstood" but per-
fectly understood their mission—namely, that
for which their constituents elected them—to
preserve intact all their country's rights and privi-
ges. They have reduced their demands to the
lowest point which fidelity to their country per-
mitted, and it is those, therefore, who refuse those
demands who break off the negotiation. These
demands may be " inadmissible" by conspirators
against the liberties of Hungary; but not a single
reason can be shown why any one of them is not
strictly admissible, nay, binding, on the King of
HUNGARY, in law. And, therefore, if the Emperor
of A.usTrita, as King of HUNGARY, dissolves the
Diet on this account, it can only be because he sets
himself above all law ; because he refuses to appeal
to any compact, treaty, statute, or custom, and
simply says, stat pro ratione voluntas. No
doubt the other despots, and despotieally minded
rulers of Europe, admire this firmness in the cause
of a monarch's supremacy over law, yet even the
wise r of them may regard it as a kind of Balaklava
char ge. It may be easy to dismiss the present
Diet,, easy to charge M. DEAK'S guns and silence
the gunners in that particular spot, but the Aus-
trian Government has yet to make good its retreat.
and that after having lost everything worth a
Govea nment's possessing in Hungary, unless indeed
occupation by a hundred thousand foreign soldiers
be any honour to the Vienna Government.
How the Diet received the rescript is briefly told
us in the telegram. Indeed there could be little
doubt: that it would be so. They did not feel them-
selveg vanquished, but honoured. They were quite
prep lred for a dissolution ; they had counted
on it;. They had fulfilled their mission—they
had placed on
.record incontrovertible proof
both that they understood their country's rights,
and that nothing should deter them from their
assertion. They had unanimously voted their last
sole= appeal to every Hungarian and to every
frecntln throughout Europe; they had shown to all
the world that they were ready to obey law on
their part, in return for obedience to the law on the
part of their KING ; and nothing remained but to
show that physical force might dissolve their meet-
inf.c.bb ut could not make traitors of them. This they
awl. Not only the Lower House, but tha Upper
one passed a resolution by aslamation, declaring
energetically that the dissolution of the Diet was
i11e0.19 and denouncing also other illegal and
violent acSc. ts committed by the Government ?
11°Ny the, seintERLIN GS and RECHBERGS
have again fall play. They may do what
they can, and they can do a good deal.
They. can harm"
and vex the Hutgarians
who refuse illegal taze„,
by quartering soldiers on
amonths in
them; they can spend the
violence,
bribery, and cajollery ; they
can e indefinite
amount an
amount of annoyance,
suffering, and ill-will.
When, however, the); have done all this, what will
• dP IVill they have
they have game . e advanced one
tep towaxda the aura illation of litmguY under

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Imo Government 'witi the archduchies ? Will they
nbt 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,
DEAR'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-
tainly 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.
went. 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, but 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 do, 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
uueasion
the eighty-third year of -
of his fire'. Lae capital of the sister country.
acre on 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 sue 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 bumble abilities will render me capable of
doing, in some way worthy of the great 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 in 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•