The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-09 00:00:00

MARSHAL HAYNAU.

The Daily News thus recalls some few of the more
memorable acts of Marshal Haynau :—" It is wtll
known that hundreds of executions took place in Hun-
gary with which the Court of Vienna bad nothing to
do, and of which at one time it much disapproved of
the extreme severity, as it afterwards disapproved of
the lenity shown. The Court of Vienna had nothing
to do with the public floggings administered to
ladies—acts committed under the command of
Marshal Haynau, and never disapproved by him.
The horrible circumstances of C tunt Bathyany's
execution—the forcing him, though half dead, and
with his throat severed, to tr.e pain of an ignominious
death—this was Marshal Haynau's own deliberate act,
the act of a fiend, a monster in human shape. Mar-
shal Haynau did not do the thousands of his most in-
famous and bloodthirsty acts in Hungary from any,
order or from any motive save that of his own diaboli-
cal and vindictive nature. And even if he did commit
them from order, that is no excuse. No man is bound
to commit cruel and unjustifiable acts because his
sovereign bids him. The greater part of the Hunga-
rian generals who were strung up like dogs in Arad by
the order of Hay nau, surrendered in the belief of pardon,
a belief that the Russians encouraged, nay themselves
shared, for many of these ucfortunate victims were
a knitted to the hospitality of Prince Paskewich's
table. Even from the Russians they experienced
courtesy and humanity ; it was only when they fell
into the hands of the fiend Haynau, that they were
&livered wholesale, not to the military executioner,
but to the Austrian hangman. It is hypocrisy, and
the most mendacious hypocrisy, for writers to
come forward and pretend that Ilaynau only
obeyed orders in such things. Had he not judg-
ment, responsibility, and conscience ? He was
no Croat or Caltnut. He was a German born
and bred, the native of a civilized and Christian land.
He must have learned what was due from man to
man, or at least from man to woman, ere he exposed
the backs of delicate females to the scourge. That he
was ordered to do this is untrue, and it is base to
say that any order should warrant a general, or a
man, in executing, or suffering to be executed, such
an order. If such a man as this, the most sanguinary
and signal ruffian that history can point out
for many years, had visited this country
and brought back merely the friendly notes of men of
high station, backed by the sycophantic praise of po-
lice organs, we must say that it would have been a
disgrace to England. From this the country has
been saved by the brewers' workmen of Bsnkside,
who wreaked the vengeance of the world and of hu-
manity in that way which is peculiarly English—that
is, going to the extreme of insult without effecting
bt.dtly harm."

LANDING OF CONVICTS IN THE

UNITED STATES,
(Fran the New York Herald.)
It appears that 300 c,invicts in all have received
Cleir par:on in Bermuda, and, as only ten have ar-
rived, the ,rein index may be daily expected. It is
stated that they have the option of going to the West
Indies or the United States; but of course they will
prefer coming here.
On the 18th inst. the barque Leontine, Captain
Thormann, from Ilamburgb, arrived at quarantine
with 115 passengers, and was reported to the May or
on the 19th. Before her arrival the Mayor had intelli-
gence that tour of the passengers were convicts from
Mecklenburgh far burglary, and were sent out to
this country by the Government, who wicked at the
ingenious device of sending them first from the pri-
son to the workhouse, and thence on board the Leon-
t'ne. Their names are Toadhim Kohler Johann
Woding, Carl Hah', and Hermann Meyer. His
II( n ,ur camel them to be arrested as soon as the
b. r lue arrived, a-id on being brought before the Mayor
tl'ey were interrogated, and admitted the fact. The
captain was also brought before the Mayor, and, on his
engaging to take the convicts hack, his Honour declined
to proceed against him. They have been there-
fore placed on board. It seems that a correspondence
hag taken place between the authorities at Hamburgh
and the Mycklenburgh Government in refence to
those convicts, and that strong measures have been
taken by the former to prevent a repetition of the
!rick. A communication was also received at Wash-
ingtcn from Hsmburgh, notifying the United States
Government of these facts.

In the case of the Bermuda convicts, the captain
bas also undertaken t) convey them track, and the
offer, we understand, will be accepted. From the
781st page of the third edition of the "Revised Sta-
tutes of the State of New York," we find that the
maximum penalty is a fine of 300 dolls. for each offence.
with impriionment not exceeding one year, but thatthe
fine and imprisonment may be remitted on the mas-
ters of vessels taking back the convicts. This law,
however, only applies to this state, and it would seem
desirable to have a general law of Congress to pre-
vent such rascals landing anywhere on our shores-.
It wi I be recollected that the inhabitants of the
C tpe of Good Hope rose in arms against the landing
cf a cargo of convicts conveyed from Bermuda in the
same vessel which brought Alitchell, and the result
was that she had to put to sea immediately and con-
vey them to Australia. And shall we receive the
prohibited reprobates of British society, who are too
bad even for a British colony to permit to land ?
Nearly two years ago a freight of informers was
smuggled here from Ireland, which created consider-
able excitement. It is to be hoped that no more con-
victs or informers from the old country will be per-
mitted to land on our soil, or, if landed, that they will
be forthwith dispatched to the country from which
they same.