The Sun. — 1860-03-24 (London, England)

NAPOLEON HI. He takes Savoy. He dictates to Italy. He has vanquished in successive wars the best troops of Russia and of Austria. And now in regard to his intimate ally, England—how has he contrived to measure out his Machiavellian policy ? To perfection, he has in a great measure gagged the House of Commons, or at least the Ministerial side of it. He has twirled Mr. COBDEN'S sagacity round his thumb as effectually as if he had been fingering a paper light for his cigarette. By his immense armaments—hie imposing navy and his superb army of 600,000 men flushed with victory—he constrains us (his allies) to keep up in a time of profound peace warlike armaments that cost us upon the year £30,000,000. And having ingeniously contrived to increase our deficit by another million through the medium of a commercial treaty, that yields to France almost exclusive advantages, he compels us, at his autocratic bidding—to please him—to buy his favour—to propitiate his smiles—he compels us to drain the nation by a tenpenny income tax by the most odious and unjust of all war taxes, to drain the nation within the compass of the halcyon year ensuing of £10,000,000. In the presence of all which facts we are expected to fling up our caps for Mr. GLADSTONE as a Master-Financier. " Can such things overcome us "—not " like a summer cloud," but rather be it said like the ominous darkening of a wintry storm —" without our special wonder ?" Whatever our emotions may be, however—we must hold our peace, lest perchance our Imperial ally (having under his supreme command that enormous steam fleet and that vast army of 600,000 men) should possibly take offence at the freedom of our language! Surely Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S famous panegyric upon Lord PALMERSTON must have a very different reading now-a-days. Surely the words should run now—if they be truthful—He is not the Minister of Russia, he is not the Minister of Austria, he is not the .Minister of England—HE /S THE MINISTER OF FRANCE!  The disturbance at Pesth, on the 15th of March, which the Austrian authorities have endeavoured to make light of, turns out to have been a serious affair. The police and Austrian soldiers, as by courtesy they are termed, certainly thought so. They mustered in great numbers, and did not, of course, fail in those brutalities which Austrian men with muskets and bayonets in their bands are ever ready io perpetrate on the unarmed. Had the students of Pesth been French Zouaves, these same gentry would probably have run for it till they found themselves safe at Vienna. We have a right to think so, for it is a maxim in the code of honour that a man who can wound or kill another who is not equally armed is a poltroon and a cowarl He is a brute, not a man.  The 15th of March is in Hungary the anniversary of patriot blood. On that day the Hungarian revolution began in 1848 ; and on that day all patriotic Catholics, and, in n ndli,happily, that is the vast Catholics majority of ungaiy, celebrate requiems for the repose of the souls of those who fell that year on the field of battle and on the scaffold the WALLACES of Arad and Pesth being held in especial remembrance. We who admit the superstition, from a religious point of view, of such a service, can yet admire the sentiment which seeks for blessing to the souls of victims who " cry froiri"the altar before tho throne " for vengemice on their savage murderers. Vengeance which seems imminent. And if we cannot believe that the souls of patriots are, in suffering, to be mitigated only by priestly services here, we can yet cordially sympathise with the tenderness for the peace of such noble souls which is felt by these honest believers in purgatory. But the Austrian Government does believe with the young Catholics of Pesth. More blind or benighted victims of superstition are not to be found in the cabins of Ireland, than on the throne of the Hapsburgs. FRANCIS JOSEPH and his servants believe in the efficacy of such services as the students desired to celebrate. And yet these wretches, having strangled and shot nobler men than them Selves, pursue them, according to their .own belief, into the world below, and having inflicted the extreme of human penalties, to be deire tokeep under what theythespenalties of believe a