The Sun. — 1849-08-30 (London, England)

THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN ING-, AUGUST 30, 1849  wanting to the effect that that great man had been arrested by the clouds of Cossacks now infesting and ravaging those dominions. Yet, in spite of these tvSss. sinister reports, which sta. in need of every possible corroboration, we are still sa uine that the Chief of the Hungarians will evade the grasp of his bitter and unrelenting enemies, and that before many weeks have elapsed he may stand upon the shores of this land of freedom—the guest as well as the admiration of England. Then into his hands we may pour the guerdon of an heroic and unsullied patriotism, the spontaneous evidence of the homage and sympathy of Great Britain.  While day by day we are receiving the most mournful corroboration of the disastrous intelligence recently obtained from Hungary, we can point with the most elevated satisfaction to a document published in another column, a document the existence of which we have more than once intimated—we mean the Memorial addressed to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Secretary, by several members of the Imperial Legislature. That memorial, the production of the Noble Lord, the Earl FITZWILLIAM, ex. presses to her Majesty's Government in eloquent terms, and with befitting distinctness, the feelings prevalent throughout these islands in regard to the treatment of Hungary—feelings of horror at the atrocious violation of so many sacred rights by the Austro. Russian Coalition, and of mingled pain and indignation at the culpable indolence of the British Cabinet. Elsewhere, also, in this evening's impression of our journal, will ,be found a very simple and logical exposure of one of the greatest humbugs in this age of delusion—to wit, the well known squad of Utopians who are at present disporting themselves in the French capital, under the conciliatory title of the Peace Congress. The frivolity of their arguments, the utter and preposterous impracticability of their schemes, and the monstrous and evil consequences which have followed, from a recent experiment of their principles, are therein clearly and honestly particularised. In truth, it requires no very elaborate effort at persuasion to demonstrate to the comprehension of any sane man that the much eulogised non-intervention system (the nostrum or panacea of these benevolent, but very shortsighted enthusiasts) has recently tarnished the reputation of England, while it has desolated Hungary with carnage, and rapine, and arson, and murder, and bombardment, leaving its fields to be ravaged by barbarians, its fairest cities to be given up to pillage and conflagration, its women to be deflowered, its men to be butchered, and its holiest rights to be trampled down under the heel of an accursed Despotism. Such are the infamous results of that mawkish sentimentality whose predictions are nothing less than the ravings of a delirium arising out of the fever of a diseased philanthropy.  The report of the Registrar-General on the state of the health of London during the week states that 7,470 lives have been destroyed in London alone from cholera since the commencement of the epidemic, and the Registrar very justly adds, that while the present epedemic has excited some talk and terror, the efforts which have hitherto been employed to combat it look feeble and insignificant when contrasted with the vast means and agency which are brought to bear by the nation in other fields for the protection of life and property. We have Sanitary Commissioners and Commissioners of Sewers, each with a well-paid staff of officials at their command, and when we endeavour to ascertain what they have done to arrest the progress of cholera by removing its causes, we find that with the exception of the adoption of that very questionable measure, the flushing of the sewers, by which their filthy and putrid contents have bee❑ disturbed and diffused, and the Thames polluted and rendered a medium for the propagation of contagion, as any one who travels on it may satisfy himself, by the evidence of his own nostrils, these two Boards of Commissioners have done nothing. The Commissioners of Sewers have indeed stated their readiness to receive any plans which may be sent in for the effectual drainage of London, but they are too much occupied with the squabbles of Mr. CHADWICK and Mr. LESLIE to do more than " receive" plans which appear to be treated by them somewhat after the fashion in which petitions are treated by Parliament. Among the various plans which have been thus ordered to be laid on the table, two have more especially excited the attention of engineers, scientific men, and the public, viz., that of Mr. W. YATES FEEEBOBY and that of Mr.