The Sun. — 1860-04-21 (London, England)

HAPSBURG. They had their animosities of race with each other, but generally, perhaps always, if their national rights and customs were not interfered with, fought and shed their blood for their common Sovereign. It was, however, the unlucky ambition of these rulers to aspire to a fused and amalgamated empire. They must not only reign, but reign over one people. Government must be central:sed and administered from Vienna. It was not enough that the reigning  HAPsBuuG should La Archduke of his hereditary States and King of Hungary, but he must be Emperor of one State, all parts of it governed in precisely the same way. It must be fenced out with the trimclippell hedges of German bureaucracy, from the Tyrol to Transylvania, from Gallicia to Croatia and Dalmatia.  It was the excessive pressure of this Germanising centralisatior, and the perfidies and infractions of treaties to which it led, that produced, in reality, tha Hungarian insurrection of 1848. This attempt to regain their ancient rights resulted in  the EMPEROR'S infamous treachery in employing the savage JELLACHICPI against his own subjects, while he denounced him to the same subjects, and this again was followed by the Hungarians dethroning their traitorous monarch and proclaiming a repub lie. The despot NICHOLAS, trembling for a brother despot, placed Hungary again at the feet of her tyrant ; and ever since then the system of entire subversion of Hungary's ancient constitution,begun by the murders at Arad, has been relentlessly pursued. All that soldiers, police spies, German officials, and concordats could do has been done. Ancient landmarks were effaced, artificial arrangements were made, the country was parcelled out anew till it hardly knew itself, and the last attempt, which we have heard so much of, was the "patent," a proposed concession to Protestants, but really, as the Hungarians regarded it, another attempt to destroy old arrangements under the guise of liberality. It now appears that these attempts are likely to be given up. Bankrupt and beaten, the Germans, who compose the governing portion of the Austrian empire, are in no position to resist longer the demand of the non-German nations for the restoration of the;r natural rights, laws, administration, and customs. Hungary:is either the strength or the weakness of Austria. A brave and vigorous race, the Hungarians could enable her to defy her potent neighbour on the east and on the west. Enjoying  their liberties under a King of HUN GARY, who might be Emperor of AUSTRIA too, neither Russia nor France could attack successfully an empire of which they formed a contented part. If Austria be but wise enough to see this, she might be stronger than she has been for half a century at least. If, in addition, she would take a fair price for the emancipation of Venetia, whose Italian population ' she can never conciliate ; if she would then commence a course of conciliation towards ee all the races comprised in her dominions, she omight r, w become a powerful state indeed. This, however, supposes a wisdom rarely given to Monarchs, a sacrifice of pride to lemon and generosity which they can rarely make. Bystander:a perceive how easy it would be to render the Austrian States a cordial confederation for their common • de_ fence, under the crown of the EMPEROR; but, unfortunately, Emperors think it their glory that their subjects should be obliged to obey whether they will or not. They deem it a degradation to govern through liberty and love—an honour to rule by coercion and fear. Well if the necessities of Austria convert her to a better mind.  It is certainly curious to speculate upon tha results that will probably flow from one part at least of the varied series of modifications introduced by Treaty and by Budget into our commercial relations with France. The 53. 9d. duty per gallon upon wine dropping suddenly, promises the convivial, threatens the teetotallers, in England with the delights or the terrors (accordingly as they view this alteration), of a vinous inuidation. Beer drinking England has at length the prospect of slakeing its thirst henceforth upon the luxurious beverage hitherto restricted in its consumption on this side of the Channel to the Upper Ten Thousand. The sluice-gates from the vats of Bordeaux are lifted, moreover, upon the very morrow, as it were, of the inauguration of the system of the public wayside drinking fountains. The mantle of good Fathr ATH EW has partially descended upn the shoulders or Mr,