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

HORSMAN—through a terror  lest words might be uttered by them that would  possibly give offence to his Imperial MAJEsTi at the Tuileries ! Besides, have we not already allowed Mr. COBDEN, as our Peace at any Price agent-on-thesly, to sell us for all those wonderful advantages (all prospective, by the way—at the end of eighteen t months—and then only to begin partially)— have we not allowed the member for Rochdale, dubbed years ago (prophetically) by Mr. CARLTLE, t-•' the Political Bagman"—have we not allowed Mr. it COBDEN to go over to Paris, and there, in .• a confidential chat with the French EMPEROR, to huckster away our independence of action, of speech, and of policy ? For the which extraordinary privilege we had to yield up £1,000,000 in the shape of remitted duties, thereby wantonly increasing our already enormous deficit ! Siinultaieouely with which wise proceedings we have—because of our Imperial ally, and for no other earthly reason—to expend £30,000,000 upon the year in keeping Up our naval and military armaments!  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, happily, that is the vast majority of Catholics in Hungary, celebrate requiems for the repose of the souls of those who fell that year on the field of battle and on the scaffold the WALL ACES 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 Tictims who " cry from the altar before the throne " for vengeance on their savage murderers. Vengeance which seems imminent. And if we cannot believe that the souls of patriots arc, 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 themselves, pursue them, according to their own belief, into the world below, and having inflicted the extreme of human penalties, desire to keep under what they believe to be the penalties of a  It is a time of peace to us here in Europe. We have no quarral with any European State, least of all with our magnanimous ally on the other side of the Channel. Yet to enable the French EMPEROR his wily policy of annexation,. to carry out to please his Imperial Majesty, we are to pay a war tax of £10,000,000 in this year of peace— we are, in this year of peace, to expend £30,000,000 in war expenditure—France doing nothing of the kind in the way of a similar suicidal sacrifice upon the altar of friendship. So much the reverse, indeed, that all France has to do is to accept unlimited supplies from us of coal and iron (very conveniently for the possible contingency  higher judge. The very superstition of the Austrian administrators condemns them for almost sacreligious barbarity. The living were not permitted to :seek " the -repose" of the dead, because the dead were patriots. Our readers will peruse the account of the matter with disgust. No doubt the " authorities" feared a national demonstration. Everything of that kind they desired to repress; yet even under the infernal police laws of Austria there was no law which which could prevent good Catholics proceeding in mourning to a church to celebrate a requiem for the repose of the dead. The students, however, went from church to church only to be driven from the gates by bayonets. At the Cathedral and even at the Cemetery it was no better. The young men restrained all the feelings of youth; and it appears conducted themselves with admirable propriety. Yet it would seem, that not less than 15 of them were wounded, and many arrested, for doing nothing at all illegal. Of course the people sympathised wholly with the students, and all parties in Hungary will feel equally exasperated against their Austrian tyrants.