The Sun. — 1848-12-01 (London, England)

JELLACHICEI. To-day they are absolutely beside themselves with rage because CAVAIGNAC has generously dispatched assistance to the noble and generous-hearted PONTIFF who was, only the ether day, bombarded by murderers in his palace of the Quirinal ! An idiot like the KAISER cannot be driven forth by a population infuriated by the treacheries of his Government, without agitating this class of politicians into a perfect ecstacy of indignation ; while a paternal patriot like the POPE may be besieged in his place of residence by a band of ruffians, his Prime Minister may be stabbed like a dog in the light of noon day, his Secretary—oneof kis oldest and dearest friends, and one of the most inoffensive of nsen—may be shot dead in the privacy of his chamber while reading his breviary, and then when a guard of honour is dispatched to the Eternal City, to save from the hands of assassins a Prince venerable for his virtues and benevolence, a shout of wrath is raised worthy of individuals whose hands are furtively grasped in those of the S'ocialist propagators of the principles of anarchy and We leave, this fact, so replete with 7(eaning, to the meditation of the multitude. Quoting the organ of Terrorism in France, one of our morning Contemporaries gloats over the notion that " the Rom-ms will exercise their undisputed rfgfir by refusing to allow this French interference, and that they will take the liberty of kicking M. COURCELLEs out of the City of the Seven Hills !., Now, it would be as well for the credit of journalism, if these scurrilities were Only, distributed with in. whya genuous impartiality. ;huh the French Governnannt alone in this matter authorities not assail in the same , the flag of signified language the Spanish ritish authorities► ? bea For vessels,and the Bnr; b England and of Spain, as well as othe c tricolour of the Young Republic, have haste hastened ring the with the same generous impulse to proffer shelter to the Sovereign PONTIFF at Civita Vecchia ! The truth is eitnply this—,—hus IX. began the movement of poll-4041 reforml; he must be humbled: the Roman So.. *lista are facilitating the progress of reaction by thp,t excesses ; they must be encouraged : General qicf.Onsiac is identified with the republican moderation of France; he must be rendered impotent by slander and misrepresentation : Prince Louis NAPOLROM is the best steppingstone to a counter-revolution ; his chance of election to the Presidency must, at all hazards, be improved. Hence these clamours against the unsought assistance offered to the victim 'of Roman iagratitude. Of all the proceedings of the Republican Government, that which has recently been taken by order of BASTIDE is, in reality, the most honourable, the ip96 chivalrous, and the most beautiful. It was said "=February by M. DE LAMARTINE, that the in• tiftwirative decree of the Republic, abolishing capital pinKiments for political offences, was "the voice of the nation rising in a spontaneous cry from the soul of her Government." The same may be said, almost *.tile same words, of the recent act of the present Administration. And not only France rejoices in the e• ate at this bold deed of generosity towards - 'vereign PONTIFF, but the admiration of her citizens will be responded to by every generous heart in Christendom. It was by a noble impulse rather then by an astute calculation of political strategy, that the Cabinet presided over by General Ca,vAlGDia.c