The Sun. — 1849-04-09 (London, England)

WRANGEL. Unaffected in the midst of the fluctuations of sympathy which are unhappily at this time so often perceptible, we preserve that devotion for the cause of the unfortunate, which cannot in every instance survive their reverses, and much less outlive the moment of their approximating discomfiture.  Before the news of battle from the scenes of contention have thronged in so abundantly as to absorb the greater part of public observation—before the details of the events transpiring between the eight struggling powers (Russia, Austria, Prussia, and Naples on the one hand, with Sicily, Denmark, Hungary, and Moldo-Wallachia on the other) have engrossed general attention, to the exclusion for the time being of all generalties—it may not be unimportant to direct the popular intelligence upon one point which bears in an especial manner upon the great cause now at issue throughout Europe. In every instance it will be observed that the reactionary party have been the ' aggressors and the depressors, the robbers and the assassins, in Wallachia, in Hungary, in Sicily, in Schleswig. If it is said that democracy has been stained with atrocities during its late battles against kings and emperors—we ask what are the crimes of the Hungarians, of the Danes, of the popu lation of the Danubian principalities ? 'We say of the Danes, because the Danes are fighting under the flag of a sincere democrat against men leagued together under a fictitious enthusiast for democracy. If cruelties are laid to the charge of the Sicilians— we ask what would have been the conduct of the least ferocious amongst us if we had beheld our homes and altars violated with a barbarity that made even the uninterested spectators shudder with abhorrence, and at last assumed an aspect of such diabolical atrocity as to compel the British and French Admirals to interfere, although unauthorised to do so by their Governments? While the reputation of DUIIAMEL has grown daily more and more sinister, until its infamy has glared even as far as the shores of England —while JELLACHICII has desolated vast tracts of country with the barbarous weapons of his Croatians— while WINDISCEIGR,ITZ has acquired an infamous celebrity by his judicial murders and wholesale massacres—we ask the apologists of reaction and the accusers of democracy to point out one slur upon the fame of KOSSUTH, one stain upon the sword of BEM, one blot upon the venerable renown of the undaunted and indomitable SETTIMO ? Where is there a single city depopulated or ravaged by the democrats ? And while we make that inquiry the imagination will summon again before it the smouldering ruins of Messina, the battered walls of Bucharest, the desolated streets of Pesth, and the still dilapidated suburbs of Vienna! While individual assassinations are recorded against the peasants of Hungary, reiterated murders, rendered yet more atrocious by their deliberation under the pretence of trial and execution, have been brought home to the Prince Field Marshal WINDISCIIGICATZ and the rest of the high and mighty champions of the cause of Absolutism. It is consequently with this species of odium attached to their banners that the Russians, the Austrians, the Prusslam, and the Neapolitans are now fighting sword to sword with their antagonists. We leave the combatants to their destiny, with one cry—GoD defend ' the right !  The committee appointed by the shareholders of the York, Newcastle, and I3erwick Railway Company to investigate the Great North of England purchase account have just published their report, together with the evidence on which it is founded. The report itself will be found in another part of our impression this day, and we shall on an early occasion give the entire of the evidence in extenso. It will now be seen how unwarranted were the accusations that were put forward with such pertinacity and virulence against Mr.