The Sun. — 1850-04-02 (London, England)

UHLAND—has found itself again deprived of the prospect of administrative unity and territorial consolidation With GAGERN hurled down from the Presidential chair of Frankfort, with JOHN the Allem:onus de.. posed from his supreme rank as Dictator, with BLUM crumbling into dust in a grave which the princes have declared to be dishonoured, but which the people have canonised in their recollection—the kingdoms and principalities of Germany have seen their chance of alliance or amalgamation into a free and gigantic confederacy slip from their grasp and evade their ambition. Italy, at one time, and that, moreover, very recently, far advanced along the road leading to her moral, social, and intellectual redemption, has sunk back exhausted into that condition of sadness and calamity which the greatest allegorist in our literature, the inspired cobbler of Puritanism, has felicitously designated the Slough of Despond. Griousart forgotten; CARL() ALBERTO the Magnanimous dead of a broken heart by defeat, misfortune, and ingratitude; RIAMIANI slighted as a man of mediocrity ; PEPE set aside as a worn-out veteran; Pso No's° still exiled in the Neapolitan palace of Portici ; LEOPOLDO of Florence but half welcomed back by the remorseful inhabitants of Tuscany : Genoa awed into obedience by military supervision ; Venice but partially restored to tranquillity ; Naples still disfigured by the marks of carnage, pillage, and conflagration ; Rome garrisoned by the French soldiery ; Milan garrisoned by the dragoons of Austria ; Palermo and Messina yet reeking in their blood-stained embers from the horrors caused by storming and bombardment,—such is the lamentable spectacle disclosed by that land which but two summers back was rising from one extremity to the other, from the Carpathian mountains to the mountains of the Abruzzi, in the hope of reclaiming its pristine independence. Such is the desolation which has succeeded the rejoicings of Lombardy and the triumphal paeans of Piedmont—leaving only sorrow and despair to the children of the Roman' Peninsula. Meanwhile France finds herself again assailed by the secret daggers of the Legitimatist conspirators : the serene and majestic quiescence of Democracy, now that it has realised the fulness of its aspirations, causing the Orleans faction to conspire, the Bourbonists to intrigue, and the malcontents, such as the Socialist fanatics, to prepare for a renewal of their struggle ; exciting TRIERS to covert machinations in the very palace of the Elysee National, and impelling LA ROCHEJACQUELIN to a flagrant acknowledgment of his treasonous wishes in the very tribune of the Legislative Assembly. Turning our attention to the southern and eastern countries of the European continent, we find the same deplorable spectacle presented to contemplation as those we have already alluded to as existing at this moment in Italy and Germany. Poland, on the one hand, mourns over her political annihilation, depressed by the presence of her predominant partitioners. Hungary, on the other, exhausted by her prolonged and daring efforts to repulse the united armies of the KAISER and the AUTOCRAT, Hungary paralysed by the disheartening treachery of one of her favourite heroes, the clever but infamous renegade ARTHUR GEORGET, Hungary yet weeping in the desolate solitude of her plains over the banishment of Kossura and the murder of BATTHYANT, Hungary defeated but not degraded, laden with chains but covered also with glory—has witnessed like NIOBE the destruction, one after another, of her children until the sight of her bereavement has frozen her likewise into an attitude of unutterable despair. There too, more to the southward, we are enabled to recognize the growing panic of the Mussulman rulers of Constantinople, a panic which, notwithstanding the friendship of England and the partial support of the French Republic, is but too seriously justified by the large and rapid encroachments—the encroachments now stealthy and now flagrant—of the terrible power of the Russian