The Sun. — 1848-12-11 (London, England)

LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1848.  " The Revolution," says CHATEAUBRIAND in his great posthumous autobiography D' Outre Tombe, " The Revolution would have gained a supporter in me had it not been commenced by crimes. I saw the first head carried on a pike, and shrank back. Murder can never appear, in my eyes, either an object of admiration or a proof of liberty. I know nothing more base, more despicable, more cowardly or more mean than a Terrorist." The true democrats of the European continent should bear this memorable acknowledgment in recollection. It is a truth articulated, by the lips of an honest and profound thinker, from the abyss of Death. And its correctness has been singularly verified by the events which have transpired since the demise of the panegyrist of C.loristianity. Those nations which have abstained from acts of violence in their recent struggles for freedom have advanced the most steadily towards the realisation of their golden day-dreams of liberty and constitutional happiness; whereas the people who have dragged the banner of regeneration through the blood of murder and the mire of pillage have placed a formidable weapon in the hands of their antagonists, and so far from elevating themselves into freemen, have debased themselves into assassins. France, yielding to the angelic inspirations of her Orator, repudiated in February the red flag which had only made the tour of the Champ de Mars, and selected in its stead the glorious sttoaundard of the tricolour, which had made the r of the world with her glory, her triumphs, and her liberties ! Hence it is that French democracy has hitherto been victorious over all difficulties. The citizens of France, fighting for their rights againstpraved Monarchy, still bowed down in homage a befored the genius of religion:; Illation of the Republic, and a little more than threeohnathsafter the proclad beenwboiefhpititis won without the olive a crime, the Archbishop freedom of his country by dying consecrateda d the branch in his hand at the foot of the Bonus pastor donavit animani suam pro ovum. sues In consequence of this abstinence from all criminality on the part of French Democracy, the young Republic has been gradually consolidated and her Constitution acquired in the midst of the convulsions of the surrounding kingdoms. Prussia, in the same way, has not polluted its struggles with any one paroxysm of ferocity, and now, although the National Assembly has been illegally dissolved, and although the streets of Berlin are in the possession of the soldiers of WRANGEL, it is proceeding steadily towards the acquirement of political rights, such as have never been conceded since the Elector of Brandenburg was first crowned with a royal diadem. While the absence of all atrocity in Prussia and France has led to the consolidation o freedom in the one country, and to the general advancement of reform in the other, the democracies of Italy and Austria have encountered obstacles which, at the first glance, seem to be almost wholly insurmountable. In this respect the Italians are in a more lamentable situation than the Austrians. The one isolated act of cruelty which cast a momentary gloom over the revolution of Vienna was expiated by the noble moderation displayed by the triumphant democrats of that capital. And now that the single death of LATOUR has been followed by the predatory deeds of Jzi.LAcaica and by the fiendish brutalities of WINDISCH