The Sun. — 1849-10-30 (London, England)

AUSTRIA. (From the Hull Advertiser.) The Empesor of Austria hasjust conferred the command of one of his women-flogging regiments of Dragoons upon his Imperial Protector, the Emperor of Russia. We find no fault with the Imperial regulation. Both the commander and the commanded are worthy of each other. Nicholas has occasionally base as well as bloody work to do, and the butchers in cold blood of the brave Hungarians are just the men to undertake it. We would not venture to say that the men who assisted in butchering Count Louis Batthyany and the thirteen Hungarian Generals, who were murdered at the same time, under circumstances equally atrocious, would refuse to execute a similar sentence upon Francis Joseph, if ratified by their new Colonel, the Czar. There was a time, and that not far distant, when Austria was regarded as the natural ally of England; and when the English people listened with pride to the report of the occurrence of any diplomatic event which served to draw closer the bonds of friendship between the Cabinets of London and Vienna. But that time has passed away never to return. The atrocities of old Radetzky in Italy, and Haynau in Hungary— and the countenance given to the latter monster of treachery and cruelty by the Austrian Cabinet— have rendered Austria infamous in the eyes of civilized Europe. There is not a liberal-minded man in the British dominions who does not regard the Government of Austria with the deepest abhorrence. Indeed, so strong and so general is that sentiment, that we believe the rejoicing would be public were it announced the Emperor was a fugitive, and the HungariAns masters of every rood of Austria Proper. To the present rulers of Vienna this may appear an indifferent matter, but it is in reality far otherwise. The esteem and cnnfldence of the English people was a possession worth making many sacrifices to preserve and retain. It was only the fashion to regard Austria as our natural ally, just as France was looked upon as our natural enemy. But the atrocities recently committed by the Court of Vienna—and the proofs it has afforded us of the folly of trueting to the faith of monarchs —have extinguished in British breasts all sentiments but those of abhorrence for the perpetrators of such crimes. "Put not your trust in Princes," is a lesson which Austria has taught to the people of Europe. France, in the bloodiest days of her first Revolution, did not exceed the crimes committed by Austria within the last three months, without even the poor excuse of a political necessity. With all their reputed violence, revolutionists are less sanguinary and less faithless than the wearers of imperial crovs. Already men are beginning to have less dread of revolutions than of restorations. This will bell against monarchs in the long run. Hungary will not always have the armies of fhe Czar to encounter ; and if she take the field a second time, the slaughter of Count Louis Batthyany, and the thirteen Generals who fought under her banner, will not be forgotten by that fiercely warlike people. For our own part, we are not sorry that we bile got rid of the Austrian Alliance, so far as that Alliance partook of the quality of a national sentiment. We are happily rid of Hanover, and therefore no longer mixed up with the petty politics of German Principalities. The progress of steam by land and water has further served to destroy those old geographical positions, a regard to the maintenance of which was judged essential in the reign of Anne and the two first of the Georges, to the preservation of what was then called the "Balance of Power" in Europe. With the increase of railways and the abolition of the passport system on the Continent, very different alliances will be formed from those of which such voluminous records are kept in the cabinets of Foreign Ministers. Austria, by her corruptions and her crimes, has for ever separated herself from all kindly intercourse %S ith the Parliament and the people of this country. Under the Upas shade of Russian protection she breathes a poisoned atmosphere, within the deadly influence of which liberty cannot live, nor learning flourish, nor the arts develope their civilizing sway over the minds of a naturally humane and docile people. The Russian Alliance will eventually prove the bane of Austria.