The Sun. — 1850-01-19 (London, England)

GOD-if there are men with cupidity, and without conscience in England—there are also men of heart and discernment. The magnificent meeting convened yesterday in the London Tavern is a noble attestation that the people of this country are not dead to the sentiments of humanity, even when those sentiments are inimical to the seductions of pecuniary speculation. In more particulars than one that majestic assemblage was a pendant to the gatherings made during the last year by those who sympathised in the cause of Hungarian independence. The enthusiasm evinced by the auditors of those who breathed from the platform the stirring language of indignation was a sequel to the ardour betrayed on all those occasions when the British orator responded in tones of admiration to the war cries and the battle-songs of the patriotic Magyars. Although, unhappily, the meeting of yesterday occurred too late to prevent the completion of a loan loathsome to every generous heart in these islands, the intelligence of its convocation, of the speeches delivered by the principal personages present, and of the spontaneous enthusiasm with which those speeches were applauded, cannot fail to exercise a beneficent influence, not only here, but elsewhere To ourselves it is, in truth, a matter of profound exultation that the language of abhorrence should have bee❑ so audibly articulated against those despicable persons who would improve their fortunes by taking part in a transaction of so' dark and detestable a character. For the loan recently negotiated by the BARING Brothers is nothing less than a transaction cif a most dark and detestable character, seeing that it is in reality a loan for the payment of expenses•in,curred by the AUTOCRAT in one of the meat atrocious wars ever adventured upon in this or any preceding generation. Even the organs of absolutism, as we shall show elsewhere in this evening's impression, are found to acknowledge that while ostensibly borrowing these five millions and a half for the purpose of effecting the completion of the railway between Moscow and St. Petersburgb, the Russian AUTOCRAT is actually doing so with the intention of applying those moneys to the payment of the troops lately dispatched on the damnable errand. of Hungarian devastation. Every coin, therefore, of this enormous loan is dripping with the heart's blood of the Magyars—the money is as much blood-money as the thirty pieces of silver paid for the purchase of Acaldama! And those who participate in furnishing these supplies to the imperial master, of the womanflogger PASKEWITCH are virtually implicated in all the horrors perpetrated in the unfortunate countries bordering the Draave and the Danube—they share with the savage Cossacks of NICHOLAS the infamy of those fiendish crimes, the mere rumour of which filled the whole of Western Europe with consternation—the scourging of females, the massacre of children, the human battues of Arad, and the permanent gallows of Presburg, the military assassinations at Pestle, and the public murders in the squares of Buda, the destruction of so many splendid cities, and the butchery of so many illustrious heroes. On their heads will descend a portion of those execrations which have followed upon the dismal executions of Armicti and