The Sun. — 1860-04-28 (London, England)

VICTOR EMMANUEL—might almost extort our applause, in spite of our indignation en beholding it—but that there comes in instantly as a painful afterthought, the situation of those provinces of Savoy that ought to be neutralised— the provinces immediately contiguous to Switzer tary archduchy which the Germans have attempted to assimilate are now more separated from her in heart than they have been for half a century. She has been labouring to amalgamate them all into one Germanised Empire ; the result of all her labour is that they are more Magyar, more &lavonic, more Italian, more of Croats, Czecs, Transylvanians, and so forth, than they have been for the last quarter of a century. Austria's treatment of Hungary is what all eyes are now fixed on. It is here the battle of her salvation or ruin is to be fought. It is in her power to be strong, with Hungary cordial—it is her determination, probably, to break up altogether rather than make a frank concession of the rights of which by perjury, fraud, and violence she has robbed that noble nation: The truth is, grant Hungary her old and free institutions, and the haughty young man who represents the Hapsburgs must confess that the detestable policy of a detestable family has failed ; or, what would be as provoking —give Hungary her rights, and that vigorous kingdom, with the states which properly form part of it—Transylvania, Croatia, and Sclavonia, would, by their flourishing condition and strength, soon surpass in political and commercial importance the smaller and less energetic German portion of the  Empire. We are accordingly by no means surprised to learn that the Hungarians perceive in the letter to General BENEDEK, and in his appointment to the office of Governor of Hungary, merely an illusory concession to fear. BENEDEK has, it seems, been absent from his youth from Hungary, and is completely Austrianised, while the letter has no legal force—may be carried out or not—will serve to advance upon if the Court must really yield, and equally serve to be dropped, if the EMPEROR finds himself strong enough to rule by terror ! Such a rule deserves to fall. The aspiration of every Englishman is—may Hungary rise on the ruins of Austrian despotism, not Austrian despotism on the ruins of Hungarian liberties.  many as six-and-thirty officials at Rochforte, there proved to have been guilty of serving out to the seamen of the Royal Navy of France grain and other provisions, 38 per cent. composed of adulterations—consisting, if not of deleterious, of wholly innutritious ingriedients ! Did not these despicable disclosures elicit at last from M. DE LAMARTINE towards the close of 1847—what we can almost imagine to be now in 18E0 prophetically applicable to the Cabinet of Vienna those scornful words in which the Poet-Statesman exclaimed—" Yes, a revolution is approaching, and it is the revolution of contempt !"  The suicide of Baron BRUCK cannot but be regarded as a very sinister occurrence, and as one darkly ominous for the Austrian Government. Following, as it has done, upon so many disasters, and upon such miserable disclosures of peculation in high places at Vienna, it not unnaturally recalls to mind the numerous and dismal portents of evil which preceded the downfall of King LOUIS PHILIPPE and his entourage. The accomplished author of the History of the Dix Ans has but very recently been recalling to recollection the fantastic prophets of disaster whose advent heralded unconsciously to themselves the awful coming of the great French Revolution. M. Louis BLANC had free choice of his epoch of course, and has chosen that immediately anterior to the subversioe of the old Bourbon dynasty in the decapitation of King Louis