The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

down the great exponents of their misconduct
here ; in other words, that Mr. DISRAELI and Mr.
WHITESIDE should have incurred the ,extreme
hostility of the whole English Ministerial press.
The writers who are for ever prating of the
iniquities practised by the despotisms of the
Continent, and striving to excite the people
and the soldiery to rise there, exhibit their
real love for freedom of discussion by mis-
representing and maligning all who are op-
posed to their views. If a soldier attempts to
assassinate a king at Naples, there is no end to
the deductions of misgovernment which they
draw from the fact ; but spontaneous com-
bustion is the only theory on which they can
account for the rebellion and atrocities of a
whole army in Bengal. If some Italian noble
who has had his estates confiscated by Austria
enters into a conspiracy against her, it is held
proof at once of the tyranny which there
prevails ; but if the allies whom we have
despoiled of kingdoms in India join in
intrigues for our destruction, it is given as
merely a symptom of the unaccountable base-
ness of the native mind. Finally, France and
its press laws, and the Pope and his index
expurgatorius, are for ever held up as objects of
hatred and contempt, while a press law ten
times as stringent, and an index expurga-
torius, are devised by our own Liberal
Ministers for our fellow•countlymen in
Bengal. Whether Mr. DISRAELI and Mr.
WHITESIDE have a right to use the great
faculties with which Gon has endowed them,
and the powers which the Constitution confers
on them, to expose misgovernment so mon-
strous, we can safely leave to the people of
Great Britain to judge. The Ministry may
try to ride off from all accountability fur their
misconduct by an unscrupulous abuse of those
by whom that misconduct has been laid bare ;
but the public of this country, though deter-
mined to take unsparing vengeance on the
mutineers, will not forget those by whose mis-
management the crisis has been brought about.
What it wants is action against the rebels, and
not attempts to stir up discussion by an atro-
cious press law directed against our fellow-
countrymen in India, accompanied by floods
of the grossest misrepresentations against
those who to the sagacity of statesmen add
the manliness that becomes representatives of
the people, and are neither afraid nor ashamed
to tell the truth to the House.

OUR POLICY IN THE PRINCIPALITIES.
By the publication of the principal portion of
that remarkable correspondence which has
since appeared at greater length in the Etoill
du Danube, we showed in our last number that
Lord PALMERSTON—bound in honour loyally
to carry out the provisions of the Treaty of
Paris regarding the Danubian Principalities,
which provided for the free and unbiassed
expression of the Rouman people on
the future organisation of the Government of
their country—had, before even the British
Commissioner reached his post, pronounced
himself strongly against the union of these
provinces, and, in conjunction with Austria,
the Porte, and the Kaimakan VOGORIDES, had
commenced a series of disreputable intrigues
to influence the elections in Moldavia. We
observed that the crisis at Constantiaople had