The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

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LONDON, June 2.—Wind and weather this day at 1100 D,
S.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy.
FALMOUTH, June I.—Wind, N.W., fresh. Arrived.—
Valhalla, from Havana. Off the port.—Cpncordia, from
the West Indies for Copenhagen.
JERSEY, May 31.—The Swift, of this place, from Sun-
derland, struck on a sunken rock west of this island, last
night, rolled off, and sank in deep water; crew saved.
RAMSEY, 1.M., May 31.—The St. Lawrence, from Ar-
drossan to Runcorn, is stranded at the back of the South
Pier, and is full of water ; crew saved. It is now blowing
a gale at E.N.E.

PORTSMOUTH, June I.—Wind W.S.W. Arrived.—Ans-
tralia (s.s. tpt.), from Scutari ; Bacchante (s.s. tpt.), from
Constantinople and sailed fir Deptford.
COWES, June 2.—Wind S.W. Arrived.—Tuscan, from
Akyab and proceeded for London ; Queen of the Isles,
from Havana.

QUEENSTOWN, May 31.—Wind N.N.E. Arrived—Jo-
seph Wheeler, from Barbadoes.
SCARBOROUGH, June I.—The brig Shepherdess, of
Whitby, came on shore, yesterday, in Filey Bay and is
likely to become a wreck; crew saved.
LOWESTOFT, June I.—The Jeune Alexandre, of and
from Caen for Newcastle, is on shore on the Main, but ex-
pected off.
PLYMOUTH, Juno I.—Wind W.S.W. Arrived.—Clara
Louisa, from Rio Grande ; Industrie, from Newcastle for
Senegal, to stop a leak.
SWANSEA, June I.—Wind N.B. Sailed.—Lady Prud-
hoe, for St. Jago de Cuba Gladiator, for Havana.
DUBLIN, May 31.—Wifid E.N.E. Arrived.—Thalia,
from St. John, N.B.
GRIMSBY ROADS, June I.—Arrived.—Arynthia, from
Sierra Leone.
SUNDERLAND, June I.—The Happy Return, hence to
Aberdeen, struck the ground and was laid on the Sand
Point.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind, S. W.
Off.—Tonawanda, from Philadelphia; Centipede, Bey-
rout • Genevieve, Pernambuco ; Stranger, Africa.
Sailed - Ashley, for Constantinople ; Stephen Crowell,
New York • Kestrel, Lima ; West Derby, Calcutta ;
Madge Wildfire, Singapore.

QUEENSTOWN, May 31.

Wind, N.N.E.
Arrived— Maria Agnes, Saffi ; Empress Eugenie, from
Portsmouth, to embark troops.

KINGSTOWN, June 1.

Wind E.N.E.
Sailed—Armenian, for the Crimea.

(BY SUBMARINE AND minus TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday 10.7 a.m.
Wind, ide, first hour's flood ; weather fine.
Arrived—June
ive S.W.B.W
d—JL;e 1. James Holmes, from Carlisle ;
and Paul
Scarborough ; Dahlia, Colombo Mecklenburg
Mary Ann M'lntyre Frederick (p,
Penarizes)ng., Riga ; Virago, Buenos Ayres;
Sailed-2d.—Dawstone, for Sydney.
DEAL,
Wind.W.S.W. ; light and variable Saturday, 9.30 a.m.
Sailed.—Granite City, for Sydney.
Anchored. Sumatra, for Ceylon Quiksp, New York; Deogaum, Madras ; Mount Stewartc Eltinstone,
Cape of Good Hope—all from London. peh
Passe I.—Glentoore, from St. Jago de Cuba, for Rotter-
dam; Bacchante, 12 transport, Westward, London ; Bury
St. Edmonds, Mauritius; Eagle, S.S., 171 transport,
Lon-
don, Constantinople ; Egmont, for New Zealand ; Ego"' London, Hobart Town ; Helena, London, Swansea.

••..1,10..11Mr
I THE WAR QUESTION AND `III; ROO'S
OF COMMONS.

Our rapid and important military successes in
the Sea of .Azoff go far to cot:IICA lance our losses
in prestige, incurred through the failure of our
Plenipotentiary at Vienna. If some accounts re-
ceived from St. Petersburg be worthy of credence,
those successes have also very quickly iroduced
their natural effect in that capital. It is in the
very nature of things, that the stealthy and furtive
policy of Russia should instantly be routed by the
least show- of -action. .We have—committed the
blunder of negotiating with her as if she were an
European Power—henceforth let us treat her as
Oriental.

Whether it be pressure of a domestic kind on
the Government, or that the House of Romanoff
acknowledges an Lereditary policy of aggression, it
is clear that no reource of fraud or force has ever
been spared by Russia in the attainment of her
schemes. It is now in proof that moderation is
thrown away when exercised en such a Power. Our
fair and reasonable, but too lenient proposals of
peace were treated with contempt, as evidences of
conscious weakness, or of a desire to avoid the re-
sponsibilities of war. The moment we put our
military and naval forces in movement, bombard
forts, burn or capture ships, and seize the passage
through which sup lies are conveyed to the enemy's
troops—as soon as there is material evidence that
we are not in a pacific state of mind—accounts
reach us of the altered tone of feeling in St.
Petersburg, and of the desire now manifested to
obtain the peace which so short a time since was
rejected. It is impossible not to see in this altera-
tion the cowardly cunning and calculated trucu-
lency of the Asiatic mind. Indeed, it is ques-
tionable whether, if the whole management of
eßinrieteishhanvaetbioenen
this Eastern question had been entrusted to
one of those soldier-diplomatists who represent the
,possessions, north of our Indian it would not long
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isnet
contact with the princes at the
but certainly in a more perhapsmanner.
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Why the terror of the allied has not long
it appears useless to demand
past or promises for the future.
has already made us the laughingstock
explanations of the
world, by paralysing our military strength •
with the
vain mockery of insincere negotiations ; and, if we
have atlast flung off that incubus—exhibiting some
determination to act rather than to talk we
owe it to the example of our allies, not to any initia-
tive of our own, whether, on the part of the Govern-
ment at home or of the chiefs at the seat of war.
Yet we are menaced with an almost immediate
Russian cajoleryo fSet-a.h e
loss of the advantages thus gained by our forces.
The slightest symptom of vigour watched with
zealous anxiety by the advocates of peace—more
especially those who aro members of the Govern-
ment—in order that it may be neutralised as
speedily as possible. The object of those politi-
cians—whether they be mere benevolent fanatics
or men of an unscrupulous ambition, bent on pro-
fiting by Parliamentary confusion—is to prevent a
specific declaration in favour of war on the part of
the Houseof Commons. Russian cunning had already
calculated the probable effect of any great military
success on the councils of England. It was pro-
claimed, in a semi-official way, that if we made
signal progress with our arms, the more moderate
would become the conditions on which we should
propose to negotiate a peace. One might suppose
that the advisers of the Czar had anatomised the
British character, had mapped out our whole Go-
vernmental system, knew exactly where lay our
weak points, and had thus intuitively anticipated
what is now going on in the political world, and
what will develope itself in the early part of the
week.

Mr. Disraeli's motion having, by the ma-
noeuvre of the Downing-street meeting, been de-
graded from a great national inquiry into a mere
party movement, the House of Commons has not
yet pronounced an opinion on the great question
of peace or war. Thus far, the interests of
Russia, and the delusions of the peace party at
home, were alike gratified. Lord Palmerston came
cheaply off with an evasive art common to prac-
tised rhetoricians. In place of giving sufficient
guarantee to his countrymen as to the policy he
would pursue, he rode of on an unnecessary refuta-
tion of the speech of Mr. Gladstone. The vague
generalities in which the noble viscount clothed his
assurances ought to satisfy the country as to the real
nature of the dilemma in which he finds himself
placed. He has with great dexterity avoided commit-
ting himself to a positive statement ; so that if the
discussion on the general question could have termi-
nated with the vote on Mr. Disraeli's motion, the-
public would have been left in the same condition of
darkness as before, and the Minister would have
been free to QOl3 tinue the game of fast and loose, ac-
cording to the internal state of tfie Cabinet, or the
external aspect of our military affairs.
The great effort now being made by the friends:—
we hope unconsciously the partisans—of Russia, is
so to manage matters when Parliament resumes
its sittings, as still to preirent a positive expression
of opinion on the part of the House of Commons,
in favour of a vigorous and warlike policy. Fanatics
and schemers are alike employed in this ungrateful
task. The mild amendment on Mr.• Disraeli's
motion that was first announced might; to these
gentlemen, be preferable by comparison with another
which followed it, of a more warlike tone. Lord
Palmerston, desirous to monopolise the pOwer of
negotiating, whether with colleagues at home, or
with the enemy and his friends, would naturally
prefer the vote which pledged him the least. It is
affirmed that another " cross" is in preparation—
that persuasives of an effectual kind are being re-
sorted to, in order to " make things pleasant"
during the ensuing week—that the honour and
credit of this country are once more to be placed at
the mercy of intriguers, and made the subject of a
Parliamentary juggle.
There is much daring cleverness in this method
of neutralising the House of Commons by balancing
factions and parties —of governing the country
without the intervention of two of the Estates of
the Realm—of converting the representative system
into something worse than a mockery—of keeping
the nation in the dark on the subjects which are of
the most vital importance to its future welfare. We
question, however, whether it is 'not being carried
too far—whether the patience of the people
will not tie exhausted whgn they find themselves
thus systematically cajoled,— deluded, and be-
trayed by their own leaders, and treated by
their own elected rulers with less consideration
than the people of France receive from their Sove-
reign, although he is stigmatised as a despot. If

some straightforward speech be not made by Lord
Palmerston, indicative of the fixed purpose of
England not to yield any of the just demands of
the Allies—if there be not some decisive vote of the
House of Commons, and if yet speeches be made
by distinguished Statesmen in favour of almost un-
conditional peace—should the issue first raised by
Mr. Disraeli end in this anomalous and ambiguous
way, the enemy will gain fresh strength and
courage therefrom, to persevere in his truculent
policy. It will be of no avail that we obtain suc-
cesses in the Crimea or in- the Baltic, if each

triumph be followed by the offer of a flag of truce.
Yet such is the folly now in preparation.-11for.ning
Chronicle.

SANITARY STATE OF GIBRALTAR.

A separate report on the sanitary state of Gibraltar,
edw moisture,'
and sometimes with malaria. The effects, however, wind,ith moreover
by Dr. Baly, has just been published. The position of
Gibraltar is unfavourable, in the first place, because the
prevalent wind during half the year is the east wind,
and, as the town is built on the western face of the rock,
it is entirely sheltered, and the atmosphere is apt to
rt g
whenbecomiet
reaches
Gibraltar,
stagnant.
the stagnancy and moisture of the atmosphere 'of
on the
health of the inhabitants would not be of a seri •
ous cha-
racter were it not that foul and noxious vapours are con-
stantly being poured into the air from
sources in the place itself. The sewerageni innumerable
defec-
tive, the effluvia from the drains is most c
sewers most offensive, and during theonnected with the
east winds the exhalations remain prevalence of the
and
then nearly stagnant and damp impregnate the
part of that oppressive • atmosphere, giving it
quality which • , a
as so unfavourabl is complained of
e a character
twin season. And if of the climate at a cer-
at any time
infec-
tious disease chance to be brought e any germs of an
other ways, the poison finds by the wind, or in
mate-
rials for its increase, andin the air abundant
the disease must then almost
certainly become epidemic. Dr. Baly, after noticing the
sources of the evil,
be carried out suggests, first, that the sewers should
beyond the breakwater, and be covered in
their whole extent, from the line wall to their mouths ;
second, that all dr • ains communicating with the sewers
should be " trapped ;" third that an exit for the foul
gases should be provided by carrying up chimneys from
the upper extremities of the main sewers, along the face
of the rock, to a considerable elevation above the houses
of the inhabitants ; fourth, that a more abundant supply
of water for washing out the sewers should be procured
by collecting in tanks the rain which falls in such abun-
dance on the rock, but now runs at once to the sea and
is lost " These," concludes Dr. Baly, " are the mea-
sures which the evils I have pointed out seem to call
for. The soignee of a civil engineer would be needed to
determine whether all of them are the best that could be
adopted. But no engiueering science is needed to prove
that some measures of the kind are essential for the
continued health of the civil inhabitants, and of the
troops.

A shilling subscription has been entered into at
Brighton
Purpose of raising a fund to purchase
busta
Generalte Sir De Lacy Evans.