The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1855

a Pori' in the East, seeing he was about to make
his western POPE Lord paramount of his own do-
minions.
Why quarrel with the POPE of the
Muscovites, Slavonians, and Greeks, when the
POPE of Italians and Austrians was to receive at
his hands the sacrifice of the Holy Roman Em-
pire. NICHOLAS and Pars had both the same
object in their respective domains ; to make the
Church the instrument of secular rule. FRANCIS
JOSEPH was, as he felt, willing to become the POPE'S
lieutenant, how could he resist the CZAR'S wish
to convert all the East into lieutenantcies of the
Greek Church, with himself at the head?

It remains to be seen whether the hereditary
states of Austria and all the countries subjugated
to its hateful oppression will patiently sit down
by the infamous bargain now contracted by their
EMPEROR. If the language of the Concordat
could have left any room to doubt the intentions
of Rome, none is left now. The POPE explicitly
tells his comrades that the instrument applies to
each of the States comprised under the term Aus-
' tria ; that in those States all power over Church-
men, and Church affairs, all education, the censor-
ship of the press, the choice of even the professors
of belles lettres, the arrangement and creation of
parishes and dioceses belongs henceforth to Rome
herself. As an act of grace, the Monarch is per-
mitted to punish ecclesiastics if they rob or steal,
that is otherwise than by ecclesiastical arts ; it is
also permitted him to select one of three men,
presented him by the bishop, for certain offices ;
but, on the other hand, the Church is to be a com-
plete imperium imperio ; every law in contra-
riety to the Concordat is declared ipso facto void,
and all power in ecclesiastical matters is entirely
renounced by the EMPEROR. The State is literally
prostrate before the Church—rather Austria at
the feet of Rome

All this, in the nineteenth century ! when
almost every nation is strengthening the civil
power and reducing the ecclesiastical ; when the
Autocrat of Popery is, moreover, living but a
day's life of it in his own capital ; a capital where
his Government, having made itself detested for
every species of corruption and cruelty, is hardly
upheld by some thousands of French bayonets.
Austria, herself ruling over the best parts of her

dominions by military occupation only, kisses the
foot of the decrepit little antique, who occupies
his own metropolis with other people's soldiers,
and but for that would have been transported for
life. Let Lord PALMERSTON compare this ser-
vility to Rome with the audacity to England,
which strips the British uniform from the back
of her servants.

The recent intelligence from America affords
powerful corroboration to the views we have
already put forward respecting the undignified
and unprofessional conduct of Mr. Attorney-
General CALEB CUSHING, and the various hostile
demonstrations on the part of some of the worst
specimens of our Trans-Atlantic brethren. They
mean nothing but mere election tricks, calculated
to secure a few doubtful votes, and thereby to add
something to the very precarious chances in favour
of Messrs. PIERCE, CUSHING, and Co. It is
needless to speak of the extreme danger of such
demonstrations —and the serious nature of the
proceedings of those, who for personal, and we
may add very unworthy, motives, have been in-
duced to introduce such extraordinary elements
into the civil contest. They must be felt and
appreciated by all right-minded men, and inas-
much as we believe the great majority of
the true Americans to be persons of sound
judgment and plain common sense, we be-
lieve that the results of the exp erimont
will turn out very differently from what had been
anticipated by its framers.
We know that the Americans are proud and sen-
sitive. We honour them for being so it ! They
should not submit to a single intentional insult,
or to the slightest real injury to their national
interests. Neither will we. But, conscious of
their own strength, they cannot demand from
others anything which, under different circuru-
stances, they would not themselves willingly
assent to. In this respect the ?nom/ and the
gentlemanly code are identical. We should
" Do unto others as we would they should
do unto us !" In that spirit ample reparatio n
would be made for any unintentional injury,
while those who had received the wrong would
exhibit the consciousness of strength in the tem-
perate character of their demands for reparation.
Men of true courage never think it necessary
to resort to bullying and bravado. A man must
be a coward at heart to demand what none but
cowards could grant. And, as we have already
stated, cowardice is not the characteristic of our
American brethren—nor do we suppose that they
' would willingly accept a compliment to their cou-
rage at the expense of their integrity. It would
therefore be an unwarrantable imputation to state
that they desired to acquire political advantages
which they could not justly or honestly demand.
All the rumours respecting piratical or "filibuster-
ing" expeditions to Cuba, St. Domingo, or Nica-
ragua may therefore be treated with the contempt
which they so justly merit ; although they may,
for a special and unworthy purpose, be connived at
by certain parties, they will not receive the sanc-
tion of " the People." It is only " the un-
worthy" who will be influenced by unworthy
motives—the lowest class of the community, who
can be affected by a bribe of such a description.
There is apparently an effort made to excite
jealousy on account of the strengthening of the
West India squadron. Without entering into
any of the numerous reasons that may justify
such a course, without reference to any American
question, we may say that the tone of Mr. Attor-
ney-General CUSHING'S letters, unnoticed and
unceusured by the Executive, are quite sufficient
to justify such precautions. Governments can
only deal with Governments ; while we, as of the
people,
can speak of matters relating to the people
of both countries. It is true that we do not
want nor do we wish to quarrel with America. It
would be regarded here as a calamity far more serious
than the cc difficulty" with Russia. But while we
avoid any just provocation it must be obvious that,
under existing circumstances, we cannot "bat©
a single inch" of that wherein the national honour
is involved. There is but little necessity of warn-
ing the American people, for we have no com-
plaint to make against them ; but we may tell
their pettifogging officials of the danger they in-
cur by their unjustifiable proceedings—a danger
far more formidable than they may have hitherto
contemplated.

Ta 4 QUEEN'S VISIT TO CHATHAM.—The train con-
veying her Majesty left the Bricklayers' Arms station
at about 11 o'clock, this day, and arrived at the
Strood station at 10 minutes to 12, where the heads of
departments and officers commanding corps were prc•
sent. A. guard of honour was furnished by the Royal
Marines of the Chatham division. On arriving at Fort
Pitt the Royal standard was hoisted at Fort Amherst,
and a Royal salute from one of its batteries. A guard
of honour was furnished by the depot of the 91st Regi-
ment. Her Majesty pas received at Brompton Bar-
racksgua"d of honour from the Provisional
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VERNOR-GENERAL OF INDa.--Viscount and
Viscoutess Canning, attended by their suite, and accom-
panied by Lord De Tabley and Mr. Alexander, sailed
from England yesterday morning, ei& route for Marseilles
and India.

THE KING OF SARDINIA.

PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday Night.--Her Majesty's steam-
yacht Osborne is ordered to coal and prepare for a voy-
age to France, and will leave Portsmouth on Wednesday
evening to embark his Majesty the King of Sardinia
and bring him to England.
Captain C. T. Gordon, of the flag-ship Victory, is
superintending and directing the yacht's equipment, and
making the other necessary arrangements.
Between 200 and 300 men have been at work upon
the yacht all day, and will work all night to get her
ready for this special Royal service.
We believe that the following arrangements have also
been made. On Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, her
most gracious Majesty, accompanied by her august
visitor, Prince Albert, and their respective suites, will
leave Windsor by the South-Western Railway for the
Royal station at the Nine Elms. From thence they
will visit the Crystal Palace, where the wonders of that
truly national establishment will be minutely inspected
by the Royal guest. The distinguished party subse.
quently return to the Nine Elms Station, and thence to
Windsor.

On Monday Prince Albert will escort King Victor
Emmanuel, by the Great Western Railway, to Basing-
stoke, and thence by the South-Western to Gosport and
Portsmouth, where the Royal Arsenal will afford a clear
indication of the almost miraculous resources of Great
Britain. Unequivocal evidence will thus be afforded of
the strength and power of the nation with which the
magnanimous monarch had allied himself before he had
received such convincing proofs of its stability and
grandeur. The Royal party will return to Windsor the
same evening.

We believe that no other arrangements have as yet
been definitively entered into.

THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE
LATE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.

The Prince of Prussia, who is the patron of the
society for relieving aged soldiers of the Prussian
army and their families, has addressed the following
letter to the Count de Blankensee :

" The ever-to-be-regretted death of his Majesty Ni-
cholas the First, Emperor of Russia, has inspired you
to write a poem full of elevated thoughts and fine senti-
ments, the proceeds of which you intend to present to
the fund for the relief of the invalids of the army. The
president of the administrative council of the society,
General de Malisscewsky, having requested my authority
to receive from you the first instalment of 100 thalers to
be added to the fund especially devoted to the 6th regi-
ment of Cuirassiers, which bears the name of the Em-
peror Nicholas, I have to inform you that I have given
such authority, and that at the same time I have signed
the necessary order for placing the money to the especial
credit of the regiment named. I thank you most
warmly for having employed your fine talents to solace
the last days of the veterans of a regiment which bears
the historic name of the great Emperor, who was so
dear to me ; and I beg of you to believe that I am sen-
sibly touched by the noble homage that you have thus
rendered to his august memory.
"PRINCE 05' PRUSSIA."

General Canrobert's Mission.

The following is from the Times (Second Edition)
Paris correspondent's letter, dated yesterday :
The following letter from Berlin, dated the 24th,
relative to the mission of Count Munster to St.
Petersburg, corroborates what I have already said
on the subject, notwithstanding the denial given
to it :

" Without noticing otherwise the denials given to the
intelligence of a pacific mission entrused to Count Munster
by the Kiug of Prussia, I maintain what I have already
communicated to you on the subject. It is cei tain that
that military Plenipotentiary followed the Emperor Alex-
ander in his journey to the Crimea, and it is equally cer-
tain that he has made to the Czar, in the name of his
Government, overtures of a pacific nature, and which do
not appear to have been definitively rejected.
" The other important part of my letter, namely, that
which alluded to General Canrobert, has also, I find,
been disputed. The assurance that the gallant General
had not gone to Sweden simply for the purpose of deliver-
ing the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour to the King
stated in the Times, has bcen boldly contradicted by
another English journal, which is supposed to receive
occasionally semi-official communications. This latter
journal, it is true, admitted that the French Envoy
might have had for mission to study the military re-
sources of the countries he was about to visit. That
concession is not, however, sufficient. On this point
also I am enabled to maintain all I have said, without
diminishing it by a single syllable. Sweden has con-
tracted positive engagements, and there is every reason
to hope that Denmark will do the same.

Letters from Odessa state that all the recommen-
dations of General Gortschakoff have been acceded
to by the Czar, and that several changes in the
various commands are taking place. The General
declares that no uneasiness need be felt respecting
the Crimea during the winter, and the Emperor, it
is said, has satisfied himself personally that not
only were the Russian positions well fortified, but
amply supplied with everything that could be re-
quired."