The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENIN NOVEMBER 7, 1855.

custody of justice. We really can see no difference
between the two cases except the difference between
a splendid court and plebian attire. Mr. COBDEN,
who denounces all the pomp and circumstance of
his own QUEEN'S Court as " barbaric splendour,"
cannot of course be carried away by such vulgar
differences. But, if not, we are at a loss to con-
ceive what he can mean by aggression. In the
Black Sea, we are simply aroused to recover the
spoliations of late years for their lawful owners,
and to deprive the thief of the power of repeating
his depredations. All England understands this
thoroughly, and no sophistry of the peace orators
can bewilder its clear judgment here.
As to surrendering what has been acquired, we
should like Mr. COBDEN to go to an election in
Yorkshire, or at his first love, Stockport, or even
at Midlaurst, with the cry of " Peace with Russia
by giving up the Crimea." We do not believe
he could find a constituency to return him as the
delegate for such a proposition to the House of
Commons. He is fond of appealing against mys-
tification to common sense ; he would certainly
find common sense against him in this. No Go-
vernment whatever, not even if supported by all
the influence of all the Caburgs, could offer to the
nation a peace based on such a piece of treachery.
The country will never be befooled into a peace
which must issue ere long in another and more
costly war ; and whether Lord PALMERSTON or
Lord DERBY be at the head, the Government
which ventures on the step would be overthrown
by the next vote of the House of Commons. We
heartily wish the Premier would test the opinion
of the country this Christmas.

The attention of this country should not be
withdrawn from the misused Principalities. We
are in danger of giving but too much scope to the
taunts of Mr. COBDEN and his coadjutors if we
suffer the very territories, for invading which war
was declared with Russia, to endure the triple
evils of Russian corruption, Austrian brutality
and despotism, and domestic misrule. The pro-
Russian, and pro-Austrian Prince &MBE; the ame
damn& of Austria, is still Hospodar, and he and
Austria seem to be making every effort for his
retention in office, although loathed by his sub-
jects, after his term expires next spring. No
wonder ; he is the very tool needed ; and the
Porte seemslikely to be bullied by its hated neigh-
bour into compliance. We can but regret, in this
point of view as well as in reference to the gene-
ral objects of the War, that Austria should appear
to have now cajoled France, as she has always
done our Court. The evident deference of both
Governments to Austria, their tolerance of all her
proceedings in the Principalities, the strengthen-
ing of Austrian military positions there, and,
worse still, the increase of her troops in the pro-
vinces, while she could not afford to maintain them
in Poland where they made Russia uneasy—these
are all subjects of anxious observation at Bucha-
rest, and well they may be. At one and the same
moment Austria is intriguing with the Porte for
a professedly temporary, but in reality perma-
nently mischievous, constitution for the provinces,
and acting, in a military sense, as if she meant to
add them to the other countries which she garri-
sons with her bullies, and then calls them parts of
Austria. It is such conduct, and such conduct
only, which will ever make Englishmen tired of
the War. If they see that the most odious of
despots West of Moscow is to be the only gainer
by it ; a gainer without sacrifice or trouble too ;
a gainer through, as it will certainly be thought,
a corrupt influence on our Court,—then, indeed,
unless we have a revolution, we may throw up
the War through sheer disgust with treachery in
high places.

We were, we confess, perplexed not long ago
by the intelligence that the Government in the
provinces had prohibited the export of grain. We
could not reconcile it with the known fact of
two abundant harvests there, and with the country
being in the military possession of our professed
ally. The truth has now turned up, and is, as
indeed might have been suspected, only another
illustration of the meanness and perfidy of Austria.
Her object has been to appropriate those harvests
to her own use, and to deprive the Allies of them.
The scheme was an ingenious one. She under-
took to secure the free navigation of the Danube,
and the Allies, instead of clearing their own way
with their gun-boats, confidingly left the matter
to their faithful friend. She purposely failed in
fulfilling her
engagement for a very long time.
Meanwhile,
the inhabitants, having no one else to
seeing their corn rotting or destroyed
sbeyl
vermin,to, an
parted with it at any price to Austria,
who has been driving an active trade in it, on her
own terms, by boats up the Danube. Now,
however, that she has carried off the greater part
of the surplus corn, and sees that the Allies will
soon free &ho navigation of the Danube without
her help, she incites her tool STIRBEY to prohibit
its exportation !
Even the Times has long ago strongly urged
the duty and the political importance of giving
the Principalities self-government again, and
requesting Austria to keep her troops at home.
The Times now is silent. Austrian misdeeds find
no recorder there—the Duke of BRA.BANT and
his Austrian bride are feted at Paris, and Lord
PALMERSTON is as quiet as a good courtier should
be, let the German EMPEROR do what he will.
Whether he cram the provinces with troops, or
prohibit our getting their corn, or plot for a des-
potic constitution—the final purpose of all being
obvious, no remonstrance is heard from " the
Minister, not of Austria, nor of Russia, but of
England."