The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-05 00:00:00

fectly free, so that the personnel and materiel
f War could be introduced without let or hind-
rance, and all the resources of the AUTOCRAT
rendered available for its defence. But
what have we since achieved ? Nothing—
literally nothing. Tile Northern Forts, that
might ere this have been starved out, still
remain in the possession of the adversary, thus
affording a specious pretext for the subjects and
Friends of Russia to assert that our triumph has
been of a very partial character. Nothing has
been done to dislodge the army stationed between
Sebastopol and Simpheropol, and the obvious re-
sults arising from a movement on Kaffa and Ara-
bat have been disregarded. Through this culpable
Apathy and negligence the road by the Spit of
A.rabat will be opened during the winter, and
supplies, without which they could not exist, for-
warded to the Russian army !
Again, at Kinbourn we have merely taken pains
to poi ut out a blot, showing how completelyK herson
And Nicolaieff lay at our mercy. The foe will take
the significant hint, and the difficulties and ob-
stacles to any future expedition will be more than
quadrupled. Nothing could have been more
judicious than an attack similar to that which has
been made, if properly followed up. Nothing
more ill-advised if we are to rest on our oars frr
the winter season, and give full time for affording
a very warm reception, when it will become ne-
cessary to undertake these operations in earnest.

In the Baltic our naval forces have been made
a jest of. Even the Hango massacre has been un-
avenged, and our magnificent and very costly fleet
returns without any action worth notice save the
destruction of some Government stores at S%vea-
borg and the sparing of Helsingfors.

! It is these matters that give vitality and
significance to the rumours of Peace at any
price or on any conditions, for nothing but
an almost irresistible influence " drifting" to-
wards peace, could have led to the grievous neglect
of the many opportunities that have been so pa':
pably wasted and misapplied since the commence-
ment of hostilities.

By this time her most gracious Majesty the
QUEEN will have conferred on her Royal Guest
the most signal mark of respect and favour in

her power to bestow, and the name of VICTOR
EMMANUEL, King of Sardinia, will have been
added to the emblazoned muster roll of the
proudest order of chivalry in the world. Marks
of distinction, however high and conspicuous, are
not, to be sure, necessarily honourable, either to
the donor or the recipient, but in this instance
no one will be found disposed to deny that, in
the person of the Sardinian KING, the Order of
the Garter has received into its ranks as noble and

chivalrous a paladin as ever illustrated its genius
and spirit, and that her MAJESTY and her Royal
Guest were alike honoured in the imposing cere-
mony of initiation—a ceremony appropriately
enough selected as the crowning feature of the
programme in connection with the Royal Visit.
A journey by rail from Dover to Windsor, a
visit to Woolwich, another to Portsmouth, and a
third to the citizens of London, and a final re-
turn to Windsor, involve no great complexity of
movement, and could by no means have
taxed the ingenuity of tile Court newsman
to report. But what a host of reflections and

what a crowd of anticipations the record suggests !.
While sped as with the speed of lightning, and
with perfect ease and safety, along the line of
rail, how the young KING must have been struck
with so magnificent a proof of the genius and en-
terprise of freemen relying solely on themselves !
How profound must have been the impression as to
our mechanical and warlike resources produced by
an inspection of the works and the arsenal at
Woolwich ! How much that impression must
have been deepened by the inspection of the fleet
lying off Portsmouth—those stately sea lions
that, clothed with thunder, blast the foe with
their hot breath, like the volleying bolts of
heaven—awe-inspiring ministers of destruction,
never let loose but against tyranny and wrong,
and that, unless evaded, must themselves be de-
stroyed ere their mission be suffered to go unac-
complished ! But profoundest of all must the

mpression have bee❑ produced by his visit of yes-

terday. The citizens of the metropolis of a king-
dom armed with such surpassing might and pos-
sessed of appliances which could almost inspire a
soul into the dust of ARC/lIMEDES, far from betray-
ing aspirations for universal dominion, or, in the
vulgar arrogance of power, despising the weak

—were found sternly indignant at oppression,
and ardent in praise of liberty ; and, while proud
to honour an ally, however feeble, in her glorious
cause, reluctant to merge the enlightened cham-
pion in the impulsive crusader. Nor must Wind-
sor be forgotten. In those august halls, far away

from the busy hum of industry and the haunts of
enterprise, his heart must have beat with satis•
faction at the thought that the constitutional
monarch of the most powerful and advanced nation
of the world counts as her chief residence the
time-honoured abode of a long and illustrious line
of regal ancestors. Nor could an Italian mind
fail to be struck with the numerous addresses
presented to him by our municipal and religious
bodies, in token of sympathy with the cause of
civil and religious liberty which he has so nobly
embraced and hitherto done his best to further.
That his MAJESTY is susceptible of all the im-
pressions we have roughly indicated will not ad-
mit of doubt. He is no mere romantic lad, led
away as easily for evil as far good. If we and
others are not egregiously deceived, beneath that
fair exterior dwells an intellect as keen and mas-
culine as a heart generous, loyal, and unflinching.
We do not credit him, however, with this susceptibi-
lity on mere supposition. His career tells its own
tale, and his reply to yesterday's address was in ac-
cordance with it—modest, manly, and enlightened.
It furnished proof that the good seed has been sown
in anything but barren ground, and that what he
has witnessed of the working and the fruit of our
free institutions, far from decreasing his onadenco
in Isis people, and in the triumph of the cause of
liberty, has fixed it more firmly than ever on the
most enduring foundations. Words like those
uttered yesterday by one so loyal—one who has
so signally set his foot on the Machiaveinllitainieirpolicyof Italian rulers, must not be limited
sig-
nificance. They imply a great and prosperous
future for at least one of the States of Italy
(and given one, how many more must be added
civil and religious liberty enthroned where mil-
lions will worship her ; and commerce, under her
auspices, and aided by the sail, the rail, and the
telegraph, laying with busy hand and workman-

like skill the founclotions of a prouder dominion
than Was ever erected by Genoan merchant, or
Swayed by a Duke of the noble house of Savoy.

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and humane the
We Commend to the notice of the philanthropic
another column of th
meeting of the 8 b
Birmingham Institution f
Deaf-
ness. No fewer than 2,869
report which will be found in
e proceedings at the annual
u scribers and friends of the
or the Relief of Deaf-
cases, it will be seen,
have been treated by the institution since its
commencement, while 154 Persons have been
cured, and 110 considerably relieved during the
present year, the number of these who have