The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-13 00:00:00

( From the Morning Advertiser of this day.)

We had thought that there could be no "lower depth"
for Lord John Russell. We were mistaken. The pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons last night convinced
us of our error. In his desperate efforts to emerge from
the mire into which he had sunk, he descends deeper
and deeper. No one can read his speech without feel-
ing pained that any public man—and that man not only
a Member of the House of Commons, but a Minister of
the British Crown—should have made such a melancholy
exhibition as the noble lord did last night. It is diffi-
cult to know how to deal with such a case as that of the
Secretary for the Colonies. To offer any comments on
the conduct of the noble lord, seeing how low be has
fallen, may seem ungenerous. It is not in accordance
with the English character to strike a man when lying
on the ground, motionless at your feet. And yet the in-
terest; of truth, of justice, and of the country, impe.
riously require, at such a crisis as the present, that pub-
lic journalists should not shrink from the expression of
their sentiments.

We say, then, that we-give but utterance to the uni-
versal feeling when we express our conviction that never
did a public man, in this or any other country, place
himself in so deplorable and despicable a plight as that
in which the noble lord now stands. Still clinging to
office, with a death-like tenacity of grasp, and prepared,
rather than let go his hold of it, to stain yet deeper and
deeper his public character, Lord John Russell now
conies forward and says that though he did, on his re-
turn from Vienna, propose peace in terms of the Aus-
trian propositions, and urged its acceptance on his col-
leagues, he now sees that the only right course for this
country to adopt is, to carry on the war with the utmost
vigour. That very much resembles the language which
an offender against the laws of his country employs after
he has been convicted. He would act very differently
now that he is found out. It is a curious coincidence,
that when Lord John Russell made his extraordinary
speech on Friday evening last, no expression—not even
an incidental one—fell from his lips, which in the slightest
degree indicated that he then was in favour of a vigor-
ous prosecution of the war. At that time he did not
know how his speech would be received by the country ;
but having found that it has occasioned a st nu of popu-
lar indignation, which not only threatens his own anni-
hilation as a public man, but has imperilled the very
existence of the Cabinet, he wheels round once more,
and presents himself before the public as one' who is
fiercely in favour of war.
Lord John Russell, by a discreditable effort to mystify
the house and the country, spoke last night of the differ-
ence in the position of the Eastern question in April
last, when he returned from the Vienna Conferences,
and its position at the present time ; and wished it to be
understood, that while he thought the Austrian pro?o-
-sals ought to have been accepted then, they ought not to
be accepted now. But he forgot to assign any reason for
this. The new light seems to have flashed suddenly on
his mind ; for so late as Friday evening, he expressed
his decided conviction that we ought still to accept the
Austrian proposals of peace, and that consequently we
are carrying on an unnecessary war.
Conduct like this cannot be characterised in terms
sufficiently strong. It is difficult to say whether it be
more despicable or more profligate. It tramples on all
time recognised principles by which the course of public
men ought to be guided and governed. It destroys all
faith in the integrity of those in power. It inflicts an
incalculable injury on the morals of the people. And
yet the House of Commons could listen with patience,
and even with a seeming acquiescence, to the speech of
Lord John Russell last night. It ought have been re-
ceived with unmistakeable expressions of dissent and
indignation. By the passive manner in which the house
received the miserable attempt at a vindication of the
course which the noble lord bad pursued, it makes itself
a partaker of his culpability. It is consolatory to think
that condign punishment ie hanging over its head, A
dissolution of Parliament is impending. "The sooner
the better," will be the universal remark when the fact
is known.

ORDER OF AFFILIATION ON A CATHOLIC PRIEST.—The
County Justices in Quarter Sessions were yesterday oc-
cupied at Durham in hearing an appeal made by the
Rev. Richard Singleton, a Roman Catholic priest,
against an order made against him by the borough ma-
gistrates of that town for the support of an illegitimate
child. The mother is Miss Beatrice Jane Jones, the
daughter of a Church of England clergyman residing at
Douglas, Isle of Man. Various proceedings have taken
place in the case, but the result of: he investigation yes-
terday was that the county magistrates confirmed the
previous order, directing Mr. Singleton to pay 2s. 6d.
per week during 13 years for the maintenance of the

AN IRISHMAN'S WILL.—" I will and bequeath to my
beloved wife Bridget all my property without reserve,
and to my eldest son the rest. If anything is left, it
may go to Terence M`Carty."
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