The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1855.

Mr. JouN BRIGHT has been figuring away
again at R weekly meeting of the Peace Society.
Angry he is, and justly, that Parliament takes a

fortnight's holiday out of April instead of August ;
but especially that he cannot speak from "his

place in the House of Commons," while the
Vienna Peace Meeting is proceeding. Ile
would like to drag to light, if possible, some
of the secrets of diplomacy ; we heartily wish

he could. Never did we more abhor our

" secret diplomacy" than just now, when
a set of aristocrats and despots are snugly squar-
ing the results of all our waste of blood and
treasure ; and that While we, who have only to
pay and to bleed, are not allowed to know what
their Lordships and Imperial Majesties are doing.
Why not have the biddings open*? If they are

honest men what have they to conceal ? Why are
we to know only when knowledge is useless what
these Lords who govern us at 5,000/., at least,
per annum, as Mr. BRIGHT observes, do with our
interests? Austria and Russia would not endure
it perhaps ! Then give up the whole thing if
they are such knaves that they are afraid to trans-

act Europe's business in the eyes of Europe. Has
not the assertion been throughout, that this is a
war in the interest of European independence.

If so, in all conscience let Europe say whether

she thinks her servants at Vienna are secu ring

her independence as the result of the War.
The whole Continent, as well as England,

has the same concern in reading the debates in

the Vienna conclave as our country has in reading
the debates in Parliament. If courts of justice
to individuals ought to be open, surely courts of

justice between nations ought to be much more
so. We believe in our hearts that the only rea-
son for secret sittings is, that such Congresses are
conspiracies of Autocrats and Aristocrats against
the rights of peoples.
Mr. BRIGHT declared "he would be no party
to concentrating- the indignation of the people
upon what was termed the mismanagement of the

War." We might have censured his shirking this
duty more severely had he kept his promise ; but
if he did not enter into details of hospital neglects
and Balaklava confusion, he certainly gave it our
Governors pretty roundly for their general incom-
petency. They were " distinguished men"
distinguished for lines of ancestry kept more
carefully than those of Manchester men ;
Dien quite above the business by which
honest livelihoods are earned in Lanca-
shire ; men who kindly consent to govern us at
5,0001. a-year each for their hereditary services ;
yet men who " cannot manage the business of
the nation with ordinary ability." At the
present crisis they keep an ambassador at
Constantinople of the worst possible temper,
and another at Vienna too old and feeble
for bis duty, to say the best of him. In the
Crimea, a general who is the son of a Duke, the
brother of a Duke, and the uncle of a Duke, and
who, therefore, despite proved incapacity and old
age, keeps his post—Lords all three ! Such is the
tbatiikkce of our peace-maker from exciting "
in-
Heartily do we subscribe to it all;
'velar) friend JOHN is a political soldier, at
leait., ' ,
riquall7
Member , in ber concur with the Honourable
167114 that there is " wisdom
enough, manly strength
intel-
lect enough, -morality enough, power of
better Government thaollall' to afford us a much
n
and that possibly-when wave have seen of late,
into our own hands, we may ;Matters a little more
,nd. the national affairs
managed somewhat better thanth
recent years." The Speaker her_Cey have been of
remedy.
We know
of
no
za:aas the true
business which
ever did or could prosper mil", he
himself. Nations are no exception, -Ifktedl, to it
not see to getting the right sort of eery they
Will
to keeping them right too, they will bell'fieed
s' fleeced
not governed, to the end of the story. Even
Lord DERBY, who professed to have dug a
new
vein for a Cabinet, never departed farther from
the Aristocratic clique than necessity _
pelted him. And, now, amidst the calamities of
War itself--calamities caused entirely by un-
paralleled incapacity and mismanagement—office,
• even office on which thousands cf lives depend, is
brit a shuttlecock between two or three hereditary
parties. Let Mr. BRIOHT rest assured that
I:thing • but a settled indignation against the
culpable authors of such lavish and -Wanton expen-
. ditare of money and destruction of life will push