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London, England, 1855-02-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 6, 1855.

now that it has been smashed to all intents and
purposes, he cannot re-establish it. We tell him
firmly and unflinchingly that lh public
Will not now stand Lord ABERDEEN /—that
if that unpopular nobleman, " dear and excel-
lent" as he may be in some quarters, hold
office, it will paralyse all his exertions,
defeat all his calculations. The mere fact will
make both friends and enemies suspect a juggle.
It will not improve the estimation iu which Lord
ABERDEEN is held, but it may reduce Lord PAL..
MERSTON to a similar level—a matter which, in
the present dearth of statesmen, could only be
regarded as a national calamity of no ordinary
magnitude. It would lead to the belief—in some
cases as bad as the certainty—that he had be-
come a disciple of the " peace-at-any-price " prin-
ciple, the fawning and obedient lacquey of
Germanism. While, therefore, we earnestly
desire his success, we do so_in the anticipation
that he will entirely emancipate himself from the
trammels of Aberdeenism and Germanism. If,
unfortunately, the hope should prove unfounded,
and there are sinister rumours afloat, great,
indeed, will be his fall ; his name will be-
come as obnoxious as it heretofore has been
popular, and will stink in the nostrils of the
people. We shall not, however, give up a man
in whom we had confidence until satisfied, on in-
contestable evidence, that he is n• longer worthy
of support. No vague reports shall remove the
reliance which we have unhesitatingly enter-
tained, and as candidly expressed, on every suit-
able occasion.

" .Rusticus expectat diem defluat amius." While
our gallaat troops are enduring the most fearful
privations before Sebastopol, we are waiting at
home for the formation of a strong and united
Administration ! Just at the moment when there
is the greatest necessity for vigorous and energetic
action, is the paralysis produced by the Ministe-
rial crisis, and the coquetting of public men, who
are the more intent on playing out their
own pal try games, or feeding their own
vanity, although at the expense of a heca-
tomb of .hriman sacrifices per diem a heca-
tomb chose n from the best and bravest of our
brethren ! Everything, however, must yield to
etiquette or red-tapism." That is the " MoLoca"
whose insaitiable demands must be so fearfully
supplied, -whose sanguinary appetite must be ap-
peased at so awful a cost. Better that men should
starve in the neighbourhood of plenty—that they
should endu re all the pangs of TANTALUS than that
a single ()Mc ial regulation should be abrogated, or
even modifi ed. What avails it that there are
ample stme3 at Balaklava, if, from the absence of
printed requisitions, they cannot, or rather will
not, be su.7plied ? What is the use of abundance
of warm (ilcvthing if the half-naked soldiers sink
under the inclemency of the weather, because an
intermedi. tts link between the ample supply and
the urgen t demand is wanting? Nor will it fill the
empty stet at ach to know that there are unlimited
supplies of wholesome and palatable food at a
short diatom, ce. The pettiness of the obstacle, the
paltry natur a of the impediment, only adds to the
vexation of those who are perishing for want in
eight of plan ty.

Why, the 11, should there be this littleness of
disposition a mongst those whom the country has
been accu st omed to regard as its leading states-
men? W lay should personal vanity be suffered
to intrude itself where it is so strangely out
of place— Then the nation is making so many
sacrifices— -lvhen every man throughout the length
and breacitl of the land is fairly setting his
shoulder to the wheel, or at least bearing
a fair iwrcportion of the onerous burdens
which Mi.. GALDSTONE'S financial policy have
imposed om him ? Why should these who
have prod uc ed the crisis be the only ones to hold
aloof, or t o refuse their aid to get rid of the dead
lock in wh lob the State machine is now fixed ?
If ever there was a time when the notion of
GEORGE MI., that he would go down to Charing-
cross, and press the first twelve men he
met into his service, to form an Admi-
nistration, could be realised, it is the
present n ioment. Every indulgence will
be afforded -to those who show themselves really
in earnest. It is only apathy and insouceance that
will be cen cured. Let, then, all who aspire to the
character or statesmen remember this great fact ;
and, also, that the estimation in which they will
hereafter I )e, held will mainly depend on their pre-
sent condu ct . Let them then brave any torrent-
-face any ,difficulty, rather than stand idly by
and see au, precious time wasted in useless specu-
lation, wh it° the current of events glides on un-
changed an 113. unaltered.

Of the many striking instances of credulity on
the part of -well-to-do classes of the community,
few, if man have surpassed in folly that exhibited
by the ow] hers of sugar estates in our West India
colonies. Every day's experience must have told
them that, in all commercial operations, the per-
sonal super intendence of the principal ever was,
and must c antinue to be, one of the most essential
elements of :permanent success. That even where
the deputy is energetic, and his zeal and integrity
unquestion able, he cannot feel an interest equal to
that of th, s owner in the thrifty management of
the proper ly confided to him ; and that even if
he does, if; is out of his power to inspire, as a
proprietor assuredly can, a corresponding feeling
in others. And yet, apparently in utter ignorance
or oblivim 'mess of so commonplace a fact, the
great body of West India proprietors were con-
ten k to entrust the cultivation of their estates to
agents wholhe faces they often had never
seen, and of whose real character they knew
little or n othing. The use of their colonial
property was to supply them with a yearly
income, a ad so long as their agents se-
cured them -that, it was a matter of indifference
how many at ripes on the shoulders of QUAIMEE
went to an acre of sugar cane, or on what sort
of foundatiotns the prosperity of their plantations
was based. It was the age of slavery and pro-
tection.
It is far from our intention to attribute to
them more folly or a darker culpability than they.
deserved. :Nobody would believe us were we
idiotic enough to insinuate that they were indif-
ferent as to the continuance of that apparent pros-
perity to which they owed so many of the little
comforts and elegances of life, or were bristally
reckless of -the sufferings of the negro, whose
labour was necessary to insure the despatch of
the remittances of their agents. The fact is,
they thought very little, if at all, about
either of these matters. It was rather a
feather in a man's cap to be known as
a West India proprietor ; and the country squire,
who was so, had an equal satisfaction in the addi-
tion from this source to his income. He could
hunt with any man, drive as hard terms with his
tenants as most landlords, and bag as much game
at as little cost as any of them. What had he to
do with the future ? What prophetic hand was
eye,th
there to trace before the retina of the squire-
archal
teorrribe thlatwoorafteAbluoixiutiori:us
of resident
Slavery
planter,
i and Free Trade I
The links and manacles of the slave fell off his

fretted limbs before the indignant voice of a
humane and outraged people. Q UASHEE looked up,
and the plantations began to go down, and the
planters to look about them. The system of pro-
tection received a rude shock, and, what with free
labour and free trade, things grew very
black for the owners of sugar estates.
Their prosperity had been so thoroughly artificial
that, on the gentlest application of the simplest
rules of trade it burst like a bubble. Remittances
came less punctually when they came at all, and
then grew small by degrees and beautifully less.
Mortgage followed mortgage, and the West India
interest was ruined. It had been compelled to
sell, though not for a trifle, the slave it whipped,
and to keep its respectable fingers out of the na-
tion's pocket ! It was ruined because it had to
help itself.

Russians.

When things get to the worst, it is said—they
mend. Many of the West India estates passed
from maiden, clerical, and squirearchal into busi-
ness hands, and in the majority more energy and
economy was infused, by the resident planters,
into the management. It is not easy, however,
to revivify a corpse, and the ruinous effects of
two false and pernicious systems could not be
overcome in a season. Whether our West India
Colonies will ever again be as prosperous as of
old will depend on their management. If that
be good they may ;if not, they won't. In proof
of this look at Jamaica.
Sir HENRY BARKLY the Governor of this island
in a despatch, consisting of a series of papers,
illustrating the condition of that island, and just
nowpresented to Parliament, gives it as his opinion
that the prospect of the sugar cultivators is very far
from desperate, and that, notwithstanding their
competition with the whole world, no plantation,
managed with average discretion, is likely, at the
very least, to insure 'a lbss on the proprietor ;
nay, he goes further, and asserts that " whenever
the cultivation is on a sufficient scale to yield from
150 hogheads and upwards, he is confident the
plantation will leave a handsome return, even when
carried on by hired agency alone." In brief, all
that is waited to insure the prosperity of the
sugar cultivators of Jamaica, and, we will add,
of the West India islands generally, is an ordi-
narily judicious application of capital and labour,
and a by no means exhaustive degree of directing
energy on their part. The wisdom as well as the
justice of liberating the slave, and the soundness
of our free-trade policy, are already amply vindi-
cated. As the evils consequent on slavery and
protection are diminished—evils political, social,
and moral—the blessings of personal and commer-
cial freedom increase, and grow more and more
apparent.

Empire."

that there was ice.

Redifs for three years.

on the 21st.

Government.

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THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

(From the third edition of the Morning Post.)
MARSEILLES, FEB. 5.

Mails have arrived from the East.

The French soldiers are impatient for the as-
sault, and General Canrobert has been obliged to
moderate their ardour.

The whole line is now prepared to open fire.
Omer Pacha is shortly to offer battle to the

Count Kiverel arrived on the 28th of Jan-
uary at Constantinople, to organise the recep-
tion and passage of the Piedmontese army.
English reinforcements left Malta on the 26th,
and Constantinople on the 28th, for the Crimea.

The Clyde, which left Constantinople on the
25th of January, arrived last night. The Ganges,
which left Constantinople on the 29th, arrived
this morning.

The despatches brought by the Clyde left at 11
o'clock last night, those brought by the Ganges
at 7 this morning.

'Yelp Pacha, Turkish ambassador at Paris, is
replaced by Mehemet Pacha, a son of Reschid
Pacha. Vely Pacha is appointed governor of
Broussa.

The heavy falls of snow had weakened some of
the works before Sebastopol, but they were being
actively repaired.
The 3d French division have taken the place of
the English in the trenches, and continue th•
works.

12,000 British are now before Sebastapol. The
hospitals are crowded.
A thousand English and French are about to
leave Constantinople for the Crimea.

The St. Jean d'Acre had arrived at Constanti-
nople with 600 troops on board and three general
officers. The cold weather had returned.

Advices from Malta of the lab of February an-
nounce the departure of Sir George Brown for
the Crimea.

ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 27.
M. Bouitkoff is appointed " Secretary of the

ODESSA, JAN. 31.

Within the last few days all the Austrian ves-
sels in this port have put to sea, notwithstanding

TRIESTE, MONDAY, FEE. 5.
Baron Kopler, the new Internuncio, left here
yesterday by the Cartatone for Constantinople.

Letters from Provisa mention the enrolment of
the force ordered by the Porte in Albania. The
recruits will be incorporated in a regiment of

VERONA, Flan. 3.
Above 20 participators in the last revolutionary
intrigues of Mazziui have beau arrested here.
The vigilance of the authorities im awakened.

CORFU, JAN. 28.
The 71st Regiment and the remainder of the
37th have embarked for the Crimea.

FLORENCE, JAN. 30.
It has been resolved to raise 2,000 mei from

the age-class of the year 1836.
The Qu sem of Naples gave birth to a princess

PARIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 6, 8.30 A.M.

The Em peror yesterday received General Count
de Crenn eville, charged by the Emperor of
Austria with a military mission to the French

The two aides-de-camp of the

General wex e received at the same time.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.
The Emperor yesterday received, at a private
audience, t,A.lunt de Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Mi-
nister, an( I General de Wedel, who is charged
on a spec ial mission to his Majesty. Barn de
Darnberg, the resident minister of Electoral Hesse,
also had a 1? rivate audience to deliver the reply of
the Elector to the letters of recall of the Vicomte
de Serurier•. _ _

Belgian Fives
Pieclmontese

The Cou it de Morny has been so much hurt
by allusion s :made in reference to his pretended
ambition, :in to induce him to tender his resigna-
tion. The Emperor, however, perfectly under-
standing ti ie meaning of the cabal, assured the
President el: the Legislative Corps of his perfect
confidence, 61. d requested him to give himself no
uneasiness ont the subject.
We menti.o ned some days since that it had been
stated in No 11-informed quarters that a corps
d'armee wont Id soon prepare for its movement
towards Germ [any. Dr. Baudens, member of tho
military Co nse it de Sante, has to-clay received
orders to 01 f. ganise his department with a view t•
that number •of men. General Schramm is again
spoken of, is well as Marshal Magnan, for the
command.

The Arch bishop of Paris, and the Bishop of
Tripoli, his iu ffragant, have arrived in Paris.
The Mini seer of War, Marshal Vaillant, has
addressed a . re port to the Emperor on the military
organisation o f Algeria.
In the Ba va rian Chambers several orators advo-
cated an allia ce with the Western Powers.

A subscrip ti on for the French army in the East
has bee". open 3d in Brussels and Antwerp.
The Monito ar publishes a decree, founded on a
report from th e Minister of War, establishing civil
commissariats at Marengo, iu the province of
Algiers, and at Saint-Denis-du-Sig, in the province
of Oran, the ; European population of the former
amounting to a bout 1,200 persons, and of the latter
to 1,500.

The steam-fr igate the Asmodee, having in tow a
corvette, sailesi from Toulon four days age from
Algiers to ree sive troops for the Crimea. The
Chacal also left Toulon for Algiers on the same day,
for the same pl irpose. Several steamers and other
vessels are aim about to take their departure for
Algiers and Co rsica for troops for the East.
The Monita publishes the following letter from
the Frankfort Journal, dated Vienna, Jan. 31 :
"No doubts lan be entertained of the authenticity of
the very confide] itial despatch of the Austrian Govern-
ment of the 14th of January, even if the original text
should contain a few expressions differing from, those of
the despatch wh: ch has been published ; for it' may be
questioned whet; ler the Austrian envoys to the German
Governments foz whom it was meant were authorized to
leave a copy of tl sat document with the respective Minis-
ters of Foreign. Affairs. This is why the communication
of that demure e it to Governments and individuals for
whom it was lac t intended could only have been made
by p.rsons of ti ie highest eminence, who did not pos-
sess an authentic copy, but who had kept the contents
in their memory. .
" But, rnakiss every allowance for any difference
which may exi-1 'between the original document and that
which has beers published, any one who has carefully
followed the p ^ )gress of events cannot be much sur-
prised at the st e p taken at last by Austria. The Austrian
Cabinet could I t we confined itself to the ordinary path
of negotiations . as long as the great interests of Ger-
many, like tilos of the empire of Austria, were not im-
mediately threl coed by dangers arising from the irre-
solution of son i e of its German confederates, and from
the tergivers liens of others, in consequence of a
false apprecia' ion of the situation of Europe. But
the attitude which Prussia has now assumed, an
attitude whit: 6 ',was foreshadowed clearly enough in the

BOURSE, FEB. S.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
41 per Cents 95 50 95f. 50c.
3 per Cents 67 70 67 65
Last Loan — Roman
MARSEILLES, MONDAY, FEE. 4. Credit Mobilier 791 25 Austrian

Spanish Threes
84 75 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-FOR CASH.

Prussian despatch of the sth of January, and which, if
it called upon the majority of the German Diet to re•
fret the wel!-known propositions of Austria, ought to
he at once c nisiriered as a formal diversion made ix fa-
vour of RuE.iia—that attitude forced Auaria, in conse-
quence of the important interests thereby immediately
menaced, to hold herself also ready for such a case, and
to make known to her German confederates what would
take place when it had occurred.
"What proves how judiciously Am.,tria acted in doing
so already on the 14th of January is proved by the cir-
cular despatch issued a few days later by the Berlin Ca-
binet, and in which it puts forth quite a new condition
under which alone the engagements taken towards Aus-
tria in the treaty of April, and the additional article
November are to be recognised as valid by Prussia and the
other German Governments, and which was already hinted
at (said in nuce) in the Prussian despatch of the sth of Ja-
nuary ; and when looked closer into, this latter docu-
ment contained already an ill-concealed menace, although
the allusions to the sword of a great Power (Prussia)
were not thus interpreted in the reply of Austria.
. .

" It is thus shown how Austria was driven to take
the step designated in the confidential despatch of the
14th of January by such an attitude of Prussia ; and, in
this respect, it must not be overlooked that this attitude
of one of the great German Powers towards Austria—
an attitude which indicated ulterior views—becomes
gradually more prominently defined at, decisive periods."

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