The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

things by their right names," and evince a clear
determination not to be bamboozled or hum-
bugged. In place of bandying compliments, or
declaring their chief object to be to preserve the
honour (!) of their adversary intact, they speak
their minds clearly, and insist on ample redress
for every wrong, and they obtain it. When the
usual arts are found unavailing, they are speedily
dropped, and the real point in dispute is fully
and completely investigated.
Now, Mr. LOWE points out that " the means of
coming to agreement were exhausted," and if that
be affirmed the Conferences must be wholly closed,
at least until reopened on very different bases.
Austria will then have to return a final answer
respecting her intentions. It is admitted even by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL that she will not declare war
against Russia, unless the recent successes in the
Crimea and the Sea of Azoff may have changed
her mind. Let her, then, be placed in the same
category as Prussia, and no further time be
wasted in striving to fix the double-dealing and
fickle Power. When once the Conferences are
formally closed, when every door is shut, we
shall have more decided advances. Our true
peace-makers are the men arrayed before Sebasto-
pol, at Kertcb, and Eupatoria. On their efforts
will depend an honourable and lasting adjust-
ment, or a continued and petty warfare—serious
so far as the losses of men and money which
it will entail on the country, but ridiculous
in every other respect. The vote of Monday
evening will also exercise no trifling influence.
The true friends of peace will be those who vote
with Mr. LOWE, and express their determination
to support the honour of the country at any
sacrifice.

We fear, however, that there may be a com-
promise, that some modification of the terms may
be adopted that will strip the amendment of its
real value. Such a result should be especially
deprecated, and every means adopted to have the
motion carried in its integrity, without emascula-
tion or dilution.

The question of Administrative Reform has
fairly laid hold. of the public mind. Neither the
state of parties, conflicting and full of excitement
as that is, nor the more stirring and absorbing
interest of the War, with its adventures and suc-
cesses, drives it from recollection. On all- occa-
sions where mooting the question is becoming,
whether in private or public, it comes in for its
share of remark as the vital question of the day.
That this should be the case, however satisfac-
tory, is by no means surprising. The disasters
in the Crimea, and the abuses that occasioned
them at home, were not merely of a magnitude so
great as peremptorily to challenge reform ; they
were patent also to the whole world ! Wherever
the particulars of the mighty struggle were
pc.rused, there it was notorious that the na-
tion, which of all others deemed itself facile
princeps in commercial matters, had displayed
in the conduct of the War an imbecility of
management that would disgrace the lowest. The
national pride, iu short, has been deeply wounded
by the exposure, as well as the national heart
outraged by the mismanagement, with its appal-
ling results. Merchants, traders, lawyers, and
others whose business is conducted systematically,
and with the most direct application of their
energies to the main objee, of it, and who feel
conscious that in this respect they are equal, if
not superior, to the best of any corresponding class •
elsewhere, feel a sort of personal concern in having
abuses remedied which have slandered and de-
graded them in foreign estimation. So be it.
We don't quarrel with the fact ; we are quite
content it should be, so—quite content that pride
should lend its powerful stimulus to the discharge
of an incumbent duty.
Indeed it is to this feeling we are about to
appeal, and in aid, too, of that very reform of
which we have been speaking. To express and to
urge on all fitting occasions one's views on the
subject is a task which there is no great difficulty
in discharging. The case is so glaring that few
have the hardihood to attempt to meet it. There
is little or no sacrifice required here. But with-
out sacrifice the vindication of the mercantile
classes will fail of success—we shall not have the
Administrative Reform demanded. Among other
sacrifices, that of ceasing to importune members
of Parliament for places and favours, which they
can only obtain by dancing attendance on Minis-
ters and the loss of their independence, should at
once be made. So long as members have favours
to ask of Ministers, Ministers will have an undue
control over members, and a sterling Administra-
tive Reform need not be expected. Ministers
will not kill the golden goose ; and while the
eggs, so to speak, are asked for, they will take
care to have a quid pro quo. Every favour asked
of Ministers is to a certain extent a betrayal of
the independent portion of a constituency ; and
he who asks his representative to obtain such
favour has no right to grumble if that representa-
tive at the same time takes care of himself by
giving a convenient vote. While this practice
goes on corruption will flourish, and inefficient
men will find their way into the minor places at
least in the public offices. Surely the pride that
so exigently, yet not too exigently, requires the
vindication of the commercial character of the
nation, will put a stop to it, and a speedy one.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which was attended
by the whole of the Ministers with the exception of Earl
Granville, who was prevented joining his colleagues by
indisposition.

Mr. Booker, M.P., is suffering from ill-health.
Mr. Oswald is alarmingly ill at Paris, where Lady L.
Johnstone Oswald is gone to join him.
MONUMENT TO THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.
—lt is in contemplation to erect a statue to the late
Marquis of Londonderry in the square of Newtownards.
It will be remembered that the idea of paying such a
mark of enduring respect to the memory of the noble
and gallant marquis originated with Lord Dungannon,
and we understand the tenantry on the estates have very
liberally subscribed towards the object.
OPENING OF THE NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE MAR-
KET.—Yesterday forenoon a deputation from the corpo-
ration of the City of London, consisting of the Lord
Mayor, Mr. H. L. Taylor, and the City Remembrancer,
Mr. Tyrrell, waited, by appointment, upon 'Prince
Albert, at Buckingham Palace, for the purpose of in-
viting his Royal Highness to participate in the inaugural
ceremony for the opening of the market, on Wednesday
the 13th of June. His Royal Highness accepted the
invitation. Mr. Taylor then laid before the Prince an
isometric view of the new market-place, which has been
prepared under the direction of Mr. Bunning, the City
Architect, and in which his Royal Highness manifested
great interest. At the inauguration his Royal Highness
will enter at the north-western gate, after which the
procestion will pass along the quadrangle of the market-
place (which of itQelf contains 15 acres), and then visit
the cattle-lairs, the pig and calf market-places, the abat-
toirs, the dead-meat market, and the banking-houses,
thence to the marquee where a dejeuner will be served.
THE RIOT ON SOUTH SHIELDS RACECOURSE.—The in-
quest on the body of Thomas Campbell, the man killed
in the affray with the police at Sonth Shields on Wed-
nesday morning, was opened in the board-room of the
union workhouse in that town on Thursday ; and, after
taking the evidence of Mr. Buglass, the superintendent
of police, the mayor, and the police-surgeon, Mr. Cow-
ard, the coroner adjourned the inquiry for a week. An-
other of the rioters, a man named Phinn, is in a dying
at Durha'rn
state, and two others are very ill. The policemen who
iffhreerewiosunnodtdonuazrheanr
goewoconsideredout of danger, and on
Thursdayounec afternoon 213 of the rioters, who were badly
on Thursday
were. conveyed by train to the prison infirmary
predetermined by
interfered an: guard of armed policemen.
that from the evidence given at the inquest
anti attack upon the police had been
Irishmen, and, had not the towns-
peopleupon the rioters, the dealt out summary punishment
asmall borough police would have
been overwhelmed and some them probably murdered.
The weapons taken fror
were of a deadly character. e Irishmen after the riot