The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

' sufficient to take Sebastopol. The whole of the
Crimea must be reduced into possession, and the
task will now be by "Lo means difficult. The
" rats are in the trap" from which they
should not be allowed to emerge until there bra
been an unequivocal capitulation. There are
several modes by which they can be cut off and
compelled to surrender at discretion. One
course, which has already been earnestly advo-
cated in The Sun, is to send a large detachment
of troops, which can now easily be spared from
the trenches, to Eupatoria, where there would be
an impregnable " base of operations," and from
whence they might batter the Russian army at
Simpheropol, in the rear. By this means, pro-
ceedingon the beaten track towards Kara-su-bazar,
the enemy would be placed between two fires,
and the army should share the fate of the gar-
rison, by laying down arms and making
unequivocal submission. Another, and perhaps
no less beneficial a course, would be a landing on
the western side of the Isthmus of Perekop, or,
better still, near the debouchure of the Tchoter.
lik, from whence the four different roads to the
Isthmus could be completely commanded. As we
already completely command the Spit of Arabat,
the chief channels of communication with the
Crimea would thus be entirely blocked up, and a
few flatbottomed boats and ship launches could pre-
vent any escape across the Siwash. By such means
the triumph already achieved might be rendered
conclusive, Russia would be completely at our
mercy, and, under the peculiar circumstances of
the case could not complain if we exacted
unexceptionable security for the future as
well as an ample indemnity for all the ex-
penses of the War. If our conditions were changed,
she would not spare us, and as we have a]-
ready said, it will be an act of kindness to every
well-disposed State and individual to exact strin-
gent and rigorous terms from a Power that has
been too long permitted to carry on its aggressive
policy with impunity—which persevered in its
career of crime until it could no longer be tole-
rated by the friends of freedom or of justice.

yet to be known henceforth as the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON'S Regiin en t, and the 11th Hussars as Prince
ALBERT'S, and the 82d as the Prince of WALES'
—in the same way let the new regiment of Royal
Irish Guards be known as that of the Prince
ARTHUR PATRICK, the regiment of the young
Prince, so christened after the patron saint and
the greatest warrior of Ireland. A regiment thus
organised, thus designated, thus ranked among
the Royal Guards of Queen VICTORIA, would be
the noblest tribute that could be paid to the
valour and the loyalty of some among the most
loyal and valiant of the lieges of the British
SOVEREIGN. The dash of a pen might call this
regiment into existence. Let the mandate be
issued, and the army of England would be thus
enhanced, at no unfitting season, by a brilliant and
serviceable augmentation.

Social improvement seems to be the line which
Lord STANLEY has chosen for himself. In Parlia-
ment his chief efforts have been directed either to
removing fiscal and ecclesiastical obstructions, or
to 'the advocacy of direct efforts to benefit, so far
as Government can, the condition, both mental and
physical, of his fellow-countrymen. We use the
qualified expression, because, in his own words,
Lord STANLEY'S creed is, " that self-help is the
best help—that all Government can do for a man
is but little compared with what a man can do
for himself." It is gratifying to see a Noble-
man likely, by the mere force of strong sense
and sterling honesty, to become an influential
member of some future Government, so thoroughly
imbued with a principle which ought to be the
life of all communities, and to foster which
should be the great care of every Government.
Patricians naturally think they can manage best
for the people ; Lord STANLEY thinks the people
can manage best for themselves. Nur is this due
to his party connexions. Half the Whigs have
no faith in the great principles which they parade
for party purposes merely, but Lord STANLEY
quits his party, except nominally, and contends
with real earnestness for what the RUSSELLS,
GREYS, and the rest of the clique merely profess
is support. Since Parliamentary work was at an
Several weeks since we published in the columns end Lord STANLEY has been labouring in the cause
of The Sun a letter, in reference to the Irish Con- of adult education ; and now in Lancashire we
stabulary, signed Civis Britannicus. It pro- find him taking the lead in encouraging a society
for the promotion of agricultural improvement.
pounded a rather bold, and certainly a somewhat
novel scheme of recruiting—setting forth, among This, indeed, appears, of course, to be a natural
other things, the advisability of raising a new re- position for a great Landlord, or the son and heir
giment of Guards, to be drawn directly hone of one. Time was, however, and that within the
Ireland, and consisting chiefly" if not altogether, in recollection of some of us, when the language
the first instance, of men taken from the very in- held by his Lordship would have been almost
telligent and efficient corps of the Irish Consta-
resented, not only by the ruder sons of the soil,
bulary. Since the appearance of this remarkable but by a very large proportion of its Lords also.
suggestion in our journal, various efforts have The humble and then lumbering threshing-ma-
been made in the sister country with a view to chine was disliked as a sort of intruder from the
forward the adoption of the scheme proposed
,by ' world of machinery into the world where the
our correspondent. Hitherto, however, without flail enjoyed the prescriptive right of ages ; and
any such success as might justify the hope of its even the drill and the dressing machines were
speedy realisation. Nevertheless, considered dis- unwelcome competitors, with broad-cast sowing,
passionately, the recommendation is, to say the the dibble and the winnowing fan, or the wind
least of it, only reasonable. It is only reasonable itself. The late Earl of LEICESTER, however,
that the Royal Guards should, in the aggregate, vigorously led the way in England to a better
comprise an Irish Regiment, as it already corn- state of things. Devoting a large part of
prises, and has so very long comprised, both an Holkam Park to the business of a model farm,
English Regiment and a Scotch Regiment. Why making experiments constantly for the benefit of
not ? Where, we would ask, in iteration of our his tenants, and, above all, letting his farms on
correspondent's inquiry, where is there discover- long leases, at moderate rents, and avoiding any
able any sufficient reason for the non-adoption of interference with the votes of his tenants,
the plan set forth by Ciris Britannicus ? Surely he surrounded himself with a body of
not in any serious doubt as to the loyalty of the the most intelligent, improving, and respectable
people of Ireland ! Surely not in any dread lest tenants in the kingdom, completely changed the
a sentiment of jealousy should be thereby pro- whole face of a district, formerly comparatively
yoked among the ranks of the Guards already unproductive, and gave an impetus to the pro-
composed respectively either of Englishmen or of gress of agriculture throughout the country.
Scotchmen ! A doubt so calumnious, or a dread Lord STANLEY has done justice to some other
so despicable, would (if there were any real cause names. We wonder he forgot that great agricul-
for either) derogate considerably from the national tural gathering which, under the name of Holkam
character. Seriously entertained by the authori-
Sheep Shearing, so long annually assembled at
ties, it would be tantamount to an imputation the hospitable mansion of the then Mr. COKE.
directed by them officially against the inhabitants lt was the Tiptree-ball of the day, only magnified
of the three great kingdoms whose affairs they in full proportion to the resources of the wealthiest
have been called upon to administer, whose honour Commoner of the realm. A ride about Holkam-
paik and its vicinity was the finest treat in the
they have been empowered to maintain, and in
whose fair fame they have a per,oual inter st pro- world to an agriculturist of those days, and
portioned to their share in the responsibilities of i would, we believe, be a great treat still. The
Government. Yet upon what other hypothesis late Earl of LEICESTER, it should be remern-
than the entertainment of some such doubt, or of bered, declared that he never voted for a Corn-
some such dread, can we in any way account fur law. His reliance was on agricultural improvement.
the petulance, the (almost) scorn with which the We were rather surprised that Lord STANLEY
present Prime Minister of England scouted the i should avoid all mention of long leases. He was
notion of the Cabinet being prepared to authorise speaking in Lancashire, where the opposite system,
with the smallness of the holdings and the poverty
the raising of an Irish Regithent 4 Guards, when
and illiteracy of the tenants constitute the bane of
asked during the course of last session by one of
agricultural improvement. The tenants, he stated,
the popular representatives whether any such
scheme was actually in the Ministerial contempla- were men whom a subscription of ten shillings
tion ? Has Lord PALMERSTON sympathy, direct annually deterred from joining the Agricultural
or indirect, with that miserable bigotry or insult- Association, while more than two-thirds of its
members were riot dependent, at least wholly, on
ing prejudice which stereotypes "NO Irish need
apply" at the tail of a large proportion of our
agriculture for their support ! His Lordship ob-
English advertisements ? If the First Lord of the jetted to poor landlords retaining nominal pea-
Treasury, as his manner would seem to intimate, session of land which suffered through their
seriously scoffs at the notion of the proposed Poverty ; it was equally important to point out
Irish Regiment of Royal Guards as one the necessity of such long leases as should
intrinsically from its very nature preposterous, guarantee to the tenants the full fruits of
then is he a man altogether disqualified their improvements, of such political independence
from administering, in an imperial spirit and as should foster self-respect, and of such pecu-
upon an imperial scale, the affairs of this gigantic niary means as should suffice for the proper
empire—the affairs of au empire whose banners fencing, draining, and manuring of the soil.
float over, not merely 60,000,000 as in . the After illustrating the history of Agricultural
vaunted instance of the empire of Russia, but over Associations, the great scope still loft for agricul-
a stupendous aggregate of human beings number- tural improvement, and the vast importance of it
ing altogether no less than 260,000,000! Actually to a country of territory so circumscribed as that
2'7,000,000 more than there are inhabitants in of great Britain, Lord STANLEY adverted with
all the States of Europe taken together. The especial emphasis to the rivalry farmers must pre-
principal statesman in the government of an pare to encounter from the New World, and
0.
empire so vast in its collective dimensions ought warned them that mechanical and scientific im-
assuredly to be inspired by nobler sentiments,
sentiments suggestive of a more expansive policy, provement is their only reliance in a contest with
those who buy their laud absolutely for a small
than would seem to be indicated by the scornful
ea. that Ministers could fraction of what is berg charged as annual rent.
repudiation of the bare id
We consumers can only wish that a.gricul-
entertain for a single instant the project of or- tural emigration and improvement at home
ganising a new regiment of Guards to be known , would both go on a little more rapidly.
as the Royal Irish Regiment. Canada and the United States have had
Is Ireland so undeserving of any such mark of
people together by no means a large average surplus
on the part
confidence in the loyalty of her of late years. The large families of Lancashire
of her beloved SOVEREIGN? Are Irishmen se wholly farmere to which allusion was made, would in
without title to be placed on an equal footing as Canada be sources of wealth instead of poverty to
soldiers with recruits drawn from the great mass their parents, and, in place of growing up de-
of Scotchmen and of Englishmen ? GOD forbid
pendent serfs of a landlord, might be themselves I
that any insulting distinction such as this should 1 the independent lords of their own land.
be for one moment tolerated either within or with-
The value of town sewerage, and the import-
out the walls of the Imperial Legislature ! Goo- ne° of agricultural statistics were the concluding
topics
of his Lordship's speech. It is certainly to
forbid that any such insolent depreciation should be regretted that no simple and efficacious moans
what rei s noxious in w
intimate a difference in the life-blood poo and
red out ef interception,
be devised for movaltothe countrytons while.can
no less lavishly by Irishmen than that squandered
by Scotchiucu and Englishmen, upon the Crimean it• would fertilise our fields. We have sometimes
questioned whether the unpretending eystem of
in the valley Paris
soil, along the ascent of the Alma,
of Belaislava, upon the heights of Inkerrniu, in , some simple utensil be devised, adapted to all
trenches before Sebastopol. Everywhere, indeed, I classes of houses, .nj whi h ,
c early each morning
since the days of the later TUDORS, alike by flood what most pollutes our sewers and our river could
! be placed in carts and carried
and by field, upon the bloody decks of our ships- to a suitable depot,
of-war, or wherever the bayonets of England have
it would be an incalculable d
a vantage as a pre-
'
• ventive of disease ; while by keeping what is e
well as the lion, is emblazoned
bristled under the flag upon which the harp, ns
value for manure in the condensed form,- e -
it would
—about which the render it easier to neutralise what is offensive to
leaves of the shamrock, not less than the blossoms
the senses, and would make the carriage to a dis-
of the rose and the thistle, are woven as the ! Lance a less onerous task. Perhaps such a device
emblematic wreath of the triple sisterhood. .
!is but a dream. Interception somewhere is, how-
Away with any such miserably invidious dig_ ' ever, becoming a necessity; it would, of course, be
unctions as Lord P
ALMERSTON
would appear f
i most effectual, were it possible, at the commence-
to be shamefully d
went of the nuisance. If that cannot be effected,
•
esirous of perpetuating. i
, it must be accomplished with all the fluid, which,
if the English and Scotch are still to h aye their i mingling with it, carries the noxious matter into
distinctive regiments of Guards.. the Irish have ' the Thames itself. To the subject of agricultural
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