The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-09 00:00:00

wildered as to the best mode of obtaining the
funds necessary to meet our increased expenditure
and to supply the deplorable deficiency in the
national exchequer. If he desire to occupy an
independent position, to act in accordance with
his conscientious convictions, he has an arduous
task to accomplish, and should not be hurried or
rudely disturbed on matters for which there is no
peculiar urgency. If, on the other hand, he is
contented to act as a mere " warming-pan" for
Mr. GLADSTONE, a " locum tenons," who is will-
ing to act as deputy until it suits the other,
to resume the situation he voluntarily abandoned
—if his only desire is to provide a rechauffee of
what had already been dished up by the financial
chef, then the matter may go on. But, if on
on the contrary, Sir G. C. latwis aspires
to a more honourable as well as a more
arduous position, he should be allowed
every reasonable opportunity to master the diffi-
cult subject. Under such circumstances, and to
obviate as speedily as possible the inconvenience
of suspense, let him without any delay announce
the adjournment of the bill, not for a week or
fortnight, but until next session. More important
measures have been postponed "on account of
the War," and we venture to say that by so doing
he will not occasion any considerable disappoint-
meat either to newspaper proprietors or to the
community at large.

All honour to Manchester at last. Its real
sentiments are those of the nation, and in the
expression of its sentiments it is in advance of
the nation. It has often been so on domestic
questions—it is so now on the great foreign ques-
tion of the hour. Lord JonN RUSSELL is accus-
tomed to deride the narrow views of the eloquent
cotton representative of Manchester. If, however,
lie will trouble himself to read the report of the
meeting recently held there on the Polish ques-
tion, he will perceive that that narrowness was
not learned by Mr. BRIGHT from his constituency;
indeed he will learn that some of Manchester's
first men entertain views far more noble and com-
prehensive than those which be himself has advo-
cated, and, we fear, still advocates. Every meet-
ing there for peace crotchets—every meeting for
gilding the crimes of the CZAR and blackening the vir-
tues of the Allies has been a private or class meet-
ing—but a crowded meeting in the Town Hall,
at which opposition was invited and promised a
fair English hearing, a most admirable petition to
both Houses of Parliament was unanimously
carried.

We refer to the petition with pleasure and
pride, embodying, as it does, in the most con-
densed yet perspicuous form, the arguments which
we have repeatedly and earnestly pressed upon
our readers. With hardly inferior interest do
we regard the masterly and manly speech of Dr.
VAUGHAN, an author second to none in the vast
extent of his historical and general knowledge, in
the independence and vigour of his judgment,
and in the sobriety of his views. The manner in
which he demonstrated the inevitableness, the
justice, and the solid advantages of the War,
could not but command the hearty assent of the
large assembly, or of any other impartial assembly.
The cotton weavers of Manchester, like the clo-
thiers of Leeds, are, as we now see, men of tho-
rough English hearts. They are not yet frightened
by Mr. BRIGHT'S counting-house calculations, or
his threats of citizen-shooting. When the Dr.
urged the obvious and imperative necessity of a
fifth point—" And that the ancient Kingdom of
Poland be restored to her true and proper inde-
pendencc"—and, again, when he appealed to thorn
to bear with patience the sacrifices requisite to
such a worthy termination of the War—when lie
exclaimed, "Patience, my noble-hearted country-
men ! The stout in heart know how to wait as
well as to work, how to endure as well as to dare,
to hope in the dark day as well as how to be sober
in the bright one. Let us cast away the last
taint of the sordid, the selfish, the servile, the
fearful ! Let us count that we live only as we
live, to be just, and generous and noble 1"—on
both occasions the spacious room rung with loud
and continued cheers.

Manchester, then, like Bridgewater, Bath, and
a fast-increasing list of places, has done her duty.
Our Whig Plenipotentiary at Vienna, the Mi-
nister who connived at NICHOLAS'S digesting and
assimilating Poland, as previous English Ministers
had connived at the partition, can now have no
pretext for ignoring Poland at the Vienna Confer-
ence. NICHOLAS has been excused, by Quakers
and others, because he only followed, it was said,
the wishes of his barbarous Tartar serfs ; much
more reasonably may Lord JOHN plead the wishes
of his highly civilised and educated free country-
men. Lord JOHN, however, and the other Lords of
the lordly Cabinet, well lino vv tha t all England would
exult as one man if he laid it down as an essential
of peace that Poland be reconstituted. Our
rulers know that there is no mistake possible here.
Nowhere throughout the country has the name of
Poland been mentioned without the heartiest wel-
come. Will our Cabinet serve England or &lac
Coburg ? That is the question. Sincerely
.do we
wish that they would try a dissolution. We be-
lieve the Coburg would turn pale before the host
of members who would be returned pledged to
demand justice to Poland, as the barrier of Free-
dom against Czardom. The Government may be
very anxious to get rid of the Sebastopol Com-
mittee, but a dissolution would assuredly bring
them a house which would not burke the Polish
question.

We have more than once charged the blood of
our soldiers on those who refuse to enlist and to
use a Polish legion under the Polish colours--
who sought mercenaries they could not get—and
refused patriots who proffered their aid. Now,
here is a well-vouched-for fact ; it ought to come
before Mr. ROEBUCK ; it was furnished in a pri-
vate letter from a highly intelligent officer is the
camp to a correspondent, who dares not, for the
officer's sake, divulge his name. Eight or nine
thousand Poles in the garrison of Sebastopol
offered to desert en masse, and to servo any-
where, on being allowed to hoist their national
flag and to recruit amongst their own country-
men. The Allied commanders rejected the offer !
These Poles, driven thus to despair, have been
the most forward in every murderous sortie !
This is natural ; it was predicted by the author of
the letter to the Emperor of FRANCE, supposed to
be M. PERSIGNY. It has been predicted by every
writer on the Polish question. Rejected by the
Western Powers, despairing of aid from those to
whom their freedom would be the best and cheap-
d against future Russian aggression,
I est safeguard
the Poles w • 11l be
m
enemies of the civilised ad
1 maddened
freedom
oi nint o
whichthe
long to defend. Let the widows and orphans,
and bereaved relatives
weigh these facts. The blood
and friends of our soldiers
and thereby
of your slain was
I shed because Polish aid was rejected,
turned against us. Poles were rejected because
we waited on Austria ; we waited on Austria be-
_ _
be-
cause we are right royally wedded to Germany,
and must consult supposed German interests.
Thousands have bled, and mi.ny more thousands
are • clad in mourning, primarily -because our
Court and Cabinet Germanise, proximately be-
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