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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1855.

A very important interrogatory will this even-
ing be exhibited to the Representative of Great
Britain at the late Conferences at Vienna. Sir
J. WALSH has given notice that he will
ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the
Colonies whether it was correct, as stated in a
recent despatch of Count Buol, that the Noble
Lord and the French Ambassador showed them-
selves decidedly in favour of the Austrian proposition
in regard to the Tb ird Point, an d dertook to recom-
mend the same to their respective Governments ?
When the duplicity and insincerity of Austria has
attracted so large a proportion of public attention
—when her attempts to put forward plausible ex-
cuses for the palpable evasion of her deliberate
and solemn engagements—have so greatly excited
contempt and indignation, and materially influenced
the popular mind, it should be ascertained beyond
the possibility of doubt whether she received any,
and what, encouragement from the Plenipotentia-
ries of the Western Powers, and whether she was
induced to believe that the propositions, which have
since been unconditionally rejected, would have been
favourably received and acted on by the Cabinets
of Paris and London. Many people declare, and
with much apparent reason, that Austria put for-
ward a proposition which she well knew could not
be accepted by the Allies, merely as a plausible
excuse for evading the solemn obligations into
which she had entered.

Although we do not consider that any
declarations of Lord JOHN RussErz, exceed-
instructions,
ing the limits of his could be
regarded as a justification fcr Austria,
it is still right that authentic information should
be obtained as to the real state of the facts,
which, although they may not serve as an apology
for Austria, may furnish abundant reasons for
regretting the selection of Lord JOIIN RUSSELL
for the mission to Vienna, and for his following
the course adopted by M. DRorrix DE I:BUYS--
of retiring for a time from the public service. If
a change has occurred in the Ministerial mind—
if they are determined now to reject' any terms

but those which, in the opinion of the country,

will lead to an honourable and permanent peace—
it is fitting that the country should know
when that salutary alteration of sentiment took
place, and whether it is participated in
by the Noble Secretary for the Colonies.
We trust, then, that the Noble Lord will return
a full, distinct, and unequivocal answer to the
important question, and with the manliness of
character for which he was once remarkable, dis-
dain to shelter himself under any diplomatic sub-
terfuges or quibbling evasions. A direct and
positive assertion, very damaging to the reputa-
tion of the Noble Lord, has been advisedly put
forward by Count BIM; and if unfounded there can
be no possible reason why he should rest patiently
under the erroneous but damaging imputation ;
while, on the other baud, if it be too true—if he
has indeed so far yielded to the blandishments of
a pretended friend, he should candidly avow his
mistake, and retract, or at least attempt to justify,
the -views in which his colleagues"
do not par-
ticipate.

It is said that Lord RAGLAN has at length re-
cognised the necessity of giving place to a younger
and more vigorous Commander in the Crimea,
and that he has anticipated his probable recall by
a voluntary resignation. It would have been well
for the British nation had the Noble and Gallant
Lord—for that he is brave and gallant is beyond
the possibility of doubt or dispute—earlier learned
this painful but salutary lesson. We might have
been spared many deplorable calamities, and thou-
sands of gallant men might have still survived to
their friends and country but for the undue de- '
ference exhibited towards one connected with the
highest branches of the aristocracy. General Sr3r2-
sort will, it is said, be his successor. We hope
that the Gallant General will justify the
selection, and the high eulogiums pronounced
in Parliament on his military experience
and judgment. Should these prove well-merited
it will indeed be a fortunate change for the
country, and we shall at length have the intense
gratification of seeing " the right man in the
right place"—the most important place, too,
under existing circumstances.
The deaths of Brigadier-General ESTCOURT, and
Captain LYONS, of the Miranda, who so greatly
distinguished himself in the command of the expe-
dition to the Sea of Azoff, will be deeply lamented
by all classes throughout the length and breadth
of the land. The gallant General, who held the
position of Adjutant-General to the forces in the
Crimea, fell a victim to cholera, that fell scourge,
which spares neither peer nor peasant, general
nor private soldier. Captain LYONS perished
from the effects of a neglected wound in his leg,
received while in the performance of his arduous
duties. The nation has thus lost one of its most '
efficient and valuable officers, in the very prime of
life, one who had on many occasions proved him-
self the worthy son of a distinguished sire, and
gave every possible promise of achieving the high-
est honours in the national service. Sir E. LYONS'
merits, and•the loss of a son, will receive the
highest commiseration and sympathy of his fel-
low-subjects. It is hard at any time to lose a son—
but to lose such a son—at the very moment, too, of
his most brilliant triumph. It is, indeed, an un-
speakable calamity, the magnitude of which it is
almost impossible to duly estimate.
Another event of no ordinary importance has
also occurred, which will excite a deep sensation
in every English heart. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
—the heroine of Scutari—she who voluntarily
relinquished an enviable position, accompanied
with all the comforts and luxuries which wealth
and station could bestow, for the purpose of alle-
viating the pains and abridging the privations of
suffering humanity, has been compelled to return
home to seek the restoration of the he3.lth for-.
feited, but we trust not irrevocably, in her
glorious efforts. She has, indeed, won
undying fame, and her name will ever
be hailed with enthusiasm, not only by those who
owe their very lives to her beneficent labours, but
by all who can appreciate the highest virtues be-
longing to a truly Christian lady.
The War is now to be waged in earnest. We
no longer look to diplomacy. The pen must give
place to the sword, and we must so far humble
Russia in the field that she will be com-
pelled honestly to relinquish, and to give
ample material guarantees against the resumption
of the aggressive policy which she has so long
maintained at the expense of her unfortunate
neighbours. The subservience of the German States
proves how much more serious was the danger
than was generally supposed ; and in proportion
to the severity of the disease must be the
stringency of the remedies which can alone prove
effectual, or produce a permanent and lasting
cure.

The fatuity of the aristocratic member for
Middlesex, in relation to his execrable Sunday
Trading Bill, is really pitiable. The monster de-
monstration of Sunday last has not convinced him
of the unpopularity and impolicy of the measure,
ncr the plain palpable facts of the case, and the
incontrovertible arguments based on them by the
press of its injustice. He will not be persuaded
though one should rise from the dead. The noble
lord is well-meaning and by no means a SOLOMON,
and th• Pharisees of the Metropolis have got hold
of him. It should excite no surprise if, under
such circumstances, he is impervious to reason
and the claims of mercy, and longs for the ho-
nours of martyrdom when they are to be had so
cheap. Ho will go on with the bill.

IBE SUN, LOND

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his Lordship knows little about it, and to be de-

ceived the masses have gone wonderfully near the
mark respecting it. But no, says his Lcrdship,
the public-houses and coffee-houses will be open to
those who may miss the opportunity to purchase
for the day. The utter ignorance of the condi-
tion of the masses here revealed is positively
startling. Fancy the multitudinous army of
London labourers, with their wives and children,
thronging to their boxes at the coffee and public-
houses, each of the latter with a halfpenny in its
mouth, of course for the waiter.
The exquisite nature of his Lordship's
perceptions, and the fulness of his know-
ledge, are further perceptible in the distinc-
tion he evidently draws between shutting up shops
and shutting up the coach-houses of the rich. He
cannot see any analogy between compelling the
poor shopman to refrain from labour on the Sun-
day and prohibiting the owner of a carriage from
employing his coachmen, footmen, and grooms at
their usual work on that day also. Nor can he
see that, if the latter were done railway travelling
and the plying of omnibuses would still
have independent grounds of defence, since
in the one case half-a-dozen will minister to the
laziness of one, and in the other a similar number
to the health and recreation of thousands. Even
the case of the Clubs, those great private hotels,
does not convince him of the injustice of his bill.
His reply is—let them continue—why should he
touch them when he leaves the poor their houses
for food and refreshment ? As though there would
be no Beer Bill on the back of the intended mea-
sure, and food and wine of all sorts could not be
had at the Clubs on a Sunday at any hour, and
as though the "houses fur food and refreshment for
the poor" were not in the majority of cases a delu-
sion. Nothing will enlighten, nothing will con-
vince his Lordship ; he will see nothing and
believe nothing but what his Pharasaic friends
have shown and taught him.
The public must take care that no individual
member of either House of Parliament shall be
able to plead ignorance of their wishes, or if facts
and arguments can move him, lend his counte-
nance to this atrocious bill.

STANZAS.
ORIGINAL.

I look on the chestnut blossom
As it points to the cloudless sky,
On the daisy's golden bosom,
And the byaciath's deep-blue eye.
I see the lime tree flinzing-
Iti delicate green arms out,
The fragrant sweet-briar springing,
And the woodbine running about ;

The lilac hiding the paling
With clusters of purple and white,
And the graceful laburnum trailing
Its tresses of radiant light.
But for me the garlanded bowers
Have lost their rainbow hue—
I look on the fieldi and dowers,
But not as I used to do.

I hear the blackbird telling
His love ta'e to his mate,
And the merry skylark swelling
The choir at " heaven's gate."
The cuckoo, away in the thicket,
Is giving his two old notes,
And the pet doves hung by the wicket
Are talking with ruffl.id throats.
The honey-bee hums as he lingers
Where shadows of clover-heads fall,
And the wind, with leaf-tipped fingers,
Is playing in concert with all.
I know the music that gushes
Is melody, sweet and true ;
And I listen to zephyrs and thrushes,
But not as I used to do.

I heat the bird-boy's rattle
Chime in w►th the cawing rook,
I hear the low of the cattle,
And the plain of the rippling brook.
I hear the shepherd 'singing,
And the bleat of the frisking lamb,
I hear the loud flail swinging,
And the barn-door's creaking slam.
I hear the swallows darting,
Like arrows, in chase of the fly,
And the tawny leveret starting
At play in the copse just by.
I hear the broad flags quiver
Where the wind and tide rush through ;
I listen to mill-wheel and river,
But not as I used to do.

No more ca❑ my footsteps wander
Through woodlands, loved and dear ;
I gaze on the hill-tops yonder
• Through the mist of a hopeless tear.
My spirit is worn and weary
With waiting for Health and Hest;
My long, long night is dreary,
And my summer day unblest.
My suffering darkens the noonlight,
My anguish embitters the balm,
My loneliness weeris in the moonlight
And sighs in the evening calm.
Oh ! Suffering's mournful story
Must be wofully long and true,
When it finds me noting God's, glory,
But not as I used to do,

ELIZA COOK.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF

INDIA.

Viscount Canning has been appointed Governor-
General of India in the place of the Marquis of Dalhousie,
who returns home. It is a singular fact, in connection
with this appointment, that George Canning, the father
of the new Governor-General, when acting as Foreign
Secretary, was about to proceed -to India in a similar
capacity. The arrangement, however, did not take
effect, and thus it was he remained in England to die at
his post in the more brilliant position of Prime Minister.
Charles John Canning, the new Governor of India, is
the second son of the Right Hon. George Cannin?, by
the third daughter of Major-General John Scott, of Bal-
comie, Fife,hire. He was born at Gloucester-lodge,
Brompton, in 1812, and he married in 1835 the eldest
daughter and co-heir of the first Lord Stuart de
Rothesay.
The new Governor-General highly distinguished him-
self -during his university career. He was educated at
Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1833 we find that he took
first-class in classics and second-class in mathematics.
He filled the office of Under-Secretary of State from
1841 to 1846. In the latter year he was appointed to
the Chief Commissionership of Woods and Forests. He
was appointed to the Postmaster-Generalship in 1853,
with a salary of 2,5001. It is scarcely, perhaps, neces-
sary to observe that the noble viscount sat for Warwick-
shire from the year 1836 to 1837.

The meeting in Hyde Park, in his opinion, con
sisted of hoaxers and hoaxees. The great body
of the people were deceived. It was not his bill,
but an imaginary one, paraded about on a pla-
card, that excited their indignation and drew
them together. Yes ; the forty thousand people
present did not understand his measure—laboured,
in fact, under the most erroneous impressions
about it, and all owing to the wilful misrepresen-
tations of designing men. It was not, as they
said, a " bill to put down newspapers, shaving,
smoking, eating, and drinking, and all kinds of
recreation for body and mind at present enjoyed
by poor people." No, not by any means ! Yet
his Lordship admits it was a bill to prevent the
sale of newspapers after 10 o'clock, or during the
time when they were generally sold, to prohibit
shaving after the same hour, or before the
ROYAL 'ITALIAN OPERA.—Don Pasquale was performed
over-
wrought labourer has risen from his hardly-earned
sleep and had time to visit the barber's. A last night for the first time thiA season. The opera is
Lill to shut up tobacconists' shops at the same nfaemwiliinarthteo paell6rnirtnr4aico.etle?ebouptle,thaendinthereersef
of
was
tnhothing
per-
period,e with a chance, to be sure, of a clause ex- formance lay in its being precisely what it used to be of
tending to them the hours of beerhouses, and a old—the dramatis personce now, as then, being made up
of that unrivalled quartetto, Grisi, Mario, Tarnburini,
certainty that without money previously in hand, a:.d Lablache. They were as animated and delightful
and forethought, the poor will have to go without a as ever, and kept the crowded house in a state of hilarity
from the beginning to the end of the piece. There is
whiff until night. A bill to prevent thesale in ordi- little vocal display in this opera ; the action is carried
nary shops of raw food after nine o'clock—an on with great spirit by means of concerted music, and
with the exception of the famous serenade "Coin' h
hour when thousands have not earned the means gentil," there is not an air which the audience ever think
to purchase their breakfasts, much less their day's of eucoring. But these concerted
tpi iecehs, particularly
food, food, and thousands on thousands mot© have not tahree trioa mo
ni ng
tthh
ee first
most andbertu the quartet
thanttDeen
i secondze tt ever
raised their weary eyes to the day's light, and, wrote, and they were sung with a verve, a warmth, a
consequently, have not had the opportunity to cl,l rsa itnhaut cr
efirreeandt se pd irit,
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tshuerpgassyseeds
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eitseatt,he materials for their Sunday dinner. and pleaßaputest of musical comedies, and will doubtless
where the ability to perch me;' f r0,,,i-q" ti'l the end of the st•ason.
the previous da
) • - A Lou brouiryht treni
y exists, owing to the con- the Lents (J un;2s;enabte-s Ciiancelior and Council
fined dwellings .of the poor, render that meat un- ofthe Duchy of Lancaster to sell and purchase land on
yrholestgae. Really to understand his own bill dbueiclbaylf of her Majesty and her heirs in right of the Said

ANOTHER CAS!? FOR ADMINISTRATIVE

REFORMERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Perhaps it may be worth Mr. Lindsay's while
just en passant to inquire regarding the despatch of the
Oneida, Government transport—how long after the time
officers were directed to be at Liverpool d;d she arrive
there ?—how long she was detained at Glasgow after her
time, and afterwards at Liverpool, and what was the
cause thereof ?

ONE WHO HAD FRIENDS ON BOARD.
London, Juno 28.