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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EV.EN'ING, SEPTEMBER 11, 18551

(:sufficient to take Sebastopol. The whole of the
Crimea must be reduced into possession, and the
I- task will now be by no means difficult. The
*" rats are in the trap" from which they
'ahould not be allowed to emerge until there hr
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 call 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 Tcheter-
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 fiat bottomed 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 a. 9, an ample indemnity for all the ex-
Pensria of the War. If our conditions were changed,
she would not spare us, and as we have al-
r.eady 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.

Several weeks since we published in the columns
of The Sun a letter, in reference to the Irish Con-
stabulary, signed Civis Britannicus. It pro-
pounded a rather bold, and certainly a somewhat
novel scheme of recruiting—setting forth, among
other things, the advisability of raising a new r -
giment of Guards, to be drawn directly from
Ireland, and consisting chiefly if not altogether, in
the first instance, of men taken from the very in-
ielligent and efficient corps of the Irish Consta-

bulary. Since the appearance of this remarkable
suggestion in our journal, various efforts have
been made in the sister country with a view to
forward the adoption of the scheme proposed by
our correspondent. Hitherto, however, without
any such success as might justify the hope of its
speedy realisation. Nevertheless, considered dis-
passionately, the recommendation is, to say the
least cf it, only reasonable. It is only reasonable
that the Royal Guards should, in the aggregate,
comprise an Irish Regiment, as it already com-
prises, and has so very long comprised, both an
English Regiment and a Scotch Regiment. Why
not ? Where, we would ask, in iteration of our
correspondent's inquiry, where is there discover-
able any sufficient reason for the non-adoption of
the plan set forth by Civis Britannicus ? Surely
not in any serious doubt as to the loyalty of the
people of Ireland ! Surely not in any dread lest
a sentiment of jealousy should be thereby pro-
voked among the ranks of the Guards already
composed respectively either of Englishmen or of
Scotchmen ! A doubt so calumnious, or a dread
so despicable, would (if there were any real cause
for either) derogate considerably from the national
character. Seriously entertained by the authori-
ties, it would be tantamount to an imputation
directed by them officially against the inhabitants
of the three great kingdoms whose affairs they
have been called upon to administer, whose honour
they have been empowered to maintain, and in
whose fair fame they have a personal interest pro-
portioned to their share in the responsibilities of
Government. Yet upon what other hypothesis
than the entertainment of some such doubt, or of
some such dread, can we in any way account for
the petulance, the (almost) scorn with which the
present Prime Minister of England scouted the
notion of the Cabinet being prepared to authorise
the raising of an Irish Regiment of Guards, when
asked during the course of last session by one of
the popular representatives whether any such
scheme was actually in the Ministerial contempla-
tion ? Has Lord PALMERSTON sympathy, direct
or indirect, with that miserable bigotry or insult-
ing prejudice which stereotypes "No Irish need
apply" at the tail of a large proportion of our
English advertisements ? If the First Lord of the
Treasury, as his manner would seem to intimate,
seriously scoffs at the notion of the proposed
Irish Regiment of Royal Guards as one
intrinsically from its very nature preposterous,
then is he a man altogether disqualified
from administering, in an imperial spirit and
upon an imperial scale, the affairs of this gigantic
empire—the affairs of an empire whose banners
float over, not merely 60,000,000 as in the
vaunted instance of the empire of Russia, but over
a stupendous aggregate of human beings number-
ing altogether no less than 260,000,000! Actually
27,000,000 more than there are inhabitants in
all the. States of Europe taken together. The
principal statesman in the government of an
empire so vast in its collective dimensions ought
assuredly
to be inspired by nobler sentiments,
sentiments suggestive of a more expansive policy,
than would seem to be indicated by the scornful
repudiation of the bare idea that Ministers could
entertain for a
single instant the project of or-
ganising a new regiment of Guards to be known
as the Royal Irish Regiment.

Is Ireland so undeserving of any such mark of
confidence in the loyalty of her people on the part
of her beloved SOVEREIGN?. Are Irishmen so wholly
without title to be placed on an equal footing as
soldiers with recruits drawn from the great mass
of Scotchmen and of Englishmen ? Gem forbid
that any insulting distinction such as this should
be for one moment tolerated either within or with-
out the walls of the Imperial Legislature !
•-• OD
forbid that any such insolent depreciation should
intimate a difference in the life-blood poured out
no less lavishly by Irishmen than that squandered
by Scotchmen and Englishmen, upon the Crimean
soil, along the ascent of the Alma, in the valley
of Balaklava, upon the heights of Inkerman, in the
trenches before Sebastopol. Everywhere, indeed,
since the days of the later TUDORS, alike by flood
and by field, upon the bloody decks of our ships-
of-war, or wherever the bayonets of England have
bristled under the flag upon which the harp, as
well as the lion, is emblazoned—about which the
leaves of the shamrock, not less than the blossoms
of the rose and the thistle, are woven as the
emblematic wreath of the triple sisterhood.
Away with any such miserably invidious dis-
tinctions as Lord PALMERSTON would appear
to be shamefully desirous of perpetuating.
If the English and Scotch are still to have their
distinctive regiments of Guards—let the Irish have
theirs too, at lastsill like manner. If the 33d is

yet to be known henceforth as the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON'S Regiment, and the 11th Hussars as Prince
ALBERT'S, and the 82d as tho 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. Nor 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
to support. Since Parliamentary work was at an
end Lord STANLEY has been labouring in the cause
of adult education ; and now in Lancashire we
find him taking the lead in encouraging a society
for the promotion of agricultural improvement.
This, indeed, appears, of course, to be a natural
position for a great Landlord, or the son and heir
of one. Time was, however, and that within the
recollection of some of us, when the language
held by his Lordship would have been almost
resented, not only by the ruder sons of the soil,
but by a very large proportion of its Lords also.
The humble and then lumbering threshing-ma-
chine was disliked as a sort of intruder from the
world of machinery into the world where the
flail enjoyed the prescriptive right of ages ; and
even the drill and the dressing machines were
unwelcome competitors, with broad-cast sowing,
the dibble and the winnowing fan, or the wind
itself. The late Earl of LEICESTER, however,
vigorously led the way in England to a better
state of things. Devoting a large part of
Holkam Park to the business of a model farm,
making experiments constantly for the benefit of
his tenants, and, above all, letting his farms on
long leases, at moderate rents, and avoiding any
interference with the votes of his tenants,
he surrounded himself with a body of
the most intelligent, improving, and respectable
tenants in the kingdom, completely changed the
whole face of a district, formerly comparatively
unproductive, and gave an impetus to the pro-
gress of agriculture throughout the country.
Lord STANLEY has done justice to some other
names. We wonder he forgot that great agricul-
tural gathering which, under the name of Holkam
Sheep Shearing, so long annually assembled at
the hOspitable mansion of the then Mr. COKE.
It was the Tiptree-ball of the day, only magnified
in full proportion to the resources of the wealthiest
Commoner of the realm. A ride about Holkam-
park and its vicinity was the finest treat in the
world to an agriculturist of those days, and
would, we believe, be a great treat still. The
late Earl of LEICESTER, it should be remem-
bered, declared that he never voted for a Corn-
law. His reliance was on agricultural improvement.

We were rather surprised that Lord STANLEY
should avoid all mention of long leases. He was
speaking in Lancashire, where the opposite system,
with the smallness of the holdings and the poverty
and illiteracy of the tenants constitute the bane of
agricultural improvement. The tenants, he stated,
were men whom a subscription of ten shillings
annually deterred from joining • the Agricultural
Association, while more than two-thirds of its
members were not dependent, at least wholly, on
agriculture for their support ! His Lordship ob-
jected to poor landlords retaining nominal pos-
session of land which suffered through their
poverty ; it was equally important to point eut
the necessity of such long leases as should
guarantee to the tenants the full fruits of
their improvements, of such political independence
as should foster self-respect, and of such pecu-
niary means as should suffice for the proper
fencing, draining, and manuring of the soil.
After illustrating the history of Agricultural
Associations, the great scope still left for agricul-
tural improvement, and the vast importance of it
to a country of territory so circumscribed as that
of great Britain, Lord STANLEY adverted with
especial emphasis to the rivalry farmers must pre-
pare to encounter from the New World, and
warned them that mechanical and scientific im-
provement is their only reliance in a contest with
those who buy their land absolutely for a small
fraction of what is here charged as annual rent.
We consumers can only wish that agricul-
tural emigration and improvement at home
would both go on a little more rapidly.
Canada and the United States have had
together by no means a large average surplus
of late years. The large families of Lancashire
farmers to which allusion was made, would in
Canada be sources of wealth instead of poverty to
their parents, and, in place of growing up de-
pendent serfs of a landlord, might be themselves
the independent lords of their own land.

The value of town sewerage, and the import-
ance of agricultural statistics were the concluding
topics of his Lordship's speech. It is certainly to
be regretted that no simple and efficacious means
of interception and removal to the country can
be devised for
towns
is noxious
have
it would fertilise our fields.
We sometimes
questioned whether
the unpretending system of
Paris may not after all be the best. Could but
some simple utensil be devised, adapted to all
classes of houses, by which early each morning
what most pollutes our sewers and
.
our river could
be placed in carts and carried
to a suitable depot, it would be an incalculable advantage as a pre-
ventive of disease; while by keeping what is of
value for manure in the condensed form, it would
render it easier to neutralise what is offensive to
the senses, and would make the carriage to a dis-
tance a less onerous task. Peihaps such a device
is but a dream. Interception somewhere is, how_
ever, becoming a necessity; it would, of course, be
most effectual, were it possible, at the commence.
ruent of the nuisance. If that cannot be effected,
it must be accomplished with all the fluid, which,
mingling with it, carries the noxious matter into
the Thames itself. To the subject of agricultural
statistics we may perhaps advert soon.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

The Earl of Clarendon arrived at the Foreign-office
yesterday morning, in order to attend the Cabinetb Coun-
cil, summoned at two o'clock, from the Grove, near
Watford. The noble earl left by the six p.m. train, on
his retutn to the Grove last evening. Despatches were
forwarded by a Queen's messenger from the noble earl
to his Excellency Lard Stratford de Radcliffe, our Am-
bassador at Constantinople, by the mail train last night,
by way of Paris and Marseillea, By the same messenger
the Secretary of State of the War Department and the
Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood forwarded despatches to
Gen. Simpson and Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons,
The Marquis of Londonderry has returned to Bowood,
Wilts, from visiting Mr. G. G. Harcourt, M.P., arid
Frances Countess Waldegrave, at Nuneham Park, near
Oxford.
The Lord Chancellor came to town yesterday, from
his seat in Kent, expressly to assist at the Cabinet
Council held in the afternoon at the Foreign-office.
The Duke of Argyll leaves his villa at Carnpden-hill,
Kensington, accompanied by the Duchess and family, for
Roseneath Castle and Inverary Castle, Argyllshire, in
the course of a few days.
The Right Hon. Sir C. Wood will leave his official re-
sidence at the Admiralty to-day, accompanied by Admi-
ral the Hon. Sir M. F. Berkeley, and several of the high
officers of that department, on a visit of inspection to
Plymouth, Devonport, and our naval establishments in
the west of England. Mr. Baring will go with Sir
Charles as private secretary.
The Earl Granville will continue in attendance on the
Queen at Balmoral until the week after next, when the
noble Lord President of the Council will be relieved by
the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, who is detained in town by
public business.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the _Exchequer,
with Lady Theresa Lewis and family, have, aster a short
visit to Mornington, gone to Harpton Court, nnAr King-
ton, Hereford.
Lord Panmure had a long conference yesterday with
Viscount Hardinge, the Commander-in-Chief. Viscount
Palmerston, Sir Wm. Molesworth, Sir Geo. Grey, .Sir
Charles Wood, &c., will meet at the War-office th;s
forenoon.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was attended by
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William
Molesworth, Lord Panmure, Sir C. Wood, and Viscount
Canning. The council sat two hours.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vince., the Governor of Victoria, and the Governor of
Van Diemen's Land.
"We are happy to state," says the Salta Public, of
Lyons, "that a change for the better has taken place in
the health of Abd-el-Fader."
The Queen of England has sent, through Lord Cow-
ley, a sum of 2,500 f. to be distributed amongst the poor
of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The Minister of Marine has decided that Russian
sailors taken prisoners may be allowed to navigate in
French commercial vessels.
At the exhibition of the works produced for the grand
prize of sculpture, which opened yesterday at the Ecole
des Beaux Arts, the competitors are eight in number.
The Bank of England will lend money at 3i per ce.nt.
upon the scrip of the New Four per Cent. Guaranteed
Turkish loan until the 11th October.

The Queen has appointed the Rev. David Lewis to
the new district church of Trefney, in the diocese of St.
Asaph.
THE FRENCH EMBASSY.—The mansion of the French
Ambassador was last night brilliantly illuminated, in
honour of the important news received from the seat of
war in the Crimea.

THE FOREIGN LEGION. —Her Majesty has been pleased
to sanction the alteration of the appellation of " Foreign
Legion" to that of the "British German Legion," a
proper compliment to the discipline and efficiency of the
Shorncliffe force.
Tile Moniteur publishes a decree, extending the delay
fixed for the duration of the different measures relative
to articles of food to 31st of December, 1856,
. .

We regret very much to announce the death before
Sebastopol of Captain Dunc9rne Buckley, of the Scots
Fusilier Guards. He was son of Major-General and
Lady Catharine Buckley.
Mr. John Simon, officer of health of the city of Lon-
don, has been appointed medical officer of the General
Board of health, in pursuance of the act of last session,
continuing that board, and authorising the appointment
by it of a medical officer.
CATTLE DISEASE.—The Cork Reporter says :—" We
regret to have to announce that several cases of pleuro-
pneumonia in cattle have again made their appearance
in this neighbourhood, and a considerable quantity of
diseased meat is finding its way into the city."
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday
at the Broadetone Terminus ; Mr. John Ennis in the
chair. A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per an-
num, free of income tax, was declared.
ABINGDON.—We understand that cards of invitation
have been received by the members of the town coun-
cil and magistracy from the Earl of Abingdon, the
high steward of the borough, to an entertainment, to
to be given to those bodies on the 20th inst., at Wytham
Abbey, the seat of the noble earl.—Berks Chronicle.
THE ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOL, NEW-CROSS.—We have
much pleasure in announcing that, in order to accom-
modate the candidates awaiting admission to this school,
a new dormitory has been opened, so as to extend the
number of pupils, at Michaelmas next, to 250, of whom
upwards of 200 are the sons of naval and marine officers.
Sir Roderick Murchison has been passing some days
in the North Highlands—fishing in the river at Ardross,
Ross-shire, and geologising among the neighbouring
hills. Mr. Hugh Miller was also in the north, but he
has returned to Edinburgh, substituting the pen for the
hammer.
The coal proprietors of Upper Austria are about to
form a joint stock company for the working of their
mines. A branch railway, connecting it at Lambach,
is about to be made, in order to join the various col-
lieries.

The Gazette of Cologne has letters from Naples of the
Ist, saying that the bastinado has been done away with
in that kingdom, on the remonstrance of the Archduke
Ferdinand Max during his stay in that city.
RUSSIAN PRlZE.—Yesterday the Russian barque
Victoria, cut out of Nystadt by her Majesty's ship Har-
rier, arrived in the West India Dock, in charge of a prize
crew. She is laden with anchors and cables taken from
other Russian vessels destroyed by the Harrier.
Sir George Brown is now on a visit to his brother,
Peter Brown, Esq., of Link wood, Morayshire. The
gallant General is to be entertained at a public dinner at
Elgin to-day, at which the Duke of Richmond is to pre-
side. Sir George Brown is a son of one of the former
provosts of the burgh, and was a pupil at the old gram-
mar school.

Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the celebrated orni-
thologist, who is at present in London, on his way to
the meeting of the British Association in Glasgow, has
just been fleeted President of the " Congres Soientifique
de France," a similar institution to our own association,
and which is about to hold its meeting at Pup de Dome,
where the Prefet has placed his house at the Prince's
disposal. _ _

THE EXCISE CHEMICAL ESTABLISHMENT.—A few day
ago it was stated that the cost of the chemical establish
ment of the Excise Department for the year 1854
amounted to 8,6771. This was incorrect. The charge in
question included the total cost of the estab'ishment for
11 years—viz., from the sth of January, 1844, to the
sth of January, 1855.
The whole of Chatham Barracks is to be lighted with
gas. The pipes are being laid down for the purpose.
The authorities of the garrison have been some time con-
tending for this boon, and it will be of great service, and
a saving of expense of candle and oil during the winter
season.

SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.—The Royal Mail Company's
steam-ship Avon, Capt. Rivett, lett this day with the
Brazilian and River Plate mails, 171 passengers, and a
full cargo of English and French merchandise ; also
jewellery to the amount of 30,0001., specie 49,296/. 17s.
6d. The Great Western, with the homeward Brazilian
and River Plato mails, may be looked for about the 14th
inst.

The South-Western C3mpany's steamer Transit, Cap-
tain Lewis, arrived on Sunday at Southampton, from
Jersey and Guernsey. She had on board a number of
passengers, a large cargo, and several head of cattle.
The cattle were in the hold of the vessel, the hatchway
of which was left open for the sake of ventilation.
Amongst the passengers were a gentleman and lady who
had been visiting the Channel Islands for the last three
weeks. At three o'clock on Sunday morning the gen-
tleman was seen pacing the deck, and at half-past four
a person went into the hold to attend to the cattle, when
he found the gentleman lying there dead. It is sup-
posed that he accidentally stumbled over the hatchway,
and falling down was struck probably on the head,
and afterwards stifled amongst the cattle.
The Cunard transport Jura has arrived in Liverpool
for an overhaul. The Admiralty screw transport As-
sistance will be ready for sea early next week, and will
sail hence on Saturday with troops and stores for the
seat of war. The screw steamer Meander, 1,040 tons,
the property of Messrs. J. Moss and Co., and the Ame-
rican screw-steamer Granite State, 1,000 tons have been
taken up by Government, and will be despatched to the
seat of war in a day or two with mortars, shot shell, and
huts. Advertisements have been issued for ships to
proceed to Dublin, there to embark peat and turf coal
for the use of the army in the Crimea. A large batch
of naval volunteers have been sent up to London from
Liverpool.
CHARGE AGAINST AN OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE.—We Un-
derstand that Messrs. P. R. and J. Power, accountants,
of this city, have just completed an elaborate investiga-
tion of the accounts of all the estates allotted to Mr. T.
R Hutton, as official assignee of our local Court of
Bankruptcy, who it will be remembered was dismissed
by the Lord Chancellor from office and absconded from
England in May last. Certain defalcations in various
estates to the amount of 12,2001., we are told, have been
discovered. A report to the Lord Chancellor is said to
be in course of preparation, and we presume will be made
public after presentation. The numerous creditors in-
terested in the matter will also be glad to learn whether
the deficiency will be made up from airy other source
ultra Mr. Hutton's sureties (about the liability of one of
whom there are some doubts), or whether they will have
to receive a dividend upon a dividend.—Bristo/ Mercury.
EXCELLENT SCULLERS' RACE.—Tho match between
Love and Wallinger, yesterday, made one of the best
scullers' races of the season. The distance was from
Putney to Mortlake, for a stake 6;101., and considerable
Walli nger began
bets. Wallinger took the lead and kept it for about
30Oyards, when his opponent came up, and they were
srll er and scull, and with alternate leads of the most
tr fling
description they arrived at the Crab-tree, where
to slip away, and finally won by five
lengths.