The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-24 00:00:00

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is so closely connected with the eminent firm

which acted as the financial agents of the CZAR

in the United Kingdom, and of whom it was said
that " if a loan were required for the subjugation

of Turkey, or the establishment of Cossack domi-
nation throughout Europe, BARING BROTHERS'
would speedily raise an adequate loan."

It may be said that the question at issue is
merely one relating to party predominance, -wile-

ther Lord DERBY or Lord PALMERSTON shall hold

the Premiership. Appeals will be made to the
Free Traders not to do anything calculated to
bring back to office those who were once Protec-

tionists, and who may now be desirous of impos-

ing new restrictions on trade and. commerce.

There is, however, far more at stake than any-
thing relating to the men, who may be in power.
A principle is involved in which the honour, the
welfare, and the stability of the British Empire
is concerned, on which will depend the future
tranquillity of Europe and its protection from
Muscovite encroachment—the principle, in fact, of
whether we shall be contented to permit all the
enormous expenditure of money, all the lives of
our gallant brethren to be thrown away, without
the slightest beneficial result ; whether there shall
be the restoration of the statics quo without the
most trivial compensation for the past or guaran-
tee for the future

It is ridiculous now to raise the bugbear of
" Protection" " to fright the Isle from its pro-
priety." That point has been frankly and un-
equivocally abandoned, and unrestricted competi-
tion or " Free Trade" is in far greater danger
from the present Ministry than from the quondam,
Protectionists. Mr. DISRAELI would not have
dared to have entered on the retrograde course in
which Sir G. C. LEWIS made such rapid progress.
He would not have proposed any addition to the
duties on tea or sugar, malt or spirits. Nor
would he have increased the income tax, with an
ominous hint of a further addition, without some
attempt at an equitable adjustment. Had he
ventured to do so he would speedily have been
hurled from office, and his successors could not,
for some time at least, have ventured on the
obnoxious experiments.

We are by no means Derbyites, but seeing
that the choice, at present, is restricted to the
Whigs, a joint-stock of Whigs and Peelites, or
Derbyites, we must say that we infinitely prefer
the latter, from whom, while there would be a
vigorous waging of the War, and a resistance to
Germanism, we should receive more liberal measures
than from the present men, while the Whigs it:
Opposition would be open to conviction, to which
they are now insensible. We can't get the Ballot
from Lord PALMERSTON and Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
any more than from Lord DERBY and Mr. Drs
nAELI ; but the former would, when leaders of her
MAJESTY'S Opposition, receive new inspiration,
just as they did on the Corn-law question, and
soon regard " the un-English practice" in a verb
different point of view. So it would be on
all other " Administrative Reforms," and sub-
jects on which the hearts of the people are ear-
nestly set. The truly Liberal could not
lose, but might largely profit by the
change. The War policy, however, is at
present the main question. Everything else
must yield to that, the paramount importance of
which is universally conceded. Let every true-
hearted Englishman, then, be at his post ; let
there be no desertion or vacillation. The trim-
mers will become marked men, in whose hands
the confidence of any independent constituency
can no longer be reposed. The question is in-
deed a momentous one for the community ; it is
no less so for the reputation of those who will
have to bear the brunt of the battle during this