The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

again. It has hitherto been the general belief
that we live under the dominion of law, but to
judge by the proceedings to which we refer, we
live under the dominion of an igAorant and brutal
police—a body, Austrian or Russian in habits
and feelings to the heart's core.

What had her MAJESTY'S liege subjects done
to be "charged"—that was the word—and cruelly
and, in many instances we believe, unprovokedly
beaten with bludgeons ? Was it so shocking a
crime to disobey the proclamation, the " charge"
on your allegiance of Marshal MAYNE, that such a
punishment should be inflicted ? Is it so mortal
a sin to deride ridiculous over-zealousness in the
officials you support ? Or is it treason, murder,
and burglary for Englishmen who, feeling them-
selves to bo unrepresented in what is ludicrously
called " the People's House," have met together
to protest against a great grievance—by exclama-
tion or movement of the hand, to give expression
to their feelings ?
What was the case yesterday ? A hundred
thousand peaceable, well-dressed people met, as a
similar body had met on the preceding Sunday, in
Hyde-park, the object of the great majority of
them being, as on that occasion when no evil re-
sults followed, to express in the only effective way
in their power their disapprobation of the atro-
cious Sunday Bill, and what takes place ? Why,
owing to the behaviour of the police alone a dan-
gerous riot is all but created. A groan, a hiss,
or a laugh from some over-daring snip, and woe
to the unlucky offender. The police ".charge "
savagely down on him, beat him unmercifully with
their staves, and, some half-dozen strong, trium-
phantly convey the poor fellow in a cab to Vine-
street. Even our heroic invalids from the Crimea
could not escape. In one instance the brutal
treatment by the police of an unoffending and
wounded veteran brought down the severe rebuke
of a Sergeant of the Guards, sent, a short time
after, from head-quarters, and had the attempt
to capture him been persevered in, there can be
no question the result would have been very
serious. In another instance, we are told, a
number of spectators were dexterously immersed
in the Serpentine.
If this sort of thing be law, we make bold to
say it is not safe. The heart of many a peaceable
Englishman ached yesterday to see Englishmen
thus abused, and curses, not loud but deep, were
muttered against the aristocracy and our lordly
form of Government as the cause. At any period
dangerous, such procedure is especially so now.
A. few such scenes as that of yesterday might have
results we are by no means desirous to witness.
We must not have any safety-valve fastened down
in the present temper of the public, and the police,
or their instigators on this occasion, must be
brought to book and made to learn a new lesson.

TILE COMMAND IN CIIIEF IN THE

EAST.

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We are enabled to state that, in consequence of the
melancholy death of Lord Raglan, and of the immediate
return of Sir George Brown to England, owing to ill
health, Lieutenant-General Simpson succeeds to the
command of the British army in The Crimea.
General Simpson has seen considerable service, and
enjoys a high professional reputation. During the Pen-
insular war he was present at the defence of Cadiz and
the attack on Seville. lie served and was wounded at
Quatre Bras in 1815, and was engaged in 1845 as second
in command to the late Sir Charles Napier in Scinde.
Sir Charles Napier considered him his best officer ; and
we believe that Lord Ellenborougb, then Governor-
General, had the highest opinion of him, and, in the
event of any accident happening to Sir Charles, would
have charged General Simpson with the con .uct of the
war.

The high official position General Simpson has filled
since the present Government sent him to the Crimea
has necessarily placed him in constant communication
with the French Commander, with whom we are confi-
dent he will maintain the cordial relations that have
existed without intermission between the chiefs of the
expeditionary force. —Morning Post.

Her 'Majesty was most deeply affected on being in-
formed, by Lord Panmure, of the death of Field-Mar-
shal Lord Raglan, on Saturday forenoon, as the previous
accounts received by the Government, by telegraph,
gave a more favaurable report of his illness. The Queen
instantly countermanded the intended dinnerparty at
Buckingham Palace, and .desired that the military band
ordered to be in attendance should be dispensed with.
VISIT OF KING LEOPOLD TO ENGLAND.—The Brus-
sels journals state that the King of the Belgians is to
leave Balgium for England this day (Monday), on a visit
to Queen Victoria. The Count de Flandre and the
Princess Charlotte are to accompany his Majesty. The
royal party were to sleep at Ostend, and embark this
morning for Dover. The visit will last about a fortnight.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. The Ministers
present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Argyll, Sir eorge Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord John Russell, Lord Panroure, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Sir W. Molesworth, Viscount Canning,
and the Earl of Harrowlsy. The Council sat three hours.
A new opera has been brought out at the Carcano, at
Milan, the work of a new composer, Maestro Meiners.
It is highly spoken of, and the usual quantum of praise
is dealt out to the principal artistes, Mile. Rupini and
M. Ghiglanzoni, the latter an old acquaintance at the
Italian Opera here.
WRECK OF THE SHIP ABROTA.—CDRACAO, June 9.
The Abrota, Ogier, of Jersey, from Llanelly to this port,
with coals, went on shore at the N.E. point of Little
Curacao in the night of sth June, crew saved ; vessel
and cargo totally lost.
MUNIFICENT GIFT.—Mr. William Cooke, of Astley's
Royal Amphitheatre, has presented 1001. to the new
Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Agency and Sick
Fund Association ; Mrs. Cooke 101., Mr. Henry Cooke
U., and Mr. W, Cooke, jun., 51. ; making in all 1201.
Mlle. Arnalia Ferraris, one of the best Italian balle-
rino of the day, is now exciting a fanatismo at Ravenna.
LORD ELGIN AND THE EMBASSY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
—lt is underAood, in well-informed circles, that the
reason why the Earl of Elgin did not receive the Go-
ernor Generalship of India, for which all parties admit
him to be pre-eminently qualified, is, that he may pro-
ceed to Canstantinople, where his firmness and conci-
liatory disposition would find a sphere for beneficial
exercise, and where Opposite qualities in the present
occupant of that post have wrought so much mischief.
.J/ orning Advertiser..

THE PARLIAIIENTARY RIDDLE.—Mr. Gladstone has
'disappointed us. We made sure of a speeck from him
on Mr. Duncombe's motion for a new writ for London,
Baron Rothschild having vacated his seat by contract-
ing with Government for the supply of 16,000,000/. for
the public service. Never was there a finer question
than this for Mr. Gladstone's genius for casuistry.
Baron Rothschild has not taken his seat, the oath on
the faith of a Christian being a bar to the seat, ; and how
a man can have vacated a seat by becoming a contractor,
which he had never taken because of his conscience, it
would puzzle all mortal teen but Mr. Gladstone, the
modern iEdipus, to explain. A certain seat in the
house, belonging- to Llndon, has been empty for se-
veral years, while the representation of London has
been full. Where is the member? That is the first
question. He is in a limbo between being and not being
a member. He is in, like Cinderella's sister, all but the

heel. He stood for the seat, ',e was elected to the seat,
but sit be does not. The stage of standing is success-
fully pa.t, but the stage of sitting is not accomplished,
and somewhere between the two is Baron 11,,thschild.
The French have a proverb--a door must be either
open or shut ; but it clearly does not apply to the
door of the House of Commons when a Jew is con
corned. Yet now the unhappy gentleman is told he has
vacated his seat, and must turn out. But he may surely
not unreasonably ask, " Let me turn in first." And'
the configuration of members is constitutionally such,
that without certain words in an oath they are no more
able to sit than the cherubim, who, upon being invited
to take a seat, answered that he had not the where-
with. The ease is a beautiful example of the virtue of
tests and disabilities. Here is a man who is barred by
a scruple from an object of ambition, and the Lords in
their wisdom are content it should ho so. But being,
in the sporting phrase, " nowhere," because be is so
scrupulous, the alarm is taken lest in the character
of a contractor he should introduce corruption into
the house, and there is nothing in the world of which
the house has such a horror as corruption. As Airs.
Honour would say, it would "lieverer see a tood" on
its benches than a contractor, because a contractor may
possibly have corrupt dealings. But here is a man who
will not forswear himself. True, that is a good reason
for refusing to let him sit among honourable gentlemen ;
but if he lends money to Government, he becomes
forthwith so untrustworthy that the seat be has never
been suffered to fill because of his scruples must, in
constitutional prudence, be forfeited. Here the Jew is
caught both ways. Because he has a scruple he must not
sit in a Christian Legislature ; because he is a money
lender to Governmenthe is to be presumed not to have
a scruple, and the seat he has not been 'permitted to oc-
cupy is to be declared vacated. Oh for a Gladstone to
reconcile these inconsistencies, and to demonstrate, in a
good set Gladetonisation, how the thing could not be and
yet could be, how what has never been filled can be
emptied, how he who never wags a, member can cease to
be the member he never was. Oh rare tests and disa-
bilities, bow exquisite are your *ties I—Examiner.