The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

(From the Times of this day.)

The Londoners have thrown out Lord Robert
Grosvenor's Bill for the Better Observance of the Sab•
bath, without any of those dilatory proceedings which
render Parliamentary deliberation so tedious to the
bystanders. We have fallen back upon the customs
of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, who, in the last
resort, assembled on some open plain, overruled
the resolutions of the Notables, and decided with-
out appeal by the acclamations of the whole tribe.
Hyde-park on Sunday was the Champ•de-Mars of the
English race, and there in the afternoon of that day it
was solemnly decided that the Sunday Bill was not to
pass, and that if Lord Robert Grosvenor persisted in
running counter to the wishes of the people he had better
retire for a season into some secluded and rural residence.
To do him but justice, he had the sense, at the eleventh
hour, to take the hint in good part, and withdrew the
bill. Now, the result obtained has just been as follows:
—The House of Commons has been driven from a course
which they had deliberately adopted by the voice of a
mob, and what is worse is this—the mob were in the
right and the House of Commons in the wrong. The
next point is, that a scene of riot and confusion took
place in the heart of the metropolis on a Sunday after-
noon, that many of the Queen's subjects were most bru-
tally handled by the police, and all because a foolish
Lord persisted in pressing on a foolish bill. One might
have thought that here was the 10th of April come
again, with the exception of the special constables, for
no special constable would have accepted a truncheon in
such a cause. Finally, incalculable mischief has been
done by stirring up jealousies and heartburnings between
the various classes of society. Contempt and hatred
towards the lawgivers pass rapidly into contempt and
hatred of the law. A man of discretion and sound
judgment would have seen at a glance that this was not
one of the occasions on which men will listen to any-
thing—even to reason.

The bill, however, is withdrawn, as may be seen by
our Parliamentary report of last night. Lord Robert
Grosvenor admitted that he was "in a most awkward
predicament "—which, no doubt, he is. He went on to
say that his mea4ure interfered with no man's recreation
or religious convictions, but that, as it bad been made
the subject of misrepresentation and ridicule, and had
caused much irritation, he was desirous of withdrawing
it. Lord Robert Grosvenor, if he be a reasonable man,
should admit a suspicion, into his mind that perhaps his
bill was not exactly calculated to promote the end he

had in view, since the persons for whose benefit it was
intended revolted so violently against its provisions.
Hyde-park on Sunday afternoon was certainly not fiqed
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indignai.iun was expressed ag.,,inst the order to whiell
Lord Robert Grcsverior belongs. They have him to
thank for such a conclusion. The upper classes of this
country are quite innocent of any participation in Lord
Robert Grosvenor's legislative labours, but the people
refuse to examine so closely into the niceties of the
question. They only see that the upper classes are
making laws which will interfere with their actions
and with the exercise of their free will on every Sun-
ddy throughout the year. They see, moreover, that
the day which they are called on to observe with such
Puritanic strictness is devoted by a very large section of
the persons who pass the restrictive laws to purposes of
amusement and dissipation. Alter all—and we appeal
to Lord Robert Grosvenor's own candour—must nut a
Sunday Bill stink in the nostrils of an unshaved, hungry,
exasperated artisan, who has been debarred from pro-
curing any little comfort on the Sunday, save at hours
most -inconvenient to him ? The best thing which can
be done is to leave the question alone altogether—cer-
tainly for a time, for the people have been irritated be-
ycnd measure by the lollies of these Sabbatical legisla-
tors. Lord Robert Grosvenor complains that he does
not lil.• bob° mobbed and bullisl out of his bill ; neither
do the mob like to be bullied and " GrosvernurA " out
of their Sunday. One thing we promise hint—that, if
he will leave the mob alone, they certainly will not in-
terfere with him.

The bulk of the discussion last night consisted of
statements made by various members of the outrageous
conduct of the police on Sunday last, and of reflections
upon Sir George Grey for his mismanagement of the
affair. We most entirely believe that but for the police
there would have been no riot at all. Had orders been
given, for that one Sunday, to exclude the very few car-
riages which appeared in the Park from the Drive, still
less would any mischief have occurred. Where would
have been the great hardship ? Why should the Home
Secretary be so eager to protect people who showed so
little anxiety to protect themselves ?

(From the Times of this day.)
The Emperor of the French has opened the Legisla-
tive Assembly in a speech which will wake a response in
every generous nature on both sides of the Channel.
His Majesty reviews with simple gravity the circum-
stances under which Au,tria invited the Allies to a con-
ference with herself and Russia for the restoration of
peace. At a time when the Allies had really done their
work so far as regards the deliverance of Turkey, the
clearance of the Danube, the extinction of Russian in-
fluence in the Principalities, and the disappearance of
the Russian fleet from the Black Sea, and when—what
is even more important—we had the approbation of
Europe, and the avowed and active adhesion of Austria
herself to the proceedings of the Allies, sho proposed
that we should all meet to settle at her Court the lasting
relations to arise out of that juncture. The Emperor
passes quickly over the points on which there could be
no dispute, and arrives at those which lie at the heart of
the matter. Austria chose to think that the principle
of the limitation of the power of Russia in the Black
Sea would be fully and sufficiently satisfied by an
engagement that if Russia added t o the fleet she
hini possessed before the war that should be a cases
belli, and that, on such an engagement being made
and another for the independence of Turkey, the Allies
had no further occasion for arms. As the Emperor very
happily expresses it, in this way the propositions to
which Austria had given her approval, and to consider
which the Allies had sent the Plenipotentiaries to
Vienna, have wholly evaporated. Indeed it is difficult
to imagine a more utter "baulk," or a worse case
of trifling with just expectations. We were to lay
down our arms ; we were expressly to recognise
the right of Russia to maintain au immense naval
armament in the Black Sea, for no conceivable
purpose except the destruction of Turkey ; we
were to commit ourselves to the very number of
ships up to which Russia might scour the Black Sea, or
appear off the entrance of the Bosphorus ; we were to
be content with a slope re-assertion of that which has
been a hundred times re-asserted in vain, and which
requires no re-assertion—viz., the independence of
Turkey, and we were then to retire—perhaps we should
say, be permitted to retire, with the honours of war.
Indeed it was quite evident that all Austria desired
was the disappearance of the Western Powers from the
East, liberty to Au-trig and Russia to settle the ques-
tion after their own fashion, with every guarantee that
they would not be molested in the process by the un-
welaome appearance of another expedition from the
West. Under these circumstances the Emperor regrets
that the Western Powers could no longer keep open a
conference in which even their honour was trifled with,
and he appeals to France to support him in maintain-
ing her political position and the faith of her alliance.
The support which the Legislative Body is invited to
render at this trying juncture is an ordinary conscrip-
tion to the amount of 140,000 men, a loan of 30,000,0001.,
a tax upon the receipts of railways, and an increase
upon several indirect taxes.. Undoubtedly these are
considerable sacrifices to be demanded from a country
which has other avocations than war, which loves the
arts and enjoyments of peace, and which has just at-
tained, as it were, the acme of internal prosperity. But,
even were these things tenable without honour, they
lose all their dignity and charm when it is gone ; and
the worst thing that has ever been said against social
refinement and a high degree of civilisation is, that
they resider men indifferent to national honour,
to the glory of arms, and the appeals of a
righteous cause. France and England are both
very great nations, and they occupy a very high
place in the world ; but their very greatnesss will
become, so to speak, their own pillory, their riches will
become their opprobrium, and their rank the very mea-
sure of their infamy, if they are found chary of their
money or their men in the great cause they have em-
braced. The cost must be paid sooner or later, and it is
the soundest policy to pay it at once, and, if possible,
by one mighty effort to stanch the fountain of blood
that must otherwise remain open for we know not how
long. It is peculiar to countries, such as England and
F:aeo a that they have it in their power to concentrate
all their energies on one undertaking, and by the appli-
cation of money, labour, and skill accomplish in one
year the work of many, and bring to bear on one spot
the preparations that have been made in many harbours
and arsenals. We trust, then, that the Emperor of thy
French will have the sanction of his people to iminq..Vste
efforts, which will save them both money and the
end, and that the British nation will not be behindhand.
There is something like humour in the simplicity with
which the E.nperor describes the conduct of Austria in
these negotiations. The limitation of the Russian force
in the Black Sea may or may not imply an arithmetical
restriction ; but, if such is its possible meaning, and
Austria would appear to acknowledge as much, that re-
striction should be to some less formidable standard than
that which really led to the present war. It should be •
a restriction to some standard suffici,nt for defence, but
not for aggression. It should be to a standard that
would keep Turkey always on the eve of aniiihilation,
the Western Powers always under arms in the Mediter-
ranean, end the peace of Europe always dependent on
the good sense or the clemency of the Czar. What
Austria has proposed, as her interpretation of this prin.
ciple, is really no limitation at all. It is a restoration
in number and a' creation in privilege. It proposes
that-the Emperor of Russia may build a new man of war
for every onethateither he or we have sunk ordestroyed.
It amounts to a solemn undertaking on the part of the
Western Powers that the Czar has a treaty right to that
number, and that we have precluded ourselves from any
remonstrance as to the amount of a navy which can be
intended fir nothing whatever but the subjugation of
Turkey, the exclusive possession of the Black Sea, and
the absolute command of the Danube. It is difficult to
see with what design Austria made such a proposal to
two great Powers which had made immense sacrifices
and attained considerable successes ' • but she can hardly
find her account in the present deep determination on all
sides to try out the quarrel by the ordeal of war. We
have not the least reason to doubt that such is the reso-
lution of Russia • we can speak. for ourselves that such
is ours ; and the speech of the French Emperor an-
swers for the spirit of that nation. In the nature of
things a contest of this fury and magnitude
cannot but spread, like a conflagration, till it embraces
all that lies near. The East and the West are the fierce
antagonists, and the battle extends to the North and the
South. If it was Austria's speculation to thrive by the
exhaustion of her terrible rivals, how will she escape the
flame, which, if she has not helped to raise, she has at
least only pretended to extinguish ? But—
"'Tis dangerous when a baser nature comes
• Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites ;"
and, as Austria has thought fit to throw herself between
the belligerents with promises that she has redeemed
only in words, and mediations that have only been a
plea for delay, she will obtain little sympathy when she
falls at last into the fiery vortex of war, which she has
hitherto viewed with such interested complacency.

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