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

:,-,-ufficient to take Sebastopol. The whole of the
Crimea must be reduced into possession, and the
'cask will now be by Lo means difficult. The
" rats are in the trap" from which they
should not be allowed to emerge until there hts
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 can now easily be spared from
I the trenches, to Eupatoria, where there would be
I an impregnable " base of operations," and from
whence they might batter the Russian army at
sirapheropol, 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
1 unequivocal submission. Another, and perhaps
Ino less beneficial a course, would be a landing on
1 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 flat 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 as an ample indemnity for all the ex-
penses of the War. If our conditions were changed,
she would not spare us, and as we have al-
ready 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
1 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-
I rated by the friends of freedom or of justice.

Several weeks since we published in the columns
of Tlhe 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 re-
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-
telligent 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 of 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 I- 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 Girls Eritannicus ? 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-
-1,-,iked among the ranks of the Guards already
compoSed.,respectively either of Englishmen or of
Seotelunen ! 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 rim tholi-
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 administet, whose honour
they have been empowged 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 mariner would seem to intimate,
seriously scoffs at the notion of the proposed
Irish Regiment of Royal Guards as one
intrinsically from its vary 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 au empire whose banners
float over, not merely 60,000,000 as in the
taunted 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 inslsired- by, nobler sentiments,
sentiments Suggestive of a anore expansive policy,
than would seem to be indicated by the scornful
repudiation of the bare idea that Mieisters could
entertain for a single instant the project of or-
ganising a new regiment of Guards to be known
;...s the Royal Irish Regiment.

Is Ireland so undeserving of any
allea mark of
confidence in the loydty of her people on the part
of her beloved SOVEREIGN? Are Irish;nenso wholly
without title to be placal on an equal footing assoldiers with recruits drawn from the great ma,s,
of Scotchmen and of Englishmen ? GOD 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 ! Goy
fbrbid 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 PAIZIERSTON would appear
to be shamefully desirous of perpetuating.
. ,
If the English and" Scotch are still to- have -their
distinctive regiments of Guards—la the Irish have
their) too) w¢J lzoti 111 4ko La:l44er. if the 334 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 the 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 cf 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 beet
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 nrinciples 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,
be 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-
, gross of agriculture throughout the country.
Lord STANLEY has done justice to some other
names. We wonder ho 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 T:ptree. hall of the (lay, only magnified
in full proportion to the resources of the wealthiest
Commoner of the realm. A ride about Helkain-
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
I 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 wore 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 out
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 clearged as annual rent.
We consumers can only wish that agricul-
tural emigration and improvement at home
; would both go on a little more rapidly.
ICanada and the ITnited States have had
together by no menus a large average surplus
of late years. Tile large faluilies of Lancashire
farmers to which allusiou wits 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.
rre valuectetpet att
non:
ov n sewerage, and the imp:lft-
! ante of agricultural statistics were the concluding
on
otbefepTiricehitsgeoof his Lordship's speech. It is certainly to
ffibecaccoiouinistrmyeacanns
be devised. for whatrsei limns Po
lvneaul:olu efficacious
in towns while
it would fertilise our fields. We have 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
°
Ibe placed in carts and carried to a suitable depot,
it would be an incalculable advantage
what is of
as a pro_
lvmelnutei vfeo
ro fmadnisueraesein;
twire ond
while by keepingensed
form,
it
would
render it easier to neutralise what is offensive to,
the senses, and would make the carriage to a digs.
tance a less onerous task. Perhaps such a device
is but a dream. Interception somewhere is, how-.
wa
enreecilspi toyss;i
bi tl would,e,at
tll
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cb:
mevoesrt, ebffeeccotmuai nl,g
ment of the nuisance. If that cannot be effected,
it must be accomplished with all the quid,. which,
mingling with it, carries the noxioilS- matter into
the Thames itself. To the subject of agricultural
aatizticz we may perLapa advert awia.