The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-18 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1855.

rose-water diplomatists, and the pusillanimous
counsels heard from the lips of our qUoncLia-
dethagogues, we should never have had such bit-
ter cause, to. curse the day when the destinies of
England w re confded to the charge of men like
Mr. GLADSTONE, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM', and. the
Duke of NEWCASTLE, and the Earl of ABERDEM --
such later °Atte° as that furnished by the reel int
despatc:les from the Baltic, relating how sixti ,en
or seventeen of oar gallant tars, and seven,. or
eight Itti:isiaet prisoners, were brutally murde rE d
by the C,)ssacks at Hango while endeavour -ug
under the hitherto sacred shelter of a flag of trate,
to land a body of Russian prisoners, relieved from
the custody of the English out of motives AS
humane as they were chivalrous.
The honourable gentleman the Member for
Stafford may be precluded by the etiquette of the
House of Commons from the privilege of calling
things by their right names when speaking of the
recent conduct of the ex-First Lord of the .Admi-
ralty and the late Chancellor of the Exchequer,
It is not so, fortunately, with ourselves. We are
not amenable, in these columns, to the wire-drawn
regulations and fastidiously-contrived punctilios
deemed requisite as balms, and salves, and un-

guents for the amour propre oE over-sensitive
right honouiables in the popular branch of the
Legislature. Mr. OTWAY .may be denied the
poignant luxury of telling Mr. GLAMSTONE and
Sir JArrES GRAHAM to their teeth, in the presence
and hearing of the' Speaker, that any stipulations
as to the conditions of pe,ce made by them could
have had no other object (judging from their late
speeches in the House of Commons) than , that of
being favourable to our enemies the Russians
Mr. OTWAY may be denied this luxury
we say, on the plea that such language is not
strictly within the rules of discussion—seeing that
it is,. of course, nothing less than attributim; to
hon, members that which i 3 traitorous.
we take the words to which Mr. OTWAY was on
Friday evening denied the satisfaction of giving
utterance in Parliament. We take them, we

adopt them, we reiterate them, we insist upon
their u4denialile veracity—upon the directness
and. distinctness of their application. We go fox_

Vner—we maintain that not only must the Ills:
sians have been favoured by any stipulations iL-
sisted upon, as among the necessary conditions of
peace, by the once powerful, but happily impo-
tent, little faction of the Aberdeenites, but that
to these game A.berdeenites, and to the congenial
influenc3of the miserable Peace-at-any-price Party,
may be traced "the chief calamities of the War,
and certairilY among those calamities the ferocity
displayed front time to time by the soldiers and
sailor:: of the Russian Autocrat.
Rise we nut all along insisted that the late
Earcpean tranquillity of forty years' duration
mig:ir, still have been pre3erved intact had a ra-
tional amount of decision been displayed at the
right time—namely, at the very first instant by
the leaders of our Government ? W haVe never
retracted that opinion—it still remains among
our implicit convictions—a belief confirmed by
every subsequent occurrence. We still bat' 'eve,
as we have all along believed, that we should
never have had this war with Russia if England
had said in time, "It shall not be !"—if our
rulers had declared, before the CZA3'S army had
crossed the Pruth, "DIRECTLY YOUR TROOPS PASS •

THAT RI7BICON WE SHALL BE COMPELLED TO DP

The ferocity displayed by the Russians luiing
the present War may be attributed almost entirely
to the Peace•at-any-pricy Party and to the .ber-
deenites. But for these gentlemen we should
never have heard of the dastardly and inhuman
massacre of Sinope. Bat for them the prlblic
mind would never have been horrified with the
accounts received at intervals from the scat of -war,
relating how our wounded heroes were butchered
in cold blood as they lay disabled upon the gro and
before Sebastopol, on the heights at Inkerina-n,, or
in the valley at Balalclava. But for the palter ing
of our Ministers, and the timorous suavity of •our