The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-06 00:00:00

strengthened by all the resources of art and all the con-
trivances .of skill and science, and that in thattwelve
months' struggle deeds of valour have been performed
by our troops—by the Britiiih and French troops —deeds
of heroism which will live to the memory of the latest
posterity, and which will do immortal honour to the
people of the two countries. (Cheers.) It is, gentlemer,
the fashion with many to say that war is the greatest
of all calamities. Now, war undoubtedly is a great
ca'amity, but there are evils greater than war. These
are the evils which spring from the success of graTing
ambition, from triumphant violence, and from Wrong
and misrule over men. In all times, in all ages, and in
all countries, those nations, which have possessed the
qualities which dignify and adorn human nature, have

felt that these evils were evils greater than war, and they
have been prepared to encounter the calamities of war,
however great they may be, rather than submit to the
still greater evils which I have just pointed out to you.
So it is with the people of England. So it is with our
noble neighbours the people of Franca ; and I believe
that if the nations of the Continent were to determine
the course which they were to pursue simply according
to their own sentiments and feelings, there are countries
which are now resting on au inglorious neutrality that
would join the alliance, and do honour to them and the
cause. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, every war is, no
doubt, a calamity ; but the course of the present war has
brought its evils as little home to the people of this
country as was possible consistently with the nature
of things. Our enemy has seen his arsenals in the
Baltic flaming and blazing to the sky. (Hear, hear.)
Our enemy has seen that great fleet, nearly 28 or 30 sail
of the line, for which the revenues of the country were
squandered, and for which crews were conscribed, and,
to make those crews efficient, they were taught dur-
ing the icy rigours of winter to mount fictitious masts
erected in their barrack-yard, and to imagine they were

climbing up the rigging of the fleet—(a laugh)—they have
seen that fleet cooped up ignominiously in its harbours
and its docks, not daring to face the Allied squadrons,
which, allow me to Bay, never were superior in numbers
to the Russians, however superior in other respects on
which victory depends. (Cheers.) They have had the

mortification of seeing that all that expenditure and trou-
ble was fruitless when the moment came in which a fleet
might ever be useful. They have seen in the Baltic the
humiliation attending that state. f things. They have had
their commerce crippled and greatly reduced. In the
Black Sea they have seen a fleet which not long ago
proudly swaggered over the waves of the Euxine, and whose
most glorious achievement was the barbarous outrage
of Sinope. (Ironical cheers.) They have seen that fleet,
not captured in an open battle, or yielling, after a brave
resistance, to a superior force of antagonists, but sinking
under the hand of its own commander, and leaving no-
thing but their topmasts sticking out of the water as
marks of the degradation to which they have been sub-
ject. (Cheers.) They have seen this great arsenal—this
vast capital of which they were so proud, but of which
they were so chary that no prying stranger was allowed

to enter its walls, so that the only Englishman that has
ever given any account of it was compelled to find* his
way within its gates disguised as a peasant and covered
over in a cart full of hay—(a laugh)—they have seen, I
say, this great arsenal, which. they so studiously kept
from the eyes of jealous strangers, exposed, not to the
eyes, but to the possession, of au enemy, after having
vainly endeavoured for twelve months to defend it.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, we have no doubt, in many
respects, felt the unavoidable pressure of war ; but
those wild raging fires that have lit the arsenal of
Russia have reduced themselves simply to those miti-
gated lights which accompany the evening rejoicings of
a town, and the only noise of cannon which has echoed

in our ears has not been the cannon that has shaken the
walls of Sebastopol, but those occasional harmless dis-
charges which are the tokens of national rejoicing.
(Cheers and laughter.) Well, then, gentlemen, I trust
and hope that a cause which has been so ably supported
—a cause which is so nobly defended—must prosper in
the end as it has prospered in the beginning ; and I may
say there is hardly an instance in history of au army
whirl], in a single campaign—for it is only, so far as
we are concerned, a single campaign—has been attended
with such great and important results. We are pre-
senting to the world one of the noblest spectacles which
it is possible for nations to exhibit. (Cheers.) Here are
the two greatest nations of the world—l say it without
vanity and without exaggaration, but without one par-
ticle of diminution—l say the English and French
nations, which stand at the head of everything that
dignifies human nature—(cheers)—aro presenting
to the world the noblest possible spectacle of two
great people casting into the shade of oblivion all their
former jealousies, rivalships, and extinct animosities,
uniting for a purpose generous, and, so far as any sordid
motives are concerned, utterly disinterested, looking for
no trumpery profit or gain, territorial or otherwise, for
themselves ; but seeking simply to establish for them-
selves the liberties of the world in which they are so
deeply interested on a solid and permanent foundation,
making vast sacrifices, not wantonly for abstract prin-
ciple, but from a sound political view and consideration
of things—l say these two nations present the noblest
spectacle that the history of the world has ever, up to
this day, exhibited. (Cheers.) For we have seen great
combinations made for purposes of conquest ; but a com-
bination made for a purpose like this, so honourable to
the two, has seldom, if ever, been witnessed in history.
And we have seen the armies of two nations, which had
learned face to face in the battle-field to view each other
with respect, fighting side by side, and knowing more
intimately the qualities of each ; and we have seen
them change their feelings, and convert what was for-
merly respect into enthusiastic admiration. (Cheers.)
Well, then, gentlemen, I say ill would it become any
man in the situation which I have the honour to hold to
talk of the future and to advert to prospective measures;
but this I think I am well warranted in saying—view-
ing thoopanly and unflinching spirit which animates the
people of this conntry—viewing the generous support
which Parliament has given to the Government in every
measure connected with the prosecution of the war—
viewing the perfect good faith and undeviating con-
stancy of purpose which animates our great ally the Em-
peror of the French—viewing the sympathy which our
cause excites among the people of every free country in
the world, even in places where mistaken views of in-
terests, as I think, lead their Governments to a different
course—viewing also the justice of our cause, which en-
titles us to look for the protection of Providence on our
exertions—l say, viewing all these things, lam confident
we may look to such a result of the contest in which we
are engaged, as may place the future liberties of Europe
—as may place the interests—the main and perma-
nent interests—of the countries which are now allied
upon a sure, stable, and lasting foundation. (Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg again to thank you for the
great honour you have done me in the reception which
we have this day received, and I again assure you that
such testimonies coming from you, however they may
belong mainly to the great event which we are called on
to celebrate, I cannot refuse to accept as in some degree
evincing friendly and kindly sentiments towards my
lady and myself ; and I again cordially thank you for
your respects, and I beg to wish you all prosperity both
to yourselves and the town of Romsey. (Loud and
prolonged cheering.)
Dr. BHDDOME then proposed three cheers for Lady
Palmerston, which were heartily given, and her lady-
ship gracefully bowed her acknowledgments. Three
cheers were also given for his lordship ; and, on the mo-
tion of the rev. the vicar, the proceedings concluded
with three cheers for the Queen.
In the evening his lordship entertained the mayor and
the members of the town council at dinner, at his seat
at Broadlands.

(Front the Times of this day.)
A manly speech on the capture of Sebastopol, deliveredby Lord Palmerston to the inhabitants of Romsey,
calls our attention to the conduct of the Premieor, whom
we have so often blamed, and at the sameti,m why we
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vehicle for party violence
down one man or setting up another, for gratifying piques
and animosities, for providing worn-out politicians ,with a
commodity of good
reputations, for official intrigue or po-
litical jobbery. The days are rapidly passing away when
any newspaper of character can afford to avow itself as the
unflinching advocate of any party or of any person—of
in. fact, except that which to be the object
anything,
of all periodical as well as permanent writing—the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. To give a
true narrative of passing
events, and to make on those
events just, natural, and pertinent reflections, is all to
w' aspire, it being a matter to us of the purest in-
difference what party, what clique, or what individual re-
putation may be damaged or promoted by our faithful and
fearless discharge of the duty we undertake. Another
habitual baseness of certain persons is the habit of imput-
ing to us a desire to flatter the prosperous, and to trample
on those in adversity. Thus, when we praised Mr. Glad-
stone's excellent budget and the admirable speech in which
he proposed it, we were told wo were parasites and syco•
phants ; and when we felt called upon to censure the ab-
surd and unpatriotic course which he has adopted with
regard to the war, we were taunted with deserting in his
adversity one whom we had beslavered with our praise in
his prosperity, as if it were in the power of Mr. Gladstone
or of any other statesman of the day, to give or to w;th-
hold from the Times that position which it owes to the
favour of the public, and not to th-t of any patron or

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