The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-31 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1855.

The Peace cry seems t• be a kind of political
A DULL A M'S cave, wanting, however, some DAVID
as a recognised Captain. All the distressed, all
the discontented, all the bankrupt politicians, and
every man who has run away from his master, put
in there ; and a strong band they might be could
1• _L_ to any efficient
leader. Fortunately for the great interests of
England and of Europe they are united only in
their enmity ; they quarrel with each other
almost every foot of the way till they
arrive at the Government which at once repre-
sents the wishes of the cinutry, and keepa
them all out of OffiC3. GLADSTONE and DISRAELI,
COBDEN and the Marquis of GR A.NBY, BRIGHT and
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, EDWD. t,Tr ALL, Esq. ,
of the Nouonformi3t, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
M. P., of bishop-making notoriety—certainly
DAVID'S A.dallamites were a homogeneous frater-
nity compared with these. Against Lord PAL-
MERSTON they are one. Let them but overthrow
him, and hardly a pair of them could act together.

Just now the whole party seems to be iu great
heat ; the more frank relieving themselves in
rather Pickwickian style, the more cautious
" nursing their wrath to keep it warm." Pos-
sibly the dread of a dissolution, should
they prove too restive next session—possibly
the consciousness of their antagonism to the con-
victions of their country men, and possibly com-
mercial and party reasons in connection with the
others, make them very uneasy. Unable to ob-
tain to any extent the support of the newspaper
press, they resort to the pamphlet, the placard,
and to any kind of benevolent or social meeting,
and get a hearing at least, and generally a cour-
teous one. It is, however, remarkable that, while
the vast majority opposed to them give them credit
for honesty and good intentions, they are but slow
to return the compliment ; too frequently assert-
ing or insinuating that their opponents are dis-
honest, and reckless of the country's blood and
treasures.

There is one trick so continually reiterated
that, transparent as the illusion should be, their
repeated paintings may almost prevent its being
seen through.We refer to their picturing always
in the strongest, not to say exaggerated, colours,
the horrors of the camp, the hospital, and the
assault ; the loss in money and life, the inter-
ference with commerce, the price of food, and
then charging all these horrors and evils on those
who would continue the war. They present
themselves thus to the public as the humane and
the considerate party. They emphatically arc
the people who shrink from bloodshed and
wanton waste of property ; the people who
feel for the widow and the orphan, for
the sick and the wounded. Their hearts
alone sicken with the sad details which in
a week or two follow the telegraphic announce-
ment of a great success. None but they realise
that Russian serfs leave weeping wives-and mo-
thers, as well as our own soldiers. They clamour
for stopping immediately the immediate cause of
all these sorrows—therefore, they alone have tears
to shed for them. We need not inform our read-
ers that, however convinced they themselves ara
that the War must be carried on, they all feel these
things as deeply as the so-called Pea.ee Party ; we be-
lie ve more deeply.
courage, whether civil or military,
is not less tender-hearted than timidity. Hearts
the stoutest to bear social and pecuniary sacrifices
at home, or to rush on heedless, for the moment,
of the fallen and wounded, when the occasion re-
quires not the sympathies, but the energy of the
man, are just the hearts which most overflew with
the gentler feelings of humanity. So far from
allowing to these peace gentlemen a monopoly of
the humane feelings, we are conscious to ourselves
that they but feebly picture ours—only we
have
no party object to serve, while we have a stern
and self-denying duty to perform.
A most unworthy artifice of these peace man,
also, is that of turning all their denunciations of
the horrors of war against their own countrymen.
The Q. E. D. of each string of arguments against,
war in the abstract is, therefore, you, the Allies
are the guilty authors of all these horrors. Now,

this is gross misrepresentation, or begging the
question at least. The question being who is
guilty of the bloodshed, they assume that the
parties second in the field are so, or at least that
they are so if they do not " stop the War "
at the wish of the peace orators. Their
one-sidedness is never relieved by a sentence
denunciatory of the selfish, unscrupulous, and
cruel ambition of the CZARS. It would not
serve their purpose to paint honestly the crime
and the criminals against which and whom Europe
must protect herself. Exhibit CATHARINE, ALEX-
ANDER, and NICEOLAS in their true characters,
brand their deeds with the stigma they merit, and
develope their inevitable aim, and all their former
declamation would be forgotten as irrelevant to
the issue.

Do we then really need to be reminded what it
is we have gone to war for ? Was it merely to
get the Russians out of the provinces and the
Austrians in, or to get a right to dredge the mouth
of the Danube? Are we to be denounced as the
guilty parties, because such achievements will not
satisfy us. If these gentlemen be honest, let
them denounce the villains who first outraged the
peace of Europe by occupying a neighbour's ter-
ritories in a time of profound peace. The savage
wretches who, in 1833, their people applauding,
had trampled out in blood and exile the last
hopes of Poland as a step to the seizure of Con-
stantinople. Who, as another step to the same
international felony, delivered the free Hungarians
into the demon fangs of Austria ; enabling that
brutal coward to become the hangman of the brave,
that CZ A its might anon do their pleasure at Constan-
tinople, no Austrian daring to forbid. Let them
denounce the villains who have girded their whole
Empire round with territories deprived of their
liberties, and conquered them by a succession of
frauds and violence almost unparalleled in history.
Let them denounce the shameless conquest of the
Crimea by CATHARINE, and the nefarious equip-
ment of Sebastopol by NICHOLAS. Let them
expend some of their eloquence on the
wrongs of Circassia, and of Persia, of the
Tartars and of Turkey, of Poland and of Sweden ;
Then, indeed, we might believe them to be not
mere special pleaders, or partisans, but men who
opened their eyes to both sides of the great ques-
tion of the day. _

We have just seen three great domestic culprits
sentenced to an ignominy worthy of their deeds.
Yet while we all commend, nay admire, the un-
swerving firmness of the Judge, who of us could
suppress feelings proportionably as strong as those
which revolt from the miseries of war ? We ad-
mire, because we feel that the temptation to Baron
ALDERSON to merge the judge in the man
was almost greater than we could ourselves
have resisted. But what was the guilt of
these three criminals compared with that
of the CZARS and their tools, who, while revelling
in immensity of territory, turned both Chur,ch
and State, Army and Navy, diplomacy abroad and
serfdom at home, into so many instruments of
insatiable ambition and despotism. If penal ser-
vitude or transportation be the just reward of
those who defrauded their neighbours of their
money, what is the due of villains who have
robbed country after country of its indepen-
dence, of its liberty, of its noblest blood
for exile, and its humbler blood by conscrip-
tions—conscriptions for perpetrating fresh rob-
beries ? It may suit certain politicians to have
"divers balances," but it does not suit the JUDGE
of all, and ought not to suit us. Unless Sir
JJEAZii J.
grossly misused, there is no ignominy too great
to inflict on the proud ambition of those rulers, and
the people upholding their rule, who have, ao-
cording to these patrons of ambition themselves,
have caused the death of half a million of men. An
example ought to be made of the CZARS which
should prevent another war of conquest, another
plot against an independent nation for ever. Not
only should we discard all unjust notions of say
ing the dignity of the greatest criminal in Europe,
but we should remember the 'villain we have to do
with is a highwayman as well as a swindler. He
must be enfeebled as well as degraded. There is
safety in no other course. We must imprison him
by restoring to liberty the countries he has de-
prived of it. With Poland, Finland, Bessarabia,
the Tartars, Circassians, Georgians, Armenians,
and Persians restored to freedom, the CZAR would
not easily again burst his fetters. The first at-
tempt would be repressed.

Nearly forty French political exiles have been
ordered to quit Jersey on or before the 2d of
November. This is a very important and decided
step—one that will be earnestly canvassed through
out the civilised world, and on which the real
facts of the case may be either grossly misrepre-
sented or receive very considerable additions. I
is therefore very desirable that the facts should be
accurately known, so as to preclude the possibility
of any misconception, and that every person should
have authentic data on which to form a correct
judgment.

At first sight the measure looks badly. England
has always afforded hospitality to political re-
fugees from all other nations. It is a sanctuary,
the privilegeswhereof have everbeen very jealously
and vigilantly guarded ; and we venture to assert
that no true-hearted Englishman would,* under
any circumstances, or at any cost, sanction any
violation or infringement thereof. But there are
reciprocal duties on the part of those who claim
refuge at our hands. They must conform to the
laws of the country, and to the well-known and
recognised conditions of the protection which they
are compelled or fled it expedient to seek. They
must for the timeitbandon all undue intrigues
against Governments with which the protect-
ing Power is on terms of amity. Eng-
land is a sanctuary for every person accused
of merely political offenfcoe but it be
forces,
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pea'c'ecieonf" the world, and which, if
to proceed, would b® very prejudicial to
sthueffedlrveelfare of society ; which might also engage
their hosts in transactions neither useful nor justi-
fiable, and for whwricoh
dot not ask that our guestshe people of the country
have no fancy.
seeinshall change their opinions,
mat-
ters against which they oorboarcnqouie
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timony and endured exile, but we have a just right
to demand that, while sojourning in the British do-
minions, they shall abstain
from overt acts or
demonstrations calculated to aflor
d reasonable
grounds of complaint and remonstrance to other
Governments. They must not attempt a wild
licence, inconsistent with. rational liberty, and
which no Englishman could be justified or tole
rated in assuming.
Now, it seems clear beyond the possibility of
doubt that the Jersey refugees have greatly trans-
gressed the well-defined and clearly-understood
limits of their position. They have not been
satisfied with mere protection from those who
would bring them to a very staingent reckoning
for past transactions, but seem desirous of
"opening a new account." The fiat step
was the publication of a journal, certainly
not intended merely for the refugees, or
even the inhabitants of Jersey, or of Great
Britain, but for secret circulation in France, into

which it was to be smuggled for the purpose of
overturning the existing Government. Bad as
this was, it might not have been particularly
noticed had it not been for a most indecorous and
unjustifiable epistle to the SOVEREIGN of Great
Britain, which excited the well-merited condem-
nation of every well disposed inhabitant
of Jersey and of Great Britain. For this
the responsible parties, three in number, were
very properly ordered to leave the Island, and
those for whose evil passions they had catered,
totally forgetting the character with which they
were indued, had the indelicacy to publish an ad-
dress to the British Government, openly advocat-
ing the doctrine of assassination, and with an
insolenct tone demanding that they should share
the fate of those who had already been ordered
to quit.

They have been taken at their word, and must '
forthwith depart from the sanctuary whose privi-
leges they have abused, from the host whose hos-
pitality has been received with insolent abuse.
They have themselves invited the proceeding by
the concluding paragraph of their epistle, and
cannot complain at the necessary consequence of
their own misconduct.

But what is that ? They are not given up to
chains or incarceration, or surrendered to an
avenger eager for their blood. A week has been
given them to set their respective houses in order,
and to make all necessary arrangements for seek-
ing another domicile, where they can act without
let or hindrance. If during that interval they
promise to abstain from further impropriety we
venture to assert that the submission will receive
all due consideration. If not, they know the
result, and must submit to the inevitable conse-
quences.

It is said that " extremes often meet." We
have lately seen some striking instances of the
accuracy of the adage. It is difficult to conceive
how there can be any concert or collusion between
an autocrat and professed democrats ; but if the
latter had been striving to play the game
of their great opponent, they could scarcely
have adopted a course better calculated to achieve
the object. The agents of the CZAR are active in
their vocation. His emissaries are spread through
every land. They have worked in America, and
have not overlooked even the Channel Islands.
It is our duty to resist their machinations where-
ever, or however, they may be revealed, and to
meet them decidedly, whether they assume the
shape of a declaration from political refugees or
instructions to a subordinate from a Yankee
A t torney- G eneral.

The agriculturists of Leicestershire, whether
they are enlightened enough to discover it or not,
have reason to exclaim—" Save us from •ur
friends," for certainly more indiscretion has rarely
been shown in the intended promotion of the
interests of a class than has just been displayed
by one who would pass off and believes himself
sincerely enough, we dare say, to be their friend
par excellence.

As every one knows, who is at all acquainted
with the agricultural body throughout the king-
dom, reticency of a certain sort in relation to their
crops has become a marked feature in their charac-
ter. Inquire at whatever period of cereal growth
you may, in any season, or from harvest to harvest,
what their prospects are, or what sort of success
has attended their labours, and the odds' are you
get a reply by no means satisfactory to your
understanding. Is the weather a little frosty 7

„ __z - Anctfrnvari far wanf. of unnw. Is
the weather open I—destruction awaits the young
shoots in spring. Is the spring genial at the
commencement ?—it won't last ; had it been more
"backerly” the prospect of a good harvest would
have been better. Is the spring • stormy ?—it's
high time we had fine weather. Is the summer
early, does the sun shine awhile with unintermit-
ting warmth and radiance ?--.the crops will be
ruined for want of rain. Does the soil drink in
with grateful lips the gentle pattering shower for
a few days successively 7—the crops will rot in
the ground, and prayers must be said by the vicar
for fine weather. Has every prophecy and
expressed apprehension been exploded by the
thick ranks of waving shoots in every field ?
there's a danger of too much straw. Is the pe-
riod of harvest at hand, and the growth rich, but
not rank I—it will be all very well if the ears will
fill. Are heavy crops of grain waving luxuri-
antly in mellow brightness before the sickle
there's many a slip between the cup and the

lip ! Are the abundant crops safely har-
vested ?—doubts are expressed as to the yield.
Is every available verbal demurrage expended ?
The inexorable agriculturist shakes his head, and,
if hard pressed, screws up his lips to prevent a
rising smile. Satisfied or dissatisfied, ho still
%mist grumble, and keep, as far he can, the public
in the dark. Not a few causes have contributed,
and continue to do so, to perseverance in this in-
dulgence—the want of leases among others—not-
withstanding it has long ceased to be productive
of a more than temporary, or, in the long run, of
a profitable effect. The more enlightened public
have listened to the cry of " wolf" too long to
attach much importance to the cry, and smile
after witnessing a good harvest to witness the
farmer endeavouriag to conceal the greatness of
his content beneath cynical wrinkles, much as the
silly bird i' the story essays to escape observation.