The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1855.

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We have repeatedly directed public. ittelitiOn
to the untoward operation of the Royal Marriage
Act, or rather of the custom' which renders it in-
dispensable to obtain a consort of blood royal for
one of our own Princes or Princesses. It is an
ancient delusion, founded on the alleged "right
divine" of kings, that " the common puddle"
which stagnates in the veins of ordinary indivi-
duals cannot commingle with the sacred ichor of
those born on the footsteps of a throne. The
natural affections were supposed to have no place
amongst those of exalted birth. The feelings of
ordinary humanity could have no influence on their
hearts. They were to be offered up as exalted
victims on the dynastic altar, and the happiness
of their future lives completely destroyed to
support a worn-out, and, what we trust will
speedily become an obsolete, prejudice. There
has been a glorious precedent established. A
truly Imperial reformer has afforded a brilliant
example, which cannot be disregarded by the
Court which received the fair EIIGENIF, with such
heartfelt cordiality.

We rejoice to find that a very powerful and
energetic auxiliary has entered the field in sup-
, Lim views wnica we liavu so long advo-
cated. We earnestly commend the admirable
article, which we have extracted from the
columns of the Times, to the attentive considera-
tion of the community. It is indeed one that
will bear the most stringent examination on every
point. There is not a single arctument which can
be controverted, or which will not carry convict
tion to every unprejudiced mind.

These Royal marriages have almost invariably
been portions of the great conspiracies of
dynasties against peoples, framed for the pur-
pose of coercing the popular will, and avert-
ing or putting down with the strong arm,
and the red hand, the expression of national exe-
cration. It is a portion of the detestable system
that subjects high•minded races to the tyrannical
domination of men of the BOMBA class—half
knaves, half fools—who can profit by no lessons,
however striking. But ;cal() great fact" has
been announced-by a statesman, who now occu;
pies a high and influential position, that " king-
doms have no cousins ;" and we trust the proper
deduction may be drawn from that glorious prin-
ciple. England has repeatedly been seriously in-
jured in consequence of the matrimonial alliances
of the Royal Family. She has never profited,
even to an infinitesimal extent ; and it was not
the least of the blessings that • augurated the
accession of our most gracious QuEvg that it pro-
duced a complete separation of the English and
Hanoverian Crowns. There is moat decidedly
no
inclination to procure the junction of Another
German. ,Kingdom with that of England, and we
cannot conCeiTe a greater national calamity than 1

that which would unite the Crowns of England
and Prussia on the same head—a junction that
would inevitably create a new revolution, and
lead to the most serious inconvenience to all
classes in society.

It is at this time that the popular voice should
be uplifted—before a Alio family has been
sacrificed—when a noble victim is actually bound
at the very horns of the altar. Our gracious
QUEEN cannot be insensible to the future hap-
piness of her own children. She has witnessed
the results of the system in the family of her
grandfather, has seen how the numerous offspring
of GEORGE 111. were immolated at the shrine.
Let her carefully consider the consequences to
her numerous uncles and aunts—reflect how dif-
ferent might have been their lots had they been
permitted to contract suitable marriages at home.
If she do so, she must be desirous of avoiding the
rock on which so many promising vessels have
been shipwrecked.

It is notorious that at this moment a new
marriage is contemplated, against which every
true-hearted Englishman should protest while
there is yet time. The heir presumptive to the
Prussian throne has returned from Balmoral, after
putting forward his pretensions to the hand of
the PRINCESS ROYAL, now in her fifteenth year,
and scarcely qualified to judge for herself on such
a point. Nor has the question been broached for
the first time. The project was put forward five
years ago, before the young Princess had emerged
from the nursery. We repeat the startling in-
terrogatories which the Times has so bcldly
put forward. "Is it, then, or is it
not, expedient that a daughter of Eng-
land should take her place upon the Throne
of Prusssia ? And, in forwarding such a match,
arc the parties principally concerned consulting
the happiness of the young Princess, or the safety,
honour, and welfare of our Sovereign and her
dominions ?" We believe that there will be com-
plete unanimity as to the answers on these points
every Englishman and Englishwoman
throughout the length and breadth of the
land will emphatically negative the propositions.
But there is even a greater danger, and one not
so very remote, that it should not be guarded
against. What if the male scions of our Royal
stcck should die without issue ? There are
happily three promising youths—but there are
instances on record where even a greater number
were passed over, and noble heritages devolved
on unexpected owners. What, they, would be
said if England were annexed to Prussia—if
our Sovereign were, for the safety of his German
territories, transferred into a vassal of the
AUTOCRAT, desirous of ruling his British
dominions in accordance with the Russian
or Prussian system ? May the omen be averted
It, would, indeed, be an event as fatal to the na-
tional welfare and happiness, as we fear these
marriages dc convenances will, if persisted in;
prove to the felicity of the fair and princely vic-
tims of this most impolitic and indefensible
system.

We hail hardly dropped the warning on Mon-
day that, unless the people looked well to it, we
might after all lose the Crimea, than the danger
is confirmed. "Our own correspondent" himself
describes the first step. " Our Sappers and Miners
are at work sinking great mines to blow in and
destroy the unrivalled docks, which have cost Russia
so much anxiety, money, and bloodshed ; and if
it- were not that they were intended to be, and
have been, accessory to insolence and slaughter,
one would regret that such splendid monuments
of human skill should be scattered to atoms. But
the fleet of Sinop© sailed thence, and were rc-
paired there on its return ; and they were built,
not to foster peace and commerce, but to Frnite
and destroy them."
Now, we feel the mischief of Parliament not
being sitting. There is no one with authority to
ask, and no one to give an authoritative answer,
The danger was felt and proclaimed in the House
before Parliament separated of leaving our Mi-
nisters to commence again negotiations for peace
which might commit us to points as worthless as
the " four " of Vienna before we had opportunity
to intervene, leaving us nothing but the barren
power of censuring those who had disgraced and
defrauded us. The power to choose unquestio7led
a policy for the War is as dangerous as the rower
to select bases for a peace. The pompous decla-
mations about the undoubted right of the Crown
to de re was and make peace must pass for what
they are—empty phrases. They mean the power
of the Government of the dog, under the fiction
of saving the dignity of her MAJESTY, to sell the
results of all our expended blood and treasure to
aristocracy, despotism, Germanism, or anything
else they please, with tb e penalty, at the worst,
of being sent to the Opposition Benches for
a while, bat with the reward of Court favour
and of aristocratic approval. Yes, the ap-
proval even of that portion of their fellow-aris-
tocrats who, for party purposes, denounce them in
Parliament, while in their own drawing-rooms they
whisper that these fellows we have turned out served
"the order" admirably well after all. PEEL
went out of power• for serving the people, and he
had his reward in the people ; " the order" gave
him the cold shoulder. A Government who went
out for such things as "sparing Odessa or Ismail,
or giving back the Crimea to Russia," or " respect-
ing her territorial integrity and dignity," would
repose pleasantly in the lap of Court and Tory
favour, and care but little indeed for the contempt
of the people. Unless an election impendel they
would not care at all.

In default of any one to answer, we must ask
tho common sense of the country what can, be
meant by this fact, described by an eye-witness,
the visible preparations for blowing to atoms the
splendid docks of Sebastopol ? It is inexplicable
if the Crimea is to be permanently retained by
any of the civilised powers of Europe. Diplo-
Imatic perversity will hardly allage that they would
be a lasting inducement to Russia to aim at the
reconquest of Sebastopol. They would beOmit
one item of many inducements ; little inked
compared with blotting out the disgrace of
conquest, and with the possession of an other.
wise strong naval and military position. Not
real nason must be a verit.ib!e Russian one ;
—the intention to leave the CzAc his town, but
to leave it a perfect ruin. The burning, sink-
ing, and blowing up policy; the genuine barbarian
s?ite, stronger than all considerations of senti-
ment or humanity,— n
this, o doubt, is the motive
for recklessly destroying such "splendid monu-
ments of human skill." - Lord PALMERSTON told
:he Northamptonshire farmers that the Allies in-
tended thoroughly to humble Russia the
4umbling, therefore, is to be , done d la Russe.
" There; take your Crimea again ; we
to not mean to do such a democratic
Ting as to keep back territory which
to Imperial despot has once appropriated. we
vill never suggest to the oppressed by Austria or
Prussia, or by Russia itself, the possibility of
oppressors losing the lands they oppress—we aro
too real aristocrats for that. No, take back
your Crimea again, but take it back with the
marks that we beat you out-and-out." Well,
that Would be humiliationwbA we think, *mi-,
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