The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

feel herself menaced, she would be at liberty to call
in her allies. But the fact was that the Russian proposal
was that Turkey should be at liberty to call in any foreign
fleet ; and therefore that condition would have enabled any
Russian ministry in Turkey, by means which it would be un-
necessary to describe, but which would be perfectly well un-
derstood, to prevail upon the Turkish minister to call in a
Russian fleet under pretence of some danger which did not
really exist. (Hear.) It was said again that the Turks under
the old treaties were obliged to keep the straits shut except
in case of actual war. But it was nonsense to suppose that a
sovereign who saw a danger threatening him could be pre-
vented from asking the aid of the allies. It was no longer a
state of peace in the souse of the treaty, when an ambitious
and aggressive neighbour was menacing his capital. (Hear.)
He contended that this condition was one which, having
the consent of his right hon. friends below the gangway,
having the consent of the French government and the ap-
probation of Austria, as well as the concurrence of Eng-
land and France, which it was fitting to propose to Russia
as a fulfilment of those points:lay which she had agreed that
her preponderance in the Black Sea should cease. (Hear.)
That that preponderance might have been made to cease by
other moans was quite unquestionable ; and they did not
make it, in the stri"t sense of the word, a sine qua non. It
was the best method they could imagine; Russia proposed
two other methods, both of which were insufficient ; and she
having nothing else to propose, the conferences naturally came
to an end. That being the case, the question was what the
house was to do in the present state of things. (Hear.) The
right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) had given the house an
opportunity before the recess of determining whether the
conduct of the war should be left in the hands in which it
-now was, or transferred to the hands of those who sat
oppdsite. The house had answered the question by a
majority of 101). (Cheers.) Surely gentlemen opposite did
not wish to try the question a second time ? They said they
expected the Government would have come down with a
message from the Crown, and have proposed an address
pledging the house to support her Majesty in a vigorous
prosecution of the war. That was unnecessary, for Mr. Dis-
raeli had done that himself. That which remained of his reso-
lution, coupled with the introductory passage proposed by Sir
F. Baring, would form precisely the resolution which the Go-
vernment, had it taken the initiative, would have proposed to
the house. Next week, when they were able to lay on the
table the remaining portions of the negotiation, the Govern-
ment would have broadly asked the house to agree to such a
resolution. He had offered, if this motion were swept away,
to propose an expression of the opinion of Parliament on this
state of things, when the remaining papers were produced.
The house had determined to go on with the debate. Being
now ready to come toi a division, it was childish to ask them
to withdraw the resolution, which the right hon. gentleman'
seemed afraid of meeting. He was perfectly content to take
the sense of the house upon that assurance of support which the
right hon. gentleman, very much to his credit, proposed
that the house should express. Such an assurance would be
doubly valuable to the Government, following, as it did, the
large majority on the last division, by which it was clear that
they were the Government to whom that support was to be
given. (Cheers.) But they were asked to say what were the
objects of the war. The war was undertaken to repress the
aggressions of Russia upon Turkey—he would not say to de-
fend Constantinople, for that was a narrow and limited view
of the matter; if Turkey had nothing left but Constantinople
it would not be worth many years' purchase ; but it was to
defend the. Turkish empire from being swallowed up by Rus-
sia ; it was for that that England and France were fighting.
They had been blandly and civilly told by the Russian Go-
vernment thst Turkey must fall, that the man was sick,
that his deathbed was approaching, that there was an in-
heritance to be divided, and that if Egypt and Candia would
suit us, we might wink at the partition of the rest by other
parties. (Hear, hear.) The intention of Russia to par-
tition Turkey was manifest as the sun et noonday ; it was
to prevent that that the war had been undertaken.
And let no man imagine, if Turkey was in the possession of
Russia, if that gigantic power were to stride over Europe like
a colossus, with one foot upon the Baltic and the other in the
Mediterranean, that the great interests of this country would
not be'imperilled. Nor let the "peace-at-any-price" party
imagine that their interests would not suffer. (Hear.) Instead
of things being as they now were-40,000 bales of cotton
being weekly manufactured at Manchester in the place of
30,000—a1l that lucrative trade up the Mediterranean to the
East would be subjected to heavy incumbrances, if it did not
actually disappear. The noble lord concluded by adjuring the
house not to make this a conflict of parties, but to show them-
selves true representatives of the national feeling by giving
their support to a vigorous prosecution of the war. (Cheers.)
Sir J. GRAHAM wished to explain that hu.and his right
hon. friends near him, though they were parties to the ar-
rangement of the proposition to be made to Russia, did not
insist upon it as an ultimatum or sine qua non.
Mr. LOWE rose to speak midst loud cries of " Divide,"
and " spoke"
The CHAIRMAN told him that he had the opportunity of
addressing the house when he moved his amendment, and
could not do so now. . _ _

The question was then put; and preparations were made for
a division. . _

Sir W. HEATHCOTE'S amendmen,t was negatived. .
Mr. PHILLIMORE withdrew his amendment.
Mr. LOWE withdrew his amendment.
The question was put on the amendment of Sir F. BARum,
upon which, i
Mr. WA LPOLE said that although the wording of the
amendment was not satisfactory, he would not damage the
appearance of unanimity on the subject of the war by offer-
ing it any opposition,
Mr. GLADSTONE, although disapproving of the terms of
the amendment, would not offer any opposition, as he thought
it the duty of the house to offer her Majesty their best sup-
port in the prosecution of the war.
The motion before the house (Sir F. T. Baring's) was then
unanimously agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned at half-past 2 o'clock.

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