The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

despots at least left to settle things with their

natural subjects, reduction of armies is impractic-
able, and international arbitration a dream. The
self-called Peace Party are fond of denominating
the restoration of nationalities as a chimmra and
visionary ; and the advocates of it as amiable
enthusiasts ; but, if we are not mistaken, the men
who would settle disputes between nations by a
court of plenipotentiaries, and stipulate to dismiss
fifty, or eventually it may be eighty, per cent. of
our troops and sailors, Europe remaining as it is,
are pursuing the veriest cliimgera, the most
visionary image on earth.
On the other hand, it is the reverse of vision-
ary to use the awful resource of war, now we
are engaged in it, to cut of the most prolific causes
of war. We have the best possible encourage-
ment to persist in that attempt. Wherever we
have acted with decision we have been successful.
The only real hindrance has been the leaning of
our Court to Germany—to its despots we mean—
and to Russia.. The nation is, however, begin-
ning to force its common sense upon our Cabinet,
or rather to over-ride Coburg and Austrian in-
fluence there. Nothing else is wanting to rapid
and overwhelming success, and therefore to peace
worth having. But for treacherous fondling of
Austria, OMER PacHA would have led the victors
of Silistria, of Oltenitza, of Citate, across the
Danube ; would have cleared the provinces ; have
kept out the brutal Austrians ; have held his
splendid and brave army together ; have crossed
the Pruth; have invaded, and perhaps conqured,
Bessarabia, have given " reinforcements from the
Danube" othey work is do than marching to the
Crimea ; and have caused the fall of Sebastopol,
perhaps, before 1854 had closed upon us—Odessa
would have been destroyed, the Polish Legion en-

listed, the Danube cleared, and the whole Eastern.
campaign have cost us probably not one-half of
the blood and treasure we have wasted, to accom-
plish double the result.„ We hope and believe
that the English people are now alive to the secret
and unnatimal policy of the Coburgs. If so, an-
other campaign would compel peace. To send Ails..
tria tothedogs is the first grand step towards peace.
Once clear our policy of that enfeebling contami-
nation, and we believe that even Sir CHARLES WOOD
would knlw how to level every Baltic port next
summer. It is now less a question of Adminis-
trative ability than of political manliness and in-
tegrity. Kick off Germany and the Coburgs, and
enlighten Russia by such blows as we can strike,
instead of sparing her honour and her territory,
and the only danger would be that she might
implore peace, while the pretext yet remained to
allow her to retain " Warsaw as the standing con-
tinental menace."
Let England be assured that the paths of duty,
of honour, and of interest never ran more de-
monstrably together. It is the duty of this
country to do all it can to liberate the coun tries
which it sold to the despots in 1815. It will be
her honour to drive the ambitious barbarian who
has done more than all to mangle Europe, out of
his ill-gotten territories, and thus worthily of her-
self to finish the war she provoked. It will be
her interest to complete the work she has begun
rather than to incur the expense of beginning again
in a few more years. We believe this is the creed
or the instinct of the great mass of our country-
men. If it be, they have one thing to do, to
support their Premier, and to intimidate the Ger-
mans who link us.to Russia. " PALMERSTON, not
Austria," should be the watchword, if we mean to
untie our Premier's hands, and have him do the
work of the nation, not that of the Coburgs.

That bilious little Bourbon of Naples, in other
words that half madman and half knave, B•MBA,

he King of the Two Sicilies, is doubtless in

ecstasies at the present moment. By all accounts

he has succeeded in bamboozling the British Go-

vernment. As our readers are aware this despi-
cable potentate, not content with his old course of
vexatious tyranny over a people inhabiting one of
the fairest portions of the globe, took not merely
to sympathising with Russia, but, with monstrous
effrontery, to displaying his sympathy in the most
flagrant manlier. The force at his command not
enabling him to send a contingent to swell the
strength of the Russian armies, his good will

must be shown after a different fashion. If he
could not fight alongside with Russia,
he could lot his police loose on the
friends of the Allies among his subjects,

and so far as he might with impunity insult the
representatives of England and France, and lie
(lid so. Signor Mazza, his Police Minister, a
wretch as cruel and petty as himself, but more
ingenious and energetic, was armed with autho-
rity to do what he liked with the KING'S own on
whom the faintest breath of suspicion rested that

they did not sympathise wholly with the KING in
his desire for the humiliation of the Allies and
the success of Russia, and eagerly, vigorously
enough, Signor MAZZa set to work.
How successfully he acted on the spirit of his in-
structions, what petty annoyances, what atrocities
he perpetrated, it is not good to narrate. Poor
outraged humanity shudders at a narrative not all
the ludicrousness of the episodes can illumine
with a smile. Hats tampered with, beards ab-
breviated to conform with regal aesthetics, offer,
after all, but poor incentives to enjoyment when
associated with a system of espionage and terror
at which the blood of freemen runs cold. How
should you laugh when, surveying in imagination
that fair city, a laugh might serve to wake some
lurking bravo to his murderous duty, or quicken
to fire the furtive gaze of some hardly less mur-
derous spy ? The braining of poor human reason
and dignity, the quiverings beneath the sword of
DAMOCLES, the groans of the loathsome cell, the
reeking hiss of the savage lash, and the stealthy
tread of quickening fear, may as well for the pre-
sent not be subjected to any sort of arithmetic.
They are numbered elsewhere. We will pass on
to a higher flight of regal audacity. Hav-
much achieved with impunity,
ing had so
the KING panted for more. He must take Eng-
land and France by the beard, and be did so.
slight to be offered the French flag,
andHe causedht a
the British Embassy insulted in the per-
son of an Attache—the latter duty being dis-
charged by Signor MAzzA himself. A storm
began to gather about BOMBA re-
monstrances were addressed to
'Shiemar;s.
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of his Police Minister was insisted on ; a fleet set
out to menace his capital a naval Archduke of
Austria arrived with his frigate safely
of Naples ; Sebastopol fell, and King in the Bay
BOMBA con-
sented to do what was required of him. Signor
MAzzA should be dismissed, and everything put
to rights. The British Government believed him
(him, a BOURBON I), and a pacification was struck
up.

The British Lien, however, had scarcely ceased
smiling a grim approval of the impudent dog
BOMBA'S symptoms of contrition ere the discovery
was made that we were duped—that Signor
MAzzA's dismissal was a farce—that the wretched
creature had said as much to his myrmidons
in public at the time—that he has never ceased
to be the ruling spirit of the police, and that, on
the sth inst., he paid an ostentatious visit, in
official uniform, to the King in the Royal Palace.
King BOMBS 1114 been too many for our Govern-