The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

DIIDJ.,EY.

(Prom the Morning Herald of this day.)
We see that the active and stirring men of Newcastle•
upon-Tyne;. who were the first of the townsmen o:
England to see through the enormous fraud of the
Coalition dealings ,between Turkey and Russia, are de-
termined not to slack their hand because the sign of the
firm has been changed, and a new set of directors hay e
put their names to the programme.
The men of Newcastle are quite right—there is no
change in the policy or the conduct of the war. The
envoy of the new Palmerston Government—he who
clung to Aberdeen to the very last moment that he could,
consistently with not entirely losing his Whig following
—has been sent to Vienna to conduct the negotiations
for peace, with the aid of the very men who concoetA
the Vienna note for the purpose of selling their ally to
the Russians. Surely the same men will do the same
thing again.
What the Vienna Conference meets for we are at a loss
to divine, unless it be to give fresh opportunities of
" neglect argil delay," and again play over the tragic farce
of postponing the preparations for war—waiting oppor-
tunity, as we pointed out a hundred times over, in the
I vain hope that protoCols would wake cannon unnecessary.
Even Lord J. Russell must be aware that neither he
nor any one else will be permitted by the people of this
country to make peace 23 long as one stone of Sehae-
topol rests upon another, or so long as the Ru 'Bien:ll,g
waves upon the men-of-war now sheltered by its batteries.
The supremacy of the world is now at stake upon the
events which may take place in the Crimea within the
next three months, for Russia, if she gives up her arsenal
and " permanent menace" in the Black Sea, sinks back at
once into a mere Asiatic power ; and if France and Eng-
land consent to her retaining possession of it in its pre-
sent condition of harbour and fortress they must prepare
to fight over again the battle, probably separately, which
they are now waging conjointly.
Russia, let her rulers be whom they may, cannot
make peace upon any terms that would sacrifice it, and
were any English Minister base enough to allow of its
continued existence the oldest men in Britain might ex-
pect to live long enough to see the scaffold once more
erected on Tower-hill.
We would point out to the meetings which we have
no doubt will spring up at the summons of the men of
Newcastle, that the great basis upon which they rested
their hopes of punishment for the past, and remedy for
the future, misconduct of the war and sacrifice of our
armies, is in process of decay already, short as its exist-
ence has been..
Mr. Roebuck's committee is not succeeding. Lord
Palmerston has taken his measures well, and as he could
not kill it, he hal poisoned its constitution. He has
adopted the plan which worked so well in Ireland during
the prevalence of the murder-system and has placed
Government " booteaters " among the jury, with the
consent of their liberal, or weak chairman ; while the
flippant shallowness of Mr. Layard, who should be in
the witness-box, and not en the inquest, is overlaying
the proceedings by long-winded examinations as to de-
tails, when he should be examining into facts and causes.
Take as an example the state of the cavalry. It is
conceded that the horses were starved. Surely the next
questions would, or rather should be, why, and by whom ?
Then it would come out that they were moved by a cer-
tain staff officer 7 miles from their forage, in spite of
the remonstrances of the commissary, and kept there
till they died at their picket-posts, with no food but 34
lb. of musky barley per diem, laid on the ground or
mud before them, because there were no nose-bags.
These facts might be easily brought out, and it ought
to be the duty of the committee to ascertain by
who
they were done.
But no ; the examining members and the Government
papers—Globe and Morning Post—think it of more con-
sequence to ascertain if tbe horses -really did
seeat owene
e
another's tails. Now,
seeing that the hors r
starved, we do not think this feet of any very great im-
portance ; but as it has been raised, we shall take the
liberty of setting it at rest by quoting the letter of one of
the best officers in the Light 'Mole, dated at the tune
the remnant that was left were permitted to get down to
Balaklava, if they could—Dec. 10. :
" This small portion (311 b. of oats), which did not gene-
rally reach us till after dark, was obliged to be put upon
the mud before the poor brutes, and the half of it was
generally to t. There they stayed till the horses eat the
hair off each other's tails ; and when a horse dropped
dead in the lines the other horses would eat the hair off
each (.1. the dead horse's sides. I have seem them do this
fifty times."
Perhaps, after this, the Morning Post will acknow-
ledge that horses may, as it facetiously calls it, turn
carniverous.
Surely the object of the committee should be to ascer•
tain by whom these things were done.
Take another example, Sir Do Lacy Ems says in

The election for this borough, appointed by the re-
turning officer to take place yesterday, has been post-
poned till to-day (Thursday). The influence of Lord
Ward, which is considered paramount, has prevailed,
and all opposing candidates are understood to have with-
drawn.