The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-05 00:00:00

of tender years, set out on their miserable progress,
and very soon the weaker ones succumbed to the
want of the common necessaries of life. Exposed
to the severest privations in bitter weather, and
undergoing great exertion, coupled to the depressing
influence of their terrible position, it is ro great
wonder that death and disease should speedily thin
the ranks of the poor wayfarers. From an account
just published in the Levan', Herald, it seems the
end of their journey was not much better than the
beginning. At the beginning of October the port
of Larnec3, in Cyprus, was startled by the appears
once of three small brigs, of about 200 tons each,
which were towed by a Greek steamer, and laden
with Circassian emigrants. It was said that nearly
three thousand beings were crowded on board these
small vessels, and great alarm was in consequence
excited. The masters of the vessels, for some un-
explained cause, gave out that their unfortunate
passengers were desperate characters, and very soon
it got bruited about that they were fully armed.
The arrival of two or three thousand dangerous per-
sons, of whom a large proportion were armed men,
certainly seemed enough to amuse the apprehen-
sions of a quiet population with only a few un-
trained soldiers to defend them. o:her persons
expressed their fears that the arrival of such a large
body of sick and dying persons would effect the
health of the town, and this was much nearer the
truth, though, happily, none of the catastrophes
anticipated have as yet occurred. Why the
masters of the vessels should have made matters so
mach worse than enough is not easy to guess, but
the consequence was that all the thoughts of the
inhabitants of Larnaca were for themselves and
their own safety. They shut the shops and rushed
to the authorities, entreating that the emigrants
be forbidden to land until the next day, when the
Governor was expected. The Consuls supported the
re vest, which was granted, but two lighters were
nevertheless descried making for the shore. The
people armed themselves with stones and other
wissiles to resist their landing, but happily all was
changed by a person going out in a boat to meet
the lighters, and persuade them to return. The
master of the ship which they had left would not
again receive the emigrants, but the visitor from
Cyprus had seen enough to undeceive the terrified
people. Those poor travellers, who hod excited so
much alarm, were in such a reduced condition
that many of them had died from want of water,
while there was plenty in the ship. For three days
they had received none, and their weakness and
helplessness was so great that they could not get it
for themselves. Of the 2,700. souls who started
with these ships only 1,344 landed at Larnaca, and
of these forty or fifty died daily after their
arrival. The shore meanwhile is strewed with
the dead bodies of those who had been
thrown overboard on their passage, and it
is more than suspected that many of them went
over alive. Some of these unfortunate emigrants
had money about them, and it is thought that those
in charge were not unwilling to make sure of their
decease while they were their sole heirs and execu-
tors. It is said that the air around the quarantine
was poisoned with the number of corpses, and people
congratulated themselves that the season was so
far advanced, since in the heat of summer there
would have been good reason for fearing pestilence.
Great indignation is expressed at the conduct of
the Constantinople commission in sending 2,700
persons a voyage of two months in such small ves-
sels, and the masters are also severely blamed for
taking 83 many. The conduct of the latter appears
to have been most inhuman throughout, and the
wretched Circassians will think the tender mercies
3f the Russians can b 3 matched elsevvhcre. But
while the EMFEROB. of ALL the 1113881 AS is taking
his pleaeure on the Continent, and meeting every-
where with the respect and eager attention so great
a potentate deserves, he will do well to remember
that the sin and the wretchedness of this Circassian
tragedy lie at his door, and that not all the thunders
of despotic authority,or the flattery of a sycophantic
retinue, can shift from him the weight of that ter.
rible responsibility.

Mr. FERRAND cannot complain, at all events,
that he had no one to hear him, for the crowd
was so great that he himself could not get in for
some time. The hon. member's remarks are always
worth listening to, and those who may dissent from
some of his extreme views may still admire his zeal
and earnestness in advocating his opinions. On
Thursday evening he delivered a long address to
his constituents, which appeared to give them satis-
faction. By this time pubro affairs have been so
often reviewed that it seems like going over the
same ground to peruse the speeches of hon. mem-
bers on the subject, but it must be allowed th a in

this address, at Devonport, there was plenty of
animation to give effect to the statement?, however
well ventilated they might be. Men of Mr FER•
RAND'S stamp, besides, infuse their own energy
into the subject matter that they have in hand, and
their particular views and individual opinions im-
part a character to vhat others might mix np as
generalities, and treat as commonplace. Mr. FER-
aAND spoke in high spirits as to his successes in
the cause of independence in the borough, and

justly censured the spirit of exclusion, and the
party tricks that had been tried so much of late.
With respect to the prospects of the Ministry he

was truthful, if not complimentary altogether, for

he described Lord PALMERSTON as being in a
"dead lock,', and no forwarder than he was in
1858. He alluded to the worst infliction that can

befal a man in public life, his large poesessions in
the way of candid friends. Certainly the Premier

has enough and to spare of these commo•
ditics, and no apparent success can compensate for
the virtual defeat that such occurrences entail.
Those who remember Mr BERNAL. OSBORNE'S
flashing speech the other day in which he Ilisposed

of all the Cabinet in a very effective style, and also
the remarks of a disparaging nature which have
been so freely made in the HOLM during the last
session, can subscribe to the truth of Mr FERRAND'S
criticism, when he said that the noble lord was re-
viled, abased, and insulted by his own political
supporters, and several men of groat talents and
high position among their fellow countrymen were
telling Lord PALMERSTON that his political conduct
was a disgrace to his Cabinet and the deepest injury
to his country." It must be apparent to all impar-
tial observers that, whereas it is the fashion among

a certain set of so-called Liberals to disparage the
Conservatives by proclaiming theia disunion,
it is in reality upon the other side that

wo witness the most disaffection. Doub-
less it is in consequence of the heterogenous
nature of the component parts of the Ministerial
motion and its supporters, but so it is an undoubted
fact, and an indisputable thing. No staunch mem-
ber of the Opposition can say anything half so
bitter or personal against the Cabinet as we con-
stantly hear ennunciated by the quasi friends
of the Administration. Certainly no opponent
can ever come up to a candid friend or a false
supporter. It is, however, entirely the fault of
the Ministers themselves that they stagger under
the burden of such an infliction, and are subject to
such adverse influences, for they have tried to do
too much—to promise ail and per'orm noth:ng.
Mr. FERRAND aptly defined their 1 olicy and ex-
posed their tactics when he doled that they