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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EvENINGI OCTOBER 24, 1855

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 chimaera and
visionary ; and the advocates of it as amiable
enthusiasts ; but, if we are not mistaken, the man
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 chimaera, 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—Lto 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 aid 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 PACHi 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" other work to 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
eampaign 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 unnati3nal policy of the Coburgs. If so, an-
other campaign would compel peace. To send AllE•
tria to the dogs is the first grand, step towards peace.
Once clear our 'milky of that enfeebling contami-
, nation, and we believe that even Sir CHARLES WOOD
would kn3w 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 feir more years. Wa 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, BOMBA,
the King of the Two Sicilies, is doubtless in
ecstasies at the present moment. By all accounts
ho 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 manner. 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 let 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 he
did so. Signor MAzze, 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 .rosthetics, 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 • •
quivering 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-
ing. had so much achieved with impunity,
the KING
panted for more. 110 must take Eng-
land and France by the beard, and he did so.
He caused a slight to be offered the French flag,
and had the British Embassy insulted in the per-
son of an Attache--the latter duty being dis.
charged by Signor MA zZA himself. A storm
began to gather about BO3IBA'S ears. Grave re-
monstrances were addressed to him ; the removal
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 in the Bay
of Naples ; Sebastopol fell, and King 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 Bounnosr 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 13oAuLt has been too many for our Govern.

ment, having. actually succeeded in diddling its
astute Premier. Well may he be in ecstasies. It
is not by every Government that the pledged word
of a BOMBA will be believed. Those stout and
peremptory ambassadors, the commanders of Ame-
rican frigates, would sneer at it. No ship of the
Union would be permitted to leave the Bay of Naples
with any doubt of an insult to an American attache
being atoned for. The fact is, our Government
dealt magnanimously with a rascal, which was
sheer folly—specimens of that genus, regal- or
otherwise, appreciating no lesson save that of
being kicked. Had we been rigorous in our
demands, and given unmistakeable proof of our
intention to enforce them, England would not be
the laughing-stock it now is. The Austrian frigate
would have been perfectly pacific whatever the
issue, and would before now have carried the
Archducal Commander back to his post, where his
insidious countenance would have done no harm.
As it is—what with Austria and the King, arcades
ambo—the laugh is against us for the present. So
be it. We shall have a powerful fleet at liberty
before long. It must anchor before Naples, and
if it leaves that Pandemonium of royal tyranny
without the most unmistakeable satisfaction for
the double insult and perfidy of King BOMBA, he
may laugh as he is doing, but the people of this
country won't.

Mr. COBDEN, we remember, takes great interest
in the administration of justice by country magis-
trates in Turkey. He once took considerable
pains to illustrate to the House of Commons how
such judges abused their office, and rendered
the enlightened edicts of the SULTAN a dead letter.
He drew sad pictures of the partiality of Ma-
hometan magistrates when Christian witnesses
bore testimony against a Mahometan, or when
Christian plaintiffs sued a believer in the Prophet.
To be sure his object was to vilify the Turks,
and to show that they were not worth hdlping,
especially when contending with the immaculate
Russias. One thing he forgot, that the Greeks
are a nation, or rather race, of astute liars, and
that a Turk's word is equal to that of an English
gentleman. He was reminded that even in this
country it is but of late years that rural jus-
tices, in many matters, have been much superior to
what be stated of Turkish Justices of the Peace.
This he quite pooh-poohed in behalf of his Greeks
and Russians.

We may now ask Mr. COBDEN, however, to
show his zeal for impartial summary justice in his
own country. It may do some. practical service
if he will move for a return of certain convictions,
with minutes of the evidence, which have taken
place lately. We have not, to be sure, Mahom-
medans as well as Christians in this country, but
there are two classes of the same creed, one called
the rich, to which clerical justices of the peace be-
long—the other the poor, to which labourers and
domestic servants belong. Setting aside all con-
victions of poachers and of others who may have
displeased the gamekeepers or tampered with the
wild game of the class we have called the rich, ,
three convictions have recently occurred of the
class termed poor, by the said rich justices, which
Mr. COBDEN would certainly do well to bring be-
fore the House, which can if it will find means to
bring these justicesto their senses. Mr. COBDEN will
understand at once that we refer to the Reverend
Magistrate who sent two perfectly innocent men
to the treadmill because they went to see the
Militia and would not beg his pardon. To another
Reverend Committer of Poachers, who fined a
man for cutting his own wheat on the first day
of the week. And now a third, the Rev. T. L.
BAYLIFF, Bishop Stortford, Herts, has sentenced
a husband to costs of complaint, or prison, for
defending by summons the honour of his Wife
against the attacks of a friend of the Reverend

Justice.
If Mr. COBDEN will undertake the House of
Commons' exposure of Justices' justice in our own
rural districts we can promise him ample work ;
the country Squires and Reverends will not let
him want employment. Let it be known that he
will see after every case of rural oppression, every
case in which a rich delinquent gets off lightly or
a poor man suffers unequally, or for nothing at
all, and he will be a patron with a goodly throng
of clients. One reform, for instance, he might
demand at once. A poor man, earning at most
501. a year, is fined 51. or months' imprison-
ment ; let it be law that a rich man also be fined
one-tenth of his income—or, better, one-fifth—
which even then would be many times a lighter
fine, or months' imprisonment. It will be
more worth while for the Honourable Member to
teach Christian Magistrates their duty than to
revile those whom the SULTAN cannot always
keep in order.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 23.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sir R
Pekenham, Lady Frances Bruce, and the Baroness de
Speth.
The band of the 2(I Life Guards played during dinner;
and her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in
the Castle.

The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the
Home Park this morning. Prince Albert went out
shooting. The Prince returned from Aldershott at half-
past four o'clock yesterday. •
Her Majesty, with the Prince of Wales and Prince
Arthur, attended by the Duchess of Wellington, drove
out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon.
The Duchess of Atholl has succeeded the Duchess of
Wellington as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.
The Earl of Listowel and General Sir Edward
Bowater have succeeded Lord Byron and Colonel the
Hon. N. Hood as the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
Mr. Andrews, her Majesty's Minister to the Court of
Denmark, had an audience of the Queen, and was pre-
sented by the Earl of Clarendon.
Major Owen, of the Royal Engineers, has been in-
vited, and is expected this afternoon.

Messrs. Wall, Davenport, and Cross, a deputation
from the "Hume Monument Committee," had an in-
terview with Sir Benjamin Hall yesterday, at the office
of Public Works in Whitehall-place.
Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for hia seat,
Broadla.nds, Hants.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governore of the North American pro-
vinces.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have left
Hatfield-house, Hert;, to visit the Earl and Countess of
Derby during the stay of the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary at Knowsley, near Prescot.
The Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield and
daughter have recently arrived at the Palace, Fulham,
from Switzerland and the German provinces on the
Rhine.

The Right Hort., Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs.
Herbert returned to Wilton-house, near Salisbury, on
The Ring of Sardinia Ls
Monday, from visiting the Marquis of Lansdowne, at
Bowood-park.
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Prince Carini, Neapolitan Ambassador at the British
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proceed there to give regular perform-
ances.
A letter front St.
Petersburg states that every one in
that capital was busy making lint, and that as fast as it
was ready it was sent to the Empress,forwarded
who it
to the Crimea.
Count Bludoff Secretary
, Russian
of Legation, has
arrived at Berlin from St. Petersburg.
The sittings of the Frankfort Diet commence to-mor-
row (Thursday).
The Emperor cef Austria arrived at the Palace of Vienna
on the 18th from Schcenbrunn, and received in an audi-
ence Count Bu 01, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Baron Prokesch- Osten and Count Reohberg were also
received by his e'tfaje,sty.
REPRESENTATION OF WELLS.—Captain Jolliffe, son of
Sir W. Hylton Joiliffe, of Merstham, has been solicited
by the Conservatives of Wells to offer himself for the
vacancy caused by Mr. Tudwa.y's death. Ho has ac-
cepted the invitation.

ous—that is, if ice and snow cover the ground—it will
be impossible for them to travel over the country in
sledges, and to receive provisions. Marshal Pelissi, r
continues to advance into the interior, slowly, it is true.
for it is necessary to constrict roads for the passage of
the artillery and heavily-laden waggons. The plan of the
generals-in-chief is not known. They appear intent on
advancing as far as possible, but the execution of this
plan must depend on circumstances."
BOURSE, Oct. 23, Two o'Clock—Tlv market has I,
been completely inactive in Rente, but the princi-
pal securities maintained their prices ; speculators
are unwilling to undertake any new bargains until
they know the result of the next sitting of the di-
rectors of the Bank. The Three per Cents. were
done at °gr. 10c., but they rallied to 611 r. 20c.
Railway Shares were at first quoted with a fall of
sfr. and 7fr. 50c., but they are now quoted at
about the same prices as yesterday.
Half-past Three—Prices rallied towards the end
of the market. It was reported that the Bank of
France had received a large supply of bullion. The
Railway Shares remain without sensible change on
yesterday's prices. The following are the last
quotations :
THE BOURSE-oer. 23.
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents 9O 25 90f. —c.
3 per Cents 64 30 64 30
New Loan 65 25 —

Bank Shares 3200 Boman
Credit Mobilier llB7 Austrian
Belgian Fives...... 95 Spanish Threes
Piedmontese B4 50 Home Debt

RAILWAYS-708 CASE.

fr. c. C•
Orleans
Northern
Lyons. ~....1120 New Ditto 760
Mediterranean 1215 Grand Central 5Bl 50
Lc ons Genova 650 Teste
Cede 670 Austrian Com. 727 50

try. The mountains are already covered with
snow ; at Gefle the frost set in so far back as the
4th inst., and the thermometer here, even at mid-
day, is but very little above the freezing point.