The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-09 00:00:00

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an unwarrantable attack, or that the rules of war and
the code of honour are not the guiding influences of
the men who march beneath their banners to death

or victory ? When a man has been guilty of a light
trespass, or concerned in a serious crime, it is not

usual to take down his deposition of occurrences
and abide by them as the test that forms our judg-

went, and the test that supplies our comments on
the transaction. So with States, armies, or people ;

when an error is unhappily or inadvertently com-
mitted, it is not from the oracle of their capitals,
the seat of their power, or the strongholds
of their citadels, that we seek for the dis-
covery of the secret of the transaction, or the
motive power that impelled the action. Another
curious circumstance is this, that Earl RUSSELL
carefully avoided and scrupulously abstained from
expressing any opinion of his own on the nature of
the report. This is rather peculiar, and quite out

of character, because to give a declaration of feeling
regarding such an affair, could not compromise
any one, more especially if they put the framing
of the censure in the suppositious mood. Earl
RUSSELL is afraid he dare not undertake the risk
of defending his friends, and he will not incur the
odium of censuring them. If he has received facts
that make the case look bad he will put off the evil
day of discovery ; but if he does not know better than
the public, he has no faith in the good feeling of the
men whose cause he so strongly advocates. It
would have been but kind and generous to hazard a
few sentences in support of the army, now put
under such a ban of interdict by this astounding
accusation of a savage onslaught on unprotected
people, contrary to all the usages of war, Not a word
will Earl RUSSELL say until proof positive arrives.
" I should not think myself warranted in giving
an opinion of the character of that attack
until we know the real facts." Such, in fact, is
the language of the Foreign Minister of Eng-
land when it is a matter of honour and humanity
that is under discussion. Politics should sink into
insigniEcance, and prejudice must vanish away
when such vital questions are at stake. What
reason can there be why no opinion should be given?
A partial judgment is not worth a moment's consi-
deration, and all can see the cautious move that is
apparent in the skilfully worded phrase before us.
Wnen we read of this truckling to foreign powers,
this hesitation to succour the injured, and this con-
tinued shuffling that takes place when any question
of moment comes before the Houses of Parliament,
we may well ask if this is the country that was once
the champion of the oppressed, if this is the world's
guiding star of liberty and freedom. Those who
study events in the philosophic mood that scans
history for a precedent, and turns from a retrospec-
tive survey of the past to appreciate better, by reason
of that survey, the condition of the present, may
well exclaim in the words once uttered by the right
hon. gentleman the leader of the Opposition, " Shall
England, that was governed by a BOLINGBItoKE,
and a WALPOLE, a CHATHAM, and a CANNING,
submit to this ?"

THE ORATORY.—Under this head, a paragraph
inadvertently appeared in our columns yesterday
in reference to the motion brought forward by the

member for North Warwickshire. Regarding the

statc.ments put forth in that paragraph, as we do,
as in the grossest degree libellous, we are hereby
desirous of repudiating it altogether.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM
SILAKSPERE, a drama, "licensed by the Lord Chamber-
lain," is to be the tercentenary offering at the Marylebone
Theatre.—The .Reader.

CONDUCT OF THE GOVERNMENT AS BETWEEN
THE AMERICAN BELLIGERENTS.—A Paris cot-

respondent writes to us :—" From the first it has been most
gross and scandalous, So far from being a dignified and
severe neutrality, it has been a flagrant and decided mani-
testation of part;ality throughout, for while the law has
been strained to its utmost tension to the prejudice of the
C.;nfederatcs in every instance, it has been openly and
avowedly broken to promote the cause of the Federals. If
Lard Russell is really sincere in the sentiments he expressed
in the late debate, let him at once apply the law to the
officers of tae Kersage, who, as Lord Derby re-
marked, "are now receiving the hospitality of
the country." Judge Keogh, during the late
trials at Cork, expressed " his regret that he had not them
before him, instead of the prisoners at the dock ;" and as the
same evidence which procured the conviction of these mis-
guided men would equally inculpate the officers, it is to be
hoped that some patriotic person will lodge informations
against them, not only in vindication of the law, but in
retaliation for the infamous treatment our entrapped ce.,an_
trymen receive from the kidnapping Governme, officials
at New York. The late news from India
state that the
Federals are undisguisedly carrying o a brisk recruiting
business amongst the British seamen at Calcutta ; nor is it
...
to be wondered at, seeing ttd impunity that follows every
trespass or outrage cow witted under the sanction of their
-Ler on their own or on British territory
GoGveArnumuenAtL,r,,svetih,s
ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION are thus
cynical:), commented upon by the Queen news-
pape: The daily papers have been very full of
04ribaldi's arrival at Southampton; his reception
there ; the addresses presented to him by the mayors
of that and other towns ; the general's replies, his
triumphal progress, and the enthusiasm of the
people who beheld the same; how the mayor of
Southampton told Garibaldi that he was " an un-
crowned king ;' how young ladies grew so affected
that they kissed the hands of the hero, who, with
great modesty, would fain have withdrawn his
hand from the compliment; how he shook hands—
not exactly as tta member for Eatanswill did, ' all
round'—but with the boys on board the steamer
which tong him over to the Isle of Wight ; how he
fraternises with the working men upon all occasions;
how that Mr. Seely is entertaining at Brook House
a large company of the friends of Garibaldi, includ-
ing the Poet Laureate and Mrs. Tennyson. Mr.
Common Councilman Richardson, Captain Cham-
bers (of the Liverpool Volunteers), the military
English Secretary of the General,' and others ;
finally, how that the public entry of Garibaldi into
London will take place on Monday next, when there
is to be a triumphal entry, and a procession consist-
ing of the working men, Foresters, Odd Fellows, and
Sons of the Pt ceaix,' from Nine Elms station to
Stafford House, where Garibaldi will take up his
abode during his stay in Landon. The Morning Ad
vertiser, it is to be observed, looks a ith an unfavour-
able eye upon this abiding of the popular hero in ',,he
halls of the great. 'We cannot,'mysteriously hints the
oracle,' help expressing our fears that an ingenious
device has been resorted to by the aristocracy to
diminish his reputation or impair his usefulness.
He can have no feeling in common with dukes and
lords, nor any real esteem for him. We do not,
therefore, like the idea of his staying io Stafford
House as the guest of the Duke of Sutherland
during the time ha will be in London. He would
have been infinitely more in his proper place in the
house of Mr. Seely, at Albert-gate." Might we
sug,est that Number 127, Fleet-street, would have
been still properer ?' A great feature in the ar -
rangements for the procession is, that ' Mr. E. T.
Smith, of Cremorne, has placed the flags of, his
establishment at the disposal of the committee. '
GARIBALDI'S VISIT TO GLASGOW.—The follow-
ing letter was received on Thursday morning by
the City Chamberlain :
Brooke House, Isle of Wight, April 5, 1864.
Sir,—l am directed by General Garibaldi to inform you
that, if time and circumstances permit, he will do himself
the honour of visiting Glasgow.—l have the honour to be
your most obedient servant,

CHAMBERS.
Mr. W. W. Watson, City Chamberlain, Glasgow, N.B.
GARIBALDI IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT-FRESH.
WATER, Friday Night.—Garibaldi visited the Poet Lau-
reate this afternoon, at Freshwater. At the request of Mrs.
Tennyson he planted a Wollingtonia Gigantea in the
grounds. Garibaldi had a long conference with Mr.
Negretti, and definitely arranged to receive addresses on
Monday, the 18th, as well as on Saturday, the 16th, at the
Crystal Palace, in order to afford greater facility to working
men.

GARIBALDI'S PORTRAIT.—On Thursday last Mr.
R. Dowling, of London, commissioned by F.
Perkins, Esq., the late mayor of Southampton, had the
honour of a sitting from General Garibaldi, at Brook
Heuse, Isle of Wight, for a full-length portrait. This
gentleman has just completed a portrait of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Prince of Wales for the Tasmanian
Government.

THE EXPENSES ATTENDING THE MARRIAGE OF
THE PRINCE OF WALES, it appears from recent returns,
amounts to £24,855.
IRE COLENZO FUND.—It is interesting to note
the fact that the fund for the defence of theßishop of Natal
11054 araowats tp £2,000.