The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-12 00:00:00

hol tourable conduct of the War we should
wil jingly sacrifice the use of Russian produce,
'all d submit to any privations which it would
er (tail.

Once more, then, we trust, that we may hence-
fof ward be spared the infliction of such letters,
which only occasion a very useless trouble to the
writers, and a very needless annoyance to our-
s(:,l ves.

It is an honour, not a disparagement, to his
}loyal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, to
c scribe his reception at Liverpool to his connection
1 rith the army much more than to his connection
-with Royalty. The Mayor, in giving his health,

justly observed that there was no need to allude
to personal qualities which had obtained for their
ipossessor a deserved popularity ; what interested

the people at this time was, " to see one so nearly
allied to our beloved SO' ZREIGN sharing with his
sqldiors all the hardships of the campaign." His
Royal Highness is now cheered by every assembly
ho meets, from the same feeling which makes
every village and every cottage proud of the
wounded man, or the invalid, who revisits the

land of his birth after having shared the dangers
and the glories of the Alma, of Balaklava, and of

Inkerman. The Duke was known not only to

have been a Crimean Hero, and to have com-

manded in every battle in which the English were

prominently engaged, but to have been also an

active Soldier's friend in the Hospital and the
Commissariat—to have been, in a word, devoted to
the entire duties of his profession. The Duke

openly acknowledged the defective condition of
our army compared with that of the French for
commencing the campaign, attributed it to the
French continued experience in Algeria, and to

our having starved the Naval and Military de-
partments during 40 years of peace ; but, though
we are not disposed to mingle criticisms with
festal rejoicings, we cannot think a service starved
which costs the country some 16 or 17 millions
annually, nor that India has been a school of
practice inferior to Algeria itself. France, how-
ever, knows no difference between her Algerine
and home armies, unless it be to honour and.
trust the former more ; nor does she, on their re-
turn, consign them, except by courtesy, to the
I rank of civilians.

The great lesson of the banquet, however, is
from the locality and the audience. While given

to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and attended by Lord
DIEM; Lord HARDWICK; and others of the
aristocracy, of course the merchants of Liverpool

were the class whose sentiments were represented
by their MAYOR, and responded to by the noble
and military guests. Moreover, the illumination
of the town was splendid and general, notwith-
standing the unfortunate rain of the evening.
The CZAR may learn, therefore, with ease the real
sentiments of our traders and merchants. He
may compare Mr. BRIGHT'S orations on his own
humanity and honesty, and on the horrors of
taxation, with the successive speeches by which
the Mayor of the English Odessa introduced the
healths of his military guests. He may ask him-
self, if he will, whether the Governor of Odessa,
or the head of the merchants in that place—if
such personage there be—could elicit the same
unconstrained response to a repeated demand for
a vigorous prosecution of the War. A sordid and
cunning Greek merchant might, indeed, in the
'sad of the knout and beneath the Lord of Siberia,
say anything known to be acceptable ; but the
CZAR must feel that the merchants of his Liver-
pool wish that he and his war had sunk with
the last of his Black Sea Navy.

How different at Liverpool. Net a town in the
kingdom which feels more sensibly the effect of
War on trade—not a town which is more affected
by the rise of discount at the Bank, and the fall
of Consols ; yet, with the Bank asking 5i per
oent., and understood to intend asking 6, Liver-
pool has no sympathy with Mr. COBDEN'S falling
back on the Vienna Note, with Mr. BRIGIIT'S
falling foul of every movement in the War, or
with Mr. GLADSTONE'S finding a superfine meta-
physical basis for peace in the last Vienna pro-
posals. Lord DERBY will, too, be able to inform
his late Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he
again the editor of the Press, that in the judg-
ment of Liverpool merchants the objects of the
War are not yet attained, and that the second
commercial port in the kingdom prefers all
the War taxes, and all the interruption to trade,
such as it is, to patching up a peace with Russia
on any terms yet to be obtained. All this after
we have seen what one Sebastopol, or half Sebas-
topol has coat, proves beyond mistake that the
commercial courage of the country is the worthy
associate of its military courag9. Trade and
agriculture at home are willing to pay for the
battles of liberty and civilisation, if our brave
soldiers are willing to fight them.

This universal feeling is to be attributed, wo
believe, to one opinion, and to one only--.-the
universal opinion, that the War is one of the most
just and necessary in which England was ever
engaged ; the opinion also that Russia must be
shorn of much of her ill-gotten territory and
strength before she can be safely left again to her-
self. Not enough yet—is the universal sentiment,
in regard to Bomarsund, Sweaborg, the Sea of
Azoff, and Southern Sebastopol. Well so far—
but the unprofessional common sense of every
Englishman plainly understands that this kind of
Iwork must be carried much further. He could
wish it done more quickly—but, quickly or slowly,
done it must be. Odessa, Nicolaieff, and litter-
eon he ranks with the Crimea as indispensable
pledges of security for the Euxine, nor will he
feel easy if Russia be allowed after the War to
threaten the Danube from Ismail and Bessarabia.
Circassia he considers a settled question, and he
knows that Russia holds more of Asia than is
either right or expedient.
Unless we are much mistaken, too, there is a
serious conviction that Poland and the Baltic
ought to be emancipated. It is felt that all this
fortress-building betrays a guilty purpose. That
Cronstadt would never have been made what it
is, unless it had been known that the unmasking
of Sebastopol would bring an English navy into
the Baltic. Vast numbers who know little of
the particulars of the frontier strength which the
CZARS have created by the robbery of civilised
territories yet know that they have done it ;
that CATHERINE and ALEXANDER, and, more
lately, NICHOLAS, were outrageous and cruel
offenders in that line. The universal sentiment
is, if we mistake not, that all the Russian wrong-
doing should now be put right, once and for ever.
That it will be, eventually, the cheapest, as well
as the most rational mode. Hence the intelligent
patience with taxation. What some deride as
enthusiastic and visionary, and crusading on be-
half of oppressed nationalities, is, we suspect, the
unexpressed; but the real aim of the practical
many. Their wish is to see Russia Effectually
humbled. Were we to catechise them as to
whether her retention of this territory or that,
this fortress or that, from Cronstadt to Ismail, or
Batoum, were compatible with effectual humilia-
' tin;' we 'imagine -the successive ' answers ' would
show that it was meant that Russia should lose
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everything but Russia.
This national sentiment is altogether in accord.