The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-28 00:00:00

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embarkation, at Old Fort. Then would com.
" the tug of war." But we do not suppose that
the Russians would hazard a general or decisive
battle in the open field. Their aim would rather
be to harass or delay the invading army, and not
to risk a serious encounter until they could do so
behind stone-walls, protected by the redoubts and
batteries erected during the period of inaction,
while full information was given of our ultimate
intentions. It is more than probable that the
Fabian policy pursued with so much success by
BA CLAY, TOLL!, and BAGRATION, in 1812, will
be adopted- The circumstances are, however,
very different. The system of retiring day after
day, leaving nothing but devastation in its
train, though it might have answered in the
heart of Russia, in 1812, would be of
but little benefit on the shores of the
Crimea, where abundant stores could be supplied
lby the numerous steamers engaged for the Allies.
We believe, then, that though there may be seve-
ral skirmishes, there will be no serious encounter
until the Allied Forces approach the entrenched
heights above Sebastopol. The formidable strug-
gle will take place there ; and when they are
stormed, the fate of Sebastopol cannot be long
deferred. Humanly speaking, we may anticipate
the complete destruction of the Russian fleet and
arsenal long within the period allowed for our
operations.

We need only add, that the reserve force was
to embark on the 18th, so that they would pro-
bably rejoin their comrades by the 21st or 22d
at the latest.

Our domestic political quarrels one after an-
other become matter of history, yet they do not
appear to lessen the materials for Constitutional
struggles. Hardly is oue ended when it is found
that another was ripening behind the last, and,
perhaps, only hindered by it from forcing itself
into prominence. Probably our " Venerable Con-
stitution," like our frail. personal constitutions,
needs the constant reaction of opposed organisms
for the continuance of sound health. Such a belief
is, at least, both common and very consolatory, for
those who must share in the interminable strifes
which will arise when men are really free. Even
in America they contrive to keep up Whig and
Democratic parties, the Whigs of that Paradise
of white-skinned liberty being gentlemen whom
the RUSSELLS, GREYS, and LANSDOWNES of this
country would denounce as superlatively extreme
Radicals. Republics, as well as Autocracies,
must have their " ins" and " outs," their pull-
back and push-forward parties, and the only
difference seems to be that under the latter,
Siberia or the bowstring is too commonly the fate
of the unsuccessful, while under a republic the
mortification of being in a minority is the worst
result.

It is happy, too, for the stability of our in-
stitutions, that while a few in all the great
quarrels retain their prejudices with their
lives, the vast majority of our hold-back
party frankly accommodate themselves to the
settlement effected by the majority, and often
manfully avow that it works better than they had
feared. We are much gratified to find Mr.
HALEY amongst those nobler specimens of Eng-
lish Conservatism ; we aro almost as proud of
the English good sense and temper, which adopt
cordially a system which had been long resisted,
as of the ability and energy which planned and
carried some great reform. It is the want of
this quality in which most of our Continental
neighbours are so deficient, which makes Con-
stitutional Government so difficult to work among
them. Mr. HENLEY, at the Agricultural Meet-
ing at Chipping Norton, instead of repeating to
the farmers before him any of the usual and
dolorous old forebodings, frankly expressed
his conviction that English wheat would always
command English prices, that the continental
prices would be raised more than ours seriously
depressed, and that, grow as much as we would,
we should still pay for it what the richest nation in
the world could afford t o give. He sees that our
consumption must increase at least as fast as the
productive power of our agriculturists, and that
the lowering effect of foreign supplies must always
be checked by the rise 11n the ports of purchase,
and the cost of freight. With such, now, verified
facts before him, Mr. HE N LEY counsels the farmers
to imitate their best customers, the manufacturers,
and endeavour to increase. their production indefi-
nitely. He expresses his confidence in theirskill and
energy, andhasno fear of the result. He even turns
the tables on the mauuntcturers, by suggesting
that if they could no mare increase the number
of their mills than the farmer can of his acres,
they might not, perhaps, have doubled their pro-
duce. We must say, however, for our manufac-
turing friends, that they have by improvements in
machinery certainly made each mill do at least
the work of two, more probably of three
or four, of the old ones. Such a speech
as Mr. HENLEY'S is proof enough that
not merely is a Protectionist policy abandoned
for ever, but that the old Protectionist feeling is
dying out.

As we observed, however, some quarrel must
soon spring up to supply its place. The War will
not last for ever, we trust not for long, though
we can see causes at work which may pro-
tract it till tho suppressed nationalities of
Europe get their own. At home, however, there
is obviously one question which is forcing itself
more and more upon public attention, and which
we venture to surmise will be the next grand
subject of political struggle. We do not advert
to Reform, not even to the only real reform of
the Ballot, the electors understand that subject, and
mean, without much further discussion, to have
something better than the still-born babe, over whose
interment its stoical parent softened into some" natu-
ral tears." The struggle, which we regard as begin-
ning to become a great one, is that on the rela-
tions between Church and State. It meets us now
at every turn, in the colonies as well as at home,
and the position of the combatants is totally
changed from that which they took some thirty
years ago. Then Catholics were struggling for
emancipation from frightful penal laws, as well as
from political disabilities. Protestant Dissenters
were humbly petitioning for the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, and hardly dared
to think of opposing a Church Rate, much
less on the ground of the equal claims of all
sects. Ireland was crushed, and Scotland was
quiet—we mean ecclesiastically. On the other
hand the Church assumed that its priority of
privilege was unquestionable and unquestioned ;
and oven the Scottish Establishment, with its
assembly of Doctors of Divinity and Elders, felt
herself as secure as she could wish. How changed
now is all this ! Toleration is scouted as igno-
-1 minions, a 3 a mere ticket-of-leave freedom, and
religious equality is now the demand of all
the unprivileged. A member of the House
of Commons, destined, if his life be spared,
as we trust it will be, to be a distin-
guished member of the House of Peers, even
I publishes to his fellow-members that equality of
religious privileges is the obvious tendency of the
age. For this he is taunted by one who should
be the leader on questions of religious liberty,
with using arguments which would subvert much
more than Church Rates. Nor is the charge de-
nied. Looking around, we see Anti-State-
, Churchmen rising into great influence, and not
despicable in point of numbers in the House of
taking Commons
.-we see, moreover, Roman Catholics
Free Church
their
own independent course, and the
n Scotland far more powerful both
Inumerically and politically than the old Church.
Then Church-rate battles are universal, and are
fought on the broadest ground, while the Religious
Census has almost revolutionised the mind of the
Legislature itself. The friends of Church Endow-
men is are become the apologists, and their oppo-
nents as if theory and fact were both on their
side. speakC
Churchmen themselves are demonstrating
the power of Voluntaryism, who are vastly increas-
ing Church accommodation on every side ; and
the Voluntaries, now an acknowledged party, are
triumphantly ploading tho Churchman'; awn libe,

ra:ity in d isproof of his need of State endowments.
To all this must be added the great schism in the
Church i tself. Only within the last few days
it has : resulted in the resignation of the
brother of the Bishop of OXFORD, on the
avowed ground of his rejection of that cor-
ner stone of the English Church, the
Qurzs's !supremacy I The nation sees with
astonishment bishops and clergymen denouncing
the authority by which they are what they are,
and denouncing each other, too, as leading the
souls of their flocks to perdition. It seems as if
nothing could pacify the belligerents who fight
over the Articles they both have signed, and the
more that common prudence demands quiet, or at
least union, the more they widen the division
which must prove fatal to both. What with
the exposures of Episcopal rapacity and the
bitter contempt shown by the two great
Church parties for each other, tho Church has
destroyed herself the traditional veneration
which was her strongest support. Who
can tell, looking at general facts like these,
whether Mr. GLADSTONE may not become to the
Church what Sir R. PEEL was to commerce, and
his elementary notions on ecclesiastical independ-
ence have a like result with PEEL'S early announce-
ment of the rights of buyer and seller; and whether,
we may add, some ecclesiastical HENLEY may not
be heard, not many years hence, bidding bishops
and clergymen to rely no longer on Protection,
but on their own religious faithfulness and
energy.

THE. LATE MRS. WARNER.

It was our painful duty to record yesterday" the demise
of this celebrated actress, which took Waco on Sunday
last. She had been suffering during many months under
a disease for the most part incurable, cancer in the
breast, and her friends were, therefore, fully prepared
for the melancholy event. Indeed her living so long,
under such circumstances, caused considerable astonish-
ment to her medical attendants. Mrs. Warner must
have been nearly 50 years of age. She was a native of ,
Ireland, and, as Miss Huddart, rendered herself famous
upon the Dublin stage. Her career in London is too I
well known to require any lengthened notice. Who
can ever forget her magnificent embodiment of the part
of Joan of Arc, in the drama of that name—of Rachel,
in the gorgeous spectacle of The Jewess, on the boards of
Old Drury ? She also performed several important char-
acters in the plays of Shakspere with great success, at
our principal theatres, and was generally respected for
her artistic abilities, no less than for her moral worth.
It is rather a curious circumstance that death should
have followed so shortly after her benefit at Sadler's
Wells. The same incident occurred in the cases of Mrs.
Glover and poor Kenny.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

DESPATCH FROM THE
CRIMEA.

VIENNA, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Russian Embassy has received a despatch
of the 22d from the Crimea.

All that is known is, that it contains news un-
7avourable to the Russians.

HERMANNSTADT, WEDNESDAY.

The Turks are advancing to the Pruth. Lord
Raglan has called for a diversion in Bessarabia.
The advance guard is already on the march. Omer
Paella sets out to-morrow.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Spanish Government has removed the
French refugees into the interior of the country,
beyond the Ebro. They will not be allowed to
reside in Arragon, Catalonia, the Basque Pro-
vinces, or in Madrid.

KIEL, SEPT. 24.
The French imperial steam yacht La Reine
Hortense arrived here yesterday to coal.

The French war steamer Cocyte is also lying at
the jetty, taking in coals.
The depot of this fuel belonging to the French
Government is by no means exhausted yet, and
will in all probability be replenished in time to be
made use of in the next year's naval campaign in
the Baltic.

steamers must already have reached the Sea of Azoff,
for they left the Island of Serpents on the 19th. The
frigates Fury, Vengeance, and Retribution have
been cruising since the 10th off Sebastopol. A Tartar
has brought despatches to Belgrade, with news from
the seat of war up to the 15th. The allies occupy
the road leading from Cape B Lba to Sitnpheropol,
where the Russians are' concentrating themselves ;
but it appears that they have no large force at
their command. Adviccs from Odessa, of the 16th,
say that the rumour of the landing in the Crimea
was spread there, but that it was severely forbidden
to speak of it. Letters from Constantinople an-
nounce that four small Anglo-French steamers were
off Jemikale, and that it was presumed they had
orders to force the entrance of the Sea of Azoff.